The policy options we can offer in support of the Alliance are extremely limited." "And the Bundeswehr, the army that I am allowed to lead, is more or less blank. "In my 41st year of peacetime service I would not have believed that I would have to experience another war," he wrote. Lt-Gen Alfons Mais said the German military was largely powerless to intervene and claimed politicians had ignored repeated warnings about Putin's intentions. The chief of staff of the German army has given a bleak assessment of the situation in a highly unusual post on LinkedIn, reports Justin Huggler from Berlin.
While calling Russian actions against Ukraine unacceptable he has opposed sanctions against Moscow. The request puts Turkey in a difficult position as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has tried to manage the crisis without cutting ties with Moscow or Kyiv.
At the same time, we want sanctions imposed on the Russian side," Ambassador Vasyl Bodnar told a news conference in Ankara. We have conveyed our relevant demand to the Turkish side.
"We are calling for the air space, Bosphorus and Dardanelles straits to be closed. Turkey controls the waters linking the Mediterranean with the Black Sea, upon which Russia and Ukraine are coastal neighbours, and under a 1936 agreement Ankara can limit the passage of warships during wartime or if threatened. Ukraine has asked Nato member Turkey to close the Bosphorus and Dardanelles straits to Russian ships, Ukraine’s ambassador to Ankara said following Moscow launching an invasion against its neighbour, reports our middle East correspondent Campbell MacDiarmid. Meanwhile, the Kremlin press secretary Dmitrii Peskov has confirmed today that a telephone conversation has taken place between the Belarussian president and Vladimir Putin about Ukraine, saying the conversation took place in a “working” atmosphere. Scoundrel!” President Lukashenko told state-owned news outlet Belarussian Telegraph Agency. But here, you see, it would be difficult to pick up the phone to call. Listen, there has been cases in history where Khruschev called Kennedy in the night and they stopped thermonuclear war. He, knowing that a conflict could begin, didn’t even phone Moscow. He said: “Did he call them? He didn’t call. Mr Lukashenko insists that he recommended Mr Reznikov get in contact with Russia, but that Mr Reznikov did not do so, Izvestiia reports. They said: “Revision (of the article) was necessary to submit to the demands of the supervisory body (Roskomnadzor)”.īelarussian President Alexander Lukashenko has called Ukraine Defence Minister Aleksei Reznikov “a scoundrel” in the Belarussian state press.Īccording to Mr Lukashenko, the Ukrainian military authority had spoken twice with Belarus, with the latter conversation taking place after Mr Lukshenko’s meeting with President Putin. Russian news agencies have already fallen foul of the press watchdog over reporting of events in Ukraine, with Prospekt Mira - a news organisation based in Krasnoyarsk - announcing on Telegram that they have deleted a news item about explosions in Ukraine “under threat of the site being blocked”. They said that “over the past few hours there has been a significant increase in case of spreading unverified and unreliable information and informational resources on the internet by mass media” In a statement on the official website today, the agency has urged that “only Russian official information sources possess and distribute reliable and up-to-date information”. The preparation of material concerning the “situation” in Luhansk and Donetsk “must use information and data taken only from official Russian sources”, the Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media has said. "The Foreign Secretary said the Russian government had repeatedly lied about having no plans to invade Ukraine, and its unprovoked aggression had made it an international pariah," it added. Mr Kelin had been summoned to Whitehall for a dressing down for the second time in a week after the Kremlin began an assault on Ukraine that is feared will amount to an all-out invasion.Īccording to a Foreign Office statement, Ms Truss told him that Russia must expect a "long, protracted conflict that would inflict a huge human, economic and political cost on the Russian government".
The Foreign Office said Ms Truss told Mr Kelin to expect "severe sanctions" against Russia as she accused the country he represents of having "repeatedly lied". Ms Truss was understood to have kicked out Andrei Kelin after he repeated the Kremlin's propaganda during what was characterised as a "very grumpy meeting" today. Moscow's ambassador to the UK was berated by Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, who told him the invasion of Ukraine had made Russia an "international pariah" that would suffer vast costs.
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