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Post by Admin on Dec 28, 2023 20:15:29 GMT
Russia's Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs met with Russian Ambassador to Russia Muto and expressed his concerns regarding the Japanese government's decision to export Patriot surface-to-air missiles to the United States.
According to the Japanese Embassy in Russia, Russian Ambassador to Russia Muto held a meeting with Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Rudenko on the 28th, during which Mr. Rudenko decided to export Patriot surface-to-air missiles produced in Japan to the United States. He has expressed concern about this.
In response, Muto argued, ``The decision contributes to Japan's security and the peace and stability of the Indo-Pacific region, and it is not envisaged that it will be used in Ukraine.''
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Post by Admin on Dec 29, 2023 0:58:25 GMT
Commander-in-Chief of the Dutch Army, Lieutenant General Martin Wijnen, has stated that the Netherlands must be prepared for a potential war with Russia, PAР has reported.
“We must be genuinely prepared for a possible armed conflict with Russia,” said Wijnen.
According to him, the Netherlands should take the example of countries that border Russia. In the general’s opinion, the population of those states is better prepared for a possible Moscow aggression.
“The Netherlands should not think that they are safe just because we are 1,500 kilometers away from Russia.
Russia understands only one language: strong armed forces,” he said.
He emphasized that “the entire society must be prepared in case something goes wrong.” The general stressed that for citizens, this means having supplies of food and drinking water to survive in emergencies.
Over two months, the Netherlands allocated €550 million in military aid to Ukraine, totaling their support to €2.6 billion, strengthening resistance against Russian aggression.
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Post by Admin on Dec 29, 2023 11:21:27 GMT
[AFP = Current Affairs] In an interview published in a German newspaper on the 29th, a high-ranking official in charge of support for Ukraine in the German military said that the Russian military has suffered significant human and material damage in Ukraine, and that He acknowledged that weakening is inevitable.
German military official Christian Freuding, who is also an adviser to Defense Minister Boris Pistorius, told Süddeutsche Zeitung: ``According to Western intelligence estimates, 300,000 Russian soldiers have died.'' They sustained serious injuries that made it impossible for them to remobilize."
According to classified US information leaked this month, 315,000 Russian soldiers have been killed or injured since the invasion began.
"Russia's human and material losses will be enormous," Freuding said.
The Russian army is also said to have lost thousands of tanks and infantry fighting vehicles.
``When this war ends, the Russian military will likely be in a weakened state both materially and manpower.''
On the other hand, he pointed out that the Russian military has been successful in securing new recruits, "including the mobilization of prisoners."
President Vladimir Putin recently announced that 486,000 soldiers will join the military this year and that the increase in military strength will accelerate next year.
Mr. Freuding acknowledged that Russia has shown greater "resilience" than Western countries had assumed at the beginning of the invasion.
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Post by Admin on Dec 30, 2023 3:52:15 GMT
Denmark has said it is no longer happy to play host to thousands of Ukrainian refugees indefinitely.Once the Ukraine conflict is over, they must return home – that was the message from Minister for Immigration and Integration Kaare Dybvad Bek.A total of 30,278 Ukrainians are currently registered as temporary residents in Denmark under the Danish Special Act — but that is set to expire in March 2025. The law grants them a residence permit, social benefits, access to school, work, health services, a national integration program and temporary accommodation in a Danish municipality — in stark contrast to refugees from other countries.
While insisting that Ukrainians were “culturally closer to us than people from the Middle East,” the minister stressed that they behaved in “completely different ways” than Danes. Dybvad also noted that the Kiev regime had said it wants its citizens to return — for conscription into the army, according to some officials. Denmark “will have to respect that,” he said.Some Ukrainians might be able to stay past the March 2025 deadline, Kaare Dybvad added, but only under certain conditions. Anyone able to earn over 375,000 Danish kroner ($55,400) per year could apply for a business permit.“I think they have the opportunity to stay to a reasonable extent, but we are not going to make an independent opening where we say that everyone who comes from Ukraine can stay in Denmark,” the minister said.
Dybvad's comments followed a poll conducted by the University of Copenhagen that showed around half of the Ukrainian refugees would like to stay in the country. “I did not expect to see almost half say that they want to stay here. It was a big surprise for us,” the study’s lead author, Karen-Inge Karstoft said.Currently there are nearly 6 million Ukrainian refugees in Europe, according to the UNHCR collation of statistics. The most popular destinations for the migrants have been Germany, the Czech Republic, and the Netherlands. The highest number of Ukrainian refugees per thousand inhabitants is recorded in the Czech Republic (33.7), Estonia (26.3), Poland (26.1), Bulgaria (26.1) and Lithuania (25.8), as per the latest Eurostat data. Many have expressed the desire to stay in these countries. But many European countries that have already felt the blowback from self-harming anti-Russia sanctions over Ukraine are now mulling ways to send the refugees home.
The “economic burden” of Ukrainian refugees against the backdrop of soaring inflation, higher global food prices, and other costs, is feeding into the overall "Ukraine fatigue."Germany has also complained that unemployed Ukrainian refugees have become a drain on its finances. Less than 20 percent of the tens of thousands of Ukrainians who moved there have since found a job in their new host country, one local media outlet announced in November, noting that some 700,000 Ukrainian refugees in the country currently receive unemployment benefits.
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Post by Admin on Dec 30, 2023 5:55:16 GMT
Prime Minister Orbán did not agree with EU accession negotiations for Ukraine and other countries. According to the political news site Politico, Prime Minister Orbán did not listen to the persuasion of other countries at the summit meeting and remained in the opposition, and there is a secret plan in place to reach a "unanimous" agreement. It is said that it was done.
In this case, German Prime Minister Scholz pointed his finger at Prime Minister Orbán, saying, ``Why don't you take a break and have some coffee outside the conference hall?'' After Prime Minister Orbán accepted this and left the conference room, a vote was taken without Hungarians present, creating a ``unanimous'' agreement.
``Measures against Prime Minister Orbán,'' including these measures, are being advanced behind the scenes within the EU.
On the other hand, "Plan B" is for the 26 member countries excluding Hungary to continue providing support through bilateral consultations with Ukraine. Some people are saying, ``Maybe this plan will get us through for the time being.''
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