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The Chinese authorities warned the Kremlin that it is inadmissible to use nuclear weapons in the war against Ukraine. About this to reporters male Vladimir Zelensky following the NATO summit in Ankara, held this week.
According to the President of Ukraine, he learned about such interference from Beijing from European leaders at the summit, where “China’s role in ending the war” was discussed, among other things.
Zelensky said: “I think you have all seen calls in the Russian media for a nuclear response to the Ukrainian strikes. It seems to me that this is the first time that China has responded so clearly and harshly that, as I was told, in the form of an ultimatum, the use of nuclear weapons is out of the question.”
He added that he discussed the issue of China’s participation in the peace settlement with Donald Trump in Ankara, but he did not disclose the details of this conversation.
Finnish President Alexander Stubb quickly indirectly confirmed Zelensky’s words that China would not allow Russia to use nuclear weapons against Ukraine.
“Two days ago I had dinner with the Chinese Foreign Minister in Finland. We discussed the nuclear issue. The Chinese said very categorically: ‘No, this will not happen.’” He said Stapp, responding to a journalist’s question about whether Vladimir Putin, pushed into a corner, would one day decide to use nuclear weapons.
The People’s Republic of China itself has not officially announced that it has given the Kremlin an ultimatum. But Beijing has consistently spoken out against the use of nuclear weapons on principle.
At the end of June, China “strongly” called on Moscow and Kiev to resume peace talks and “end the conflict as soon as possible.” Around the same time, Alexander Lukashenko visited Beijing. Before that, he received a delegation from Kiev in Minsk, and also traveled to see Putin in Valdai. But the Kremlin denies that Lukashenko has taken on the role of unofficial mediator in peace negotiations.
Since the beginning of the all-out invasion of Ukraine, the Russian authorities and Vladimir Putin personally have repeatedly threatened to use nuclear weapons. The Kremlin has deployed its tactical (non-strategic) nuclear weapons in Belarus, which it has been claimed can be used on the battlefield and for a limited nuclear strike against distant targets. The last joint nuclear exercises between Russia and Belarus took place in May this year.
War in pictures. Kyiv
On the night of July 11, Russian forces launched a joint strike on Ukraine, using 120 drones and 12 missiles, half of them ballistic. In Kyiv, 11 people, including a child, were injured in a night attack. male Vladimir Zelensky. According to the President, casualties to civilian infrastructure were recorded even before the air raid warning was announced, as residential buildings, offices and a theological school were damaged. Fires broke out in three areas of the capital. The Russian Defense Ministry stated that the targets of the attack in Kiev were military industrial enterprises engaged in the production of drones.
This is what Kyiv looks like after the Russian bombing on July 11.
War through the eyes of Medusa readers
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Sergei (Germany). He left in 2022 even before packing; His mother stayed home. She supported my decision in everything, and she herself is completely against the war. The area is borderline, so there is often concern in my hometown; Something regularly explodes in the air. I worry about my mother, but she usually talks about it with good humor. This in no way affects her anti-war stance.
This is also why I’ve always been struck by “disillusioned anti-war Russians in Ukraine.” Did they really think that this was a war of demons against the forgiving angels? Did they really think that people who are bombed every day should not strike targets on the territory of the Russian Federation out of concern for the Russians? Would they also stop supporting the countries of the anti-Hitler coalition if they knew that they were bombing enemy cities?
I wish victory for Ukraine not because all the saints live there, but because the Russian army attacked them and wants to destroy them. They are right because they are fighting invaders, not because they are fighting like knights and shaking hands with the enemy after the duel. I realize that people in the villages of Belgorod have no time for these discussions, but believe me, those who are trying to destroy and whose loved ones are killed every day, are definitely not in the mood to worry about the environment in Tuapse.