2024-08-05 17:43:59
The war between Russia and Ukraine reaches its day 894 since its beginning on February 24, 2022, when the Russian president Vladimir Putin ordered a “special military operation” to free the pro-Russian population from Ukrainian region of Donbas.
Hoy Monday, August 5, 2024, Kremlin recognizes that among the redeemed there was spies of the Russian secret services.
Problems arise in the Ukrainian Army that although it remains the institution what enjoys more confidencewith more than 90% support among the population, the The quality of military leadership is increasingly under debateafter several cases of criticism from within the Armed Forces became public.
On the front There is a lot of criticism of the higher-ranking generals by control and punish to the brigade commanders soldiers are not paying much attention to the tactical situation, the state of the troops and their survival, military correspondent Yuri Butusov recently said.
Los Problems within the Army have been going on for a long time The incidents have been made public at a time when good news from the front is scarce and soldiers are becoming fatigued, Oleksi Melnik, a security expert at the Razumkov Research Centre in kyiv, told the EFE news agency.
Los public appeals To the change They are a sign that the alternative mechanisms to resolve problems from within the Army are not working, he stressed.
However, Melnik believes that it is a good thing that even during a war, problematic issues can be raised in the media, receive a reaction from the highest level and be at least partially resolved, he said.
African country Mali breaks relations with Ukraine
The authorities of Mali They have announced their decision to break diplomatic relations with Ukraineafter the public support what Senior Ukrainian officials of manifested a jihadists y terrorists operating in the African country.
The African State thus responds to the publication of a Ukrainian Army propaganda video posted on social media by the Ukrainian Embassy in Senegal.
The alleged video shows support for the terrorist groups responsible for the attack perpetrated between 25 and 27 July in northern Mali against the Malian Armed Forces supported by fighters of the Russian private military group Wagner.
In its statement announcing its decision, the Transitional Government of the Republic of Mali referred to “subversive statements” by Andrei Yusov, spokesman for the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defence.
Yusov admitted Ukraine’s involvement in what Malian authorities describe as a “cowardly, treacherous and barbaric attack by armed terrorist groups that resulted in the deaths of members of the Malian Defense and Security Forces.”
The Malian government notes that these Ukrainian officials announced in their comments other “results” yet to come from Ukrainian collaboration with terrorists.
Mali “strongly condemns this Ukrainian aggression and denounces the hostility on the part of the Ukrainian authorities, which is “contrary to Mali’s position of neutrality, which has always advocated a peaceful solution to the crisis between the Russian Federation and Ukraine.”
Ukraine takes its fight against Russian military to the Middle East and Africa (ISSIFOU DJIBO / EFE)
After their release, three Russian prisoners call for a helping hand to the people of Russia
Three Russian political prisoners that were released the day before by the West in a change with the Kremlin, they made a call Friday at international community so that, at the same time turning one’s back on Vladimir Putin’s regime, “reach out to the people of Russia” in their task of making that country free and democratic one day.
The journalists were Andrei Pivovarov, the former head of the Open Russia movement who had been sentenced to four years in prison for participating in an “undesirable organisation”, the journalist and opposition politician Vladimir Kara-Murza and the opposition politician Ilya Yashin, who appeared at a press conference in Bonn.
Pivovarov expressed his hope that the international community and the West would turn “to the people of Russia, not to the regime.”
“They might reach out and put less pressure on people, because there are easy things that can be done, like student visas, and giving Russians the chance to see that there are no enemies here, as they say on Russian television, but that there are people here who help people survive,” he said.
“I think that steps like this will help us,” he added, adding that those released will do everything possible to secure the release of the “hundreds” of people still imprisoned for their political beliefs.
Russian prisoners call for a helping hand to the people of Russia (EFE)
Kremlin admits that among those exchanged were spies from the Russian secret services
He Kremlin recognized that among the Eight Russian prisoners exchanged with the United States y several European countries there was secret service spies, exchange which occurs in the middle of a apparent attempt to reduce diplomatic tension facing some future peace negotiations for him arrangement of the war in ukraine.
Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov admitted at a press conference that one of those released, Vadim Krasikovit’s a member of the Federal Security Service (FSB), but what Three others were also undercover agents or Russian military intelligence officers..
He also justified the heroes’ welcome that Putin gave them on Friday: “It is very important. It is a tribute to those people who serve their country and who, after very difficult trials, thanks to the hard work of many people, were able to return to their homeland.”
Krasikov, whom Putin hugged as he descended the steps of the plane after landing in Moscow, was a companion of several of the president’s bodyguards.
“He was a member of the elite FSB group ‘Alpha’, where he served with some members of the president’s security detail. Of course, they welcomed him last night,” Peskov said.
Speaking to Western media, Putin defended Krasikov’s killing, saying he had done his patriotic duty by eliminating a criminal linked to Chechen separatist guerrillas.
Krasikov was to have been exchanged last February for the late Russian opposition leader, Alexei Navalnybut Putin torpedoed the exchange at the last minute, according to the politician’s collaborators.
Peskov also said, without naming names, that another of those released was an agent of the military intelligence service (GRU).
Many experts highlighted that the The exchange is unprecedented in historyincluding numerous activists and human rights defenders, which some analysts see as a first step towards a future negotiations with the United States on Ukraine and strategic security.
In this regard, Peskov said that the exchange and the dialogue for the settlement of Ukraine are “completely different issues”, as are the principles that govern them.
Instead, both Putin as the President of the United States, Joe Biden, They did not hesitate to take political advantage of the operationlike the Democratic candidate, Vice President Kamala Harriswho gained points on Donald Trump ahead of the November presidential election.
Prisoner exchange between the United States, allies and Russia (Courtesy)
2024-08-05 17:43:59