Poland will return Ukrainians of military age settled in their country to the battlefield; kyiv seeks to reverse effects of delayed US support and more

2024-05-01 03:54:01

The war between Russia and Ukraine comes to your day 793 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 the Donbas region of Ukraine.

Hoy Friday April 26, 2024, Poland will collaborate with Ukraine so that men of military age return to their country.

On the battlefield, Russia claimed this Friday that it bombed a train in eastern Ukraine carrying Western weapons with missiles and artillery.after a series of attacks against railway infrastructure.

The shipment of “Western weapons and military equipment” transported by train in the Donetsk region and also hit railway facilities in the Kharkiv area, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

A senior Ukrainian security official told the AFP news agency this Friday that Russia bombs the railway network to “paralyze” the military’s supplies and is preparing a new offensive.

“These are typical maneuvers before an offensive,” said the official who spoke on condition of anonymity. The objective is to “paralyze deliveries, the transportation of military cargo,” he added.

Bolivian Foreign Minister goes to Russia to strengthen bilateral relations and cooperation

The chancellor of BoliviaCelinda Sosa, traveled to Russia to meet with his counterpart Sergei Lavrov with the purpose of “strengthening” bilateral relations and “expanding” cooperation in different areas, reported the Bolivian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

He meeting is scheduled for this Friday and Saturday for, apart from the meeting with Lavrov, Sosa to hold “a series of strategic meetings within the framework of the review of the bilateral agenda between both countries,” the Foreign Ministry indicated in a statement.

Some priorities of the meetings are political dialoguehe development of bilateral ties in addition to “improving the legal and contractual basis, and the ways to expand cooperation” in political, economic, scientific, commercial and investment aspects.

“The official visit also has as its main objective to strengthen diplomatic relations that date back to 1898, addressing issues of mutual interest and reviewing the agreements under negotiation between Bolivia and Russia”

Statement from the Bolivian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

He The most recent meeting between Sosa and Lavrov took place at the meeting of the G20 Foreign Ministers in Rio de Janeiroon February 21.

In 2021, the then Bolivian Foreign Minister, Rogelio Mayta, traveled to Moscow to also meet with his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, and express Bolivia’s interest in the participation of large Russian corporations in the development of its economy.

Some Russian companies that operate in Bolivia are Gazpromwhich is part of a gas processing consortium; Rosatom, a company with which the Government agreed to build a nuclear research center in the city of El Alto; in addition, from other railway companies.

In addition, In December of last year, Bolivia signed an agreement with the Russian firm Uranium One Group, for the installation of a lithium carbonate plant with direct extraction technology..

Bolivia and Russia have a marked political affinity that has even led the South American country to abstain from voting on UN resolutions regarding the condemnation of the Russian invasion of Ukraine..

Bolivian Foreign Minister goes to Russia to strengthen bilateral relations (EFE)

kyiv and its allies will seek to reverse the effects of 6 months of delay in US aid

He Contact Group for the Defense of Ukraine with will gather this Friday remotely with a key issue among the topics to be addressed: look for formulas to reverse the effects that 6 months of delay in sending new military aid from the United States have had for the country invaded by Russia.

This was explained in his speech to the nation last night by the president of Ukraine, Volodímir Zelenskiwhich highlighted the need for political decisions to support Ukraine taken in recent weeks by its partners will now translate into the arrival of weapons in the shortest possible time.

“We are preparing tomorrow’s (Friday) meeting at Ramstein (military base in Germany where the Contact Group usually meets) and we will talk, among other things, about how to overcome the difficulties and problems that have accumulated in the last six months while we waited for decisions on US support”

Volodímir Zelenski

The United States House of Representatives approved last Saturday, after months of blocking, the funding of more than $60 billion to send more military aid to Ukraine proposed by the White House at the end of 2023. Ukraine has paid for this delay with setbacks on the Eastern Front due, in part, to a lack of ammunition..

“Now we need to work to fill the (aid) packages with the necessary weapons, and to guarantee logistics,” Zelensky stressed in his speech, in which he thanked the head of the United States House of Representatives, Republican Mike Johnson, for finally putting aid to kyiv to a vote.

Zelensky spoke yesterday from kyiv with Johnson and invited him to visit Ukraine.

Volodímir Zelenski (EFE)

Poland will collaborate with Ukraine so that men of military age return to their country

He Polish Defense Minister, Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz, He stated that his Government is ready to collaborate with kyiv to help return men of draft age living in Poland to Ukraine..

In statements to the PolSat network, the minister stated that “many Poles are outraged when they see young Ukrainians in cafes.” [de Polonia] and at the same time they know how much effort it costs us to help Ukraine.”

After recalling that “Ukrainian citizens have duties towards their State,” Kosiniak-Kamysz considered “justified” the “anger (that Ukrainians feel) towards their compatriots who leave the country to avoid being recruited.”

“We have long suggested that we can help the Ukrainian administration ensure that those who are required to perform military service go to their country.”

Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz, Minister of Defensa Poland

For days now, the Polish media report incidents in Ukrainian consulates in several cities in Poland where, supposedlylos officials refuse to serve Ukrainians of draft age (18 to 60 years of age).

In three weeks, a law will come into force according to which men between 18 and 60 years old who wish to leave Ukraine or are outside Ukraine will only be able to obtain a Ukrainian passport within their own country..

For his part, the Foreign Minister of Ukraine, Dmitro Kuleba, declared this Tuesday that “if a man of legal age goes abroad, he shows that he does not care about the survival of his state.”

“If you later come and want to receive services from this State, (things) do not work this way. “Our country is at war.”

Dmitro Kuleba, Foreign Minister of Ukraine

When the war in Ukraine broke out in February 2022, Poland became the main destination for refugees leaving that country..

Currently, the polish authorities They estimate that there are around a million Ukrainian refugees in the country, a number joined by the approximately one million more Ukrainians who already resided in Poland previously.

According to Eurostat data, around 4.3 million Ukrainians who fled Ukraine as a result of the Russian invasion live in European Union countries in January 2024of which around 860 thousand are adult men.

Andrzej Duda, president of Poland together with Volodymyr Zelensky, president of Ukraine (Dimitar DILKOFF / AFP) (DIMITAR DILKOFF / AFP)

2024-05-01 03:54:01