Dressed in military uniform, surrounded by soldiers at the Mulino training range in Nizhny Novgorod. Images of Vladimir Putin attending the Russian-Belarusian "Zapad 2025" exercises went viral in a matter of minutes. further raising the level of tension on the EU's eastern border.
On the other hand, the EEG of the peace talks between Moscow and Kiev is flat and the outline of the new sanctions , thanks to Donald Trump's ambiguity, is very confusing.
It's no coincidence that Volodymyr Zelensky is the one making the move. The American president must take "a clear position" on sanctions and security guarantees, the Ukrainian leader lashed out. According to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Zelensky is scheduled to meet with the tycoon next week.
The Russian-Belarusian exercises, held at 41 training camps, were personally monitored by the Tsar. "One hundred thousand" soldiers participated in the operations at 41 training camps, Putin emphasized. These figures were denied by the state news agency RIA Novosti, which claimed that the exercises involved "over 50,000 military personnel in the Russian Federation and up to 7,000 in Belarus."
In this context, Trump's role remains crucial . Trump's intention to end the war must translate into "decisive steps," Zelensky emphasized, then going straight to the heart of the sanctions issue. Trump, he said, is "strong enough to make decisions alone." He doesn't want to wait for Turkey, Hungary, and Slovakia to stop buying Russian gas and oil. But the tycoon's response wasn't particularly conciliatory: the Ukrainian president "will have to reach an agreement."
(Unioneonline)
