Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrovsaid on Friday (25), that Moscow will be ready to talk to Kiev, but only when Ukraine’s military abandons its weapons.
The minister also said that Moscow did not want “neo-Nazis” to rule Ukraine.
In a press conference, Lavrov also stated that Russia wants “the Ukrainian people to be independent and have the possibility to freely define their destiny”.
He added that Russia will guarantee the demilitarization of Ukraine, but he does not see the possibility of recognizing the current Ukrainian government as democratic.
second day of war
On the second day of the war, Russia continues to expand its invasion of Ukraine. Ukrainian officials said on Friday they were looking forward to the “hardest day of the war”. The capital Kiev awaits the arrival of Russian troops. The sirens went off again.
Ukrainian Interior Ministry adviser Anton Herashchenko said Kiev’s forces were ready to defend with anti-tank missiles provided by foreign allies. New explosions were heard in the capital this morning.
US intelligence officials are concerned that Kiev could fall under Russian control within days, according to two sources familiar with the latest information. CNN.
In a new video posted on social media, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called for resistance to the Russian invasion and criticized Ukraine’s allies. “This morning, we are defending our country alone. Just like yesterday, the most powerful country in the world looks from afar,” Zelensky said, seeming to refer to the United States.
“Russia was hit yesterday by sanctions, but they are not enough to get foreign troops off our soil. At 4 am, Russian forces resumed their missile attacks on the territory of Ukraine,” he declared.
Reporters from CNN in Kiev and Lviv, a city in the west of the country, heard air raid sirens for several minutes around 7 am local time (2 pm GMT).
understand the conflict
After months of military escalation and intemperance on the Ukrainian border, Russia attacked the Eastern European country. At dawn this Thursday (24), Russian forces began to bomb several regions of the country – follow the repercussion live on CNN.
Hours earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin authorized a “special military operation” in the Donbas region (eastern Ukraine, where the breakaway regions of Luhansk and Donetsk are located, which he recognized as independent).
What was seen in the following hours, however, was an attack on almost the entire Ukrainian territory, with explosions in several cities, including the capital Kiev.
According to Ukrainian officials, dozens of deaths have been confirmed in the armies of both countries.
In his speech before the attack, Putin justified the action by saying that Russia could not “tolerate threats from Ukraine”. Putin urged Ukrainian soldiers to “put down your weapons and go home”. The Russian leader further stated that he will not accept any kind of foreign interference.
This attack on the former Soviet neighbor threatens to destabilize Europe and involve the United States.
Russia has been tightening its military grip around Ukraine for the past year, amassing tens of thousands of troops, equipment and artillery at the country’s gates.
In recent weeks, diplomatic efforts to defuse tensions have been unsuccessful.
The escalation in the years-long conflict between Russia and Ukraine has triggered the continent’s biggest security crisis since the Cold War, raising the specter of a dangerous confrontation between Western powers and Moscow.
(From Sarah Marsh and Madeline Chambers of Reuters and Eliza Mackintosh of CNN)
Source: CNN Brasil

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