The process began on Wednesday and is expected to conclude by the end of the month, a senior Indian army official said.
Important quotes from the BRICS Summit where the other ‘new world order’ is shaping against Western hegemony.
According to the Ukrainian foreign minister, “talks need to be rational, substantive and aimed at achieving a just and lasting peace.”
According to the AFP, Russians in some large cities have reported mixed emotions such as “sympathy” and “relief” after the head of Wagner Group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, mounted a short-lived armed rebellion that made its way halfway to Moscow from the Rostov region on Saturday before Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko mediated a ceasefire between Prigozhin and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
This week Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba met with Chinese special envoy Li Hui to discuss both countries’ respective peace plans to potentially end Russia’s war in Ukraine. During the talks, Kuleba made it clear that any plan that required Ukraine to cede territory to Russia was a non-starter for Kyiv.
Beijing is backpedaling and referring to comments made by its ambassador to France, Lu Shaye, as personal views after his statements regarding former Soviet states erupted in controversy and fury across Europe and resulted in the summoning of ambassadors.
In an attempt to work on a peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine, French President Emmanuel Macron is in Beijing this week urging Chinese leader Xi Jinping to “bring Russia to its senses” regarding the war in Ukraine. Xi has become a bit of a global mediator in recent weeks after successfully brokering a rapprochement between former Arab rivals Saudi Arabia and Iran.
A week after Chinese leader Xi Jinping met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has invited Xi to visit Ukraine soon in remarks he made in a recently published Associated Press interview.