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4:56 a.m.: Ukrainian secret service: war over at the end of the year
Read in star-Weekend ticker all important developments on the war in Ukraine:
10.12 a.m .: London: Russia wanted to permanently control most of Ukraine
According to British intelligence experts, Moscow wanted to bring a large part of Ukraine permanently under pro-Russian control with its war of aggression. According to a statement by the British Ministry of Defense on Saturday, manipulated referendums should in all likelihood be held in the country on its integration into the Russian Federation. So far, however, Russia has only installed a pro-Russian administration in the southern Ukrainian coastal city of Cherson. This shows how the invasion is failing to meet Moscow’s political goals.
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The administration in Cherson has announced that it will press ahead with the incorporation into Russia. “Should Russia hold an accession referendum in Kherson, it would almost certainly manipulate the results to show a clear majority in favor of secession from Ukraine,” the statement said. However, the population will probably continue to express their opposition to the Russian occupation.
08.12: Scholz sees no change of heart in Putin
Two and a half months after the start of the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine, Chancellor Olaf Scholz has detected no change of heart in Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin. The SPD politician said this in an interview published on Saturday by the “t-online” news portal. It is clear that Russia has not achieved any of the war goals mentioned at the beginning. The Ukraine was not conquered, but defended itself with great skill, courage and the will to make sacrifices. “NATO has not withdrawn, but has even strengthened its forces on the eastern flank of the alliance. And the alliance will become even stronger when Finland and Sweden join NATO.” The Russian military itself has suffered significant losses, far more than in the ten years of the Soviet Union’s Afghanistan campaign.
Scholz said: “Slowly, Putin should realize that the only way out of this situation is to reach an agreement with Ukraine.” He made it clear that an agreement could not be a dictated peace by Russia. Scholz had been on the phone with Putin for more than an hour on Friday.
4:56 a.m.: Ukrainian secret service: war over at the end of the year
In a forecast that sounds extremely optimistic, the head of the Ukrainian military intelligence service predicts that the war will end with a Russian defeat by the end of the year. There will be a turnaround on the fronts by mid-August at the latest, Major General Kyrylo Budanov told the British broadcaster Sky News on Friday evening. “The turning point comes in the second half of August.” By the end of the year, Ukraine will regain control of all its territories, including the Crimean Peninsula.
The secret service official denied that the Russian armed forces were often said to be strong. “That’s a myth.” They are not strong. “It’s just a horde of people with guns,” he said of the Russian army.
Budanov also expected major changes in the Kremlin. In his view, a coup against Russian President Vladimir Putin is already underway. “They are moving towards it, nothing will stop them.” In addition, Putin was seriously ill with cancer, he claimed. He did not provide evidence for his claims.
02.00: Faeser: Fewer Ukrainian refugees are coming to Germany
Federal Interior Minister Nancy Faeser sees a calming down in the influx of war refugees from Ukraine. “Currently only about 2,000 refugees from Ukraine arrive in Germany every day. In mid-March it was still 15,000 people a day,” said the SPD politician to the “Rheinische Post” (Saturday). At the same time, 20,000 refugees are now returning to their country every day via the Polish-Ukrainian border, including people from Germany. Faeser assumes “that the majority of people will return.” “Some will remain if people see the chance to gain a foothold in the German labor market with their qualifications,” added the interior minister.
01:45: Kyiv sees “third phase” of the war
The Ukrainian leadership sees the beginning of the “third phase” of the Russian war of aggression and a protracted struggle associated with it. “Phase one” was an attempt to overrun Ukraine “in a few days,” said Viktor Andrusyw, an adviser at Ukraine’s interior ministry, on television on Saturday night. In the second phase, in turn, the Ukrainian forces were to be encircled and crushed in several boilers. “And they didn’t do that either.”
In the new “third phase” the Russian military prepared to defend the territory gained so far. “It shows that they want to make a long war out of it,” said Andrusyw. Apparently, the Russian government thinks that by prolonging the war, they can force the West to come to the negotiating table and thus force Ukraine to give in.
12:21 a.m .: Selenskyj calls for further pressure on Russia
Almost two and a half months after Russian troops invaded Ukraine, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has called for even more pressure from the international community on Moscow. “With each day of war, global threats increase, there is a new opportunity for Russia to provoke instability in other parts of the world, not only here in Europe,” Zelenskyy said in his daily video address on Friday evening. Meanwhile, however, die in Ukraine Men and women “doing their best so that all people can live freely,” said Zelenskyy, “therefore much more pressure on Russia is needed.”
Nevertheless, there are countries in which sanctions against Moscow are being withheld or aid for Ukraine is being blocked, Zelenskyj criticized. However, he did not specifically name a country. It is now known that Russia’s blockade of Ukrainian ports and the war as a whole have provoked a major food crisis. “And Russian officials are also openly threatening the world that there will be famines in dozens of countries.”
Source: Stern
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