Russia and Ukraine argue for buffer zone on the border

The Ukraine rejects the plan of Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin to create a buffer zone on the border. “These new aggressive demands are a clear cancellation of peace efforts and show that Putin is and remains the only reason for the ongoing killing,” said Foreign Minister Andrij Sybiha on the platform X. Previously, after visiting the West Russian region of Kursk, which was partially controlled by Ukrainian troops, “announced the creation of a security zone” along the border “.

At first he did not say where exactly the zone is going, how long it is and how deep to Ukraine it should go. “Our armed forces are in the process of solving this task, enemy fire points are actively suppressed, the work is in progress,” said Putin.

The Ukrainian Foreign Minister Sybiha then said that Putin had to get more pressure to end this war. Ministry spokesman Horhij Tychyj said that Putin could build the buffer zone in his own area.

Putin declared the Kursk region freely after the invasion of Ukrainian troops in August last year and also visited itself this week. In contrast, the Ukraine accused Putin lies; President Wolodymyr Selenskyj said several times that his troops still held positions in the Kursk area and in the neighboring Belgorod region. In August, Selenskyj also called “the creation of a buffer zone on the aggressor territory” as a specific goal for the advance of his troops in the Kursk region.

Russia meanwhile reported a Ukrainian rocket attack on the small town of Lgow in the border area in the border area. The number of injured civilians has increased to 16, reported the Russian news agency TASS, citing authorities. Four of the injured are in a serious condition. The information cannot be checked independently.

In the Lipezz region in the southern central part of Russia, eight people were injured by a Ukrainian drone during the night. Governor Igor Artamonov reported, according to the State Agency Tass that people were hit by falling debris from a drone shot down by the air defense.

Russia has been waging war against Ukraine for more than three years. Among other things, this defends itself with military and financial support from the West and tries to carry the war into the land of the attacker. However, the damage caused by Ukrainian drones and rockets are much smaller than the devastation that Russian drones and rockets in Ukraine do.

According to a joint statement, the G7 Minister of Finance want to increase the pressure on Russia if Moscow does not agree to a ceasefire. All possible options would continue to be examined to hold Russia accountable, including further tightening of the sanctions, the seven important industrialized nations announced according to their summit in Canada. In the communiqué, which the Canadian G7 chair published, Russia’s constant Brutal war is also sentenced to Ukraine.

In the meantime, Selenskyj confirmed in his evening video address, the interest of Ukraine was not to extend the war. Ukraine is ready to take the fastest possible steps for real ceasefire and the establishment of a new security architecture. “What we need is the reciprocal willingness of Russia – and it does not exist at the moment, and that won’t change without global pressure.”

Putin also ordered to work out a comprehensive program in order to initiate the reconstruction of the border regions affected by fighting. In addition to the areas of Kursk and Belgorod, it is also about the Brjansk region. The regions close to the border are under the shelling of the Ukrainian side, which mainly uses drones.

Selenskyj had justified the attacks on Russian territory with the fact that Kiev could bring himself into a better position in future negotiations on the settlement of the conflict. Russia had recently stated that Kiev had failed with the plan to put Moscow under pressure in this way.