In Astana the face to face between Putin and Erdogan
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In Astana the meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdoğan .
The face-to-face takes place in the Kazakh capital on the sidelines of the summit of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia (CICA). This was reported by Ria Novosti, reporting Turkish sources. There is expectation on the proposals that the Turkish leader will make to Putin to seek a diplomatic way to end the war in Ukraine even if the Kremlin spokesman, Dmitri Peskov , said that the question of a possible resolution to the conflict in Ukraine is not been discussed.
Erdogan had spoken of "just peace", an objective that can be achieved "through diplomacy, there can be no winners in a war and losers in peace". "Our intent - stated in a statement taken up by the national agency Anadolu - is that the bloodbath ends as soon as possible ".
Meanwhile, Russian kamikaze drones also went into action this morning in the Ukrainian region of Kiev.
(Unioneonline)
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Stoltenberg: "The use of NATO nuclear weapons is extremely remote"
"The circumstances under which NATO could use nuclear weapons are extremely remote." This was stated by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg at the end of the NATO ministerial in Brussels, speaking of a possible response from the alliance to an attack by Russia in Ukraine and Macron's announcement that France would not respond with atomic weapons.
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Council of Europe: "Russia be defined as a terrorist regime"
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe asks all member states to "declare the current Russian regime as a terrorist regime". The request, passed almost unanimously, with the favorable vote of the Italians, Manuel Vescovi (Lega), Marina Berlinghieri (Pd) and Maurizio Buccarella (Mixed Group), is contained in a report in which the assembly also asks the capitals to not to recognize in any way the annexation of Ukrainian territory by Russia, nor the referendums imposed by Moscow. The Strasbourg assembly also calls for "peace negotiations to take place only under Ukrainian conditions".
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"Apartment block struck by Ukrainians in the Russian city Belgorod"
An apartment building was hit by a Ukrainian attack in Belgorod, a city in western Russia, close to the border with Ukraine. This was reported by the mayor Anton Ivanov, quoted by Ria Novosti. According to the Russian state news agency, 8 explosions were heard.
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Zelensky: "As long as weapons speak no to diplomacy with Russia"
Russia "must be isolated diplomatically", diplomacy is a "powerful" tool but it cannot be there as long as "the weapons speak". This was stated by the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky speaking at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.
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Kiev, Russians raze liberated villages in Lugansk
The Russian occupiers are trying to raze the villages of the Lugansk region recently liberated by the Ukrainian armed forces to the ground with any weapon: the head of the regional military administration in exile Sergiy Gaidai said in a briefing. "The liberation has begun. The Russian army, realizing that it is losing territory, in addition to digging and building fortifications, burying equipment, blowing up bridges, is also attacking the villages liberated by the Kiev forces, firing with artillery , the tanks and all they have are simply razed to stop the offensive of the Ukrainian armed forces, "he said.