Eastern Europe/Ukraine [Feb 6th 2015]

[IndraD]

Putin Cheated by Erdogan RIGHT After Announcing Turkey Trip
A Kremlin spokesperson denounced the return of the soldiers and accused Turkey of breaching their original agreement.

“No one informed us about this. According to the agreements, these ringleaders were to remain on the territory of Turkey until the end of the conflict,” Dmitry Peskov said, DW News reported. Zelensky has not elaborated on the reason the commanders could come home.

The defenders—Denys Prokopenko, Svyatoslav Palamar, Serhiy Volynsky, Oleh Khomenko, and Denys Shleha—were among hundreds of fighters ordered to surrender to Russian besiegers in Mariupol in May 2022. For the Kremlin, the port city has represented a crucial part of its plans for a land bridge between southern Russia and occupied Crimea.

Turkey’s decision to handover the Azov commanders comes as Erdogan announced he will host Putin next month in hopes of extending a deal to allow for the use of the Black Sea to export grain from Ukrainian ports. https://www.thedailybeast.com/kremlins- ... rom-turkey

[g.sarkar]

https://sundayguardianlive.com/world/us ... to-ukraine
US defends delivery of cluster bombs to Ukraine
By Our Correspondent, July 9, 2023
American President Joe Biden on Friday defended what he said was a “difficult decision” to provide cluster munitions to Ukraine, a move that the administration said insisted is key to the fight.
The move is buttressed by Ukraine’s promise to use the controversial munitions “carefully”. The decision came just ahead of the NATO summit in Lithuania, where President Biden is likely to face questions from allies on why the US decided to send a weapon into Ukraine that more than two-thirds of alliance members have banned owing to its track record for causing many civilian casualties. “It took me a while to be convinced to do it,” the American president told the media. Biden added that he ultimately took the Defense Department’s recommendation to deliver the bomb and discussed the matter with allies and lawmakers on Capitol Hill. He said “the Ukrainians are running out of ammunition” and the cluster bombs would help provide a temporary fix to stop the onslaught from Russian tanks.
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Gautam

[chetak]

WA

When you show up to the wrong party uninvited

[IndraD]

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/0 ... st-allies/
Original headline was
India is now part of Putin's evil axis West must act''
has been changed to
Can India be decoupled from Russia?

That anywhere from 70 to 80 per cent of India’s military hardware is of Soviet and Russian origin, and two-thirds of arms imports since 1992 came from Russia, is not a historical accident.
Then Indian Prime Minister Nehru’s policies alarmed the US and Britain, which attached strict conditions to their companies’ investments in India to protect outside ownership and limit technology sharing (including in weapons sales). The former Soviet Union, by contrast, built mines, steel mills and heavy industrial plants, trained local specialists, and sold arms – often at a loss – with few conditions and limitations.
when it comes to Russian oil purchases, India can justifiably accuse its western critics of hypocrisy given that it is buying crude below the G7 price cap and then legally reselling refined fuels made from this Russian crude to Europe.

[Lisa]

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