The leaders of Western countries, including Joe Biden, Emmanuel Macron, Boris Johnson and Olaf Scholzheld this Friday at 11 am (Colombian time), a telephone conversation about the Ukrainian crisis, at a time of strong tensions with Russia.
In addition to the American and French presidents and the British and German heads of government, The intervention of the Secretary General of NATO is also contemplated in the telephone callJens Stoltenberg; the president of the european commissionUrsula von der Leyen and the President of the European Council, Charles Michel, informed the AFP sources from the German government and the French presidency.
The conversation will take place in a context of fear of a possible Russian invasion of Ukraine.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken considered that Russia could invade Ukraine “at any time”, having concentrated more than 100,000 soldiers and heavy weapons on the border of the former Soviet republic.
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In recent days, discussions between the parties have increased, but no progress has been made to resolve the crisis, which Westerners describe as the most dangerous since the end of the Cold War three decades ago. On Friday, the Kremlin regretted that the discussions between Germany, Russia, Ukraine and Francethe day before in Berlin, did not show “any results”.
Russia, which annexed Crimea in 2014, denies harboring any warlike intentions towards Ukraine, but conditions the de-escalation to several demands, such as NATO ensuring that theThe former Soviet republic will never be incorporated into the Alliance. A condition that Westerners consider unacceptable.
In parallel, Moscow announced new military maneuvers on the Ukrainian border, in addition to those it has already been carrying out since Thursday in Belarus, a neighboring country of Ukraine.
EFE and AFP
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