Vladimir Putin put on Kiev responsibility for the failure to open concrete negotiations to put an end to conflict. The authorities Ukrainiansstates the Russian presidentthey had sent a negotiation proposal through the Türkiye to Flywho had “accepted” it, but then backed out. THE’Ukraine does not comment, but lets it be known that the President Volodymyr Zelensky refused to receive the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterreswho wanted to go to Kiev after meeting Putin to Kazan on the sidelines of the summit Brics. With his visit the head of the United Nations inflicted “a humiliation on international law», a Ukrainian official told the agency Afpwhile controversy rages over the photo in which Guterres he almost seems to bow as he shakes hands with Kremlin leader.
THE’Ukraine meanwhile raises the alarm on the sending of North Korean military in Russiastating that the first troops of Pyongyang they will be “deployed in combat as early as Sunday”. The intelligence of Kiev had previously said that the North Korean forces would have been used to repel the invasion of the Ukrainian ones in Kursk region of Russia.
Regarding the failed negotiations, in an interview on state television Rossiya-1 Putin he said that Fly had received a signal from Kiev during «an event at United Nations», perhaps theUN General Assembly last month. According to the head of the Kremlinan advisor to the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan he called from New York directly to the Russian presidential advisor Yuri Ushakov sending him «a proposal on behalf of the Ukrainian side». «We accepted but the next day the head of the Ukrainian regime (the president Zelenskyed.) publicly declared that there would be no negotiations.”
According to the Russian presidentthat of Kiev it is an “irrational and difficult to predict behaviour”, which makes it “impossible to make any plan”. Even if, he added, theWest is starting to evaluate the conflict in Ukraine in a more “realistic” way, and for this he must be “praised”.
The Turkish advisor, the Russian agencies specify, was Ibrahim Kalinspokesperson for Erdogan until 2023 and currently head of the intelligence services. Putin he added that during the bilateral meeting held on Wednesday on the sidelines of the summit Brics, Erdogan has made new “proposals” to resume the negotiations on navigation in the Black Sea and “certain other matters.”
Probably among the «other issues» are included prisoner exchangeson which Putin has “expectations”, as reported by Erdogan upon returning from Kazan.
The rumors about possible negotiations run parallel to the proclamations of war. Putin he said that the Russian forces I’m atoffensive along the entire front, and they surrounded 2,000 Ukrainians in the Kursk region. A statement, the latter, rejected as “obvious misinformation» by the commander of the Ukrainian forces, Oleksandr Syrskyi. As for North Korean troops which according to the Ukrainians should be used precisely in Kursknor Putin nor Pyongyang they denied the news.
«If there is such a thing as the world mediaI think it is an act compliant with rules of international law», declared the North Korean Vice Foreign Minister Kim Jong-gyu. The Russian president he instead recalled, as he did yesterday, theArticle 4 of the Bilateral Military Cooperation Agreementadding that it is a “sovereign decision” of the Russia decide, together with North Koreain which cases and how to activate it. The Kremlinamong other things, did not rule out a visit to Fly of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un next year. Meanwhile theSouth Korean intelligence agency announced that a delegation from the government of Seoul it will be Monday at Brussels to share information with officials of Born and of EU on North Korean troops in Russia.