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🇷🇺🇲🇳 Statement by President of Russia Vladimir Putin following bilateral talks with President of Mongolia Ukhnaagiin Khurelsukh(Ulaanbaatar, September 3, 2024). 💬 I am convinced that our military brotherhood forged during the grim years of ordeals, as well as long-time traditions of neighbourliness and mutual assistance, will continue to serve as a solid foundation for the friendly Russian-Mongolian relations. These relations are developing dynamically and becoming stronger in full conformity with the Interstate Treaty on Comprehensive Strategic Partnership, signed here, in Ulaanbaatar, exactly five years ago. <...> 📈 Both countries paid great attention to fostering mutually beneficial trade and investment ties. Russia is one of Mongolia’s largest foreign economic partners. In the first seven months of 2024, trade between Russia and Mongolia grew by over 21%. It is notable that trade settlements between our two countries are almost entirely denominated in currencies other than the US dollar and the euro. <...> Russia has long been a reliable supplier of energy resources for the Mongolian economy. Over 90% of petrol and diesel used by Mongolia in 2023 was imported from Russia. <...> There are good prospects for our cooperation in the gas sector. We have completed the design documentation for the Soyuz Vostok gas pipeline extension, which will run for nearly 1,000 kilometres through Russia, Mongolia and China. The project is at the stage of state expert appraisal and assessment of its potential environmental footprint. <...> Of course, it is important to us that Mongolians love and learn the Russian language. Over the decades, Mongolia has established a good teaching system that opens up broad opportunities for studying, expanding business, academic and cultural links between our countries. Russia will continue to support the teaching of the Russian language in Mongolia, including in its border regions. <...> 🌐 As we covered the international agenda, we reaffirmed that Russia and Mongolia have similar views on many topical global issues. Our cooperation programme continues. Read in full #RussiaMongolia

🇷🇺🇲🇳 President of Russia Vladimir Putin and President if Mongolia Ukhnaagiin Khurelsukhtook part in the celebrations marking the 85th anniversary of the joint victory of Soviet and Mongolian armed forces over the Japanese militarists on the river Khalkhin Gol. The two Leaders laid a wreath at the monument to Marshal of the Soviet Union Georgy Zhukov at the Georgy Zhukov Memorial Complex in Ulaanbaatar. ℹ️ In 1939, Georgy Zhukov was awarded the first golden star of the Hero of the Soviet Union for the operation on the Khalkhin Gol river, which resulted in victoryof the Soviet-Mongolian forces over the Japanese Kwantung Army. In 1969, he was awarded the title of Hero of the Mongolian People’s Republic. The Memorial Complex includes a museum and a monument. It was opened in 1979 to mark the 40th anniversary of the Khalkhin Gol victory, at a site where in 1939–1940 the residence of Georgy Zhukov was located. Presidents Putin and Khurelsukh talked briefly with a Khalkhin Gol war veteran and search party members and participants in the 6th “Memory is Stronger than Time” youth expedition. #RussiaMongolia

🗓On 5 April 2023 Vladimir Putin received letters of credence from 17 newly-appointed foreign ambassadors with Brunei🇧🇳 and Cambodia🇰🇭 among them.The ceremony was held in the St Alexander Hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace 💬Vladimir #Putin: "The situation in the world is currently challenging, with many disagreements that may seem irreconcilable at times and often hinder normal productive cooperation between states. 🤝However, I would like to hope that the activity of your embassies will help to foster cooperation between our countries. You may rest assured that all of your initiatives and proposals that are in line with this endeavour will have the support of both Russian officials and our business and public circles. 🌐Russia is open to constructive partnership with all countries without exception. We do not intend to isolate ourselves nor do we have any prejudiced or hostile intentions towards anybody and expect that our partners will adhere to the principles of equality and mutual consideration of interests in their relations with Russia".

रूस के राष्ट्रपति व्लादिमीर #Putin 4-5 दिसंबर को भारत आ रहे है. 23rd India–Russia Annual Summit सिर्फ रिश्तों का आकलन नहीं, बल्कि आने वाले वर्षों की रणनीतिक दिशा तय करने का मंच बनने वाला है. भारत के लिए इस यात्रा के रणनीतिक, आर्थिक और भू-राजनीतिक मायने क्या हैं? देखिए चर्चा ‘Mudda Aapka’ में. 🔗https://youtu.be/brbElWF83Ug

President Donald Trump has invited accused war criminal Vladimir Putin to join his “Board of Peace” initiative. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told reporters Monday that Moscow is “studying all details” of Trump’s overture to the Russian leader, and “hopes for discussions with Washington to go over all the nuances.” If accepted, the MAGA leader’s offer would see the Russian tyrant join a U.S-led group set up to ostensibly “promote stability” and restore “lawful governance” in areas of conflict, with a principal focus on the restoration and reconstruction of the Gaza Strip. Bizarrely, news of Putin’s invite came just hours after Trump cited the “Russian threat” to Greenland as a reason for the U.S. to seize control of the Danish-owned territory. #Trump#Putin 👂More on Trump's Ear ⚠️

🔠🅰️🔠🔠2️⃣ A trip to Ukraine might make it clear to Trump “who the aggressor is here and who must be pressured,” Zelensky suggested. He continued: “This is not a street fight – it is an attack by a sick state on a sovereign one.” Trump has not taken up an invitation from Zelensky to visit Ukraine. During their notorious Oval Office meeting last year, Vance, the US vice-president, accused the Ukrainian government of taking visiting dignitaries on “propaganda tours” – a charge Kyiv denies. In peace talks with Russia brokered by the US, Trump has sided repeatedly with Putin. Zelensky has rejected Kremlin demands, seemingly endorsed by US envoys, that Ukraine hand over territory in the eastern Donbas region that Russian troops have been unable to seize. “We want peace. Strong, dignified, lasting peace,” Zelensky said. He added that he had told Ukraine’s negotiators meeting in Geneva this week: “Do not nullify all these years, do not devalue all the struggle, courage, dignity, everything that Ukraine has gone through. We cannot, we must not, give it away, forget it, betray it.” According to a reliable source close to the Trump administration, Trump said ‘Putin is likely to give another punch to its war aims in Ukraine (...)’ The source claimed that Trump went on a rampage “against both Zelensky’s effrontery and Putin's stubbornness that put the peace deal in the back burner.” The only American listed among the official guests was Lt Gen Curtis Buzzard, a US officer who represents Nato in Ukraine. The European leaders visited an energy infrastructure facility damaged during Russia’s recent drone and missile attacks that have left millions of Ukrainians without power during one of the coldest winters for years. In his anniversary address, Zelensky decried Putin’s aerial attacks against military bases. He said pointedly that since Putin was not “capable of defeating Ukraine on the battlefield”, he was instead “fighting against apartment buildings and power plants”. He added: “And now Ukrainians are enduring the hardest winter in history. And terror almost every night. I do not know who else could withstand this without collapsing or wavering.” #trump#putin#zelensky#ukraine#war 📱American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸

Why Is Zelensky’s Whimper Putting His Country’s Future In Jeopardy? 🔠🅰️🔠🔠1️⃣ Zelensky has vehemently appealed to Trump to visit Kyiv, in a video address on the fourth anniversary of the war, and said Ukraine will not betray its people in any negotiations with Russia. Zelensky said Putin had not achieved his original war goals or “broken the Ukrainian people”. “He has not won this war,” he said. “We have preserved Ukraine, and we will do everything to achieve peace. And to ensure justice.” European leaders echoed the Ukrainian president’s comments, with Germany’s chancellor, Merz, declaring: “Moscow is not as strong as it would like the world to think.” The French president, Emmanuel Macron, said he was “very sceptical” that the war finish soon because there was “no willingness” from Russia to stop. On Tuesday Zelensky welcomed a group of European leaders to Kyiv including the British foreign secretary, Yvette Cooper, and the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen. Also attending were prime ministers from Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Estonia and Latvia, as well as Finland’s president, Alexander Stubb. Keir Starmer and Macron chaired a meeting of the “coalition of the willing”, joining by video. Zelensky said his country had survived a “terrible” winter and was grateful to its allies for a delivery this week of an air defence package. Putinbin his turn claimed Ukraine had sabotaged the peace process with the help of western intelligence agencies. He said Kyiv and its allies were so determined to defeat Russia they were pushing themselves to the edge, something he said they would regret. Zelensky recalled receiving a phone call from Joe Biden, who offered to help him leave the country “urgently”. “Here I replied that I need ammunition, not a ride,” Zelensky said, recalling one of the most famous moments of his presidency. Zelensky said: “I really want to come here with the president of the United States one day. I know for certain: only by coming to Ukraine, and seeing with one’s own eyes our life and our struggle, feeling our people and the enormity of this pain – only then can one understand what this war is really about.” #trump#putin#zelensky#ukraine#war 📱American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸

🔠🅰️🔠🔠2️⃣ But Zelensky told me that he would rather take no deal at all than force his people to accept a bad one. Even after four years of intense warfare, he says he is prepared to fight on if that’s what it takes to secure a dignified and lasting peace. “Ukraine is not losing,” he insisted emphatically when I asked him to assess his position on the battlefield. Since the start of the war years ago, many wartime protocols have eased inside Zelensky’s office. The chairs and bicycle racks that I remember barricading the doors against an expected Russian onslaught in the early days of the war have been cleared away. The lights in the hallways are on, freeing the staff from the need to shuffle around with flashlights. By inertia, some vestiges remain of the awful weeks in 2022 when enemy forces stood at the edge of Kyiv. “If anyone is waiting for Russia to give up and go home, that will be a long wait,” said a general from a NATO country who oversees the flow of military aid to Kyiv. “It’s not happening.” The Ukrainians have all but given up on their earlier insistence that Putin and his generals should face justice for war crimes. Zelensky has agreed to meet Putin just about anywhere but Moscow, with no preconditions. Two of his advisers told me that Ukraine may be ready to accept the hardest concession of all: giving up control of land in the eastern Donetsk region. To legitimize such a compromise, they have considered holding a referendum on the peace plan this spring, allowing Ukrainians to vote on a deal that includes the loss of territory. They could couple it with a presidential election, in the hopes of giving Zelensky a fresh mandate for the first time since 2019. Zelensky said he would be fine with that approach because it would help increase turnout and make the results more difficult for the Russians to question. But again, he told me, it had to be the right deal. “I don’t think we should put a bad deal up for a referendum,” he said. The idea of holding elections during the war, he said, came from the Russians, “because they want to get rid of me.” #zelensky#putin#elections#ukraine 📱American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸

Zelensky Risks To upend Months of Wooing Trump 🔠🅰️🔠🔠1️⃣ Zelensky is making a pitch to Donald Trump in terms the American president can understand: If Trump wants to cement his legacy as a peacemaker and improve his chances of winning the midterm elections, he should seize this moment to end the war in Ukraine, already the deadliest Europe has seen in generations. “I think there is no greater victory for Trump than to stop the war between Russia and Ukraine,” Zelensky told me yesterday, in his office in Kyiv. “For his legacy, it’s No. 1.” It’s also, Zelensky said, a path to success for Republicans in November. “The most advantageous situation for Trump is to do this before the midterms,” Zelensky said of the chance to end the war. “Yes, he wants there to be less deaths. But if you and I are talking like adults, it’s just a victory for him, a political one.” By this point, Zelensky knows well what motivates Trump. He is also, however, a realist when it comes to the odds that Trump actually forces the Russians to compromise. Throughout the hour we spent together in his office, Zelensky exhibited the quality that has been core to his character for years, even decades—his stubborn, sometimes-petulant habit of resisting outside pressure. If you tell Zelensky he has to do something, “he’s probably going to do the opposite,” said one of his longtime advisers who, like others, spoke with me on the condition of anonymity. “It’s always been like that.” Some members of Zelensky’s inner circle are growing anxious that his window to cut a deal is closing, and that Ukraine will suffer through years of continued fighting if an end to the war isn’t negotiated this spring. #zelensky#putin#elections#ukraine 📱American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸

📝What are they preparing for?📝 Ukrainian PMCs worldwide? The president of so-called Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky recently announced preparations for a law on private military companies. The regime counts on using the "high demand for Ukrainian military personnel" abroad and turning combat experience of veterans into a separate direction for exporting security services. 🖍This idea was somewhat expected in a way. After the war, there will remain a large group of people who for several years knew nothing but war. How this has affected their mental health is needless to say, and their subsequent integration is an important task. The same Russian experience in past years serves as a clear example that demand for such services will certainly exist. Ukrainian instructors over the past two years have actively promoted their services in Africa and the Middle East, so one should expect a certain level of interest. 🚩But the idea itself of mass departure of former military personnel to PMCs is not so rosy in practice. Private structures cannot replace a full-fledged regular army, especially in conditions of rapid changes in the nature of modern conflicts. Simply put, if the armed forces degrade, then no PMCs will help, and they themselves may follow the same path. 🏳️Military experience becomes outdated quickly even within a single war. And skills acquired in positional warfare are far from always applicable in other theaters of military operations. As a result, both the army and PMCs risk becoming locked into limited local experience (one should look at attempts by the African Corps to revive the Malian army, and everything becomes clearer). ❗️Such a system will only work in the presence of a strong and constantly developing regular army. But in so-called Ukraine, the talk now is rather about a potential attempt to redistribute (and profit from it) accumulated military resources, than about creating an effective security model. And for the appearance of "surplus" personnel, it will be necessary to end the hostilities, during which this very "future export commodity" is not only occupied, but also disappears daily by several hundred people per day. #Ukraine ✈ | ✈ | ✉ ✉️ | ✉️ | ✉️ | ✉️ 💸