08/23/2023
Ukraine war in the live ticker
+++ 00:10 Medvedev: Russia could annex South Ossetia and Abkhazia +++
According to former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, Russia could annex the breakaway Georgian regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. “The idea of joining Russia remains popular in Abkhazia and South Ossetia,” the deputy chairman of the Russian Security Council writes in an article published early this morning by the Russian newspaper Argumenty iFakty. “The annexation could well be implemented if there are good reasons for it.”
+++ 22:19 poll: overwhelming majority in Ukraine rejects any concessions +++
In a representative poll in Ukraine, the overwhelming majority disagrees with recognizing the Russian-occupied territories as part of the Russian Federation. 90.4 percent talk to each other in the personal interview against it out of; 73.8 percent therefore endorse the NATO accession of Ukraine. Less than 5 percent are ready, territorial concessions to do to end the war, and 18 percent can imagine for it on a future renounce NATO membership. Only 13 percent would supposedly be discussed in Istanbul in 2022 Downsizing of the Armed Forces in Peacetime agree; only 18 percent to give the Russian language official status. Respondents in southern Ukraine, and to a somewhat greater extent in the east, show a slightly greater willingness to make concessions – other than territorial ones – but again the majority are against.
+++ 21:38 Selenskyj thanks the train to Kiev for new help +++
After his tour of various EU countries, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy thanks the pledges made by allies on the way back to Kiev. “There are planes for Ukraine. There is additional armor and we are strengthening air defenses,” he says. Balkan and Eastern European states backed Ukrainian demands for a complete withdrawal of Russian troops. Denmark and the Netherlands have pledged supplies of western F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine. F-16 pilot training has also started in Denmark. Zelenskyy thanked Greece for agreeing to take over the patronage for the reconstruction of the Ukrainian port city of Odessa, which had been hit several times by Russian rocket and drone attacks.
+++ 21:07 journalists: Another voice speaks Putin’s BRICS video address +++
Vladimir Putin will not be present at the BRICS summit in South Africa. At the previous economic forum, participants were able to see a video message from the Russian President. In it he offers, for example, to deliver grain to Africa, criticizes the grain agreement with Kiev and emphasizes the increasing independence from the US dollar in international trade. But something is according to Russian journalists strange: Putin does not speak the words himself, but is dubbed with another voice. Why is not known.
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