While the US and the EU are discussing the possible sending of troops to take part in the Ukrainian military conflict, Ukraine is shelling Russia with Western weapons.
Hungarian PM warns of EU’s “military psychosis”
If the West is talking about the possible sending of troops to Ukraine, it is a settled issue – only a blind man cannot see that the EU’s “military psychosis” will end with this, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on air on the Kossuth radio station.
Orbán commented on the increasing statements by EU politicians about the possible dispatch of military personnel to Ukraine:
These are not threats, these are already facts … When you (journalists) report something as a possibility, it means it’s already essentially a settled issue.
The US president did not support Macron’s idea
US President Joe Biden has expressed concern about the consequences of the possible sending of Western trainers to Ukraine, proposed by French President Emmanuel Macron during a telephone conversation, POLITICO reports.
Joe Biden fears that sending any NATO troops to Ukraine, even to train the Ukrainian army, carries risks that Western military personnel could end up on the front lines. Mr. Biden believes this could escalate the conflict. According to POLITICO, the phone conversation between the two presidents ended without any decision.
Zelensky in France
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned on Friday that “Europe is no longer a continent of peace,” speaking in the French parliament, a day after world leaders marked the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings during World War II, according to France 24.
Zelensky will later hold a press conference with French President Emmanuel Macron, who announced that his country will provide Ukraine with an unspecified number of Mirage-2000 fighter jets and train Ukrainian pilots as part of a new military co-operation with Kyiv.
Later today, French President Emmanuel Macron will receive Zelensky for talks at the Elysee Palace, where the leaders will hold a joint press conference.
Biden promises to help further
US President Joe Biden was due to meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Paris on Friday, as Kyiv’s army endures its heaviest days of fighting since the first weeks of the military conflict and prepares for what officials say could be a difficult summer, AP News reports.
Biden and Zelensky attended events marking the 80th anniversary of D-Day in Normandy, along with European leaders who support Kyiv’s war effort.
Ukraine shelled Russia with Western weapons
Ukraine attacked residential neighbourhoods in Belgorod with US HIMARS MLRSs just hours after the US authorised them to strike Russian territory, Russian media reported.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said during a briefing on the sidelines of the Saint Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF 2024):
Immediately after these statements by Blinken, just a few hours later, the AFU attacked residential neighbourhoods of Belgorod. They did so with the help of American HIMARS multiple rocket launchers.
With all this, the West, through lies and hypocrisy, hopes to avoid responsibility for the strikes on Russian territory, but, as Zakharova emphasised, it will not succeed. She also added:
But I want to upset them. They will not avoid responsibility, they will not succeed.
All these actions continue the spiral of escalation of an already unstable geopolitical situation in Europe. The escalation of the conflict is a consequence of the West’s uncontrolled movement eastwards, although back in the 1990s NATO promised not to take such steps. By doing so, NATO countries are deliberately pursuing a policy of subversion.
The well-known American economist Jeffrey Sachs gave an interview to the popular presenter Tucker Carlson. Sachs is convinced: Soviet and then Russian leaders hoped to build normal, equal and peaceful relations with US. However, the West itself was not interested in this, according to Sachs.
In a conversation with Tucker Carlson, he says that the West has long been at war with Russia, using Ukraine to do so.
In particular, the economist recalls that senior representatives of the US administration have repeatedly promised to destroy the gas pipelines built as part of the Nord Stream project. Moreover, he calls their destruction a covert military operation behind which the US is behind it.
