Russo-Ukrainian War - 2022 Edition - Part 8

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Lavrov: US trying to sabotage Russia-Africa summit​

The US is trying to wreck Russia’s planned summit with African countries as part of efforts to isolate Moscow, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said in an interview.
Moscow is preparing for its second summit with African countries, scheduled for the end of July in St Petersburg, including work on infrastructure, technology and energy projects.
“It is true that the United States and its vassals are doing everything possible to achieve Russia’s international isolation,” Lavrov told the news site Argumenty i Fakty. “In particular, they are trying to torpedo the planned second Russia-Africa summit … to persuade our African friends not to take part.”
The US Department of State, in a statement, did not address Lavrov’s accusations directly, but said Washington was pursuing strong relationships with African countries “to address the shared challenges we face. Our Africa policy is about Africa.”
Shunned by most Western countries since its invasion of Ukraine just more than a year ago, Moscow has turned its efforts to countries in Asia and Africa.
Lavrov has been particularly eager to nurture ties with Africa, visiting the continent twice this year as well as making a tour in mid-2022.
 

Bill Clinton regrets persuading Ukraine to give up nuclear arsenal in 1994​

Former US President Bill Clinton has said he regrets his role in persuading Ukraine to give up its nuclear weapons in 1994.
In an interview with Ireland’s public service broadcaster (RTÉ), Clinton suggested that Russia would not have invaded Ukraine if Kyiv still had its nuclear deterrent.
“I feel a personal stake because I got them [Ukraine] to agree to give up their nuclear weapons. And none of them believe that Russia would have pulled this stunt if Ukraine still had their weapons,” he said in an interview.
In 1994, Clinton signed an agreement with the presidents of Russia and Ukraine at the time to eliminate the arsenal of strategic nuclear weapons that remained on Ukrainian soil after the fall of the Soviet Union.
The United States was also party to a related agreement later in the same year, which included Russian commitments to respect Ukraine’s territorial integrity.
Those commitments were broken in 2014, when Russia invaded and annexed Crimea, and were further shattered when it began a wider war against Ukraine last year.

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Bank of Baroda, #India's second-largest state bank by assets, has been blocking payments for oil from #Russia since April if its price exceeds the "ceiling" set by the #G7 countries, Reuters reported, citing three sources familiar with the situation. They said some Indian refineries have used the bank to buy Russian raw materials through the United Arab Emirates and pay in dirhams. A number of transactions were made at prices above $60, the sources said, but that practice will now be discontinued.


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Russian official sought by ICC for war crimes speaks at UN

Maria Lvova-Belova will be the lead speaker at Security Council about Ukrainian children taken to Russia.
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Russia’s commissioner for children’s rights, who is being sought for war crimes, will brief a controversial United Nations meeting that Russia called to counter what it claims is disinformation about Ukrainian children taken to Russia.


Russia’s UN Mission confirmed on Tuesday that Maria Lvova-Belova will be the lead speaker, by video link, to an informal meeting of the Security Council that has sparked opposition from Ukraine’s supporters.

The International Criminal Court (ICC) issued arrest warrants last month for her and President Vladimir Putin over their suspected involvement in the unlawful deportation and transfer of children from occupied areas of Ukraine to Russia.

The United Kingdom said it has blocked outside broadcast of the meeting in protest and will not send an ambassador. The US mission said it will not send its ambassador, either.

“The fact that they are inviting someone indicted by the ICC speaks for itself,” UK deputy ambassador James Kariuki said.
 
rambo919 said:
.....why?
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Not ready to play your Kremlin inspired mind games but just go through all your posts in this thread. The answer to your question lies in those posts. I'd tag them but I don't want to waste more of the time I'm already wasting by being on these boards all day. :cool:
 
ForceFate said:
Not ready to play your Kremlin inspired mind games but just go through all your posts in this thread. The answer to your question lies in those posts. I'd tag them but I don't want to waste more of the time I'm already wasting by being on these boards all day. :cool:
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So you are attempting to play mind games with me while accusing me of doing it....
 
rambo919 said:
OH ok, it's sick and twisted because it's the opposite of what you believe..... that Putin is Hitler and Ukrainians are Jews on the brink of being put into concentration camps.
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Ukrainian kids have already been put into concentration camps:

Mar 18, 2023The issue of missing children has resulted in the first warrants from the ICC. Photograph: AP Children from orphanages in the Donetsk area at a camp in Zolotaya Kosa, Rostov region, south-west Russia.

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‘We had to hide them’: how Ukraine’s ‘kidnapped’ children led to Vladimir Putin’s arrest warrant

Thousands have been taken to Russia for ‘adoption’ or ‘re-education’, but the international community is seeking justice• Russia-Ukraine war – live updates
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