The US president, said his special envoy for the Middle East, will visit Russia “Wednesday and Thursday”, at a time marked by the president has given Moscow to reach an agreement with kyiv.
“If the deadline arrives and Russia has not accepted a high fire, there will be penalties. But (Moscow) seems quite good to avoid. They are cunning and quite skilled people to avoid them,” he told the press last night in New Jersey. And he added that “I may next week, Wednesday and Thursday, trip to Russia.”
When asked if Moscow could do something to avoid sanctions, Trump replied: “Yes, reach an agreement where people stop dying.”
Trump said last Tuesday that the ultimatum ten days began that day he granted his Russian counterpart, to reach a peace agreement with Ukraine. “Ten days from today,” Trump was heard on board the presidential aircraft Air Force 1, during a conversation with journalists who asked him about the reduction of the deadline he had recently announced. “I don’t know if he will affect Russia, because it is evident that he wants to continue with war,” he added.
“I don’t know if it will affect Russia, because it is evident that he wants to continue with the war.”
Trump insisted that the dead figures for the war that Moscow libra in Ukrainian territory doubled, so he wants the war to come to an end as quickly as possible.
For its part, the Russian government said last Tuesday that it is aware of Trump’s new ultimatum, but added that Russia prepares to continue the war.
New Chief of the Ukrainian Air Force
For his part, the president of Ukraine, has appointed Anatoli Kryvonozhko as Sunday as the new commander of the Air Force, coinciding with the day of this military body and after a meeting with high positions of the Army and the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense in which his future “full and effective integration with the forces of the” has been addressed.
“Today I named Anatoli Kryvonozhko commander of the Air Force. I had been serving as an interim commander for almost a year and many achievements have been obtained. It is important that we all continue working as a team: among the state institutions, with our partners and with the professional community,” he said in his evening speech.
The president has taken the opportunity to congratulate and thank “our warriors of the Air Force, it is their professional day”, of whom they stressed that they are “heroic people”, and has announced the adoption of new steps “in the development of (their) combat aviation”, including the “integration of our forces with our partners.”
“Our goal is the full and effective integration of the Ukraine Air Force with NATO forces, something that will undoubtedly provide the defense of Ukraine of greater capabilities and, at the same time, will make our country an even more important part of the European defense,” he defended.
Zelenski has also celebrated the development of the Ukrainian Air Force thanks to the fact that “each element is receiving the reinforcement it deserves.” “Only this year, our Air Force received Mirage (French combat planes), as well as more. And there is more on the way,” he added.
In the same intervention, the Ukrainian President has announced the imposition of “three sanctions packages”, including one against “the captains of the fleet in the shadow of Russia”, although he has specified that they will all be “coordinated with our partners.” “All the necessary decisions of the partners must be reflected in the sanctions against Ukraine,” he added.