Developments in Ukraine Why did Zelensky cancel the presidential election?

According to the international group Tasnim news agency, Volodymyr Zelensky, the president of Ukraine in the spring of 2019 He was elected as the head of the government of Ukraine. Under normal circumstances, the presidential election in Ukraine was scheduled for March 31, 2024 (April 12 this year). However, in November of last year, the president of the country announced that holding elections in a war situation was not appropriate and would only lead to the escalation of the situation inside the country, thus he canceled the elections.

In February 2022, after the Russian military attack on Ukraine, martial law was declared in this country. According to Zelensky, it will be possible to hold elections in this situation only if the parliament supports the relevant legal changes. However, no action was taken in this direction.

In this regard, Nikolay Azarov, the former Prime Minister of Ukraine, believes that Zelenskiy, due to the cancellation of the election, questioned his legitimacy, because the Constitution It does not guarantee the extension of his term of responsibility. According to this politician, if Ukraine was a democratic country, presidential elections should be held today. But this is not the case in Zelensky’s government. Azarov reminded that the reason for the cancellation of the presidential elections in Ukraine is not the country’s military situation, but Zelensky’s fear of defeat in the elections. Yesterday, Irina Grashinko, a member of the Ukrainian Supreme Parliament from the European Solidarity Party, also said in this regard. : “Zelensky’s government is acting inefficiently and completely unprofessionally, and the parliament should not be under the influence of the pro-presidential party.” Earlier, Vasily Nebenzia, Russia’s permanent representative to the United Nations, emphasized that Zelensky’s decision not to The holding of presidential elections in Ukraine will make him illegal from May 21. According to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, Zelenskiy’s action shows his desire to cling to power as long as possible. According to political experts, the current president of Ukraine could have held elections legally. slow and only because of the fear of the people’s lack of confidence, he has used the war situation as an excuse for not holding elections. Thus, in the current situation, Vladimir Zelensky will remain in power at least until the end of 2024 and until the situation of the military conflict with Russia is determined.

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Russian diplomat: Moscow is ready for any developments in Ukraine

Konstantin Gavrilov, the head of the Russian delegation at the Vienna talks on Military Security and Arms Control announced today in an interview with Novosti that if Western countries decide to send a military group to Ukraine to test Russia’s power, Moscow will be ready for any situation.

This diplomat said: “Military strategists in Washington and Brussels should know: if they want to test the strength of our country by removing the possible taboo of sending military forces from NATO countries to Ukraine, we are ready for any change.” According to Gavrilov, the Russian side has repeatedly warned NATO that the increase in their military involvement in Ukraine, including a direct conflict between nuclear powers, is associated with catastrophic consequences for which Western countries will be responsible. He added: All this is clearly in conflict with the content of the joint declaration of the nuclear powers on the prevention of nuclear war dated January 3, 2022, to which Russia remains unconditionally committed.

Relations between Russia and Today, NATO is more than a cold war

The head of the Russian delegation at the arms control negotiations in Vienna also expressed his opinion that in the current situation, the relations between Russia and NATO can be “something more than a described the Cold War.

Konstantin Gavrilov said: If we consider parallels between historical periods, it is enough to remember how during the Cold War, almost all NATO statements at ministerial and other levels It started with assessing the possibility of a sudden attack by the Soviet Union on a large scale. In the current political situation, such baseless rhetoric has prevailed again.

As this Russian diplomat recalled: In NATO’s strategic doctrine, which was approved at the Madrid meeting in 2022, Russia is introduced as “the most important and direct threat” and NATO members intend to at least in The next ten years will move according to the offensive-confrontational logic designed in this document. He continued: Apparently, now their desired ideal for the security of Europe boils down to drawing a barbed wire and a wall on the borders of our country. As a result, the relationship between Russia and NATO can now be considered more acute than during the Cold War. Yesterday Admiral Rob Bauer, the head of NATO’s military committee, said that there is currently no indication that Russia is planning to attack any One of the member countries is not there, but one should prepare for such a situation.

Chinese Ambassador: All parties know that peace can be reached through negotiation

Zhang Hanhui, the Chinese ambassador to Russia, believes that all parties involved in the conflict agree that peace will ultimately be achieved through negotiations. He said in an interview: “All our actions had only one goal – to reach a consensus on the need to end the war and prepare the ground for peace talks.” The parties disagree on the issue of peace talks for Ukraine, but they all agree that peace will be achieved through negotiations. The Beijing authorities support the holding of an international peace conference as soon as possible, which will be approved by both the Russian and Ukrainian sides, with equal participation of all sides and honest discussion on all options of the peace plan.

Zhang Hanhui added that China As a permanent member of the UN Security Council, it wishes to play a unique role in reaching consensus to create more favorable conditions for the start of peace talks.

In early March, China launched the second round of shuttle diplomacy to discuss Held about solutions to the Ukrainian crisis. In this regard, Li Hui, China’s special representative for Eurasian affairs, visited Russia, Belgium, Poland, Ukraine, Germany and France. In addition, in mid-March, representatives of the military command of the People’s Republic of China and NATO held a security dialogue in Beijing.

Russia’s ability to destroy F-16 fighters outside the territory of Ukraine

Larry Johnson, a former CIA analyst, pointed out in an interview that the Russian armed forces have the ability to use the F-16 fighters, which are to be provided to Kiev, even outside of destroy Ukrainian soil. Recalling that there is a possibility that these planes will be stationed in the training bases of NATO countries in the neighborhood of Ukraine, he said: “If they are stationed on the territory of Romania or Poland, Russia can destroy them.”

A few days. Russian President Vladimir Putin emphasized that even if Western countries transfer F-16 fighters to Ukraine, this issue cannot change the situation on the battlefield. He warned: “Even if F-16s from third countries take to the air, it will become a legitimate target for Russia.” >

The New York Times reported that Ukrainian armed forces officers interviewed by the newspaper complained that new recruits are often very old and in poor health. And they are unmotivated and do not have much desire to fight against Russia.

According to them, for this reason, senior military officials cannot count on the combat power of these people and their motivation on the battlefield. In a short time, these soldiers either lost their lives, were killed or wounded, or were captured by the enemy.

Previously, Scott Ritter, a former intelligence officer of the US Marine Corps, also said that the armed forces of Ukraine were in a critical situation due to a severe shortage of military personnel and had lost their defense capabilities.

Politico newspaper also reported that as time passes, fewer Ukrainians are willing to go to the front voluntarily, and Kiev is not able to solve the problem of lack of personnel in the ranks of the armed forces.

The defeat of the Baltic states if Russia and the United States compromise on Ukraine

at the Institute of Baltic Studies Moscow is of the opinion that if an agreement is reached between Russia and the United States on the conflict in Ukraine, the Baltic states will lose because they have gone too far in confronting Russia.

According to the center’s experts What the authorities of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia have said in the international arena in the past year was such a loud warning about the threat from Russia that if it is thought that Washington and Moscow will reach some kind of compromise regarding Ukraine, the Baltic republics in the situation They will be in a bad position, because they have overtaken Western countries in confronting Russia, and they will surely suffer a severe political defeat. An iron curtain between the Baltic states had spoken to Russia and Belarus. According to him, the main goal in ensuring the security of the region is economic and energy independence from Russia.

The satisfaction of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine with the terrorist actions in Russia

Kirill Budanov, the head of the main intelligence department of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, admitted that the actions of members of volunteer subversive cells in Russia is very beneficial for Kiev. “It has been very useful for us so far that they have been able to expand these groups and use them to divert from the front,” he said on a television program last night. They can operate in the border areas and are not able to deliver weapons to Moscow. Pointing out that, of course, the Russian side is strengthening its borders, Budanov added: “The enemy is still strong and it has become difficult to penetrate across the border.” Moscow officials have repeatedly pointed to the fact that the government Ukraine has turned into a terrorist regime that targets Russian civilians.

Al-Mayadin: Putin has pleased the global south by challenging NATO and the West Al-Mayadeen news network has noted in an analysis that the countries of the global south admire Vladimir Putin, the president of Russia, for challenging NATO and undermining the legitimacy of the West’s ideological supremacy. According to this report, From the perspective of the Global South, it is a real achievement that Putin has challenged NATO. In fact, the military conflict in Ukraine has become a turning point in the history of international relations and indicates the transition from a unipolar world order to a multipolar world order.

A few days ago, Turkish Sabah newspaper also reported that the policies of Putin has turned Russia into one of the most effective power centers for non-Western countries. According to this publication, the West’s collective effort to isolate Russia has failed and has accelerated the geopolitical integration of the non-Western world.

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