“Moscow is ready.” The Russian Foreign Minister, Serghei Lavrov, speaking to the Federation Council (the Russian Senate) to which he is appearing to obtain confidence for the reconfirmation of his position, addressed Western countries almost challenging them: “If they want to be on the field of battle, they will be on the battlefield.” A statement that […]
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“Moscow is ready”. The Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, speaking to the Federation Council (the Russian Senate) to which he is presenting to gain confidence for reconfirmation in his position, he addressed Western countries almost challenging them: “If they want to be on the battlefield, they will be on the battlefield.” A statement that fits into the growing climate of tension of recent weeks. “With the peace conference to be held in Switzerland in June Western countries want to treat” Russia as “a bad student. But you can’t talk to anyone like that, especially to us,” Lavrov continued. The countries that will meet in Switzerland, where Moscow was not invited, intend to behave like “a council of teachers” and “decide everything among themselves, then call him and announce the verdict”.
Meanwhile, Russian attacks continue on the battlefield, part of days of tactical conquests. She was hit during the night Selydovein the eastern Ukrainian region of Donetskwith missiles S-300: “The bombing has damaged multi-storey residential buildings and an educational institution,” reports the city’s military administration, explaining that there were no victims. One person died and two others were injured in Russian attacks on the region Sumy. The most affected city was that of Bilopillia.
In this scenario, overall favorable to Moscow, Vladimir Putin decided to replace the Ministry of Defense. In the place of Sergei Shoigu the economist arrives Andrei Belousov. In the previous government, Belousov held the post of first deputy prime minister. The head of the Kremlin instead asked to reconfirm Sergei Lavrov as Foreign Minister. The appointments will be submitted to the Federation Council at a meeting on May 14. The Minister of the Interior also confirmed in their roles, Vladimir Kolokoltsevand the heads of the security apparatus: that of the internal intelligence service (FSB) Alexander Bortnikov, that of foreign services Sergei Naryshkin, the commander of the National Guard Viktor Zolotov and the director of the Federal Security Service, Dmitry Kochnev.
Shoigu moves on to head the National Security Council, taking over from Nikolai Patrushev, who is removed without, for the moment, any indication of his future role. His position at the helm of Defense had seemed to waver recently the arrest of one of his deputies, Timur Ivanov, very close to him, accused of corruption episodes for a total of over a billion rubles (10 million euros). On that occasion sources of the Moscow Times they said they saw Ivanov’s arrest as a sign of the “declining status of Minister Shoigu” and the “growing influence of the security services.”
Ukraine, as already happened on Sunday a Belgorod where he provoked 19 dead, continues to strike in Russian territory. Kiev declared it had hit a oil terminal it’s a electrical substation in the Belgorod regions and respectively Lipetskin western Russia not far from the Ukrainian border: “The explosions took place at the oil terminal Oskolneftesnabnear the city of Stari Oskoland at the substation Ieletskayawith a capacity of 500 kW,” said a Ukrainian defense source, adding that it was aoperation of special services (SBU) with the use of attack drones.
