Baltics blast China diplomat for questioning sovereignty of ex-Soviet states

Baltics blast China diplomat for questioning sovereignty of ex-Soviet states

[ad_1] The Baltic states of Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia are demanding an explanation from Beijing after China’s top envoy to France questioned the independence of former Soviet countries like Ukraine. Lu Shaye, China’s ambassador to France, said in an interview on Friday with French television network LCI that former Soviet countries have no “effective status”…

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Zelenskyy digs in against calls to quit Bakhmut

Zelenskyy digs in against calls to quit Bakhmut

[ad_1] Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. Doubts are growing about the wisdom of holding the shattered frontline city of Bakhmut against relentless Russian assaults, but Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is digging in and insists his top commanders are united in keeping up an attritional defense that has dragged on…

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The strengths and weaknesses of Volodymyr Zelenskyy

The strengths and weaknesses of Volodymyr Zelenskyy

[ad_1] Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe.  In the weeks leading up to Russia’s invasion, senior Ukraine opposition politicians and former ministers were brimming with frustration. They’d been imploring President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to meet with them — something he’d not done since his landslide election nearly two years before. They’d also been urging…

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Can Putin win?

Can Putin win?

[ad_1] “I am wicked and scary with claws and teeth,” Vladimir Putin reportedly warned David Cameron when the then-British prime minister pressed him about the use of chemical weapons by Russia’s ally in Syria, Bashar al-Assad, and discussed how far Russia was prepared to go. According to Cameron’s top foreign policy adviser John Casson — cited…

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