(Finance) – The United States reported to the allies that the China signaled its readiness to provide military assistance to Russia in support of the invasion of Ukraine. The Financial Times reports this and cites some sources. Both the China than the Kremlin instead they had denied the news of a request for “military assistance” advanced by Russia in Beijing.
In the meantime, green light from the meeting of the ambassadors of the 27 EU countries (Coreper) to the new, fourth, package of sanctions against Russia that affect other sectors of the country’s economy. The look more significant of the new crackdown is probably about twenty new individuals who are sanctioned. Among them too Roman Abramovichthe Russian billionaire owner of the Chelsea. Among the companies, United Aircraft Corporation, the state shipbuilding group United Shipbuilding Corporation, Russia Helicopters and one of the divisions of the oil giant Rosneft.
It finished, after almost 8 hours, the meeting between the US National Security Advisor, Jake Sullivan and the chief of diplomacy of the Chinese Communist Party, Yang Jiechi. The interview between the two, at the Cavalieri Hotel in Rome, it began around 10.30 and later the talks there was no press point.
Pentagon sources cited by CNN believe that the advance of “almost all” Russian forces in Ukraine “Remains in a stalemate”and troops moving to Kiev, including the now infamous convoy arriving from the north, did not make considerable progress over the weekend, despite attempts to “to bring in the forces behind the more advanced elements“.
The stalemate continues after the new round of direct negotiations Ukraine-Russia, via video link, which ended with a stalemate: work will resume tomorrow, Tuesday 15 March at 10.30, Kiev time, after a “technical break”. The stop was agreed to carry out “additional work in breakout groups” and to have “clarification of individual definitions. Negotiations continue …”, Mykhailo Podolyak, one of the Ukrainian negotiators, wrote on Twitter. Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodymir Zelensky – who will speak at the US Congress on Wednesday – has defined “difficult” talks with Russia, announcing a press conference on the situation in the late afternoon.