(Finance) – Today is marked on the front of the diplomacy, from the meeting in Moscow between the Russian President Vladimir Putin and Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer. This was announced by the spokesman of the Kremlin, Dmitry Peskov, quoted by Interfax, explaining that the meeting was held in the presidential estate of Novo-Ogaryovo.
“The the conversation with Putin was very hard and frank “, said the Austrian chancellor according to the Austrian agency Apa. “It wasn’t a friendly match.” Austrian Chancellor Nehammer told Putin that sanctions against Russia “will be further tightened as long as people in Ukraine continue to die.” Die Presse reports it. “I will now inform our European partners again of my talks with the Russian president and discuss further steps,” added Nehammer.
The Austrian Chancellor underlined during the meeting with Vladimir Putin “that the war must stop, because in war we are only defeated by both”, learns the Orf TV from the chancellery and also reiterated that “the sanctions will remain in force and will eventually be tightened”. According to the chancellery, Nehammer also spoke “with clear words” of the war crimes committed in Bucha and other cities, underlining the “need for an international investigation” into these facts. The chancellor said he was not optimistic about the Russian offensive in eastern Ukraine, where “a brutal and massive attack” is being prepared. After the meeting, Nehammer informed the president of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen “of the importance of a direct confrontation” with the Russian president. And she specified that “Russian President Vladimir Putin still has faith in the Istanbul trial.” The Istanbul trial – according to Nehammer – is currently the only possible format for a comparison between Russians and Ukrainiansthe”.
Meanwhile, we continue to fight: the head of the pro-Russian separatist republic of Donetsk, in Donbass, quoted by Tass, claims that the port of Mariupol has been taken. The airport “is under our total control”, said Denis Pushilin, speaking to the first channel of Russian TV, Pervyj kanal. 33,000 Mariupol inhabitants have been forcibly deported to Russia and the temporarily occupied districts of the Donetsk region. This was announced by the Ukrainian commissioner for human rights Lyudmila Denisova in her Telegram channel, as reported by UNIAN. In busy areas of the city “A brutal round-up of civilians is underway, conducted with the assistance of local collaborators”, Denisova said.