Following the tensions between Russia and the West, the UN Security Council will meet this Monday, January 31 at the request of the United States. ” The Security Council is united. Our voices are united to ask the Russians to explain themselves “, affirmed, on Sunday, on ABC, the American ambassador to the UN. In Moscow, we emphasize just as much as this meeting the statements of the Ukrainian president and what is presented as a distancing from the United States.
With our correspondent in Moscow, Anissa El Jabri
Any gesture or declaration that can be assimilated to a division of the Western camp is always abundantly commented on and put forward in Russia. Recent statements by the President of Ukraine calling on the West not to cause panic “, thus meet a wide echo.
On a leading state channel, it goes like this: Zelensky tries to calm a population frightened by the United States “. ” Zelensky fights rumors of a Russian attack “, also writes the daily Vedomosti.
In this context, the meeting of the Security Council on Monday evening is most often described as a desire to scare Moscow. Each time, the press makes this reminder: there is no chance that a resolution will be adopted, Russia will oppose it.
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Setting the tone for the future
What is at stake in this meeting is described here rather as a way of setting the tone for the continuation of the Russian-American dialogue. The debate on sanctions is also closely followed; the Kremlin also reacted on Monday morning to statements from London, this intention to toughen the measures. ” This statement is worrying, and it is also an open attack on Russian companies “, Judged his spokesperson.
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French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, his German counterpart Annalena Baerbock and Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki are expected in Kiev this week.
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