The foreign ministers of the European Union (EU) will meet extraordinarily in New York to address the latest events surrounding the war in Ukraine, a diplomatic source informed Efe.
The heads of diplomacy of the 27 member states, who are in the North American city within the scope of the UN General Assembly, already held an informal meeting last Monday and will meet again today at 8:15 p.m. local time ( 1:15 a.m.). Thursday in Lisbon).
The meeting will take place after Russian President Vladimir Putin announced today the partial mobilization of 300,000 reservists and recalled the importance of his country’s nuclear arsenal as an argument against the Ukrainian counteroffensive.
In a message on Twitter, the head of European diplomacy, Josep Borrell, warned that world peace “is in danger” due to the “serious escalation” implied by the latest decisions of the Kremlin.
“Putin’s announcement about fake referendums [nos territórios separatistas russófonos ou ocupados pelas forças militares russas]partial military deployment and nuclear blackmail are a serious escalation,” Borrell said.
Several European countries interpreted these latest announcements as a sign of weakness on the part of Russia, after the counteroffensive launched by the Ukrainian army and which allowed the recovery of some occupied territories.
The German Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, described the call for referendums in the occupied territory and the mobilization of reservists as an “act of desperation”, while the French President, Emmanuel Macron, “deeply” regretted these measures and called on all the countries of the world to exert “maximum pressure”. on Putin.
Source: TSF
