The suggestion reached the Russian Ministry of Defense by letter. Yevgeny Prigozhin, leader of the Wanger group, presented to Sergei Shoigu, the Russian Defense Minister, the creation of “a security zone 30 kilometers wide along the Russian border” with Ukraine. in this region, defended Prigozhin in the message, “volunteers of the popular militia will have the right to move about and use their weapons while carrying out their missions”.
on social network telegram – where he shared the letter, after the Russian Defense Ministry refused to accept it -, the leader of the Wagner group explained that the proposal came after a series of meetings between the Wagner group and representatives of the territorial defense of border regions with Ukraine. In addition to Belgorod, Prigozhin also proposed to build this strip in the Kursk, Briansk, Voronezh and Rostov zones. In the same letter, Prigozhin also defended that these regions should be supplied and equipped by the regional and local governments as it is the responsibility of the Ministry of Defense to ensure the provision of equipment to protect the border.
Also this Monday, Mykhailo Podolyak, advisor to Volodymyr Zelensky, suggested that any possible peace agreement between Ukraine and Russia should include the creation of a demilitarized zone on Russian territory (similar to what happens, for example, on the border between the two Koreas). In a publication op tweet, Podolyak said that “entering a 100-120 kilometer demilitarized zone” from the same regions mentioned by Prigozhin will be the only way to guarantee “real security” for eastern Ukraine. In a first phase, Podolyak argues, there should probably be a “mandatory international control”, which would be “contingent”.
The main subject of the post-war settlement should be the establishment of safeguards to prevent a recurrence of aggression in the future. In order to provide real security to the inhabitants of the Kharkiv, Chernihiv, Sumy, Zaporizhzhia, Luhansk and Donetsk regions and protect them from shelling, it is…
– Михайло Подоляк (@Podolyak_M) May 29, 2023
But on the other hand, the president of Belarus Aleksander Lukashenko publicly stated that anyone who joins “the state union of Belarus and Russia” will have the right to nuclear weapons. Quoted by CNN International, Lukashenko, one of Putin’s closest allies, stressed in an interview with Russian television 1 that this was his view, not the Kremlin’s. “It’s very simple. No one cares that Kazakhstan and other countries have a close relationship with the Russian Federation like we do. There will be nuclear weapons for everyone,” he said. Don’t forget that Belarus recently signed an agreement with Russia that allows Moscow to place nuclear weapons in the country, which borders northern Ukraine.
After drones, sanctions
Ukraine’s parliament on Monday approved, by 328 votes to none, a veto on trade and investment with Iran that will remain in effect for 50 years.
The sanction came hours after Russian drone attacks on the capital. shah, made in Iran. Launched from the border regions, 58 of the 59 drones that attacked Kiev this morning were eventually shot down by Ukraine’s air defense systems. Nevertheless, several explosions were heard in Kiev on the morning of this Monday. At least one person was hospitalized.
With agencies
Source: DN
