unsuccessful “armed insurrection” led by Wagner mercenary group and its entry into Belarus caught the European leaders by surprise, as they looked with apprehension and dread at the possible regrouping of troops in this bordering country. Latvia, Lithuania and Poland. “With (Yevgeny) Prigozhin and an unknown number of highly trained and skilled fighters who will likely join him, we are watching very carefully everything that is happening in Belarus. It poses a potential threat. It is probably not a frontal military threat, but the Latvian Prime Minister said on Thursday, ” “It means we need to increase our border surveillance and make sure we can control it,” he said. Krisjanis KarinsOne of Ukraine’s main supporters in the EU on the first day of the Council of Europe.
Unrest and anxiety over what happened last weekend and the situation in Ukraine once again dominated part of the first day of the European Council, held in Brussels this Thursday and Friday. “I can only say that we need to watch very carefully what is going on with Wagner in Russia, Moscow and Belarus,” said the EU Finnish Prime Minister, who will hand over the flag to Spain on Saturday 1 July. Petteri Orpo, at a summit premiere. Like other European leaders, he sees what happened to Wagner’s paramilitary forces as a war. internal russian problem however, he fears the consequences and consequences in the EU, especially if he moves to a “puppet country” like Belarus, where leaders are calling for once again to “stop allowing the Russian Army to use its territory even for tactical nuclear weapons deployment”. ” denotes the accepted results document.
According to diplomatic sources, there were several European leaders pointing to the United States during the meeting. The nuclear narrative of the Kremlin and Minsk and Wagner’s presence in Belarus”explosive cocktail“The result is even if you have to”be cool“. Among the most worried are the Baltic states. The Lithuanian president warned, “If Wagner deploys his serial killers in Belarus, all neighboring countries are in danger of even greater instability.” Nauseda Gypsythis Wednesday he went to Kiev with the president of Poland Andrzej Duda.
Putin weakened but a danger
“It is clear that Putin came out of this crisis weakened, but a weaker Putin is the greater danger. So we must be very aware of the consequences. Everything remains unclear. What happened? Who was behind this attempted military uprising or insurgency? NATO secretary general Jens “Some generals have been arrested, so I think Putin will have a more assertive spirit about domestic cleansing,” Josep Borrell, head of European diplomacy, who coincided with Stoltenberg, asked the Norwegian shortly before lunch with European leaders. It shows that “there are cracks and divisions within the Russian system,” although it is “too early to draw any firm conclusions”.
Europe is not a part of what is happening in Russia and is looking at the event as an observer. “We can only observe, our aim is not government change, but regime change,” warned the German Chancellor. Olaf Schölz. However, uncertainty remains large. “It is still unclear how many of Wagner’s forces will end up in Belarus or elsewhere,” the Allied Secretary General added. “As necessary, with funding or arms shipments.
The answer they defended in a meeting where they listened to the president of Ukraine again by video conference and without a cell phone in the room, is, Volodymyr ZelenskyPedro Sánchez will visit this Saturday on his first official trip as the rotating EU presidency. In the conclusions of this discussion, Twenty-Sevens, “security guarantees“Long-term commitment to Kiev.” The European Union and its Member States, together with their partners, are ready to contribute to future security commitments that will help Ukraine in the long term defend itself, deter acts of aggression and resist Ukraine’s attempts to attack. destabilizing”, the results indicate without giving details of what will entail, but commits to “quickly reviewing modalities” that will in any case respect “the security and defense policies of some Member States”. This is a message aimed at reassuring neutrality like Malta, Austria and Ireland to countries.
Promised at twenty-seven intensify diplomatic contacts with third countries Seeking “the broadest possible international support” for Zelensky’s proposed peace plan and working for a global summit to discuss the proposal. They also task the European Commission to submit to the Central Bank of Russia a proposal on the possible use of frozen assets in support of the country’s rebuilding. Brussels has already confirmed that its intention is to present a document before the summer vacation.