Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky could ”commit suicide as a coward. Like Hitler swallowing dog poison”. This was written on Telegram by the vice president of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev, speaking of the Ukrainian president as the ”creature in green who wished death to everyone in the Kremlin”. Medvedev wrote that ”who will die and how we do not know, because the ways of the Lord are inscrutable. But the drug addict of Kiev has only the chance to disappear with his own hands”, ”by committing cowardly suicide like Hitler”.
People in the West should understand that they are paying for the wrong and ineffective policy of their leaders. This was stated by Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov, adding that “more and more analysts in the West are beginning to understand the ineffectiveness of their governments’ policies, as well as that of sanctions against Russia. And this is more good than bad”. “We would like people in the West to know they have to reap the consequences of the wrong, wrong and ineffective policy of their leaders“, the Kremlin spokesman stressed.
CHINA – “For the moment, such a meeting is not on the agenda,” said the Kremlin spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, regarding the possibility of a face-to-face meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Chinese envoy, Li Hui, who in the coming days he will be on a mission between Ukraine, Poland, France, Germany and Russia for talks on the conflict in Ukraine. “Everything will be handled diplomatically,” Peskov added in statements reported by the Russian news agency Tass.
Beijing’s special envoy for Eurasia, on the other hand, will be in Kiev on Monday, the Chinese Foreign Ministry announced. He will then continue his mission to Poland, France, Germany and Russia in “an effort to promote peace talks”. Li Hui’s is the first mission by a high-level Chinese diplomat since the beginning of the conflict in Ukraine, with the Russian invasion that began on February 24 last year.
The mission had been announced by Chinese leader Xi Jinping during a telephone conversation on April 26 with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, but on that occasion – the first contact between the two since the beginning of the conflict – no date had been communicated for the visit. In recent months Beijing – which presented its peace initiative for Ukraine in February – has repeatedly reaffirmed its commitment to negotiations, but has also attracted considerable criticism for its support for Russian President Vladimir Putin, whom Xi also met in March.
A past in Moscow stands out in Li Hui’s profile. He was the Chinese ambassador to Russia for ten years, from 2009 to 2019. In that year, he was awarded the Order of Friendship medal by Putin.
