The U.S. Appeases Ukraine Before U.S.-Russia Meeting
Biden invites Zelensky to visit the United States to show support for Ukraine
US President’s National Security Affairs Assistant Jack Sullivan confirmed on the 7th that US President Joseph Biden had a telephone conversation with Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky on the same day, reiterating his support for Ukraine’s territorial integrity and inviting Zelensky to visit the White House this summer. .
Show support for Uzbekistan before meeting
Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin are scheduled to meet in Geneva, Switzerland on the 16th. The situation in Ukraine is expected to be one of the topics for discussion. Agence France-Presse explained that the U.S. and Uzbekistan President’s phone call at this time showed that the U.S. supports Ukraine.
Sullivan said that Biden talked with Zelensky on the phone before going to Europe to participate in the G7 summit. The two sides talked in detail about all issues in the bilateral relationship. “Biden told Zelensky that he firmly supports Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.”
Zelensky confirmed in a statement that he agreed to be invited to visit the United States in July. During the call, Biden promised to “provide a way” for Ukraine to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
Zelensky thanked Biden for providing 900,000 doses of the new crown vaccine to Ukraine.
Mikhailo Podoljak, an adviser to the director of the Ukrainian President’s Office, told Reuters on the 7th that the U.S. and U.S. leaders coordinated the policy stance.
Uzbekistan is letting Russia withdraw troops
Before talking to Biden, Zelensky expressed his dissatisfaction with the Biden administration’s decision to abandon the sanctions imposed on the operators and corporate leaders of the “Beixi-2” natural gas pipeline project in an interview with a reporter from the US Axios news website. He hoped to be in the US and Russia. Communicate face to face with Biden before the meeting.
The situation in eastern Ukraine has heated up some time ago. Uzbek government forces and civilian armed forces in the eastern Donbass area accused each other of breaking the ceasefire agreement. Western countries such as Ukraine and the United States allege that Russia’s build-up of troops in the border areas has caused the situation in Uganda to heat up, while Russia emphasizes that the build-up of troops is to ensure the country’s border security. The Russian military exercises on the Russian-Ukrainian border and the Crimea region ended in April, and the participating troops began to withdraw to the base in the latter part of the month. Uzbekistan welcomes Russia’s decision to withdraw its troops.
However, the Ukrainian Presidential Palace confirmed that Zelensky told the US during the phone call with Biden on the 7th that there were still a large number of Russian troops and heavy weapons stationed near the Ukrainian-Russian border.
Putin said on the 4th that he did not expect any breakthroughs in the meeting between the leaders of Russia and the US dollar, but he thought it was a “good thing” to discuss topics of concern to both sides.
Uzbek has dug Biden’s “black material”
According to a CNN report on the 7th, Rudy Giuliani, the personal lawyer of former U.S. President Donald Trump, continued to request Uzbekistan to investigate and collect Trump during a call with Ukrainian government advisers in July 2019. The “dark material” of Joseph Biden and his son at the time.
The media recently obtained an audio recording of Giuliani, Kurt Volker, the then U.S. government’s special envoy for Ukraine, and Andrei Yell, a senior adviser to Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky. mark. During the 40-minute call, Giuliani repeatedly told Yermak that Zelensky should publicly announce a corruption investigation against Biden and verify whether Ukraine interfered in the 2016 US presidential election.
Giuliani said during the call: “What we need the President (Zelenski) to do is to say,’I will appoint a prosecutor to lead the investigation of evidence.'” He also said that once Uzbekistan complies with this, U.S.-Ukraine relations It will be greatly improved, and Zelensky will get the opportunity to visit the United States he is looking forward to.
Recently, US law enforcement agencies are increasing their efforts to investigate Giuliani’s involvement in Ukraine-related affairs. Federal investigators raided his home and office at the end of April this year, and confiscated multiple mobile phones and computers.This group of articles/Xinhua News Agency
Not expecting significant results from the US-Russian leaders’ meeting
The US President’s National Security Affairs Assistant Sullivan said on the 7th that the US side does not expect significant results from the upcoming meeting between US and Russian leaders in Geneva, Switzerland.
Sullivan said at the White House press conference that day when the leaders of the United States and Russia met that the United States regards this summit as an opportunity for high-level communication between the two countries, but the United States does not expect significant results from this meeting.
Sullivan said that the United States and Russia are not a “trust” relationship. The United States will clarify its expectations for bilateral relations to Russia and make it clear that if Russia continues to carry out “malicious” activities, the United States will respond.
U.S.-Russian relations have continued to be tense in recent years. Since the Biden administration came to power, Russia and the United States have achieved limited cooperation in the field of arms control. However, differences have been evident on issues such as Ukraine, cyber security, human rights, and election interference, and confrontation has intensified. Putin said on June 4 that Russia’s relations with the United States are currently at a low level, and the United States has publicly stated that it wants to contain Russia’s development. He does not expect any breakthrough in Russia-US relations with Biden’s upcoming Geneva meeting.
Russia
Exit the International Space Station without lifting sanctions
The head of the Russian Space Exploration Agency said on the 7th that if the United States does not lift the sanctions against the Russian space agency, Russia will withdraw from the International Space Station cooperation project in 2025 and will build its own space station.
According to the Russian Satellite News Agency, the President of the Russian National Aerospace Corporation Dmitry Rogozin made the above remarks in the Russian State Duma (lower house of parliament) on the 7th. He said that if the United States does not lift the sanctions on Russia’s “Progressive” Rocket and Space Center and the Russian Central Machinery Manufacturing Research Institute, Russia will withdraw from the International Space Station cooperation project and establish its own space station.
Rogozin said that the future fate of the International Space Station depends on the United States. “The United States will either immediately lift sanctions” and continue to cooperate with Russia; or end cooperation, Russia will establish its own space station. He said that if the International Space Station cooperation project is suspended, it will be the “responsibility” and “fault” of the United States.
This is not the first time that Russian officials have indicated that they will withdraw from the International Space Station. Rogozin said in April this year that Russia will gradually withdraw from the International Space Station and prepare to build its own space station. The project is awaiting approval and that the new self-owned space station will be launched by 2030.
The International Space Station is an international cooperation project involving the joint participation of many countries. It was founded in 1998 and is dominated by the United States and Russia, with a total investment of more than 100 billion U.S. dollars. The service period of the International Space Station was originally designed to 2015, and has since been extended twice, until 2020 and 2024, respectively. Now the equipment is seriously aging.
After the outbreak of the Ukraine crisis, the United States and other Western countries imposed large-scale sanctions on Russia, which affected the development of Russia’s space industry. The executives of the Russian National Aerospace Corporation said that the United States’ trade control of some important components of space projects is one of the many problems facing Russia’s aerospace industry.
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