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Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2025 8:10 am
Ukraine is currently the main flashpoint between Russia and the West. The United States says Russia has amassed more than 100,000 troops on Ukraine’s borders, possibly in preparation for an invasion. Moscow says its actions are purely defensive.
“Any violation of territorial integrity will come at a high price and we will speak here with one voice with our European partners and our transatlantic allies,” Scholz said in Berlin before leaving for his first summit in Brussels as chancellor, adding that he was still seeking a “constructive dialogue” with Russia.
The Russian Foreign Ministry on Twitter urged the West and Ukraine to implement the 2014 and 2015 peace accords that include prisoner exchanges, aid and the withdrawal of arms.
Relations between Moscow and Berlin hit a new low on Wednesday when job function email database a German court found that Russia had ordered the assassination of a former Chechen activist in a Berlin park and convicted the officer who carried out the act of “State terrorism” from 2019 to life imprisonment. Read more
Germany summoned the Russian ambassador after the decision, telling him that two diplomatic staff from its embassy would be expelled, Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said.
Zelenskiy said on Twitter that he hoped for France’s support to counter Russia’s “hybrid aggression” in Europe as Paris assumes the rotating EU presidency for six months in January.
“Any violation of territorial integrity will come at a high price and we will speak here with one voice with our European partners and our transatlantic allies,” Scholz said in Berlin before leaving for his first summit in Brussels as chancellor, adding that he was still seeking a “constructive dialogue” with Russia.
The Russian Foreign Ministry on Twitter urged the West and Ukraine to implement the 2014 and 2015 peace accords that include prisoner exchanges, aid and the withdrawal of arms.
Relations between Moscow and Berlin hit a new low on Wednesday when job function email database a German court found that Russia had ordered the assassination of a former Chechen activist in a Berlin park and convicted the officer who carried out the act of “State terrorism” from 2019 to life imprisonment. Read more
Germany summoned the Russian ambassador after the decision, telling him that two diplomatic staff from its embassy would be expelled, Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said.
Zelenskiy said on Twitter that he hoped for France’s support to counter Russia’s “hybrid aggression” in Europe as Paris assumes the rotating EU presidency for six months in January.