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Russia considers boycotting Security Council meeting, Ukraine will vote on neutrality issue

The Strait Times newspaper, citing a diplomatic source from the Russian side, said that Moscow’s decision was related to the situation in Ukraine.

This is the first time Russia has boycotted the United Nations Security Council meeting since Moscow launched a special military operation in Ukraine on February 24, a Western diplomat said.

Russia has not commented on this information.

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Meeting room of the United Nations Security Council. Photo: United Nations

The annual informal meeting between the UN Security Council and the PSC is expected to address the EU’s interaction with the United Nations in the countries where the two organizations are active. Russia’s latest boycott is yet another sign of deteriorating relations between Moscow and its partners at the United Nations.

Ukraine will hold a referendum on neutrality

In an interview with Al Arabiya TV channel on May 3, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said his country could hold a referendum on the issue of neutrality if it received security guarantees from Russia and other countries. .

“We are ready to consider Russia’s desire for neutrality status for Ukraine, if this is one of the terms of the peace agreement,” Zelensky said, adding that if a serious agreement is reached and Receiving security guarantees from countries, including Russia, Ukraine will hold a referendum on the country’s neutral status. At that time, the right to self-determination will belong to the people of Ukraine.

The 44-year-old leader also noted that, in addition to the neutral status, the peace negotiation process has many other terms to be discussed, including the issue of territories controlled by Russia. President Zelensky said he has not had any conversations with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin since the end of 2019.

Zelensky also affirmed that the most pressing issues in the negotiations with Russia are ensuring the security and neutrality of Ukraine, the Crimean peninsula and eastern Ukraine’s breakaway regions. He once said his country would not accept giving up its eastern territories in exchange for an end to the conflict with Russia.

Ukraine warns of Belarus’s ability to join the war

Andriy Demchenko, a spokesman for the State Border Service of Ukraine, said that Kiev does not rule out the possibility that Moscow may use the armed forces of its ally Belarus for its operation in Ukraine at some point.

Speaking at a time when Belarus was conducting large-scale military exercises, Mr Demchenko said Ukraine was “ready” for any such mobilization of the neighboring country’s army.

Earlier, the Belarusian Defense Ministry said that the country’s armed forces began large-scale exercises today (May 4) to test their combat readiness.

In the context of the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian conflict, the Belarusian Defense Ministry affirmed that the drills do not pose any threat to Belarus’ neighbors in particular and the European community in general.

UK predicts Russia will attack Kramatorsk and Severodonetsk

The British Ministry of Defense, citing the latest intelligence, said Russia “most likely intends to move away from the city of Izium to attack the cities of Kramatorsk and Severodonetsk in eastern Ukraine.”

According to newly updated information, Russia has deployed 22 battalion-level battle groups near Izium “in an effort to advance along the northern axis of the Donbass region”.

“Capturing Kramatorsk and Severodonetsk would strengthen Russia’s military control of the northeastern Donbass and lay the groundwork for efforts to split Ukrainian forces in the region,” it added.

Russia disables 6 train stations in Ukraine

The Russian Defense Ministry said today (May 4) that it has disabled six railway stations used to supply Western-made weapons to Ukrainian forces.

The agency said that the Russian military had bombed the power supplies of these stations with high-precision air and sea weapons, but did not specify which weapons were supplied to the stations. Ukrainian forces through the above locations.

The Russian Defense Ministry also added that its forces destroyed a total of 40 military targets in Ukraine, including four ammunition depots and artillery weapons.

The Kiev side has not yet responded to this information.

More trains carrying evacuees from Mariupol

Donetsk Governor Pavlo Kyrylenko said that a convoy of buses carrying evacuees from the Azovstal steel plant left Mariupol this morning (May 4) thanks to the efforts of Ukraine, the United Nations and the Committee of the Red Cross. International.

According to Kyrylenko, the convoy carrying the evacuees will head to the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia. However, he did not specify whether any more civilians would be evacuated from the Azovstal steel plant on the same day.

EU considers military support for Moldova

Answering questions from reporters during a joint press conference with Moldovan President Maia Sandu on May 4, European Council President Charles Michel said the EU was considering additional military support for Moldova. This will be based on logistics and cyber defense support for the Chisinau government approved by the EU, Michel said.

Ukraine accuses Russia of trying to destabilize Modolva by provoking armed moves in the breakaway Transnistria region east of Moldova, which has maintained Russian troops since the breakup of the Soviet Union.

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