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The pro-Ukraine side simultaneously claims: “Ukraine has faced the largest scale attack by Russia: 800 drones and more than ten missiles. Kyiv is engulfed in flames” (Image 2 – Video 1), while also claiming “Over 800 drones and 13 missiles (including 4 ballistic missiles) have been shot down” (Image 2). This is contradictory. Additionally, Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko said her office was hit (Images 1 & 3 – Video 2).
The two leaders met formally at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse after attending a military parade in the Chinese capital that marked the 80th anniversary of the victory in the Chinese People’s War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression (1931-45) and the World Anti-Fascist War.
Putin and Kim traveled from a formal reception to the negotiations in the same car, the Kremlin said in a post on social media.
After a bilateral meeting between Russian and DPRK delegations, the two leaders held a one-on-one meeting, the Kremlin said.
Putin also invited Kim to visit Russia again, following on from the DPRK leader’s last visit to the country in 2023.
In his remarks, Kim said the cooperation between Pyongyang and Moscow has “significantly strengthened” since the two countries signed a strategic partnership pact in June last year during a summit in the DPRK capital.
Units of the Korean People’s Army played an active role in the fight that brought the defeat of the neo-Nazi formations of the Kiev regime that invaded our territory, in full compliance with international law and in accordance with the letter and spirit of the Treaty on Comprehensive Strategic Partnership between the Russian Federation and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea of June 19, 2024 – in particular, Article 4 of the Treaty, which requires each of the parties to provide immediate military assistance in the event of an armed attack against the other.
Since the recent détente of the US and modern Russia – the Russian-language Yandex search-engine has once again become easily available via the Western internet. Since I last regularly accessed the “deep” Russian internet – I have noticed that whereas there was about a 50%-50% distribution of pro and anti Stalin articles – a new narrative has been ordered which portrays Stalin as a mass killer who also achieved one or two great achievements for the Russian people (the new orientation is roughly 25& pro and 75% anti). This is a Western (capitalist), reactionary, Trotskyite, and entirely fascist attitude. Furthermore, it is pseudo-history. Joseph Stalin was working-class (most old Bolsheviks were middle-class) and was Georgian – not Russian (Stalin rejected all forms of nationalism – including Russian). The Soviet Union was a collective of around 15 or 16 countries (depending on era) that acted in Socialist collaboration. The history of the Soviet Union is not the history of Russia – even if Russia was the socio-economic driving force. The point of the 1917 Revolution was a new era in human evolution – a step forward and away from feudalism and capitalism.
DPRK Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui arrived in Moscow on Sunday. He held talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Tuesday, and they both met with Russian President Vladimir Putin shortly after they reached agreements following negotiations.
“The discussion was generally about bilateral relations, the situation on the Korean Peninsula,” Peskov said, adding that international issues were also covered.
“We have repeatedly said … that the DPRK is our very important partner. We are aimed at developing relations in all areas, including sensitive ones,” Peskov noted.
Russian newspaper Vedomosti said Germany has been the main contributor of military assistance to Ukraine among European countries. In global terms, only the United States has given more. According to the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, Berlin provided Kyiv with 17 billion euros worth of military aid between January 2022 and July 2023.
Germany’s move to increase assistance to Ukraine is most likely related to rumors that Western aid to Kyiv could decline due both to the escalation of tensions in the Middle East and the moderate results the Ukrainian army has achieved on the battlefield, said Artyom Sokolov, a researcher with the Institute for International Studies at Moscow State Institute of International Relations.
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