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Senin, 28 Maret 2022

Russia Ukraine war: Roman Abramovich 'poisoned along with Ukrainian negotiators' - Metro.co.uk

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The Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich was poisoned along with Ukrainian negotiators, it has been claimed.

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the Vladimir Putin ally and Chelsea FC owner – who has been sanctioned by the UK government – was hit by symptoms after a suspected poisoning at a meeting in Kyiv earlier this month.

Abramovich, and at least two senior Ukrainian officials, are said to have developed peeling skin on their faces and hands, red eyes, and constant and painful tearing, the paper reported.

Quoting ‘people familiar with the matter’, it added that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who has met with Abramovich, was not been affected.

The lives of the Chelsea owner and peace negotiators are not thought to be in danger.

Widespread reports have previously suggested Russian forces are attempting to assassinate Zelensky, but it is unclear who the target of the alleged poisoning would have been.

Abramovich passed a handwritten note from Zelensky to Putin and is acting as a go-between for the two leaders.

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Bellingcat can confirm that three members of the delegation attending the peace talks between Ukraine and Russia on the night of 3 to 4 March 2022 experienced symptoms consistent with poisoning with chemical weapons. One of victims was Russian entrepreneur Roman Abramovich. https://t.co/DJaZ4CoL8J
— Bellingcat (@bellingcat) March 28, 2022

The incident is likely to raise serious safety questions about the continuation of peace talks between Russia and Ukraine and President Zelensky’s involvement.

Russia has been widely blamed for a series of poisonings around the world, including a Novichok incident in Salisbury, the death of Putin critic Alexander Litvinenko and near fatal poisoning of opposition figure Alexei Navalny.

The investigative media group Bellingcat said the latest incident took place overnight from March 3 to 4, with three people experiencing ‘symptoms consistent with poisoning with chemical weapons’ including the Russian oligarch turned negotiator.

‘Abramovich, along with another Russian entrepreneur, had taken part in the negotiations alongside Ukraine’s MP Rustem Umerov’, it tweeted.

‘The negotiation round on the afternoon of 3 March took place on Ukrainian territory, and lasted until about 10 pm.

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‘Three members of the negotiating team retreated to an apartment in Kyiv later that night and felt initial symptoms – including eye and skin inflammation and piercing pain in the eyes – later that night.

‘The symptoms did not abate until the morning.’

President Zelensky’s spokesman said he had no information about any suspected poisoning, according to the WSJ.

It cited western experts suggesting it was difficult to confirm if the symptoms were caused by a chemical or biological agent or by an electromagnetic-radiation attack.

Bellingcat claimed the most likely cause of the symptoms was an ‘international poisoning with an undefined chemical weapon’, adding that ‘microwave irradiation’ was another possible theory.

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Ukraine war: Biden denies calling for regime change in Russia a day after saying Putin 'cannot remain in power' - Sky News

US President Joe Biden has denied that he was calling for regime change when he said that Russia's president Vladimir Putin "cannot remain in power".

Mr Biden was leaving a church service in Washington DC when he was questioned by a reporter about the speech.

When asked if he had been calling for regime change in Russia, Mr Biden replied: "No."

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Key developments:

• The next round of face-to-face talks between Ukraine and Russia will take place in Turkey starting today
• The Ukrainian region of Luhansk, much of which is controlled by Russian-backed separatists, said it may hold a referendum on joining Russia
• Ukraine said 1,100 people were evacuated from frontline areas on Sunday, including from the city of Mariupol, after both sides agreed to set up two "humanitarian corridors"
• The UN said 1,119 civilians have been killed in Ukraine and 1,790 injured since the Russian invasion began in late February
• Ukraine's deputy prime minister said Russian forces were "militarising" the exclusion zone around the occupied Chernobyl nuclear power station

In a charged speech in Poland on Saturday, the US president built on earlier remarks in which he called Mr Putin a "butcher", describing him as "a dictator" and saying stopping the war in Ukraine is "the task of our time".

He appealed to Russian people directly with comparisons between the invasion of Ukraine and the horrors of WWII.

"For God's sake, this man cannot remain in power," he added at the end of his speech.

US officials row back after backlash

Senior US officials spent most of Sunday evening and Monday trying to play down that part of Mr Biden's speech.

Among them was Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who said Mr Biden had simply meant that Mr Putin should not be "empowered to wage war" against Ukraine or anywhere else.

He insisted "we do not have a strategy of regime change" as the Kremlin said it is "not up to the Americans to decide who will remain in power in Russia".

The UK government sought the distance itself from Mr Biden's comments, with Education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi saying it is "up to the Russian people" to decide whether to overthrow Mr Putin.

Referring to the remarks, French President Emanuel Macron said he "wouldn't use those terms" and suggested they could make it harder to resolve the conflict.

"We want to stop the war that Russia launched in Ukraine, without waging war and without escalation," he said.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said that neither NATO nor Mr Biden aim to bring about regime change in Russia.

Asked whether Mr Biden made a dangerous mistake with his comments, he replied: "No."

"He said what he said," he said.

Zelenskyy considers adopting neutral status amid peace talks with Russia

Meanwhile, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that he is prepared to discuss adopting a neutral status as part of a peace deal with Russia.

Speaking to Russian journalists by video late on Sunday, he said: "Security guarantees and neutrality, non-nuclear status of our state - we are ready to go for it. This is the most important point."

Mr Zelenskyy, who spoke to the group in Russian, said such a deal would have to be guaranteed by third parties and put to Ukrainians in a referendum.

He ruled out trying to re-capture all Russian-held territory by force, saying this would lead to a third world war.

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However, he added that he wanted to reach a "compromise" over the eastern Donbas region, which has been held by Russian-backed forces since 2014.

There would be no movement on other Russian demands, such as demilitarisation, he said.

It comes as another top official warned that Russia is aiming to carve Ukraine in two to create a Moscow-controlled region.

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Ukrainian military intelligence chief Kyrylo Budanov said that Mr Putin had realised "he can't swallow the entire country" and would likely split it like in "the Korean scenario" - a reference to the division between North and South Korea.

Mr Budanov said: "The occupiers will try to pull the occupied territories into a single quasi-state structure and pit it against independent Ukraine".

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2022-03-28 06:54:56Z
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Shanghai imposes lockdown as officials struggle to contain Covid outbreak - Financial Times

Shanghai ushered in extreme lockdown measures on Monday that cleaved China’s leading financial centre in two and blocked connections to the rest of the country, as local authorities tried to quell a record outbreak of largely asymptomatic Covid cases.

Police cut off tunnels and bridges linking Pudong, home to Shanghai’s financial district and many big manufacturers, to Puxi. The two areas, separated by the Huangpu river, are being locked down for mass testing, with Pudong closed until April 1 and its residents confined to their homes. Puxi’s closure and testing drive will start when Pudong reopens, and will run until April 5.

Police also blocked highways leading out of the city, with anyone wanting to leave required to produce a negative Covid test taken within 48 hours, state media reported, citing notices from Shanghai police.

The lockdowns, which far exceed previous measures in Shanghai and marked the first time authorities have confined millions of the city’s residents to their homes, sparked panic buying as shoppers rushed to stock up on vegetables.

The outbreak in mainland China’s most international financial centre is proving a big test for the country’s wider strategy to contain coronavirus. Following an initial lockdown of Wuhan in early 2020, authorities have instituted severe restrictions on other cities to eliminate outbreaks, although recently there had been signs that the approach was being tempered.

President Xi Jinping this month emphasised the need to “minimise the impact” of the virus on the country’s economy after southern tech hub Shenzhen was locked down. In Shanghai, authorities had indicated that a full-scale lockdown was not necessary a few weeks ago, although buildings with positive cases were often sealed off.

Some factories in China have set up isolated “bubble” systems, an approach comparable to the closed system employed for the Winter Olympics in February, which allowed staff to work during lockdowns as long as they did not leave the premises.

Shanghai, with a population of 26mn, recorded just 50 symptomatic cases on Sunday, according to official data, but notched a record 3,450 asymptomatic cases, compared with 5,134 asymptomatic cases across the rest of mainland China.

Over the weekend, the Shanghai World Expo and Exhibition Centre, a vast building in the Pudong district that hosted the Shanghai World Expo in 2010, was opened as a quarantine centre for mild and asymptomatic cases.

The city’s response to the outbreak contrasts with that taken in Hong Kong, which has recorded more than 1mn cases over the past two months after being largely free of infections for almost two years. Plans for mass testing in the territory, which also sparked panic buying, have been downplayed recently given the sheer scale of infections.

China’s stock market started the week lower following news of the lockdowns in Shanghai, with the country’s benchmark CSI 300 index falling as much as 2 per cent on Monday morning as traders weighed the implications for the country’s broader strategy.

“In the near term, China will stick to its zero-tolerance approach,” said Bruce Pang, head of research at China Renaissance. He added that while supply chain shocks had been minimal, the outbreaks would probably weigh on economic growth as Chinese consumers grappled with greater uncertainty.

Pang said that official statements, including from the latest meeting of the Chinese Communist party’s politburo, “imply any adjustment [to containment strategies] will come with the precondition of eliminating infection”.

Additional reporting by Wang Xueqiao in Shanghai

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2022-03-28 06:03:10Z
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Ukraine is looking for peace without delay, says Zelensky - The Times

Ukraine is looking for peace “without delay”, President Zelensky said on the eve of new negotiations with Russia.

He also repeated his willingness to adopt a policy of neutrality and to abandon hopes of Nato membership.

In an interview with independent Russian media, Zelensky said: “We are looking for peace, really, without delay. There is an opportunity and a need for a face-to-face meeting in Turkey . . . Security guarantees and neutrality, non-nuclear status of our state. We are ready to go for it.”

This morning’s key developments:

• A senior adviser to Zelensky promised an investigation into a video purportedly showing Ukrainian soldiers knee-capping helpless Russian prisoners.

• Russian missile strikes continued overnight, striking targets across the country, including the cities of Volyn,

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2022-03-28 05:20:00Z
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Minggu, 27 Maret 2022

Zelensky says Ukraine ready to discuss neutrality in peace talks with Russia - Financial Times

Ukraine is ready to declare neutrality, abandon its drive to join Nato and vow not to develop nuclear weapons if Russia withdraws troops and Kyiv receives security guarantees, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on the eve of a new round of peace talks in Turkey.

Speaking in Russian, Zelensky told a group of Russian independent journalists on Sunday that Kyiv was prepared to meet Moscow on some of its demands on condition that the changes were put to a referendum and third parties promised to protect Ukraine.

“Security guarantees and neutrality, the non-nuclear status of our state — we’re ready to do that. That’s the most important point [ . . . ] they started the war because of it,” Zelensky said.

Russia’s media censor ordered the four reporters not to publish the interview and vowed to investigate them — even though it had already blocked a site that one of them edits and shut down a TV station formerly run by another.

Zelensky said Ukraine’s main goal was to end the war as quickly as possible and make Russia’s forces withdraw to their positions before Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion on February 24.

He said he was “99.9 per cent sure” the Russian president had thought Ukraine would be waiting for the invasion with “flowers and smiles” — going so far as to send troops with parade dress for a victory celebration in Kyiv apparently planned for the third or fourth day of the war.

But Zelensky said Ukraine was prepared to hold separate discussions on the Crimean peninsula, which Russia annexed in 2014, and the eastern Donbas border region, where more than 14,000 people have died in a slow-burning separatist conflict involving Russian proxies that broke out soon afterwards.

“I understand it’s not possible to make Russia completely leave the territory — that’ll lead to world war three,” Zelensky said. “That’s why I’m saying this is a compromise. Go back to where this all started and then we’ll try to solve the difficult Donbas issue.”

Delegations from Ukraine and Russia are set to meet on Monday in Ankara for three days of talks aimed at ending Putin’s month-long invasion.

But Zelensky played down comments by Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Turkish president, that Ukraine and Russia were close to a deal on four points. He said peace could only be achieved through a meeting with Putin.

“So we meet, we make a deal, and that’s enough — we sign a deal, stamp it, or sign it in blood. That’s enough to start the troop withdrawal process. The troops must be withdrawn, everyone signs the guarantees, and that’s it,” Zelensky said.

In exchange for giving up its desire to join Nato — an aspiration reflected in Ukraine’s constitution — Kyiv wants the new agreements to be more like Nato’s Article 5 in requiring the country’s protectors to come to its aid if it is attacked.

Zelensky said he wanted to put the decision to a referendum, which he said would take “several months”, before embarking on constitutional changes that would require at least a year of work.

“The guarantors won’t sign anything if we have troops [on our territory]. That’s why I think we could finish the war quickly. It’s just Putin and his entourage who are dragging it out,” Zelensky said. “Who’s going to talk about anything if troops are still there? Who’s going to sign anything? Nothing will happen, it’s impossible.”

He added that Ukraine refused to discuss two other Russian demands at the talks: “denazification” and “demilitarisation”. These were “completely incomprehensible things”, he said.

Ukraine and its western backers fear Russia may be using the talks as a smokescreen while it regroups its forces for a new offensive and builds up new battle groups near the border.

On Sunday, the US secretary of state Antony Blinken said Washington will provide an extra $100mn in civilian security assistance to Ukraine to help civil law enforcement and protect government infrastructure.

In a statement, Blinken said the money would help continue to secure personal protection equipment, tactical and communications equipment, medical supplies and armoured vehicles for Ukraine’s border guard service and its national police force.

Fierce fighting also continued to rage in the east and north, with Ukraine claiming it had clawed back territory along supply routes near Kyiv, Kharkiv and Sumy.

Russia stepped up its missile attacks on fuel and food depots for a third day. Ukraine reported strikes in Lutsk, Zhytomyr and Rivne in the west and Kharkiv in the east as well as “carpet bombing” on Mariupol, the south-eastern port city where the war’s worst clashes have erupted and which has been almost destroyed.

Zelensky said Ukraine was prepared to consider giving the Russian language protected minority status if it received analogous guarantees from Moscow on Ukrainian. But he said Putin had done “irreparable damage” to the Russian language in Ukraine through brutal assaults on mainly Russian-speaking cities such as Mariupol.

“These Russian-speaking cities are the ones that have been wiped from the face of the earth. And these families,” Zelensky said.

He said 90 per cent of the buildings in Mariupol, which previously had a population of 400,000, had been destroyed, “but they were at least multistorey, so you can imagine what was there”. Smaller towns on the other hand had been completely destroyed.

“I don’t know who else the Russian army ever treated like this,” the president said, adding that the destruction was worse than during Moscow’s two campaigns in Chechnya in the 1990s and 2000s.

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2022-03-27 21:59:09Z
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Ukraine war: Explosions heard as missiles hit the western city of Lviv - Sky News

In the last month of war, Lviv has become a city of sanctuary for Ukrainians fleeing fighting.

That sense of safety was shattered in a matter of minutes.

We were driving through the city when news broke that jets were flying overhead.

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Moments later the air raid siren could be heard in the streets. It's now a familiar sound here - but this time it felt different.

Very soon after, three loud explosions were heard.

Then a large cloud of black smoke began to grow over the city's skyline.

As we arrived at the scene, fire engines were rushing towards the flames while police were pushing people back. The biggest threat was a possible secondary attack.

The other great concern was the fuel depot that was now on fire was fast getting out of control.

The atmosphere was tense and many seemed panicked - even members of the military. We witnessed several arrests. One man was being pushed around by police officers.

It wasn't clear what he'd done but they took his mobile phone and began looking at it. Suspicion was rife that anyone near the scene taking pictures could be helping the Russians.

The missiles fell just short of the city's television tower - it's not clear if this may have been the intended target.

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But there was panic and paranoia - that information from this attack would help the Russians strike again.

And a second assault on the city did come. As we were preparing to go on air - behind us came the sound of more explosions.

Three bright flashes lit up the sky. Then a cloud of smoke grew. We knew it was another hit - this time on the outskirts of the city. We later learned rockets landed on an industrial storage facility.

But the first missiles to hit were a first attack on the populated, civilian area of Lviv. A city that has offered a safe haven to tens of thousands of Ukrainians fleeing untold horrors in other parts of the country.

Five people were injured in these strikes but it certainly could have been far worse. The scene of the first strike was surrounded by residential buildings and apartment blocks.

It was perhaps no coincidence this attack came just moments before the US President addressed the international community in Warsaw.

As Joe Biden slammed Russia and Vladimir Putin, Russian forces attacked a city just 40 miles from the Polish border.

Perhaps a message to the West - but a signal too that nowhere in Ukraine is safe from Russian aggression.

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2022-03-27 07:59:43Z
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Biden’s fierce rhetoric departs from careful balancing act over Russia - Financial Times

It was one of the last sentences Joe Biden uttered publicly in Europe before heading to Air Force One for the flight back to America — a final dig at Vladimir Putin for his increasingly brutal war in Ukraine.

“For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power,” the US president said.

The words capped a pugnacious speech in the cobblestoned courtyard of Warsaw’s Royal Castle at the end of a hastily arranged three-day visit to Poland and Belgium aimed at keeping western allies together in confronting Russia.

The White House quickly moved to clarify the comment, without saying whether or not it was scripted. Biden was not advocating for “regime change”, it said, just pointing out that Putin could not be “allowed to exercise power” over his neighbours.

But that fiery moment may still represent a turning point in America’s approach to the conflict in Ukraine and the stand-off with Russia — shifting towards even greater confrontation in the near term and fierce strategic rivalry as long as Putin remains in the Kremlin.

“In committing to a long war and speaking rarely of peace, this speech — coming on top of Putin’s own bellicosity — heavily suggests that this war is now unlikely to be settled at the negotiating table,” said David Gergen, a former White House adviser and professor of public service at the Harvard Kennedy School.

“[It] was so hard hitting that one could be forgiven in thinking that we increasingly have a new Cold War on our hands and that President Biden has chosen to be its western leader.”

Heading into the last stop in Warsaw, top Biden administration officials believed the president had accomplished what he set out to do on the trip to Europe. One goal was to solidify relations and co-ordinate strategy with Nato allies ahead of tougher decisions to come if Putin escalates the war, including through the use of weapons of mass destruction.

Another was to lay out a plan to reduce Europe’s dependence on Russian energy imports. A third was to show more support for Ukraine and its government, meeting with top officials from Kyiv and then visiting refugees at a stadium in the Polish capital.

All along, he emphatically stated and restated that America would protect “every inch” of the territory of Nato — a pledge that was particularly important to his hosts in Warsaw.

Jake Sullivan, the White House’s national security adviser, told reporters on the flight from Brussels to Rzeszow in eastern Poland on Friday that Biden seemed energised by the mission. “He just believes passionately in Nato, in the transatlantic relationship,” Sullivan said.

The 79-year-old US president has also appeared emboldened by the shifting military dynamic on the ground in Ukraine, with Russian forces failing to gain control of the largest cities and refocusing on fully capturing the eastern Donbas region instead.

“Putin thought Ukrainians would roll over and not fight. Not much of a student of history. Russian forces have met their match with brave and stiff Ukrainian resistance,” Biden said, even as explosions rocked the western city of Lviv 402 kilometres away while he was speaking.

But despite Biden’s confidence, there is still huge uncertainty about the course of the war as well as Putin’s intentions, and the capacity of European allies to sustain the economic pressure on Moscow over the long term. During the trip, the US said it was ready to impose sanctions on third countries that are facilitating Russia’s invasion, potentially extending the financial punishment to individuals and businesses in large economies such as China and India, but it is unclear if Europe would go along with that.

Whether it was planned or not, even the suggestion from Biden that the US would like to see new leadership in the Kremlin raised concerns that Washington is losing control of its message about the war — including that Putin’s hold on power could only be determined by Russians. Biden may have crossed a line he did not intend to cross at a time when Putin is seen as volatile and cornered.

“The White House walk-back of [Biden’s] regime change call is unlikely to wash. Putin will see it as confirmation of what he’s believed all along,” tweeted Richard Haass, the president of the Council on Foreign Relations think-tank on Saturday.

“Bad lapse in discipline that runs risk of extending the scope and duration of the war.”

It may also have clouded the original purpose of the Warsaw speech — as a battle cry for how democracies could stare down autocracies and come out on top, evoking central and eastern Europe’s resistance to the Soviet Union during the Cold War.

Biden cited Pope John Paul II’s “Be not afraid” call, remembered Lech Walesa, the face of the Polish opposition in the 1980s, and said the battles in Kyiv, Mariupol and Kharkiv echoed the uprisings in Hungary in 1956, Poland in 1981 and Czechoslovakia in 1968.

But on the streets of Warsaw, Biden’s stance towards the war has been generally well received. At the central train station, Vitalia Lisitsyna, a cardiologist who fled Stryi in western Ukraine with her mother, said she had “a lot of respect” for Biden because he was “very responsible” and “helping our people”.

Kasia Lewis, a lawyer from Krakow who now lives in California and was walking near the Hala Mirowska market on Saturday afternoon, says she appreciates that Biden “says things that others hesitate to say” — and the rest of the world tends to follow.

After the speech, she said: “His resolute rhetoric has helped so far carve out the narrative around the war in Ukraine, and paved the way for making Putin the most hated individual on the planet.”

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2022-03-27 06:01:53Z
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