Russia wants China to mediate. Ukraine launches counter-offensive

Russia all over again praises China’s “balanced” role on the war in Ukraine and points the finger on the “obstacles created by Kiev and the West” to gain peace. The Chinese unique envoy for the look for a strategy to the warfare between Russia and Ukraine, Li Hui, arrived in Moscow today: in the closing leg of his long diplomatic excursion, the Chinese special consultant met for about an hour and a half Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.

A cordial conversation between the two diplomats, in line with what transpires from Moscow, which confirms concord with Beijing, simply 3 days after Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin visited China. Lavrov praised Beijing’s “willingness to play a high-quality role in resolving the struggle,” underlined the Russian Foreign Ministry.

China’s stance, which it says is neutral with admire to the “Ukrainian crisis,” as Beijing calls it, has come underneath complaint inside the West. For the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, “there's no panacea to resolve the disaster” and most effective remaining Tuesday, in Beijing, the Chinese chief showed China’s “firm assist” for Russia on issues of “essential interest”.

China’s position has been reiterated several instances with the aid of Li himself in meetings in current days. During the task, the Chinese envoy reaffirmed his commitment to accomplishing a ceasefire along with his interlocutors, who on more than one occasion underlined the significance of country wide sovereignty and the territorial integrity of Ukraine. A point, the latter, nonetheless controversial, with Beijing which might apprehend the annexed areas to Russia, in step with what the RIA Novosti company wrote nowadays.

The assembly between Li and Lavrov comes a few days after the one with the Ukrainian foreign minister, Dmytro Kuleba, and with the president Volodymyr Zelensky, and after talks with Poland, France and Germany. China speaks of a consensus constructing across the search for a approach to the conflict but stays in positions exclusive from those of the West for by no means having condemned Russian aggression.

Beijing indicates concord with Moscow and continuously criticizes Washington. In communique with senior officials of the European Union, the Chinese envoy asked Brussels for more strategic autonomy and efforts for stability at the European continent, in what seems to be a veiled reference to the position of the USA, which Beijing accuses of “throwing gasoline to the fireplace” of the conflict.

“China will toughen communicate”

“China will beef up the speak with all parties, together with Russia, and will make concrete efforts for a political strategy to the Ukrainian disaster”: stated the Chinese emissary, Li Hui, inside the meeting held the day prior to this in Moscow with the pinnacle of the Russian international relations, Serghei Lavrov, stated today in a word from Chinese international relations

Ukraine geared up to release counter-offensive

Ukraine is prepared to launch the lengthy-awaited counter-offensive against Russian forces: Oleksiy Danilov, secretary of the National Security and Defense Council, advised the BBC.

Danilov did no longer deliver dates, however argued that the attack to recapture Russian-occupied territory ought to begin “the next day, the day after tomorrow or in per week.” Very near Zelensky and the Ukrainian approach, Danilov brought that Kiev “can’t be wrong”: it's miles “a ancient possibility” that “we cannot lose”.

Zelensky: “There are no alternatives to peace”

There is not any alternative to peace in Ukraine, however to get there, “we must arrive at the day whilst we are able to say that we have ended this struggle with our victory”. President Volodymyr Zelensky wrote this on Telegram, in what seems to be a sort of response to the Chinese peace concept which provides for the cession by using Kiev of the territories already occupied via the Russians.

“It is peace that we will pass on to our youngsters and grandchildren as a legacy of the modern technology. We have and do now not want every other opportunity. But to bypass on peace as a legacy, we should arrive on the day while we are able to say that we've ended this warfare with our victory”, the full textual content of the president’s ultra-modern post on his favored social media channel.