AFP, Europa Press and Sputnik

La Jornada Newspaper
Tuesday, November 19, 2024, p. 24

Berlin. Germany stated yesterday that it will deliver 4,000 drones guided by artificial intelligence to Ukraine, but recalled that it rejects sending long-range Taurus missiles to the former Soviet republic.

German Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz stressed that sending the cruise rockets to kyiv would threaten to drag the country directly into war and That’s something I can’t take responsibility for and I don’t want to.declared from Rio de Janeiro, in the context of the G-20 (Group of Twenty) summit in Brazil.

In Brussels, Josep Borrell, high representative of the European Union (EU) for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, confirmed that the United States authorized Ukraine to launch attacks deep inside Russia at a distance of up to 300 kilometers. He did not specify which office of Joe Biden’s government confirmed the version initially reported by the New York Times.

For his part, the French president, Emmanuel Macron, applauded the US authorization for kyiv to use cruise missiles against Russian territory.

EU announces more sanctions against Iran

In turn, the EU expanded its sanctions against Iran for alleged military cooperation with Russia and support for armed groups in the Middle East and the Red Sea.

The Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Mark Rutte, accused Moscow of alleged repeated violations of the alliance’s airspace using missiles and drones, although he did not provide any evidence.

Russia presented evidence of acts of genocide by kyiv in Donbas before the United Nations International Court of Justice, the Russian Foreign Ministry reported.

According to the ministry, this step was carried out as part of the interstate procedures initiated by the Ukrainian government, in February 2022, with the intention of accusing Moscow of abuse of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide of 1948.