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Blinken Agrees to Visit Ukraine to Reinforce Hawkish Moscow Stance

RUSSIA

LOCAL NEWS

  • Blinken to visit Ukraine next week with the aim of showing NATO allies that the US is not willing to relax its hawkish policy on Moscow
  • Lavrov & UN Chief Guterres set to discuss situation in Syria, Ukraine on 12 May. Notes UN Chief regular visits Moscow to discuss international issues
  • Russian Foreign Min says President Zelensky's comments RE changing the Normandy format indicate Kiev is refusing to comply with the Minsk agreements.
    • Notes if this dominates negotiations then there will be little hope of progress, "there is no alternatives to Minsk agreements, no matter what ploys Kiev devises. We have heard this from our Wester partners"
  • Russian Foreign Min says increasing US military presence in the Euro-Arctic and attempts to pull NATO into the Arctic are destructive in nature and cause concerns in Moscow.
    • Says Oslo-US military agreement allowing US military presence in proximity of Russian borders as an intentional escalation and movement towards destruction of Russia-Norway agreements
  • Moscow official slams slow vaccination and lax mask wearing as Moscow's covid cases double overnight (+74% to 9,300/day). Yesterday, Kremlin denied Russia is facing a third wave
MNI London Bureau | +44 020-3983-7894 | murray.nichol@marketnews.com
MNI London Bureau | +44 020-3983-7894 | murray.nichol@marketnews.com

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