Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has surrendered to Russia, former F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone said.
Speaking to Piers Morgan on TalkTV, Ecclestone, the Ukrainian president, “could have arrested him himself. “
He continued: “If this had happened and I was there and had sought to protect my people, they would have shaken my hands on Putin and said, ‘Look, we have to avoid this. ‘”
Asked through Morgan if he would have given up, Ecclestone replied, “I would have figured out a very worthy way to do it because that’s what’s going to have to happen anyway. “
“To put an end to this, they communicate with each other. . . of what’s going on. “
Ecclestone also repeated his complaint from Mr. Zelenskyy, claiming that the Ukrainian president was seeking “publicity. “
He added: “It’s for a little publicity, no one had heard of it before.
“Now he’s talking to the press, the United States and everybody.
“And not just talking to them, making sure he speaks to them when it’s televised and broadcast around the world. “
Earlier that day, the former F1 boss defended Vladimir Putin over the war in Ukraine and would “get shot” by the Russian president.
Appearing on ITV’s Good Morning Britain, Ecclestone described the Russian leader as a “first-class person” and gave the impression of downplaying his invasion of Ukraine.
“What he’s doing is everything he thought was the right thing he was doing for Russia,” he said.
“Unfortunately, he’s like a lot of entrepreneurs, like me, we make mistakes from time to time.
“I would still get a ball for him. If it didn’t hurt, but if it does, I would still get a bullet, because he is a first-class person. “
Ecclestone added that the war could have been avoided if the Ukrainian president had made a “sufficient effort” to communicate with Putin.
Russian forces use erroneous missiles from former Soviet stockpiles for more than 50 of their movements in Ukraine, said Oleksii Hromov, a brigadier general in the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Hromov told a news conference that Russia seeks to attack the military and critical infrastructure, but that the use of old, less accurate Soviet missiles resulted in significant civilian casualties.
He said: “The enemy’s targets remain army installations, critical infrastructure and industry, shipping networks. At the same time, the civilian population suffers losses due to (misdirected) attacks.
“To carry out rocket attacks, the enemy in more than 50% (of cases) uses missiles from the Soviet reserve, which are accurate enough. As a result, civilian buildings are affected. “
Earlier, Hromov also said Russian forces stepped up missile movements in June.
These photos show volunteers distributing food to citizens of the eastern city of Severodonetsk.
The city, which is located in the Luhansk region, is now “fully occupied” by Russian forces after a week of battle.
Last week, Mayor Oleksand Stryuk said on national television: “The city is now completely occupied across Russia. They are looking to identify their own order, as I know, they have appointed some kind of commander. “
Japan’s foreign minister said he and the Philippines’ new president, Ferdinand Marcos, agreed that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was a “scandal” that will not be tolerated anywhere in the world.
Hayashi told reporters: “We share the view that the Russian invasion of Ukraine is an outrage that shakes the center of foreign order, and that the unilateral replacement of the prestige quo by force will not be tolerated in any region. “
Last week, Hayashi said that the foreign ministers of the rich Group of Seven countries had agreed that the Russian invasion of Ukraine had caused the existing global food crisis and that Moscow was to blame for the case.
The foreign minister made the comment after an assembly of G7 chancellors, in which he had participated remotely.
He also said Japan intends to help Ukraine’s grain exports and plans to increase food aid to deal with the global food crisis.
Germany is buying a missile defense formula from Israel or the United States to bolster its defenses against threats, adding Russian Iskander missiles in Kaliningrad, Germany’s Welt am Sonntag reports.
In an interview with the German newspaper, German defense leader Eberhard Zorn said that Iskander missiles can be successful in almost all of Western Europe and that there is no missile shield in position to protect against this threat.
“The Israelis and the Americans have such formulas. Will we succeed in a global (missile defense) formula within NATO?These are the questions we want to answer now,” Zorn said.
In 2018, the Kremlin deployed Iskander missiles in its Kaliningrad enclave, between Poland and Lithuania.
A cellular ballistic missile system, the Iskander replaced the Soviet Scud missile and its two guided missiles can be traditional or nuclear warheads.
Lysychansk, in Ukraine’s Donbass region, is strategic for war and suffers from near-constant artillery shelling and Russian airstrikes.
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The outgoing Bulgarian minister suggested Russia keep diplomatic channels between the two countries open and called on Russia to withdraw a diplomatic ultimatum sent after Sofia expelled 70 Russian diplomatic staff.
The EU-NATO member said on Tuesday it would expel 70 Russian diplomatic staff on espionage grounds and had set a limit on the duration of Moscow’s representation.
The move is the biggest expulsion of Russian diplomats from Sofia in recent years.
However, in a diplomatic note notified via Reuters, the Russian embassy called on Sofia to rescind the deportation resolution by noon on Friday.
Otherwise, the embassy said it would ask Moscow to end Russia’s physical diplomatic presence in Bulgaria.
Now, outgoing Bulgarian Prime Minister Kiril Petkov has suggested Russia keep diplomatic channels between Moscow and Sofia open despite the expulsions, which he said would still leave Russia with 43 diplomatic members compared to just 12 for Bulgaria in Moscow.
“We are in need of dialogue, for which diplomatic channels are essential,” he said. Petkov.
“Therefore, we ask the Embassy of the Russian Federation to withdraw the note presented today. For the afterlife and for the future, we will have to be able to move forward with mutual respect. “
The footage shows Ukrainian rescuers searching for and recovering the remains of Russian shells from a high-rise construction in Kharkiv.
At the beginning of the war, more than a dozen subway stations in the northeastern city were turned into shelters as the domain burned down almost constantly.
After Russian forces failed to capture the area, they attempted to destroy it, bombing their civilian neighborhoods.
The city of Lysychansk has faced a spate of attacks in recent weeks as Russian forces visit the area.
Here, Sky’s special envoy, Alex Crawford, visits the city besieged by the Russian invaders.
The Russian Foreign Ministry said a “strong protest” had been expressed to Ambassador Deborah Bronnert against “the frankly crude statements of British leaders regarding Russia, its leader and official representatives of the authorities, as well as the Russian people. “
He said Ms Bronnert had won a memo saying that “offensive rhetoric by representatives of the British government is unacceptable” and that “in a well-educated society it is standard to apologise for such statements”.
The ministry said Russia had told Bronnert it opposed British statements containing “deliberately false information, about alleged Russian threats to use nuclear weapons. “
It was not without delay transparent to which express statements he referred.