President Vladimir Putin has said that Russia has no ill intentions towards its neighbors. Referring to the ongoing Russian special operation in Ukraine, Putin stressed that Russia only responds to “negative actions by other countries”. In an apparent nod to the impact of sanctions imposed by the US and its ...
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz hailed NATO’s move not to admit Ukraine and Georgia into the alliance last year. “That was the correct decision, after very long negotiations within NATO about that issue”, Scholz told the German TV channel ZDF, in an apparent nod to the alliance’s summit in June 2021. ...