The Russian President Vladimir Putin’s announcementof a partial mobilization to defend the territorial integrity of Russia is “worrying”said this Wednesday the British Foreign Secretary of State Gillian Keegan.
In a statement to the Sky News network, Keegan He has invited calm before this statement but pointed out that the speech Putin made this Wednesday to his country should be taken “very seriously.”
This is “obviously a climbing and of course now the Russian people will be recruited for this war” in Ukraine, has underlined the Secretary of stateafter what Putin said that the goal of the West is to “weaken, divide and destroy” Russia.
Keegan has insisted that the UK will help the Ukrainian people “in any way we can”.
The british government reported on Tuesday that it is committed to matching in 2023 the military aid provided to Ukraine this year, estimated at 2,300 million pounds (2,622 million euros), and to support the security and territorial integrity of Ukraine.
The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs has urged all parties to engage in a dialogue and one query and to find a way to deal with the security concerns from all sides, after Russian President Vladimir Putin warned the West about what he described as “nuclear blackmail”.
“Justify your own failure”
The Ukrainian presidential advisor Mykhailo Podolyakhas ensured that the mobilization of Russia is a step “predictable” which will be extremely “unpopular” and stresses that the war is not proceeding according to Moscow’s plan.
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“An absolutely predictable appeal, which seems more like an attempt to justify its own failure,” wrote Podolyak, giving the first reaction of the Ukrainian presidential office. “It is clear that the war is not going according to the Russian scenario and therefore required Putin to make extremely unpopular decisions to mobilize and severely restrict people’s rights,” she argued.
The German Vice Chancellor Robert Habeckhas branded this Wednesday “wrong step” the decision of the president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, to decree a “partial mobilization” of the population, in the midst of the war in Ukraine. Habeck, who is also Minister of Economy, has indicated that the German Government is deliberating its response to Putin’s decision and has reiterated Berlin’s support for kyiv in the face of the Russian invasion, as reported by the German newspaper ‘Der Spiegel’ .