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TAlso, the position of the Ukrainian delegation showed “more realism” on the issue of security guarantees for Ukraine, securing its neutral status in the treaty, as well as the status of the DPR and LPR, the Russian Foreign Minister added

Russian-Ukrainian talks in Istanbul

During the talks in Istanbul, the Ukrainian delegation demonstrated “much more realism” on the issue of the status of Crimea, the DPR and the LPR, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said after talks with the contact group on Ukraine, which was created by the League of Arab States.

“Following the results of the round of negotiations that took place in Istanbul on March 29, we saw the appearance of realism in the position of the Ukrainian delegation,” Lavrov said.Realism, as for ways to ensure the security of Ukraine. It has already become clear to the Kiev representatives that security guarantees cannot be obtained in NATO and that joining NATO should be forgotten.There is more realism about the need to consolidate Ukraine’s neutral status in the treaty and, finally, its nuclear-free status, given the flirtations with this topic that have been heard over the past few months. Of course, there is much more realism in the position of the Ukrainian delegation regarding the status of the Crimea, Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics.

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At the same time, the Minister stressed that how these “notes of realism” will be translated “into the language of the contract paper” remains to be understood.

Lavrov also added that the summit of the presidents of Russia and Ukraine can be convened, but only to consolidate the result achieved by the delegations of the two countries during the negotiations. Earlier, the Kremlin has repeatedly said that a meeting between Vladimir Putin and Vladimir Zelensky is possible only after the development of a specific document.

The face-to-face meeting of the delegations in Istanbul took place after several weeks of negotiations in a video format. Following the results, a member of the Russian delegation, Deputy Defense Minister Alexander Fomin said that the negotiations were “moving into the practical plane”, and therefore it was decided to “drastically reduce military activity in the Kiev and Chernihiv directions”.

In addition, Russia has received Ukrainian proposals for a political settlement.

In them, Ukraine stated that it was ready to refuse to join military alliances, to deploy foreign military bases, contingents, and conduct military exercises on the territory of Ukraine without the consent of the guarantor states, including Russia. In exchange, Kiev demanded that Moscow not object to the state’s desire to join the EU.

The head of the Ukrainian delegation, David Arahamia, clarified that Ukraine offers a new system of security guarantees. They should be enshrined in an international treaty, it will be signed and ratified by the guarantor countries. They can become permanent members of the UN Security Council.

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The Russian ambassador will be summoned to the Austrian Foreign Ministry on Monday. The head of the department Schallenberg also criticized the statements of the Russian ambassador in an interview with the Austrian edition

Alexander Schallenberg

Austria does not rule out the expulsion of Russian diplomats, Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg said in an interview with the oe24 TV channel.

He also said that the Russian ambassador to Austria Dmitry Lyubinsky will be summoned to the Foreign Ministry on Monday.

During the conversation, Schallenberg criticized Lubinsky’s interview, which he gave to the Austrian publication Profil on April 2. In an interview, the Russian ambassador stated that Russia’s military operation in Ukraine began, after Moscow received information about the impending attack of Ukrainian troops on the Donbass “with grave consequences for the civilian population”. He also stated that by conducting the operation, Russia is “exercising the right of allies to self-defense”, referring to the forces of the DPR and LPR. He also stated that only military facilities are being attacked.

Commenting on Lubinsky’s interview, Schallenberg called his words bullying. “We will tell the ambassador very clearly what we think about it,” the head of the Austrian Foreign Ministry added.

After the start of the military operation in Ukraine, European countries began to expel Russian diplomats. Slovakia, Latvia and Estonia declared three employees of Russian diplomatic missions as persona non grata, Lithuania – four, North Macedonia – five. Poland has decided to expel 45 Russian diplomats, the Netherlands 17, Belgium 21, Ireland;four, Czech Republic— one. Bild has learned that Germany can expel up to 100 employees of Russian diplomatic agencies.

Russia has taken retaliatory measures, in particular through the diplomats of Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia. The representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Maria Zakharova called the expulsion of Russian diplomats an attempt to “politically” punish Russia.

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Among the new types that are proposed to be included in the state armament program, Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov named kinetic weapons and robotic complexes

Vladimir Putin and Yuri Borisov

A new Russian state armament program will be formed by mid-2023.Within this framework, non-traditional types of weapons will be created. This was stated by Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov at a meeting with President Vladimir Putin, according to a statement on the Kremlin’s website.

“The new weapons program will be aimed at creating qualitatively new, including non-traditional, types of weapons, including directed energy weapons, kinetic weapons, as well as control systems using artificial intelligence and robotic complexes,” Borisov said.

According to the Deputy Prime Minister, the work on the preparation of the initial data of the program has been completed, it will be finalized and submitted to the head of state for approval in mid-2023.

In addition, Borisov noted, the industry is currently “accelerating the pace and volume of import substitution”. According to him, in order to ensure the stability of the defense industry, the government has increased advance payments for the procurement of electronic components up to 100%. “It has also been granted the right to conclude contracts under the state defense order (GOZ) with a single supplier at approximate prices not exceeding the GOZ indicators, without registration with the FAS,” the message says.

Kinetic weapons use kinetic energy of striking elements, the speed of movement of which is significantly higher than conventional weapons. The target, when hit, is destroyed mechanically by such striking elements due to their high speed. Rocket fuel and electromagnetic accelerating systems can be used in kinetic weapon systems, and both controlled and unguided small and light objects can be used as striking elements. The most promising field of application of kinetic weapons is air defense and missile defense.

Kinetic weapons are being developed in several countries, including the United States and Russia. In November, the United States launched a probe into space to protect the planet from asteroids as the first demonstration of the kinetic impact mechanism technique. The project was named DART, its goal was announced to test technologies to prevent a dangerous asteroid from colliding with the Earth. It is planned that by autumn the probe will reach the double 160-meter asteroid Didymos Dimorphos, which orbits the Sun together with the Earth, and, colliding with it at a speed of about 24 thousand km/h, will change the trajectory of its flight.

In December 2020, the United States announced the ongoing development of space and laser weapons in Russia. Then the space command of the US Department of Defense reported that Russia had tested an anti-satellite direct interception missile. The statement also indicated that the country had demonstrated two completely different types of space weapons. The first is the DA-ASAT system, capable of destroying satellites in low Earth orbit, which has been repeatedly tested in Russia, the US Space Forces Command noted.

The second type is the orbital anti-satellite system of space weapons, which demonstrated kinetic weapons in orbit in 2017 and 2020. The US military recalled that in March 2018, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the development of a ground-based laser system for use by space forces, which the Russian military recognized as a combat laser system.

New developments in the field of armaments were also announced in Russia itself. At the end of 2018, the holding “Roselectronics” (part of the corporation “Rostec”) He announced the successful completion of the tests of the 1B75 sound-thermal artillery reconnaissance complex “Penicillin”. The system tracks noise and kinetic energy usingfour sound-thermal locators, a large stabilization platform and an optoelectronic module. In addition to the functions of artillery reconnaissance, Penicillin provides radio communication of automated control systems with external subscribers at a distance of up to 40 km.

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The day before, the head of Chechnya announced the “immature” scale of priorities of the presidential press secretary. This is how he reacted to Peskov’s words about patriotism

Dmitry Peskov

Press Secretary of the President Dmitry Peskov responded to criticism of his understanding of patriotism by the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov.

“Competition in who is more of a patriot is hardly necessary. <..."Especially when we all have to be united around our country and our president," he told reporters, according to a correspondent of RBC.

At the request of journalists, Peskov defined the concept of “patriotism”. According to him, this is love for the motherland and a willingness to make sacrifices when it is required.

On April 2, the press secretary of the president in an interview with “Belarus 1” urged not to consider “enemies of the state” those who left Russia against the background of the military operation in Ukraine. Among them, he attributed Ksenia Sobchak and Ivan Urgant. The latter opposed the military operation and left Russia with his family. The TV presenter said that we are talking about a vacation and he will return.

Peskov said that he considers Urgant a “great patriot”, and stressed that he does not need to be recorded in the “fifth column”. In his opinion, “enemies of the state” are those who began to “seize power and attack military heroes”.

The day before, Kadyrov reacted to Peskov’s words. “I didn’t know, but it turns out that in order to become a patriot of your country, you need to criticize Russia’s actions, go abroad, and loudly and pathetically, creating a hype around the person, and then, when the political degree of confrontation drops, come back as if nothing had happened.” Kadyrov said.

In addition, Kadyrov was surprised by the reaction of the press secretary to the assignment of the rank of lieutenant general to him. On March 28, the Chechen authorities announced that President Vladimir Putin had signed a corresponding decree. Then Peskov said that he had not seen the document and could not comment on this data.

The head of Chechnya stressed that, together with the security forces, he is engaged in conducting a military operation day and night. «It was possible to somehow cheer up or comment more delicately, but not this one of yours «did not see the decree »,— Kadyrov replied to this.

He called Peskov’s priority scale “immature”. “We need to do something about it,” the head of Chechnya noted.

Deputy Chairman of the Security Council Dmitry Medvedev also spoke on the topic of patriotism the day before. «Patriotism— is not your way of thinking, it is your actions»,— Medvedev is convinced. He called the topic of patriotism “extremely difficult”. “Those who love their homeland have very different faces.

A traitor always has one face – the face of a traitor. The main thing is to distinguish this face in time,” he added. Two weeks ago, on March 25, Medvedev called criticism of the country’s leadership in the context of a special military operation in Ukraine a betrayal.

Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. Two days later, Kadyrov announced that Chechen units were participating in it. At the end of March, he said that together with his son Adam, the mayor of Grozny and other Chechen officials, he came to Mariupol.

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The detainee is suspected of illegally acquiring and storing an explosive device, a criminal case has been opened

In Crimea, FSB officers detained a supporter of “Ukrainian neo-Nazis” on suspicion of illegal possession of explosive devices and substances. This is reported by TASS with reference to the press service of the FSB directorate for Crimea and Sevastopol.

A criminal case has been initiated on the grounds of a crime under Part 1 of Article 222.1 of the Criminal Code of Russia, the FSB clarified.

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“It was established that a resident of Alushta, Republic of Crimea, born in 1982, at his place of residence, kept an improvised explosive device with an explosive charge of more than 500 grams,” the press service reported.

In addition, a pistol, TNT, gunpowder, as well as other items, including computer equipment and mobile communications, were found in the detainee’s possession. The FSB claims that videos of “radical content”, photographs depicting nationalist symbols and fascist paraphernalia, as well as correspondence between the detainee and members of “Ukrainian nationalist battalions” were found in the phone.

At the end of March, the FSB reported on the detention in Crimea of a Russian who allegedly worked for the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU).

According to the intelligence service, the man, born in 1971, served in the Donetsk People’s Republic, recently lived in the territory of the Crimea and on a permanent basis maintained contacts with SBU officers.

The special service clarified that the detainee will be checked for involvement in the commission of crimes under Articles 275 and 276 of the Criminal Code (high treason and espionage).

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Earlier, Süddeutsche Zeitung wrote about the possible expulsion of 20 diplomats from Germany due to cooperation with special services

Germany may expel up to 100 employees of Russia’s diplomatic agencies this week, the Bild newspaper writes.

Chancellor Olaf Scholz instructed to study the issue of the expulsion of Russian diplomats, the newspaper said.

RBC sent a request to the press service of the Russian Embassy in Germany.

On April 1, Süddeutsche Zeitung wrote about the possible expulsion of 20 diplomats due to cooperation with special services. According to the publication, the political director of the German Foreign Ministry, Tjorven Bellman, spoke with colleagues from the G7 countries about a “package of solutions”, which may include the revocation of accreditations from employees of the Russian Embassy. The issue was discussed by the Chancellery, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Internal Affairs, but the government doubted whether there was a point in expulsion.

Western countries have begun actively expelling Russian diplomats against the background of Russia’s military operation in Ukraine. Among them were Slovakia, Bulgaria, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia and North Macedonia.

Poland expelled 45 Russian employees and froze the embassy’s accounts. The Netherlands decided to expel 17 Russians. The Belgian authorities expelled 21 diplomats from the consulate in Antwerp and the embassy in Brussels, Ireland refused the work of four Russian employees, the Czech Republic refused one.

The Russian Foreign Ministry promised to take retaliatory measures and has already expelled diplomats from Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania. The Polish Embassy in Moscow had its accounts frozen.

The representative of the Ministry, Maria Zakharova, called the series of expulsions an attempt to punish Russia politically. «We are well aware that <..."this is a demonstrative position of the collective West, accusing us of creating a crisis," Zakharova said. According to her, Russia has failed to counter information and political attacks in these countries.

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The expulsions of Russian diplomats by European countries are a “demonstrative position of the West”, which is thus trying to punish Russia politically, Maria Zakharova believes

Maria Zakharova

A series of expulsions of Russian diplomats from Western countries is an attempt by the collective West to punish Russia politically, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on the TV channel “Russia 1”. She posted the video on her Telegram channel.

She noted that countries justify the expulsion of Russian diplomats in different ways, “someone says that they are expelling diplomats for activities incompatible with the declared”, “somewhere they immediately talk about the political component.”

«We are well aware that <..."this is a demonstrative position of the collective West, accusing us of creating a crisis, trying to punish us politically in this way," Zakharova said,

According to her, this is done so that Russia could not be represented by its voice in these countries, neither by political contacts, nor by an information position, and could not repel information and political attacks.

European countries began a series of expulsions of Russian diplomats after the start of the military operation in Ukraine. In March, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia resorted to such a measure. The authorities of some countries have accused employees of Russian diplomatic missions of violating the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations.

Slovakia, Latvia and Estonia recognized three employees of Russian diplomatic agencies as non grata, Lithuania included four Russians in the list, North Macedonia – five, and Bulgaria – ten. In response, Russia decided to expel four Lithuanian diplomats and three people each from the embassies of Latvia and Estonia. To the decision of Northern Macedonia to expel five diplomatic workers, Zakharova replied that it was aimed at “scrapping bilateral relations” and assured that the Foreign Ministry would take retaliatory measures.

On March 23, Poland expelled 45 Russian diplomats and froze the accounts of the Russian embassy. As reported by the Ambassador in Warsaw Sergey Andreev, the local prosecutor’s office concluded that the money could go to the financing of terrorism. In response, Russia blocked the accounts of the Polish embassy in Moscow, he noted.

Later, Dutch Foreign Minister Vopke Hoekstra announced that 17 Russians would be expelled from the kingdom. He called them intelligence agents who are in the country under diplomatic cover.

On the same day, the Belgian authorities decided to expel 21 diplomats who work at the consulate in Antwerp and the embassy in Brussels, on charges of espionage. The head of the Irish Foreign Ministry, Simon Coveney, notified the Russian side of the expulsion of four people. The Czech Republic has decided to expel one employee of the embassy in Prague.

On April 1, Bulgaria announced its decision to expel the first secretary of the Russian embassy. The authorities suspected him of collecting information constituting a state secret and transferring it to another party. A criminal case was opened against the diplomat under the article on espionage. Before that, Sofia recognized two Russian diplomats as persona non grata and asked ten more employees of the diplomatic mission to leave the country.

Moscow has promised to respond to all unfriendly measures directed against its foreign institutions.

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Medvedev called patriotism “an extremely difficult topic” According to him, patriots have different faces, and traitors have only “the face of a traitor.” Medvedev stressed that patriotism is not a way of thinking, but a person’s actions

Dmitry Medvedev

Those who love their homeland have very different faces, and a traitor can only have a traitor’s face, said Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council. “The main thing is to distinguish this person in time,” he wrote in his Telegram channel.

«Patriotism— is not your way of thinking, it is your actions»,— Medvedev is convinced. He called the topic of patriotism “extremely difficult”.

Earlier, the deputy chairman of the Security Council called the criticism of Russia during the military operation in Ukraine a betrayal. He believes that it is impossible to pursue an “anti-state line” in a difficult situation.

According to Medvedev, “it is not very right” to criticize your country while abroad. There is a big difference between those who simply left the country and those who from abroad “express an active position of disagreement with the decisions of the authorities, with the conduct of a special operation, moreover, they also take the position of the other side,” he noted, calling such behavior a betrayal.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on March 16 that the Russian people “will always be able to distinguish true patriots from scum and traitors”. He called the self-purification of society from the latter a natural and necessary process that will strengthen the country. “National traitors” are those who earn money in Russia, but live “there”, and “not even in the geographical sense of the word, but according to their thoughts, according to their slave consciousness,” the head of state clarified.

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With Mateusz Morawiecki made such an appeal to the EC Chairman Ursula von der Leyen and the head of the European Council Charles Michel. The Russian Defense Ministry previously called the published photos and videos from Bucha a provocation

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki called on the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen and the head of the European Council Charles Michel to convene the European Council soon to discuss the events in the Butch Kiev region and sanctions against Russia. Facebook Facebook Instagram and Facebook owner Meta has been recognized as extremist in Russia and banned.

The Russian Defense Ministry called the published photos and videos about the crimes of Russian servicemen in the city of Bucha, Kiev region, a provocation. The ministry claims that the Russian military is not involved in the killings of civilians. The troops left the city on March 30, and during the time it was under their control, “not a single local resident was injured,” they said.

On April 3, the media, in particular Reuters and AFP, as well as the adviser to the head of the office of the President of Ukraine, Mikhail Podolyak, published photos from Bucha with bodies imprinted on them. According to the mayor of the city Anatoly Fedoruk, after the Butch returned to the control of the Ukrainian military, “280 more people were buried in mass graves”.

After the publication of photos and videos, which, according to the Ukrainian authorities and Western media, show civilian casualties, the European Union announced its intention to tighten sanctions against Russia because of the military operation in Ukraine.

According to the Deputy Permanent Representative of Russia to the UN Dmitry Polyansky, the Russian side demanded the convening of a meeting of the organization’s Security Council on April 4 because of the “blatant provocation of Ukrainian radicals in the Butch”.

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Restrictions were imposed on ten houses and apartments in accordance with the sanctions. On March 18, Switzerland imposed restrictions against Russia similar to those imposed by the European Union

Geneva, Switzerland

Swiss authorities have frozen at least ten real estate properties owned by Russian businessmen, Swissinfo reports with reference to Neue Zürcher Zeitung am Sonntag.

These ten properties—houses and apartments— are located in four Swiss cantons, including Bern and Geneva. One of them, a house to the east of Bern, belongs to the ex-chairman of the board of directors of Alfa-Bank Peter Aven, the newspaper writes.

RBC sent a request to the press service of Alfa-Bank.

According to the publication, the total value of Russian assets frozen in Switzerland is about $6.2 billion, but it is not known how much of this amount falls on real estate.

Switzerland has joined the sanctions against Russia imposed by the European Union. On March 18, the republic adopted the latest package of sanctions, which included bans on the supply of equipment for the energy industry, an embargo on the import of ferrous metals and other restrictions. The European Union has extended personal sanctions to Roman Abramovich, Suleiman Kerimov, the president of the RSPP Alexander Shokhin and others.

Petr Aven was included in the EU sanctions lists on February 28.

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