Russia’s Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said Friday Moscow’s ties with London were at a low point as he met with U.K. Defense Secretary Ben Wallace for rare talks amid soaring tensions over Ukraine.
“Unfortunately, the level of our cooperation is close to zero and about to cross the zero meridian and go into negative, which is undesirable,” Shoigu said in remarks carried by Russian news agencies.
He said he hoped for talks “without any escalation and raising the temperature even higher” in relations between Russia and the NATO bloc.
Shoigu also accused the West of “gorging” Ukraine with weapons.
“It is coming from all sides and it is done publicly. It is done demonstrably. Not entirely clear why,” he said.
Wallace, who is accompanied by the U.K.’s Chief of the Defense Staff Tony Radakin, will also meet with the powerful chief of staff of the Russian army Valery Gerasimov.
He is the latest Western official to shuttle to Moscow in a desperate effort to find a diplomatic solution to the Ukraine crisis.
Russia has around 100,000 troops stationed near its borders with Ukraine, with the West fearing the Kremlin could order an attack.
Wallace’s visit comes a day after Britain’s Foreign Secretary, Liz Truss, met with her Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov in Moscow for talks that appeared to be fruitless and ended in mutual accusations.
Relations between London and Moscow are at an all-time low, with Russia singling out the U.K. as particularly hostile of all the Western countries.
The last meeting between the U.K. and Russian defense minister took place in 2013.
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/02/11/russian-minister-says-uk-russia-ties-close-to-zero-a76349
“Shoigu also accused the West of “gorging” Ukraine with weapons.
“It is coming from all sides and it is done publicly. It is done demonstrably. Not entirely clear why,” he said.
It’s the Ukraine version of pest control, to kill unwanted vermin.
Not entirely clear why weapons are coming in??? And such fucks really have something to do with the military? Unbelievable!
A welcomed next step would be for the UK and USA to organize a no-fly zone over Ukraine. I suppose Zelensky would have to initiate it and I wonder if he’s thought about that?
If Ukrainians want to see who is the real threat to their independence look at Iraq. They voted for American forces to leave and told American forces to leave. We are still there. And in Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, and while we are at it Germany. When a foreign country can dictate who another buys goods from that’s not independence. It’s a dictatorship. I can speak on it because I live in the states.
You live in PruSSia, the shitty and failed inferior part of Germany, costing the south a fortune to keep it alive. So go fuck yourself and never come back!
I live in the States. I hope you will head the warning about letting your government become a puppet to US.
Ukrainians don’t need to look at Iraq, they just look at your buddies next door. The country that has persecuted, committed genocide and repressed Ukraine for over 300 hundred years. For a so called American, I’ve never seen one call it the states. Your cover is blown Boris.
Ukrinform News stopped posting news. I hope this is not a bad sign. Anyway, we are ready.
Not sure where you got that info from, I have just been on there.
Maybe Germany is blocking Ukrinform and UNIAN.
Might be. I can access both.
Yes, but they stopped posting articles four hours ago.
The past two days their last articles have been at 6pm so I don’t see a problem.
Ok. Good to know.
Agreed.
Why was Veth’s article about the collappse of Russia’s economy deleted???
There is no deleted post about the collapse of the Russian economy. I just checked.
Weird. I can see it in the posts menu, but not on the site. Do you see that post?
Nope. I can’t see it at all.
Seems UNIAN is censored. Remember the danish supplies from the Antonov? Yet i managed to catch the article.
On Friday, February 11, the collapse continued on the Russian stock market , which has been observed since the beginning of the aggravation of the situation on the Ukrainian border since January 2022.
As of 13:01, the Moscow Exchange index fell by 3.65 percent to 3522.39 points, and the RTS index fell by 4.35 percent to 1479.43 points. It is reported by the Moscow Exchange .
Almost all the “blue chips” of the Moscow Exchange are going down. The fall leader was Tinkoff (minus 5.28 percent, to 5,538 rubles), Magnit (minus 3.2 percent, to 5,060 rubles) and Novatek (minus 3.14 percent, to 1,580.8 rubles).
Shares of the Russian “Gazprom” as of 13:27 Kiev time fell to the level of 320.79 rubles.
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The dollar is trading at 75 rubles, the euro – 85.37 rubles.
How much Russia will pay for aggression:
In January 2022, Bloomberg reported that the sanctions that are applied to Russia due to the threat of a military invasion of the territory of Ukraine are causing serious damage to the Russian budget. Thus, according to analysts’ calculations, a ban on the purchase of Russian state debt by Western funds will cost Russia $10 billion a year.
(C)UNIAN 2022