Polsk lastbilsblockad mot Ukraina nästa vecka
Polish truck blockade against Ukraine next week
Starting next week, Polish truck drivers will block several border crossings to Ukraine, Reuters reports.
The Polish drivers believe that truck drivers from Ukraine are harming the domestic industry and the blockade is a protest against this.
- Ukrainian transport companies enter without restrictions and carry out transports that they have no right to carry out, says Jacek Sokol who is a co-organizer of the protest.
Recently, Polish farmers demonstrated against the Ukrainian grain trade hitting the domestic market hard. Sokol compares the situation of truck drivers to that of farmers.
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Russian invasionRussian reactions
Russia pulls out of deal - enables nuclear weapons tests
Vladimir Putin has today signed a new law that withdraws Russia's ratification of the Multilateral Test Ban Treaty (CTBT), which prohibits nuclear weapons tests, AFP and Reuters write.
Russia possesses the world's largest nuclear arsenal and in the past it has been reported that a Russian nuclear test could provoke other countries such as the US and China to follow suit.
The 1996 Test Ban Treaty bans all nuclear explosions, including the testing of nuclear weapons, but has never formally entered into force because countries such as the United States and China have not ratified it.
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The Russian InvasionThe Battles
Kremlin denies deadlock: "All our goals must be achieved"
Russia denies that the fighting in Ukraine has reached a stalemate. This after Ukraine's Commander-in-Chief Valery Zaluzhny said in an interview with The Economist that there is a standstill on the battlefield.
- No, we have not reached a deadlock. Russia completes the military special operation. All goals set must be achieved, says Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, according to AFP.
According to him, Kyiv must understand that it is "absurd to even talk about a Ukrainian victory on the battlefield". The sooner the Ukrainian government realizes this, the faster a solution to the conflict can be possible, says Peskov according to Reuters.
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The Russian InvasionThe Battles
Ukraine's ÖB: "Deadlock - there will probably be no breakthrough"
The stalemate in the fighting between the Ukrainian and Russian forces is reminiscent of the First World War – breaking the stalemate would require a massive technological advance. This is what Ukraine's commander-in-chief, General Valery Zaluzhny, told The Economist.
- There will most likely not be any deep and beautiful breakthrough.
Five months into the counteroffensive, Ukrainian forces have only advanced 17 kilometers. In an opinion text in the same newspaper, Zaluzhny writes that the stalemate gives Russia an opportunity to regroup and replenish its weapons stockpiles.
In addition to the replenishment of weapons and ammunition that Ukraine already has access to, he calls for more high-tech military equipment, especially those that can give Ukraine control of the airspace.
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