The United States, open to diplomacy with Russia to end the war in Ukraine

The Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, acknowledges that Russia is “in no way” willing to participateUkraine denounces a new large-scale Russian missile attack against the west of the countryRussia would not be willing to open negotiations, since “the Ukrainians are fighting for their country, for its land and for its future”The Secretary of State of the United States, Antony Blinken, affirmed this Friday that his country is open to diplomacy with Russia in order to negotiate an agreed end to the war in Ukraine, although he has pointed out that Moscow is not for the work of this path. “We reaffirm our commitment to meaningful diplomacy that can end the war, even as Moscow continues to demonstrate with its escalation actions that its pretense of being open to diplomacy is so hollow as it has been since President Putin launched his invasion in February,” the head of the State Department said at a press conference. However, although Blinken has pointed out that E The United States “considers and reconsiders by all means” diplomacy as a means of ending the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russia “shows no signs of being willing to engage in meaningful diplomacy in any way.” of diplomacy to end the war, it depends entirely on whether Russia gets to a place where it really is interested in stopping the aggression that it started, and we haven’t seen evidence of that at this point,” said Secretary of State , according to a statement from the department he directs.Russian mobilization and holding of “fake” referendumsInstead, Russia would be “doubling and tripling its aggression” with the partial mobilization of hundreds of thousands of Russians, or the holding of “fake” referendums ” to annex four Ukrainian regions, according to the United States Government. In this sense, he stressed that “the fundamental problem” of the Ukrainian people “is not only extraordinarily brave and re but it is also very successful in repelling aggression and recovering its land”. For this reason, according to Blinken, Russia would not be willing to open negotiations, since “Ukrainians are fighting for their country, for their land and for their future”, while Russia does not. “The sooner Russian President Vladimir Putin understands that and comes to that conclusion, the sooner we can end this war,” said the head of US diplomacy. Ukraine denounces a new large-scale Russian missile attack against the west of the country. Ukrainian authorities have denounced this Saturday the launch of at least twenty Russian missiles from the Black Sea and the Kursk region against regions in the west of the country, starting with Lviv or Chernivtsi, where the defense systems would have intercepted several of these projectiles, as well as Volhynia, Rivne or Khmelnitski. The new attacks, which have once again caused suspensions in the electricity and water supply in the affected regions, have been denounced by the head of the Ukrainian Presidency office, Andrey Yermak. “Okay, we will resist. The dream of the Russians to cause trouble in the rear and stop the liberation of the Ukrainian territories is a childish act,” he said. in his Telegram account. The mayor of the city of Kovel, in the Volyn region, Igor Chaika, has confirmed that the town has been left without main electricity and has become dependent on emergency services. Igor Polishchuk, the mayor of Lutsk in Volhynia, has also reported problems with the power supply. The city of Khmelnitski, capital of the homonymous region, has also been left without electricity, according to the Ukrainian portal Obozrevatel. In the kyiv region, a series of blackouts began around 08:30 a.m. to stabilize the electricity supply that will mean a maximum disconnection of four hours throughout this morning, although it could be repeated throughout the day. Finally, in Lviv, the head of the regional administration, Maksim Kozitski, has confirmed that “air defense has come into action.” “There will be details later,” he explained to the population, “but for now, stay in the shelters.”