While European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said China has a role to play in achieving a “just peace” in Ukraine, China’s defense ministry said the Chinese army is ready to work with the Russian army to enhance strategic communication and coordination. Lane in a speech in Brussels on the eve of a trip to Beijing: Any peace plan that would stabilize Russian annexations is simply not viable, we must be frank on this issue, and she added: The way China will continue to wage war (Russian President) Putin will be decisive factor in the future of relations between the European Union and China.
In turn, the official representative of the Chinese Ministry of Defense Tang Kefe said at a regular press conference that the two countries will cooperate in implementing initiatives in the field of global security, naval and air patrols and joint exercises.
In addition, a correspondent for the American Wall Street Journal, 31-year-old Ivan Gershkovich, was arrested in Russia, according to a report by Russian intelligence services on Thursday. The FSB statement said that she is suspected of “spying” on a journalist “for Washington” and gathering information about “a company associated with the Russian military-industrial complex.”
And the FSB statement, handed over by Russian agencies, said that it “prevented the illegal activities of the accredited correspondent of the Moscow branch of the American Wall Street Journal, US citizen Ivan Gershkovich.”
Prior to joining an American daily newspaper in 2022, Gershkovich was a correspondent for the French News Agency in Moscow, and before that a journalist for the English-language newspaper Moscow Times, a 31-year-old Russian-speaking journalist. whose parents live in the US.
For his part, the press secretary of the President of Russia (Kremlin) Dmitry Peskov commented on the arrest of the Wall Street Journal correspondent Ivan Gershkovich that the case was not connected with suspicion, since he was caught red-handed. .
“This is the prerogative of the FSB, they have already made a statement to the FSB, we have nothing to add here, I can only say that we at least know that he was caught red-handed.”
Asked if this incident could provoke a review by the US of Russian journalists, Peskov said: “We hope that this will not happen and this should not happen, because I repeat once again that this is not about suspicions, but about the fact that it was caught red-handed.”
On the other hand, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov stated: Russia has conveyed its vision of how the safe zone around the Zaporozhye NPP should work to the International Atomic Energy Agency, and that it is in constant contact with the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency. Raphael Grossi.
“We have our own preferences and our own vision of how the safe zone should be created and how it should function, including on the issue of the role of the IAEA and its employees in this entire process,” Ryabkov told reporters. our approach and passed it on to Grossi and his staff.”
Ryabkov added: “In general, the same concept, the same idea (about the safe zone) is being developed. What is being proposed today is different from what was raised before. We are in constant contact with Grossi and through his trips to Russia. , and , of course, through our permanent office “In Vienna we all work as long as we need to work.”
Zaporozhye NPP is located on the left bank of the Dnieper, not far from the city of Energodar; It is the largest nuclear power plant in Europe in terms of the number of units and installed capacity, including six power units with a capacity of 1 GW each.