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With the West’s increasing demands on Beijing to refrain from supplying Moscow with weapons, and China’s assurances that it “has not and will not add more fuel to the fire,” a senior advisor in the Ukrainian President’s office said that the Ukrainian forces are finding more Chinese-made components in the Russian weapons used in the war. With the decline of Western components restricted by sanctions. “We continue to find different electronics in the weapons we got from the battlefield,” said Vladislav Vlasyuk.

Vlasyuk added: “The general trend now is a decline in Western-made components, but with an increase in components from a country, which is not difficult to guess. It is China, of course.

In addition, German Foreign Minister Analina Berbock called, during a press conference in Beijing, and her Chinese counterpart, Chen Gang, was standing by her side, to demand the “Russian aggressor to stop the war” in Ukraine, adding: “I have to say frankly: Why did the Chinese position not even include Now demand the aggressor Russia to stop the war? It is also important not to allow the delivery of weapons to Russia. “It is also important to prevent dual-use goods from being used in war,” she added. “We have not and will not provide any weapons to the parties to the conflict,” Qin Gang replied, adding that the export of so-called dual-use goods, which can be used for both civilian and military purposes, is also being controlled.

In addition, Beijing announced that its Defense Minister, Li Shangfu, will begin tomorrow, for a period of three days, a visit to Russia.

On the ground, officials in Kiev stated that the Russian army continued to launch relentless attacks on the city of Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine, and also bombed the city of Kherson in the south of the country.

Amid expectations that Kiev will launch a counterattack in the coming weeks or months, with the aim of regaining territory controlled by Russia in the south and east, Oleksiy Danilov, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, said yesterday that Ukraine will “test and use” any weapons that are not prohibited to liberate its lands, including That’s Crimea.
China assures Europe that it has not and will not provide weapons to Russia…and its defense minister is visiting Moscow

The United Nations Transition Support Mission in Sudan (UNTAMS) expressed its concern about public threats to liquidate its head, Volker Peretz, and called on the Sudanese authorities to take legal action against the person who requested a fatwa authorizing him to kill the man.

“The mission is deeply concerned about a videotape circulated in the media showing a man speaking at a public event in Khartoum and requesting a fatwa allowing him to assassinate the Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations and the President of I sent it to Sudan Volker Peretz, then the man volunteered to implement the fatwa himself.

The threat was issued by a bearded person while addressing a conference organized by the “Nidaa Ahl al-Sudan” group, which is affiliated with the supporters of the ousted President Omar al-Bashir, saying: “I am a donor to kill him so that the project of Islam does not die.”

The bulletin criticized what it called the language of incitement and violence, explaining that it will only lead to deepening divisions, and “will not deter the mission from carrying out its duties.” “While we welcome the voices condemning this video and its content, we call on the Sudanese authorities to take legal action and ensure a proper investigation,” she added.

This coincided with the Sudanese commemoration yesterday, the fourth anniversary of the fall of the Bashir regime on April 11, 2019. It also coincided with a phone call made by US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken with the head of the Sudanese Sovereignty Council, Lieutenant General Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, during which Blinken pledged to support the political process in Sudan, which aims to transfer power from the military to civilians, according to the “framework agreement” signed by the two sides on December 5.

Yesterday, Turkey announced new steps in the path of normalization with both Syria and Egypt, confirming its intention to improve relations with these two countries after years of tension and estrangement.

The Turkish Foreign Minister, Mevlut Cavusoglu, said that a quadripartite meeting would bring him together with his Russian, Iranian and Syrian counterparts, which may be held in Moscow, in early May, pointing out that this meeting will pave the way for the meeting of the leaders of the four countries, within the framework of the path of normalizing relations between Ankara and Damascus. .

“We believe that the four-way meeting of foreign ministers on Syria will take place in early May… the road map was prepared in advance,” Cavusoglu said, in a televised interview on Monday, explaining that this issue was discussed with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who visited Ankara on Thursday and Friday. .

The Turkish minister also said that Ankara “will not achieve any political gains” from the meeting between Presidents Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Bashar al-Assad, nor from any meeting at the ministerial level. In an apparent reference to the Syrian side’s belief that Ankara is rushing to hold these meetings before the presidential and parliamentary elections scheduled in Turkey, next May 14, to give impetus to President Erdogan and the ruling Justice and Development Party in those elections.

On the line of normalization with Cairo, the Turkish Foreign Minister announced that his Egyptian counterpart, Sameh Shoukry, will visit Ankara this week, pointing to the possibility of announcing during the visit the exchange of appointment of ambassadors between the two countries. He said that his recent visit to Cairo was “very positive, and now is the time to take concrete steps gradually.” Cavusoglu visited Cairo last month after 10 years of severing diplomatic relations.
The four-way meeting for normalization between Damascus and Ankara will be held in Moscow next month