By its Ethnic Armenian population. This week, Azerbaijani Forces overwhelmed the Ethnic Armenian separatists, forcing them to surrender. Now, fears are growing of a potential humanitarian catastrophe. That region is internationally recognized as part of azerbaijan. Tens of thousands of armenians have sought refuge in the main city, stepanakert, many of them gathering at the airport. The red cross has managed to deliver seventy tonnes of aid for the first they are coping with dwindling food, medicine and fuel supplies. The red cross has managed to deliver seventy tonnes of aid for the First Time Since azerbaijan captured the disputed territory four days ago. The organisations spokesperson, jason straziuso, said the shipments contained basic staples like wheat. The organisation spokesperson said the shipment contains basic staples like wheat. An indication of how dire the situation is, none of food or medical supplies in the convoy that we sent today to draw about medical supplies but al
The United States and ukraines other allies are, quote, Directly At War with moscow. Lavrov also blamed the collapse of the black sea grain deal on ukraine. He further criticized kyiv s peace plan as, not feasible or realistic. Heres mr lavrov addressing the Un General Assembly on saturday. Translation the collective west has a calling card and its long been to reject the principle of equality and their Total Inability to reach agreement. Being used to looking down at the rest of the world, americans and europeans make all sorts of promises and they take on commitments, written ones and legally binding ones, and then they just dont fulfil them. As President Putin pointed out, the west is one that is truly an empire of lies. Russia, like many countries, knows about this first hand. My colleague Samantha Simmons spoke earlier to phillips obrien, professor of strategic studies at st andrews university. He said there was a lot missing from mr lavrov s address. You cannot mention the ukrain
here is, as you will hear the reports that maybe they will be pulling in the wagner group and the group that did the coup, it might be aligned with russia, versus democracy push here, think that is why people are so concerned because as you look in the region it is what has happened with mali and others, this is really an important pivot point to hopefully restore democracy. if we move to the situation in ukraine, china is obviously providing assistance to russia in that war there, it did attend the peace talks injeddah over the weekend for the first time, talks which excluded russia, do you support a third round of talks? i think ultimately this is going to have to be a diplomatic resolution and i think talks are certainly helpful. when president xi stood with vladimir putin in russia and they had their open mic incident where they captured their conversation, president xi said we are bringing about change that hasn t happened in 100 years, that 100 years is world
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