Russia-Ukraine war LIVE: Fire at drone-hit Russian oil depot rages for 2nd day, emergency services

Russia-Ukraine war LIVE: Fire at drone-hit Russian oil depot rages for 2nd day, emergency services

pesov told reporters the result of the meeting were Court un courot close to zero in his statement pesov also ridiculed the idea of holding a peace Summit without Russia being present at the negotiating table pesov further added that Russia remains open to dialogue with all countries that intend to conduct it he stressed that Russia will continue to convey its positions to these countries here’s what K spokesperson Demitri pesov had to say and I’m quoting need [Music] more than 90 countries participated in the two-day talks in Swiss Alpine Resort held in the presence of Ukrainian president vadir zinski while Moscow was not invited Russian President Putin said last week that Russia was ready to end the war with Ukraine but with certain conditions in place one of the conditions rejected by the Ukrainian side was Russia’s demand to with with draw all troops from four Russian controlled regions and the weekend Summit in Switzerland Western powers and their allies denounced Russia’s invasion of Ukraine however the summit failed to Gana support from major non-aligned States to join their final statement Brazil attended only as an observer and in the end India Indonesia Mexico Saudi Arabia and South Africa all withheld their signatures from official communic foundational principles of the United Ukraine has to leave additional Sovereign Ukrainian territory before Russia will negotiate not strongly defend them there is no International order of the UN Charter thank you very much slav Ukrainian this is why the pr condition is peace based on the foundational principles of the United Ukraine has to leave additional Sovereign Ukrainian territory before Russia will negotiate to strongly defend them there is no International order of the UN Charter thank you very much slav Ukrainian this is why the precondition is peace based on the foundational principles of of the United Ukraine has to leave additional Sovereign Ukraine Ukraine is expecting its first F16 fighter jets from its Western allies in the coming weeks to take on the Russian air superiority but now its challenge is who will M man these incoming fighter jets now cave does not have trained 516 pilots and it is upset with the US for that it is not training its fighter pilots fast enough for their job Ukrainian officials claim 30 of its Pilots are ready to start training on the F-16 but the US and Denmark are denying Its Spots at their training facilities and delaying the much needed training however claims its School House in Arizona can train only 12 Pilots at a time it also maintained that Ukraine’s Pilots are not yet ready to start flying its incoming F-16 jets in large numbers the US and its allies further say that Ukrainian Pilots not up to the task as they are struggling with English language skills and the flying program Denmark Norway the Netherlands and Belgium have pledged to send Ukraine more than 60 us made f-16s the UK aircraft are expected to arrive in trenches Ukraine argues that it is it urgently needs the train Pilots to fly the Jets as soon as they arrive the trouble over pilot training marks the latest hurdle in Ukraine’s drawn out quest for Mor fighter jets the US holds that f6s are no good to Ukraine if they are eliminated at the first instance if Ukrainian Pilots cannot not do their job Western officials also say they are confident in their schedule for training enough Ukrainian fighter pilots to fly the new f-16s KF however also claims that the training program is too Limited in a cash 22 situation Western officials say they cannot graduate too many Pilots before Ukraine has received enough jets for them to continue training as the pilots will lose their skills if they do not get enough flying hours K started asking for us made F-16 shortly after the Russia invasion began in 2022 but US President Joe Biden was initially reluctant to give the green light finally last year he approved thirdparty transfer of aircraft from Norway Belgium Denmark and the Netherlands but the training program was bogged down by logistical challenges also it’s not just a pilot training the US says maintenance is also a key part as even the maintainers need to be trained meanwhile Ukrainian present Vadim zsky on Wednesday urged Ukraine’s allies to speed up deliveries of war planes following a deadly Russian strike on city of kiv he said Ukraine needs 120 to 130 f16s for air parody with Russia all right moving on to Europe where Ukraine is expecting its first F-16 fighter jets from its Western allies in the coming weeks and a bid to take on the Russia air superiority but now it’s challenged is who will fly these incoming fighter jets ke does not have trained F-16 pilots and it is upset with the US for that it is not training its fighter pilots fast enough for their job Ukrainian officials claim a 30 of its Pilots are ready to start training on the f-16s but the US and Denmark are denying Its Spots at their training facilities and delaying the much needed training the US however claims its Schoolhouse in Arizona can train only 12 Pilots at a time it also maintains that Ukraine’s Pilots are not yet ready to start flying its incoming F-16 jets in large numbers the US and its allies further say that Ukrainian Pilots are not up to the task as they are struggling with English language skills and the flying program as well Denmark Norway the Netherlands and Belgium have pledged to send Ukraine more than 60 us made f-16s the aircraft are expected to arrive in trenches Ukraine argues that it urgently needs the train Pilots to fly the Jets as soon as they arrive the trouble over pilot training marks the latest hurdle in Ukraine’s drawn out quest for modern fighter jets the US holds that f6s are no good to Ukraine if they are eliminated at the first instance if Ukrainian Pilots cannot do the job Western officials also say they’re confident in their schedule for training enough Ukrainian fighter pilots to to fly the new f-16s Keith however also claims that the training program is too Limited in a catch22 situation Western officials say that they can not graduate too many Pilots before Ukraine has received enough jets for them to continue training as the pilots will lose their skills if they do not get enough flying hours keev started asking for us made f-16s shortly after the Russian invasion began in 2022 but US President Joe Biden was in reluctant to give the green light finally last year he approved third-party transfer of aircraft from Norway Belgium Denmark and the Netherlands but the training program was bogged down by logistical challenges also it’s not just a pilot training the US says maintenance is also a key part as even the mainten need to be trained as well meanwhile Ukrainian president V zalinsky on Wednesday urg Ukraine’s allies to speed up deliveries of weapons and war planes following a deadly Russian strike on the city of harke he said Ukraine needs 120 to 130 f-16s for air parody with Russia now hours after the Kremlin said that the two-day peace Summit yielded no results Russian forces continue to pound Ukraine in the latest Russian missiles targeted Ukraine East Central Bava region on Monday at least 12 people including two children were injured and several power lines were damaged in the area the attack damaged several high-rise buildings and according to local authorities that Dows the fire over 53,000 private and 2,400 industrial consumers faced power Cuts due to the damage to power lines with the war well into its 29th month and no signs of its slowing down NATO chief has emphasized on more weapon supply for Ukraine as The Battered country’s forces scramble to fight back a Russian invasion the more credible our long-term support the quicker Moscow will realize it cannot wait us out and the sooner this war can end it may seem like a paradox but the path to peace is therefore more weapons for Ukraine the blog’s chief also urged for Country supporting Russia to face consequences the country in question is China Stenberg accused Beijing of worsening the Russia Ukraine war while also seeking better relations with the West publicly president XI has Tred to create the impression that he’s taking a backseat in this conflict to avoid sanctions and keep keep trade flowing but the reality is that China is fueling the largest armed conflict in Europe since World War II and at the same time it wants to maintain good relations with the West well Beijing cannot have it both ways at some point and unless China changes course allies need to impose a cost more than 20 NATO members will meet the military Alliance to Target of spending at least 2% of their GDP on defense this year this as per NATO Secretary General J Stenberg the number of NATO allies now meeting the spending Target compares to less than 10 members 5 years ago across Europe and Canada the NATO allies are increasing defense spending by 18% 23 countries are going to spend 2% of their GDP or more on defense this year that’s more than twice the number of four years ago Stenberg was in Washington for preparations for next month’s NATO Summit in the US capital NATO’s defense pending will be a major Topic at the Washington Summit speaking of the last two years totenberg said that more than 2/3 of Europe’s defense Acquisitions about $140 billion were from us firms NATO’s defense spending has become highly contentious in recent years former US president Donald Trump has accused Europeans of spending too little on their own security and relying on the United States and uh today uh we are able to publish new figures for defense spending they show that U across Europe and Canada NATO allies are this year increasing defense spending by 18% uh that’s the biggest increase in decades um and um 23 allies are going to spend 2% of GDP or more uh on the fense this year meanwhile Stenberg has also called for the NATO members to adapt its nuclear Arsenal on the face of security threats from Russia and China the NATO Chief said that the members were Consulting about deploying more nuclear weapons taking them out of storage and placing them on standby reacting to St B’s claim White House National Security spokesperson John Kirby has said that it would be responsible to not have those talks NATO is a defensive Alliance and uh NATO countries uh uh are some of the most sophisticated in the world when it comes to military capabilities um and it would be irresponsible and imprudent if we weren’t constant stly talking to our NATO allies about how to make sure we can meet our commitments to one another across a range of military capabilities Russian President Vladimir Putin is on a visit to North Korea his first in 24 years Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un agreed to bolster ties between the two countries North Korea in fact says the meeting between the two leaders demonstrated invincibility and durability of friendship and unity pongyang it’s called the country’s partnership and engine for accelerating the building of a new multi-polar world on the other hand the Pentagon its voiced concerns about the growing ties between Moscow and pongyang are we seeing deepening anti-west alignment here and how will this bolstered partnership between the two nuclear armed States impact the existing world order my name is himor sya and to discuss this we have with us Dr Robert Edwin Kelly American political analyst on inter carean Affairs and professor in the department of political science Pan national University sir thank you so much for joining us on weon hi thank you for having me sir I want to First understand how does South Korea view this visit and deepening ties between north and Russia yeah I think there’s anxiety here in South Korea that the Russians might transfer something of genuine strategic value to North Korea right the uh North Koreans it see it seems you know we don’t know of course but it seems that the Russians or other North Koreans are transferring a great deal of ammunition to the Russians for their war in Ukraine it seems that the Russians are pretty desperate to get that right the the war is kind of turned into something of a stalemate and so the the concern is that uh the North Koreans might be able to bargain against Russian desperation to get some really significant help on satellites on missiles on uh on larger strategic assets and um you know we we just don’t know right of course the North Koreans aren’t going to tell us anything so there’s a lot of you know inco fear here that uh you know some significant might be uh in the works might be shifted to the to North Korea right so in fact I was just going to come to this Pentagon of course sees this as a cause for concern do you see this as a sign of growing anti-west alignment um for the no not not so much yet because I think a real sort of axis of sort of like anti-western dictatorships or something like that that that would really I think require China’s full participation right I think right now what you’re seeing between North Korea and Russia is kind of a uh a transactional an alignment of convenience if you will that is to say that both Russia and North Korea are significantly isolated from the world economy they’re both now heavily sanctioned they don’t really have a lot of other diplomatic options so for example Russia would very much prefer to have a relationship with South Korea to North Korea South Korea is 32 times wealthier I believe now than North Korea South Korea can export and import a great deal from Russia North Korea can’t really do any of that right and the Russians going to the North Koreans because that’s really you know one of the few States left that they can really approach and so I think what you’re right now have between the two of them is basically they’re both sort of painted into a corner and so they’re kind of working together because it’s helpful I’m not sure that this idea that you actually have the sort of like axis of autocracy coming together to sort of reorganize the world order that would require the the financial weight of China right to really sort of pay for the the cost of that because right now I think Russian North Korea just are too they’re too weak to do that on their own all right now just coming back to a point that you made earlier as well NATO says that Russia’s war on Ukraine it was being propped up by North Korea along with China and Iran now North Korea it’s been accused of helping Russia with weapons in its fight against Ukraine and in exchange of that Putin says that it will help Kim Jong-un with spy satellite system so how do you assess this transactional relationship between the two yeah I think actually for the two of them it’s a pretty great relationship I mean you know for the rest of the world you know for us on the outside I think it’s pretty pretty bad but I think the two partners are getting actually a lot valuable out of it right I think that’s why this is this thing this relationship has bloomed so so rapidly because there are really good um uh there are really good upsides for both you know it’s pretty clear and so in Ukraine for example I think this is where it’s most obvious in the Ukraine war it’s pretty clear that the Russian defense industrial base cannot keep up with Russia’s Battlefield losses we know the Russians are starting to use equipment from the 1970s even the 1960s in the war right they just don’t have enough ammunition stocks to meet their needs right and we also know that North Korea has a Soviet style military industrial complex that goes back decades they’ve got huge stock piles and they’re selling those directly to the Russians so if you’re the Russians this is really great because you’re able to get shells really really fast for the war right on the other hand North Korea has real problems with missile launches and technology for reasons that are you know fairly obvious North Korea’s you know economically backward it’s scientific industrial complexes it’s fairly narrow outside of the the nuclear space and so if you can get stuff from the Russians for free right if you can s bargain these shells to get uh Russian missile technology telemetric data right it’s a pretty useful exchange right and I think the real question the big question is how desperate is Putin if he’s really really desperate for all these shells and he’ll be willing to give away more and more information to the North Koreans and that’s what we really don’t know on the outside just how much are the North Koreans going to be able to pull out of Putin in U because Putin’s so desperate for these shells to win the war to prosecute his his Ukraine war all right well Dr Kelly thank you so much for joining us on be on with your insights on this it was a pleasure talking to you thank you for having me now Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un agreed to bolster ties between the two countries Putin is on a visit to North Korea first time in 24 years right him this is the second meeting between the two leaders since September and experts say it is largely driven by Russia’s need for weapons as its war with Ukraine continues North Korea says that the meeting between the two leaders demonstrates invincibility and durability of friendship and unity pong gang called the country’s partnership and engine for accelerating the building of a new multi-polar world the Pentagon voice concerns about the growing ties between Moscow and Pyongyang the deepening cooperation between Russia and the dprk uh is something uh that should be of concern uh especially to anyone that’s interested in maintaining peace and stability on the the Korean Peninsula um but also supporting the people of Ukraine as they continue to fight against Russian aggression now on the other hand NATO underscored that Russia’s war in Ukraine was being proed up by North Korea along with China and Iran NATO Chief stoltenberg said that the countries together wanted to see the Western Alliance fail also stoltenberg warned against the potential support that Russia provides to North Korea when it comes to the missiles and nuclear programs meanwhile Wednesday’s agenda includes one-on-one discussions between Putin and Kim Jong-un a Gala concert State reception onor guards document signing and a statement to the media all right to discuss things further we’re now being joined by Professor Peter kosnik professor of history and director of nuclear Studies Institute at American University sir thank you so much for joining us on world DNA glad to be with you uh sir of course North Korea and Russia are both heavily sanctioned by the West in recent times theyve Val strong ties anti West alignment that is something that is deepening here this has raised and the United States has raised alarm over the same as well how do you think the West views this visit and what are the challenges that it perceives well clearly in the context of what’s happening internationally now this visit is very very significant we’ve seen a series of meetings recently there was the so-called peace Summit in uh in in Switzerland and that was a failure 160 countries were invited only 98 attended and of those 98 20 including India refused to sign the communic at the end of the Summit so that didn’t achieve anything there was a meeting of the G7 that just took place in Italy and that was also a lot of show and symbolism but didn’t really achieve very much you have leaders there almost all of whom were very very weak some of whom are on the way out and face serious challenges then you had NATO meetings in which they talked about increasing the number of deployed nuclear warheads so this is all going on at the time that the situation in Ukraine is getting more and more intense especially with the new levels of Weaponry going in there and then the authorization by the US and others that Ukraine can use some of their weapons to strike inside of Russia so the tensions are heightening and North Korea has been providing Russia with very significant military aid Russia already is out producing NATO when it comes to our arery uh and and the Russians are deploying many times as much artillery but the South Koreans estimate that North Korea provided 5 million artillery shells last year and so that’s that Putin wants that military aid he wants the intercontinental ballistic missiles and Korea North Korea wants a lot of Russian military technological knowhow as well as Russian weed EXP Sports so it’s a kind of symbiotic relationship at a time when neither country has got a lot of allies on the world seen But the United States influence is not what it used to be either and so we’ve got the global South resisting the United States and growing ties between Russia China North Korea and Iran right uh Mr kosnik you very well covered all the parameters here of the ties between North Korea and Russia and like you mentioned North Korea is providing military aid to Russia according to reports in return in exchange puin will help Kim with spy satellites like you mentioned how do you assess this transactional relationship or can we say friendship between Moscow and pong gang at this point of time and what perhaps can the West do to stop all of this with most of the missiles and weapons going WIA train Russia has been instrumental in supporting United Nations efforts to sanction North Korea in the past but beginning in March Russia vetoed a very important United Nations Mission uh to look at to look into the sanctions about North Korea’s military policies and their missile tests uh and so without Russia’s support the United Nations is going to be greatly weakened in that regard uh so what we’re seeing now is very very dangerous in my opinion we’re seeing greater and greater polarization Russia gets much closer to China to North Korea to Iran and others and and while the United States which used to be able to call the shots internationally is an increasingly weakened position with the possibility frightening as it is to me that Donald Trump might might be the next president and and if that happens then America’s alliances not only NATO but with the EUR Europeans and America’s support for Ukraine could certainly be or ended so know a lot lot of moving parts right now and a lot of uncertainty and rather than move toward a multi-polar world we’re going toward a bipolar World which is not the same thing uh right so in fact absolutely L uh I wanted better understanding on this coming back to a point that you made earlier now I want to understand what does this visit mean for Ukraine as you mentioned this comes after a failed Swiss peace Conference of course the G7 Summit which saw no concrete results either do you think this visit is a chance for Russia to perhaps show that it’s not isolated anymore well we know that the Western sanctions against Russia have not worked partly because China and IND have been buying up Russian oil that the Europeans used to get which is hurting the European economies because they’re paying more for their oil so the growth rate in Europe is lower than the growth rate in Russia right now so we see that happening uh in terms of Ukraine Russia already is gaining the advantage on the battlefield since they open up the new front in Northeast around K Ukraine has had to move a lot of its troops from the south and the east and especially in the East Russia’s been able to make more and more slow incremental gains uh there are more weapon systems coming into Ukraine including f-16s and that might help Ukraine but that’s the fantasy is that somehow Ukraine is going to be able to turn the tide of the war I don’t see it happening Russia is just too strong they’ve got too much armaments and they’ve got too big a population and so the fear that everybody right now is we’re moving closer and closer to a military confrontation between Russia and NATO or Russia and China and NATO which could mean World War I we need diplomacy as gutterz and others have been saying we this fighting is not going to solve anything right we need to sit down and start talking all right well uh Professor Kik thank you so much for joining us on world DNA with your insights on this after making the rare visit the Russian Navy vessels have now left the Kuban capital of haana as per sources the Russian Navy frate and a nuclear powered submarine arrived in Havana Harbor last week just hours after the US announced a fast attack submarine had talked at its Guantanamo Naval Base now the Confluence of Russian Canadian and US vessels in Kuba a communist run island nation located just 90 Mi south of Florida was a reminder of Cold War tensions but both the United States and Kuba said that the warship spot over posed no threat the visit however was widely seen as a Russian show Force amid continued High tensions over the war in Ukraine as the flotilla of the Russian Navy vessels left the port locals gathered to witness the scene and bid moscow’s task force a farewell the for ship task force Departed the cola Peninsula on 17th of May it sailed across the Atlantic arriving off the coast of Florida before entering Havana Harbor the Russian ships were greeted by Kuba with a salute of cannon fire as they passed fishermen and wellwishers as I came for the reception I also came for the farewell because it’s a historical event and I think it will be unreputable for our generations and those of us who are living right now the Royal Canadian Navy meanwhile finds itself in the unusual position for both shadowing Russian warships as a threat in the Caribbean as as well as sharing and Anchorage with them at the port for several days the frade hmcs was tsed with shadowing the Russian ships which conducted missile exercises during their Atlantic Crossing using the new ziron Hypersonic besides the Canadian frigate was a part of the three ship group that tracked the Russian vessels along with the US Destroyer USS Tron and the US Coast Guard Cutter us CGS Stone Canada also flew out a CP 140 surveillance plane out of Florida in addition to the US Naval surveillance aircraft the Canadian defense minister Bill Blair now says that he was acting on advice of military when he approved a plan to send a Canadian ship to Cuba he added that the Royal Canadian Navy and Canadian joint Operations Command advised to send a ship the Canadian liberal government meanwhile said that the visit was meant to send a message of deterant to Moscow in the latest development the Kremlin has dismissed the outcome of the peace Summit on Ukraine hosted by Switzerland calling the peace Summit futile Kremlin spokesperson Dimitri pesov told reporters the result of the meeting were Court un courot close to zero in his statement pesov also ridiculed the idea of holding a peace Summit without Russia being present at the negotiating table pesov further added that Russia s open to dialogue with all countries that intend to conduct it he stressed that Russia will continue to convey its positions to these countries here’s what kemin spokesperson Demitri pesov had to say and I’m quoting [Music] more than 90 countries participated in the two-day talks in Swiss Alpine Resort held in the presence of Ukrainian president vadir zelinski while Moscow was not invited Russian President Putin said last week that Russia was ready to end the war with Ukraine but with certain conditions in place one of the conditions rejected by the Ukrainian side was Russia’s demand to withdraw all troops from four Russian controlled regions at the weekend Summit in Switzerland Western powers and their allies denounced Russia’s invasion of Ukraine however the summit failed to Gana support from major non-aligned States to join their final statement Brazil attended only as an observer and in the end India Indonesia Mexico Saudi Arabia and South Africa all withheld their signatures from official communi foundational principles of the United Ukraine has to leave additional Sovereign Ukrainian territory before Russia will negotiate the strongly defend them there is no International order of the UN Charter thank thank you very much slav Ukrainian this is why the precondition is peace based on the foundational principles of the United Nation Ukraine has to leave additional Sovereign Ukrainian territory before Russia will negotiate not strongly defend them there is no International order of the UN Charter thank you very much slav Ukrainian this is why the precondition is peace based on the foundational principles of the United Nation Ukraine has to leave additional Sovereign Ukraine Ukraine is expecting its first F-16 fire jets from its Western allies in the coming weeks to take on the Russian air superiority but now its challenge is who will man man these incoming fighter jets now cave does not have trained 516 pilots and it is upset with the US for that it is not training its fighter pilots fast enough for their job Ukrainian officials claim 30 of its Pilots are ready to start training on the f-16s but the US and Denmark are denying Its Spots at their training facilities and delaying the much needed training the US however claims its Schoolhouse in Arizona can train only 12 Pilots at a time it also maintained that Ukraine’s Pilots are not yet ready to start flying its incoming F-16 jets in large numbers the US and its allies further say that Ukrainian Pilots not up to the task as they are struggling with English language skills and the flying program Denmark Norway the Netherlands and Belgium have pledged to send Ukraine more than 60 us made f-16s the UK the aircraft are expected to arrive in trenches Ukraine argues that it is it originally needs the train Pilots to to fly the Jets as soon as they arrive the trouble over pilot training marks the latest hurdle in Ukraine’s drawn out quest for Mor fter Jets the US holds that f16s are no good to Ukraine if they are eliminated at the first instance if Ukrainian Pilots cannot do their job Western officials also say they are confident in their schedule for training enough Ukrainian fighter pilots to fly the new f-16s KF however also claims that the training program is too Limited in a cash 22 situation Western officials say they cannot graduate too many Pilots before Ukraine has received enough jets for them to continue training as the pilots will lose their skills if they do not get enough flying hours K started asking for us made F-16 shortly after the Russia invasion began in 2022 but US President Joe Biden was initially reluctant to give the green light finally last year he approved third party transfer of aircraft from from Norway Belgium Denmark and the Netherlands but the training program was bogged down by logistical challenges also it’s not just a pilot training the US says maintenance is also a key part as even the maintainers need to be trained meanwhile Ukrainian president vair zeny on Wednesday urged Ukraine’s allies to speed up deliveries of war planes following a deadly Russian strike on the city of kakei he said Ukraine needs 120 to 130 F6 for air parity with Russia all right moving on to Europe where Ukraine is expecting its first F-16 fighter jets from its Western allies in the coming weeks and a bid to take on the Russia air superiority but now it’s challenge is who will fly these incoming fighter jets keev does not have trained F-16 pilots and it is upset with the US for that it is not training its fighter pilots fast enough for their job Ukrainian officials claim a 30 of its Pilots are ready to start training on the f-16s but the US and Denmark are denying Its Spots at their training facilities and delaying the much needed training the US however claims its Schoolhouse in Arizona can train only 12 Pilots at a time it also maintains that Ukraine’s Pilots are not yet ready to start flying its incoming F-16 jets in large numbers the US and its allies further say that Ukrainian Pilots are not up to the task as they are struggling with English language skills and the flying program as well Denmark Norway the Netherlands and Belgium have pledged to send Ukraine more than 60 us made f-16s the aircraft are expected to arrive in trenches Ukraine argues that it urgently needs the train Pilots to fly the Jets as soon as they arrive the trouble over pilot training marks the latest hurdle in Ukraine’s drawn out quest for modern Fighters Jets the US holds that f-16s are no good to Ukraine if they are eliminated at the first instance if Ukrainian Pilots cannot do the job Western officials also say they’re confident in their schedule for training enough Ukrainian fighter pilots to fly the new f-16s Keith however also claims that the training program is too Limited in a catch22 situation Western officials say that they can not graduate too many Pilots before Ukraine has received enough jets for them to continue training as the pilots will lose their skills if they do not get enough flying hours keev started asking for us made f-16s shortly after the Russian invasion began in 2022 but US President Joe Biden was initially reluctant to give the green light finally last year he approved third-party transfer of aircraft from Norway Belgium Denmark and the Netherlands but the training program was bogged down by logistical challenges also it’s not just the pilot training the US says maintenance is also a key part as even the mainten need to be trained as well meanwhile Ukrainian president VL zalinsky on Wednesday urg Ukraine’s allies to speed up deliveries of weapons and war planes following a deadly Russian strike on the city of harke he said Ukraine needs 120 to 130 f-16s for air parody with Russia now hours after the Kremlin said that the two-day peace Summit yielded no results Russian forces continue to pound Ukraine in the latest Russian missiles targeted Ukraine’s East Central Bava region on Monday at least 12 people including two children were injured and several power lines were damaged in the area the attack damaged several high-rise buildings and according to local authorities that Dows the fire over 53,000 private and 2,400 industrial consumers faced power Cuts due to the damage to power lines with the war well into its 29th month and no signs of its slowing down NATO Chief has emphasized on more weapon supply for Ukraine as The Battered country’s forces scramble to fight back a Russian invasion the more credible our long-term support the quicker Moscow will realize it cannot wait us out and the sooner this war can end it may seem like a paradox but the path to peace is therefore more weapons for Ukraine the blog’s chief also urged for Country supporting Russia to face consequences the country in question is China Stenberg ACC accused Beijing of worsening the Russia Ukraine war while also seeking better relations with the West publically president XI has tried to create the impression that he’s taking a backseat in this conflict to avoid sanctions and keep trade flowing but the reality is that China is fueling the largest armed conflict in Europe since World War II and at the same time it wants to maintain good relations with the West well Beijing cannot have it both ways at some point and unless China changes course allies need to impose a cost more than 20 NATO members will meet the military Alliance Target of spending at least 2% of their GDP on defense this year this as per NATO Secretary General Jen Stenberg the number of NATO allies now meeting the spending Target compares to less Le than 10 members 5 years ago across Europe and Canada the NATO allies are increasing defense spending by 18% 23 countries are going to spend 2% of their GDP or more on defense this year that’s more than twice the number four years ago Stenberg was in Washington for preparations for next month’s NATO Summit in the US capital NATO’s defense pending will be a major Topic at the Washington Summit speaking of the last two years Stenberg said that more than 2/3 of Europe’s defense Acquisitions about 140 billion dollar were from us firms NATO’s defense spending has become highly contentious in recent years former US president Donald Trump has accused Europeans of spending too little on their own security and relying on the United States and uh today uh we are able to publish new figures for defense spending they show that U across Europe and Canada NATO allies are this year increasing defense spending by 18% uh that’s the biggest increase in decades um and um 23 allies uh are going to spend 2% of GDP or more uh on the fense this year meanwhile staren has also called for the NATO members to adapt its nuclear Arsenal on the face of security threats from Russia and China the NATO Chief said that the members were Consulting about deploying more nuclear weapons taking them out of storage and placing them on standby reacting to stenberg’s claim White House National Security spokesperson John Kirby has said that it would be responsible to not have those talks NATO is a defensive Alliance and uh NATO countries uh uh are some of the most sophisticated in the world when it comes to military capabilities um and it would be irresponsible and imprudent if we weren’t constantly talking to our NATO allies about how to make sure we can meet our commitments to one another across a range of military capabilities Russian President Vladimir Putin is on a visit to North Korea his first in 24 years Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un agreed to bolster ties between the two countries North Korea in fact says the meeting between the two leaders demonstrated invincibility and durability of friendship and unity pongyang it’s called the country’s partnership and engine for accelerating the building of a new multi-polar world on the other hand the Pentagon its voiced concerns about the growing ties between Moscow and Pyongyang are we seeing deepening anti-west alignment here and how will this bolstered partnership between the two nuclear armed States impact the existing world order my name is himor sya and to discuss this we have with us Dr Robert Edwin Kelly American political analyst on inter carean Affairs and professor in the department of political science Pan national university sir thank you so much for joining us on weon hi thank you for having me sir I want to First understand how does South Korea view this visit and deepening ties between north and Russia yeah I think there’s anxiety here in South Korea that the Russians might transfer something of genuine strategic value to North Korea right the uh North Koreans it it seems you know we don’t know of course but it seems that the Russians are the North Koreans are transferring a great deal of ammunition to the Russians for their war in Ukraine it seems that the Russians are pretty desperate to get that right the the war is kind of turned into something of a stalemate and so the the concern is that uh the North Koreans might be able to bargain against Russian desperation to get some really significant help on satellites on missiles on uh on larger strategic assets and um no we we just don’t know right of course the North Koreans aren’t going to tell us anything so there’s a lot of you know inate fear here that uh you know something significant might be uh in the works might be shifted to to North Korea right so in fact I was just going to come to this Pentagon of course sees this as a cause for concern do you see this as a sign of growing anti-west alignment um for the no not not so much yet because I think a real sort of axis of sort of like anti-western dictatorships or something like that that that would really I think require China’s full participation right I think right now what you’re seeing between North Korea and Russia is kind of a a transactional an alignment of convenience if you will that is to say that both Russia and North Korea are significantly isolated from the world economy they’re both now heavily sanctioned they don’t really have a lot of other diplomatic options so for example Russia would very much prefer to have a relationship with South Korea to North Korea South Korea is 32 times wealthier I believe now than North Korea South Korea can export and import a great deal from Russia North Korea can’t really do any of that right and the Russians going to the North Koreans because that’s really you know one of the few States left that they can really approach and so I think what you’re right now I have between the two of them is basically they’re both sort of painted into a corner and so they’re kind of working together because it’s helpful I’m not sure that this idea that you actually have the sort of like AIS of autocracy coming together to sort of reorganize the world order that would require the the financial weight of China right to really sort of pay for the the cost of that because right now I think Russia and North Korea just are too they’re too weak to do that on their own all right now just coming back to a point that You’ made earlier as well NATO says that Russia’s war on Ukraine it was being propped up by North Korea along with China and Iran now North Korea it’s been accused of helping Russia with weapons in its fight against Ukraine and in exchange of that Putin says that it will help Kim Jong-un with spy satellite systems so how do you assess this transactional relationship between the two yeah I think actually for the two of them it’s a pretty great relationship I mean you know for the rest of the world you know for us on the outside I think it’s pretty pretty bad but I think the two partners are getting actually a lot valuable out of it right I think that’s why this is this thing this relationship is Bloom so so rapidly because there are really good um uh there are really good upsides for both you know it’s pretty C in so in Ukraine for example I think this is where it’s most obvious in the Ukraine war it’s pretty clear that the Russian defense industrial base cannot keep up with Russia’s Battlefield losses we know the Russians are starting to use equipment from the 1970s even the 1960s in the war right they just don’t have enough ammunition stocks to meet their needs right and we also know that North Korea has a Soviet style military industrial complex that goes back decades they’ve got huge stock piles and they’re selling those directly to the Russians so if you’re the Russians this is really great because you’re able to get shells really really fast for the War right on the other hand North Korea has real problems with missile launches and technology for reasons that are you know fairly obvious North Korea’s you know economically backward it’s scientific industrial complex it’s fairly narrow outside of the the nuclear space and so if you can get stuff from the Russians for free right if you can s of bargain these shells to get uh Russian missile technology telemetric data right it’s a pretty useful exchange right and I think the real question the big question is how desperate is Putin if he’s really really desperate for all these shells and he’ll be willing to give away more and more information to the North Koreans and that’s what we really don’t know on the outside just how much are the North Koreans going to be able to pull out of Putin in U because Putin so desperate for these shells to win the war to prosecute his his Ukraine war all right well Dr Kelly thank you so much for joining us on Von with your insights on this it was a pleasure talking to you thank you for having me now Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un agreed to bolster TI between the two countries Putin is on a visit to North Korea first time in 24 years right him this is the second meeting between the two leaders since September and experts say it is largely driven by Russia’s need for weapons as its war with Ukraine continues North Korea says that the meeting between the two leaders demonstrates invincibility and durability of friendship and unity pong gang called the country’s partnership an engine for accelerating the building of a new multipolar world the Pentagon vo concerns about the growing ties between Moscow and Pyongyang the deepening cooperation between Russia and the dprk uh is something uh that should be of concern uh especially to anyone that’s interested in maintaining peace and stability on the the Korean Peninsula U but also supporting the people of Ukraine as they continue to fight against Russian aggression now on the other hand NATO underscored that Russia’s war in Ukraine was being propped up by North Korea along with China and Iran NATO Chief stoltenberg said that the countries together wanted to see the Western Alliance fail also stoltenberg warned against the potential support that Russia provides to North Korea when it comes to the missiles and nuclear programs meanwhile Wednesday’s agenda includes one-on-one discussions between Putin and Kim Jong-un a Gala concert State reception on our guards document signing and a statement to the media all right to discuss things further we’re now being joined by Professor Peter kosnik professor of history and director of nuclear Studies Institute at American University sir thank you so much for joining us on world DNA glad to be with you uh sir of course North Korea and Russia are both heavily sanctioned by the West in recent times they V strong tires and the West alignment that is something that is deepening here this has raised and the United States has raised alarm over the same as well how do you think the West views this visit and what are the challenges that it perceives well clearly in the context of what’s happening internationally now this visit is very very significant we’ve seen a series of meetings recently there was the so-called peace Summit in uh in in Switzerland and that was a failure 160 countries were invited only 98 attended and of those 98 20 including India refused to sign the communic at the end of The Summit so that didn’t achieve anything there was a meeting of the G7 that just took place in Italy and that was also a lot of show and symbolism but didn’t really achieve very much you had leaders there almost all of whom are very very weak some of whom are on the way out and face serious challenges then you had NATO meetings in which they talked about increasing the number of deployed nuclear warheads so this is all going on at the time that the situation in Ukraine is getting more and more intense especially with the new levels of Weaponry going in there and then the authorization by the US and others that Ukraine can use some of their weapons to strike inside of Russia so the tensions are heightening and North Korea has been providing Russia with very significant military aid Russia already is out producing NATO when it comes to artillery uh and and the Russians are deploying many times as much artillery but the South Koreans estimate that North Korea provided 5 million artillery shells last last year and so that’s that Putin wants that military aid he wants the intercontinental ballistic missiles and Korea North Korea wants a lot of Russian military technological knowhow as well as Russian wheat exports so it’s a kind of symbiotic relationship at a time when neither country has got a lot of allies on the world scene but the United States influence is not what it used to be either and so we’ve got the global South resisting the United States and growing ties between Russia China North Korea and Iran right uh Mr kusik you very well covered all the parameters here of the ties between North Korea and Russia and like you mentioned North Korea is providing military aid to Russia according to reports in return in exchange Putin will help Kim with spy satellites like you mentioned how do you assess this transactional relationship or can we say friendship between Moscow and pong gang at this point of time and what perhaps can the West do to stop all of this with most of the missiles and weapons going via train Russia has been instrumental in supporting United Nations efforts to sanction North Korea in the past but beginning in March Russia vetoed a very important United Nations Mission uh to look to look into the sanctions about North Korea’s military policies and their missile tests uh and so without Russia’s support the United Nations is going to be greatly weakened in that regard uh so what we’re seeing now is very very dangerous in my opinion we’re seeing greater and greater polarization Russia gets much closer to China to North Korea to Iran and others and and while the United States which used to be able to call the shots internationally is an increasingly weakened position with the possibility frightening as it is to me that Donald Trump might be the next president and and if that happens then America’s alliances not only NATO but with the Europeans and America’s support for Ukraine could certainly be or ended so has a lot lot of moving parts right now and a lot of uncertainty and rather than move toward a multi-polar world we’re going toward a bipolar World which is not the same thing uh right in fact absolutely uh I wanted better understanding on this coming back to a point that you made earlier now I want to understand what does this visit mean for Ukraine as you mentioned this comes after a failed Swiss peace Conference of course the G7 Summit which saw no concrete results either do you think this visit is a chance for Russia to perhaps show that it’s not isolated anymore well we know that the Western sanctions against Russia have not worked partly because China and India have been buying up Russian oil that the Europeans used to get which is hurting the European economies because they’re paying more for their oil so the growth rate in Europe is lower than the growth rate in Russia right now so we that happening uh in terms of Ukraine Russia already is gaining the advantage on the battlefield since they opened up the new front in Northeast around Kar Ukraine has had to move a lot of its troops from the south and the East and especially in the East Russia’s been able to make more and more slow incremental gains uh there are more weapon systems coming into Ukraine including f-16s and that might help Ukraine but that’s the fantasy is that somehow Ukraine is going to be able to turn the tide of the war I don’t see it happening Russia is just too strong they’ve got too much armaments and they’ve got too big a population and so the fear that everybody has right now is we’re moving closer and closer to a military confrontation between Russia and NATO or Russia and China and NATO which could mean World War III we need diplomacy as guz and others have been saying we this fighting is not going to solve anything we need to and to start talking all right well uh Professor Kik thank you so much for joining us on world DNA with your insights on this after making the rare visit the Russian Navy vessels have now left the Kuban capital of haana as per sources the Russian Navy frate and a nuclear powered submarine arrived in haana Harbor last week just hours after the US an Ed a fast attack submarine had talked at its Guantanamo Naval Base now the Confluence of Russian Canadian and US vessels in Kuba a communist run island nation located just 90 Mi south of Florida was a reminder of Cold War tensions but both the United States in Cuba said that the warship spot over posed no threat the visit however was widely seen as a Russian show Force amid continued High tensions over the war in Ukraine as the flotilla of the Russian Navy vessels left the report locals gathered to witness the scene and bid moscow’s task force a farewell the for ship task force Departed the cola Peninsula on 17th of May it sailed across the Atlantic arriving off the coast of Florida before entering Havana Harbor the Russian ships were greeted by Kuba with a salute of cannon fire as they passed fishermen and wellwishers as I came for the reception I also came for the farewell because it’s a historical event and I think it will be unrepeatable for our generations and those of us who are living right now the Royal Canadian Navy meanwhile finds itself in the unusual position for both shadowing Russian warships as a threat in the Caribbean as well as sharing and Anchorage with them at the port for several days the frade hmcs was tsed with shadowing the Russian ships which conducted missile exercises during their Atlantic Crossing using the new ziron Hypersonic missiles the Canadian frigate was a part of the three ship group that tracked the Russian vessels along with the US Destroyer USS Tru and the US Coast Guard Cutter us CGS Stone Canada also flew out a CP 140 surveillance plane out of Florida in addition to the US Naval surveillance aircraft the Canadian defense minister Bill Blair now says that he was was acting on advice of military when he approved a plan to send a Canadian ship to Cuba he added that the Royal Canadian Navy and Canadian joint Operations Command advised to send a ship the Canadian liberal government meanwhile said that the visit was meant to send a message of deterrance to Moscow in a latest development the Kremlin has dismissed the outcome of the peace Summit on Ukraine hosted by Switzerland calling the peace Summit futile Gremlin spokesperson Dimitri pesov told reporters the result of the meeting were courau on court close to zero in his statement pesov also ridiculed the idea of holding a peace Summit without Russia being present at the negotiating table pesov further added that Russia remains open to dialogue with all countries that intend to conduct it he stressed that Russia will continue to convey its positions to these countries here’s what kemin spokesperson Dimitri pesov had to say and I’m quoting e [Music] more than 90 countries participated in the two-day talks in Swiss Alpine Resort held in the presence of Ukrainian president vadir zilinski while Moscow was not invited Russian President Putin said last week that Russia was ready to end the war with Ukraine but with certain conditions in place one of the conditions rejected by the Ukraine ins side was Russia’s demand to withdraw all troops from four Russian controlled regions at the weekend Summit in Switzerland Western powers and their allies denounced Russia’s invasion of Ukraine however the summit failed to gner support from major nonaligned States to join their final statement Brazil attended only as an observer and in the end India Indonesia Mexico Saudi Arabia and South Africa all withheld their signatures from official communication foundational principles of the United Nation Ukraine has to leave additional Sovereign Ukrainian territory before Russia will negotiate not strongly defend them there is no International order of the UN Charter thank you very much Slava Ukrainian this is why the precondition is peace based on the foundational principles of the United Nation Ukraine has to leave additional Sovereign Ukrainian territory before Russia will negotiate not strongly defend them there is no International order of the UN Charter thank you very much slav Ukrainian this is why the precondition is peace based on the foundational principles of the United Nation Ukraine has to leave additional Sovereign Ukraine Ukraine is expecting its first F-16 fire jets from its Western allies in the coming weeks to take on the Russian air superiority but now its challenge is who will M man these incoming fighter jets Now kave does not have trained 56 pilots and it is upset with the US for that it is not training its fighter pilots fast enough for their job Ukrainian officials claim 30 of its Pilots are ready to start training on the f-16s but the US and Denmark are denying Its Spots at their training facilities and delaying the much needed training the US however claims its Schoolhouse in Arizona can train only 12 Pilots at a time it also maintained that Ukraine’s Pilots are not yet ready to start flying its incoming F-16 jets in large numbers the US and its allies further say that Ukrainian Pilots not up to the task as they are struggling with English language skills and the flying program Denmark Norway the Netherlands and Belgium have pledged to send Ukraine more than 60 us made f-16s the UK the aircraft are expected to arrive in trenches Ukraine argues that it is it urgin needs the train Pilots to fly the Jets as soon as they arrive the trouble over pilot training marks the latest hurdle in Ukraine’s drawn out quest for mod fighter jets the US holds that f16s are no good to Ukraine if they are eliminated at the first instance if Ukrainian Pilots cannot do their job Western officials also say they are confident in their schedule for training enough Ukrainian fighter pilots to fly the new f-16s KF however also claims that the training program is too Limited in a cash 22 situation Western officials say they cannot graduate too many Pilots before Ukraine has received enough jets for them to continue training as the pilots will lose their skills if they do not get enough flying hours KF started asking for us made F-16 shortly after the Russia invasion began in 2022 but US President Joe Biden was initially reluctant to give the green light finally last year he approved third party transfer of aircraft from Norway Belgium Denmark and the Netherlands but the training program was bogged down by logistical challenges also it’s not just a pilot training the US says maintenance is also a key part as even the maintainers need to be trained meanwhile Ukrainian president vair zeny on Wednesday urged Ukraine’s allies to speed up deliveries of war planes following a deadly Russian strike on the city of Kaki he said Ukraine needs 120 to 130 f-16s for air parody with Russia all right moving on to Europe where Ukraine is expecting its first F16 fighter jets from its Western allies in the coming weeks in a bid to take on the Russ Ria air superiority but now its challenge is who will fly these incoming fighter jets ke does not have trained F-16 pilots and it is upset with the US for that it is not training its fighter pilots fast enough for their job Ukrainian officials claim a 30 of its Pilots are ready to start training on the f-16s but the US and Denmark are denying Its Spots at their training facilities and delaying the much needed training the us however claims its Schoolhouse in Arizona can train only 12 Pilots at a time it also maintains that Ukraine’s Pilots are not yet ready to start flying its incoming F-16 jets in large numbers the US and its allies further say that Ukrainian Pilots are not up to the task as they are struggling with English language skills and the flying program as well Denmark Norway the Netherlands and Belgium have pledged to send Ukraine more than 60 us made F6 sces the aircraft are expected to arrive in trenches Ukraine argues that it urgently needs the train Pilots to fly the Jets as soon as they arrive the trouble over pilot training marks the latest hurdle in Ukraine’s drawn out quest for modern fighter jets the US holds that f-16s are no good to Ukraine if they are eliminated at the first instance if Ukrainian Pilots cannot do the job Western officials also say they’re confident and their scar schedule for training enough Ukrainian fighter pilots to fly the new f-16s Keith however also claims that the training program is too Limited in a catch22 situation Western officials say that they can not graduate too many Pilots before Ukraine hased enough jets for them to continue training as the pilots will lose their skills if they do not get enough flying hours keev started asking for us made f-16s shortly after the Russian invasion began in 2020 2 but US President Joe Biden was initially reluctant to give the green light finally last year he approved thirdparty transfer of aircraft from Norway Belgium Denmark and the Netherlands but the training program was bogged down by logistical challenges also it’s not just the pilot training the US says maintenance is also a key part as even the mainten need to be trained as well meanwhile Ukrainian president V zinsky on Wednesday urged Ukraine’s allies to speed up deliveries of weapons and war planes following a deadly Russian strike on the city of harke he said Ukraine needs 120 to 130 f-16s for air parody with Russia now hours after the Kremlin said that the two-day peace Summit yielded no results Russian forces continue to pound Ukraine in the latest Russian missiles targeted Ukraine’s East Central Bava region on Monday at least 12 people including two children were injured and several power lines were damaged in the area the attack damaged several high-rise buildings and according to local authorities that Dow the fire over 53,000 private and 2,400 industrial consumers faced power Cuts due to the damage to power lines with the war well into its 29th month and no signs of it slowing down NATO Chief has emphasized on more weapon supply for Ukraine as The Battered countries forces cramble to fight back a Russian invasion the more credible our long-term support the quicker Moscow will realize it cannot wait us out and the sooner this war can end it may seem like a paradox but the path peace is therefore more weapons for Ukraine the Block’s Chief also urged for Country supporting Russia to face consequences the country in question is China Stenberg accused Beijing of worsening the Russia Ukraine war while also seeking better relations with the West publicly president XI has tried to create the impression that he’s taking a backseat in in this conflict to avoid sanctions and keep trade flowing but the reality is that China is fueling the largest armed conflict in Europe since World War II and at the same time it wants to maintain good relations with the West well Beijing cannot have it both ways at some point and unless China changes course allies need to impose a cost more than 20 NATO members will meet the military Alliance Target of spending at least 2% of their GDP on defense this year this as per NATO Secretary General Jen Stenberg the number of NATO allies now meeting the spending Target compares to less than 10 members 5 years ago across Europe and Canada the NATO allies are increasing defense spending by 18% 23 countries are going to spend 2% of their GDP on more on defense this year that’s more than twice the number four years ago Stenberg was in Washington for preparations for next month’s NATO Summit in the US capital NATO’s defense pending will be a major Topic at the Washington Summit speaking of the last two years totenberg said that more than 2/3 of Europe’s defense Acquisitions about 140 billion doar were from us firms NATO’s defense spending has become highly contentious in recent years former US president Donald Trump has accused Europeans of spending too little on their own security and relying on the United States and uh today uh we are able to publish new figures for defense spending they show that U across Europe and Canada NATO allies are this year increasing defense spending by 18% uh that’s the biggest increase in decades um and um 23 allies uh are going to spend 2% of GDP or more uh on the fense this year meanwhile Stenberg has also called for the NATO members to adapt its nuclear Arsenal on the face of security threats from Russia and China the NATO Chief said that the members were Consulting about deploying more nuclear weapons taking them out of storage and placing them on standby reacting to sten’s claim White House National Security spokesperson John Kirby has said that it would be responsible to not have those talks NATO is a defensive Alliance and uh NATO countries uh uh are some of the most sophisticated in the world when it comes to military capabilities um and it would be irresponsible and imprudent if we weren’t constantly talking to our NATO allies about how to make sure we can meet our commitments to one another across a range of military capabilities Russian President Vladimir Putin is on a visit to North Korea his first in 24 years Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un agreed to bolster ties between the two countries North Korea in fact says the meeting between the two leaders demonstrated invincibility and durability of friendship and unity Pyongyang it’s called all the country’s partnership and engine for accelerating the building of a new multi-polar world on the other hand the Pentagon its voiced concerns about the growing ties between Moscow and Pyongyang are we seeing deepening anti-west alignment here and how will this bolstered partnership between the two nuclear armed States impact the existing world order my name is himor s and to discuss this we have with us Dr Robert Edwin Kelly American political analyst on inter Korean Affairs and professor in the department of political science Pan national university sir thank you so much for joining us on weon hi thank you for having me so I want to First understand how does South Korea view this visit and deepening ties between north and Russia yeah I think there’s anxiety here in South Korea that the Russians might transfer something of genuine strategic value to North Korea right the uh North Koreans it see it seems you know we don’t know of course but it seems that the Russians are other North Korean are transferring a great deal of ammunition to the Russians for their war in Ukraine it seems that the Russians are pretty desperate to get that right the the war has kind of turned into something of a stalemate and so the the concern is that uh the North Koreans might be able to bargain against Russian desperation to get some really significant help on satellites on missiles on uh on larger strategic assets and um you know we we just don’t know right of course the north Kens aren’t going to tell us anything so there’s a lot of you know uh inqu fear here that uh you know something significant might be uh in the works might be shifted to to North Korea right sir in fact I was just going to come to this Pentagon of course sees this as a cause for concern do you see this as a sign of growing anti-west alignment um for the no not not so much yet because I think a real sort of axis of sort of like anti-western dictatorships or something like that that that would really I think require China’s full participation right I think right now what you’re seeing between North Korea and Russia is kind of a a transactional an alignments of convenience if you will that is to say that both Russia and North Korea are significantly isolated from the world economy they’re both now heavily sanctioned they don’t really have a lot of other diplomatic options so for example Russia would very much prefer to have a relationship with South Korea to North Korea South Korea is 32 times wealthier I believe now than North Korea South Korea can export import a great deal from Russia North Korea can’t really do any of that right and the Russians going to the North Koreans CU that’s really you know one of the few States left that they can really approach and so I think what you’re right now have between the two of them is basically they’re both sort of painted into a corner and so they’re kind of working together because it’s helpful I’m not sure that this idea that you actually have the sort of like access of autocracy coming together to sort of reorganize the world order that would require the the financial weight of China right to really sort of pay for the the cost of that because right now I think Russia and North Korea just are too they’re too weak to do that on their own all right now just coming back to a point that you made earlier as well NATO says that Russia’s war in Ukraine it was being propped up by North Korea along with China and Iran now North Korea it’s been accused of helping Russia with weapons in its fight against Ukraine and in exchange of that Putin says that it will help Kim Jong-un with spy satellite systems so how do you assess this transactional relationship between the two yeah I think actually for the two of them it’s a pretty great relationship I mean you know for the rest of the world you know for us on the outside I think it’s pretty pretty bad but I think the two partners are getting actually a lot valuable out of it right I think that’s why this is this thing this relationship has Bloom so so rapidly because there are really good um uh there are really good upsides for both you know it’s pretty clear in so in Ukraine for example I think this is where it’s most obvious in the Ukraine war it’s pretty clear that the Russian defense industrial base cannot keep up with Russia’s Battlefield losses we know the Russians are starting to use equipment from the 1970s even the 1960s in the war right they just don’t have enough ammunition stocks to meet their needs right and we also know that North Korea has a Soviet style military industrial complex that goes back decades they’ve got huge stock piles and they’re selling those directly to the Russians so you’re the Russians this is really great because you’re able to get shells really really fast for the war right on the other hand North Korea has real problems with missile launches and technology for reasons that are you know fairly obvious North Korea’s you know economically backward it’s scientific industrial complex is fairly narrow outside of the the nuclear space and so if you can get stuff from the Russians for free right he begin to bargain these shells to get uh Russian missile technology telemetric data right it’s a pretty useful exchange right and I think the real question the big question is how desperate is Putin if he’s really really desperate for all these shells and he’ll be willing to give away more and more information to the North Koreans and that’s what we really don’t know on the outside just how much are the North Koreans going to be able to pull out of Putin in U because Putin’s so desperate for these shells to win the war to prosecute his his Ukraine war all right well Dr Kelly thank you so much for joining us on Von with your insights on this it was a pleasure talking to you thank you for having me now Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un agreed to bolster ties between the two countries Putin is on a visit to North Korea first time in 24 years right him this is the second meeting between the two leaders since September and experts say it is largely driven by Russia’s need for weapons as its war with UK Ukraine continues North Korea says that the meeting between the two leaders demonstrates invincibility and durability of friendship and unity pong gang called the country’s partnership and engine for accelerating the building of a new multi-polar world the Pentagon vo concerns about the growing ties between Moscow and pongyang the deepening cooperation between Russia and the dprk uh is something uh that should be of concern uh especially to anyone that’s interested in maintaining peace and stability on the the Korean Peninsula um but also supporting the people of Ukraine as they continue to fight against Russian aggression now on the other hand NATO underscored that Russia’s war in Ukraine was being proed up by North Korea along with China and Iran NATO Chief stoltenberg said that the countries together wanted to see the Western Alliance fail also stoltenberg warned against the potential support that Russia provides to North Korea when it comes to the missiles and nuclear programs meanwhile wedness day’s agenda includes one-on-one discussions between Putin and Kim Jong-un a Gala concert State reception onor guards document signing and a statement to the media all right to discuss things further we’re now being joined by Professor Peter kosnik professor of history and director of nuclear Studies Institute at American University sir thank you so much for joining us on world DNA glad to be with you uh sir of course North Korea and Russia are both heavily sanctioned by the West in recent times they Val strong tires and the West alignment that is something that is deepening here this has raised and the United States has raised alarm over the same as well how do you think the West views this visit and what are the challenges that it perceives well clearly in the context of what’s happening internationally now this visit is very very significant we’ve seen a series of meetings recently there was the so-called peace Summit in uh in in Switzerland and that was a failure 160 countries were invited only 98 attended and of those 98 20 including India refused to sign the communic at the end of The Summit so that didn’t achieve anything there was a meeting of the G7 that just took place in Italy and that was also a lot of show and symbolism but didn’t really achieve very much you have leaders there almost all of whom are very very weak some of whom are on the way out and face serious challenges then you had NATO meetings in which they talked about increasing the number of deployed nuclear warheads so this is all going on at the time that the situation in Ukraine is getting more and more intense especially with the new levels of Weaponry going in there and then the authorization by the US and others that Ukraine can use some of their weapons to strike inside of Russia so the tensions are heightening and North Korea has been providing Russia with very significant military aid Russia already is out producing NATO when it comes to artillery uh and and the Russians are deploying many times as much artillery but the South Koreans estimate that North Korea provided 5 million artillery shells last year and so that’s that Putin wants that military aid he wants the intercontinental ballistic missiles and Korea North Korea wants a lot of Russian military technological kn as well as Russian wheat exports so it’s a kind of symbiotic relationship at a time when neither country has got a lot of allies on the world scene but the United States influence is not what it used to be either and so we’ve got the global South resisting the United States and growing ties between Russia China North Korea and Iran right uh Mr Kik you very well covered all the parameters here of the ties between North Korea and Russia and like you mentioned North Korea is providing military aid to Russia according to reports in return in exchange Putin will help Kim with spy satellites like you mentioned how do you assess this transactional relationship or can we say friendship between Moscow and pong gang at this point of time and what perhaps can the West do to stop all of this with most of the missiles and weapons going via train Russia has been instrumental in supporting United Nations efforts to sanction North Korea in the past but beginning in March Russia vetoed a very important United Nations Mission uh to look to look into the sanctions about North Korea’s military policies and their missile tests uh and so without Russia’s support the United Nations is going to be greatly weakened in that regard uh so what we’re seeing now is very very dangerous in my opinion we’re seeing greater and greater polarization Russia gets much closer to China to North Korea to Iran and others and and while the United States which used to be able to call the shots internationally is an increasingly weakened position with the possibility frightening as it is to me that Donald Trump might be the next president and and if that happens then America’s alliances not only NATO but with the Europeans and America’s support for Ukraine could certainly be or ended so you know there’s a lot lot of moving parts right now and a lot of uncy and rather than move toward a multi-polar world we’re going toward a bipolar World which is not the same thing uh right sir in fact absolutely uh I wanted better understanding on this coming back to a point that you made earlier now I want to understand what does this visit mean for Ukraine as you mentioned this comes after a failed Swiss peace Conference of course the G7 Summit which saw no concrete results either do you think this visit is a chance for Russia to perhaps show that it’s not isolated anymore well we know that the Western sanctions against Russia have not worked partly because China and India have been buying up Russian oil that the Europeans used to get which is hurting the European economies because they’re paying more for their oil so the growth rate in Europe is lower than the growth rate in Russia right now so we see that happening uh in terms of Ukraine Russia already is gaining the advantage on the battlefield since they opened up the new front in Northeast around K Ukraine has had a move move a lot of its troops from the south and the East and especially in the East Russia’s been able to make more and more slow incremental gains uh there are more weapon systems coming into Ukraine including f16s and that might help Ukraine but that’s the fantasy is that somehow Ukraine is going to be able to turn the tide of the war I don’t see it happening Russia is just too strong they’ve got too much armaments and they’ve got too big of population and so the fear that everybody has right now is we’re moving closer and closer to a military confrontation between Russia and NATO or Russia and China and NATO which could mean World War I we need diplomacy as gutterz and others have been saying we this fighting is not going to solve anything right we need to sit down and start talking all right well uh Professor Kik thank you so much for joining us on world DNA with your insights on this after making the rare visit the Russian Navy vessels have now left the Kuban capital of haana as per sources the Russian Navy frade and a nuclear powered submarine arrived in haana Harbor last week just hours after the US announced a fast attack submarine had talked at its Guantanamo Naval Base now the conference of Russian Canadian and US vessels in Kuba a communist run island nation located just 90 Mi south of Florida was a rem bind of Cold War tensions but both the United States and Cuba said that the warship spot over posed no threat the visit however was widely seen as a Russian show Force amid continued High tensions over the war in Ukraine as the flotilla of the Russian Navy vessel left the port locals gathered to witness the scene and bid moscow’s task force a farewell the four ship task force Departed the cola Peninsula on 17th of May it sailed across the at antic arriving off the coast of Florida before entering Havana Harbor the Russian ships were greeted by Kuba with a salute of cannon fire as they passed fishermen and wellwishers as I came for the reception I also came for the fairwell because it’s a historical event and I think it will be unrepeatable for our generations and those of us who are living right now the Royal Canadian Navy meanwhile finds itself in the unusual position for both sh in Russian warships as a threat in the Caribbean as well as sharing an Anchorage with them at the port for several days the frade hmcs was tasked with shadowing the Russian ships which conducted missile exercises during their Atlantic Crossing using the new ziron Hypersonic missiles the Canadian frigate was a part of the three ship group that track the Russian vessels along with the US Destroyer us SRU and the US Co guard Guard Cutter us CGS Stone Canada also flew out a CP 140 surveillance plane out of Florida in addition to the US Naval surveillance aircraft the Canadian defense minister Bill Blair now says that he was acting on advice of military when he approved a plan to send a Canadian ship to Cuba he added that the Royal Canadian Navy and Canadian joint Operations Command advised to send a ship the Canadian liberal government mean while said that the visit was meant to send a message of deterence to Moscow in the latest development the Kremlin has dismissed the outcome of the peace Summit on Ukraine hosted by Switzerland calling the peace Summit futi Gremlin spokesperson Dimitri pesov told reporters the result of the meeting were court and Court close to zero in his statan pesov also ridiculed the idea of holding a peace Summit without Russia being present at the negot ating table pesov further added that Russia remains open to dialogue with all countries that intend to conduct it he stress that Russia will continue to convey its positions to these countries here’s what kremin spokesperson Dimitri pesov had to say and I’m quoting [Music] more than 90 countries participated in the two-day talks in Alpine Resort held in the presence of Ukrainian president vadir zilinski while Moscow was not invited Russian President Putin said last week that Russia was ready to end the war with Ukraine but with certain conditions in place one of the conditions rejected by the Ukrainian side was Russia’s demand to withdraw all troops from four Russian controlled regions and the weekend Summit in Switzerland Western powers and their allies denounced Russia’s invasion of Ukraine however the summit failed to Ghana support from major non-aligned States to join their final statement Brazil attended only as an observer and in the end India Indonesia Mexico Saudi Arabia and South Africa all withheld their signatures from official Community foundational principles of the United Ukraine has to leave additional Sovereign Ukrainian territory before Russia will negotiate not strongly defend them there is no International order of the UN Charter thank you very much Slava Ukrainian this is why the precondition is peace based on the foundational principles of the United Nation Ukraine has to leave additional Sovereign Ukrainian territory before Russia will negotiate not strongly defend them there is no International order of the UN Charter thank you very much Slava Ukrainian this is why the precondition is peace based on the foundational principles of the United Nation Ukraine has to leave additional Sovereign Ukraine Ukraine is expecting its first F6 fire jets from its Western allies in the coming weeks to take on the Russian air superiority but now its challenge is who will man man these incoming fighter jets now cave does not have trained 56 pilots and it is upset with the US for that it is not training its fighter pilots fast enough for their job Ukrainian officials claim 30 of its Pilots are ready to start training on the f-16s but the US and Denmark are denying Its Spots at their training facilities and delaying the much needed training the US however claims its Schoolhouse in Arizona can train only 12 Pilots at a time it also maintained that Ukraine’s Pilots are not yet ready to start flying its incoming F-16 jets in large numbers the US and its allies further say that Ukrainian Pilots not up to the task as they are struggling with English language skills and the flying program Denmark Norway the Netherlands and Belgium have pledged to send Ukraine more than 60 us made f-16s the UK the aircraft are expected to arrive in trenches Ukraine are argues that it is it urgin needs the train Pilots to fly the Jets as soon as they arrive the trouble over pilot training marks the latest hurdle in Ukraine’s drawn out quest for Mor fighter jets the US holds that f-16s are no good to Ukraine if they are eliminated at the first instance if Ukrainian Pilots cannot do their job Western officials also say they are confident in their schedule for training enough Ukrainian fighter pilots to fly the new f-16s KF however also claims that the training program is too Limited in a cash 22 situation Western officials say they cannot graduate too many Pilots before Ukraine has received enough jets for them to continue training as the pilots will lose their skills if they do not get enough flying hours KF started asking for us made F-16 shortly after the Russia invasion began in 2022 but US President Joe Biden was initially reluctant to give the green light finally last year he approved third-party transfer of aircraft from Norway Belgium Denmark and the Netherlands but the training program was bogged down by logistical challenges also it’s not just a pilot training the US says maintenance is also a key part as even the maintainers need to be trained meanwhile Ukrainian president vair zeni on Wednesday urged Ukraine’s allies to speed up deliveries of war planes following a deadly Russian strike on the city of kakei he said Ukraine needs 120 to 130 f-16s for air parody with Russia all right moving on to Europe where Ukraine is expecting its first F-16 fighter jets from its Western allies in the coming weeks and a bid to take on the Russia air superiority but now its challenge is who will fly these incoming fighter jets keev does not have trained F-16 pilots and it is upset with the US for that it is not training its fighter pilots fast enough for their job Ukrainian officials claim a 30 of its Pilots are ready to start training on the f-16s but the US and Denmark are denying Its Spots at their training facilities and delaying the much needed training the US however claims its Schoolhouse in Arizona can train only 12 Pilots at a time it also maintains that Ukraine’s Pilots are not yet ready to start flying its incoming F-16 jets in large numbers the US and its allies further say that Ukrainian Pilots are not up to the task as they are struggling with English language skills and the flying program as well Denmark Norway the Netherlands and Belgium have pledged to send Ukraine more than 60 us made f-16s the aircraft are expected to arrive in trenches Ukraine argues that it urgently needs the train Pilots to fly the Jets as soon as they arrive the trouble over pilot training marks the latest hurdle in Ukraine’s drawn out quest for modern fighter jets the US holds that f-16s are no good to Ukraine if they are eliminated at the first instance if Ukrainian Pilots cannot do the job Western officials also say they’re confident in their schedule for training enough Ukrainian fighter pilots to fly the new f-16s Kei however also claims that the training program is too Limited in a catch22 situation Western officials say that they can not graduate too many Pilots before Ukraine has received enough jets for them to continue training as the pilots will lose their skills if they do not get enough flying hours keev started asking for us made f-16s shortly after the Russian invasion began in 2022 but US President Joe Biden was initially reluctant to give the green light finally last year he approved third-party transfer of aircraft from Norway Belgium Denmark and the Netherlands but the training program was bogged down by logistical challenges also it’s not just the pilot training the US says maintenance is also a key part as even the mainten need to be trained as well meanwhile Ukrainian president VR zalinsky on Wednesday urge Ukraine’s allies to speed up deliveries of weapons and war planes following a deadly Russian strike on the city of harke he said Ukraine needs 120 to 130 f-16s for air parody with Russia now hours after the Kremlin said that the two-day peace Summit yielded no results Russian forces continued to pound Ukraine in the latest Russian missiles targeted Ukraine’s East Central Bava region on Monday at least 12 people including two children were injured and several power lines were damaged in the area the attack damaged several high-rise buildings and according to local authorities that Dows the fire over 53,000 private and 2,400 industrial consumers faced power Cuts due to the damage to power lines with the war well into its 29th month and no signs of it slowing down NATO Chief has emphasized on more weapon supply for Ukraine as The Battered Count’s forces scrambled to fight back a Russian invasion the more credible our long-term support the quicker Moscow will realize it cannot wait us out and the sooner this war can end it may seem like a paradox but the path to peace is therefore more weapons for Ukraine the blocks Chief also urged for Country supporting Russia to face consequences the country in question China Stenberg accused Beijing of worsening the Russia Ukraine war while also seeking better relations with the West publicly president XI has tried to create the impression that he’s taking a back seat in this conflict to avoid sanctions and keep trade flowing but the reality is that China’s fueling the largest armed conflict in Europe since World War II and at the same time it wants to maintain good relations with the West well Beijing cannot have it both ways at some point and unless China changes course allies need to impose a cost more than 20 NATO members will meet the military Alliance Target of spending at least 2% of their GDP on defense this year this as per NATO Secretary General Jen Stenberg the number of NATO allies is now meeting the spending Target compares to less than 10 members 5 years ago across Europe and Canada the NATO allies are increasing the defense spending by 18% 23 countries are going to spend 2% of their GDP or more on defense this year that’s more than twice the number four years ago Stenberg was in Washington for preparations for next month’s NATO Summit in the US capital NATO’s defense pending will be a major Topic at the Washington Summit speaking of the last two years totenberg said that more than 2/3 of Europe’s defense Acquisitions about $140 billion were from us firms NATO’s defense spending has become highly contentious in recent years former US president Donald Trump has accused Europeans of spending too little on their own security and relying on the United States um and uh today uh we are able to publish new figures for defense spending they show that uh across Europe and Canada NATO allies are this year increasing defense spending by 18% uh that’s the biggest increase in decades um and um 23 allies uh are going to spend 2% of GDP or more uh on the fense this year meanwhile Stenberg has also called for the NATO members to adapt its nuclear Aral on the face of security threats from Russia and China the NATO Chief said that the members were Consulting about deploying more nuclear weapons taking them out of storage and placing them on standby reacting to St B’s claim White House National Security spokesperson John Kirby has said that it would be responsible to not have those talks NATO is a defensive Alliance and uh NATO countries uh uh are some of the most sophisticated in the world when it comes to military capabilities um and it would be irresponsible and imprudent if we weren’t constantly talking to our NATO allies about how to make sure we can meet our commitments to one another across a range of military capabilities Russian President Vladimir Putin is on a visit to North Korea his first in 24 years Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un agreed to bolster ties between the two countries North Korea in fact says the meeting between the two leaders demonstrated invincibility and durability of friendship and unity Pyongyang it’s called the country’s partnership and engine for accelerating the building of a new multi-polar world on the other hand the pentan its voiced concerns about the growing ties between Moscow and pongyang are we seeing deepening anti-west alignment here and how will this bolstered partnership between the two nuclear armed States impact the existing world order my name is himor sya and to discuss this we have with us Dr Robert Edwin Kelly American political analyst on interc carean Affairs and professor in the department of political science Pan national university sir thank you so much for joining us on weon hi thank you for having you so I want to First understand how does South Korea view this visit and deepening ties between North and Russia yeah I think there’s anxiety here in South Korea that the Russians might transfer something of genuine strategic value to North Korea right the uh North Koreans it see it seems you know we don’t know of course but it seems that the Russians are other North Koreans are transferring a great deal of ammunition to the Russians for their war in Ukraine it seems that the Russians are pretty desperate to get that right the the war is kind of turned into something of a stalemate and so the the concern is that uh the North Koreans might be able to bargain against Russian desperation to get some really significant help on satellites on missiles on uh on larger strategic assets and um you know we we just don’t know right of course the North Koreans aren’t going to tell us anything so there’s a lot of you know inqu fear here that uh you know something significant might be uh in the works might be shifted to the to North Korea right so in fact I was just going to come to this Pentagon of course sees this as a cause for concern conern do you see this as a sign of growing anti-west alignment um for the no not not so much yet because I think a real sort of axis of sort of like anti-western dictatorships or something like that that that would really I think require China’s full participation right I think right now what you’re seeing between North Korea and Russia is kind of a a transactional an alignment of convenience if you will that is to say that both Russia and North Korea are significantly isolated from the world economy they’re both now heavily sanctioned they don’t really have a lot of other diplomatic options so for example Russia would very much prefer to have a relationship with South Korea to North Korea South Korea is 32 times wealthier I believe now than North Korea South Korea can export and import a great deal from Russia North Korea can’t really do any of that right and the Russians going to the North Koreans because that’s really you know one of the few States left that they can really approach and so I think what you’re right now have between the two of them is basically they’re both sort of painted into a corner and so they’re kind of working together because it’s helpful I’m not sure that this idea that you actually have the sort of like access of autocracy coming together to sort of reorganize the world order that would require the the financial weight of China right to really sort of pay for the the cost of that because right now I think Russia and North Korea just are too they’re too weak to do that on their own all right now just coming back to a point that you made earlier as well NATO says that Russia’s war in Ukraine it was being propped up by North Korea along with China and and Iran now North Korea it’s been accused of helping Russia with weapons in its fight against Ukraine and in exchange of that Putin says that it will help Kim Jong-un with spy satellite system so how do you assess this transactional relationship between the two yeah I think actually for the two of them it’s a pretty great relationship I mean you know for the rest of the world you know for us on the outside I think it’s pretty pretty bad but I think the two partners are getting actually a lot valuable out of it right I I think that’s why this is this thing this relationship has bloomed so so rapidly because there are really good um uh they’re really good upsides for both you know it’s pretty clear in so in Ukraine for example I think this is where it’s most obvious in the Ukraine war it’s pretty clear that the Russian defense industrial base cannot keep up with Russia’s Battlefield losses we know the Russians are starting to use equipment from the 1970s even the 1960s in the war right they just don’t have enough ammunition stocks to meet their needs right and we also know that North Korea has a Soviet style military industrial complex that goes back decades they’ve got huge stock piles and they’re selling those directly to the Russians so if either Russians this is really great because you’re able to get shells really really fast for the war right on the other hand North Korea has real problems with missile launches and technology for reasons that are you know fairly obvious North Korea’s you know economically backward it’s scientific industrial complex is fairly narrow outside of the the nuclear space and so if you can get stuff from the Russians for free right if you can start bargain these shells to get uh Russian missile technology telemetric data right it’s a pretty useful exchange right and I think the real question the big question is how desperate is Putin if he’s really really desperate for all these shells and he’ll be willing to give away more and more information to the North Koreans and that’s what we really don’t know on the outside just how much are the North Koreans going to be able to pull out of Putin in U because Putin’s so desperate for these shells to win the war to prosecute his his Ukraine war all right well Dr Kelly thank you so much for joining us on Von with your insights on this it was a pleasure talking to you thank you for having me now Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un agreed to bolster ties between the two two countries Putin is on a visit to North Korea first time in 24 years right him this is the second meeting between the two leaders since September and experts say it is largely driven by Russia’s need for weapons as its war with Ukraine continues North Korea says that the meeting between the two leaders demonstrates invincibility and durability of friendship and unity pong gang called the country’s partnership and engine for accelerating the building of a new multi-polar world the Pentagon voice concerns about the growing ties between Moscow and Pang the deepening cooperation between Russia and the dprk uh is something uh that should be of concern uh especially to anyone that’s interested in maintaining peace and stability on the the Korean Peninsula um but also supporting the people of Ukraine as they continue to fight against Russian aggression now on the other hand NATO underscored that Russia’s war in Ukraine was being proed up by North Korea along with China and Iran NATO Chief stoltenberg said that the countries together wanted to see the Western Alliance fail also stoltenberg warned against the potential support that Russia provides to North Korea when it comes to the missiles and nuclear programs meanwhile Wednesday’s agenda includes one-on-one discussions between Putin and Kim Jong-un a Gala concert state reception onor guards document signing and a statement to the media all right to discuss things further we’re now being joined by Professor Peter kosnik professor of history and director of nuclear Studies Institute at American University sir thank you so much for joining us on world DNA glad to be with you uh sir of course North Korea and Russia both heavily sanctioned by the West in recent times they Ved strong ties and the West alignment that is something that is deepening here this has raised and the United States has raised alarm over the same as well how do you think the West views this visit and what are the challenges that it perceives well clearly in the context of what’s happening internationally now this visit is very very significant we’ve seen a series of meetings recently there was the so-called peace Summit in uh in in Switzerland and that was a failure 160 countries were invited only 98 attended and of those 98 20 including India refused to sign the commun at the end of The Summit so that didn’t achieve anything there was a meeting of the G7 that just took place in Italy and that was also a lot of show and symbolism but didn’t really achieve very much you have leaders there almost all of whom are very very weak some of whom are on the way out and face serious challenges then you had NATO meetings in which they talked about increasing the number of deployed nuclear warheads so this is all going on the time that the situation in Ukraine is getting more and more intense especially with the new levels of Weaponry going in there and then the authorization by us and others that Ukraine can use some of their weapons to strike inside of Russia so the tensions are heightening and North Korea has been providing Russia with very significant military aid Russia already is outproducing NATO when it comes to artillery uh and and the Russians are deploying many times as much artillery but the South Koreans estimate that North Korea provided five million artillery shells last year and so that’s that Putin wants that military aid he wants the intercontinental ballistic missiles and Korea North Korea wants a lot of Russian military technological knowhow as well as Russian wheat exports so it’s a kind of symbiotic relationship at a time when neither country has got a lot of allies on the world scene but the United States influence is not what it used to be either and so we’ve got the global South resisting the United States and growing ties between Russia China North Korea and Iran right uh Mr kusik you very well covered all the parameters here of the ties between North Korea and Russia and like you mentioned North Korea is providing military aid to Russia according to reports in return in exchange Putin will help Kim with spy satellites like you mentioned how do you assess this transactional relationship or can we say friendship between Moscow and pong gang at this point of time and what perhaps can the West do to stop all of this with most of the missiles and weapons going via train Russia has been instrumental in supporting United Nations efforts to sanction North Korea in the past but beginning in March Russia V a very important United Nations Mission uh to look to look into the sanctions about North Korea’s military policies and their missile tests uh and so without Russia’s support the United Nations is going to be greatly weakened in that regard uh so what we’re seeing now is very very dangerous my opinion we’re seeing greater and greater polarization Russia gets much closer to China to North Korea to Iran and others and and while the United States which used to be able to call the shots internationally is an increasingly weakened position with the possibility frightening as it is to me that Donald Trump might be the next president and and if that happens then America’s alliances not only NATO but with the Europeans and America’s support for Ukraine could certainly be or ended so you know there’s a lot lot of moving parts right now and a lot of uncertainty and rather than move toward a multi-polar world we’re going toward a bipolar World which is not the same thing uh right sir in fact absolutely uh I wanted better understanding on this coming back to a point that you made earlier now I want to understand what does this visit mean for Ukraine as you mentioned this comes after a f Swiss peace confererence of course the G7 Summit which saw no concrete results either do you think this visit is a chance for Russia to perhaps show that it’s not isolated anymore well we know that the Western sanctions against Russia have not worked partly because China and India have been buying up Russian oil that the Europeans used to get which is hurting the European economies because they’re paying more for their oil so the growth rate in Europe is is lower than the growth rate in Russia right now so we see that happening uh in terms of Ukraine Russia already is gaining the advantage on the battlefield since they open up the new front in Northeast around Kar Ukraine is had to move a lot of its troops from the south and the East and especially in the East Russia’s been able to make more and more slow incremental gains uh there are more weapon systems coming into Ukraine including f-16s and that might help Ukraine but that’s the fantasy is that somehow Ukraine is going to be able to turn the tide of the war I don’t see it happening Russia is just too strong they’ve got too much armaments and they’ve got too big a population and so the fear that everybody has right now is we’re moving closer and closer to a military confrontation between Russia and NATO or Russia and China and NATO which could mean World War II we need diplomacy as gutterz and others have been saying we this fighting is not going to solve anything right we need to sit down and start talking all right well uh Professor Kik thank you so much for joining us on world DNA with your insights on this after making the rare visit the Russian Navy vessels have now left the Kuban capital of haana as per sources the Russian Navy frade and a nuclear powered submarine arrived in hanana Harbor last week just hours after the US announced a fast attack submarine had talked at its Guantanamo Naval Base now the Confluence of Russian Canadian and US vessels in Kuba a communist run island nation located just 90 Mi south of Florida was a reminder of Cold War tensions but both the United States and Cuba said that the warship spot over posed no threat the visit however was widely seen as a Russian show Force amid continued High tensions over the war in Ukraine as the flotilla of the Russian Navy vessels left the port locals gathered to witness the scene and bid moscow’s task force a farewell the for ship task force Departed the cola Peninsula on 17th of May it sailed across the Atlantic arriving off the coast of Florida before entering Havana Harbor the Russian ships were greeted by Kuba with a salute of cannon fire as they passed fishermen and wellwishers as I came for the reception I also came for the farewell because it’s a historical event and I think it will be unrepeatable for our generations and those of us who are living right now the Royal Canadian Navy meanwhile finds itself in the unusual position for both shadowing Russian warships as a threat in the Caribbean as well as sharing and Anchorage with them at the port for several days the frade hmcs was tasked with shadowing the Russian ships which which conducted missile exercises during their Atlantic Crossing using the new ziron Hypersonic missiles the Canadian frigate was a part of the three ship group that tracked the Russian vessels along with the US Destroyer USS Tron and the US Coast Guard Cutter us CGS Stone Canada also flew out a CP 140 surveillance plane out of Florida in addition to the US Naval surveillance aircraft the the Canadian defense minister Bill Blair now says that he was acting on advice of military when he approved a plan to send a Canadian ship to Cuba he added that the Royal Canadian Navy and Canadian joint Operations Command advised to send a ship the Canadian liberal government meanwhile said that the visit was meant to send a message of deterence to Moscow in a latest development the Kremlin has dismissed the outcome of the peace Summit on Ukraine hosted by by Switzerland calling the peace Summit futile Kremlin spokesperson Dimitri pesov told reporters the result of the meeting were CAU on court close to zero in his statement pesov also ridiculed the idea of holding a peace Summit without Russia being present at the negotiating table pesov further added that Russia remains open to dialogue with all countries that intend to conduct it he stressed that Russia will continue to convey its positions to these countries here’s what kemin spokes was Demitri pesov had to say and I’m quoting [Music] more than 90 countries participated in the two-day talks in Swiss Alpine Resort held in the presence of Ukrainian president vadir zelinski while Moscow was not invited Russian President Putin said last week that Russia was ready to end the war with Ukraine but with certain condition conditions in place one of the conditions rejected by the Ukrainian side was Russia’s demand to withdraw all troops from four Russian controlled regions at the weekend Summit in Switzerland Western powers and their allies denounced Russia’s invasion of Ukraine however the summit failed to Gana support from major nonaligned States to join their final statement Brazil attended only as an observer and in the end India Indonesia Mexico Saudi Arabia and South Africa all withheld their signatures from official communic foundational principles of the United Nation Ukraine has to leave additional Sovereign Ukrainian territory before Russia will negotiate strongly defend them there is no International order of the UN Charter thank you very much Slava Ukrainian this is why the precondition is peace based on the foundational principles of the United Nation Ukraine has to leave additional Sovereign Ukrainian territory before Russia will negotiate not strongly defend them there’s no International order of the UN Charter thank you very much Slava Ukrainian this is why the precondition is peace based on the foundational principles of the United Nation Ukraine has to leave additional Sovereign Ukraine now Ukraine is expecting its first F-16 fighter jets from its Western allies in the coming weeks to take on the Russian air superiority but now its challenge is who will man man these incoming fighter jets now cave does not have trained 516 pilots and it is upset with the US for that it is not training its fighter pilots fast enough for their job Ukrainian officials claim 30 of its Pilots are ready to start training on the f-16s but the US and Denmark are denying Its Spots at their training facilities and delaying the much needed training the US however claims its Schoolhouse in Arizona can train only 12 Pilots at a time it also maintained that Ukraine’s Pilots are not yet ready to start flying its incoming F-16 jets in large numbers the US and its allies further say that Ukrainian Pilots not up to the T ask as they are struggling with English language skills and the flying program Denmark Norway the Netherlands and Belgium have pledged to send Ukraine more than 60 us made f-16s the UK the aircraft are expected to arrive in trenches Ukraine argues that it is it urgently needs the train Pilots to fly the Jets as soon as they arrive the trouble over pilot training marks the latest hurdle in Ukraine’s drawn out quest for mod fighter jets the US holds that f 16s are no good to Ukraine if they are eliminated at the first instance if Ukrainian Pilots cannot do their job Western officials also say they are confident in their schedule for training enough Ukrainian fighter pilots to fly the new f-16s KF however also claims that the training program is too Limited in a cash 22 situation Western officials say they cannot graduate too many Pilots before Ukraine has received enough jets for them to continue training as the pilots will lose their skills if they do not get enough flying hours K started asking for us made F-16 shortly after the Russia invasion began in 2022 but US President Joe Biden was initially reluctant to give the green light finally last year he approved thirdparty transfer of aircraft from Norway Belgium Denmark and the Netherlands but the training program was bogged down by logistical challenges also it’s not just a pilot training the US says maintenance is also a key part as even the maintainers need to be trained meanwhile Ukrainian president vair zeni on Wednesday urged Ukraine’s allies to speed up deliveries of war planes following a deadly Russian strike on the city of Kaki he said Ukraine needs 120 to 130 f-16s for air parody with Russia all right moving on to Europe where Ukraine is expecting its first F-16 fighter jets from its Western allies in the coming weeks and a bit to take on the Russia air superiority but now its challenge is who will fly these incoming fighter jets keev does not have trained F-16 pilots and it is upset with the US for that it is not training its fighter pilots fast enough for their job Ukrainian officials claim 30 of its Pilots are ready to start training on the f-16s but the US and Denmark are denying Its Spots at their training facilities and delaying the much needed training the US however claims its Schoolhouse in Arizona can train only 12 Pilots at a time it also maintains that Ukraine’s Pilots are not yet ready to start flying its incoming F-16 jets in large numbers the US and its allies further say that Ukrainian Pilots are not up to the task as they are struggling with English language skills and the flying program as well Denmark Norway the Netherlands and Belgium have pledged to send Ukraine more than 60 us made f-16s the aircraft are expected to arrive in trenches Ukraine argues that it urgently needs to train Pilots to fly the Jets as soon as they arrive the trouble over pilot training marks the latest hurdle in Ukraine’s drawn out quest for modern fighter jets the US holds that f-16s are no good to Ukraine if they are eliminated at the first instance if Ukrainian Pilots cannot do the job Western officials also say they’re confident in their schedule for training enough Ukrainian fighter pilots to fly the new f-16s ke however also claims that the training program is too Limited in a catch22 situation Western officials say that they can not graduate too many Pilots before Ukraine has received enough jets for them to continue training as the pilots will lose their skills if they do not get enough flying hours keev started asking for us made F6 SC shortly after the Russian invasion began in 2022 but US President Joe Biden was initially reluctant to give the green light finally last year he approved third-party transfer of aircraft from Norway Belgium Denmark and the Netherlands but the training program was bogged down by logistical challenges also it’s not just a pilot training the US says maintenance is also a key part as even the mainten need to be trained as well mean Ukrainian president vlir zalinski on Wednesday urged Ukraine’s allies to speed up deliveries of weapons and war planes following a deadly Russian strike on the city of harke he said Ukraine needs 120 to 12 130 f-16s for air parody with Russia now hours after the Kremlin said that the two-day peace Summit yielded no result Russian forces continue to pound Ukraine in the latest Russian missiles targeted Ukraine’s East Central Bava region on Monday at least 12 people including two children were injured and several power lines were damaged in the area the attack damaged several high-rise buildings and according to local authorities that Dows the fire over 53,000 private and 2,400 industrial consumers faced power Cuts due to the damage to power land with the war well into its 29th month and no signs of it slowing down NATO Chief has emphasized on more weapon supply for Ukraine as The Battered Count’s forces scramble to fight back a Russian invasion the more credible our long-term support the quicker Moscow will realize it cannot wait us out and the sooner this war can end in may seem like a paradox but the path to peace is therefore more weapons for Ukraine the blog’s chief also urged for Country supporting Russia to face consequences the country in question is China Stenberg accused Beijing of worsening the Russia Ukraine war while also seeking better relations with the West publicly president shei has Tred to create the impression that he’s taking a backseat in this conflict to avoid sanctions and keep trade flowing but the reality is that China is fueling the largest armed conflict in Europe since World War II and at the same time it wants to maintain good relations with the West well Beijing cannot have it both ways at some point and unless China changes course allies need to impose a cost more than 20 NATO members will meet the military Alliance Target of spending at least 2% of their GDP on defense this year this as per NATO Secretary General Jen Stenberg the number of NATO allies now meeting the spending Target compares to less than 10 members 5 years ago across Europe and Canada the NATO allies are increasing defense spending by 18% 23 countries are going to spend 2% of their GDP or more on defense this year that’s more than twice the number four years ago Stenberg was in Washington for preparations for next month’s NATO Summit in the US capital NATO’s defense pending will be a major Topic at the Washington Summit speaking of the last two years Stenberg said that more than 2/3 of Europe’s defense Acquisitions about $140 billion were from us firms NATO’s defense spending has become highly contentious in recent years former US president Donald Trump has accused Europeans of spending too little on their own security and relying on the United States and uh today uh we are able to publish new figures for defense spending they show that U across Europe and Canada NATO allies are this year increasing defense spending by 18% uh that’s the biggest increase in decades um and um 23 allies uh are going to spend 2% of GDP or more uh on defense this year meanwhile Stenberg has also called for the NATO members to adapt its nuclear Arsenal on the face of security threats from Russia and China the NATO Chief said that the members were Consulting about deploying more nuclear weapons taking them out of storage and placing them on standby reacting to st’s claim White House National Security spokesperson John Kirby has said that it would be responsible to not have those talks NATO is a defensive Alliance and uh NATO countries uh uh are some of the most sophisticated in the world when it comes to military capabilities um and it would be irresponsible and imprudent if we weren’t constantly talking to our NATO allies about how to make sure we can meet our commitments to one another across a range of military capabilities Russian President Vladimir Putin is on a visit to North Korea his first in 24 years Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un agreed to bolster ties between the two countries North Korea in fact says the meeting between the two leaders demonstrated invincibility and durability of friendship and unity Pyongyang it’s called the country’s partnership and engine for accelerating the building of a new multipolar world on the other hand the Pentagon its voiced concerns about the growing ties between Moscow and pongyang are we seeing deepening anti-west alignment here and how will this bolstered partnership between the two nuclear armed States impact the existing world order my name is himor sya and to discuss this we have with us Dr Robert Edward Kelly American political analyst on inter carean Affairs and professor in the department of political science Pan national university sir thank you so much for joining us on weon hi thank you for having me so I want to First understand how does South Korea view this visit and deepening ties between north and Russia yeah I think there’s anxiety here in South Korea that the Russians might transfer something of genuine strategic value to North Korea right the uh North Koreans it’s see it’s seems you know we don’t know of course but it seems that the Russians or other North Koreans are transferring a great deal of ammunition to the Russians for their war in Ukraine it seems that the Russians are pretty desperate to get that right the the war is kind of turned into something of a stalemate and so the the concern is that uh the North Koreans might be able to bargain against Russian desperation to get some really significant help on satellites on missiles on uh on larger strategic assets and um you know we we just don’t know right of course North Kore aren’t going to tell us anything so there’s a lot of you know uh inqu fear here that uh you know something significant might be uh in the works might be shifted to the to North Korea right so in fact I was just going to come to this Pentagon of course sees this as a cause for concern do you see this as a sign of growing anti-west alignment um for the no not not so much yet because I think a real sort of axis of sort of like anti-western dictator ship or something like that that that would really I think require China’s full participation right I think right now what you’re seeing between North Korea and Russia is kind of a a transactional an alignment of convenience if you will that is to say that both Russia and North Korea are significantly isolated from the world economy they’re both now heavily sanctioned they don’t really have a lot of other diplomatic options so for example Russia would very much prefer to have a relationship with South Korea to North Korea South Korea is 32 times well healthier I believe now than North Korea South Korea can export and import a great deal from Russia North Korea can’t really do any of that right and the Russians going to the North Korean because that’s really you know one of the few States left that they can really approach and so I think what you’re right now have between the two of them is basically they’re both sort of painted into a corner and so they’re kind of working together because it’s helpful I’m not sure that this idea that you actually have the sort of like axis of autocracy coming together to sort of reorganize the world order that would require the the financial weight of China right to really sort of pay for the the cost of that because right now I think Russia and North Korea just are too they’re too weak to do that on their own all right now just coming back to a point that you made earlier as well NATO says that Russia’s war in Ukraine it was being propped up by North Korea along with China and Iran now North Korea it’s been accused of helping Russia with weapons in its fight against Ukraine and in exchange of that Putin says that it will help Kim Jong-un with spy satellite system so how do you assess this transactional relationship between the two yeah I think actually for the two of them it’s a prettyy great relationship I mean you know for the rest of the world you know for us on the outside I think it’s pretty pretty bad but I think the two partners are getting actually a lot valuable out of it right I think that’s why this is this thing this relationship has bloomed so so rapidly because there are really good um uh they’re really good upsides for both you know it’s pretty clear in so in Ukraine for example I think this is where it’s most obvious in the Ukraine war it’s pretty clear that the Russian defense industrial base cannot keep up with Russia’s Battlefield losses we know the Russians are starting to use equipment from the 1970s even the 1960s in the war right they just don’t have enough ammunition stocks to meet their needs right and we also know that North Korea has a Soviet style military industrial complex that goes back decades they’ve got huge stock piles and they’re selling those directly to the Russians so you’re the Russians this is really great because you’re able to get shells really really fast for the war right on the other hand North Korea has real problems with missile launches and technology for reasons that are you know fairly obvious North Korea’s you know economically backward it’s scientific industrial complexes is fair narrow outside of the the nuclear space and so if you can get stuff from the Russians for free right if you can s bargain these shells to get Russian missile technology telemetric data right it’s a pretty useful exchange right and I think the real question the big question is how desperate is Putin if he’s really really desperate for all these shells and he’ll be willing to give away more and more information to the North Koreans and that’s what we really don’t know on the outside just how much are the North Koreans going to be able to pull out of Putin in U because Putin’s so desperate for these shell to win the war to prosecute his his Ukraine war all right well Dr Kelly thank you so much for joining us on Von with your insights on this it was a pleasure talking to you thank you for having me now Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un agreed to bolster ties between the two countries Putin is on a visit to North Korea first time in 24 years right him this is the second meeting between the two leaders since September and experts say it is largely driven by Russia need four weapons as its war with Ukraine continues North Korea says that the meeting between the two leaders demonstrates invincibility and durability of friendship and unity pong gang called the country’s partnership and engine for accelerating the building of a new multi-polar world the Pentagon voice concerns about the growing ties between Moscow and pongyang the deepening cooperation between Russia and the dprk uh is something uh that should be of concern uh especially to anyone that’s interested in maintaining peace and stability on the the Korean Peninsula um but also supporting the people of Ukraine as they continue to fight against Russian aggression now on the other hand NATO underscored that Russia’s war in Ukraine was being proed up by North Korea along with China and Iran NATO Chief stoltenberg said that the countries together wanted to see the Western Alliance f also stoltenberg warned against the potential support that Russia provides to North Korea when it comes to the missiles and nuclear programs meanwhile Wednesday’s agenda includes one-on-one discussions between Putin and Kim Jong-un a Gala concert State reception honor guards document signing and a statement to the media all right to discuss things further we’re now being joined by Professor Peter kosnik professor of history and director of nuclear Studies Institute at American University sir thank you so much for joining us on world DNA glad to be with you uh sir of course North Korea and Russia are both heavily sanctioned by the West in recent times they’ve valed strong ties and the West alignment that is something that is deepening here this has raised and the United States has raised alarm over the same as well how do you think the West views this visit it and what are the challenges that it perceives well clearly in the context of what’s happening internationally now this visit is very very significant we’ve seen a series of meetings recently there was the so-called peace Summit in uh in in Switzerland and that was a failure 160 countries were invited only 98 attended and of those 98 20 including India refused to sign the communic at the end of The Summit so that didn’t achieve anything there was a meeting of the G7 that just took place in Italy and that was also a lot of show and symbolism but didn’t really achieve very much you have leaders there almost all of whom are very very weak some of whom are on the way out and face serious challenges then you had NATO meetings in which they talked about about increasing the number of deployed nuclear warheads so this is all going on at the time that the situation in Ukraine is getting more and more intense especially with the new levels of Weaponry going in there and then the authorization by the US and others that Ukraine can use some of their weapons to strike inside of Russia so the tensions are heightening and North Korea has been providing Russia with very significant military Aid Russia already is out producing NATO when it comes to artillery and and the Russians are deploying many times as much artillery but the South Koreans estimate that North Korea provided 5 million artillery shells last year and so that’s that Putin wants that military aid he wants the intercontinental ballistic missiles and Korea North Korea wants a lot of Russian military technological knoow as well as Russian wheat exports so it’s a kind of symbiotic relationship at a time when neither country has got a lot of allies on the world scene but the United States influence is not what it used to be either and so we’ve got the global South resisting the United States and growing ties between Russia China North Korea and Iran right right uh Mr kosnik you very well covered all the parameters here of the ties between North Korea and Russia and like you mentioned North Korea is providing military aid to Russia according to reports in return in exchange Putin will help Kim with spy satellites like you mentioned how do you assess this transactional relationship or can we say friendship between Moscow and pong gang at this point of time and what perhaps can the West do to stop all of this with most of the missiles and weapons going wi train Russia has been instrumental in supporting United Nations efforts to sanction North Korea in the past but beginning in March Russia vetoed a very important United Nations Mission uh to look to look into the sanctions about North Korea’s military policies and their missile tests uh and so with Russia’s support the United Nations is going to be greatly weakened in that regard uh so what we’re seeing now is very very dangerous in my opinion we’re seeing greater and greater polarization Russia gets much closer to China to North Korea to Iran and others and and while the United States which used to be able to call the shots internationally is an increasingly weakened position position with the possibility frightening as it is to me that Donald Trump might be the next president and if that happens then America’s alliances not only NATO but with the Europeans and America’s support for Ukraine could certainly be or ended so there a lot lot of moving parts right now and a lot of uncertainty and rather than move toward a multi-polar world we’re going toward a bipolar World which is not the same thing uh right sir in fact absolutely uh I wanted better understanding on this coming back to a point that you made earlier now I want to understand what does this visit mean for Ukraine as you mentioned this comes after a failed Swiss peace Conference of course the G7 Summit which saw no concrete results either do you think this visit is a chance for Russia to perhaps show that it’s not isolated anymore well we know that the West sanctions against Russia have not worked partly because China and India have been buying up Russian oil that the Europeans used to get which is hurting the European economies because they’re paying more for their oil so the growth rate in Europe is lower than the growth rate in Russia right now so we see that happening uh in terms of Ukraine Russia already is gaining the advantage on the battlefield since they opened up the new front in Northeast East around Kar Ukraine has had to move a lot of its troops from the south and the East and especially in the East Russia’s been able to make more and more slow incremental gains uh there are more weapon systems coming into Ukraine including f-16s and that might help Ukraine but that’s the fantasy is that somehow Ukraine is going to be able to turn the tide of the war I don’t see it happening Russia is just too strong they’ve got too much armaments and they’ve got too big a population and so the fear that everybody has right now is we’re moving closer and closer to a military confrontation between Russia and NATO or Russia and China and NATO which could mean World War I we need to diplomacy as gutterz and others have been saying we this fighting is not going to solve anything right we need to sit down and start talking all right well uh Professor Kik thank you so much for joining us on world DNA with your insights on this after making the rare visit the Russian Navy wessels have now left the Kuban capital of haana as per sources the Russian Navy frade and a nuclear powered submarine arrived in haana Harbor last week just hours after the US announced a fast attack submarine had talked at its Guantanamo Naval Base now the Confluence of Russian Canadian and US vessels in Kuba a communist run island nation located just 90 Mi south of Florida was a reminder of Cold War tensions but both the United States and Cuba said that the warship spot over POS no threat the visit however was widely seen as a Russian show Force amid continued High tensions over the war in Ukraine as the flotilla of the Russian Navy vessels left the port locals gathered to witness the scene and bid moscow’s task force a farewell the for ship task force Departed the cola Peninsula on on 17th of May it sailed across the Atlantic arriving off the coast of Florida before entering Havana Harbor the Russian ships were greeted by Kuba with a salute of cannon fire as they passed fishermen and wellwishers as I came for the reception I also came for the farewell because it’s a historical event and I think it will be unrepeatable for our generations and those of us who are living right now the Royal Canadian Navy meanwhile finds itself in the unusual position for both shadowing Russian warships as a threat in the Caribbean as well as sharing an Anchorage with them at the port for several days the Brigade hmcs was tasked with shadowing the Russian ships which conducted missile exercises during their Atlantic Crossing using the new ziron Hypersonic missiles the Canadian frigate was a part of the three ship group that tracked the Russian vessels along with the US Destroyer USS Tru and the US Coast Guard Cutter us CGS Stone Canada also flew out a CP 140 surveillance plane out of Florida in addition to the US Naval surveillance aircraft the Canadian defense minister Bill Blair now says that he was acting on advice of military when he approved a plan to send a Canadian ship to Cuba he added that the Royal Canadian Navy and Canadian joint operations commanded by to send a ship the Canadian liberal government meanwhile said that the visit was meant to send a message of deterence to Moscow in the latest development the Kremlin has dismissed the outcome of the peace Summit on Ukraine hosted by Switzerland calling the peace Summit futile Gremlin spokesperson Dimitri pesov told reporters the result of the meeting were court on court close to zero in his statement pesov also ridiculed the idea of holding a peace Summit without Russia being present at the negotiating table pesov further added that Russia remains open to dialogue with all countries that intend to conduct it he stressed that Russia will continue to convey its positions to these countries here’s what criminal spokesperson Dimitri pesov had to say and I’m quoting [Music] more 90 countries participated in the two-day talks in Swiss Alpine Resort held in the presence of Ukrainian President Vladimir zelinski while mosow was not invited Russian President Putin said last week that Russia was ready to end the war with Ukraine but with certain conditions in place one of the conditions rejected by the Ukrainian side was Russia’s demand to withdraw all troops from four Russian controlled regions at the weekend Summit in Switzerland Western powers and their allies denounced Russia’s invasion of Ukraine however the summit failed to Gana support from major non-aligned States to join their final statement Brazil attended only as an observer and in the end India Indonesia Mexico Saudi Arabia and South Africa all withheld their signatures from official communic foundational principles of the United Ukraine has to leave additional Sovereign Ukrainian territory before Russia will negotiate this strongly defend them there is no International order of the UN Charter thank you very much slav Ukrainian this is why the precondition is peace based on the foundational principles of the United Nation Ukraine has to leave additional Sovereign Ukrainian territory before Russia will negotiate strongly defend them there is no International order of the UN Charter thank you very much slav Ukrainian this is why the precondition is peace based on the foundational principles of the United Nation Ukraine has to leave additional Sovereign Ukraine Ukraine is expecting its first F-16 fire jets from its Western allies in the coming week to take on the Russian air superiority but now its challenge is who will M man these incoming fighter jets now C does not have trained 516 pilots and it is upset with the US for that it is not training its fighter pilots fast enough for their job Ukrainian officials claim 30 of its Pilots are ready to start training on the f-16s but the US and Denmark are denying Its Spots at their training facilities and delaying the much needed training the US however claims Schoolhouse in Arizona can train only 12 Pilots at a time it also maintained that Ukraine’s Pilots are not yet ready to start flying its incoming F-16 jets in large numbers the US and its allies further say that Ukrainian Pilots not up to the task as they are struggling with English language skills and the flying program Denmark Norway the Netherlands and Belgium have pledged to send Ukraine more than 60 us made f-16s the UK the aircraft are expected to arrive in trenches Ukraine argues that it is it originally needs the train Pilots to fly the Jets as soon as they arrive the trouble over pilot training marks the latest hurdle in Ukraine’s drawn out quest for mod fighter jets the US holds that f16s are no good to Ukraine if they are eliminated at the first instance if Ukrainian Pilots cannot do their job Western officials also say they are confident in their schedule for training enough Ukrainian fighter pilots to fly the new f-16s KF however also claims that the training program is too Limited in a cash 22 situation Western officials say they cannot graduate too many Pilots before Ukraine has received enough jets for them to continue training as the pilots will lose their skills if they do not get enough flying hours KF started asking for us made F-16 shortly after the Russia invasion began in 2022 but US President Joe Biden was initially reli reluctant to give the green light finally last year he approved thirdparty transfer of aircraft from Norway Belgium Denmark and the Netherlands but the training program was bogged down by logistical challenges also it’s not just a pilot training the US says maintenance is also a key part as even the maintainers need to be trained meanwhile Ukrainian president V zeny on Wednesday urged Ukraine’s allies to speed up deliveries of war planes following a deadly Russian strike on the city of kakei he said Ukraine needs 120 to 130 f-16s for air parody with Russia all right moving on to Europe where Ukraine is expecting its first F-16 fighter jets from its Western allies in the coming weeks and a bid to take on the Russia air superiority but now its challenge is who will fly these incoming fighter jets keev does not have trained F-16 pilots and it is upset with the US for that it is not training its fighter pilots fast enough for their job Ukrainian

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