Both Ukraine and the Baltic countries, which share a long border with Russia, reject the idea that French President Emmanuel Macron aired in an interview on the French TV channel TF1. He said, according to Reuters, that Europe must prepare for its security in the future and think about how Russia should meet in order to bring the country to the negotiating table. Macron’s actions have caused resentment in Ukraine. – What the world needs are insurance guarantees from Russia, not the other way around, says a close adviser to President Volodymyr Zelenskyj, Mykhailo Podoljak, according to Reuters. – Not seriously US Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland says that Russia’s demand that Russian-annexed areas be recognized shows that Putin is “not seriously interested” in negotiations. US Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland flatly rejected Macron’s proposal when speaking to journalists in Kyiv. Photo: Roman Gritsyna / AP Ho said this at the weekend after meeting President Zelenskyj in Kyiv. Finland’s former Prime Minister Alexander Stubb is also critical. He says he is “fundamentally at odds” with Macron. – The only insurance guarantees we should focus on are the non-Russian ones. Russia must first guarantee that they will not attack others, he wrote on Twitter. Lithuania’s former foreign minister, Linas Linkevicus, says that Russia has security guarantees as long as they do not attack, annex or occupy neighboring countries. – If someone wants to create a new security architecture that allowed a terrorist state to continue with its methods of repression, then they should think again. This doesn’t work, he writes on Twitter. A woman asks for a watering can after fetching rainwater in a snowy street in Kyiv. Photo: John Leicester / AP Zelenskyj: Ukraine must survive the winter In Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskyj is asking people to persevere in order to get through the winter. – The enemy has great hope of using the winter against us, to make it cold and difficult, as part of the terror, he said on Sunday evening in a TV speech. – We must do everything we can to survive the winter, no matter how difficult it is, he said. He says that enduring this winter means enduring everything. Russia has an advantage with rockets and artillery, he pointed out. – But we have something that the occupier does not have, and will not get: We protect our home, and that gives us the greatest possible motivation, he emphasized in the speech. The president says that Ukrainians are fighting for freedom and to defend the truth. – To survive the winter, we must be more persistent and united than ever before, he says. In the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut in Donetsk, the damage is extensive after Russian bombs. This photo was taken on Sunday. Photo: YEVHEN TITOV / AFP On Sunday, the US intelligence chief, Avril Haines, said in a lecture at the Reagan Center in California, that the war in Ukraine is going too far at the moment. She said that the Ukrainian forces will focus on building up and preparing for a new offensive in the spring, something she believes Russia is not prepared for. On Sunday, the British Ministry of Defense announced that they had access to a new opinion poll from the Kremlin which shows that support for the war is falling in Russia. Russia blamed Britain on Sunday for spreading disinformation.
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