Don’t expect a ceasefire in Ukraine
Don’t expect a ceasefire in Ukraine,despite the buzz now rippling through European capitals and Washington. The reason is simple: there is no incentive for Russia to stop the war.
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Don’t expect a ceasefire in Ukraine,despite the buzz now rippling through European capitals and Washington. The reason is simple: there is no incentive for Russia to stop the war.
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Ambassadors to Japan from the other G7 nations – the US, UK, Canada, Germany, France and Italy – refused to attend Friday’s (August 9) peace ceremony in Nagasaki because the Israeli ambassador had not been invited. The only other countries not invited were Russia and Belarus.
The U.S. and British ambassadors to Japan said on Wednesday they would not attend Nagasaki’s annual peace memorial ceremony this week, which marks the day the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the city, because Israel had not been invited.