May 9 is approaching. According to Vladimir Putin, the day of Moscow’s “Victory Parade” to celebrate the day of the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II should also have been the day of the end of the war in Ukraine. The Russian president is preparing great choreographies. And so to answer, the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky proposed to the leaders of the allied countries a video-conference summit to be held on the same day – writes the Corriere.
Putin’s parade will be above all a propaganda tool, in an attempt to restore to the Federation that image of world power lost in two months of conflict against Kiev. Russian Defense Minister Shoigu has emphatically announced an “unprecedented” military parade on Moscow’s Red Square. In addition, according to the Ukrainian secret services, another could be held in the ruins of Mariupol.
The virtual meeting with Western partners, therefore, for Zelensky would serve to launch a message of unity of the free and democratic world, lined up alongside a people who oppose the Russian dictator.
According to the Corriere della Sera, the Ukrainian president also talked about it with Draghi last week, during their latest meeting. And the Italian premier would have said he was available. And since Putin remains deaf to any negotiated solution, even rejecting the Pope’s diplomatic offer, the commitment to support Kiev remains. In all ways, including the hypothesis of the summit on Monday 9 May.
The media component is intertwined with the political and military game in the conflict. So much so that the Atlantic Council is thinking of revolutionizing the NATO summit program, scheduled for June 29 and 30 in Madrid. The one in which the accession process to the Pact of Finland and Sweden will be formalized and which will also be extended to Australia, South Korea, Japan and New Zealand. But despite the weighty issues already on the table, Spain’s proposal to bring Zelensky’s presence to the session on the first day is being considered, so as to launch a “political message”. Today Ukraine – according to the definition of the French representation in the Atlantic Pact – represents the «trait d’union de l’Occident politique“.
“It remains to be verified”, concludes the Corriere, “whether the Ukrainian president will be able to organize the summit in video-conference with the allies within a week, so as to launch a message in response to the parade of the troops who entered his Country using the Z ». In any case, the appointment is already marked in Mario Draghi’s diary.
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