Protests in Abkhazia
1 Abkhazia The TASS reported that in the city of Sukhumi, the local opposition supporters headed to the Abkhaz parliament. They tried to break into the Theater Square, which was blocked by buses and metal fences. They tried to flip the buses. A fight took place. The President of Abkhazia, Aslan Bzhania, refused to go to the Theater Square, where the protesters had gathered. He stated that he is ready for a dialogue with the opposition in a different format. The protesters accuse Bzhania of failing to carry out the promised reforms during his 2 years in power. 2 Ethiopia The separatists from the "People’s Front for the Liberation of Tigray" announced the pulling of their troops to the north, and their readiness for the peace negotiations with the Ethiopian government. “We want to open the door for the humanitarian aid. We have just pulled our forces from both the Amhara and Afar regions" - a representative of the rebel organization stated. The administration of the Ethiopian Prime Minister, Ali Abiyah Ahmed, stated that the rebels were forced to retreat. Their announced regarding the ’strategic retreat of troops’ was a try to hide their military defeat. 3 Russia The Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu stated during an expanded meeting of the Defense Ministry collegium that the US private military companies, located in Donbass, are preparing a provocation with the use of chemicals in the eastern Ukraine. “We noticed the presence of more than 120 employees of the American private military companies in the villages of Avdeevka and Priazovskoye, in the Donetsk region. They are organizing firing positions inside residential buildings and socially significant facilities. They are also training the Ukrainian special operations forces, and radical groups, for active hostilities” - Sergei Shoigu explained. Vladimir Putin recently stated that Russia is extremely worried about the deployment of the US missile defense elements near the Russian borders. 4 Kazakhstan The Russian delegation, led by the Russian Presidential special envoy for Syria, Alexander Lavrentyev, met with the Iranian delegation, led by the senior assistant to the Minister of Foreign Affairs for the political issues, Ali Azgar Haji. The meeting took place in the capital of Kazakhstan, the city of Nur-Sultan, during the 17th round of negotiations on Syria, as part of the Astana process. During the meeting the parties spoke about the issues of coordinating of the positions of the two delegations on the situation in Syria, as well as other topics - the SANA news agency reported. 5 Donbass The RIA NEWS reported that the People’s Militia of the LPR discovered active Ukrainian electronic warfare stations near the Kiev-controlled village of Klinovoye, in Donbass. The LPR stated several times by now that the Ukrainian troops use the electronic warfare stations in order to interfere with the work of drones of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission, used at the contact line. Supposedly the Ukrainian troops are trying to hide the deployment of weapons, prohibited by the Minsk agreements. 6 The Pacific Ocean On Tuesday, the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the Japanese Self-Defense Forces reported that the Chinese aircraft carrier Liaoning carried out a training in the Pacific Ocean, 300 kilometers away from the remote Japanese island of Kitadaito, Okinawa Prefecture. There were exercises involving the carrier-based aircraft in the morning. In response to those actions, Japan sent a helicopter carrier ’Izumo’ to collect some intelligence data. Japan also sent some jet fighters to escort the Chinese aircraft. Constantine Reztsov, specially for the ANNA NEWS.
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