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The Herald Scotland
a day ago
- Sport
- The Herald Scotland
Kairat star says shock league defeat won't affect Celtic mood
But they suffered a huge blow at the weekend when they crashed to a rare domestic league defeat when they blew a two-goal lead at home to Yelimay Semey to lose 3-2. But Belarus international midfielder Gromyko believes it will have no negative impact ahead of facing the Scottish champions. Read more: He said: "I have no concerns that the defeat will impact our mood for playing against Celtic. "We approach every game with the same attitude. "Although the Celtic game is very important, we also want to become champions of Kazakhstan, so it wasn't as if we lost focus or anything. "We made defensive mistakes, which cost us goals. We were poor in our concentration levels on the pitch and need to improve on that. "We have a tough schedule with two games a week and long journeys, but I don't believe that had anything to do with the defeat. "The football gods see everything and punished us."
The National
a day ago
- Sport
- The National
Kairat star says shock league defeat won't affect Celtic mood
Celtic host Kairat tomorrow, who are bidding to become the first team from Kazakhstan to play in the main stage of the Champions League. But they suffered a huge blow at the weekend when they crashed to a rare domestic league defeat when they blew a two-goal lead at home to Yelimay Semey to lose 3-2. But Belarus international midfielder Gromyko believes it will have no negative impact ahead of facing the Scottish champions. Read more: He said: "I have no concerns that the defeat will impact our mood for playing against Celtic. "We approach every game with the same attitude. "Although the Celtic game is very important, we also want to become champions of Kazakhstan, so it wasn't as if we lost focus or anything. "We made defensive mistakes, which cost us goals. We were poor in our concentration levels on the pitch and need to improve on that. "We have a tough schedule with two games a week and long journeys, but I don't believe that had anything to do with the defeat. "The football gods see everything and punished us."
The National
3 days ago
- Sport
- The National
Kairat in visa boost for Celtic trip but suspension blow emerges
But the Kazakhstan side has received a boost after two of their star men were granted work permits for their trip to Scotland. Celtic face Kairat in a £40 million shoot-out for a place in the league stages of the new-look competition, with the first leg at home. But Kairat will have to do without former Torpedo Moscow and 25-times capped Belarus international Gromyko after UEFA confirmed he is suspended for the Parkhead clash. Read more: However, they have been granted UK visas for Russian international defender Yegor Sorokin and Belarus international Alyaksandr Martynovich after fears they would miss out because of red tape. Kairat sports director Askar Yesimov said: "All of our players have now received visas. "We started working on this issue even before the return match with Slovan Bratislava because we believed that we would advance further. "Our Football Association and the Kazakhstan Ministry of Tourism and Sports have done a great job. UEFA also took control of the situation, so there were no problems. "However, we have been informed by UEFA that Valery Gromyko cannot play in the first leg due to an accumulation of yellow cards."
Telegraph
03-06-2025
- Business
- Telegraph
Scaring Putin is the only route to a just peace
Nobody in their right mind thought Putin would come to the latest round of peace talks in Istanbul with any seriousness. And so it has proven. His demands are straight out of Soviet foreign minister Andrei Gromyko's negotiating playbook: demand the maximum, present ultimatums and do not give one inch. Putin's terms for a final settlement are no different from his diktats from the start, including international recognition of Moscow's occupation of the four regions he considers Russian territory, and a guarantee Ukraine never joins any international alliances. Even Putin's pathways to a temporary ceasefire require withdrawal of Ukrainian forces from all of the four regions, demobilisation of the armed forces, cessation of international military aid and electing a new government. In other words: total capitulation, with Ukraine surrendering its sovereignty, partitioned, isolated, disarmed and a Russian puppet government in Kyiv. That doesn't mean negotiations shouldn't continue in the hope of achieving less punitive terms. The Ukrainian government has already signalled it would be ready to accept the temporary occupation of territory Russia has already captured. But it is hard to see how Putin will climb down from his maximalist position without significant changes on the battlefield or to the economic situation. President Trump tried a softball approach with Putin, extending the prospect of major economic benefits through a return to normalisation in US-Russia relations. Putin hasn't bought that even though he has ham-fistedly attempted to mollify Trump and encourage him to abandon Ukraine with his disingenuous ploy of engaging in negotiations. Trump obviously sees right through that. He said he was 'p----d off' by Putin's proposal that Ukraine should be placed under external administration with elections overseen by the UN. The US now needs to try a different approach. Trump can say he did everything he could to end the bloodshed in the first months of his presidency but Putin's intransigence now demands different tactics. What would those tactics be? Continue to hold out an olive branch while doubling down on US military backing to Ukraine and pressuring European allies to do the same thing. It was Biden's faltering leadership that allowed most West European countries as well as the US to do the least they could get away with. That needs to change and we've already seen how Trumpian hectoring can compel Europeans to boost their own defence spending, both in his first term and even more in his second. Renewing US commitment to Nato would also help encourage European leaders. It would send a powerful message to Putin too, whose overriding strategic objective is dividing the West. We need to move on from providing Ukraine with just enough to defend themselves but never enough to prevail. The effort required to drive Russia back out of Ukraine is probably too much to expect, but the point would be to enable Kyiv to do even more damage to Russian forces to compel Putin to reconsider his current calculation that he can grind Ukraine down and outlast the West's support. Among the most harmful constraints Biden imposed on Ukraine was forbidding use of US-supplied weapons to attack Russian sovereign territory. That was the consequence of his fear of Russian escalation, both against Ukraine and Nato countries. It allowed Putin to continue to shield the Russian population from the conflict, keeping it limited to a 'special military operation'. Kyiv didn't play ball though, firing home-made drones into Russia and even mounting the first invasion of its territory since the Second World War. The latest breathtaking drone attack on Russia, which destroyed a large chunk of its strategic air force on the ground shows what can be done. Some say the US and European countries should distance themselves from that, dreading Moscow's retaliation. But irrespective of the diplomatic position they choose to take, they should do the opposite, by giving Ukraine what it needs to carry out further strikes to undermine Russian military capability, drive the war home to the population and humiliate Putin. Trump should start to do real economic damage to Russia. Much can be achieved by more effective military action to increase weapons and equipment loss rates, potentially forcing Putin to transition the economy to a full war footing. The half-hearted sanctions against Russia have not been good enough and European countries have paid more to Russia for hydrocarbons than they have given in aid to Ukraine. We need to turn the screws by tougher measures against the Russian energy sector, finally detaching Moscow from the international banking system and disrupting the ghost tanker fleet that has allowed oil revenues to surge. A bitter blow would also be landed by seizing the entirety of Russia's $330 billion of frozen assets in Western countries to pay for the war, or at least plan to do so subject to negotiations.
The Hindu
25-04-2025
- Politics
- The Hindu
From The Hindu, April 25, 1975: Israel's independence — Soviet offer
Moscow, April 24: The Soviet Union yesterday offered its backing for the 'strictest guarantees of Israel's existence and independence' — if it was prepared to withdraw from occupied Arab territories. The pledge, made by the Foreign Minister, Mr. Andrel Gromyko, at a Kremlin dinner in honour of the visiting Syrian Foreign Minister, Mr. Abdel-Khalim Khaddam, was seen as the strongest Soviet promise yet to preserve the Jewish State. Mr. Gromyko also re-affirmed his Government's support for a reconvened Geneva peace conference, but urged thorough preparation so that the forum should not become as empty 'fanfaronade.' If Israel's leaders wanted to ensure the peaceful development of their country, they simply had to abandon plans to annex other people's territories, the Foreign Minister declared. 'Israel may get, if it wishes so, the strictest guarantees with the participation — under an appropriate agreement — of the Soviet Union,' he said. 'These guarantees would ensure peaceful conditions for the existence and development of all States in the Middle East,' Mr. Gromyko said.
