"It is, in essence, […] not an army anymore but a foreign legion, a NATO-controlled foreign legion, which is not serving to protect Ukraine's national interests," Putin said at a meeting with university students in St. Petersburg.
"They are pursuing other goals linked with attaining geopolitical goals of deterring Russia contrary to the interests of the Ukrainian people," Putin said.
On December 23, the Ukrainian authorities canceled the country’s non-aligned status, confirming that Kiev was renewing its intention to join NATO.
Despite Kiev's aspirations to form part of the alliance, NATO officials have repeatedly stressed that the country needs to implement a wide range of reforms before pursuing bloc membership.
In December, Russian Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov said that Ukraine’s accession to NATO would bring Russia’s relations with the bloc to a complete collapse.
Commenting on the Ukraine crisis, US Treasury Secretary Jack Lew said Monday that Washington had "more tools" to increase pressure on Moscow.
"I think we have seen that the sanctions work to create real stress in the economy. We have more tools. I am not today going to enumerate what the tools are but we have more tools," he said during a press conference in Brussels..................... http://sputniknews.com/politics/20150126/1017361213.html
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Kiev is refusing to search for peaceful solution in eastern Ukraine standoff and used a brief ceasefire to regroup its forces, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Monday...
ReplyDelete"Unfortunately, the Kiev authorities refuse to chose a peaceful path [in the Ukrainian conflict] through the use of political means," Putin said addressing university students of the Gorny National Mineral Resources University in St. Petersburg. "They used a brief ceasefire only to regroup their forces, and started military operation again," the president said. Putin stressed that many in Ukraine have already realized that the country has been caught, in essence, in a civil war taking lives of thousands of people........Read more: http://indian.ruvr.ru/news/2015_01_26/Putin-Blames-Kiev-for-Waging-Civil-War-in-Ukraine-3031/
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L'armée ukrainienne est de facto une légion de l'Otan qui ne défend pas les intérêts nationaux de l'Ukraine, mais cherche à endiguer la Russie, a déclaré lundi le président russe Vladimir Poutine devant les étudiants de l'Université nationale des Mines de Saint-Pétersbourg...
ReplyDelete"Nous disons souvent: l'armée ukrainienne. Mais qui comprend-t-elle en réalité? On y trouve un certain nombre d'unités militaires officielles, mais la plupart de ses combattants forment les prétendus +bataillons de volontaires nationalistes+", a affirmé Vladimir Poutine.
Selon lui, "il ne s'agit plus, de facto, d'une armée, mais d'une légion étrangère, en l'occurrence d'une légion étrangère de l'Otan, qui ne cherche pas à défendre les intérêts nationaux de l'Ukraine".
"Ses objectifs sont tout à fait différents", a poursuivi le président russe. Il s'agit d'objectifs géopolitiques qui consistent à "endiguer la Russie, ce qui n'a rien à voir avec les intérêts nationaux du peuple ukrainien", a conclu le chef de l'Etat.
Lire la suite: http://french.ruvr.ru/news/2015_01_26/L-armee-ukrainienne-legion-etrangere-de-lOtan-Poutine-2082/
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Kiev Requests Additional Military Aid From NATO in East Ukraine Standoff ...
ReplyDeleteUkraine has asked its partners, including NATO members, for additional military assistance in light of the deteriorating security situation in the southeast of the country, the Ukrainian envoy to NATO said Monday.
"We continue to hold bilateral talks with various countries, including NATO members, and in light of the deterioration of the situation on site and the increase of heavy weaponry low from Russia, we have asked [these countries] for additional military aid to Ukraine," Ihor Dolgov said after a meeting of the Ukraine-NATO commission.
On December 23, the Ukrainian authorities canceled the country’s non-aligned status, confirming that Kiev was renewing its intention to join NATO...............http://sputniknews.com/military/20150126/1017369848.html
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Putin calls Ukrainian army ‘NATO legion’ with geopolitical aim to contain Russia...
ReplyDeleteRussian President Vladimir Putin on Monday called the Ukrainian army “a NATO legion” that has the geopolitical goal to contain Russia.
“In essence, this is already not an army, but a foreign legion, in this case NATO’s foreign legion that certainly does not pursue the goal of defending Ukraine’s national interests,” the president said.
“It has quite different goals — geopolitical containing of Russia, which is absolutely inconsistent with the national interests of the Ukrainian people,” Putin said at a meeting with students of the Gorny National Mineral Resources University.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said incumbent Kiev authorities gave up a path of peaceful settlement of the current conflict in war-torn Ukrainian industrial area Donbas.................http://itar-tass.com/en/russia/773395
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NATO slams Putin's remarks on Ukraine army...
ReplyDeleteNATO dismisses accusation that Kiev is "NATO legion" and alleges Russia has boosted military support for rebels.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has dismissed a claim by Russian President Vladimir Putin that Ukraine's army was a "NATO foreign legion".
In a statement issued on Monday, Stoltenberg also accused Moscow of boosting support for pro-Russian rebels who have seized large parts of eastern Ukraine. The claim has been repeatedly denied by Russia.
"We have seen a substantial increase in the flow of equipment from Russia to the separatists in Ukraine," he said
Putin called the Ukrainian military a "NATO foreign legion," reflecting his readiness to stand up to the West regardless of rising economic costs, as Standard & Poor's rating agency downgraded Russia's credit rating to junk............http://www.aljazeera.com/news/europe/2015/01/nato-slams-putin-remarks-ukraine-army-150126231828635.html
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