NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen has urged the international community to take steps to de-escalate tensions in Ukraine.
"I call on all parties, especially Russia, to make an effort to move away from this dangerous situation," Rasmussen told reporters in Brussels on Sunday.
Voice of Russia, Interfax
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"I call on all parties, especially Russia, to make an effort to move away from this dangerous situation," Rasmussen told reporters in Brussels on Sunday.
Voice of Russia, Interfax
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Ukraine crisis gives NATO, West no good options...
ReplyDelete(Reuters) - With Western powers increasingly concluding Ukraine has lost Crimea to Russia, the U.S. and its allies face few viable options and serious questions over future relations.
In ignoring President Barack Obama's Friday warning to keep out of Ukraine, Russia looks to be precipitating the greatest crisis in Russia-Western relations since at least the fall of the Berlin Wall.
How events play out in the next few days could help shape the geopolitical map for years to come.
Any Western direct military action would risk a war between nuclear superpowers. Ukraine's relatively small and underequipped forces could take action but would risk inciting a much wider Russian invasion that could overrun the country.................http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/02/us-ukraine-crisis-west-analysis-idUSBREA210G420140302?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews
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Ukraine Militär ...nur zu Nadelstichen fähig....
ReplyDelete02.03.2014 · Eine Million Reservisten ruft Kiew zu den Waffen. Ebenbürtig sind die ukrainischen Streitkräfte den russischen damit nicht. Aber sie könnten den Zugang zur Krim blockieren.
Die Ukraine macht mobil. Nachdem am Freitag bereits die Führung in Kiew die Streitkräfte in Alarmbereitschaft versetzt hatte, ordnete Sicherheitschef Andrij Parublij am Sonntag an, alle Reservisten des Landes einzuberufen. Das sind eine Million Männer, die zu den 130.000 aktiven Soldaten und rund 85.000 paramilitärischen Kräften stoßen, die das Londoner Internationale Institute of Strategic Studies in seinem Jahrbuch 2013 für das Land verzeichnet. Eine gewaltige Zahl sicher, aber was dieses Millionenheer im Kriegsfall zu leisten im Stande wäre, steht auf einem anderen Blatt geschrieben.
Denn eigentlich sollten die ukrainischen Streitkräfte heute eine moderne Armee sein. Doch schon im Weißbuch des Landes aus dem Jahr 2010 musste das Verteidigungsministerium eingestehen, dass die ambitionierten Pläne durch Unterfinanzierung behindert werden. Dabei müssten zahlreiche vor sich hin alternde Systeme aus der Sowjetzeit modernisiert werden..................http://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/ausland/ukraine-militaer-nur-zu-nadelstichen-faehig-12828024.html
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Ukraine will ask for help "if Russia activity expands", Kiev's UN envoy says...
ReplyDeleteWASHINGTON - Ukraine is preparing to defend itself against Russia but will ask other countries for help if Russia expands its military activity, the Ukrainian ambassador to the United Nations said on Sunday.
"We are to demonstrate that we have our own capacity to protect ourselves as decided today in parliament and we are preparing to defend ourselves," Ukrainian UN Ambassador Yuriy Sergeyev said on CNN. "If aggravation is going in that way, when the Russian troops are enlarging their quantity with every coming hour, naturally we will ask for military support and other kind of support."
http://www.jpost.com/Breaking-News/Ukraine-will-ask-for-help-if-Russia-activity-expands-Kievs-UN-envoy-says-344009
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