Thursday, April 8, 2021

Ukraine conflict: Moscow could 'defend' Russia-backed rebels - BBC News

Moscow could 'defend' Russia-backed rebels

A top Russian official has warned that Moscow could intervene to help its citizens in eastern Ukraine as tensions rise in the region.



Sporadic fighting has increased in the Donbas region in Eastern Ukraine, with clashes between Russian-backed separatist rebels and Ukrainian troops.

Russia has been building up troops on the border with Ukraine.

The official, Dmitry Kozak, told a Moscow conference, that Russian forces could intervene to "defend" the rebels.

"Everything depends on the scale of the conflagration," he said....bbc

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  • Tensions dans le Donbass : vers une nouvelle escalade entre Kiev et Moscou ?

     

    •  Russia will be forced to protect the residents of Donbass if Ukraine launches full-scale hostilities against the region. That’s according to Dmitry Kozak, President Vladimir Putin’s deputy chief of staff, who is himself Ukrainian.


    Speaking on Thursday, Kozak claimed that a ramping-up of the conflict would lead to the end of Ukraine, with the Kremlin forced to stand up for its citizens living in the territory of Donbass. In recent years, Moscow has made it much simpler for those living in Ukraine to get a Russian passport, and many have taken up the offer.

    “Everything depends on what the scale of fighting will be. If there is, as the president says, a Srebrenica, we will be forced to stand up for ourselves,” he said, referring to Putin’s comment in 2019 that he fears a genocide in Donetsk and Lugansk, if Kiev regains control of Donbass. 

    The Srebrenica massacre, which took place in 1995, was Europe’s worst atrocity since the end of World War II, and led to the death of more than 8,000 Bosnian Muslims....rt

     

     

 

 

 

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