SecondIs Russia preparing for the next invasion of Ukraine? This is the big issue that hovered over the two institutions in Brussels on Monday. I And NATO. The EU foreign ministers held a meeting in the European Parliament and decided to further sanction Belarus. A few kilometers away, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg received Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba. When the two came to the media after talking, Stoltenbergra sounded the alarm. The Norwegian said: “In the past few weeks, we have seen a large-scale build-up of Russian troops near the Ukrainian border, which is unusual and similar to Russia’s deployment in Crimea and the Black Sea earlier this year.”
U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Brinken has expressed concern about “unusual Russian military activities” on Wednesday. The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine announced that Moscow has assembled 90,000 soldiers. There were 100,000 people in April. Some of them were evacuated, but approximately 80,000 people remained in their regular locations. Other troops from Siberia left heavy equipment behind. In September, they took part in the Sarpad (West) military exercise, and according to reports, they were stationed on the northern border of Ukraine not far from Belarus. The first batch of satellite images circulated on social media at the end of October pointed this out. In early November, the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency went William Burns To Mosco.
“Must be prepared for all scenarios”
Bloomberg reported late last week that Washington had told EU officials “its concerns about possible military action.”Maybe this is also a problem for the chairman of the committee Ursula von Delane Received by President Joe Biden at the White House on Wednesday; the committee kept a low profile. The German side said this weekend that there is no evidence that an attack is imminent. Russia certainly denies that it has this idea.
Stoltenberg Worries have rekindled now, as he did in the spring. He didn’t want to comment on the strength of the troops or Russia’s motives. The NATO Secretary-General said that people should not guess too much, but at the same time reminded that “Russia has shown its willingness to use these forces against its neighbors Ukraine and Georgia.” The Ukrainian Foreign Minister was also vague. Kuleba said: “We must be prepared for all situations and take all measures that help deter Russia and prevent the worst from happening.”
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Foreign Minister Heiko Mas also met with Culeba on Monday afternoon. The Social Democratic Party politician pointed out that the Prime Minister had “exactly stated the situation very clearly” in his conversation with President Vladimir Putin. French colleague Jean-Yves Le Drian also discussed the matter with the Russian Foreign Minister and the Minister of Defense. “We are showing to Moscow at all levels that we see this and we don’t think this can be the starting point for further escalation.”
