The EU’s top diplomat accused Russia of creating “a serious deterioration in the security situation in Europe” and called for dialogue to avoid conflict. Ukraine.
The EU’s High Representative for Foreign Policy Josep Borrell is responding to Vladimir Putin’s security proposal Russia This will effectively rewrite the post-Cold War order.
Russia proposed last week A list of highly controversial safety requirements, Including the prohibition of Ukraine’s entry into NATO and restrictions on the deployment of troops and weapons on the eastern wing of the alliance — effectively returning NATO forces to their positions before the eastward expansion in 1997.
The Kremlin proposal was handed over to the United States and NATO, but the European Union was part of the coordinated response of the West to Russia’s military build-up on the Ukrainian border.
On Wednesday, Borrell spoke with U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Brinken, and they “noted” the Russian proposal. EU account for the callThe EU statement said: “They emphasized that any further military aggression against Ukraine will have huge consequences and heavy costs.”
Spokesperson of the U.S. State Department Use similar language Describe the exchange: “They emphasized the need to take coordinated actions to support Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, and reiterated that any further military aggression by Russia against Ukraine will have huge consequences for the Russian Federation.”
Russia has assembled about 100,000 soldiers on the side of its border with Ukraine, and Putin has escalated his remarks, raising concerns that he is looking for excuses for invasion. Earlier this month, the Russian President stated that there is a war in eastern Ukraine-where Ukrainian government forces have been fighting Russian-backed insurgents since 2014- Looks like genocide.
The EU leaders did not elaborate on the specific sanctions against Russia, but Agreed last week “Any further military aggression against Ukraine will have huge consequences and serious costs.”
NATO called on Russia to withdraw its troops and stated that its relationship with Ukraine is an issue between Kiev and the 30 member states of the Transatlantic Security Alliance.
Borel stated in a statement on Putin’s security proposal that the security of Europe is threatened.
List the recent foreign policy adventures of the Kremlin, from Russia’s annexation of Crimea to its role in eastern Ukraine, and its actions in Ukraine South Ossetia and Abkhazia separated by Georgia, And in Transnistria In support of the Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko, Borel stated that Russia’s actions “caused a serious deterioration in the security situation in Europe”.
“The EU believes that dialogue, negotiation and cooperation are the only means to overcome disputes and bring peace,” Borrell said, noting that international commitments, including those made through the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, need to be respected.
The OSCE announced on Wednesday that Russia and Ukraine have reached an agreement on resuming the ceasefire.
OSCE’s special envoy to Ukraine Miko Kinunin said: “I’m glad that the participants expressed their firm determination to fully comply with the measures to strengthen the ceasefire agreement on July 22, 2020.” “This pair of people living on both sides of the line of contact It means a lot to people.”
The OSCE has an observer mission in Donbass. Compared with December 2020, the number of daily ceasefire violations reported this month is five times that of December 2020. Ceasefire violations include explosions and weapon firings. Although the monitors’ movements were restricted and GPS interfered, these incidents were recorded from the OSCE drones.
The agreement was reached at a meeting between officials of Ukraine, Russia, and the OSCE (known as the Trilateral Contact Group), as well as Kremlin-backed representatives of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic and Luhansk People’s Republic.
Since the beginning of the conflict in 2014, many ceasefire agreements have been reached and broken. More than 14,000 people were killed, and the region’s economy was destroyed.
