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Russia’s State Duma warns of Ukraine and NATO plans to launch an aggression against Russian Crimea, and authorities in the Donetsk People’s Republic say Ukrainian forces have violated the ceasefire regime.
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Russia warns Ukraine and NATO against launching aggression against Crimea
Russia’s State Duma warned of Ukraine and NATO’s plans to launch an aggression against Russian Crimea, stressing that this “will end badly for them.”
The authorities of the Donetsk People’s Republic announced that Ukrainian forces violated the ceasefire regime in the region eight times in 24 hours.
He noted that the Ukrainian army used artillery shells banned by the “Minsk” ceasefire agreements last July.
Ukraine will participate in exercises with NATO next month, and these exercises are the largest since the end of the Cold War.
For its part, NATO on Thursday expressed concern over what it described as a large Russian military build-up near eastern Ukraine, following the spread of unverified images on social media that Russia was transporting a large number of tanks, armored personnel carriers and other equipment to the regions bordering Ukraine and the Crimean peninsula.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov played down the military buildup, saying: “It should not disturb anyone or pose a threat to anyone,” noting that “Russia is taking steps to ensure the security of its borders.”
For its part, the Kremlin stressed that Moscow “may be forced to take additional measures to ensure security, should Western countries send forces to Ukraine,” in light of reports that Russia has stepped up its military presence in the border.
The spokesman for the US State Department, Ned Price, said, for his part, that “we cannot ignore the Russian aggression against Ukraine and we know there are reports about Russian military movements and we will speak about our concerns about those activities.
On Friday, US President Joe Biden pledged “firm” US support for “Ukraine sovereignty” during a telephone conversation with his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky.
The White House statement read: “President Biden affirmed America’s unwavering support for Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity in the face of Russian aggression in Donbas and Crimea.”
Last Tuesday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that “Crimea’s accession to Russia was carried out in full compliance with international law,” noting that “Crimea will remain a Russian territory forever and ever. that the West, led by the United States, will not change. ” this issue.”
Crimea has returned to Russia, after the vast majority of its population voted in favor of this step in the popular referendum organized in March 2014, in the context of the overthrow of the Yanukovych government and the outbreak of the armed conflict in the southeast of Ukraine between the Government of Kiev and the republics of Donetsk and Lugansk declared on the One side.
On the basis of this annexation, European countries imposed sanctions on Russia, despite Moscow’s assertion that the re-accession of Crimea to the Russian state occurred in full accordance with international law.
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