The Geneva agreement sketches out a general plan for de-escalation and leaves the key details out. How, for example, is the Russian side to disarm local pro-Russian forces and convince them to leave occupied buildings, if they are, as claimed, self organized and independent of Russian influence? The Russian requirement that Ukraine maintain its “neutral status” is not in the agreement but would require Ukraine to nullify its association status with the European Union. Ukraine’s joining of the European Union was at the heart of the Euro-Maidan protests, and the Russian foreign minister appears to be requiring that Ukraine drop its goal of becoming part of the European economy.
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Bear's next honey pots: Kharkiv, Lugansk, Donetsk, Odessa
ReplyDelete"[Speaking on Thursday morning, the Russian president issued a reminder that he had been granted the approval of Russia’s upper chamber of parliament to intervene militarily if there was no peaceful resolution to the unrest in southern Ukraine. “Kharkiv, Lugansk, Donetsk, Odessa were not part of Ukraine in Czarist times, they were transferred in 1920. Why? God knows. Then for various reasons these areas were gone, and the people stayed there — we need to encourage them to find a solution,” Putin said. “We must do everything to help these people to protect their rights and independently determine their own destiny.”]"
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