Posted on 04/25/2014 9:14:33 AM PDT by FreeReign
Foreign minister Sergei Lavrov says pro-Moscow militants will lay down arms if Kiev clears occupied square and buildings.
The Russian foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, appears to have offered a deal to resolve the crisis in eastern Ukraine, suggesting that if the country's government clears out the nationalist protest camp in Kiev, then pro-Moscow separatists will lay down their arms.
Western officials greeted the proposal with scepticism, noting that such confidence-building measures were at the heart of an international agreement reached last week, but which failed to end the separatists' occupation of public buildings in eastern Ukraine. They said the protest camp in Independence Square in Kiev, erected in February during the uprising that toppled the Russian-backed president, Viktor Yanukovych, was already being dismantled.
The Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe, which is monitoring the situation in Ukraine, reported that its team in the capital "observed the ongoing clearing of barricades in the Maidan square".
"The situation in the capital city was calm," the report added.
One western official raised the possibility that Lavrov might be seeking to use the dismantling of the camp as a face-saving way out of the crisis, but cautioned that there were few other signs of compromise from Moscow.
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Uh huh. How can Russia negotiate on behalf of people they have no affiliation with.
Russia is just doing a little rebranding in E. Ukraine. Now the bus station drunks with AK’s are a “self defense” force instead of “pro-russian separatists”.
Yup.
And I would add that most of the non Russian affiliates, what small number they were, seem to be losing interesting and leaving the protests.
Do the Putin Shuffle:
Entreat
Retreat
Cheat
Repeat
If it doesn't involve burning George Soros and Victoria Nuland at the stake I don't want to hear about it...
If you look closely you can almost see George "I sold poor Jews out to the Nazis" Soros pulling Barry's string.
Putin might a bad guy, for some reason or another according to the Corporate Media, but he inst installing Globo-Marxist puppets into my government that are wrecking my country RIGHT NOW and bankrolling a Global-Marxist agenda that is steamrolling my country RIGHT NOW.
That has been Russia’s position from the day the Geneva Accords were signed. Lavrov has said exactly that, several times.
Disarm Right Sector, and Russia will disarm the separatists.
IMO, I don’t think the Ukraine government can disarm them, even though the Rada passed a resolution to do exactly that. They are Svoboda’s strength, and the armed enforcers of the coup government.
Pierre Omidyar’s Omidyar Network is also heavily involved, along with USAID, and the Soros Group’s Renaissance Foundation.
LOL! That's what I was thinking.
"Not that we have any control over the Russ .. I mean, free-thinking, Ukrainian citizens occupying those buildings."
Disarm Right Sector, and Russia will disarm the separatists.
How can Russia disarm separatists if they have nothing to do with them?
If this goes much farther, Russia will claim that Ukraine invaded and annexed its territory.
Sashko was “Bus Station Drunk”?
The red part becomes Wset Russia. The Euro Weenies can have the blue part.
Here's a simple solution: Folks in Eastern Ukraine don't want to be part of Russia.
Oh really. Creation of sovereign republic declared in Donetsk.
Some do, some don’t.
To be fair, about 1 in 3 do.
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