Posted on 07/25/2017 1:19:14 PM PDT by huldah1776
The new U.S. special envoy for Ukraine peace negotiations said he was stunned by the number of cease-fire violations in the ex-Soviet nation’s war-torn east after making his first visit to the region.
Kurt Volker, who was recently appointed as Washington's point man for talks on ending the war between Kyiv's forces and Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine, made the comment in a July 23 interview after spending the day at the front lines of the conflict.
"The level of cease-fire violations on daily basis is astonishing," Volker told RFE/RL by telephone from a train bound for Kyiv, where he was set to hold talks with Ukrainian officials the following day.
Volker’s assessment came hours after he told a news conference in Kramatorsk, the headquarters of Kyiv's military operation against the separatists, that Ukraine is locked in a “hot war” whose origins he blamed on Moscow.
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Kyiv, the United States, the EU, and NATO accuse Russia of backing the separatists with weapons and personnel. Moscow rejects the accusation despite substantial evidence of such support.
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Seems to me there’s no cease fire.
Has there ever been in all of history a cease-fire that’s actually held?
How dare those people want their independence.
Sounds like Trump hasn’t rutted Deep State out of the Ukraine mess. Hopefully he does soon.
There was a breaking radio news bulletin of a separatist group declaring their independence two or three days ago. But didn’t see any postings of such here or elsewhere on that development.
There are no Ukrainian Separatists, there are Russian military occupiers of Ukrainian territory.
Putin’s efforts to restore Soviet Russian Union by slowly occupying and annexing break away lands.
Take the Russian green men away and see how long will that part of Ukraine be “separated”!
Putin out of Ukraine!
Putin said that the collapse of the Soviet Empire was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the last century. Instead of hiring some “body language experts” to conjure hints about his wishes the people should listen to what he says as he says it rather plainly. He wants a new Soviet Empire.
Quote from a later reply #8 by Leo Carpathian:
There are no Ukrainian Separatists, there are Russian military occupiers of Ukrainian territory.
Putin’s efforts to restore Soviet Russian Union by slowly occupying and annexing break away lands.
Take the Russian green men away and see how long will that part of Ukraine be “separated”!
Putin out of Ukraine!
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