Posted on 01/04/2022 3:08:46 PM PST by elpadre
Other countries will not send their soldiers to fight in Ukraine, Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration of Ukraine Olha Stefanishyna stated, Interfax-Ukraine reports.
"We have help from some NATO countries. We conclude agreements on the purchase of weapons and military equipment, in particular through the NATO procurement system. But we have to be realistic. Other countries will not send their soldiers to fight. There is a Ukrainian army that stands on the front line and will stand on the front line," Stefanishyna said.
She also noted that the EU and the US support Ukraine, which is why they have already prepared proposals for new sanctions in the event of a Russian invasion.
"That is, there is a consensus among Western countries on the adoption of such sanctions. This information was brought to the attention of the Russian president. At the same time, in the context of the accumulation of Russian troops, we see unprecedented international support and consolidation not only through political statements, but also through specific decisions, resolutions, actions published by the EU, NATO and individual countries. Over the past month, several defense ministers of the EU and the United Kingdom have visited Ukraine to discuss ways to support Ukraine," the Deputy Prime Minister said.
It is also reported that the US Senate provided for the allocation of $300 million in support of Ukraine in the defense budget for 2022, including $75 million on lethal weapons.
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Ukraine is absolutely NOT worth going to war with Russia over. None of the former Soviet block states are . Its for they and Russia to sort out . Not our business.
War
What’s it good for.
10%.
Say it again.
Otha Stefanishyna, Deputy PM for European Integration
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Soooo true.
“Ukraine is absolutely NOT worth going to war with Russia over...”
You are absolutely right, unless you are a flaky Democratic administration trying to hold on to power.
Or a Repuke Neo-Con.
After Napolean and Hitler, I can imagine how enthused the French and Germans are with the Russian Front in winter.
Ukraine has a monstrous army...Almost the entire male population.
I am a Viet vet.
I am not in favor, nor have I been since my turn overseas, of fighting any war, other than declared one.
We do not belong in the Ukraine. As far back as Tsarist Russia, the Ukraine has been counted as part of Tsarist Russia. Should the Ukraine desire to separate, selling arms should be the extent of our connection. Lusitania spectre does haunt us, but I will not support the bloodshed of one military member inthe action in the Ukraine.
NATO also does not need to be grown , enough already . Few of the members even pay their dues . Woukd Ukraine be a stellar example of responsibility , or a corrupt strap hanger?
The only exceptions should the Baltic States of Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia ,which are basically Scandinavian/ European already. Like Finland & Sweden.
Ask any Baltic States citizen if they wish to return to Russian occupation...Ask any Tibetan about their ‘ love of China’
I remember Hillary Co and their curious drumbeat of war with Russia throughout the 2015 and 2016 election cycle.
The Dems really wanted us entangled in a war with Russia for some reason.
I suspect this is how they think they can do it.
It’s insanity! Russia has had Ukraine securely in its relatively uncontested sphere of influence for hundreds of years. Now the Russian Army is about to move around massively in its own backyard and someone thinks it’s a good idea to get in the way? It’s the same with Taiwan. Take a look at the buffoons currently running the US and other NATO countries. Yeah, let’s let these idiots go blunder around in that tinderbox.
Which is not many, given that most fled to either Russia or Poland for menial jobs over the last 8 years.
Apparently, Putin gave Biden an ultimatum, among the long list he ordered Biden to do is to pull all US forces from Europe.
Looks like Putin thinks very little about Biden and feels he can do anything!
“...Russia has had Ukraine securely in its relatively uncontested sphere of influence for hundreds of years...”
Yes, Crimea was part of Russia since Catherine the Great took it from the Ottomans in 1783.
In March 2018, Trump approved the $47 million sale of 210 Javelin anti-tank missiles and 37 launchers to Ukraine. The missiles were the first lethal military assistance provided to Ukraine by the United States in its fight against Russian-supported separatists in eastern Ukraine since that fighting began in 2014.
“Russia has had Ukraine securely in its relatively uncontested sphere of influence for hundreds of years”
By that reckoning you may think that the USA should be returned to the UK, right?
Russia lived at peace with an unaligned Ukraine for twenty years before your hero neocon, GWB, showed up in 2004 to subvert democracy with the Orange Revolution. Then in 2014 your globalist heroes, Obama and Soros, came to Ukraine to totally take over. By your reckoning it’s ok for your fellow travelers, Bush, Obama and Soros to go around the world destabilizing and overthrowing elected governments to put them in the corrupt Obama/Biden sphere of corrupt economic exploitation? You must have been giddy with pride when your globalist and neocon heroes overthrew the elected presidency of DJT. Glad you piped in. Explaining your thought processes helps to understand your globalist/neocon stoogism.
That's false -- Russia under Yeltsin lived at peace with Ukraine in the 1990s
<>This war is Putin's war, not Russia's
Let me repeat that to you: this war is Putin's war, not Russia's war
The relationship under Yeltsin was good - and Ukraine felt no threat and could be unaligned -- hence the Budapest Memorandum, Ukraine agrees to trade away its intercontinental ballistic missiles, warheads and other nuclear infrastructure in exchange for guarantees that the three other treaty signatories — the U.S., the U.K. and Russia — will "respect the independence and sovereignty and the existing borders of Ukraine."
The relationship deteriorated drastically under Putin who wrote that he saw Ukraine as an "illegitimate country" - this was apparent in 2004 elections when the presidential election pit Viktor Yanukovych supported by Vladimir Putin — against a popular pro-democracy opposition leader, Viktor Yushchenko.
In the final months of the campaign, Yushchenko falls mysteriously ill, is disfigured and is confirmed by doctors to have been poisoned.
That was the first OPEN attack of Putin on Ukraine
Yanukovych wins the election amid accusations of rigging. Massive protests follow, and the public outcry becomes known as the Orange Revolution. After a third vote, Yushchenko prevails.
Putin was then seething
On Jan. 1, 2009, Gazprom, the state-owned Russian gas company, suddenly stops pumping natural gas to Ukraine
in 2014 - , armed men appear at checkpoints and facilities in the Crimean Peninsula. Putin at first denies they are Russian soldiers but later admits it.
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Net-net, Ukraine could be neutral when Yeltin's view of co-operation existed in Russia; Ukraine could not be neutral when Putin's view of conquest exists in Russia
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