After the disputed election in eastern Ukraine Kiev threatens with a change in strategy – and a renewed armed conflict against the rebels. Given the delicate situation calls for the NATO commander reinforcement of troops in the east.
Ukraine crisis goes into the next round of escalation: The NATO Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, Philip Breedlove, has asked the Pentagon in the United States for more troops and equipment. Due to the increasing pressure in Eastern Europe and the security measures in the Baltic States, Poland and Romania in additional rotating troops were needed, Breedlove said, according to a report in the magazine “Defense News”. He warned that NATO in Ukraine crisis closer to a “strategic inflection point” with Moscow.
The disputed election in eastern Ukraine threatens to escalate the conflict again: The Ukrainian Government warns of disintegration of the country and announced a change in its strategy in dealing with the rebels. President Petro Poroshenko was for a Tuesday meeting with his security advisers known as adjustments to the previous approach are needed.
Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin announced in the “Bild” newspaper, Kiev would resume eastern Ukraine again fully in his sphere. “Indeed, some regions of eastern Ukraine are under control of pro-Russian terrorists and Russian troops. But these are Ukrainian regions, and we will get back to us,” said Klimkin.
The elections had been sharply criticized by the West. After the European Union, they were also criticized by the US as illegal. The polls in the so-called “people’s republics” Donetsk and Luhansk were “sham elections” and contrary to the Ukrainian constitution and all electoral standards, said the National Security Council of the United States.
Ukraine Conflict after Disputed elections:Mogherini considers new sanctions make little sense
Similarly, the US State Department expressed. The US regretted that the elections had been held in the pro-Russian separatist-controlled eastern regions, said Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jen Psaki. Washington would recognize neither the results nor any of the elected representatives of Luhansk or Donetsk. The spokeswoman warned Moscow that had recognized the elections, prior to further isolation.
Ukraine foreign minister Klimkin called the West in this regard to a tightening of sanctions against Russia. “If the Western world it wants Russia to their opinion attaches importance to and complies with the common customary international rules, would be a logical next step to put more pressure on the Kremlin by all possible means.”
But not all Western representatives hold further sanctions would be useful. The new EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said in a press interview with six European newspapers, they have doubts about their effectiveness. The sanctions would indeed have undoubtedly impact on the Russian economy, “but the question is still open whether Moscow will change its policy therefore”. Despite the “question mark” but she wanted to hold on to the sanctions, writes the “Süddeutsche Zeitung”.
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