Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Reuters: Moscow's ultimatum: Ukraine fulfils its proposals or Russian army will decide
KYIV (Reuters) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov gave Ukraine an ultimatum on Monday to fulfil Moscow's proposals, including surrendering territory Russia controls, or its army would decide the issue, a day after President Vladimir Putin said he was open to talks.
Kyiv and its Western allies have dismissed Putin's offer to talk, with his forces battering Ukrainian towns with missiles and rockets and Moscow continuing to demand that Kyiv recognise its conquest of a fifth of the country. Kyiv says it will fight until Russia withdraws.
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Update #1: Russia’s proposals on Ukraine’s demilitarization should be better accepted — Lavrov (TASS)
Update #2: Lavrov: Ukraine must demilitarize or Russia will do it (AP)
WNU Editor: I feel like I am seeing history repeat itself.
A few weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine in February I saw something that I never saw before from Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov. It was a news clip, and it showed a frustrated Lavrov with the accompanying media report saying that his latest diplomatic effort to convince his Western counterparts to discuss and negotiate over Moscow's security concerns on Ukraine and NATO were being ignored. I remember that moment very clearly because that is when I started to wonder if my 100% certainty that Russia was not going to invade Ukraine was wrong.
Sadly .... I was wrong. And in hindsight it is clear (at least to me) that this is the reason why Lavrov was frustrated. Because he was probably told by Putin himself that if his diplomatic efforts did not succeed, a military conflict was likely.
And now I am seeing the same thing in play from the Foreign Minister this week. He is giving a warning/ultimatum, and like the last time no one is listening to him.
Here is my prediction. If history is any guide, expect some major Russian military moves in Ukraine in the coming weeks.
Update #3: The Foreign Minister has also issued a warning to the US .... Russia Warns U.S. Against Launching 'Decapitation Strike' on Putin (Moscow Times). My guess is that the Kremlin is paying attention to rhetoric like this .... Lindsey Graham Says Ukraine War Won't End Unless Russians Take Out Putin (Huffington Post).
Who the f this lavrov teñls UKRAINIANS to negotiate??? Get out from Ukraine you sobs orcs
ReplyDeleteRussia can’t tell other independent countries which groups( nato) they can or cannot join lol.. Russia was the aggressor and now nato stronger than ever and more United… Russia is in shambles and everybody in the world is laughing at their military…
ReplyDeleteI know crazy what russia is doing ....well if you compare it to what the west has done over the last 30 years...bombing everyone and everything that dosent agree ...well then Russia is very mild...war is boring
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DeleteLook at who the WNU Author 'paints' this, and phrases it.
ReplyDeleteLavrov tried to DIPLOMATICALLY resolve the Ukraine crisis before the outbreak of hostilities, but the big bad western/NATO powers were not listening to the wise old man. That Ukraine is a problem created by Western involvement; certainly not Russian mercenaries and equipment rolling into Donetsk.
It's an interesting but sad insight into what the author really thinks and believes. I understand from his own admittance that some Russian/Ukrainian friends/family have fallen out with him over his views (which he later claims some have come crawling back to him for help) but I cannot imagine the fallout if the author didn't hold back his true opinion; because of how he sets up these opinion pieces and frames them so that they steer towards familiar sympathy with Russian plight, and not Ukraine.
Very much sees this as a Ukrainian problem created by Ukraine and Western involvement, and not the foreign neighbor that in his mind, has been left with no choice but to interfere due to a so-called breakdown in diplomacy, when the reality is Russia has held plans on Ukraine for a long time.
Its all about perspective………
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ReplyDeleteBitch, please.