The Ukrainian authorities have requested a meeting with members of the organization for Security and cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and Russia in the next 48 hours speak russian military accumulation near the border with Ukraine and the interior of annexed Crimea.
Tensions were rising for weeks over accumulation near Ukraine. Washington said a invasion can happen anytime. Moscow denies having planned a invasion and accused the West of hysteria.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said Moscow did not respond after Kyiv on Friday invoked a party of the Vienna Document, a set of security agreements, demand Moscow explains son military Activities.
“Therefore, we take the next step. We ask for an appointment with Russia and all states participants within 48 hours to discuss son strengthening and son redeployment along our border and in temporarily occupied Crimea,” Kuleba tweeted.
“If Russia is serious when it talks about the indivisibility of Security in the OSCE spacehe must fill son commitment of military transparency in in order to defuse tensions and strengthen security for everything,” he said.
Ukraine is in the throes of conflict in its eastern regions since March 2014, following the invasion and annexation of Crimea.
Russia has also western defendant countries of compromising its security by the expansion of NATO towards its borders.
The Kremlin also issued a list of demands for security from the West, including a rollback of deployments of troops from some ex-Soviet states and guarantees that Ukraine and Georgia will not join NATO.
Moscow concerned over “Moving” from personnel of the OSCE
Meanwhile, Russia said it was concerned by the OSCE decision move some of their instructors based in Ukraine.
The OSCE “informed States participants of the decision by ‘a number of countries’ to move their national Staff of the mission OSCE special observation mission in Ukraine “due to the deterioration of security conditions”, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.
“Those decisions can’t but cause our grave concern.”
The OSCE has served as the world’s eyes and the ears for the eight-year conflict in the Russian-backed separatist Ukrainian east which has claimed more more than 14,000 lives.
weeks of tensions over Ukraine saw Russia almost encircled son western neighbor with more more than 100,000 soldiers, with Washington warning that a wholeout Russian invasion could begin “any day.”
Zakharova said that the OSCE move further fueled tensions over Ukraine, adding that the follow-up mission could be used as a “tool” to stage a possible provocation.
“We call on the direction of the OSCE to resolutely put an end to attempts to manipulate mission and prevent the organization to be drawn in dirty politics games” Zakharova added.
Pictures on social media showed convoys of his white SUVs are leaving various rooms of the conflict zone because of that of personnel need comply with travel advisories from their respective governments.
The Ukrainian authorities have requested a meeting with members of the organization for Security and cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and Russia in the next 48 hours speak russian military accumulation near the border with Ukraine and the interior of annexed Crimea.
Tensions were rising for weeks over accumulation near Ukraine. Washington said a invasion can happen anytime. Moscow denies having planned a invasion and accused the West of hysteria.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said Moscow did not respond after Kyiv on Friday invoked a party of the Vienna Document, a set of security agreements, demand Moscow explains son military Activities.
“Therefore, we take the next step. We ask for an appointment with Russia and all states participants within 48 hours to discuss son strengthening and son redeployment along our border and in temporarily occupied Crimea,” Kuleba tweeted.
“If Russia is serious when it talks about the indivisibility of Security in the OSCE spacehe must fill son commitment of military transparency in in order to defuse tensions and strengthen security for everything,” he said.
Ukraine is in the throes of conflict in its eastern regions since March 2014, following the invasion and annexation of Crimea.
Russia has also western defendant countries of compromising its security by the expansion of NATO towards its borders.
The Kremlin also issued a list of demands for security from the West, including a rollback of deployments of troops from some ex-Soviet states and guarantees that Ukraine and Georgia will not join NATO.
Moscow concerned over “Moving” from personnel of the OSCE
Meanwhile, Russia said it was concerned by the OSCE decision move some of their instructors based in Ukraine.
The OSCE “informed States participants of the decision by ‘a number of countries’ to move their national Staff of the mission OSCE special observation mission in Ukraine “due to the deterioration of security conditions”, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.
“Those decisions can’t but cause our grave concern.”
The OSCE has served as the world’s eyes and the ears for the eight-year conflict in the Russian-backed separatist Ukrainian east which has claimed more more than 14,000 lives.
weeks of tensions over Ukraine saw Russia almost encircled son western neighbor with more more than 100,000 soldiers, with Washington warning that a wholeout Russian invasion could begin “any day.”
Zakharova said that the OSCE move further fueled tensions over Ukraine, adding that the follow-up mission could be used as a “tool” to stage a possible provocation.
“We call on the direction of the OSCE to resolutely put an end to attempts to manipulate mission and prevent the organization to be drawn in dirty politics games” Zakharova added.
Pictures on social media showed convoys of his white SUVs are leaving various rooms of the conflict zone because of that of personnel need comply with travel advisories from their respective governments.