- Aurinko nousee idästä, mutta Putin nukkui pommiin. Herättyään hän alkoi kertoa painajaisistaan. Tämäkö on se "totuus", jolla venäläisille perustellaan seuraavat omat hyökkäykset? Tilanne Itä-Ukrainassa taitaisi olla aikan erilainen, jos Nato olisi asialla!
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Putin: Itä-Ukrainassa taistelee Nato-legioona, joka yrittää motittaa Venäjän
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Putin: Ukraine army is NATO legion aimed at restraining Russia
Published time: January 26, 2015 13:15
Edited time: January 26, 2015 14:05
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Members of the Ukrainian armed forces drive armored vehicles in the town of Volnovakha, eastern Ukraine (Reuters / Alexander Ermochenko)
The Ukrainian army is essentially a ‘NATO legion’ which doesn’t pursue the national interests of Ukraine, but persists to restrict Russia, President Vladimir Putin says.
“We often say: Ukrainian Army, Ukrainian Army. But who is reality fighting there? There are, indeed, partially official units of armed forces, but largely there are the so-called ‘volunteer nationalist battalions’,” said Putin.
He added that the intention of Ukrainian troops is connected with
“achieving the geopolitical goals of restraining Russia.” Putin was addressing students in the city of St. Petersburg.
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According to Putin, the Ukrainian army
“is not an army, but a foreign legion, in this case a foreign NATO legion, which, of course, doesn’t pursue the national interests of Ukraine.”
Kiev has been reluctant to find political solutions to the crisis in eastern Ukraine and only used the ceasefire to regroup its forces, the president stressed.
“Unfortunately official Kiev authorities refuse to follow the path of a peaceful solution. They don’t want to resolve [the crisis] using political tools,” Putin said, adding that first Kiev authorities had first used law enforcement, then security services and then the army in the region.
“It is essentially a civil war [in Ukraine]. In my view, many in Ukraine already understand this,” Putin added.
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Putin calls Ukrainian army ‘NATO legion’ with geopolitical aim to contain Russia
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“It has quite different goals — geopolitical containing of Russia, which is absolutely inconsistent with the national interests of the Ukrainian people,” Russian President Vladimir Putin said
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ST. PETERSBURG, January 26. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday called the Ukrainian army “a NATO legion” that has the geopolitical goal to contain Russia.
“In essence, this is already not an army, but a foreign legion, in this case NATO’s foreign legion that certainly does not pursue the goal of defending Ukraine’s national interests,” the president said.
“It has quite different goals — geopolitical containing of Russia, which is absolutely inconsistent with the national interests of the Ukrainian people,” Putin said at a meeting with students of the Gorny National Mineral Resources University.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said incumbent Kiev authorities gave up a path of peaceful settlement of the current conflict in war-torn Ukrainian industrial area Donbas.
“Unfortunately, official Kiev authorities abandoned a path of peaceful settlement, do not want to settle it (current Ukrainian crisis) in political ways. At first law, enforcement agencies were used, then the security service, then the army,” Putin said.
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The head of state noted that when incumbent Kiev authorities faced armed resistance they stopped military actions. “Regretfully, they misused a breathing spell only for regrouping and resumed it (fighting) again. Thousands have already been killed. Certainly, this is a tragedy,” the president said.
“Tragic events, actually a civil war” are happening in Ukraine, he said. “In my mind, many people understand this perfectly in Ukraine,” Putin said.