Ukrainian crisis is a propaganda war"Vestnik Kavkaza"Latvia and Estonia will not supply weapons to Ukraine, the prime ministers of these countries Laimdota Straujuma and Taavi Rõivas said on Friday during an informal working session of the Council of Ministers of the Baltic States in Vilnius, RIA Novosti reports. Earlier, President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko named 11 European countries with which Kiev had signed contracts on the supply of weapons (including lethal ones). Several European countries have already expressed their concerns that arming Kiev could lead to escalation in the Donbass region. It seems that people in Europe are beginning to look at events in Ukraine through the prism of a civil war.The head of the public movement 'Union of the Ukrainian people of Kalmykia 'Kobzar'', Vladimir Omelchak noted: "The fact that there was a coup in Ukraine certainly does not raise any doubts. And when the “maidanovtsy” who came to power in Kiev told the world how they are going to build further statehood, how they will build their future work with neighboring countries, and even more so, it was publicly announced, about the rupture of economic and historical ties with Russia. Naturally, this caused a negative reaction among the multinational people of all Ukraine. 90% speak in two languages: in Ukrainian and Russian, Donbass spoke in Russian to a greater extent. Of course, it was necessary to negotiate with the society. It was necessary to negotiate with the people, then there would have been no Crimea, there would have been no Donbass, would have been no atrocities. There is hatred in the Ukrainian society now, which has been cultivated in Ukraine for many years. The ideology of Bandera and Shukhevych. Of course it does not carry any good in itself. If the state begins to build its position from a position of hatred and expulsion of all Russians, which happened in Ukraine, expel veterans of the Great Patriotic War from history, revise the history of the events of the 20th century, sadly, there is no future for such a state." The head of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs, Alexei Pushkov believes that the Kiev authorities are slowly going back to military actions: "We have information that a new criminal gang in Ukraine is becoming stronger, as new human resources are joining it. Military equipment and artillery are approaching this region. According to some information, military equipment is on territory where it should not be. This seventy-kilometer zone for artillery and missile launchers, where should not be this military equipment. It is not everywhere and it is not definite, but due to this fact we can suppose that Kiev is preparing for a new military operation.At the same time, we know that this is accompanied by some diplomatic maneuvers, in particular on the part of Poroshenko, who supported a peacemaking operation on the territory of the eastern part of Ukraine. Evidently, they are trying to make Russia agree to a peacemaking operation."Elaborating on the issue, Puskov said: "The specificity of the Ukrainian suggestion is that the peacemakers must control two of the borders between Ukraine and its eastern part, or the territory that is controlled by Kiev authorities and the border between Russia and the eastern part of Ukraine. We can surely say that the militia will not accept he Ukrainian plan which denies the presence of Russian peacemakers. In these conditions it's too difficult for me to imagine that critical masses in the UN support this sham peacemaking, because UN peacemaking can be implemented only when both sides agree to it. Russia, being a member of Security Council, has seen peacemaking like in Kosovo, that led to separation of Kosovo from Yugoslavia (it was performed by NATO who acted on the side of Kosovo and against Serbia).Pushkov called the crisis a propaganda battle: "Kiev authorities still try to shift the focus of events from the Minsk agreements and turn them into some recent historical period, shifting the attention of the peacemaking operation in order to influence Russia by means of propaganda. I think that Kiev's main aim is to get support for this idea and then accuse Russia of not following this scheme. Officially the Kiev authorities support the Minsk agreements. They speak about the necessity of a political process, but do nothing for its realization. Moreover, they adopt laws which do not help the political process."
By "Vestnik Kavkaza"
Latvia and Estonia will not supply weapons to Ukraine, the prime ministers of these countries Laimdota Straujuma and Taavi Rõivas said on Friday during an informal working session of the Council of Ministers of the Baltic States in Vilnius, RIA Novosti reports. Earlier, President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko named 11 European countries with which Kiev had signed contracts on the supply of weapons (including lethal ones). Several European countries have already expressed their concerns that arming Kiev could lead to escalation in the Donbass region. It seems that people in Europe are beginning to look at events in Ukraine through the prism of a civil war.
The head of the public movement 'Union of the Ukrainian people of Kalmykia 'Kobzar'', Vladimir Omelchak noted: "The fact that there was a coup in Ukraine certainly does not raise any doubts. And when the “maidanovtsy” who came to power in Kiev told the world how they are going to build further statehood, how they will build their future work with neighboring countries, and even more so, it was publicly announced, about the rupture of economic and historical ties with Russia. Naturally, this caused a negative reaction among the multinational people of all Ukraine. 90% speak in two languages: in Ukrainian and Russian, Donbass spoke in Russian to a greater extent. Of course, it was necessary to negotiate with the society. It was necessary to negotiate with the people, then there would have been no Crimea, there would have been no Donbass, would have been no atrocities. There is hatred in the Ukrainian society now, which has been cultivated in Ukraine for many years. The ideology of Bandera and Shukhevych. Of course it does not carry any good in itself. If the state begins to build its position from a position of hatred and expulsion of all Russians, which happened in Ukraine, expel veterans of the Great Patriotic War from history, revise the history of the events of the 20th century, sadly, there is no future for such a state."
The head of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs, Alexei Pushkov believes that the Kiev authorities are slowly going back to military actions: "We have information that a new criminal gang in Ukraine is becoming stronger, as new human resources are joining it. Military equipment and artillery are approaching this region. According to some information, military equipment is on territory where it should not be. This seventy-kilometer zone for artillery and missile launchers, where should not be this military equipment. It is not everywhere and it is not definite, but due to this fact we can suppose that Kiev is preparing for a new military operation.At the same time, we know that this is accompanied by some diplomatic maneuvers, in particular on the part of Poroshenko, who supported a peacemaking operation on the territory of the eastern part of Ukraine. Evidently, they are trying to make Russia agree to a peacemaking operation."
Elaborating on the issue, Puskov said: "The specificity of the Ukrainian suggestion is that the peacemakers must control two of the borders between Ukraine and its eastern part, or the territory that is controlled by Kiev authorities and the border between Russia and the eastern part of Ukraine. We can surely say that the militia will not accept he Ukrainian plan which denies the presence of Russian peacemakers. In these conditions it's too difficult for me to imagine that critical masses in the UN support this sham peacemaking, because UN peacemaking can be implemented only when both sides agree to it. Russia, being a member of Security Council, has seen peacemaking like in Kosovo, that led to separation of Kosovo from Yugoslavia (it was performed by NATO who acted on the side of Kosovo and against Serbia).
Pushkov called the crisis a propaganda battle: "Kiev authorities still try to shift the focus of events from the Minsk agreements and turn them into some recent historical period, shifting the attention of the peacemaking operation in order to influence Russia by means of propaganda. I think that Kiev's main aim is to get support for this idea and then accuse Russia of not following this scheme. Officially the Kiev authorities support the Minsk agreements. They speak about the necessity of a political process, but do nothing for its realization. Moreover, they adopt laws which do not help the political process."
