Arms Supplies to Ukraine Threatens Russia”s Security
05 de marzo de 2015, 09:44Moscow, Mar 5 (Prensa Latina) The projected supply of lethal weapons to Ukraine by US and NATO allies threatens Russia”s security and the peace agreements, said today the Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich.
Lukashevich warned that the delivery of weapons to Kyiv will not only abort the peace process in Ukraine, but uncover another dangerous escalation of confrontation in the southeast of the country.
The official spokesman recalled the repeated warnings from Moscow about the dangers of rearming the Ukrainian army in times of great expectations in a lasting truce, and in the bilateral sense, which might damage even more the deteriorating relations, he warned.
The fire of the civil war does not go out with guns, said Lukashevich in a call to the authorities in Kyiv and the Ukrainian people to reflect on the consequences of such steps.
The Russian diplomat denounced that the policy, supported by some allies of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), contradicts the international convention for the arms trade and the commitments of the signatory States.
The information regarding US intentions to initiate such supplies originate serious concerns in the background of the implementation of the Minsk agreements, from February 12, facing a distension in former Soviet republic, said the spokesman.
Lukashevich warned that at the same time the US Congress is drafting a special law authorizing the allocation to Kyiv of a billion dollars for training Ukrainian soldiers and supplying the army. In fact, according to the diplomatic source, about 300 members of the 173rd Airborne Brigade of the Armed Forces of the United States, based in Italy, will disembark in the coming days in the polygon of Yavorovski, in the Lviv region.
The mission will supposedly be train the Ukrainian soldiers in the use of American war materiel, Lukashevich exposed.
According to a Pentagon site, the soldiers will remain for about eight months at the International Centre for Peacekeeping and Security (International Peacekeeping and Security Center) in Yavorovski, as part of an alleged joint mission.
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