On December 3, Biden announced “comprehensive initiatives” to defend Ukraine from Russia.
And we strive only for diplomatic solutions, emphasized Markarova / photo from UNIAN
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Ukrainian Ambassador to the United States Oksana Markarova said that Kiev offered its Western partners a set of restrictions to contain Russia against the backdrop of the threat of its full-scale invasion.
She spoke about this in an interview. CNN.
The first level of this “broad package” concerns political containment; the second is economic.
Markarova stressed that it is economic sanctions that can convince Russia to refrain from new aggression against Ukraine and significantly increase the cost of an attack for Putin.
Read alsoBiden sharply responded to the demands of Russia: I do not accept anyone’s “red lines”The third component of the proposed initiatives is to contain Russia in a security and defense context.
The ambassador stressed that Ukraine is a “peaceful country of startups and entrepreneurs”, which did not plan to conduct any military offensive operations.
“And we are striving only for diplomatic solutions,” Markarova explained.
The situation on the border of the Russian Federation and Ukraine
On November 11, Bloomberg published an article that spoke of risks of a full-scale Russian attack to Ukraine. The agency noted that in the circles of American and European diplomats, they are seriously worried about the current movement of Russian troops towards the Ukrainian border.
In Moscow itself it is denied, calling the fall redeployment of troops “a show of force.”
In early November, information began to appear in the Western media with reference to satellite imagery data about the active movement of the Russian military to the border with Ukraine.
At the same time, the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine denied this information.
This is the second likely wave of aggravation on the Russian-Ukrainian border since March 2021. However, as Bloomberg writes, so far the concentration of Russian troops takes place mainly at night, while in the spring the Kremlin openly threatened an offensive, exerting political pressure on Ukraine, the EU and the United States.
Russian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba said that the threat of a full-scale military invasion of Ukraine by Russia does exist, but Kiev is doing the necessary work to prevent such a scenario from being realized.
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