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'I can take Kiev in two weeks', Vladimir Putin warns NATO leaders
Date: September 02 2014
Ben Farmer
Brussels: Vladimir Putin has boasted to European leaders that his forces could sweep into Kiev in two weeks if he wanted. The Russian President reportedly made the threat to the outgoing European Commission president during talks on the Ukraine crisis.
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The sense of urgency was highlighted by events in Ukraine on Monday, as President Petro Poroshenko accused Russia of military aggression to alter the battlefield. "Direct, unconcealed aggression has been launched against Ukraine from a neighbouring country," he said. "It radically changes the situation in the conflict area."
Ukraine's Defence Minister, Valeriy Heletey, was more emphatic. "A great war has arrived at our doorstep, the likes of which Europe has not seen since World War II," he said in a Facebook post. And Colonel Andriy Lysenko, spokesman for the National Security and Defence Council, said Monday that Ukrainian forces had withdrawn from the airport near Luhansk in the face of a Russian army tank battalion, and that seven Ukrainian soldiers had been killed in the last 24 hours. Russia regularly denies sending troops into eastern Ukraine.
The EU's new head of foreign policy, Federica Mogherini, warned there was no military solution to what is now Europe's biggest crisis in decades.
Anders Fogh Rasmussen, secretary general of the alliance, said NATO faced multiple crises on its southern and eastern borders that could erupt at any time.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/i-can-take-kiev-in-two-weeks-vladimir-putin-warns-nato-leaders-20140902-10bcg2.html?skin=text-only
'I can take Kiev in two weeks', Vladimir Putin warns NATO leaders
Date: September 02 2014
Ben Farmer
Brussels: Vladimir Putin has boasted to European leaders that his forces could sweep into Kiev in two weeks if he wanted. The Russian President reportedly made the threat to the outgoing European Commission president during talks on the Ukraine crisis.
[...]
The sense of urgency was highlighted by events in Ukraine on Monday, as President Petro Poroshenko accused Russia of military aggression to alter the battlefield. "Direct, unconcealed aggression has been launched against Ukraine from a neighbouring country," he said. "It radically changes the situation in the conflict area."
Ukraine's Defence Minister, Valeriy Heletey, was more emphatic. "A great war has arrived at our doorstep, the likes of which Europe has not seen since World War II," he said in a Facebook post. And Colonel Andriy Lysenko, spokesman for the National Security and Defence Council, said Monday that Ukrainian forces had withdrawn from the airport near Luhansk in the face of a Russian army tank battalion, and that seven Ukrainian soldiers had been killed in the last 24 hours. Russia regularly denies sending troops into eastern Ukraine.
The EU's new head of foreign policy, Federica Mogherini, warned there was no military solution to what is now Europe's biggest crisis in decades.
Anders Fogh Rasmussen, secretary general of the alliance, said NATO faced multiple crises on its southern and eastern borders that could erupt at any time.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/i-can-take-kiev-in-two-weeks-vladimir-putin-warns-nato-leaders-20140902-10bcg2.html?skin=text-only
