Putin’s silence dragged on. After the incident with the Ukrainian saboteurs in the Crimea it is necessary to react harshly, but the Kremlin apparently decided to wait for the reaction of the West. And she doesn’t have long to wait. The West has declared that Russia presented evidence he was not convinced. Apparently, he was convinced Ukrainian arguments. First of Kiev said that actually there was a skirmish between border guards of the FSB and Russian military personnel, and the victims decided to write off to Ukraine. He then went to the mockery, stating that there was a firefight with the deserters-Crimeans, who escaped from military unit from-for mockeries of the soldiers from “mainland” Russia. The mockery was joined by officials from the European Union of the second plan, urged Russia not to escalate and threatened new sanctions.
Western heavyweights were much more diplomatic. Vice President Biden urged Poroshenko not to escalate and to negotiate with Russia, and Russia itself to negotiations. Chapter diplomacy EU Mogherini reiterated Biden’s word for word, and the Minister of foreign Affairs of Germany Steinmeier, who arrived on a minor matter in Yekaterinburg, where he met with Lavrov hinted that the West will push Ukraine to finally implement the Minsk agreements and the Normandy format it is necessary to revive and develop.
Against this background, Ukraine defiantly pulls troops to the border with the Crimea and to the line of contact in Donbas, the shelling intensified, and the global community the very next day after the Crimean incident is presented jointly with the OSCE plan for the transfer of border POSTS with Russia in control of Ukraine.
Thus, Ukraine and the West is in fact made by the consolidated against Russia, she showed once again how they see the implementation of the Minsk agreements and Russia require not much is not enough SURRENDER in the Donbass. The West — until soft tactfully, Ukraine — in a hard and mocking. And the situation has entered a completely different quality, because Putin will have to answer not Ukraine but the West.
Against this background, puzzling the words of Lavrov Steinmeier that Russia is still concrete evidence of the guilt of Ukraine in the incident that she is ready to show. Yes, at least some concrete evidence is not present, they the West is not convinced. It is clear to all. It is necessary to act firmly and decisively, otherwise Russia will lose face, and along with it and President Putin. What the West persistently and consistently moving. Derail to begin with the rating of the Russian President in the country, and there, staring, and the country will collapse.
And while the bullying continued on the sporting front, where Russia is methodically and purposefully humiliated. Last example – history with the jumper in the length of Kishineu, only admitted to the Olympics “clean” the Russian athlete. The permit was quashed, on the grounds that on the vial with one of her doping samples were allegedly found suspicious scratches…. So, brazenly and defiantly. As in the case of Ukraine. She also behaves brazenly and defiantly. We are tested for durability, and there is no reaction. With sports, you need to wait until the end of the Olympics and then to escalate, but in the case of Ukraine it is very. Don’t respond harshly, or do not respond, feet wipe. The choice of Putin is not to be envied.
And in the Donbass another aggravation. The intensity of shelling of Ukrainian is growing, continues to kill civilians and destroy infrastructure. The only joyful moment sounded yesterday when in response to the shelling of the village of zaytsevo, the suburbs of Gorlovka, yesterday in response blew up an ammunition dump.
Official message from MO DNR (Eduard Basurin): “an ammunition dump of the APU on the Ukraine-controlled part of the village of zaytsevo near Gorlovka today exploded in the result of violation of safety. “In the evening on August 15 at the warehouse rocket-artillery weapons (RAV) APU, located in the North-Western outskirts controlled by the APU of the village of zaytsevo occurred detonation of munitions, with the result that there has been undermining of the existing stock. According to available reports, the explosion at the warehouse occurred because of violations of security measures in the discharge arrived the next party of ammunition. Currently, Ukrainian security forces have cordoned off the area. The local administration is attempting to evacuate the population. We have repeatedly drawn attention to the possible consequences of placing warehouses RAV AFU in the settlements and the lack of proper control of the order of storage of explosive devices, and warned about the possible repetition of the “second Svatovo”. However, once again the Ukrainian side and the international observers we were not heard“.
In fact, there is tacit information that the warehouse was covered in one gulp battery ACS army DNR. The significance of the scale of the explosion is comparable with the famous explosion of the artillery storage of Svatovo with last year.
Good answer. But it needs to be only one… Or not. If you feel slack, will become impudent even more. Look how Poroshenko at a summit of twenty in China is torn Normandy format to revive. C. Ninepin, however, are not invited. Would be a summit somewhere in Australia, you would have.
How will Russia react, we will see on the day. The West has made it clear that compromises will not go, and took a consolidated position. That would not get up Ukraine, he will forgive her everything and be on her side.
And that would not have been taken by Russia in response, it will be accused of disproportionate use of force and disrupting the Minsk agreements. In any case in the failure of Minsk-2 are guilty of Russia announced.
And we must respond. At stake is the prestige of the Russian state. The country is waiting for the furious response.
