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?????????????????????????????????????????????????Monday, September 1, 2014
Russia says Ukraine talks should seek ‘immediate ceasefire’
01/09 10:41 CET
Despite Western claims that Russia is backing separatist rebels in Ukraine and has sent its own troops over the border, Moscow has again insisted that it won’t intervene militarily.
Despite Western claims that Russia is backing separatist rebels in Ukraine and has sent its own troops over the border, Moscow has again insisted that it won’t intervene militarily.
Speaking
to students in the capital, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov also
called for an “immediate and unconditional ceasefire” to be discussed
during crisis talks in Belarus today.
“There will be no military intervention,” Lavrov said.
“ We are exclusively in favour of a peaceful solution to this terrible
crisis, to this tragedy, and everything we do is to seek a political
solution to the conflict.”
The talks in Minsk will bring together representatives of Russia, Ukraine, the OSCE security forum and separatist rebels in eastern Ukraine.
As President Putin urged talks on the “statehood” of southern and
eastern Ukraine, his counterpart in Kyiv, Petro Poroshenko, accused
Russia of launching “direct and open aggression”.
Ukraine now says it has had to pull troops back from defending the
airport in the eastern city of Luhansk, after they were faced with a
“batallion of Russian tanks”.
And Ukrainian troops and local residents are reinforcing the port of
Mariupol, the next big city in the path of pro-Russian fighters who
pushed back government forces along the Azov Sea last week in an
offensive on a new front.