Western countries are no longer supporting the Ukrainian
authorities unconditionally, Konstantin Kosachev, chairman of the Foreign
Affairs Committee of the Russian parliament’s upper house, said
on Saturday, commenting on a recent telephone talk between US
Vice President Joe Biden and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko.
During a phone call on Friday, Biden urged both Ukraine
and Russia to avoid escalating tensions over Crimea.
“Yesterday’s phone conversations between Biden and
Poroshenko, as well as between [EU foreign policy chief Federica]
Mogherini and [Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo] Klimkin are signs – even unclear
ones – that Western countries are damped by Kiev’s latest undertakings and
are not ready to support the Ukrainian authorities as unconditionally
as previously,” Kosachev wrote on his Facebook page.
He said that the US calls on all parties
to the conflict to deescalate tensions are a positive shift
from the previous stance that Russia is the only party responsible
for escalation.
“These talks for the first time in a long
period do not look like a reckless and demonstrative anti-Russian
solidarity,” Kosachev said.
On Wednesday, Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB)
said that it had dismantled a spy ring organized by the Ukrainian Defense
Ministry in Crimea, which was preparing acts of sabotage on “critical
and life-supporting elements of the peninsula’s infrastructure.”
Source: Novorossia
Today 15-08-2016
