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Russia: Ukraine #39;s NATO Ambitions Threaten Talks
Subscribe for more Breaking News: http://smarturl.it/AssociatedPress As Ukraine #39;s president meets President Barack Obama and other top NATO leaders in Wales, Russia is warning Kiev #39;s desire...
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World Today: Leaders Criticise Russia For Actions In Ukraine As Summit Begins
The Nato military alliance, at its summit in Wales, has said it "stands with Ukraine" in the face of Russia #39;s "destabilising" influence. Nato also called on Russia "to pull back its troops"...
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World Today: Leaders Criticise Russia For Actions In Ukraine As Summit Begins - Video
Sept. 4, 2014: Unmarked Military vehicles burning in country roads in the village of Berezove, eastern Ukraine, after a clash between pro-government troops and Russian-backed separatist militia. Separatist rebels have made major strides in their offensive against Ukrainian government forces in recent days, drawing on what Ukraine and NATO says is ample support from the Russian military.AP
Ukraine and pro-Russian rebels appeared increasingly close to signing a deal to end four months of fighting, as NATO leaders expressed support for Ukraine at a NATO summit Thursday.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said he's ready to order a cease-fire in the east Friday if a peace deal is signed that day at talks in Minsk, Belarus. The rebels also said they were ready to declare a truce Friday if an agreement with Ukraine is reached on a political settlement for the mostly Russian-speaking region.
Poroshenko discussed the outlines of a deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday, and they both voiced optimism about reaching an agreement in Minsk.
Facing major challenges with conflicts in Ukraine, Syria and Iraq and a winding down of operations in Afghanistan, NATO leaders gathered for a two-day summit at a golf resort in southern Wales. Before the official proceedings began, Poroshenko attended a meeting with Obama and the leaders of NATO's four major European powers: British Prime Minister David Cameron, French President Francois Hollande, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi.
A White House official said Obama and the other leaders expressed solidarity with Ukraine and agreed Russia should be punished for its conduct in Ukraine.
"The leaders reiterated their condemnation of Russia's continued flagrant violation of Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity, and agreed on the need for Russia to face increased costs for its actions," U.S. Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes said. "The leaders also expressed their strong support for President Poroshenko's efforts to achieve a peaceful resolution to the conflict."
Later in the day, Poroshenko was to meet with the heads of state and government from all 28 NATO member states, even though NATO officials have made clear that membership for Ukraine isn't in the cards anytime soon.
In Moscow, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov warned reports that Ukraine was seeking to join NATO were "a blatant attempt to derail all the efforts" to seek a peaceful solution to the fighting.
Russian-backed separatists have been fighting government troops in eastern Ukraine since mid-April in a conflict that the U.N. estimates has killed nearly 2,600 people.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and leaders of the pro-Russia separatists in eastern Ukraine on Thursday professed readiness for a cease-fire on condition that the other side effectively surrender what it has been fighting for at the cost of thousands of lives.
Expectations of a breakthrough toward ending the 5-month-old war were boosted a day earlier by Russian President Vladimir Putin's proposed seven-point peace plan, starting with the withdrawal of Ukrainian government troops from the two eastern regions seized by the separatists in April.
Poroshenko's own formula for ending the conflict, which he unveiled during his June 7 inauguration speech, requires that the separatists lay down their arms and relinquish seized territory in exchange for negotiations on broader autonomy for their regions within Ukraine.
Both sides said they were prepared to sign a peace deal if their conditions were met during talks in the Belarus capital of Minsk on Friday, when a meeting of the so-called Contact Group on Ukraine convenes.
While Ukrainian authorities in Kiev, the capital, have refused to sit down and negotiate with the rebels they have branded terrorist stooges of the Kremlin, the Contact Group brings together representatives of the government and the separatists, Russia's ambassador to Ukraine and veteran diplomats of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. OSCE is the only international security forum to which both Russia and Ukraine belong.
"Tomorrow in Minsk a document will be signed providing for the gradual introduction of the Ukrainian peace plan, Poroshenko told reporters on the sidelines of a NATO summit in Wales, where leaders of the Western military alliance expressed solidarity in his fight to keep Ukraine intact.
The fighting in eastern Ukraine, which the United Nations says has taken at least 2,600 lives this year, was sparked by Kiev's westward leanings that the Kremlin and its eastern Ukrainian proxies fear could wrest Ukraine from its historic political alignment and economic integration with Russia.
After Poroshenko's election in May to replace ousted Kremlin ally Viktor Yanukovich as president, he signed an association agreement with the European Union that opens lucrative trade opportunities for Ukrainian goods and allows duty-free imports of European manufacture that Moscow fears will undercut its products.
Poroshenko's meetings with NATO officials have demonstrated Western moral support for Ukraine, but the alliance has been hesitant to hold out short-term prospects of its joining the 28-member defense bloc. Ukraine agreed in a 1994 treaty with Russia to remain neutral -- a commitment the Kremlin expects it to continue honoring in spite of Russia's seizure of the Crimean peninsula and what Kiev says is its support for and assistance to the separatists in eastern Ukraine.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused the West of seeking to torpedo any chance of a peace deal at the Minsk talks by holding out hope of Ukraine eventually gaining membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
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Ukraine president, separatists predict cease-fire but with big 'ifs'