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Ukraine Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin said Monday that the brazen Russian invasion of his country has him proposing a new "Coalition of Freedom," to defend democracy and Western values in a troubled world.
"It is about security for everyone," said Klimkin, during an exclusive Fox News interview on the eve of world leaders gathering in New York for the United Nations General Assembly. "If someone in this interchangeable and intertwined world cannot feel secure, how can U.S. citizens here feel secure?"
He says that Ukraine is confrontinga threat any nation can face, adding "we need a network of security." His proposed Coalition of Freedom would consist of "countries which are committed to freedom, to democratic values, where we are not talking about spheres of influence, but the values and real interests of democratic countries."
Klimkin said he faults the world body for failing to confront what he called Russia's invasion of Crimea, and eastern Ukraine. He also said that the West was effectively caught flat-footed by Russian President Vladimir Putin's shocking territorial conquest of parts of his country.
"I believe that NATO, the U.S. and the European Union were not ready for such developments, which have taken place around Crimea and now in Donetsk and Luhansk. Now all of us clearly understand the depths of these events."
Klimkin also is calling for "a fundamental change for the U.N.," which has been impotent in the wake of the first European invasion of another country since Adolf Hitler tested British, French and American resolve with the Nazi invasions of the 1930's.
"If you see the whole inflow of mercenaries, money, weapons and heavy weapons into Ukraine, and it's all coming across the Ukraine-Russian border, if you see the presence of Russian troops and Russian heavy weaponry on our territory, it is an act of aggression."
Despite Russia's occupation of his country, Klimkin says Ukraine has "the solidarity of the Western world."
Supporters of Ukraine in Congress are also going beyond siding with Kiev in its fight against Moscow by seeking to provide military arms the country's forces need to face the Russian backed rebels.
President Obama has so far decided to only send non-lethal supplies to the Ukrainian military. The administration is reportedly concerned that weapons shipments would only embolden Putin even further.
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Ukraine's FM calling for 'Coalition of Freedom'
Sept. 22 (Bloomberg) - Ukraine and pro-Russian rebels held peace talks over the weekend, discussing the country's fragile truce. With signs the conflict could expand, Bloomberg's Ryan Chilcote visited the Ukraine front line. (Source: Bloomberg)
Ukraine prepared to pull back artillery in its war-torn east to help cement a truce that President Petro Poroshenko said is easing tensions.
The army said it will move heavy weaponry to the edge of a buffer zone as both the government and pro-Russian separatists reported violations. Casualties are a fraction of the level seen before the Sept. 5 truce and groups that may not be controlled by the militants or Russia were mostly responsible for the breaches, Poroshenko said.
The preparation to pull back heavy weapons is under way, Andriy Lysenko, spokesman for the National Security and Defense Council, told reporters today in Kiev.
The pact is holding even as daily clashes have threatened to sink the cease-fire since it was signed. The countrys bloodiest conflict since World War II has left more than 3,200 dead and 8,000 injured, according to the United Nations. Fighting in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions started after Russia annexed Crimea in March.
Ukraines government bonds due July 2017 dropped, sending the yield up 11 basis points to 14.48 percent, data compiled by Bloomberg show. The Micex Index fell for a fourth day and the ruble dropped to a record, weakening 0.7 percent to 38.67 per dollar at 6:59 p.m. in Moscow.
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The country's bloodiest conflict since World War II has left more than 3,200 dead and 8,000 injured, according to the United Nations.
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Ukraine to Pull Back Artillery as Tensions Ease in East
Ukraine is preparing to withdraw artillery in the east as violations of a truce between the government and rebels failed to halt momentum toward a settlement of the countrys worst conflict since World War II.
The army said it will move heavy weaponry to the edge of a buffer zone. Casualties are a fraction of the level seen before the Sept. 5 truce and groups that may not be controlled by the militants or Russia were mostly responsible for the breaches, President Petro Poroshenko said. Shelling of towns in the Donetsk region has dropped by an order of magnitude, said Andrei Purgin, a senior official in the self-proclaimed Peoples Republic of Donetsk, according to RIA Novosti.
Fighting in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, which started after Russia annexed Crimea in March, is at a stalemate. More than 3,200 people were killed and 8,000 injured, according to the United Nations. The deal to create a demilitarized zone of 30 kilometers (18 miles) was reached Sept. 20 in Minsk, Belarus.
Both Kiev and Moscow have an interest in relative calm in the short term, but their longer-term objectives remain fundamentally at odds, Eurasia Group analysts led by Alexander Kliment said by e-mail. The buffer zone agreement reached in Minsk will likely support the current highly tenuous cease-fire, at least through the Ukrainian Rada elections in late October.
The fighting has caused about $440 million of damage in the conflict zone, where more than 70 percent of businesses have shut down and the availability of food is fragile, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said in a report dated Sept. 19.
More than 275,000 people have been internally displaced, though the number can be assumed to be much higher because of the lack of a registration system, according to the report. About 341,000 people have fled abroad, including more than 300,000 to Russia, it said.
Russia has granted refugee status to more than 110,000 Ukrainians, Federal Migration Service chief Konstantin Romodanovsky said in an interview with Rossiyskaya Gazeta.
The Ukrainian army has set up checkpoints to maintain the buffer zone, military spokesman Vladyslav Seleznyov said yesterday on Facebook. Illegal, uncontrolled armed groups are shelling Ukrainian positions, with troops only opening fire in response, he said.
The preparation to pull back heavy weapons is under way, Andriy Lysenko, spokesman for the National Security and Defense Council, told reporters yesterday in Kiev.
While separatists are retreating from non-strategic positions, two soldiers have been killed and another two wounded, according to Lysenko. No shelling or violations of Ukraines airspace have been reported from Russia, he said.
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Ukraine to Shift Artillery From Frontline as Truce Holds
Rebel leaders also said they were ready to give peace a chance after 5 months of bloodletting that set off the most serious East-West crisis since the Cold War
EXCHANGE. A Ukrainian prisoner of war is greeted near a bus during an exchange of Ukrainian troops and pro-Russian rebels, near Kostyantynivka village, about 60 kilometers from Donetsk, Ukraine, 21 September 2014. Alexander Ermochenko/EPA
KIEV, Ukraine The Ukrainian military said Monday, September 22, it was preparing to pull back its guns from the frontline in the separatist east as a fragile truce with pro-Russian insurgents appeared to be taking hold.
Rebel leaders also said they were ready to give peace a chance after 5 months of bloodletting that set off the most serious East-West crisis since the Cold War.
Across the rebel-held regions of Donetsk and Lugansk, the level of violence appears to have subsided although Kiev said it lost two soldiers in overnight raids by "armed gangs".
The deaths bring to 39 the number of Ukrainian troops and civilians killed since the warring sides signed a September 5 truce that NATO's top military commander warned at the weekend was holding "in name only".
But hopes of peace gathered pace after the ceasefire was reinforced Saturday by another deal signed in Minsk calling for the withdrawal of fighters to allow the creation of a 30-kilometer (20-mile) buffer zone.
"We are making preparations to move back our heavy weapons 15 kilometres from the frontline," said Ukraine's National Security and Defence Council spokesman Andriy Lysenko.
'There is a chance'
The "deputy prime minister" of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic, Andrei Purgin, said the rebels were ready to carry out their side of the bargain even if it was "with great difficulty".
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