Moscow accuses US diplomats of ‘puppeteering’ Ukraine
Published time: February 18, 2014 09:06
Edited time: February 19, 2014 09:54
Edited time: February 19, 2014 09:54
The United States is trying to impose a “Western vector of development” on Ukraine while camouflaging their intent with calls not to obstruct the free choice of the Ukrainian people, Russian news agencies quoted the ministry’s Aleksandr Lukashevich as saying.
The Russian diplomat called such an attitude “puppeteering”, adding that the recent statement by US State Department spokesperson Marie Harf was a typical example. In the statement, the US gave instructions regarding future actions of the Ukrainian government, Lukashevich said. Such instructions included a demand to stop all cases against the participants in the street riots, and to immediately start to form a multi-party technical government, the Russian official stated.
Such US behavior is very well known and it leads to tragic results, the Foreign Ministry representative emphasized.
Lukashevich also said that the US had apparently started "casting" for future places in the technical Ukrainian government, or at least such a conclusion could be made from a telephone conversation by a top US diplomats that had been made public on YouTube. In the clip that appeared on the internet in early February, Washington's new top diplomat for Europe, Victoria Nuland, is heard saying “f**k the EU" while speaking with the US Ambassador to Ukraine, Geoffrey Pyat, on how to end the ongoing political crisis in Ukraine. The conversation continues with Nuland suggesting that one of Ukrainian opposition leaders, Vitaly Klichko is not fit for government work and should make way for another candidate, Arseniy Yatsenyuk.
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"That would be a grave mistake. It's not in the interests of Ukraine or of Russia or of Europe or the United States to see a country split. It's in nobody's interest to see violence return and the situation escalates," Rice said.
She made the remarks while speaking on the NBC program “Meet the Press” on Sunday.
"There is not an inherent contradiction ... between a Ukraine that has longstanding historic and cultural ties to Russia and a modern Ukraine that wants to integrate more closely with Europe. This need not be mutually exclusive," she added while answering question about a possible scenario by Moscow to send its military forces to the crisis-hit country.
When David Gregory, the program’s host, asked Rice whether the Russian president looks at the Eastern European country in a cold-war context she replied the “ he (Vladimir Putin) may”.
"But if he does, that's a pretty dated perspective that doesn't reflect where the people of Ukraine are coming from.” Rice explained.
She made the remarks after Ukrainian parliament ousted president Viktor Yanukovych and named Oleksandr Turchynov, the legislature’s newly-elected speaker, as interim president.
Ukraine has been gripped by protests since November when the government decided to shelve a trade deal with the European Union.
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Medvedev pledges further support to Ukraine once authorities prove their legitimacy
Published time: February 20, 2014 12:54
“Of course we will continue the cooperation with our Ukrainian partners on all previously agreed directions and we will try to do everything to keep our promises to them,” the RIA Novosti news agency quoted Dmitry Medvedev as saying during Thursday's government session.
“At the same time it is necessary for the partners themselves to maintain their tone and for the active authorities in Ukraine to be legitimate and effective, not a doormat for everyone to clean their feet,” Medvedev added.
“The authorities must concentrate on the objective of protecting the people, protecting the law enforcers who protect the state interests and the people themselves. Only in this case we could further develop the full-pledged economic cooperation,” the Prime Minister noted.
Medvedev also asked all government members to adjust their work in accordance with this position.
Also on Thursday Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Grigoriy Karasin, currently on a working visit to Kiev, told reporters that Russia will credit $2 billion to Ukraine without delay on previously agreed dates.
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