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inanna

(3,547 posts)
Wed Mar 15, 2017, 09:15 AM Mar 2017

Germany very concerned about developments in eastern Ukraine

Source: Reuters

Wed Mar 15, 2017 | 9:00am EDT

The German government on Tuesday said it is very concerned about recent developments in eastern Ukraine and called on both Moscow and Kiev to work against what it called "increasing partitionist tendencies" in the embattled region.

"We are seriously concerned about increasing partitionist tendencies in the eastern Ukraine," Foreign Ministry spokesman Martin Schaefer told a regular government news conference. "The danger of a military escalation is far from over."

He said Berlin was urging Ukraine and Russia to live up to agreements made as part of the Minsk peace process, citing troubling actions by both sides, including the seizure of assets by Ukrainian entities in rebel-held areas, and Kiev's decision to halt all trade with separatist areas.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-ukraine-crisis-germany-idUSKBN16M1SE?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews

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Germany very concerned about developments in eastern Ukraine (Original Post) inanna Mar 2017 OP
I have Polish friends in Poland that are shitting a brick over this. Javaman Mar 2017 #1
Poland's less of an issue than Belorus'. Igel Mar 2017 #2

Javaman

(62,532 posts)
1. I have Polish friends in Poland that are shitting a brick over this.
Wed Mar 15, 2017, 09:52 AM
Mar 2017

they are of the belief that they are certainly next.

Igel

(35,337 posts)
2. Poland's less of an issue than Belorus'.
Wed Mar 15, 2017, 10:46 AM
Mar 2017

Lukashenka's displeased all over. So's Putin, esp. since Lukashenka hasn't even acknowledged the seizure of Crimea as legit.

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