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Russia faces harsh sanctions after recognition of two breakaway regions of Ukraine which also opens the possibility of sending troops from Moscow and Berlin and has already announced that it is suspending the authorization for a strategic gas pipeline between the two countries.
The Russian President, Vladimir Putinrecognized on Monday as “republics” the separatists of DOnetsk and Luhansk, in an agreement that also provides for the defense of these groups in the Ukrainian region of the donbas.
SIGHT: Russia includes areas in the hands of Kiev as rebel territory, which raises fears of a total invasion of Ukraine
Russian diplomacy clarified that has no intentions “for now” of deploying troops in the separatist regions, but he pointed out that the agreement provides for the delivery of “military aid.”
the ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, urged its Western allies to respond forcefully to the decision announced by Russiawhom he accuses of continuing the “military aggression” against his country, which already lost the Crimean peninsula in 2014, annexed by Moscow.
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The German Chancellor, Olaf Scholzreacted swiftly and announced that suspended the authorization of the controversial Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline linking Russia and Germanyavoiding going through Ukraine.
The White House celebrated the German announcement and announced that it is going to unveil its own arsenal of sanctions, after the US president Joe Biden published a decree prohibiting any financial interaction with the two breakaway Ukrainian regions.
SIGHT: Putin recognizes the independence of Donetsk and Lugansk, rebel regions of Ukraine
For your part The European Union analyzes a proposal to block Russian authorities from accessing the bloc’s markets and financial services and sanctioning banks that finance Russian military operations in breakaway areas of Ukraine.
From London British Prime Minister Boris Johnson threatened to hit five Russian banks and three billionairesvetoing them from their financial system.
On his side the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) announced for this Tuesday an extraordinary meeting of the 30 ambassadors to the Western military alliance.
“Resurrect the USSR”
In the streets of Kiev, the news of the recognition of the separatists generates fear of an escalation of the conflict.
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“I’m really scared, I have a lot of family,” in the east of UkraineArtem Ivaschenko, 22, from Donetsk, told AFP. “I have lived in Kiev for eight years and it is the most terrible news I have received since then,” he added.
Ukraine’s Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov warned that the country had difficult times ahead and accused Russia of wanting to “resurrect the USSR”, a bloc that Ukraine was a member of until 1991.
From Moscow Putin He maintained his line and assured that he does not seek to “restore an empire.”
The Russian government also said it was “ready” to negotiate and the Foreign Ministry in Moscow said that Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will meet with his US counterpart Antony Blinken on Thursday in Geneva, as scheduled.
In addition to the ambiguity and the extent of the possible movement of Russian troops, another question that is up in the air will be the borders that Russia will give to these separatist ‘republics’, since administratively these Ukrainian territories are larger than the areas claimed by the pro-Russian secessionists .
At the moment, the Russian government has not given any details.
the shells fall
On the front line, where hostilities have increased in recent days, the situation seemed calmer in the morning.
In Shchastia, a small town in eastern Ukraine near separatist areas, residents were cleaning up damage caused by a shell fall on Tuesday.
Valentina Shmatkova, 59, said she was sleeping when shells blew out the windows of her apartment.
“We did not expect it. We did not think that Ukraine and Russia would not finally reach an agreement”, he lamented. “I didn’t think there was going to be a conflict.”
“I believed that our president and the Russian president were smart and prudent,” he added.
Putin’s announcement fueled the conflict in this separatist region of eastern Ukraine, where 14,000 people have already died since 2014 and where violations of the truce imposed by the 2015 Minsk agreements have occurred.
The tension also hit the Asian stock markets that closed lower and the Europeans began trading with losses, while oil is trading higher.
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Source: Elcomercio
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