Russian president, Vladimir Putin Calls Ukrainian Army ‘NATO Legion’

Ukrainian military are basically a ‘NATO legion‘, which is not serving the nation’s national interest, Russian President Putin said.

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US Army Europe administrator Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges talks amid news meeting in Kiev, Ukraine, Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2015.

ST.PETERSBURG, January 26 (Ooduarere), Balogun Adesina — Russian President Vladimir Putin said Monday that the Ukrainian armed force has been utilized by NATO as an obstruction against Russia.

“It is, in essence, […] not an army anymore but a foreign legion, a NATO-controlled foreign legion, which is not serving to protect Ukraine’s national interests,” Putin said at a gathering with college understudies in St. Petersburg.

“They are pursuing other goals linked with attaining geopolitical goals of deterring Russia contrary to the interests of the Ukrainian people,” Putin said.

On December 23, the Ukrainian forces crossed out the nation’s uncommitted status, affirming that Kiev was renewing its plan to join NATO. In spite of Kiev’s goals to structure some piece of the cooperation, NATO authorities have more than once focused on that the nation needs to execute an extensive variety of changes before seeking before seekingbloc membership..

In December, Russian Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov said that Ukraine’s promotion to NATO would bring Russia’s relations with the alliance to a complete breakdown.  Remarking on the Ukraine emergency, US Treasury Secretary Jack Lew said Monday that Washington had “more apparatuses” to increase pressure on Moscow.

A lady responds as she stands at a business, which as per local people was as of late injured by shelling, in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine January 19, 2015

“I think we have seen that the sanctions work to create real stress in the economy. We have more tools. I am not today going to enumerate what the tools are but we have more tools,” he said amid a public interview in Brussels.

Kiev is declining to search for peaceful solution in eastern Ukraine standoff and have utilized a concise truce to regroup its constrains, the Russian president said.

“Unfortunately, the Kiev authorities refuse to chose a peaceful path [in the Ukrainian conflict] through the use of political means,” Putin said.

“They used a brief ceasefire only to regroup their forces, and started military operation again,”  the president said.

Many in Ukraine have effectively understood that the nation is caught in a civil war that had taken lives of a large number of individuals.

“Every time an American official comes to Ukraine they start the attacks again,” George Eliason, American Journalist who at present lives in Donbass revealed. “Ukraine is destroying the cities, cleansing them – for no purpose. Every time an American official comes to Ukraine they start the attacks again.”

In the mean time, the Ukrainian government has presented a “emergency situation” in the locales of Donetsk and Luhansk  heightening overall readiness across the nation.

The battling between government forces and freedom supporters in southeastern Ukraine’s Donbas area has escalated as of late, driving up the non military personnel loss of life. On January 13, the shelling of a Bus in the Donetsk Region town of Volnovakha slaughtered 13 regular folks. A week ago, at slightest eight Donetsk occupants were murdered by rocket blaze while sitting tight at a travel stop for a trolleybus.

Mariupol, a major southeastern Ukraine port city,came under fire on January 24, leaving 30 individuals dead and in excess of 90 injured, by forces. Kiev and pro-independence forces are puting the blame on one another for the killings.