Putin warns the US against arming the Ukraine regime

Putin warns US against delivering lethal arms to Ukraine

Lethal weapons to Ukraine will serve to worsen the situation.

TheDuran,
5 September, 2017



For all the outrage over nazi groups marching in Charlottesville, Virginia or the recent triggered movement to remove all Confederate statues across America, the US government has no problem providing arms to nazi’s in Ukraine.



Assange exposed the US ‘hate nazi’s at home, love nazis abroad’ hypocrisy on twitter…

Julian Assange  🔹‏ @JulianAssange

The new face of America is eerily familiar.

4:57 AM - 14 Aug 2017

In the above Tweet, Assange has juxtaposed a neo-Nazi torch march in Kiev with the far-right torch march in Charlottesville. Apart from the torches, it is clear that the Ukrainian fascists were far more equipped for violence as they were wearing bullet-proof combat gear and facial coverings.



Apart from this, the Ukrainian neo-Nazis got scant political coverage in the western media in spite of the fact that their actions included overthrowing a legitimate government as recognised by the United Nations and the installation of a fascist regime which continues to wage a war of aggression on the peoples of Donbass. This war has included the use of chemical weapons on civilians.



Russian President Vladimir Putin said during a press conference on the results of the BRICS summit that possible deliveries of US lethal weapons to Ukraine will not change the situation, but this may lead to an increase in the number of victims, provoke the use of military force in other territories.



“This [the supply of lethal weapons to Ukraine] is the sovereign decision of the United States as to whom they sell arms or supply them to for free, and of the country that is the recipient of this aid. We cannot influence this process in any way. But there are general international rules and approaches – the supply of weapons to the conflict zone does not favor the pacification, but only aggravates the situation.”



Putin said that, “there is one more thing to pay attention to — who is encouraging such ideas”.



“This is because the self-proclaimed republics have enough weapons, including those seized from the opposing side, from nationalist battalions. And if American weapons enter the conflict zone, it is difficult to say how the proclaimed republics will react — maybe they will send the weapons they have to other zones of conflict that are sensitive to those who create problems for them.”



Sputnik News reports…



On Thursday, during his visit to Kiev in honor of Ukraine’s Independence Day US Secretary of Defense James Mattis said that the US was “actively reviewing” the supply of “defensive lethal weapons” to Ukraine.



In recent weeks, US officials have floated Javelin anti-tank missiles and anti-aircraft weapons among the kinds of “defensive” weapons that the US may send Kiev. At his press conference, Mattis confirmed that the US has already agreed to supply the country with an additional $175 million worth of non-lethal equipment and supplies, for a total of $750 million over the last three years.



Russian President Vladimir Putin also said that he would order the Foreign Ministry to submit a resolution on security of the OSCE mission in Ukraine to the UN Security Council (UNSC) if certain conditions are met.



“If to fulfill all the conditions, then, I think, it would contribute to the settlement of the problem in Ukraine’s southeast. The [Foreign] Minister [Sergey Lavrov] is currently here, so it is the order to the foreign ministry to introduce the relevant resolution to the UNSC,” Putin told reporters.



According to the Russian leader, the list of conditions include the ensuring of the OSCE staff’s security, the presence of the staff only at the disengagement line, pullout of heavy military equipment and involvement of the leadership of the self-proclaimed republics of Donbass to the process.



Putin added he supported the idea of sending peacekeepers to Ukraine in order to ensure the security of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) mission in the crisis-torn region of Donbass.




“I do not see anything bad in it. I have repeatedly stated that I also support the idea of arming the OSCE mission. However the OSCE itself refuses to provide its staff with arms, because it does not have both relevant staff and experience for such activities. In this context I consider the presence of UN peacekeepers, even not peacekeepers, but people who would ensure security of the OSCE mission, quite appropriate. I do not see anything bad in such developments. I consider that it would contribute to the settlement of the problem in Ukraine’s southeast,” Putin said.

Russia sends resolution to the UN on peacekeeping force in Donbass

Putin Says Russia May Order Another 155 US Diplomatic Staff Home

And takes a swipe at his "American partners"



The Russian government daily Rossiyskaya Gazeta is citing Putin as having said that Moscow imposed a limit of 455 US diplomatic staff in Russia, because that is the combined number of staff of the Russian diplomatic missions to the United States, and the United Nations, on US soil.



Thus the Russian and American missions to Washington and Moscow are actually still not at parity. The former actually has only 300 staff. Putin continues to say Russia therefore reserves the right to order another reduction in US staff, but wants to see how situation develops first.



Putin also takes a swipe at US elites explaining that it is "difficult to have a dialogue with people who confuse Austria with Australia".