The Hague: Thousands of Soldiers sent by Moscow to Belarus in the backdrop of intense diplomacy to stop the war between Russia and Ukraine. are engaged in Meanwhile, more NATO security forces are moving towards the eastern borders of its ally Ukraine, while Britain has asked 1,000 troops to be on standby over fears of a humanitarian crisis in Eastern Europe. If Russia attacks its neighboring country Ukraine and fighting starts, there could be a possibility of a humanitarian crisis.
Russia has gathered more than 100,000 troops near the Ukrainian border but has said it has no plans to strike. It wants a guarantee from the West that NATO will not allow Ukraine and other countries of the former Soviet Union to be part of this Western military alliance. Foreign policy advisers from Germany, France, Russia, and Ukraine, who met in Paris last month, held another round of talks in Berlin.
He spoke of no progress on the implementation of the 2015 peace accord. At the same time, US President Joe Biden reiterated his warning and said that if any American is still present in Ukraine, then he should leave the country as soon as possible. “It’s not like we’re dealing with a terrorist organization,” he said in an interview with NBC News on Thursday. We are dealing with one of the largest armies in the world. It’s a very different situation and things could soon turn bad.”
When asked about sending troops to Ukraine to rescue the Americans, Biden said, “Not there. It will be a world war if America and Russia start firing at each other.” British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg are warning that Russia’s military build-up near Ukraine poses the biggest threat to European security in recent times. The British leader said he does not think Russian President Vladimir Putin has decided to act against Ukraine, but added, “We are seriously working on our intelligence.”
Stoltenberg said he reiterated NATO’s invitation to talks on improving European security in a new letter to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. Johnson flew from Brussels to Warsaw to hold talks with Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki. Both the leaders had gone to meet the British soldiers stationed near the capital of Poland. Poland is bordered by Belarus, Ukraine, and the Kaliningrad region of Russia. “Putin’s political aim is to break NATO, so we need to stick together,” Moraviki said. At the same time, Britain’s Foreign Minister Liz Tuss again warned in a conversation with Lavrov in Moscow that attacking Ukraine would have “profound consequences and a heavy price.”
Turkey’s Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Ukraine has accepted Ankara’s offer to mediate to de-escalate tensions with Russia, while Russia has not refused it either. Meanwhile, Denmark said on Thursday that it would begin talks with the US on a new defense cooperation agreement that would involve deploying US troops and military equipment to Denmark, contrary to its decades-old policy.
