[Update2] :
○ AFP: U.S. demands halt to Russian ‘provocation’ in Ukraine
○ KyivPost: Defense Ministry confirms pro-Russian separatists have captured six Ukrainian armored vehicles
○ RT: EU spy chief, Commodore Georgij Alafuzoff, rules out Russian military presence in Ukraine
○ White House: Interim president is justified to send Army to the East in anti-terror campaign
[Update1] : Brigade with 6 APCs Changes Sides In East Ukraine
Maria Danilova
@AP reporter sees 6 combat vehicles enter Slovyansk, fly Russian flags. 1 soldier says they are Ukr 25th airborne brigade, switch to pro-Russian.More info in my post below.
Creating division and causing unrest is a Neocon tool used by the Atlanticists in U.S. Congress and the White House. Creating the Cold War climate approved by the Obama administration. See yesterday’s UN Security Council meeting on the Ukraine. A shameful manifestation of Neocon rhetoric provided by Susan Rice and Samantha Power.
NATO Enlargement – Open Door Policy for Georgia and Ukraine – 2008
The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia¹ has, like Albania and Croatia, been participating in the Membership Action Plan (MAP) for a number of years to prepare for possible membership. At Bucharest, Allied leaders agreed to invite the country to become a member as soon as a mutually acceptable solution to the issue over the country’s name has been reached with Greece.
A number of other important decisions concerning enlargement were taken at Bucharest. Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro were invited to start Intensified Dialogues on their membership aspirations and related reforms. Allied leaders also agreed that Georgia and Ukraine – which were already engaged in an Intensified Dialogue with NATO – will become members in future.
Ukraine President Yushchenko To Attend Bucharest NATO Summit
KIEV, Ukraine — Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko will attend a NATO summit in Bucharest expected to discuss expansion of the alliance eastward, the Interfax news agency reported. Yushchenko, a supporter of Ukraine’s early membership in NATO, had delayed announcement on his plans to attend the April 2-4 meetings in Bucharest because of domestic opposition.
An acrimonious dispute over whether or not even to discuss NATO membership, pitting pro-Europe and pro-Russia political factions in Ukraine’s national legislature, has stalled the country’s parliament for more than a month.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel added fuel to the fire last week, speaking against Ukraine’s and Georgia’s joining NATO any time soon on grounds the countries lack widespread public support for the idea. Merkel’s remarks and Ukrainian domestic opposition notwithstanding, Yushchenko will during the Bucharest conference sign an agreement with NATO setting forth a precise step-by-step plan for Ukraine’s membership in the Atlantic Alliance.
At the April 2008 NATO summit in Bucharest, Croatia and Albania were asked to join — they did so in 2009 — and postponed a decision concerning Georgia and Ukraine until December 2008. But in August, Georgian forces attacked the breakaway province of South Ossetia — possibly under the delusion that NATO would come to their aid — setting off a short and disastrous war with Russia. The vote on Georgia and Ukraine was shelved both by that war and a Gallup Poll indicating that 40 percent of Ukrainians considered NATO a threat, while only 17 percent had a favorable view of the alliance.
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