In the warning that the Russia that will pay “big price” in the event of a military attack on Ukraine, proceeded the German chancellor Olaf Solts and the British Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
During a telephone conversation on Thursday night (20/1), the two leaders agreed “that a new Russian military attack on Ukraine should be avoided. “It must be made clear that, in such a situation, Russia will have to expect to pay a large and serious price,” the German chancellor said in a statement today.
A spokesman for the British prime minister said the two men “expressed deep concern over Russia’s destabilizing actions in Ukraine and said any invasion of Ukraine would be a serious strategic mistake”.
“The prime minister stressed the importance of NATO partners working together to provide a coordinated response,” Johnson’s spokesman was quoted as saying by the APE-MPE.
Russian Foreign Minister: NATO forces to leave Romania and Bulgaria
At the same time, the Russian Foreign Ministry announced that the security guarantees that Russia is asking from the West include provisions that require NATO forces to leave Romania and Bulgaria.
Moscow has demanded legally binding guarantees from NATO that the alliance will stop expanding and return to its 1997 borders.
Asked what that would mean for Bulgaria and Romania, which joined NATO after 1997, the ministry said Russia wanted all foreign troops, weapons and other military equipment to be withdrawn from those countries.
Ukrainian intelligence: Russia recruits mercenaries, sends weapons to eastern Ukraine
Ukraine’s military intelligence service said today that Russia was recruiting mercenaries and sending them for intensive training in separatist-held areas of eastern Ukraine.
In a statement, the services said that fuel, several tanks, artillery and mortars were secretly transported to the area from Russia.
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