The intensifying conflict between Russia and Ukraine has led to an “extremely dangerous situation,” a German government spokesman said today, as Ukraine and the EU reached an agreement in principle on a military training mission in Ukraine, according to the Ukrainian foreign minister.
At the same time, he warned that if there are further violations of the territory of Urania, sanctions will be imposed against it. Russia adding that the western partners will decide what will be considered a breach of territory.
As it became known, the German Chancellor, Olaf Solz, will contact Putin again, this time by phone, this afternoon.
For her part, British Foreign Secretary Liz Tras said she was stepping up preparations with allies for the worst-case scenario in the Ukraine crisis, adding that a Russian invasion was highly likely.
“We have to pursue diplomacy, but a Russian invasion of Ukraine seems very likely. “The United Kingdom and its allies are stepping up preparations for the worst-case scenario,” she said in a Twitter post following talks with NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg in Brussels.
“We have to make the cost to Russia too high.”
Russian security service claims shelling on Ukrainian territory destroys Russian border post
Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) announced today that a shell fired from Ukrainian territory completely destroyed a border post in the Russian region of Rostov, but there were no casualties, according to the Interfax news agency.
The incident happened 150 meters from the Russian-Ukrainian border, the FSB reported, according to Interfax.
Sporadic bombings along the line of contact between Ukrainian government forces and pro-Russian separatists in the eastern part of the country have intensified since Thursday.
Kiev denies the allegations
However, a spokesman for the Ukrainian armed forces in Kramatorsk in eastern Ukraine today denied that artillery fire had been fired at a Russian border post in the Rostov region, Moscow said, citing an act of Russian misinformation.
“We can not stop them from producing false information; but we insist that we do not attack political infrastructure or the Rostov region,” Pavlov Kovalchuk told AFP. .
Meanwhile, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba told reporters in Brussels today that an agreement had been reached in principle between Minsk and Brussels on a European military training advisory mission to Ukraine.
“We have reached an agreement in principle with the EU that it will send an advisory mission on military training to Ukraine … it is not a combat force,” Kuleba said after meeting with EU foreign ministers.
As announced today by the Latvian Foreign Minister, the Foreign Ministers of the three Baltic states – Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania – will visit Ukraine later this week, in a show of solidarity.
The ministers will visit Ukraine from Wednesday to Friday, Edgars Rinkevics said.
The three Baltic states, unlike Ukraine, are members of NATO and the European Union.
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