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Russia deploys
10,000 troops
near Ukraine
border
Ukraine‘s prime minister has accused Russia of carrying out an unacceptable act of “military aggression” after Moscow deployed 10,000 troops along its border.
Russia’s actions deepened the crisis in Crimea ahead of a last desperate effort by US secretary of state John Kerry to broker a deal with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov in London on Friday.
Arseniy Yatsenyuk, Ukraine’s interim prime minister, told the UN Security Council on Thursday that despite the tensions, he is convinced that Russia does not want war. He urged Russia’s leaders to heed the people’s wishes and return to dialogue with Ukraine. “If we start real talks with Russia, I believe we can be real partners,” Yatsenyuk said.
But he warned that international agreements on nuclear non-proliferation were under threat. He said Ukraine gave up the world’s third-largest nuclear arsenal in 1994 in exchange for guarantees of its independence and territorial integrity. But after Russia’s recent actions, Yatsenyuk said, “it would be difficult to convince anyone on the globe not to have nuclear weapons.”
Read More http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/13/russia-troops-ukraine-border
