Kiev keen to cooperate with Moscow

May 18th, 2014

FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda

The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry has offered Moscow to carry out mutual measures in a bid to restore stability to their common borders.

“[The] Russian side is invited to immediately participate in a set of mutual actions on the state border and in the border regions in order to stabilize the situation on the Russian-Ukrainian state border. The lack of response from [the] Russian side would be treated by Ukraine as a violation of obligations affirmed by appropriate bilateral agreements,” Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement issued on Saturday.

The interim Kiev government has been staging military operations in the eastern and southern regions in a bid to root out pro-Russia protests.

Since the launch of the military offensive in mid-April, dozens of people have been killed and many others injured.

The US and the EU accuse Russia of destabilizing Ukraine. They have slapped a number of sanctions against Russian and pro-Russia figures.

Russia, however, rejects the accusation, saying the pro-Russia protests in Ukraine began just after the emergence of the new government in Kiev.

A total of 61 Russians and Ukrainians have been targeted by EU visa bans and asset freezes since almost two months ago, when Crimea declared independence from Ukraine and subsequently joined the Russian Federation.

The US has also imposed its own sanctions on Russia. On April 28, the US imposed visa bans and asset freezes on several high-ranking Russian officials. Washington also imposed sanctions on 17 companies, claiming Moscow had failed to abide by the Geneva agreement to defuse the crisis in Ukraine.

The crisis in Ukraine erupted last November when the country’s then President Viktor Yanukovych refrained from signing an association agreement with the EU in favor of closer ties with Moscow. Yanukovych left Ukraine for Russia as the political upheaval against his decision became increasingly violent.

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