что за присоединение Путина к коалиции против ИГИЛ Запад пожертвует Украиной
Да ссыкотно. Многие подхуйлятники кричат, что им нужен Хуйло для борьбы с ИГИЛ, а ради этого можно пойти на уступки.
нихьт писсен, люди
WSJ (да, удалось почитать, если по ссылке из поиска)На всякий случай скопирую полностью
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Russian President Vladimir Putin is riding high amid Western efforts to improve ties in the aftermath of the Paris attacks. That has raised alarms in Kiev, where officials fear any rapprochement will come at their expense.
European Union officials say, however, that there is little appetite in key capitals, including Berlin, London and Paris, to win Russian help in Syria by abandoning Ukraine. One concrete sign is that the bloc is still heading toward extending economic sanctions imposed on Russia in the wake of the Ukraine crisis last year, EU officials and diplomats say.
The apparent willingness to renew the sanctions, which expire in late January, suggests that while France is pushing to deepen cooperation with Russia in fighting the Islamic State extremist group, clear limits remain.
Still, Ukrainian officials are worried that Europe will take a softer line with the Kremlin, just as fighting has flared up again with Russian-backed separatists. Over the weekend, six Ukrainian soldiers were killed in fighting with separatists in the eastern Donbas region, but the violence was overshadowed by the spectacular terror attacks in France.
Mr. Putin has emerged this week as a leading figure in talk of a combined global effort against Islamic State in its base in Syria and elsewhere. Ukrainian officials fear Moscow may exploit that cooperation to undermine U.S. and European support for their country.
“The Russian strategy is to create the perception that the West doesn’t care about Ukraine anymore,” said Dmytro Kuleba, ambassador-at-large for Ukraine. It is a clear narrative they are using: ‘Let’s put Ukraine aside, let’s fight terrorism.’ ”
The EU imposed economic sanctions on Russia in two stages in the summer of 2014 in response to Moscow’s annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea region and its support for separatists in eastern Ukraine. Russia has denied Western charges that it supplied and directed the rebels.
The sanctions, which were renewed for another six months this summer, include restrictions on defense and energy business ties and prevent state-owned banks, energy and defense companies from raising money in European financial markets. Washington has adopted similar measures.
A person close to the Ukrainian government argued that “any shift in the current U.S. and European position on Ukraine would be extremely detrimental not only for Ukraine but for Europe.”
EU leaders are expected to discuss the sanctions at their mid-December summit unless the issue is resolved before then, as happened in June. Any decision must be backed by all 28 member states.
Officials say three options are being floated: extending the sanctions again by another six months, a one-year rollover or a shorter three-to-four month extension to signal to Moscow the bloc’s recognition of some concessions over Ukraine.
Russia this week made a surprise proposal to restructure Ukraine’s debt coming due next month, offering a potential solution to a standoff that has threatened to complicate an international bailout of Ukraine.
Moscow lent Ukraine $3 billion under the country’s previous, pro-Moscow president in 2013. The proposal to the International Monetary Fund was that Kiev repay $1 billion each year from 2016 to 2018. Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said Wednesday that Moscow wants the European Union, the U.S. or a major international bank to serve as a guarantor.
However, Ukrainian Finance Minister Natalie Jaresko said Wednesday that Kiev still hasn’t received any official proposal, Interfax news agency reported.
People familiar with the discussions in Brussels said there is broad agreement that economic pressure should be kept on Russia until the peace plan brokered in Minsk, Belarus, in February is fully implemented.
Along with the renewed violence, the movement of international observers in eastern Ukraine remains restricted. Few expect Kiev to regain control of the border with Russia in separatist regions by the Dec. 31 deadline.
In Kiev, the party backing the president has occasionally struggled to muster the necessary votes to pass required legislation, such as amendments to the constitution that would devolve greater powers to local governments.
European Council President Donald Tusk, a high-ranking EU official, said this month that despite “some progress over the past weeks, it is clear that the Minsk agreements are not yet fully implemented.
“This will need to be reflected in the upcoming review of our sanctions,” he said.
Latvian Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkevics said in a telephone interview Wednesday there was no discussion at Monday’s EU foreign ministers meeting in Brussels about re-examining the sanctions to encourage Moscow to cooperate on Syria.
A senior EU official said there was no sign that the consensus behind extending the sanctions was starting to crack. “There is a general feeling right now that the sanctions should be rolled over,” he said.
U.S. resolve has also stayed firm, officials say. On Sunday, on the sidelines of the Group of 20 meeting in Turkey, President Barack Obama discussed sanctions in a meeting with the French, German, Italian and British leaders.
The White House said leaders “reiterated that sanctions against Russia must remain in place until full implementation of the Minsk agreements is achieved.”
U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland said in Berlin on Tuesday that sanctions against Moscow should be rolled over and pledged ongoing support for Kiev should it “continue to live up to its promises to its own people and maintain the trust of the international community.”
Vice President Joe Biden will make his fifth visit to Ukraine in December, and the U.S. recently announced a $1 billion loan guarantee pending certain reforms.
But diplomats have also voiced concerns over ongoing corruption in Ukraine, particularly in law-enforcement agencies that have failed to bring any high-profile corruption cases to court.
The increasingly fractious parliament also has threatened to undo measures that are key to its $40 billion bailout package from the IMF.
“Syria will create more pressure on Kiev’s narrative of punishing Russia for Crimea and Donbas, and will put more focus on inactions at home,” said Balazs Jarabik, a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment.
“The support is not going to fade away and the sanctions on Russia are not going to be withdrawn anytime soon,” said Mr. Jarabik. “But the moment there is a bigger focus on Ukraine instead of Russia, that is the moment the West is going to start getting disillusioned.”
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European Union officials say, however, that there is little appetite in key capitals, including Berlin, London and Paris, to win Russian help in Syria by abandoning Ukraine. One concrete sign is that the bloc is still heading toward extending economic sanctions imposed on Russia in the wake of the Ukraine crisis last year, EU officials and diplomats say.
The apparent willingness to renew the sanctions, which expire in late January, suggests that while France is pushing to deepen cooperation with Russia in fighting the Islamic State extremist group, clear limits remain.
В главных местах - Берлин, Лондон, Париж - не просматривается желаний умолять рашу о помощи в Сирии и бросить Украину. Важный знак - они собираются продлять санкции. Так говорят европейские дипломаты.
Так что, хоть Франция и пытается продавить кооперацию с рашей, берега они видят.
Т.е. продлят точно, но вопрос на сколько: есть варианты опять на полгода, на год, или на 3-4 месяца. Последний вариант был бы плохим знаком, прогибом под пукина.
Я не верю (или не хочу верить), что его выберут, но ещё больше я не верю в то, что если его выберут, то пукин будет рад. Всё равно лаврун будет плеваться злобой. Они всегда слишком много хотят.People familiar with the discussions in Brussels said there is broad agreement that economic pressure should be kept on Russia until the peace plan brokered in Minsk, Belarus, in February is fully implemented.
Но в целом в ЕС вроде как большинство согласно, что надо экономически давить на рашу, пока минск
полностью не выполнят.
И мало кто верит, что до 31 декабря граница перейдёт под контроль Украины.
На встрече двадцатки Обама, оказывается, всем ЕСовцам ещё раз сказал, что считает, что санкции нельзя убирать, пока минск не выполнят.
Но про коррупцию в милиции и прокуратуре (в Украине) всё-таки вспомнили и посокрушались.
