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June 5th, 2015 
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The US defense secretary says relations with Russia have taken a “sad turn” and he will meet with US military leaders and diplomats in Europe to assess NATO’s tactics toward Moscow. It comes two days before Obama will discuss Russian sanctions at the G7.
“We have something
that has taken a sad turn recently, which is Russia,” US
Defense Secretary Ashley Carter told troops at the US Africa
Command in Stuttgart, Germany.
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The meeting between Carter and two dozen military leaders and
ambassadors based in Europe is scheduled to take place Friday at
the headquarters of the US European Command in Stuttgart, which
controls US forces in the region.
US forces have been increasingly active in Europe in recent
months, leading a massive series of NATO military exercises,
collectively dubbed Operation Atlantic Resolve. Alliance and US
military leaders have repeatedly said the operation is a message
to Russia, which NATO has labeled an aggressor and accused of
involvement in the Ukrainian conflict.
NATO has also formed a rapid response force in Europe, with an
aimed total strength of 30,000 troops.
Moscow has said that Kiev is fighting a civil war with its
citizens in eastern Ukraine, not with Russian forces. The Kremlin
has consistently and adamantly denied any presence of Russian
troops or hardware in eastern Ukraine, pointing out that there is
no evidence proving otherwise.
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However, Washington keeps blaming Russia – even to the point of
ignoring international observers’ reports. On Thursday, State
Department spokesperson Marie Harf told RT’s Gayane Chichakyan
that recent violence in Ukraine was the fault of “separatists
and Russia” – failing, however, to provide any backing for her
words.
Carter’s trip to Stuttgart will, among other things, evaluate how
effective Western sanctions and military actions have been in
deterring Russia, US defense officials said.
Pentagon spokesman Brent Colburn added that the meeting is aimed
to “inform the secretary’s thinking as he heads into his
first NATO ministerial meeting in June.”
When asked if the meeting would include the discussion of
providing Ukraine with lethal weapons, an official said Carter
was still open to the idea, and that the issue could come up.
There have been calls from US officials to supply lethal weapons
to Kiev for months now, including from General Philip Breedlove,
the head of US European Command and NATO forces in Europe.
Ukrainian officials, like Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk and
President Petro Poroshenko, have been asking for weapons. An
agreement for “defensive” lethal weapons supplies has
already been reached with 11 countries, according to an
analytical report for Poroshenko’s annual address to the
parliament.
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Kiev’s parliament has also recently signed a law allowing
unhindered access to the country for foreign troops on
peacekeeping missions, should they answer Kiev’s request.
Kremlin has reacted by warning Ukraine against any provocative
action, saying it is “very important to avoid any actions or
steps that provoke escalation of tension,” RIA Novosti
reported Dmitry Peskov as saying. With violence rising again in
southeast Ukraine, Moscow has once again reiterated its calls
“to concentrate on implementation of [Minsk]
agreements,” Peskov said.
The new bill on international peacekeeping missions in Ukraine
contradicts the Minsk agreements, Russian State Duma MP Leonid
Slutsky said. “Minsk-2 did not provide for peacekeepers in
resolution of the national conflict,” Slutsky said, Tass
reported.
On Thursday, Washington announced that Obama plans to urge EU leaders to
keep sanctions in place against Russia at the two-day G7 summit,
which will begin Sunday in the German town of Elmau.
“The president will be making the case to his European colleagues
that the EU should move ahead and extend sanctions when they meet
at the end of this month,” said White House Senior Director for European
Affairs Charles Kupchan.
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