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Friday, 19.04.2024, 22:12
Yushchenko in Vilnius: a new iron curtain descending over Europe
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Yushchenko said that Europe does not have, at least for now, a common plan
for countering Russia, adding that winning against that country requires more
than diplomatic efforts or sanctions.
"If Winston Churchill took part in our discussion, he would say: 'Dear
politicians, look at the political map of Europe. Don't you see that iron
curtain from the Baltic to the Black Sea?' ", he said at a regional
leadership and security conference hosted by Vilnius University.
The former Ukrainian president described the current situation in Europe as
"a conflict between Asian feudalism and European democracy".
Russia in 2014 annexed the Crimean peninsula from Ukraine and began to
support separatists fighting government forces in the eastern part of the
country.
Yushchenko, who served as Ukraine's president between 2005 and 2010, said
that, among other measures, military action is needed to stop Russia.
"To bring what is happening in Europe under control we need
diplomatic, military, financial, economic and humanitarian components and that
of sanctions," he said.
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