The European Union’s foreign policy chief has estimated that more than 150,000 Russian troops have already amassed for the biggest military buildup ever near Ukraine’s borders and that it will only take “a spark” to set off a confrontation.
Despite the developments, Borrell said after a virtual meeting of the EU foreign ministers that, “for the time being, there is no move in the field of more sanctions” to be imposed on Russia.
He also said there wasn’t a request for a synchronized EU diplomatic move of expulsions in the standoff between Czech Republic, an EU member state, and Russia following Prague’s accusation that Moscow was involved in a 2014 ammunition depot explosion.
More dangerous at this time, Borrell said, was the massing of Russian troops, including military field hospitals, and “all kinds of warfare.”
“It is the highest military deployment of the Russian army on the Ukrainian borders ever. It’s clear that it’s a matter of concern when you deploy a lot of troops,” Borrell said. “Well, a spark can jump here or there.”
“There’s more than 150,000 Russian troops massing on the Ukrainian borders and in Crimea. The risk of further escalation — it’s evident,” he told reporters after the meeting.
Borrell declined to say where he got the 150,000 Russian troop number from, but called it “my reference figure.” It’s bigger than the 110,000 estimate provided by Ukrainian Defense Minister Andriy Taran on Wednesday.
More than 14,000 people have died in seven years of fighting between Ukrainian forces and Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine that erupted after Russia’s 2014 annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula. The EU has steadfastly opposed the annexation but has been unable to do anything about it.
Efforts to reach a political settlement have stalled and violations of a shaky truce have become increasingly frequent in recent weeks across Ukraine’s eastern industrial heartland known as the Donbas.
Diplomats had expected there was little to no chance of immediate new sanctions on Moscow, but they now will seek to apply more pressure nevertheless through diplomacy.
“Moscow must switch from provocation to cooperation,” German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said.
And over the weekend, French President Emmanuel Macron said that while dialogue with Russia is essential, “clear red lines” carrying possible sanctions must also be drawn with Moscow over Ukraine.
“All in all, the relations with Russia, are not improving, but the contrary, the tension is increasing in different fronts,” Borrell said.
“We call on Russia to withdraw their troops,” Borrell said.
I side with the White country, not the Jew/Satanist ones.
MM
on April 20, 2021 at 10:38 am
Whatever’s left of the planet or civilisation after they’ve started this war the western elite should be hunted down for trial. Underground bunkers will keep out the people but they shouldn’t present many problems to foreign army engineers who, courtesy of their intelligence units, have likely already studied the blueprints. The better option would be dig them out kicking and screaming, but if the network is so extensive then divert large bodies of water into a breach and drown them like rats. If any part of the network is close to the coast then divert the ocean into them and flood them all right up to sea level, because if those bunkers hadn’t been there they’d have been wary of starting a world war which threatened their own survival.
Anaughty Mouser
on April 20, 2021 at 10:49 am
“Russia’s 2014 annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula. ”
100% lie.
Goyboy
on April 20, 2021 at 12:59 pm
If NATO ever does reclaim Crimea, something I think will now never happen, how does it think it would be able to manage the 95% pro-Russian population?
I wonder if the Donbas economy is now serving Russia and if the Russian economy is now supporting the Donbas?
Anonymous
on April 20, 2021 at 8:14 pm
The krauts need to watch their mouths. If NATO attacks Russia, what happened to Germany in 1945 will seem like a picnic. This time the Bear will be looking for a more permanent solution.
Slobadan
on April 21, 2021 at 1:09 am
As soon as Demoncrats came to power its back to the status Quo of pushing for Wars, regime change,
Biden is trying to finish what Obongo started in 2014 with the help of John Mcstain, Lynsday ( I love being butt fucked by Negros) Graham.
This time around things will be different.
Its way past time to start sinking US Ships.
I couldn’t give a flying Rats arse about any Yankee idiots dying, they signed up for it and weren’t smart enough to work out they we’re being destroyed by the faceless Diabolical Jewish parasites.
James Reinhart
on April 21, 2021 at 4:34 am
Failing to see that the people that are in charge are the leadership of all countries that are acting from multiple sides. Plato understood this, as the US Army War College uses his analysis that 85% cannot understand anything or what they read, 10% cannot view from more than 1 point of view, a few more will read but not research and plan from multiple aspects while covering them all, presenting 1 viewpoint the the masses. Putin is the son of a Cheka, Jewish, Freemason and part of the family that knows something about playing multiple sides when they financed Napoleon who found out that the plan was for his defeat while taking over the Bank of England which is also the owner of most central banks in the world, dictating armies from all sides and profiting from it all. War is a Racket and the Financiers make billions, trillions and have power over most every nation in every institution.
Eretz with a Z means all land on earth. The US has it’s Noahide laws (we shall make no law regarding religion – I guess that was a joke), and Russia has a nice gulag for you if you speak of the non-existant, posted in all papers since the middle 1800s of the 6 million dead or dying, and Holodomor, the starving to death of 7 million Ukrainians. It gets worse as the US is behind the creation of the USSR and Red China.
Few read. Most regurgitate what they want to hear or what they believe they understand (read The Crowd” by Gustav LeBon or even “War is a Racket” by Smedly Butler, and C Wright Mill’s “Power Elite: if you are can’t understand a widespread conspiracy. Plato’s Republic is filled with it as well as the parts of Solon, one of the 7 sages of Greece. Modern technology can’t seem to find many bodies in the concentration camps as the dirt underneath is almost completely untouched but it can find the bodies of the English slaughter of the Irish well over a century earlier.
I consider xtianity no better or any of the fabrication of Brhm or Abraham which is Brahma just as Sara is Saraswati and the Indo-Scythians/Hyksos/Hebrews were run out of all countries but subverted most. The fact is that Judea is no different than Carthage. Asherah (Asura), wife of Yahweh (Yamveh) is Vedic, with the stolen ideas from every nation, city state and empire they plundered or tried to as these are from the beginning, Mongol Turkic in origin. Papers have been written but few make it to any source where one can read them. The Expeditions of all great Empires can’t account for Israelites in any of their writings although Judeans and Phoenicians can, especially the latter while the former is almost all BS.
I side with the White country, not the Jew/Satanist ones.
Whatever’s left of the planet or civilisation after they’ve started this war the western elite should be hunted down for trial. Underground bunkers will keep out the people but they shouldn’t present many problems to foreign army engineers who, courtesy of their intelligence units, have likely already studied the blueprints. The better option would be dig them out kicking and screaming, but if the network is so extensive then divert large bodies of water into a breach and drown them like rats. If any part of the network is close to the coast then divert the ocean into them and flood them all right up to sea level, because if those bunkers hadn’t been there they’d have been wary of starting a world war which threatened their own survival.
“Russia’s 2014 annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula. ”
100% lie.
If NATO ever does reclaim Crimea, something I think will now never happen, how does it think it would be able to manage the 95% pro-Russian population?
I wonder if the Donbas economy is now serving Russia and if the Russian economy is now supporting the Donbas?
The krauts need to watch their mouths. If NATO attacks Russia, what happened to Germany in 1945 will seem like a picnic. This time the Bear will be looking for a more permanent solution.
As soon as Demoncrats came to power its back to the status Quo of pushing for Wars, regime change,
Biden is trying to finish what Obongo started in 2014 with the help of John Mcstain, Lynsday ( I love being butt fucked by Negros) Graham.
This time around things will be different.
Its way past time to start sinking US Ships.
I couldn’t give a flying Rats arse about any Yankee idiots dying, they signed up for it and weren’t smart enough to work out they we’re being destroyed by the faceless Diabolical Jewish parasites.
Failing to see that the people that are in charge are the leadership of all countries that are acting from multiple sides. Plato understood this, as the US Army War College uses his analysis that 85% cannot understand anything or what they read, 10% cannot view from more than 1 point of view, a few more will read but not research and plan from multiple aspects while covering them all, presenting 1 viewpoint the the masses. Putin is the son of a Cheka, Jewish, Freemason and part of the family that knows something about playing multiple sides when they financed Napoleon who found out that the plan was for his defeat while taking over the Bank of England which is also the owner of most central banks in the world, dictating armies from all sides and profiting from it all. War is a Racket and the Financiers make billions, trillions and have power over most every nation in every institution.
Eretz with a Z means all land on earth. The US has it’s Noahide laws (we shall make no law regarding religion – I guess that was a joke), and Russia has a nice gulag for you if you speak of the non-existant, posted in all papers since the middle 1800s of the 6 million dead or dying, and Holodomor, the starving to death of 7 million Ukrainians. It gets worse as the US is behind the creation of the USSR and Red China.
Few read. Most regurgitate what they want to hear or what they believe they understand (read The Crowd” by Gustav LeBon or even “War is a Racket” by Smedly Butler, and C Wright Mill’s “Power Elite: if you are can’t understand a widespread conspiracy. Plato’s Republic is filled with it as well as the parts of Solon, one of the 7 sages of Greece. Modern technology can’t seem to find many bodies in the concentration camps as the dirt underneath is almost completely untouched but it can find the bodies of the English slaughter of the Irish well over a century earlier.
I consider xtianity no better or any of the fabrication of Brhm or Abraham which is Brahma just as Sara is Saraswati and the Indo-Scythians/Hyksos/Hebrews were run out of all countries but subverted most. The fact is that Judea is no different than Carthage. Asherah (Asura), wife of Yahweh (Yamveh) is Vedic, with the stolen ideas from every nation, city state and empire they plundered or tried to as these are from the beginning, Mongol Turkic in origin. Papers have been written but few make it to any source where one can read them. The Expeditions of all great Empires can’t account for Israelites in any of their writings although Judeans and Phoenicians can, especially the latter while the former is almost all BS.