After weeks of tension, the question remains the same: Will Russia invade Ukraine? “Nobody knows what is going to happen. Days before Russia intervened Crimea, he swore and perjured that he had no intention of doing it… and he did,” said the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Policy of Security, Josep Borrell, who has insisted that diplomacy is the solution to avoid war, although he has specified: “Russia does not want to talk to the Europeans or the European Union“.
According to the United States, the invasion will begin on Wednesday of next week. For experts, this announcement has only one purpose. “It’s called speaker diplomacy.. This information is made to stop a war”, explained Marc Margineda, correspondent for ‘El Periódico’ in Moscow. Along these lines, Pedro Rodríguez, journalist and professor at the University of Comillas, has pointed out that “what we are seeing is the complexity of the new conflicts. We are facing a media war due to the way in which this deployment of troops has been dramatized or theatricalized.”
A war, for the time being, theatrical, but which is already affecting the Ukrainian economy. “Fear of war drives capital out and investors too“, Borrell has highlighted. Meanwhile, the staff of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, the OSCE, are already packing their bags, loading their vehicles and leaving the city. Given the warnings from the West, they are leaving Donetsk, one of the critical territories of the Donbas region. Because the United States insists: the risk of a Russian invasion is real. And after the call between Biden and Putin, Washington maintains its position.
Spain is going to do everything possible to block any path to war.”
“The path of diplomacy remains open. If Moscow chooses the path of aggression and invades Ukraine, the answer will be quick“, has assured Antony Blinken, Secretary of State of the United States. Thus, accusations and threats are given that have reached the point of absurdity, according to the Kremlin. They have denounced the hysteria of the West and have repeated, once again, that Russia it will not invade Ukraine, although they continue to accumulate troops in Belarus, very close to the border.
Even Russian attack helicopters would be arriving there. For its part, the United States continues to strengthen the Ukrainian army by sending more weapons. More and more countries are urging their citizens to leave the country as soon as possible, including Spain. The Foreign Minister, José Manuel Albares, believes that it is still possible to avoid the conflict: “The situation is very tense, but the war is avoidable. Spain is going to do everything possible to block any path to war.”
For now, several airlines have already begun to ban overflying Ukraine; others, like Lufthansa, are considering canceling flights with the country. A tense situation that many in Ukraine live differently: They believe that the war will not take place and that the crisis is only political. An idea of calm on which the Ukrainian government affects. “It is panic that destroys states more than tanks and guns,” said Denys Shmyhal, Ukraine’s prime minister.
Source: Lasexta
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