First U.S. Paratroopers Arrive In Ukraine

Comment by Foreign Ministry Spokesman Alexander Lukashevich on the arrival of US paratroopers in Ukraine

756-17-04-2015

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We have noted with alarm reports about the arrival of 290 US paratroopers from the Italy-based 173rd Airborne Brigade to the Yavorov training centre in the Lvov Region of Ukraine.
US paratroopers, along with their British colleagues already stationed in Ukraine and the Canadian instructors who are planned to be dispatched there, will train the soldiers of the so-called National Guard of Ukraine. We wonder if Washington, London and Ottawa know that they will train the very same Ukrainian ultranationalists from the volunteer battalions who have Nazi symbols on their uniforms and who killed women, children and the elderly during the punitive operations in Donbass. Will the overseas instructors train them in more efficient methods of killing Russian speakers in Ukraine?
As far as we know, their schedule includes training in the use of Western weapons and equipment. This can be interpreted as the first step towards supplying modern US weapons to Ukraine, which the Kiev “war party” is waiting for so eagerly. Washington’s connivance with this war party’s revenge-seeking plans is fraught with the renewal of bloodshed in Russia’s neighbour.
These US actions directly contradict the February 12 Minsk Agreements, which the Kiev authorities have signed and which, as we know, Washington has welcomed. Clause 10 of the Package of Measures for the Implementation of the Minsk Agreements stipulates the “withdrawal of all foreign armed formations, military equipment, as well as mercenaries from the territory of Ukraine under monitoring of the OSCE.” Instead of implementing this provision, troops from a US airborne brigade have landed near Lvov and are planned to be stationed there for a long time.
This is a clear violation of Kiev’s obligations, and the Obama administration, which has been advocating the settlement of the Ukrainian crisis in word, is actually acting to undermine the Minsk Agreements. Seeking to divert attention from the deployment of US troops in Ukraine, the United States has created a smokescreen of allegations about the presumed presence of Russian troops in Donbass, which no one has seen, unlike the Pentagon paratroopers in the Lvov Region.
It is obvious that US troops will not bring peace to Ukraine.