{"id":3469,"date":"2014-03-11T08:15:55","date_gmt":"2014-03-11T08:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=3469"},"modified":"2014-03-11T08:15:55","modified_gmt":"2014-03-11T08:15:55","slug":"nato-aircraft-to-monitor-ukraine-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2014\/03\/11\/3469\/","title":{"rendered":"NATO aircraft to monitor Ukraine crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/stories\/news3\/nato%20aircraft.jpg\" border=\"0\" style=\"float: right; margin: 5px;\" \/>NATO has said it will start reconnaissance flights over Poland and Romania to monitor the situation in neighbouring Ukraine where Russian forces have taken control of Crimea.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The AWACS (Airborne Warning and Control System) flights will take place solely over NATO territory, the alliance said on Monday.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Ukraine is not a NATO member but Russia&#8217;s intervention in Crimea has alarmed neighbouring countries, including alliance members that used to be dominated by the Soviet Union.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The announcement comes as the United States is sending a dozen F-16 fighter jets and 300 service personnel to Poland as part of a training exercise.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The US and Russia are bitterly divided over how to ease the crisis, with each challenging the other to show they are really interested in a peaceful outcome.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Russia denounced alleged lawlessness by far-right activists in eastern Ukraine on Monday, in a statement likely to trigger fear in Ukraine over possible Russian intervention.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Russian Foreign Ministry said it was outraged by lawlessness in the country\u2019s east, blaming the group Right Sector for &#8220;conniving&#8221; with the new government in Kiev.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Right Sector is a grouping of several far-right and nationalist factions who were actively involved in the uprising against Moscow-backed President Viktor Yanukovich.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The movement uses swastika signs, is blamed for various attacks, and according to its leader Dmitro Yarosh, has \u201cenough weapons to defend all of Ukraine\u201d.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Its activists were among the most radical and confrontational of the demonstrators in the Ukrainian capital, Kiev, and organised \u201cself-defence\u201d brigades for the protest camp.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Witnesses in eastern Ukraine told Reuters news agency that tensions had been fuelled by pro-Russian activists to provide Russian President Vladimir Putin with a justification for invading Ukraine to protect Russians.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Pro-Russia sentiment is at a high and there are fears Russia could seek to incorporate that area as well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Violence against Russians<\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A referendum has been called in Crimea for March 16 on whether the region should split off and seek to become part of Russia.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Russia has criticised the West for being silent over violence and detentions taking place against Russians, highlighting the attack on a pro-Moscow demonstrators in the eastern city of Kharkiv on March 8 and the detention of Russian journalists.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;The shamefaced silence of our Western partners, human rights organisations and foreign media is surprising. It raises the question, where is the notorious objectivity and commitment to democracy?&#8221; it said.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Ukraine&#8217;s government and Western leaders have accused Russian officials and media of distorting the facts to portray the protesters who Yanukovich&#8217;s rule as violent extremists.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">On Wednesday, Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk will be received in Washington by President Barack Obama.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Obama has warned that the March 16 vote in Crimea would violate international law. But on Sunday, Putin made it clear that he supports the referendum, in phone calls with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and British Minister David Cameron.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cThe steps taken by the legitimate leadership of Crimea are based on the norms of international law and aim to ensure the legal interests of the population of the peninsula,\u201d said Putin, according to the Kremlin.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Putin has refused to have any dealings with the new Ukrainian leaders who replaced fugitive pro-Kremlin Yanukovich. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Source:<em><strong> Aljazeera<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NATO has said it will start reconnaissance flights over Poland and Romania to monitor the situation in neighbouring Ukraine where Russian forces have taken control of Crimea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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