The US and Europe are using media to shift their responsibility for Ukrainian crisis on Russia and fortunately there are such news outlets as Rossiya Segodnya telling people the truth, Christoph HA6rstel, a Government Consultant and Publicist in Germany, told RIA Novosti Monday. “We have in fact a pre-running media war with lying against Russia and this is just a cover-up for a kind of economic war that is going on.
Fortunately we have RIA Novosti, fortunately we have Voice of Russia [both outlets have now merged into Rossiya Segodnya International News Agency] Fortunately we do have Russia Today, but that is not enough to tell the people who are definitely completely misinformed by our media on the real situation in Ukraine, to wake them up and make them withdraw their political support of these warmongers sitting in Berlin, Paris and London today and of course mainly in Washington,” he said.
The US is supporting the illegal government in Kiev and its punitive operation against protesters because Russia is developing too well for Washington’s interests, the consultant said. The US also doesn’t want to see Moscow having good relationship with Europe, he added. “They are pushing down the ruble, they are pushing down the important economic activities, they are trying to hurt Russia financially, economically,” Christoph HA6rstel said.
As the result of this policy, Washington is sending military aid and CIA agents to Ukraine and letting more blood be spilled, he added. “And now we have in fact fascist groups being incorporated in a so-called anti-terror mission, which is for my feeling is terror mission against the people’s defense forces, for example, in Slaviansk, and Odessa as well,” he underlined.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel supports the idea of holding another international meeting in Geneva on settling the crisis in Ukraine, put forward earlier by Germany’s Foreign Ministry, Merkel’s spokesperson Steffen Seibert said in Berlin on Monday.
Seibert added that the chancellor agreed in these terms with Germany’s Foreign Minister, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, as reported by Itar-Tass agency.
“We want the same thing,” Seibert said. “There are no differences in our position.”
The idea of arranging another conference in Geneva was put forward earlier by Germany’s Foreign Ministry.
The latest joint agreement on force renunciation and disarmament of illegal armed groups, signed by Ukraine, Russia, the European Union and the United States in Geneva in April, “has not been implemented yet,” Steinmeier told German public broadcaster ARD on Monday.
“We do need a follow-up conference, as we should finally and fully agree on the diplomatic ways of Ukraine’s crisis regulation,” the minister said.
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Sunday called for a second international conference to put an end to the crisis in Ukraine. He said he made the proposal in telephone conversations on Sunday with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, US Secretary of State John Kerry, and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).
“In the many discussions I’ve had in the last couple of hours, I’ve been campaigning … to hold a second meeting in Geneva to follow up on the first one,” he told ARD television, according to a text of an interview to be aired later.
He said the purpose of such a meeting would be “finally to make clear agreements on how we can we can put an end to this conflict and gradually move towards a political solution”, Reuters reports.
“Anything else would be irresponsible because it would only mean there are more victims,” he added.
On April 17, Russia, the United States, Ukraine and the European Union struck a deal in Geneva that outlined steps to defuse the crisis, including the disarmament of militants and a national dialogue on constitutional reform. The OSCE is charged with overseeing implementation of the accord.
On Sunday, a Russian deputy foreign minister said that “in the coming days” there would be unspecified new efforts to have the Ukrainian government open a “dialogue” with the pro-federalization supporters.
German Minister for Foreign Affairs Frank-Walter Steinmeier said he was shocked by the painful death of many people in a fire in Ukraine’s southern city of Odessa, according to his Twitter page.
“Tragedy of Odessa must be understood as a wake-up call!” he tweeted.
At least 46 people died in clashes in Odessa on Friday night, with 40 of them killed in fire in the House of Trade Unions. Some 214 people have sought medical help.
Interim Ukrainian President Oleksandr Turchynov signed a decree ordering a two-day national mourning for the victims of the tragic Odessa events.
Clashes broke out Friday evening between ‘anti-Maidan’ activists on one side and fans of the Odessa and Kharkov football fans, who were joined by ‘Euro-Maidan’ activists on the other.
Pro-Kiev radicals blocked the anti-government protesters in the Trade Unions House and set the building on fire. Some burned to death, while others suffocated or jumped out of windows.
Pro-federalization rallies have been on the rise in Ukraine’s eastern cities of Kharkov, Lugansk and Donetsk since March. Later protests have spread to a number of cities in the Donetsk region.
