Ukraine’s FM: Kyiv and the Ukrainian people are ready to fight if Russian troops invade
Posted Apr 24, 2014 01:22:30 PM.
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PRAGUE – Ukraine’s foreign minister has blasted the Russian decision to start military manoeuvrs along Ukraine’s border and said his country will fight any invading troops.
Andriy Deshchytisa said Russia’s decision Thursday to launch the military exercises “very much escalates the situation in the region.”
Talking to The Associated Press in Prague, Deshchytisa says his country has been taught a lesson by Russia’s annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula. He says “having this experience, we will now fight with Russian troops if … they invade Ukraine.”
He says “Ukrainian people and Ukrainian army are ready to do this.”
Deshchytisa says the new Russian military exercises are taking place “even closer to the Ukrainian border than it was planned earlier” and demanded the withdrawal of Russian troops.
