Given the Crimean crisis widens the USA from a maneuver in Poland. The Pentagon now sends twelve combat aircraft and 300 soldiers. The German Foreign Minister Steinmeier also makes more pressure on President Putin and now expects a tightening of sanctions.
The U.S. move against the background of the crisis in Ukraine twelve F-16 fighter jets to Poland. For a military exercise intended to Thursday also 300 U.S. soldiers will be sent to Poland, such as the Ministry of Defence in Warsaw announced on Sunday. The maneuver had been planned for some time, said ministry spokesman Jacek Sonta. Given the “tense political situation” in Ukraine Warsaw and Washington would have but now agreed to extend it and preferable.
The U.S. had already moved six additional F-15 fighter jets to neighboring Lithuania on Thursday. Lithuanian Defence Minister Juozas Olekas said the warplanes had the answer to the “Russian aggression in Ukraine and increased military activity in Kaliningrad,” the Russian exclave on the border with Lithuania and Poland.
NATO warplanes patrolling routinely over the three Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, are members of the Western military alliance, but even do not have a powerful air force. The responsibility for the use changes every four months between the allies, since January already flying four U.S. fighter jets of the type F-15 over the Baltic. Poland itself has 48 F-16 fighter aircraft.
Ukraine-Crimea Crisis:Steinmeier expected next level of sanctions
Germany’s Foreign Minister Frank -Walter Steinmeier accuses Russia now before a firm stance in the Crimean crisis. Steinmeier, who has been placed primarily on diplomacy , now expects an imminent tightening of EU sanctions . “If it’s in the talks tomorrow or the day might still pending, if it does not come to a corresponding readiness to move on the Russian side , then you will need to reach the next level of sanctions,” the SPD politician said on Sunday evening in the ZDF program ” Berlin directly ” . This EU Sanctions against travel restrictions and account lockouts for certain responsible persons in Ukraine conflict .
While the situation on the area occupied by uniformed pro-Russian Crimea remains tense , the conflict between the governments tightened in Moscow and Kiev. The Ukrainian leadership turned the pro-Moscow leadership of the Crimea to the money supply . Pro-Russian Armed had previously denied OSCE monitors with warning shots, the entrance to the Crimea.
The inhabitants of the peninsula to decide in a referendum next Sunday on whether the Crimea the Russian Federation followed . A majority of it is considered probable . The centuries Russian peninsula is part of international law to the Ukraine. The government in Kiev and the west throw Russia claims to have brought the peninsula about a week ago to international law under Russian control .
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