Moscow has announced that part of the military forces deployed for weeks near the Ukrainian border began to return to their bases. The departure of Russian soldiers is perceived as a sign of de-escalation.
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Part of the Russian troops deployed in Ukraine border regions began to return to their bases after completing military exercises, reported Tuesday, February 15 the Russian agencies by citing the Ministry of Defense.
According to Interfax, units deployed in the southern and west regions, on the eastern border of Ukraine, ended up their maneuvers, even if other military exercises continue in the rest of the country. “The units of the military districts of the South and the West, having accomplished their tasks, have already begun to take place on rail and road transport and today, they will begin to return to their garrisons,” said the carrier Word of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Igor Konashenkov, no more details.
The return of Russian soldiers in their bases is perceived as a sign of de-escalation, while Moscow and Western countries multiply diplomatic exchanges to find a door of exit to the crisis around Ukraine. Monday, February 14, Sergei Choïgou, the Russian Minister of Defense, had given a first indication of a possible appeasement of tensions with the Westerners, stating that other maneuvers, organized simultaneously in Belarus, “are in the process of finish “. “Exercises take place, a party is over. Others are still done, given their dimension,” added the minister.
Tuesday, the Kiev authorities welcomed these announcements, stating that Ukraine and Westerners prevented “a” Russian “escalation. This de-escalation initiates that Monday, the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, breaking with his offensive statements from the previous days, said he wanted to give a new “luck” to diplomacy. On the same day, the German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, passing through Kiev, had urged Moscow to seize the “dialogues of dialogues” Westerners.
There’s “always a chance”
The head of the Russian diplomacy held these words as part of a consultation with President Vladimir Putin, who, true to his habit, remained almost silent. The staging, organized on either side of a very long table, anti-COVID protocol obliges, has been broadcast on television to properly pass the message, quite ambiguity.
“Our possibilities are far from exhausted,” said Sergei Lavrov. The head of the diplomacy insisted: there is “always a chance” to find a compromise. Recalling that Moscow expects Westerners to his requests for “security guarantees”, including the assurance that Ukraine will never adhere to NATO, it stated that the United States has advanced “constructive” proposals To reduce military risks, but that the responses of the European Union and NATO are not satisfactory.
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