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Tymoshenko: Putin has three goals now

23 September 2014 12:18 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Zumrud Pashayeva – APA. The Minsk agreements on the settlement of the situation in Ukraine's east are only an illusion of peaceful intentions of the Kremlin.

Ex-Prime Minister, leader of the All-Ukrainian Association Batkivshchyna Yulia Tymoshenko told on air of the Freedom of Speech program on the ICTV on Monday, APA reports quoting Ukrinform.

Putin, according to Tymoshenko, has three goals. First - he should demonstrate to the Western world that there is an illusion of the truce here. What he will receive from this - termination of increasing sanctions from the Western world ... Indeed, the EU and the United States stopped entering the next level of sanctions today.

“After the Minsk protocols were signed, the United States after a visit of our President said that since the truce is reached, there is no need to make Ukraine the main partner of the U.S. outside NATO... He (Putin - Ed.) stopped a process of supplying high-precision and highly needed weapons to Ukraine,” Tymoshenko suggested.

Third, the Kremlin achieved “demobilization of the Ukrainian defense,” weakened the Kyiv policy on modernization of the Ukrainian Army and rearmament.