Ukraine to allies: West must act now to ensure no new Russia military offensive
Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba
Ukraineon Wednesday urgedWesternalliesto show they were prepared to punish Moscow withnewsanctions, including kickingRussiaout of the global SWIFT payments system, to deter the Kremlin from resorting to moremilitaryforce againstUkraine.
In an interview with Reuters, Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said while Kyiv had nonewinformation indicating thatRussiahad decided to takenewmilitaryaction againstUkraine, it was important for theWesttoactnowto prevent that happening.
Ukraineis trying to shore up international support in its standoff with Moscow over a build-up ofRussian troops on its eastern border and in Crimea.
"I have no information to state that the decision to launch amilitaryoperation againstUkrainehas already been taken. So it can go in either directionnow," Kuleba said.
"And this is why the reaction of theWest, the consolidated reaction of theWest, is so importantnow, to prevent Putin ... from making that decision."
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Kyiv and Moscow have traded blame for a collapse in the ceasefire in the eastern Donbass region, where Ukrainian troops have battledRussian-backed forces in a conflict Kyiv says has killed 14,000 people since 2014.
Kuleba said he asked Washington to supply "powerful means of electronic warfare" to counterRussia's capacity to jam Ukrainian communications when he met USSecretary of State Antony Blinken last week.
He also revealed he had urged a meeting of European Union foreign ministers on Monday to consider "banningRussiafrom SWIFT" as part of a package ofneweconomic sanctions ifRussiaescalated the situation.
Western diplomacy had helped restrainRussiabut everything "will depend on whether they're ready to ... follow their words with deeds," Kuleba said.
He saidUkrainehad not received a response from the Kremlin to President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's invitation to hisRussian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Tuesday for talks in the Donbass conflict zone.
Putin on Wednesday warned theWestnot to crossRussia's "red lines", saying Moscow would respond swiftly and harshly to any provocations.
"I read the message of President Putin the following way: 'we will be crossing your red lines, but you are not allowed to cross our red lines, and we will be defining where our red lines are,'" Kuleba said.