A senior Russian Communist Party lawmaker has stated that by signing the \u2018Ukrainian Freedom Support Act\u2019 US President Barack Obama has further aggravated the tensions in that country.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe US administration is currently the main source and the main escalation factor in the Ukrainian crisis and the anti-Russian hysteria. As soon as our diplomats carefully put some sutures on the conflict situations and smear them with a healing medicine, the Americans immediately rip off the bandages and rub salt into the wound,\u201d said Ivan Melnikov, who is also first deputy speaker of the State Duma.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a pre-planned strategy, shooting to kill,\u201d Melnikov said. \u201cWe should not expect anything different from them \u2013 force is the only thing they would understand.\u201d<\/p>\n
Melnikov\u2019s comments came after Obama signed the Ukraine Freedom Support Act, providing lethal and non-lethal aid to the Kiev regime and giving the US president powers to impose more economic sanctions against Russian companies. The signing came despite Obama\u2019s opposition to the motion \u2013 the US president previously called it counterproductive and causing divisions with Washington’s European allies.<\/p>\n
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has discussed the law with US State Secretary John Kerry and said it could \u201cundermine normal cooperation between Russia and the US for a long time,\u201d the Russian Foreign Ministry said on its website Friday.<\/p>\n
Last week, Russian MP Mikhail Yemelyanov, of the Fair Russia party, called the Ukraine Freedom Support Act \u201cextremely dangerous\u201d and urged an \u201cadequate response\u201d to it.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is quite possible that we should return to the decision by our Upper House and give the Russian president an opportunity to use military force on Ukrainian territory preemptively. We should not wait until Ukraine is armed and becomes really dangerous,\u201d Yemelyanov said.<\/p>\n
He was referring to a March 1 resolution by the Federation Council, Russia\u2019s upper house of parliament, that authorizes allowed the president to use military force on the territory of Ukraine \u201cuntil the normalization of the social and political situation in that country.\u201d In late June it was repealed, following a request from Vladimir Putin who wanted to reduce tensions in view of the three-party talks on a peaceful settlement in eastern and southeast Ukraine<\/p>\n
\u201cThis article was originally published in RT News website: http:\/\/rt.com\/politics\/215883-america-ukrainian-crisis-communist\/\u2033<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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