The Ukraine and Russia standoff is about more than just the two countries. It's about global security and an attempt to 'rewrite rules on which the world is based,' says Ukraine's minister of foreign affairs. And he adds that's why Americans should care.
A Ukrainian military forces serviceman gets out of a tank parked in a base near Klugino-Bashkirivka village in the Kharkiv region on Monday.
While military forces are marshaling on both sides of the border, diplomatic efforts continue in an effort to defuse the situation. Kuleba said Ukrainian officials have been busy preparing against any invasion but have deliberately gone about it quietly to avoid sparking panic in the country and hurting the economy.Ukraine's Minister of Foreign Affairs Dmytro Kuleba says the country is defending the current world order.
"We don't need your boots on the ground, but help us to fight this war diplomatically, militarily. And we will defend the current world order led by the United States and other democratic countries in this part of the world." "Democracy is at stake," he told NPR."If we allow Vladimir Putin to come into a sovereign territory and threaten its democracy or take its democracy, then we are allowing others to do the same, which in turn, reverberates on us. ... We've got to unite with one message to say that's not going to happen."Green agreed, adding that the United States was compelled to"work to a diplomatic solution here as quickly and as effectively as we can.
At the U.N. Security Council meeting on Monday, Russia's representative Vassily Nebenzia also denied there were any plans to invade and that Russian troops in Belarus were there only for regular exercises.
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