Европын холбооны дипломат төлөөлөгчид ОХУ-ын халдлагад өртсөн ч Украйныг үргэлжлүүлэн дэмжих байр сууриа илэрхийлж, тус улсын өөрийгөө хамгаалах эрхийг тууштай дэмжихээ мэдэгдлээ.
Украйн-Польшийн хилийн ойролцоо зорчигч тээврийн галт тэрэг ОХУ-ын дроны цохилтод өртсөн нь олон улсын зүгээс хүчтэй шүүмжлэл дагуулж байна. Украйны төмөр замын байгууллагын мэдээлснээр, тухайн галт тэрэгний өмнөхөн Их Британийн ерөнхий сайд асан Борис Жонсон, Тагнуулын төв газрын дарга асан Дэвид Петреус болон Шведийн ерөнхий сайд асан Карл Бильд нарын бүрэлдэхүүнтэй дипломат төлөөлөгчдийн галт тэрэг зорчсон байсан тул уг халдлага тэднийг чиглэсэн байх магадлалтай гэж үзэж байна.
Европын холбооны гадаад бодлого, аюулгүй байдлын асуудал эрхэлсэн дээд төлөөлөгч Кая Каллас уг халдлагыг барууны ертөнцөд чиглэсэн дохио хэмээн тодорхойлж, ЕХ айдаст автахгүйгээр Украйныг дэмжих үйл ажиллагаагаа үргэлжлүүлнэ гэдгийг онцоллоо. Үүний зэрэгцээ Польшийн ерөнхий сайд Дональд Туск ОХУ-ын халдлага эрчимжиж байгаа нь Польшийн нутаг дэвсгэрт ч эрсдэл учруулж болзошгүйг анхааруулж, хилийн бүсэд аюулгүй байдлын арга хэмжээг чангатгаж байна.
Сүүлийн үед ОХУ-ын зүгээс Украйн даяар 450 гаруй дрон болон пуужин ашиглан хийсэн томоохон дайралтын улмаас зургаан хүн амь үрэгдэж, 40 гаруй хүн гэмтсэн байна. Украйны агаарын цэргийн хүчин 405 дрон болон дөрвөн пуужинг устгаснаа мэдэгдсэн бөгөөд халдлагын улмаас улсын баруун бүс нутагт ихээхэн хохирол учирчээ.
Энэхүү үйл явдал ЕХ-ны гишүүн орнууд ОХУ-ын эсрэг авсан хориг арга хэмжээг сунгах эсэх талаар Брюссель хотноо яриа хэлэлцээ хийж буй үед тохиож байна. Одоогоор 2600 гаруй хувь хүн, аж ахуйн нэгжид чиглэсэн уг хоригийг сунгах асуудал тодорхой нэрсийг жагсаалтаас хасах эсэх дээрх маргаанаас үүдэн хойшлогдоод байгаа юм.
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Europe needs to show it will not be “scared off” in supporting Ukraine, the EU’s chief diplomat said, after a Russian drone hit a passenger train on the country’s border with Poland shortly after a convoy of high-level diplomats and former leaders had passed through.
The earlier train, which was carrying the former UK prime minister Boris Johnson and the former CIA chief David Petraeus and running ahead of schedule, may have been the target of the Russian drone strike, Ukrainian Railways has said.
European leaders condemned the strikes on Monday. The French foreign minister, Jean-Noël Barrot, said the goal of the attacks was “to intimidate Europeans, discourage and above all divide them”.
The EU’s high representative for foreign and security policy, Kaja Kallas, said the strike “was clearly a message to the western world”. Speaking on the sidelines of an Arctic conference in Finland, she said: “I think the question for us is what do we take from that message? I think we should act the opposite. We should show that we are there for Ukraine and we are not scared off, because otherwise, you know, Russia will just achieve what they want, which is the submission of Ukraine.”
A spokesperson for Kallas added: “We strongly condemn the latest Russian strikes near the Ukraine-Poland border, including the attack against the passenger train,” and referenced a recent EU decision to approve a €6.1bn tranche of the €90bn loan for Ukraine. “We are acting on the front to equip Ukraine better to defend itself, and we will continue to stand firmly with Ukraine and its right to defend itself against Russian aggression,” the spokesperson said.
Overnight attacks across Ukraine involving more than 450 Russian drones and missiles killed at least six people and injured more than 40. Ukraine’s air force said it had intercepted 405 drones and four missiles.
Western Ukraine, which is typically quieter than Kyiv or the eastern frontline zones, was particularly badly hit.
The strikes, which prompted air raid warnings in Poland, came as EU diplomats met in Brussels on Monday for last-ditch talks on the rollover of the bloc’s sanctions against more than 2,600 Russian individuals and entities involved in supporting Vladimir Putin’s war. The sanctions are due to expire on Tuesday but their prolongation is being held up by a dispute about whether to remove an individual from the list.
Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, wrote on Telegram on Sunday: “Ukrainians are fighting every day to prevent these strikes from spreading further into Europe, giving their lives and preventing the aggression from expanding.”
Ukrainian Railways, which operates the line, said a train carrying several security advisers from European countries as well as Johnson, Petraeus and the former Swedish prime minister Carl Bildt, had passed through the border crossing shortly before the drone strike.
The diplomatic train, Ukrainian Railways said, had left ahead of schedule and could have been the target of the Russian drone.
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The Polish prime minister, Donald Tusk, warned on Sunday that intensifying Russian attacks in Ukraine in the coming weeks could affect Poland, as he chaired an emergency meeting after the Russian drone attacks near the border.
“The coming weeks and months will be a period of very intensive actions on the Russian side,” he said, adding Poland “cannot rule out that this escalation will also affect our territory”.
He added that Poland had been tipped off by its security services, and by intelligence agencies from allied countries, that an attack such as this was likely. “We knew that the Russian plan would include an attempt to disrupt, paralyse, and perhaps even destroy Ukrainian border crossings,” Tusk said.
