US/NATO War on Russia

[David Guyatt]

There has been an announcement of an agreed ceasefire in the Eastern Ukraine. The catch is it comes from the press office of Kiev and Putin is in Mongolia and there is no confirmation from the Kremlin.

Putin increases the tension:

Ukraine crisis: Poroshenko agrees 'permanent ceasefire' as Russia gears up for tests of long-range nuclear arsenal



Cameron has told EU leaders not to appease' Putin as Britain and France did Hitler

LOULLA-MAE ELEFTHERIOU-SMITH

Wednesday 03 September 2014

The Ukrainian President's office says it has agreed a "permanent ceasefire" with Russia over eastern Ukraine.

"Their conversation resulted in agreement on a permanent ceasefire in the Donbass region," his office said, referring to the regions of Donestsk and Luhansk, where fighting has been ongoing since April. The death toll has reached more than 2,600 since the fighting began, according to the UN.
The agreement comes on the day that Russia announced it will conduct major exercises in September of the strategic missile forces responsible for its long-range nuclear arsenal.
The exercises will involve more than 4,000 servicemen and will practice countering irregular units and high-precision weapons, the RIA news agency reported Russia's Defence ministry as saying, with the tests making extensive use of air power.
Russia's defence ministry announced the plans amid rising tensions between the country and Nato over the crisis in Ukraine, just days after Vladimir Putin boasted to European leaders that he could "take Kiev in two weeks", after telling a youth summer camp that "Russia is one of the leading nuclear powers" and that "Russia's partners should understand it's best not to mess with us".
Cameron has warned the West against making the same mistakes as Neville ChamberlainBut despite the Russian leader's aggressive comments, a spokesperson for President Putin said he had had discussions with President Poroshenko regarding a peace settlement in eastern Ukraine, finding that they "largely share views" on a way out of the crisis. The spokesperson did not give an indication of when this conversation took place.
On Saturday David Cameron warned European leaders that the West is at risk of appeasing President Putin in the same way that Britain and France appeased Adolf Hitler before the start of the Second World War.
In a debate about the crisis in Ukraine that took place behind closed doors, the Prime Minister told leaders that President Putin had to be stopped from seizing all of Ukriane, the Guardian reported, according to details of the conversation obtained by La Repubblica.
President Obama has arrived in EstoniaHe the dealings of European leaders with Putin to the failed methods of British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain in the lead up to the war, when he continued to negotiate with Hitler.
"We run the risk of repeating the mistakes made in Munich in '38. We cannot know what will happen next," Mr Cameron is understood to have said. "This time we cannot meet Putin's demands. He has already taken Crimea and we cannot allow him to take the whole country," La Repubblica reported.
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President Barack Obama has since arrived in Estonia, making a show of solidarity in Eastern Europe ahead of a Nato summit in Wales on Thursday. He is due to hold a news conference with Eastonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves, and is expected to reassure the Baltics that the US would come to their defence if tensions escalated that far.
Under the Nato charter, an attack on one member is considered an attack on the entire alliance.