A CRISIS IN UKRAINE By Joshua jack

RESPONDING TO RUSSIAN LEADERS' REPEATED DENIALS OF MILITARY INVOLVEMENT IN HIS COUNTRY, UKRAINE'S PRIME MINISTER SARCASTICALLY OFFERED THURSDAY TO "GIVE THEM MY GLASSES" TO SEE FOR THEMSELVES. "IT’S CLEAR THAT (THE) RUSSIAN MILITARY IS ON THE GROUND," PRIME MINISTER ARSENIY YATSENYUK SAID AT A PRESS CONFERENCE IN KIEV ALONGSIDE U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE JOHN KERRY AND OTHER UKRAINIAN LEADERS. "WE ARE NOT FIGHTING SO-CALLED REBELS OR GUERRILLAS," YATSENYUK SAID. "WE ARE FIGHTING WITH THE RUSSIAN REGULAR ARMY." KERRY URGED THAT RUSSIA FIND A PEACEFUL END TO THE DEVASTATING CONFLICT IN EASTERN UKRAINE, SAYING THE BIGGEST THREAT UKRAINE FACES IS "RUSSIA'S CONTINUED AGGRESSION" THERE. UKRAINE'S "BEST WEAPON" IN ITS FIGHT TO MAINTAIN ITS SOVEREIGNTY AND INDEPENDENCE ARE THE REFORMS THAT ITS GOVERNMENT HAS BEGUN, INCLUDING ROOTING OUT CORRUPTION AND FIXING ITS FINANCIAL SYSTEM, THE SECRETARY OF STATE SAID. YATSENYUK SAID HE WANTED PEACE, BUT "WE WILL NEVER CONSIDER ANYTHING THAT UNDERMINES (THE) TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY, SOVEREIGNTY (AND) INDEPENDENCE OF UKRAINE AND ITS EUROPEAN FUTURE." EARLIER, KERRY AND UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT PETRO POROSHENKO SPOKE IN KIEV. KERRY CALLED ON RUSSIA TO TAKE THREE STEPS HE SAID WOULD ENABLE A DIPLOMATIC SOLUTION "THAT IS STARING EVERYONE IN THE FACE." THOSE ARE: PULLING BACK HEAVY WEAPONS BEYOND THE RANGE OF CIVILIAN POPULATIONS, REMOVING FOREIGN TROOPS AND HEAVY EQUIPMENT FROM UKRAINE, AND CLOSING THE RUSSIA-UKRAINE BORDER. THE UNITED STATES WANTS PEACE, KERRY SAID. "BUT WE CANNOT CLOSE OUR EYES TO TANKS THAT ARE CROSSING THE BORDER FROM RUSSIA AND COMING INTO UKRAINE, WE CANNOT CLOSE OUR EYES TO RUSSIAN FIGHTERS IN UNMARKED UNIFORMS CROSSING THE BORDERS, AND LEADING INDIVIDUAL COMPANIES OF SO-CALLED SEPARATISTS INTO BATTLE.UKRAINE The soldiers wore gas mask.

MY OPINION OTHER’S OPINION My opinion is that it is bad of the Russians to try to fight Ukraine. If the Russians decrease Ukraine's population by continuing to fight the Ukraine's, then the US may get involved in the fighting and war may be declared. This is not the US’s fight at all because Ukraine is its own country. If the US gets involved, the Russian military might just come to the U.S to fight us.

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