{"id":19965,"date":"2014-03-01T21:16:49","date_gmt":"2014-03-02T04:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=19965"},"modified":"2014-03-01T21:16:49","modified_gmt":"2014-03-02T04:16:49","slug":"ukraine-alleges-russian-invasion-of-crimea-as-obama-warns-of-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=19965","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine alleges Russian \u201cinvasion\u201d of Crimea as Obama warns of \u201ccosts\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Article one of the Budapest Memorandum reads: \u201cThe United States of America, the Russian Federation, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, reaffirm their commitment to Ukraine &#8230; to respect the Independence and Sovereignty and the existing borders of Ukraine.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ukraine alleges Russian \u201cinvasion\u201d of Crimea as Obama warns of \u201ccosts\u201d<\/strong><br \/>\nBy Chris Marsden &#8211; 1 March 2014 &#8211; WSWS.org<\/p>\n<p>US President Barack Obama issued a statement Friday evening denouncing \u201creports of military movements\u201d taken by Russia in Ukraine, warning that \u201cthere will be costs for any military intervention.\u201d The comments come as the US\/European-stoked regime change operation in Ukraine threatens to develop into a conflict between Western powers and Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Obama\u2019s White House statement came shortly after the \u201cinterim government\u201d installed in Ukraine by the Western powers appealed for United States and Britain to come to its aid, accusing Russia of mounting an \u201cinvasion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Arsen Avakov, the new interior minister and member of Fatherland, the party of oligarch Yulya Tymoshenko, alleged that the international airport in Sebastopol in the Crimea had been blocked by Russian forces. He wrote on Facebook, \u201cI regard what is happening as an armed invasion and occupation in violation of all international treaties and norms. This is a direct provoking of armed bloodshed on the territory of a sovereign state.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His choice of words aims to provide a casus belli justifying Western military intervention in Ukraine. He is invoking terms of a 1994 agreement, the Budapest Memorandum\u2014signed by US President Bill Clinton, UK Prime Minister John Major, Russia\u2019s Boris Yeltsin and Leonid Kuchma for Ukraine\u2014promising to uphold the territorial integrity of Ukraine in return for Ukraine giving up its nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n<p>Article one of the Budapest Memorandum reads: \u201cThe United States of America, the Russian Federation, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, reaffirm their commitment to Ukraine &#8230; to respect the Independence and Sovereignty and the existing borders of Ukraine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sir Tony Brenton, the former British Ambassador to Moscow from 2004 to 2008, warned that if Russia was found to have invaded Ukraine, then war could be an option \u201cif we do conclude the Memorandum is legally binding.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The newly-appointed head of Ukraine\u2019s National Security Council, Andriy Parubiy, accused Moscow of commanding armed groups at airports in Crimea. \u201cThese are separate groups \u2026 commanded by the Kremlin,\u201d Parubiy said. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2014\/03\/01\/ukra-m01.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8230;more<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"igit_tsb_button\" style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.crookedbough.com%2F%3Fp%3D19965&amp;text=Ukraine+alleges+Russian+%E2%80%9Cinvasion%E2%80%9D+of+Crimea+as+Obama+warns+of+%E2%80%9Ccosts%E2%80%9D&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Article one of the Budapest Memorandum reads: \u201cThe United States of America, the Russian Federation, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, reaffirm their commitment to Ukraine &#8230; to respect the Independence and Sovereignty and the existing borders of Ukraine.\u201d Ukraine alleges Russian \u201cinvasion\u201d of Crimea as Obama warns of \u201ccosts\u201d By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=19965#more-'\" class=\"more-link\">more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[4277],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19965"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19965"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19966,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19965\/revisions\/19966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}