Russia's Putin tells OSCE chief ready to discuss Ukraine crisis solution

[dipsydoodle]

Source: Reuters

(Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday he was ready to discuss a way out of the Ukrainian crisis with the head of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe.

"I know that you have your own proposals, your ideas of how to find a way out of the situation (in Ukraine) that has occurred. Our position is known too," Putin said ahead of talks with Didier Burkhalter, OSCE Chairperson-in-Office for 2014 and Head of the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs.

"Let's try to analyse the situation and seek ways out of this crisis."

Read more: http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/05/07/ukraine-crisis-putin-osce-idUKL6N0NT46Q20140507

[davidpdx]

1. *cough*

I'll believe it when it happens.

[nyabingi]

2. But wait a minute...

...Putin is determined to invade Ukraine and annex it along with Crimea, he's just waiting for more NATO forces to move into the area before doing so! Don't believe his lying words!

[dipsydoodle]

5. OSCE is not NATO.

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[nyabingi]

7. No, I meant NATO

The US and other NATO-aligned countries have been steadily moving in personnel and equipment to eastern European countries for what? Ukraine is not even in NATO so what business is it of NATO's?

The NATO countries are pretty much yelling to the world that they intended to bring their new Ukrainian friends into the military alliance in order to further their encroachment on Russia.

[dipsydoodle]

3. OSCE to propose to signatories of Geneva statement roadmap on Ukraine in next few hours

The OSCE will propose to the parties in the multi-party negotiations on the crisis in Ukraine held in Geneva "a roadmap" for resolving the crisis, Swiss President Didier Burkhalter said.

http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/osce-to-propose-to-signatories-of-geneva-statement-roadmap-on-ukraine-in-next-few-hours-346734.html

[Javaman]

4. putin got his oil fields.

now he want's to talk.

funny how that works.

[bemildred]

6. Ukraine Frees Pro-Russia Leader in Hostage Swap

Ukrainian authorities released one of the pro-Russia militant movement's most prominent leaders on Wednesday in exchange for Ukrainian security officers taken hostage by rebels late last month, according to a spokesman for the anti- Kiev movement the country's restive east.

Pavel Gubarev, the pro-Russia activist who led a separatist movement in the Donetsk region before being arrested by Ukrainian authorities in early March, was freed and returned to the rebel stronghold of Slovyansk, according to Kirill Rudenko, a spokesman for the Donetsk People's Republic.

"He is indeed in Slovyansk," Mr. Rudenko said by telephone. "It was an exchange." He said Mr. Gubarev had been swapped for Ukrainian officers who had been taken hostage earlier this year.

In an earlier interview, Mr. Rudenko said that Mr. Gubarev had become a sort of "spiritual leader" for the movement in Donetsk after his incarceration. Stylized posters featuring Mr. Gubarev's face have become a common decoration at the regional government building in Donetsk that the pro-Russia activists have occupied since seizing the premises in early April.

http://www.nasdaq.com/article/ukraine-frees-prorussia-leader-in-hostage-swap-20140507-01019