The UK nerve agent attack shows Russia has no "red
lines" anymore, says Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin. In an
interview with DW, he contends that Moscow's aggression against Kyiv
could happen anywhere now.
After Vladimir Putin's easy re-election as Russian president,
you are warning that he no longer has any "red lines" and, with another
mandate, will stop at nothing to get what he wants. What are you
worried about? Ukraine? The rest of the world?Pavlo Klimkin: It involves the whole democratic community because five years ago many people did not believe Putin could ever invade Ukraine. One year ago many people did not believe at all that [Russia] could organize, using nerve agents, on British soil. So, fundamentally, there are no red lines here. It's about a comprehensive and coordinated answer. Without such [an] answer, without a kind of platform for the whole trans-Atlantic community — and I understand Ukraine is an important part of the trans-Atlantic community — Russia will try to meddle in the democratic institutions.
So what you must be saying is that the response so far — sanctions, freezing, no "business as usual" — has not been enough.
But there are other measures; there could be more targeted sanctions. There could be more political pressure. There could be attempts to counter Russian unconventional threats. It could be about energy, it could be about cyber, it could be about many issues.
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