Blinken "very concerned" about alleged 'irregular movements' of Russian forces at Ukrainian border

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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Qatar’s Deputy Prime Minister Abdulrahman Al-Thani held a press event in Washington DC on Friday as part of the US-Qatar Strategic Dialogue at the State Department.

“We’re very concerned about some of the irregular movements of forces that we see on Ukraine’s borders. I can’t speak to Russia’s intentions,” said Blinken, adding “it would be a serious mistake for Russia to engage in a repeat of what it what it did in 2014.”

He also touched upon the current migrant situation at the Belarus-Poland border, claiming that country’s President Alexander Lukashenko uses migration as a “weapon.”

The migrant crisis comes amid escalating tensions between the EU and Belarus. Brussels has accused Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko of orchestrating the migrant flow as part of a ‘hybrid war’ designed to put pressure on the bloc over sanctions. Minsk has denied the claims. Poland last month strengthened border patrols on the frontier with Belarus and put up a barbed-wire fence in place in an attempt to stem the flow.

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SOT, Antony Blinken, US Secretary of State: “We’re very concerned about some of the irregular movements of forces that we see on Ukraine’s borders. I can’t speak to Russia’s intentions. We don’t know what they are, but we do know that we’ve seen in the past Russia massed forces on Ukraine’s borders, claim some kind of provocation by Ukraine and then invade and basically following through on something they were planning all along. That’s what they did in 2014. And so, this raises real concerns about an effort to repeat what was done, what was done then which, as I said the other day, would be a serious mistake. We’re in very close consultation with European allies and partners on this. We of course had Ukrainians here, this week. And talked about this. But I can’t tell you what’s in the mind of President Putin, what his intentions are. I can just say that based on the past, we have real concerns about what we’re seeing in the present. And it would be a serious mistake for Russia to engage in a repeat of what it what it did in 2014.”

SOT, Antony Blinken, US Secretary of State: “We are also very concerned about the efforts by Belarus to use migration as a, as a political weapon. I’m not going to preview or get ahead of any possible sanctions, but we are looking at various tools that we that we have. And of course, this is broader than the effort to use migration as a political weapon. It goes to the conduct of the Lukashenko regime in Belarus in denying the citizens of Belarus the democracy to which they’re entitled.”

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