The war in the east of Ukraine can turn into a third world war – warned Wednesday at the European Parliament in Brussels superior Patriarchate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church Patriarch Filaret of Kiev. He appealed to the EU to send a peacekeeping mission.
– Unspoken war being fought in eastern Ukraine, can lead to a third world war, because Russia wants to be the world’s second superpower alongside the United States – the patriarch said at a press conference in the EP.
“Stop the aggressor”
– In order to achieve this goal, Russia would have to subdue not only Ukraine, but also the countries of the former Soviet bloc. If you will go this way, it comes to a confrontation with NATO, which may give rise to a third world war – he added. 
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– You can not let that happen. Russia aggressor must be stopped at the beginning of his journey – he stressed. He added that it is necessary to stop the flow of Russian soldiers, tanks and weapons to the Donbass.
According to the Patriarch of the European Union “has done a lot, but still not enough” to prevent Russia.
“send peacekeepers “
– We ask the EU to send a peacekeeping force to close the Ukrainian-Russian border – he said. In his opinion, there is no chance for the establishment of such a mission in the UN due to Russia’s vested right of veto in the Security Council of the United Nations.
Ukrainian patriarch also believes that the EU should strengthen economic sanctions against Russia, but also to abolish visas for Ukrainians to – as he said – Ukrainian students could learn in the EU, “how to defend human rights and freedom of speech”. – It is one thing to talk about these values, and quite another to find out how they are applied in practice – he noted.
The Patriarch Filaret was a guest of the center-right faction of the European People’s Party in the European Parliament. During his two-day visit to Brussels, he met the head of EU diplomacy Federica Mogherini, European Council President Donald Tusk, the head of the EP Martin Schulz, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and Foreign Affairs Committee EuropeanParliament.
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Author: jj // gak / kwoj / PAP
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