Ukraine OKs Linking Its Anri-Missile System With Europe

Ukraine Limits Russian Warship Movements in Black Sea

The BBC reported Saturday that the Ukraine is ready to make its missile early warning systems available to European nations following Russia’s conflict with Georgia. This might include “the integration of Ukrainian elements of missile early warning and space control systems with those of foreign countries that are interested in gathering space data”, Ukraine said. It was not immediately clear if such linkage would include networking with the proposed U. S. supplied systems in Poland and the Czech Republic.

Last week, Kiev limited the freedom of movement of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet after Several Russian warships, based at Sevastopol in Ukraine’s Crimea’s peninsula, were deployed along the Georgian coastline.

In a related but rather odd pernouncement Moscow denounced the restrictions as anti-Russian and said its military commanders would answer only to the Russian president.

The BBC says the decision is evidence Ukraine is now more desperate to embrace the West as its fear of Russia intensifies and Moscow seemingly becomes more determined to prevent any neighboring states from joining Nato, and its attack on Georgia.

Increasingly, the events of the past 10 days demonstrate Russia has gone back to arm-wrestling with its neighbors and the West after the immediate post-Soviet years, when it felt too weak, and sensing a possible coming weakness in Washington D. C.

In April NATO decided it would not yet offer membership to Georgia or Ukraine after the 26-member alliance was split amid strong objections from Russia.

The BBC also implied the Georgia invasion was partly due to Poland and Czech Republics OK to site U. S. anti-missile missiles and radars in those countries. Last week Russia said it could mean it would use nuclear weapons against Poland. The BBC opined the Russo-Georgian War was the fault of the U. S.