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Rada annuls 5 security deals with Russia
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KIEV, May 21 – Ukrainian lawmakers on Thursday annulled five crucial security agreements with Moscow that had allowed Russia to transport troops to a separatist region of Moldova and purchase weapons that are only produced in Ukraine, the AFP reported.

The deals were suspended when Kiev accused the Kremlin of fomenting a pro-Russian revolt in Ukraine's industrial east 13 months ago that has killed 6,250 and left the ex-Soviet state's economy in ruins.

But Thursday's decision means that legislative support from Ukraine's dominant nationalist and pro-European parties would be required before such cooperation could resume once the separatist conflict is resolved.

It also underscores how little a truce deal reached in February has done to rebuild trust between Moscow and Kiev.

"I know of no other country that continues to be friends with a neighbor that kills your people," prominent pro-EU deputy Mustafa Nayyem wrote on Facebook.

"And only recently I learned that we still have international agreements with Russia concerning military and technological cooperation!"

The five laws include a strategic agreement allowing Moscow to send peacekeeping forces across Ukraine to Moldova's Russian-speaking Transdniester region.

A top Ukrainian state security official told AFP that the transports' abrupt interruption had caught Moscow off guard when they first went into effect about a year ago.

The same source said Moscow has since found new avenues by which to supply troops in the self-declared state.

But several senior Russian officials signaled their alarm at the sudden complication.

"There is no other way for us reach (Transdniester) other than through Ukraine," an unnamed diplomat in Russia's foreign ministry told Interfax.

"We have to think and look for alternatives. We cannot abandon Transdniester and Moldova," the Russian parliament's defense committee head Vladimir Komoyedov added.

A second politically-charged agreement cancelled by Kiev required the neighbors to protect each others' state secrets. It was initially adopted with the arrival of one-time spy Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin in 2000.

Another law covered basic Russian military transports across Ukraine and a fourth concerned mutual arms purchases.

Ukraine inherited several huge Soviet-era arms manufacturing sites that formed the backbone of Russia's armed forces.

The final law covered intelligence sharing between the two sides.

"Many Ukrainians must have learned with some surprise today that these laws were still around," Kiev's Razumkov Centre analyst Oleksiy Melnyk told AFP. (afp/ez)




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