No easy way out to Ukraine crisis
PR dla Zagranicy
John Beauchamp
29.01.2015 14:24
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No easy way out to Ukraine crisis
We speak to Tomasz Maciejczuk, a volunteer who has been helping the Ukrainian cause, and who believes that no political solution can be found to the Ukraine crisis.
Ukrainian men, called up for military service according to a mobilisation plan, march before joining the army in Kiev, Ukraine, 29 January 2015. In January 2015, Ukraine launched a plan to mobilize more than 100,000 soldiers this year as government forces engaged in heavy fighting with Russia-backed separatists in the country's east. Photo: PAP/EPA
With the crisis deepening in eastern Ukraine after pro-Russian rebels attacked the port of Mariupol at the weekend and with EU foreign ministers meeting in Brussels to discuss further sanctions on Russia, we speak to Tomasz Maciejczuk, a Pole who has been taking part in volunteer actions in Ukraine since the outbreak of the Maidan protests at the beginning of 2014.
Speaking to reporter John Beauchamp, Maciejczuk says that a political solution is out of the question, but NATO should refrain from sending troops there.
“I think we can help Ukraine not by sending troops, but we can send weapons, we can help them with training, and this is what my government should think about, this is what the European Union should think about,” he says.