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Britain plans major exercises in Poland amid Ukraine crisis
by Staff Writers
Warsaw (AFP) July 28, 2014


Putin defiant in face of new EU arms sanctions
Moscow (AFP) July 28, 2014 - President Vladimir Putin on Monday urged Russia's defence industry to swiftly cut imports as the EU looks set to impose a ban on the sale of weapons and technology over Ukraine.

Putin said that Russia's arms industry is "definitely" capable of producing everything the country needs at a meeting on how to combat the sanctions at his residence outside Moscow.

Russia will focus "on speeding up import-substitution efforts in the national defence industry and on the broadest possible switch to domestically-produced materials and parts for special hardware and weapons," Putin was quoted as saying by Interfax news agency.

The EU could agree wider sanctions against Russia as soon as Tuesday over its role in the Ukraine crisis, including a ban on new sales of weapons and sensitive technology.

"Our task is to protect ourselves against the risks of contracts being reneged upon by our foreign partners, including risks of a political nature," the president added.

Russia is a major weapons exporter, but also imports military equipment and technology.

One of its biggest recent purchases is two Mistral warships from France in a contract worth about 1.2 billion euros ($1.6 billion). The helicopter carriers are expected to be delivered in the coming months despite the new sanctions.

The EU and United States have been stepping up their sanctions against Russia, accusing Moscow of continuing to supply pro-Russian rebels fighting in eastern Ukraine with weapons.

Britain on Monday announced major joint manoeuvres in Poland in October, part of a string of NATO exercises in the region aimed at reassuring eastern Europe members jittery over a resurgent Russia.

"I can announce today exercise Black Eagle, which will be a significant Polish and UK armoured exercise with over 350 British armoured and other vehicles and some 1,350 British personnel," British Defence Secretary Michael Fallon said in Warsaw.

The deployment will be the "largest British contribution to exercises in eastern Europe since 2008," he said at a joint press conference with British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond and Poland's foreign and defence ministers.

Ex-communist NATO members have asked the alliance for permanent boots on the ground in the region amid the sharp escalation of fighting between Kiev government troops and pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine.

Presidents from nine ex-communist NATO members met in Warsaw last week to hammer out a regional defence strategy to re-enforce its eastern frontier in preparation for a key summit in September.

The NATO summit is expected to focus largely on the fallout from the Ukraine crisis and Russia's annexation of that country's Crimean peninsula.

Senior NATO officials have said decisions on the possible permanent deployment of alliance forces throughout its eastern flank can be expected in September.

"The Russia-Ukraine conflict is Europe's most important security challenge since the end of the Cold War," Poland's President Bronislaw Komorowski has said.

"Strengthening NATO's eastern flank is fundamental."

NATO has already sent additional temporary rotations of air, sea and land forces to Poland and three small former Soviet-ruled Baltic states in response to the Ukraine crisis.

US President Barack Obama in June earmarked a billion dollars (741 million euros) in military funding for US allies on NATO's eastern border.

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