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"Madam President, nothing can excuse President Putin’s return to neo-Soviet revanchist irredentist nationalism. Ukraine has been the victim of naked aggression and let us not forget the thousands of Russian troops on its eastern borders still very capable of launching an invasion if Putin so desires it.
We should therefore do everything we can in the EU to help Ukraine. The signing of parts of the Association Agreement was a good first step but we now need urgently to ratify and implement the DCFTA provisions in a temporary and asymmetric form to help Ukraine’s economy. Ukraine needs to know that it can depend immediately on Europe to offer a stable and receptive free market for its exports of goods in the face of constant Russian intimidation.
To that end, while Russia continues its aggression the initial sanctions must only be the beginning. The EU should, for instance, consider suspending the facilitated transit arrangements with Kaliningrad Oblast permitting easy access to and from the rest of Russia via Lithuania. What Putin wants more than anything is to be respected and feared on the world’s stage. We in the free world will do neither."@en1
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