Ukraine crisis not getting world attention: Analyst
Press TV has interviewed Christopher Walker, a political expert based in London, to discuss the Ukrainian crisis and the current ceasefire between Kiev and the pro-Russia forces.
Following is a rough transcription.
Press TV: Given the current circumstances, just how shaky is the ceasefire?
Walker: It seems to be very shaky indeed, certainly at its shakiest for many weeks and months because the extent of these attacks is out of all proportions and very little has been said about trying to re-impose the ceasefire or to bring a meaningful peace.
Of course, this is taking place at a time when the whole EU which is very much part of the peace deal on the Kiev side, is completely obsessed with Greece and the Greek crisis and weather Greece is getting to exit from the European Union. So I think it is a sort of… as it were a reflection that the world’s attention is very much turned elsewhere at present and while the cat is away the mice will play.
Press TV: But what kind of a situation would there be if the ceasefire doesn’t hold?
Walker: Well, it is hard to say because as you rightly pointed out it has been sort of scamping on since February in a very unsatisfactory and shaky way with many deaths, breaches etc. But it does seem that this can’t go on forever and at some point it is going to spark an incident of great seriousness which could bring the two sides and throw out in conflict because there is so many more troops on the Russian side and weaponry right up their border.
Press TV: Why is it that the humanitarian aspect of this crisis has not received enough attention?
Walker: That is a very moot and good question. I would suggest that it is because, as I said earlier, the world’s attention is pointed elsewhere. The situation in Ukraine is very complex, people don’t quite understand it; it is not black and white. And thirdly, there are not that many free press operators who are either allowed there or whose news desks are willing to fork out the large sums of money to keep them there when nothing explodes completely and it sort of pitters on in a very nasty but not totally front page fashion.
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