John McCain: “No U.S. military intervention”

"President Obama continues to strongly support all athletes who will participate in the Paralympic Games and wishes them every success in their efforts" said the spokesman of the National Security Council Caitlin Hayden. Meanwhile, the American Senator John McCain said that a U.S. military intervention in Ukraine is unthinkable , while criticizing Obama for the lack of leadership in comparison with his counterpart Vladimir Putin. The senator of the Republicans said: "This is an atrocious action by Vladimir Putin and this should not be accepted by the world", talking at the annual conference of the largest pro-Israeli lobby in the U.S., AIPAC in Washington. "There is no military options that we could use now, but the strongest and the greatest country in the world has a lot of options” he added. “The Ukrainian crisis is the result of an ineffective foreign policy, because of which nobody longer believes in the power of America" he also said. McCain continued: "The president believes that the Cold War is over. It’s true , it’s over, but Putin does not believe it is over!".

Meanwhile, the chairman of the subcommittee of the Senate Foreign Affairs for Europe , Chris Murphy , said today that U.S. senators consider options such as imposing sanctions against Russian banks , the freezing of Russian private investments and imposing travel bans because the military movements of Russia in Ukraine. During a telephone interview with Reuters, Murphy also said that U.S. sanctions against Russia would have little impact if not accompanied by similar action on the part of Europe. "For U.S. it’s important to act in beside our allies in Europe. Sanctions against Russia will not have much effect if Europe helps Russian banks and Russian oligarchs to hide and invest their money" noted the senator who was elected in Connecticut for the Democrats.