Ukraine Calls for U.N Troops

[Hakan]

Ukraine’s president calls for deployment of U.N. peacekeeping troops
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MOSCOW — With pro-Russian militants attacking more buildings in eastern Ukraine Monday and ignoring a government deadline to disperse, Ukraine’s acting president said he would welcome United Nations peacekeepers to help establish order by conducting a “joint counterterrorist operation” with Ukrainian forces.

A statement posted on his official Web site said President Oleksandr Turchynov raised the matter in a telephone call with U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, accusing Russia of sending “special units” to eastern Ukraine to “conduct armed seizure of the administrative buildings and threaten lives of hundreds of thousands of our citizens.” He said Russia was repeating the scenario of its takeover of Crimea least month, but he noted that the situation in eastern Ukraine is different “because the majority of people do not want to support separatists.”

Vowing to “fight back [against] terrorism and Russian aggression,” Turchynov raised the prospect of conducting a “joint operation with the U.N. peacekeeping forces” so that the world could “witness the legality” of Ukrainian forces’ actions.

“We do not object and even welcome holding of joint counterterrorist operation in the East,” Turchynov said, according to the statement. It said Ban pledged to “do everything I can for the situation to be resolved peacefully as soon as possible.”

Given that any such move by the United Nations would require Russian approval in the Security Council, where Moscow holds a veto, the idea of sending peacekeeping troops to Ukraine would seem to be a non-starter.

Turchynov’s appeal came amid mounting accusations, not only in Kiev but in Washington and London, that Russia has instigated and coordinated a spate of armed building takeovers by men in unmarked uniforms that began Saturday. Reuters news agency reported Monday that separatists in the city of Slavyansk have appealed openly to Russia for help on behalf of the “Donetsk People’s Republic.”

Russian President Vladimir Putin is viewing developments in Ukraine “with great concern,” his press secretary, Dmitri Peskov, told reporters Monday.

“Many appeals — addressed personally to Putin, asking to help in this or that way and asking to intervene in this or that way — have been received,” Peskov said.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov denied Monday that Russia has any agents in eastern Ukraine, and he said it is the West’s responsibility to restrain the government in Kiev.

“We do not interfere in the internal affairs of Ukraine; it is contrary to our interests,” Lavrov said at a news conference.

Ukraine stymied by a few hundred men with guns - The Washington Post

 

[armchairPrivate]

DUMB!

 

[Pakistanisage]

Ukraine needs to return all those Russian territories with Ethnic Russians that was foolishly gifted to Ukraine by Khrushchev in 1954.

 

[Superboy]

Russia would veto that.

 

[revojam]

Ukraine needs to return all those territories with Ethnic Russians that was foolishly gifted to Ukraine by Khrushchev in 1954.

Or Russian immigrants can always go back to Russia.

 

[Brainsucker]

Forget UN, Russia will veto them. The only option that Ukraine has is to ask help to NATO, specially, the 2nd strongest nation in the south so they can move their SO mighty north fleet and 240 F-16 to liberate Ukraine from the Bear. There is no other option; the big bro of NATO still has some ankle sprain after take a long exercise in Iraq and Afghanistan. They need to rest for some time before their libido get fixed again.

 

[500]

Ukraine needs to return all those Russian territories with Ethnic Russians that was foolishly gifted to Ukraine by Khrushchev in 1954.

It was only Crimea, but it is already captured.

 

[ptldM3]

Or Russian immigrants can always go back to Russia.

Kiev is were Russians originated. Most Russian speakers in Ukraine are native to the region, the Ukrainian language is basically Russian with Polish due to Polish rule in the region.

 

[Superboy]

It was only Crimea, but it is already captured.

Crimea was only the beginning. In the east and south Russians are the majority and they'll be joining Russia.

 

[Tshering22]

Wow! How ironic. First do a violent foreign funded revolt in the country, kick out a democratically elected president in that country and now call for all 'democratic' institutions to uphold 'values of the constitution'. I never thought Turchynov was such a w@nker.

 

[$@rJen]

It was a idiotic part from Ukraine to provoke Russia... and was funny to see Ukraine was issuing deadline to the pro-Russian Activists to clear out from captured government buildings in Eastern Ukraine.... The deadline finished two days ago and nothing happened, still the Activists are there

 

[Kaalapani]

It was a idiotic part from Ukraine to provoke Russia... and was funny to see Ukraine was issuing deadline to the pro-Russian Activists to clear out from captured government buildings in Eastern Ukraine.... The deadline finished two days ago and nothing happened, still the Activists are there

There are loads of ex Afghan war veterans in south and eastern Ukraine.

No one in kiev illegal govt have balls or experience to conduct such kind of operation.It would be suicidal for them.

They are already internal fights between those neo-nazis,right wing and communist .

 

[$@rJen]

There are loads of ex Afghan war veterans in south and eastern Ukraine.

No one in kiev illegal govt have balls or experience to conduct such kind of operation.It would be suicidal for them.

They are already internal fights between those neo-nazis,right wing and communist .

Ya ya... You know what happens if they tried to crack down.. The fighting intensifies and it gives the perfect opportunity for Russia to take eastern Ukraine

 

[Kaalapani]

Ya ya... You know what happens if they tried to crack down.. The fighting intensifies and it gives the perfect opportunity for Russia to take eastern Ukraine

Russians will not take south and eastern Ukraine yet.

Their main aim is to make federal system in Ukraine .

If their is escalation then Russians will simply eliminate thugs in Kiev parliament one by one.

THey also have Gas Diplomacy .

 

[Parul]

The regime in Kiev assumes power through a coup, but they don't have support of the population in eastern Ukraine which has strong historical ties to Russia. They already replaced the governors in east Ukraine with their pro-western stooges. Now the Svoboda boys are branding the counterrevolutionaries in east Ukraine as terrorists. They call for the UN to come into Ukraine, but only in east Ukraine, rather than all of Ukraine. This shows that the intention of the coup regime in Kiev to maintain its power and to subjugate and marginalize the people in east Ukraine.