"Ukraine asks for UN peacekeepers in restive east"

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Ukraine asks for UN peacekeepers in restive east

By PETER LEONARD and MARIA DANILOVA at AP

http://news.yahoo.com/ukraine-asks-un-peacekeepers-restive-east-130818387.html

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HORLIVKA, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine's acting president urged the United Nations on Monday to send peacekeeping troops to eastern Ukraine, where pro-Russian gunmen kept up their rampage of storming and occupying local government offices, police stations and a small airport.







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The request came from a government that has proved powerless to rein in separatists in its eastern and southern regions, where insurgents have seized or barricaded government buildings in at least nine cities, demanding more autonomy from the new government in Kiev and closer ties with Russia.

The Kiev government and Western officials accuse Russia of instigating the unrest and of deploying armed Russian agents in civilian clothing to carry them out.

In a telephone call with Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon, acting President Oleksandr Turchynov suggested that an "anti-terrorist operation" be conducted jointly by Ukrainian security forces and U.N. peacekeepers, according to the presidential website.

Peacekeepers, however, would have to be authorized by the U.N. Security Council, where Russia holds a veto.



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[Duckhunter935]

1. Putin will

agree to help I am sure.

[applegrove]

2. Well they should try. Right now he is claiming he has nothing to do with the uprising of Russians

in Ukraine. Let him try and pass that lie off if he refuses to allow peacekeepers in Ukraine. There were already 10,000 Russians demonstrating against him in Moscow who wanted peace in the Ukraine. Russia has the internets. Word would get out that he had refused peacekeepers if he veto'd it. To people in Russia. Might break the hold he has on so many. Refusing peacekeepers from the UN could well make him weaker as it would put another hole in his story.

[William769]

3. I hope they are sent.