U.N. Security Council expresses 'grave concern' over Ukraine

[muriel_volestrangler]

Source: Reuters

The UN Security Council expressed its "grave concern" on Tuesday over the "dangerous deterioration" in eastern Ukraine and called for a halt to the violence.

"The members of the Security Council expressed their full support of sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine," the Security Council said in statement. "The members of the Security Council called for an immediate return to a ceasefire regime."

The Security Council includes both Russia and the Ukraine, which is a rotating member of the council. Both nations had agreed to the Security Council statement, which noted the unrest's "severe impact on the local civilian population".

Earlier in the day, Ukraine and Russia had blamed each other for a surge in fighting in recent days that has led to the highest casualty toll in weeks and cut off power and water to thousands of civilians on the front line.



Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-ukraine-crisis-un-idUSKBN15F2WH

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This could be the first international test of the Trump regime - will they let Putin do what he wants?

[absyntheminded]

1. Crimea II

...and Trump & Co. won't do a thing about it, it was part of the deal.

[Achilleaze]

2. Comrade Casino's BFF pooty poot pillaging and plundering

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. Putin destabilized the US by pushing tRump into office. Bannon is destabilizing from within.

This is so that Putin will have a free hand in Ukraine and Eurasia while Дональда Трампа looks the other way and maybe even lifts the sanctions.

Eventually Trump will become useless for Putin and then the peedeo tapes will be released so that the US can be destabilized even more. But by that time, they won't be enough to move the needle because there will be so much other stuff.