UN security council members denounce Putin’s order to send troops into Russian-controlled parts of Ukraine; president Volodymyr Zelenskiy calls for peace and vows not to cede territory in TV address
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US ambassador to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, has dismissed Vladimir’s Putin’s assertion that the Russian troops heading into the separatist regions of Ukraine would take on a “peacekeeping” role.
At a fiery emergency meeting of the security council in New York she said: “He calls them peacekeepers. This is nonsense. We know what they really are.”
Putin wants to travel back to a time when empires ruled the world. This is not 1919.