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(19,429 posts) Mon Mar 3, 2014, 11:01 PM Mar 2014

Yanukovich calls on Putin for Russian troops to 'restore order' in Ukraine

Ukraine's ousted leader, Viktor Yanukovich, has sent a letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin requesting that he use Russia's military to restore law and order in Ukraine, Moscow's UN envoy told a UN Security Council meeting on Monday.

"The country has plunged into chaos and anarchy," Russian Ambassador Vitaly Churkin read from an unofficial translation of the letter while speaking to reporters in New York. "The country is in the grip of outright terror and violence driven by the West. In this context, I appeal to the President of Russia Vladimir V. Putin to use the armed forces of the Russian Federation to re-establish the rule of law, peace, order, stability and to protect the people of Ukraine."

http://www.france24.com/en/20140303-liveblog-ukraine-russia-crimea-military-border/

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