Russian President Vladimir Putin has received no support from members of the U.N. Security Council for his actions to bring separatists in eastern Ukraine under Moscow’s control
Highlights
- U.S.
- calls Putin’s moves a pretext for a further invasion of Ukraine.
- Russia recognizes independence of separatist regions of Luhansk and Donetsk, scenes of an eight-year war.
- Close ally China urges diplomacy and a peaceful solution.
- Russia accused the United States and its allies of egging on Ukraine – which he says is not February 2014.
- U.N.