Цирк буде тривати!
Pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine appealed to the United Nations to intervene in the conflict to avert a gathering humanitarian crisis.
The UN Security Council should convene an emergency meeting to authorize a peacekeeping mission that would include Russia, the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic said in a statement on its website today.
The peacekeepers are needed to “resolve the humanitarian and social situation,” the separatists said in the statement, after the Ukrainian government in Kiev cut off social welfare payments to rebel-held areas.
Russia is locked in its worst confrontation with the U.S. and European Union since the Cold War over the conflict in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk and Luhansk regions. The U.S., NATO and the EU accuse the government in Moscow of fueling the crisis by aiding the separatists, a charge Russia denies, and Ukraine says Russian troops and vehicles continue to cross the border.
Ukrainian authorities halted social payments to people in rebel-held areas this month, saying they couldn’t deliver funds and had to evacuate government offices because of security threats to staff.
Russia will send 100 trucks with more than 1,000 tons of humanitarian aid to eastern Ukraine on Nov. 28, its eighth convoy to the region, RIA Novosti reported today, citing Deputy Emergencies Minister Vladimir Stepanov.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-11-24/ukrainians-to-decide-on-future-nato-membership-in-eventual-vote.html
