VOA: UN Holding Emergency Security Council Meeting on Ukraine
UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations opened an emergency Security Council meeting on the deepening Ukraine crisis on Monday, after Russia recognized two breakaway regions there and ordered troops to be deployed as peacekeepers.
"We are confronted with a very, very dramatic situation," French ambassador to the United Nations Nicolas de Riviere told reporters before entering the council chamber.
France was among a handful of nations that called the emergency session at the instigation of Ukraine.
Addressing the session, U.S. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield heaped scorn on Russian President Vladimir Putin's assertion that the troops he earlier ordered deployed to the Russian-occupied Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine would act in a peacekeeping role.
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