Military servicemen during the Interaction 2014 military drill for the Collective Rapid Reaction Force of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, at the Spassk Training Center near the city of Karaganda, Kazakhstan. (RIA Novosti / Sergey Kuznecov)
Russia-Led Military Bloc Ready To Send Peacekeepers To Ukraine -- RT
The head of the CSTO says its peacekeepers are ready for any operations, including in Ukraine, but their deployment requires the go-ahead from leaders of all member-countries.
"Deployment of the CSTO peacekeeping force can be ordered only by the Collective Security Council – the supreme body formed with heads of state of the member countries. By a joint decision these leaders can order the use of peacekeepers both on the territory of the member-states and also outside their borders,” General-Secretary of the Collective Security Treaty Organization Nikolay Bordyuzha, stated on Friday.
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My Comment: If these reports are true .... it is another ominous development on where the Ukrainian civil war/Russian intervention is going. In short .... by officially positioning military forces in eastern Ukraine, it will then become a defacto state independent from Kiev protected by the CSTO.
Update: Here is another equally bad idea .... U.S. lawmakers call for arming Ukraine government -- Reuters
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