Meanwhile, Lavrov made a very public call "the immediate halt of army operation against people in Ukraine"
The link in the article to Lentu gets a Error404 response.
More from China’s Xinhua:
CSTO vows unity to avert Ukrainian tragedy
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2014-05/09/c_126478919.htm
Lenta article translated:
Military Council in Moscow
Russia prepares Ukrainian peacekeeping operation
http://translate.google.com/translate?act=url&depth=1&hl=en&ie=UTF8&prev=_t&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=ru&tl=en&u=http://lenta.ru/articles/2014/05/08/putinodkb/
But I think he's making a strategic error in that eventually the West will wake up and he'll be over-extended.
Anyone notice the parallels to the US partition of Serbia?
PR genius.
A peace keeping force with troops from Russia, Belarus, Armenia, etc. Well that’s one way of skinning a cat. Sounds so much better than occupation forces.
It would be but Kiev isn’t interested as i see it. They don’t care how many people are killed in this...they have an agenda which overrides anything to do with Russia other than fight....and that using the people of Ukraine to pull that off.
This is all taking on the very same actions and happenings as was seen in Kiev’s protests....fire everywhere...burning tires...blockades...and yet the Kiev Government is sending their military to kill these people...yet the Maidan insisted the Gov, then, not use guns or armorment on their protesters. Even though police were being set on fire and being shot at.
Those currently in Kiev government are NOT going to yield as they consolidate their power...and this without representation of the Russian community. How can they say they want an election but beat up the Candidates representing the Russian populace?