Russia’s ambassador to United Nations Vitaly Churkin warned the Kiev government at an ad hoc UN session Monday that the upcoming crisis talks between Ukraine, Russia, US and EU could fail if the regime cracked down on protesters in the country’s southeast, RIA Novosti reports.
“Do you expect us to write papers for the meeting if tomorrow there is military operation going on in the southeast?” RIA Novosti quotes Churkin asking at the special UN Security Council session. “Should this happen, the chances of such a meeting taking place would be quite slim,” he cautioned.
Churkin bashed the West for blaming the unrest in the region, which sparked off after the regime scrapped the official status of the Russian language, entirely on Moscow.
“Some people, including those in this room, are too blind to see the actual cause of the Ukrainian crisis and keep insisting that it’s all Moscow’s doing. You should really quit it,” he said.
“Stop telling stories about a build-up of our forces on the Ukrainian border that can march all the way to la Manche (English Channel) in a matter of hours and that we’ve sent in hordes of agents that are coordinating the protests in Ukraine,” Churkin said.
