US ambassador to the UN: Consequences of Russia's actions will be dire across the globe

US ambassador to the UN, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, warned: “the consequences of Russia's actions will be dire -- across Ukraine, Europe and the globe.”

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Russian order to deploy peacekeepers in eastern Ukraine is nonsense.

Russian recognition of eastern Ukraine 'clearly the basis for Russia's attempt to create a pretext for a further invasion of Ukraine.

Putin wants the world to travel back in time, to a time when empires ruled the world, this is not 1919.

President Putin has "torn the Minsk agreement to shreds" and says that no UN member "can stand on the sidelines."

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