US ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield told an emergency UN security council meeting Vladimir Putin's Putin’s assertion Russian troops would take on a “peacekeeping” role in the Donetsk and Lugansk areas was 'nonsense'.
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The later night meeting took place after Putin recognised separatist areas of Eastern Ukraine as independent. Member states called for diplomacy while Ukrainian representative Sergiy Kyslytsya called for an immediate withdrawal of occupation troops. "The United Nations is sick. That’s a matter of fact," he said. "It has been hit by the virus spread by the Kremlin. Will it succumb to this virus?"

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