US ambassador to UN: Putin’s claim he’s sending ‘peacekeepers’ into eastern Ukraine is ‘nonsense’

US Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield said Russian President Vladimir Putin’s recognition of pro-Moscow regions in Ukraine as independent was an “attempt to create a pretext for a further invasion of Ukraine” and that his claim that the Russian forces he has ordered to enter those regions are “peacekeepers” is simply “nonsense.”

US Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield said Russian President Vladimir Putin’s recognition of pro-Moscow regions in Ukraine as independent was an “attempt to create a pretext for a further invasion of Ukraine” and that his claim that the Russian forces he has ordered to enter those regions are “peacekeepers” is simply “nonsense.”