With all the squabbling now going on after the shooting down of the Malaysian Airliner MH17 while it was flying over Eastern Ukraine, it seems to be the perfect moment for the Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, to ask for an important United Nations Peace Keeping Force to be stationed in his country.
Everyone, particularly President Putin, denies any Russian involvement in this incident. In fact, President Putin recently even urged Russians in Eastern Ukraine to abstain from rioting against the Ukrainian Government. The wish of ethnic Russians however, is that eastern Ukraine should become a part of Russia, in the same way that Crimea was recently annexed.
Ethnic Russians have been "rioting" for months and are now even suspected of having shot down the Malaysian Airliner and other planes as well in the recent past ! The rioters in Eastern Ukraine have armaments, many of which were produced in Russia !
Ukraine has been a member of UNO since 1942, so if Poroshenko decides he needs help and wants a UNO Peace Keeping force in his country, neither UNO or its Security Council could really refuse the request. He is, after all, the recognised elected President of Ukraine, even by Putin !
This situation is therefore not comparable in any way with that of Syria a few months ago when Russia and China vetoed the idea of UNO sending a Peace Keeping force into Syria.
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