Putin ‘Wants the World to Travel Back in Time’: US Ambassador to UN

• Putin on Monday recognized two separatist regions of jap Ukraine as independent states.
• The US ambassador to the UN claimed Putin is making an attempt to declare Russia has a rightful declare to all territories from the historic Russian Empire.
• She explained that includes Ukraine, Finland, Belarus, and pieces of Poland and Turkey, among other folks.

The US ambassador to the United Nations said on Monday Russian President Vladimir Putin needs to set the planet back again to a time when the Russian Empire reigned. 

Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield created the reviews all through a UN Security Council conference convened to examine Russia’s steps in Ukraine. Before on Monday, Putin announced Russia would recognize two separatist areas in Ukraine as unbiased states and purchased troops into the areas, prompting swift condemnations and threats of sanctions from the West.

Through the conference, Thomas-Greenfield explained Russia’s actions were an attack on Ukraine’s sovereignty and a violation of global legislation.

“He has considering that announced that he will put Russian troops in these regions. He phone calls them peacekeepers. This is nonsense. We know what they genuinely are,” she said, incorporating that the move was “obviously the foundation for Russia’s attempt to generate a pretext for a even more invasion of Ukraine.”

Thomas-Greenfield observed Putin reported Russia has a rightful declare to all territories from the historic Russian Empire, which predates the Soviet Union.

“That contains all of Ukraine. It contains Finland. It consists of Belarus and Georgia and Moldova. Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan. Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Lithuania. Latvia and Estonia. It involves sections of Poland and Turkey,” she mentioned.

“In essence, Putin needs the entire world to journey back again in time, to a time ahead of the United Nations, to a time when empires dominated the entire world. But the relaxation of the entire world has moved forward. It is not 1919, it is 2022,” Thomas-Greenfield extra.

The security council conference was called soon after a spokesperson for UN Secretary-Normal António Guterres explained he was “greatly involved” by Russia’s actions in jap Ukraine and reiterated UN remained fully commited to Ukraine’s sovereignty.

President Joe Biden requested sanctions on Donetsk and Luhansk, the Kremlin-backed separatist regions, and the White Residence explained it was organized to difficulties a lot more “swift and extreme financial measures” in response to “even more Russian invasion of Ukraine.”