Emergency meeting of the UN Security Council, virtually nothing was accomplished because the Ukraine has become ensnared in a geopolitical struggle between the West and Russia
United Nations Calls for De-Escalation of Tensions in Ukraine Go Unheeded
Tensions mounted this past weekend over the crisis in Ukraine as thousands of armed Russian soldiers, often wearing masks and uniforms without any national insignia, reportedly surrounded the regional parliament building and other government facilities in the Crimean capital city of Simferopol.
