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Swingeing criticism of the Russian military intervention in the Crimea is continuing to pour out of the UN security council, writes Ed Pilkington (@EdPilkington), “with the Russian ambassador Vitaly Churkin listening impassively to the pasting he is receiving”:
Gerard Araud, the French ambassador, said the current events reminded him of when he was 15, listening to the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. “Russia seems to be coming back to its old ghosts playing an old fashioned role in an outdated setting,” Araud said.The UK representative to the UN, Sir Mark Lyall Grant, put it more pithily: “The pretense is now over.” He accused Russia of fabricating details of threats in Crimea to justify its hostile actions and concluded: “This is not 1968 or 1956.”
