Psst! The Ukraine Is Still Simmering

From "Reuters"

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2015/01/19/cnews-us-ukraine-crisis-military-idCAKBN0KR0DH20150119

Separatists renew attack on airport as Russia and Ukraine bicker

(Reuters) - Pro-Russian separatists renewed attacks on Ukrainian forces at an airport complex in the east on Monday after Kiev launched a mass operation to reclaim lost ground there that Russia called a "strategic mistake".

Ukrainian officials said three soldiers had been killed and 66 wounded over the past 24 hours, during which they said they had returned battle lines at the airport outside Donetsk to the status quo under a much violated international peace plan.

Russia expressed concern at what it called escalation by Kiev and published its own peace plan on Monday in the form of a letter from President Vladimir Putin to Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko, which it said Poroshenko had rejected.

"It's the biggest, even strategic mistake of the Ukrainian authorities to bank on a military solution to the crisis," Interfax quoted Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin as saying. "This may lead to irreversible consequences for Ukrainian statehood."

[EDITORIAL COMMENT:- It is a basic principle of international law that "they" are allowed to "fulfill their legitimate social/ethnic/cultural/national aspirations by separating and joining "us" but it is completely contrary to international law for anyone who is a part of "us" to "threaten national unity and/or international tranquility to revolt against the legitimate government simply so that they can secede and join "them". This produces the obvious corollary that "We" are allowed to help "them" in their "quest to seek freedom" while "they" are not allowed to "impose unnatural governments subservient to foreign powers that will oppress the people".]