Ukraine A 'Diplomatic Quagmire'
Updated: 1:14pm UK, Monday 14 April 2014
By Robert Nisbet, Europe Correspondent
What is unfolding in eastern Ukraine is a diplomatic quagmire with governments and international agencies struggling to find purchase.
Along the long border between Ukraine and Russia you have a complicated blend of ethnicities and loyalties in a riven country, being tugged by powerful forces in the East and the West.
Russia claims the militants occupying local government buildings in several towns are nothing to do with them - just native Russian speakers defending themselves from Kiev's illegal government which seized power in a coup and is backed by fascists and anti-Semites.
The rest of the world detects the hand of Vladimir Putin, manipulating the fears of local people and creating the context for future annexation, which it managed to pull off so effectively in Crimea.
They accuse the Kremlin of "irredentism": using cultural, religious and linguistic similarities in neighbouring countries as a pretext to justify invasion.
But the events unfolding in towns like Slavyansk and now Horlivka have shown how ineffective the global diplomatic architecture designed to calm such angry cross-border incidents really is.
:: The UN Security Council heard plenty of heated debate on Sunday evening, but no action was taken as Russia is a permanent member of the 15-nation body and so could veto any attempt at official censure.
:: Nato is beefing up its military presence in eastern Europe, but won't intervene militarily in Ukraine as Kiev is not a member of the alliance. Furthermore, proving the situation in eastern Ukraine poses a direct threat to its neighbours is difficult.
:: The EU is wary of ratcheting up sanctions because of the effect it could have on member states should Russia seek to retaliate by turning off the tap to its natural gas supplies or imposing tariffs on certain goods.
So we are left with co-ordinated rhetoric, more meetings and stern tweets, which is, in turn, emboldening the pro-Russia militias.
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