 And from news outside Africa, Russia's order to deploy peacekeepers in eastern Ukraine is nonsense. Linda Thomas Greenfield, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, said this on Monday, February 21, adding that Moscow's recognition of the breakaway eastern regions were part of its attempt to create a pretext for a further invasion of Ukraine. Linda was speaking at an emergency UN Security Council meeting on Ukraine. She said the consequences of Russia's actions will be there across Ukraine, Europe and worldwide, and that the humanitarian toll will expand significantly if Moscow invaded further. Russia's President Vladimir Putin announced that Russia will recognize as independent states the so-called DPR and LPR regions, the sovereign territory of Ukraine, an area controlled by Russia's proxy since 2014. He has since announced that he will place Russian troops in these regions. He calls them peacekeepers. This is nonsense. We know what they really are. In doing so, he has put before the world a choice. We must meet the moment and we must not look away. History tells us that looking the other way in the face of such hostility will be a far more costly path. The Secretary General considers the decision of the Russian Federation to recognize the independence of certain areas of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions to be a violation of the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Ukraine and inconsistent with the principles of the Charter of the United Nations.