UN Says: Illegal!

From the BBC:
"Ukraine: UN condemns Crimea vote as IMF and US back loans"

The UN General Assembly has approved a resolution describing the Moscow-backed referendum that led to Russia's annexation of Crimea as illegal. It comes after the International Monetary Fund (IMF) agreed to a loan deal with Ukraine worth $14-18bn. The US Congress also passed legislation on Thursday backing a $1bn loan guarantee for Ukraine. Tensions are high between Russia and the West after pro-Russian troops annexed Ukraine's southern peninsula. The West has widely condemned the move, with US President Barack Obama warning on Wednesday of "deeper" EU and US sanctions against Russia if it carried out further incursions in Ukraine.  One hundred countries voted in favour of approving a UN General Assembly resolution declaring the Crimean referendum on 16 March illegal and affirming Ukraine's territorial integrity  Eleven nations voted against, with 58 abstentions.

"This support has come from all corners of the world which shows that this (is) not only a regional matter but a global one,'' Ukraine's Foreign Minister Andriy Deshchytsia told reporters after the vote.

Given that the resolution was non-binding, the vote was largely symbolic, says the BBC's Nick Bryant in New York. But Ukraine hopes the resolution will act as a deterrent and dissuade Moscow from making further incursions into its territory, he adds.

^ Even though this vote is non-binding it does clearly show that the majority of the world does not believe Russia or it's made-up logic of "protecting the ethnic Russians in the Crimea" It is merely a way for Russia to use force to get whatever it wants. Hopefully, this will deter Russia from taking any other region/country it wants in the future. The people in Russian-occupied Ukraine deserve to know that the rest of the world sees through the excuses and lies and knows the truth behind the invasion and occupation. ^

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26776416