re: #154 ozbloke

#0151: Russia’s government has also called on the UK, US and France to stop the “indiscriminate use of force” in Libya. The BBC’s Steve Rosenberg in Moscow reports: “These are strong words from Russia. In a brief statement, the Russian foreign ministry said civilians had been killed and wounded in air raids on non-military targets, and that roads, bridges and a cardiology centre had been damaged. It was ‘inadmissible’, the statement said, for UN Resolution 1973 to be ‘used to achieve aims that exceeded its provisions’. The Russian government has backed pressure on Col Gaddafi - that is why President Dmitry Medvedev announced an arms embargo on Libya, and issued a ban on the Gaddafi family entering the Russian Federation. But the Russians do not believe that international military intervention will achieve the key aim - to protect civilians.”

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I call bullshit.