UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A letter requesting Russian military intervention in Ukraine that Moscow says was from ousted Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich to President Vladimir Putin lacks any legal validity, the Kiev government wrote to the U.N. Security Council.
The note from Ukraine's U.N. Ambassador Yuriy Sergeyev to Luxembourg's Ambassador Sylvie Lucas, president of the 15-nation Security Council this month, was a response to a letter purporting to be from Yanukovich, which Russian envoy Vitaly Churkin read out to the council on Monday.
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