Ukraine ... the murky waters where our Western politicians should never have waded into

No matter how those who instigated Ukraine's overthrow of their government spin it .... it's still a spin and will remain a spin.  
Bottom line: Ukraine is gonna be a career-killer for hundreds of politicians in Canada, USA, UK, Germany and elsewhere.... especially if a civil war erupts over there.

John Ray, Diplomatic Correspondent writing at ITVNews:
Ukraine crisis: It might already be too late to stop the slide into civil war.  
In recent months I've flown into Geneva to watch the world's statesmen grapple with the intractable diplomatic problems of Syria and Iran.
But neither threaten the immediate menace or pose the dangers of Ukraine.

Tomorrow a conference of the key players will commence here. The last best chance for peace. The unpalatable truth is this: It might already be too late to stop the slide into civil war.
Much as the interim government in Ukraine might protest that the rebellion to its east is the work of Moscow's agents, there is clearly a ground swell of pro-Russian opinion there armed and prepared, it would seem, to fight.

Nor can Kiev rely upon the loyalty of its security services there.
Whether or not he plans a Crimea-style land grab is not really the issue. President Vladimir Putin wants to recreate Ukraine as a creature of Russian domination.

He is a leader for whom the break up of the Soviet Union was a historic calamity he intends to put right.......


From Reuters:
...Separatists flew the Russian flag  on armored vehicles taken from the Ukrainian army on Wednesday, humiliating a Kiev government operation to recapture eastern towns controlled by pro-Moscow partisans.

Six armored personnel carriers were driven into the rebel-held town of Slaviansk to waves and shouts of "Russia! Russia!". It was not immediately clear whether they had been captured by rebels or handed over to them by Ukrainian deserters.

Another 15 armored troop carriers full of paratroops were surrounded and halted by a pro-Russian crowd at a town near an airbase. They were allowed to retreat only after the soldiers handed the firing pins from their rifles to a rebel commander.....