There's a volunteer to replace the Austrian contingent in the disengagement force on the Golan Heights. There's just one small problem:
It's the Russians.
President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Russia is ready to send peacekeepers to the Golan Heights
to replace Austrian forces after Vienna said it would recall its troops
from a UN monitoring force due to worsening fighting in Syria.
"We
could replace the leaving Austrian contingent in this region on the
border between Israeli troops and the Syrian army," Putin told the RIA
Novosti news agency.
Following
the battles at Quneitra in Syria early on Thursday morning, Austria
announced it was withdrawing its troops that serve in the UN
Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) in the Golan.
On Thursday, Israel demanded that the United Nations replace the Austrian soldiers as soon as possible.
Sounds to me like the fox guarding the hen house. What could go wrong?
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