IT seems that Cameron’s coalition place so much responsibility for the current trouble in Ukraine, and the tragedy which occurred in Ukraine’s eastern region, upon the Putin government in Russia.

He and other blame merchants should remember that just before the outbreak of war in 1914, the Asquith government intended to grant independence to the whole of Ireland; six counties in the north of Ireland objected and wished to remain British. So one called Carson raised a militia to fight and rejected rule from a republican ‘all Irish’ government from Dublin.

When Gorbachev and Yeltsin granted independence to the former Soviet republics like Ukraine they took no heed of residents of the former Soviet republics who wished to remain inside the Russian speaking core of the former Soviet Union.

So Cameron should go easy on Mr Putin as he did not set up this current situation inside Ukraine and he should consider that sectarian troubles still boil over in the north of the island of Ireland.

Noel Gardner, Carlisle Avenue, Swindon