Posted on 02/18/2014 5:06:12 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Fire rages and petrol bombs fly through the air as riot police crackdown on the demonstrations against President Viktor Yanukovich in Kiev's Independence Square. At least eighteen people — including seven policemen and 11 protesters — were killed and hundreds more were injured during clashes in Kiev on Tuesday.
Fire rages and petrol bombs fly through the air as riot police crackdown on the demonstrations against President Viktor Yanukovich in Kiev's Independence Square.
At least eighteen people — including seven policemen and 11 protesters — were killed and hundreds more were injured during clashes in Kiev on Tuesday.
Many were killed by gunshot and hundreds more were injured, with dozens of them in a serious condition, police and opposition representatives said.
Despite Western demands for restraint and dialogue, the state security service first set a deadline for the demonstrators to end disorder or face "tough measures", and then the police advanced into Independence Square, the center of the protest campaign.
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I’ve appreciated all three of your posts, intelligent and informed.
Some folks here just want to engage in insults and pretend that they know what’s going on in the Ukraine, and before this latest conflagration, they couldn’t even find Kiev on a map.
Thanks.
Now I’ve got to get some work done, I can’t keep following this minute by minute.
I hope web operatives don’t overpower everyone.
TV news media 24x7, web ops 24x7, they create quite a windstorm of propaganda.
The president and his mafia supporters who control the economy. Have you ever been to Ukraine and seen how expensive imported consumer good are?
The EU sucks, and being under Russian control will no doubt sucks.
It all sucks.
It all sucks.
It' one thing to be affiliated with the EU by being included in their free trade zone. It's another thing to a member of the EU.
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