Posted on 02/20/2014 3:11:57 PM PST by dynachrome
23.15 Oleh Lyashko on the Maidan stage: "The power of Yanukovych is finished, he has no majority in parliament."
23.09 People singing the national anthem on the Maidan right now: thousands of them, holding up phones with lights on like candles. It's been a horrible day, but as it ends.
22.48 Verkhovna Rada report:
Parliament votes for ceasefire MPs approved resolution aiming calling for ceasefire and the return of all security forces to barracks. The resolution was voted for, including amendments by Lytvyn and Poroshenko, by 236 deputies. The bill requires a cease-fire, and equipment and troops have to return to their bases. The bill prohibits the use of weapons. The bill also prohibits the blocking of transport links, and restrictions on the movement of vehicles. The cabinet and national authorities are ordered to carry out a program to ban anti-terrorism measures . In addition, the bill states that a state of emergency can only be declared by parliament . MPs voted while standing. After the adoption of the bill, still standing, they sang the Ukrainian national anthem.
22.29 21 special forces officers captured by protestesr report they are safe, not beaten. They say won't return to the troops again. Protesters keep restrained with them and show an example of humanity.
(Excerpt) Read more at en.pravda.com.ua ...
Good for them if true. Sounds like parlament actually represents the people.
Russian special forces (with yellow armbands) in Ukrainian uniforms shoot to kill (graphic video):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKYXDHBJVHE
Putin’s having a bad day....
His day is not done.
Will the Ukraine Army answer to Parliament, or the President?
Will the Russian Army allow the Crimea and Eastern Ukraine to fall under the sway/control of (l)iberal Europeans?
The worst case for Putin is a sham reformation of government followed by sham elections...while the Russian and Ukrainian security services quietly remove agitators and opinion makers.
Russia will not cede hegemony over Ukraine.
And now both sides have taken up arms.
These captured government police look worried. They are depending on the moral values of the protesters for their lives now. Their faces say better than a thousand words why political resolution of disputes is better than violence, and that violence by governments against their citizens rarely turns out well for anybody.
More photos and details at Daily Mail UK
Pilsudski would be halfway to Kiev by now.
but not equivalent ones.
The youth in the foreground is carrying an air rifle, a pellet gun; the man to the right in the brown vest, a shotgun, looks to be a break action single but might be a dbl barrel.
The government forces will let them wander about for propaganda value as they pose little threat to stand off forces. And if by luck they do manage to draw blood, the government is served yet again.
"See, the extremist rebels are armed and shot first!" Sez gov-puppet. Kind of like something Carney will say when it happens here.
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