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Donetsk Protests Live Thread (About to be Stormed?)
Various/twitter ^ | 4-9-2014 | TCRLAF

Posted on 04/09/2014 12:45:26 PM PDT by tcrlaf

Twitter Hashtag #Donetsk has gotten busy in the last hour, especially after this Tweet from a UK blogger stating that the media was gathering, on rumor that the storming of the Donetsk Barricades was imminent.

UStream live feed from the Donetsk Barricades. http://www.ustream.tv/channel/artem77?utm_campaign=t.co&utm_source=ustre.am%2F1b876&utm_medium=social&utm_content=20140409121554 Has been up for a while, but down the last 5 minutes.

Several recent tweets about "Blackwater mercenaries being seen around/in Donetsk.

Euromaidan PR tweets: "Rossiya 24 TV channel illegally broadcast by Donetsk administration captured by separatists."

Acting President Turchynov orders to take Donetsk RSA under state security

Numerous Twitter reports and Videos of Ukrainian troops, including heavy artillery and tanks, escorted by police, moving near Donetsk, at last report about 10k outside of the city. Local Civilians are impeding them by walking in the way, or having cars 'breakdown" on the roads.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Russia
KEYWORDS: civilwar; crimea; donetsk; putin; russia; ukraine; ukrainecrisis
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Several tweets about "Blackwater Mercaneries" being seen near/in Donetsk. Can't tell from the pics where they are, though.
1 posted on 04/09/2014 12:45:26 PM PDT by tcrlaf
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The "Foreign Mercenaries" https://twitter.com/aleksiskander/status/453976478871326721/photo/1
2 posted on 04/09/2014 12:47:13 PM PDT by tcrlaf (Well, it is what the Sheeple voted for....)
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Ukrainian heavy artillery on the move:
3 posted on 04/09/2014 12:51:38 PM PDT by tcrlaf (Well, it is what the Sheeple voted for....)
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Edge of cliff..?

Feels scary, got a bad feeling.


4 posted on 04/09/2014 12:51:55 PM PDT by gaijin
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If it ends with bloodshed, I don’t imagine Russia taking it well.

But Kiev is in no mood to listen to reason.


5 posted on 04/09/2014 12:51:58 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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Kiev is exactly where the Russians will head if they’re serious about dealing with the Ukrainian radicals.


6 posted on 04/09/2014 12:56:33 PM PDT by mac_truck ( Aide toi et dieu t aidera)
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I think this is exactly what Putin is hoping for. He has spent the past several weeks doing everything possible to foment disturbances in Eastern Ukraine. Not so easy when the general sentiment does not favor a Russian annexation.


7 posted on 04/09/2014 12:56:45 PM PDT by Agog
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Video of crowd gathering to slow a Ukrainian tank column near Donetsk.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQRzfetndJg#t=30


8 posted on 04/09/2014 12:57:25 PM PDT by tcrlaf (Well, it is what the Sheeple voted for....)
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Lavrov has pointedly asked/told Kiev not to use force. This cannot end well.

9 posted on 04/09/2014 12:57:28 PM PDT by Genoa (Starve the beast.)
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I care far more about what is happening in Nevada.


10 posted on 04/09/2014 12:59:02 PM PDT by montag813
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To: goldstategop

What reason? A group of armed terrorists holding large city hostage and making demands does not need reasons. It needs swift and decisive annihilation.


11 posted on 04/09/2014 12:59:17 PM PDT by Samogon (Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something. - Plato)
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What would we do if ethnic language speakers suddenly took over government buildings and demanded a referendum to join a foreign country? (San Diego? Los Angeles, Miami, El Paso?)


12 posted on 04/09/2014 12:59:29 PM PDT by epluribus_2 (he had the best mom - ever.)
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"But Kiev is in no mood to listen to reason." Some Right-Sector goons beat up an opposition Presidential candidate, Oleg Tsarev, this morning. Seems the dissenters don't like dissent.
13 posted on 04/09/2014 1:00:02 PM PDT by tcrlaf (Well, it is what the Sheeple voted for....)
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To: goldstategop

There is no reasoning with the psychotic genocidal mass-murderer KGB Putin.


14 posted on 04/09/2014 1:00:25 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
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“A group of armed terrorists holding large city hostage and making demands does not need reasons. It needs swift and decisive annihilation.”

You mean, like the Maidan?


15 posted on 04/09/2014 1:00:54 PM PDT by tcrlaf (Well, it is what the Sheeple voted for....)
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Can’t be true. Jay Carney/WH have denied any involvement from Greystone, etc.

Remember, if you like your doctor you can keep him.

If you are a Ukrainian and don’t like the Neo-Nazi Svoboda having 1/4 of the interim gov’t seats then you don’t have to keep them. They can trust this.

Remember when the WH said that the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt was “largely secular”?

Remember McCain’s serious love for the KLA, then the pics of him with radical Syrian rebels, and now Svoboda leaders?


16 posted on 04/09/2014 1:01:35 PM PDT by Laissez-faire capitalist
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“What would we do if ethnic language speakers suddenly took over government buildings and demanded a referendum to join a foreign country?”

Depends, are we in an open Civil War, with an unelected government in power by coup?

How would the tribes at Wounded Knee feel about that?

Too many variables to make a fair comparison.


17 posted on 04/09/2014 1:03:27 PM PDT by tcrlaf (Well, it is what the Sheeple voted for....)
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The “Foreign Mercenaries” look Slavic to me. They’re probably just Ukrainians and therefore not foreign at all.


18 posted on 04/09/2014 1:03:33 PM PDT by vladimir998
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Lessay Russian mercs helped “Forces of Atzlan” take over San Diego for Mexico:

How would WE feel..?

Lessay they were following the orders of a gay, muzzie Russian leader who HATES God and ordinary Russians:

What would we say...?


19 posted on 04/09/2014 1:03:36 PM PDT by gaijin
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Everyone in that part of Ukraine speaks Russian. That is not the delineating factor. Actual ethnic Russians comprise 10% of that of the population in that area. Putin is doing everything possible to provoke a violent response to the takeover of the government buildings by his rent-a-mobs. He needs bloodshed to justify an invasion into Ukraine.


20 posted on 04/09/2014 1:04:23 PM PDT by Agog
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