Posted on 04/25/2014 6:51:39 AM PDT by kronos77
Residents from port of Odessa have built checkpoints near town to stop pro-Russian separatists entering from Transdniestria Share 29 inShare 0 Email Reuters in Kiev theguardian.com, Friday 25 April 2014 08.28 BST A Ukrainian policeman mans a checkpoint on the road near Barvinkove. Photograph: Anatoliy Stepanov/AFP/Getty Images Seven people were injured overnight at a pro-Ukrainian checkpoint near Ukraine's Black Sea port of Odessa when an explosive device blew up, local police said. Residents in the town have built several checkpoints near the town aimed at stopping pro-Russian separatists entering from Moldova's breakaway territory of Transdniestria. "It was an explosive device. It happened at around 4am at a checkpoint set up by a local self-defence organisation," said a regional police spokesman. Interfax news agency quoted witnesses as saying a bomb was thrown at the checkpoint from a passing car, though this was not confirmed by police. Transdniestria, home to Russian peacekeepers and Russian troops guarding a Soviet-era arms stock, declared independence in the early 1990s. Nato warned last month of a possible Russian military grab for Transdniestria following Moscow's annexation of Crimea.
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Sounds like Spetsnaz-supported terrorism to me.
Simply more of Putin’s peaceful demonstrators we keep hearing so much about. /s
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