Fireworks over #Donetsk just now. People are in a celebratory mood, splitting from #Ukraine pic.twitter.com/dhleH76Y0K
It's Independence day.
Russia threatening to turn off the gas spigot if Ukraine doesn't pay in advance for June deliveries, and the Kiev Gov's just declaring that the "Military operation will go on".
The coup government isn't interested in negotiating anything, and my opinion is that position is coming straight from the White House.
From other articles, it sounded like the $17 billion IMF bailout was conditioned on retaking the rebel oblasts. The Kyiv government can’t afford to back off without renegotiating the bailout provisions and the US certainly has influence on the IMF.
Lugansk has just declared independence.
Two eastern regions have now formally split from Ukraine.
Which one?
Fireworks over #Donetsk just now. People are in a celebratory mood, splitting from #Ukraine pic.twitter.com/dhleH76Y0K
It's Independence day.
Hmm...this isn't working out like I planned it would.
All sanity is gone now. Obama is flexing his flexibility and giving Ukraine to Russia. The government is Kiev is either plying right into Putin’s hands or playing along with Putin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhbbKoSH88c
Breaking Now:
UKRAINE FORCES ATTACK EASTERN CITY OF SLOVYANSK, INTERFAX SAYS
Twitter reports of artillery shelling of the town.
The “People’s Republic”. What a joke. Don’t worry. Whatever “wealth” they currently have will soon disappear.