Posted on 02/21/2015 1:07:21 PM PST by tcrlaf
One year ago, Dasha Oratovska and Sasha Zakhovaieva fled from Kyiv's Independence Square as riot police launched an assault on anti-government protesters, firing flares and rubber bullets into the crowd. Sasha lost consciousness and was dragged by a friend to a makeshift hospital in the nearby Trade Unions building. The building soon caught fire, forcing doctors and wounded protesters to evacuate. As the Euromaidan Revolution reached its bloody crescendo, Dasha found Sasha sitting, dazed, on St. Sophia Square, a short distance from Independence Square.
Six months later, Dasha left Ukraine, likely permanently. Sasha remains in Kyiv but has begun formulating contingency plans should the violence in the country's east creep west.
They are not alone. Ukrainians are fleeing the country in record numbers: since February 2014, 600,000 Ukrainians have sought asylum or other forms of legal stay in neighboring countries, and thousands more have moved to the U.S. and the European Union. Others have fled illegally: Poland reported a 100 percent increase in the number of detentions of illegal Ukrainian immigrants last year.
(Excerpt) Read more at vice.com ...
Unspoken in the VICE article, but well covered alsewhere, is just how many of those leaving, are military-age males fleeing conscription.
Your masters in Moscow must have ordered you to start spamming FR again after a break. You're even worse than you were when the conflict started. I just hope you're not getting paid in Rubles.
Your post is a personal attack.
Good job Sherlock
Doubling down is unwise.
Your judgement on who is a troll is suspect.
No it's not, but thanks for outing yourself as one of FR's Putinista brigade.
Not to mention that has nothing to do with the subject of the post.
Oops, I’ve exposed myself as a Russian paid troll. LOL
“Your masters in Moscow”
I’m in Indiana, troll.
VICE has been VERY pro-Kiev until very recently. I wonder why the change?
And please enlighten the class how this article is Kremlin-ordered. I’m sure everyone could use a good laugh.
Now, any comments about the actual article? Or are you just flame trolling again?
He is characterizing Ukraine as a "oligarch controlled" kleptocracy on the verge of collapse in his first post. In other threads he adds the adjective "Nazi Junta" or "CIA controlled." I am correct in my assessment.
LOL...
Please link to whenever I have used the words “Nazi” and “Junta” together. Or when I have EVER SAID “CIA Controlled.” You can’t, of course, since you are just trolling.
Now, stop lying, go away, and let the adults talk. This isn’t the Yahoo forums, it’s FR.
You have to understand how this works..
Whenever anything is posted on FR that isn’t pre-approved propaganda from Kiev’s Orwellian Ministry of Truth, these same 4 ID’s suddenly pop up to shout it down, with flame trolling, in an attempt to stop any discussion of the subject.
This thread is a perfect example. And it has been going on for a YEAR now.
I’m not sure how this is allowed on FR, but it isn’t my website, or my call.
I read on another thread that there a record number of U.S. citizens who are renouncing citizenship. I guess we should invite dear benevolent Vladimir Putin, protector of Christendom, to save the United States as well.
There is a Ukrainian immigrant who is the brother in law of one of my neighbors. He visits enough that he’s become one of the locals.
He says that almost all the eastern European nations aside from Poland have “gangster” governments. They all promise the world and rob the people blind. He says that despite all of America’s problems, there is no greater place to be.
What I read indicates large numbers of Ukrainian draft dodgers piling up in all the surrounding countries.
VICE... seriously??
The Kremlin is well known to employ an “army” of internet trolls to post propaganda on western websites.
I went to find a blog or something to see what Russian dissidents are saying.... oh right... Russia outlawed dissident/opposition blogs
Don’t care.
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