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There has been lot of Twitter chatter about what is going on in Lvov, all day. This seems to be the first Western article on it, though Russian Media is, of course, maing a big deal of it.

Right Sector is said to be taking/have taken control of the Lviv Regional Administration, lowering the EU flag, and flying the Right Sector banner in it's place, as well as setting up several armed checkpoints.

Kiev seems to be blaming Right Sector for last night's police station bombings, while Right Sector is blaming "Novorussian Trans-Carpathian Activists".

This all began a few days ago in town near Hungary called Mukacheve, in western Ukraine, when the national police tried to shut down a big Right Sector-run Cigarette Smuggling Operation into Hungary. Right Sector responded by shooting up a bar the cops frequented, and it turned into a military standoff.

1 posted on 07/14/2015 5:19:15 PM PDT by tcrlaf
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To: tcrlaf

Right Sector demonstrators in Kiev are demanding that the Interior Minister, Arson Avakov, resign, or they say there can be no peace. Lots of bad blood between RS and Avakov, and has been since RS Hero Sashko Bily was killed after the coup.


2 posted on 07/14/2015 5:21:16 PM PDT by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
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To: tcrlaf

Twitter Search link for “Lviv”:
https://twitter.com/search?q=lviv&src=typd


3 posted on 07/14/2015 5:28:12 PM PDT by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
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Right Sector is a dangerous Nazi paramilitary group that needs to be snuffed out immediately.


4 posted on 07/14/2015 6:34:54 PM PDT by longsufferingjetsfan
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