Even our "media"?
LOL.
Yanukovich signed a deal agreeing to early elections.
Then he fled the country most likely because he feared that he would be charged with murder.
Posted on 04/20/2014 5:40:11 AM PDT by kronos77
Five people have been killed in a gunfight in Slavyansk, a city in eastern Ukraine held by anti-government protesters. The fatalities include three protesters and two attackers, who are believed to be from the Right Sector paramilitary.
Read RT's live updates on Ukrainian turmoil
The deaths came after a night attack on a protester checkpoint on the outskirts of the city. Four cars drove by the checkpoint and opened fire at the local residents manning it, killing two people and seriously injuring several others.
“They approached with their high beam headlamps on. Our man went to them and asked not to blind us, show IDs and open the trunk for inspection. Then an assault rifle got stuck out of the window and he was gunned down,” an eyewitness, Vladimir, told RT.
He added some of the people trying to flee the attackers were shot in their backs. One gunshot victim died later in hospital from a head wound, local medics confirmed. Two others are undergoing treatment.
The checkpoint was in the control of 26 civilians armed with bats. Their lack of firearms was due to a so-called “Easter truce” announced by both the Kiev authorities and the protest leaders to de-escalate tension.
Among the victims of the night attack is Sergey Rudenko, 53, who worked as a school bus driver, his wife told RIA Novosti. He lived in a village near Slavyansk and was guarding the checkpoint on Easter night together with his two adult sons.
As the civilians were pinned down, a group of 20 protesters with firearms came from the city. They opened fire on the attackers, killing two of them and sent the rest running. Five attackers were injured by the retaliating forces, protest leader, Vyacheslav Ponomaryev, said.
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If it was a coup, so was the Russian Revolution, the Egyptian revolution and the American Revolution.
Russia is outraged??
Here's an idea.
Tell Russia to get the eff out of Ukraine.
Sure they did.
Local media confirmed that Ukraine is trying to resurrect Hitler. Confirmed!
Even our "media"?
LOL.
Yanukovich signed a deal agreeing to early elections.
Then he fled the country most likely because he feared that he would be charged with murder.
I'm reading the pro-Kiev protestors here. Can't we stop the rhetoric, and pray for those who lost their lives and their families in this cowardly attack on civilians at a checkpoint? Looking at it as an outsider, wouldn't eveyone be better off if they stayed in their occupied buildings and avoided escalation until there's a vote? The irony is that western Ukraine probably would've prevailed in the vote with Crimea no longer voting in Ukraine.
Now you've probably got a Republic of Donetsk that can never be reconciled to western Ukraine.
Those who lost their lives are not innocents. They are proactively taking part in Russian foreign policy of annexation.
By agreement, they were supposed to vacate the government buildings.
” This is exactly the kind of provocation that threatens to undermine the Geneva agreement.”
The Geneva agreement was useless the moment it was signed.
Right-Sector is the “armed Militia group” the Russians were talking about in the agreement. The Kiev coup government can’t do it, because they are afraid of them, themselves.
>Russia has zero cause for outrage, they started this whole pseudo-invasion.
I’d give a little more credit to the tire burning crowd that torched Kiev city center.
“But that foiled Putin’s plan to subsume Ukraine”
Russia’s billions have been keeping the incredibly corrupt Ukraine afloat for years.
“If it was a coup, so was the Russian Revolution”,
Read some history, please....
After Lenin’s first failed coup, what happened to the Kerensky Government?
“American Revolution”
That wasn’t a coup, it was a breakaway. Kinda like what is going on now. The French helped.
Egyptian Revolution
The 2011 one was a U.S.-financed coup that put the Muzzie Brohood in power.
I don’t know how all of you Kremlin Borscht Brigade Russia Times readers have time for a conservative website.
But you are all amusing.
no I mean the one that got rid of the muzzie bro hood
That would probably be, "so much the better" in the eyes of the EU and Kiev. The new guys in Kiev would have a good excuse to renege on what they owe Russia and the EU could make more loans against future pipeline revenues.
Look at maps of where the pipelines run. The Eastern Ukraine being independent or part of Russia isn't important to the flow of gas to the EU.
The two main things to remember are,
1 - The Spice must flow without greedy little Ukrainians free to set pipeline fees,
2 - Barry wants to ride the big worm and take credit for keeping the Spice flowing.
JMHO
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