As you can see local people took over building, civilians, local men and teenage girls...
Posted on 04/29/2014 11:11:30 AM PDT by kronos77
(Reuters) - Hundreds of pro-Russian separatists stormed government buildings across one of Ukraine's provincial capitals on Tuesday and opened fire on police holed up in a regional headquarters, a major escalation of the rebellion in defiance of new Western sanctions.
Meanwhile Russian share prices rose in relief at the mildness of the newly announced U.S. and European sanctions over Moscow's involvement in the crisis, which amounted mainly to adding a small number of names to existing blacklists while putting off threats to take more serious measures.
Demonstrators smashed their way into the provincial government headquarters in Luhansk, Ukraine's easternmost province, which abuts the Russian border, and raised separatist flags over the building, while police did nothing to interfere.
As night fell, about 20 rebel gunmen opened fire with automatic weapons and threw stun grenades at the headquarters of the region's police, trying to force those inside to surrender their weapons, a Reuters photographer at the scene said.
"The regional leadership does not control its police force," said Stanislav Rechynsky, an aide to Interior Minister Arsen Avakov, referring to events in Luhansk. "The local police did nothing."
The rebels also seized the prosecutor's office and the television center.
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And our Russian FReepers rub their hands with glee. Payback time, for forcing that Russian goon to leave office.
Kinda’ looks like Maidan. Oh wait, those were Nazis.
Oh, noooooo
Maidan in Kiev - those were nice, young, cute democratic and pro-Western “Activists”...
And these teenage /school-girls are “Russian invaders”.
The Russians (and you) told us that the Maidan protestors were Nazis. By your standard (and your photo), these protestors look like Nazis too.
The uprising isn't popular. About 30% of folks in Luhansk Oblast want to be annexed by Russia.
There's of course a difference between somebody who "sides" and somebody who surrenders.
Try to be objective instead of excited.
That's not gonna happen. Some of us will get the vapors over this . . . .
U.S. Senator John McCain, right, meets Ukrainian opposition leaders Arseniy Yatsenyuk, left, and Oleh Tyahnybok in Kiev, Ukraine, Saturday, Dec. 14, 2013.
Getting a tingle down your leg?
I see four broads and masked men and hardhats with clubs.
No. That 30% number is a quotation from obscure Kiev-based “public opinion research”. Look it up.
No, but I see a reflection of George Soros in that painting.
How many?
No. I looked it up and you are wrong.
Look it up again.
Pro-Russian president won like 55-60% there-
No. "Pro-Russian" president Yanukovich ran his election promising to support the EU agreement. Then he changed his mind.
I would add that Yanukovich has now said that it was a mistake to call Russia into Crimea.
I've already documented several polls on other threads that show about 30% of folks in Luhansk and Donetsk want to be annexed by Russia. I've also documented that even a smaller number in those two oblasts voted against independence from Russia back in the early nineties. And I've also documented that ethnic Ukrainians are a fairly large majority in those two oblasts.
Got a problem with freedom? Were the Germans correct to incorporate every German speaking area of other independent countries into greater Deutschland?
Say: “Texas”
Kronos77, why are your boys hiding their faces and not wearing any insignia on their uniforms? Are they trying to hide something?
Ah, so you are an illegal alien who see’s hope for Mexico in what Russia is doing?
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