Posted on 08/09/2014 1:57:15 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
That’s all before Putin invaded Crimea. Nothing unites a country more than an exterior threat. Now even many Russian speaking Ukrainians hate Putin. In the 2014 election Ukrainian President Poroshenko won almost all the regions, including those in the east. It was in Kharkiv (eastern Ukraine) that sixty thousand soccer fans started the chant-Putin khuilo!(Putin is a d_ck head!).
Thanks Tailgunner Joe.
Russian leader of eastern Ukraine rebellion cedes fight to locals (Borodai out)
LAT | August 8, 2014 | Carol J. Williams
Posted on 8/9/2014 5:03:26 PM by 1rudeboy
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3190941/posts
Let us be absolutely clear: it is the continuing separatists’ violence that is responsible for worsening humanitarian situation in the cities of Donetsk and Luhansk. Where there no separatists - there no humanitarian distress.
In those cities and towns that were liberated by the Ukrainian government life is returning to normal. IDPs are returning to their homes and Ukrainian government is working to repair and re-establish public services. There had been no reprisals.
In contrast, in those areas that remain under the separatists control, civilians are increasingly vulnerable. UN reports that the separatists deliberately targeted critical public utilities, including water, electricity, and sewage. They replaced a rule of law with what the UN describes as the rule of violence, creating atmosphere of fear, intimidation, and harassment.
The latest report of the Human Rights monitoring mission, released on 15th of July, leaves little doubt about violent and abusive nature of the separatists’ groups. It describes in detail the abduction of civilians, their looting, their torture, their killings and executions of civilians. Recent reports indicate that the separatists’ groups have been refusing to allow fighting age men to evacuate the areas under separatists’ control. These illegal armed separatists groups have no grounds to pursue their campaign of the violence. They must lay down their arms, vacate all illegally-seized government buildings, and address grievances to exclusively peaceful and democratic means.
We must also address the root-causes of this situation and not just focus on its symptoms. Despite professing concerns for Ukrainian citizens in the East, Russia has at no point called upon the separatists to cease their violent and illegal insurgency. Instead it has fueled the crisis, sustained the violence and prolonged the humanitarian distress. It has been equipping separatists with sophisticated heavy weaponry – including GRAD rocket launchers and artillery, tanks and Surface-to-Air Missiles. It has been recruiting and training fighters and waging a propaganda war on their behalf. There has even been direct shelling of Ukraine from Russian territory.
The truth of the matter is that this is not an insurrection born in the Donbas; it is an insurgency manufactured in Moscow. It is led by Russians, using Russian-supplied weapons, in a deliberate effort to destabilize Ukraine and to exert control over Kyiv.
The profile of the separatist leaders makes this abundantly clear. Last month Vladimir Antyufeev, joined the ranks of the separatist military command alongside Igor Strelkov and Alexander Boroday. Antyufeev is wanted for his role in suppressing pro-independence demonstrations in Latvia in 1991 and was most recently the KGB Chief in Transnistria. All three of these individuals are Russian citizens, and all three have worked for Russian intelligence.
It is deeply ironic that Russia should call for an emergency meeting of the Council to discuss a humanitarian crisis largely of its own creation.
We agree that there needs to be an end to violence. We agree that alleviating humanitarian distress is a matter of priority. But Russian cannot credibly present itself as supporting the people of Eastern Ukraine when it is the architect of the violence that afflicts them.
Ambassador Lyall Grant of the UK Mission to the UN.
Thanks!
You don’t understand the gambit.
For Putin, it is win, win. The west, the sanction makers, get credit for keeping eastern Ukraine. Vlad keeps Crimea.
That was the plan all along.
more info on MH17 and SU2074
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3191084/posts?page=7#7
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