Posted on 04/16/2014 9:05:04 AM PDT by kronos77
Reports from Slavyansk say that the army troops sent to the eastern Ukrainian city for an “anti-terrorist operation” are leaving en masse. Some troops are openly voicing support for the eastern Ukrainians, while others are speaking out against a war.
According to Interfax, citing local self-defense activists, some 300 Ukrainian troops agreed to lay down their weapons and “go home” following negotiations in Slavyansk.
“We managed to negotiate with them. About 300 military – only some of those who closed around the city – decided to lay down their arms and go home,” a self-defense activist was quoted as saying.
Conflicting reports are emerging about whether the activists would or would not allow the troops to keep their weapons and APCs. According to Western media journalists present at the scene, the locals would not allow them to take back the APCs surrendered earlier, but the soldiers were allowed to march away with their rifles.
The people cheered the troops as they started leaving Slavyansk.
(Excerpt) Read more at rt.com ...
Some here at FR (the Soronistas, McCainiacs and Obamanistas especially) will not like that link.
It doesn’t fit the Obama/Soros/NGO’s/Globalist/McCainiac template.
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Then the thread where I lifted it will really make them cry in their molotovs.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3145126/posts
A better news source, however, has similar information:
Armoured personnel carriers driven into the eastern Ukrainian city of Slaviansk under the control of Ukrainian armed forces are now believed to be in the control of pro-Russian separatists after Ukrainian soldiers surrendered their vehicles.
Amid escalating rhetoric between Moscow and Kiev, the incident highlighted defiance by pro-Russian separatists, undermining central government efforts to push armed rebels out of captured buildings in 10 eastern towns without bloodshed.
Ukrainian troops had driven armoured personnel carriers flying the Ukrainian flag into the town of Kramatorsk after securing control of a nearby airfield from the rebels on Tuesday, prompting Russian President Vladimir Putin to warn of the risk of civil war.
A soldier guarding one of six troop carriers now under the control of pro-Russian separatists told journalists he was a member of Ukraine’s 25th paratrooper division from Dnipropetrovsk.
“All the soldiers and the officers are here. We are all boys who won’t shoot our own people,” said the soldier, whose uniform did not have any identifying markings on it.
I had one of them tell me that the Russians were the victims in the Holodomor. Hey, they’re the victims now again. Ukraine is picking on Putin.
Speaking of guilt by association, I read an interview that Russia Today published with Dennis Kucinich, where he parroted your usual lines. Is it safe to assume that you stand with him, using your standard?
It’s surprising that Russia still exists, despite being surrounded by such powerful neighbors as Georgia, Ukraine, Estonia . . . .
Afraid we have only won the first round of the cold war. (1989)
“All the soldiers and the officers are here. We are all boys who won’t shoot our own people,” said the soldier, whose uniform did not have any identifying markings on it.
Russians are happy to shoot Ukrainians. Guess who will win.
“I disagree. It is the pet project of One World and Obamacon agitators at all levels, from the people who run Soros down to the lowliest humpbacked keyboard commando. The putschist Maidanheads will be propped up until rump Ukraine looks like a Caucasian variant of North Korea.”
Could you translate?
Yes, they’re completely surrounded. It’s sad. It’s like during the Cold War. They were the only country in the world surrounded by hostile Communist Countries and yet no one felt sorry for them. No matter how much they whined.
“It’s everyone’s fault but the Russians.”
Could you translate?
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Probably not.
This is the “flexibility” Obama was talking about with Medvedev.
Good luck with that request. We’ve got a lot of real conspiracy mongers who see Putin as Christ and the average citizen in Europe as the enemy. They string together claptrap about sodomy, Soros, and banks and make Lyndon Larouche seem like rational guy.
Its becoming Comic Opera. Ukraine is so poorly lead, many might well long for Putin—go with a winner.
When the communist government, whose leader was not Russian, starved peasants and farmers who refused to collectivize, it happened accross the Soviet Union. Ukraine was particularly hard hit because it’s an agricultural area, but Russia was hard hit as well. There was no attempt to target Ukrainians as an ethnic group distinct from Russians, as you seem to think.
See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afVdnbMd6gA
See what Robert Conquest, the first great historian to debunk the Soviet lies, said. "Conquest is in no doubt that the famine was primarily aimed at Ukrainians and that Stalin hated not only the country peasants but even senior Communist leaders, like Mykola Skrypnyk, who eventually killed himself."
Link: http://www.ukemonde.com/news/rferl.html
Yes, I agree. Obama and Putin work in tandem to end freedom.
Conquest is a globalist neocon Jew Nazi . . . when have you ever seen his work on RT?
Ha! That’s about where we’re at on FReeRepublic now with anyone who doesn’t follow the Soviet/Putinista line being a neo-con, globalist and probably an covert advocate of gay marriage. No slur is too ridiculous and what you see with your own eyes is not true. RT and Putin rule.
"On November 28th 2006, the Verkhovna Rada (Parliament of Ukraine) passed a decree defining the Holodomor as a deliberate Act of Genocide. Although the Russian government continues to call Ukraine's depiction of the famine a "one-sided falsification of history," it is recognized as genocide by approximately two dozen nations, and is now the focus of considerable international research and documentation."
http://www.holodomorct.org/history.html
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