Posted on 03/10/2014 8:20:07 AM PDT by McGruff
Russia's Foreign Ministry on Monday denounced alleged lawlessness by far-right activists in eastern Ukraine, a statement likely to trigger alarms in Ukraine about possible Russian intervention there.
Ukraine's foreign minister said Monday his country already feels like it's almost in a state of war after Russian forces took effective control of Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula. A referendum has been called there for Sunday on whether the region should split off and seek to become part of Russia.
Pro-Russia sentiment is also high in Ukraine's east and there are fears Russia could seek to incorporate that area as well.
The Kremlin statement also claimed Russian citizens trying to enter Ukraine have been turned back at the border by Ukrainian officials.
On Sunday, a pro-Russian crowd in the eastern city of Luhansk occupied the regional government headquarters, raised the Russian tricolor and demanded the right to hold a referendum on joining Russia, like in Crimea.
In its Monday statement, the Russian Foreign Ministry said lawlessness "now rules in eastern regions of Ukraine as a result of the actions of fighters of the so-called 'Right Sector' with the full connivance" of Ukraine's new authorities.
Right Sector is a grouping of several far-right and nationalist factions. Its activists were among the most radical and confrontational of the demonstrators in the Ukrainian capital, Kiev, and organized "self-defense" brigades for the protest camp
On Monday in Kiev, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Deshchytsya received his counterparts from Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg, who had come to show support for Ukraine in what has turned into Europe's greatest geopolitical crisis since the end of the Cold War.
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NATO will start AWACS reconnaissance flights over Poland and Romania to help monitor the crisis in Ukraine.
We need to send ships and planes—to monitor what is happening—Otherwise Putin may well drive all the way into Kiev—in a Great Patriotic War II maybe into Poland too!
We need to send ships and planes—to monitor what is happening—Otherwise Putin may well drive all the way into Kiev—in a Great Patriotic War II maybe into Poland too!
Nothing's too good for the man who shot Liberty Valance.
I’ll take Nazis over Commies any day.
Stalin killed more Russians than Hitler. Why isn’t Putin anti-Stalin, too.
Russia is demanding the West pressure the regime to crack down on fascists.
If the situation continues to deteriorate, Russia will certainly intervene.
There is still time to arrive at a solution and Secretary Kerry has been invited to Moscow to reach an agreement on one.
A bad peace is still preferable to a good war.
I’m sure you do.
I have already sided with the nazis.
"I’m sure you do. (I) You have already sided with the nazis."
There’s very little difference. Be careful what you wish for.
No.
Ukraine is cradle of Holocaust.
When Hitler invaded, half of Ukrainians joined up, rounded they fellow-Jews and murdered them...
Auschwitz is nothing compared to Ukraine.
Two different faces of the same coin. National German workers socialist party= Nazi=fascism.
What we have right here, just take out the word German and you have almost half of the democrat party.
Communism is pretty much the other half, ala Bernie Saunders and his brethren in congress.
Some individual Ukrainians helped Nazis and participated in the Holocaust and some individual Jews helped Stalin and participated in the Holodomor a decade earlier.
Most Jews did not help Stalin and most Ukrainians did not help Hitler.
4 Million ethnic Ukrainians in addition to the 1 million Ukrainian Jews were targeted for ethnic cleansing and exterminated by Hitler.
Actually, there were collaborators in every nation. I’ve read a lot on the subject and think you’re wrong to imply that Ukraine collaborated more than any other nation. The most Jews killed during the Holocaust were killed in Poland. It’s simply a fact. Ukraine was a victim three times in the 20th Century because it was caught between Hitler and Stalin. First, in 1933 when Stalin starved the Ukrainian peasantry so as to get their grain to sell to build factories. Hitler, initially, was considered a liberator, treated the Ukrainians as subhumans and murdered many of them, especially their intellectuals, just as he did in Poland. And finally, the Soviet army returned bringing more round ups, imprisonments, and murders. For the next forty plus years Ukraine lived under a Soviet sponsored police state called communism. Putin was already in the KGB - from 1975 till the Soviet Unions collapsed.
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They are both "flexing their flexibility"......?!
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Obama trying to regroup USSR with Putin?
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Hadn't heard this. Very Interesting.
Every time you peel a little bit of the onion, there is something new that is weird about B. Hussein O.
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Putin?
You can take the man out of the KGB, but...
you can't take the KGB out of the man.
IMHO.
Makes me wonder a lot more.
Well he did give one of his daughters the name Sasha, a popular name in Russia and the Ukraine. ;)
Interestingly, in view of Obama’s family history, it call also be used as a boy’s name.
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