Posted on 05/04/2014 10:00:09 AM PDT by Mariner
ODESSA, Ukraine (AP) — Hundreds of pro-Russian demonstrators stormed police headquarters in Odessa on Sunday and won the release of 67 people detained after deadly clashes in the Ukrainian port city.
More than 40 people died in the riots two days earlier, some from gunshot wounds, but most in a horrific fire that tore through a trade union building.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, who hinted strongly that he saw Moscow's hand in the unrest spreading through southeastern Ukraine, visited Odessa on Sunday to try to defuse the mounting tensions.
Odessa is the major city between the Crimean Peninsula, which Russia annexed in March, and the Moldovan separatist region of Trans-Dniester, where Russia has a military peacekeeping contingent.
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You just screwed yourself. Enlarge and brighten that picture and the guy in the orange helmet clearly has on a bullet proof or assault vest over his Police shirt. LOL, not to even mention the two police looking right at him, he's probably their superior, not Vlad the Impaler lurking in the shadows.
Hoist on your own petard, retard. ROTFLMAO
German press, or Russia Today, I wonder? /s
You are having a daydream. There are many pic/videos of Ukrainians being fired and dying in the first street battle. I am thinking about starting a thread and posting them all. Keep talking and I will.
Actually, I’m more interested in your reaction to the Latvian photo. What’s the Team FSB plan when foreign nationals arrive on Ukraine’s side and start killing Russians? Bomb Riga? Pull out Russian nukes and threaten nuclear war?
Russia has let the transnational irregular warfare genie out of the bottle. Putin will rue the day he did that.
What the Russian timeline about the protests, anyway? I note that our Russians here avoid mentioning it whatsoever. Were the Maidan protests violent from the beginning? If not, how many months did they go until they became violent?
The current crowd in Kiev has ordered the Ukrainian military to attack Ukrainian civilians with lethal force, period.
Now you just keep on calling that "democracy and freedom".
Maybe when this propaganda gig of yours is up you can get a job with Hillary Clinton's PR crew or even the BLM if you like working out of doors.
You didn’t answer my question. What’s the Team FSB plan when “war tourists” arrive on Ukraine’s side and kill Russians. Maybe post a few pics on twitter of dead Russians. Vova will love that.
So what will Putin do? Bomb Riga? Threaten nuclear war?
The answer is you haven’t thought about that question and neither have the Russians. Well you better get a plan because it’s going to happen eventually.
It doesn’t matter whether or not the overall protests had turned violent or if everyone else were peaceful. Anyone in the USA who throws a molotov cocktail at the police will be shot. You know that. Stop talking around the issue.
Heavy attacks on the police with molotovs were seen in numerous videos by Dec., maybe it happened before too, IDK. Officers were on fire and the people who did it were standing a few meters away. The police simply retreated and smothered the fires. If that scenario played out in the USA, everyone in sight who appeared to be with the fire throwers would have been shot at by the police. They would have pumped bullet after bullet into them long after they were dead because “you can’ take any chances.”
Recently, some neo-hippie losers who were protesting in the US got 5-8 year sentences simply for making molotov cocktails that were not used. The prosecutor wanted MUCH longer sentences.
I see you’ve conceded my point. /s
What point? Explain.
How many months did the Maidan protest go until it became violent? And what happened in the interim that made it violent?
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Your analogies are irrelevant to the current situation in Ukraine.
Say Mexican (Russian) nationals arrive in your town, put up a big Mexican (Russian) flag and shoot your neighbors dead. Then the local police refuse to take your 911.
Will you will then buy the Mexicans a Costco giftcard? Of course you wouldn’t.
Neither will Ukrainians when Russians kill them. They will defend themselves against foreign national unlawful combatants just as you would.
The violence associated with the Maidan began in the spring of 2013, but that’s not something you’ll ever read in western media.
Of course you won’t, because it doesn’t fit the Russian template. /s
What are you, about twelve years old or what?
The thieves now running the country are no different than the thieves they threw out. The people now in charge thought they could wet their bed and the EU/NATO would rush in, change their bedding, powder their little butt, and put a new didi on them.
They couldn't wait on elections now let them deal with the consequences of their own actions
The US should stay out of it.
I think it’s instructive that the Russian dupes in Odessa ran away today. Despite their spiffy brand spanking new City of Odessa flags and traitor police support they ran like children rather than face Ukrainian patriots.
The local Russian dupes in Ukraine don’t seem to be made of much without their Team FSB back up thugs.
We can have armchair discussions about Maidin in 2013 but that stuff really doesn’t matter anymore. What matter now is what is happening in the streets of Ukraine. Ukrainians citizens are apparently deciding Ukraine is worth dying for.
Putin has a problem now. A big one.
After an appropriate bombing campaign some group outside of the Ukraine meet with all interested parties and will divide the country into multiple parts.
That's as likely a scenario as any other at this point because, no, the Ukrainians haven't decided their country is worth fighting for, they've decided their country is worth killing their countrymen over.
Well, most of Poland was also Russian since Catherine the Great. Why should we care if Russia takes back what was theirs for a century and a half? /sarc
And that’s not even including the 50 years Poland, Lithuania and a dozen other countries spent under Soviet domination, and before that as unwilling territories of the Russian Empire.
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