“The government in Kiev does not want to listen to the people of Donetsk,” Denis Patkovski, a member of a pro-Russian militia in Sloviansk, Donetsk region, told AP. “They just come here with their guns.”
And by not inviting them to the table, they prove his point.
how does one hold a “national unity round table” and exclude a 30% minority from the talks (ethnic russians)?
Ping for your comments.
I’m still trying to figure this all out. IIt’s a pretty confused mess, in my opinion.
How do you say “The Troubles” in Po Russkiy?
You're kidding me right?
The subversives have refused to attend the negotiattions.
They were invited.
This much is clear.
By not including the separatists, they are saying load and clear they have no intention of negotiating.
They aren’t trying to unify the country. They are trying to unify against the rebels, so they can put down dissent.
This sounds so much like it is coming, again, straight out of the White House ideologues.
Remember the “HealthCare Round Tables” Obama held at the White House, where Obama shouted down any criticism of Obamacare? Why does this remind me so much of that?
The Maidan regime is demonstrating for all to see how little it cares for the preservation of the country.
Without all political forces represented at the round table, it will not achieve results.
Donetsk and Luhansk represent far less than half; but the massacre at Odessa and the subsequent attempt to blame it on the Russians may well have lost much of the South.
Eastern half is an exaggeration. Separatists control about half of Donbas