And still, the dying goes on.
Ukrainian mothers in Western blocked a crossing into Poland yesterday, to protest their kids being conscripted and sent straight to war with no training.
The Horlivka rebel group is going after the Right Sector Donbas militia, hard.
Several reports that the Donetsk Airport fell to the rebels tonight.
The Ukrainian Army is a real mess, they can’t seem to even feed their troops in the field, and Defections are WAY up. Shooting your own people that refuse to fire on civilians will do that. Several rumors via twitter that the Army in the Southeast may be near a full-scale revolt.
And tonight, there are several reports that the Slovyansk group has gone on the offensive, after the shelling of civilian areas of the city yesterday. Per several tweets in the last hour or so, the 51st Airmobile Brigade is surrounded, and contact with the HQ has been lost, they aren’t responding to radio calls.
And all of this could have been easily avoided. A lesson Europe seems to be learning, a bit too late.
And I don’t think the election is going to solve much, because I just don’t see RightSector/Svoboda handing over power without even more bloodshed.
Militia backed by ‘presidential candidate Oleh Lyashko’ takes credit for assassination of separatists...reported here in the Gov. run Keiv Post:
I have tried to make it clear that Ukraine Politics is vicious and brutal but I think people still can’t grasp the degree these people will go to....including hiring armed militias to create fear and chaos. ...and even war if it takes that.
Thank you for the summary of the latest... like you I do try to keep abreast of what’s happening....I saw the separtists had surrounded the airport earlier today but didn’t know they had taken it.....and I knew militias are fighting each other but difficult to tell which ones...so thanks for some clarity in a very messy battlefield....I just read about the 51st Brigade being surrounded.....I suspect more throughout the night as the push by Keiv Gov. and Right Sector is pretty much in full swing.
Unfortunately the citizens are being shot in the crossfire...then you have the criminal element hurting people because they can hide in the fog of war. Terrible mess....war always is and the innocent do suffer and die.
Who are the rebels? I'm trying to follow this. The Russians/pro-Russian say the government are the rebels. The pro-Ukraine (Nationalists) say the pro-Russians are the rebels.
Then the...I don't know what.
It looks a lot like Bosnia/Serbia in 1994.
Everybody was Mafiya.