Posted on 02/15/2015 4:39:24 AM PST by WhiskeyX
(Reuters) - Ukraine's rebels disavowed a new truce on Sunday hours after it took effect, saying it did not apply to the town where most fighting has taken place in recent weeks.
Guns fell abruptly silent at midnight across much of eastern Ukraine in line with the ceasefire agreement, but the pro-Russian rebels announced that they would not observe the truce at Debaltseve, where Ukraine army forces have been encircled.
"Of course we can open fire (on Debaltseve). It is our territory," Eduard Basurin, a senior rebel commander, told Reuters.
"The territory is internal: ours. And internal is internal. But along the line of confrontation there is no shooting."
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The Right Sector fascists will continue to impede any agreement.
Moscow only took advantage of what was already there.
Like the Irish Troubles that began in the 1960s, the Ukraine conflict will smolder on and off for a long time to come.
As we cast about looking for a more descriptive term, may I suggest "communists?"
As long as it someone else's family making the blood sacrifice...right?
Typical Kerryhawk rhetoric.
Sorry, I’m with Ted Cruz on this one . . . you can keep your commies on your side of the bed.
So you think the United States has a ‘treaty obligation’ in regards to Ukraine?
Why am I not surprised....
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