If those security forces are on camera arresting Russians, Putin will move in. It seems the Ukrainians are caught in a trap. Damned if they do, damned if they don’t.
My theory has been that Putin is just ‘waiting for an atrocity’.
Get enough ethnic Russians marching in the street, and sooner or later the Ukrainians will rough one of them up.
Then Putin will move to ‘protect’ the Russian people.
The biggest problem in Ukraine right now seems to be the breakdown of central authority, and the rule of law (such as it is there to begin with.)
The Svoboda Banderist militia’s are acting on their own, without gov authority, to put down dissent. Meanwhile, “freedom militia’s” are robbing people on trains, and anarchy is setting in.
Imagine a Civil War in Mexico. Would a U.S. President hesitate at all to step in were Americans in Tijuana or Cabo were being threatened?