Posted on 02/20/2014 8:58:56 AM PST by mandaladon
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Fearing that a call for a truce was a ruse, protesters tossed firebombs and advanced upon police lines Thursday in Ukraine's embattled capital. Government snipers shot back and the almost-medieval melee that ensued left at least 70 people dead and hundreds injured. Video footage on Ukrainian television showed shocking scenes Thursday of protesters being cut down by gunfire, lying on the pavement as comrades rushed to their aid. Trying to protect themselves with shields, teams of protesters carried bodies away on sheets of plastic or on planks of wood.
Protesters were also seen leading policemen with their hands held high around the sprawling protest camp in central Kiev. Ukraine's Interior ministry says 67 police were captured in all. It was not clear how they were taken. An opposition lawmaker said they were being held in Kiev's occupied city hall.
President Viktor Yanukovych and the opposition protesters who demand his resignation are locked in an epic battle over the identity of Ukraine, a nation of 46 million that has divided loyalties between Russia and the West. Parts of the country — mostly in its western cities — are in open revolt against Yanukovych's central government, while many in eastern Ukraine favor strong ties with Russia, their former Soviet ruler.
At least 99 people have died this week in the clashes in Kiev, a sharp reversal in three months of mostly peaceful protests. Now neither side appears willing to compromise, with the opposition insisting on Yanukovych's resignation and an early election and the president apparently prepared to fight until the end.
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At least that is what the Obama admin. & USSA media hacks would like you to believe...and those guys never lie do they?
Okay, so you believe a former Communist thug over the Ukrainian people. Do you know any Ukrainian history? Did you ever hear or read about what Stalin did the Ukrainians?
Nobody is asking for foreign military intervention.
What’s being asked is to deny travelling visas (done) and impose economic sanctions on government officials who authorized the police crackdown 3 months ago and had sanctioned kidnappings/beatings/murders that took place ever since.
Freeze their assets to hurt them where it hurts.
The Soros Fan Club beat us to the punch again!
Love your patron George Soros, don’t you! We understand.
http://www.amazon.com/Bloodlands-Europe-Between-Hitler-Stalin/dp/0465031471/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1392920793&sr=8-1&keywords=Blood+Lands+the+land+between
The ignorance of some here matches well the ignorance at the White Hut. Congratulations, your POTUS represents you well!
Don’t need a history lesson from another neoliberal sock puppet...thanks anyway.
I’ve been a conservative longer than you’ve probably been alive, you pro-Putin dupe.
Not to worry.
John Fraud Kerry is on the job.
Huge Vietnam-sized sarc.
Bfl
I bet you would have cheered Goebels and Hitler on too.
I thought to myself, what would happen if you put a neo-Nazi in a room with George Soros? LOL
I don’t believe the Ukrainians who want to be more integrated with the EU have any interest in Soros. I really believe that we can oppose Obama, Soros, and Putin and be good conservatives. I cannot understand how conservatives can cheer Putin, Soros, or Obama in any way shape or form.
Probably some of these folks would call Jefferson, Madison, Adams, and Washington Soros stooges.
The protesters burning their own city have brought this upon themselves.
You’d have opposed the American Revolution too.
Yeah... No.
But thans for playing...
thans=thanks...
Damn fingers...
Sorta like voting for the lessor of two evils,, except those men and women are fighting and dying for a vote
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