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Gunmen leave civilians to defend rebel stronghold in Ukraine
Reuters ^ | Tue May 6, 2014 2:31pm EDT | Maria Tsvetkova

Posted on 05/07/2014 1:16:40 AM PDT by WhiskeyX

(Reuters) - Most mornings Alexandra, a painter and decorator in her late 20s, leaves her 10-year-old daughter at home, puts a starting pistol in her belt and walks to barricades in her hometown Slaviansk.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: russia; separatists; ukraine

1 posted on 05/07/2014 1:16:40 AM PDT by WhiskeyX
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To: WhiskeyX

Ukraine has got to ethnicly cleanse themselves of russians. Send the russians back to russia.


2 posted on 05/07/2014 4:47:01 AM PDT by John O (God Save America (Please))
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To: WhiskeyX

These people don’t want anything to do with Kiev and the EU. It’s called freedom.


3 posted on 05/07/2014 4:53:47 AM PDT by McGruff (Our forefathers were called terrorist by the Brits.)
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“These people don’t want anything to do with Kiev and the EU. It’s called freedom.”

What the invading Russian military forces and the ethnic Russian separatists are doing is called invasion, subversion, murder, intimidation, treason, and terrorism. What they are doing is the attempted imposition of a tyrannical regime by a very small minority of ethnic Russians against mostly unarmed non-Russian and ethnic Russians who want nothing to do with a Russian takeover of their government. The so-called separatists are a very small number of hateful militants armed by covert Russian military forces who are using brutal armed force to abduct, beat, torture, and sometimes murder any ethnic Ukrainian, ethnic Russian, Ukrainian Jew, Ukrainian Tatar, or other non-Russian who would get in their way of seizing political power and annexing themselves to Russia. What they are doing is a criminal violation of just about every international law on the subject. The covert Russian military forces are also committing the most grave and criminal breaches of the laws of war. At some point in the future the Russian men and women who are participating as covert combatants without proper distinguishing uniforms and emblems should be and may very well be arrested and prosecuted for these war crimes, with the punishment being long imprisonment or capital punishment.


4 posted on 05/07/2014 5:13:40 AM PDT by WhiskeyX
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“These people don’t want anything to do with Kiev and the EU. It’s called freedom.”

Just like the Chechnya jihadis then too.

Imagine that, Putin acting like a Jihadi instigating secession in a ‘break away republic’. Will Russia side with the Kosovars next?

Will the Ukrainians bring in the Grads and Groznify them?


5 posted on 05/07/2014 5:34:02 AM PDT by Justa
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