Posted on 05/09/2014 10:13:37 AM PDT by tcrlaf
Kiev’s forces are using heavy weaponry and tanks in the eastern city of Mariupol to storm the local Interior Ministry building, where police have barricaded inside. After residents began flocking to the scene, Kiev fighters opened fire on civilians.
There are conflicting reports about the killed and injured. The Ukrainian Interior Ministry said that about 20 anti-Kiev activists were killed and four more were taken captive, according to a statement posted on Interior Minister Arsen Avakov’s Facebook page.
However, according to Donetsk authorities, three people have been killed and 25 injured, RIA Novosti cited the Donetsk region council's press service as saying.
Many people came to mark Victory Day, but as the reports of shooting started coming in, they moved on to show support for a few dozen policemen who had barricaded inside the building, refusing to take orders from Kiev.
Many vids of the Army/Right Sector opening fire on Unarmed civilians. The locals have captured at least one Ukrainian APC.
An unarmed RT Journo was shot in the stomach, several pics and vids of that event are on line.
The Army was accompanied by Right Sector "Political Troops", to bolster them, it appears.
Several reports that the Right Sector goons have been EXECUTING local police who refuse to fire on civilians.
From RT: Earlier, the local police refused to shoot at civilians. [Kiev] called them traitors…Today, all police officers that didn’t ask for dismissal were attempted to be ‘executed’. Heavy military equipment was pulled into the city. They used small arms and rocket grenades, tanks fired from cannons at the police HQ building. The National Guard went to war with local police”
The attackers were “volunteers, mercenaries” from central and western parts of the country, he said. “They wage war for money so they are capable of doing everything. We saw these people, talked to them.”
“They shot at civilians” he stressed. “I saw several people killed,” Komissarov said adding that among the killed were police officers. Right Sector representatives were identified among the dead, he added.
Several Western Journos are tweeting about the events, as well.
By Freeper logic if these dead civilians are sympathetic to Putin the gay hater
Then its all good....Russian ethnic pride being akin to Satan worship
“By Freeper logic”
Don’t confuse the Maidan trolls (who have a LARGE “internet opinion” operation. There have been many articles in the western media about it.”) with Freepers.
Most of us want to know what is really going on, without the propaganda fog.
Video from Mariupol today.
Unarmed civilians try to stop a Kiev APC.
The older guy in blue looks like he is saying “Shoot ME!” after the shot is fired by the APC.
They sure don’t look like “terrorists” or “Chechens”, do they?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhfPkHvFBvE
By Freeper logic if these dead civilians are sympathetic to Putin the gay hater
Then its all good....Russian ethnic pride being akin to Satan worship
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I don’t think it is FReeper logic. That would be the opinion of a handful of ethnic troglodytes and Obamacons though to be sure.
Clear video of Ukrainian troops firing on unarmed civilians, including the RT Journo, today.
Several are hit and seen to fall.
http://youtu.be/mEJx-t6ahGg
Tweet from RT’s Paula Siler:
Donetsk National Republic govt said that peaceful settlement with Kiev is out of question following the bloody attacks on Mariupol .
Same Mariupol incident from another angle.
Shows someone firing a pistol shot from the crowd, after troops open up on Civilians, and the guy in blue is shot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8levXLq6fjk#t=179
Yeah. Because civis always shoot down choppers and are not able to be dislodged by military and police units.
They are illegal armed insurgents that were, by agreement, supposed to leave the govt. buildings. And they are bolstered by Russian intel, agents and special ops.
“And they are bolstered by Russian intel, agents and special ops.”
Keep telling yourself that.
Does it make the shooting down of unarmed civilian protestors easier for you?
The videos tell the true tale. We live in the digital age now. And almost everyone you see on the street in these vids, has a cell phone out, recording what is happening.
Then why do you keep insisting on posting Russian government propaganda from RT News and RT Novosti? Do you really think that all FReepers are so stupid that we can't see past your obvious agenda?
Am I supposed to feel sorry that a Russian propogandist caught a bullet? I don’t.
If you have another site with up-to-date info, videos, and pics, in English, that you prefer, I’ll be glad to review it.
Yes, it is from the Russian view, but they are also the most timely on reporting about this, by far.
Western Media is sometimes days behind on Ukraine news. Rt is reporting pretty much as it happens.
We understand. It is the pure timeliness of the RT reporting that compels you to post this. We completely understand that it has nothing to do with the Putin Russian viewpoint.
Very timely.
Here is an ITV report, but they don’t show, or even mention, that the army was directly shooting civilians, as is shown by the many, many videos now on Youtube of the incidents.
http://www.itv.com/news/update/2014-05-09/mariupol-seethes-with-anger-after-a-day-of-deadly-clashes/
From this, you would only get the impression that civilians were hit by cross-fire.
Some may have been, but we also now know that many were shot directly by Kiev troops.
See post 17
Same old Russia Today: “Ukrainain Army shooting civilians”
More video:
APC’s crash through a hasty civilian street barricade, then it is quickly rebuilt by the locals.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6Q2od6Le8U&feature=youtu.be
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