[tcrlaf]

Local on the ground live-tweeting:

[tcrlaf]

First Youtube vid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJYLQwsNSr8&feature=youtu.be

[Navy Patriot]

5:30 AM there.

[Gay State Conservative]

BBC News is on in a few minutes.I'll be watching...even though the Bruins are still in OT.

[The Louiswu]

I have to admit to being slow on this issue. I hope someone can give me the ten cent version of who is attacking whom and why. Thanks in advance.

[tcrlaf]

Another on the ground Tweeter:

Henry Thoreau 1m
Slovyansk: Shooting now in the city center

3m
Slovyansk: Pro-Russians mobilize at SBU via krasnoschekov

6m
Slovyansk: Two Mi-8 helo per access. 1 helo on fire/burning. Troops heading to tv/network tower. Entire army via Vasisualiy71

Henry Thoreau 13m
On site tweeters on Slovyansk, UA attack have gone quiet as of 27 minutes ago. Hopefully hiding.

Henry Thoreau 17m
Vid Dump: UA Craft Incoming.

Henry Thoreau 21m
Kramatorsk and Slavyansk are surrounded by Ukrainian Military.

Retweeted by Henry Thoreau

Ukraine Reporter StateOfUkraine 38m
According to our information right now, all checkpoints around Sloviansk Ukraine have been attacked

Henry Thoreau 40m
Slovyansk Start watching Nurskoy helicopter, breaks on the ground. Emergency siren screaming GO

Henry Thoreau 41m
Attacked checkpoints by feed, Andreevka, CPB. That is attacked units along the entire perimeter of the city. Strong shooting

Henry Thoreau 42m
Slavyansk-Awakened by the noise of helicopters. Opened the window, heard automatic shooting. Armored cannon shots via epoddubny

Ukraine Reporter 53m
pro-Kremlin radio chatter in Sloviansk: helicopters are shooting at our check points. Everyone get up!

[cookcounty]

Sloviansk is a city in east Ukraine, within the Donetsk Oblast. Population 100,000-150,000.

[caww]

He’s a reporter just so you know

[Gay State Conservative]

BBC leading with an explosion in Nigeria.Crazy!

[tcrlaf]

Pro-Russians at a checkpoint during fighting:

[Pox]

This has to be one of the most useless and absurd threads on FR that I’ve ever seen. No useful information and nothing but pathetic speculation with no useful links or actual factual information dispensed.

Pitiful.

[familyop]

Dollars and Euros are worth much more than promises of rubles.

IMF Warns Ukraine: Fight For The East Or No Money
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3150908/posts

[Corporate Democrat]

It seems that the Slovyansk protestors have access to MANPADs, and somehow even know how to use them well enough to shoot down helicopters. Is anyone still denying that trained Russian infiltrators are the driving force behind this?

The separatist crowds that they whip up are tiny in comparison to the unity rallies, and it is known that many of the ‘ordinary people’ that amass with the insurgents coordinate with them extensively.

They appear to be highly sympathetic natives that are on Russia’s payroll, but this separatist chaos can all be laid at Putin’s feet. There is nothing spontaneous about what’s happening in the East.

[First_Salute]

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