Days after ordering the “liquidation” of the protest movement in the eastern provinces of the country, Ukraine interim President Oleksandr Turchinov has conceded now that his military is “helpless” to stop the protesters’ control of those areas.
Turchinov was quick to suggest that something untoward was responsible for the inability of his military to silence dissent, saying he believed some of the police were “actively colluding” with the protest movement.
Not that the military has completely given up on attacking protesters, and the troops are said to be “probing the defenses” erected around the outskirts of the city of Slovyansk, and managed to take down a couple of makeshift checkpoints there.
That the military has been trying for weeks to retake a city of a little over 100,000 people and now can’t even seem to get past the makeshift barricades on the outskirts does not seem to bode well for Turchinov’s predictions of an imminent World War 3-style war with Russia.
We said it from day one, the Ukrainians Neo fascism government is controlling only 1/3 of the country and Ukraine army is not going to start a civil war no matter what Kerry or Obama or Angela Markell or that Swedish aristocrats government and rest of the EU far right governments are saying. This government will not last, IMF 17billion dollar “help package” is not for free, the Ukrainian self proclaimed government selling people’s rights, they selling the Ukraine treasures, buildings, airports, factories and everything in between to IMF, therefore the self proclaimed government of Ukraine already have started cutting people’s pension and rising gas and food prices demanded by IMF. The rest of the country is still sleep, but they will wakeup sooner then Kerry or Angela Markell might think.
Seem to remember the Ukraine Government has said this before, you know the one that was elected!
Ukraine soldiers are not going to kill Ukrainians because an unelected Government of Ultra Right Wing Neo Nazis tells them to!
What does a government do when its troops REFUSE to wage war on its own civilians!
Call for the helicopter to come take them off the rooftop.
…raid the Treasury and head for the hills.
Several years ago, Yanukovych was elected by Ukrainians to replace some of the same leaders the USG installed fascist government has now put back in power. Did Nuland think Ukrainians wouldn't notice?
Silence dissent? Mr Ditz is getting ever more frantic! Could that be a good sign?
Mr. Ditz is cool as a cucumber. He's not the one who feels the need to post 50 comments a week, each more hysterical than the last, screeching that Putin is going to collapse into seizures and be trampled by elephants just Any. Minute. Now.
How many times do people have to fall for the same stupid trick to realize that it is a stupid trick? I am referring to the US giving small nations or rebel groups the impression (without spelling anything out) that the US has their back, and then not helping, never having intended to in the first place. Can't people read a map, and understand that places like Georgia and Ukraine are not likely candidates for US military intervention, because it could start a nuclear exchange? What would you say if you got into an argument with a much larger person, and a "friend" encouraged you to hit him, saying, "I'm with you," and after you did, your "friend" responded only be cheerleading? Would you be inviting that "friend" to dinner anytime soon? What is the purpose of such behavior?
It's a real beech when the (interim) President finds out that his troops would rather shoot him than those he determines are the enemy.
Time for the US NATO troops to go in and start taking out "Bad Guys" in our tried and true fashion.
Even more than the coup regime in Kiev, the FedGov must really be scratching its head over this. Just because US mainline units would mow down Americans in a heartbeat doesn't mean that other armies would slaughter their own people.
Kiev governement is now sending new troops formed by people from Pravii sektor.These guys are not afraid to kill civil people as the army is not willing to do it. USA and Nato want a war with Russia.Nato consider now Russia as an ennemy.