After giving up on a brief try at peace talks Ukrianian President Petro Poroshenko appears to have sided with the nation’s hawkish far-right MPs, and is vowing to push the military offensive after ethnic Russian rebels in the east to “purge” the cities of opposition.
Poroshenko is hyping the conquest of the city of Slovyansk, a target for months, as a victory of “incredible symbolic importance” and the first of many, as the military offensive expands.
And it’s going to expand, according to the government leaders, as the rebels fall back to their main city of Donetsk, the military says they’re going to continue to expand the offensive until they’ve retaken the whole region.
Large numbers of ethnic Russian civilians have already fled the region, and with the ultranationalist portion of the country looking to crack down even harder on them after the rebellion, the prospect of a settlement seems less and less achievable.
I wonder if there is some D-day level celebration going on in Slovyansk now that it has been liberated? Or the cleaners moving in? One would hope to see something in the MSM.
Thanks, US, for supporting the rise of real fascist Neo-Nazis in Europe. What a world. Neo-Nazis and Jewish oligarchs in Ukraine fighting together for death and destruction.
"have sided with the nation’s hawkish far-right MPs,"
Even the US fascist regime, Obombah and his white masters as well as Kagan,Nudelman and Pyatt know´s that these genocidal murderers and arsonists are outright Nazis, so i guess it would be safe by now to call them that.
They would even be proud if you did, because while €U starts to feel a more than 60 year old ominous chill blowing in from the Ukrainian borderlands, the US has knowingly kept these Nazi´s well preserved, but not even they would have the stomach to watch what they have unleached now, much less if they give them 100% free hands. It is evilness in it´s purest form.
Sooner or later, and, as things stand now, sooner rather than later, most of the rebels are just going to give up and go home. The ultimate die-hards, including the screwball "military leader", will probably slip accross the border into Russia, with both the Ukrainians and Russians pretending not to notice. Inevitably those Russians who were too openly identified with the rebellion will leave, more out of fear of their neighbours, who know who they are, than of the government. Thus, if Mr Ditz's information is accurate and "large numbers" have left, that can only mean that the rebellion is collapsing.
A wonderful post by someone who obviously has absolutely no idea what they are talking about.
FYI. Called my mother in Lugansk on Sunday. She said it feels and sounds like the last time when fascists bombed and shelled Donbass in 1942. She also said that fascist shelling damaged the school I went to.
This is all done by the regime in Kyiv that Obama and his minions installed and are now supporting. Disgusting is the most polite word I can think of.
The people of Western Ukraine are going to be very sorry that they chose the EU over the Russians. They are going to get financially raped by the EU and IMF bankers, looted by the same old Oligarchs, fracked out of any clean water, and driven into poverty with Austerity. Plus, good luck, begging some gas off the Russians come this Winter. Their new friends in the West will sell them some – on a COD basis. Or they can hang around the new US military missile site PX and do some dumpster diving.