The toll from yesterday’s massive clash at the Ukrainian parliament between police and ultra-nationalists continues to rise, with two more members of the national guard dying from injuries sustained in the clashes, when a protester threw a grenade at them.
This brings the toll of the incident to three killed, all security forces, and another 140 wounded, mostly troops and police.
18 protesters were arrested, including a man they said confessed to throwing the grenade, who they identified as a member of the Svoboda Party.
The demonstrations were organized by Svoboda and the Radical Party to protest a deal made to grant some autonomy to the ethnic Russian east, an effort to resolve the ongoing civil war. The far-right parties, which dominate the west of the country, oppose any concessions and similarly oppose any resolution of the war that isn’t military in nature.
As the fighting in Kiev erupts with the protesters, the eastern front is entirely quiet, with the Ukrainian military saying all signs are that the ethnic Russians are complying with the ceasefire, and there’ve been no reports of incidents in the past 24 hours.
The U.S. interventionist policy in Ukraine has caused blow back long predicted by opponents of U.S. Ukraine policy. Hopefully this incident will be a wake up call Obama and the clowns in the State Department who designed this tragedy.
Get in bed with violent people and what do they expect?
Exhibit #1 why Putin has not the slightest intent to annex Ukraine.
It was only a matter of time before the animals broke the leash and turned on their presumptive masters. That the USG thought they could control them was pure folly.
Or maybe the intent in interfering was just to set the fuse and wait for the dissolution of the state.
All this strengthens the hand of the Ukrainian government in any negotiations with Putin. Either he accepts the deal and the supposedly "independent" areas return to Ukrainian control or he doesn't.. There will be no further concessions. It might be useful if Mr Ditz were to define precisely what he means by "east" and "west". Ukraine is one of Europe's bigger countries and it's hard to imagine where an east-west divide would actually lie.
There may not be a Ukraine government if these ultra right forces carry out the coup they have promised.
Why on earth would the Novorossiyan resistance make any move that would make their enemies unite at the very moment when they’re at each other’s throats? Let the Porostanis and the Nazis tear each other to pieces.