After pro-government attackers burned a protester building in Odessa Friday, killing at least 38 people within, Odessa police responded with mass arrests of 67 of the surviving protesters, who they blamed for stirring “unrest.”
They didn’t stay arrested long, however, as the protesters marched on the police headquarters and stormed the building, smashing windows and forcing open gates.
The police relented, and released the detainees, though they say the charges against them have not been dropped. Ukraine’s interim PM was in Odessa today, and was harshly critical of the police, saying they should’ve moved against the protesters, who they dubbed “terrorist organizations.”
The police appeared much less interested in moving against the Right Sector and other ultranationalist organizations, which set the fire on the protest headquarters and opened fire on those trying to escape.
Odessa hadn’t been a major part of the protest movement, which has dominated the east, but the growing fury over the deadly fire, and the government’s reaction to it being a crackdown against the selfsame protest movement whose members were targeted in the fire, seems to be uniting protesters in the city.
The situation in Odessa remains extremely tense and unsettled, and the PM’s comments suggest they remain set on a course of confrontation against the protest movement, meaning the situation is likely to get worse before it gets better.
I'm surprised that Victoria Nuland didn't show up with smores to toast over the raging fires.
I think she would bring only skewers in order to come away with shish kebab.
There's a jowly cow who should not set foot back in Ukraine without a highly paid, armed contingent for protection, bread, cookies or otherwise.
It is in deed surprising why Victoria Nuland is not in Odessa and handing out cookies or Mac Donald fattening sandwiches, or for that matter the Swedish foreign minister Carl Bildt is not in Odessa handing out look alike Micky mouse toys to his kids, the far right fascist “revolutionaries” whom are supported by among other European governing body, the entire Swedish government and Angela Markell the leader of the Christian democrats party in Germany. These people disrespecting their own religious by supporting fascist march in Ukraine, how could they respect democracy or have any respect left for democracy.
The bottom line is that Kiev government and their western Neo liberal fascism supporters, using all and every illegal means in their disposal to start a bigger war with unarmed people in Eastern Ukraine, among other, the use of foreign mercenaries, they are used in both the civilian clothing and army uniform invading cities and murdering unarmed Ukrainian people. No wonder IMF is so eager to solve the eastern Ukraine problem so they can start their milking the Kiev cows as fast as they can, the vaulter capitalism is working on the clock and get paid by the second. People of Odessa need to arrest this man for selling Ukrainians to IMF among others.
Ukraine is one of the most corrupt, among other European countries, police are as corrupt as the Kiev government is, whomever pays them more they will obey their laws, the 5B $ paid by the USG is already been used to pay these corrupt people in Ukraine. It is not used to feed the growing hunger in Greece.
People of Odessa need to arrest this man for selling Ukraine to IMF, that's where the real corruption is.
they also need food and salary every month. And many of them did not shoot at their own peoiple. Staying within the police or military, but shooting at those who command killing citizens is better than quitting the job.
It really should disappear the way Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia did.
ATTACK !!
Drone-Killer CIA Chief John Brennan came to Kiev and ordered, “Attack!»
Then Mean Veep Joe Biden came to Kiev and ordered, “Attack!»
Then the banksters' IMF ordered Kiev, "You want the money? Then, attack!"
The rump US-NATO puppet regime in Kiev attacked.
And continues attacking.
Then Barak “Change you're a fool to believe in” Obama said, “Great, They're attacking!”
Then the fascists burned people alive..”Attack!” they cried.
ФАШИЗМ НЕ ПРОЙДЕТ!!
Arnold Lockshin, political exile from the US living in Moscow
U.S. is the most advanced and experienced imperialist the world ever had ! The Russians must learn to cope with this – the whole world actually – just watch how they killed their forrmer friends: Bin Laden (?), Saddam Hussein, Gaddafi, – stupid Yanukovic believed them they would stop their fascists to use force ! Naive believers are killed or must escape …
Very interesting: Jason Ditz calls an U.S.-paid terrorist who belongs to a group of NATO -trained NAZI-killers and parliament storm-troops Ukrainan Prime Minister in the headline !
Justifying violence and denying democracy. And obviously preparing for the next NATO war and covering a civil war – after having fooled the antiwar movement in the wars against Yugoslavia, Chechnya, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Mali, Sudan
Same thing struck me when reading this short article. 'Ukraine's interim PM' your ass. How about 'Ukraine's coup puppet', or better 'Ukraine's poo cuppet.'
Same thing struck me when reading this short article. 'Ukraine's interim PM' your ass. How about 'Ukraine's coup puppet', or better 'Ukraine's poo cuppet.'
Very interesting: Jason Ditz calls an U.S.-paid terrorist who belongs to a group of NATO -trained NAZI-killers and parliament storm-troops Ukrainan Prime Minister in the headline !
Justifying violence and denying democracy. And obviously preparing for the next NATO war and covering a civil war – after having fooled the antiwar movement in the wars against Yugoslavia, Chechnya, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Mali, Sudan
If the US is in fact preparing for "the next NATO war" in Ukraine, it would be against another nuclear power. No one cany deny that this is a real danger.
The CIA-generated, neo-fascist coup in Kiev was also heavily directed against Russia. There is near unanimity among the Russian political elite – and very wide support among the population – that Russia cannot allow their near neighbors – and in many cases kinsmen – be slaughtered as people were in Odessa.
If the US is in fact preparing for "the next NATO war" in Ukraine, it would be against another nuclear power. No one cany deny that this is a real danger.
The CIA-generated, neo-fascist coup in Kiev was also heavily directed against Russia. There is near unanimity among the Russian political elite – and very wide support among the population – that Russia cannot allow their near neighbors – and in many cases kinsmen – be slaughtered as people were in Odessa.
How many people will have to die before the dissolution of this fake country? Rather than propping up unelected fascists, the kind Emperor Obama and John "the great white ape" Brennan seem to enjoy suckling at their teat, let the fake entity that is Ukraine go the way of Yugoslavia or Czechoslavakia.
I know a great deal of Ukrainians won't like to hear this, but I'm sure if the internet was in existence or widely used back in the day, we would have been hearing from "diehard" Yugo and Czech nationalists protesting the demise of their fake nation.
Why Jason Ditz does not show us the burned bodies of the people within the Ukrainan Union Building – we see only the smiling war criminal Obama here at antiwar.
A lovely example of journalistic spin. When an armed band attacks pro-Russian supporters in Odessa, it's an outrage. When Ukrainian forces attack an armed band in Donetsk, that's an outrage too! Can't have it both ways, Mr Ditz!
No one intentionally burned people alive and shot protesters attempting to escape from the pro Russian side.
No one intentionally burned people alive and shot protesters attempting to escape from the pro Russian side.
The “armed bands” in the East are not incinerating fellow citizens. The Kiev regime has no legitimacy and threatened to unleash their fascist militias on the people in the East. What should the people in the East have done, then? Submit?
The “armed bands” in the East are not incinerating fellow citizens. The Kiev regime has no legitimacy and threatened to unleash their fascist militias on the people in the East. What should the people in the East have done, then? Submit?