Reporters on the ground in the protester-held city of Slovyansk say that at least three civilians were killed and more wounded today when a mortar attack strayed into a residential neighborhood, landing near an apartment block.
The apartment block was not directly hit, but the impact shattered windows, and many people were cut with flying glass. A second shell hit near a local college, with similar results.
Slovyansk and its neighboring city of Kramatorsk have been a primary target of the Ukrainian military, as the first major cities in the northwest of Donetsk Oblast. Gunbattles were reported in several villages near the area today as well.
Some reports suggested that the Ukrainian military’s shelling was retaliation for mortar strikes by a militia loyal to the secessionist People’s Republic of Donetsk, though reporters said that at this point it is unclear who fired first, and both maintain their fire was retaliatory.
Russia isn't going to do jack!!!!!!! Either to wait for the new govt to collapse or he is in on the scam and only feigning opposition for his domestic constituency.
Putin might be just bluff after all. I know he is playing it cool, but c'mon, if the chocolate king beats the pro Russian militias down game over Vlad. NATO in Ukraine is the death knell for Russia, and he isn't doing anything but delaying the inevitable. He is going to be the bad guy no matter what, so why not just go in and get it over with?
If Poroshenko is a good politician he could solve crisi via peacefull settlement.If not he will be even more agressive than Yatseniuk.
Chocky got just over 50% of the vote…hardly a mandate. It won't take much to push the 45% into Maidan. Will he then claim they are all Russian separatists/sympathizers? As for Putin, he only has to wait until the new government takes the step into savagery and the rest of the world demands that someone put a stop to the killing. And since the US has already thrown in with the fascists…who's left?
It will also be telling to see what Chocky does with the Right Sektor and other fascists currently running sections of the illegal putschistas. Do they retain their positions? I think it will be very difficult (and dangerous to Poroshenko) to remove them now.
Ukraine attacks Ukraine again!
The USG and EU far rights government just have created another civil war this time in Europe. The only language-destruction that these regimes are known to present to the world, from German Christian democrats to Swedish Neo fascism to English Neo liberalism and France, so called, social democrats.