Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has threatened to withdraw his government from a truce with eastern secessionist rebels today, a day after the easterners held an election for leaders of their breakaway republic.
Poroshenko insisted that the election was a “flagrant violation” of the agreement, and claimed to have already held talks with the defense ministry about the prospect of restarting the civil war.
The war wasn’t going particularly well for the Ukrainian government at the time the truce was reached, as the rebels had launched a counter-offensive chasing them out of key portions of the territory in the Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts.
The rebel vote is expected to install Aleksandr Zakharchenko as the new president of the People’s Republic of Donetsk. Zakharchenko is a leader of the rebel movement already, and an advocate of outright secession from Ukraine, saying he believes the Donetsk region could become a wealthy energy exporter along the lines of the United Arab Emirates.
What sort of autonomous status can the Eastern regions possibly have if they are not even allowed to hold local elections? It is clear that Poroshenko never intended to honour the truce anyway, it was just a chance for the fascists to rearm and regroup because they were losing in the field.
The fact is that the "proeuropean "(but in fact extremists) parties entering now in the Kiev parlement were against the Minsk truce.Yatseniuk told some times ago that after receiving some new arms from nato countries,he will reatack the Donetsk region.Nothing new appens.Even the condamnation of the elections in the separatist region is stupid because these elections legitimate the persons wjth whom Kiev has to discuss.In that way European union as usual don't understand what they are doing and /or saying.
With the parties regularly designated as "fascists" on the American net getting only 7 seats out of 450 in the election, I would guess the neocon propaganda machine will have to invent some new fascists and "Yats" will do as well as anybody else!
I hope the "independent-minded" Ukraine ironically gives up it's thirst for independence (from Russia, not the EU), goes for EU integration with the far more strings attached than Russia and turns into another Greece. Then you can be happy. With some "people", ANYONE the US messes with is wrong and automatically the bad guy, no matter what.
Has it ever occurred you that AmeriKa, who is always picking fights with everyone, is the only a$$hole in the room bigger than you?
How sad, one would hope that their goal could be something more noble then wealth, the root of all greed.
Because they got better voter turnout?
It's obvious at this point that self-determination is no longer valued as a Western principle.
With the overwhelming victory of parties in favour of Ukraine's independence and territorial integrity having given the lie to neocon claims of "por-Russian" sentiment in the east, Proroshenko feels strong enough to talk back to Putin, for whom the election was a massive slap in the face. To gain access to the oil and gas that Putin's American supporters conveniently discovered just after he grabbed Crimea, the "rebels" would have to seize the whole south of Donetsk province, which cannot take place without a renewal of fighting. In fact they are surrounded in two quite seperate inland enclaves in the cities of Donetsk and Lugansk and failed to capture the port of Mariupol. When you consider that the "rebels" seem to be mainly contractors' mercenaries, probably the nearest thing to competent soldiers that Russia has, that's not a bad performance for the under-equipped Ukrainian army.
Corporate Tool: Your Ukrainian army is garbage. Just like your analysis. Just like the Ukrainian economy, just like the AmeriKan stage-managed Ukrainian elections. Poroshenko is a bloated tub of sh!t with no brains – just a hole where his US masters program him to speak, while Yats is the little beady-eyed rodent-pet of the US.
Neocons and Neolibs are united in their hatred for Putin, of course. Corporate fascists tend towards groupthink and so does their ever-supportive MSM.
I wanna see Porky start the war again. I double dare him. Forced conscription wasn't too popular the first time and it won't be again. I wanna see them get wiped out, captured, then returned unarmed to their homes and families.
If you think the Ukrainian military is any match at all for Russia head on ( they couldn't even beat the militias of the East, you imbecile!) then your stupidity is bottomless.
you should not bother to even comment on this guy.as you said he is not at fault nature made him that way….+
Thank you. "Challenged" is the polite way of describing his condition.
So those against the coup in Kiev are mercenaries? What does that say about those that supported the coup? Illegitimate is illegitimate.
What a joke. But he was legitimately elected after the west fomented a coup against a democratically elected leader in Ukraine?