Ukrainian rebel leaders have issued a statement today warning that the ongoing Minsk ceasefire could be in jeopardy after yesterday’s parliamentary vote on autonomy added several amendments to the rule that were not discussed in Minsk.
The parliament agreed to eastern autonomy, but conditioned it on them holding a new election under Ukrainian government auspices and control, which means the rebels would in effect have to surrender their territory and hope the Poroshenko government follows through on the vote.
Rebel leaders say they might have to abandon the ceasefire over the dispute, and they say the language of the bill itself is a violation of the ceasefire. Controversy among the far-right in Ukraine’s parliament meant even this weak autonomy bill struggled, and faced a lot of opposition from hawks who think it gives too much to the ethnic Russian east.
At this point the threats are almost certainly posturing and not a serious call for renewed war, though the rebels may be betting that, given the fact they were gaining territory in the days leading up to the ceasefire, the government won’t risk another round of conflict which may just leave them in an even weaker bargaining position.
Kiev will never recognize the right to think differently to Donbass region.Rada never will vote the Minsk agreement.Poroshenko is only used for showing the good face of a party of war and demonizing the bad guy Putin.Now the lethal weapons are progressively arriving in Ukraine, some US boys too and we have the starting blocs for first 3rd war in Dombass region and then WW3.
Unsurprisingly, the "rebels" are looking for an excuse to break the ceasefire and balme it on the Ukrainians (classic Israeli tactics!). The only "ethnic Russian" part of Ukraine was Crimea and the ceasefire doesn't cover that region. What the precise ethnic composition of "Sausagestan" is is hard to tell. The mercenaries may well have engaged in ethnic cleansing. The two provinces have Ukrainian majorities and if Crimea can be annexed to Russia because it has a Russian majority then Donetsk and Lugansk must, by the same logic, remain with Ukraine. Once again, the cynical dishonesty of Putin and his supporters suggests that they see war as inevitable.
Kiev needs to accept the fact that they lost the military contest, and stop trying to dictate specific terms to the winning side.
Your continuous masquerade as neocon critic is getting old. So is your comparison of East Ukrainian complaints on legislative process in Kiev with Israel. If you think you will get points on this site for being "anti-Israeli", you are much too naïve.
The ONLY ethnic part of Russia was Crimea? Really? Zaporoziye, Kharkov, Dnepropetrovsk, Mikolaev, Lughansk, Donetsk, Kherson, and Odessa — are Russian majority. What confuses outsiders is the census that shows a number of people that had declared themselves Ukrainians there. All these" Ukrainians" in these regions speak Russian as their MOTHER tongue. Much of the census information goes back to more ideal times, when the nationality or religion did not matter. The result was that the more educated Russians often declared themselves Ukrainian and in the spirit of the new post-cold was Ukrainian state. NOW — after Nazi revolution, they have become what they were born as — Russians. As the revolutionaries in Kiev threaten them with loss of jobs, persecution, loss of property and life — these "Ukrainians" now do not believe in Ukraine any more. All that these Nazi revolutionaries and their western supporters did — was to remind people that it is futile to try to stay "Ukrainian" if the only way to be the "new" Ukrainian is to be Nazi by ideology and hate Russians, Jews and all other minorities — they are bowing out of such "Ukrainehood". US Jewish organizations decided for political reasons to turn the blind eye to reality. They are trusting Victoria Nuland. .
Just give people in these regions a CHANCE to vote, and you will see how fast would they leave the Nazi revolution in Kiev behind, and want to rejoin Russia.
As for the Nazi revolutionaries and their "parliament" — we know of what value are such "democratic" shows in a country were all the decisions rest with the National Security Council. All the Nazi power resides there, and Poroshenko really has no role to play in that hornet's nest. Yatzenyuk is their guy and they count on US to keep them in power.
We will now see what Germans and French are really made off. Will they just cave in and allow the "democracy" in Kiev just run over Minsk agreement? If we find them NOT speaking up against such blatant violation — then the game is up. It will become clear that the panicky twosome of Merkel and Hollande went to Moscow and hurried up Minsk agreement only to save the Ukrainian army from defeat — not ony in Debeltsevo, but because the entire front was collapsing, and the anti-Maidan forces would have been able to npush all the way to Dnieper river. After that — their positions would be hard to assail. This is why US and others are training ONLY the "national guard", or better put the storm troopers, about two dozen of them, who have already committed horrendous crimes. The army is incompetent, and US would prefer that the army is out of battles, until the death squads are trained, equipped and command structure organized. Thus — Minsk agreement.
Evidence of crimes of our Ukrainian fanatics are plentiful. Mass graves, disappearance of people in Mariupol, Odessa, and others. The torture of civilians that managed to survive is WELL documented. However, our "free" press managed not to see any of this.