In addition to being the front-line of Kiev’s protests last month, Ukraine’s Right Sector is also a major thorn in the side of the interim Ukrainian government’s credibility, seemingly the worst-case scenario faction possible.
Western nations had apparently decided to look the other way at the group’s overt neo-Nazi affiliations, and the latest reports have the group’s leader Dmitryo Yarosh courting terrorists as potential allies for the new Ukraine.
In a post of the Right Sector’s social media page, Yarosh claims long-standing Ukrainian support for “Chechen militants,” and urges terrorist leader Doku Umarov to launch attacks against Russia in support of Ukraine.
Yarosh claims the ongoing chaos in Crimea provides a “unique chance” for Umarov to defeat Russia once and for all. Russia has sent troops to Crimea to back the autonomous region’s secession from the Ukraine. The protester-installed interim government in Ukraine has dubbed this a declaration of war, and has been courting Western intervention on their behalf.
From what I have heard Right Sector has claimed their web page was hacked and they deny this…Anyway, as someone who lived in Ukraine for 2 years it is disheartening to see my usually beloved Antiwar.com sucking up to Putin…Any idiot knows that people in the Western part of the country full well remember the tender mercies of the Russians…7 million Ukies starved to death by Stalin…Your constant drumbeat calling them Nazis etc is revolting…
The artificial famine/ Ukrainian Holodomor as well as the death of 66mil Russian Christians was the work of Communist Bolsheviks and Putin has repeatedly said that more than 80% of the first Soviet Government were Jewish.
Wonder what percentage of the US Government today is Jewish
First off, as I recall, Stalin was an equal opportunity dictator, and treated everyone equally poorly.
Second, Viktor Yanukovych was the elected president of Ukraine, regardless if you liked him or not. If you wanted to get rid of him, vote him out at the next election, like it is supposed to happen in civilized countries.
Third, the coup leaders, or rather the Junta that is now "in charge" of what is left of Ukraine, should be rounded up and tried for treason, rather than being declared the new government. One wonders what the americans would do if there was a coup in Canada, because we didn't like Harper ( most of us don't), and the Russians were behind the coup, or actively egging the "revolutionaries" on. Methinks the americans would have tanks in Ottawa an hour later. Does hypocrisy apply here. You bet your bippy, it does.
Fourth, The west, (read the USA) are amateurs at foreign policy, causing mayhem and death wherever they go.
Fifth, a Nazi is a Nazi, regardless what fancy name is substituted.
Sixth, calling on terrorist groups (Chechen) to ally themselves with you and ask them to attack Russia is beyond insane, and you are just begging for punishment from the Russians.
Good luck to ya!
Sorry. This rant was directed at Mark Hall above.
They were not Western Ukrainians. Famine hit the east including the Crimea.
I guess having visited someplace doesn't make you an expert on it.
I am sure that if the West "looked the other way" it was only for a second. It seems to be the modus operandi of the US (and its allies) to finance and implement terrorism around the world while "fighting" it at home.
The Ukrainians were starved by Stalin – A Georgian.
Attacking Russia worked out SO well for the original Nazis.
This is what USG and EU been doing since Balkan and Yugoslavian war, they brought in the present Saudis barbarians that are terrorizing the Syrian people, now although they have tried via Turkey to bring in some of these barbarians that are stoned in Turkey, but terrorism of all kind are their last resort. Bill Clinton and Madeline Albright started using these kind of people for the sake of Wahhabis economical investment in oil business, Bush family relation with Wahhabis, Saudis economic interests in all and every USG war scenario and now Ukraine. People of Ukraine not backing the self declared government in Kiev, because such government consist of Neo, old and ok’d fascist with relation to very same groups and political parties in Europe. So, if English government is worried about its (terrorists) citizens traveling to Syria, David Cameron have some thing new to be worried about, these people living in Europe, they are from Sweden to Denmark to Holland to France to Germany and Brussels is almost controlled by them.