"Illegal armed groups are using Ukrainian state symbols when shelling and killing civilians in the east of the country."
http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/ukrainian-news-separatists-using-ukrainian-state-symbols-when-killing-civilians-in-eastern-ukraine-358124.html
I should clarify that this is just supposition at this stage. It seems that russian delegates are being recalled for an emergency meeting of their Duma. Russian soldiers posting on VK their goodbyes as they are being sent into Ukraine.
It may still be brinkmanship from putin, or he may be...
Nope. The main fear for Putin is a Ukraine free of state corruption, with rising standards of living, setting a very real example to his own citizens.
If he doesn't stop the changes in Ukraine, his fear is they spread first to Belarus, then to republics on the edges of the Russian Federation...
This is the sad reality, very well written. The exact same as I am hearing from those in Ukraine.
Putin's biggest fear is a Ukraine free of state corruption, with rising living standards just across the border from his own corrupt autocracy. The last thing he needs is his own citizens getting...
Well said. It is impossible to reason with putin's zombies. Sadly his brainwashing state propaganda agencies, and professional internet trolls, are too good at what they do.
Not really.
This all started when one student put a post on facebook calling for a protest against Yanukovich not signing the EU association deal he had negotiated.
A few hundred turned up, and instead of just letting it be and eventually fizzle out, Yanukovich made his first mistake by...
Maybe they just marched unarmed up to an occupied airbase singing the national anthem, with the russian invaders firing the only bullets ???
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tFJKPHonm0
The warmongering Putin Huilo is so lucky that wasn't an American airliner.
Time to show strength and resolve and to stand up to the bully.
This means cancelling the Mistral warship order, sanctioning Gazprom, and in a show of strength deploying 4 or 5 F22 Raptor squadrons to Western Europe to...