According to RT, police forces loyal to the revolutionary regime in Kiev have attacked the Russian speakers in Kharkov:
According to the Regnum news agency the insurgents have moved “special units” to deal with the situation in Lugansk, Kharkov and Donetsk.
It appears that a full-scale crackdown will happen in the eastern Ukraine overnight. A lot will depend on the outcome of these clashes.
Stay tuned.
The Saker
You may _watch_ the news in Internet:
http://www.vesti.ru/videos?vid=onair
http://lifenews.ru/watch-live
http://rt.com/on-air/
Regards
Life has a different version of the police attack in Kharkov than RT.
Милиция в здании ОГА Харькова применила газ против митингующих (Police in the building of Kharkiv Regional State Administration has used gas against protesters)
http://lifenews.ru/news/130779
(auto trans) “Siloviki displace activists using water cannons and stun grenades that fly into the crowd.
According to eyewitnesses, police officers near the regional administration building in Kharkov getting bigger. Kharkovites note that in order to “deal” with the protesters, so many law enforcers do not need.
Reporter from Kharkov Dmitry Korneev, who works at the site, said the assault began late in the evening, when activists were calm and showed no activity.
– Security forces immediately fired tear gas. People caught in the ring, and many of them escape, smashed glass. In the crowd flying stun grenades. People are scared. They did not expect this. Internal forces used gas and water cannons – said Korneev.
Before the building of Kharkiv Regional State Administration protesters lit a fire of tires. Dmitry Korneev emphasizes that Kharkiv MIA deceived people.
– Ukrainian police yesterday promised that he would not oppose the protesters, today it acts very cruel. To join the militia militiamen from Kharkov from Poltava – said the reporter.”
There is a video with the reporter at the scene. RT said the cops “were deployed from western Ukraine”, so maybe the cops the protestors had the agreement with were replaced?
From the RT article: “Brief clashes between supporters of the federalization of Ukraine and pro-EU demonstrators were reported in downtown Kharkov.”
Interesting the description of protesters as being for “the federalization of Ukraine,” which I hadn’t seen before, not describing them as secessionists seeking integration with Russia. IMO, People Power will win despite the eventual use of heavy force to defeat it.
Also, the Kharkov antimaydan had an agree with local SBU.
СБУ Харькова перешла на сторону пророссийских активистов (SBU Kharkov sided with the pro-Russian activists)
http://lifenews.ru/news/130775
I’m not sure if this was part of the agreement with the cops, or entirely different.
Interesting that both Kharkov and donetsk antimaydans are demanding federation, so appear to want to stay as part of the Ukraine for now.
(other Life News article comment was mine also)
вот так
” – U.S. President Barack Obama called on Ukraine’s armed forces on Wednesday to stay out of the country’s political crisis and warned that there would be consequences for those who “step over the line.”
Using his toughest language so far in response to a Ukrainian conflict that has drawn threats of U.S. and European Union sanctions, Obama denounced the violence and put the onus on Ukraine’s government to reach a peaceful resolution.
“We hold the Ukrainian government primarily responsible for making sure that it is dealing with peaceful protesters in an appropriate way, that the Ukrainian people are able to assemble and speak freely about their interests without fear of repression,” Obama told reporters at the start of a North American summit in Mexico.
Obama and other Western leaders stepped up pressure on Ukraine’s Russian-backed president, Viktor Yanukovich, after 26 people were killed in the country’s worst violence since independence from the Soviet Union.
Shortly after Obama spoke, Yanukovich said he had agreed to a “truce” with opposition leaders and a start to negotiations to prevent further bloodshed. The crisis, complete with Cold War-style recriminations between Washington and Moscow, has centered on Independence Square in Kiev where riot police battled protesters on Tuesday.
Speaking to reporters ahead of a meeting with Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto, Obama urged both sides in Ukraine to avoid violence but singled out the country’s military for a specific warning against intervening in the crisis.
“We expect the Ukrainian government to show restraint,” he said. “We’ve also said we expect peaceful protesters to remain peaceful, and we’ll be monitoring very closely the situation, recognizing that with our European partners and the international community there will be consequences if people step over the line.
“And that includes making sure the Ukrainian military does not step into what should be a set of issues that can be resolved by civilians,” he said.” in (Reuters)Wed Feb 19, 2014 5:30pm
Now, what would this hypocrite Obama say?
Attack on Donetsk antimaydan expected at dawn:
Киевская хунта готовится штурмовать донецкую ОГА (Kiev junta is preparing to storm the Donetsk Regional State Administration)
http://anna-news.info/node/14840
(auto trans) “K “to touring” of Ukrainian Interior Ministry special forces joined “right sector” with his a Pioneer Yarosh. At the moment they secretly deployed on apartments and byways of our city.
Agents’ data on the main object for the assault kivskie Nazis decided to take the regional administration. Likely to attack at night or at dawn.
In this regard, given that the weapons seized SBU rooms and archives moved to safe places, activists of the national militia DONBASU urgently relocate the regional administration building in order to better protect existing contingent there.
Invite all concerned citizens and our allies to come to the regional administration to protect our declared unanimous decision of the Council of People’s independent DONETSK’S REPUBLIC!
Once again, that is required for the defense of our country:
– Travel tents, sleeping-pads, sleeping bags, iron barrel (for fires), firewood, warm clothing;
– Symbols (flags, banners);
– Blankets, candles or flashlights, batteries and accumulators;
– Really need diesel generators!;
– Require the presence of people with their own vehicles and people on duty for shift change monitoring teams.
We do not exclude that Kiev junta may apply against people assault actions, whereby may be required in a large number of first-aid facilities, such as:
– Medicines and medical kits, tourniquets, bandages and gauze, iodine, saline Medical.
Will also need bottled water, milk, lemon, juice, fruit, army rations, canned food, bread, sandwiches. Big request to all to bring a thermos of hot tea, coffee and other beverages.
In view of possible counteractions by Kiev junta, defending the building RSA may also be required fire extinguishers and other means of eliminating sources of ignition (risk consequences stun grenades and other lethal weapons assault).
Militias are also required empty glass bottles, benzene, acetone, engine oil, as well as foam and tires. Very necessary masks and gauze bandages!
We encourage them to continue to approach the administration building (Pushkin Boulevard, 34), to join our common struggle!
Join the ranks of the People’s Militia DONBASU!
PROTECTING OUR INDEPENDENCE!
TOGETHER – we are strong! TOGETHER – WIN!
Paul Gubarev”
I believe it is his wife, Catherine, who wrote this, since Paul is still kidnapped by the banderivtsy.
Honk
If you see this, it is an example of the sort of organising the antimaydan people are doing that I was talking about on the other thread.
вот так
> Revolutionary regime in Kiev moves in to crush the rebellion in the East
… since initiative, financing, arming, strategy and propaganda were clearly organized by foreign powers (in collaboration with a some domestic oligarchs) I wouldn’t call the Yats government revolutionary. What we saw happening in Ukraine was coup d’état which is why those currently wielding power in Kiev have no legitimacy whatsoever. Why not call this regime putschist and its “government” a junta?
CBS/Wire Services/December 11, 2013, 4:45 AM
Top U.S. official visits protesters in Kiev as Obama admin. ups pressure on Ukraine president Yanukovich
KIEV — U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland visited Independence Square in the Ukrainian capital Kiev on Wednesday, the U.S. embassy said, and an opposition leader said she talked to protesters.
A spokesman for the embassy said she had visited Maidan, where several thousand of protesters were calling for the resignation of President Viktor Yanukovich.
Nuland’s highly symbolic appearance in the square came a day after Secretary of State John Kerry issued a strong statement, expressing the United States’ “disgust with the decision of Ukrainian authorities to meet the peaceful protest … with riot police, bulldozers, and batons, rather than with respect for democratic rights and human dignity.”
“This response is neither acceptable nor does it befit a democracy,” said Kerry, urging authorities to show “utmost restraint” and protect human life. “As church bells ring tonight amidst the smoke in the streets of Kyiv, the United States stands with the people of Ukraine. They deserve better. Nuland was in Kiev, along with EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, to try to talk to the government and the opposition to work out a solution to the crisis.
The U.S. Embassy in Kiev told CBS News that Nuland met Wednesday morning with Yanukovych and was planning to deliver a statement outside the Presidential Administration building.
Photos posted on Twitter showed Nuland shaking hands with security personnel and there were many reports that she had helped distribute food to the protesters “
JUST TO REMEMBER WHO ARE THE CULPRITS OF THIS TRAGEDY
Ukrainian protesters get visit from Sen. John McCain
By Nick Paton Walsh and Susanna Capelouto ,CNN
December 15, 2013 — Updated 1441 GMT (2241 HKT) — U.S. Sen. John McCain took in the anti-government protest scene in Kiev’s Independence Square, known as the Maidan, on Saturday, snapping pictures with his cell phone as he met with opposition leaders.
He called it an “incredible display of patriotism” in a tweet that includes an aerial photo of the square. McCain also said he was with the younger brother of heavyweight boxing champion Vitali Klitschko, who is one of the opposition leaders.
The Republican senator has been critical of Ukrainian authorities’ use of force against protesters.
Photos: Ukraine protests
“If Ukraine’s government thinks that brute force and the politics of fear can see it through the current crisis, it is woefully mistaken,” McCain said in a statement last week.
Ukrainian prosecutors are investigating some top government officials regarding the beating of students at anti-government protests two weeks ago.
The subjects of the criminal investigation include Ukrainian Deputy Secretary for National Security Vladimir Sivkovich, Kiev Police Chief Valery Koryak and Kiev Mayor Oleksandr Popov. A fourth person also is under investigation.
The case will be put before a judge on Monday, who could order the those being investigated to house arrest, said Valery Vilkova, spokeswoman for the general prosecutor.
The tumult in Ukraine goes to the heart of its future ties with Russia and the rest of Europe.
Protests have unfolded in Ukraine since November 21 after President Viktor Yanukovych changed his stance on a trade pact with the European Union that had been years in the making.
He refused to sign the agreement, which would have strengthened cooperation with the European Union. Instead, he opted for closer ties with neighboring Russia.
ALL THOSE HIPOCRITES
US veterans websites often assert that McCain was a traitor, a stool-pigeon, while in captivity in Vietnam during the US aggression. He escaped the firing-squad for treason because Daddy was an Admiral. What a very great pity. The truth about Kerry’s war service in Vietnam is equally ugly. The scum certainly rises to the top in Mordor on the Potomac.