Check out this interesting footage of the hand grenade attack against the security forces guarding the Rada in Kiev:
I would like to add a couple of comments here:
First, notice that the guy throwing the grenade is not wearing any combat fatigues or Right Sector or Svoboda uniform.
Second, he carefully checks the movement of another rioter to his right who is picking up a smoke grenade to toss it at the cops before throwing his own, real, combat grenade. Pretty skilled move.
Lastly, he appears to be alone and his action is not part of any coordinated attack but rather an attempt to get some blood flowing.
Good catch, Saker.
Damn them. Maybe they did it intentionally like this to create inner-ukrainian conspiracy theories, that not the RS is behind it, but “Russia the agressor”?
Or it was simply a CIA/Mossad/MI6/whatever operation, with their usual noth thouroughly thought-through unprofessionalism?
What’s with the one who threw the grenade, they had him arrested … ?
Maybe he acted genuinely alone?
I posted yesterday that I was suspicious of that attack. Those I call the “business fascists” (the oligarch forces in the junta and their US masters) may be trying to take total power and destroy the “militant fascist” organizations.Just as they used the militant fascists and “mystery” snipers at maidan to first gain power.Its beginning to look more and more like that is the case.If they succeed they will be able to strengthen their grip on Ukraine.In my opinion,for Russia and Donbass,its better for the two fascist sides to be fighting themselves.And not have a victory of one over the other (at least not a victory of the “business fascists” with their foreign supporters).
Denis Plotnisky LNR claims Poro was setting up a false flag to avoid continuing with Minsk, but it went wrong…
Yesterday’s terrible crime against the Ukrainian parliament organized a puppet of the USA at the head of the criminal regime Rukovodostva Poroshenko.
According to intelligence agencies LC, yesterday’s riots in Kiev to the Verkhovna Rada held on the instructions of the Security Service Poroshenko.
The goal – to demonstrate the impossibility of performance of the Minsk Agreement. To convince the international community that give Donbass real constitutional guarantees special status can not be due to radical protests.
This feykovye protest led, unfortunately, to a real bloodshed. Poroshenko once again finished badly. But he could not deceive anyone. Minsk agreements will have to perform. And yesterday adopted a meaningless amendment to the constitution to decide the fate of Donbass fail. We need deep and detailed reform of the constitution which gives special status and Donbass autonomy. Is not all this a show with useless and false psevdoreformoy protests.
The head of the People’s Republic of Lugansk
http://www.anna-news.info/node/42001
google translate
KIEV, September 1. /TASS/.The man detained on suspicion of throwing a hand grenade at a police cordon during Monday’s demonstration of ultra-nationalists opposite the Verkhovna Rada is a member of the Sich volunteer battalion which assists the patrol service of the Interior Ministry, the battalion commander, Alexander Pisarenko, told a local television channel.
© AP Photo/Andrew Kravchenko
More than 130 people taken to hospitals in Kiev after clashes near parliament
“He is indeed from the Sich battalion,” the commander said. “He’s on vacation.”
The detained man joined the battalion at the time of its formation. When reporters asked Pisarenko how the fighter on vacation obtained a combat hand grenade, he answered: “That’s something I don’t know.”
“We don’t have weapons and don’t even have an arms room where they could be stored,” he claimed, Along with it, the channel showed footage shot on the battalion’s base in Mezhigorye, the former countryside residence of President Viktor Yanukovych that clearly featured hand grenades and fuses for them photographed ostensibly on the battalion’s premises.
Interior Minister Arsen Avakov said earlier the detained man was Igor Gumenyuk, 27.
“The detainee used a defensive hand grenade,” he said. “He identified himself as a Svobodovets (a member of the Svoboda party – TASS) and a fighter of the Sich volunteer battalion.”
Svoboda members rushed to declare that the use of an explosive, which killed a paramilitary of Ukraine’s ‘national guard’, was a provocation against ‘the patriots of Ukraine’ that had been planned in advance.
and somewhere else I read that says people were being payed? 50 hnvra an hour to protest…..if I could find that link again…………ah here
http://novorossia.today/were-the-protesters-paid-to-storm-the-parliament-in-kiev-video/
Sad as these events are, it’s bitterly amusing to watch the Western authorities and opinion formers nervously shuffling their feet while trying to decide what line to take on this new “Maidan” event. Should they offer their support, on the grounds that they never saw a Maidan they didn’t like? Should they try to blame the Russians? (Well, they have blamed everything else on the Russians so far). Or should they avoid the risk of finding themselves in the same boat with genuine Nazis by “deploring” and otherwise sitting on their hands?
I enjoy it too
The trolls were out instantly saying the grenade was tossed by a provocateur from Russia. I saw several on Zero Hedge, although they did not get much buy-in from the commenters there. However, I’ll give the Russo-phobic Kiev Post some credit because they said very early that it was somebody from Svoboda and they didn’t mention the Russians in their article.
It probably was a provocation by Avakov (the arrested stooge works with them).But if they can figure a way they will blame Russia for it,you are right there.
OT.
Another bulls-eye from Anatoly Karlin: One Day in a BS-Life. He picks apart the source for the western MSM’s latest ‘secret Russian casualties in Ukraine’ story.
agent provocateur
There are a few games at play here:
1-Eu wants Minsk agreement fulfilled so Russia can remove food sanctions because business is sick and tired of the losses.
2-Us disagrees with EU position, but wants Eu to believe that they are on the same side, for this reason, Us officially complains about the deterioration of the situation in Kiev, but at the same time sponsors this tentative of revolution against porky’s gov. They want right sector and the extremists in charge.
3- Porky gets paid by Us, but he has to show EU that he is doing “something”; he is convinced that NEVER Us will throw him to the dogs!
4-There is ABSOLUTELY any concern for Ukrainian lives both at the front line or in the city.
It might not matter any more if food embargo is lifted.
MOSCOW, August 31. / TASS /. The US and the EU will not be able to export meat to Russia in 2016, even if food embargo is lifted. That is according to a draft resolution of the Russian government “On distribution of volumes of tariff quotas for cattle meat, pork and poultry in 2016,” published on the website of federal draft regulations.
The document was prepared by the Economic Development Ministry.
According to the draft regulation, the quota for the supply of meat to Russia will be distributed in accordance with the decision of the board of the Eurasian Economic Commission.
The quotas will be distributed among the suppliers that imported meat to Russia in 2015, proportionally to the volume of beef, pork and poultry imported from January 1, 2013 to September 30, 2015.
In 2015, the US and EU countries did not supply meat to Russia due to the food embargo on Western food imports.
If Russia lifts the food embargo, the quotas of the US and EU will be distributed in five days between the producers who exported meat to Russia in 2015. Thus, according to the document, the US and the EU will not be able to supply beef, pork and poultry to Russia under any circumstances.
http://tass.ru/en/economy/817692
@ lsammart
Q; …will throw him to the dogs!
R; Which makes me wonder, what’s worse, dogs or buses [where I come from, ‘we’ throw people ‘under the bus’]?
Either way, whatever happens next is very unpleasant.
I wanted to say “to the lions’, (you know…the Colosseum where the Romans were killing people in the games) and then I opted for “dogs”.
Gerashchenko said that the National Guard soldier was killed by a gunshot, not by the grenades.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/ukrainian-police-hurt-in-violent-protest-during-controversial-vote/529163.html
[…]
“A soldier from the National Guard has died of a gunshot wound in the heart,” the adviser, Anton Gerashchenko, said.
“Apart from using grenades, the provocateurs were using firearms, fired secretly,” he said.
[…]
So how do you “secretly” fire bullets in the midst of a large crowd without being seen? Unless we have another case of “mystery snipers” like during maidan.And we all know where they came come.
Isammart,
Pretty good points.
On no. 1, EU dairy farmers are seeking an 800mil compensation fund for the loss of business.
Let’s hope they don’t get it – then we might see the current architecture reformed, and the US-NATO oligarchy kicked out.
TTIP is really getting people’s backs up..and so are the anti-Russian sanctions.
I personally would love to see Russia come back to a more enlightenened, chastened Europe, through including it in the Eurasian project. Even if it’s heresy to say it – especially after the way she’s been treated by the Euro scum at the helm of the EU – she is as much part of Europe as she is of Asia.
Why should ‘from sea to shining sea’ be an exclusively American claim? Russia has the real geographic truth on her side.
@eimar on September 01, 2015 · at 8:29 pm UTC
Russia has no choice just to wait till all of the gangsters will expose themselves in the full light. Till then always Russia will be labeled as an aggressor
Hmmm, I notice the pictures are from RFE/RL – not an organisation that would have much interest in finding the true perpetrators.
Could be an attempt to throw everyone off the trail.
Also the guy in the green t-shirt and the guy in the black shirt seem to be watching him as he throws the grenade.
Was that a smoke grenade or a real full metal grenade? Looked like a smoke grenade.
Dear Saker and honorable community,
How to “read” moving-images like this one (first 3 basic steps):
1) Download the video to your computer (find a high resolution version if available on youtube, liveleak, or else).
2) View the the footage several times in full screen mode. Concentrate first in the centre of the action, then play it again concentrating in the environment/people around.
3) Now play it in slow-motion, and for the more revealing parts stop the movie and play it frame-by-frame — forward and backward — stopping it in the frames that you want to analyse with still-image time and detail.
What I can conclude with reasonable certitude is that we are witnessing an entire military/paramilitary (subversive) unit at work:
— The guys with the backpacks and nursing masks, that includes the grenade thrower, are the Action-Team.
— Some guys around, some with sticks and nursing masks, are the Security-Team. We can see them clearly. They secure:
An open space (circle-of-action) and guarantee that nobody interfere/oppose, try to stop, the Action-Team. They provide also cover (a physical barrier of dissimulation), and also secure the escape for the Action-Team if necessary, by creating violence and confusing. Note that they have no backpacks — nothing incriminating.
I would risk a team of something like 10 are operating in that spot, some visible in the footage, some not.
Who they are? hard to say, but definitely they have military or paramilitary training.
So, at this point we can conclude that it was not the action of a lonely-wolf crazy, but rater a premeditated and organised operation of a military/paramlitary group.
We know that the AngloZionist Hydra own both cards — the Rada politicians with the police and the so called far-right nationalist organisations —, and that she will play both cards against each other if it serves her game.
What was the objective of this action and who will gain from is matter of political analysis that will point to the culprit.
Can I be wrong?
Cheers
IMHO the man was aware of planned usage of steam granades becouse the one he used was immitating steam one. So that the connections to radicals is possible or at least subject of investigation….