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Truce Broken - At least 50 Dead As Ukraine Protests Re-Ignite - Live Feed
At least 50 are dead, according to Reuters, and hundreds injured as fresh fighting broke out in central Kiev this morning breaking the apparent truce that was in place last night. Who is to blame is up for discussion but of little import in the end as the death toll mounts and live ammunition is being used by the police. A Ukrainian presidential statement said dozens of police were killed or wounded during the opposition offensive hours after Yanukovich and opposition leaders had agreed on a truce... Other witnesses said they saw government snipers firing into the civilian crowds during the clashes.
The Protesters reportedly captured police...
Activists who recaptured the square, known as Maidan or "Euro-Maidan" to the opposition, appeared to lead away several uniformed officers. Dozens of wounded protesters were being given makeshift first aid treatment in the lobby of the Ukraine Hotel, where many foreign correspondents are staying.
Reporters said there were bullet holes in the walls and windows of the hotel overlooking the square. Both sides have accused the other of using live ammunition.
"Black smoke, denotations and gunfire around presidential palace ... Officials panicky," tweeted Polish minister Radoslaw Sikorski to explain the delay in the meeting at Yanukovich's office, a few hundred meters from the square.
But the protesters had a different view...
Protesters were in a truculent mood despite the overnight lull and columns of men, bearing clubs and chanting patriotic songs headed to Independence Square at 8:30 a.m. (0130 ET).
"What truce? There is no truce! It is simply war ahead of us! They are provoking us. They throw grenades at us. Burn our homes. We have been here for three months and during that time nothing burned," said 23-year-old Petro Maksimchuk.
"These are not people. They are killers. Sanctions will not help. They all should be sent into isolation in Siberia."
The question is - is this Obama's line being crossed?
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Stakes are much different when your closest neighbor and business partner has been deliberately influenced and thrown into anarchy by your business partners in the West that want to stay warm for the duration of winter.
Putin's at war with those gas clients, and it they are going to attempt a coup to overthrow his neighbor I'd say pain in losing a couple months of that (400 bln) revenue is well worth the loss. Don't think that's the only revenue generating business Gazprom has either, and that's why this is being done by the U.S. and NATO.
I think this is going to get ugly after the close of the Winter Olympics. I could see a historical replay of Russian tanks rolling into Hungary. However, this time, I don't see the West backing down.
Has to happen. The U.S. is placing Putin in an untenable situation.
We need to head to Kiev and buy some property!!!
Why don't you try that wearing a U.S. military uniform? I hear they are hiring with a first class ticket on your airline of choice to sweetin the deal!
Blood has been spilled...time to go to war...but for whom and for what?
For whom is a difficult question to answer.
For what is easy...
To control limited and precious natural resources. I've said it before, idiology is a sideshow.
Well said sir
Kill the foreign mercenaries in Ukraine.
Syria too!
Why don't you run through there wild, naked, and free and do it yourself?
Police shooting unarmed civilians with high-velocity rifle fire... The police have started something that isn't easily stopped. They've started a war. The people are fully within their rights to put these rabid dogs down.
Apparently, we have a number of people on ZH who believe in "self defense for me, but not for thee". Fucking Hypocrites.
Police have every right to shoot and kill non-Ukranian provocateurs on site!
Ends don't justify means ever. If these people are provocateurs, they should be dealt with by keeping the moral high ground.
"..And the generals prevented such a truce from happening again.
With that said, I wonder what the U.S./E.U./Russia will do to get the fires roaring again."
Oh that's how!
But yeah I do think that we ought to know how the truce was broken so we can follow the strings controlling the puppets to their source. Investigatory jernalism is required.
In post-Soviet Russia, you get Pussy Whipped Riot; in post-Capitalist America you get Pussy Riot.
Or is it the other way around?
Confused about who is who, and which actors are good guys/bad guys?
Here is a simple metric: anyone wearing a little black outfit designed by Mugatu, carrying a baton and a helmet, is NOT A GOOD PERSON.
Clear?
Is the Ukranian police looking for foreign volunteers? I'll join to keep Ukraine free from Zionist rule!
^ Is this guy serious???
He has said on other threads that he wants to get rid of all government and run wild and free in the Savanna with no rules, free to hunt and be hunted until he lives his short life and dies a natural uninterfered with death. He wants to be free to kill and rape at will. Joining the police, which is government, does kind of go in the face of his brand of freedom, so I am not sure.
Save Ukraine from Western imperialism! Support the police trying to protect their homeland!
Support 2nd Amendment rights!
Respect national sovereinty. Get the hell out from where you don't belong!!!
I was wondering what the "truce" announced yesterday looked like. Now I know. I guess if they declared a full resolution, the death toll would've been much higher.
I thought even in real wars medics are allowed to go and withdraw the injured without getting fired upon.. this is just messed up.