Sunday, April 13, 2014

The game is on in the Ukraine


From the Washington Post:
The conflict between pro-Russian gunmen and Ukrainian authorities turned bloody Sunday, with one security serviceman killed and reports of people wounded on both sides, escalating the struggle for the country’s east one week after separatists began occupying a series of government buildings.

The gun battle — the first reported between Ukrainian authorities and pro-Russian separatists — was set off as Ukraine’s top policeman declared an “anti-terrorist” operation Sunday against a burgeoning revolt that enveloped several small towns over the weekend. The systematic takeovers of police stations and other government buildings in the Donetsk region, close to the Russian border, led officials in Kiev to accuse Moscow of directing a coordinated campaign of aggression against Ukraine.

One member of Urkaine’s security service was shot to death Sunday in the fight for Slavyansk, 90 miles from the Russian border. Reports were contradictory about whether the officer died inside the city, where the police station had been occupied Saturday, or as a Ukrainian convoy approached the city. Five officers were reported wounded, along with four local residents.

Ukraine lost its Crimean peninsula to Russia last month in circumstances that looked highly similar to the events of the past week in eastern Ukraine, where men in unmarked uniforms began appearing and declaring themselves as local self-defense forces. In Crimea, many of them actually were Russian troops who surrounded Ukrainians in their bases and paved the way for a quickly held referendum that resulted in Russia annexing Crimea.
And now we wait and see how far it will go.

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