Published time: April 04, 2014 09:15
Edited time: April 04, 2014 10:48
Authorities in Kiev (click here) have routinely ignored evidence in the case of sniper shootings on the Maidan, while suggestions of probes into the matter never came from official channels, Russian FM Lavrov said.
Part of the agreement signed by President Yanukovich and the leaders of the Ukrainian opposition, involved the prospect of a joint investigation into the events of February 20 and what preceded them, Mr Lavrov told journalists following a meeting of the foreign ministers of the Commonwealth of Independent States.
However, "those who seized power tore it up" and "forgot about issues like stopping radical elements and disarming armed groups," he said.
Those who fought at Independence Square were amnestied, but calls for investigations are suddenly appearing six weeks later, the FM continued.
Independent experts have been giving their analysis of sniper activity, their tactics and their positions, but this has all been ignored, Lavrov said in an answer to why Moscow was less enthusiastic about investigating Kiev than it was Crimea....
Russia likes to point a finger at Kiev. But, what they forget is that Kiev is surrounded by hostile oligarch militias. They were militias provided for by Yanukovych and have the Ukraine people trapped with threats to their lives all the time. Yanukovych disarmed the national military so that any other leader than himself had no national security. No other leader could move against Russia if it decided to come across the border. No other leader had the capacity to protect the people unless the local militias were called on. It was clever enough, wasn't it? Yet. That aspect to the Ukraine's reality is not important. Only the so called militants in the Maidan are the problem.
There is a lot more to the Ukraine's problems than what happened at the Maidan. Russia turns a blind eye regarding Yanukovych because it doesn't fit into the narrative of Russian nationalism.
Edited time: April 04, 2014 10:48
Authorities in Kiev (click here) have routinely ignored evidence in the case of sniper shootings on the Maidan, while suggestions of probes into the matter never came from official channels, Russian FM Lavrov said.
Part of the agreement signed by President Yanukovich and the leaders of the Ukrainian opposition, involved the prospect of a joint investigation into the events of February 20 and what preceded them, Mr Lavrov told journalists following a meeting of the foreign ministers of the Commonwealth of Independent States.
However, "those who seized power tore it up" and "forgot about issues like stopping radical elements and disarming armed groups," he said.
Those who fought at Independence Square were amnestied, but calls for investigations are suddenly appearing six weeks later, the FM continued.
Independent experts have been giving their analysis of sniper activity, their tactics and their positions, but this has all been ignored, Lavrov said in an answer to why Moscow was less enthusiastic about investigating Kiev than it was Crimea....
Russia likes to point a finger at Kiev. But, what they forget is that Kiev is surrounded by hostile oligarch militias. They were militias provided for by Yanukovych and have the Ukraine people trapped with threats to their lives all the time. Yanukovych disarmed the national military so that any other leader than himself had no national security. No other leader could move against Russia if it decided to come across the border. No other leader had the capacity to protect the people unless the local militias were called on. It was clever enough, wasn't it? Yet. That aspect to the Ukraine's reality is not important. Only the so called militants in the Maidan are the problem.
There is a lot more to the Ukraine's problems than what happened at the Maidan. Russia turns a blind eye regarding Yanukovych because it doesn't fit into the narrative of Russian nationalism.
Published on Mar 15, 2014
Militia Donabassa (click here) today at the entrance to Donetsk (on Volnovakha) blocked the movement of Ukrainian military columns.Records events that occur in Ukraine. 
