March 18, 2015
KIEV, Ukraine: Separatist leaders in eastern Ukraine (click here) threatened Wednesday to abandon a cease-fire following changes to a law granting their regions self-rule.
Alexander Zakharchenko and Igor Plotnitsky said in a statement that legislation giving areas of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions special status has been weakened by the amendments.
"We agreed to a special status for the Donbass within a renewed Ukraine, although our people wanted total independence. We agreed to this to avoid the spilling of fraternal blood," the statement said.
But Ukraine did not renew itself," it continued. Rebels have pushed for revisions to the constitution to decentralize power, but argue that authority is still held by powerful businessmen....
These are the lies appearing in Russian owned media.
VTSIOM Director Valery Fyodorov (click here) said in press comments that the current attitude of an average Russian to the situation in Ukraine was caused by growing disappointment in the once-brotherly nation that unexpectedly started an aggressive campaign against its own citizens, accompanied by an immense wave of blatant propaganda.
Was it not Russian backed rebels that moved into Crimea to begin a violent civil war? Was it not Russian backed rebels that denied Russia was involved and continued their violence while they killed 298 people on MH27?
“It’s very difficult to believe in their peaceful intentions, especially on the background of lies and propaganda coming from Kiev. It’s difficult to believe in their commitment to end the war and settle the conflict, this is the cause of the very strong skepticism,” RIA Novosti quoted Fyodorov as saying....
When the Russian backed rebels in Ukraine took over the Crimea, Ukraine were lucky to cross into mainland Ukraine with their lives. There was no reason for armed forces in Crimea yet they infiltrated into the country as a result of Yanukovych's disarming of the national military.
There is no way the leadership in Ukraine can be blamed for the civil war. The only defense the people had against the Yanukovych militia was a disarmed national military.
The ceasefire needs to be enforced by both parties.
As Russia's propaganda decides the length of the ceasefire, Putin ratchets up military tensions in the region.
March 17, 2015
By Timothy Hertiage and Darya Korsunskaya
(Reuters) - Russia ruled out handing Crimea (click here) back to Ukraine on Tuesday and a Defense Ministry official said nuclear-capable long-range bombers were being sent to the Black Sea peninsula as part of war games.
The huge military exercises, in which the Northern Fleet was put on full alert on Monday and will range from the Arctic to the Black Sea, appear to be a show of force and defiance on the anniversary of the annexation of Crimea....
KIEV, Ukraine: Separatist leaders in eastern Ukraine (click here) threatened Wednesday to abandon a cease-fire following changes to a law granting their regions self-rule.
Alexander Zakharchenko and Igor Plotnitsky said in a statement that legislation giving areas of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions special status has been weakened by the amendments.
"We agreed to a special status for the Donbass within a renewed Ukraine, although our people wanted total independence. We agreed to this to avoid the spilling of fraternal blood," the statement said.
But Ukraine did not renew itself," it continued. Rebels have pushed for revisions to the constitution to decentralize power, but argue that authority is still held by powerful businessmen....
These are the lies appearing in Russian owned media.
VTSIOM Director Valery Fyodorov (click here) said in press comments that the current attitude of an average Russian to the situation in Ukraine was caused by growing disappointment in the once-brotherly nation that unexpectedly started an aggressive campaign against its own citizens, accompanied by an immense wave of blatant propaganda.
Was it not Russian backed rebels that moved into Crimea to begin a violent civil war? Was it not Russian backed rebels that denied Russia was involved and continued their violence while they killed 298 people on MH27?
“It’s very difficult to believe in their peaceful intentions, especially on the background of lies and propaganda coming from Kiev. It’s difficult to believe in their commitment to end the war and settle the conflict, this is the cause of the very strong skepticism,” RIA Novosti quoted Fyodorov as saying....
When the Russian backed rebels in Ukraine took over the Crimea, Ukraine were lucky to cross into mainland Ukraine with their lives. There was no reason for armed forces in Crimea yet they infiltrated into the country as a result of Yanukovych's disarming of the national military.
There is no way the leadership in Ukraine can be blamed for the civil war. The only defense the people had against the Yanukovych militia was a disarmed national military.
The ceasefire needs to be enforced by both parties.
As Russia's propaganda decides the length of the ceasefire, Putin ratchets up military tensions in the region.
March 17, 2015
By Timothy Hertiage and Darya Korsunskaya
(Reuters) - Russia ruled out handing Crimea (click here) back to Ukraine on Tuesday and a Defense Ministry official said nuclear-capable long-range bombers were being sent to the Black Sea peninsula as part of war games.
The huge military exercises, in which the Northern Fleet was put on full alert on Monday and will range from the Arctic to the Black Sea, appear to be a show of force and defiance on the anniversary of the annexation of Crimea....
