These were scenarios the Russian backed then President Yanukovych had anticipated. The national Ukraine military was disarmed and primarily dissolved. The only defense force and they were well armed in Ukraine at the time of Yanukovych were the Oligarch militias. There is no way the national military even could arm snipers yet alone deploy them without detection.
After Yanukovych was able to distance the 2004 Ukraine Constitution's reforms, the tensions between the people and the wealth drenched Yanukovych grew. The assassinations in the Maidan was a result of ever growing descent toward the President and Russian (Putin election strategy) paranoia about The West.
It was never surprising and the NY Times covered the funerals as well, that a force from within Ukraine would act to overthrow the government protesters. The people were trapped in a dictatorship and not a government they elected.
This is from the "Word Press." The dead were real people, citizens of Ukraine and unarmed.
24 February 2014
Roman Huryk (Роман Гурик) (click here) was a student in the second year of his philosophy studies in Ivano-Frankivsk who was killed on 20 February 2014 in Kyiv....
The affiliations of the dead became a focus for propaganda to state the demonstrators were enemies of the people. Roman Huryk was stated to be buried with "The Sich Riflemen."
The Sich Riflemen defended the government of UNR against the Bolshevik insurrection in the capital and later against regular Red Army forces that advanced into Ukraine in 1918.
It is unclear whether the people affiliated with odd circumstances like Roman Huryk, inherited a lineage of genetic proof. But, it doesn't matter, his affiliation is a symbol of resistance to entity the people oppose.
...Huryk’s burial place is symbolic, since it is the city’s pantheon of national heroes and fighters for the freedom of Ukraine. As the university’s website announced, Huryk will be buried ‘alongside heroes of the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) as a hero of Ukraine.’ The Sich Riflemen were a unit formed of Ukrainian paramilitaries who were incorporated into the Austrian forces in the First World War before forming the core of the Ukrainian military in Western Ukraine which was an independent republic in 1918/19....
Propagandists need to be dispelled because they seek only power over a divisive issue and not the truth that is fully apparent to the people of Ukraine. Ukraine is a source of fear to Russia. There are real reasons why Putin shakes down to his soxes when thinking about Ukraine.
A new Ukrainian ground-based cruise missile (click here) underwent a successful test launch on Jan. 30, Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council Secretary Oleksandr Turchynov announced.Ukraine was Moscow's nuclear missile base, parked right outside Europe. Ukraine has war talent unmatched by Russia. The cruise missile Ukraine built and tested really does fly well. Ukraine is now an independent state that likes to be a part of NATO post Soviet break-up. NATO has an increasing prowess with the inclusion of post Soviet countries. Yep.
May 30, 2018
By Mattathias Schwartz
...On that morning, (click here) paramilitary police forces loyal to President Viktor Yanukovych clashed with protesters in Kiev, who were demonstrating against the government’s tilt toward Russia and away from economic integration with Western Europe. When the tear gas and smoke finally cleared, four police officers and 48 protesters were dead. “They were highly educated intellectuals,” Nefertari told me recently over the phone. “The nation paid a very high price for freedom.” In the aftermath of the confrontation, she decided to assemble the definitive record of what happened. “The whole country was in mourning,” she remembers. “I knew that I should do it.”...
1 October 2010
Ukraine's constitutional court (click here) has boosted the powers of President Viktor Yanukovych by reversing a reform introduced in 2004.
It ruled that the reform, which curbed presidential powers in favour of parliament, had been unconstitutional.
The move had given parliament the right to name the prime minister and most of the cabinet members.
Mr Yanukovych won the presidential election in February on a strongly pro-Russian platform.
The court's decision does not come as a surprise and was widely predicted in the local press, the BBC's David Stern reports from Kiev.
Still, it marks a watershed in President Yanukovych's steady consolidation of power, our correspondent says....
The brotherly love Putin affords Trump has many bases, this is only one. But, it definitely is one.
Russians, as a people, are deceived about their government's virulent nature in the real world. Their communications are closed to outside influence. It is the methods of the government that tells the tale. Russian leaders and power brokers speak about being part of the real world, as in the G8, BUT their tactics in doing so only points to harm to democracies and the hate of the democratic leadership. There is every reason to believe Trump is nothing more than a Russian puppet.
It would be one thing to meet with a communist leaders as occurred in Helsinki. But, it is quite another thing to defame NATO and disrespect the British Queen before departing for a meeting in Helsinki. There is absolutely no doubt in my mind where Trump's loyalties really lie and it is not with the American people.
28 March 2018By Stuart Ramsey
Before and after the poisoning.
Fed dioxin, a chemical found in the herbicide Agent Orange, while eating dinner with the head of Ukraine's security service.
The former president of Ukraine (click here) has applauded the growing round of expulsions of Russian diplomats following the nerve agent attack in Salisbury, saying "I have no doubt" Moscow was behind the attack and that military action against Russia should not be ruled out.
Viktor Yushchenko was himself poisoned in 2004. He and his family believe the assassination attempt was ordered by Moscow when he attempted to steer Ukraine to closer integration with Europe.
Speaking to Sky News, accompanied by his American-born wife Katarina, Mr Yushchenko warned that the new-found solidarity between European states and the US was not enough on its own.
"I have no doubt (that Russia carried out the attack). I want western society - western governments and European governments in particular - to have no doubt too," he told Sky News in his Kiev office.
"I totally agree with the British position. I am glad that it has received international support and solidarity.
"I think politically it is a very important position that is being developed with a united Europe and the United States.
"But I don't want it to end there with this single step, which we use to confront the modern imperial Russian policy."...
