2014 Ukrainian Maidan Revolt: News, Views, Photos & Videos

Jura said:

Ukrainian Parliament in Action: Yatsenyuk's coworker (from

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To expect him think beyond the NBC/CNN/BBC line is a waste of time. Things is just as disappointing here in Asia where the news services reporting the Ukraine crisis simply repeating the news wire from those same Western agencies and news services, thus naturally the laymen simply repeating the Western line.

While the Euromaidan revolt began on a more innocent note, things changed when Right Sector took centre stage, and Western nations backing of such "movement" sealed its fate, even if it took the seat in Kiev, because such combo sent a very wrong, if not worrisome, signal to the ethnic Russians in Ukraine, otherwise they won't welcome Moscow the way they did - they won't have welcome Russian Army the way they did if staying with Kiev seems not such a bad idea.

I'm not saying siding with Moscow is the "good" idea, but let's face it, Kiev's new regime really doing a bad job in assuring the Eastern Ukraine - sure, that bill to remove Russian language its official language status in the end got vetoed, but there's no hiding the fact that the bill was introduced and bulldozed by the very leading party in the new Kiev regime, but that was after a lot of outcry from even the EU. Ethnic Russians has to be dead drunk to miss out such an alarming signal, that there's no "back to normal" but a new "norm" is coming and they'll be at the wrong end of the gun barrel.

Those oligarchs and their Western backers really engineered their blunder (if not the root of their failure) in their triumph.

Equation said:

The headquarters for the European Central Bank is located in Brussel.

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Correction: The ECB headquarters is in Frankfurt near the HQ of the German Central Bank.

Central European, Russian servers today write relatively a lot about somebody who decides about hundreds of thousands of people in Eastern Ukraine and how he got rid of both Militiamen and regular Army Let's see how this fits the "Fascist against Anti-Fascist" views of some posters in this thread LOL
The New York Times noticed

ahhhh.... What happens When you abandon a BMP in the middle of the street deep in the heart of a Pro Russian metropolis? Let's Find out!
[video=youtube;sNEhkSyvhyA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNEhkSyvhyA#t=11[/video]
No one was killed that we know of in the making of this Cluster _____... but It sure as ____ woke the neighbors

Jura said:

Central European, Russian servers today write relatively a lot about somebody who decides about hundreds of thousands of people in Eastern Ukraine and how he got rid of both Militiamen and regular Army Let's see how this fits the "Fascist against Anti-Fascist" views of some posters in this thread LOL
The New York Times noticed

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To be honest, when I started reading these stories in the Western media today, my first reaction was to check the copy date, to see if it said April 1st.

It really sounds like some form of disinformation or maybe a psy ops of some sort. I think if a new force; tens of thousands strong, had really appeared and was changing the political face of areas of the Donbass, that it would have been major news and a top item of the televised bulletins. But of course it was not and what we have is heresay.

Its not really a surprise though, as the top story of this week has been, how little news on the crisis has been reported at all. This means that either very little in happening or lots if happening behind the scenes and nobody is currently reporting it.

I also wonder where these tens of thousands of pro Kiev Steel workers were last weekend during the weekend referendum? I also wonder how they were able to achieve a job that the army were unable to achieve, just a week ago.

If there is anything in this story at all, it will be some local internal manoeuvrings within the Pro Federalist camp, probably a more able actor, replacing a poorly performing local activist leader.

TerraN_EmpirE said:

ahhhh.... What happens When you abandon a BMP in the middle of the street deep in the heart of a Pro Russian metropolis? Let's Find out!
[video=youtube;sNEhkSyvhyA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNEhkSyvhyA#t=11[/video]
No one was killed that we know of in the making of this Cluster _____... but It sure as ____ woke the neighbors

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To be fair, I don't think it matter whether the BMP was abandoned in a pro-Russian area or not, or indeed even which country it was.

Leave military hardware laying around in an urban area with live ordinance loaded and almost inevitably some civilian will press something they shouldn't and blow something and/or themselves up.

Did this BMP suffer some sort of mechanical failure and break down? That would be be guess for why it was just left in the middle of the street.

Also, it wasn't the smartest thing for the cameraman to pretty much stand between the BMP and that street corner it just partially demolished.

The Vehicle was left there apparently due to a mechanical malfunction. This was in fact a Ukrainian Army Vehicle to. not only did they leave the Vehicle and not post guards they also left all it's ammo and equipment. If you watch the first part of the video the Civilians are looting it and I guess after taking every thing that was not bolted down they tried to take the gun.
The Vehicle was latter burned and Spray painted. I posted the video as it's a case of Stupidity on both sides. first abandoning military hard wear second toying with something they have no idea what it is.
I also have footage of West African Soldiers who give a Ak to a chimp and chaos that makes the same point.

TerraN_EmpirE said:

The Vehicle was left there apparently due to a mechanical malfunction. This was in fact a Ukrainian Army Vehicle to. not only did they leave the Vehicle and not post guards they also left all it's ammo and equipment. If you watch the first part of the video the Civilians are looting it and I guess after taking every thing that was not bolted down they tried to take the gun.
The Vehicle was latter burned and Spray painted. I posted the video as it's a case of Stupidity on both sides. first abandoning military hard wear second toying with something they have no idea what it is.
I also have footage of West African Soldiers who give a Ak to a chimp and chaos that makes the same point.

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I saw that clip a while back, but thought those guys were some sort of rebel outfit. Hard to believe government soldiers could be so stupid and ill-disciplined (seems like the lot of them were drunk in the video).

That chimp displayed more intelligence as it seemed to have cottoned on pretty quickly what the guy was and did, and you could almost see the gleam in its eyes as it not only kept hold of the weapon after the first burst, but also seemed to deliberate fire subsequent rounds.

The real planet of the apes anyone?

plawolf said:

I saw that clip a while back, but thought those guys were some sort of rebel outfit. Hard to believe government soldiers could be so stupid and ill-disciplined (seems like the lot of them were drunk in the video).

That chimp displayed more intelligence as it seemed to have cottoned on pretty quickly what the guy was and did, and you could almost see the gleam in its eyes as it not only kept hold of the weapon after the first burst, but also seemed to deliberate fire subsequent rounds.

The real planet of the apes anyone?

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If I remember correctly it is a fake promotional video for the Planet of the Apes remake.

TerraN_EmpirE said:

ahhhh.... What happens When you abandon a BMP in the middle of the street deep in the heart of a Pro Russian metropolis? Let's Find out!
[video=youtube;sNEhkSyvhyA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNEhkSyvhyA#t=11[/video]
No one was killed that we know of in the making of this Cluster _____... but It sure as ____ woke the neighbors

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After the initial shock has went away, their ears should be ringing for awhile.