Meanwhile in Ukraine... Revolution.

[bryant.coleman]

Latest news:

3 children among the civilians killed by Right Sector in Slavyansk.
More than 150 anti-Kiev Cossacks have gathered near Eastern part of Slavyansk.
Pro- Russian Rebels pull back in Slavyansk according to reports.
As per Gov Bolotov, Kiev 'NationalGuard' (Maidan) on way to Lugansk.
Slavianoserbsk police station in Lugansk region was freed by antiMaidan citizens.

[Nemo1024]

https://twitter.com/kp_steshin
From Izjum a multi-kilometer long convoy of armoured vehicles is proceeding to Slavjansk. Hold on! (Relayed by Dmitrij Steshin from a message received from a friendly German journalist on the other side of the lines).

Two Right Sector radicals captured near Slavjansk, who tried to enter the city with weapons hiding in an ambulance car:
http://www.aif.ru/society/safety/1162857

[Balthazar]

http://rt.com/news/156892-ukraine-radicals-bounty-journalist/

So democratic 

[bryant.coleman]

Women of Slavyansk fighting the Right Sector nazis:

[Nemo1024]

EU ambassadors could not agree on new sanctions against Russia:
http://www.gazeta.ru/politics/news/2014/05/05/n_6131721.shtml

[Balthazar]

EU ambassadors could not agree on any sanctions against Russia:

Fixed, as long as there are no real sanctions... Only senseless talks and screech ATM.

[247crypto]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vG-SY88DnHQ

[bryant.coleman]

BBC and CNN Ukraine coverage is sickening. Troops with helicopter support just killed dozens of their own civilians, but they barely report on it.

Ukraine: Lies, propaganda and the West’s agenda

http://www.presstitution.com/2014/05/04/ukraine-lies-propaganda-and-the-wests-agenda/

The hyperbole is extraordinary. Is it really appropriate to invoke the memory of Anschluss, or compare Putin to Saddam Hussein? Kerry has called Ukraine an “incredible act of aggression”, conveniently ignoring drone strikes, the Iraq War, and the numerous illegal coups the US has pulled off since World War II.

[olexx]

The truth about what happened in Odessa, Ukraine: How Bandera psychopaths murdered, raped and burned people alive with the blessing of the Western powers
http://www.sott.net/article/278522-The-truth-about-what-happened-in-Odessa-Ukraine-How-Bandera-psychopaths-murdered-raped-and-burned-people-alive-with-the-blessing-of-the-Western-powers

[bryant.coleman]

Map of Donetsk Oblast showing the protester-held cities:

[Bit_Happy]

Why is this turning into a choice between Russia and the West? Its starting to look like the fallacy that is US democracy, a choice between two evils to give the illusion of freedom. Where did the other options go, the option for the Ukraine to run its self or break up into areas of like-minded people? Most of those poor bastards are fighting for the place they call home but when it comes to the big picture they'll become serfs of either one group of power-hungry globalists or another. The best thing they can do is burn the resources, burn the pipelines, sow the ground with salt, anything to make the Ukraine worthless otherwise the trouble wont end until they're slaves of one side or the other.

...the option for the Ukraine to run its self
Would the Ukraine be able to run itself? I heard they are dependent on a huge energy subsidy, so perhaps they will be "slaves"...?

[Nemo1024]

The best thing they can do is burn the resources, burn the pipelines, sow the ground with salt, anything to make the Ukraine worthless otherwise the trouble wont end until they're slaves of one side or the other.

Even that won't help, as the ground would still be worth a lot for building NATO military bases right on Russia's border.

And to answer your question, there was not much choice to begin with.
Ukraine is an artificial state, built from incompatible regions, grabbed from other states (Russia, Poland, Hungary, Romania) each with its own dominating ethnic group, language and mindset.
Plus during its existence as a state, it existed as a part of USSR, with tight economic and industrial integration with the republics, mainly Russia and Belorussia.

[bryant.coleman]

Ukraine Defence Ministry introduces restricted air-traffic in all areas within 100 km of Russian/Belarus/Transnistria borders. Donetsk & Lugansk declared as no-fly zones.

Image of Mi-24 that was shotdown in Slavyansk on 5-5-2014:



Activists' reports say there are battles happening in Semenivka (near Kramatorsk).

This lady in Kramatorsk says she will defend her children if the Right Sector Nazis approach them:

[Nemo1024]

This lady in Kramatorsk says she will defend her children if the Right Sector Nazis approach them:

I guess not many veterans of WWII thought that they'd have to take to arms to defeat fascism for the second time in their lifetimes. 


For the first time in 69 years the celebration of defeat of Nazi forces will be commemorated in Kiev using the European memory symbol, red poppy, instead of the St.George ribbon:
http://itar-tass.com/mezhdunarodnaya-panorama/1168788?utm_medium=rss20

77% of Russians are worried about the possibility of war between Ukraine and Russia, while 34% think that Russia is already at war with Ukraine.
http://www.gazeta.ru/social/news/2014/05/06/n_6132885.shtml

[myself]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft2s7iujr9k

[itsmeram]

Stop war and choose the wy of peace:)

[Balthazar]

The best way to stop wars is launching of Kennedy operation against Obama, McCain and the rest of idiots in Washington Obkom. Or, maybe, somebody should drop some molotov cocktails there, at least.

[Nemo1024]

Stop war and choose the wy of peace:)

Someone's trying, and it ain't US:
New talks on Ukraine doubtful unless opposition takes part – Lavrov
http://rt.com/news/157080-lavrov-press-conference-ukraine/

"Once again gathering in the same format, when the opposition to the current regime in Ukraine is absent from the negotiating table, this will hardly change anything," Lavrov said at a news conference on the sidelines of a Council of Europe ministers' meeting in Vienna. "It’s possible [to continue on this path] of course, but we will just go around in a circle and once again speak about how everything that we’ve agreed on needs to be implemented."

Lavrov said he remained hopeful that national dialogue could produce results in Ukraine.

“We are convinced that there is a way out of the crisis. It can be found exclusively on the basis of a national dialogue," - he said, adding that it should take place between the western and eastern regions of the country.

More quotes:

“Carrying out an election in a situation when the army is being used against parts of the population – that is sufficiently unusual. This isn’t Afghanistan, where a war is going on, and nonetheless, elections were held,” he said.

“I’m quoting to you an announcement made by NATO’s ministers of defense this past February, in which they demanded that the army not be allowed to interfere in the political process, and [further] demanded that the army remain neutral. That was when the fully valid president was Viktor Yanukovich,” Lavrov said.

But now the leadership of the EU has changed their tune, Russia's FM added, saying that Kiev "has every right to use the army to carry out the so-called anti-terrorist operation, and that all this is justified because the state has a monopoly on the use of force.”

[bryant.coleman]

Kiev Junta leader Oleksandr Turchynov has dismissed Volodymyr Nemyrovsky, the governor of Odesa Oblast, in the wake of the Right Sector massacre that left 48 people dead on May 2 in the Trade Union building. Nemyrovsky will be replaced by Ihor Palitsu, whom Insider.ua, a business news website, calls a close ally of Dnipropetrovsk governor Ihor Kolomoysky.

[Balthazar]

"Miss Transnistria
Miss Cimea
Miss Ukraine"

 

First is Nina Shtanski, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Transnistrian Moldovan Republic (wikipedia)
Second is Natalia Poklonskaya, Prosecutor General of the Republic of Crimea (wikipedia)
Third is Tatjana Chernovol, active figure of maidan unrest in the center of Kiev, anti-schizophrenia drug addict (youtube, scan of official response to request of her mental health condition)