Deadliest Day in Ukraine Since Feb. 20th Sniper Attacks.

[georgephillip]

Over 30 pro-Russian supporters have died at the hands of Pravi Sector in the southern Ukrainian city of Odessa today (Friday 5/2/14).

"Odessa's large Soviet-era trade union building was set alight as pro-Ukrainian activists mounted an assault as dusk fell.

"Police said at least 31 people choked to death on smoke or were killed when jumping out of windows after the trade union building was set on fire.

"Bodies lay in pools of blood outside the main entrance as explosions from improvised grenades and Molotov cocktails filled the air.

"Black smoke from the building and a burning pro-Russian protest camp wreathed the nearby square."

One can only wonder what the US would do if Putin were to turn his drones lose on Pravi Sector in eastern Ukraine?

Ukraine clashes: dozens reported dead after Odessa building fire | World news | theguardian.com

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Over 30 pro-Russian supporters have died at the hands of Pravi Sector in the southern Ukrainian city of Odessa today (Friday 5/2/14).

"Odessa's large Soviet-era trade union building was set alight as pro-Ukrainian activists mounted an assault as dusk fell.

"Police said at least 31 people choked to death on smoke or were killed when jumping out of windows after the trade union building was set on fire.

"Bodies lay in pools of blood outside the main entrance as explosions from improvised grenades and Molotov cocktails filled the air.

"Black smoke from the building and a burning pro-Russian protest camp wreathed the nearby square."

One can only wonder what the US would do if Putin were to turn his drones lose on Pravi Sector in eastern Ukraine?

Ukraine clashes: dozens reported dead after Odessa building fire | World news | theguardian.com

We'd do nothing

 

[georgephillip]

Over 30 pro-Russian supporters have died at the hands of Pravi Sector in the southern Ukrainian city of Odessa today (Friday 5/2/14).

"Odessa's large Soviet-era trade union building was set alight as pro-Ukrainian activists mounted an assault as dusk fell.

"Police said at least 31 people choked to death on smoke or were killed when jumping out of windows after the trade union building was set on fire.

"Bodies lay in pools of blood outside the main entrance as explosions from improvised grenades and Molotov cocktails filled the air.

"Black smoke from the building and a burning pro-Russian protest camp wreathed the nearby square."

One can only wonder what the US would do if Putin were to turn his drones lose on Pravi Sector in eastern Ukraine?

Ukraine clashes: dozens reported dead after Odessa building fire | World news | theguardian.com

We'd do nothing

Not even any sanctions?
Hagel doesn't seem too worried:

"US defense secretary Chuck Hagel said Friday that NATO should reconsider its relationship with Russia in light of its incursion into Ukraine, which should bury the idea that the end of the Cold War brought permanent peace to Europe, the Associated Press reports:

"'Russia's actions in Ukraine shatter that myth and usher in bracing new realities,' Hagel said in a speech that captured the Obama administration's deepening concern that decades of effort to draw Russia closer to the West may be failing."

Ukraine: Dozens killed in building fire in Odessa, ministry says ?*live | World news | theguardian.com

"decades of effort to draw Russia closer to the west..." like pushing NATO to the borders of the Russian federation and paying neo-Nazis to drive an elected president from power in Ukraine.

 

[georgephillip]

"The threat of war in Ukraine is growing.

"As the unelected government in Kiev declares itself unable to control the rebellion in the country's east, John Kerry brands Russia a rogue state.

"The US and the European Union step up sanctions against the Kremlin, accusing it of destabilising Ukraine.

"The White House is reported to be set on a new cold war policy with the aim of turning Russia into a "pariah state".

"That might be more explicable if what is going on in eastern Ukraine now were not the mirror image of what took place in Kiev a couple of months ago.

"Then, it was armed protesters in Maidan Square seizing government buildings and demanding a change of government and constitution.

"US and European leaders championed the 'masked militants' and denounced the elected government for its crackdown, just as they now back the unelected government's use of force against rebels occupying police stations and town halls in cities such as Slavyansk and Donetsk."

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