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3 dead in Ukraine’s Odessa as pro- and anti-Maidan rallies clash

Published time: May 02, 2014 13:48
Edited time: May 02, 2014 17:54

Three people were killed and 15 wounded as rival rallies clashed in Ukraine’s port-city of Odessa. A pro-unity demonstration, which included nationalists and football fans, ran into a rally preaching greater autonomy for the regions.

Gunfire was heard in Odessa’s downtown as two rival rallies met, police having failed to draw them apart. Over 2,000 protesters pelted each other with Molotov cocktails and smoke grenades. Pavements were dismantled to get the stones for the fight, like it was done in Kiev during the Maidan protests.

As the fire brigade arrived at the scene, the driver was forced out of the vehicle by the enraged football fans and had to flee, as a live stream showed.

Local police reported that three people were killed in the stand-off, and at least one of them died due to a gun-shot wound. At least 15 received injuries in clashes.

The “football fans” attacking anti-government activists in Odessa then set the local House of Trade Unions building on fire. The radicals stormed and torched the building after learning that some anti-Maidan activists had barricaded themselves inside it.

Photos posted on Twitter showed people hanging out of windows and sitting on windowsills of several floors, possibly preparing to jump. Reports claim that those who jumped and survived were surrounded and beaten by football ultras and the Right Sector.

The riot police lines standing beside the building were apparently doing nothing to prevent the violence, the photos showed. Police officers reportedly said they cannot do anything because they were “unarmed.”

The city’s authorities have gathered at city council for an emergency meeting aimed at stopping the disorder in Odessa, Mayor Vladimir Nemirovsky said in a statement on his Facebook account.

“We are making all possible intensive measures to restore law and order,” he said, adding that the perpetrators will be pursued and found.

It all started as around 1,500 supporters of the Kiev authorities gathered at Sobornaya Square in central Odessa. They were accompanied by fans of the local football club, Chernomorets.

Some of the people in the group were wearing the ultra-nationalist Right Sector movement insignia. They were also armed with chains and bats and carried shields, as an Itar-Tass correspondent on the ground reported.

The group tried to march through the city, chanting “Glory to Ukraine”, “Death to enemies”, “Knife the Moskals (derogatory for Russians)”.

The procession was then confronted by several hundred pro-federalization activists. Fighting erupted as a result, with members of the rival groups throwing stones at each other and at police, who tried to stop the violence. The pavements are spattered with blood.

Nationalists mingling with football fans hijacked a fire truck, which they used in an attempt to ram the defense of the rival rally, Itar-Tass reported.

Odessa, the Black Sea coastal city in Ukraine, has been among the southeast Ukrainian cities swept by massive protests, both pro- and anti-government, following the February coup in Kiev.

At the end of March thousands were rallying in Odessa, questioning the legitimacy of the coup-imposed government and demanding referendum on granting more freedoms to the regions.

Before the radical far-right group arrived in Odessa, rallies supporting the Kiev authorities numbered only several hundreds of people, while the pro-federalization rallies opposing Kiev gathered thousands.

Last week, local police chief, Petr Lutsuk, demanded the expulsion of recently-arrived radicals from the city.

„A large number of people had gathered in Kiev, and it was decided to send these groups to Odessa. We do not need them. They came and created a volatile situation,“ he said.

Ukraine 2014: Bürger von Slawjansk mit Heiligenbildern umzingeln Panzerfahrzeuge der faschistischen Kiewer Putschregierung,diskutieren mit den Soldaten – ob wohl deutsche Medien darüber berichten(dürfen)? Daß die Kirche der Ostukraine sogar die Regierungsgegner an den Barrikaden segnet, wurde vom deutschen Mainstream erwartungsgemäß verschwiegen. **

tags: scholl-latour und desinformation, ukraine-kalter krieg 2014

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Ukraine 2014: Bürger von Slawjansk stellen sich gegen Panzerwagen der faschistischen Kiewer Putschregierung – Video anklicken. **

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-ynVNdv-7A#t=30

“Putsch in Kiew: Welche Rolle spielen die Faschisten?”  ARD-Panorama.

http://www.hart-brasilientexte.de/2014/03/08/putsch-in-kiew-welche-rolle-spielen-die-faschistenpanorama-marz-2014-der-rechte-sektor-war-aus-meiner-sicht-entscheidend-fur-den-umsturz-alexander-rahr/

Peter Scholl-Latour über alte und neue Nazis: http://www.hart-brasilientexte.de/2014/04/29/ukraine-2014-peter-scholl-latour-uber-westliche-verherrlichung-von-nazis-und-antisemiten-der-ukraine/

Deutsche ermorden Juden in der Ukraine. Wertvorstellungen damals und heute – keine Kritik an militanten Antisemiten von Kiew 2014 durch hochrangige mitteleuropäische Politiker. 

Viele Deutsche haben aus der Ukraine-Krise gelernt, daß offizielle Kritik deutscher Autoritäten an nationalen Neonazis, Rechtsextremisten, Antisemiten lediglich scheinheiliges Alibi-Gerede ist.

Ausriß, Twitterfoto. “Separatisten” laut deutscher Medien-Sprachregelung. “Pro-russischer Mob”: http://www.hart-brasilientexte.de/2014/04/12/%E2%80%9Dnun-schlagt-der-pro-russische-mob-zuruck%E2%80%9D-tagesschau-1242014-zu-den-protesten-in-der-ostukraine-gegen-die-kiewer-putschregierung/

Ausriß. Warum wohl die Ukrainerin mit einem durchgestrichenen Hakenkreuz in Donetsk durch die Straßen läuft? Deutsche werden von ihren Medien, Korrespondenten darüber nicht informiert…

”Putsch in Kiew: Welche Rolle spielen die Faschisten?”  ARD-Panorama.

http://www.hart-brasilientexte.de/2014/03/08/putsch-in-kiew-welche-rolle-spielen-die-faschistenpanorama-marz-2014-der-rechte-sektor-war-aus-meiner-sicht-entscheidend-fur-den-umsturz-alexander-rahr/

Juden, Antisemiten in Kiew, deutsche Politiker:  http://www.hart-brasilientexte.de/2014/02/19/judische-konforderation-der-ukraine-forderte-westliche-lander-vergeblich-auf-sich-von-der-antisemitischen-swoboda-partei-zu-distanzieren-sich-nicht-mit-deren-politikern-an-einen-tisch-zu-setzen/

Deutsche Mainstream-Sprachregelungen:

http://www.hart-brasilientexte.de/2014/05/01/ukraine-2014-deutscher-mainstream-auch-am-1-mai-mit-den-ublichen-dekretierten-sprachregelungen-gute-demonstranten-die-sogar-polizisten-erschiesen-in-kiew-bose-demonstranten-in-donezk-u/

Peter Scholl-Latour über alte und neue Nazis: http://www.hart-brasilientexte.de/2014/04/29/ukraine-2014-peter-scholl-latour-uber-westliche-verherrlichung-von-nazis-und-antisemiten-der-ukraine/

Viele Deutsche haben aus der Ukraine-Krise gelernt, daß offizielle Kritik deutscher Autoritäten an nationalen Neonazis, Rechtsextremisten, Antisemiten lediglich scheinheiliges Alibi-Gerede ist.

“Pro-russischer Mob”: http://www.hart-brasilientexte.de/2014/04/12/%E2%80%9Dnun-schlagt-der-pro-russische-mob-zuruck%E2%80%9D-tagesschau-1242014-zu-den-protesten-in-der-ostukraine-gegen-die-kiewer-putschregierung/

US, EU’s support of Kiev’s tactics blocks peaceful resolution of Ukraine crisis – Russia

Published time: May 02, 2014 16:29
Edited time: May 02, 2014 18:11

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The West has cut all paths to a peaceful solution of the Ukrainian crisis by supporting the Kiev authorities and their violent crackdown on protests in the eastern part of the country, Russia’s envoy Vitaly Churkin told the UN Security Council.

Catastrophic consequences are inevitable if Kiev authorities do not stop their “criminal venture,” Churkin stressed at the emergency UNSC meeting summoned by Moscow on Friday.

He pointed out that Kiev has flagrantly violated its obligations that were established under the Geneva agreement on April 17. The „punitive measures“ carried out by the government are evidence of Kiev’s inability and unwillingness to fulfill these obligations, he added.

“Particular concern is raised by data that, during the punitive operation of the Ukrainian military and illegal ultra-nationalist groups, English speech was heard on air, and among the assailants on Slavyansk, English speaking foreigners were seen,” the Russian UN envoy said.

He stressed that Moscow “insists on avoiding any external interference in what is happening in Ukraine.”

“Kiev regime, encouraged by its Western sponsors, used massive use of military force, practically destroying the last hope for the viability of the Geneva agreement,” Churkin said.

The Russian envoy to the UN has urged Kiev and all sides who took part in the Geneva deal – the US and EU – to “refrain from making grave mistakes” and “soberly assess the full responsibility of the possible consequences of their actions.“

“Supporting the organizers of the Kiev government coup and their military crackdown on protesters, the US and EU take great responsibility practically cutting all paths to resolve the crisis peacefully,” Churkin concluded.

Against this background, “Washington’s flat refusal” to support the proposal on organizing an OSCE-supported dialogue between Kiev and southeastern Ukraine looks “not coincidental,” Churkin said.

Kiev has intensified its military operation in eastern Ukraine, with the country’s new authorities unleashing heavy weaponry on Slavyansk on Friday morning. Helicopters and APCs blockaded the city, preventing the evacuation of civilians. The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) has urged for the creation of humanitarian corridors.

In response, Russia summoned an emergency UNSC meeting aimed at ending the violence and bloodshed.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said he is very concerned about the events in eastern Ukraine and urged all sides of the conflict to show “restraint.”

„The escalation of violence and reports of further casualties in Slavyansk today is a vivid reminder of how dangerous the situation has become,“ Ban said in a statement, adding that he „calls on all parties to exercise maximum restraint and to express dissatisfaction peacefully to avoid further bloodshed.“

In turn, Russia’s envoy called on the UN to publish a statement urging an end to all violence, including the use of military force in eastern Ukraine.