Thursday, February 20, 2014

Carnage and Chaos in Ukraine

The latest reports..
  • The death toll may now be over 100. 
  • Some police are defecting to the protesters and scores of others have been captured.
  • The government may be employing military troops with live ammunition. There are credible reports that army snipers have been firing on protesters.
  • Both the European Union and the United States are moving to impose sanctions on Ukrainian government officials.
  • Some fear civil war.

3 comments:

Unknown said...

Protesters have been armed to teeth. Spearhead of violence has been the far-right fascist
"Right Sector"...

http://www.moonofalabama.org/2014/02/ukraine-white-house-is-outraged.html#more

Archimandrite Gregory said...

It seems to me, leaving aside all the Ukrainian nationalism hype of the media, the real battle seems to be over the very soul of Ukraine. May the people way the real consequences of the outcome of all of this fighting. Hospodi pomiluj!

The Anti-Gnostic said...

With apologies Father, I think it's a battle over the more generic and more common issue of Who-Whom.