Apparently following the Russian (Putin’s)
plans, that have probably been in the works for months now, today Separatists took another government building in Luhansk. A
self-declared mayor says he will negotiate the release of military observers
only if the EU removes the sanctions against separatist leaders.
In Slovyansk, pro-Russian separatists continue to hold about
40 people hostage, including the observers from the Organization for Security
and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), who were captured at the weekend.
In Donetsk five students were beaten and captured during a pro-Ukraine
demonstration. Afterwards, the students were taken to a room where the so-called
Donetsk People’s Republic troops started filming trying to make them look as Right
Sector activists (using Yarosh’s business cards). When the students started
denying their connections with the Right Sector the separatists turned off the
video camera and beat them up again.
When they went to the Voroshylov District police station in
Donetsk to file a report on this incident, the investigator on duty was wearing
a St. George ribbon, and he told them directly, ‘Whether you want to write it or not, Russia’s going to be here soon
anyway.’ Nevertheless, Russian television channels have already shown a
video claiming that five Right Sector members were arrested during disorders in
Donetsk.
The assault on media and journalists that are trying to
report on the situation in Donetsk and throughout Eastern Ukraine continues.
This, of course, is the way to distort international attention and isolate a
population in order to maintain power over them.
To conclude, I share the Facebook Status
Update from Vera Kholmgorova, Donetsk Journalist (translated by William Risch,
Georgia College):
Reflections. About convictions,
journalism, and professional ethics. Stirred up by yesterday’s events (April
28, 2014).
The Russian news agency ITAR-TASS
presented news about supporters of Russia brutally breaking up a meeting for
Ukraine in Donetsk as Ukrainian fascists from Right Sector attacking a peaceful
march against commemorations of the SS Galicia division’s founding.
Yes. Exactly that. There are a lot of
sources on the web, so I won’t give them here.
It’s awful, especially for those who were
there yesterday (including some, like myself, who were there for professional
reasons). And it’s strange, to be honest.
Russian propaganda has known no shame.
For a long time. And it was never ashamed. ... Yes, it would be distorted, it
would be ideologically dressed up, but at least it would have had some
correlation to reality. However, no. Russian propaganda for some reason gives a
scene COMPLETELY different from what actually happened. A mythical anti-fascist
march. A mythical Right Sector…
It really is strange. In the end, you
don’t have to love Ukraine. You can even deny its right to exist as a sovereign
state. Yes, I and millions of others don’t agree with that. For us, it’s
painful. It’s frightening.
But such a position, like any other one,
has a right to exist and be defended by its supporters.
So why don’t they stand up for theirs?
They could write honestly about it, like the followers of the Donetsk People’s
Republic in social media: We’re coming with surgical instruments to remove
everything Ukrainian. And we’ve arrived.
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