The police fire into the crowd on the Maidan square, the demonstrators engage with incendiary on. Ukrainian President Yanukovych and his opponents can speak the violence. A disintegration of the country is no longer excluded.
Since the end of November already, they are irreconcilably in Kiev against the opponents of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych and the government camp with his “Berkut” police units. They have negotiated over weeks, the evacuation of occupied buildings, about the release of detained protesters, but the time for talking is over: Both sides can now speak the violence.
The lives of others does not count much in Kiev. Not for the commanders of the special unit “Berkut”, which began not only sticks and tear gas, but also fired live ammunition into the crowd. But the self-proclaimed “vigilante of the Maidan” spared not their opponents, the masked fighter hurled Molotov cocktails into the ranks of police officers. You can not hear well long on the command of the political leader Arseniy Yatsenyuk and Vitali Klitschko.
Kiev has one of the bloodiest nights behind that Eastern Europe has experienced since the collapse of the Soviet Union. In Kiev the camp of opponents of President Yanukovych is on fire, the burning barricades dipped the Maidan still in the early morning hours in ghostly light. The occupied union hall – previously the headquarters of the opposition – burned (Read also the news view of the night).
In Lviv in the west protesters put an occupied police armored car on fire. In the city of Ternopol government protesters stormed the office of the public prosecutor, they set fire to a police station. Ukrainian media report that police units overran in Ternopil on the side of the demonstrators. These scenes do not call more memories of the peaceful Orange Revolution ten years ago awake, but in a civil war.
Ukraine Deadly Riot:Klitschko goes into bulletproof vest on the Maidan
Report 25 dead , the opponents of the government until the early morning , many of them allegedly shot by live ammunition . The Interior Ministry , in turn, is one of only seven policemen dead . The Ministry of Health is the number of dead at 25 . About the Internet widespread government opponents shots, showed the bodies at the barricades . But on social networks such as Twitter and recordings began circulating that showed severely injured policemen.
With loudspeaker announcements that the President devoted ” Berkut ” unit called on the demonstrators to leave the Maidan . You plan an “anti – terrorist operation ” . From the stage of the protest camp, the speaker called but on the contrary, the citizens of Kiev on the road : “Arise , Ukraine, the fate of our children is at stake, death to our enemies . ” One of the leaders of the political opposition , Vitali Klitschko, came in bulletproof vest to the people on the Maidan .
The violence was ignited on Tuesday, wanted to move as opponents of the government to the parliament building . The opposition had announced a peaceful protest march , but then hurled stones and firebombs . The security forces retaliated brutally . Some observers in Kiev reminds of those bloody clashes that the breakup of the Soviet Union accompanied the early nineties , especially in the Baltic States and the Caucasus.
Ukraine Deadly Riot:The disintegration of the Ukraine is no longer excluded
Nothing seems more excluded , not even the disintegration of Ukraine. Split the country was ever since its independence , a country with very different power centers . In the underdeveloped west nationalists who call the shots , who hate Russia. In the east, they even speak Russian majority , there are the strongholds of the President, and the south is modeled more after Russia. In between lies the cosmopolitan Kiev, the capital, which Yanukovych has never loved . Behind the scenes pulling the strings oligarchs , opaque business magnates who support a government as long as it is worthwhile for them.
Since independence in 1991, the centers of power have come to terms with each other , often more bad than good , but generally peaceful. But now govern hatred and violence. In Kiev , the number of skeptics who do not believe in it anymore grows that Ukraine can return to that status quo .
The big neighbor Russia accounts for weeks blatantly strongly for greater autonomy of the regions, ” federalization ” is the keyword , as Moscow could bind more strongly at least the industrial regions in the east of the country itself.
In this case, Russia is not happy with Yanukovych. Although the President is regarded as pro-Russian , but has no interest to be demoted from Moscow to vassals. Many in the Kremlin , he is considered a traitor. Putin’s Ukraine – aide Sergei Glazyev represents the opinion for weeks , Yanukovych would have been better to let the Maidan together shoot. As Yanukovych wanted to talk to Putin on Tuesday night , let him dangle the demonstrative.
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at night Yanukovych ordered then Klitschko talks in his residence in the Bankowa Street. The head of state made him to wait hours, then he had Klitschko little to say. The protesters should deduct called Yanukovych. Concessions he did not offer. Klitschko left the meeting resigned.
Yanukovych stated then, the opposition was responsible for the escalation. “The opposition leaders have violated the principle of democracy, which gives the power through elections and not by the road,” the president said. Those responsible for the violence would be brought to justice.
After midnight, the flames continued to dance over the barricades and tents of the Maidan, a priest ascended the stage and began to pray.
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