Shooting in the back now! Out for a jog and gets shot in the back. That's cowardice. Did you even bother to read that article? The Mayor could have been shot by EITHER side.. He was turning his back on his former Russian Separatist allies and was seen as an obstacle to their plans..
Taras Berezovets, a political consultant, said the attempt on the mayor’s life was a “gruesome message to other governors and administrators not to dare meddle in the Kremlin's game.”
“Kernes turned his back on former allies and refused to support separatists in his city, and more than that, began to firmly curb all their activities in Kharkiv and thus became a target for those interested in the political destabilization in eastern Ukraine in the run-up to the presidential election,” said Berezovets, who heads Berta Communications, a Kiev-based think tank.
latimes.com
But automatically assume it was an Ukrainian that shot him..
However, there is evidence of Pro-Russian (or Russian Spetsnaz) torturing and killing Ukrainian loyalists in Slavyansk..
bbc.com
Look.. this is going to become really brutal MW. These kinds of civil wars generally are. Maybe you should just look away and not pay any attention to it..
Crimea was done democratically. Really now? It was? Two weeks after 30,000 unidentified "green men" with Russian weapons, invaded and a ballot that doesn't even provide a choice to remain with Ukraine? Where was the organized opposition? Some election you're asserting there..
I can create an election like that too.. Hell, Saddam constantly receive 99% of the vote when he was elected..
No opposition rallies in Crimea, an area that consists of 49% non-Russian ethnic groups?
Deal done. If New Zealand votes to become a state of Australia, and Australia agrees to it, will you send in assassins? So the Aussies can invade NZ with Balaclava masked men, install a local political thug as your president and give you two weeks to democratically decide to be annexed by Australia while they have those masked thugs marching around repressing any attempt to formulate opposition?
Here's the reality about your friend Putin..
Russia also continues to rank among the top countries from which people flee seeking political asylum. Last month, the United Nations issued a report saying that Russia was the second leading country after Syria from which citizens ask for safe haven. According to the report, about 40,000 Russians asked for asylum in countries around the world in 2013, a 76 percent increase from the year before. Germany and Poland were the most popular destinations for Russian asylum seekers.
themoscowtimes.com
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