Ukraina valde Ryssland före EU - stora protester som följd, länkar i inlägg2

Although glimpses of the violence were caught on the phones of several witnesses, the clearest footage of the assault was recorded by a reporter for Vice News, Robert King. Mr. King’s video showed the Russian separatists hurling bricks and fireworks at a small number of participants in the anti-war rally, before breaking through police lines to beat the unarmed demonstrators.

That arresting footage also seems to support the contention of demonstrators who told reporters that the riot police made only a token effort to defend them — which is perhaps not surprising since members of the protest movement in Kiev’s main square, or maidan, were engaged in intensely violent clashes with police officers just weeks ago.---

Faced with Russian television reports that also reversed the identities of the aggressors and the victims in Donestsk, Ukrainian activists pointed to witness accounts from journalists and bystanders who agreed that the violence was the work of the pro-Kremlin demonstrators, who had gathered under a statue of Lenin before confronting a rally for Ukrainian unity at the opposite side of the square.

Moscow on Saturday urged Ukraine to outlaw ultra-nationalist groups after two people were killed in fresh clashes in the Russian-speaking east of the country.

"Bandera structures in Ukraine should be declared illegal as those inciting inter-ethnic hatred," Konstantin Dolgov, the Russian foreign ministry's human rights pointman, said on Twitter.

Stepan Bandera was a leader of the Ukrainian nationalist movement accused by Russians of siding with Nazis during World War II.

"No one abolished Ukraine's duty to counter racism, racial discrimination and xenophobia. That should be fulfilled," Dolgov added.

Two people were killed in Ukraine's Russian-speaking city of Kharkiv when nationalists opened fire on a group of men trying to storm their headquarters late on Friday.

Several people were also injured in the gun fire. The nationalists surrendered, and police said they made 30 arrests.

"Arresting neo-fascists in Kharkov should mark the beginning of large-scale activities to neutralise and punish the extremists who are getting out of hand," Dolgov said, using the Russian name for the city.

Jag är fly förbannad på Kreml för att jag gillar Ryssland och för att ledningen nu har klantat sig bortom all vett och sans. Att Maidan gick fel till och till viss del stöddes av väst enbart för att rörelsen var mot Ryssland, det är en sak, men att reagera som Ryssland gjort nu, gå in militärt i Krim och dessutom ha mage att ljuga om det och säga att det är nån slags lokal paramilitär milis, när det i själva verket är specialenheter direkt från Ryssland, det är så korkat att jag nästan ger upp. Vem fan tror de att de lurar? Varför försöker de inte tänka efter hur man faktiskt ökar sitt inflytande istället för att utradera inflytandet totalt??