Det börjar nu bli dags för den ukrainska interimregeringen att manifestera sitt våldsmonopol. Kommer det en fullskalig rysk invasion som svar på upprensning av terroristceller så får det väl bli så. Skulden till upptrappningen är helt och hållet Kremls, och de långvariga konsekvenserna för Ryssland i händelse av en invasion kommer i förlängningen att bli ytterst destruktiva.
http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/armed-pro-russian-extremists-seize-police-stations-in-donetsks-slavyansk-shaktarysk-fail-to-take-don etsk-prosecutors-office-343195.html
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In what looks like a special Russian military operation that resembles the Kremlin's Crimean invasion, masked men in army fatigues and bulletproof vests, armed with Kalashnikov assault rifles, seized the police station and district Security Service of Ukraine headquarters in Sloviansk, a Donetsk Oblast city of 125,000 people. Later in the day, the Interior Ministry in Donetsk was also seized by gunmen.
Gunmen set up two checkpoints outside Sloviansk, on the roads leading to Artemivsk and Konstantinovka. The gunmen piled sand and tires in the median with a Russian flag on top; at one of the checkpoints, the Kyiv Post saw four armed men dressed similarly to Russian soldiers.---
Pro-Russian extremists also reportedly tried to take the police station in Shakhtarsk, another Donetsk city of 75,000 people. Dmytro Tkachenko of the Committee of Voters nongovernmental organization in Donetsk said that the attempt failed.
Militants also failed in their attempt to storm the general prosecutor's office in Donetsk. There are also indications that the attempts to seize more public buildings, including regional police stations, will escalate this weekend.
Many predicted this weekend that armed pro-Russian separatists would step up their campaign of intimidation and terror throughout eastern Ukraine, including Donetsk Oblast, home to 10 percent of Ukraine's population of 45 million people. The well-organized, well-armed takeovers resembled the early stages of the Russian military intervention in Crimea on Feb. 27.
