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En bra sammanfattning av dagens äventyrligheter av Max Seddon på BuzzFeed. Alternativ nyhetskälla, men stämmer hyfsat med den bild som någorlunda hederliga mainstreammedia (t.ex. BBC) gett, och som jag tidigare länkade till:
Ukraine’s Attempt To Retake The East Fails Miserably
http://www.buzzfeed.com/maxseddon/ukraines-attempt-to-retake-the-east-fails-miserably
PCHOLKINO, Ukraine — Standing on the hood of an armored personnel carrier as his ashen-faced paratroopers slumped behind him, Colonel Alexander Shvets of Ukraine’s 25th Airborne reported back to command on a cheap cellphone.
“We’ve been taken captive. They used dirty tricks,” he said. The hundreds of local residents and ragtag militiamen that had surrounded his column of 13 APCs throughout Wednesday bayed. “Look,” he continued, losing his patience. “I’ve been surrounded by a human shield of 500 people all day. You don’t know what you’re fucking talking about.”
Översten och hans fallskärmsjägare bjöds så småningom på mat av lokalbefolkningen, och fick sedan ta bussen hem till Dnepropetrovsk. Även andra enheter stötte på patrull. Max Sneddon sammanfattar:
Ukraine’s “anti-terrorist operation” against anti-government rebels has proved a spectacular debacle. Soldiers refused to move in on rebel-held positions. The rebels captured six APCs, drove the soldiers into Slovyansk flying the Russian flag, and sent them back on dingy buses, dejected, disarmed, and defeated. Self-appointed “self-defense” commanders who couldn’t even agree on which one of them was in charge disarmed and defeated Ukraine’s army.
Ukraine’s Attempt To Retake The East Fails Miserably
http://www.buzzfeed.com/maxseddon/ukraines-attempt-to-retake-the-east-fails-miserably
PCHOLKINO, Ukraine — Standing on the hood of an armored personnel carrier as his ashen-faced paratroopers slumped behind him, Colonel Alexander Shvets of Ukraine’s 25th Airborne reported back to command on a cheap cellphone.
“We’ve been taken captive. They used dirty tricks,” he said. The hundreds of local residents and ragtag militiamen that had surrounded his column of 13 APCs throughout Wednesday bayed. “Look,” he continued, losing his patience. “I’ve been surrounded by a human shield of 500 people all day. You don’t know what you’re fucking talking about.”
Översten och hans fallskärmsjägare bjöds så småningom på mat av lokalbefolkningen, och fick sedan ta bussen hem till Dnepropetrovsk. Även andra enheter stötte på patrull. Max Sneddon sammanfattar:
Ukraine’s “anti-terrorist operation” against anti-government rebels has proved a spectacular debacle. Soldiers refused to move in on rebel-held positions. The rebels captured six APCs, drove the soldiers into Slovyansk flying the Russian flag, and sent them back on dingy buses, dejected, disarmed, and defeated. Self-appointed “self-defense” commanders who couldn’t even agree on which one of them was in charge disarmed and defeated Ukraine’s army.
Detta tyder på att det inte rör sig om "ryska agenter" och "betalda provokatörer" utan att det faktiskt är ett genuint och folkligt uppror mot kuppregimen i Kiev, i de berörda delarna av Ukraina.
