Ukraine crisis : Snipers filmed 'shooting at protesters' in Kiev

ULike2CarryModBalls · Feb 21, 2014

Ukraine crisis : Snipers filmed 'shooting at protesters' in Kiev

Footage emerges purporting to show snipers from the Ukrainian security forces shooting at protesters in Kiev

4:24PM GMT 20 Feb 2014

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Ukraine's brittle truce was left in tatters on Thursday by raging street battles between baton-wielding protesters and riot police that left dozens of people dead as the EU was meeting to consider sanctions.

Bodies of anti-government demonstrators lay amid smouldering debris after masked protesters hurling Molotov cocktails and stones forced gun-toting police from Kiev's Independence Square - the epicentre of the ex-Soviet country's three-month-old crisis.

More than 60 protesters died from gunshot wounds, according to an opposition medic, making it the bloodiest day of violence since Ukraine's independence.

Police fired live ammunition "in self-defence" when protesters threatened them, said the interior ministry, which also accused "radical extremists" of seizing 67 officers.

Footage emerged purporting to show snipers from the Ukrainian security forces shooting at protesters from behind rows of sandbags in Kiev.

Police said a sniper perched on a hotel roof had injured 20 officers with live ammunition fire, while protest leaders accused the city police of being behind the sniper attacks.

Sources:AFP/ Radio Svoboda

ULike2CarryModBalls · Feb 21, 2014

ULike2CarryModBalls · Feb 21, 2014

UPDATE: US Bans Visa Of 20 Ukrainian Officials And Few Other Individuals Citing Human Rights Abuses During Latest Ukrainian Protests That Claimed 26 Lives

At Least 22 More Killed In Fresh Violence Thursday

By Sneha Shankar
on February 20 2014 12:32 AM

Update as of 7:00 a.m.: Britain summoned Ukraine's ambassador to London on Thursday, Reuters reported, after violent clashes resumed for a second day in Kiev, killing at least 22 civilians. "We are calling in the ambassador and calling on him to stop the violence," a foreign ministry spokeswoman said.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said, according to BBC, that Ukrainian "extremists and hardliners are seeking to spark a civil war.” Lavrov had earlier equated the EU’s threat of sanctions to blackmail, Reuters reported, adding that it would only aggravate the confrontation, Reuters reported.

As protests raged on Thursday, the Ukrainian Interior Ministry and the Kiev city-state administration urged people not to travel to the center of the city for security reasons, Interfax-Ukraine, a local news agency reported. The agency also reported that seven dead protesters were lying side by side under white sheets on the marble floor in front of the reception desk of the Ukraine Hotel.

All bridges and gas stations are being closed down by military forces in Ukraine, according to Euromaidan PR, the public relations organization for the resistance. It also reported that President Viktor Yanukovych wanted to introduce an emergency state for the country in which televisions, phones and the Internet may be blocked. The agency estimated Thursday's death toll to be 35.

According to Associated Press, 22 people have been killed so far, taking the casualty total to 50 people over the past two days, including protesters and police troops.

Update as of 5:10 a.m.: The BBC reported, citing a Reuters report that quoted eyewitnesses, that at least 21 civilians were killed near Independence Square on Thursday in fresh clashes between protesters and government forces. Fighting moved from Independence Square to the Ukraine Hotel, where five bodies were reported lying in the reception area, BBC reported. An Al Jazeera report, on the other hand, reported that fighting had intensified at the hotel and 12 bodies were seen in the hotel lobby.

The BBC report added that trains carrying military servicemen were on their way to Kiev. And, in a statement released Thursday, President Viktor Yanukovych reportedly said: "They (the protesters) went on to the offensive. They are working in organised groups. They are using firearms, including sniper rifles. They are shooting to kill."

A joint opposition statement, reportedly posted on the website of Vitali Klitschko, read: "The resumption of clashes on the Maidan (Independence Square) at a time when a truce was called is a planned provocation by the authorities against peaceful protesters."

Ukrainian skier Bogdana Matsotska and her coach and father, Oleg Matsotskiy, pulled out of the Sochi Winter Olympic Games in protest against the Ukrainian authorities' use of deadly force, the BBC report said, citing Agence France-Press reports.

The U.S. has imposed a ban on visas aimed at 20 senior Ukrainian officials and a few other individuals, holding them responsible for human rights abuses during violent protests over the past two days, even as President Viktor Yanukovych called for negotiations to stop the bloodshed in the country.

A statement released by the U.S. Department of State said that amid calls for negotiations from several countries including the U.S., and the European Union, or EU, violence still continued on the streets of Ukrainian cities. In response, a senior State Department official announced that the U.S. will "ban visa issuance to some 20 senior members of the Ukrainian Government and other individuals who we considered responsible for, complicit in, or responsible for ordering or otherwise directing human rights abuses related to political repression in Ukraine.”

Meanwhile, President Barrack Obama reportedly welcomed the effort by Yanukovych to call a “truce” and defuse the clash.

"The sides announced a truce and the start of a negotiations process aimed at ending the bloodshed (and) stabilising the situation in the country for the benefit of civil peace," Yanukovych reportedly said in a statement after talks, Agence France-Presse reported. However, Yanukovych was seen to be sending mixed signals after he sacked the country's army chief who was backed by the opposition for refusing to attack protesters.

According to the AFP report, the Ukrainian government is facing diplomatic isolation after clashes between local police and protesters left 26 people dead in the last 48 hours.

The state department official, in a call with the media Wednesday, said that the U.S. would continue to collaborate with the EU in the coming days to try and end the violence in Ukraine. Meanwhile, foreign ministers of Germany, Poland and France tried to hold urgent talks with President Yanukovych, before the EU could make a decision about imposing sanctions.

The U.S. official also expressed concerns over Russia's stance after the country announced that it would send Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozing to Kiev on Thursday to “give a corresponding impulse to our (Russia-Ukraine) relations.”

Earlier, Russia had blamed the violence on “extremists (whose) actions can be seen and are seen in Moscow exclusively as an attempted coup d'etat,” prompting a telephone conversation between German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss a joint solution to the crisis, AFP reported.

ULike2CarryModBalls · Feb 21, 2014

Poland on standby to receive Ukraine's wounded

Polish prime minister says hospitals in his country are preparing for casualties

Slawomir Neumann, Poland's deputy health minister, said the government was cooperating with the "opposition in Miadan" in making plans to take in Ukrainian wounded Photo: DAVID ROSE

By Matthew Day, Warsaw
5:23PM GMT 20 Feb 2014

Poland is readying hospitals to take in Ukrainians wounded in the street battles of Kiev, the Polish prime minister has confirmed.

Donald Tusk said 11 people injured in clashes in Ukraine had already received treatment in Poland and that military and interior ministry hospitals were being prepared to handle more.

"We have at our disposal a large number of defence and interior ministry hospitals," said the prime minister. "We are preparing them. Anyone seeking aid in Poland will get help."

Slawomir Neumann, Poland's deputy health minister, said the government was cooperating with the "opposition in Miadan" in making plans to take in Ukrainian wounded.

Poland's interior ministry operates 22 hospitals around the country which, operating outside the constraints of the country's stressed national health service, have more flexibility when it comes to handling emergency cases from abroad, although just how many beds they have at their disposal remains unclear.

In addition hospitals in Poland's eastern provinces bordering Ukraine have also declared their willingness to take in Ukrainian injured.

"We have prepared all the infrastructure and logistics for receiving injured people, people in need and people who may want to apply for refugee status," said Malgorzata Chomycz-Smigelska, governor of Poland's Podkarpackie province. The Medical University in the eastern city of Lublin said that it and two other hospitals have about 85 beds ready.

A national association of private hospitals in Poland has also said its members will accept injured from Ukraine for free.

Although it is around 300 miles from Kiev to the Polish border wounded Ukrainians, it appears, are prepared to make the journey, spurred on by the fear of arrest or worse, if they went to a Ukrainian hospital.

"People are not going to public hospitals in Ukraine because there have been cases of the injured being kidnapped from them and tortured," said Father Stefan Batruch, the head of a Polish organisation helping injured Ukrainians.

He added that field hospitals in Ukraine manned by volunteers could only offer rudimentary care in "extreme conditions".

The priest's organisation has already helped one wounded Ukrainian receive treatment in the small eastern town of Leczna, which lies not far from the Ukrainian border, after he lost part of a hand to a grenade explosion during the clashes in Kiev.

ULike2CarryModBalls · Feb 21, 2014

Ukraine skier, coach quit Games in protest

AFP
February 20, 2014, 8:16 pm

Ukrainian skier Bogdana Matsotska intends to leave the Winter Olympics in response to the violence in her country. Photograph: Graham Dunbar/AP

A Ukrainian alpine skier and her coach have pulled out of the Sochi Games in protest over the authorities' deadly use of force against demonstrators in Kiev.

Bogdana Matsotska and her coach Oleg Matsotskiy, who is also her father, said on Thursday they were outraged by the refusal of President Viktor Yanukovych to favour dialogue.

"In a sign of protest ... against the bandit-like actions against protesters, we are taking no further part in the Sochi Olympics in 2014," Oleg Matsotskiy wrote on his Facebook page in the name of himself and his daughter.

International Olympic Committee spokesman Mark Adams confirmed the pair had pulled out of the Games after the violence in Ukraine that has left at least 28 dead.

He said the head of Ukraine's Olympic Committee, former pole vault star Sergey Bubka, understood the decision of any Ukrainian athlete who wanted to leave.

But he added that Bubka thought the "best way is for the team to stay here" to show solidarity with those suffering at home.

ULike2CarryModBalls · Feb 21, 2014

Three EU ministers meet Ukraine's Yanukovich as clashes rage in Kiev

Reuters
February 20, 2014, 8:43 pm

KIEV (Reuters) - Three European Union foreign ministers were in talks with Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich on Thursday and have not left the country as previously reported by diplomatic sources, other diplomats said.

"They are meeting him now," one diplomat said.

The three ministers - from Poland, Germany and France - were seeing Yanukovich in efforts to promote a political resolution to the crisis convulsing the country, now in its third month.

But less than two hours before they met, violent clashes broke out in Kiev between protesters and police and at least 15 bodies were seen on or near the city's central Independence Square by a Reuters photographer.

(reporting by Pavel Polityuk; Writing By Richard Balmforth; Editing by Andrew Heavens)

Leongsam · Feb 21, 2014

Those who don't want to get shot should obey the law and they'll have nothing to worry about.

They shouldn't be out protesting. They should stay home and watch the Sochi games on TV.

GoldenPeriod · Feb 21, 2014

It will split into 2. Eastern Ukraine is Russian language dominant anyway and will probably be annexed by Russia. Western Ukraine joins the EU.

halsey02 · Feb 21, 2014

They should travel all the way here to SINgapore...to learn from our SPF, who will show them how to show maximum restrain....

Leongsam · Feb 21, 2014

halsey02 said:
They should travel all the way here to SINgapore...to learn from our SPF, who will show them how to show maximum restrain....

It's "maximum RESTRAINT".

"Restrain" is a verb.

http://www.differencebetween.net/language/difference-between-nouns-and-verbs/

Difference Between Nouns and Verbs

• Categorized under Grammar,Language | Difference Between Nouns and Verbs

Nouns vs Verbs

Whenever you are taking grammar lessons, one of the basic things that you need to learn about are the parts of speech. Here, we will go back to basics, and learn about the differences between nouns and verbs.

Surprisingly enough, many people are still not familiar with the differences between these two, although they are an integral part of the language that they use everyday.

So let’s start by learning what their basic definitions are. A noun is a part of speech which refers to a person, place or thing ‘“ but it can also refer to an object, state, action or concept.

A verb, on the other hand, is a part of speech which indicates action. It can either be used as a supporting verb or a linking verb.Some examples of verbs include talk, walk, read, run or wash, when used as action words.

Verbs can also be used to denote an occurrence, such as when it is used to describe what is happening to something, like decay; and verbs can also denote astate of being, like to exist or stand.

Next, what are the different kinds of verbs? In terms of valency, there are transitive and intransitive verbs.

Transitive verbs are used as the only subject, intransitive verbs are used in reference to a direct object.Meanwhile, nouns are classified into several categories, including proper nouns and common nouns; countable and uncountable nouns; collective nouns; concrete nouns and abstract nouns.

All in all, a noun answers the question ‘what’, while a verb is more of an action word.Summary:

1. A noun is a part of speech which refers to a person, place or thing, while a verb is a part of speech which indicates action.

2. A noun has several types, like proper, common, collective, etc.; while verbs can be classified as transitive and intransitive.

3. Nouns answer the question: “What?”, while verbs are action words which answer the question: ‘How?’

Read more: Difference Between Nouns and Verbs | Difference Between | Nouns vs Verbs http://www.differencebetween.net/language/difference-between-nouns-and-verbs/#ixzz2ttV4jNao

ULike2CarryModBalls · Feb 21, 2014

halsey02 said:
They should travel all the way here to SINgapore...to learn from our SPF, who will show them how to show maximum restrain....

Yeah this brutal video is COOL.. cooler than Bangkok protests. Towards the end can see mata kena gangbanged.

Jah_rastafar_I · Feb 21, 2014

Imagine if this was a country with strong china influence and fighting because of china. Ppl would be cursing china but since it is Russia its ok

AceFrehley · Feb 21, 2014

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escher · Feb 21, 2014

ULike2CarryModBalls said:
Yeah this brutal video is COOL.. cooler than Bangkok protests. Towards the end can see mata kena gangbanged.

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Luckily salvation of Singaporeans within days or weeks when that smear of shit on sole of shoe LKY become a rotting corpse and his rotten PAP implode.

OR SINGAPOREANS WILL BE DRIVEN TO DO WHAT ABOVE VIDEO IS SHOWING AS WE FIGHT TO GET BACK OUR COUNTRY FROM THE ROTTEN PAP BASTARDS

Reddog · Feb 21, 2014

Leongsam said:
Those who don't want to get shot should obey the law and they'll have nothing to worry about.

They shouldn't be out protesting. They should stay home and watch the Sochi games on TV.

Protesters, activists, etc are just stooges being made used by smarter ones with agendas.

ULike2CarryModBalls · Feb 21, 2014

Move over Thai protesters. Learn from Ukraine and capture at least 67 riot police man before u organize any.

ULike2CarryModBalls · Feb 21, 2014

GramStroker · Feb 21, 2014

Only the Western imperialists will call this a peaceful protest.

ULike2CarryModBalls · Feb 21, 2014

GramStroker said:
Only the Western imperialists will call this a peaceful protest.

Fuck off PAP IB clone before i turn this forum into a China and it's allies bashing one and give u a run for your money.

GramStroker · Feb 21, 2014

ULike2CarryModBalls said:
Fuck off PAP IB clone before i turn this forum into a China and it's allies bashing one and give u a run for your money.

No worries I put your being rude down to ignorance. In case you need to be reminded PAP is sleeping in the same bed as the Western Imperialists. Here's a great vid. Have a nice day.

[video=vimeo;87111967]http://vimeo.com/87111967[/video]

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