Saturday, April 19, 2014

Pro-Russian Separatists In Ukraine Are Not Going To Surrender



Putin’s Men in Ukraine: We’re Not Giving In -- Anna Nemtsova, Daily Beast

Diplomats reached an agreement in Geneva to defuse the Ukraine crisis, but the people at the heart of it aren’t listening.

DONETSK, Ukraine—A dozen men in motley apparel gathered in a quiet office on the fifth floor of what used to be a state administration building in eastern Ukraine, but is now called the headquarters of the “Independent Donetsk People’s Republic.” Some of the men wore uniforms, others wore track suits, some wore balaclava masks. Their apparent leader, sitting behind the desk, was a round-faced 33-year-old Muscovite who called himself Mikhail Verin, or Misha, holding forth to the small crowd about how he found his Russian nationalist inspiration and why, no matter what deals diplomats might hammer out in Geneva, he would not be giving up or giving in.

But as he spoke beneath the Russian flag, Verin’s rhetoric began to suggest bitter schisms within the pro-Moscow movement as different factions try to claim leadership—divisions that could further complicate any effort to defuse the Ukraine crisis.

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My Comment: The U.S. is looking at Russia to disband these groups .... but I do not see this happening. I know the people in this region .... they are very independent and when they are committed they are not going to back down. After-all .... it is this region that opposition to the Soviet Union first started .... culminating in the disbandment of the Soviet Union over 20 years ago. With such a history even Moscow knows that if they make a demand to these separatists to back down .... they will most likely not.

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