Pro-Ukraine Supporters Humiliated On The Streets In Eastern Ukraine

Get on your knees: A small group of pro-Europeans was humiliated in the eastern city of Kharkiv

'Crawl To Your Europe': Demonstrators In Ukraine Are Forced To Their Knees By Ethnic Russians Who Proclaim Their Region A 'Sovereign Republic' - Opening Door To Another Putin Takeover -- Daily Mail

* Separatists in eastern Ukraine want to join Russia in same way as Crimea
* Pro-Europeans in second-largest city Kharkiv spat at, kicked and humiliated
* In Donetsk, masked men inside government building declared new republic
* Gunmen also occupied security HQ in Luhansk, 15 miles from border
* Ukrainian serviceman shot dead by Russian soldier in 'drunken argument'
* Russia blocks imports of Ukrainian cheese claiming it fails food tests
* German trade body condemns strict Western sanctions against Russia
* Miley Cyrus to play Finland despite U.S. sanctions on venue's Russian owner

A mob of pro-Russians taunted 'crawl to your Europe' as they forced opponents to their knees and spat at them during escalating tensions in Ukraine.

The scene in the country's second-largest city of Kharkiv yesterday came as gunmen stormed public buildings and a Ukrainian serviceman was shot dead by a Russian soldier in a 'drunken argument'.

Pro-Russian protesters also seized official buildings in two neighbouring cities, Kharkiv and Donetsk - with those in Donetsk today declaring the eastern part of Ukraine a 'people's republic'.

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My Comment: Just finished talking with my relatives who live in eastern Ukraine (you have to love Skype during moments like this). Bottom line .... pro-Russian Ukrainians are rebelling in almost every major eastern Ukrainian city. Kiev is no longer in control of these regions .... their authority has collapsed. Major public and security buildings have been taken over by armed men. There is a call from these groups for Russian intervention. There is also a call to hold a regional referendum on seceding from Ukraine. The street has been taken over by the mob .... and this mob is definitely pro-Russian. Ukraine supporters are definitely not showing themselves on the street, and those who do they are being humiliated (see above Daily Mail report) or beaten up. This is now a full-blown crisis, and if Russia intervenes, a geo-political crisis at that.