Armed pro-Russian rebel squat in the bed of a truck outside a military academy which houses weapons in Donetsk on May 6. © Kostyantyn Chernichkin
Ukraine In ‘Undeclared War’ With Russia As Rebels Unite -- Bloomberg Businessweek
Insurgents killed six Ukrainian soldiers and wounded eight others in an ambush near an eastern rebel-held stronghold as the defense minister said the country was fighting an “undeclared war” with Russia.
More than 30 attackers struck a convoy near the Donetsk region city of Kramatorsk at about 1 p.m., according to a statement on the Defense Ministry’s website. As fighting flared, Europe tried to rev up diplomatic efforts, with Germany’s Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier visiting Kiev and Odessa in a bid to broker talks between the central government and separatists.
“Russia is already engaged” in Ukraine “in supporting Russian-led protesters and terrorists,” Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk told reporters in Brussels today after talks with European Commission President Jose Barroso. “We urge Russia to condemn them, to urge all these so-called protesters -- or really, terrorists -- to leave and vacate the buildings, and to do everything they can to stabilize the situation in Ukraine. Russia will fail to make Ukraine a failed state.”
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My Comment: Since the start of the revolution a few months ago .... Ukraine has been at war with itself .... not Russia. If Ukraine can get it's act together Russia will then not be a factor ....but when the Ukrainian interim government assumed power they were not looking for reconciliation but revenge .... and we are now seeing the blow-back from these misguided policies.
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