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Will Cathcart, Daily Beast/Georgian Journal: As Ukraine Murders Multiply, Who’s The Lead Suspect?
In the muddle of insurgency, assassinations, false flags, and military confusion, the right-wing Pravy Sektor’s Dmitry Yarosh is a key player.
The recent high-profile murders in Kiev of opposition politician Oleh Kalashnikov and, the next day, of Ukrainian writer Oles Buzyna have made the scene in an already complicated and fractious Ukraine murkier than ever.
Both Kalashnikov and Buzyan were overtly and, for many in Kiev and western Ukraine, disgracefully pro-Russian. Both were active in the “Anti-Maidan” movement of last year opposing the pro-Western change of power.
Yet many in Kiev see the hand of Russian intelligence services at work, a false flag conspiracy to stir trouble. As a recent article in Deutsche Welle pointed out: “The Kremlin chief spoke about the murder in Kiev during a live broadcast on Russian television only about an hour after it had taken place.”
WNU Editor: The problem in Ukraine is not that there are a few murders and disappearances .... the problem is that widespread murders and disappearances are now becoming the norm throughout the country .... and since most of these murders and disappearances involve those who oppose the government .... fingers are now being pointed. I do not know if the right-wing Pravy Sektor or if Russia's FSB are involved in the recent high-profile killings .... but I do know that private armies/militias/armed gangs are rapidly becoming the norm in Ukraine .... they are universally feared .... and they are a law unto themselves .... including Dmitry Yarosh's Pravy Sektor militia.
2 comments:
WNU Editor,
While the FSB might have motives for one or two as a false flag,
Not this many.
Funny thing is, the SBU said they were adopting the past policies of the OUN- UPA, and this is one of the core past policies of the OUN-UPA,
The funny thing is that crying false flag is pretty common over here in Russian too, over Nemtsov's death and other such incidents. I'd say it's feasible, maybe more feasible in the Ukrainian case since I wouldn't really put such tactics past FSB, but in either case more evidence is needed before it can survive Occam's Razor. A small but ruthless independent group like the Right Sector makes more sense and gains a lot from the spike in tensions caused by the assassinations, not to mention disposing of ideological opponents.
Either way this seems to be proof that rather than escaping into "Europe", Ukraine has only moved closer to being a smaller, weaker, poorer Russia, where political assassinations that are not properly investigated are part of the norm.
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