Ukraine Still Reeling After Yesterday's Riots

VOA: Ukraine’s Poroshenko: Violent Kyiv Protest ‘Stab in the Back’

Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko has described as a "stab in the back" a violent nationalist demonstration against legislation that grants more autonomy to pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine.

In a televised address Monday evening, Poroshenko said the protest outside the parliament in Kyiv earlier in the day was "an anti-Ukrainian action for which all organizers, all representatives of political forces without any exception must carry full responsibility."

A Ukrainian security officer was killed and dozens of other law enforcement personnel injured by a grenade allegedly hurled by a protester. Authorities initially said the 25-year-old National Guard officer was shot in the heart and died in a hospital operating room, but Interior Minister Arsen Avakov later said he was killed by a grenade fragment.

WNU Editor: This analysis from the Daily Beast summarizes what is happening in Kiev .... Ukraine’s Anti-Terrorist Terror (James Miller) .... my main disagreement with this post is that it excuses Ukraine President Proshenko's and Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatesenyuk's actions in the past that have brought Ukraine to where it is today. On a side note .... Western media has finally realized how extreme and dangerous these Ukrainian nationalists are .... Ukraine’s far-right menace (Lev Golinkin, Politico)

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