A month of relative quiet
in eastern Ukraine was shattered in early January by full-blown fighting as the
separatists attempted to claw back additional territory from government hands. Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk
said on Saturday that 1,000 residents have been evacuated in the past days from
the city of Debaltseve.
"Yatsenyuk said in
comments carried by his press office, "As soon as they (the rebels) see
that we are evacuating the people, they open fire."
I notice Kiev is not
mentioning the million plus civilians who have sought refuge in Russia, or the
Kiev army conscripts who are fleeing across the Russian border. They are Ukrainians whose only 'crime' seems
to be they wanted to retain their language (which happens to be Russian) and
not to be governed by a regime that came to power via an illegal coup d’état.
Believe it or not, the
people of Ukraine don’t like being governed by pigs or having their native
language outlawed by illegal bureaucrats. So they fight back.
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