Shots rang out and tension remained high in the streets of Kiev Friday, as Ukrainian protest leaders signed a deal with Ukraine's president to defuse a political crisis that has left scores dead and hundreds injured.
After hours of European-led negotiations, Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych signed an agreement with opposition leaders Friday that calls for early elections, a new constitution and a new unity government. The deal promises presidential elections will be held no later than December, instead of March 2015 as scheduled.
Many protesters say December is too late -- they want Yanukovych out immediately.
Ukrainian authorities also will now name a new government-- including opposition figures --within 10 days. The deal says the government will not impose a state of emergency and both sides will refrain from violence.
It's a "good compromise for Ukraine. Gives peace a chance. Opens the way for reform and to Europe. Poland and EU support it,'' European Union mediator, Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski, said in a Twitter post Friday.
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We will see. I posted earlier about one thing I saw in the articles, pictures and live feeds that has almost convinced me the rioters are in the right here and not just something being funded by the EU.
ReplyDeleteOld women acting as support personnel. Making bombs, carrying food and water etc. That just doesn't give me a feel of paid terrorist. I really think this whole thing is a matter of the have nots finally being fed up. Those without government jobs, who didn't marry into the Russians or curry favor. If that is the case I am with em 100%.
I'm not sure yet, I believe might be which is the best commie. :) Some comments below
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This is really an ethnic fight, ethnic Ukrainians v. ethnic Russians. The fight goes back hundreds of years, ever since the beginning of the Russian empire. It is also regional and religious, western Catholic Ukrainians v. eastern Orthodox Russians.
The current government under Yanukovych is also the legitimate, democratcally elected government, so the demontrators are attempting to overthrow it by violence rather than waiting for the next elections.
Moreover, the US and the the EU appear to be inciting the violence in order to impose a change in government. This greatly raises the odds in favor of Russian intervention and war in Central Europe. If it happens, it will be largely the result of wantonly reckless policies by the US and the EU. Obama will have played the role of the kaiser in 1914.
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brocktownsend | February 21, 2014 at 00:28 | Reply
Does anyone have information as to the political leanings of those in the streets one way or the other, if any?
EUtransplant | February 21, 2014 at 08:45 | Reply
Hard left socialists.
Concerned American | February 21, 2014 at 09:28 | Reply
Funny – the Putinistas and their piss-boys call them “fascists”.