Russian troops have entered the small Ukrainian town of Sloviansk and, acting in the same manner as they had in the Crimea, occupied the city:
The city administration of Slovyansk has been captured by an army reconnaissance group of up to 30 people, who came to the city following a forced march. The soldiers’ uniforms and shoes were extremely dirty. These soldiers acted as a coherent military unit, they were armed with machine guns with grenade launchers of the kind not used by Ukrainian police. This must mean that these weapons couldn’t have been captured by them somewhere in Ukraine and had to be brought in from someplace else. (Translation is mine, the original is here plus photos.)
Putin is being very kind to Obama and orders the soldiers not to wear the insignia of the Russian army. This allows everybody to pretend that there has been no invasion, no Russian troops are present on Ukrainian territory, everything is peachy, and there is no issue to be addressed. “But if the people of the Donbass region want to vote to become part of Russia, then why shouldn’t they?” we will soon hear.
The mayor of Sloviansk is, of course, a former Communist Party apparatchik and is joyfully welcoming the invasion. It only makes sense for her to want to live in a country ruled by a KGB officer. At the link, you can see the photo of this nasty animal.
Putin, in the meanwhile, is still very kind to Obama and doesn’t call what is happening “a Cold War.”
The whole thing is getting beyond pathetic. And please don’t ask me what should be done now. After Putin was allowed to annex the Crimea just because he felt like it, it’s a little bit too late to ask this question. All we can do is get our heads out of our asses and simply accept that the USSR is back and the Cold War is back. naming the problem is the very first step towards solving it.
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