The New Dark Age

4 May 2014 — Strategic Culture Foundation

Night in Donetsk, Kramatorsk, Slavyansk and other cities on Donbass was more or less quiet. More obvious the units of Ukrainian army were repositioned.

At 13.30 by Moscow time in Kostyantynivka went on a siren by civil defence. Activists and self-defense gathered near the executive committee. People expected that they would be stormed but the Ukrainian military equipment and military units didn’t enter the city.

Single shots were heard in the area of Andreevka. But rather it seemed to be the intimidation of the civilian from the side of the Ukrainian gunmen than the beginning of the next assault.

Actively the events were developed in Yenakievo. First, there were a meeting near the building of a plant. There were about 3-4 thousand of residents. They demanded a referendum and recognition of the DPR. Later some of the people participating in the rally went to the city center. They went to the building of Privat Bank.

A few people left who still have doubts that the tragedy in Odessa could be possible without fascist activists, whose main sponsors is Kolomoysky – the hear of the Privat Bank. The main slogans were “Do not forgive Odessa ” and ” Russia ” .

To Odessa today went Yatsenyuk. According to the official version, Yatsenyuk met “the leaders of the socio-political, cultural and economic spheres”. But in fact there were the local Ukrainian nationalists who recently burnt people alive in the House of Trade Unions.

Ukrainian “prime minister” called the events in Odessa provocation against Ukraine and blamed the police in the incident. In addition Yatsenuk charged the Prosecutor General’s Office to find the “Russian trace” in tragedy in Odessa.

Recall that one of the main versions of the tragedy, according to representatives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine is that the supporters of federalization “set fire by themselves”.

At this events in Odessa were not over. First, over a hundred of people blocked the building of the Interior Ministry and demanded to release the detained supporters of federalization.

Protesters have blocked the part of the Preobrazhenskaya str. and try to avoid sending the detainees to the district court.

Later in the evening about thousands of activists – opponents of the current Kiev authorities tried to storm the building of the city police department of the city on the Preobrazhenskaya str.

As reported earlier the press-centre of the MIA of Ukraine in Odessa reported that the police arrested 160 of “the most active participants of the riots “. They initiated a criminal case on the articles “riots” and “the threat or violence against a law enforcement officer”. It happened after the clashes between the activists of “Praviy Sector” and soccer fans with the supporters of antimaidan. As a result, Ukrainian nationalists had burnt the Regional House of Trade Unions and the tent town, where the supporters of federalization were gathering the signatures for a referendum.

Today, in many cities of the southeast of Ukraine, Crimea, Russia, Belarus, far and near-abroad countries were organized the mourning rallies in memory of the victims of “Odessa Khatyn”. People also urged the U.S. and the EU to change their minds and stop supporting Kiev criminal regime that systematically carries out punitive operations against the inhabitants of the south-east of the country.

South Front