These videos are amazing. It's better coverage than any major network. CNN has millions of dollars and thousands of journalists. Why can't they get REAL on the ground footage like this?
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Random Videos Bias in the Vice network or Vice news? I haven't seen any in vice News. As for the rest of the Vice network, who gives a fuck what "position" they take, it's entrainment, objectivity is a none issue.
Because the U.S. is not allowed to show it, Americans can not correctly understand it, the U.S. is the most important goal is to present Russia as an enemy
There is no Russian military, there is no one evidence, not a single fact about. They are simple people, but we all should serve in our army, so we all have military training.
Oleg Da One-balled Putin admitted today in his four-hour extravaganza that the little green men in Crimea were Russian soldiers. I have a great-aunt name Olga, but we just call her Aunt Ugly.
***** Russian forces in the Crimea since 1793 and never went out of there. On video eastern Ukraine - Donbass. There was never been Russian troops, Russia-Ukraine border already 2 months completely closed. If there were troops - they would be dispersed throughout the firing positions, but there is a crowd of people near the barricade, the military do not act so.
AeroDoe They were there under the agreement, about 20,000 people, but they're did not fight, all operations performed by locals they have long dreamed of living in Russia, they tried several times to do this legally, but Ukraine deprived them of all rights.
Good for Vice for getting on this almost immediately, but the problem with this run and gun journalism is you have to take the story you can get, and that may not always be complete. They said it was Russian special forces. Who says that? Couldn't you talk to one person to corroborate that claim? Did you try? That video was military on military, but whose vs. whose?
I agree that the Ukrainian Government should have understood the situation years earlier & been more proactive to make the locals more satisfied in being part of Ukraine. It would have gone a long way for them to recognize The Russian language as a 2nd official language in Eastern Ukraine seeing that 90% of the locals speak it.
Gonzo journalism is a style of journalism that is written without claims of objectivity, often including the reporter as part of the story via a first-person narrative.
Well... after looking at the comments section I find myself slightly depressed. Attention ladies and gentlemen, let me tell you what Special Forces (SF) can really do. Contrary to Hollywood's ideal of SF, which would probably resemble something out of Rambo or Call Of Duty. To take over a desired area, all SF has to do is raise and train a insurgency. That's right, they don't even have to show their face! I'm not saying that this is the work of Spetsnaz, since there is no proof, but if this is their work I wouldn't be surprised. What your dealing with is a group of well trained professionals, and so far, they've done a damn good job. That is, if it was actually them. As one would guess, it's kind of hard to tell with every one covering up their face.
well at least we know for sure it wasn't the usmc, usaf, navy or army. they'll be the ones dying to get these retards in line if the feces hits the oscillatory ventilation device
Look at this crowd. Only old people there. I bet if you pay them 10 € they will stand there the whole day. Normal working and educated people dont have time for that shit. They have to study, feed their family, care about their job.
There is a video on BBC showing men, all armed and in uniform, storming that very same police station. What could have happened is that Russian SF stormed the building, cleared out, and then the locals took over.
Peter Tutykhin Yes, but you can literally get Tarnfleck uniforms dirt-cheap. It's not that difficult to organize a small force of guys, the Self Defense of the Maidan did it and people didn't say they were Polish special forces or whatever. Plus, there are vets among those men.
JackTheCarver It's flecktarn not tarnfleck. and can confirm. My small hometown has like over two dozen original german uniforms (flecktarn) for dirt cheap ($10 each).
They claim they only want federalization, that meaning they'll be still part of Ukraine as autonomous republic. Why messing with the Ukrainian state symbols then ?
Man this journalist is the bravest and very honest journalist I've ever seen. Because he show us the actual ground realities.with out taking any sides?keep safe brother.💪
Those guys are definitely not Russian army personale, these guys seem like actual legit locals. A trained specialist army would be waaay more organised than this.
For those, who still ignorant and don't know what is going on: Ukraine as a state has very short history - about 23 years, before this Ukraine had very tight friendly bonds with Russia for hundreds of years and some regions even belonged to Russia. And all these 23 years Ukraine was politically (and now economically and militarily) pulled from Russia by US-EU backed forces and Russian-speaking population was discriminated at a growing rate. Today, after illegal coup and nazi uprising in Kiev, south-western regions have more than ever rights to leave Ukraine, but in fact, according to their protest's leaders, they don't want to leave yet, they just want a referendum for a greater autonomy from the central government, but imposter authorities in Kiev deny them rights to vote even for this, not to mention about leaving Ukraine.
Simon, not sure if you read the comments here, but you are an amazing correspondent! I'm looking forward to "Dispatch Twenty-Six", and have been following since day one. Keep up the good work and stay in one piece!
MsTbsd So first you discredit everyone that uses RU-vid. Then you, being a random RU-vid user, tell me what to do and insult me. How pathetic and illogical.
Alex B because you have the credibility of news networks in ukraine when in reality you are completly proportional to an average internet comment troll. You get no special services for lying on the internet, stop trying so hard.
MsTbsd So now you are an expert on Ukraine and me, how impressive! All I said was that the host seems biased. I didn't say he is because I don't know him that well. You on the other hand say that I am a social reject that was drinking vodka when you don't even know me. So who is the troll here?
I've been obsessively watching videos of the Ukraine situation for a month now and this is my take: I have no doubt that there were Russian forces that were part of the "Crimean Self Defense Force" that took over Crimea. I'm not certain there are Russian Special Forces in Eastern Ukraine as Western Media is stating. I am certain that there is a majority population in some parts of Eastern Ukraine that would like to join Russia. I don't believe that Russia is strongly involved in this uprising, but that they will take advantage where they see the opportunity.
Bullsh*t, they've shown both sides of the story. Stop pretending like you guys know better. Every time you go into a vice news clip you always hear the typical idiots saying how they haven't covered X side of the story. Once they do, some other idiots appear from the other side saying how it's propaganda because they haven't covered Y side of the story. Get a brain.
Ok show me? I'm with you about this, but it is normal. You've to show them their journalistic error. And when you can read between the lines you know it is one-sided reporting.
marcel Bee If by "read between the lines" you mean "Watch these clips with a preconceived bias against them" then thats your own interpretation of the clips, not Vice's. You already had made your mind about what you thought of Vice even before watching these clips, so your opinion is useless. I've seen 32 of them today and I saw a reporter showing both sides of the conflict.
I see no camps or laws passed that restricts russian speaking people from owning businesses or protesting in the streets.I do see the Russian bear intimidating one of its neighbours.And that cannot be allowed to happen.
This is completely bias reporting, the journalist is giving his opinions influencing what you see... but yes its good because its exposing the truth, Svoboda is illegal, backed up by America.
***** Are you serious? Finding evidence is what journalism is. Untill you know what's happend you can only assume, so then they go film at the place to find out what's happend. What specific fact did he spin here?
I find it funny that people here can comment and say "Oh, if you want to be part of Russia just move there". Serbia essentially told the same shit to Albanians. However, the US came in and bombed Serbia because Serbia invaded Serbia. Pretty stupid right? Because of this, any Russian intervention is completely justified. The US already set the precedent. And besides, isn't the US always right? ;)
shakiraizbangin The US says they are right. And the US has f*cked up so many times for them to give moral lessons to other countries. Yeah, invade Iraq with no approval. Kill Gadafii with no approval. Yawn.
It seems that ukrainian army and security forces are unable to take care of anything. Their operation against terrorists seems to be failed miserably, with 6 armored vehicles lost to the pro-russian amateurs and ukrainian forces were basically unarmed by the civilians and returned home crying. Miserable failure. Ukraine has lost its face completely and from now on, it's really hard to take any of their threaths seriously...well, and that has been the case for some time now and it's just getting worse for them.
@@ghostwriter5383 Hmmm, for the first part yes. For the second part no. Removed the second part as it's currently quite evident that my opinion was false.
4:36 "Military against Military". What happened was the Russian Special Forces (not local separatists) opened fire on Ukrainian Security Service officers after the latter approached them for negotiations.
you see, vova putin knows what he's doing. he chose the weakest moment when his puppet yanukovich stole everything he could and destroyed any hint of military, to send his "lovely liberators" to steal the piece of land. of course ukraine don't have army or power to resists agressor. worse yet, if you brainwash gullible masses that you're fighting against "fascists" then they will even welcome you with open hands. this is extremely pathetic and sad picture. I still can't believe my eyes this happening... and I can't believe Russian population endorses this.
they don't want negotiations. they are there to kill people. You know this hype about some sort of "talks" between ukraine, russia, us, and europe. Everyone knows it is b.s. too. Putin wants to steal the land with the help of spetsnaz, and that is what we see. There will be no negotiation because putin only talks to his puppets, and since Kiev told him they won't bent over, he is infuriated, and does not mind murdering and terrorizing people in a foreign land. Russian pride in 21st century! What an embarrassing legacy of traitor and a backstabber!
Those are AKS-74U and they could not loot any other kind of AK from a police station. So i don't really get how you can theoretize on russian military tactics or anything related with a straight face.
***** Spetzna's?!? Give me a fucking break! Spetzna's *are* Russian special forces! It wasn't Spetzna. They were the pro-Russian civilians in the area that don't recognize the authority of the new interim government in Kiev. The Russian speaking people of these regions are who are storming these buildings at night. And how in the fuck can we rationalize what's going on over there, when one week, the civilian people taking over government buildings and police stations in cities like Kiev are called pro democracy demonstrators and freedom fighters, yet when the same type of civilian people(who just happen to speak Russian) take over government buildings and police stations in the *Eastern*(and once again majority Russian) parts of Ukraine, they are labelled terrorists and militants. This is literally driving me nuts that so many people on here think they got it all figured out, but never stop to question whether they are even getting the story straight. There is a reason why all the citizens and civilian defence units stationed around there don't like the cameras and journalists out and about all the time ask them to put their cameras away. They understand that the Western media (by and large they are most of the media over there) are all putting a sensationalist spin on this and not being true to what's happening on the ground. Russian speaking Ukrainians in the East hate the new government in Kiev, they object to the endorsement of this illegitimate government by the US and Britain and the rest, and are dismayed at the fact that the media is trumpeting all kind of bullshit and calling it Russian provocation rather than calling it the will of the people in this region. They feel betrayed by the very journalists that should be telling the world their plight. That's why they all hate the cameras. If you, or anyone else thinks this is Spetzna doing this kind of stuff, its because that's what you've been told and that's what you now believe because that's what you have been told. Bullshit. One week they are simple democracy loving protesters who "just want better for their country" awwwww that's so fucking sweet. Except for some reason, a few weeks later, when some Russian speaking citizens "who just want better for their country" start doing the same thing. The news spins it (solely because they know that any long term Russian-Ukrainian influence in that region, would mean years of waning US influence in the region, and years more of pro-Russian public opinion that they would have to deal with and counter with NATO's twenty year strategy of Russian isolationism which has been in play since the fall of the Soviet Union) I'm not brainwashed enough to fall for that anti-Russian, OMG communists will eat your children and ruin this proud democratic country of ours with their evil socialism. Ahhhhhhhh! Just because Russia is quasi-pseudo-democratic rather than exactly like the United States, we have been told that they are all evil and wrong and all hell bent on our destruction. Its not as easy to be brainwashed as it once was, and the only provocation happening here is by the US who have a destroyer and a frigate in the Black Sea (in violation of the Montruex convention) and soldiers on the ground in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, plus, not to mention, visits to Kiev by the head of the CIA and other US intelligence agencies in the last few weeks. Of course, we barely hear about that shit. Nope. We only hear about the Russian jets flying over these ships and the Russian provocations(even though the US has no fucking business being there to begin with. Just imagine how butt hurt the U.S. would be if Russia put troops in Cuba, Mexico and the Kamchatka Peninsula, then they parked some nuclear capable destroyers and frigates off the coast of New York and sent their heads of their intelligence services to the government offices in the countries where their troops are to "discuss" the United States and their "options" Oh, but when the States do it, its all gravy. No provocations there. People that don't know shit drive me fucking bonkers. And don't bother messaging me back with all that bullshit about what you think Ukrainians want. I can d this all day and make your argument invalid.
***** Isnt it obvious. You need to be educated. Also, something even more obvious, I knew you wouldn't read it. But alas, who really gives a shit if you think it was extremely long, because It was in all actuality intended for the person or people that come along after you, who might like to have a little perspective added to their diet of propaganda heavy FOX news or CNN or (insert media here) You, my good sir, were never the real target to begin with. You see, getting this information out is all that matters. Whichever fucking idiot I have to slab it off on is irrelevant and non consequential. Bye
It's the same story all over eastern Ukraine, if you honestly don't believe that all these "locals' are taking orders from one place (probably Moscow) then you are in denial. EDIT: fixed a grammar mistake.
danvolodar Because everyone in these groups has a hard on for Putin. I've never really seen people this coordinated in their beliefs and tactics yet maintain that they are not taking orders from a single place, seems a bit odd to me.
wireless.mike wrong mate - automatic(machine) Kalashnikov made in year 1947 = AK47, all the AKs are broken down by what year they where drafted, and the reason so many exist is that Russia made millions and nearly all of them still bloody work!! the Klish, BEST RIFLE EVER!
***** No, you are wrong. It is a soviet weapon and soviets never called it AK47 ever, check russian wiki page if you want. It is called AK47 in the west only. The first AK to recieve a number was AK74. Also it is the only AK having a year in its name.
hmmmmm ok, We must choose to disagree on this point mate. but, where I am from, and I must stress, every country is different,we call it a AK47 for the reasons I mentioned, but now I am curious, what do you call this weapon, that is surely the best riffle ever built? we can agree on this yes?
***** Interestingly the year 1947 is when one of the prototypes was created. The first prototype was created in 1946 and the first finalized AKs were produced in 1948 and just in 1949 it was first delivered to the army. I do not really know why 47 was used in the west, guess it is more of a tradition. The guns used in Ukraine/Russia now are all AK74 variations, which is a different weapon, using different cartridge and having some improvements over the first AK series.
To everything the people say Simon asks - BUT WAS RUSSIA INVOLVED!? Come on tell me Russia was involved I need it for my show on vice news...Simon stop grasping at straws.
A couple hundred people protesting and armed gunmen taking buildings for another country is nothing like kiev. Kiev was thousands of protestors and NO armed gunmen, and protestors died, protestors in kiev never stormed buildings with guns killing police, while being attacked they fought back and police died.
Oh yes, the 20 policemen who died and the hundreds that were wounded in Kiew are just a figment of our collective imagination, as were the rifles that you could clearly see the Maidan Self Defense Forces firing at the police. And they're taking the buildings of their own country.
Lots of policemen died aswell. Don't think the protesters were just all good guys. After all, that's why the police started shooting live ammo at people who seemed armed. It's like a cat and mouse blaming fight.
sorry i meant killed by gunmen, i seen videos of kiev uprising showing the brutality of the police... and that was after innocents died... unless you got videos from the police's side showing different???? NO!!!! and why would that be... they hiding something???? lol. you guys blind?
kaizer soze Then watch videos where the protesters throw like 3 molotovs on policemen and beat them to death with spiked sticks while they are burning. Talking about brutality? YOU are blind.
It seems that declaring an anti-terrorist operation without any terrorists is one thing, explaining to your troops that they must shoot some of their own people because you don't like them is entirely another.
Weird that you wouldn't want an opinion of some one who's been embedded in this situation since the beginning. He never said "Here are the facts", he said "This is what it looks like on the ground".
Ikr, what's the point of actually being there if your going to pull theories out of your arse. Well I seen Simon running around in the backround of an RT report today, he's in the Northeast (Izyum or something) where the crackdown ordered by Kiev on civilians is being launched from. Ironic that beating protestors with baton's is brutal but crushing your own people with military might is perfectly normal behavior.
Can't wait to hear what Simon has to say about Kiev sending tanks, jets and attack helicopters to eastern Ukraine - against their own civilian population. Just contemplate that for a second, especially if your an American, that should be an issue close to your heart. Going be interesting to see how Simon will polish that turd.
Salvatore Shiggerino What-about-ery could go on all day and we still wouldn't have started to talk about the topic at hand. We were told it was necessary to remove Yanukovych because he was using brutal tactics against protesters, even though many of those protesters had armed themselves with molotovs, knives and guns. Now the situation is reversed and the same people are about to use miltary hardware in a policing matter. Off the scale hypocrisy that will lead, without a doubt, to Russia having to enter Ukraine.
But that's precisely Putin's justification, that someone (usually the United States) are already doing nasty things, so it's okay for him to do them too. Besides, why would Russia ever "have to" enter Ukraine and get involved with an internal conflict they have no business meddling in? If you absolutely must have foreign intervention, send the usual UN Gurkhas instead, if you were at all concerned with the civilians you wouldn't want to make it more politically charged than it has to be.
Salvatore Shiggerino Why not just give them a greater role in governing that region of Ukraine? That's all they are asking for, they aren't asking to join Russia or become an autonomous region. It's a no-brainer, unless you have ulterior motives, like privatizing industry in Eastern Ukraine, taking advantage of infrastructure Russia laid out a lot towards. The protesters that took the admin buildings have already said they will disarm as soon as these demand are met. As for Putin, he can't survive politically if he doesn't respond in the event that scores of protesters are killed with military hardware. Also Russia may decide to act sooner rather than later, before the UN and NATO have time to mount a response. That's just the reality of how things stand right now, and as I said there is a very easy way out where no-one gets killed.
M JOLNIR Ukraine is not at civil war, there are only a handful (couple of thousand) pro-Russian protestors. Kremlin funded media is blowing this all way out of proportion. In the end Ethnic Russians are only a small (17.2%) minority in Ukraine. Ukraine is Ukrainian.
(1:35) On PBS they were asking a self proclaimed pro-Russia supporter why he was bringing molotov-cocktails (multiple) with him. His response? The Ukraine's had turned off the lights (in their own buildings) so he was bringing them so that he could see! So I guess his logic is, sorry officer, I threw that ball of fire at you so I could see you. Man the truth is a hard thing to find in this world, but the Internet sure has changed the game.
Are you guys blind or do you just choose to close your eyes to all wrongdoings except Russia's? Maidan protesters used molotovs against Berkut soldiers, literally burning them alive. Maidan protesters violently took over the government. It's only speculation that Russia is doing the things in East Ukraine - there is no proof. However, there IS proof that Maidan was backed by the US and EU. Also, everyone saying "who asked Putin to put troops into Ukraine?" Well who asked America to put troops into Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, Lybia, etc?
Retsekoj If you were the Russian government (maybe you are) would you try to make it easy for it to be found that you were invading a country and stealing land in today's political climate with 1/2 of the world looking for a reason to cut you off financially with sanctions? PBS has been doing some good investigative reporting on this issue and yes, there is proof the Russian government is involved. Using military radio frequencies to organize an attack for one thing. The exact same "soldiers" showing up in multiple locations. There are not (mostly) local people who are displeased. The real proof will be if a legitimate election is promoted, supported & allowed by Putin. So far they have lied repeatedly about what they say they will do. Why lie if you are not involved?
Here is just a wild speculation of mine, just remotely connected to the video. Does anybody here think we're seeing the exact same thing we were seeing before WW1? Tensions rising everywhere, and all it takes to spark all this gas is a bullet to the head, of an influential leader, during his visit to a country he is "oppressing" (don't start arguments about this, i don't want to get into pissing contests), like with Franz. And we are nearing the anniversary of WW1... And this seems quite likely, really, all it takes is for a small-minded person (or someone who fully understands what he's doing, and is just doing it "for teh lulz") to think everything will be better once the "influential leader" dies, and for that leaders country to accuse a certain country, and recognize it as an act of war. And then we know how the "other side" will react to this. If you're having trouble by now, the influential man i'm talking about is Putin. And kinda think of, Crimea-Russia-Ukraine is now in *somewhat* of a similar position as Bosnia-Austria-Serbia was back then... Does Putin have any scheduled visits to Crimea? Please don't flame, stay respectful, i'll remove comments that are too offensive.
***** Spread the lies... no one is wishing to leave the EU, I don't know a single European that would wish bring the EU and our dream of a united Europe to an end, not a single one, we had enough wars on our continent, some politicians are surfing on the wave of fascism following Putin's call but the vast majority of the Europeans specially the ones that know our history (or even lived it) know racism and the nationalism Putin and others spread will bring nothing but misery. Even with its shortcomings I would rather live in a free and democratic EU than anywhere else on this planet and specially not in Russia.
There is some credibility to your claim in that so many people in countries around the world want foreign troops (mostly U.S. troops) out of their borders and returned home. I however, don't see how this can lead to more peace worldwide, because more often than not when a country gains its sovereignty it starts plotting against certain neighbors that it has disagreements with. People don't seem to understand that if the U.S. - the most extensive military in the world by a long shot- pulls everyone home and resigns as the World Policeman (a term everyone hates but is true) then the countries it leaves that have ambitions of their own will start expanding into their neighbors until they collide with other growing imperial countries. At that point a war would be much more likely than it is with superpowers because the war would initially be confined to the space between those minor imperial countries and the entire world wouldn't have to get involved. But, These minor imperial powers could draw in allies in the form of more distant imperial powers, and just like in WWI everyone will be pulled in. An empire with a lot of territory does not feel as confident as a country with allies that combined make up the same amount of territory. Hate on the U.S. global military hegemony if you want, but just from what I can remember no 2 countries with U.S. military bases in them have ever gone to war with each other and by that I mean real war with invasions and armies clashing, not those covert wars like you can see between India and Pakistan. If there has been a war between 2 countries with U.S. military bases in them I would like to know, and be polite cause I'm trying to be rational. Lastly, if you think things would be different this time around with the U.S. returning to isolationism, just remember that in the years right before WWI and WWII people in the belligerent countries didn't expect to declare war on each other, as they thought with all of the economic and technological progress that they "were too good for war" at those points and time, and as you can recall they were wrong.
I have to say I've seen all the Ukranian coverage of VICE and... Simon is talking about the government in Kiev as a legitimate one, and talking shit about the protestors that are occupying buldings. I am not in anyone's side here, but I think is important to undestand that the government in Kiev was established after a coup that started the same way that those protestors that Simon critizes so much are doing: by occupying the Ukrainian Partliament, a building. I am sorry to say that none of the sides are legitimate, and the safest way off this situation is to call in UN (not russian or OTAN) forces into the land to supervise clear and legal presidential elections. It is important to point out that the government in Kiev is made by fascists pro-nazis and if there is a pro-russian movement rising in eastern Ukraine is just because the country suffered a great deal during WWII and they don't want to see a fascist near them again, so pro-russian movement is mainly a way to say we want protection from the fascist. Plus, a lot of russians live there, in fact a lot of that land was Russian from the 18th century until the 50's when Khrushev gave it up to Ukraine as some kind of gift, that's not even 2nd generation! So, make up your mind
The translation is not precise. For example, on 2:04 a man says that he fight for Orthodox faith, but the subtitles add attibute RUSSIAN Orthodox faith. Even if you do not know the russian langiuage, you still can attentively hear him not speaking these seconds words rossiya, russkii or any else of the root rus-ros. And I remind you, that Orthodox Church is not Russian only, but firstly Greek, then Armenian, Georgian and is traditional in practically all the slavic countries.
I would like to make my own oppinion on this matter and not be influenced by yours Simon! Please stop interpreting the situation and just report facts! Your a reporter, remember!? Let the people decide what to make of it so stop being so giving about your own oppinions because one could say that you might want your oppinion to mean more that it is. Even the title is somewhat provocative towards a certain side of this situation. Do not think that people will not notice! Other than that I like what your doing! Keep it up!
They don't have a government anymore. Right now its an interim government composed of Oligarchs. They aren't supposed to do anything but set up elections, but that hasn't stopped them from bringing in wonderful, fascist anti-language laws.
TheRedemptionRain Those anti-language laws are probably the same as anti-gay laws in Russia. Everyone is talking about it, but none know what it means and whether it really exists. :-P
Dan Korostelev The thing is that Russian language is still used in Crimea, it just isn't the official language. Idk why Pro-Russians are blowing things out of proportion, and I don't think we can compare the gays in Russia to the language laws in Ukraine
Of course the language affairs are not as bad in reality as both russian propaganda pushes and some common folk think, but OTOH there's a real reason to worry for russian-speaking community in Ukraine - the far-right nationalists currently have an opportunity to speak loud and even "legally" arm themselves. And they were always anti-russian in every aspect: language, culture and so on. So russian majorities in south/east are of course outraged and demand Kiev to disarm Right Sector. As for the gay laws in Russia - really it's only a law against open propaganda. Other than that noone really cares whether you're gay or not, just like in every civilized country. For example, people don't have any problem with jobs (well maybe as long as you don't come in latex shorts with a strap-on dildo, lol).
those guys who are screaming about fascism has to be gone, they scream it all over former Soviet union states where are russian speaking people living, Baltcs etc :(
I am from that region and everyone that speaks in the video has an accent of that region which is very definitive. So how can they be russian special forces???
pro Russian? They are pro Referendum. I agree with Marcel Bee are they any documentaries on Kyiv's support from the USA etc. You can tell from their accents that they are not Russians. The 'g' in Ukraine is generally pronounced as a 'h' for examples 'Mi havorim na ruskam'. The guys in the video spoke with a strong Ukrainian accent
Is there a referendum scheduled to happen? Or is that just what all the local self defense forces taking over government buildings are demanding? Although it seems the civilian population is being influenced by Russia's annexation of Crimea not all the interviews in this series make that seem to be the case. I will agree with the self defense member's comment of this being a more peaceful takeover then what happened on the Maidan that looked much more brutal than these local uprisings and from the lack of response from the Ukraine government I could see why the people would be so fed up with them and want to get absorbed into Russia or become a sovereign state on their own. Ukraine is falling apart and the leadership there seems completely incompetent and incapable of stopping it from getting worse.
If the keep doing this then of course Ukraine will never get back on its feet..As for more peaceful?They have guns when mostly all the people in maidan only had bats and fists.The only reason the government does not want to go after them is because there would be a bloodbath.
ha look at the things he had to go out of his way to blame the Russian "I *think* theyr playing the blame game", " *maybe* even Russian special forces" these two phrases came out of the blue, when nothing in the video indicating anything of the sort (cant find proof) lol
my theories is that putin playing a game and so its ukraine . both blaming eatch other so right now its getting hard to know who is the truth. when was so maney russians in ukrain
Sadly, the Ukrainian army seems to do. I'm in no way a supporter of what is happening there right now, but seeing how they have handled this, the word Ukrainian "army" is just as worthy of quotation marks as the pro-Russian rifle carrying "civilians".
He keeps implying Russian Special Forces are behind these raids. Even when the people tell them different, and lets say for arguments sake it was, it was some covert conspiracy by Putin to avoid a reaction from NATO. THE PEOPLE there are pro Russia. I didnt hear him mentioning the bullet holes and all the blood in the captured police station which would have been there if an SF entry team encountered resistance. So then lets say a Special Forces team encountered no resistance or minimal. Then is it not totally plausible the locals would also not have encountered any resistance making it just as easy for them. I do hear people in lots of his videos calling the previous government gangsters and criminals tho. he's getting way too excited.
'the inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings;the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries' - Sir W.Churchill unfortunately most of the ukrainians didn't get that point yet
