Yuri Butusov status update
Translated by Julian Kytasty
Date: January 26, 2014

Source: https://www.facebook.com/topaz.salat/posts/703195929720706

Yanukovych has introduced de-facto martial law in Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhia. But it wasn’t the army he sent into the streets – it was organized groups of thugs. Right now mass arrests of Euromaidan activists are taking place in both regions. The police are attempting to kidnap the wounded from hospitals. The streets are being patrolled by the police in tandem with the criminal groups. The bandits can assault anyone they wish to target, the police guarantees their lack of accountability. The actions of the criminal groups and the police are co-ordinated by vice prime minister Alexander Vilkul.

This marks the beginning of a criminal occupation of Ukraine and the seizure of power by illegal armed formations! The government cannot restore order on its own and thus supports the thugs. The Euromaidan must decide: either its self-defense units support the people of Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhia, or the bandits will carry out a coup following the Transdnistria scenario. If the Euromaidan can clear the bandits out of the Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporishia regions, the Yanukovych regime will crumble. The industrial capacity of these two regions surpasses that of Donetsk. The most important thing is that there are people there ready to fight for their freedom! We have no right to leave them in the lurch – they are our Ukrainian brothers! Please lend informational support to the struggle for liberation in Central Ukraine.

see also: https://maidantranslations.wordpress.com/2014/01/28/extremists-vs-police-militias-on-the-streets-of-ukraine/