Crisis in Ukraine: The World Reacts

Posted on March 6, 2014 by chervonaruta

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Putin may have firepower but in the territory of public opinion the world over he has already lost the battle. Here is a small slice of the protests and reactions to the invasion of Ukraine.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/photos/crisis-in-ukraine-the-world-reacts-1393865237-slideshow/

NEW YORK CITY: Demonstrators against Russian military actions in Ukraine rally in Times Square, Sunday, March 2, 2014, in New York. Over 1,000 people shouted, “No to war!” Western powers are prepared “to go to the hilt” to isolate Russia for its military incursion into Ukraine, “an incredible act of aggression” that may lead to visa bans, asset freezes, trade and investment penalties, and a boycott of a Russian-hosted economic summit of global powers in June, Secretary of State John Kerry said Sunday. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

photo: John Minchillo photo: John Minchillo

COPENHAGEN: Sympathizers and Ukrainians living in Denmark demonstrated Tuesday March 4, 2014 in front of the U.S. Embassy in Copenhagen. Demonstrators condemned Putin’s and Russian…

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Crisis in Ukraine: The World Reacts

Posted on March 6, 2014 by chervonaruta

Putin may have firepower but in the territory of public opinion the world over he has already lost the battle. Here is a small slice of the protests and reactions to the invasion of Ukraine.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/photos/crisis-in-ukraine-the-world-reacts-1393865237-slideshow/

NEW YORK CITY: Demonstrators against Russian military actions in Ukraine rally in Times Square, Sunday, March 2, 2014, in New York. Over 1,000 people shouted, “No to war!” Western powers are prepared “to go to the hilt” to isolate Russia for its military incursion into Ukraine, “an incredible act of aggression” that may lead to visa bans, asset freezes, trade and investment penalties, and a boycott of a Russian-hosted economic summit of global powers in June, Secretary of State John Kerry said Sunday. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

photo: John Minchillo

photo: John Minchillo

COPENHAGEN: Sympathizers and Ukrainians living in Denmark demonstrated Tuesday March 4, 2014 in front of the U.S. Embassy in Copenhagen. Demonstrators condemned Putin’s and Russian military actions in Ukraine. (Jens Dresling / POLFOTO)

photo: Jens Dresling / POLFOTO

photo: Jens Dresling / POLFOTO

Copenhagen

Copenhagen

VIENNA: A members of Vienna’s Ukrainian community holds up a placard reading ‘We don’t go in the same direction’ as she protests against Russian troops in Ukraine, outside the U.S. embassy in Vienna March 4, 2014. President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that Russia saw no need to use military force in the Crimea region of Ukraine for now, in remarks apparently intended to ease East-West tension over fears of war in the former Soviet republic. Earlier on Tuesday, Putin ordered troops involved in a military exercise in western Russia, close to the border with Ukraine, back to their bases. (REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger)

photo: REUTERS / Leonhard Foeger

photo: REUTERS / Leonhard Foeger

VIENNA: Members of Vienna’s Ukrainian community protest against Russian troops in Ukraine, outside the U.S. embassy in Vienna March 4, 2014. President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that Russia saw no need to use military force in the Crimea region of Ukraine for now, in remarks apparently intended to ease East-West tension over fears of war in the former Soviet republic. Earlier on Tuesday, Putin ordered troops involved in a military exercise in western Russia, close to the border with Ukraine, back to their bases. (REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger)

photo: REUTERS / Leonhard Foeger

photo: REUTERS / Leonhard Foeger

BARCELONA: People hold banners reading in Catalan ” Russia go out of Ukraine”, during a protest outside the Russian consulate in Barcelona, Spain, Tuesday, March 4, 2014. Demonstrators condemned Russian military actions in Ukraine. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

AP Photo/Manu Fernandez

AP Photo/Manu Fernandez

SLOVENIA: Members of Slovenia’s Ukrainian community hold up placards as they protest against Russian troops in Ukraine, outside of the Russian embassy in Ljubljana, March 4, 2014. The placards read, “No Putism” (L) and “Peace to Ukraine”. (REUTERS/Srdjan Zivulovic)

REUTERS / Srdjan Zivulovic

REUTERS / Srdjan Zivulovic

THESSALONIKI: Ukrainian people who lIve in Greece hold Ukrainian flags and chant slogans against President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, during a protest about the situation in Ukraine, outside the Russian consulate, in the northern Greek port city of Thessaloniki, on Wednesday, March 5, 2014. (AP Photo/Nikolas Giakoumidis)

AP Photo/Nikolas Giakoumidis

AP Photo/Nikolas Giakoumidis

THESSALONIKI: Ukrainian people who lIve in Greece hold up drawing poster with President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, during a protest for the situation in Ukraine, outside the Russian consulate, in the northern Greek port city of Thessaloniki, on Wednesday, March 5, 2014. (AP Photo/Nikolas Giakoumidis)

AP Photo/Nikolas Giakoumidis

AP Photo/Nikolas Giakoumidis

SOFIA: A man takes pictures of figures of a Bulgarian communist-era monument painted in the colours of the Ukranian and Polish flags by unknown people in Sofia March 5, 2014. The monument was painted overnight in Ukrainian and Polish national flag colours together with texts reading “Katyn 5.03.1940”, “Crimea 2014” and “Putin go home!” as what appears to be an artistic condemnation of the Russian stance towards Ukraine. Also a reminiscence of the Katyn massacre where on March 5, 1940 thousands of Polish officers, taken as war prisoners, were killed by the Soviet secret police. (REUTERS/Stoyan Nenov)

REUTERS/Stoyan Nenov

REUTERS/Stoyan Nenov

SOFIA: A woman walks past a Bulgarian communist-era monument painted by unknown people in Sofia March 5, 2014. The monument was painted overnight in Ukrainian and Polish national flag colours together with texts reading “Katyn 5.03.1940”, “Crimea 2014” and “Putin go home!” as what appears to be an artistic condemnation of the Russian stance towards Ukraine. Also a reminiscence of the Katyn massacre where on March 5, 1940 thousands of Polish officers, taken as war prisoners, were killed by the Soviet secret police. (REUTERS/Stoyan Nenov)

REUTERS/Stoyan Nenov

REUTERS/Stoyan Nenov

Michael Cecire‏@mhikaric
My friend in #Moscow saw a lone Orthodox priest protesting #Ukraine intervention. Moments later, the police took him.

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And another anti-war protester in Moscow being hauled off by riot police:

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Olga Tokariuk ‏@olgatokariuk  Mar 2
#Odessa today: ‘Sorry, Vova, she chose someone else’. Vova=#Putin, she=#Ukraine via @diyatyorg pic.twitter.com/eN8LkI3Zfm

Odesa, March 2, 2014

Odesa, March 2, 2014

Dublin supports Ukraine!

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Rally in Washington, DC by the Russian Embassy – March 2

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Istanbul, Turkey:

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Back to protest in Moscow again: “Don’t send our children to a war with our brothers in Ukraine.”

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And the Prime Minister of Canada, a country which has the largest number of Ukrainians outside of Ukraine, tweeted this:

Stephen Harper        ✔ @pmharper
Ukrainian flag being proudly flown on Parliament Hill to demonstrate our solidarity w/ people of   8:29 AM – 4 Mar 2014

Ukrainian flag flying proudly from the Parliament buildings in Canada's capitol, Ottawa.

Ukrainian flag flying proudly from the Parliament buildings in Canada’s capitol, Ottawa.

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To Russian Officers – From a Ukrainian Officer

Posted on March 6, 2014 by M. Stanislav

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To Russian Officers – From a Ukrainian Officer

Source: Blog at Echo Moskvy
Translated by Voices of Ukraine

Long ago, back in 1988, I took an Oath to serve the Soviet People.

My grandfather and father were officers – one in the Red Army, the other in the Soviet Army.

Today, I’m a Ukrainian officer who took an Oath to serve the Ukrainian People. My tag bears my ID number, and above it, the letters still say ‘USSR Internal Troops’. I didn’t change my ID number, and I will keep it as long as I live.

Today, I am talking to you, senior officers of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, who have the right to send other people’s sons to die, while you remain in relative safety.

We, the Ukrainian people, are going through difficult and hungry times now, as we are recovering from the revolution while economic ruin wracks our country. But none of us, not even in our worst nightmares, could ever imagine that Russia would stab us in the back. Stab us after placing the knife in your hands.

Forget the tales of Churkin and Lavrov, Shoygu and Kiselev, Putin and Solovyov. Even on the morning of February 27, it was clear for me and the majority of Ukrainians, that the unthinkable has happened – the Russian army started an invasion of Ukraine.

Don’t you, Russian officers, feel ashamed of yourself and of your commanders as you send your soldiers to the territory of a different state, with weapons in hand but without insignia? Are you not terrified by the thought that from this day forth, Ukrainians will never think of you, and of all the Russian people, as friends? By the thought that criminals were brought to power in Crimea, lifted high by Russian bayonets? By the fortitude of my brothers in arms in Crimea, who chose the only correct tactic – not a single shot fired at the Russians?

Today, when the Ukrainian military units are blocked by your soldiers, the tensions are running impossibly high – yet not a single shot has been fired. We know that after one death, there will be no changing the course, no stopping the war that will claim thousands of lives, soldier and civilian alike.

We have not fired a single shot – and we already won. We won, by singing the Ukrainian Anthem in response to the demands to break our oath.

Notably, no Russian officer dared to ask Ukrainian troops to commit treason – it was the traitor admiral that took up this task, worthy of Judas himself. This means that you still have officer’s honor. We also have it. And it is that honor that will make us fight you, to the end. Should the unthinkable happen.

The Ukrainian army has no right to interfere in the domestic politics of its country, and neither does a foreign army. Do everything that depends on you to get your commanders to call you and your soldiers off, to bring you home. Nothing stains an officer’s honor as much as the base and wretched act that is occupying a peaceful brotherly country. Put this simple thought in the head of your generals.

And one more thing – talking to the NATO military, whom we used to be somewhat wary of, made me think that our affairs, our troubles, and our disputes are of no consequence to them. They live in their own world, which – sadly! – is better than ours.

But after what happened, I wouldn’t be able to name ANY officer of the Ukrainian army who would object to Ukraine’s membership in NATO. Because no one would dare invade the territory of a NATO state – in the night, like a thief. In them, we would have real military allies – something that no Ukrainian in their right mind will view Russia as, not anymore.

And so, I turn to you, Russian officers. Stop your men and sway your commanders. Understand that an error can still be corrected, but a betrayal of our friendship will be forever irredeemable.

Don’t shoot at us – and we will not shoot at you.

Our cause is just – we stand to defend our country and our state.

We have no other land, and we never will. And we will defend our freedom to the last drop of blood.

On my honor!

Pyotr Ivanenko

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Assad supports Putin

Posted on March 6, 2014 by chornajuravka

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Syrian President Bashar Assad on Thursday, March 6, expressed solidarity with the actions of Russian President Vladimir Putin in connection with events in Ukraine, reports Gazeta.RU.

According to the news outlet, President Bashar Assad sent a telegram to Vladimir Putin where “he expresses solidarity with his efforts to restore security and stability in the comrade country Ukraine in light of the attempted coup against legitimacy and democracy in favor of radicals and terrorists. ”

Assad also said that Damascus supports the “rational and peaceful approach of the Russian president, who is committed to the global system that supports stability and the fight against terrorism.”

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Crimean Tatars ask Turkey, Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan for help

Posted on March 6, 2014 by chornajuravka

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Crimean Tatars appealed to the presidents of Turkey, Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan to help prevent the secession of Crimea from Ukraine, reports Espreso.TV, citing Azerbaijani news outlet haqquin.az.

In an interview with haqquin.az on March 6, the leader of the Crimean Tatars and former head of the Mejlis Mustafa Dzhemilev explained:

“Our people were once expelled from their native lands,” he said. “We do not want a repetition of this tragedy. Therefore we appeal for help to Ilham Aliyev (president of Azerbaijan), Abdullah Gül (president of Turkey ) and Nursultan Nazarbayev (president of Kazakhstan). Do not abandon your Crimean brothers and sisters at this difficult time. We ask the entire world to help us. Exile and repression await us in Russia once again,” he said.

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