2 Killed, 5 Injured In Shooting In Central Kharkiv (Right Sector shoots at Pro-Russian activists)

[newthinking]

(Not the best translation (below), events are as follows:

*A Blue Van pulled up and shot automatic weapons at a group of "Pro-Russian activists" near the square

*Some of the activists regognized the van as one that had also shot at people on March 8th

* The van tried to flee but activists followed on motorcycles

*The Van fled to a "Patriot of Ukraine" office and tried to hide inside.

*"Kharkiv Self-Defence" representatives (Militia) and local police gathered at the office and tried to enter and those inside (30-40 ppl) used guns and "petrol bombs" and killed one man and a passer-by, and injured 5 others including a policeman.

* Right sector took hostages in the process

*Eventually those in the building surrendered (They were surrounded by militia, 200 pro-russian activists who had arrived, and police)

http://un.ua/eng/article/498355.html

2 Killed, 5 Injured In Shooting In Central Kharkiv

Two people were killed and five injured on March 14 night in a shooting near the office of the non-government organisation Patriot of Ukraine at 18 Rymarska Street in central Kharkiv, a police spokesman has told Ukrainian News Agency. Eyewitnesses say unknown people from a blue Volkswagen T4 van were shooting from traumatic weapons at pro-Russian activists from the "Kharkiv Self-Defence" movement in Svobody Square in Kharkiv on March 14 evening. Eyewitnesses maintain that from the same van with Dnipropetrovsk registration number they were shooting at a car full of pro-Russian activists in Pravdy Avenue in Kharkiv on March 8. The van was hijacked.

They made several shots, threw a tear gas pot, and tried to escape, but bikers from the square set to pursuit and found out that the van approached the building at 18 Rymarska Street.

"Kharkiv Self-Defence" representatives tried to penetrate the Patriot of Ukraine office but the people inside responded with shooting from traumatic weapons through windows, and later shotgun pellets from short rifles, and also threw a stun grenade and a petrol bomb at the attackers. In the shooting one "Kharkiv Self-Defence" representative and an accidental passer-by was killed, five injured, including a policeman, who sustained a serious injury in the chest; all wounded were taken to hospital. The people inside the building took three hostages: two of the building's guardsmen and a police officer, who entered it for negotiations.


SNIP

At about 04:30 the people in the building agreed to ground arms and surrender.
Policemen removed people from the building, searched them, led into buses, and drove away.
Preliminary information, some 30 people were detained.

[Comrade Grumpy]

1. Uh-oh. n/t

[Scootaloo]

2. I'm sure the usual crowd will be here any moment to condemn...

...you as a filthy Putinista for posting this.

[newthinking]

3. This certainly does give perspective against all the claims around the clashes in the East.

The west press is not at all reporting how groups like Right sector have headed to each "hot spot" to intimidate and put down violently opposition and stir up trouble.

[T. J. Kong]

4. That was Friday, March 14th

Just so folks don't think things are escalating after the Crimea referendum.

Yet, this is an important story, thanks for sharing.