'Highly militarized rioters attempt to start civil war in Ukraine'

[Mika]

Report reminds me of the anti Chavez movement/media in Ven ....

'Highly militarized rioters attempt to start civil war in Ukraine'

[BelgianMadCow]

1. Well, I thought some of the protesters at the most violent times looked weird as well

and then there's loads of them being loaded in a van near a policestation, iirc.

Ukraine is complex as it is, and clearly there's more than meets the eye. So at least we should consider all sources. Thank you for posting.

[Mika]

2. AND, as was in Venezuela during Chavez, most media is owned by the opposition to the gov't. n/t

[iamthebandfanman]

3. i tried to tell folks

in one of the first posts about these riots on DU a while back that we didn't have a dog in this fight (the left, I mean)..

this is a fight between the far right parties and the corporate centrist government...
which is why they were tearing down status of lenin (who has nothing to do with anything)... there was even someone on here celebrating the fact his statues were being torn down (and listing events that took place AFTER lenin was dead to show he was evil and deserves his statues toppled)...

i hate to tell the people of Ukraine, but the people in the opposition are just as corrupt and criminal as the government they are protesting :p

people really shouldn't have an opinion on something if they don't have a full understanding of whats going on... even on DU.

[Joe Shlabotnik]

4. Ukrainian anarchists,

have been calling bullshit on these protests from day one. There is nothing grass-rootsy or Occupy-esque about them. Its purely 50% nato/EU banker interests vs. 50% Russian interests. The country could or should have split in 2, 100 years ago.

[pam4water]

5. There is some good stuff on RT but not this. I'm not believing anything I see on RT about

the Ukraine any more than I believe Fox News about Obama.

[geek tragedy]

6. RT=authoritarian propaganda and lies

the thug who's cracking down in the Ukraine is a Putin puppet, thus RT running this garbage.

[notemason]

7. Dazed and confused

One man's opinion on a Russian station condemning people who protest against Russian interests does not leave much to go on. Thanks to all of you who share your views. It helps.

[blackspade]

8. What a load of horseshit.

This is simply Russian propaganda against the Ukrainian opposition.
It's the same thing as the rethuglicans calling the media liberal.