There is an article in yahoo news about Russian assassins in Kiev during the riots. Does anyone else think this is bs?

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The article, by Jamie Dettmer, alleges that Russian snipers killed over 50 people. There is an accompanying run of photos that are supposed to prove the truthfulness of the article. There is one pic that shows some Russians gearing up to do something, but they aren't carrying sniper rifles. Most of the other pics are head shots of soldiers, rioters placing flowers somewhere, and the best of all, a couple of Russian soldiers playing foos ball. Pretty scary.
Of course it was ran by yahoo, so draw your own conclusions.

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It's very light evidence, for a very serious suggested accusation(because having support from a more specialized foreign police-force isn't that odd for a smaller Country), so like you, I'm not sure if it's true, or more propaganda(because the Cold War Propaganda machine is running at full-speed).

The shocking part is the 'democracy' in Ukraine we(the EU, Nato, US) are supporting have an election where at least 4 Presidential Candidates promised/threatened to 'drag the World into a war with Russia', which makes the situation even weirder, and more difficult to understand the reasoning.

The only thing I DID understand, was that West-Ukraine doesn't want to be close to Russia, not even a little.

Crimea wants to be an autonomous Region, and they secured that with Russia, when Ukraine looked like it wanted to change their status.

And East-Urkaine is a mix of the 2.

So I get(and can support) why West-Ukraine wants to be with the EU, I also get(and can support) Crimea's desire to join Russia.

East-Ukraine is something that needs to be TALKED about, and that's becoming very hard with all the war-talk at NATO(EU, and US), and Ukraine making election promises to go to war with Russia.

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There is an article in yahoo news about Russian assassins in Kiev during the riots. Does anyone else think this is bs?

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