FIVE REPORTED KILLED IN EAST UKRAINE FOLLOWING
ULTRA-NATIONALIST ATTACK.
Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 04/20/2014
And to think it was just two days ago when all the USDJPY
momentum ignition algos roared to life on flashing headline news of yet another
diplomatic "de-escalation" of tensions in Ukraine. What was clearly
ignored is that since John Kerry was involved, it was nothing but the latest
sham. And the proof came moments ago when Reuters reported, citing Russian state television
on Sunday, that five people were killed when Ukraine gunmen attacked a checkpoint
manned by pro-Russian separatists near the eastern Ukrainian city of Slaviansk.
Reuters was not immediately able to verify the report.
Ukraine's Interior Ministry in Kiev could not immediately be reached for
comment and Interior Minister Arsen Avakov had no word of the reported incident
on his Facebook page, where he usually posts updates on any clashes - perhaps
because this one was allegedly started by Ukraine ultra-right nationlists of
the Right Sector.
Russia's state-run Rossiya 24 news station, citing
its correspondent in Slaviansk, said three of the dead were with the
pro-Russian separatists who control Slaviansk, and the other two were from the
group which attacked their checkpoint.
The self-declared mayor of Slaviansk, who supports
the pro-Russian separatists in the city, said there had been a clash overnight
and there were casualties, a Reuters Television team in Slaviansk said.
The fatalities came after a night attack on a
protester checkpoint on the outskirts of the city, a Rossiya 24 news channel
correspondent reported. Four cars drove by the checkpoint and opened fire at
the local residents holding it, killing three people and seriously injuring
another one.
A group of protesters, who had firearms
unlike those holding the checkpoint, was called from their camp in the city.
They opened fire at the attackers, killing two of them, the report said.
The protesters in the confrontation reportedly
captured the attackers’ two cars. Firearms, explosives and aerial
photos of Slavyansk were discovered there. RIA Novosti cites a doctor at the
city’s main hospital as saying that four people with gunshots were brought in
overnight.
“Apparently, something serious happened,” the
doctor said.
The protesters believe that they were
attacked by paramilitary from the Right Sector.
And some additional reporting from British blogger Graham Phillips:
En route to hospital here in #Sloviansk to confirm those reports of
deaths in the night - http://rt.com/news/slavyansk-checkpoint-shooting-killed-640/ …
#Ukraine #Russia
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