Voice of America: In E. Ukraine, Civilian Deaths Push Men to Join Rebels
DONETSK - After months of fighting in eastern Ukraine, the presence of the Ukrainian military and the shelling of civilian neighborhoods seem to be pushing more men to join the rebellion.
New recruits for Ukraine’s rebel army, part of a battalion of Don Cossacks, are on their way out of Donetsk to a piece of wasteland for weapons training.
Their targets are the faces of western-leaning Ukrainian politicians, including Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk and former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.
WNU Editor: Kudos to VOA for sending a press team into rebel controlled eastern Ukraine in trying to better understand what is motivating many in the region to join the rebel army and to fight the Ukraine military. Since the start of the war I have always mentioned in this blog on how independent and "hard-nose" the people are in this region, and why they see themselves as different from the rest of Ukraine. Provoking this sentiment as the Ukrainian nationalists did last year all but guaranteed a fight .... and now we have everyone in eastern Ukraine arming themselves for a fight .... and yearning to be free from Kiev's rule. And while I do have a "small sliver" of hope for some form of reconciliation .... I will admit that even that "small sliver" is diminishing with each passing day.
2 comments:
"Rebels" continue to grow because they are regular Russian military now...
Gen. Breedlove, you really should use your full name and rank to post here, not the anonamous tag anonamous,
But, I guess, when you have lost the Germans,.....
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