Former Moscow Correspondent of Britain’s Guardian Says Evidence Shows Snipers Came From Maidan Side In Kiev!
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“It was a kind of insurrection by armed people. And you’ve also pointed out in Democracy Now! over the last few hours, 24 hours or so, that there were a lot of evidence now that the snipers came from the protest side rather than from the government side, people who killed police and civilians” – Quote
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Former Moscow Correspondent of Britain’s Guardian Says Evidence Shows Snipers Came From Maidan Side In Kiev!
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At a roundtable conference organized by the webportal, Democracy Now!, former Moscow correspondent of the British daily the Guardian, Jonathan Steele made clear that there is a lot of evidence that suggests what Moscow is correct in saying it was an unconstitutional coup carried out in Ukraine.
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“It was a kind of insurrection by armed people. And you’ve also pointed out in Democracy Now! over the last few hours, 24 hours or so, that there were a lot of evidence now that the snipers came from the protest side rather than from the government side, people who killed police and civilians,” Steele said.
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Rejecting the neo-con John Bolton’s statement that “Putin wants to re-establish Russian hegemony within the space of the former Soviet Union and Ukraine is the biggest prize,” Steele pointed out that, in reality, Putin is trying to set up something called the Eurasian Union, a kind of customs union, and he has got Belarus and Kazakhstan to show interest in that. “And he wanted Ukraine to join, too. But, I mean, the real problem is that Ukraine is divided between people who are Russian-speaking in the east, and the western side, which is part of it, which was never even under the tsarist empire of Russia. So it’s a very divided country. You have to have, perhaps, eventually, a federation to prevent it breaking apart, but in the meantime, a proper national government of national unity.
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“And I see no sense that this crisis has been created by Putin,” Steele added.
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Putin and Lavrov to Propose Ukraine Solution; Kerry Won’t Meet
Voice of Russia reported Monday that Russia’s Security Council has prepared its own Ukrainian settlement proposals for the United States, “whose aim is to return the situation in that country to the framework of international law and to take the interests of all Ukrainian citizens into account,” said Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
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“We are not just passively receiving proposals from our colleagues. We have prepared our own proposals with the Russian Security Council’s participation,” Lavrov told President Vladimir Putin today. “The idea is to bring the situation back into the framework of international law with due account taken of the interests of all Ukrainians without exception, given the current deep state crisis in that country,” he said.
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AFP and other media claimed in their reports, “But Lavrov gave no indication about when or where Russia’s proposals would be made public.” This is not true: Reuters reports remarks of Lavrov, that on March 8 he had invited U.S. Secretary of State Kerry to come to Russia for negotiations, but that Kerry refused negotiations; in Lavrov’s reported words, “Secretary Kerry said that he wanted to postpone the visit.”
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