Evgueny, I imagine that the news from Ukraine is not always accurate or objective, and that many of the actions of the present government are excessive or unfair. They are in a very difficult situation, trying to hold their country together while trying to rid the country of armed groups, including the Right Sector, and under attack from Russia who has taken a portion of their country and is poised with troops on their border while unleashing a massive propaganda attack against the government calling it Fascist etc. I understand a majority of Russians would support an invasion of Ukraine according to recent polls.
Russia is under no such pressure.
I suggest you watch ShusterLive. Mar 31 for an hour long interview with Mikhail Dobkin the Party of Regions presidential candidate, a proponent of federalism, (for which he is under house arrest!!) a member of Yanukovich’s party, very much of the pro-Russian group, or April 4 when Dobkin is again featured, and we see a number of different points of view as Avakov lays out the evidence about sniper attackes. We even see one of the accused responsible for organizing systematic attacks on Maidan activitists , defending himself by telephone from Russia where he is in hiding. All on one of the most popular news programs in Ukraine. I doubt that this could happen in Russia,on prime time national television.
Pro-Russian demonstrators stormed government buildings in Donetsk today replacing the Ukrainian flag with a Russian, similar demonstrations in Kharkiv. I can understand that the Kiev government is concerned and arresting a few folk. But can you give some examples of “mass arrests” of people who support the Russian position, and what exactly do you mean by the Russian position?
How do you know that there are not hundreds of families who have left Crimea? We know that the Russian TV claims of 600,000 refugees fleeing Russia were false because the TV showed a Polish border station claiming it was the Russian border, and Russian officials in regions near Ukrainian border reported no refugees. Do you have some proof that no Ukrainians or Tatars have left Crimea since the Russian takeover?
How do you know there are no Russian agents in Eastern Ukraine? I have seen a picture of a person from St.Petersburg raising a Russian flag on a Ukrainian government building in Donetsk. He posted it on his Facebook page.
The whole world knows about Russian troops massing on the Ukraine border, where is the lie? And Putin has permission from the Duma to attack Ukraine. Yes he said he won’t attack, but he also said he had no intention of taking the Crimea. We don’t know his intentions.
When you refer to people from East Ukraine who have disappeared, do you mean Pavel Gubarev who led pro-Russian protesters who blockaded and occupied the Donetsk Regional State Administration building. Who exactly?