I know what the U.S. said, but that turned out to be bulls*** based on the propaganda pre$$ coverage:
"Joe Biden, EU leaders try to defuse Ukraine crisis; Security tactics delay talks, add to fear of violence" by David M. Herszenhorn | New York Times, December 10, 2013
KIEV — Ominous new action by Ukraine’s security forces Monday, including a raid on an opposition party and threats of treason charges, appeared to scuttle an opening for talks between the government and demonstrators, witnesses and opposition figures said.
In a sign of renewed alarm, Vice President Joe Biden and European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso each made calls to Ukraine’s besieged president, Viktor Yanukovych, to warn him away from unleashing violence on a mass demonstration movement in its third week.
Tell it to Occupy Wall Street or our European allies, Joe!
Senior envoys including the European foreign affairs chief, Catherine Ashton, and US Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland were being sent to try to defuse the crisis.
Pfft! They are fomenting it!
After seeming to lose control of Kiev on Sunday night after a huge rally of hundreds of thousands of people in Independence Square, police forces redeployed on Monday and began efforts to push protesters out of streets near main government buildings.
Battalions of police officers took up positions just outside the square’s perimeter.
Then, on Monday evening, the Ukrainian security service raided the headquarters of the opposition Fatherland Party and seized computer servers.
The party’s parliamentary leader, Arseniy P. Yatsenyuk, is one of the main organizers of the protest movement, which has ballooned in recent days to dominate the streets of Kiev and pressure Yanukovych after he refused to sign a political and trade pact with the European Union.
But the party is best known as the opposition coalition formed by the jailed former prime minister, Yulia V. Tymoshenko, whose release has long been demanded by Western leaders.
“They came without any notice, without any explanations, fully armed,” said Natalia Lysova, a spokeswoman for Fatherland who often accompanies Tymoshenko’s daughter, Evgenia, at public appearances. “They broke the door, took all the servers, and left.”
Lysova said the security officers did not arrest anyone.
A day earlier, the security service issued a curt statement saying that it had opened an investigation into possible treason charges against unnamed politicians....
Just hours before the raid, Yanukovych had signaled that he would accept a proposal by three predecessors to hold “a national roundtable for finding a compromise” and that initial discussions would begin Tuesday. But any sense that his willingness to negotiate might ease the crisis was quickly erased....
The raid and police remobilization brought a fresh round of warnings from Western leaders, who reacted in alarm after the security forces violently cracked down on protesters on Nov. 30.
Who listens to hypocritical western leaders anymore?
White House officials said Biden pressed Yanukovych to immediately deescalate the crisis and open talks with opposition leaders. And he warned that “violence has no place in a democratic society and is incompatible with our strategic relationship,” according to a White House summary of the leaders’ phone conversation.
We only use it to bring it to places like Iraq, Joe, which you voted for, you f***!!
Ashton, the European Union’s envoy, was to arrive Tuesday. She had been deeply involved in efforts to draw Ukraine into closer ties with the European Union through the trade deal.
That decision to abandon the wide-ranging trade and political agreement with the European Union left officials in Brussels deeply frustrated and upended years of efforts to draw Kiev into Europe’s orbit and away from Russia’s.
Thus they got pissed and the protests began!
Warning that “anti-European” voices risk reviving old “demons of Europe, like extreme nationalism, like xenophobia,” Barroso, the European Commission president, praised Ukrainian protesters for showing that Europe has positive values.
“If sometimes in Europe some of us have doubts about how important these values are, just look at Ukraine,” he said “Those young people in the streets of Ukraine, with freezing temperatures, are writing the new narrative for Europe.”
As opposed to those stinky, smelly, and stoo-pid Occupy Wall Street kids a couple of years ago.
The E.U. PRAISING the Ukranian protesters tells you all you need to know of this coup attempt.
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Globe chimes in, too:
"Now the message must be that martial law will escalate the unrest, not end it, and if any blood is shed, the world will hold Yanukovych responsible."
No they won't, nor will we. EVERYONE can SEE WHAT THIS IS and NO ONE IS FOOLED by the SELF-DELUDING, AGENDA-ADVANCING JWSPAPERS of AmeriKa!!!!!
"Kiev crowds topple Lenin statue as rallies grow; President faces demands to quit, difficult choices" by David M. Herszenhorn and Andrew E. Kramer | New York Times, December 09, 2013
KIEV — Protesters in the Ukrainian capital toppled the city’s main statue of Lenin on Sunday and then pounded it into chips with a sledgehammer as a crowd chanted and cheered. The destruction of the statue was a cathartic moment in the biggest day of demonstrations against President Viktor Yanukovych’s turn away from Europe.
Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians filled the streets of Kiev on Sunday, first to hear speeches and music, and then to fan out and erect barricades in the district where government institutions have their headquarters.
Carrying blue-and-yellow Ukrainian and European Union flags, the teeming crowd filled Independence Square, where protests have steadily gained momentum since Yanukovych refused on Nov. 21 to sign trade and political agreements with the European Union.
The square has been transformed by a vast and growing tent encampment, and demonstrators have occupied City Hall and other public buildings nearby. Thousands more people gathered in other cities across the country....
And it is ALL GOOD in this instance! That's a huge tell coming from the agenda-pushing propaganda pre$$.
With the police nowhere to be seen in the city center, protesters in Bessarabia Square toppled the Lenin statue using steel cables and cranks as a crowd gathered to watch....
Many towns in Ukraine tore down statues of Lenin years ago, erasing monuments to the Soviet communism that had crushed their nation with famine, but the one in Kiev had stood intact until Sunday.
The giant rally reflected how deeply divided this nation of 46 million people has become since Yanukovych reneged on more than a year of promises to complete the political and free-trade agreements with the European Union.
With Western governments urging a peaceful and lawful solution, but no indication of any possibility of a compromise, the continuing unrest seemed likely to confront Yanukovych with several unpalatable choices, including a crackdown by security officers. Many demonstrators say such a demonstration of force was inevitable.
As it was designed to do.
The president could wait, hoping that increasingly cold weather and demoralization will thin the crowds, but the continuing occupation of a large swath of the capital has added a patina of weakness and indecision to the government’s growing unpopularity.
That's the agenda-pushing narrative anyway.
Heightening the tension is a severe and urgent economic crisis, along with Ukraine’s need to secure a financial aid package worth $18 billion or more. At the moment, that help seems most likely to come from Russia, but any agreement with the Kremlin is likely to spur further public fury.
Many Ukrainians view the accords with the EU as crucial to a brighter future, with Western-style rule of law that could combat what many view as deeply entrenched public corruption and cronyism among the country’s wealthy elite. They also see the agreements as eventually offering better economic opportunities.
They haven't seen our societies because ours are rife with such things, mostly because of banksters!
The accords were also viewed as a way to break free of the grip of Russia, which nearly a quarter-century after the collapse of the Soviet Union continues to exert heavy sway here, including complete control over Ukraine’s crucial natural gas supply.
Or someone trying to pry them away.
Yanukovych’s comments that in retreating from Europe, he planned to restore relations with Russia — where he met Friday with President Vladimir V. Putin — have only further inflamed the crowds.
The demonstrators were old and young and middle-aged, from Lviv in the west to Odessa in the south, and from Dnipropetrovsk in the east to the country’s heart, Kiev.
Parents held children onto their shoulders, students wore blue-and-yellow-striped face paint, and volunteers handed out steaming cups of tea and other refreshments.
They sang the national anthem and were blessed from the stage by representatives of all of branches of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, save for the Moscow Patriarchate, which is loyal to Russia.
Yes, such wonderful kids.
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"Protesters in Ukraine set to dig in; Rumors of secret Russia pact spur plan for big rally" by David M. Herszenhorn | New York Times, December 08, 2013
KIEV— Furious about President Viktor Yanukovych’s decision to scrap political and trade accords with Europe, Mykola Nomonko shut his auto parts store in the western city of Staryi Sambir, piled his five employees into a minibus, and drove to Kiev, the Ukrainian capital, to protest.
It was Sunday, Nov. 24. Nearly two weeks later, he is still here.
Like many of the thousands of demonstrators occupying Independence Square and several public buildings in Kiev, Nomonko said he would not leave until Yanukovych was ousted.
Readers, considering the way Occupy was treated by media and the authorities, this has become rank and offensive "journalism."
“He has to resign,” he said. “People became so angry that they will stand here to the end — to the happy end of Yanukovych’s career. We wait for the political death of Viktor Yanukovych.”
Leaders of the protest movement have dropped their demand for Yanukovych’s removal, acknowledging that there is virtually no legal way to oust him and that a voluntary resignation is unlikely. But demonstrators on the streets insist that they will not relent without changes at the highest levels of government.
It's called keeping the pressure on.
“I think we have enough stamina,” said Nomonko.
Amid rumors that Yanukovych cut a secret deal with Russia at a meeting Friday with President Vladimir V. Putin in Sochi, Russia, the anger at him has become an increasingly volatile and unpredictable force.
The Ukrainian and Russian governments denied the rumors, despite public comments by the Ukrainian prime minister, Mykola Azarov, who said progress had been made toward a sweeping strategic partnership. The denials did little to reassure protesters, who say they do not trust the leaders of either country.
The lack of trust is worldwide, and for good reason. Leaders are shit wherever you are.
Developments may start unfolding more rapidly now that Yanukovych is back in Ukraine after visits to China and Russia. Protesters are planning their biggest event yet Sunday: a rally they hope will put 1 million people on the streets.
Ukraine's million man march!
Arseniy P. Yatsenyuk, the leader in Parliament of the opposition Fatherland party, said protest leaders were now focused on persuading Yanukovych to fire Azarov and the rest of the government. Other demands include the release of protesters who have been arrested and held, and changes to Ukraine’s Constitution to reverse recent expansions of presidential authority.
The Fatherland Party? That sounds scary to me.
Many Ukrainians felt betrayed by Yanukovych’s decision to abandon far-reaching trade and political accords with Europe last month, particularly because he promised for over a year that he would sign them.
A decision to join Russia’s customs union with Belarus and Kazakhstan would enrage the crowds in Kiev and other cities and could set off violence.
If the coup-sponsoring powers deem it necessary.
“These people are motivated,” said Yaroslav Pylynskyi, the director of the Kiev office of the Kennan Institute, an American research organization.
“They know what they want politically. They say ‘korruptzia zadrala’ — corruption is tearing us to pieces.”
Unlike those yucky Occupy kids and their list of grievances.
As for corruption, America is in tatters because of it.
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NEXT DAY UPDATE:
"Police storm Ukraine protesters’ camp; Attack launched as leader urges prisoner release" by Maria Danilova | Associated Press, December 11, 2013
KIEV — Police clashed with protesters and tore down their tents in the main square of the Ukrainian capital early Wednesday, in an escalation of a weeks-long standoff threatening the leadership of President Viktor Yanukovych.
Hundreds of police in riot gear moved on the camp at Independence Square, dismantling barricades and pushing demonstrators who fought back. Scuffles broke out between police and opposition lawmakers who arrived to defend the camp.
Several thousand protesters shouted ‘‘Shame!’’ and ‘‘We will stand,’’ and sang the Ukrainian national anthem. An Orthodox priest read prayers.
The protests began in late November when Yanukovych backed away from a pact that would deepen the former Soviet republic’s economic ties with the 28-nation European Union — a pact that surveys showed was supported by nearly half the country’s people.
The confrontation at the protest camp unfolded as EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton and US Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland were in the city to try to talk to the government and the opposition and work out a solution.
Several protesters were injured. Some police helped injured activists up from the ground and moved them away.
Aiming to defuse a political standoff that threatens his leadership, Yanukovych had called Tuesday for the release of demonstrators previously arrested in protests sweeping Kiev and vowed that Ukraine is still interested in integrating with Europe.
His efforts, however, stopped far short of opposition demands that his government resign, and the two sides appeared no closer to a resolution that would chart a secure future for their economically troubled nation.
Soon after Yanukovych spoke in a televised broadcast, top opposition leader Arseniy Yatsenyuk told demonstrators at the square that the protest leaders were still insisting on their key demands: that Yanukovych fire the government, appoint a new one committed to signing an association agreement with the EU, release all the arrested protesters, and punish the police who beat peaceful demonstrators.
Riot police have twice previously dispersed demonstrators with clubs and tear gas, sending some protesters to intensive care.
Occupy knows what that feels like.
Yanukovych, in a televised meeting with Ukraine’s three previous presidents, said he asked the prosecutor-general to ensure the release of some of the protesters — those who have not committed grave crimes and who have children or families.
Investigations into the actions of the freed protesters would still continue, he said.
Yanukovych also vowed to renew talks with the EU on the trade and political agreement. He indicated he was still willing to sign the EU deal at a summit in spring, but only if the EU can offer better financial terms.
Yes, little has been said about the refusal of loans from the E.U. that sparked this whole crisis, just as Morsi's refusal to accept IMF austerity remarked upon little.
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Related: Police use tear gas on Cairo students
Not a peep of concern from the U.S. on that oppression, and why would there be? That is a government they support and helped bring to power.
