From Russian TV

Russian TV exclusive report: Ukrainian ultranationalists and European policy

Mikhail Antonov, the European correspondent of Rossiya TV, reports on Western policy of appeasement towards ultranationalsists in Kiev (Weekly News program, Feb 23, 2014). 

Language: Russian (full English subtitles).

When the foreign ministers of Germany, France, and Poland showed up in Kiev on February 19, it was still possible that the crisis could be weathered through a series of clear, consistent,and forceful actions, some of which had even been devised in the West. But the agreement with the opposition, which Yanukovych signed under pressure from Steinmeier, Fabius, and Sikorski, has moved the situation into unpredictable track..

There is no point in wondering whether Angela Merkel expected this, but the protestors on Independence Square interpreted her meeting in Berlin with Yatsenuk and Klitschko (at which they were assured of support) as a signal to launch an armed rebellion. Such is the logic of events.

Once those two returned to Kiev, the opposition tossed out all the previous agreements with the government and began shooting at the Berkut military units. As it was the case during the Georgian aggression against South Ossetia in 2008, a political and media smokescreen was again immediately launched in the West, this time aimed to cover up a coup d'état in Ukraine.

And if things weren't quite so awful right now on Independence Square, the circus parade would continue, complete with ridiculous encores like doling out bread to hands that aren't even interested in it.

They have arranged their kings on a political chessboard: Germany and Europe - Klitschko, the US - Yatsenyuk, and have expressed their feelings for one another using F-words. They have completely forgotten about the queen, who has already entered the game, and - most important - have not noticed the way violent forces have elbowed their way into their murky party, which are unlikely to rein themselves in and are able to knock over all the chess pieces and then smack them over the head with the board.

The "Right Sector" has already wiped its feet, not only on its own president, but also on three foreign ministers from the European Union, who, nevertheless, provided the radicals with a legal basis, not for unifying Ukraine but for dividing it, having forced the situation into an impasse from which - and it is only a matter of time - some hotshots will soon arrive uninvited and begin to hack open their window to Europe with cries of "Glory to Ukraine!"