This is the horror of civil war in Ukraine - on Europe's backdoor. I have no doubt that this is just the beginning or that Americans are giving 'advice' behind the scenes
'Slaughterhouse':
Civilians die in Kiev's ruthless military attacks (GRAPHIC)
Bodies
are piling up in Donetsk morgues after Kiev unleashed fighter jets
and artillery on the country’s southeast just hours after the
presidential election. New leader-elect Petro Poroshenko is pushing
for the crackdown to become even “more effective.”
RT,
27
May, 2014
Ukraine’s
southeast saw only a brief suspension of Kiev’s military operations
on Sunday while the nation took to the polls. Just before the
presidential election, Ukrainian MPs called for immediate troop
withdrawal from the country’s southeast.
Following
the vote, the leading candidate – billionaire chocolate tycoon
Petro Poroshenko – said he sees no reason why the military should
stop the operation.
“I
support its continuation, but demand a change in its format – it
must be shorter and it must be more effective, military units must be
better equipped,” he said, despite earlier statements that he is
ready for dialogue with the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk
People’s Republics.
Soon
after the last vote was cast, the Kiev military descended on the
southeast with new energy, shelling Slavyansk and attacking the
airport in Donetsk with mortars.
The
number of victims is not yet known. According to the prime minister
of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic, Aleksandr
Boroday, 100 self-defense forces and civilians died in Donetsk during
the attack. Donetsk authorities reported that about 40 people died
and 43 others were injured.
In
Slavyansk, at least three civilians died, including one woman.
“We
see what that means today – shelling against civilians, bombs that
fall near occupied apartment blocks, fighter jets, and helicopter
launches against an urban population,” analyst Daniel Patrick Welch
told RT, adding that talks were never part of Poroshenko's plan.
“We
came up to look at the man but he was already dead. A shell had
fallen right next to a nine-story apartment block, all the glass was
out. The man’s head was bleeding, his arms and legs were broken,” a
Slavyansk resident told RT. Civilian quarters of the city – which
is home to about 130,000 people –came under fire for the first time
on Monday.
“When
we went further, we found a dead woman near a teachers college, a
shell hit there too,” a local added, saying that a third man was
found nearby.
On
Tuesday, reports appeared of a possible fourth victim among the
civilians in Slavyansk. A woman was also killed near the Church of
the Reigning Mother of God, according to a message on the website of
the Gorlovsk and Slavyansk Eparchy of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.
It added that the building of the church was damaged along with an
apartment building and student dormitory nearby.
“A
bomb fell just 10 meters from the church. Fortunately, there were no
people in the church at that time,"the
message reads.
On
Tuesday, Ukrainian fighter jets and helicopters were unleashed at
armed self-defense forces occupying the airport in the city of
Donetsk.
“We’ve
lost more than 50 self-defense fighters,” said
the PM of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic, Aleksandr
Boroday, as quoted by RIA Novosti.
“
Many
of the casualties are a result of two Kamaz trucks having been
shelled by the Ukrainian army. The trucks were driving the wounded
from the battlefield near the airport.”
The
identification of bodies is underway the city’s morgue.
Meanwhile,
the city’s central railway station was also shelled on Tuesday.
One
civilian was killed and two others – including an eight-year-old
boy – were injured, the region's administration told RIA Novosti.
Government troops reportedly launched mortar fire on a private housing area in Donetsk on the same day.
Later
in the day, the military stepped up the offensive, and fighting in
Donetsk continued throughout the night around the airport, which was
then taken under control by Ukrainian troops.
On
Monday, Vice Premier Vitaly Yaryoma stressed that the operation will
continue until not a single self-defense fighter “is left on the
territory of Ukraine.”
“We
saw the results yesterday,” Yaryoma added.
Kiev
first launched a punitive military operation in the volatile
southeastern regions of Donetsk and Lugansk back in April. Following
a coup in Kiev, the two proclaimed their independence from the new
authorities, with the desire to break away seeing landslide support
in May 11 referendums
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