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Hundreds
trying to break into Ukraine president’s office in Kiev
RT,
3
February, 2015
Several
hundred protesters have reportedly tried to break into the Ukrainian
president’s administrational office in the country’s capital
Kiev, but were repelled by security forces guarding the building. The
stand-off grew into clashes in the street.
The
demonstrators, who demand access to the administration’s conference
room in order to make a TV statement, are still clashing with the
National Guard, TASS reports.
Earlier,
protesters managed to break through the first cordon of security
forces, but were prevented from entering the building.
The
rioters’ demands include the introduction of martial law in Ukraine
over the fighting with the rebels in the southeast of the country.
They also insisted on the resignation of the heads of all Ukrainian
security agencies – from defense minister to prosecutor general –
due to their incompetence.
The
Ukrainian Interior Ministry has, however, denied there were any
attempts to storm the president’s HQ.
“There
was no storming. There’s also nobody being detained and no one was
injured during the action,” a ministry spokesman said.
Tuesday’s
protest in Kiev was called by the All-Ukrainian Battalion
Brotherhood, a fresh group that includes formers volunteer fighters,
who went to eastern Ukraine, as well as Maidan activists.
The
Ukrainian capital has already seen several protests by volunteer
troops, who returned from Ukraine’s war-torn Donetsk and Lugansk
regions, after the government disbanded the Aidar volunteer battalion
last week. On Sunday and Monday, Aidar fighters staged a protest and
burnt tires outside the Defense Ministry.
In
September, Amnesty International accused Aidar of “widespread
abuses, including abductions, unlawful detention, ill-treatment,
theft, extortion, and possible executions” during the warfare in
the Donetsk and Lugansk Regions.
The
Ukraine conflict began last April when Kiev sent regular forces and
volunteer battalions to the southeastern Donetsk and Lugansk regions,
after they refused to recognize the country’s new, coup-imposed
authorities.
The
death toll in the Ukraine conflict has exceeded 5,000 people. Over
10,000 have been injured, according to UN estimates.
Earlier
on the day, representatives from several Ukrainian volunteer
battalions, including Aidar and Azov, attempted to storm the
Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine in Kiev.
Also
on Tuesday, the Ukrainian authorities declared the country’s
capital, Kiev, an area of increased terrorist threat.
“There
were explosions in Kharkov, Odessa, in the Zaporozhye Region. The
terrorist threat is now becoming a reality. Therefore, with no panic
and fuss, we must ensure adequate counter-terrorism measures,”
Aleksandr Tereschuk, the head of the Kiev police, said, as cited by
Russian daily Kommersant.
According
to Tereschuk, concrete roadblocks, which will be reinforced by
snipers, are to be erected on all eight roads leadings in and out of
the capital during the next two weeks.
Other
security measures, announced by the police, include equipping Kiev’s
subway with metal detectors and enticing civilians to patrol the city
together with the security forces, he added.
Around
1,500 servicemen representing the National Guard and State Guard, as
well as cadets of police academies, are to be deployed in the city,
the police head said. Their main task will be protecting the
airports, bridges and the railway, Tereschuk stressed.
Meanwhile,
a source within the Ukrainian security forces told Kommersant that
the increased police presence in the city is needed to tackle the
rapidly rising crime rate in the capital.
“For
example, the number of car thefts has doubled… We have to come up
with countermeasures,” he said.
Joint
presser of DPR PM Zakharchenko and LPR PM Plotnitsky
Joint
press conference of DPR PM Zakharchenko and LPR PM Plotnitsky
regarding the Minks negotiations, Debaltsevo "cauldron", US
mass media and other things
10 key points
Zakharchenko
/ Plotnitsky: The Minsk agreement has failed, Ukraine broke their
promises, lied. Mobilisation has started, ‘we tried to reason with
Poroshenko, but he broke all the agreements, now we will use force’
Plotnitsky:
‘Kiev has tried to crush our economy, destroy our homes. Russia has
helped us, in times like this, we’ve seen who are our friends and
enemies’
Zakharchenko:
‘We are still ready to reason, we are peaceful people, we ask for a
representative from Kiev to come here, but they have to be serious
talks.’
Plotnitsky:
‘By breaking all agreements, Kiev has the blood of all tragedies in
Donbass on its hands. Poroshenko has lied countless times.’
Zakharchenko:
‘We have the upper hand now, Debaltseve is surrounded, but
civilians are still being killed by Kiev forces. However the people
here did not surrender last summer when this happened, they will
never surrender.’
Zakharchenko:
‘They say I’m a ‘puppet of the Kremlin’, but then Poroshenko
goes to the USA and then clearly does Obama’s biding’.
Zakharchenko:
‘We want Europe to open its eyes, we have played fair, kept our
word, we are trying to create a fair state here, with rule of law.’
Zakharchenko:
‘Ukrainians are peaceful people, this war is not what they want,
not good for them. They have been duped by the Kiev ‘junta’.
Mothers, wives, think before sending your men here to fight, it’s
not worth them dying for.’
Plotnitsky:
To Ukrainian soldiers’ Turn around, go back home, remember why you
started Maidan – to overthrow oligarchy. The armies of DPR and LPR
are ready to help you do this.’
Zakharchenko
/ Plotnitsky: ‘They call us ‘rebels’, actually we are freedom
fighters, in some ways similar to the founding fathers of the USA,
fighting for our homes, for our freedom.’
Despite
mixed reports of their relationship, the two seemed to get on well,
bantering in the end about offering the local ‘Miner’s Cake’ to
Americans, to celebrate independence day.
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