After Deal, Ukrainian Separatists Refuse to Surrender

Andrew Anglin
Daily Stormer
April 19, 2014

So Lavrov signed an agreement with the Maidan and they offered amnesty to the protesters who had taken government buildings in the East and declared themselves independent.  But the people won’t leave.

Methinks it is all part of the plan.

Putin is playing chess and Obama is playing basketball.


USA Today
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“Come out. Your time has passed,” Ukraine Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said at a meeting In the capital of Kiev in reference to separatist militants who have take over buildings in at least eight cities in East Ukraine.

Yatsenyuk said the government has drafted a law promising militants they would face no legal consequences if they leave seized buildings and give up their weapons.

The measure was drafted after diplomats in Geneva on Thursday agreed on a statement in which they called on all sides to stand down in the conflict. Among those agreeing was Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, whose country has been accused by the United States of providing support to Ukraine militants who are demanding to secede from Ukraine and join Russia.

Yet critically, the militants were not party to the agreement and on Friday had not abided by it.

“Lavrov did not sign anything for us, he signed on behalf of the Russian Federation,” said Denis Pushilin, head of the self-declared Donetsk People’s Republic.

CNN:

The separatists’ self-declared leader, Denis Pushilin, said it is those aligned with the Kiev-based national government who should vacate all public buildings, not the militants in Donetsk.

Pushilin, the head of a group called the Donetsk People’s Republic, addressed reporters on the heels of an agreement Thursday between officials from Ukraine, the United States, the European Union and Russia. Among other things, that deal calls for amnesty for anti-Kiev factions provided they give up their weapons and leave government buildings.

But separatists in eastern Ukraine have not signed on nor indicated they intend to, unless the pro-Western government in Kiev steps down.

Instead of any such agreement, Pushilin has pushed for a referendum by May 11 to ask residents whether they want sovereignty from Ukraine. This step may be popular with those who view Ukraine’s interim authorities — who took power in February after the ouster of President Viktor Yanukovych, who some saw as too closely aligned with Russia — as illegitimate.

Ukraine President Olexander Turchynov on Friday criticized the “factions of communists (who have) refused to sign or even vote on the document” agreed to in Geneva, Switzerland.

He and Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk urged them to do so, saying in a joint statement, “We have to do everything possible not to take this treasure of (Ukrainian unity) from our children.”

Putin is going to get the East without having to lift a finger.

“We are calling on our compatriots to (reach out) to each other and give up actions aimed at hatred, and come back to (work toward) rebuilding a united Ukraine,” the two leaders said.