Daily Stormer
April 30, 2014
On Tuesday, about 150 militants armed with clubs and baseball bats drove out local police from the Luhansk regional administration building. A day earlier, Mayor Gennady Kernes of Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, was shot in the back while exercising on the city outskirts. He remained in serious condition Tuesday after undergoing surgery in Israel.
In Kiev, the Ukrainian capital, Deputy Foreign Minister Danylo Lubkivsky repeated the government’s accusation that the unrest was being directed by the Kremlin.
“They have no political goals, and they have no intention of holding any dialogue. They simply execute orders from Russian authorities,” Lubkivsky said of the gunmen, many in Russian military garb and carrying weapons used by the Russian army.
Russia has condemned the US sanctions…
BBC:
Russia has condemned new US and EU sanctions that have been imposed over Moscow’s actions in Ukraine.
Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said “Iron Curtain”-style US sanctions might harm its hi-tech sector and that the EU was “under Washington’s thumb”.
Russia had no intention of invading eastern Ukraine, where separatists have seized government buildings, he added.
…while taking the moral high-ground and refusing to impose their own.
NYT:
Speaking to reporters in Belarus, President Vladimir V. Putin said he had vetoed suggestions within the Kremlin that Russia respond in kind to the latest sanctions. “The government has already proposed some steps in response, but I consider that there is no need for this,” Mr. Putin told reporters, according to the Interfax news agency. But if it continues, he said, Moscow will have to think about who works and how they work in key sectors of Russia’s economy, including energy.