Ukraine: Separatists Ignore Putin, Declare Independence Vote on Sunday

Daily Stormer
May 8, 2014

Donetsk
Donetsk

The separatists in the East of the Ukraine have gone ahead and ignored Putin’s request that the referendum on independence be postponed, and will go through with the vote on Sunday as planned.

Reuters:

Pro-Moscow separatists in eastern Ukraine ignored a public call by Russian President Vladimir Putin to postpone a referendum on self-rule, declaring they would go ahead on Sunday with a vote that could lead to war.

The decision, which contradicted the conciliatory tone set by Putin just a day earlier, caused consternation in the West, which fears the referendum will tear Ukraine apart.

U.S. Deputy Secretary of State William Burns said Russia was heading down a “dangerous and irresponsible path” and the situation in Ukraine was “extremely combustible”.

Denis Pushilin, a leader of the self-declared separatist Donetsk People’s Republic, expressed gratitude to Putin but said the “People’s Council” had voted unanimously on Thursday to hold the plebiscite as planned.

“Civil war has already begun,” he told reporters. “The referendum can put a stop to it and start a political process.” A man holding a Kalashnikov stood behind him.

The EU has explained that voting is different from democracy.

BBC:

The European Union weighed in on Thursday, warning that “such a vote could have no democratic legitimacy and would only further worsen the situation”.

Democracy, of course, means throwing bombs at police, then shooting your own people so that you can invade parliament and run out the elected authorities, all while being paid to do so by the US government.

It is curious that Putin called for the vote to be held off, but it looks like that was a fake-out. A plebiscite will give Putin the necessary authority to invade and defend the people. Not that he didn’t have that already, especially after the Odessa massacre.

Next week is going to be interesting.