Russian Ukrainian War

[Akim]

Watch from the 1 hour 16 min. thru 1 hour 25 minute mark.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKcmNGvaDUs&rco=1
It's difficult to overestimate the importance of odessa it is strategically located on the black sea and it's
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ukraine's largest seaport it's not surprising that ukraine's new authorities were watching the situation
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unfolding there with growing alarm more and more of odessa's people were
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joining the anti-maidon movement at the same time as events in eastern ukraine were heating up
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the new ukrainian government didn't have the power to wage war on too many fronts if odessa were to join the growing
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uprising in the eastern regions it would seriously complicate the situation
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this rebellion had to be extinguished immediately and at any cost and that cost was high
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on may 2nd 2014 soccer fans flocked to the center of odessa city for the
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ukrainian championship match surprisingly a great number of these fans who descended into odessa just the
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night before also turned out to be fighters from the maidan self-defense units along with members of radical
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organizations from all parts of ukraine
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these fans masked armed and shouting nationalist mottos began disturbances in
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the center of the city as they marched to the anti-maidan tent encampment where they attacked
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the anti-maidan protesters sought shelter in the trade union house but it was a trap
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maidan supporters started throwing molotov cocktails into the building until it was engulfed in flames
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people burned to death inside or trying to escape jump from the windows
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although a fire station was less than a mile away it took almost half an hour for firefighters to arrive
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when they finally did the damage had been done [Music]
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but here's an intriguing fact just a few days before those dreadful events a messenger from maidan andrei perubi made
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a visit to odessa it's an interesting coincidence that some of the people he met with in odessa
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were seen at the scene that fateful day
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[Music] but not everyone was mourning
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on the popular political talk show shuster live the news about the people burnt alive in odessa was welcomed with
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a long round of applause
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on its facebook page the right sector announced the events of may 2 a proud
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moment in national history an official investigation into this sad event has been going on now for nearly two years
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and it's yet to reach a conclusion but it seems the experts had all the information they needed from the very
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beginning
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[Applause]
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it looks like odessa really is a very important piece of real estate as it was honored with a very special
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new governor appointed on may thirtieth of 2015. mikhail sakashvili
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an old friend of the united states and born and raised in ukraine's neighboring country georgia a little hoedown there
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in georgia a quick look at his biography gives one an understanding that he's been groomed for a special mission

It’s just that Odesa is very far from the Russian border - you can’t bring “rebels” here from Rostov.

 

[WW2historian]

It’s just that Odesa is very far from the Russian border - you can’t bring “rebels” here from Rostov.

It's not far from Transnistria.

 

[Akim]

It's not far from Transnistria.

There is no twitching. 40 km. width of this quasi-state. It was still possible to emit an uprising in March 2014, but not in May 2014, when Ukraine restored its psychological breakdown after Yanukovych fled. So only the local "pro-Russians" had to rebel. They, like in Donetsk, are an absolute minority, but there the parallel streets to Lenin Square (Pushkin Boulevard and Naberezhnaya (embankment) Street) were filled with buses with Rostov license plates.
And the municipal police betrayed us. They did not fulfill their duties - they simply observed (the psychological breakdown was taking its toll).

 

[Soldier35]

Archival footage of an episode of a battle between Russian army special forces scouts and Ukrainian army units in the Serebryanskoye forestry. The video was filmed in the Luhansk region in the Krasnolimansk direction; it was not possible to establish which units were involved in the battle. Presumably, a Russian GM-94 hand-held multi-charge grenade launcher was used in the battle.


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