Grab Guns And Kill Russians, Suggests A Ukraine Leader As Rightists Rob Passengers
By Countercurrents
25 March 2014
Countercurrents.org
One pro-EU-US leader has suggested grabbing guns to kill Russians while rightists, as a show of anarchy, are robbing train passengers.
A RT report, “Time to grab guns and kill damn Russians – Tymoshenko in leaked tape” ( March 24, 2014, http://on.rt.com/6auysa), said: “Ukrainians must take up arms against Russians so that not even scorched earth will be left where Russia stands; an example of former Ukrainian PM Yulia Tymoshenko's vitriol in phone call leaked online.
“Tymoshenko confirmed the authenticity of the conversation on Twitter while pointing out that a section where she is heard to call for the nuclear slaughter of the eight million Russians who remain on Ukrainian territory was edited.
“She tweeted ‘ The conversation took place, but the '8 million Russians in Ukraine ' piece is an edit. In fact, I said Russians in Ukraine – are Ukrainians. Hello FSB :) Sorry for the obscene language.'
“The former Ukrainian PM has not clarified who exactly she wants to nuke.
“Shufrych's press service flatly contradicted Tymoshenko, slamming the tape as fake. The press release reads ‘The conversation didn't take place,' as quoted by korrespondent.net.The phone conversation with Nestor Shufrych, former deputy secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, was uploaded on YouTube on Monday by user Sergiy Vechirko.”
The report added:
“The leaked phone call took placed on March 18, hours after the Crimea & Sevastopol accession treaty was signed in the Kremlin.
“While Shufrych was ‘ just shocked,' Tymoshenko was enraged by the results of the Crimean referendum.
“‘This is really beyond all boundaries. It's about time we grab our guns and kill go kill those damn Russians together with their leader,' Tymoshenko said.
“The ex-pm declared if she was in charge ‘there would be no f***ing way that they would get Crimea then.'
“Shufrych made the valid point that Ukraine ‘ didn't have any force potential' to keep Crimea .
“But Tymoshenko, who plans to run in Ukraine 's presidential election, expressed confidence that she would have found ‘ a way to kill those a*****es.'
“‘I hope I will be able to get all my connections involved. And I will use all of my means to make the entire world raise up, so that there wouldn't be even a scorched field left in Russia ,' she promised.
“Despite being incapacitated by spinal disc hernia the ex-PM stressed she's ready to ‘grab a machine gun and shoot that m*********er in the head.'”
Tymoshenko rose to power as a key figure in the pro-EU “Orange Revolution” in 2004, becoming Ukrainian prime minister 2007-2010. She was imprisoned in 2012, under president Viktor Yanukovich, after being found guilty of exceeding her authority by signing a gas supply and transit deal with Russia . Tymoshenko served part of her seven-year sentence in prison before being relocated to a Kharkov hospital. She was released immediately after the Kiev coup which ousted Yanukovich.
The report also cited other incidents:
“This is not the first telephone leak scandal since the Ukrainian turmoil began last November.
“In February, a tape was revealed, in which US Assistant Secretary of State for Europe, Victoria Nuland, said ‘F**k the EU' as she was discussing the formation of the future Ukrainian government with the US ambassador to the country, Geoffrey Pyatt.
“At the beginning of March a phone conversation between EU Foreign Affairs ?hief, Catherine Ashton, and Estonian foreign affairs minister, Urmas Paet, was made public.
”Speaking with Ashton, Paet stressed that there was suspicion that the snipers in Kiev , who shot at protesters and police in Kiev might have been hired by Maidan leaders.”
Robbing train passengers
Citing a Russian foreign ministry statement RT in another report (“‘Revival of anarchy': Ukraine radicals rob Russia-Moldova train passengers”, March 24, 2014, http://on.rt.com/2huz5q) said:
“The recent robbing of passengers, traveling from Russia to Moldova via Ukraine 's territory, by a local ultra-nationalist Insurgent Army is a manifestation of ‘anarchy'.
“On March 21, the train, en route from Moscow to the capital of Moldova , Chisinau, made a scheduled stop in the city of Vinnitsa in central Ukraine .
“‘ To the horror of passengers…people dressed in the uniform of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) got into carriages and began a “document check”. People who showed Russian passports were then made to hand over their money and golden jewelry, ' the Russian Ministry said on Monday in a statement published on its website.
“The robbery was accompanied with ‘political sensitization', diplomats said.
“ Moscow also said it was ‘bewildered' by the refusal of the Ukrainian police to take any action when the victims attempted to file a report.
“‘ That is the kind of “rule of law” that is currently being formed in Ukraine ,' the ministry said. ‘ It seems that the anarchy of the beginning of the 20th century is reviving .'
Citing an NTV report the RT report mentioned another incident:
“A similar incident occurred with passengers traveling from the Ukrainian city of Krivoy Rog to the Russian capital … However, this time it was either Ukrainian border guards or customs service officers who were involved.
“According to passengers, during the border control procedure, Ukrainian officers grabbed passports from Russian citizens providing them with no explanation.
“Passenger, Angela Piskokha, told NTV that Ukrainian officials then offered her the opportunity to buy back her own passport for 6,000 rubles (US$ 166).
Russia and G-8
Meanwhile, the Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov has made comments on decision by the West to keep Russia excluded from the G-8: Russia is not clinging to the G-8 format, as all major world problems can be discussed at other international venues such as G-20. “The G8 is an informal club, no one gives out membership cards and no one can expel members,” Lavrov told a media conference at the Hague . “If our Western partners believe that this format has exhausted itself, let it be. We are not clinging to it.” (RT, “ Russia not clinging to G8 if West does not want it – Russian FM”, March 24, 2014)
He went on to say that many believe that the G-8 has already fulfilled its mission as many issues are now discussed at the G-20 forum.
“Generally speaking, there are also other formats for considering many questions, including the UN Security Council, the Middle East Quartet and the P5+1 on the Iranian nuclear problem,” Lavrov told journalists.
The Minister also commented on earlier reports regarding Australia considering not inviting Russian president Vladimir Putin to the November G-20 meeting, which is going to be held in Brisbane .
“The G-20 was not established by Australia , which voiced the proposal not to invite Russia to the meeting. We created the format all together,” Lavrov said.
G-7 – Canada , France , Germany , Italy , Japan , the UK and the US – leaders are also holding a gathering at The Hague .
Lavrov is in the Netherlands , where representatives of over 50 states and chiefs of the UN, the EU, the International Atomic Energy Agency and the European Police Office have gathered for the Nuclear Security Summit to address the threat of nuclear terrorism.
On the sidelines of the gathering, Lavrov met with US Secretary of State John Kerry and yet again discussed the Ukraine question.
Both Moscow and Washington understand that Ukraine needs constitutional reform, Lavrov said.
“We discussed the necessity to call on the authorities in Kiev to pay serious attention to the constitutional reform, which would take into consideration the interests of all Ukrainian regions,” he said.
However, Lavrov admitted, that it is their evaluation of the situation and they “cannot impose” this idea on the Ukrainian leadership. Still, it would be very difficult to overcome the “ Ukraine 's deep internal crisis” without such a reform, the Russian minister believes.
According to Lavrov, Kerry realizes that it is necessary to “push” the Ukrainian authorities into fulfilling the February 21 agreement on the crisis settlement, which was signed by ousted President Viktor Yanukovich, opposition leaders and foreign ministers of Germany , France and Poland .
On Friday, Ukraine 's coup-imposed government and the EU signed the core elements of a political association agreement; this is part of the deal with the EU (that was predominantly economic) that Yanukovich put on hold in November, which resulted in mass bloody unrest and his ousting.
In Lavrov's view, the coup-installed authorities in Kiev should have waited until a legitimate government was formed in the country after elections, and should have only then decided whether to sign an agreement with Brussels .
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