Peace Breaks Out in Ukraine - for Now
Over the weekend, the people of Ukraine apparently tipped the scales. Rather than continued violence, a hastily cobbled "compromise" between the government and opposition parties quickly turned into a rout of the government of Viktor Yanukovych. One after another of Ukraine's politicians, police and military leaders walked away from the government that killed its own citizens last week. Opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko was abruptly released from prison. And while Yanukovych has protested that he remains Ukraine's President, the Ukrainian parliament impeached him and removed him from office.
For the moment, peace has broken out even as some of those injured in the violent attacks on Maidan protestors continue to expire from their severe injuries.
Will Putin - Yanukovych's Russian "Daddy" - simply walk away from his demand that Ukraine turn away from the EU and join his Russian-dominated economic and political alliance? More specifically, will Putin agree with the Ukrainian people that they are an independent nation, not a "Little Russia" as the neo-Czar Putin claims? We'll have to wait and see.
But for now, let us pause to remember those who knowingly stood in the Maidan last week and faced the lethal force of a tyrannical government. Reliable sources had revealed the government's intention to send sniper assassin's into the Maidan, and even as leaders told the people they might face death, the people nevertheless came and faced death rather than submit to tyranny from their own leaders and the tyranny of Putin.
To honor these dead, here now we present a link to a beautiful dirge, accompanied by moving images from the Maidan. Click HERE. And please pray for those who gave their lives, for their families and their friends and for the Ukrainian people. Facing an uncertain future, they need your support.
For the moment, peace has broken out even as some of those injured in the violent attacks on Maidan protestors continue to expire from their severe injuries.
Will Putin - Yanukovych's Russian "Daddy" - simply walk away from his demand that Ukraine turn away from the EU and join his Russian-dominated economic and political alliance? More specifically, will Putin agree with the Ukrainian people that they are an independent nation, not a "Little Russia" as the neo-Czar Putin claims? We'll have to wait and see.
But for now, let us pause to remember those who knowingly stood in the Maidan last week and faced the lethal force of a tyrannical government. Reliable sources had revealed the government's intention to send sniper assassin's into the Maidan, and even as leaders told the people they might face death, the people nevertheless came and faced death rather than submit to tyranny from their own leaders and the tyranny of Putin.
To honor these dead, here now we present a link to a beautiful dirge, accompanied by moving images from the Maidan. Click HERE. And please pray for those who gave their lives, for their families and their friends and for the Ukrainian people. Facing an uncertain future, they need your support.
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