Putin voiced concern to Merkel over sharp deterioration of armed confrontation in Ukraine that radical wing of opposition is blamed for, the Kremlin press service reported earlier.

“Putin noted extreme importance of immediate end to bloodshed, need for urgent measures to stabilise the situation and curb extremist and terrorist raids,” the press service added.

A blast went off at the riot police base triggering a fire, the regional police department said.

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Die sogenannte “Analyse” des “Spiegel”-Journalisten Benjamin Bidder steht für die Einseitigung der hiesigen Berichterstattung über die Vorkommnisse in der Ukraine. Seine Analyse trägt den Titel “Regime ohne Skrupel, Klitschko ohne Macht”

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Andriy Petrovych Klyuyev (Ukrainian: Андрій Петрович Клюєв), also spelled as Andrey/Andriy Kluev/Klyuev, is a Ukrainian businessman and politician, ranked as 7th „Most influential person in Ukraine“ in 2011 by the Korrespondent. He is since 24 January 2014 head of the Presidential Administration of Ukraine. Following being for two year the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine.

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But the most crucial media omission is Moscow’s reasonable conviction that the struggle for Ukraine is yet another chapter in the West’s ongoing, US-led march toward post-Soviet Russia, which began in the 1990s with NATO’s eastward expansion and continued with US-funded NGO political activities inside Russia, a US-NATO military outpost in Georgia and missile-defense installations near Russia. Whether this longstanding Washington-Brussels policy is wise or reckless, it—not Putin’s December financial offer to save Ukraine’s collapsing economy—is deceitful. The EU’s “civilizational” proposal, for example, includes “security policy” provisions, almost never reported, that would apparently subordinate Ukraine to NATO.

A short-lived truce has broken down in Ukraine as street battles have erupted between anti-government protesters and police. Last night the country’s embattled president and the opposition leaders demanding his resignation called for a truce and negotiations to try to resolve Ukraine’s political crisis. But hours later, armed protesters attempted to retake Independence Square, sparking another day of deadly violence. At least 50 people have died since Tuesday in the bloodiest period of Ukraine’s 22-year post-Soviet history. While President Obama has vowed to „continue to engage all sides,“ a recently leaked audio recording between two top U.S. officials reveal the Obama administration has been secretly plotting with the opposition. We speak to Stephen Cohen, professor emeritus of Russian studies and politics at New York University and Princeton University. His most recent book, „Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives: From Stalinism to the New Cold War,“ is out in paperback. His latest Nation article is „Distorting Russia: How the American Media Misrepresent Putin, Sochi and Ukraine.“

The main purpose of the Administration is to provide administrative, advisory, analytical, and legal assistance to the President. The Administration arranges communication and official statements between the President and the Ukrainian parliament the Verkhovna Rada, the Cabinet of Ministers, the Constitutional Court, local government bodies, and other institutions.

Während die Politik deeskalierende Gespräche untereinander führt, hat man den Eindruck, dass beiden Führungen das Geschehen auf der Straße längst entglitten ist. Welche Demonstranten hören noch auf Klitschko? Wer stützt noch Janukowitsch? Die Zeichen stehen nicht auf Klärung, sondern auf eine Radikalisierung eines Protestes mit Krawallen hin zum Bürgerkrieg.

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Bei den Zusammenstößen in Kiew wurden 67 Militärs gefangen genommen. Wo und in welchem Zustand sie sich befinden, bleibt unbekannt.

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Die Außenminister von Polen, Frankreich und Deutschland – Radosław Sikorski, Laurent Fabius und Frank-Walter Steinmeier – haben das Gebäude der ukrainischen Präsidentenverwaltung nach dem fast sechs Stunden langen Treffen mit Viktor Janukowitsch verlassen.

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Ukrainische Protestler haben heute Morgen das Kernkraftwerk in der Stadt Riwne, angegriffen. Nach der Erstürmung des AKW besetzten die Aktivisten die administrativen Blöcke, zündeten Archive und den Hauptserver an.

Radikal gesinnte Oppositionelle in der Ukraine haben in den zurückliegenden 24 Stunden rund 1500 Schusswaffen und 100 000 Stück Munition entwendet. Das erklärte der ukrainische Sicherheitsdienst SBU am Mittwoch.

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Real firearms can also be seen on the video.

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The next scene taken in a medical tent shows an unconscious officer covered with blood – his eye has been poked out. According to the Ukrainian Pravda news outlet, the officer’s hand was also chopped off.

Somebody shouts that the man is a captured police officer and calls for a stretcher to take him away. An individual purported to be a local medic says that the officer doesn’t deserve an ambulance.

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„The United States and NATO and the EU are together using their combined forces to signal to these demonstrators that ‚We are with you,'“ he said. The EU, NATO leadership and the Obama administration „are neck deep now in a plan to carry out regime change in this extremely important part of Europe, trying to integrate a former Soviet republic into the EU and, of course, into NATO ultimately.“

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