Kyiv concedes that militants won the east

Posted: Thursday, May 1, 2014 8:02 am

Kyiv concedes that militants won the east

By Alison Smale and Andrew Roth
The New York Times

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KYIV, Ukraine — It is by now a well-established pattern. Armed, masked men in their 20s to 40s storm a public building of high symbolic value in a city somewhere in eastern Ukraine, evict anyone still there, seize weapons and ammunition, throw up barricades, and proclaim themselves the rulers of a “People’s Republic.” It is not clear who is in charge or how the militias are organized.


Through such tactics, a few thousand pro-Russian militants have seized buildings in about a dozen cities, effectively establishing control over much of an industrial region of about 6.5 million nestled against the Russian border.

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