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Ukraine’s central government, located in Kyiv, has given
up manning the country’s border with Russia at areas in the southeast where
popular opposition to the Kyiv authorities has overwhelmed the Kyiv
government’s ability to police the border there.

The central government’s border guards at the town of
Severniy abandoned their post, on Thursday June 5th, so that now anyone can
cross unimpeded there to and from Ukraine and Russia. This will enable
Ukrainians who want to flee to do so, and it will also permit Russians who want
to join the rebellion in Ukraine’s southeast (or simply to protect
family-members who live there) to do so, with no difficulty on either side, and
with no fear at the border-crossing.

This abandonment was reported by Agence France Presse.
Russia’s Itar-Tass News Agency reported in more
detail, saying that the decision was made by Ukraine’s central government and
had broader scope than just Severny: “‘To prevent the emergence of threats
to the population’s life or health as a result of dangerous events taking place
in certain areas, the cabinet [in Kyiv, in the northwest] agreed with the State
Border Service’s proposal to stop the operation of checkpoints,’ the
government press service said in a press release on Thursday.”

Itar-Tass went on, to mention that Severny was one of a
total of six abandoned border-crossings: “In Ukraine’s Lugansk region, the
operation of the following checkpoints has been stopped: Dolzhansky,
Chervonopartizansk, Krasnaya Mogila, Novoborovtsy and Severny. In the Donetsk
region, the Marinovka checkpoint will be closed. The Ukrainian government
has instructed the Foreign Ministry to inform Russia about the decision.”

The significance of this event is that it cedes control of
the border there to Russia.

The Kyiv government has been using
helicopter and jet sorties into the region, and bombs, to persuade the
residents that they will have to give up their opposition, in order to stay
alive; but a lot more airpower will have to be devoted to that task
than the Kyiv government currently has at its command. On 14 April 2014,
Reuters reported “U.S. Is Considering Arms to Ukraine.” However,
for the U.S. to send weapons in any public way would be detrimental to
America’s ability to persuade its European allies that the government that was installed in Ukraine in late February has
democratic legitimacy, especially after the May 2nd massacre that took place in Odessa.

The IMF (International Monetary Fund) has told the
authorities in Kyiv that putting down the rebellion will be a prerequisite to
continuation of financial support for the deeply indebted government.

So, the current leader in Kyiv, President Petro
Poroshenko, has his work cut out for him — by the IMF, if not by the U.S. or anyone
else.

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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most
recently, of They’re Not Even
Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010, and of CHRIST’S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created
Christianity.

PS: This news report went out to virtually all U.S. news-media that claim to be open to outside submissions, or that don’t state clearly that they are not. You will get to see which ones publish it, and which do not. As occasionally happens, one recipient of this submission asked me to remove her from my submission-list. It was Roxanne Cooper, the owner of RawStory. She said simply: “Can you remove me from your list?” I replied: “Sure, if you will explain to me why you haven’t used any of my pieces.” She answered: “I’m the publisher, not the editor.” I responded: “I know that. Would you please answer my question?” She answered: “Okay, straight to trash you go.” I replied: “The fact that you want nothing from me had already made that clear. Would you please answer my question, which was/is ‘why.’ That’s the question I asked. I want to know why you consider my work to be, as you now put it, ‘trash.'” As of yet, she has not responded. However, Michel Chossudovsky, the owner of the Canadian site “Global Research,” has posted this piece under a different title, “Kyiv Regime Abandons Ukraine-Russian Border Checkpoints”. Googling the lead phrase, “Ukraine’s central government, located in Kyiv, has given up manning the country’s border with Russia” will show all of the honest news sites.