TYT: Police Snipers Shoot, Protesters Toss Firebombs As Ukraine Truce Fails

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*Protesters tossed firebombs and advanced upon police lines Thursday in Ukraine's embattled capital. Government snipers shot back, killing at least 70 people and wounding hundreds of others, according to a protest doctor. Video footage on Ukrainian television showed shocking scenes Thursday of protesters being cut down by gunfire, lying on the pavement as comrades rushed to their aid. Trying to protect themselves with shields, teams of protesters carried bodies away on sheets of plastic or planks of wood...* What is the reaction from Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev? The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down.

*Read more here: http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/2014/02/20/ukraine-standoff-continues-amid-shaky-truce/nre1Un9uccV27s8gZqdRDN/story.html

[PatrynXX]

1. Little late

is this the first truce or second truce?

[JDPriestly]

2. A lot of WWII survivors in Europe are terrified at the thought of the brutality of the Russian

soldiers.

I sympathize with the Ukrainian people. But I can understand that some Ukrainians don't want the austerity programs that I read that the European Union is requiring as a condition of joining them. On the other hand, the Russians are offering debt forgiveness.

The only ways I can see to resolve this peacefully are for the country to divide into two separate countries or for the country to hold a fair plebiscite on this issue. But a plebiscite would have to be fair and I don't know whether that is possible there.

Personally, I would take my chances on the European Union, but then I'm not Ukrainian.