Ever hear of Donetsk? It is a city of roughly one million people in the eastern part of the Ukraine. It is also the site of the latest wave of "protests" by pro-Russian citizens in Ukraine. Today, government buildings were stormed by pro-Russian mobs chanting slogans that Donetsk is a "Russian city". If that sounds at all familiar, it is because this is the sort of behavior that began shortly before the Russian army used the unrest as an excuse for invading and annexing Crimea.
One has to wonder if this is the next step in the Russian plan to gobble up the eastern half of Ukraine (or maybe the whole country.) Donetsk is one of the three large cities of the eastern part of the country. The other two are Dnepropetrovsk and Kharkiv. Were the Russian army to occupy those three cities, the Ukraine would have lost an enormous chunk of its people and it would be reduced to a marginal state.
Let's hope that today's "protests" were not orchestrated by Moscow. Meanwhile, let's hope that our government is checking to see if it can determine the source of this latest move. It is time for "Don't trust, and verify."
One has to wonder if this is the next step in the Russian plan to gobble up the eastern half of Ukraine (or maybe the whole country.) Donetsk is one of the three large cities of the eastern part of the country. The other two are Dnepropetrovsk and Kharkiv. Were the Russian army to occupy those three cities, the Ukraine would have lost an enormous chunk of its people and it would be reduced to a marginal state.
Let's hope that today's "protests" were not orchestrated by Moscow. Meanwhile, let's hope that our government is checking to see if it can determine the source of this latest move. It is time for "Don't trust, and verify."
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