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More than 10 people were shot today by snipers. Nothing to be jealous about.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DxkDiAcSF8

In all these sniper events, they are all too tricky. Sniper shoots people, people enrage and kill police, snipers kills police, police defends and kills people.

Most of the times I am inclined that snipers are 3rd party working for the benefit of pushing around people/police/media.

As far as I heard, the sniper was from the opposition, and he shot police officers, no?

What? No! Here are people who died from sniper http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaMbkoJT2uY

Here's a medical worker who had been shot https://twitter.com/HromadskeTV/status/436445556664066048/ph...

Here's a video of sniper shooting at people: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=570573343039007&set=vb....

Why do people on video wear non-military boots, yellow identification stripes, use outdated weapons and can't hold a gun right? I mean with left hand, there are no left-handed versions, especially so old, used rounds will hit user's face. And that "sniper" actually doesn't shoot at all. And leaves only _after_ everybody moved back, leaving him exposed. That's ridiculous.

UPD: that girl just died :( https://twitter.com/avramchuk_katya/status/43648282472023654...

I've read corrections that she underwent surgery and is still alive.

http://espreso.tv/new/2014/02/20/poranena_v_shyyu_volonterka... (in Ukrainian)

Yes, just saw that. Best wishes to her.

Opposition doesn't have any kind of weapon or warriors at all! People are not with opposition, and opposition leaders lost their voice now, noone listens to them. People are too angry.

Are you sure?

From yesterday's news:

According to [Ukrainian Security Service head] Yakimenko, “over the last day more than 1,500 firearms and 100,000 rounds of ammunition have come into the hands of criminals.”

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Meanwhile in Ivano-Frankovsk, rioters have seized 268 pistols, 2 rifles, 3 light machine guns, 92 grenades and 15,000 ammunition rounds, the deputy head of the Security Service, Vladimir Porodko, has said, adding that the police are searching for the stolen arms.

Sorry for being not clear enough. I'm not saying protestors don't have weapon. I'm just saying that we shouldn't call them "opposition". Opposition are bunch of politicians that want to do everything peaceful and were never radical. Protestors are separate from opposition.

Sure. Ukrainian Security Service hired criminals and led criminals out of jail, gave them weapons and so they went shooting at the protesters. World news (i.e. US, UK and some other state sponsored news services) are still behind Yanukovich, so I wouldn't trust how they are spinning the events.

Uh, what? As far as I can tell, the vast majority of commentary in the Western press is pretty anti-Yanukovich (e.g. the NYTimes editorial today: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/20/opinion/ukraines-deadly-tu...).

Are you really quoting the a source that's obviously biased?

no, of course not, I mean, the government is just saying that the weapons have been stolen, so that when they 'massacre' the peaceful protestors, they can point the finger and say, 'but it wasn't us, weapons were stolen'. Seriously.... you watch too much CSI.

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