Kremlin on Poroshenko's ceasefire plan: a good thing, with some caveats. http://t.co/GxI6HwoEOQ
— Roland Oliphant (@RolandOliphant) June 22, 2014
John Reed nearly a century ago on being turned on by a revolutionary mob. Bizarrely, chillingly familiar. http://t.co/KfdJlqIlPE
— Roland Oliphant (@RolandOliphant) June 22, 2014
But Ukraine's souvenir manufacturers appear not to have gotten the message.
"People from Kiev and Lvov and the people from the east and the south, we are all alike. We all have one motherland and we all have the same future," said Aleksander Korobka, travelling with his wife on a business trip from his native city of Kharkiv, in Ukraine's restive east. "I don't see that those other regions will have a separate future from Ukraine ... I hope that [the fighting] finishes quickly and that our country holds together."
Nevertheless, he still decided to buy a doormat with the words "wipe here" and a picture of Yanukovich's face. "If we have guests, the blank side will be for them. For those we know well, we'll flip it over." Korobka's contradictory sentiments highlight the extremely confused mix of feelings, politics, beliefs, history and geography that make the current knot that is Ukraine so difficult to unpick.
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#ukraine at its most United. Huge crowd and Ukrainian flags everywhere for #ОкеанЕльзи in Kyiv. Awesome pic.twitter.com/edXD5pTF17
— Geoffrey Pyatt (@GeoffPyatt) June 22, 2014
Appearing on the Rossiya 24 television channel today 22, Putin said fighting in Ukraine needs to stop.
But Putin said reconciliation in Ukraine is dependent on a "dialogue among the all the opposing factions" in order to find solutions that are acceptable to everyone, particularly people in southeastern Ukraine.
Putin said there was artillery fire overnight from Ukraine, some of which landed on Russian territory although he added it was not clear who was responsible.
Putin made his comments to reporters as he laid a wreath at the tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the Kremlin.
June 22 is the anniversary of the start of World War Two in the Soviet Union as it marks the date Hitler's forces invaded the country in 1941.
Okean Elzy concert was a hit! http://t.co/6FvFCkKsOA pic.twitter.com/bsAG4eZiHN
— Kyiv Post (@KyivPost) June 22, 2014
#Donetsk today. RT @ARothNYT: Novorossiya's new recruits pic.twitter.com/ZM3sWZkGb4
— Christopher Miller (@ChristopherJM) June 22, 2014
Apart from planning for Cold War II, Russ army has also been conjuring up a fluffy logo. Trouble is, seems familiar pic.twitter.com/Foy6JA6yVY
— Oliver Carroll (@olliecarroll) June 22, 2014
On June 22, #Russians commemorate those who lost their lives during WWII. #Putin laid his wreath at #Kiev memorial... pic.twitter.com/fv5kmAdYjI
— Ukraine Reporter (@StateOfUkraine) June 22, 2014