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Does anyone know the status in Kiev?

Past 24 hours in a nutshell -

Truce agreed upon last night.
Truce flouted this morning.
21 dead so far today. One policeman also dead, not sure if part of the 21.
75 dead since Tuesday.
European Union imposes sanctions on the Ukraine.
In their parliament, Ukranian MPs voted to condemn the violence, most members present during the session are in the opposition.

It's just insane. The people protesting want to go towards the EU, the leaders want to go towards Russia.
Maybe this will lead to a split in the country, because the large regions of ethnic Russians are going to wake up if the Ukraine goes too far towards Europe and away from Russia.

An idea of the % of ethnic Russians by oblast in the Ukraine. As you can see, Kiev (the 25.4% there up top) is surrounded by other ethnicities, the majority of which want to join the EU.



This picture is chilling -