Quote:The crisis in Ukraine became dramatically worse with 42 people killed and 125 injured in a fire and clashes between pro- and anti-Russian groups in Odessa, leading the Ukrainian government to say the unrest has become “a war.”
On Saturday, Russian President Vladimir Putin blamed the West and the interim government in Kiev for the violence in Odessa, including the horrific trade union building fire, NBC News reports.
The trade union in Odessa was set on fire Friday, causing some 40 people to die from choking on smoke, burning or jumping from windows.
“Kiev and its Western sponsors are practically provoking the bloodshed and bear direct responsibility for it,” Putin’s spokesman said to reporters, according to state news agency RIA Novosti. “Those who recognize this junta as legal power becomes an accomplice of this crime.”
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Quote:Although all efforts have been made by the violently-installed regime in Kiev and its sponsors in the United States and Europe to, by turns or simultaneously, ignore, downplay, obfuscate and distort the horrific events in Odessa, Ukraine on Friday, May 2, what is indisputably evident is that an estimated 46 people were killed and 200 forced to seek medical treatment after assaults by pro-government forces culminated in the burning of a trade union office building.

A French novelist wrote in the 1800s of a curious trait of the human psyche that a person will perpetrate the perfect crime, then give himself away by bragging it about it to the first stranger he meets in a bar. Such indeed is the dynamic that seems to account for videos appearing on YouTube almost immediately after the carnage in Odessa demonstrating beyond a scintilla of doubt that young thugs, many with military camouflage outfits and plastic and metal military helmets, were preparing firebombs and, in one clear instance, firing a handgun in the direction of the besieged occupants of the trade union headquarters, who had fled a tent camp they had inhabited outside for shelter after the extremist goons arrived.

One cell phone video shows what appear to be members of the police force walking by and observing several young men getting Molotov cocktails ready and, far from intervening, appearing to nod their approbation. After the assailants hurled several of the handmade bombs into the building, shouts of exultation and triumph are heard, increasing in intensity as the fires caused by the bombs spread through the several-story complex.