when i close my eyes i see people. the people i remember best of all of it come back to us and they're all wearing masks. sometimes i think that you are my gun itself was a face covered by a. good people in both sides of the barricades and you know sometimes you said it feels as if all of ukraine is now lost. yeah i'm from kiev. i've lived here all my life i have two children and a wife who i love very much yet interesting i want to say it because it's real history taking shape right before my eyes what's happening now will remain in

history forever but only time will tell if it's a black or a white page in history. i was done in two thousand and four i remember the environment. people treated each other with. i was looking for the same people who are my down hoping to meet the same attitude the same wall. when you put. that for some reason it turns out the people are getting ready to fight. what can you achieve on my done if opposition leaders are popular to say you know and there's no real alternative. it's good that the people have shown the next government that it can be i was threatened by another. and if it fails to follow the will of the people. why do you think ukraine's in the situation that it is. this was. a group of

people who wanted to become part of europe gathered here they were beaten by the members of the beer special police unit and it led to an uprising some people fought for an idea and others for money i doubt anyone would stay outside in such freezing cold for nothing protesting is all fine but you have to feed your family somehow you have to work in ukraine just like in any other country hard cash will defeat evil. but it is great to me my done has not been financed not financed by any organization. prove it prove at least one instance as i can't well you can't prove otherwise one prove to me when people who are in flak jackets with thirteen hundred dollars. quit and petrol for molotov cocktails doesn't come for free either bike with their own money i come to mind on every day i leave my child with my husband

and come here people who haven't been to work for three months buy petrol for molotov cocktails with their own money god how much they have saved up. i got my hands on some shots of a lot of tons of airplane delivering diplomatic mail for the us embassy in ukraine . must they show us a car with us diplomatic license plates and heavy build guys getting out of it but there wasn't just an embassy car. there was also an armored truck for transporting cash there was a part of the documents is loaded into the embassy car and huge bags go into the armored truck if there is money in these trucks what does the us embassy needed for . victoria nuland said that the usa had spent five billion dollars on democracy in ukraine. but we don't know what this money was spent on an organizing the orange revolution. on setting up this revolution on concocting molotov cocktails or on

some anti aids programs. you know my dun needs money it's a huge enterprise where you have to pay for food heating propaganda materials and so on but it was a look at the combatants equipment they all have backs they're all wearing uniforms for. my duns members are constantly changing. you'll see different people on different days on weekends there are plenty of city dwellers that would and then my down looks more crowded more sensible and friendlier in the way that on weekdays there are my done protesters for hire from and even straight up homeless tramps.

like you know what we call them while people. do you think they're doing it for free. it's all for money. i thought well then who do you think's paying them like. the usa these people go to my as if they were going to would come of all of on a funky it's full of moods. all these towns. well you know there are. little. glory to ukraine. good guys with all of my danya this is a president where you from. i was the is. that if you look at that if you support

medina yes how long do you think the confrontations going to last we'll fight to victory. victory. was was or was there can't be any dialogue between the present government and the opposition they've crossed the line and must resign he won't be satisfied with anything less help us we need a leader our leaders have been intimidated i'm afraid to show my face was. thank you thank god thank goodness there was one american journalist i saw on t.v. openly explaining just how exactly an activist should take over buildings and what sort of strategies things should adopt. a two page. it is not.

like a patient is not a march a patient is more than that you have many marches every day nothing happens but when you do i care patient. every occupation in all the do to survive and to be successful it has to generalize itself. every occupation that contained itself in its own very trades. training. here call it occupation but this word is not being used here in ukraine nobody calls it occupation here. it doesn't matter if it is in essence it is. space people are occupying this space and they are saying that we not the government or do you suspect. all the organizers of the

color revolutions that i know have been to ukraine. more how can we go on saying that these protesters are peaceful but. i visit hospitals and see members from special forces units with burns and broken limbs. but these guys talk about how they were standing on the street and people were throwing bags filled with petrol at them. they created some special mixtures that are impossible to extinguish the bonos for example they take acetone and add from plastic receiving a kind of glue that will keep on burning until completely burns itself out. and it's impossible to put out these new technologies are being tested on people and their real people just like those on the other side of the barricades the very same ukrainian guys.

the present moment you know it's a defense line built as we take shit from european square. well extremists and radicals have gathered you can see a banner saying remember they're waiting for you at home this is to say if you stay here but remember when you come back we'll find you suppose these are the usual threats we get from the other side. on the houses were members a special forces of them paint their dead or we'll hang you and kill your family one by one it's not our people standing there the first line that's rescued tons now come out a bit later well i came in the morning and built barricades and if we don't touch them it also brought out crosses. catholic catholic right so they fortified the barricades and then the first missile from the other side came at us and then the second and then fire bombs and the war went on until the morning.

and then let me be into my den like when i passed by it i might stop and have a look but it's absolutely pointless this was meaningless. and it will get worse that's what i think. i know the protesters received twenty five dollars a day. but my eighteen year old son went to my dad and it's early days and got paid for it with a trip. although it was never really peaceful just let us. we

usually use the way the priests have a great amongst ourselves that will do everything we're told for the sake of space if i tell this to lie down will lie down don't jump it will jump to stand will stand just so that we have peace. what's terrifying is that people are longing for war not for pace you have a sick need for war. it's not healthy. to nobody and there were a lot of people on and around the barricades a lot but there weren't many among them who actually for. real as people say now that the truth there were the so-called ultras or those who belong to the right sector group think that i would do it the way you're more over the cruelty of saying is characteristic of only very young people which it's expressed here in all

its forms but the chants and harsh commands were coming from only a few people. suit the squidoo solution you can. see save him the lord will see little needles and give him strength and wisdom. still stand up. for him what are you. at the this is not just a single shield. it's placed on top of the barricade as an explosive is inserted here and launched in the direction of the unit. this way no one knows who launched it. can come back from there they single out activists and shoot at them with rubber bullets which is. when we stood on. the neutral ground

approached the unit and said it's we don't think we're abandoning you it's just that the truce has been declared it. revealed a face all grimy from the smoke of burning tires to what jim said does that mean they want to burn us today and the other guy said the. bush people to. shout from the barricades come to the people but people too. said the people of those who love their country and split it into.

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people think you know my done has brought everything of importance in ukraine to a standstill you but i have a small business selling head and even when i'm at my done i'm still taking the wallet as i don't think events here of really affected business that much on the. slow hi gloria heroes hello. do you support my done your little thing why else would we have come. to you support military action to. the cook unit if you did you know. we don't support the book. we don't support them at all. people just don't tell me please do you agree that the ukrainian people should decide their own fate for themselves and of course i agree with you no intermediaries from europe or the usa right yes all russia we're not talking about russia now they're not interfering no it's you is not talking about it you should. say that why have you ever seen a russian diplomat or foreign minister handing out cookies to burkhard officers or anyone here on my donkey or anywhere else in the center of kiev you know only the

civilized countries do you agree with the referendum send their ambassadors only the european countries but it's interference and so are barbarians barbarians why do you say that civilized countries are in the ambassadors and what about training citizens no i'm not abandon their civilised countries and what about us what country are we and we're also a civilized country and we're also send our where do we send them. please make it with a little though you know there is a hilarious joke about this so a us state department representative you ambassador and the ambassadors of fifteen european countries gathered together on my done to sign a treaty declaring there's to be no interference in ukraine's domestic affairs. from russia. you don't have to be particularly clever to grasp our relationships with ukraine work. you give us money. then we'll be your friends then we've got the

money suddenly it goes like this oh you know well we just can't we haven't thought about it. for. the leaders of the ukrainian opposition or supposedly driving this process they have no real control all they do is show off and pretend to be important but however there is also a third party to it i mean the militants that you coupled with quit talking about the right sector which include several extreme ultra nationalists are going to say sions they are even more radical than the all ukrainian unions for among them or step on by and they are a traceroute a small group called ballymore with the tree sponsible for attacks on shops run by caucasians ukrainian patriots a few gangs of football fans and a bunch of people who are just a little bit crazy. i've been on my done for two bloody months two months. i will go further for my

ukraine i don't give a damn i will stand alone against them all. this while you were in st george's ribbons have you on the right to wear them in this here it's a symbol of respect i wear this ribbon in memory of my grandfather who was killed in belarus and nine hundred forty four pay for it against fascism and now fascism has taken over my down there are nationalists on my door they have to leave and only then will we support my dad only if the nationalists go way way back my. thirty one voted once in my life sometimes i watch news but i don't care if there was red or blue they're all the same to mean i got time for politics. i stay away from politics altogether.

i'm of the people step from the opposition's my name is andre shift change i represent the back of sheena party and our goal is to achieve peace we don't want any more bloodshed during these two months of protest there hasn't been a single shot from that side and i think our ukrainian people are just great i think that people hang around over there somewhere behind the second barricade to come here is always a guided tour of city center because it isn't just from ukraine but also from other republics from former soviet union to come here to see what's really happening as for the mind on drugs you can see them up there in front same people every day about one hundred fifty two hundred of them but if we were given the command we cleared the place in half an hour without anything special we just physically pushed them out of you know. yes the glass for people in masks there are about three hundred maybe five hundred

of them at most on my boxing. but we have to keep in mind that only last summer and only in ukraine no fewer than eight hundred people were trained in special camps with the particularly ideological program and despair as i know there are other camps like that abroad for example inside the baltic states with some folks. who threw up with these guys underwent special ideological training in the spirit of radical ukrainian nationalism they were also taught urban conflict and police confrontation tactics hand to hand combat knife fighting and even shooting. you don't see them according to the information i have they were funded through a few individuals with money or ridge unaided in the us and in gear up.

my name is an. organized support for the guys in special forces units like bars in tiger for all the guys who are defending peace in our capital. what we buy for them is mostly vitamins warm clothes among the stuff every day. and this is what they asked for twenty meter extension cords they use them for heaters and of course they'll need split of boxes. get water. drinking water as usual get where we've got this kid since all packed up. condensed know how thin collar. money's been transferred to a bank card and people from all over ukraine to chip in and. we're also getting donations from russia novosibirsk moscow it's just been katherine barrett give the

strongest support also received money donations from malta paris london. york new york and los angeles before the people coming here are just ordinary citizens who are against extremism and fascism the reason they're against national flags and march is they used to be afraid something was holding them back but now they're openly shouting glory to ukraine death to our enemies. and this is the point where you should think about why it might lead to this sort of peaceful protest any more it's war. that's what this region is informal at the moment we have information that they

possess firearms. are most likely to have shotguns but as you know you can load those guns with anything you want especially ban in mind that the telling the interior minister spoke for the opposition and called on everyone to bring any weapons they have to start bloodshed here. because when they want to seize power and create a new state. if. it's. proved that the list was a friend of my dad on the street straight and this in ukrainian house. just give me a bullet. what for you i'll give it back to him coming to her and the one who fired it so he can go on shooting at me now i'll kill him. why done almost. my done needs blood in victims. two people whose bodies were found on my done had been

killed with shotguns supporting guns. one was killed with k shut and the other with a bullet. unfortunately the people who brought the bodies refused to cooperate with the investigators. i have absolutely no delt that these guys were killed by the opposition. of the presence of victims allowed my don to live on and attract new followers. that was. nothing good and we don't have any leaders no political parties here it's the people of ukraine who are here so politicians have no power over us only once young coaches resigned we would be able to start the peace process and start to stabilize the situation. where you and i don't. know what you look at let's use logic. what is there to do

if money is not involved why fight for an idea ok so there may be about a thousand people here friday a logical reasons. but what's a thousand. nothing. people were used like a condom and tossed away. that's an independent ukraine for you. come here journalist if i was it today. one of many people at the end of the book. i poured more than two thousand cups of tea more than two thousand cups of tea. just. no i would hear a doctor but you are neutral or do you support one side over the other i'll tell

you something is burning gas hits a barricade member and he's in flames and i happen to be nearby i won't stop for a second to think about who it is it's a human being burning that's all that matters of course i'm trying to help him. goodness that intolerance and loyalty have always been characteristics of ukraine but now it's just i don't know where this road will lead to go. they. chatted up an equal rights.

to the. little. pink the young girls can bowl for the future hotter. between two and three hundred million guns united states so you can act like they're not here and keep kids away from them but. the plaza site is a large you know i mean this teaches them a lot of sponsibility and simply come to pay through the eyes of children if we can do it for our children love for our future what is the country will save.

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but they saw pennies in the round up of the week's headlines here on r.t. it's a big day for the big games twenty fourteen braces for the closing ceremony there is still plenty of drama left not the top of the medal table we'll be bringing you all the highlights in just a minute. sorge then transformed the deadly battles in kiev lead to the worst political crisis ukraine has seen the opposition say can control parliament and moves the president calls a coup also. whose fingerprints all over their current chaos and the. fears of putin started filling ukraine and take center stage in western coverage all through violence in ukraine despite the fact that the e.u. and the us politicians who were the most.