Protestors have controlled the central square in Kiev for about three months. About 100 died in the last week or so. The Party of the Regions gave up its power in the Rada (Legislature). Timochenko is going to be released from "hospital arrest." Her party has gained a majority in the Rada, controls the Ministry of the Interior, and is expected to vote to force Yanukovych (who has fled to his "fief" in the east) to resign. The police released a communique saying they support Timochenko's party. The army recently said it won't get involved. Governors of the Party of the Regions are holding a special meeting in the east (with Russian officials in attendance) to discuss what they will do.

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Well I expect Russian backed Ukranian Troops to march on protestors causing a civil war. Some European nations will send troops to back the democratic people (Germany, Poland, maybe Romania and Italy) causing a small proxy war between communism and Capitalism. Obama wont do anything because he is scared of Putin and world scrutiny, America would stick to moral support and Trade sanctions on Russia and Yanukovich backed Ukraine.

The opposition should have imprisoned Yanukovych when they had the chance in Kiev. Now he has fled to Charkov and gotten Russian support.

I cannot imagine Yanukovych returning as President of whole Ukraine. A split in East Ukraine and West Ukraine is not out of the question. Much depends on how strongly Russia is willing to back Yanukovych.

Yulia Timochenko will return to power unless the gets killed in Charkov, where she currently resides because of medical problems.

For as important as this may be, it should still be in off-topic

Rada voted Yanukovych is not exercising his constitutional duties and has voted to have an election on May 25th...

What does this topic on the general forum , who's going to make a warlight map about the civil war in Ukraine?

I don't see how you would make a MAP about the civil war. Maybe a scenario...

Edit: Bad, insulting and condescending words about why categories matter on a game site when a regime change/coup d'etat/revolution is taking place involving the EU and two superpowers who are guarantors of Ukraine's stability.

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Fucking forums nazis

NEIN! ZIS THREAD MUST BE IN ZE OFF-TOPICS!!!!!

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Nothing they've signed peace

I blame the EU. I mean, Ukraine kinda told them to "fuck off", but I blame Brussels specifically

NEIN! ZIS FORUM MUST BE IN ZE OFF-TOPICS!!!!!

If you want the General Forum to be a subforum of the Off-Topic Forum, then please make a uservoice. Thanks.

Again, I blame Brussels :p

The opposition declares to have seized control over Kiev.

Hellbender - they are no longer communist. It's actually been that way for a "few" years.. ehmm.. decades.. so.. Either you're trolling, or you're to ignorant to reply to you..

Apollo - It's only wishful thinking to believe this sh** of a treaty will change anything. They reversed the constitution for now, and released Юлія Тимошенко, however this is only being calm before the storm.

Pulsius - the fact you seem to miss is that ukrainian authorities did not move the biggest caliber - the Army.. As far as I know Ukraine has one problem - they don't have police prevention forces with water cannons, calming gasses etc. They have nothing between a guy with a bat + a rubber ball gun and a fully armed policeman with an AK47 or whatever they use..

IMHO The big questions are:

how far will the uprisers go?

what reaction can we expect from all the other countries - especially Russia?
(which has the most to gain or lose in the process)

will the country keep it's unity, or divide itself into two separate parts?
as the geographical division between the pro- and against-gov population is rather vivid... and last but not least:

on which side will the Ukrainian Army join the conflict..?
After all in the shadows, there may be high ranked officers willing to help the people overtake the government with their men.. and most likely becoming future semi-authoritar rulers of the country.

I thought the Ukrainian Army had already said not to take a side.

I have no alts.


I said it, right?

Oh Ukraine, expect to see some sort of split between East and West Ukraine after this...

The Ukrainian military doesn't want to get involved in the power struggle. The constitution of the country prohibits the army from meddling with internal affairs, says chief of staff Iljin.

At least for the moment, the army doesn't want to interfere, i.e. they give their silent acceptance to the coup by the opposition.

Maybe the military wants to wait and see which side comes out on top and then side with them. I count their current neutrality as a victory for the opposition, as it is clear that they don't follow Yanukovych's orders. In any case, the Ukrainian border patrol has prevented Yanukovych from crossing the border to Russia.

The police of Kiev has already given their open support to the opposition.



Above you can see the country's division in Pro-Russians and Pro-Europeans. Yanukovych has support in the east, and many of the eastern provinces have openly put the parliament's recent decisions in question.

Below a map of spoken languages. The language lines follow exactly the political lines.



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Let's be honest here Russia is communist with a democratic facade for americas sake. Putin will leave when hes dead. Hes in control