Ukraine: Secretive Neo-Nazi Military Organization Involved in Euromaidan Snyper Shootings
By
F. William
Engdahl, Global Research, March 3,
2014
Yanoukovitch,
ousted president of Ukraine
After the famous leaked phone call of US Assistant
Secretary of State Victoria
Nuland (photo, left) with
the US Ambassador in Kiev, where she discussed the details of who she wanted in
a new coalition government in Kiev, and where she rejected the EU solutions with
her “Fuck the EU” comment,[1] the EU went it
alone. Germany’s Foreign Minister, Frank-Walter Steinmeier proposed that he and
his French counterpart, Laurent Fabius, fly to Kiev and try to reach a
resolution of the violence before escalation. Polish Foreign Minister, Radoslaw
Sikorski was asked to join. The talks in Kiev included the EU delegation,
Yanukovich, the three opposition leaders and a Russian representative. The USA
was not invited.[2]
IMAGE: Members of UNA-UNSO marching in Lviv.
The
events in Ukraine since November 2013 are so astonishing as almost to defy
belief.
An
legitimately-elected (said by all international monitors) Ukrainian President,
Viktor Yanukovich, has been driven from office, forced to flee as a war criminal
after more than three months of violent protest and terrorist killings by
so-called opposition.
His
“crime” according to protest leaders was that he rejected an EU offer of a
vaguely-defined associate EU membership that offered little to Ukraine in favor
of a concrete deal with Russia that gave immediate €15 billion debt relief and a
huge reduction in Russian gas import prices. Washington at that point went into
high gear and the result today is catastrophe.
A
secretive neo-nazi
military organization reported linked to NATO played a decisive role in targeted
sniper attacks and
violence that led to the collapse of the elected government.
But
the West is not finished with destroying Ukraine. Now comes the IMF with severe
conditionalities as prerequisite to any Western financial help.
After the famous leaked phone call of US Assistant
Secretary of State Victoria
Nuland (photo, left) with
the US Ambassador in Kiev, where she discussed the details of who she wanted in
a new coalition government in Kiev, and where she rejected the EU solutions with
her “Fuck the EU” comment,[1] the EU went it
alone. Germany’s Foreign Minister, Frank-Walter Steinmeier proposed that he and
his French counterpart, Laurent Fabius, fly to Kiev and try to reach a
resolution of the violence before escalation. Polish Foreign Minister, Radoslaw
Sikorski was asked to join. The talks in Kiev included the EU delegation,
Yanukovich, the three opposition leaders and a Russian representative. The USA
was not invited.[2]
The
EU intervention without Washington was extraordinary and reveals the deeping
division between the two in recent months. In effect it was the EU saying to the
US State Department, “F*** the US,” we will end this ourselves.
After
hard talks, all major parties including the majority of protesters, agreed to
new presidential elections in December, return to the 2004 Constitution and
release of Julia
Tymoshenko from prison.
The compromise appeared to end the months long chaos and give a way out for all
major players.
The
diplomatic compromise lasted less than twelve hours. Then all hell broke
loose.
Snipers
began shooting into the crowd on February 22 in Maidan or Independence Square.
Panic ensued and riot police retreated in panic according to eyewitnesses. The
opposition leader Vitali
Klitschko withdrew from
the deal, no reason given. Yanukovich fled Kiev.[3]
The
question unanswered until now is who deployed the snipers? According to veteran
US intelligence sources, the snipers came from an ultra-right-wing military
organization known as Ukrainian National Assembly – Ukrainian People’s
Self-Defense (UNA-UNSO). [SOL: It has also been
reported that these same snipers fired at both sides in order to create enough
chaos and to incite further riots to bring in the UN or NATO forces as in
Kosovo.]
IMAGE: Members of UNA-UNSO marching in Lviv.
Strange
Ukraine ‘Nationalists’
The
leader of UNA-UNSO, Andriy Shkil, ten years ago became an adviser to Julia
Tymoshenko. UNA-UNSO, during the US-instigated 2003-2004 “Orange
Revolution”, backed pro-NATO candidate Viktor Yushchenko against his
pro-Russian opponent, Yanukovich. UNA-UNSO members provided security for the
supporters of Yushchenko and Julia Tymoshenko on Independence Square in Kiev in
2003-4.[4]
UNA-UNSO
is also reported to have close ties to the German National Democratic Party
(NDP). [5]
Ever
since the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 the crack-para-military
UNA-UNSO members have been behind every revolt against Russian influence. The
one connecting thread in their violent campaigns is always anti-Russia. The
organization, according to veteran US intelligence sources, is part of a secret
NATO “GLADIO” organization, and not a Ukraine
nationalist group as portrayed in western media. [6]
According
to these sources, UNA-UNSO have been involved (confirmed officially) in the
Lithuanian events in the Winter of 1991, the Soviet Coup
d’etat in Summer 1991, the
war for the Pridnister Republic 1992, the anti-Moscow Abkhazia War 1993, the
Chechen War, the US-organized Kosovo Campaign Against the Serbs, and the August
8 2008 war in Georgia. According to these reports, UNA-UNSO para-military have
been involved in every NATO dirty war in the post-cold war period, always
fighting on behalf of NATO. “These people are the dangerous mercenaries used all
over the world to fight NATO’s dirty war, and to frame Russia because this group
pretends to be Russian special forces. THESE ARE THE BAD GUYS, forget about the
window dressing nationalists, these are the men behind the sniper rifles,” these
sources insist. [7]
If
true that UNA-UNSO is not “Ukrainian” opposition, but rather a highly secret
NATO force using Ukraine as base, it would suggest that the EU peace compromise
with the moderates was likely sabotaged by the one major player excluded from
the Kiev 21 February diplomatic talks—Victoria Nuland’s State Department.[8] Both Nuland and
right-wing Republican US Senator John
McCain have had contact
with the leader of the Ukrainian oppositionSvoboda
Party, whose leader is openly anti-semitic and defends the deeds of a
World War II Ukrainian SS-Galicia Division head.[9] The party was
registered in 1995, initially calling itself the “Social National Party of
Ukraine” and using a swastika style logo. Svoboda is the electoral front for
neo-nazi organizations in Ukraine such as UNA-UNSO.[10]
One
further indication that Nuland’s hand is shaping latest Ukraine events is the
fact that the new Ukrainian Parliament is expected to nominate Nuland’s choice,
Arseny Yatsenyuk, from Tymoshenko’s party, to be interim head of the new
Cabinet.
Whatever
the final truth, clear is that Washington has prepared a new economic rape of
Ukraine using its control over the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
IMF
plunder of Ukraine Crown Jewels
Now
that the “opposition” has driven a duly-elected president into exile somewhere
unknown, and dissolved the national riot police, Berkut,
Washington has demanded that Ukraine submit to onerous IMF conditionalities.
In
negotiations last October, the IMF demanded that Ukraine double prices for gas
and electricity to industry and homes, that they lift a ban on private sale of
Ukraine’s rich agriculture lands, make a major overhaul of their economic
holdings, devalue the currency, slash state funds for school children and the
elderly to “balance the budget.” In return Ukraine would get a paltry $4
billion.
Before
the ouster of the Moscow-leaning Yanukovich government last week, Moscow was
prepared to buy some $15 billion of Ukraine debt and to slash its gas prices by
fully one-third. Now, understandably, Russia is unlikely to give that support.
The economic cooperation between Ukraine and Moscow was something Washington was
determined to sabotage at all costs.
This
drama is far from over. The stakes involve the very future of Russia, the
EU-Russian relations, and the global power of Washington, or at least that
faction in Washington that sees further wars as the prime instrument of
policy.
Writer F.
William Engdahl is a
geopolitical analyst and the author of “Full Spectrum Dominance: Totalitarian Democracy in the New World
Order”.
notes
[1] F. William
Engdahl, US-Außenministerium
in flagranti über Regimewechsel in der Ukraine ertappt, Kopp Online.de, February 8, 2014,
accessed in http://info.kopp-verlag.de/hintergruende/enthuellungen/f-william-engdahl/us-aussenministerium-in-flagranti-ueber-regimewechsel-in-der-ukraine-ertappt.html
[2] Bertrand Benoit,
Laurence Norman and Stephen Fidler , European
Ministers Brokered Ukraine Political Compromise: German, French, Polish Foreign
Ministers Flew to Kiev, The
Wall Street Journal, February 21, 2014, accessed inhttp://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303636404579397351862903542?mg=reno64-wsj&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB10001424052702303636404579397351862903542.html
[3] Jessica Best, Ukraine
protests Snipers firing live rounds at demonstrators as fresh violence erupts
despite truce, The Mirror UK, February 20, 2014, accessed inhttp://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/ukraine-protests-snipers-firing-live-3164828
[4] Aleksandar
Vasovic , Far
right group flexes during Ukraine revolution, Associated Press, January 3,
2005, Accessed in http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=20050103&slug=ukraine03
[5] Wikipedia, Ukrainian
National Assembly Ukrainian National Self Defence, Wikipedia, the free
encyclopedia, accessed inhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_National_Assembly_%E2%80%93_Ukrainian_National_Self_Defence
[7] Ibid.
[8] Max
Blumenthal, Is
the US backing neo-Nazis in Ukraine?, AlterNet February 25, 2014, accessed
in
[9] Channel 4
News, Far
right group at heart of Ukraine protests meet US senator, 16 December 2013,
accessed in
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