Chilling Scene As Pro-Moscow Rebels Brand Ukrainian PoWs 'Fascists' And Parade Them Through Streets Of Donetsk
* Around 80 soldiers were tied, slapped and doused in water in eastern city
* Donetsk remains in rebels' grip despite pressure from Kiev-controlled forces
* Ukraine's President has pledged another £1.8billion to fight the separatists
Pro-Moscow rebels in Ukraine paraded dozens of prisoners of war through the streets today with shouts of 'Fascists! Fascists!' as the conflict plunged new depths.
Around 80 detained Kiev troops were marched through Donetsk followed by road-cleaning trucks spraying water to 'wash the streets of traces of the captives', said a separatist source.
The chilling scene along Artem Street to Lenin Square, a main thoroughfare, was a deliberate rerun of Stalin's display of 57,000 captured Nazi PoW officers and men in Moscow 70 years ago on 17 July 1944 during the Second World War.
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My Comment: I never like seeing POWs being paraded in such a fashion .... it is not the right thing to do. But the anger in eastern Ukraine is now off the scale .... in a certain way these POWs should consider themselves lucky that they are still alive.
As to the conflict itself .... I grow gloomy with each passing day. My original prediction still holds .... the Ukrainian army will eventually persevere and they will occupy the major cities of Donetsk and Luhansk .... but after that .... I see an occupation that will be long and extremely bloody. The problem is that no one on the rebel side wants to talk Ukrainian President Poroshenko .... in fact ... their priority is to kill Ukrainian soldiers and officials. In such an atmosphere .... how can someone like Poroshenko be successful in reaching some type of compromise to end the war. Unfortunately .... what I do foresee are soldiers being killed on a constant basis via through ambushes and ieds .... a meat grinder that will eat up soldiers lives and the Ukrainian treasury.
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