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Ukraine announces economic blockade of terrorist-held territories.

854 views · Published 18 March 2017 · 6:56 · Indexed 25 October 2026

Channel: NewsFromUkraine · 2017 · News & Politics

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Ukrainian government finally halted all trades with the occupied territories of eastern Ukraine.

The sequence of events was the following:

1) Veterans and volunteers have been blocking railways to the occupied territories since January 2017, preventing coal trades with Russian terrorists.

2) On 1 March 2017, DPR and LPR gangs, which are currently controlling the occupied territories of eastern Ukraine, and which started to lose money due to the blockade, “nationalized”, i.e. stole all Ukrainian businesses and factories on the occupied territories.

3) On 13 March 2017, Ukrainian police made an attempt to clear the railroad blockade and arrested 43 blockade activists, who were released the following day.

4) On 15 March 2017, Ukrainian government officially blocked all trades with the occupied territories. This was most probably because of the growing discontent in Ukrainian community who mostly support the blockade; or because Ukrainian oligarchs with connections in government have lost their assets after “nationalization” by DPR and LPR gangs. 

In other words, a day earlier Ukraine’s government arrested blockade activists, a day later Ukraine’s government joined blockade activists.  

The thing is that the idea of economic blockade of Russian terrorists is supported by most Ukrainians, and thus forceful dispersal of blockade activists looked very much like forceful dispersal of protesters in Kyiv in 2013 which later resulted in revolution and overthrow of the government.

It is either fresh memories of the Ukrainian Revolution of Dignity or the following quote from the movie “The Italian Job” that forced Ukrainian government to change its opinion: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-I7DMSz9Hs

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