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Russia refuses to work with Ukranien gunmen

Posted by seumasach on February 24, 2014

“If you consider Kalashnikov-toting people in black masks who are roaming Kiev to be the government, then it will be hard for us to work with that government,” Mr Medvedev told the state-run RIA news agency. “Some of our foreign partners think differently.”

Ukraine: Russia calls country’s new rulers ‘gun-toting mutineers’ and says they will not work with them

Independent

24th February, 2014

Russia criticised Ukraine’s new rulers on Monday, blaming Western meddlers for installing an interim government, which Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev dismissed as a group of “Kalashnikov-toting” mutineers, which the Kremlin would not work with.

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