President Petro Poroshenko recently instructed the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) to “nip any separatist organizations in the bud […] so that Ukraine should not again have to pay a heavy price later on,” as is now the case in Donetsk-Luhansk (Dzerkalo Tyzhnia, March 25). In the spirit of preventive action, Ukrainian law enforcement agencies have arrested some 20 members of a centrifugal organization in Odesa province, the latest such organization to have emerged in Ukraine. The timely intervention also stopped the publicity bandwagon that had just started rolling from Moscow in support of the Odesa group (TASS, Nezavisimaya Gazeta, …read more
Source: The Jamestown Foundation