{"id":11660,"date":"2015-08-31T09:22:23","date_gmt":"2015-08-31T14:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=11660"},"modified":"2015-08-31T09:22:23","modified_gmt":"2015-08-31T14:22:23","slug":"ukraine-reignites-50-injured-after-grenade-attack-on-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=11660","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine Reignites &#8211; 50 Injured After Grenade Attack On Parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2015-08-31\/ukraine-reignites-50-injured-after-grenade-attack-parliament\" target=\"_blank\">Ukraine Reignites &#8211; 50 Injured After Grenade Attack On Parliament<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Amid the Ukraine government&#8217;s vote for\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2015\/08\/31\/us-ukraine-crisis-status-idUSKCN0R00YV20150831\"><strong>constitutional changes to give its eastern regions a special status<\/strong><\/a>(that it hopes will blunt their separatist drive) protests have turned deadly as\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/313880-ukraine-radicals-protest-parliament\/\">RT reports<\/a>\u00a0<strong>50 Ukrainian nation guards have been injured in a greande blast near parliament in Kiev<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The clashes began earlier in the day&#8230;<\/p>\n<div id=\"twitter-widget-i1441023443957951199\" class=\"twitter-video twitter-video-rendered\" data-tweet-id=\"638304383806087168\">\n<div><iframe id=\"undefined\" class=\"\" title=\"Embedded Tweet\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/03v3nwJMyA0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2015\/08\/31\/us-ukraine-crisis-status-idUSKCN0R00YV20150831\">Following, as Reuters reports,<\/a>\u00a0<strong>Ukraine&#8217;s parliament on Monday voted for constitutional changes to give its eastern regions a special status that it hopes will blunt their separatist drive&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"quote_start\">At a rowdy session, a total of\u00a0<strong>265 deputies voted in favor in the first reading of a &#8220;decentralization&#8221; bill,<\/strong>\u00a0backed by President Petro Poroshenko&#8217;s political bloc and his government &#8211; 39 more than that required to go through.<\/div>\n<p><strong>But many coalition allies, including former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko, spoke against the changes<\/strong>\u00a0and it is open to question whether Poroshenko will be able to whip up the necessary 300 votes for it to get through a second and final reading later this year.<\/p>\n<p><u><strong>Approval of legislation for special status for parts of Donetsk and Luhansk regions, which are largely controlled by Russian-backed separatists, is a major element of a peace agreement reached in Minsk, Belarus, in February.<\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n<p>Though a ceasefire is under pressure from sporadic shelling and shooting which government troops and rebels blame on each other,\u00a0<strong>Western governments see the deal as holding out the best possible prospect for peace\u00a0<\/strong>and are urging Ukraine to abide by the letter of the Minsk agreement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/313880-ukraine-radicals-protest-parliament\/\"><strong>But they have not turned deadly as a greande attack leaves 50 national guard injured&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukraine Reignites &#8211; 50 Injured After Grenade Attack On Parliament Amid the Ukraine government&#8217;s vote for\u00a0constitutional changes to give its eastern regions a special status(that it hopes will blunt their separatist drive) protests have turned deadly as\u00a0RT reports\u00a050 Ukrainian nation guards have been injured in a greande blast near parliament in Kiev. 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