Odessa Trade Union massacre

On May 2, 2014, in Odessa a day of clashes between pro- and anti-Kiev government protesters ended with a tragedy of over 40 dead people inside and around the Trade Union Building, after it was attacked by pro-Kiev government forces who first destroyed the anti-Kiev protest camp outside the building and then set it on fire with a swarm of molotov cocktails. Several people jumped out of the windows, some of them got further injured or even killed by their opponents after hitting the ground, and many were burned alive inside the building.

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@carlbildt on Twitter:
 * ''Horrible with at least 38 dead in Odessa. Seems to have started with pro-Russian attempt to get control of buildings!

Kateryna_Kruk ‏@Kateryna_Kruk
 * ''#Odessa cleaned itself from terrorists, proud for city fighting for its identity.glory to fallen heroes..

Mykolas Alutis on Facebook
 * ''The Maidanites came into the building after it was burned. And then they look for people that were still alive and they beat them till they were killed. The survivors who jumped from the building and were severely injured were beaten to death by the Maidanite neo-fascists with baseball bats.

Vladimir Suchan on Facebook quoting 1TV.ru
 * ''The Odessa massacre was an organized action of terror carried out as a special joint operation of the junta security forces and the Right Sector. It was revealed that, at the time of the Odessa massacre at the hands of numerous Right Sector fascists that were brought to the city after May 1 celebrations, Andreiy Parubiy, the junta's Secretary of the National Security and National Defense Committee, was in Odessa (as he was also the day before). It is also now clear that the activities of the Right Sector and (in)actions of the Odessa law enforcement and security forces directly subordinate to Parubiy were also coordinated and directed by Parubiy himself. Accounts from the site of the massacre do also tell stories of the police acting on clear commands from above as to what to and to do. The massacre was thus happening against the background of a detectable coordination and synchronization between the fascist radicals, the junta police, and even the Fire Department--ensuring complete freedom of action, safety, and impunity for the fascists who set so many people on fire and beat and shot others to death, while preventing ambulances from offering medical assistance. In response to the mass murder, the Right Sector issued a statement in which it effectively declared its actions to be both the new law of the land and the state of emergency, in which the fascists are not bound by any other law except by their will to "act cruelly." After the massacre, Julia Tymosheno expressed her "gratitude" to the same fascist forces, whom she called "Odessites", for subduing "the separatists."

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 * 31 people die after radicals set Trade Unions House on fire in Ukraine's Odessa – RT
 * ‘They beat us with bats and chains’ - anti-Maidan activist in Odessa – RT
 * Радикалы позируют с сожженными заживо ополченцами (Radicals posing with burned alive militias) – Life News
 * Ukraine clashes: dozens dead after Odessa building fire – Guardian, May 2
 * В Одессе боевики "Правого сектора" заживо сожгли протестующих в Доме профсоюзов (In Odessa, the militants of the "right sector" protesters burned alive in the House of Trade Unions) – 1TV.ru
 * People in Ukraine's Odessa died instantly, poisoned by unknown substance - report
 * Бойня в Одессе: как это было (Slaughterhouse in Odessa: how it was)

Photos

 * Одесса, Дом профсоюзов, 3 мая 2014 г. Смотрите! И не говорите, что не видели! (Odessa, House of Trade Unions, May 3, 2014 Look! And do not say you have not seen!)
 * Voice of Russia

Analysis

 * Ukraine SITREP update - May 2nd, 20:14 UTC/Zulu: massacre in Odessa – The Saker
 * Ukraine SITREP update - May 3nd, 16:20 UTC/Zulu: "the mysterious Russian soul?"
 * Анализ произошедшего в Одессе 2 мая (Analysis of events in Odessa May 2)
 * МЕХАНИКА ПРОВОКАЦИИ В ОДЕССЕ (Mechanics of provocation in Odessa)
 * там и тогда - Из-за спины...
 * Satellite image showing locations of clashes. The park to the left and the first clash bottom left can be seen in the UStream video described below. The top-left corner of the image is here on Wikimapia.

Militants with red armbands

 * Andrey Ivanchenko
 * 3. Militants of unknown origin (hereinafter simply militants) - armed men in camouflage uniforms with red armbands, some with St. George ribbons.
 * Very suspicious that after the "disappearance" of militants with red armbands, appeared on the scene militants SS. I'm not saying that these were the same people. But ... Who were these "strange militants" - provocateurs who attacked the "ultras" and supporters of the Maidan? And it's the most exciting question! The key to an accurate understanding of what happened.
 * Eyewitnesses to Odessa carnage: Pro-Russian side, armed for war, started shooting – Olena Goncharova, Kyiv Post, May 3, 2014
 * Alexey Albu, leader of anti-fascist ‘Borotba’ Odessa, who was severely injured in the later events at the Trade Union Building, reports that the men with the red armbands were his fellow activists of the "Defenders of Odessa". In a more detailed report, Borotba members give their version of what happened that day:


 * On May 2, under the pretext of the so-called march ‘For unity of Ukraine’ (that was dated to football match ‘Chernomorets’ – ‘Metallist’) – the paramilitary squads of Ukrainian nationalist were brought together to Odessa from all over the country. They arrived by buses and by trains. From the very beginning – when they just started to gather on ‘Sobornaya’ square – among ordinary ultra-right fans too many well-equipped paramilitaries could be seen. They had shields, helmets, bats, traumatic and service weapons. Mostly - men about 30-40 years old who were evidently not football fans. Some of them had shields where it was written: ’14-th hundred of Maidan self-guard’. And these nationalist paramilitaries became the main striking force of bloody massacre of Odessa residents on ‘Kulikovo pole’ square.


 * In total there were more than thousand of nationalists that participated in the march and the slaughter that followed it. Local residents of Odessa were the minority among them, while the majority – far-right paramilitaries that were brought together there. They could be identified in particular by dialect (not typical for Odessa region), however many of them openly acknowledged and told where they came from. Local Odessa fans of ‘Chernomorets’ team have left the march at the moment when clashes started – they came just for traditional march to the stadium and when they realized that ‘visitors’ and provocateurs led them to beat local people – the majority of ‘Chernomorets’ fans (identified by black-blue scarves of Odessa club) – immediately left the so-called ‘peaceful’ march. [...]


 * When the column of nationalists marched along Grecheskaya street - a few (some 200-250 people) activists of local Odessa militia tried to stop them. But soon the opponents of nationalists were pelted with stones, bottles and stun grenades. There were heard gunshots. The activist of "Borotba" Ivan has got a gunshot wound into the belly from a military weapon. Then activists and members of Odessa militia tried to escape in the shopping centre "Athena" in the ‘Greek’ square. A crowd of far-right nationalists demanded to start a carnage against them. The far-right paramilitaries started immediately to prepare Molotovs on the square in order to set fire to the shopping center with barricaded Odessa militia members inside it. Police officers managed to save the lives of activists as they drove police cars directly to the entrance of the shopping centre.


 * Then the crowd of nationalist headed to the square ‘Kulikovo Pole’, where there was a camp of opponents to Kiev junta. Activists of ‘Borotba’, along with other activists and ordinary Odessa residents, were on duty that day in the protest camp. In total there were some 200 people in the camp and half of them - women and elderly men. [...]

Video

 * Playlist
 * Odessa May 2, 2014 – Red armbands = antifascist
 * 02 05 2014 Одесса
 * Новое. Одесса сейчас. 02.05.2014. (Горит Дом профсоюзов) (New. Odessa now. 02/05/2014. (Lit House of Trade Unions))
 * Одесса горит дом профсоюзов 2 05 2014 (Odessa Trade Union Building burns May 2, 2014)
 * ТА Одесса 20140502 203940
 * Одесса Дом профсоюзов Внутри Сепаратисты погибшие в пожаре 02 мая 2014 года Трансляция – (Odessa House of Trade Unions Inside separatists who died in a fire May 2, 2014 Broadcast)
 * 18+ Одесса 2 05 2014 в доме профсоюзов уже насчитали 17 трупов (18 + Odessa May 2, 2014 in the house of trade unions already counted 17 corpses)
 * Shooting at people who try to escape from the flames in Odessa.
 * Это мой народ? Collection of key scenes at the Trade Union building
 * UStream recording of what first appears to be a gathering of football fans, but at around 8 min it shows hundreds of armed and armored paramilitary guys. Camera follows the police who stop a smaller group of militants approaching, street fights ensue. More videos from later the day.

Death of regional council deputy Vyacheslav Markin

 * В Одессе в госпитале умер депутат облсовета (In Odessa, a regional council deputy died in hospital)
 * ''In Odessa, died in hospital Odessa Regional Council deputy Vyacheslav Markin.
 * Andrey Davydov ‏@FarEasterner
 * ''Yesterday Maidanites severely beat local legislators who tried to stop mayhem. One of them Mr Markin just died