Prelude to civil war in Ukraine...what's left of it that is???

Thanks to Fabsther for the info.

via Financial Times...

As governor of Dnipropetrovsk region, Mr Kolomoisky held the line against the Moscow-backed insurgents who now rule large swaths of the east. His financial support for volunteer battalions was critical in blocking the rebels’ advance.
But in Kiev, critics of the oligarch were ringing the alarm. They said he was exploiting his position as governor to expand his business interests, and turning the volunteer units he helped create into his own private army. The fears grew this week after uniformed men apparently loyal to Mr Kolomoisky turned up at the Kiev headquarters of two of Ukraine’s largest energy companies, sparking rumours of a power struggle between the oligarch and Petro Poroshenko, Ukraine’s president.
Suddenly, a week of drama drew to its stunning climax. In the early hours of yesterday morning, it was announced that the president had fired Mr Kolomoisky from his post of governor.
The break between Ukraine’s two most powerful men — once the staunchest of allies — was a political earthquake, and marked the worst internal crisis to engulf the country’s new government since last year’s revolution. It threatens to plunge Ukraine into a fresh round of instability, as it struggles to cope with a debilitating economic crisis and the smouldering insurgency in the east.
The breach also risks playing straight into the hands of the Kremlin, which opposes the pro-western government in Kiev and would rejoice in its collapse.

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Everyone has turned their attention away from Ukraine (including me) because of the troubles in Yemen.

It seems like an all seeing eye is needed in the world we live in now (and that's why I love my readers...no way one guy could keep up with all the drama), but its becoming obvious that "peace" has NOT broken out in Ukraine.

Opportunist of all stripes are fighting over the bones of that broken country.  The EU doesn't appear to have a plan to deal with the aftermath (the US doesn't have a stake in this situation in my opinion) which means that in the long run the Ukrainians will go running into the waiting arms of Putin.

That son of a bitch is outwitting our guys with half his brain tied behind his back.