The UX traded flat on Friday while showing a 3.4% drop for the week. The WIG Ukraine crashed 15.4% during the week, with its largest component, grain trader and sunflower oil producer Kernel with a 17.4% loss for the week.

 

Vitali Klitschko on a visit to Donetsk met with SCM head Rinat Akhmetov and also held meetings with Donetsk areas businessmen.

 

Crowds estimated at well over 50,000 persons visited Kyiv’s Independence Square on Sunday to take part in commemorations of the 200th anniversary of Taras Shevchenko’s birth – and to lay flowers and pray at memorials to the 100+ persons shot and killed by a spasm of police sniper fire on February 19-20. [Note: Large gallery of photos available regarding Sunday’s activities.]

On the warmest, sunniest day yet in 2014 huge throngs turned out in Maidan to celebrate the 200th birthday of Taras Shevchenko and to mourn those killed by police snipers on Feb 19-20. For good measure, the fighters in Maidan sent Mr. Putin a message that was not quite as polished as Shevchenko’s prose but a message just as clear as anything the great poet ever wrote.

 

“Ukrainian Crimea is the only thing that separates us from a world based on lawlessness.”

 “The presence of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic bishop Borys Gudziak has marked the meeting of the Swiss Bishops Conference in a special way. His testimony of the dramatic events in Ukraine gave the bishops a moving insight into the suffering and hopes of the people of a country that in the period from 1 World War II to 1989, over 17 million people lost their lives through unnatural death (war, artificial famine, persecution).”
 

 

Ukrainian Jewish leaders have sent a letter to President Putin telling him the Yanukovych letter used as justification for the invasion is “simply a lie, from the first word to the very last.”

The Business Insider names Adam Waldman, Rob Flaherty, Ray Kotcher and Robert C. Jones as the American executives who are most heavily involved in Washington with chores in support of the Putin regime.

 

“Ukrainian Muslims as an integral part of Ukrainian society took part in the events taking place today in the country from the very beginning. Many Muslim organizations in Ukraine (primarily, the Association Alraid and the Crimean Tatar Mejlis) have long and active links with coreligionists in the EU, so the European Muslims’ experience in solving their problems is close and clear.”

“The heroic witness of Ukrainian Greek and Latin Catholic leaders, who stand firm for human rights and democracy, gives us hope that peaceful means might prevail to help rebuild civil society,” said Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz of Louisville.

 

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