" Ukrainians "accusing each other of tearing the country apart" stand a good chance of being correct, no matter who they are. For a country to be torn apart it must first be a coherent whole, a state of being that Ukraine has never achieved for any significant period of time. So any accusation of tearing the country apart is more like a euphemism for "you're not doing what I want." In a situation with nine or more sides, you're going to hear that a lot.
The reality in Ukraine is that no one likes the reality in Ukraine
Almost everyone who talks about Ukraine talks about the need for peaceful solutions, though it's not at all clear how many of those people mean anything more than "accept my point of view." From the available evidence, it seems safe to assume that Ukraine is not filled with peacemakers, although there seems to be a majority of Ukrainians ready to live peacefully if they're just left alone [a speculation perhaps too rosy to be real]. A few in the current government seem, on occasion, to have peaceful instincts but insufficient moral authority to persuade many of their peers to temper their rhetoric and work patiently for a broadly-supported settlement, assuming one could be devise. Such a settlement, difficult enough under internal Ukrainian conditions, is impossible under international conditions. It's not just that Washington and Moscow are facing off, which would be bad enough. It's that Washington has slowly but relentlessly pushed Moscow into a corner where it has little choice but to resist or resign itself to hostile western advances more or less forever.
Ukraine is not surrounded by peacemakers, and even those European governments inclined to find a compromise are themselves compromised by an uncompromising United States, which lacks even the simple human decency to condemn burning innocent people alive. "The events in Odessa dramatically underscore the need for an immediate de-escalation of tensions in Ukraine," White House spokesman Jay Carney said with near-pathological lack of empathy. "The violence and efforts to destabilize the country must end." It's unlikely he was referring to the decades-long effort by the United States, its allies, and its proxies to achieve such destabilization for their own benefit. It's even less likely that the Obama administration will acknowledge its unique position to de-escalate tensions by easing up its own efforts to de-stabilize and control Ukraine by proxy. At this point, only a significant shift of American policy can offer any hope for Ukraine. That's bad news for Ukraine.
In reaction to the massacre in Odessa, where he death toll stands at 46 with another 48 still missing, the Kiev government sacked the top leadership of the Odessa police department. Acting interior minister Arsen Avakov said on Facebook that he fired the police officials "for failing to prevent a pro-Russian mob from attacking a pro-Ukrainian rally, a confrontation that touched off the violence on Friday," according to the Times on May 6, without alluding to the police role in relation to the mob action that burned people alive.
Earlier in its inside shirttail (page 11) the Times referred to the burial of "one of the pro-Russian leaders, Vyachislav Markin." With an almost Orwellian approach to re-writing history to fit he current propaganda, the Times wrote with cold distortion that: "Mr. Markin perished in the fire that burned a trade union building where pro-Russian activists had holed up after losing a street battle with pro-Ukrainian activists on Friday."
Two days after the May 2 violence during which police arrested more than 100 people, several hundred pro-Russian supporters gathered at a police jail, forcing open its gate. Significantly outnumbered, police offered no resistance and released about 70 prisoners.
To replace the deposed Odessa police officers, minister Avakov has sent an elite police unit from Kiev to keep order in Odessa. The new police unit, called Kiev-1 battalion, comprises mostly veterans of the Maidan occupation that drove out the elected government in February. The nature and arrival of this special police unit, among an estimated 4,000 pro-Kiev troops sent to the city, has raised suspicions in Odessa where Bloomberg (among others) reports widespread uncertainty:
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