Scary scenes in Kiev
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abendgulesWatching the news about protests in Ukraine: anyone who protests outdoors through an Eastern European winter has got to be serious.
Footage on Channel 4 shows Ukranian police using war board-sized shields: flat aluminum shields with angled left and right edges to curve around them. They're overlapping the edges when they're gathered in a group, with the classic testudo shelter of shields over head held by the second and third rows.
OTOH, when they run down protesters (and apparently they're going back and forth in the centre of Kiev), they don't keep that formation - they each carry their shields separately, and chase down individuals to club them.
It's like watching the Pennsic battlefield - only with Molotov cocktails...yikes.
Footage on Channel 4 shows Ukranian police using war board-sized shields: flat aluminum shields with angled left and right edges to curve around them. They're overlapping the edges when they're gathered in a group, with the classic testudo shelter of shields over head held by the second and third rows.
OTOH, when they run down protesters (and apparently they're going back and forth in the centre of Kiev), they don't keep that formation - they each carry their shields separately, and chase down individuals to club them.
It's like watching the Pennsic battlefield - only with Molotov cocktails...yikes.
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Date: 2014-01-22 08:33 pm (UTC)http://photoblog.nbcnews.com/_news/2014/01/20/22372127-ready-for-battle-ukraine-protesters-don-medieval-armor?lite
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Date: 2014-01-23 10:38 am (UTC)Ah right, already linked :)