From NYT: Ukraine Puts ‘Extremists’ on Notice After Deadly Clashes

Ukraine Puts ‘Extremists’ on Notice After Deadly Clashes

By ANDREW HIGGINS and ANDREW E. KRAMERFEB. 19, 2014  

"The violence was likely to resonate for weeks, months or even years around this fragile and bitterly divided nation. It also exposed the impotence, in this dispute, of the United States and the European Union, which had engaged in a week of fruitless efforts to mediate a peaceful settlement.

Doubts about the influence of Russia were also shredded, as the Krmlin portrayed the protesters as American-backed “terrorists” and, in thinly coded messages, urged Mr. Yanukovych to crack down."