Luke 21:9-10: [Jesus said] "When you hear of wars and revolutions, do not be frightened. These things must happen first, but the end will not come right away." Then he said to them, "Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom."
The former President of the Ukraine is on the run after being removed from power and charged with mass murder in connection with the deaths of protesters.
Victor Yanukovich was removed by the country’s Parliament over the weekend and immediately went into hiding while declaring he was still the nation’s leader and experiencing a coup d’état.
The parliament called for a new Presidential election on May 25th and appointed an interim president who immediately issued an arrest warrant for Yanukovich for mass murder. In the weeks leading to the Yanukovich’s removal, the government had been stepping up violent actions against protesters including more than two dozen deaths.
Prosecutors say the killings came at the order of Yanukovich who ordered all the protest camps destroyed and crowd forcibly removed from downtown Kiev.
The removal of Yanukovich is drawing the ire of Russian leaders who have lost a key ally in the region. The new government, and the leaders of the opposition who lead the protests, have been calling for the Ukraine to join the European Union. The protests began when Yanukovich withdrew from a tentative agreement with the EU in favor of close ties with Russia.
