Explosives found on Ukrainian saboteurs arrested in Crimea on Aug 6, 2016 (photo by Russian federal police)
Western governments and media have a problem with the right-wing regime that is governing Ukraine. The country's economy is a shambles. Even the regime's own backers in the West acknowledge the country and its economy are
hopelessly mired in corruption.
Extremists and neo-Nazis, even, occupy high positions in the police, army and government.
What's more, the regime is a source of instability as well as embarrassment for its pro-Western neighbours, notably Poland. Poles are
none too happy that Ukrainian ultranationalists who allied with Nazi Germany during World War and conducted massacres of their Polish forebears are being rehabilitated as national heroes in Ukraine.
All of this creates a public relations problem for Western governments and their NATO alliance
that can explode at any time. A case in point is the arrests in early August of several bands of Ukrainian ultranationalist saboteurs who infiltrated across the Ukraine-Crimea border with explosives in hand. The operation was foiled on August 6 when the infiltrators were discovered and quickly rounded up, though not before
the Ukrainian army provided cross-border covering fire. When the smoke cleared, one Russian soldier and one Russian policeman were dead.
Comment: According to ABC, "Omran's parents told medical staff they would not speak for fear of reprisal from forces allied to the regime of President Bashar al Assad." "Dr. Mohammed" told media that he treated Omran's minor head wound and that Omran has been discharged from the hospital, with the rest of his family, all of whom survived the attack. "Dr Mohammed asked for his identity to be withheld because of the Syrian Government's targeting of medical staff." Hmm, does he mean the Syrian government that is paying his salary (see Eva Bartlett's Western corporate media 'disappears' over 1.5 million Syrians and 4,000 doctors)?
One of the several 'journalists' and photographers at the scene was identified in Western media as Mahmoud Rslan. As part of his photojournalism work, Rslan apparently enjoys taking selfies with child-beheading jihadis: