Look at the language in the reports in the Times and Post. Here is the Post: "The pro-Russian activists were killed in fighting..." When the protesters in Bahrain or Palestine or Ukraine are killed by a pro-US government, they always manage to die in "clashes". Yet, armed protesters are innocent civilians when killed by a government that is not aligned with the US. And don't you like it when US media complain about the siting of one bearded Russian intelligence agent in Ukraine when it was revealed that the CIA director himself snuck into the Ukraine?