Reporting from Simon Ostrovsky for Vice

Here’s something you don’t see every day.

Citizens block a convoy of armored personnel carriers packed with troops armed to the teeth.

They block them and hold them and eventually the troops are disarmed.

The troops in question are Ukrainian “anti-terror” troops and the citizens are pro-Russian protestors.

Pretty calm and orderly. I’m afraid I can’t imagine our own steroid-jacked police and troops handling such a tense situation with such calm and poise.