Ukraine: military (Aug '14 to mid-June '15) closed

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"Moscow will take all measures to neutralize possible threat from NATO presence in Ukraine." - #Russia Amb. To NATO.
http://tass.ru/en/world/780572

Even more threats against the West today out of Moscow.

Shoigu: We will develop new areas of Tu-95 combat patrols "in view of international cooperation with our allies in other parts of the world"

Tu-95 patrols equals bomber strike aircraft carrying nuclear weapons as was recently the case near Sweden and the UK.

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#Russia accumlate tanks,troops #Novoazovsk,#Sahanka,#Kominternove,#Oktyabr #Mariupol http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&hl=en&prev=search&rurl=translate.google.co.uk&sl=ru&u=http://www.0629.com.ua/news/755203&usg=ALkJrhjJs-2sHXkAZS23yMb9xxVtqCEdfA … pic.twitter.com/Kbp1tG2xcY

Latest from SMM on monitoring movement of heavy weapons in Donetsk and Luhansk regions.://www.osce.org/node/143526

LNR militant organization not letting OSCE see site of redeployment of heavy weapons, in violation of Minsk agreement http://www.osce.org/node/143526

The 16th convoy from #Russia brought important aid goods for the militias in #Donetsk. pic.twitter.com/D8KZ0ail6J
16 aid convoys later and still the eastern Ukraine under the control of the mercenaries is starving.

Militants fired 7 times today. Engagement occurred today between Pavlopil & Pyschevyk https://www.facebook.com/ato.news/posts/958290624181744 … pic.twitter.com/3IxaA4sF2G

[mirhond]

An interview with a tank gunner from Buryatia, who have been hit under Debal'tsevo

http://www.novayagazeta.ru/society/67490.html

What is particulary catched my interest:


— Вы вместе с ополченцами воевали? Общие задачи были у вас?

— Нет. Они просто... Займут один рубеж, и когда надо ехать дальше врага дожимать, ополченцы отказываются ехать. Говорят: мы туда не поедем, там опасно. А у нас приказ наступать дальше. И захочется — не прикажешь им. Ну и дальше едешь. Ну ничего, котел мы почти зажали уже.

Q: Are you fought along with militia? Did you have shared objectives?
A: No, they just took one position and them refuse to advance becuse it's dangerous. But we have orders, and they have not, so we roll over.

As I suspected, any military toy that is more complex than RPG-7 is operated by Russian regulars, mostly volunteers, meanwhile foot soldiers are generally motley band of former civilians, like locals, cossacks, Russian volunteers, retired wardogs and so on.

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An interview with a tank gunner from Buryatia, who have been hit under Debal'tsevo

http://www.novayagazeta.ru/society/67490.html

What is particulary catched my interest:



Q: Are you fought along with militia? Did you have shared objectives?
A: No, they just took one position and them refuse to advance becuse it's dangerous. But we have orders, and they have not, so we roll over.

As I suspected, any military toy that is more complex than RPG-7 is operated by Russian regulars, mostly volunteers, meanwhile foot soldiers are generally motley band of former civilians, like locals, cossacks, Russian volunteers, retired wardogs and so on.

mirhond-you surprise me---did not realize you fully agree that Russian troops are inside the Ukraine even though your FM and Putin are still claiming there are no Russian troops in the Ukraine.

reference to the "freedom of speech" in Russia:

!! The @novaya_gazeta interview with wounded RU soldier in Ukraine has become top most-shared link in RU by far... pic.twitter.com/lAUInl9I67

Over 80,000 Russians downloaded the link just in one single day.

just to keep you informed--there will be more such interviews with seriously wounded Russian troops:

After Donetsk Airport and Debaltsevo, Mariupol and the clearance of the Bakhmutka highway are Russia's next goals. http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/03/02/putins-next-prize-eastern-ukraine-mariupol/ …

and since you now fully accept Russian troops in the Ukraine---here is another piece of info for you

The Slain Soldiers of Putin’s Covert War with #Ukraine (a "place of temporary dislocation") ---you will find in the net an interesting article on how Russia is burying their dead and then bulldozing their graves in the Ukraine.

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One of the most telling interviews conducted with a seriously wounded Russian tanker from the far east wounded at the Debaltseve battle where in theory only "miners and truck drivers" fought per Putin.......

Was yesterday "shared" over 80K times alone within Russia in Russian.

NOW in EN full translation---really well worth reading it as it depicts the Russian non linear warfare in ways the western media cannot.

Russian Novaya Gazeta's article telling the story of a Russian soldier wounded in Ukraine: full English translation. http://euromaidanpress.com/2015/03/02/the-story-of-a-russian-soldiers-war-in-ukraine-we-all-knew-what-we-had-to-do-and-what-could-happen/ …

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#OSCE contact says #Russia/rebels moving equipment NOW to area near #Mariupol in readiness for attack. But as it's assumption cannot report

#OSCE contact amusingly told me they were approached in Lugansk by #Russia soldiers who wanted help to get the cash they were "owed" by RF

#OSCE member told me #Russians are being paid $1500 a month to fight in #Ukraine

Militants fire at Ukrainian forces more than 20 times in past 24 hours http://24today.net/open/328889

The Coffins of Russia's Ghost Soldiers In Ukraine Are Coming Home @vicenews
https://news.vice.com/article/it-is-a-government-crime-the-coffins-of-russias-ghost-soldiers-in-ukraine-are-coming-home … pic.twitter.com/C3jmBGPqPO

Proof of Russian invasion: following in the steps of the terrorists’ August armor batt http://24today.net/open/328857 pic.twitter.com/mZZt8OrrMG

Self propelled artillery of #LPR-#RU terrorists driving through #Lugansk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3D_5-gH4iw …

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Open source analysis by social media is beginning to now look more and more like a science and not an art.

If one really thinks about it---more evidence on Russian military involvement with troops and heavy equipment in eastern Ukraine has been provided to the global community than all of the reporting over the last year by all of the standard mainstream western media--how strange is that??

YET we have seen and nor heard anything from the vaulted western intel communities outside of three still sat photos.

Not even counting the major analysis work done on MH17.

Now bellingcat is at it again with a new geolocation technique.

Stunt Geolocation – Verifying the Unverifiable via @bellingcat https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/case-studies/2015/03/03/stunt-geolocation-verifying-the-unverifiable/ … pic.twitter.com/Mfik2VdHE1

Russian soldiers and the thing with the geolocation. https://vk.com/photo151178570_356272988 … pic.twitter.com/UVt3oxyJD2

How can Russian soldiers be SO stupid to CONTINUE to keep geo-tagging at Donetsk airport? https://vk.com/photo151178570_356272988 …

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"Here rules Russia" says "local Separatists" wearing Russian special forces uniform in Donetsk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVz8zC4-wTg&feature=youtu.be …
Why "local Separatists" wear Russian special forces uniform and say "here rules Russia" and not DNR in Donetsk ?

Russia starts project "New Russian Spring" on the territory of Odesa,Kharkiv,Zaporizhya,Kherson,Mykolaiv" http://24today.net/open/328811
"New Russian spring" about to start in South & East Ukraine

#Russia's ambassador to #NATO Aleksandr Grushko says RU war on #Ukraine "is left to U.N. and Russia" So he admits Russia's involvement?

Vostok battalion repair workshop with two captured by pro-Russians 2S19 "Msta-S", a self-propelled… https://instagram.com/p/zw0EvGBmoQ/

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Russia and her mercenaries are still playing games with the OSCE ceasefire monitors and are still not in compliance with Minsk 2.

NOTICE there is still no reported withdrawal of Russian "contract/vacationing" troops back to Russia proper as per Minsk 2.

OSCE says unable to verify withdrawal of heavy weaponry by Russian-backed militants http://24today.net/open/328994

REUTERS

"As of March 1, the LPR People's Militia has fully completed the withdrawal of heavy weapons in accordance with the Minsk agreements. The withdrawal of weapons was overseen by representatives of the OSCE mission," the LPR said.

At the same time, according to the report, the militants said that despite the withdrawal of heavy weapons, the combat capability of the LPR People's Militia remained at a high level.

As UNIAN reported earlier, the militants of the DPR also claim to have completed the withdrawal of heavy weapons beyond the line of demarcation.

The OSCE earlier said that the militants had failed to give it information about the places of redeployment of their weapons.

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#NATO Deputy SecGen on AlJazeera: #Russia may have more aggressive designs on #Ukraine, may push for more territory pic.twitter.com/LOXN3MMiuD

Military experts: Who can tell me the purpose of this tank? pic.twitter.com/JXGkCj4dvd

Moscow has Already Begun Hybrid War against Latvia, Riga Journalist Says http://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2015/03/moscow-has-already-begun-hybrid-war.html …

Militants trying to rebuild Debaltseve rail hub
http://www.unian.info/war/1050960-militants-trying-to-rebuild-debaltseve-rail-hub.html … pic.twitter.com/68s0JOHA1H

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#BreakingFootage
Large scale Russian army ("LC") drills in #Ukraine's #Luhansk region.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qj3Aths746o … pic.twitter.com/xF5gaCMczp

who thought 13 months ago that Russian Army will Have drills inside Ukraine (Crimea & Donbas)

Here comes the next phase of the Russian annexation of eastern Ukraine and the land corridor to Odessa connecting the Crimea.

Russia is preparing to send Strelkov to #Odessa, - deputy commander of sector C pic.twitter.com/Mz4FmHc2dh http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/3-march-russia-is-preparing-to-send-strelkov-to-odessa--deputy …

So just maybe this time NATO might in fact be correct about Russian annexation intentions.
#NATO Deputy SecGen on AlJazeera: #Russia may have more aggressive designs on #Ukraine, may push for more territory pic.twitter.com/LOXN3MMiuD

We are seeing the exact same Russian game--ground attacks and shellings used to take more Ukrainian territory, the Ukraine holding to a ceasefire, Russian troops and mercenaries not adhering to the heavy weapons withdrawal regime and not allowing freedom of movement for OSCE monitors, and then more diplomacy all the while never saying a single word that they are in fact in compliance with Minsk 2 and complaining it is all the Ukrainians fault.

The weather is vastly improving allowing for a potentially very early spring offensive that everyone knows is coming---everyone that is except the US/France/Germany.

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Gen Lentsov is behind this: Russian Army establish range in Luhansk, Ukraine for combat training Occupation Forces https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qj3Aths746o …

#Russian and local terrorists tanks military exercises near #Lugansk new trng area located at 48.6052, 39.1896

Three Ukrainian soldiers killed in past 24 hours http://uatoday.tv/politics/live-blog-ukraine-ceasefire-412674.html … pic.twitter.com/1kUGE9rcKA

Despite Calm Across Much Of Front Line, Attacks Continue North Of Both Donetsk And Debaltsevo. http://www.interpretermag.com/ukraine-live-day-379-attacks-continue-north-of-both-donetsk-and-debaltsevo/#7253 …

ATO spokesman: Militants use small arms to fire at Ukrainian positions yet again
http://uacrisis.org/rechnik-ato-27/

My how Russian propaganda works: the video the locals claim to have seen was actually ROC priests blessing Russian tanks and equipment in Rostov before they crossed into the Ukraine.

OSCE rep told me locals living in #Donetsk/Lugansk saw Ukr Orthodox Church blessing Ukr guns + soldiers, feared for their homes AND religion

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in this VIDEO They all admit that they are Russian soldiers also show chevrons etc. http://inforesist.org/vot-my-i-na-tyurme-rossijskaya-voennaya-razvedka-demonstriruet-svoyu-bazu-v-ukraine-video/ …

Second such DNR complaint of the Ukraine violating the Minsk 2---some say Russia is urgently looking to restart the fighting on whatever grounds they can find after completely reaming, reequipping and relocating their various battle groups.

#Statement
"LC/DNR" fail to comply with the #Minsk agreement as they do not show @OSCE_SMM obsevers the final detination of their heavy arms

@DenisPushilin: Kiev Regroups Heavy Arms Near Contact Line, Violates Minsk Deal - Donetsk will no doubt to respond.

And more troops and heavy equipment just keep arriving from Russia into the Ukraine in clear violation of Minsk 2---seems as if Russia does not care what the West sees these days as they are certainly not adhering to Minsk 2.

Convoy of tanks, BMPs, APCs w personnel arrived in Pobjeda #Donetsk region from Kumachove sidehttp://mediarnbo.org/2015/03/03/zvedeni-dani-informatsiyno-analitichnogo-tsentru-na-03-bereznya/ … pic.twitter.com/HkU8twEYTT

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Russian Soldier from Khabarovsk now in Aleksandrivka/Luhansk Oblast Ukraine pic.twitter.com/rVNltJbLH7

Having never actually made an aircraft carrier work, Russia's navy decides to build another one. http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/russia-building-new-aircraft-carrier-navy-chief-confirms-12346 …

$100,000 to betray #Ukraine: story of #FSB trying to buy special forces commanderhttp://belsat.eu/en/articles/100-thousand-betray-ukraine-story-fsb-trying-buy-special-forces-commander/ … #Russia pic.twitter.com/eEIFFbjMKa

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Not LPR militia: Russian Army! Russian Ground Forces establish training area in Luhansk, Ukraine (Photos to follow) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qj3Aths746o …

Russian Army mechanised unit combat training in Luhansk region, Ukraine 3 March 2015 -2 pic.twitter.com/bdWiDM0CH5

Russian Army mechanised unit combat training in Luhansk region, Ukraine 3 March 2015 -1 pic.twitter.com/83zSAyn7lP

Russian Army combat training in Luhansk region, Ukraine 3 March 2015 - 3 pic.twitter.com/8maYCUXixq

Russian Army combat training in Luhansk region, Ukraine 3 March 2015 - 4 pic.twitter.com/CwrRJ2ggn0

Terrorists started to return allocated equipment to line of confrontation- headquarters of ATO pic.twitter.com/04p7GGMLl8 http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/3-march-the-terrorists-started-to-return-the-allocated-equipment …

Same reported by OSCE: http://www.osce.org/ukraine-smm/143526 …

When Kremtrolls suddenly get the same idea: https://twitter.com/danuborz/status/572748183551545344 … https://twitter.com/FangornTree/status/572745390761627648 … https://twitter.com/DNogtev/status/572737593261096960 … https://twitter.com/77MITCHEL77/status/572733161794351104 …

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Two Russian colonels overseeing combat training in Luhansk region, Ukraine: Kiselev (LPR) and ? (Russian Army) pic.twitter.com/VKYyytAAIi

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Russian invasion forces opened mortar fire at Ukr forces in #Shyrokyne this afternoon.
Yday a resupply convoy was ambushed.
2 Ukr KIA

On March 3, Russia-supported terrorists 20 times fired at our troops in eastern #Ukraine, violating ceasefire agreement - #ATO press center

OSCE SMM report from East #Ukraine. Cannot confirm heavy weapons withdrawal, #Russia general admits discrepancies. http://www.osce.org/ukraine-smm/143601 …

Without access to areas where heavy weapons in East #Ukraine have been moved to, @OSCE_SMM cannot fully verify heavy weapons withdrawal

OSCE_SMM concerned about spill-over: growing number of weapons seized at CPs in Dnipropetrovsk/Dnepropetrovsk region. http://www.osce.org/ukraine-smm/143601 …

Russia-supported terrorists in eastern #Ukraine continue imitating withrawal of heavy weaponry from the separation line - #ATO spox Lysenko.

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.@novaya_gazeta interview corroborates what we knew or assumed before = maybe the most important testimony on Ukraine's war

Over 210,000 shares alone in the first two days of it's release just inside Russia make it one of the most read articles by Russians on their own soldiers fighting in the Ukraine.

Depicts the ability to effectively counter Russian propaganda---it must be the truth and only the truth and it must be spread via social media which this was until finally general western mainstream media picked it up.

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What de facto annexation looks like: armed men breaking into a woman's home in Donetsk say "it's Russian rule here" http://youtu.be/lBSyrSyAzHw

Russian Army training area in Luhansk, Ukraine 3 March: View from the command post https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=-c35kRXK7pM#t=15 …

#Russia tried to hack computers and phones from Dutch investigation team on #MH17 pic.twitter.com/3kaVBZgTFN via @Erkie999

Russian-Т 72Б on a trailer, on 03/03/2015 in Donetsk. Loading number H2200 of the Russian railway clearly visible. pic.twitter.com/3eQcDwx7yZ

Russia is still ignoring the Minsk 2 agreement and still "claiming" the Ukrainians are in violation---not a single peep out of western leaders about the continuing massive heavy weapons flow and troop flows coming into the Ukraine from Russia,

Watch Part 2 of @vicenews new series about Russian soldiers killed in Ukraine https://news.vice.com/video/russias-ghost-army-in-ukraine-part-2 … pic.twitter.com/qXBYnkYWZO

Latest data by General Staff on losses in withdrawal of ~3K #Ukraine's troops from #Debaltseve: 19 dead, 135 wounded, 9 captured, 12 lost.

Russia’s latest propaganda fabrications involve Adolf Hitler, Edward Snowden http://www.examiner.com/article/russia-s-latest-propaganda-fabrications-involve-adolf-hitler-edward-snowden … pic.twitter.com/PreSj6foCD

The Guardian view on Russian propaganda: the truth is out there | Editorial | World news | The Guardian http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/mar/02/guardian-view-russian-propaganda-truth-out-there …

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Shocking video by @AOAV on the impact of explosive weapons on civilians in populated areas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_NV3imirEY …

This is what adapting and improvising combat officers do---excellent example of “Mission Command”.

Unique Android smartphone map, saved by our officer Andry, how @40battalion was exiting #Debaltseve on February 18. pic.twitter.com/JO7f8f1WRT

#Luhansk reg: there were shootouts near Krymske & Troyitske, not quiet on #Debaltseve foothold. 1 Ukr servicemen was WIA - governor Moskal

Russian “peacekeeping brigade” is getting around in eastern Ukraine:
Russian soldiers from the 15th Motor Rifle Brigade from Samara now in Krasnodon/Luhansk Oblast http://the-stabilizec.blogspot.de/2015/03/15-90600.html … pic.twitter.com/8FDBSH59Tt

Another top Obama official says US should consider arming #Ukraine--this time Martin Dempsey: http://www.defenseone.com/politics/2015/03/dempsey-says-its-time-arm-ukraine/106614/ …

Occasional sound of shelling around Pisky/airport #Donetsk http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/4-march-occasional-sound-of-shelling-around-piskyairport

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At the #Donetsk direction at night militants fired on Avdiivka w/ artillery, on Vodyane w/ mortars, AA mount https://www.facebook.com/ato.news

The #Russia|n army GRU flag on a armored vehicle in #Debaltseve.
Thanx to @vice news: http://youtu.be/-ZjbYXF6yi0?t=2m30s …
#Ukraine pic.twitter.com/HMiQwiCATd

Terrorists move heavy artillery in #Lugansk to UA Army positions. Geo-located SAU on video at http://lugansk-news.com/russia-backed-terrorists-of-lpr-continue-to-concentrate-heavy-artillery-in-lugansk-video/ … pic.twitter.com/xCceTJGSf0

"Certificate...for wooden coffin...to be used for transporting through the RF border and customs clearance" #ViceNews pic.twitter.com/Dun21f6HHF

Ukraine Ceasefire: Russian-backed militants continue firing on Ukrainian positions http://uatoday.tv/politics/frontline-east-ukraine-413159.html … pic.twitter.com/88dbsfJ1ou

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.@novaya_gazeta interview corroborates what we knew or assumed before = maybe the most important testimony on Ukraine's war

Over 210,000 shares alone in the first two days of it's release just inside Russia make it one of the most read articles by Russians on their own soldiers fighting/dying in the Ukraine.

Depicts the ability to effectively counter Russian propaganda---it must be the truth and only the truth and it must be spread via social media which this was until finally general western mainstream media picked it up.

Effective countering of Russian disinformation at the very beginning is one of the single points of failure inside the Russian non-linear warfare doctrine--but in the case of the Ukraine the West generally failed badly at this and is still failing.

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Russia is turning Crimea into a forward operating base against NATO http://www.businessinsider.com/russia-turning-crimea-into-forward-operating-base-2015-3 …

US Army prepared to send 300 troops to train Ukrainian forces in west Ukraine http://www.defensenews.com/story/defense-news/blog/intercepts/2015/03/03/ukraine-russia-putin-war/24327263/ … pic.twitter.com/JrBi2yKLXr

1/2 @OSCE SMM report of 3March: SMM not in a position to verify alleged complete withdrawal of militants' weapons, has not been granted

Appears that Russia has pumped another 5-6K troops into the Ukraine as just before this offense there were estimates in the 6-7K range being passed around.

Annexation is now well underway.

12,000 #Russia soldiers in #Ukraine supporting "rebels": U.S. comm. How many #Putin-endorsed reservist "volunteers"? http://news.yahoo.com/12-000-russian-soldiers-ukraine-supporting-rebels-u-203831785.html?soc_src=mediacontentstory&soc_trk=tw …

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Telling comment on the fighting quality of the “so called separatists”—Ukraine had them under control up to the August 2014 Russian invasion—many in the West seem to forget this small detail.

Batomunkujews: "The Separatists have proved to be very helpful. They were poorly organized, were afraid to attack." pic.twitter.com/puZZL9S1R3

Last week remains of 81persons (supposedly mil) were taken from uncontrolled territory, KIA in Jan-Feb, 19 identified http://interfax.com.ua/news/general/253571.html …

One woman was killed in shelling of residential areas of #Avdiivka last night pic.twitter.com/HGOQE78ZZE http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/4-march-one-woman-was-killed-in-shelling-of-residential-areas …

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US, France, Germany warn of ‘strong reaction’ to Russia’s violation of Minsk agreement
http://www.unian.info/politics/1051406-us-france-germany-warn-of-strong-reaction-to-russias-violation-of-minsk-agreement.html … pic.twitter.com/6txqJCVmiB

ATO spox: "Soon we will start the second phase of artillery withdrawal." (2S3 Akatsiya 152mm self-propelled guns) http://24today.net/open/330319

Russian Nationalists in St.Petersburg believe war in Ukraine'll escalate in the spring-summer http://www.belaruspartisan.org/politic/297305/ pic.twitter.com/eUvTVdYrzy

Attack on Mariupol expected in APRIL http://www.belaruspartisan.org/politic/297305/ pic.twitter.com/mYb3lMFQXO

Russian mercenaries seem to be having a bad time of getting their own Ukrainian so called “proRussians” to fight as separatists???

#badtiming: Zakharchenko calls on miners to fight for separatists in #Ukraine, 32 miners killed in an explosion in a mine on his territory

Ukr. parliament: 32 killed, 47 missing. Donetsk: 1 killed, 32 missing. Miners union: 77 killed, 47 missing. Confusion all over ... Zasyadko

I see that #DNR is trying to mine coal and it ended with a minimum of 30 dead, when will people see the incompetence of DNR? #Ukraine

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Footage
Russian airborne troops pass destroyed Ukr army position near #Debaltseve on BMD-2.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCd4ilpblfU … pic.twitter.com/0Rj9to9bU3

Passenger planes dodged #Russian bombers http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/passenger-planes-dodged-russian-bombers-315623.html … via @irishexaminer pic.twitter.com/SZNZCAL5eH

VIDEO #Ukraine 80th Para Brigade in position Krymske near #Luhansk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K51HxKL2e4I … pic.twitter.com/I7hqJ9Gr3V

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There is not now a de facto annexation of eastern Ukraine???

Yatsenyuk, Ukrainian PM, says 6 mine rescue squads were sent to Zasyadko mine. DNR militants refused to provide access.

By the way the DNR has no rescue teams available.

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Notice that the OSCE has repeatedly stated in the last couple of days that they cannot verify Russian troop and mercenary heavy weapons pull back since they were not 1) allowed to travel anywhere by the mercenaries and 2) no information was provided to them as required by Minsk 2.

So in effect both the Russian mercenaries and Russia are in de facto violation of Minsk 2 and all we get is "we will increase sanctions if MinsK 2 is violated" but it is being violated as per OSCE and yet we hear again what???

NSDC of Ukraine ✔ @NSDC_ua
Western agreed to support for implementation of Minsk II and @OSCE_SMM. Ready to introduce new sanctions if the peace plan is violated.

NSDC of Ukraine ✔ @NSDC_ua
Pro-RU insurgents fail to provide info about weapons withdrawn and concentration sites, violating Minsk II

2nd stage of weapons withdrawal implies withdrawal of 152mm self-propelled artillery systems Akatsia, routes and sites defined - ATO spox

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#NAF T-72 AV tank with Kontakt-1 explosive reactive armour (from #Ukraine)
pic.twitter.com/ziyiNmA305

The Kontakt-1 reactive armor comes from a key Ukrainian military complex industry that Russia urgently needs for their Army upgrading by 2020.
Not produced anywhere in Russia and would take up to five years to built a replacement company.

Tymchuk: Militants trying to force Ukrainian soldiers out of Shyrokyne
http://www.unian.info/war/1051437-tymchuk-militants-trying-to-force-ukrainian-soldiers-out-of-shyrokyne.html … pic.twitter.com/ZpuexsyqrN

VIDEO #Putin 17th (R)aid Convoy on way to #Ukraine &lots of diesel (FOR RUSS. TANKS) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZ9IkV1nB6A … #Russia pic.twitter.com/jwlakHHjX3

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More Ukr army troops withdraw from the line of contact.
Here with 2S3 in sector M.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=or87BYda9qk … pic.twitter.com/r6VOO8iVl7

Looks like Russia is starting to move on Belarus. Quite a clear warning: Putin demands deeper integration of the two http://belsat.eu/en/articles/putin-wants-deeper-integration-belarus/ …

It's official: Russia identifies potential external coups as major security threat https://meduza.io/en/news/2015/03/04/russia-s-security-council-preparing-countermeasures-against-colored-revolutions …

Latest #Russia|n propaganda lie: #Nemtsov killed by a named Chechen Cmndr under orders from #Ukraine SBU
Not linking! pic.twitter.com/WuwZMlrB0u

Rusich reps went on TV to say video claiming responsibility for #Nemtsov killing a fake, blamed Azov battalion http://lifenews.ru/news/150712

Ukraine DID withdraw heavy artillery, but Russia imitates. Putin will use the Debaltseve salami tactic, capture more. pic.twitter.com/8ENNdgzz6I

"12,000 #Russia soldiers in #Ukraine" is also as strong as the combined armies of:
#Estonia+#Lativa+#Lithuania: 6,000+ 4,200+ 3,500= 13,700
#US Gen. Hodges: "12,000 #Russia soldiers in #Ukraine".
=more soldiers than
#Denmark Army: 10,560
#Sweden Army: 10,200
#Norway Army: 11,600

#Footage
"DNR" fighters in #Vuhlehirsk introduce themselves.
1 from #Ukraine. 4 from #Russia.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSGQITrX3XE … pic.twitter.com/8xv2llnQSE

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#NAF T-72 AV tank with Kontakt-1 explosive reactive armour (from #Ukraine)
pic.twitter.com/ziyiNmA305

The Kontakt-1 reactive armor comes from a key Ukrainian military complex industry that Russia urgently needs for their Army upgrading by 2020.
Not produced anywhere in Russia and would take up to five years to built a replacement company.

Tymchuk: Militants trying to force Ukrainian soldiers out of Shyrokyne
http://www.unian.info/war/1051437-tymchuk-militants-trying-to-force-ukrainian-soldiers-out-of-shyrokyne.html … pic.twitter.com/ZpuexsyqrN

VIDEO #Putin 17th (R)aid Convoy on way to #Ukraine &lots of diesel (FOR RUSS. TANKS) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZ9IkV1nB6A … #Russia pic.twitter.com/jwlakHHjX3

Russia is still not in compliance with Minsk 2:

Russian supply #convoy #17 crossed into Ukraine, the Ukraine border guards/customs were not allowed to control it. pic.twitter.com/thTLu55e4e

So what is Russia again hiding in a so called "humanitarian aid" convoy that does not met ICRC standards thus open to controls and does not want the West to see????

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Video of Russian-backed Fighters in Ukraine Take Responsibility for Murder of Nemtsov; Leader Disavows It
http://www.interpretermag.com/russia-update-march-4-2015/#7274 …

Izvestia pointed the finger at Chechens loyal to Kiev... Let's see how this ends.

The Czech government massively denied this US arms sale to Russia was made and then……..

two Czech companies are reported to have sold firearms to Russia in breach of EU #sanctions https://euobserver.com/beyond-brussels/127869

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TASS ✔ @tassagency_en
US sanctions extension may derail Ukraine conflict settlement — Russian Foreign Ministry http://tass.ru/en/world/780981
Seems like Russia still cannot admit it is undermining a settlement by not adhering to Minsk 2 and pulling Russian contract/vacationing troops and or their heavy equipment out of the Ukraine as per Minsk.

Russia simulate weaponry withdrawal - Lysenko http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/4-march-russia-simulate-weaponry-withdrawal--lysenko …

#Kharkiv - SSU detained another subversive team.
Are you still doubt if Russia pays well?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOpgaF7hSxM … pic.twitter.com/DK8cBbBlmu

T-72B Tank is from Russia's 18th Motor Rifle Brigade from Chechnya http://antikor.com.ua/articles/30252-tanki_18-j_otdeljnoj_motostrelkovoj_brigady_iz_chechni_v_uk raine …

Vladimir Putin wants to destroy Nato, says US commander in Europe Ben Hodges | via @Telegraph http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/vladimir-putin/11448971/Vladimir-Putin-wants-to-destroy-Nato-says-US-commander-in-Europe-Ben-Hodges.html …

Mmh, ok. Yatsenyuk accuses separatists of blocking Ukr. rescue workers. Pushilin argues that if help is needed, RU would provide it

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Heavy infantry fighting now in Shyrokne and the West still not saying a word that in fact 1) Russian mercenaries and Russian troops have not pulled back they heavy weapons as has the UA and 2) fighting is still ongoing --all violations of Minsk 1 and 2.

#BREAKINGNEWS
RUSSIAN FORCES DESTROYED AN UKRAINIAN BTR-3 IN CENTRAL #SHYROKYNE.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFXxhcbHaK8 …
pic.twitter.com/cFNeYORg33

Azov reports, it is fighting back with ZSU-23-2 vs. Russian army tanks!
#Syrokyne #Ukraine

#BREAKINGNEWS
RUSSIAN FORCES ARE TRYING TO STORM THE UKRAINIAN FRONTLINE IN #SHYROKYNE.
#Azov holds them back so far

12k Russian troops inside eastern Ukraine + 50k positioned on Russian side of border + 29k stationed in the Crimea http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/03/us-ukraine-russia-soldiers-idUSKBN0LZ2FV20150303 …

91K Russian troops either inside the Ukraine or just on it's borders and still not any sounds out of western leaders---silence is neither a plan nor a strategy.

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#Russian tank hit a mine near #Debaltseve, town in E #Ukraine occupied by RU army http://empr.media/video/conflict-zone/russian-tank-hit-a-mine-near-debaltseve … pic.twitter.com/koJ40pucmw

You can deploy the most modern armored personnel carriers ...
But if you send them vs. tanks, it's all in vain.
#Shyrokyne #BTR3 vs #T72B1

Poroshenko: Ukraine informs Russia of location of 190 out of 400 prisoners
http://www.unian.info/war/1051638-poroshenko-ukraine-informs-russia-of-location-of-190-out-of-400-prisoners.html … pic.twitter.com/AOdfwUhbtw

Russia still keeps on violating Minsk 1 and 2 an yet the West talks about more sanctions if Minsk 2 is violated—it has been already violated a number of times and still silence from the West.

In 3 days, the terrorists moved to #Donetsk and #Horlivka 16 tanks, 23 armored combat vehicles and 12 artillery guns - @dmitryTymchuk

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Dying for the Motherland: Russia's Ghost Army in Ukraine (Part 3): not available http://youtu.be/lM8Zhb0h93
The Russian Ghost Army

BLACK SEA: 3 March, a formation of #Russia|n Su-30s & Su-24s staged mock attks ag #USS #Vicksburg pic.twitter.com/W5VFxAAZsx

Russian intelligence chief accuses USA of plotting a putsch with the opposition. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-04/russia-accuses-u-s-of-plot-to-oust-putin-by-funding-opposition …

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If you call 17 artillery, mortar and rocket launcher attacks and 23 small arms attacks in one day a ceasefire, then we have one in #Ukraine.

NOTICE how the Ukrainian Army is holding exactly to the Minsk 2 agreement and Russia and it mercenaries are not holding to anything and prohibiting OSCE to even enter Russian held territory in direct violation of Minsk 2.

Response to this blatant and open violation by Russia from the West-silence, silence, silence…….

#Footage
@OSCE_SMM check Ukr army 2S3 veh.reg.# to make sure,they don't return to the front.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoGIIqhPKxs … pic.twitter.com/m8eui
Antic!
They only do this as #Russian artillery pieces are "rotating" between the front and hinterland.
But THERE,they r not allowed 2 do so.

Russian cheering OSCE efforts but mercenaries are still roatating their heavy weapons, not providing any information on types/numbers withdrawn, locations of those weapons and are not allowing OSCE to monitors anywhere they want to go as per Minsk 2 and to monitor the location sites. Heavy tanks are also not being withdrawn but rather hidden in buildings and warehouses.

But hey at least Russia is cheering their success as it seems the only one following the “rules” is the Ukraine and yet silence from the West on the continuing Russia violations. Nothing like a one side ceasefire.

Militants struck S-E outskirts of Kodyma, Artemivsk direction, #Donetsk reg w/ MRLS. No Ukr forces r stationed there https://www.facebook.com/ato.news/posts/959447390732734 …
NOTICE: All MRLSs were to be withdrawn from the front lines---mercenaries are still firing them from the front lines and yet another clear Minsk 2 violation and silence from the West.

MFA Russia ✔ @mfa_russia
#Lukashevich: The #OSCE mission should verify that the security zone is clear of heavy weapons, not monitor the new deployment sites @osce

MFA Russia ✔ @mfa_russia
#Lukashevich: @OSCE_SMM didn’t substantiate its requests for information about the sites, withdrawal time or routing of DPR and LPR weapons

MFA Russia ✔ @mfa_russia
#Lukashevich: We had to draw the @OSCE_SMM leaders’ attention to the unacceptability of neglecting duties under its far-fetched pretexts

MFA Russia ✔ @mfa_russia
#Lukashevich: Unfortunately, the #OSCE mission did not start implementing its functions in a timely manner @osce @OSCE_SMM

MFA Russia ✔ @mfa_russia
#Lukashevich: The mission’s current priority is to facilitate the full and timely implementation of the Feb.12 Minsk Agreements @OSCE_SMM

MFA Russia ✔ @mfa_russia
#Lukashevich: We analyse all reports by the @OSCE_SMM charged with monitoring compliance with the ceasefire regime

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52% of Russian delighted that Russian "Volunteers" are fighting in Donbas & 45% support Russian regular forces there http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2015/03/5/7060547/ …

Seems to be a contradiction by Russians themselves over the Donbas region:
41 % of Russians want Independence for DNR & LNR. 15% of Russians want Annexion of Donbas to Russia http://www.pravda.com.ua/rus/news/2015/03/5/7060550/ …

#Footage
Mortar attack on a Reg. #Azov cooking place during the visit of a @5channel TV team.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEVHS23kh5w … pic.twitter.com/wgutP9aPiz

What ate Russian troops in the occupied enclaves Russia has taken over since 2008 doing in Russian military drills when they are “suppose to be peacekeeping forces”?

They should call it "Operation Occupation". #Russia Holds Big Military Drills In South, #Crimea, Abkhazia, S. Ossetia http://www.rferl.org/content/russia-exercises-drills-south-crimea-abkhazia-south-ossetia/26883276.html …
Biggest show of might Russia put on for a while in what it considers sphere of influence. Messages to Ukraine, Georgia and other neighbours

Putin´s Plan B is Separatism in Zakarpattya with the Hungarian minorityhttp://nv.ua/opinion/pozhyvanov/vengerskaya-karta-o-separatizme-v-zakarpate--37543.html … pic.twitter.com/QJB4VAsgql

Russian defence ministry "NATO can not be a guarantor of Freedom & democracy in the world"http://ria.ru/world/20150305/1051018553.html …

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This was a key battle just prior to Debaltseve pocket battle,
#Picture from new footage,released about the capture of #Vuhlehirsk.
No need to speculat,who led the battle.
pic.twitter.com/Hplb8ZgzFv

Can anyone explain to me why then the US wanted a “reset” with Russia when this was already supposedly known?....
Moscow prepared to attack Ukraine since 2005 - US expert http://24today.net/open/331556

Reports today from the Ukraine ATO are indicating far more Russian troops inside the Ukraine than what is being stated in the US—why does the US “underestimate”????? US stated just 12K.

"14.400 Russian regular army are stationed in eastern Ukraine."

Separatist wearing #Novorossiya & #Serbia #Chetnik insignia with #Russia origin T-72BA(BM) tank pic.twitter.com/nXydxhnF6U

Militants cut gas supply to Ukr-controlled Stanytsia Luhanska. Reserve gas pipeline was demined, supply re-started http://moskal.in.ua/?categoty=news&news_id=1539 …

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Why are Russian Generals assigned to the JCC and suppose to be "neutral" constantly seen in the field and in combat areas together with Russian mercenaries???

"DNR defense min" stepping back behind #Russian #officer, facing press at #Donetsk #airport.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GC224ZiI0Pw … pic.twitter.com/OeEbp9pjk4

Btw: #Motorola,#Givi+#Basurin within 5 m²,500 meters and in direct line of fire to the next Ukrainian army position.
Glory to the ceasefire

#Footage
Givi even insults Russian media for their questions.
Yday at #Donetsk #airport.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-rmCsAvurI … pic.twitter.com/mlcY5sgOYz

When "Givi" goes to ICC, The Hague for war crimes trial, his commander Russian Army General Lentsov should join him. pic.twitter.com/C9ZtO9oZal

No, it's not Vyaznikov with Lentsov (but another VDV officer). Donetsk Airport 4 March https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMcY_mEkIKU … pic.twitter.com/Q8NLz5a7n1

The Chief Commander of Russian forces in Donbas : General Lentsov pic.twitter.com/UOUeMN4Ge9
Butusov claims also that General Lentsov is the Chief Commander of Russian forces in Donbas http://zik.ua/ua/news/2015/03/02/butusov_proty_ukrainy_voyuie_general_lientsov_yaky y_znyshchyv_rotu_pskovskyh_desantnykiv_u_chechni_5 68886 …

Lie down on couch, Russian occupier. This video, viewed 3.5+ million times, spews #Russia's post-imperial complex: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T65SwzHAbes …

Ukraine Live: Further Attacks Reported Near Krymskoye And Schastye, Despite Calm On Wider Lugansk Front. http://www.interpretermag.com/ukraine-live-day-381-32-now-confirmed-dead-in-donetsk-mine-disaster/#7307 …

Russian AF exercising again:
RUAF Tu-160 RF-94111 noted @ Engels 03MAR. (C) Y.Kiselyov pic.twitter.com/cr2pE7m3Tn

Tu-95s RF-94259,94128 noted @ Engels 03MAR. 94128 carrying external H-101 hardpoints. (C) Y.Kiselyov pic.twitter.com/ruZQ31OGFU

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Lutsenko " Russia will resume full scale military assault against Ukraine in 2 months" http://censor.net.ua/news/327314/cherez_2_mesyatsa_rossiya_mojet_vozobnovit_polnoma sshtabnoe_nastuplenie_na_ukrainu_lutsenko …


NSDC of Ukraine ✔ @NSDC_ua
Pro-Russian militants attacked Ukrainian positions 35 times. Hotspots: #Shchastya, #Donetsk airport area,

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Nothing but Russian threats---threats against more US sanctions, threats if US defensive weapons are delivered, threats if NATO has forces in the Ukraine, threats against countries selling weapons to the Ukraine and now threats against the legal right for countries to enter the Black Sea.

Must give Russian an A plus for at least trying to intimidate---all part and parcel of their non-linear warfare game.

After yesterday’s Russian AF simulated attacks on the US cruisers.
RUSSIA'S LUKASHEVICH SAYS NATO SHIPS' ENTRY INTO BLACK SEA MAY ENTAIL VERY SERIOUS CONSEQUENCES FOR UKRAINIAN SETTLEMENT PROCESS – IFX

BUT then this---Russia is simply not consequent in applying its non-linear warfare.
Alexey Pushkov advised McDonands and Coca-Cola to leave Russia. Why them, though? Why not, say, Microsoft, Google and Apple?

Russian-US relations to suffer colossal damage if #Donbas people start to be killed with #US weapons -Interfax

WOW--did not know US ATMs were designed to be shot at Donbas civilians as they main mission in life is the destruction of armored vehicles and tanks.

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Putin’s ‘Greatest Task’ is to Become a New Stalin and Divide World with West, Belkovsky Says http://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2015/03/putins-greatest-task-is-to-become-new.html …

This is the third such article over the last three months around this topic---there might in fact be some truth to it and Putin feels he has a lot in common with Stalin and he wants his "spheres of influence" locked in at a new Yalta type conference.

Seems he yearns for the glory of the past Soviet Union.

Powerful photo gallery by @avdeev on rebel life in eastern #Ukraine, posted by @meduzaproject https://meduza.io/galleries/2015/03/05/peremirie-s-avtomatami-v-rukah …

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#Pesky is getting shelled by Russian terrorists w/ howitzers. Continuous fight which stops when blind #OSCE arrives. pic.twitter.com/I2ZvnpsKDN
NOTE: the 152mm artillery was supposed to be pulled back and yet was not pulled back—clear Minsk violation ongoing now for over five days.

Russian jihadists. pic.twitter.com/aXWyKTGfpW

CNN: U.S. admiral raises alarm over Russian military threat http://cnn.it/18fv338 Includes four photos taken by Finnish fighter jets.

Putin implicated in 1990s St Petersburg drug smuggling and money laundering ring: http://bit.ly/1F9kfQC pic.twitter.com/mjypzpyk6B

Militants fired at Ukr positions 6 times from 8pm till 6am. Struck Avdiivka w/ artillery - no Ukr forces stay there https://www.facebook.com/ato.news/posts/964438673566939 …

Belgorod yesterday pic.twitter.com/mY1psu5Arg

Hard to keep up w/ changing story on #Crimea: 1st Putin says "not us", then "it's us", now "but we had a good reason" http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/12/us-ukraine-crisis-russia-putin-idUSKBN0M80V320150312 …

As of 3/10, RF mil forces cont 2 opr8 in E. Ukraine: they provide commnd & contrl suppt; opr8 air defns systms; & fight bside pro-Rus seps

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Reference the shot down of MH17--more evidence of Russian Buk comes out.

Ukrainian jet 'could not technically have shot down MH17' in blow to Kremlin theory
http://uatoday.tv/news/general-designer-of-su-25-says-aircraft-couldn-t-have-shot-down-mh17-414628.html … #MH17 pic.twitter.com/E0Q3O729HP

New evidence #MH17 was brought down by a missile, launched from the ground, according to eyewitnesses http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN0M81XF20150312?irpc=932 …

Reuters Interviews Ukrainians Who Say They Saw a Surface-To-Air Missile That Shot Down MH17 http://www.interpretermag.com/ukraine-live-day-388-bombing-in-odessa-last-night/#7440 … pic.twitter.com/YTvTB9jx9C

Details in the Reuters piece on the launch site matches with @Bellingcat's earlier look at the launch site https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2015/01/27/is-this-the-launch-site-of-the-missile-that-shot-down-flight-mh17/ …

Eliot Higgins @EliotHiggins
"Red October" is mentioned in the Zello recorded purportedly of witnesses in the area who saw the launch on July 17 https://youtu.be/SkCcCmYlMZc

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" More Russian Militia" on the way Rostov-Donetsk http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/12-march-militia-on-the-way-rostovdonetsk- … pic.twitter.com/tPOp0Sq0s6

Sweden sends troops to Baltic island Gotland (midway between mainland Sweden and Latvia) amid Russia tensions http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/660d038c-c8bc-11e4-8617-00144feab7de.html?siteedition=uk#axzz3U6cxcqWE …

List of Russian military units in Ukraine by Igor Sutyagin @RUSI_org https://www.rusi.org/downloads/assets/201503_BP_Russian_Forces_in_Ukraine_FINAL.pdf … #Russia pic.twitter.com/RffwoeDvSB

Mass murderer of civilians #Zakharchenko: "We prepare for #Mariupol pocket."
https://youtu.be/hXZoHSSEt9U pic.twitter.com/IZLNQPDkVE via

Donetsk republic gives Kiev two days to prove its compliance with Minsk agreements http://tass.ru/en/world/782400

Non-stop shelling heard from #Shyrokyne today 12.3. Until 15:00 reported 3 WIA. The shelling was still ongoing 2 hours ago, heard in #Mariupol.

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Well worth the watching of this over hour video from CSIS on the "hybrid warfare" being conducted by Russia inside eastern Ukraine.

#HybridWar in Ukraine: Lessons Learned http://youtube.com/watch?v=8WA1rP5WGfY … pic.twitter.com/rYSiJ6Zesz

One of the key takeaways is that the Western sanctions have actually hindered a sovereign country under the 1994 Budapest Memorandum from defending itself.

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Putin is missing in action now over nine days--since 5 March?????

MIA leader with his finger on the nuclear trigger and that is not as dangerous as black flag wavers inside Iraq/Syria?

#Putin's vanishing act puts #ISIS's brutality videos in shade. For too long West, media and pols, have been worrying about the wrong danger.

#Russia | Question is not where #Putin is, but who holds the launch codes for Russian nuclear weapons? pic.twitter.com/uz4JDDdQJw

In hindsight, Putin's TV interview where he elaborates on how he annexed Crimea looks more and more like him trying to establish his legacy.

#Putin admits:#Crimea was taken by his orders.#Ru redrawing map in Europe acc 2 its rules.More confessions to follow? http://bbc.in/1Fzvq3A

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Volunteer and Ukrainian activist Donik said new OSCE team is much better than previous one - doing their job finally!

Kremlin-instigated fighters seeking new recruits in war against #Ukraine
http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/kremlin-backed-fighters-still-seek-war-recruits-despite-cease-fire-383416.html … pic.twitter.com/nw76qbnNkt

Hrayr Yeghiazaryan "Scar" (from Kaliningrad Russia 4-2-83) killed on 27-2-15 in Mariupol Ukraine
pic.twitter.com/4hIOgDvg0C

#Belgorod yesterday
https://instagram.com/p/0L52icgAU9/ pic.twitter.com/g09xHayQ0I

Russian T-80 near Ukrainian border with fresh green paint to cover marking pic.twitter.com/TbFmgQfxKD

Yesterday in #Belgorod, near the Ukrainian border. pic.twitter.com/Cy9AgundLk

Militants massively fired at #Azov positions in Shyrokyne 3 times y-day. Used 120mm mortars. 2 Azov servicemen r WIA https://www.facebook.com/azov.batalion/photos/a.879163718780418.1073741828.879147128782077/1016766281686827/?type=1 …

Just another violation of Minsk 2 as the caliber 120mm had to have been withdrawn days ago.

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#DNR's Oleg Bereza arrested for trying to steal $3m, as conflict escalates among #Russia's proxies in east #Ukraine: pic.twitter.com/BJCXzOHLiP

#Russia's Don Cossack Army ID'd at a checkpoint in #Novoazovsk, 40km east of #Mariupol — @GettyImages photo
pic.twitter.com/RfnzU9fwi4

Churkin's Freudian slip at the UN re: #Debaltseve - "WE offered them a chance to leave" (then corrected to "rebels")
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRKqcQ2aEio …

RUSs hide their tanks from @osce on Transpele comp premises http://nplm.in/tgc http://goo.gl/maps/5oVl5 pic.twitter.com/0ySutv8NQn

Churkin says OSCE has no reason to be interested in where terrorists withdraw the heavy weapons. #UNSC

Russia Uses Withdrawal of Weapons to Rotate its Forces: https://en.informnapalm.org/russia-uses-withdrawal-of-weapons-to-rotate-its-forces/ … pic.twitter.com/4wAsvzthax

Munir Sungatullin, a tank crew member, senior lieutenant from Kazan, Russia. Killed 12 Feb, 2015. Via @666_mancer pic.twitter.com/TSybU04Lib

Almas Mahmutov, a mercenary from Salavat, Russia. Killed 04 March, 2015, near Dzerzhynsk, Ukraine. Via @666_mancer pic.twitter.com/atYG1rNBov

"Those killed there will be written off post factum" Russian conscripts are recruited in mass for Donbas war. PHOTOS http://en.censor.net.ua/photo_news/327562/those_killed_there_will_be_written_off_post_factum _russian_conscripts_are_recruited_in_mass_for_donb as …

The battle for Donetsk airport was some of the fiercest in the Rus-Ukr war so far. Now bodies are being recovered: http://www.rferl.org/media/video/ukraine-donetsk-bodies/26885696.html …

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Insight of Ukrainian Col Петр Каноник (Petro Canon) deputy General Staff officer at JCCC for ceasefire coordination https://translate.google.ie/translate?hl=en&sl=ru&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fantikor.com.ua%2Farticles%2F30529-ofitser_genshtaba_ukrainy_petr_kanonik__svoj_sredi _chuhih …


Canon: A DPR militia chief showed me their counter-battery radar. "But in fact, all the equipment was from Russia."

Canon: Russian gunners from Buryatia placed their battery besides the JCCC office to protect the guns from Ukrainian fire.

Canon: Russian gunners were inside the JCCC office instructing separatists on new instruments to calculate gun accuracy

Canon: When UA officers went to JCCC Telmanovo, Russian officers were planning tactical exercises on map with the separatists

Canon: "there is plenty of evidence of Russian military presence in the Donbas"

Canon asked if columns under Russian flag would ceasefire? "Vyaznikov jumped up and started shouting that it was a provocation."

Canon: When Lentsov drove me to Donetsk "He denied that they are fighting, trying to move away from a direct answer."

Canon: Pay attention to Vyaznikov's office, because Russians originally wanted to go to Ukraine under guise of peacekeepers.

Col Petro Canon, Ukrainian staff officer at JCCC was familiar with Russian generals Lentsov and Vyaznikov. contd. ... pic.twitter.com/leRWniBUfp

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"Ghost" Cmndr Alexey Mozgovoy wounded: shrapnel wounds to the head after mines blew up his car in #Alchevsk #Ukraine pic.twitter.com/yfwvBaeF5l

Russia installed powerful signal monitoring system along border with Kharkiv region. 6 March http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2015/03/6/7060773/ …

There are reports that Andrei Mozgovoy to have been killed in an attack with a car bomb. #Lugansk #Ukraine pic.twitter.com/vWOQFWosCC
Vehicle by Mozgovoy was in Alchevsk with 3 mines MON-50th undermined. He is said to have shrapnel wounds to the head.

VIDEO #Ukraine SBU prevented a #terrorist attack in #Kherson defusing bomb https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bqy4kpQ1OIg … pic.twitter.com/mk43ObdYvU

Another good piece by Motyl debunking #Russia’s false narrative about #NATO: The Myth of the West’s Threat to Russia http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/the-myth-of-the-west-s-threat-to-russia …

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[Unverified info form separatist sources:] Plotnitsky attempted the life of Alexey #Mozgovoy, wound to the head pic.twitter.com/3bv8u6Ip4e

The Russian purge in LNR/DNR continues

#Baltics see growing "separatist" activity and fear #NATO will not defend them against #Russian invasion.
http://euromaidanpress.com/2015/03/07/ukrainian-crisis-and-fear-in-the-baltics/ …

'DPR' makes Ukrainian PoWs collect body parts of their fallen comrades, according to latest @OSCE_SMM report #Ukraine pic.twitter.com/fKQSgfGve4

Video of #Russia's Don Cossacks firing GRAD in #Ukraine:
Cossacks have participated in just about every Russian war.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xta_NZ0QR54 …

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRKqcQ2aEio … Even liars tell the truth sometimes. #Russia's #Churkin UNSC no exception. pic.twitter.com/0SUYsGAzkT

SputnikNews
AUG 14: says @EliotHiggins founded @bellingcat
FEB 15: had no clue Higgins founded bellingcat!
pic.twitter.com/WZQW8DDsUQ

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Taken from this article:http://www.themoscowtimes.com/opinion/article/russia-is-slamming-door-after-door-on-the-west/517372.html


If Russia wants the world to view it as a superpower, it is going about it in the wrong way. A superpower needs to have something to offer besides a sense of offended dignity, something that would justify closing all those doors behind it. For example, it should have an idea or seem capable of transforming the country into an alternative center of power in the world, something that could change its isolation into the beginnings of a new system of intergovernmental ties, alliances and mutually beneficial relationships.

Even Hitler's Germany deliberately went into isolation with fully developed plans for an alternative project, however horrible it seemed from the outside and however terrible were its consequences.

Unfortunately, Russia's withdrawal into isolation more resembles the behavior of an offended teenager who shuts himself in his room in the expectation that his father will come along soon after, pat him on the head and discuss their plans for a weekend together.

The unpleasant surprise is that today's world has no father. Beyond the doors that Moscow is slamming with such pleasure are only more teenagers, albeit youth who are better educated and better adapted to a rapidly changing world in which closed doors have no useful place.

Russia will eventually have to go out and find a way to get along with them — that is, unless it plans to grow old and die in a basement somewhere, self-exiled to the sidelines of history. And the longer Russia delays that step, the more difficulty it will have unlocking and reopening those doors, and clearing the wreckage.

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Putin is missing in action now over nine days--since 5 March?????

MIA leader with his finger on the nuclear trigger and that is not as dangerous as black flag wavers inside Iraq/Syria?

#Putin's vanishing act puts #ISIS's brutality videos in shade. For too long West, media and pols, have been worrying about the wrong danger.

#Russia | Question is not where #Putin is, but who holds the launch codes for Russian nuclear weapons? pic.twitter.com/uz4JDDdQJw

In hindsight, Putin's TV interview where he elaborates on how he annexed Crimea looks more and more like him trying to establish his legacy.

#Putin admits:#Crimea was taken by his orders.#Ru redrawing map in Europe acc 2 its rules.More confessions to follow? http://bbc.in/1Fzvq3A

Seems the Russian Defense Minister's plane is going in circles today:

Taken from Flight Radar 24 today:
RLGRPCH @rlgrpch
Cirkulera! pic.twitter.com/u5BrYdbdjM

What the heck… is Shoigu's plane doing? See https://twitter.com/rlgrpch/status/576676371172352000 …

Looks like it was on the ground for about 20 minutes, then took off again.

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#Footage
"Local miners'" #ATGM training in eastern #Ukraine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEaB-IpxrbI …
pic.twitter.com/HZFDR4id6r

Maxim Tucker @MaxRTucker
Interesting: Last night Poroshenko said #Ukraine had signed lethal arms deals with 11 EU countries.I can only think of 4 that may be willing

Yandex maps naively shows tanks hidden in university building on ul. Artema, in the very heart of #Donetsk pic.twitter.com/j9BBuIuDEF
Violation of Minsk 2 as they were to be withdrawn and monitored by OSCE

Nato chief in warning over Russian wargames http://gu.com/p/46j72/stw

Russian army in #Ukraine (Kruglik - Круглик). Some knocked T72s, MTLB and Kamaz trucks w/ Russian tactical markings. pic.twitter.com/RszqS6fqhH

Russian tank crashed into the car in Donetsk http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/14-march-russian-tank-crashed-into-the-car-in-donetsk … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I40nEzUhIyA … pic.twitter.com/OuN0JpV6vc

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Chechen is now the second largest language being spoken currently in eastern Ukraine as a majority of the 21K mercenaries are now coming from Chechnya.

Hospital in occupied Krasnodon: lower sign "Stop. No trespassing" in Chechen -local dialect? http://informator.lg.ua/?p=76663#more-76663 … pic.twitter.com/ry5O5iRxjc

This has not yet been picked up on by the mainstream general western media---wonder why??

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Massive Russian troop buildup is still ongoing literally right next to the Ukrainian border.

#Belgorod International Airport is being used as a Russian military transport hub. 11 March http://vk.com/photo-16555223_355833114 … pic.twitter.com/yzaM0QwOYX

More recent activity at #Belgorod International Airport by Russian Air Force Il-76MD transport RF-76558: 11 March pic.twitter.com/QUq9SZgjq3

Belgorod, Russia 14.03.2015 - Photo of Russian armory - pic.twitter.com/rZroXURKkg

Russian Air Force Il-76MD transport at #Belgorod International Airport 14 March (source: http://vk.com/belspotteam ) pic.twitter.com/x0d19qufZj

Russian troops at #Belgorod International Airport 11 March http://vk.com/photo-16555223_355832997 … pic.twitter.com/kXq9eRotvg

Russian troops, transports, helicopter at #Belgorod Airport 11 March. Ukraine? (via http://vk.com/belspotteam ) pic.twitter.com/6NhFCLtXnb

The same Russian Air Force Il-76MD transport (RF-76558) coming, (un)loading & going at #Belgorod Airport on 13 March pic.twitter.com/JULuj4QPP9

Military equipment (APCs, trucks etc) at #Belgorod railway depot (video uploaded 14 March) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irWd5C9KhvQ&feature=youtu.be …

Lysenko " Russians mass military technique on Ukrainian border" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIG7H0LY5eQ&feature=youtube_gdata&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed …

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Seems the Russian Defense Minister's plane is going in circles today:

Taken from Flight Radar 24 today:
RLGRPCH @rlgrpch
Cirkulera! pic.twitter.com/u5BrYdbdjM

What the heck… is Shoigu's plane doing? See https://twitter.com/rlgrpch/status/576676371172352000 …

Looks like it was on the ground for about 20 minutes, then took off again.

Same plane but on a different air traffic search engine--what is his plane doing---spinning circles and burning fuel--does not make sense.

Same plane, different tracker. Wonderful. pic.twitter.com/1wUCHZyhci

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Latest example of Russian mercenary "altered state of reality" when it comes to their understanding or maybe not understanding really what was written in Minsk 2.

The only thing that has to be withdrawn are the Russian mercenaries and Russian troops but Russian claims neither are in the Ukraine.

#InterpretatingMinsk2...
The LC's #Plotnitsky decries: "Kiev only withdrew its heavy equipment from the front in Donbas. Not its army

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John Schindler @20committee Poland prepares for war:http://20committee.com/2014/10/30/poland-prepares-for-russian-invasion/

NYT is telling you now what I told you 5 months ago:http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/15/world/europe/poland-steels-for-battle-seeing-echoes-of-cold-war-in-ukraine-crisis.html?gwh=3D1936FABC6F0F3EF15ADC329

Terrorists have fired at Ukr army's positions fr grenade launchers and mortars http://en.censor.net.ua/n328442

#russ mercenary fr Kaliningrad(Königsberg) killed on 27-2-15 n Mariupol #Ukraine pic.twitter.com/5idHlk90dx v @666_mancer http://twitter.com/666_mancer/status/576669402747314176/photo/1pic.twitter.com/5idHlk90dx

An 8th Yanukovych-era official dies in mysterious circumstances, falling to his death as neighbors reported a quarrel http://www.ukrinform.ua/ukr/news/v_odesi_vipav_z_vikna_starshiy_prokuror_rayonu_203 2288 …

Priceless! So called DPR's head announced nationalization of runaway Yanukovych's company https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3o9cssWl8Xs … pic.twitter.com/wmVSQ3LfbV

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Massive Russian troop buildup is still ongoing literally right next to the Ukrainian border.

#Belgorod International Airport is being used as a Russian military transport hub. 11 March http://vk.com/photo-16555223_355833114 … pic.twitter.com/yzaM0QwOYX

More recent activity at #Belgorod International Airport by Russian Air Force Il-76MD transport RF-76558: 11 March pic.twitter.com/QUq9SZgjq3

Belgorod, Russia 14.03.2015 - Photo of Russian armory - pic.twitter.com/rZroXURKkg

Russian Air Force Il-76MD transport at #Belgorod International Airport 14 March (source: http://vk.com/belspotteam ) pic.twitter.com/x0d19qufZj

Russian troops at #Belgorod International Airport 11 March http://vk.com/photo-16555223_355832997 … pic.twitter.com/kXq9eRotvg

Russian troops, transports, helicopter at #Belgorod Airport 11 March. Ukraine? (via http://vk.com/belspotteam ) pic.twitter.com/6NhFCLtXnb

The same Russian Air Force Il-76MD transport (RF-76558) coming, (un)loading & going at #Belgorod Airport on 13 March pic.twitter.com/JULuj4QPP9

Military equipment (APCs, trucks etc) at #Belgorod railway depot (video uploaded 14 March) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irWd5C9KhvQ&feature=youtu.be …

Lysenko " Russians mass military technique on Ukrainian border" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIG7H0LY5eQ&feature=youtube_gdata&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed …

The #Belgorod--#Kharkiv axis relative to Eastern Ukraine Scenario by @Stratfor 9 March https://www.stratfor.com/analysis/gaming-russian-offensive … pic.twitter.com/9478C4Floz

RU-UA 'Border Preparing for War' - Gazeta.ru says RU troops moving to border, tighter border control http://www.gazeta.ru/politics/2015/03/13_a_6597853.shtml

Russian mercenaries were complaining yesterday that there were draconian control measures in place and no supplies were getting across to them—connection?????

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Still no news as to where Putin is or is not---journalists were told yesterday to stand by for an important announcement and yet nothing..........

Think historically the longest any Soviet and or Russia leader "disappeared" was just four days and we are now at day nine--strange.

Rumors abound now that the Russian Defense Minister has taken over---possible junta now in Moscow after the so called junta take over in Kyiv?????

Russian blogs sites and Russian twitter are running massive amounts of traffic around "rumors".

Where is Vladimir #Putin (tournament edition)?http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2015/03/13/where-is-vladimir-putin-tournament-edition/ … pic.twitter.com/EWX8zE19cg

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VIDEO #Putin"Somalia"terrorists in tank #Donetsk crushed car for fun w passengers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paED-DL38ME … #Ukraine pic.twitter.com/a9MVNQ32f1

Reference breakaway enclave to Moldova initially taken by Russian forces:
Pridnestrovie is in talks with Moldova already, looks like they might fold after Kremlin refused to finance them.

Video of more military vehicles in #Belgorod today https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LAF3aLwCEc …

And more video footage from #Belgorod BTR-82A
pic.twitter.com/3Hxw3bb9lr

Another #Russian tank from #Buryatia got lost in Ukrainian city #Bryanka. Photo via @666_mancer pic.twitter.com/xgIFtklkCQ

A transport plane in #Millerovo #Миллерово
http://cs624116.vk.me/v624116577/f035/hj5oejoASJQ.jpg …
Via @bura_tino pic.twitter.com/AoI19zbCMx

A lot of planes at
#Millerovo airport
https://pp.vk.me/c621222/v621222643/1570e/ipaVqLMdAvA.jpg …
pic.twitter.com/AIBneOel92

Soldier from #Kaliningrad against the background of #Russia|n tanks in #Millerovo
https://pp.vk.me/c621921/v621921882/1440b/pVny5-9bg2Q.jpg …
pic.twitter.com/Nd2M2FUwTO

Intensification of Russian military activity at #Russia - #Ukraine border
https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ru&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gazeta.ru%2Fpolitics%2F2015%2F0 3%2F13_a_6597853.shtml&edit-text= …

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#BREAKINGNEWS
"Large scale hostilities" to start soon in eastern Ukraine, LC and DNR say.
http://m.gazeta.ru/politics/2015/03/13_a_6597853.shtml …

#Russia massing troops in #Belgorod an making sure we see it, but no videos from rest of the 1000km border with #Ukraine
War or Maskirovka?

@Osce reports 18th "humanitarian" convoy from Russia to Ukraine is all fuel trucks for Army
http://www.unian.ua/politics/1055522-v-obse-povidomili-pro-veliku-kilkist-benzovoziv-u-18-mu-rosiyskomu-gumkonvoji.html … pic.twitter.com/PimdpZAcl3

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#News
#Azov reports that Russian forces in #Bezimenne grow stronger by the day

Russian media (quoting a pro-Kremlin self-proclaimed leader) says the Rusyns in West Ukraine want autonomy from Kiev http://tass.ru/mezhdunarodnaya-panorama/1828915 …

So much for being a dedicated Russian mercenary:
Ex-#Ukraine policeman/now DPR militant Vinokurov's objective for registering as refugee was to start receiving pension from Ukrainian state
Ex-Donetsk criminal investigations chief/now DPR militant Anatoliy Vinokurov registered in Mariupol as a refugee https://www.facebook.com/Vyacheslav.Abroskin/posts/1431530490472954:0 …

Security services have confirmed the detention of suspected persons in last night's #bombing in #Odessa pic.twitter.com/8IHe3StaFY

While world guesses, where is Vlado, a huge caravan of RUS tanks/AFVs heads to #Mariupol. VIDEO http://www.informator.su/putyn-otvlyok-vnymanye-ohromnaya-kolonna-bronetehnyky-y-tankov-dvyzhetsya-v-storonu-maryupolya-vydeo/ …

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Really good open source analysis from a new blog site---individual is working the Russian invasion from August 2014 and his initial work is extremely telling.

Follow @finriswolf as he releases new satellite imagery from RU-UKR border from last August https://twitter.com/finriswolf/status/576818330511667201 …

Vehicles are jam packed into the tree groves "hidden" from observation. Here further south http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=47.819451&lon=39.050024&z=16&m=b&v=1 … pic.twitter.com/RVEdcBfDjA

Moving north we can follow tracks heading to the Internationally recognized Ukraine border http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=47.853422&lon=39.066750&z=17&m=b&v=1 … pic.twitter.com/ITWH83OVbx

Russian breach of Ukraine border just east of village (before & after August) http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=47.851125&lon=39.086652&z=17&m=b&v=1 … pic.twitter.com/oJd1oVLecN

Ukraine border breach #2 in this area. Most traffic stays on paths obscured by tree-lines http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=47.870345&lon=39.083133&z=17&m=b&v=1 … pic.twitter.com/gMLCOHvdIr

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RUMINT concerning Putin disappearance:

Putin waiting out conflict between FSB and Kadyrov forces, Belkovsky says

2015/03/14 • Politics

Article by: Nina Jobe


In his latest statement posted on Open Russia, Belkovsky argues that Putin is facing a conflict between different security forces. Belkovsky divides these groups into the FSB (Federal Security Services) and Ramzan Kadyrov (the Putin appointed leader of Chechnya).

This is a conflict that has been going on since Putin came to power, Belkovsky claims. This is a bit disingenuous as Kadyrov has not been in power in Chechnya for 15 years. But his broader point is that much of Putin’s reputation as a strong leader has been built on his alleged success in subduing Chechnya.

On the other side of the conflict is the federal security structures (the siloviki). There are quite a lot of people in this group, and they are quite influential. Putin cannot betray this group because it would cost him his life, Belkovsky alleges.

Putin then is between a rock and a hard place. He cannot dismiss Kadyrov because his reputation is at stake. But he cannot side against the siloviki because they would overthrow him in a coup if he did.

Therefore, Putin is avoiding making a decision between the two clans, and this is the reason for his disappearance. The President hopes that the situation will be resolved in the meantime.

Putin could stay in power indefinitely as long as he stays alive, Belkovsky continues. But since nobody lives forever, at some point somebody must succeed him. This person will be the “anti-Putin”. He would have to reach some kind of deal with the West to save Russia’s economy and bring Russia back from the brink of war.

Belkovsky then again presents Prime Minister Medvedev as an this compromise figure. Yes, Medvedev acts like a fool, but this could all be an act, and the Prime Minister might well surprise us all.

Belkovsky concludes by saying that Putin’s legacy will not be great. There will be organized mourning and parades, but the transition of power will be relatively painless and no panic will ensue. The reason for this is that despite popular opinion, the Russian system is not personality-based. Rather it is more like a monarchy. Because of this there is some “guarantee of stability”, and the office is more important than the figure in it. And in due course, the Russian people will rapidly change their loyalty and love to a new leader.

I personally think Belkovsky is over-simplifying the situation here. The siloviki is not exactly a monolithic group. That being said, I think the Russian system can take some hits, and harder hits than many imagine. Putin’s image of a strong leader has been very carefully crafted for his domestic audience, but it could be taken away very quickly.

A transition to a new face does not have to be overly painful. Will there be some hiccups? Most likely. The clan system is very real, and there will be some jockeying for position and power behind the scenes. But these should not impact day to day activity or the economy in any real sense.

So this is one way that the Kremlin could wriggle out of the situation it currently finds itself in. Whether it will do so remains to be seen.


NOTE: In my opinion, Belkovsky does not speak with his own voice. He is voicing the opinion of somebody in the elite who wishes to remain anonymous. This is why his statements are important.

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Tymchuk 13/3: #Russia forces shell #Ukraine positions w/ weapons that R supposed 2 B withdrawn
http://maidantranslations.com/2015/03/14/dmitry-tymchuk-military-update-3-13-freesavchenko/ … pic.twitter.com/ZJfc5ZIdI2

How Many Tanks Does the August Terrorist Battalion Have?: https://en.informnapalm.org/how-many-tanks-does-the-august-terrorist-battalion-have/ … pic.twitter.com/UIdJrJWaxI

More bodies of Ukrainian soldiers pulled from Donetsk airport rubble - OSCE
http://www.unian.info/war/1055566-more-bodies-of-ukrainian-soldiers-pulled-from-donetsk-airport-rubble-osce.html … pic.twitter.com/H4kADO1mcC

Residents of Belgorod, #Russia post photos of armoured vehicles convoys moving along their city pic.twitter.com/TlaiHaSWa0

Terrorists in #Lugansk got modern #Russian MRLS "Buratino" modification TOS-1A "Solntsepyok". Unfortunately, this is now confirmed info...

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Really good open source analysis from a new blog site---individual is working the Russian invasion from August 2014 and his initial work is extremely telling.

Follow @finriswolf as he releases new satellite imagery from RU-UKR border from last August https://twitter.com/finriswolf/status/576818330511667201 …

Vehicles are jam packed into the tree groves "hidden" from observation. Here further south http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=47.819451&lon=39.050024&z=16&m=b&v=1 … pic.twitter.com/RVEdcBfDjA

Moving north we can follow tracks heading to the Internationally recognized Ukraine border http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=47.853422&lon=39.066750&z=17&m=b&v=1 … pic.twitter.com/ITWH83OVbx

Russian breach of Ukraine border just east of village (before & after August) http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=47.851125&lon=39.086652&z=17&m=b&v=1 … pic.twitter.com/oJd1oVLecN

Ukraine border breach #2 in this area. Most traffic stays on paths obscured by tree-lines http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=47.870345&lon=39.083133&z=17&m=b&v=1 … pic.twitter.com/gMLCOHvdIr

Never published before satellite images of Russian border crossings to Ukraine by @finriswolf
http://ukraineatwar.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/never-published-before-satellite-images.html … pic.twitter.com/vV54H4eSzg

I'm going to start tweeting never-released-to-the-public imagery of 4 separate Russian armored groups and their crossing #Ukraine border

If I disappear from Twitter after posting these new sat images, make sure to have my remains tested for polonium ;)

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Over the night #Russia-backed forces violated the #ceasefire 14 times. Keep using "withdrawn" 120mm mortars https://www.facebook.com/ato.news/posts/964957886848351 …

50% of Black Sea Coast belongs to NATO and Russia wants the other 50% . Part of Ukraine & Georgia already taken pic.twitter.com/55Jl3KlcHB

Great article in @welt sbout German volunteers fighting on the side of the pro-Russian separatists http://m.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article138417678/Mehr-als-100-Deutsche-kaempfen-in-der-Ostukraine.html … (in German)
Krieg gegen Kiew: Mehr als 100 Deutsche kämpfen in der Ostukraine http://on.welt.de/1BjFnO8 pic.twitter.com/okrkLVtIrs

#Russia sent again over 80 trucks w/ unknown content violating national, int'l law. Convoy has crossed into #Ukraine http://www.mchs.gov.ru/dop/info/smi/news/item/3542705/ …

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The Moscow Times ✔ @MoscowTimes
#Russia says it has the right to deploy nuclear weapons in #Crimea http://tmt-go.ru/517281 pic.twitter.com/YU1PKo7vfv

This would be a clear and distinct violation of the INF and 1994 Budapest Memorandum--but wait Russia claims they did not violation either of them.

A Dnepr-1 battalion fighter was killed in #Pisky

10:50 #Mariupol: Sounds of heavy explosions are heard from the east, 'floor and windows vibrate'

Pro-russian terrorists keep their fire at decreased level, but still shell #Ukraine's troops - #ATO press center. https://www.facebook.com/ato.news/posts/964957886848351 …

10:59 #Shyrokyne : 120mm Mortar fire pic.twitter.com/y9FS24sWSS

#DPR's Basurin is accusing #Ukraine military of violating ceasefire 55 times in last 24 hours http://russian.rt.com/article/79584

#Picture
Ukrainian border guards confiscated numerous weapons in #Mariupol, (pro-)Russian terrorists planned to use.
pic.twitter.com/fhT4m27M6f

SBU detained enemy sniper –targeted UA soldiers in #Donetsk airport & corrected artillery fire. pic.twitter.com/cwpqkHPmxl

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Explosions Heard in #Mariupol, #Sakhanka is under RU fire. In The morning they shelled #Chermalyk.

Ukrainian servicemen spotted 13 enemy UAVs over the last day http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/15-march-ukrainian-servicemen-spotted-13-enemy-uavs-over …

NSDC of Ukraine ✔ @NSDC_ua
Pro-RU militants consolidate forces in #Artemivsk, #Mariupol and #Luhansk sectors, imitating heavy arms withdrawal.

NSDC of Ukraine ✔ @NSDC_ua
Pro-Russian insurgents conducted 34 armed provocations against Ukrainian military in the last 24 hours.

"@Mariupol_TV Near Mariupol militias are constantly replenished by Russian soldiers and mercenaries http://www.mariupol.tv/news/war/mariupol/2991/pod_mariupolem_otryady_boevikov_postoyanno_popolny ayutsya_rossijskimi_voennosluzhashimi_i_naemnikami .html …"

#BreakingNews
Russian forces in #Sakhanka are heavily firing with 120 mm mortars and small arms since 6:15 this morning.

Ukrainian soldiers in #Donetsk region say militants continue shelling
http://uatoday.tv/politics/ukrainian-soldiers-in-donetsk-region-say-militants-continue-shelling-415374.html … #Ukraine pic.twitter.com/VXvrTKrmSW

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Kremlin mouthpiece TASS laments: "Novorossiya TV reporter arrested in Ukraine" http://tass.ru/en/world/782829

Actually the SBU detained the owner/operator of the Novorssiya TV station operating inside Ukraine controlled territory as a propaganda mouthpiece for Russian TV.

Russia now changing the wording of the two separatist areas—appearing to make them “self proclaimed republics”.

So much for the Russian statements they will protect the territorial integrity of theUkraine.

"....self-proclaimed people's republics of Donetsk and Luhansk (DPR and LPR)." New wording..
http://sputniknews.com/russia/20150314/1019500512.html#ixzz3URoJ3peU … pic.twitter.com/rwfq5MXmrB

Strelkov aka Girkin: "Putin traitor and loser, will end up like Nicholas II." http://www.znak.com/svrdl/news/2015-03-14/1036787.html … Via @RolandOliphant pic.twitter.com/WahUR4H5

Anders Östlund @andersostlund
If Putin doesn't appear for planned meeting in St. Petersburg tomorrow we can assume something has hit the fan. pic.twitter.com/sZE8eRMJxH

Notice Putin has never fully left the KGB?
I don't know #WhereIsPutin, but in 1989 he was in Dresden together w/ Matthias Warnig & Sergey Chemezov (now Rostec). pic.twitter.com/deYyKMvSbg

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Inside the Kremlin Troll Army Machine: Templates, Guidelines, and Paid Postshttp://globalvoicesonline.org/2015/03/14/russia-kremlin-troll-army-examples/ …

As expected, the Russian media story about Rusyns in western Ukraine demanding autonomy from Kiev was fake news http://www.mukachevo.net/ua/News/view/106459 …

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Mehr als 100 Deutsche kmpfen in der Ost-#Ukraine. Meist Russlanddeutsche, darunter auch Ex-Bundeswehrsoldaten: http://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article138417678/Mehr-als-100-Deutsche-kaempfen-in-der-Ostukraine.html
More than 100 Germans fighting for separatists in eastern Ukraine http://www.dw.de/more-than-100-germans-fighting-for-separatists-in-eastern-ukraine/a-18316900

More than a 100 Germans are fighting with the proRussian mercenaries--it will be interesting to see exactly what the German government does upon their return---are they being questioned and or jailed as are the returning IS fighters ---for being members of a terrorist organization?????

Possible double standards??????

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Appears Putin is still "missing in action" while his closest advisor who formulated the Crimea takeover and the move into eastern Ukraine is "vacationing" with his family in Hong Kong the last few days since he went "missing in action".

Blogger Adagamov claims Kremlin cancelled accreditation of journos at Putin's meeting with Kyrgys president tomorrow pic.twitter.com/hOLhtYYC1i

It's now almost 2pm on a Sunday afternoon in Moscow. Seeming less and less likely the Kremlin's much-lauded "big announcement" is imminent.

Anders Aslund @anders_aslund
Death of Putin's chief bodyguard General Viktor Zolotov is widely reported on web, but no credible source is cited. Clarification is needed!

@tvrain sources are saying that #Putin is down with a flu, at his Valdai residence. Peskov refused to comment http://m.tvrain.ru/articles/peskov_otkazalsja_kommentirovat_mestonahozhdenie_p utina-383926/ …

Russia: @Interfax - @KremlinRussia_E press secretary refuses to comment on #Putin's whereabouts pic.twitter.com/4uPDFeNB3f

Latest #Putin rumour- He came out as gay and literally no one in the Kremlin has the faintest idea what to do except lock all the doors.

We are at currently six different RUMINT reports on his beingMIA.

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#Footage
Russian army BTR-82A seemingly finally leaving #Belgorod to the south.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rt12SfkjY2Y …
pic.twitter.com/B0ZUsdZc5T

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTbgcVAqZPU … 45 #Yekaterinburg,#Russia,paratroopers join warlord Mozgovoi("Forget #MH17") pic.twitter.com/pDcrCSRgdi

Anders Östlund @andersostlund
@RolandOliphant I believe I read Putin called Nicholas II one of the worst Russian traitors ever. Strelkov aka Girkin saying "same fate" says a lot.

A total now of 43,000 Russian troops, mercenaries and local miners and truck drivers—does that sound like “no outside assistance” as claimed by Russia/Putin??
Pro-RU terrorists have 780 tanks, 1030 APCs, 500 mortars, 420 rocket launchers, 130 anti-aircraft systems - Fedichev https://youtu.be/XPMpzEZbkCw

Number of terrorists' troops in war-torn eastern #Ukraine is 43K. About 9K of them - Russian regulars, said Fedichev https://youtu.be/XPMpzEZbkCw

The mercenaries are far better armed that the France and German armies combined when it comes to tanks, artillery and needless to say even to AD systems.

Polling some 'DNR' fighters about Lviv Chocolate cafe in Donetsk: buying coffee there means financially supporting 'fascism' in west Ukraine

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Mehr als 100 Deutsche kmpfen in der Ost-#Ukraine. Meist Russlanddeutsche, darunter auch Ex-Bundeswehrsoldaten: http://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article138417678/Mehr-als-100-Deutsche-kaempfen-in-der-Ostukraine.html
More than 100 Germans fighting for separatists in eastern Ukraine http://www.dw.de/more-than-100-germans-fighting-for-separatists-in-eastern-ukraine/a-18316900

More than a 100 Germans are fighting with the proRussian mercenaries--it will be interesting to see exactly what the German government does upon their return---are they being questioned and or jailed as are the returning IS fighters ---for being members of a terrorist organization?????

Possible double standards??????

"100 Germans in ranks of pro-#Russia|n separatists.Kiev concerned about"war tourism"."http://bit.ly/1bao0dC pic.twitter.com/r9EvOaBfQl

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Troubling: In film on #Crimea, Putin says Russia was ready to put nukes on alert if events developed unfavorably http://www.gazeta.ru/politics/news/2015/03/15/n_7013913.shtml …

Moscow Replays Rusin ‘Separatist’ Card in Ukraine’s Transcarpathia :: http://khpg.org http://khpg.org/index.php?id=

#Moscow sources confirm death of General Viktor Zolotov head of #Putin security http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&hl=en&prev=search&rurl=translate.google.co.uk&sl=uk&u=http://uapress.info/uk/news/show/66831&usg=ALkJrhjLEdY5HvvV2Ly7rjvu7peHqqU_AA … #Putindead pic.twitter.com/nVAkMTewwZ

Translation MT @GazetaRu: Putin - we wanted Bastion antiship missile system visible from spacehttp://www.gazeta.ru/politics/news/2015/03/15/n_7013901.shtml … pic.twitter.com/zcat41O4tV

Kremlin Active Measures are getting cruder: US Intelligence Services Behind 2014 Ukraine Coup – EU MP http://sputniknews.com/politics/20150311/1019344666.html …

Putin has Made the New Yalta He Wants Impossible, Rubtsov Says http://ln.is/blogspot.fi/ssoyO …

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A good example of Russian non linear warfare from the Russian political side and notice the not so subtle threat that you have only 24 hours left and then we go back to war;

Notice the doublespeak from the Russian mercenary side---the Russia view is that the new Ukrainian law applies to all of the Donetsk region and especially that territory taken in the recent February fighting period that Russia gave the mercenaries an extra 60 hours to achieve.

Behold behold then Ukraine brings in the law BUT it applies only to the territory under mercenary control as of 19 Sept 2014 as that was the agreement within Minsk 1 and not changed in Minsk 2 BUT Russia and her mercenaries thought more territory equals law applying to even the new territory.

While both are complaining other critical aspects of both Minsk 1 and 2--withdrawal of mercenaries back to Russia, withdrawal of Russian troops and heavy equipment, stopping of Russian heavy weapons and troops that still are entering the Ukraine release of over 400 civilian and POWs that are still unaccounted for but known to be alive, and securing the Russian border STILL have not been implemented. AND those Russian mercenary and Russian troop heavy weapons are on a "merry-go-round"---meaning withdrawn, and at night slipped back into place and heavily camouflaged.

If one takes the figure of 85-90% of the 22K mercenaries are actual Russians not Ukrainians THEN we should have seen approx. 15-19K having left but they have not left.

MOSCOW, March 15. /TASS/. Keeping secret context of the draft statement on a special status for certain districts in Donbass contradicts with parliamentary norms, envoy of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) to the Minsk talks Denis Pushilin said on Sunday.

© TASS/Mikhail Pochuev

Kiev has 24 hours left to designate territories with special status in Donbas — DPR envoy

"This secrecy is rather strange and it contradicts with not only the open spirit of the Minsk agreements, but also the parliamentary norms of the Ukrainian state," he said in an interview with the Donetsk news agency.

The Donetsk Republic regrets nobody either in Donbass or in Ukraine have seen text of the draft document.

Ukraine’s President Pyotr Poroshenko early on Sunday presented to the Verkhovna Rada (parliament) a draft statement on special status for Donbass certain districts.

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The killing of General Zolotov Putin's personal security boss has been hinted at by three specific sources starting Friday and now this Israeli source.

General Viktor Zolotov head of #Putin security is dead
http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&hl=en&prev=search&rurl=translate.google.co.uk&sl=uk&u=http://uapress.info/uk/news/show/66831&usg=ALkJrhjLEdY5HvvV2Ly7rjvu7peHqqU_AA … #Putindead pic.twitter.com/zmouM7A8lp

Israel’s former ambassador to Russia: 'There are signs of a coup' http://dlvr.it/8z8Kbh pic.twitter.com/HVx9Ph0icH

#BREAKINGSTATEMENT
"There are signs of a coup [in #Russia]."
- Zvi Magen, former Israeli ambassador to Russia
http://www.haaretz.com/news/world/.premium-1.647001 …

Serious implications (Zolotov's unit is in charge of protecting the Cheget nuclear code machine).


in 1948 Stalin speech predicts "inevitable" US-Soviet armed conflict. http://digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org/document/117823 pic.twitter.com/0qPNDKLxrK

Dugin the chief ideologue for Putin’s new form fascism is complaining that social media types have it all wrong about him and his influence.

Christo Grozev @christogrozev
Dugin: @A_SHEKH0VTS0V & @christogrozev are among the trio that created and disseminated all myths about me, and then everyone picked up"

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How #Crimea was occupied: #Russian subversive heavily pushes an elderly woman b/c she supports #Ukraine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MBQjoep3VY&feature=youtu.be … EN sub

Putin said Russia secretly deployed Bastion coast protection missile facilities in Crimea last year. Definitely not against Ukrainian navy.

More first-hand details of how #Russia seized #Crimea: excerpts of #Putin's film interview https://www.facebook.com/empr.media/photos/a.313256135545433.1073741828.313253652212348/364165740454472/?type=1 … pic.twitter.com/C5Q8Lh3FYl

How Russia Seized Crimea. Putin's Confessions
Ahead of the “Crimea.The Way to the Motherland” documentary to be... http://fb.me/1WVs1yBIl

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Fighting more intense each day at Shyrokyne, near Mariupol. OSCE's latest monitoring report pic.twitter.com/e9DxXUGosV http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/15-march-fighting-more-intense-each-day-at-shyrokyne-near …

Cranks, Trolls, and Useful Idiots - #Russia's information warriors set their sights on Central Europe. http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/03/12/cranks-trolls-and-useful-idiots-poland-czech-republic-slovakia-russia-ukraine/ …

Jean-Luc SCHAFFHAUSER - European Parliament member and Kremlin propagandist promotes partition of Ukraine. pic.twitter.com/UKvgVVWzyy

Putins admits sending military intelligence and elite navy marines to Crimea to spearhead annexation a year ago http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-15/russia-was-ready-for-crimea-nuclear-standoff-putin-says …

@OSCE_SMM POWs are not exchanged as per Minsk accord.
The @OSCE_SMM confirms, Russian occupation forces led Ukrainian POW dig for dead comrades at #Donetsk #airport.http://www.unian.net/war/1055556-po

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#Breaking
Food shops in #Mariupol gave an discount of 50% before closing this evening
The city fears a large-scale Russian assault tomorrow.

SBU believe Donbas militia HQ is led by Russian Major-General Alexei Zavizen. UNIAN 11 March https://translate.google.ie/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.unian.net%2Fwar%2F1054132-na-donbasse-shtabom-boevikov-rukovodit-rossiyskiy-general-mayor-sbu.html&edit-text= … pic.twitter.com/bPEoal2bLq

#Putin quoted by #Russia TV as saying in documentary on annexation of #Crimea "our advantage was that I was dealing with it personally"

I think I've heard the word 'Bandera' and 'fascist' already at least 10 times in the #Crimea documentary. 2,5 hours to go

Russian movie about annexation of Crimea(3 parts)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wMLfL5Wol4 … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbhmjZyFD2A … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrZmZYRMrf4

Use of Russian Radical Nationalists as "Volunteers" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WA1rP5WGfY … pic.twitter.com/n0YYMKHLqX

#Lebedinskaya, Mariupol front. School building shelled with a self-propelled gun 152 mm, prohibited by Minsk accord. pic.twitter.com/KzBdxYCzU6

Volunteer Volodymyr Kochetkov-Sukach dies in #Pisky. http://goo.gl/6UvzEh pic.twitter.com/vQxIJsK0Nr https://youtu.be/00cFoyQ3vMs

#Pisky - Russians fortification positions. pic.twitter.com/XaAmizQ9O2

Sector M (Mariupol front) - #Russians do not withdraw heavy weapons. pic.twitter.com/gEOrZJCCTi

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More on Putin's being missing in action??

A good article to read---

Excellent review of the noise and silence surrounding missing Putin, by @edwardlucas: http://cepa.org/content/where-putin … pic.twitter.com/eMWN0IKwqS

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Mantra "There is no military solution in Ukraine" by Western politicians shows lack of understanding of policy continuum. And Putin's views.

"There [is] rich irony that the FSB, Russia's ruthless security is the last best hope for Russia's democracy."
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/opinion/article/kadyrov-fsb-at-war-after-nemtsov-death/517426.html …

When RUS threatened Iskanders to Kaliningrad, we scrapped POL ABM deployment . RUS put Iskanders in Kaliningrad anyway.
So that worked out.

Notice Russia has already stationed nuclear capable anti ship missiles in Crimea and some say the nuclear weapons have been there awhile at the Russia naval facility---so much for the 1994 Budapest Memorandum—Iskanders are already being moved into Crimea and Russia has admitted that as well..

BREAKING - Plagiarism scandal in #Russia: #Putin copied Hitler’s speech for Crimea annexation http://euromaidanpress.com/2015/03/16/plagiarism-scandal-in-russia-hitlers-speech-copied-for-crimea-annexation/ … pic.twitter.com/3Hzy14

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Putin---missing in action??

Was to be a press conference with Putin present and all journalists were suddenly called for it ----THEN:

False alarm, it seems. Still waiting on Putin. TT @dimsmirnov175: Now we wait in another room. Much more beautiful
pic.twitter.com/bdTwXOSuCX

Putin's habitual tardiness has added even more suspense around his expected appearance in St. Petersburg. Journalists waiting for hours now.

Instead of Putin, @Ruptly is showing Poroshenko live in Berlin and a Waffen SS march in Riga this morning ):

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Tymchuk: militants digging in, massing military equipment closer to Mariupol
http://www.unian.info/war/1055887-tymchuk-militants-digging-in-massing-military-equipment-closer-to-mariupol.html … pic.twitter.com/4yqY3ZQp4J

Putin’s own words for Crimea—then and now:
pic.twitter.com/W9OmQSAkDz

Russian who proudly says he started the war with #Ukraine, #Strelkov aka Girkin says war will resume next month, peace only when pro-Rus govt in #Kyiv

#Footage
BMP-1 in #Luhansk drives under the Russian army paratroopers' flag.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCA_Su6VBTc …
#Ukraine pic.twitter.com/rUF2vY1UXZ

#Picture
Russian invasion forces in #Luhansk train for urban warfare.
You can imagine yourself, what they are up to. pic.twitter.com/Q4YMNMzrSt

"Minsk in the North-Western Part of Russian Empire. Vivat Russian Con-Federation" pic.twitter.com/4toBA5qbSo

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Tymchuk: Six convoys of supplies arrive from Russia
http://www.unian.info/war/1055891-tymchuk-six-convoys-of-supplies-arrive-from-russia.html … pic.twitter.com/VTU9mLadd7

There is increased drone activity east of #Mariupol this morning and some mortar attacks in #Shyrokyne last night.
But no Rus assault

First instructions to #Kremtrolls includes attack on Surkov. Beware: these are the Volodin-paid batch of trolls pic.twitter.com/yRdNDfCOym

KremTrolls are back: and it seems like trouble at the Kremlin http://wp.me/p4qv8E-f5

NSDC of Ukraine ✔ @NSDC_ua
Ukrainian servicemen de-mined #Kominternove in collaboration with @OSCE_SMM pic.twitter.com/86JbY6mHdt

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NSDC of Ukraine ✔ @NSDC_ua
UA operatives also uncovered arms arsenal near #Artemivsk. Confiscated grenades, small arms, ammo. pic.twitter.com/IwnJnTrunq

NSDC of Ukraine ✔ @NSDC_ua
@jensstoltenberg confirmed RU military presence in eastern UA. Russia deploys and trains its proxies on UA territory pic.twitter.com/Xmg83ddg8d

NSDC of Ukraine ✔ @NSDC_ua
Militants & RU regulars consolidate forces, artillery near #Shchastya and in the #Mariupol sector. RU deliver ammo to #Krasnodon via rail

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUe4a7_ufIs … #Russia,again,misquotes USGen Scales as if he meant killing ethnic #Russians,not troops(русских v. россиян)

Core Russian demand and one of the three geo political goals for Putin:
Russian diplomat: off-bloc status of Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova should be legally binding http://tass.ru/en/world/782969

Example of Russia still wanting a direct political say in the national politics of other countries and attempting to block them from joining NATO at the same Russia stations nuclear capable missiles in Crimea and Putin admits he took full responsibility for taking Crimea and everything he previously stated ie NATO expansion, humiliation etc were all myths.

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Putin---missing in action??

Was to be a press conference with Putin present and all journalists were suddenly called for it ----THEN:

False alarm, it seems. Still waiting on Putin. TT @dimsmirnov175: Now we wait in another room. Much more beautiful
pic.twitter.com/bdTwXOSuCX

Putin's habitual tardiness has added even more suspense around his expected appearance in St. Petersburg. Journalists waiting for hours now.

Instead of Putin, @Ruptly is showing Poroshenko live in Berlin and a Waffen SS march in Riga this morning ):

After 10days of absence #putin comes back with decision of ordering combat readiness of northern and western military districts

Welcome back, #Putin: oil drops to $54. http://reut.rs/1LgMdzc via @reuters

A few minutes ago on his YT channel he said he has heard highly unusual traffic on 8992

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Putin and Ukraine 101 - Two great video explainers:
#Ukraine
http://youtu.be/eKFObB6_naw
and
#Russia
http://youtu.be/HTJ5rP3JRKE

More footage from #Belgorod
via @BuTaJIu4eK
https://informnapalm.org/6928-svezhye-fotosvydetelstva-aktyvnosty-rossyskyh-vojsk-v-belgorodskoj-oblasty … pic.twitter.com/WCuD0G12r8

Russia to decide on its own what military presence to have in Crimea — diplomat. TASS 16 March http://tass.ru/en/russia/782973 …

Russia put troops on combat readiness also in Kaliningrad http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/16-march-russia-put-troops-on-combat-readiness-also-in-kaliningrad …
34,000 placed on snap exercises

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Russian Amb to EU Chizhov: Non-bloc [non-NATO] status of Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova should be legally binding. TASS http://tass.ru/en/world/782969

Russia starts nationwide show of force with more than 45,000 Russian troops, war planes and submarines http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/16/us-russia-military-exercises-idUSKBN0MC0JO20150316 …

Snap exercises were initially called for 34K now at 45K--unusually large snap exercise.

As usual #Russia creating distractions;Northern Fleet on alert to distract from #Putin return http://www.themoscowtimes.com/business/article/russias-northern-fleet-put-on-full-alert-in-arctic/517455.html … pic.twitter.com/oO4oalalrN

If German FM #Steinmeier thinks,#Minsk2 is working,he should go to #Pisky!
Nonstop Rus attack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpMswmmNew4 … pic.twitter.com/aOd9bivu0V

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Seems that even with the disappearance and reappearance of Putin the Russian FM cannot get out of his "altered state of reality".

Russia complains of "planned US arms to the Ukraine" "violating" the Minsk peace accords WHICH they are not actually called "peace accords" are called simply agreements.

BUT at the same time Russia just keeps on sending ammo train after ammo train into eastern Ukraine AND that is a full violation of Minsk 1 and 2.

Double standards seems to be the Russian argument.


MFA Russia ✔ @mfa_russia
FM Sergey Lavrov: #US plans to supply #Ukraine with weaponry are a clear attempt to violate the Minsk peace accords http://bit.ly/1BoJQiu

Trains w/ammo fr. #Russia daily arrive @ #Krasnodon Stn." [within occupied area] - #Ukraine NSDC spox

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Here comes Putin’s worst nightmare—oil headed to 40 and below:

Oil storage tanks in the entire US are at total capacity and nowhere to put what is coming in daily, oil glut on the world market and demand not picking up.

In oil we trust. Brent fall down again to $53,98 | EMPR @ryabtchuk_roman pic.twitter.com/FYObdD9yKv

WTI crude oil falls to six-year low, Brent down almost half a dollar
http://www.unian.info/economics/1055946-wti-crude-oil-falls-to-six-year-low-brent-down-almost-half-a-dollar.html … pic.twitter.com/It41UuP83B

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Putin---missing in action??

Was to be a press conference with Putin present and all journalists were suddenly called for it ----THEN:

False alarm, it seems. Still waiting on Putin. TT @dimsmirnov175: Now we wait in another room. Much more beautiful
pic.twitter.com/bdTwXOSuCX

Putin's habitual tardiness has added even more suspense around his expected appearance in St. Petersburg. Journalists waiting for hours now.

Instead of Putin, @Ruptly is showing Poroshenko live in Berlin and a Waffen SS march in Riga this morning ):

Sweaty, ill-looking #Putin did speak during the presser, but doesn't seem coherent
Judge for yourself:
http://youtu.be/U0Xc7E5mBYw?t= …

Ok here's 2 videos with Putin -- barely whispers in 1, he did speak full sentences in 2nd -- subdued. Very short http://www.interpretermag.com/russia-update-march-16-2015/#7486 …

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During the Cold War days the Soviet military would be watched like a hawk for such sudden snap military exercises as it was assumed that a major attack would come out of such snap exercises--something NATO has recently warned about.

tTis particular snap exercise was to be only in two military districts at 34K suddenly was expanded to all military districts and virtually all services ie Navy, AF and Airborne/SF TO include late today their missile forces ie nuclear as well and now stands at a total of over 45K and probably much more.

This type of Soviet military activity in the 80s would have cranked US European Forces straight to the highest alert levels immediately.

March 16-21, Russia holds full-fledged #military exercises in its all four military districts with air, infantry and marine forces involved

In the Russian documentary released yesterday about the Crimean events but basically a Putin 3 hr interview the ease he talks about when he causally threatens the use of nuclear weapons should have someone in the WH paying close attention.


MUST READ 'If Putin goes nuclear' 1 Sept 2014 by Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom http://tomnichols.net/blog/2014/09/01/if-putin-goes-nuclear/ …
Taken from that article:

Clearly, [says Piontkovsky], Putin does not seek “the destruction of the hated United States,” a goal that he could achieve “only at the price of mutual suicide.” Instead, his goals are “significantly more modest: the maximum extension of the Russian World, the destruction of NATO, and the discrediting and humiliation of the US as the guarantor of the security of the West.”

To put it in simplest terms, Piontkovsky continues, Putin’s actions would be “revenge for the defeat of the USSR in the third (cold) world war just as the second world war was for Germany an attempt at revenge for defeat in the first.”

Still, I’m used to Soviet…er, sorry….Russian leaders talking about nuclear weapons, and so I’m assuming this is business as usual, circa 1980. But the fact that Putin is willing to throw away Russia’s future for the sake of a Soviet past means that this crisis is not close to being over. It also means that there is no way to deal with this crisis through negotiation: if Putin is so locked in the past that he thinks he can make nuclear threats, he’s not likely to change course now.

I also worry about one more thing, on our side rather than theirs. Putin is taking huge risks based on the idea that Barack Obama is the weakest American president in modern history. The Kremlin has plenty of reason to think so, especially after the graceless powder we took in Syria a year ago. There is no question that President Obama is among the least, uh, decisive leaders the White House has had in a long time, but even weak Presidents can only be pushed so far.

I worry that Putin, like other Soviet — sorry again, Russian, I mean Russian — leaders thinks that America is as leader-centered as Russia is, and will not understand that at some point the American foreign policy establishment will create a response that will totally surprise the Kremlin. That’s how major wars get started, but it’s not clear that Putin knows this, or cares.

Putin Willing to Put Russian Nuclear Forces on Alert in Support of Attack on Ukraine http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/natosource/putin-willing-to-put-russian-nuclear-forces-on-alert-in-support-of-attack-on-ukraine …

The essential first step in confronting the growing nuclear threat: stare it full in the face http://econ.trib.al/3POInIw pic.twitter.com/XK3bvLXfzF

Snap Exercises: Northern Fleet begins military drills (VIDEO) https://youtu.be/jEVuGIk6geU pic.twitter.com/Kf5Dc6T4pd

Russia is always complaining about #NATO moving closer to their borders. How about #Russia moving closer to NATO borders in #Ukraine?

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Russian FM "altered state of reality" also applies to Syria it seems.

MFA Russia ✔ @mfa_russia
Moscow concerned with facts of chlorine being used as weapon by Islamic State militants http://tass.ru/en/world/783053

This from barrel bomb in Hayyan - 5-10kms from Hreitan, several weeks ago. Same discoloration + symptoms of cas pic.twitter.com/73H8JaTYQm

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Seems that even with the disappearance and reappearance of Putin the Russian FM cannot get out of his "altered state of reality".

Russia complains of "planned US arms to the Ukraine" "violating" the Minsk peace accords WHICH they are not actually called "peace accords" are called simply agreements.

BUT at the same time Russia just keeps on sending ammo train after ammo train into eastern Ukraine AND that is a full violation of Minsk 1 and 2.

Double standards seems to be the Russian argument.


MFA Russia ✔ @mfa_russia
FM Sergey Lavrov: #US plans to supply #Ukraine with weaponry are a clear attempt to violate the Minsk peace accords http://bit.ly/1BoJQiu

Trains w/ammo fr. #Russia daily arrive @ #Krasnodon Stn." [within occupied area] - #Ukraine NSDC spox

More evidence of Russian non "adherence to not supplying weapons, munitions and troops into the Ukraine" which is part and parcel of Minsk 1 and 2.

Six convoys with weapons arrive in Ilovaisk and Debaltseve from Russia http://24today.net/open/343873

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#News
The Russian assaults on #Pisky and #Shyrokyne continued for the entire day.
Small arms used everywhere. Also mortars west of Donetsk

#Russia|n soldier describes transporting weapons, ammo in humanitarian aid convoys 2 #Ukraine
https://meduza.io/en/feature/2015/03/16/i-serve-the-russian-federation … pic.twitter.com/bojdGf83wX

Since April 2014 Russians & local traitors suffered 14.600 losses.Around Debaltseve alone 1995 marines & paratroopers http://www.62.ua/news/769018

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Seems that even with the disappearance and reappearance of Putin the Russian FM cannot get out of his "altered state of reality".

Russia complains of "planned US arms to the Ukraine" "violating" the Minsk peace accords WHICH they are not actually called "peace accords" are called simply agreements.

BUT at the same time Russia just keeps on sending ammo train after ammo train into eastern Ukraine AND that is a full violation of Minsk 1 and 2.

Double standards seems to be the Russian argument.


MFA Russia ✔ @mfa_russia
FM Sergey Lavrov: #US plans to supply #Ukraine with weaponry are a clear attempt to violate the Minsk peace accords http://bit.ly/1BoJQiu

Trains w/ammo fr. #Russia daily arrive @ #Krasnodon Stn." [within occupied area] - #Ukraine NSDC spox

#Russia|n soldier describes transporting weapons, ammo in humanitarian aid convoys 2 #Ukraine
https://meduza.io/en/feature/2015/03/16/i-serve-the-russian-federation … pic.twitter.com/bojdGf83wX

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It would be interesting to go back and look at all the SWJ comments written about the NATO expansion and humiliation Russia suffered after the Wall and that Russia did have reasons for the Crimea annexation.

Looks as if some of us were correct then--part and parcel of Russian neo imperialism and driven by Putin.

In new documentary Putin admits he personally directed Russia's capture of Crimea from Ukraine http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/natosource/putin-willing-to-put-russian-nuclear-forces-on-alert-in-support-of-attack-on-ukraine … pic.twitter.com/Ur9TZxeBOy

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Facts Of Russian Invasion: Following the Route of the August Battalion: https://en.informnapalm.org/facts-of-the-russian-invasion-following-the-route-of-the-august-battalion/ … via @en_informnapalm pic.twitter.com/AhHEkZwWyn

Fighting rages near Donetsk airport despite Ukraine ceasefirehttp://reut.rs/1BpMy7E

VIDEO 14/03/15 #Russia BTR-80s #Belgorod heading towards #Ukraine border near #Kharkivhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvQBn2XHlNs … #Putin pic.twitter.com/oQyAg6rAsM

.@SIPRIorg report author tells me, #Russia sent separatists in #Ukraine missiles it looted from Georgia in 2008

VIDEO 15/03/15 #Russia echelon of tanks,etc Krasny Sulin moving NW along #Ukraine borderhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pu8oUzJbtE0 … pic.twitter.com/ENkhV3uHZN

VIDEO #Putin brilliant troops #Ukraine firing/testing body armor while WEARING IThttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsetxsa8PP8 … GENIUSES! pic.twitter.com/VvMT4iozTS

The Trolls Who Came In From The Coldhttp://www.rferl.org/content/russia-trolls-headquarters-media-internet-insider-account/26904157.html

Near #Belgorod Russia amassing troops and equipment(via @erranta2_andrij) pic.twitter.com/9InRrJnAiH

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Fighting is about to resume in eastern Ukraine---the Russian troops and mercenaries have not withdrawn any heavy weapons from the ceasefire line as they were to, countless Russian resupply shipments came in via rail and truck still continues , Russian troops have reorganized into tactical attack units, and fighting has steadily increased over the last four days.

Since 15 Feb there have been over 1100 mercenary and Russian troops attacks on UA averaging now 35-60 per day. It should in fact be called a "fighting ceasefire".

Poroshenko Says Ceasefire Is Broken, Yatsenyuk Says Army Should Be On Combat Alert http://www.interpretermag.com/ukraine-live-day-392-1-ukrainian-soldier-killed-as-russian-backed-fighters-continue-attacks/#7497 … pic.twitter.com/zkgvHH7HHc

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This is the exact reason that in the Cold War days the US watched all Russian "snap exercises" with a special intensity and actually that should have never changed but it has and now what do we watch--Crimea gone, eastern Ukraine gone and what is next??

http://uk.businessinsider.com/lithuania-preparing-for-feared-russian-invasion-2015-3?r=US#ixzz3UZr72xWW

Why Lithuania is preparing for a Russian invasion

Jeremy Bender

11 minutes ago

lithuaniaReuters/Ints Kalnins

The three Baltic States are fearful of a possible Russian invasion, although Lithuania may have particular reason for concern.

Wedged between Russian ally Belarus and the Russian Baltic Sea exclave of Kaliningrad, Lithuania is worried that it could be the next target of Russian aggression following invasions in Georgia in 2008 and Crimea and eastern Ukraine last year.

Lithuania's is Moscow's biggest obstacle in developing a a land bridge between Kaliningrad and the rest of Russia.

“They [the Kremlin] need a corridor from Kaliningrad to mainland Russia,” Marius Laurinavicius, a senior Lithuanian analyst at the Eastern Europe studies center in Vilnius, told Reuters. “Just like they need one from Crimea to Donbas [in eastern Ukraine].”

The fear over a Russian invasion runs deep through Lithuania, which suffered under Soviet Rule from World War II until 1991. In January, Vilnius published a manual advising its citizens how to best respond to an invasion and occupation.

"The examples of Georgia and Ukraine, which both lost a part of their territory, show us that we cannot rule out a similar kind of situation here, and that we should be ready," Defence Minister Juozas Olekas told Reuters.

Vilnius is so concerned over possible Russian aggression that the state is currently voting on a bill to reinstate military conscription. The move would introduce approximately 3,000 new soldiers into the Lithuania military.

Concern over Russia invading Lithuania from Kaliningrad has increased since the Russian annexation of Crimea in March 2014. Since then, Moscow has increased the scope and number of snap military exercises along the Russian border with the Baltic States.

The Telegraph reported on February 20 that General Sir Adrian Bradshaw, deputy commander of NATO forces in Europe and one of Britain's most senior generals, warned that Russian snap exercises could serve as cover for a possible invasion of NATO territory.

Kaliningrad is a seaport city and the administrative center of Kaliningrad Oblast, the Russian exclave between Poland and Lithuania on the Baltic Sea.

Bradshaw warned that the drills could be used “not only for intimidation and coercion but potentially to seize NATO territory, after which the threat of escalation might be used to prevent re-establishment of territorial integrity."

In May 2014, Russia unilaterally suspended a 2001 agreement with Lithuania that allowed Lithuania to inspect all of Russia's forces in Kaliningrad in exchange for Russian inspections of military sites in Lithuania.

“Such a move by Russia demonstrates Russia’s unwillingness to ensure mutual trust and can be deemed another move towards the destruction of the mutual trust and security system in Europe,” a statement from Lithuania's Ministry of National Defense noted after the treaty was suspended.

Lithuania is a part of NATO and any attack on the country would trigger NATO's mutual defense alliance.But Moscow could rely on the belief that NATO would not risk a full-scale continent wide war for a small Baltic nation.

“Putin,” Laurinavicius told Reuters, “does not believe NATO will defend such, in his view, unimportant countries, risking nuclear confrontation.”

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A better video of the same #Russia(n) BTRs near #Belgorod heading south towards #Kharkiv #Ukraine #Putin pic.twitter.com/lXmyblh9yf

Putin's Rattling of the Nuclear Saber Makes it Clear: Ukraine is Non-Negotiable http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/putins-rattling-of-the-nuclear-saber-makes-it-clear-ukraine-is-non-negotiable/517511.html …

Two Russian NAVY submarines observed near Latvia's territorial waters yesterdayhttp://m.tvrain.ru/articles/latvija_zametila_dve_rossijskie_podlodki_u_svoej_g ranitsy-384011/ …

Russian troop and mercenary loses as well as their equipment loses for the last year:
Since beginning #ATO liquidated<14,5K enemys,±260 tanks,340armored vehicles,±170MLRS,
http://190art.systems ,16airpl.&helic.,10drones,360car

At DPR checkpoint on southern side of Debaltseve, 15 March, OSCE_SMM saw stationary unmarked tanks (2xT-64, 4x T-72).http://www.osce.org/ukraine-smm/145141
Tanks were to have been removed under Minsk 1 and 2 but the mercenaries seemed to not have gotten the news.

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Russian information warfare as a civil society influencer used against the Russia civil society itself.

#Russia warmongers post videos from last summer's #Donbas fighting & say "Filmed in #Konstantinovka tonight" & demand #Putin invade #Ukraine

So #Russia TV is basing their "reports" from #Konstantinovka on inventions of twitter trolls who fantasize about an armed uprising...
Ugly.

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Russian information warfare as a civil society influencer used against the Russia civil society itself.

#Russia warmongers post videos from last summer's #Donbas fighting & say "Filmed in #Konstantinovka tonight" & demand #Putin invade #Ukraine

So #Russia TV is basing their "reports" from #Konstantinovka on inventions of twitter trolls who fantasize about an armed uprising...
Ugly.

Only one person was killed -because a child was hit by an armored vehicle.

VIDEO Very angry people today at #Kostyantynivka #Kostiantynivka #Ukraine after MT-LB killed childhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgd_DagdiIE …

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Unimaginable numbers: Tymchuck says, Russian forces in and around #Horlivka count 6000 troops, 60 main battle tanks and 95 IFV / APC.

Over 1,500 #Russia|n tank division servicemen join drills in Nizhny Novgorod region today - Interfax

Rus-backed militants resumed attacks on Shyrokyne w/ small arms this morning. Y-day 10 UAVs were spotted in the areahttp://www.0629.com.ua/news/769420

#News
#Pisky and #Opytne were attacked with small arms and automatic grenade launchers yesterday.
#Shyrokyne was hit 5 times altogether.

At least 14,600 Russian militants killed in east #ukraineconflict
http://uatoday.tv/politics/at-least-14-600-russian-militants-killed-in-east-ukraine-conflict-415744.html … pic.twitter.com/iqduc9iDc5

#BreakingNews
#Avdeevka was attacked 3 times by Russian artillery yesterday, 3 times with mortars and twice from tank fire.

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In the last day Rus-backed militants fired at Avdiivka 3 times from 122mm artillery, tanks https://www.facebook.com/ato.news/posts/966250113385795 … pic.twitter.com/9fzkvHxOJY

NOTE: 122mm artillery was suppose to have been withdrawn per Minsk 2---seems not have been withdrawn as the mercenaries stated they had done.

The Kremlin Internet troll who left the business rather than push party line on Nemtsov murder http://bit.ly/1GgO2Wp pic.twitter.com/2GKVVwGxYg

#News
Multiple Russian drones are active over the entire front east of #Mariupol,reaching from #Chermalyk over #Pavlopil down to #Shyrokyne.

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Interesting that China is purchasing Ukrainian corn as that is an indirect economic assistance package—China is also the second largest purchaser of Ukrainian military goods and hardware.

China has come out recently declaring that the territorial integrity of the Ukraine should be protected and when asked about the Crimea their FM said absolutely nothing which is interesting in itself.

Reuters: China orders over 600,000 tons of Ukrainian corn, snubs US supplies: China, the world's seco... http://j.mp/1Fu06F9

In Luhansk area Russians spread rumours that Ukrainians will commit airstrikes there today https://m.facebook.com/dmitry.tymchuk/posts/664888300306495 …

A good piece on #Russia soldiers taking part in the annexation of #Crimea https://meduza.io/en/feature/2015/03/16/i-serve-the-russian-federation …

Shoigu: Units of Russian Baltic Fleet, Southern MD and Airborne VDV are moved to the highest degree of combat readiness.

Russian Air Force starts redeployment to alternate airports within snap check http://tass.ru/en/russia/783186 …

TASS ✔ @tassagency_en
Units of Russia's Baltic Fleet, Southern Military District, Airborne Force on combat alert http://tass.ru/en/russia/783186 …

After a day of drill in the north, Putin puts troops on combat alert in Russia's south. Playing on nerves. http://www.svoboda.org/content/article/26905187.html …

#Analysis #Map
Frontline verification in #Shyrokyne.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XnuROMBj-c …
pic.twitter.com/jsnKVEdHbG

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Russian "hybrid army" at Krasnyi Luch, Luhansk region, Ukraine. https://pp.vk.me/c624326/v624326772/258cf/kK9U4SnWaok.jpg … pic.twitter.com/WTLXkHWcah

Latvia: Russian submarine spotted in economic zonehttp://www.unian.info/world/1056337-latvia-russian-submarine-spotted-in-economic-zone.html … pic.twitter.com/4J6kDx1msi


Telegraph: 'Appeasement' of Putin by EU leaders could cause rift with White House, warns EU president

17.03.2015 10:16


EU must not compromise with Russia over Ukraine sanctions until Ukraine regains control of its border with Russia, says Donald Tusk

"Appeasement" of Vladimir Putin by certain EU leaders could cause a major rift with the US, Donald Tusk, the EU council president, warned today.
The EU must not compromise with Russia over sanctions in response to the Ukraine crisis, the bloc's president Donald Tusk said in an interview on Monday.

Mr Tusk said that a failure to uphold the sanctions until Ukraine regains control of its border with Russia could strain relations with the US.

He added that it was either "naivety or hypocrisy" to trust that President Vladimir Putin was acting in a spirit of goodwill.

"Partial implementation would be very risky for Ukraine ... if Europe doesn't maintain existing sanctions, it would be a critical moment in transatlantic relations," the president of the European Council said.

"For [the US], it's unacceptable to be more involved in the Ukrainian conflict than Europe."

He added: "I can't accept the argument that we have to believe in Russian goodwill. When I hear we have to believe in President Putin's or the separatists' goodwill, I know it's either naivety or hypocrisy. The comparison with appeasement applies."

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If one thinks about the comments Putin made concerning his admitted military takeover of Crimea, the massive rearming, refitting and resupplying going on inside Ukraine by Russian troops and mercenaries and the non adherence to all points of Minsk 2 coupled with the continued fighting in three major locations.

DOES the shift of the entire Russian military to basically a "wartime" pre-alert war footing for "far reach operations" indicate that Russia is now seriously thinking of taking all of the Ukraine?

Long thought not on the Putin agenda but with the not so subtle nuclear threats coupled with the "war footing" military exercises Russia is fully ready to execute an armed invasion of all of the Ukraine AND what would the western response be????

Nothing actually and they have a number of times stated that as the Ukraine is not a NATO member what is then the West do to if Putin actually executes a full invasion--more sanctions ie SWIFT, more talking more threats--it still would not reverse Putin's actions????

THEN in one move Putin has achieved this three geo political goals;
1. discredit NATO
2. discredit the EU
3. split the US from US once and for all times

He then could sit back and challenge the West to do anything--which they would not as they are bound by any agreements to defend the Ukraine---then what is next the Baltics?---and if one really believes the US and NATO will go to a full time war over three small countries--get real and Putin knows that.

We have not seen this type of brinkmanship even in the Cold War days from the Soviets--this is a neo imperialist with a big ego at work and no fear to use nuclear weapons.

Haven't understood yet? In all four military districts, Russian Forces are moving to maximum combat readiness for "far reach" operations.

TASS ✔ @tassagency_en
Ballistic missile systems to be redeployed to Russia's westernmost region — source http://tass.ru/en/russia/783204 …

Russian Navy ships are for show. But elite Russian Airborne Forces (VDV) are a very real and present danger. pic.twitter.com/XU2N3Hw0Nt

#BREAKING: The #Iskander tactical ballistic missile systems will be redeployed to the #Kaliningrad. http://tass.ru/en/russia/783204 …

Some Russians tell Levada pollsters Ukraine is start of "Third World War" with US/ West, says Levinson http://www.vedomosti.ru/newspaper/columns/2015/03/16/nashe-mi-s-kem-voina#.VQf6JWLK4z0.twitter …

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There was a big debate recently here in SWJ as to who was a more serious threat to the US--IS or Russia and many voted for IS and tended to not see the Russian threat and now---who potentially threatens the US more--black flag wavers sitting in Iraq and Syria or a Russian military now on "full war footing alert" with a really loose nuclear trigger finger??

Actually an easy choice it seems.

And the war footing alerts just keep on rolling in.

Almost inevitable: Russian Air Force will make a "surprise" combat alert and scramble its Tu-95MS and Tu-22M3 long-range bomber fleet

ISKANDER MISSILE SYSTEMS, FIGHTER JETS AND BOMBERS TO REINFORCE MILITARY GROUP IN KALININGRAD REGION - SOURCE IN DEFENSE MINISTRY -- IFX

#Russia|n Tu-22M3 bombers deployed to occupied #Crimea, surprise snap-drills staged says DoD:
http://tass.ru/armiya-i-opk/1833858 … pic.twitter.com/6CFn00y7cr

When I wrote Russia could bring nukes to Crimea, was accused of sensationalizing. Now strategic bombers headed there http://tass.ru/en/russia/783207 …

Russian troops near Finnish border placed on combat readiness | Yle Uutiset | yle.fi http://yle.fi/uutiset/7871824

Simulated air strike against #Severomorsk repelled during drills -Russian Defense Ministry

In German media the middlefinger of Varoufakis is a much bigger threat than the Russian Army. Seriously !

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Minsk2? No problem!
Russian invaders show themselves,firing with tank at #Piskyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_R4_q8y9D4 …
pic.twitter.com/qY5cI3o8lC

#Russia proxies, #DPR, #LPR claim amendments to #Ukraine law on "special status" violate #Minsk2. http://tass.ru/en/world/783176

Another perfect example of Russian mercenary "altered state of reality" as Minsk 2 does not dictate exactly what had to go into the Ukrainian Special Region Law it just states a law must be passed--how was never addressed.

Again, for those who refuse to see the obvious: Russian military and DPR/LPR militias under general Lentsov WILL attack, when it suits them.

When Russian Forces under Lentsov advance we want to see TV images of thousands of dead Russian troops broadcast, so Moscow can't ignore it

Religious intolerance grows in Eastern Ukraine occupied by (pro-)Russianextremists http://america.aljazeera.com/multimedia/2015/3/in-rebel-held-donetsk-religious-intolerance-grows.html …

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VIDEO #Ukraine volunteers #Kiev being trained by #Israel & #Georgia Special Forces https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7ayB4uIAyU … #Putin pic.twitter.com/qIa1YTcAkb

NSDC of Ukraine ✔ @NSDC_ua
Russia-backed militants continued armed provocations. Used artillery and tanks 4 times each

NSDC of Ukraine ✔ @NSDC_ua
Tragic accident in #Kostiantynivka: UA MT-LB drove over 8-yrs-old girl. Mother & child in hospital; no danger to their lives

NSDC of Ukraine ✔ @NSDC_ua
2 soldiers in MT-LB are detained. Their commander dismissed from duty. Military Prosecutor Office started investigation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4B5pOkgmNo … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82PLDAmyvy4 … #Kostiantynivka,#Ukraine: Despite #Russia's efforts,things calm down after a few burned cars

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ATO spokesperson: Ukrainian servicemen spotted 20 enemy UAVs; 17 near #Mariupol and 3 in vicinity of #StanytsiaLuhanska

NSDC of Ukraine ✔ @NSDC_ua
3 Ukrainian servicemen were killed, 5 got wounded in the last 24 hours

Latvian Army " Another Russian warship spotted near Latvia" http://tass.ru/mezhdunarodnaya-panorama/1834121 … …

NSDC of Ukraine ✔ @NSDC_ua
SBU uncovered clandestine arms arsenal with RU weapons in #Volnovakha, incl “Shmel” rocket launcher, grenades and RU chevrons
pic.twitter.com/zN1S0FvZea

That much about withdrawal of heavy weapons: #Russian tank firing at #Ukraine positions near #Pesky. Proudly.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_R4_q8y9D4 …

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Russia|n military operation in #Makiivka: tanks, snipers, armor etc.
https://youtu.be/7LR6W-uabsA
pic.twitter.com/nsjoStbw33

2nd video of today's #Russia|n army military operation in #Makiivka
https://youtu.be/AwxMwGCs_TQ
pic.twitter.com/71Hb6l6Vca

#Russia|n army military operation in #Makiivka
Unverified: a Commander was taken by storm by "unknown people"
Vid 3 https://youtu.be/f4nkDB8Ta6A

There is a Russian army operation taking place in #Makeevka today.
Reason unknown.
https://youtu.be/7LR6W-uabsA

The Art Of Russian Propaganda: More Fakes, More Confusion: https://youtu.be/N78lgZ58tyc via @Hromadske

#Russia deploys Tu-22 bombers to #Crimea, #US delays training of #Ukrainian troops.

Russian Nationalist Calls For Partition Of Belarus http://www.interpretermag.com/russian-nationalist-calls-for-partition-of-belarus …

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RUSSIA'S KISLYAK SAYS NATO REINFORCEMENT AROUND RUSSIA CREATES THREAT TO BALTIC STATES – IFX

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkdqOZkXEeE … #Russia's #Strelkov/#Girkin:"Surplus store" marshalling #Russian tanks into #Ukraine is"open" pic.twitter.com/4ShPgYwFaw

#Crimea communist Leonid Grach tells @zeitonline that 3 #Russia admirals offered him prime minister post 2 days before Yanukovych fled Kiev.

#Ukraine: Volynec, leader of the Independent Miners Union: Separatis will send miners and other workers to the front http://bit.ly/1GYfTht

Russia is re-deploying Iskander missiles to Kaliningrad http://tass.ru/en/russia/783204 … pic.twitter.com/ihOvSowHOr

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Priceless screenshots of #Russia's Defense Minister #Shoigu sidelined at the #Kremlin today
pic.twitter.com/RWNE2I5Hac

#Russia|n Neo-nazi soldier, Milchakov just came back to fight in eastern #Ukraine
Via @tombreadley pic.twitter.com/Rp3nkTm4kR

Euphoria fades in Crimea after a year of Russian rule http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/17/us-ukraine-crisis-crimea-idUSKBN0MD1IS20150317 …

"NATO’s Article 5 and Russian Hybrid Warfare" by Edgar Buckley & Ioan Pascu http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/natosource/nato-s-article-5-and-russian-hybrid-warfare …

20 armed men in camouflage took hostages in Kherson http://censor.net.ua/news/328883/neizvestnye_zahvatili_zalojnikov_na_hersonskom_tep lichnom_kombinate_administratsiya …

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Social media types predicted this move exactly as it happened one week ago—ceasefire is slowly coming undone.

#Ukraine troops prepared to use force after #Russia|ns crossed Seversky Donets River, set up defensive positionshttp://www.interpretermag.com/ukraine-live-day-393-governing-coalition-split-over-draft-special-status-bil/#7514 …

RU forces cross Seversky Donets river nr #Stanytsia_Luhanska probably to provoke UA response and then blame UA them for breaking ceasefire.

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Russia|n military operation in #Makiivka: tanks, snipers, armor etc.
https://youtu.be/7LR6W-uabsA
pic.twitter.com/nsjoStbw33

2nd video of today's #Russia|n army military operation in #Makiivka
https://youtu.be/AwxMwGCs_TQ
pic.twitter.com/71Hb6l6Vca

#Russia|n army military operation in #Makiivka
Unverified: a Commander was taken by storm by "unknown people"
Vid 3 https://youtu.be/f4nkDB8Ta6A

There is a Russian army operation taking place in #Makeevka today.
Reason unknown.
https://youtu.be/7LR6W-uabsA

The Art Of Russian Propaganda: More Fakes, More Confusion: https://youtu.be/N78lgZ58tyc via @Hromadske

#Russia deploys Tu-22 bombers to #Crimea, #US delays training of #Ukrainian troops.

Russian Nationalist Calls For Partition Of Belarus http://www.interpretermag.com/russian-nationalist-calls-for-partition-of-belarus …

Locals report the #Russia|n's are fighting among themselves over money @segodnya_online http://www.segodnya.ua/regions/donetsk/v-makeevke-tanki-i-snaypery-na-ulicah-boeviki-voyuyut-protiv-drug-druga-600562.html …
pic.twitter.com/Ob1nFihrCf

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There was a big debate recently here in SWJ as to who was a more serious threat to the US--IS or Russia and many voted for IS and tended to not see the Russian threat and now---who potentially threatens the US more--black flag wavers sitting in Iraq and Syria or a Russian military now on "full war footing alert" with a really loose nuclear trigger finger??

Actually an easy choice it seems.

And the war footing alerts just keep on rolling in.

Almost inevitable: Russian Air Force will make a "surprise" combat alert and scramble its Tu-95MS and Tu-22M3 long-range bomber fleet

ISKANDER MISSILE SYSTEMS, FIGHTER JETS AND BOMBERS TO REINFORCE MILITARY GROUP IN KALININGRAD REGION - SOURCE IN DEFENSE MINISTRY -- IFX

#Russia|n Tu-22M3 bombers deployed to occupied #Crimea, surprise snap-drills staged says DoD:
http://tass.ru/armiya-i-opk/1833858 … pic.twitter.com/6CFn00y7cr

When I wrote Russia could bring nukes to Crimea, was accused of sensationalizing. Now strategic bombers headed there http://tass.ru/en/russia/783207 …

Russian troops near Finnish border placed on combat readiness | Yle Uutiset | yle.fi http://yle.fi/uutiset/7871824

Simulated air strike against #Severomorsk repelled during drills -Russian Defense Ministry

In German media the middlefinger of Varoufakis is a much bigger threat than the Russian Army. Seriously !

If Shoigu's equivalent had pulled this stunt in 1981 under Brezhnev, Reagan & NATO would have gone ape and mobilised. pic.twitter.com/ZKJSAjxghr

Poland: Russian military drill designed to spook EU leaders https://euobserver.com/foreign/128028

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Ukrainian drones show militants not withdrawing heavy weapons http://uatoday.tv/politics/ukrainian-drones-show-militants-not-withdrawing-heavy-weapons-415918.html …

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Girkin admits here to that assassination of ATO's "alpha-team" for which Malofeev praised him in that leaked call pic.twitter.com/XKWkIGwRpy

Girkin with the most vocal criticism of Putin ever "what the government did by dumping Novorossiya is a crying shame" pic.twitter.com/Yuhmm6y6Ta

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Dutch investigators have found Russian BUK missile frags in MH17 wreckage.

Ermittler sollen BUK-Schrapnell in #MH17-Trmmern gefunden haben, inkl. Beweisbild - via @EliotHiggins @bellingcat http://en.censor.net.ua/resonance/328926/submunitions_of_russian_missile_bukm12_aka_sa17_wh ich_downed_the_malaysian_boeing_mh17_exclusive_pho to

Press center of the "Novorosiya" shut down its activity http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/18-march-press-center-of-the-novorosiya-shut-down-its-activity

Tymchuk: Militants cross Siverskiy Donets and take up positions in Ukrainian territory
http://www.unian.info/war/1056859-tymchuk-militants-cross-siverskiy-donets-and-take-up-positions-in-ukrainian-territory.html pic.twitter.com/JK8uXivlwS
Tymchuk: Militants preparing to attack
http://www.unian.info/war/1056856-tymchuk-militants-preparing-to-attack.html pic.twitter.com/AHpXsXwyM9

How a Ukrainian POW gets treated https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YTVQhJQV_Vc&feature=youtu.be pic.twitter.com/h3NJWDHWC9

#Russia's alliances with EU far-right? Snyder: we've seen it before- Molotov-Ribbentrop pact
http://euromaidanpress.com/2015/03/18/timothy-snyder-ukraine-is-but-one-aspect-of-a-much-larger-strategy-that-threatens-european-order/ pic.twitter.com/YMmd3aMibJ

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#Gorlivka
A column of 8 x BMP 1, MTLB went towards #Dzerzhinsk
- via @NovaGorlivka

Hottest spots in the conflict zone remain areas E of #Mariupol, #Donetsk airport area, Bakhmutka road - #ATO spox presser

Latvia says NATO jets intercepted seven Russian planes over Baltic
http://www.unian.info/world/1056869-latvia-says-nato-jets-intercepted-seven-russian-planes-over-baltic.html … pic.twitter.com/fjObh8OMYy

DNR official's take on Ukraine: invade Kiev, russification, lock up Ukraine nationalists in concentration camps https://www.facebook.com/pgubarev/posts/1071435022883242?fref=nf …

‘It’s all just business.’ Insurgent leader admitted that Ukraine has no fascism (VIDEO) http://wp.me/p4bJDw-7X9 http://fb.me/31AT92zvK

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Worrying increase in Russian intelligence gathering vessels operating near the UK http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/564697/Putin-Russia-spy-ships-Britain-Russian-bomber … pic.twitter.com/C5C6bIjZ7i

Impact of Kremlin propaganda on #CentralAsia - volunteer from Kyrgyzstan went to Ukraine thinking he'll fight Nazis https://slon.ru/posts/49453

Rogozin admits Russia cannot replace 100% of foreign electronic components with domestic components http://ria.ru/defense_safety/20150318/1053164474.html …

Russian Regular Army troops at their "office", #Makeevka, East of #DONETSK.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVUvIwrBuiQ … pic.twitter.com/Z9RCdEVR3D

Russian Military camp near #Millerovo
pic.twitter.com/r7jEClgt3b http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/18-march-military-camp-near-millerovo …

Militants crossed the railway bridge in Stanytsia Luhanska, set up positions on Ukr-contr terr http://informator.lg.ua/?p=77610 pic.twitter.com/lxDRGl5XRb

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Again the Russian mercenaries seem to have not read all the items in Minsk 1 and 2 and seem to not realize they have no input into Ukrainian legislation until elections are held in their occupied regions using and under Ukrainian electoral laws.

Militant leaders reject amendments to law on Donbas, give ultimatum to Kyiv
18.03.2015 | 13:47

The Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics reject the amendments made to the law on the Donbas and will refuse to compromise with the Ukrainian authorities until they cancel them, the leaders of the DPR and LPR militant organizations, Oleksandr Zakharchenko and Ihor Plotnytskiy, said on Wednesday, according to a militant Web site.

"With the amendments of Poroshenko, the introduction of a special status of certain areas of the Donbas is postponed for an indefinite period... We declare that no compromise with Kyiv is possible until yesterday's shameful decisions of Poroshenko and the Verkhovna Rada are canceled," the leaders said.

According to Zakharchenko and Plotnytskiy, the militants previously agreed to a special status of the Donbas as part of a renewed Ukraine, but Ukraine has not renewed.

"Having denied the Donbas a special status, Kyiv has trampled on the fragile Minsk peace and brought the situation to a dead end," the militants said.

In addition, according to the militant leaders, the issue of the deployment of peacekeepers in the Donbas violates all the logic of the peace plan.

As UNIAN reported earlier, on March 17, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine voted for the presidential bill No. 2378 on amendments to the Article 10 of the Law "On special order of the local government in some regions of Donetsk and Luhansk regions" and identified several regions of the Donbas where a special type of local government has to be set up.

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OSCE reports use of heavy artillery near Donetsk airport
18.03.2015 | 12:14

The Special Monitoring Mission of the OSCE in Ukraine has again recorded a violation of the ceasefire regime near Donetsk airport with the use of heavy artillery, according to an OSCE report of March 16, Ukrainian newspaper Zerkalo Nedeli has reported.

"From 0917 to 0957 SMM representatives heard from their location in the center of Donetsk (controlled by DNR) at least 16 mortar attacks, presumably of the 82-mm and 122-mm caliber. SMM members concluded that the incident occurred about 10 kilometers north-west of their location, near Donetsk airport," the statement reads.

At the same time, in the vicinity of the airport in Donetsk OSCE observers heard the sounds of more than 100 rounds (incoming and outgoing).

According to the mission, the rounds were fired from different types of weapons, including heavy mortars, tanks, artillery and guns.

In addition, the OSCE mission said it was continuing to record violations of the ceasefire regime in the area near Shyrokino, next to Mariupol, and in Donetsk region.

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PACE says no ‘civil war’ in Ukraine, but Russian involvement
17.03.2015 | 17:42

Russia is heavily involved in the conflict in the Donbas, rapporteur of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe on the political consequences of the conflict in eastern Ukraine Kristýna Zelienkova said on Tuesday.

"It is absolutely clear that there is no civil war in the eastern regions of Ukraine. [There are] no religious or ethnic reasons for the conflict, as in other parts of the world," according to the information note prepared based on the results of her visit to Ukraine on February 15-18, 2015, Ukrainian newspaper Zerkalo Nedely has reported.

Zelienkova stressed that a number of people she spoke with said they believed there was a war going on between Russia and Ukraine.

"Russia's participation is not limited to the supply of heavy weapons and fighters (on a "voluntary" basis or with help of those deemed as laid-off or gone on vacation, or in the form of a regular army), but is also represented in the command structure and political decision-making process," Zelienkova said in her report.

She said Russia's involvement also takes the form of an extensive information or propaganda war that is no less dangerous than a conventional one, as it prevents reconciliation and confidence building.

"The Ukrainian media are not present in the Donbas, and Russian propaganda claims neo-Nazis are fighting with peaceful people," the document reads.

Zelienkova says she plans to prepare a draft report to be considered by the Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy in May-June, after which it may be put forward for voting at PACE.

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Ukraine claims Donetsk separatists are carrying out Mengele-style medical experiments on POWs http://interfax.com.ua/news/general/255688.html …

Parade in #Simferopol on occasion of #Crimea annexation, no crowds of happy residents spotted pic.twitter.com/33QBz3dM7u http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/18-march-parade-in-simferopol-on-occasion-of-crimea-annexation …

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More Russian and mercenary "altered state of reality" moments from today:

MFA Russia ✔ @mfa_russia
#Lavrov: I do not think #Ukraine is interested in “unfreezing” the #Transnistrian conflict into a hot phase. That would hardly be acceptable

Note: The Ukraine has said and or stated nothing concerning Transnistrian other than it is about time Russian so called “peacekeepers not approved by UN” go home.

MFA Russia ✔ @mfa_russia
#Lavrov: I have urged the #German and #French foreign ministers to make a joint move and compel #Ukraine to carry out its commitment

Note: The Ukraine has in fact carried out the Special Zone law as per Minsk 1 but both Russia and the mercenaries seem to think that what was submitted and passed was wrong in their minds as it was tied to local elections held in accordance with Ukrainian law in their occupied regions and that was in Minsk 1 and 2 which they signed and they repeatedly state they will allow no elections--so who is in violation?

MFA Russia ✔ @mfa_russia
#Lavrov: I sent special notes to my German and French counterparts to draw their attention to the glaring breach of the Minsk Agreements

Note: The Russian FM seems to have focused on the Special Zone law but both Russia and the Russian mercenaries also agreed to withdraw all foreign fighters back to Russia and to stop all military equipment and troop transports into the Ukraine and to totally swap out all POWs which as of today still has not happened.

Seems Russian participation is as always one sided—namely the other side must adhere to agreements and Russia is exempt.

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Lithuanian MoD says NATO QRA intercepted 11 RU aircraft in total, 2x An-26, 1x An-12, 8x Su-34/Su-27, all were flying dark

@Spy_Stations See following for info and frequency table. https://planesandstuff.wordpress.com/2015/01/31/bear-hunting/ …

Seems as if the US has found a great excuse to do nothing in the Ukraine---they provide no weapons and no training in “fear” Russian will scrap Minsk 1 and 2 and yet the Russians just keep on sending in more troops, weapons and the fighting has still not stopped, not all POWs have been fully exchanged and no foreign fighters/Russian soldiers have been withdrawn and the US is “worried---come on.

Not a single Russian solider from the 10.4K has been withdrawn and all Russian and mercenary heavy weapons have not been withdraw per OSCE and the US is ‘worried”?

So in reality the training will never take place using this excuse.

US delaying its training program for Ukrainian soldiers to avoid giving the Kremlin an excuse to scrap the Minsk peace deal, WSJ reports

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This is not a great development inside Russia:
Brian Whitmore: 'Kadyrov, it appears, has successfully blackmailed the Kremlin' -http://www.rferl.org/content/russia-analysis-putin-kadyrov-fsb-politics-nemtsov-/26907453.html …

Russians getting ready for the next assault phase and the US “worries” about "Russian support to Minsk”Railway Lines Near Volnovakha And Bakhmutka Highway Blown. http://www.interpretermag.com/ukraine-live-day-394-1-soldier-killed-and-5-wounded-with-attacks-near-donetsk-and-mariupol/#7535 …

Genuine question: What does it actually mean when it is announced DNR to become "multi-currency zone"? http://www.interfax.ru/world/430740 #Ukraine

Claims #MH17 investigators found Russian Buk shrapnel in the wreckage http://en.censor.net.ua/resonance/328926/submunitions_of_russian_missile_bukm12_aka_sa17_wh ich_downed_the_malaysian_boeing_mh17_exclusive_pho to … pic.twitter.com/bDHzssjIXl

Almost 33% of debris from Malaysian Boeing shows signs of missile strike
http://www.unian.info/society/1056956-almost-33-of-debris-from-malaysian-boeing-shows-signs-of-missile-strike.html … pic.twitter.com/S9DoJA8nMx

Useful infographic on Ukraine volunteer battalions and how they fit into overall structure http://uacrisis.org/volunteer-battalions-eastern-ukraine/ …

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Ukrainian FM:
Ukraine will keep implementing Minsk agmts in good faith and will also curb attempts by any side to manipulate or destroy them.

Sweden to the OSCE @SwedeninATOSCE
This past year since Russia's illegal annexation of Crimea has been the worst challenge to European security in history of @OSCE

Ukrainian FM:
Russia failed to legitimize DNR/LNR reps born at fake 2.11.14 elections. Let's take Russian emotional outburst with understanding & patience

@CanadaNATO Ukrainian army receives night vision devices from Canada
http://uatoday.tv/politics/ukrainian-army-receives-night-vision-devices-worth-usd-226-000-from-canada-415821.html … pic.twitter.com/4V1mncFHYi

Crimean Tatars, deported by Stalin in 1945, are under danger again. 1 year of #Russia occupation
pic.twitter.com/qW899a5DS6

#Crimea: 1 year on from annexation; critics harassed, attacked and silenced: new report by @AmnestyOnline https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/EUR50/1129/2015/en/ …

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Former Kyrgyz mercenary: ‘I saw Russian army, not Ukrainian fascists in Donbas’
http://www.unian.info/politics/1056985-former-kyrgyz-mercenary-i-saw-russian-army-not-ukrainian-fascists-in-donbas.html … pic.twitter.com/EtrIWWO3XX

OSCE Wants to Begin Publishing Satellite Imagery of Ceasefire Violations in the Ukraine - March 18, 2015... http://tmblr.co/ZC3D0x1g8Ok68

Tymchuk: Russia is pouring military resources into occupied eastern Ukraine at an increasing pace and is preparing to escalate the war

‘It’s all just business.’ terrorist leader Mozgovoi admitted that Ukraine has no fascism
http://maidantranslations.com/2015/03/18/its-all-just-business-insurgent-leader-admitted-that-ukraine-has-no-fascism-video/ … pic.twitter.com/e06A1C9rQU

Separatist Leaders Say Compromise Impossible Unless Kiev Revokes Changes Made To Special Status Law http://www.interpretermag.com/ukraine-live-day-394-1-soldier-killed-and-5-wounded-with-attacks-near-donetsk-and-mariupol/#7536 …

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AitK5LeV9I … #Russian army POWs,#Ilovaisk,#Ukraine(Aug'14),b4 #Russia's massacre of retreating #Ukrainians pic.twitter.com/hFRCNJUPdk

Numbers-Stations.com @Spy_Stations
The 8090 kHz TU-95 Bear frequency is confirmed callsign NABOR mentioned before. The Bears are on active duty possibly in the Baltic Sea.

"Regular Russian army is fighting against Ukrainians. There are no local miners and vol http://24today.net/open/346561

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Putin, on the anniversary of Crimean annexation: "In Russia, we have always believed that Russians and Ukrainians are a single people."

#Ukraine reinforces defences in the east amid fears of renewed Russian attacks http://uatoday.tv/politics/ukraine-reinforces-defences-in-east-ukraine-amid-fears-of-renewed-russian-attacks-416133.html …

#Footage
Russian invasion forces from Dagestan on a shooting range in #Donbas.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L863_aSseoI …
#Ukraine pic.twitter.com/quEYZaBk2m

PACE report highlights Russian orchestration of east Ukraine conflict (Video)
http://www.unian.info/world/1057034-pace-report-highlights-russian-orchestration-of-east-ukraine-conflict-video.html …

#News
(Pro-)Russian terrorists blew up a railway bridge in northern #Luhansk region last night.
#UkraineUnderAttack pic.twitter.com/9wSLrjwawY

Estonian MFA ✔ @valismin
.@KeitPentus: The agreement signed in Moscow today confirms Russia's aggressive attitude & desire to annex S. Ossetia http://vm.ee/en/news/foreign-minister-pentus-rosimannus-agreement-signed-moscow-today-confirms-russias-aggressive

UPDATE: #Ukraine posts video of #Russian troops captured fighting in east Ukraine http://uatoday.tv/politics/ukraine-posts-video-of-russian-troops-captured-fighting-in-east-ukraine-416110.html … pic.twitter.com/n2gyipKi5Z

14:32 #Donetsk: Sounds of MG fire and underbarrel grenades from #Pisky direction
@loogunda

#donbasreports
12:52 #Horlivka: 8 BMPs, MT-LB, PAZ bus w/troops passed via Pobedy sq towards #Dzerzhynsk

12:42 #Avdeevka: Battle sounds from #Peski/#Opytne direction, 'something heavy and small arms'
@loogunda

Putin just got one step closer to taking over part of Georgia. http://read.bi/1xxSH0W pic.twitter.com/zMUkGhSQc2

Another excellent Timothy Snyder video about Russian propaganda RE https://twitter.com/er3/status/577915327369101316 …

Timothy Snyder: Ukraine is but one aspect of a much larger strategy that threatens European order http://euromaidanpress.com/2015/03/18/timothy-snyder-ukraine-is-but-one-aspect-of-a-much-larger-strategy-that-threatens-european-order/ …

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http://www.unn.com.ua/ru/news/1449138-boyoviki-za-chas-ato-vtratili-bilshe-14-tis-osib-osobovogo-skladu-v-fedichev

List of separatist's losses, by deputy head of COIN, col. D. Fedichev


С начала АТО боевики безвозвратно потеряли более 14 600 личного состава, почти 260 танков и 340 боевых бронированных машин, почти 170 РСЗО, до 190 артиллерийских систем, 16 самолетов и вертолетов, 10 беспилотных аппаратов, до 360 автомобилей"

"rebels lost 14 000 men, 260 tanks, 340 IFVs 170 MLRS 190 artys, 16 planes and helicopters 10 UAVs, 360 cars"

Now I know the real numbers of Ukrainian losses, it sounds very plausible. I believe Fedichev just mistook two data sheets - with own and enemy's losses.

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mirhond--you forgot the 1926 killed Russian troops and mercenaries alone in the Debeltseve pocket battle many who were airborne and SF.

if I remember did not Putin in Minsk and Budapest Hungary state that the Ukrainians would suffer 500 killed and over 2000 POWs and they should simply surrender as they were fully surrounded.

and what happened?????

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Russian mobilization of 76,000 troops for this current ongoing general snap mobilization exercise is breaking the terms of the Vienna Document 2011 Chapters V and VI that Russia itself signed.

Russian airborne troop and IFV column spotted moving on the roadway near Pskov.

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mirhond--seems the Maidan is inflecting Russia--watch out

1. Particiopants in the Crimea Anniversary Rally in Kalingrad "demanded" that their Governor resign

2. For 2 hours of demonstrating for " Crimea is Ours" paid only 300 rubles

3. From Life News---Concerned Novorossiya man complains about the Kyiv "junta" oppressing his local Donetsk Nazi Chapter--really mihrond a "Nazi Chapter" in Dontesk????

thought there were no Nazis in Russia---?

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Putin claims to be defending Russian speakers from the Kyiv Nazi junta in the Crimea and eastern Ukraine--then why are Tartars disappearing and or being driven out of Crimea now after Stalin drove them into the Gulags??

Little know fact about the Russian language--

In the whole of the Ukraine there is one group that speaks unspoilt dialect free Russian--Crimean Tartars--ethnic Russians do not.

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mirhond--you forgot the 1926 killed Russian troops and mercenaries alone in the Debeltseve pocket battle many who were airborne and SF.


http://askforevidence.org/ask-for-evidence/new

Evidence? Bah, it's like asking Goebbels for evidence.

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http://askforevidence.org/ask-for-evidence/new

Evidence? Bah, it's like asking Goebbels for evidence.

And Putin is not a fascist--come on mirhond--show me the money is a saying--and Durgin????

Putin's statement yesterday was not blatant racist--the last time I checked Stalin starved millions of Ukrainians in 1930-33 and "backfilled them in the Donbas with ethnic Russians"

Putin---"I view Russians and Ukrainians all as Russians"

That is like saying "I view everyone in the world that speaks English to be Americans"

And that is a lie right--and Putin is not lying again for the 60th time since Crimea????

First it was the ethnic Russians that wanted the annexation, then I had to protect them from some vague threat and then I sent no military into Crimea, then I sent them in to protect the people THEN the truth I decided to take the Ukraine on my command---see the long line of lies same as Durgin right-- who states all Ukrainians should be killed which would be like 1930-33 under Stalin or the Russian Jewish pogroms right mirhond ??

So Putin is the same as Durgin thus a fascist.

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http://askforevidence.org/ask-for-evidence/new

Evidence? Bah, it's like asking Goebbels for evidence.

mirhond--care to comment--three different views of Russia

Russians waiting 4 money after patriotic march celebrating annexing #Crimea
photos: Karen Shainyan pic.twitter.com/9dvqA7OswW

Arseny "Motorola" Pavlov accused by Security Service of Ukraine of killing UA soldiers in captivity.
pic.twitter.com/Kevd9nfSTU

Pavlov is a Russian mercenary by the way mirhond.

#Putin’s #Russia is treading water in a sea of red ink http://reut.rs/18JBI5K

Hey mirhond how are those food prices these days in Moscow--up by what 23-41% and all those EU food products that were sanctioned by Russia seem to be still on the shelves in the stores--how is that possible--must be a Russian food mafia illegally importing them right mirhond???

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http://askforevidence.org/ask-for-evidence/new

Evidence? Bah, it's like asking Goebbels for evidence.

mirhond --here is more Russian Goebbels talk--even you have to admit it is strange.

TASS ✔ @tassagency_en
Russian deputy defense minister calls Russia's attitude to Ukraine good-neighborly http://tass.ru/en/russia/783706

14.9K Russian and mercenary troops killed since the beginning of ATO
Russian shellings have virtually ruined villages and towns of so call ethnic Russians
6K Ukrainians killed
1M Ukrainian IDPs and refugees
MH17 shot down by a Russian BUK
42K Russian and mercenary troops inside eastern Ukraine

Strange way to define goo-neighborly relations do you not think????

I would define it "an altered state of reality" or they were simply smoking "something" before the statement.

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Vilnius train stations step up security due to Russian troops. Green men looking 4 the weak spots? http://ow.ly/3xwAz4

Latest from SMM, 17 March: fighting continued in areas around the #Donetsk airport and #Shyrokyne, east of #Mariupol. http://www.osce.org/ukraine-smm/145401 …

Military vehicles massing in the field on East borders of Donetskhttp://liveuamap.com/en/2015/19-march-military-vehicles-massing-in-the-field-on-east-borders … pic.twitter.com/v4reP8MJyS

And this is not Russian annexation and out of DC today—silence.
"Military aggression against South Ossetia to be considered aggression against Russia" http://tass.ru/en/world/78372

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Right now the Russian military is slowly and steadily and quietly reaching what some would openly call "full scale wartime mobilization levels".

Canada at NATO ✔ @CanadaNATO
#Ukraine scenario redux? Russian nationalists want revision of #Belarus-#Russia bordershttp://belsat.eu/en/articles/under-ukrainian-scenario-russian-nationalists-want-revision-belarus-russia-borders/ … pic.twitter.com/qCNeq0zrqA

The current Russian snap exercises were initially for 38K and registered with OSCE but then jumped to 76K and not registered---just another treaty violation as is the basing of Iskander missiles in Kaliningrad is a direct violation of the INF treaty which they have already violated with their new long range cruise missile.

Each day the number of troops grows larger. TASS: Arctic snap check involves 80,000 servicemen - General Staff. http://tass.ru/en/russia/783728 …

Oleksandr Zadorozhniy (UA). Russia violated around 400 bilateral Russian-Ukrainian agreements.

Yesterday after Putin speech at redsquare crowd chanted to invade Poland and Finland. http://top.rbc.ru/politics/18/03/2015/5509b3f79a7947689024d18c …

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http://askforevidence.org/ask-for-evidence/new

Evidence? Bah, it's like asking Goebbels for evidence.

mirhond--thought you might like this:


Powerful music video about #Ukraine's spirit and history repeating itself. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gO8U8UXVlA4&sns=fb …

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Militants fire artillery and mortars at Ukrainian army overnight
http://www.unian.info/war/1057344-militants-fire-artillery-and-mortars-at-ukrainian-army-overnight.html … pic.twitter.com/cmdxASzr9c

Russian “altered state of reality” and what about “disappearing Tartars”?
Peskov: Crimean Tatars have same rights as other Crimeanshttp://www.unian.info/society/1057342-peskov-crimean-tatars-have-same-rights-as-other-crimeans.html … pic.twitter.com/LiqTgU8FES

OSCE is slowly getting a backbone---
СММ ОБСЄ в Україні @OSCE_SMM
A.Hug:SMM will not be simply rubber-stamping verification of weapons withdrawal.Nor will stay silent on our freedom of movement restrictions
СММ ОБСЄ в Україні @OSCE_SMM
#OSCE_SMM monitors continue to face unacceptable restrictions on their freedom of movement - Alexander Hug
SMM Deputy Chief Monitor: While ceasefire is largely holding there continue to be violations - in and around Donetsk airport & E of Mariupol

Ukrainian guerrilla units are again on the move inside mercenary held areas:
Ukrainian guerrillas claim to destroy militant equipment in Donetskhttp://www.unian.info/war/1057338-ukrainian-guerrillas-claim-to-destroy-militant-equipment-in-donetsk.html … pic.twitter.com/u5OTMlQEAP

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Is the Russian military "trying to climb out of a very deep hole they dug themselves"????

Something like this has not be released since the days of "good relations" back in 2013 when Dempsey was in Moscow.

Deputy Minister: Russian defense minister will answer if US defense secretary makes a call

March 19, 11:52 UTC+3

According to the official, Russia does not seek confrontation between US and NATO
Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu
© ITAR-TASS/Alexei Nikolsky

NATO voices concern over Russian drills amid increased activity near its borders

MOSCOW, March 19. /TASS/. If US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter decides to "make a call" to Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu, there will be "no negative answer," Russian Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov told RT on Thursday.

"If, for example, minister of defense of the United States decides to make a call to Mr. Shoigu, I am sure there will be no negative answer from his side," Antonov said. Shoigu sent a letter congratulating Ashton Carter with appointment in February this year.

Channels and connections between Russia and US still exist, but they are not used, Antonov said.

Russia does not seek confrontation between US and NATO, but "they must change their behavior," Antonov said. "It was not Moscow [that] has decided to freeze military relations between Washington and Moscow," he added.

Antonov also reminded that Russia’s Defense Ministry has invited its American colleagues to the 4th International Security Conference in Moscow on April 16-17.

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Reference Russian violations of OSCE and Vienna Convention Treaties during their current military exercises.

No. They are not exempt. Putting more than 9k troops into any operation without 42 days notice contravenes.

13k+ troops requires OSCE monitors/See http://www.state.gov/t/avc/cca/c43837.htm … http://www.osce.org/fsc/86597

Number of personnel involved in surprise inspection has grown to 80,000+; number of aircraft has increased to 220 http://ria.ru/defense_safety/20150319/1053375124.html …

Russian Su-34 and Su-27 aircraft, Airbase Chernyakhovsk, Kaliningrad Oblast 17 March photos. via RMNE http://shokidriver.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/the-fist-of-russia-in-west-photos.html …

#Russia|n Su-27 military jets from 159th Fighter Aviation Regmnt in Karelia, at Chernyahovsk air base nr #Kaliningrad pic.twitter.com/eLJBW88OyM

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Some say the Chechen leader now controls Putin---three honor awards in less than a week
Meet Kadyrov, #Chechnya warlord monster #Putin created & tolerated, now slipping out of control w horror abuses. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/20/world/europe/chechens-ties-to-putin-are-questioned-amid-nemtsov-murder-case.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=photo-spot-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0 …

NSDC of Ukraine ✔ @NSDC_ua
Hotspots: #Shyrokyne, #Donetsk airport, outskirts of #Horlivka, areas north of #Debaltseve

NSDC of Ukraine ✔ @NSDC_ua
Pro-Russian militants amasses forces, ammo and fuel. More ammo arrived on militant-held #Krasnadon railway station

NSDC of Ukraine ✔ @NSDC_ua
#DPR c/p “commander” near #Zaichenko threatened to kill @OSCE_SMM observers, in clear violation international law

NSDC of Ukraine ✔ @NSDC_ua
Apakan, @OSCE_SMM Chief Monitor emphasized that the Ukrainian military fulfils its obligations and complies with Minsk II

Donetsk: yet another form of transportation of Russia's hybrid army.
pic.twitter.com/UkwyBSb0Ti

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NSDC of Ukraine ✔ @NSDC_ua
Soldiers of the 128th Mechanized Brigade received 55,000 UAH for seizing enemy T-72

#LPR cancelled all vacations for its forces from March 18 says #Ukraine's NSDC

NSDC of Ukraine ✔ @NSDC_ua
Col. Valentyn Fedichev, Dep Head of ATO Command, confirmed #DPR mobilizes college and school students to replenish their forces.

Ukrainian intelligence official claims MH17 shot down by missile built in Russiahttp://news.yahoo.com/ukrainian-intelligence-official-claims-mh17-shot-down-missile-092143993.html?soc_src=mediacontentstory&soc_trk=tw … via @YahooNews

NSDC of Ukraine ✔ @NSDC_ua
Militants experience severe shortages of manpower due to heavy casualties and denial of rank-and-file to fight.

Last night a Kiev taxi driver told us he was a #Ukrainian National Guard fighter in Slaviansk while his father was fighting on the DNR side.

Great @SergeyPonomarev shot w @herszenhorn's story about links btw Kadyrov and Nemtsov murder. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/20/world/europe/chechens-ties-to-putin-are-questioned-amid-nemtsov-murder-case.html … pic.twitter.com/EaIdFe8fYm

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Ukrainian Military Reports Attacks Near Donetsk and Gorlovka. http://www.interpretermag.com/ukraine-live-day-395-fighting-on-the-banks-of-the-seversky-donets-river/#7575 …

The Russian's stop @OSCE from entering #Russia|n occupied #Novoazovsk in east #Ukraine.https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fnovosti.dn.ua%2Fdetails%2F247482%2F&edit-text=&act=url …
https://youtu.be/IXc8EJFlIVc

Танки #RU_HYBRID_army
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=48.052927&lon=38.049088&z=16&m=yh …
https://archive.today/FFRaI
pic.twitter.com/gqGAsX65K5

DFM Dondua of Georgia: announcement of signing Russia's phony treaty w S Ossetia on same day as Georgia/Russia negotiations = RF provocation

Fighting On The Banks Of The Seversky Donets River. http://www.interpretermag.com/ukraine-live-day-395-fighting-on-the-banks-of-the-seversky-donets-river/#7574 … pic.twitter.com/OxbxvAxkls

#russiannavy Victor III sub "Obninsk" loading practice torpedo at Severomorsk Naval Base on Mar 16 pic.twitter.com/nQiwz5Cltq

Russian moving nuclear-capable forces close to NATO borders while conducing large scale military exercises http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/moscow-moving-nuclear-capable-weapons-nato-borders-amid-massive-military-drills-across-russia-1492481 …

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Is the Russian military "trying to climb out of a very deep hole they dug themselves"????

Something like this has not be released since the days of "good relations" back in 2013 when Dempsey was in Moscow.

Deputy Minister: Russian defense minister will answer if US defense secretary makes a call

March 19, 11:52 UTC+3

According to the official, Russia does not seek confrontation between US and NATO
Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu
© ITAR-TASS/Alexei Nikolsky

NATO voices concern over Russian drills amid increased activity near its borders

MOSCOW, March 19. /TASS/. If US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter decides to "make a call" to Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu, there will be "no negative answer," Russian Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov told RT on Thursday.

"If, for example, minister of defense of the United States decides to make a call to Mr. Shoigu, I am sure there will be no negative answer from his side," Antonov said. Shoigu sent a letter congratulating Ashton Carter with appointment in February this year.

Channels and connections between Russia and US still exist, but they are not used, Antonov said.

Russia does not seek confrontation between US and NATO, but "they must change their behavior," Antonov said. "It was not Moscow [that] has decided to freeze military relations between Washington and Moscow," he added.

Antonov also reminded that Russia’s Defense Ministry has invited its American colleagues to the 4th International Security Conference in Moscow on April 16-17.

Watch the interplay between this "apparent attempt to reach out" and the not to subtle true threat against NATO AND then the interplay between the Russian exercises and the sudden increased fighting by the Russian troops and their mercenaries that started at the same time as the Russian military exercises--and there is no connection???

Russian non linear warfare and informational conflict at work.

Russia's massive military exercises are a clear warning to NATO— via @Stratfor http://read.bi/1FEw2Hk pic.twitter.com/PXRdkgVPgT

Numbers-Stations.com @Spy_Stations
The map of the major Russian drills in last few weeks. Looks like a buildup for large scale operations. pic.twitter.com/0N5UTXCumB

John Schindler @20committee
Over the last year I've repeatedly warned that Putin isn't bluffing, he believes what he says, and he's in this to win it. Believe me now?

Numbers-Stations.com @Spy_Stations
USSTRATCOM accuses Russian air force of breaking in the US air defense zones.
http://ria.ru/world/20150319/1053484496.html

Nuclear EMP!! #Russia Kaliningrad might try turn off electricity allover EU:http://www.icanswitzerland.ch/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/LN_NEMP_Humanita%CC%88re_Konsequenzen.pdf … pic.twitter.com/6ezwPDfi4t

How Russian EMP weapons are designed to work—from Russian research in 1994
How it works pic.twitter.com/FUvumqyTAj

Iran endorses nuclear EMP attack on United Stateshttp://www.washingtonexaminer.com/iran-endorses-

A factor with Russian readiness check not to be forgotten is the so-called 'geo-strategic triangle'. pic.twitter.com/oU6OdguMgh

John Schindler @20committee
Putin is no top-level strategist. But Western leaders can't even spell strategy. Now: #SpecialWar. Next up: Worse. http://20committee.com/2015/03/19/putin-turns-up-his-special-war-against-europe/

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Killers Russian opposition leader #Nemtsov believed to have been paid $85,000 http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/killers-of-russian-opposition-leader-nemtsov-were-paid-85000--report/517710.html …

Nope, no miners, tractor drivers fighting in east #Ukraine, just #Russia|n armed forces:https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fm.nv.ua%2Fpublications%2Fubrali-kuda-to-kazakov-i-opolchencev-seychas-tam-deystvuyut-rossiyskie-voyska-boec-o-situacii-v-rayone-schastya-39819.html&edit-text= … pic.twitter.com/4a9AxRnSMZ

Russian BMD column (15 vehicles) 60 kms from Latvia's border near Pskov
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zVyUmIhJG0 …
@Spy_Stations pic.twitter.com/GXCnFNnxkG

WT heck? Russian DDM Antonov talks of "Boy Scouts...who walk in pants with straps carrying pennants of various colours" http://tass.ru/en/russia/783781 …

Howitzers column from Panfilova to Artema st, 'looks like towards the airport'. Donetskhttp://liveuamap.com/en/2015/19-march-howitzers-column-from-panfilova-to-artema-st-looks …

#Germany's @BenjaminBidder interviewed #Russia fascist poster-boy #Strelkov... just 14 nations he wants to destroy. pic.twitter.com/bNkzv1tJIo

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Appears the current Minsk 2 ceasefire is about over as the Russian troops and their mercenaries are picking up the fighting pace at the same time a massive Russian military exercise is underway--and there is not a distinct connection???

18.03 N of armed provocations on increase: #Russian militants used heavy weapons near #Donetsk- #Ukraine's presser http://en.censor.net.ua/n329056

OSCE ✔ @OSCE
.@OSCE_SMM observed fighting in areas around #Donetsk airport, Horlivka and Shyrokyne, east of #Mariupol. Latest at http://bit.ly/1DCEN57

BREAKING:combat b/w #Ukrainian forces& #Russian terrorists ongoing since 6:05 #Kyiv time -spox of M sector Sushynskyi pic.twitter.com/HQeBHAjYvQ

19.03 #Russian terrorists attempted capture of bridge near #Luhansk, engagement ongoing- #Ukraine's army pressofficer http://en.censor.net.ua/n329173

#Russian terrorists preparing special operation in #Donetsk on 20.03.15 aimed at disrupting #Minsk-2 - #Ukraine's SBUhttp://en.censor.net.ua/n329177

OSCE: Ukrainian Army cooperates with the mission. Pro-Russian militants restrict access for our observers.
http://uacrisis.org/obse-6/

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Appears the social media open source analysis crew around bellingcat and ukraineatwar blogspot called the MH17 shot down by Russian AD units using their BUK correctly.

AND they called it correctly days after the shot down and discredited all attempts by Russian information warfare to point the responsibility to someone else.

International experts say #MH17 shot down by BUK missile http://www.rtlnieuws.nl/nieuws/binnenland/mh17-shot-down-buk-missile-has-all-hallmarks … pic.twitter.com/p5W9blCXKW

Fragment from MH17 crash site supports missile theory: Dutch TVhttp://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN0MF1ZW20150319 …

Evidence proving that #MH-17 was taken down by a BUK missile
http://www.rtlnieuws.nl/nieuws/buitenland/evidence-proving-flight-mh-17-was-taken-down-buk-missile …
http://www.rtlnieuws.nl/nieuws/binnenland/mh17-shot-down-buk-missile-definitive-proof … VIDEO pic.twitter.com/rr6ZgKZulV

BUK pieces found despite much of MH17 wreckage destroyed at the spot by Russia military or removed

Videos with English subs - MH17 shot down by missile BUK: The definitive proofhttp://www.rtlnieuws.nl/nieuws/binnenland/mh17-shot-down-buk-missile-definitive-proof … pic.twitter.com/gz9P2Koa58

More proof that a Russian BUK missile shot down passenger plane MH17: http://read.bi/1CxzUJ3 pic.twitter.com/2ZWVMDLZzq

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Excellent open source analysis by ukraineatwar blog spot on a Russian BUK unit stationed 22kms from the site of the MH17 shot down--will be interesting to see how Russian internet trolls respond to this analysis.

Well worth reading through the analysis.

Evidence of Russian BUK battery deployment near Ukrainian border 22 kms from #MH17 launch sitehttp://ukraineatwar.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/evidence-of-russian-buk-battery-near.html … pic.twitter.com/wE65JKHwkC

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Minsk 2 just about over and driven by Russia who has no intent in implementing it as it requires free and open elections in the mercenary zones under Ukrainian election law.

#Luhansk. Shelling is heard 5 km east of the city. Situation is getting tense | EMPR @ukrainebang

Moscow extremely uncomfortable with Kiev talking about free elections in separatist areas. Surprise, surprise. http://www.mid.ru/bdomp/brp_4.nsf/e78a48070f128a7b43256999005bcbb3/e8969627c9e62c9a43257e0b0045b2a3!OpenDocument …

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OSCE_SMM confirm Col-Gen A. Lentsov, Dep Cmdr Russian Ground Forces, still operating from JCCC HQ Soledar in Ukraine. http://www.osce.org/ukraine-smm/145846 …

19.03. #Russian militants fire artillery and mortars at #Ukrainian army overnight http://www.unian.info/war/1057344-militants-fire-artillery-and-mortars-at-ukrainian-army-overnight.html …

#Ukraine's SBU: #Russian militants preparing sabotage in #Donetsk and #Luhansk ahead of fresh attacks http://www.unian.info/politics/1057498-lubkivskiy-militants-preparing-sabotage-in-donetsk-and-luhansk-ahead-of-fresh-attacks.html …

'Black berets' returned to #Mykolaiv from E #Ukraine. Warmly welcomed by relatives&friends https://www.facebook.com/theministryofdefence.ua/posts/874153179313855 … pic.twitter.com/Q8Im8I6WMH

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Vehicle of militant's commander Givi was attacked in Donetsk pic.twitter.com/61duvYw0so http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/19-march-vehicle-of-militants-commander-givi-was-attacked …

12 wagons with ammunition for militants arrive in Krasnodon – Ukrainian colonel
http://www.unian.info/war/1057666-12-wagons-with-ammunition-for-militants-arrive-in-krasnodon-ukrainian-colonel.html … pic.twitter.com/ld07ZFaHxG


A core element in Russian non linear warfare
John Schindler @20committee
EXCLUSIVE: Putin Turns Up His #SpecialWar Against Europe -- How Kremlin espionage lays the groundwork for major war. http://20committee.com/2015/03/19/putin-turns-up-his-special-war-against-europe/

Bridge over Siversky Donets was blasted & destroyed. Connected Stanytsia Luhanska w/ #Luhanskhttp://informator.lg.ua/?p=78224 pic.twitter.com/uzZLvUAEdT

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Russian response was quick and anticipated this way--but really all they state is hoax not much of a defense.

Lavrov: Reuters information about MH17 looks like hoax pic.twitter.com/OekGReA8Hd http://russia.liveuamap.com/en/2015/19-march-lavrov-reuters-information-about-mh17-looks-like …

#Russia's quick to cry "hoax" now that guilty verdict on #MH17 is finally in. As ridiculous as its Nemtsov "versions" pic.twitter.com/caz9e1zmCL

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Russia violates truce by keeping missile systems near front while militants have not withdrawn heavy weapons – US amb http://en.censor.net.ua/n329221

Serb fighters in trouble in Donetsk in so far mysterious incident This is Pocuca. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=467472710067262&set=a.387062824774918.1073741828.100004136102374&type=1&theater …

Russian military convoy in Crimea pic.twitter.com/hUvYPopG0O http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/19-march-russian-military-convoy-in-crimea …

Russian tanks in Lohvynove pic.twitter.com/59ggyusVdG http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/19-march-russian-tanks-in-lohvynove …

No #Gazprom connection:
#Turkey+#Azerbaijan announce pipeline to bring gas to #EU; next day #Russia proxy #Armenia attacks Azerbaijan troops
Fighting erupts in Nagorno-Karabakh. Azeris claim up to 20 Armenians killed or injured http://www.bbc.co.uk/russian/rolling_news/2015/03/150319_rn_armenia_azerbaijan?ocid=socialflow_twitt er …

Abt 18:00 the last [partly damaged] bridge in #Stanitsa was blown up, damage scale unknown
via @LUGANSK_TODAY http://informator.lg.ua/?p=78224

Russian Airborne special forces training in Murmansk region: 6 hrs flight from Ukraine border. http://function.mil.ru/news_page/country/more.htm?id=12010980@egNews … pic.twitter.com/QDrsbII1qh

Fighting Resumes Outside Mariupol and Reports of Commuter Bus Hit
http://www.interpretermag.com/ukraine-live-day-395-fighting-on-the-banks-of-the-seversky-donets-river/#7582 …

In the meantime, #Russia-backed militants shelled with #tanks the town of #Avdiivka ,near #Donetsk |EMPR @NewsDonetsk pic.twitter.com/RI8FsFVneq

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For the last six months Russia attempted to show it was an Ukrainian SU 25 that shot down MH17 and then today IT is an Ukrainian BUK which was proven to have not been involved and was damaged so it could not have fired anything.

In a parallel universe far far away, RU Ministry of Defense says "the Buk is Ukrainian" http://ria.ru/mh17/20150319/1053501716.html …

#Russia's Defence Ministry:
Yesterday: We are sure a #Ukraine Su-25 shot down #MH17!
Today: We always said a #Ukraine Buk shot down #MH17

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Russia now attempting to control OSCE decisions via their Serbia friends:

#Lithuania MFA: #OSCE can not be taken hostage by one delegation's - #Russia‘s wishes. pic.twitter.com/fLqGHO0MPC

#Serbia OSCE leaders blocked the exhibition on Crimea in #OSCE HQ in Vienna !!
http://urm.lt/default/en/news/-mfa-statement-on-decision-to-decline-permission-to-hold-exhibition-dedicated-to-the-anniversary-of-occupation-of-crimea

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Here comes the Russian attempt to blame the failure of the ceasefire that they are ready to start the fighting again with their troops and mercenaries with the background of their massive military exercises.

#Russia initiates extraordinary #UNSC session on #Ukraine as #Minsk-II was violated. Does Mr #Churkin want to say:"On yes, we are guilty"?

MFA Russia ✔ @mfa_russia
Russian envoy to OSCE A.Kelin: Kiev reluctant to enter political settlement dialogue with Donbas http://tass.ru/en/world/783879

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Seems the Russian Defense Ministry does not know what BUK missile type they use and what the Ukrainians can fire with their BUK M1 systems.

A Buk 9M317 missile destroyed #MH17.
#Ukraine does not have 9M317 missiles.
But #Putin's #Russia has thousands...

#Russia produces 9M317 missiles since 1998.
9M317 missiles do NOT fit onto #Ukraine's Buk-M1 system

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The following is the core reason that now the Russian Defense Ministry is basically lying—I believe they were taken by total surprise that the West was able to get their hands on the BUK-M1-2 warhead which provided the critical evidence.

So is Putin off to the Hague for crimes against humanity??

Question #1 - what kind of weapons hit the Boeing? It should be noted that the investigation checked all anti-Ukrainian versions for the purpose of objectivity. Initially, Russia announced it was a Ukrainian Buk [anti-aircraft missile system], but the version was quickly forgotten for it had no sense - the nearest positions of Ukrainian surface-to-air missile systems were hundreds of kilometers away from the crash spot. The explosion destroyed the jet liner's cabin - the plane was hit at the spot. Then, version #2 arose - Russia accused Ukraine of its Su-25 downing the Boeing with its missile. Su-25 did take off that day and performed a task in a different area, but of course it did not approach the jet liner.

The version was disproved by all experts, including general designer of Su-25, famous Russian airman Vladimir Babak.Source: http://en.censor.net.ua/r328926Source: http://en.censor.net.ua/r328926

The configuration of missile's submunitions was identified fairly quickly. The extracted submunitions are very similar to those of Buk-M1. Ukraine has such Buks in its defense, but of course, there were none of them near Torez, in the rear of the occupied area, only Russian ones. The form of the elements looks similar, but the size differs. NATO intelligence services have carried out a large-scale parallel search of modern Russian ground-to-air missiles submunitions. By an operation the details of which have not been yet disclosed, a warhead of a Buk-M1-2 missile of Russian production fell into hands of investigators. When it was disassembled, it turned out that submunitions that hit the Boeing are exactly the same as those of the warhead of this modern Russian anti-aircraft missile. Buk-M1-2 complex was developed in 1997, supplied to the Russian Armed Forces in 1998, and never delivered to Ukraine.

Thus, the Prosecutor's Offices of the Netherlands and Australia have prepared a convincing evidence base which also includes a number of other details that are not yet subject to disclosure.

Identification of Buk-M1-2 is extremely important for the investigation, not only because it allows establishing that the missile had been supplied by Russia, and its responsibility for the death of 298 people is proved. It also shows that the launch was carried out by military forces of the Russian Federation, for the Buk-M1-2, which was never delivered to Ukraine, can be only used by servicemen having experience with it and being in active military service.

Both the investigation and investigative journalists have found original photographs of the Buk missile near Torez, and were able to identify the launch site and thereby confirm the authenticity of the missile launch photos, and to prove the authenticity of the photos and videos of Buk transportation near Torez by reference to real geographical coordinates.Source: http://en.censor.net.ua/r328926Source: http://en.censor.net.ua/r328926


Evidence of Russian BUK battery deployment near Ukrainian border 22 kms from #MH17 launch sitehttp://ukraineatwar.blogspot.co.uk/2...tery-near.html … pic.twitter.com/wE65JKHwkC

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DNR/LNR accused of kidnapping, theft, drug trafficking, smuggling rackets, & executions.
http://www.ukrainebusiness.com.ua/news/14981.html

Fascism exploited and distorted in #Putin’s #Russia for propaganda's sake http://euromaidanpress.com/2015/03/14/fascism-exploited-and-distorted-in-putins-russia-for-propagandas-sake/ …

Stockholm's Security Service Concerned About Possible Russian Military Op Against Sweden
http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/natosource/stockholm-s-security-service-concerned-about-possible-russian-militatry-operation-against-sweden#.VQt5Yo3NzHA.twitter …

A year later, #Crimea's #Tatars even further In the shadows: at least 18 #Crimean Tatars have gone missing http://www.rferl.org/content/ukraine-crimea-tatars-rights-traditions-threatened/26908117.html … via @RFERL

Protestants in e.#Ukraine & others persecuted by pro-#Russia militants. #Russian Orthodoxy 'ruling church' in region
https://news.vice.com/video/secret-protestant-churches-in-donetsk-ukraines-religious-war …

VIDEO English subtitles: Givi explains an assassination attempt on him. Car hit 12 times.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuVCAHGTCQg … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2OPhCdZaQE …

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Latest from SMM, 18.03: Fighting continued in areas around #Donetsk airport, #Horlivka and #Shyrokyne, E #Mariupol http://www.osce.org/ukraine-smm/145846 …

Azov Regiment: During the night from 8-12PM militants fired at our positions 10 times, 5 more #ceasefire violations from midnight to 7AM

#BreakingNews
Russian forces fired BM-21 Grad missiles vs the Ukrainian-held village of #Sokolniki last night

Blown up bridge over Siversky Donetsk http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/20-march-blown-up-bridge-over-siversky-donetsk … #Ukraine pic.twitter.com/qAj65Og5ga

Geoffrey Pyatt ✔ @GeoffPyatt
Seversky Donets bridge destroyed following several days of Russian-backed seps staging more attempted land grabs pic.twitter.com/RW13NzMYEf

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Ukrainian military report fresh ceasefire violations
http://uatoday.tv/news/ukrainian-military-report-fresh-ceasefire-violations-416512.html … pic.twitter.com/7w4i0wUt5k

“All You Need To Know About Exquisite Art Of Russian Propaganda & Media Lies” by @Hromadske https://medium.com/@Hromadske/all-you-need-to-know-about-exquisite-art-of-russian-propaganda-media-lies-aa5f8ba56bd2?source=tw-lo_4b150182911e-1426844222389 …

Kyiv Post ✔ @KyivPost
#Russians in war zone do not like questions http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/russians-in-war-zone-do-not-like-questions-383956.html … pic.twitter.com/hU5yKykDVm

Militants fired w/ 120mm mortars at Ukr positions on #Donetsk direction: near Krasnohorivka, Pisky, Donetske https://www.facebook.com/ato.news/posts/967677619909711 … |EMPR

#BreakingNews
Russian forces blew up the car bridge near Stanitsa-Luhanska over the Seversky-Donets during a battle last night.

Washington recognizes right of Ukrainians to respond to separatists' attacks http://24today.net/open

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This is interesting--Russia has two peacekeeping Bdes--14th and 15th--the
15th's armored vehicles were spotted three times in the last two months inside eastern Ukraine.

It must be then the 14th doing "peacekeeping exercises" on peacekeeping experience taught to them by the US 7th army in 2012 and 2013--nice to see US military training hard at work although in the wrong place and with currently the wrong army.

By the way the training objectives below were on the Russian to be trained for list when they worked with the US Army.

Donbas? Russian peacekeeping forces (MC) training in Samara for humanitarian aid & maintaining "buffer zone". 20 Mar http://function.mil.ru/news_page/country/more.htm?id=12011024@egNews …

Training for Ukraine? Russian CMD (Samara region) peacekeeping brigade "separated warring parties". RU MoD 20 March http://bit.ly/1MT6aHV

RUMINT surfacing about a possible Russian led peacekeeping mission via CSTO/CIS countries into eastern Ukraine.

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Who said there is not a Russian “Holy War” in progress?

http://20committee.com/2015/01/24/russias-emerging-holy-war/

Kirill in Kaliningrad, on the Russian world. Russia is a not a country but a civilisation, unlimited by borders. http://vlasti.net/news/213927

At this point, I think we need to start seriously listening to Patriarch Kirill for clues about Russia's foreign policy goals

This is the narrative now; #Russia is (or should be) a state based on ethnic and national boundaries.

Unfortunately, it remains unclear how long Russia will continue searching for its own path. http://www.themoscowtimes.com/opinion/article/crimea-is-final-nail-in-soviet-unions-coffin/517715.html … pic.twitter.com/Rert6hVxAi

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Heads up—if the Russian response to the MH17 evidence clearly stating it was a Russian BUK missile that shot down MH17 “it was all a hoax” this should be interesting and again from open source social media.

This blogger did the open source analysis of the Russian August invasion and pin pointed the exact crossing points used by 4 Russian a.Armored tactical groups suing sat photos.

I'm going to post some never-before-published satellite imagery of a Russian Buk battery deployed near the Ukraine border & MH17 crash site

I'm going to post about a dozen images in 5-6 parts and then give more images to tweeps like @EliotHiggins & @DajeyPetros to play with

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From the “altered state of reality” from the mercenaries:

Ukraine has fulfilled the heavy weapons withdrawal correctly and together with the OSCE which the OSCE has verified.

Mercenaries have not and continue to shell and fire on Ukrainian positons and to attempt new land grabs and Russia has done absolutely nothing to even attempt fulfilling Minks 1 and 2 and all the while complained “it is the Ukrainians fault for Minsk failures”.

AND literally months ago in a published Putin announcement---he stated he had directed his Border Security Command to seal the Russian/Ukrainian border--it is on video.

'#Kiev preparing for new war' - #DPR head

NSDC of Ukraine ✔ @NSDC_ua
Militants violated ceasefire after midnight. Russia continues supplying its proxies with weapons and ammo via UA-RU border

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Heads up—if the Russian response to the MH17 evidence clearly stating it was a Russian BUK missile that shot down MH17 “it was all a hoax” this should be interesting and again from open source social media.

This blogger did the open source analysis of the Russian August invasion and pin pointed the exact crossing points used by 4 Russian a.Armored tactical groups suing sat photos.

I'm going to post some never-before-published satellite imagery of a Russian Buk battery deployed near the Ukraine border & MH17 crash site

I'm going to post about a dozen images in 5-6 parts and then give more images to tweeps like @EliotHiggins & @DajeyPetros to play with

Here are the latest sat photos referencing Russian BUK unit 7kms from Ukrainian border and 30Kms from MH17 shot down site.

Dutch investigators have proved MH17 was shot down by Buk missile, next stage is to build criminal case. http://www.janes.com/article/50075/dutch-investigation-concludes-mh17-downed-by-buk-missile-from-russian-battery#.VQv58Jtd4Os.twitter …

Russian Buk unit on UKR border Part I
pic.twitter.com/RtC25avow7

Russian Buk unit on UKR border part II
pic.twitter.com/gAHHzp2HK9

Russian Buk unit on UKR border part III
pic.twitter.com/JbpO9nd7VR

Russian Buk unit on UKR border part IV
pic.twitter.com/6ULyyIHYfY

Russian Buk unit on UKR border part V
pic.twitter.com/yv3027uJmd

Russian Buk unit on UKR border part VI
pic.twitter.com/6jOBH5gyXU

This image is so compressed and zoomed that it might break your monitor and/or eyeballs. pic.twitter.com/QJotf2ttua

I'll get more images out without compression soon with the help of my fellow Citizen Journalists because thats what I am - not a spy!

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Russia agitprop at work—80K troops in a massive show of force with 220 aircraft and Russia gets up tight about 3/2 Cav driving home instead of taking rail transportation?????:

US Armored Columns March Through Six Eastern European Countries
© PAUL NADOLSKI/US ARMY
http://sputniknews.com/news/20150320/1019758103.html#ixzz3UvaEN2K4
News
05:17 20.03.2015(updated 14:10 20.03.2015)

The United States Army will send a convoy of American soldiers and military vehicles through Eastern European countries near Russia’s western border, despite Moscow’s repeated expression of concern over NATO’s expansion of forces in the region.

The 1,100 mile journey, dubbed “Dragoon Ride,” will last from March 21 through April 1 and wraps up months the US Army spent training with allies in Poland and the Baltics.

American troops from the 2nd Cavalry Regiment will accompany their eight-wheeled armored combat vehicles, called Strykers, while the Army’s 12th Combat Aviation Brigade will provide aerial reconnaissance support.

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MFA Russia ✔ @mfa_russia
Russian #OSCE envoy Andrey Kelin: Kiev under pressure from warmongers — http://tass.ru/en/world/783993

#Lysenko: GRADs flying again in eastern Ukraine. http://expres.ua/news/2015/03/20/129230-okupanty-vpershe-minska-vidnovyly-obstrily-gradamy …

Russia promised at Minsk to deliver any hum. assist. in line w int'l stdrds/procedures. Instead illegal convoys cont: http://www.osce.org/om/145866
Again new convoy—mostly fuelers.

13:56 #Avdeevka @rechnikato: The old part was shelled, electricity down.

13:42 #Shakhtarsk @olegdon3: 1 BMP, 2 MT-LB and a command vehicle towards #Donetsk,

Religious persecution by #Russia & its proxy forces on the rise in #Donetsk
http://america.aljazeera.com/multimedia/2015/3/in-rebel-held-donetsk-religious-intolerance-grows.html …
pic.twitter.com/ybn1t4nvQi

Strange reason to control roaming journalists??
Luhansk rebel official told me foreign journalists now need extra permission to travel region after 'foreign reporter tried to kidnap kids'

'Commandant of #Dokuchaevsk has a criminal record for collective rape', the same rumour in #Makeevka

In English:

"Right Sector everywhere, but I didn't see any fascists" | Mercenary Describes Fighting For Separatists In Ukraine http://www.rferl.org/media/video/kyrgyzstan-ukraine-separatist-conflict/26911483.html …

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Here are the latest sat photos referencing Russian BUK unit 7kms from Ukrainian border and 30Kms from MH17 shot down site.

Dutch investigators have proved MH17 was shot down by Buk missile, next stage is to build criminal case. http://www.janes.com/article/50075/dutch-investigation-concludes-mh17-downed-by-buk-missile-from-russian-battery#.VQv58Jtd4Os.twitter …

Russian Buk unit on UKR border Part I
pic.twitter.com/RtC25avow7

Russian Buk unit on UKR border part II
pic.twitter.com/gAHHzp2HK9

Russian Buk unit on UKR border part III
pic.twitter.com/JbpO9nd7VR

Russian Buk unit on UKR border part IV
pic.twitter.com/6ULyyIHYfY

Russian Buk unit on UKR border part V
pic.twitter.com/yv3027uJmd

Russian Buk unit on UKR border part VI
pic.twitter.com/6jOBH5gyXU

This image is so compressed and zoomed that it might break your monitor and/or eyeballs. pic.twitter.com/QJotf2ttua

I'll get more images out without compression soon with the help of my fellow Citizen Journalists because thats what I am - not a spy!

Reference Russian BUK unit near Ukrainian border---radar control unit was spotted:

Veli-Pekka Kivimäki @vpkivimaki
.@finriswolf Close to this site @DajeyPetros wrote about in January. http://ukraineatwar.blogspot.fi/2015/01/one-russian-radar-identified-at-19-kms.html … pic.twitter.com/FUNebHFQvQ

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Russians and Chechens report being forced to attend rallies in honor of Russia's invasion & annexation of Crimea http://www.kavkaz-uzel.ru/articles/259131/ …

Propaganda and misinformation are key to Russia's 'special brand', using deception rather than actually declaring war http://news.yahoo.com/kremlin-turns-youtube-propaganda-weapon-052317192.html;_ylt=AwrTWVWqtAtVnwcAzurQtDMD …

#MH17 #Russia|n propaganda, lies from RT: http://rt.com/news/242449-netherlands-downed-buk-missile/ …
compared 2 reputable source: http://www.janes.com/article/50075/dutch-investigation-concludes-mh17-downed-by-buk-missile-from-russian-battery#.VQwhJJiiYk4.twitter … pic.twitter.com/vc7bCQBJwx

The hard life of a Russian mercenary in Donetsk:
DNR source. Five Serbs were arrested for being armed while drunk in #Donetsk. To be released within 24 hrs, one to be deported to Russia.

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Mariupol is a tempting target for separatists to make Donbas economically viable, writes @steven_pifer http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/order-from-chaos/posts/2015/03/19-mariupol-line-russia-crimea-land-bridge …

Putin's "backers think he’s much more radical than he really is and are acting without clear orders" says @Baunov http://bloom.bg/1FGvRv8

"Putin has directly flaunted the nuclear threat at the West... That has not happened in decades." @zbig at #BrusselsForum10

#Footage
OSCE inspects "DNR" weapons, some of them captured in #Debaltseve."
Eng/Ger words...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgPCsm9CL5M … pic.twitter.com/y8x0gK0L3A

Netherlands sends new mission to crash site #MH17 in #Ukraine for recovery and investigation purposes.
pic.twitter.com/pvAuyQHnDJ

The official #NOceasefire chart for the front east of #Mariupol yesterday.
pic.twitter.com/8ELznEtxDV

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NATO intercepted eight Su-27 & Su-34 fighter jets & 3 Russian milt. transports over Baltic Sea http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/natosource/nato-intercepts-eight-russian-fighter-jets-over-baltic-sea … pic.twitter.com/UqfSDEWOaR

Lithuania MoD: "These were first Russian fighters intercepted by NATO's Baltic air police this year" http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/natosource/nato-intercepts-eight-russian-fighter-jets-over-baltic-sea …
Head of Sberbank, Russia's largest bank with 46% of deposits, just said the worst has yet to come for the nation's financial sector.

Really worth watching—Russian interview with English subtitles—he was a retired Russian officer fighting as a volunteer who became demoralized with the difference between the reality and Russian propaganda.
Must Watch: "I didn't see any fascists" – A Kyrygz Mercenary Describes Fighting Alongside 'Separs' and Russian... http://fb.me/6jDx1kZLt

He makes some interesting comments such as the separatist fighters are basically drifting away and being replaced by Russian military as they see themselves abandoned by Putin after Minsk 2.

He himself used a trick to escape from eastern Ukraine back to Russia.

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Ceasefire? 18Mar #Russian terrorists tried t break in Trokhizbenka, #Luhansk Obl.Learn more: http://empr.media/news/russian-backed-terrorists-tried-to-break-into-trokhizbenka-in-luhansk-oblast … pic.twitter.com/fNGMrqYOql

#Ukraine Rebels Plan Offensive as Government Fortifies Key Port #Donbas #Russia http://bloom.bg/1MUC06W

Strelkov tells Spiegel Kyiv is a Russian city,dreams of Kremlin getting back to 1939 borders http://m.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/a-1024146.html#spRedirectedFrom=www&referrrer=http://m.tvrain.ru/articles/rossija_v_granitsah_1939_goda_i_kto_takie_nastojas chie_separatisty_zhurnal_der_spiegel_pogovoril_s_i gorem_strelkovym-384274/ … pic.twitter.com/9tImgTeNVw

Russian fighters leaving Ukraine are stockpiling their weapons in Russia & using them for payment & in local fights http://www.novayagazeta.ru/inquests/67718.html …

European fascists and neo-Nazis to meet to defend Russian interests http://kyivpost.com/content/ukraine-abroad/halya-coynash-european-fascists-and-neo-nazis-to-meet-to-defend-russian-interests-384024.html …

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VIDEO #Putin (R)aid Convoy yesterday w diesel for tanks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2X4kBYmbe7Q … for more #Russia attacks on #Ukraine pic.twitter.com/GB0SyGndD4

Interesting train of Russian thought—following that thought then Europeans have the right to have a say in Russian affairs

!! Kosachev: Russians are Europeans, therefore Russia is entitled to have a say in European decisions, not just EU or NATO. #BrusselsForum10

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There has been a very active Ukrainian guerrilla unit called "Shadows" that has been working as a guerrilla unit successfully in the occupied by mercenary regions and against Russian troops for a long while now and only recently has come out of the "Shadows".

First very long interview with their Commander--well worth the read.

http://maidantranslations.com/2015/03/20/guerilla-unit-shadows-if-the-government-betrays-donbas-then-they-will-live-looking-over-their-shoulders-freesavchenko/

Taken from the article

– What is the ratio of locals and Russians in the enemy ranks?

– I can only speak for our area of responsibility. Previously, there were about five thousand armed persons. Of these, separatists constituted about a thousand and Russians – 4,000. Now the situation has changed; redeployment takes place periodically. I can’t speak definitively, I must look at a specific place at certain time. For example, the Novoazovsk highway is completely controlled by the Russians. They have a very bad relationship with the separatists; the Russians consider them a cannon fodder. The guerrillas once took advantage of this and provoked a fight between the “orcs” and the Chechens.

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Kamensk-Shakhtinsky, Rostov region: concentration of Russian forces 20km from Ukraine border pic.twitter.com/kcxTtIPkn6

EU far-right parties set to gather in St. Petersburg for Russian forum
http://uatoday.tv/politics/eu-far-right-parties-set-to-gather-in-st-petersburg-for-russian-forum-416691.html … pic.twitter.com/PLFqcXYEsE
#News

The "LC militia" destroyed the 2nd Seversky-Donets bridge, Ukr. forces claim. This time near Tr'okhizbenk. pic.twitter.com/LhZlysFoWG

Geoffrey Pyatt ✔ @GeoffPyatt
Via @OlehKuts:"Ukraine is doing max to implem Minsk obligations. Russia & its proxies are not" http://uatoday.tv/politics/us-ambassador-to-ukraine-ukraine-is-doing-its-maximum-to-implement-minsk-truce-415950.html … http://twitter.com/OlehKuts/status/578997984895111168/photo/1pic.twitter.com/BXhXhFFNB8

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The last two Russian “aid” convoys have been strictly fuelers for Russian military vehicles and armor. Right now all Russian vehicles in the Ukraine have been fully tanked key for further operations.

#Ukraine NSDC Secretary Turchynov - Putin preparing for a new large-scale military operation http://www.ukrinform.ua/rus/news/putin_gotovit_novuyu_voennuyu_operatsiyu___turchin ov_1726562 … pic.twitter.com/TJBhtNhayJ

#News
There were numerous Russian attacks today, using small arms,mortars and even artillery.
#Avdeevka, #Luhanske, #Chermalyk,

#Analysis #Map
(Pro-)Russian fighters team enters #Shyrokyne from the direction of #Bezimenne
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtkyVXCMphw … pic.twitter.com/d8kxKSSbow

OSCE monitors still see militants' heavy weapons in Donbas
http://www.unian.info/war/1058190-osce-monitors-still-see-militants-heavy-weapons-in-donbas.html … pic.twitter.com/azlqp0iykt

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#Shyrokyne: #OSCE_SMM saw incoming air-burst 82mm mortar shells exploding in Ukrainian-controlled territory. http://www.osce.org/ukraine-smm/145901 …

#Shyrokyne: #OSCE_SMM heard approx 30 incoming tank rounds impacting close to Ukrainian Armed Forces positions. http://www.osce.org/ukraine-smm/14

#Lentsov tells #OSCE_SMM that RU and UA JCCC reps plan to establish obs posts #Shyrokyne & #Donetsk AP from 23 March. http://www.osce.org/ukraine-smm/145901 …

Rhetoric sound familiar?
"Belarusian state is an artificial formation comprised of’ ancient Russian lands"http://www.belsat.eu/en/articles/under-ukrainian-scenario-russian-nationalists-want-revision-belarus-russia-borders/ …

SBU detained saboteurs, who tried to blow up a railway bridge in Izyum pic.twitter.com/fN7NwfXB40 http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/20-march-sbu-detained-saboteurs-who-tried-to-blow-up-a-railway …

While the US refuses to sell Kiev the Javelin, Ukraine has begun to mass produce its own "Stugna-P" anti-tank missile pic.twitter.com/mtltkyBiTC
The Stugna-P, a Ukrainian analog of the American-made antitank guided missile system known as the FGM-148 Javelin, is four times cheaper than the US counterpart

NOTE---there had been during the intense fighting at the Donetsk airport a report of a Javelin being used---was it actually the first test run of the Stugna in combat conditions?

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Just another average week in Russian politics and governmental activities while they figure out whether to continue attacking in the Ukraine---right now Putin has a very clear choice-- go for it militarily and or destroy his own economy in the process---based on his previous actions and statements IMHO he will go for it--that is why we are seeing a "fighting lull right now":

He has made a major misstep with demanding Minsk 1 and 2 as it is now being used as leverage against his actions plus he is now confronted with having to allow "free elections under Ukrainian election laws inside the occupied regions"---he had anticipated controlling all of the Donbas and not having to hold elections.

In some aspects the Ukrainians as strange as it sounds both militarily and politically have stayed a half step ahead of Putin's actions giving them some breathing room to make decisions for themselves and not be dictated to by the Russians.

Many Russians choke on the idea of accepting the Ukrainians as a separate people, and Ukraine as a separate state: pic.twitter.com/9cqtjG0Wqz

Russian Spying in Czech Republic ‘Worse Than Cold War’ http://www.newsweek.com/russian-spying-czech-republic-worse-cold-war-315482 …

U.S. Mission to OSCE ✔ @usosce
"Unacceptable brutalities" in #Crimea since #Russia's occupation: http://1.usa.gov/1H3ympv

U.S. Mission to OSCE ✔ @usosce
US concerned re situation in occupied Abkhazia & S.Ossetia: #Russia’s efforts to establish “security zones” continue: http://1.usa.gov/1Gtl45D

Russian Official Asks Secretary General if NATO Would Bomb Country that Initiated Cyber Attack
http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/natosource/russian-official-asks-secretary-general-if-nato-would-bomb-country-that-initiated-cyber-attack#.VQy069S7NCY.twitter …

What Does #Putin Want? #Moscow’s many stated reasons for fighting in #Ukraine are either false or incoherent.
http://www.the-american-interest.com/2015/03/20/what-does-putin-want/ …

U.S. ambassador: Russian veto 'extremely disruptive' on Syria http://ara.tv/mzncd via @AlArabiya_Eng

Milov asks interesting questions re Nemtsov case: there is no FSB/Kadyrov conflict. Chechens assigned role of cover. http://www.echomsk.spb.ru/blogs/milov/26815.php …

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More from the Russian informational conflict front:

CatherineFitzpatrick @catfitz
This whole nonsense of Putin as "furious" finding out about Nemtsov murder comes from former grey cardinal Pavlovsky http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-19/kremlin-murder-trail-leads-to-chechnya-as-putin-said-to-fume …

One of the most scariest things about Nemtsov murder for me is way Western media orchestrated by RU intel to spin this Kadyrov Chechen stuff

Putin in a public interview with Russian students openly stated when questioned about ethnic Russians in Kazakhstan ---he felt that Kazakhstan was not a formal state and yes there were ethnic Russians residing in Kazakhstan--the exact same argument for the Ukraine and from now nationalist circles when talking about Belarus yesterday.

#Putin fuming: #Kazakhstan bandit-prez - knowing his country is next - publicly supports #Ukraine integrity.http://www.eurasianet.org/node/72636

Eyeing Russia nervously, Poles enrol in volunteer militias http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN0MG24I20150320 …

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And we are off to the fighting season again as the fields and dirt roads are drying out and it is getting warmer and naturally Putin's decision to continue the fighting.


WHY is Putin continuing:
1. his public statements have been matching for months the nationalist rhetoric and propaganda and to compromise without a "win" will be viewed as a failure
2. his attempts at dividing the EU and US have worked to a degree
3. military he has so much invested in blood and treasure any compromise would be viewed as a "failure"
4. he has asked his civil society to endure all hardships to include financial hardships so no "win" will be viewed as a failure

More importantly he has not achieved fully his three core geo political goals of;
1. discredit EU
2. discredit NATO
3. fully disconnect US from Europe

Coupled with not allowing the Ukraine to orient fully to the West and eventually join NATO.

Shelling resumed in #Donetsk this morning, can be heard from the northern outskirts

Step closer to Russian next offensive on #Mariupol: Russia says sanctions 'destructive', will act in own interests
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN0MG0U320150320 …

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Just another average week in Russian politics and governmental activities while they figure out whether to continue attacking in the Ukraine---right now Putin has a very clear choice-- go for it militarily and or destroy his own economy in the process---based on his previous actions and statements IMHO he will go for it--that is why we are seeing a "fighting lull right now":

He has made a major misstep with demanding Minsk 1 and 2 as it is now being used as leverage against his actions plus he is now confronted with having to allow "free elections under Ukrainian election laws inside the occupied regions"---he had anticipated controlling all of the Donbas and not having to hold elections.

In some aspects the Ukrainians as strange as it sounds both militarily and politically have stayed a half step ahead of Putin's actions giving them some breathing room to make decisions for themselves and not be dictated to by the Russians.

Many Russians choke on the idea of accepting the Ukrainians as a separate people, and Ukraine as a separate state: pic.twitter.com/9cqtjG0Wqz

Russian Spying in Czech Republic ‘Worse Than Cold War’ http://www.newsweek.com/russian-spying-czech-republic-worse-cold-war-315482 …

U.S. Mission to OSCE ✔ @usosce
"Unacceptable brutalities" in #Crimea since #Russia's occupation: http://1.usa.gov/1H3ympv

U.S. Mission to OSCE ✔ @usosce
US concerned re situation in occupied Abkhazia & S.Ossetia: #Russia’s efforts to establish “security zones” continue: http://1.usa.gov/1Gtl45D

Russian Official Asks Secretary General if NATO Would Bomb Country that Initiated Cyber Attack
http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/natosource/russian-official-asks-secretary-general-if-nato-would-bomb-country-that-initiated-cyber-attack#.VQy069S7NCY.twitter …

What Does #Putin Want? #Moscow’s many stated reasons for fighting in #Ukraine are either false or incoherent.
http://www.the-american-interest.com/2015/03/20/what-does-putin-want/ …

U.S. ambassador: Russian veto 'extremely disruptive' on Syria http://ara.tv/mzncd via @AlArabiya_Eng

Milov asks interesting questions re Nemtsov case: there is no FSB/Kadyrov conflict. Chechens assigned role of cover. http://www.echomsk.spb.ru/blogs/milov/26815.php …

Double wow -- Sweden publicly complains about Russian spies http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-3000627/Sweden-Russia-biggest-threat-1-3-envoys-spies.html …

Crimea Tatar rep received subpoena from RUS authorities to be a witness on unidentified case https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1594716854106515&set=a.1575931225985078.1073741829.100007046477228&type=1 … pic.twitter.com/U8BuW7AfoY

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Transponders off? @uascan: RU strategic air force(Tu22/Tu95/Tu160) sw net up with voice traffic. Bears,Backfires or Blackjacks flying today?

Motorola "The first Fight of my unit was in Kharkiv on March 14th 2014" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuXmaBKbUqM …

Life in Donetsk: Russia-led DNR forces emerge from "Egg & Poultry" truck http://dn.vgorode.ua/news/sobytyia/254591-fotofakt-v-donetske-luidy-spokoino-khodiat-mymo-avtomatchykov-pryhotovyvshykhsia-k-boui … pic.twitter.com/EiVe6Y9OhP

.@RT_com are duping their audience w/ sick propaganda, lies on downing of #MH17.
Time to boycott RT?
pic.twitter.com/vc7bCQBJwx

Goal of such disinformation articles by RT:
All these types of MH17 stories Russia media make up are designed to confuse, obscure the truth, plant seeds of doubt in the mind.

#Nuland asks #Russia official if he's posing a "planning question" about cyber attack on @NATO http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/natosource/russian-official-asks-secretary-general-if-nato-would-bomb-country-that-initiated-cyber-attack … pic.twitter.com/3jWvVYU9FX

Appears Russian SF team got caught on infiltration yesteday.
Engagement of Ukr troops w/ subversive group near Opytne lasted for 7hrs starting from 7.20am https://www.facebook.com/ato.news/posts/967863926557747 … pic.twitter.com/c3lJbdQfHf

VIDEO the effects of #Russia(ns) shelling of #Avdiivka #Donetsk #Ukraine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKl_vnaxzTo … pic.twitter.com/EMpAYgJdlQ

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And we are off to the fighting season again as the fields and dirt roads are drying out and it is getting warmer and naturally Putin's decision to continue the fighting.

WHY is Putin continuing:
1. his public statements have been matching for months the nationalist rhetoric and propaganda and to compromise without a "win" will be viewed as a failure
2. his attempts at dividing the EU and US have worked to a degree
3. military he has so much invested in blood and treasure any compromise would be viewed as a "failure"
4. he has asked his civil society to endure all hardships to include financial hardships so no "win" will be viewed as a failure

More importantly he has not achieved fully his three core geo political goals of;
1. discredit EU
2. discredit NATO
3. fully disconnect US from Europe

Coupled with not allowing the Ukraine to orient fully to the West and eventually join NATO.

Shelling resumed in #Donetsk this morning, can be heard from the northern outskirts

Step closer to Russian next offensive on #Mariupol: Russia says sanctions 'destructive', will act in own interests
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN0MG0U320150320 …

Tymchuk: Russian forces stopped pretending to abide by the ceasefire & are shelling Ukrainian positions & attempting to storm some of them

Remember all heavy weapons have not been pulled back by Russian and mercenary troops and they never did stop fighting, or their shellings or they never did stop the weapons/munitions and troop supplies coming across the border by truck and rail----confirmed by OSCE---

ALL the while complaining that the Ukrainians were constantly violating Minsk 2even in the face of OSCE statements saying directly the opposite.

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I have often stated here the most efficient way to counter Russian informational conflict is by the use of the truth.

BUT should we also not focus as well on the exact same problem in the US??

Right now much of the US mainstream media gets constantly led astray by Russian disinformation--why--we have lost the ability of hard journalism asking the hard questions and we have lost the ability to demand honest and correct answers by our own politicians/leaders also by this mainstream media.

When we the US lose the ability to openly use freedom of the press and we lose the ability to openly question our own democracy are we any different to Putin?

How can we supposedly support say democracy movements within other civil societies when we ourselves are "far from perfect".

No wonder RT has a US center and is being carried on cable into thousands of US homes--not a great development.

Great VanityFair article to this question of hard journalism.

Groartiges Stck ber @JamesRisen & den gefhrlichen Kampf der Obama-Regierung gegen Leaks und harten Journalismus.
http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/03/james-risen-anonymous-source-government-battle

For seven years, Risen lived under the threat of jail for refusing to reveal a confidential source. When the government backed off, some saw a victory for freedom of the press. But Risen’s fight shows how little that concept means in post-9/11 America.

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Think IS is the only "Holy War" ongoing right now---check eastern Ukraine.

#Documentary
Religious cleansing taking place by Russian invasion forces and their allies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhEe2PSaEW0&feature=youtu.be … pic.twitter.com/CN3f9laXZG


Think there are no neo Nazi's/ultra nationalists in Russia-think again--that is the reason I often use the term Russian fascism.

Neo Nazi groups officially tolerated inside Russia but the term Nazi junta being used by Russia as an excuse to invade Crimea and eastern Ukraine.
“An altered state of reality?????”
pic.twitter.com/6R9yrgsvQA

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Another nuclear threat being uttered by an official Russian rep. At some point the West has to take a stand on the nuclear question---is MAD any longer a valid concept in the 21st century???

And the West truly thinks it can negotiate with Putin right now?--there is no basis of trust any longer in whatever he states and or does.

It is about time the West starts defining and stating it's maximum demands for Putin to come back into the conversation.

Russian ambassador: Russia will point its nuclear missiles at Danish fleet if Denmark joins NATO missile defense. http://m.jyllands-posten.dk/indland/ECE7573125/Ruslands-ambassad%C3%B8r-Danske-skibe-kan-blive-m%C3%A5l-for-russisk-atomangreb/ …

Pro-Russian militants shelling Pisky, Shyrokyne at night
http://www.unian.info/war/1058263-pro-russian-militants-shelling-pisky-shyrokyne-at-night.html … pic.twitter.com/PRWoIYlH8C

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Russian forces attacked #Pisky 6 x with mortars overnight and tried to "penetrate Ukr territory" near #Opytne. pic.twitter.com/WV58yMangh

At #Optyne RU attempted an offensive yday after shelling, a platoon supported by mortars attacked Ukr positions. Attack lasted 6hrs repelled

Rus-backed militants are openly using cannon artillery/MRLS: used 2 Grads in area of Bakhmutka road, #Luhansk regionhttps://www.facebook.com/dmitry.tymchuk/posts/667692860026039 …

Dutch journalist @JeroenAkkermans has shared many new detailed #MH17 wreckage photographs https://www.flickr.com/photos/jeroenakkermans/sets/ … pic.twitter.com/YD64vqMQkA

#Russian-backed militants fired w/ 120mm mortars at Pisky, #Donetsk direction and Shyrokyne, #Mariupol direction https://www.facebook.com/ato.news/posts/968121399865333 …

Putin getting ready for new large-scale advance...meanwhile West does nothing.... http://www.unian.info/war/1058202-putin-getting-ready-for-new-large-scale-advance-turchynov.html …

Subversive group made 2nd attempt to get into Ukr-controlled territory near Opytne, #Donetsk direction, was repelled https://www.facebook.com/ato.news/posts/968121399865333 …

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Does anyone really believe the Minsk 2 ceasefire is working--maybe sit hould be called a "fighting ceasefire".

Just an average ceasefire day today in the Ukraine:

Russian-backed militants shelled Avdiivka, 1 civilian was killed - #ATO spox presser

NSDC of Ukraine ✔ @NSDC_ua
SBU detained former servicemen in #Myrhorod who was a #DPR informer who gathered intel about UA military aviation

NSDC of Ukraine ✔ @NSDC_ua
People in militant-held territories forced to pay 10% fee while cashing in their mearge savings

NSDC of Ukraine ✔ @NSDC_ua
#Donetsk businessmen outraged by militants extortionist policies. They demand food&money for the right to work on markets

NSDC of Ukraine ✔ @NSDC_ua
SBU prevented a series of terrorist acts in #Kharkiv region. Mil planned to explode railways and bridges pic.twitter.com/ZXAUqgxBO2

NSDC of Ukraine ✔ @NSDC_ua
Ukrainian policemen detained 2 #DPR mil in #Donetsk region who were hiding from UA law-enforcement since Aug 2014

Crowd laughs as Russian official insists Russia does not have any troops in eastern Ukraine. #BrusselsForum10

NSDC of Ukraine ✔ @NSDC_ua
Pro-RU militants exploded railway track near #Popasna that linked government-controlled and mil-held territories.

NSDC of Ukraine ✔ @NSDC_ua
Ukrainian Armed Forces suffered 2 lethal casualties; 7 more got wounded.

NSDC of Ukraine ✔ @NSDC_ua
Ukrainian servicemen spotted 15 enemy UAVs in #Mariupol and #Luhansk sectors

NSDC of Ukraine ✔ @NSDC_ua
Russia continues to supply its proxies with military equipment and ammunition via uncontrolled parts of RU-UA border.

NSDC of Ukraine ✔ @NSDC_ua
Militants regroup their forces and create new units; imitating heavy weapons withdrawal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcPWJ8PXxnw … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1z24SJK3LhQ … #Russia's #Strelkov robbed,killed #Sloviansk civilians,fmr mayor/collaborator says.

Attempted assassination of the leader of the Rus gang and terrorist infighting in LNR http://fb.me/3ApqmAFWf

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From the Office of Russian "altered states of reality"--just another normal day of disinformation, misinformation and outright propaganda.

It does seem they went off the deep end the last two days.

Now this is a true Russian FM “altered state of reality” as there is no such OSCE report—sometimes one does in fact wonder just what the Russian FM is smoking these days?

But since there is not a single push back by any mainstream western media concerning the constant lying I guess he feels safe in continuing the lying.

#Statement
#Lavrov: "The @OSCE_SMM reports show that 80% of the violations of the #Minsk agreements are caused by Ukrainian side

AND another really “altered state of reality” as Ukraine has never stated exactly what Lavrov “claims” to know they are going to do??????

#News
Insane #Russia / #Lavrov once again claim, #Minsk agreement wouldn't allow reintegration of occupied #Donbas regions into #Ukraine.

AND even more of the same “altered state”????

MOSCOW NOT RULE OUT THAT KYIV MIGHT RESORT TO PROVOCATIVE ACTS IN UKRAINE TO GET WEAPONS FROM ABROAD - LAVROV via Interfax

AND it just keeps getting worse---as Ukraine has already passed and signed into law the “special status zone” which both Russia and her mercenaries refused to accept and blamed Ukraine for not adhering to Minsk 2—so what the heck is this statement all about????

#Moscow urges #Kiev to grant special status to some districts in #Donbas - Lavrov

NOW if it can get worse this crazy following statement—does he realize as a Russian FM not many in the West are talking him seriously?

Lavrov today: "Leaders of DNR and LNR are recognized by the world. Their signatures are under Minsk agrmt". DNR/LNR have only been recognized by the2 Russian enclaves and Venezuela.

#RUSSIA WON'T VOTE AT UN SECURITY COUNCIL ON KYIV'S REQUEST FOR PEACEKEEPERS - LAVROV via Interfax

Yesterday, CSTO Sec Gen Bordyuzha said CSTO "is ready to provide peacekeeping units to resolve conflict in Ukraine" https://translate.google.ie/translate?sl=ru&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.odkb-csto.org%2Fnews%2Fdetail.php%3FELEMENT_ID%3D4443%2 6SECTION_ID%3D91&edit-text= …

Russia is badly wanting to deploy a Russia led peacekeeping force inside the Ukraine and the CSTO is the way to do it but then the Lavrov statement seems to contradict the CSTO SG statement.

IDEA TO DEPLOY #UN PEACEKEEPERS OR #EU POLICE IN #UKRAINE IS #KYIV'S DIVERSIONARY MANEUVER -LAVROV via Interfax

Sometimes one also wonders these days about Gorbachev’s statements as well:
Gorbachev again rewrites history, blames war in #Ukraine on Perestroika failure & USSR breakup
http://rt.com/politics/242549-gortbachev-russia-ukraine-ussr/ …

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AND this takes the prize from yesterday:

Russian minister of culture claims that "Finland is part of the Russian world". Finns themselves beg to differ... pic.twitter.com/tSjXhGOcsh

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15:02 #Donetsk @nixer79: Battles moved from #Opytne-#Spartak area towards the airport.

#BreakingNews
A group of 4 (pro-)Russian terrorists shot and killed an Ukrainian SBU agent in #Volnovakha this morning.
Manhunt ongoing

14:48 #Donetsk @relictDon: Sounds of small arms fire and explosions in the northwest.

Bit of an usual sight: what looks like a Beetle (Жук) engineering reconnaissance vehicle in Luhansk yesterday. pic.twitter.com/KNN7QDE0SM

#Footage
Ukrainian forces attack Russian position near #Donetsk #airport.
Date unknown.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vH0qAGGUVyk … pic.twitter.com/lZvY6trNPx

New #footage of fighters from #Ossetia, getting ready to attack #Donetsk #airport last autumn.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0-ckx0veBU …

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#Donetsk:
Ongoing battle w mortars, AA guns, small arms at Spartak-#Optyne area

#Donetsk: Loud shelling from airport area - via @hauzenmynh

Rus-backed militants blasted rail track in Volnovakha area, Popasna to cut off connection w/ occupied areas - #NSDC pic.twitter.com/5gnMez3aVX

John McCain: "Mariupol Is Next" http://www.realcleardefense.com/video/2015/03/21/john_mccain_mariupol_is_next_.html …

One of the main points in Minsk 1 and 2 agreements is the control of the Ukrainian border by Ukrainians and monitored by OSCE—notice Russia does not adhere to either Minsk 1 and or 2 and does not allow internationally recognized border inspections of their “so called” aid convoys which have turned out to be just military resupply and fueler convoys:

Russia preps next war convoy of weapons & ammo to Ukraine (officially: "seeds").
No customs inspection permitted.
http://russian.rt.com/article/80914

Stockholm Concerned About Possible Russian Military Operation Against Sweden http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/natosource/stockholm-s-security-service-concerned-about-possible-russian-militatry-operation-against-sweden … #Russia #Ukraine pic.twitter.com/w2pfn3Boi4

Russian nuclear threats against NATO missile defense shield and Danish Navy-----
Kremlin made very same threats in 80s, when trying to block basing of Pershing-2s and GLCMs in Europe. #Failed

Putin admits he totally lied re Crimea but chief tv propagandist still serves up same lies: http://ti.me/1Bd4Fha

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Administration only recently started calling out Russian INF violations concerning a long distance cruise missile that is nuclear capable and in direct violation to the Russian signed INF.

Russia recently claimed they were not in violation, then claimed such complaints should be handled privately and recently not said anything when their long distance nuclear bombers actually carries out a mock LDCM launch.

And the administration still silence basically.

Northcom: Russian Cruise Missile Threat to U.S. Grows http://freebeacon.com/national-security/northcom-russian-cruise-missile-threat-to-u-s-grows/ …

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From the Office of Russian "altered states of reality"--just another normal day of disinformation, misinformation and outright propaganda.

It does seem they went off the deep end the last two days.

Now this is a true Russian FM “altered state of reality” as there is no such OSCE report—sometimes one does in fact wonder just what the Russian FM is smoking these days?

But since there is not a single push back by any mainstream western media concerning the constant lying I guess he feels safe in continuing the lying.

#Statement
#Lavrov: "The @OSCE_SMM reports show that 80% of the violations of the #Minsk agreements are caused by Ukrainian side

AND another really “altered state of reality” as Ukraine has never stated exactly what Lavrov “claims” to know they are going to do??????

#News
Insane #Russia / #Lavrov once again claim, #Minsk agreement wouldn't allow reintegration of occupied #Donbas regions into #Ukraine.

AND even more of the same “altered state”????

MOSCOW NOT RULE OUT THAT KYIV MIGHT RESORT TO PROVOCATIVE ACTS IN UKRAINE TO GET WEAPONS FROM ABROAD - LAVROV via Interfax

AND it just keeps getting worse---as Ukraine has already passed and signed into law the “special status zone” which both Russia and her mercenaries refused to accept and blamed Ukraine for not adhering to Minsk 2—so what the heck is this statement all about????

#Moscow urges #Kiev to grant special status to some districts in #Donbas - Lavrov

NOW if it can get worse this crazy following statement—does he realize as a Russian FM not many in the West are talking him seriously?

Lavrov today: "Leaders of DNR and LNR are recognized by the world. Their signatures are under Minsk agrmt". DNR/LNR have only been recognized by the2 Russian enclaves and Venezuela.

#RUSSIA WON'T VOTE AT UN SECURITY COUNCIL ON KYIV'S REQUEST FOR PEACEKEEPERS - LAVROV via Interfax

Yesterday, CSTO Sec Gen Bordyuzha said CSTO "is ready to provide peacekeeping units to resolve conflict in Ukraine" https://translate.google.ie/translate?sl=ru&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.odkb-csto.org%2Fnews%2Fdetail.php%3FELEMENT_ID%3D4443%2 6SECTION_ID%3D91&edit-text= …

Russia is badly wanting to deploy a Russia led peacekeeping force inside the Ukraine and the CSTO is the way to do it but then the Lavrov statement seems to contradict the CSTO SG statement.

IDEA TO DEPLOY #UN PEACEKEEPERS OR #EU POLICE IN #UKRAINE IS #KYIV'S DIVERSIONARY MANEUVER -LAVROV via Interfax

Sometimes one also wonders these days about Gorbachev’s statements as well:
Gorbachev again rewrites history, blames war in #Ukraine on Perestroika failure & USSR breakup
http://rt.com/politics/242549-gortbachev-russia-ukraine-ussr/ …

DNR/LNR global recognition because of the Minsk agreement as stated by Lavrov:

Those two clowns signed it... but Merkel, Hollande, Putin and Poroshenko didn't... so Lavrov again lies.

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Russia is really adhering to Minsk 2---sure.......

#BreakingReport
There is a direct railway line between #Rostov and #Luhansk now, delivering troops, equipment + ammo.http://informator.lg.ua/?p=78300

SOMETIMES Russian FM slips up and actually tells the truth--yes Russian troops are in the Ukraine.

Lavrov (seriously): We can provide APC & drones but to "manage these machines and drones we have our operators.It should be the men of war."

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Russian professor gives a Nazi salute to hail Crimea and Sevastopol that stood up to the oppression of Ukr democracy. pic.twitter.com/dKaHVBWRTl

NATO SG says if Ukraine applies for NATO membership, they have the same criteria and ability to join as any other country. #BrusselsForum10

50% Donbas residents want to stay in #Ukraine, fear #Russia "DNR" militants more than Right Sector http://khpg.org/en/index.php?id=1426517734 …

Power outage in at least part of Luhansk, possibly all of the city but some places have generators

WOW! Poland’s pro-Russia Zmiana party urges embrace of Putin
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/a

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Russian journos "Ukrainian children must be killed or at least sold on the slavery market" pic.twitter.com/AmOzltxJo6
#BREAKING Russian "journos" discuss how to terminate children of Ukrainians:
pic.twitter.com/iaaDyClQDN

MoD March 2014: There are no Russian troops invading Crimea. MoD March 2015: Russia does not intend to attack anyone. http://russian.rt.com/article/80904

#Analysis #Map
Highly likely, #Ukrainian forces destroyed the Seversky-Donets brigde South of Stanitsa-Luhanska. pic.twitter.com/uXsdeMWQzT

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Interesting if in fact Russian heavy tanks had already crossed into eastern Ukraine on the day of the Crimea Referendum.

Would seem to then have been a coordinated military action.

How #Russia occupied #Crimea: RU tanks in #Ukraine in the day of Crimean illegal referendum http://empr.media/video/occupied-crimea/russian-tanks-in-ukraine-in-the-day-of-crimean-illegal-referendum … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UKlRMzmNJM …

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Russia is really adhering to Minsk 2---sure.......

#BreakingReport
There is a direct railway line between #Rostov and #Luhansk now, delivering troops, equipment + ammo.http://informator.lg.ua/?p=78300

SOMETIMES Russian FM slips up and actually tells the truth--yes Russian troops are in the Ukraine.

Lavrov (seriously): We can provide APC & drones but to "manage these machines and drones we have our operators.It should be the men of war."

Seems that while the Russian FM is "distressed over the Ukraine" he seems to not have known about Russian military rail cars being used to deliver weapons, munitions and troops into eastern Ukraine.

Lavrov says distressed with Ukraine crisis

Russia
March 21, 16:53 UTC+3

MOSCOW, March 21. /TASS/. The conflict in Ukraine is a real tragedy, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Saturday.

"Yes, I am in distress. The events in Ukraine are tragic," Lavrov said in an interview with "Vesti on Saturday with Sergey Brilev", a TV programme on the Rossiya-1 channel.

"But I am also distressed with the facts that whims and total unwillingness to negotiate of a number of Kiev politicians simply blocks the implementation of agreements which everyone considered a good and implementable compromise," he added.

The minister said he did not even want to think of what would happen if the peace process was disrupted.

"The agreements should be fulfilled and we would be seeking it," he said.

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Does Putin fully understand that the slide into 1914 was created by words and sabre rattling and when it happened everyone was equally shocked.

My question---- is Putin actually believing his own propaganda and is in fact now trapped in that propaganda and can no loner fully recognize WHEN to stop that is if he can actually even stop now??

Really worth the full read concerning this weeks massive unannounced military drills that violated all OSCE and Vienna agreements.

NOTICE---General Gerasimov-----he is the doctrinal father of the new Russian doctrine of non linear warfare or what is called New Generation Warfare or what the West calls hybrid warfare.

Putin Mobilizes Forces Preparing to Fight With NATO and US

Publication: Eurasia Daily Monitor Volume: 12 Issue: 51

March 19, 2015 03:05 PM Age: 1 day

By: Pavel Felgenhauer

(Source: TASS)

This week (March 16–21), the Russian military began massive, “sudden” military exercises (“vnezapnaya proverka”). The authorities initially announced that the “sudden exercises” are intended to check out the battle readiness of Russia’s Northern Fleet and the possibility of reinforcing it with forces from other military districts. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, 38,000 soldiers, 3,360 military vehicles, 41 navy ships, 15 submarines and 110 aircraft are involved in the exercise. The mass deployment of air and naval forces in the Barents Sea practices ensuring the safety of Russian nuclear missile–armed submarines, which have to be defended at all costs before they launch their hundreds of nuclear warheads at the United States. The military plans to land marines and paratroopers on the shore of the Kola Peninsula close to the Norwegian border and on the polar archipelagos of Novaya Zemlya and Franz Josef Land.

According to a defense ministry source, the “sudden exercise” was intended to send a message to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) that Russia is ready for war and can counter with force the deployment of limited US and other NATO forces to the Baltic, Romania, Poland and Bulgaria. Moscow, apparently, did not give Western nations any prior notification about the exercise (Vedomosti, March 17).

On March 18, the Russian defense minister, Army-General Sergei Shoigu, announced that the “sudden exercises,” though centered on the North Fleet, will in effect cover most of Russia's national territory, with action in the Baltic region, the Black Sea and Crimea, the Far East, and central Russia. The transport air command, long-range strategic bomber command, strategic rocket forces, and the Airborne troops (VDV) will be involved. Shoigu’s first deputy, the chief of the General Staff, Army-General Valery Gerasimov, is directly in charge of the “sudden exercises,” and a special high-ranking operational staff headed by Gerasimov has been deployed to the Kola Peninsula. According to Shoigu, the “sudden exercises” are more massive in scope than previously announced: 76,000 soldiers, 65 navy ships, 15 submarines and over 200 military aircraft (Mil.ru, March 18).

Marines of the Black Sea Fleet have been mobilized into full battle readiness in Crimea and the North Caucasus’ Taman Peninsula. Russian defense forces in Crimea have been reinforced by ten Tu-22M3 “Backfire” strategic bombers and “a motor-rifle brigade from the Central military district” (Interfax, March 18). Russian forces in the Kaliningrad exclave on the Baltic have been reinforced with jet fighters and bombers from the Russian mainland. A “source in the defense ministry” told Russian state news agencies: “Baltic Fleet landing assault ships are tasked to deliver Iskander ballistic missiles for deployment in Kaliningrad.” During previous military exercises in 2014, Iskander missiles have been temporarily deployed in Kaliningrad, but this was announced after they were reportedly shipped out. The Iskander is capable of delivering a half-ton conventional or a nuclear warhead with high precision at a reported maximum range of 500 kilometers. The Iskanders from the Kaliningrad exclave can hit any target inside Poland, much of the Baltic states, and parts of Germany and the Czech and Slovak republics—all of them being NATO members. The announcement of Iskanders deployed in a forward position aimed at Europe and the deliberate ambiguity about the intention to keep them in Kaliningrad permanently or to withdraw after the end of the “sudden exercises” are intended, according to Russian commentators, as an “information attack” to intimidate Europeans (Regnum, March 17).

This week, Russia is also celebrating with much official pomp the one-year anniversary of the annexation of Crimea. March 18, has been made a regional public holiday in Crimea, and State Duma deputies have proposed to make March 18, a national holiday—The Day of the Unification of Russian Lands. The process of “unification” may not be over and may involve other territories with Russian-speaking populations: parts of Ukraine and the Baltic republics of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. According to Duma foreign affairs committee chairman Alexei Pushkov, “In Lithuania, the authorities say they fear Russian aggression and need to hold out three days before NATO reinforcements arrive—that is clearly warmongering” (Rbctv, March 17). In turn, the Lithuanian parliament, this week, rushed through a law to reinstate conscription, which was abolished in 2008. According to the Lithuanian defense ministry, conscription will allow the country to increase the number of soldiers and help form a reserve force (Interfax, March 19).

In a propaganda film aired on prime time by Russia state TV, on March 15, President Vladimir Putin announced that a decision to take over Crimea was taken in the morning of March 23, 2014 (see EDM, March 17). To ensure the Crimea takeover, Russian special forces soldiers, marines and paratroopers were secretly deployed as well as new Bastion batteries with Yahont land-based supersonic anti-ship cruise missiles to fend off the US and NATO navies. According to Putin, the Kremlin was not sure the West would not intervene to prevent the occupation of Crimea and was ready to use nuclear weapons as a measure of last resort: “We were ready for the worst case scenario, but hoped it would not happen.” Putin added: “Our nukes are always ready for action” (Rossiyskaya Gazeta, March 16).

The massive “sudden exercises” of the Russian military this week carry a clear message: Moscow is not ready to stand down and is threatening the use of force, including nuclear weapons. A ceasefire is holding in Ukraine at present, but it is wobbly, and the status quo on the ground does not satisfy Russian long-term aspirations.IAt a mass state-organized rally to commemorate Crimea’s annexation on March 18, in Moscow close to the Kremlin, Putin declared: “Russians and Ukrainians are one people” (odin narod) (Kremlin.ru, March 18).

In September 2013, the present Ukrainian crisis was still in the making, triggered by Kyiv’s desire to sign an association agreement with the European Union, which Putin utterly opposed. Speaking to reporters in the Kremlin, Putin announced: “No matter what happens, or where Ukraine goes, anyway someday we will be together [as one nation], because we are one people” (Kremlin.ru, September 4, 2013). Putin’s continued assertion of Russians and Ukrainians as “one people” sounds much alike one of the Nazis’ most-repeated political slogans: “Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer”—“One People, One Empire, One Leader.” In pursuit of a dream of the reunification of all the presumed Russian peoples, nuclear blackmail or “brinkmanship” may be used and sudden military exercises will be enacted that are, in essence, direct preparations for possible large-scale war in Europe.

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Night Wolves deny Lebedev's claims in The Times of an anti-Putin alliance of ultranationalists & Kadyrovites. http://www.mk.ru/politics/2015/03/20/kadyrov-i-baykery-o-planakh-sverzheniya-putina.html …

Head of self-proclaimed DNR Zakharchenko: the 'republic' will now use four currencies: #Ukraine hrivniya, US dollar, Euro, #Russia|n ruble

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28I2hHKa30k … #Communists w/ warlord Alexei "Forget #MH17" Mozgovoi's"Ghost Brigade"(#Russia-held #Luhansk) pic.twitter.com/OgEsAqbJM0

Seems, I was right about the intention.
This beast is to cross rivers and lakes. pic.twitter.com/Z6ZBA0f28b

Also proves, the Ukrainian "defense" there is a JOKE!
Russian forces could lead @lifenews_ru crew over the river. pic.twitter.com/Cx6VmpuUll

#Analysis #Map
Russian fighters and Russian TV cross Seversky-Donets without Ukrainian resistance.
#MinskFarce pic.twitter.com/Mi12GqUWaH

ALERT! CSTO is ready to provide peacekeeping units to resolve conflict in Ukraine. CSTO 20 Mar http://www.odkb-csto.org/news/detail.php?ELEMENT_ID=4443&SECTION_ID=91 … pic.twitter.com/sQyuzTu46O

Bordyuzha: If decision is taken (he says by United Nations) Russian-led CSTO is ready to provide a peacekeeping division

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Russian “Holy War”????
Rogozin has lost it. He quotes von Münnich: "Russian State has the advantage over others that it is directly governed by God Himself".

Putin just made a huge decision that may explain his strange disappearance http://www.businessinsider.com/putin-is-facing-an-impossible-choice-2015-3 …

"The DNR is the perfect example for what I want to see in France. I want all cities in France to look like Donetsk"
https://news.vice.com/video/volunteer-soldiers-fighting-in-ukraine-russian-roulette-dispatch-102?utm_source=vicenewstwitter …

Air Policing jets on 21 MAR in international airspace above the Baltic Sea near LV border identified RU AF. 2x An-26, 2x Su-27, 2x Su-34.

RUAF activity today 21MAR15 @ Rostov-na-Donu. Su-34s, Su-27, Tu-95. Fly-by? (C) M.Mizikaev pic.twitter.com/jrmEovTYeA

#Footage
Russian invasion forces BTR-80 column in #Donetsk city.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9QCgsH8QVE …
pic.twitter.com/qXnKQj366O

#OSCE: The security situation in #Donbas is fluid and unpredictable and the ceasefire does not hold everywhere.
http://www.osce.org/ukraine-smm/145931 …

Latest from SMM to Ukraine 20 March: artillery/mortar fire in number locations -incl in/around Donetsk, E of Mariupol http://bit.ly/1DIyblJ

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Notice---why is the Russian General assigned to JCCC complaining????

Russian General Lentsov blames Ukrainian Forces for destroying Stanytsia Luhanska bridge using remote-controlled explosive device http://www.osce.org/ukraine-smm/145931 …

RU have now 2 bridgeheads there and in a couple of days RU will move lots of manpower on The other side of Donets river.


Russian wanted the OSCE to monitor the Minsk agreements and not the UN and or the EU now they refuse to allow them to travel anywhere in the Russian occupied regions--

#OSCE has to ask in advance for permission to visit sites they wish to see + they are supervised by the Russians. http://www.stripes.com/news/europe/confidence-in-ukraine-s-cease-fire-hurt-by-arms-violations-1.335879 …

They can move around freely on Ukrainian territory. Russian brass: "That's true, but on that territory there is no fighting"

"The war is here, in the SE. So we control them (OSCE) because we want to provide safety for them." Ah. Right. But of course.

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Now Russia is attempting via one of their media outlets and and alleged expert to push back on the new MH17 shot down evidence that proved it was a Russian BUK missile.

Eliot Higgins @EliotHiggins
I see Sputnik has wheeled out Peter Haisenko in an attempt to counter the #MH17 Buk shrapnel claims http://sputniknews.com/europe/20150320/1019794720.html …

I note Peter Haisenko repeats the debunked claims R60 missile debris was found in the wreckage of #MH17

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Does Putin fully understand that the slide into 1914 was created by words and sabre rattling and when it happened everyone was equally shocked.

My question---- is Putin actually believing his own propaganda and is in fact now trapped in that propaganda and can no loner fully recognize WHEN to stop that is if he can actually even stop now??

Really worth the full read concerning this weeks massive unannounced military drills that violated all OSCE and Vienna agreements.

NOTICE---General Gerasimov-----he is the doctrinal father of the new Russian doctrine of non linear warfare or what is called New Generation Warfare or what the West calls hybrid warfare.

Putin Mobilizes Forces Preparing to Fight With NATO and US

Publication: Eurasia Daily Monitor Volume: 12 Issue: 51

March 19, 2015 03:05 PM Age: 1 day

By: Pavel Felgenhauer

(Source: TASS)

This week (March 16–21), the Russian military began massive, “sudden” military exercises (“vnezapnaya proverka”). The authorities initially announced that the “sudden exercises” are intended to check out the battle readiness of Russia’s Northern Fleet and the possibility of reinforcing it with forces from other military districts. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, 38,000 soldiers, 3,360 military vehicles, 41 navy ships, 15 submarines and 110 aircraft are involved in the exercise. The mass deployment of air and naval forces in the Barents Sea practices ensuring the safety of Russian nuclear missile–armed submarines, which have to be defended at all costs before they launch their hundreds of nuclear warheads at the United States. The military plans to land marines and paratroopers on the shore of the Kola Peninsula close to the Norwegian border and on the polar archipelagos of Novaya Zemlya and Franz Josef Land.

According to a defense ministry source, the “sudden exercise” was intended to send a message to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) that Russia is ready for war and can counter with force the deployment of limited US and other NATO forces to the Baltic, Romania, Poland and Bulgaria. Moscow, apparently, did not give Western nations any prior notification about the exercise (Vedomosti, March 17).

On March 18, the Russian defense minister, Army-General Sergei Shoigu, announced that the “sudden exercises,” though centered on the North Fleet, will in effect cover most of Russia's national territory, with action in the Baltic region, the Black Sea and Crimea, the Far East, and central Russia. The transport air command, long-range strategic bomber command, strategic rocket forces, and the Airborne troops (VDV) will be involved. Shoigu’s first deputy, the chief of the General Staff, Army-General Valery Gerasimov, is directly in charge of the “sudden exercises,” and a special high-ranking operational staff headed by Gerasimov has been deployed to the Kola Peninsula. According to Shoigu, the “sudden exercises” are more massive in scope than previously announced: 76,000 soldiers, 65 navy ships, 15 submarines and over 200 military aircraft (Mil.ru, March 18).

Marines of the Black Sea Fleet have been mobilized into full battle readiness in Crimea and the North Caucasus’ Taman Peninsula. Russian defense forces in Crimea have been reinforced by ten Tu-22M3 “Backfire” strategic bombers and “a motor-rifle brigade from the Central military district” (Interfax, March 18). Russian forces in the Kaliningrad exclave on the Baltic have been reinforced with jet fighters and bombers from the Russian mainland. A “source in the defense ministry” told Russian state news agencies: “Baltic Fleet landing assault ships are tasked to deliver Iskander ballistic missiles for deployment in Kaliningrad.” During previous military exercises in 2014, Iskander missiles have been temporarily deployed in Kaliningrad, but this was announced after they were reportedly shipped out. The Iskander is capable of delivering a half-ton conventional or a nuclear warhead with high precision at a reported maximum range of 500 kilometers. The Iskanders from the Kaliningrad exclave can hit any target inside Poland, much of the Baltic states, and parts of Germany and the Czech and Slovak republics—all of them being NATO members. The announcement of Iskanders deployed in a forward position aimed at Europe and the deliberate ambiguity about the intention to keep them in Kaliningrad permanently or to withdraw after the end of the “sudden exercises” are intended, according to Russian commentators, as an “information attack” to intimidate Europeans (Regnum, March 17).

This week, Russia is also celebrating with much official pomp the one-year anniversary of the annexation of Crimea. March 18, has been made a regional public holiday in Crimea, and State Duma deputies have proposed to make March 18, a national holiday—The Day of the Unification of Russian Lands. The process of “unification” may not be over and may involve other territories with Russian-speaking populations: parts of Ukraine and the Baltic republics of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. According to Duma foreign affairs committee chairman Alexei Pushkov, “In Lithuania, the authorities say they fear Russian aggression and need to hold out three days before NATO reinforcements arrive—that is clearly warmongering” (Rbctv, March 17). In turn, the Lithuanian parliament, this week, rushed through a law to reinstate conscription, which was abolished in 2008. According to the Lithuanian defense ministry, conscription will allow the country to increase the number of soldiers and help form a reserve force (Interfax, March 19).

In a propaganda film aired on prime time by Russia state TV, on March 15, President Vladimir Putin announced that a decision to take over Crimea was taken in the morning of March 23, 2014 (see EDM, March 17). To ensure the Crimea takeover, Russian special forces soldiers, marines and paratroopers were secretly deployed as well as new Bastion batteries with Yahont land-based supersonic anti-ship cruise missiles to fend off the US and NATO navies. According to Putin, the Kremlin was not sure the West would not intervene to prevent the occupation of Crimea and was ready to use nuclear weapons as a measure of last resort: “We were ready for the worst case scenario, but hoped it would not happen.” Putin added: “Our nukes are always ready for action” (Rossiyskaya Gazeta, March 16).

The massive “sudden exercises” of the Russian military this week carry a clear message: Moscow is not ready to stand down and is threatening the use of force, including nuclear weapons. A ceasefire is holding in Ukraine at present, but it is wobbly, and the status quo on the ground does not satisfy Russian long-term aspirations.IAt a mass state-organized rally to commemorate Crimea’s annexation on March 18, in Moscow close to the Kremlin, Putin declared: “Russians and Ukrainians are one people” (odin narod) (Kremlin.ru, March 18).

In September 2013, the present Ukrainian crisis was still in the making, triggered by Kyiv’s desire to sign an association agreement with the European Union, which Putin utterly opposed. Speaking to reporters in the Kremlin, Putin announced: “No matter what happens, or where Ukraine goes, anyway someday we will be together [as one nation], because we are one people” (Kremlin.ru, September 4, 2013). Putin’s continued assertion of Russians and Ukrainians as “one people” sounds much alike one of the Nazis’ most-repeated political slogans: “Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer”—“One People, One Empire, One Leader.” In pursuit of a dream of the reunification of all the presumed Russian peoples, nuclear blackmail or “brinkmanship” may be used and sudden military exercises will be enacted that are, in essence, direct preparations for possible large-scale war in Europe.

On 20 March 2015, Russia threatened Europe with "military confrontation" http://www.mid.ru/brp_4.nsf/0/3012E6F3A760CB4143257E0F0033A8BB … pic.twitter.com/OdC9q1s8Q1

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#Russian-backed terrorists try to break into #Trokhizbenka in #Luhansk Oblast,E #Ukraine |EMPR http://empr.media/news/russian-backed-terrorists-tried-to-break-into-trokhizbenka-in-luhansk-oblast … pic.twitter.com/Vf9jOsOWeI

Col.Fedichev of ATO Staff: Rus-backed militants fired from #Donetsk squares, streets 12 times in last 24hrs incl 7 from airport @pressdonoda

ATO intel: Rus-backed militants in #Donbas r being trained by Lebanese instructors experienced in street fighting w Israel army @pressdonoda

Are we now seeing the Russian Syrian/Hezbollah/Iranian/Lebanese connections coming into play?

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Russian troops and her mercenaries are picking up the fighting pace today:

#BreakingNews
Sharp escalation in Russian ceasefire violations in #Donbas.
30 attacks in from 5am to 7pm, 2 of them with heavy artillery

This is how the @OSCE_SMM describes the situation around #Shyrokyne, contradicting #Azov claims and #my geolocations. pic.twitter.com/HjLwemErbh

Let me say it frankly: @OSCE_SMM is wrong. Ukrainian forces control 10% of Shyrokyne, "DPR" 70%. Rest is buffer zone.

#Donbas battalion reports on nearly all-day-long fighting in Shyrokyne & 29 militants KIA, Donbas suffered no losses https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=882921415102799&id=849793758415565 …

21.03.2015: Ukrainian soldiers under attack. Russians using artillery and tanks. Russians preparing offensive? https://youtu.be/VI37sA14Dsk

According to the Russian propaganda, they crossed the Seversky-Donets on a front of more than 15 kilometers ... pic.twitter.com/u5LkzfAKK4

According to the Ukr army, they passed the river at no point ... but who knows, given the fact, that ... #Minsk. pic.twitter.com/JLhI7sD7PM

This is the front situation in the area, according to my research and map, though I'm not 100% sure with Vodyane. pic.twitter.com/hpFK4yob2l

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As the Russian fighting pace is picking up there is a sudden change in their informational warfare messaging ie they are blaming the Ukrainians for the failure of Minsk 2.

Unbelievable!
The Russian cowards are virtually copying the Ukrainian army reports,just swap "militants" by "Ukr army"http://www.interfax.ru/world/431354

And suddenly "Azov attacks the line of contact and changes its position" and "Ukr army attacks Donetsk airport"... Pure lies and propaganda

Of course, when you mark Ukr territory as "Novorussian", every mil movement suddenly turns a "ceasefire violation" and "Ukr nazi attack" ...

Look at these bull sh..... maps, Rus propaganda is trying to sell us!
Lebedyns'ke is Ukr and the front is in Shyrokyne! pic.twitter.com/pn7Z3BVZg6

This is the front situation in the area, according to my research and map, though I'm not 100% sure with Vodyane. pic.twitter.com/hpFK4yob2l

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Not sure if this even makes it into the "altered state of reality" --better yet just outright nonsense--no wonder audiences laugh madly when Russian officials make the statement there are no Russian troops in Ukraine.

Russia wants proof of its military presence in Ukraine
http://www.unian.info/politics/1058339-russia-wants-proof-of-its-military-presence-in-ukraine.html … pic.twitter.com/77Ubb7c5og

Not sure Russia got the Ukrainian videos of the first captured Russian Airborne troops in August 2014.

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VIDEO #Russia(n) merc "Abdul"-Truce will not hold,preparing for major warhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwNkiMwyIWs … pic.twitter.com/VmedOmhXbJ

Looking more and more like the main thrust will start across Sev. Donetsk north into Luhansk, rather than towards Mariupol.

#BREAKING #ANALYSIS #MAP
Russian forces build another bridgehead across the S.-Donetsk.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jprHno_omU … pic.twitter.com/8kyvhlv6Kt

Also #Troitske further south was attacked with mortars. pic.twitter.com/btfq2xqqO6

#Minsk1 (Donetsk airport) Déjà vu
Russian use #Minsk2 to get in better positions for coming battle w/o Ukr resistance pic.twitter.com/sxLQic7XtU

Russian forces attacked #Krymske,#CP29 near #Zholobok+the other marked villages w/mortars+small arms last nightpic.twitter.com/N9Ag9vfLck

Nice "work" by the @OSCE_SMM by the way
They saw from 470 meters, Russian took over N bank of the river
And withdrew. pic.twitter.com/5rgP9hUvbF

Russians have actually crossed and formed a foot hold on territory not covered by Minsk which is a clear violation and yet out of western nations---"ceasefire is shaky"- come on……

Situation is worse than I thought.
First Ukr troops are here(->),so they lost all control about who crosses the river. pic.twitter.com/9bG1yeCNRw

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One of the main Putin arguments for entering eastern Ukraine was to "defend" ethnic Russians from "marauding Nazi's being supported by a Nazi junta".

How is it then possible to be holding a European wide fascist forum in St. Petersburg and how is it possible that six Russian neo ultra nationalists/fascist fighting groups are in eastern Ukraine fighting "so called Ukrainian fascists"???

Protester outside St Petersburg forum venue: "We don't need foreign Nazis. Enough of our own".
pic.twitter.com/1wI3pEoQnw
via @leonidragozin

Open forum of all European Nazis in St.Petersburg, Russia. And they blame the Ukrainians "in all sins". Like Nazis of 1938 blamed the Jews

Plenty of propaganda about fascists on both sides of the Ukraine conflict, but hard to explain away a conference of pro-Putin fascists

Fascist forum held in RF, not UA. When'll West's left realize they were duped by Kremlin into thinking there was "fascist coup" in Ukraine?

Pro-#Putin Motherland Party rallies #Europe's far-right (Golden Dawn,Forza Nuova)in #StPetersburg,#Russia. pic.twitter.com/G0pzC840oQ

Neo-Nazi Russian war criminal Alexey Michalkov warmly welcomed by @HolidayInn to the neo-Nazi congress it's hosting. pic.twitter.com/6BTbzPfvVG

Malofeev's friend Fiore who @maxseddon says does not mind being called Fascist, signed anti-Fascist memorandum Yalta. Head explodes

Nick Griffin: Nazis - those who kill Russians in Ukraine http://russia.liveuamap.com/en/2015/22-march-nick-griffin-nazis--those-who-kill-russians-in-ukraine … #Russia pic.twitter.com/SMNVgUc81M via @MaloverjanBBC

Chief sources of inspiration at far right conference in St Petersburg: Vladimir Putin and Marine Le Pen pic.twitter.com/glVVLm4ENi

Far-right attendees of "Conservative" politicians and activists pic.twitter.com/eAq7ikv4Kb"

After end of neo-nazi conference: "Solemn dinner by invitation only". Brown tie and torch required. pic.twitter.com/7eWoWxnSBA

Nazis forum in St.Petersburg was organized by Russian Rodina party. Members: Putin aide Glazyev and Deputy Prime Minister of Russia Rogozin

Founder of far right party in UK puts bare-chested picture of Putin on screen, says Russia 'blessed' by being ruled by 'real man'

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#Footage
Russian soldiers train less experienced Rus "Division Sparta" fighters in #Donbas.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkLHzQJE-3I … pic.twitter.com/S8H8EzrRQu

MFA of Ukraine ✔ @MFA_Ukraine
Stmt of the MFA Ukraine in response 2 the distribution of unreliable inform by the @mfa_russia http://bit.ly/1CIvwY3 pic.twitter.com/ctAPOlzXYC

Sputnik calls for welcoming US Army in the Czech Rep by Molotov cocktails
http://www.reflex.cz/clanek/komentare/62981/viliam-buchert-idiocie-v-praxi-mluvci-ne-zakladnam-srovnava-kolony-armady-usa-s-hitlerem.html …
http://www.ceskatelevize.cz/ct24/svet/305587-americky-vojensky-konvoj-ktery-projede-i-ceskem-vyrazil-z-estonska/?g=637050 …

#Kadyrov blames West for #Russia invading #Ukraine & calls #BorisNemtsov's suspected killer "patriot"
pic.twitter.com/marZEu0cUF

In March 2014, in risk analysis for Bulgaria, I wrote this. Now BG is "suprised" Kremlin-linked proxy buys #1 telecom pic.twitter.com/isFf046J3j

OSCE: Despite claims, heavy weapons withdrawal NOT completed, artillery being used within ceasefire zone. pic.twitter.com/tVj957jzO6

Finally mainstream media is now fully understanding Russian informational conflict:
The Economist ✔ @EconEurope
Europe is waking up to Moscow's “weaponisation of information”. Worth giving truth a chance http://econ.trib.al/llwKksZ pic.twitter.com/5D9ho4kE5z

08:34 #Donetsk: since 07:00 constant rumble (artillery or tanks) and SMG/MG fire sounds from the airport direction

#Putin created DNR-Whatever preparing for final attack on #Mariupol-Ex-Deputy Head http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&hl=en&prev=search&rurl=translate.google.co.uk&sl=ru&u=http://www.segodnya.ua/regions/donetsk/boeviki-gotovyatsya-k-poslednemu-v-etom-godu-nastupleniyu-eks-zamestitel-glavy-genshtaba-601576.html&usg=ALkJrhiVJU75C1JONeRM7P62zcfjxK-bKQ …
pic.twitter.com/PMdMoU38oz

NATO/US Admiral James Stavridis-#Russia fighting for corridor from #Donbas to #Crimea http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=ru&u=http://glavcom.ua/news/&prev=search … #Ukraine pic.twitter.com/hCPesy07ym

VIDEO #Russia(n) Merc "Motorola"& "Locals" w "Sparta" Batt training w T-72s #Donetsk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkLHzQJE-3I … #Ukraine pic.twitter.com/9L007RQRnN

#Russia(ns) attacked #Ukraine troops #Shyrokyne near #Mariupol w mortars,anti-tank weapons http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&hl=en&prev=search&rurl=translate.google.co.uk&sl=ru&u=http://www.0629.com.ua/news/774609&usg=ALkJrhi1xZ8gc6FZT1Q3RhfiGBxEMahUrg … pic.twitter.com/pCoKQ9mkIC

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Another “flies in the face of utter reality” statement from the Russian FM—am not so certain Crimea Tartars would agree with the comment:

Russian Embassy, UAE ✔ @RusEmbassyUAE
Forbes: #Crimea Ukrainians, Russians, #Tartars agree: life w/ #Russia better than w/ #Ukraine http://goo.gl/xxzxvE pic.twitter.com/mecO5PKoav

RU Headline: "Western media acknowledged: Russia best place to immigrate".
Actual source: 1 ranking for expats ranks RU at 17, below Oman.

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VIDEO #MH17 shot down by #BUK missile: The definite PROOF https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-mRxT8_AsY#t=25 … pic.twitter.com/ol8TqdxF0l

Russian internet trolls and the general Russian media have yet to disprove evidence being presented by the Dutch investigation team other than "hoax" and or an "expert" who is not an real expert.

Actually they have gone silent which is rather unusual.

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Another set of perfect examples of the use of Russian informational conflict—designed for Russian civil society consumption.

Report: #Russia TV hired 50 actors w/scripts, prop cars 2 film a "riot" on #Odessa street (7AM Sat). pic.twitter.com/EALe4HwgNB

My friend wrote about how fake disturbances in #Odessa were filmed for Russian tv news pic.twitter.com/QRLFhXMt2Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2tJRs-JUxU … #Russia's #Strelkov on "#Russian World," a crusading/#Ukraine,etc-invading empire v. an "Antichrist"/"hedonist" West

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One of the main Putin arguments for entering eastern Ukraine was to "defend" ethnic Russians from "marauding Nazi's being supported by a Nazi junta".

How is it then possible to be holding a European wide fascist forum in St. Petersburg and how is it possible that six Russian neo ultra nationalists/fascist fighting groups are in eastern Ukraine fighting "so called Ukrainian fascists"???

Protester outside St Petersburg forum venue: "We don't need foreign Nazis. Enough of our own".
pic.twitter.com/1wI3pEoQnw
via @leonidragozin

Open forum of all European Nazis in St.Petersburg, Russia. And they blame the Ukrainians "in all sins". Like Nazis of 1938 blamed the Jews

Plenty of propaganda about fascists on both sides of the Ukraine conflict, but hard to explain away a conference of pro-Putin fascists

Fascist forum held in RF, not UA. When'll West's left realize they were duped by Kremlin into thinking there was "fascist coup" in Ukraine?

Pro-#Putin Motherland Party rallies #Europe's far-right (Golden Dawn,Forza Nuova)in #StPetersburg,#Russia. pic.twitter.com/G0pzC840oQ

Neo-Nazi Russian war criminal Alexey Michalkov warmly welcomed by @HolidayInn to the neo-Nazi congress it's hosting. pic.twitter.com/6BTbzPfvVG

Malofeev's friend Fiore who @maxseddon says does not mind being called Fascist, signed anti-Fascist memorandum Yalta. Head explodes

Nick Griffin: Nazis - those who kill Russians in Ukraine http://russia.liveuamap.com/en/2015/22-march-nick-griffin-nazis--those-who-kill-russians-in-ukraine … #Russia pic.twitter.com/SMNVgUc81M via @MaloverjanBBC

Chief sources of inspiration at far right conference in St Petersburg: Vladimir Putin and Marine Le Pen pic.twitter.com/glVVLm4ENi

Far-right attendees of "Conservative" politicians and activists pic.twitter.com/eAq7ikv4Kb"

After end of neo-nazi conference: "Solemn dinner by invitation only". Brown tie and torch required. pic.twitter.com/7eWoWxnSBA

Nazis forum in St.Petersburg was organized by Russian Rodina party. Members: Putin aide Glazyev and Deputy Prime Minister of Russia Rogozin

Founder of far right party in UK puts bare-chested picture of Putin on screen, says Russia 'blessed' by being ruled by 'real man'

Put a bunch of European neo Nazi's and ultra nationalists in the Russian city where the Communist Revolution started and you get the following:

Now apparently there has been a bomb threat at the far-right forum in St. Petersburg. We are all being evacuated.

Nick Griffin from #BNP: "we are radical nationalists, but Washingon & Kiev are the fascists" say what now? https://instagram.com/p/0iJ-hMDATs/

Why the Kremlin sets up the neo-Nazi fest in St Pete: intimidate the West w/ even bigger evil, like Lebedev does here http://top.rbc.ru/politics/20/03/2015/550bf41e9a79471a5d29e5b4
In Russian

max seddon ✔ @maxseddon
Now Scottish pro-life campaigner Jim Dowson claims 80% of all pregnancies in Western countries are aborted. "The EU are Nazis!" he says
"...Barack Obama, another Nazi," says Dowson. Smatterings of applause

"Protect your children from undesirable information" pic.twitter.com/nYOvRx9RlG

"Politkovskaya. Berezovsky. Nemtsov. I know where they live. They live in hell," says Kris Roman of the "Euro-Rus" think tank.

Wut? "@maxseddon: Nick Griffin says Europe will collapse or become an Islamic caliphate unless Moscow, the Third Rome, saves the day."

This comment is interesting as it is the theme song of the Russian Orthodox Church in a number of their recent articles and comments concerning "the Third Rome" theory and Russia as the center of the coming "Holy War".

[davidbfpo]

Outlaw09,

If the St. Petersburg conference relies on Nick Griffin they have a problem, at least here in the UK - although I doubt the main media will report it.

Nick Griffin was the leader of the British National Party (BNP) from 1999 to October 2014, when he was expelled and left to form an even smaller fringe group. To many he was a figure of derision:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Griffin

Clearly no-one in the Russia government understands irony!

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Outlaw09,

If the St. Petersburg conference relies on Nick Griffin they have a problem, at least here in the UK - although I doubt the main media will report it.

Nick Griffin was the leader of the British National Party (BNP) from 1999 to October 2014, when he was expelled and left to form an even smaller fringe group. To many he was a figure of derision:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Griffin

Clearly no-one in the Russia government understands irony!

David--what amazes me is that for months of throwing in the face of the world and Kyiv that Ukrainians are Nazi's and that a Nazi junta overthrew a proRussian Ukrainian President who was close friends to Putin AND then in the home of the Communist Revolution with the battleship still in the harbor Putin holds a Nazi rally of all the far right European political parties now questions Russian sanity.

An old professor of mine who taught terrorism many years ago and was a RAF and Red Brigade specialist and who wrote books on terrorism from that period had a theory that stated if terrorism is a circle then the extreme left and the extreme right will met each other on that circle--and they both have the same enemy namely the nation state ie a government which they both view to be corrupt and against their political views and under control of the capitalists.

Years later Putin proves him right.

We are entering now a totally new phase where Putin is aligning with the far right to undermine the EU and the individual EU members and he has been successful now in six EU countries.

I do not think the current EU leadership is fully understanding the threat to their individual civil societies.

Example--years ago it now seems-- actually 1986 I was approached by a German agency and asked if I could trace the source of 22M USDs that was slowly drifting in to Germany and going to German neo Nazi groups via bank transfers---in the same year German authorities stopped over 8 tons of Nazi materials coming into Germany from Lincoln Nebraska--the American Nazi Party.

Couple that with EAP (European Workers Party) which got into the EU Parliament the first time out and is run by the daughter of LaRoche--who once stated you do not have to wear brown to be brown now to LePen.

RT @RuslanLeviev #Milchakov one of Delegates at today's "conservative" Forum in St Petersburg, Russia pic.twitter.com/wWc7bWmINM

Russia @udovoigt, who has been found guilty in #Germany for glorifying the Waffen-SS is an "anti-fascist".etersburg.html … pic.twitter.com/UMafyTPqI3

The core question now is--- has first the KGB been using the right during the 80s especially during the NATO Perishing 2 and Land Launched Cruise Missile stationing debate and now is Putin using the right to weaken the sanctions and support him in the Ukraine?

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http://khpg.org/index.php?id=1427032212

Prava Ludyny

Why Russia fears Donbas ’special status’ linked to fair elections

22.03.15 | Halya Coynash

версія для друку »
Ukraine’s demand that special status follow honest elections with international observers caused rage in Moscow. Take away the machine guns at polling booths, elimination of opposition and European neo-Nazi ‘observers’, and the reason for hysteria from the Kremlin and their proxies in Ukraine is clear.

On March 17, Ukraine’s parliament adopted a resolution and law on special status for areas under Kremlin-backed militant control in Donbas. The law was immediately condemned as a breach of the Minsk Accords by both the militants and Moscow, while welcomed by Germany and France as in keeping with those same Accords.

Resolution No. 2396 stipulates that the areas under militant control will be deemed temporarily occupied territory under all illegal armed formations and their military technology, as well as fighters and mercenaries are withdrawn from Ukrainian territory, and there is reinstatement of full control over Ukraine’s state border. At present a large part of the border with Russia is under militant control.

According to the amendments to the Law on Special Status adopted on March 17, special status with limited self-rule will be granted after elections are held in accordance with Ukrainian law and with proper international observers.

This presumably means without polling booths where people are surrounded by militants brandishing machine guns, and with internationally recognized observers, not members of far-right and neo-Stalinist parties invited and paid by Moscow.

This was a part of the ceasefire agreement reached in Minsk on Feb 12, but such elections are clearly stipulated also in the original Minsk Protocol (Item 9) from early September, 2014.

Sergei Lavrov, Russia’s Foreign Minister claimed that it was a breach of those accords because it linked special status with elections in which the militants would not take part. He does not appear to have explained why they would not take part. The militants themselves have told Russian media that parliament is breaching the Minsk agreements and that such elections need to be ‘agreed’ with the self-proclaimed ‘Donetsk and Luhansk people’s republics’ [‘DNR’ and ‘LNR’].

Shortly after the Minsk agreement in September last year, the militants announced their ‘elections’ which they held on Nov 3, despite this being condemned by Ukraine and all western countries as in breach of the accords. The event itself was widely criticized as bearing little in common with elections and even Russia eventually chose to only ‘respect’, rather than recognize the alleged results.

According to the new amendments to the law, local governing bodies whose members were elected in accordance with Ukrainian legislation would oversee governance with the regions exercising limited self-rule, while remaining a part of Ukraine.

Serhiy Harmash, Chief Editor of OstroV, says that the law on special status changes nothing since it impossible to enforce. He sees it as merely an item in the Minsk agreement to be able to report to the EU that it’s been done. The resolution declaring the regions occupied is belated, he says, with the regions long occupied. It is a chance for lodging legal claims against the aggressor, while also giving legal excuse for restricting citizens’ rights (with respect to passes for leaving or entering cities, non-payment of social benefits, etc.

With respect to Russia’s actions now, Harmash points out that Moscow were never restrained by any agreement. “It’s just that everybody needed a breathing space, including the Kremlin.” In fact, he believes that the fact that Ukraine is adding its rules, could drag out the peace since Russian President Vladimir Putin will be forced to modify his plans.

Well-known human rights activist Konstantin Reutsky who is currently one of the coordinators of the volunteer initiative Vostok SOS says that any ceasefire demoralizes the enemy and for that reason escalation is inevitable. Although the amendments to the law on special status are clearly an insufficient pretext, its criticism by the Russian authorities suggests that they may try to use it to justify new confrontation. He points out that there can be no moral right given that the Kremlin-backed militants (together with Russian soldiers) attacked Debaltseve the day after the agreement in Minsk on Feb 12.

“The law passed is simply a restrained “no” to the cynical demand that Ukraine recognize a region filled with Russian soldiers and military equipment as a sphere of their responsibility. Ukraine is stating that it is ready to take on this responsibility, but only after its jurisdiction is restored.”

Calling the territory occupied is simply stating the obvious. It will certainly irritate Russia, but since Putin will not stop at less than Ukraine’s total capitulation (open or covert), he says, a new wave of conflict is inevitable.

These new legislative initiatives have received widely differing assessments. Most commentators, however, clearly expect the conflict to continue. Western leaders who have been adamant in asserting the need for ‘dialogue’ and a negotiated settlement are also put to the test by these new moves. Ukraine’s legislators have demanded only what the agreements stipulated, and what would surely be reasonable were there genuinely strong local support for separatist demands.

Western leaders should try imagining the course of such elections, under real observers and without masked men with machine guns. It is unfortunately all too clear why Russia would find any pretext to prevent this.

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RU media imply @IlvesToomas said "sanctions aren't working, so we need plan B" http://www.vesti.ru/doc.html?id=2445065 …. In fact, he didn't say that.

Tymchuk:#Moscow allocates over $100mln for #TASS & #RussiaToday(over $1bln already spent on propaganda media in 2015) http://sprotyv.info/ru/news/14987-rossiya-popytalas-vyzhat-maksimum-iz-tragedii-v-konstantinovke-kolomoyskiy-na-vsyu-stranu?_utl_t=tw …

#NATO declares information war on #Russia.... http://nato.trendolizer.com/2015/03/nato-declares-information-war-on-russia.html … pic.twitter.com/8RfR4e4wm1

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Putin and his inner circle of advisors are now escalating events and they are about two slow missteps away from a repeat of 1914.

In some aspects he is "channeling" Hitler's moves of 1938 and 1939.

Notice the Russian military while slowly unwinding the recent 80K man exercises has had them remain at high alert--never once did they explain to OSCE why they violated the Vienna Convention for large scale unannounced militay maneuvers that could be viewed as a precursor to open invasion but they complain when the US and NATO "violate" the Founding Act when the Army 3/2 Cav makes a 1100 mile road march through NATO countries.

US deputy military attache arrested in Moscow http://ria.ru/incidents/20150322/1053886524.html …

Exercises over. Don't be fooled. Russian forces returned to bases/garrisons but maintain high-level combat readiness. http://ria.ru/defense_safety/20150321/1053810597.html …

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Radio Liberty: 'Brussels Was ... Asleep': Bildt Assesses EU's Mistakes Regarding #Russia http://uatoday.tv/news/radio-liberty-brussels-was-asleep-bildt-assesses-eu-s-mistakes-regarding-russia-416869.html …

#Ukraine launching production of anti-tank missile Stugna-P, similiar to American Javelins. http://www.ukraineindustrial.info/archives/3583 pic.twitter.com/kY8MMfYilV

All day long fighting in Shyrokine, Russians shelling with 120 mm mortars which they allegedly "had withdrawn". pic.twitter.com/uBhoVMFxYE

#BREAKINGNEWS
Regiment #Azov says, it destroyed attacking "enemy tanks" today.
"Extensive information" will be provided later.

Strelkov by @BenjaminBidder: "I dream of a Russia in its natural borders.At least those of 1939" http://spon.de/aesu5

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The war in eastern Ukraine is back on again--fighting has been intense the last five days and attacks are increasing on a steady pace and those heavy weapons Russian and her mercenaries where to pull back are being used in those attacks.

Russia is in clear violation of Minsk 2 and what will the US and EU now do for a reaction??

5 WIA, 2 KIA in the OUN battalion in #Pisky today. The attacks are getting worse

#BREAKINGNEWS
Regiment #Azov says, it destroyed attacking "enemy tanks" today.
"Extensive information" will be provided later

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http://www.themoscowtimes.com/opinion/article/us-against-them-russias-frightening-new-cult/517830.html

Us Against Them: Russia's Frightening New Cult
By Gleb Kuznetsov
Mar. 22 2015 18:01
Last edited 18:02

Maxim Shemetov / Reuters
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If you believe that the U.S. aggressors were preparing to land in Crimea in the winter of 2014 in order to help the Ukrainians kill all the Orthodox Russians there, and that only the pre-emptive military operation under the command of President Vladimir Putin saved them, then you are "one of us" — that is, a true-blue adherent of the state's cult.

However, if you think that the United States was not planning a military operation in Crimea last year, that it did not "have its eye on" the peninsula and that NATO never did and still has no plans for it as a theater of war, then you are officially a heretic.

You are a heretic regardless of your past services, social status, annual income or membership in the ruling party. All of those are secondary to the main question: Do you believe, or do you not?

Anyone attempting to analyze Russian policy and predict its future course should understand one fundamental thing: Modern Russian policy is not rational and not based on political considerations. It is irrational and religious — with all of the attendant religious stereotypes, prejudices and dogmas.
The authorities have created a kind of "creed" right before our eyes, a set of words and concepts that allow them to easily label someone as either "loyal" or "disloyal." All political and existential concepts are now reduced to black and white and the entire spectrum of political viewpoints has become a dichotomy of "friend" or "foe" — the forces of Evil against the forces of Good.

In a paradigm where good is embodied by the state, the great millennial empire with a unique historical role, then evil is whatever hinders that empire from carrying out its role. The external enemy is the West — cunning, rich, heavily armed and working to secretly undermine the country through Russian "liberals."

"Liberalism" is no longer seen as a political outlook so much as a heretical belief system. According to the ubiquitous propaganda — and therefore, the public mind — a "liberal" is not someone who advocates the free market, personal freedoms and other such boring nonsense, but an individual who brazenly refuses to join the state cult or to nod his assent at sharply rising food prices and the deployment of Russian troops to a nearby, brotherly state.

A liberal denies the great benevolence and inherent correctness of the state. A liberal does not accept the fact that the state is the only defense against the evil poised just beyond Russia's borders, waiting to break through this country's heavy defenses and feed like a swarm of voracious locusts on the blessed soil of the faithful.

The liberal is an enemy because he does not see God in the state. He is a heretic because he does not subscribe to the dominant cult — and that makes him a potential traitor, a conduit through which evil from abroad might threaten the true faith.

The "true believers" agree completely that Putin was right to consider putting the country's nuclear arsenal on red alert during the annexation of Crimea. After all, the NATO horde was planning to attack.

The "true believer," like the loyal Soviet citizen before him, honestly believes that nuclear weapons are necessary in the "struggle for peace."

The "heretic," however, finds such talk of nuclear war extremely upsetting. "Russia declares its readiness to wage nuclear war in the complete absence of any threat," they say. "What a nightmare!"

And so it is with everything.

According to the "loyalists" and "true believers," the deaths in a fire in Odessa in May, the war in the Donbass and everything that has happened since illustrates the fate that awaited Crimea had Russia not intervened.

But the "heretic" sees all of it as the direct and tragic consequence of Russia's annexation of Crimea. They understand that the pro-Russian forces in eastern Ukraine had counted on a repeat of the Crimea scenario, on the Russian army conducting the same type of "humanitarian intervention" on their behalf, but received instead a rebuff from Ukrainian armed forces who suddenly displayed a readiness to fight after the shock of losing Crimea.
World War II plays a particularly fundamental role in the new state cult. Putin claims that the West is trying to strike Russia from the list of victors in that war, and that Moscow should make a vigorous response for the sake of its honor and integrity.

Close Kremlin ally Alexander Beglov — who worked alongside Putin back in his days with the mayor's office in St. Petersburg, and who now heads Pobeda (Victory), an agency charged with maintaining Russia's status as one of the victors in World War II — has proposed using the fire from eternal flame monuments, a strictly secular symbol, to light the lamps and candles in Orthodox churches.

Thus, political and religious symbols blur smoothly together, with Christianity relegated to a subordinate position in the hierarchy of the state cult.

And there are a dozen more criteria by which the authorities determine whether someone is a loyal believer or a disloyal heretic — now and forever.

And thanks to that overriding dogma, it is now impossible to hold a meaningful debate in Russia regarding the results of the first year since annexing Crimea.

You either believe that Russia's army and its military intervention in Crimea saved Russia from a U.S. and NATO invasion on the peninsula or you don't.

At this turning point in history, you are either "one of us" and can enjoy all the benefits that the best state in the world has to offer, or else you are "one of them," and there's no knowing what new problems to expect from you tomorrow. There is no third option.

This explains the obsession with dividing Russian society between "friends" of the state and its "enemies."

Even the decision to classify the murder of Boris Nemtsov as a "hate crime" is part of that effort to divide Russian society. It seems these people sincerely believe in the threat of a "revenge of the liberals," in a "Russian Maidan" and that "the liberals could turn violent."

And the situation really is scary when politics and politicians are no longer rational, but irrational, and appeal not to logic, but to base emotion.

According to this paradigm, the whole planet is nothing but a stage for the confrontation between Russia, with its forces of light, and the West, with its forces of darkness. And the constant comparison between the mighty and therefore towering figure of Vladimir Putin with the weak and therefore "dwarf-like" Western leaders is designed to endow the Russian president with almost superhuman qualities.

In fact, when Putin recently dropped out of sight for 10 days, the Russian people were most concerned not with his job performance, but with the possibility that their national leader might be subject to such human frailties as illness.

In fact, the oft-repeated suggestion that "Putin is Russia" and that "Without Putin, there can be no Russia" has turned modern Russian politics into a sort of Manichean cult.

It is both pointless and counterproductive to try to analyze this cult from a political perspective, or to use political criteria to understand or predict its behavior.

In fact, it would probably take not a political scientist but a specialist in religious studies to fully understand today's quasi-Soviet, quasi-cultish ruling regime in Moscow.

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http://www.themoscowtimes.com/opinion/article/us-against-them-russias-frightening-new-cult/517830.html

Us Against Them: Russia's Frightening New Cult
By Gleb Kuznetsov
Mar. 22 2015 18:01
Last edited 18:02

Maxim Shemetov / Reuters
.
If you believe that the U.S. aggressors were preparing to land in Crimea in the winter of 2014 in order to help the Ukrainians kill all the Orthodox Russians there, and that only the pre-emptive military operation under the command of President Vladimir Putin saved them, then you are "one of us" — that is, a true-blue adherent of the state's cult.

However, if you think that the United States was not planning a military operation in Crimea last year, that it did not "have its eye on" the peninsula and that NATO never did and still has no plans for it as a theater of war, then you are officially a heretic.

You are a heretic regardless of your past services, social status, annual income or membership in the ruling party. All of those are secondary to the main question: Do you believe, or do you not?

Anyone attempting to analyze Russian policy and predict its future course should understand one fundamental thing: Modern Russian policy is not rational and not based on political considerations. It is irrational and religious — with all of the attendant religious stereotypes, prejudices and dogmas.
The authorities have created a kind of "creed" right before our eyes, a set of words and concepts that allow them to easily label someone as either "loyal" or "disloyal." All political and existential concepts are now reduced to black and white and the entire spectrum of political viewpoints has become a dichotomy of "friend" or "foe" — the forces of Evil against the forces of Good.

In a paradigm where good is embodied by the state, the great millennial empire with a unique historical role, then evil is whatever hinders that empire from carrying out its role. The external enemy is the West — cunning, rich, heavily armed and working to secretly undermine the country through Russian "liberals."

"Liberalism" is no longer seen as a political outlook so much as a heretical belief system. According to the ubiquitous propaganda — and therefore, the public mind — a "liberal" is not someone who advocates the free market, personal freedoms and other such boring nonsense, but an individual who brazenly refuses to join the state cult or to nod his assent at sharply rising food prices and the deployment of Russian troops to a nearby, brotherly state.

A liberal denies the great benevolence and inherent correctness of the state. A liberal does not accept the fact that the state is the only defense against the evil poised just beyond Russia's borders, waiting to break through this country's heavy defenses and feed like a swarm of voracious locusts on the blessed soil of the faithful.

The liberal is an enemy because he does not see God in the state. He is a heretic because he does not subscribe to the dominant cult — and that makes him a potential traitor, a conduit through which evil from abroad might threaten the true faith.

The "true believers" agree completely that Putin was right to consider putting the country's nuclear arsenal on red alert during the annexation of Crimea. After all, the NATO horde was planning to attack.

The "true believer," like the loyal Soviet citizen before him, honestly believes that nuclear weapons are necessary in the "struggle for peace."

The "heretic," however, finds such talk of nuclear war extremely upsetting. "Russia declares its readiness to wage nuclear war in the complete absence of any threat," they say. "What a nightmare!"

And so it is with everything.

According to the "loyalists" and "true believers," the deaths in a fire in Odessa in May, the war in the Donbass and everything that has happened since illustrates the fate that awaited Crimea had Russia not intervened.

But the "heretic" sees all of it as the direct and tragic consequence of Russia's annexation of Crimea. They understand that the pro-Russian forces in eastern Ukraine had counted on a repeat of the Crimea scenario, on the Russian army conducting the same type of "humanitarian intervention" on their behalf, but received instead a rebuff from Ukrainian armed forces who suddenly displayed a readiness to fight after the shock of losing Crimea.
World War II plays a particularly fundamental role in the new state cult. Putin claims that the West is trying to strike Russia from the list of victors in that war, and that Moscow should make a vigorous response for the sake of its honor and integrity.

Close Kremlin ally Alexander Beglov — who worked alongside Putin back in his days with the mayor's office in St. Petersburg, and who now heads Pobeda (Victory), an agency charged with maintaining Russia's status as one of the victors in World War II — has proposed using the fire from eternal flame monuments, a strictly secular symbol, to light the lamps and candles in Orthodox churches.

Thus, political and religious symbols blur smoothly together, with Christianity relegated to a subordinate position in the hierarchy of the state cult.

And there are a dozen more criteria by which the authorities determine whether someone is a loyal believer or a disloyal heretic — now and forever.

And thanks to that overriding dogma, it is now impossible to hold a meaningful debate in Russia regarding the results of the first year since annexing Crimea.

You either believe that Russia's army and its military intervention in Crimea saved Russia from a U.S. and NATO invasion on the peninsula or you don't.

At this turning point in history, you are either "one of us" and can enjoy all the benefits that the best state in the world has to offer, or else you are "one of them," and there's no knowing what new problems to expect from you tomorrow. There is no third option.

This explains the obsession with dividing Russian society between "friends" of the state and its "enemies."

Even the decision to classify the murder of Boris Nemtsov as a "hate crime" is part of that effort to divide Russian society. It seems these people sincerely believe in the threat of a "revenge of the liberals," in a "Russian Maidan" and that "the liberals could turn violent."

And the situation really is scary when politics and politicians are no longer rational, but irrational, and appeal not to logic, but to base emotion.

According to this paradigm, the whole planet is nothing but a stage for the confrontation between Russia, with its forces of light, and the West, with its forces of darkness. And the constant comparison between the mighty and therefore towering figure of Vladimir Putin with the weak and therefore "dwarf-like" Western leaders is designed to endow the Russian president with almost superhuman qualities.

In fact, when Putin recently dropped out of sight for 10 days, the Russian people were most concerned not with his job performance, but with the possibility that their national leader might be subject to such human frailties as illness.

In fact, the oft-repeated suggestion that "Putin is Russia" and that "Without Putin, there can be no Russia" has turned modern Russian politics into a sort of Manichean cult.

It is both pointless and counterproductive to try to analyze this cult from a political perspective, or to use political criteria to understand or predict its behavior.

In fact, it would probably take not a political scientist but a specialist in religious studies to fully understand today's quasi-Soviet, quasi-cultish ruling regime in Moscow.

I have said since the beginning of Crimea this is all about a “war of values” not unlike the Cold War was ie Democracy vs Communism —but totally different this time around---the core difference is that is against the concept of western liberalism –meaning all the supposedly decadent western ideas of women’s rights, protection of gays, open and free elections, government transparency, economic development , rule of law, abortion, and gay marriage.

http://20committee.com/2015/01/24/russias-emerging-holy-war/

The interesting thing is that Putin is coupling this cult like movement to three core geo political goals that he has definitely not come off of;

1. discrediting and splitting the EU
2. discrediting and splitting NATO
3. disconnecting the US from Europe

The mantra is an economic zone from Portugal to the Russian Far East under Russian control and influence and this was repeated a number of times this weekend at the Russian Nationalist/Nazi Forum in St. Petersburg AND not by accident.

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Ceasefire is virtually over if this fighting keeps increasing.

Fighting in #Pisky all day, explosions now also heard in #Donetsk city center. #Shyrokyne battle resulted in 1 #Russia|n tank destroyed

#News
Russian forces attacked #Avdeevka 4 times with 122 mm artillery and twice with tanks over the day.

#Donetsk
Still powerful explosions, machine gun - sound of battle from Airport / #Pisky area right now.
Also #Opytne was attacked 6 times with different weapons, including tanks.
Same for #Pisky,where several Ukr troops were killed and injured.

Telegraph: #Putin's war of attrition - Is #Lithuania next? http://uatoday.tv/news/telegraph-putin-s-war-of-attrition-is-lithuania-next-416877.html … pic.twitter.com/t48DRYhfTW

#NATO Commander: West must fight #Russia in information 'war.' Drag the false narrative into the light and expose it:
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2015/03/22/world/europe/ap-eu-nato-russia-information-war.html …

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David--what amazes me is that for months of throwing in the face of the world and Kyiv that Ukrainians are Nazi's and that a Nazi junta overthrew a proRussian Ukrainian President who was close friends to Putin AND then in the home of the Communist Revolution with the battleship still in the harbor Putin holds a Nazi rally of all the far right European political parties now questions Russian sanity.

An old professor of mine who taught terrorism many years ago and was a RAF and Red Brigade specialist and who wrote books on terrorism from that period had a theory that stated if terrorism is a circle then the extreme left and the extreme right will met each other on that circle--and they both have the same enemy namely the nation state ie a government which they both view to be corrupt and against their political views and under control of the capitalists.

Years later Putin proves him right.

We are entering now a totally new phase where Putin is aligning with the far right to undermine the EU and the individual EU members and he has been successful now in six EU countries.

I do not think the current EU leadership is fully understanding the threat to their individual civil societies.

Example--years ago it now seems-- actually 1986 I was approached by a German agency and asked if I could trace the source of 22M USDs that was slowly drifting in to Germany and going to German neo Nazi groups via bank transfers---in the same year German authorities stopped over 8 tons of Nazi materials coming into Germany from Lincoln Nebraska--the American Nazi Party.

Couple that with EAP (European Workers Party) which got into the EU Parliament the first time out and is run by the daughter of LaRoche--who once stated you do not have to wear brown to be brown now to LePen.

RT @RuslanLeviev #Milchakov one of Delegates at today's "conservative" Forum in St Petersburg, Russia pic.twitter.com/wWc7bWmINM

Russia @udovoigt, who has been found guilty in #Germany for glorifying the Waffen-SS is an "anti-fascist".etersburg.html … pic.twitter.com/UMafyTPqI3

The core question now is--- has first the KGB been using the right during the 80s especially during the NATO Perishing 2 and Land Launched Cruise Missile stationing debate and now is Putin using the right to weaken the sanctions and support him in the Ukraine?

The Putin paradox: anti-fascist, fascist Russia
http://www.examiner.com/article/the-putin-paradox-anti-fascist-fascist-russia …
pic.twitter.com/HvLvu9Mbxf

#Russia's Fascist Forum: Europe's Far-Right Ultranationalists Come to St. Petersburg. http://euromaidanpress.com/2015/03/23/russia-hosts-fascist-forum-in-st-petersburg/ … pic.twitter.com/5JdD084N3d

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Since Russian has been in "an altered state of reality" for over a year now--some of their statements are reaching a new level but I am not sure what name to give them.

Russia has no influence??—if there had been no Russian troops invading in August just as their mercenaries were actually losing and had not Russia supplied and is still supplying troops, mercenaries, money and weapons/munitions (150 tons per day) as of yesterday---this would have been over and laid to rest in August 2014.

No influence??—no wonder Russian officials get laughed at in Conferences where they repeat what is below.

Peskov: "A coup orchestrated from abroad happened in the center of Europe ... It is dangerous for all of us"

Peskov: "Putin has some influence on them because they respect him, but he cannot order them to lay down arms"

Putin has some influence on LPR/DPR militias, "but he cannot order them to lay down arms". TASS http://tass.ru/en/russia/7843

Peskov: "Contrary to what NATO and European countries say, self-defense forces in Donbas are not our puppets"

Even more “altered state of reality statements”---Crimea was never to be a part of the Freedom of Movement” process until the Ukraine was allowed to go visa free by the EU—the Russia visa free agreement discussions were stopped as part of the EU sanctions.

Russian FM blatant lie nothing more—not even “disinformation”.
MFA Russia ✔ @mfa_russia

The European Union's decision to grant no visas to #Crimea'ns violates the #FreedomOfMovement principle http://sputniknews.com/politics/20150323/1019874931.html

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Anyone in the mainstream western media push back on this Russian official statement-not a single media outlet nor western leaders with the exception of the SACEUR.

If one wants to slowly win against the Russian informational conflict someone has to get active on the Western side of this "conflict" letting such actions below go unanswered gives the illusion the actions are correct.

#Kremlin says #Kiev not fulfilling #Minsk agreements on conflict in east #Ukraine - Reuters

Kremlin accused the Ukraine of 52 attacks in violation of the minsk 2 agreement---Russia is now counting the actual mercenary and Russian troop attacks as being Ukrainian attacks---the number 52 matches the number of attacks claimed by the Ukrainian NDSC.

SEVERE MINSK II VIOLATION: Russians fire GRAD rockets on Orikhove overnight
http://www.unian.info/war/1058678-militants-fire-grad-rockets-on-orikhove-overnight.html … pic.twitter.com/LB05nQbFEt

VIDEO #Russia T-72 Tanks parked in warehouse #Makeevka WITHIN #Minsk2 security zone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehqfZK9u1WQ … pic.twitter.com/hhFfQBq3Em

NATO's top general says Russia's still pouring arms to Ukrainian rebels. @joshrogin http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-03-22/nato-says-russia-s-cheating-in-ukraine … via @BV pic.twitter.com/eutJ4uMJOb

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Since Russian has been in "an altered state of reality" for over a year now--some of their statements are reaching a new level but I am not sure what name to give them.

Russia has no influence??—if there had been no Russian troops invading in August just as their mercenaries were actually losing and had not Russia supplied and is still supplying troops, mercenaries, money and weapons/munitions (150 tons per day) as of yesterday---this would have been over and laid to rest in August 2014.

No influence??—no wonder Russian officials get laughed at in Conferences where they repeat what is below.

Peskov: "A coup orchestrated from abroad happened in the center of Europe ... It is dangerous for all of us"

Peskov: "Putin has some influence on them because they respect him, but he cannot order them to lay down arms"

Putin has some influence on LPR/DPR militias, "but he cannot order them to lay down arms". TASS http://tass.ru/en/russia/7843

Peskov: "Contrary to what NATO and European countries say, self-defense forces in Donbas are not our puppets"

Even more “altered state of reality statements”---Crimea was never to be a part of the Freedom of Movement” process until the Ukraine was allowed to go visa free by the EU—the Russia visa free agreement discussions were stopped as part of the EU sanctions.

Russian FM blatant lie nothing more—not even “disinformation”.
MFA Russia ✔ @mfa_russia

The European Union's decision to grant no visas to #Crimea'ns violates the #FreedomOfMovement principle http://sputniknews.com/politics/20150323/1019874931.html

This is the perfect example of how little the Russians fully understood the Maidan events.

Their friend and deposed Ukrainian President failed to show up for work after the Maidan truce agreement, and then fled the Ukraine for parts unknown and even the Russians did not know exactly where he was if you believe Putin's own documentary where he basically stated as much.

Then Peskov seems to have forgotten that Yanukovych's own Party of the Regions voted to oust him as President with all memebers voting against him in the Rada-- a seemingly simple but major point that the Russians always overlook.

Peskov: "Someone decided to remove [Yanukovych] from power, and it is absolutely unacceptable"

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The European Neo Right/Fascist and Nazi’s Forum in St. Petersberg yesterday before it was disturbed by a bomb threat

Insanely fascinating overview of the modern European far right from inside a Petersburg Holiday Inn, by @maxseddon - http://www.buzzfeed.com/maxseddon/europes-far-right-comes-to-russia-in-search-of-shared-values#.agdNEYEN1 …

Your blood will boil. Outrageous Kremlin fascistic-militaristic perspective from Rostislav Ishchenko via Valdai Club http://valdaiclub.com/near_abroad/76060.html …

"When the war resumes", "nothing good in store for Ukraine", "no more than half of Ukraine’s current population will survive"

max seddon ✔ @maxseddon
Marine le Pen's people got in touch about the far-right forum in St. Petersburg yesterday. http://www.buzzfeed.com/maxseddon/europes-far-right-comes-to-russia-in-search-of-shared-values … pic.twitter.com/qKk599y8eN

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The "fighting ceasefire" activities just keep growing all the while no one on the western leadership side is calling for a total stop of Russian activities per Minsk 2 and flashing all available satellite evidence onto large media screens around the world.

Seems that it is only social media that is carrying the informational war back to Russian.

ATO spokesperson: Ukrainian police uncover arms arsenal in #Donetsk region. Contained grenade launchers, maps, kevlar vests

Russian Iskander-M was spotted in Rostov-on-Don on Saturday pic.twitter.com/x6wSRhyVEC

Russian military ramps up excuse to attack. TASS: "Ukrainian forces violate ceasefire 52 times over last 24 hours" http://tass.ru/en/world/784302

Tymchuk: Militants acquire highly mobile Grad-P systems
http://www.unian.info/war/1058704-tymchuk-militants-acquire-highly-mobile-grad-p-systems.html … pic.twitter.com/z3bKSE11rZ

Russian TU-95MS Bear H bombers circumnavigate Japan on Mar 20 http://www.mod.go.jp/js/Press/press2015/press_pdf/p20150320_01.pdf … pic.twitter.com/Ss2MGnQWtA

Battalion Azov filming how Russian invaders shell Shyrokyne with 120 mm mortars today
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LGpGkZeJLc …

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Y-day in Pisky 5 OUN battalion servicemen, 2 border guards were WIA right when #OSCE came to check on "#ceasefire" https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=AW8pIda_k7I …

7 Ukr troops got injured in #Pisky during an @OSCE_SMM visit to the village.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AW8pIda_k7I … pic.twitter.com/XQ1DLNxOYT

At #Donetsk direction enemy fired at Pisky w/ a 120mm mortar, fired at Opytne from tank https://www.facebook.com/ato.news/posts/969161916427948 … pic.twitter.com/5TdT75beGJ

#Lugansk @ukrainebang: 'This night forests behind #Stanitsa in #Olkhova area were on strong fire, UKR positions'

Terrorists used tanks, Grads and mortars to shell ATO positions at all directions. All http://24today.net/open/351141

10-12 tanks were brought to occupied Horlivka. Militants bring artillery, MRLS to frontlinehttp://mvs.gov.ua/mvs/control/main/uk/publish/article/1408600 … pic.twitter.com/SjQEHXtMZa

Russian "Brigade Kalmius" 2S1 training in occupied #Donbas.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25wHp7UY-h4 …
Can anyone geolocate their base? pic.twitter.com/Z781mr1qSe

Enemy shelled Orikhove w/ Grad. At 3am Ukr forces repelled an attack near Sokilnykyhttps://www.facebook.com/ato.news/posts/969161916427948 … pic.twitter.com/yqvZ0J92oq

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As the "fighting ceasefire" picks up this comment below is now coming up often via social media.

Putin regime seeks showdown with NATO using Ukraine/Baltics. Kremlin considers US/EU politics most weak/fractured now. Russia will attack.

NSDC of Ukraine ✔ @NSDC_ua
UA Ministry of Interior detains killers of SBU operatives: 11 suspects & 4 executioners.

NSDC of Ukraine ✔ @NSDC_ua

Russia increases the flow of military supplies via uncontrolled parts of RU-UA border

NSDC of Ukraine ✔ @NSDC_ua
UA Army clashed with insurgents by #Opytne. Attack repelled.

NSDC of Ukraine ✔ @NSDC_ua
Russia rotates its military forces in eastern Ukraine that fight since Dec 2014.

NSDC of Ukraine ✔ @NSDC_ua
After midnight, militants shelled #Orikhove from Grad multiple rocket launcher & mortared #Shyrokyne

NSDC of Ukraine ✔ @NSDC_ua
Pro-Russian militants attacked UA positions from tanks 5 times, shelled from artillery twice

Russian Contract Servicemen of the 205th SMRB in Ukraine: https://en.informnapalm.org/russian-contract-servicemen-of-the-205th-smrb-in-ukraine/ … via @en_informnapalm pic.twitter.com/TJ5QecimvQ

Ceasefire violations in eastern Ukraine continue with attacks on Ukr. positions and injuries http://uatoday.tv/geopolitics/ceasefire-violations-in-eastern-ukraine-continue-with-attacks-on-ukrainian-positions-and-injuries-416976.html … pic.twitter.com/M0TcNsgOCI

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Well worth registering and watching---some interesting insight into Putin’s current disinformation campaign and how he has started believing his own propaganda-not a good thing—disspells as well a number of Russian propagated “myths”.

You can now watch Putin's entire Crimea annexation propaganda film here, in English. http://sales.vgtrk.com/en/catalog/modern+history/43450/ …