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OUTLAW 09
05-27-2015, 05:26 PM
Reference the FIFA corruption arrests from today:

Agence France-Presse ✔ @AFP
#BREAKING Russia slams 'illegal' use of US law in FIFA probe

US response:
FIFA: FBI Director James Comey "If you touch our shores with your corrupt enterprise you will be held accountable." This is really happening

THEN naturally Russian humor kicks in:

Vladimir Putin
We've nothing to hide from #FIFA. In the same way we've nothing to hide from @OSCE dudes we're stopping from monitoring Ukraine's border.

Vladimir Putin
The US persecuting #FIFA for laundering US dollars through US companies using the US banking system is "outside US jurisdiction".

OUTLAW 09
05-27-2015, 05:27 PM
Reference the recently ambushed and killed Russian mercenary leader---

youtube.com/watch?v=GK81Sa9t1tg … Funeral of semi-rogue warlord #Mozgovoi,who debunkd #Russia's 'fascism' rhetoric on #Ukraine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxTGyM0LyD0 …

Russian mercenary from #Tumen, #Russia killed along with his boss #Mozgovoy in ambush. #Lughansk https://twitter.com/666_mancer/status/603604944692912128 …

OUTLAW 09
05-27-2015, 05:30 PM
Police in Rostov interrogated a spelling bee official about his extremist ties to "grammar nazis." Seriously. https://meduza.io/en/lion/2015/05/27/police-interrogate-spelling-bee-official-about-grammar-nazi-connections …

Journal of Soviet & Post-Soviet Politics & Society 1:1 - Russian Media and the War in Ukraine http://www.ibidemverlag.de/Series/Journal-of-Soviet-and-Post-Soviet-Politics-and-Society/Journal-of-Soviet-and-Post-Soviet-Politics-and-Society.html … pic.twitter.com/VNmiibeR6l

MORE on the Face Book incident of them blocking Ukrainian bloggers when Russian trolls are complaining that some of their account content is anti Russian.

Is Face Book just an extended arm of the Russian "weaponization of information" and is playing along with Russia due to Russian oligarch investors????

Sign a petition against political blocking of #Ukraine users over #Russia's war in Ukraine
https://www.change.org/p/facebook-stop-political-blocking-on-facebook?recruiter=164200569&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=autopublish&utm_term=des-md-no_src-no_msg&fb_ref=Default … pic.twitter.com/tbZywYQChZ

OUTLAW 09
05-27-2015, 05:55 PM
Shellings and ground attacks are off to a slow start this evening it seems----mercenaries have taken high loses in their ground attacks so maybe they are in a rethinking mode this evening.

7:54PM
Evening, #Mariupol, canonade. Nothing new. https://twitter.com/sir_T_Lawrence/status/603605322247307264 …

#Horlivka 19:25
Drone fyling over the city, ruscists trying to shoot it down. https://twitter.com/xy_gorlov4an/status/603605702033219584 …

Separatist "funeral" in #Donetsk airport. https://twitter.com/Max_Bondar/status/603594014844149760 …

#Severodonetsk 7:58PM
Shelling heard far away. https://twitter.com/prostopots/status/603606310316339200 …

#Lysychansk 8:05PM
Shelling heard from Novotoshkovske-Krymske area https://twitter.com/lis_ukrop/status/603608710712266755 …

BREAKING: Latvia Spots Russian Sub, Ship Near Territorial Waters: http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/latvia-spots-russian-sub-ship-near-territorial-waters/522454.html …

#Luhansk,#Ukraine,a huuuge oversupply of Grads pic.twitter.com/NyAZ2EJbIS

Ex-#Aidar battalion cmdr/now-MP Serhiy Melnychuk claims he's got video proving military coup, attempt upon Poroshenko's life was planned

OUTLAW 09
05-27-2015, 07:02 PM
9:27PM
#Shchastya -shooting.
#Luhansk-East, Center and North, partly Kambrod distr. without light and communication. https://twitter.com/100007182042214/status/603628720700665856

Ukrainians In Heavy Firefight During Battle for Shyrokyne https://youtu.be/EE_QgTuiO1g prin @YouTube

Donbas militants fire artillery systems along entire line of contact on Wednesday
http://www.unian.info/war/1082817-donbas-militants-fire-artillery-systems-along-entire-line-of-contact-on-wednesday.html … pic.twitter.com/FXUoWUVZA2

Ukr positions in #Shyrokyne are being shelled w/ 122mm self-propelled artillery. In #Mariupol salvos are audible http://www.0629.com.ua/news/839772

Russian forces (DPR unit) tanks at Mospyne, Donetsk region, Ukraine 27 May (v @GirkinGirkin) pic.twitter.com/OGHo0Qakg9 https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Mospyne,+Donetsk+Oblast,+Ukraine/@47.878249,38.064556,11z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x40e0ee9ca8230a75:0xfcbe2676d0571 3da

Nothing 'Hybrid' About Russia's War in Ukraine: http://www.themoscowtimes.com/opinion/article/nothing-hybrid-about-russias-war-in-ukraine/522471.html …

Not surprisingly, 'trusty' #Russia's MSM claims that the US killed terrorist leader #Mozgovoi. http://ria.ru/world/20150524/1066192184.html … pic.twitter.com/Im1uyNWtei

OUTLAW 09
05-27-2015, 07:04 PM
The reign of terror in #Lugansk has tested a thermobaric missile. Although there are no munitions factory. A Miracle. pic.twitter.com/6z2AjLpuN2

Russian Army 2S3 Akatsiya in #Rostov on their way to Ukraine pic.twitter.com/vX05uWh6On http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/27-may-russian-army-2s3-akatsiya-in-rostov-on-their-way-to …

OUTLAW 09
05-27-2015, 07:51 PM
In Russian propaganda and or disinformation there are the famous 4Ds, distract, distort, dismiss and dismay.

A sub set that we are now seeing in the Ukraine is the concept of I will take your statements and flip them around and confront you with your own words. Example --you state you have been shelled 45 times--we argue we have been shelled 45 times--if you say something you are not planning to do ie not attack me then I will turn around and state you are in fact planning to attack me. Distract and distort straight forward.

The following is an interesting article as it is the first time Russia is attempting to down play our use of the term hybrid warfare by distorting and distracting the basis of their own military doctrine by attempting in this case to use the argument that there are pressing internal factors at play that the West is overlooking.

Yet missing the simple fact that if the eastern portion of the Ukraine was so rabid proRussian then out of a fighting force of 34,000 mercenaries there are only at last estimate 4,000 local Ukrainians and the Russian FSB officer that kicked the whole thing off Strelkov aka Girkin often complained bitterly he could not get anyone to volunteer to fight for New Russia.

Also notice how he nicely defines it as a civil war but ignores that it was a Russian FSB team that kicked everything off.

Well worth the read as this is a good enough reason to fully understand UW and political warfare.

BTW--EVEN US SF gets a mention.

Be sure to check the author as he sits in a position of knowing about his own UW military doctrine and yet seemed to completely overlook it.

http://www.themoscowtimes.com/opinion/article/nothing-hybrid-about-russi...

Nothing 'Hybrid' About Russia's War in Ukraine

By Ruslan Pukhov
May. 27 2015 00:00


Russia's actions in Crimea and eastern Ukraine over the past year gave rise in the West to a widespread theory about some kind of "hybrid war," an innovative form of military intervention that Moscow created specifically for this crisis. However, upon closer inspection, the term hybrid war is more a propaganda tool than hard fact and any attempt to fully define it strips the idea of any novelty.

One Western attempt at defining the term states that hybrid war is a combination of overt and covert military actions, provocations and diversions in conjunction with denial of involvement, significantly complicating any full-scale response to those actions.

A more extensive definition of hybrid war appears in the editor's introduction to "The Military Balance 2015" published by The International Institute for Strategic Studies. It describes hybrid war as "the use of military and non-military tools in an integrated campaign designed to achieve surprise, seize the initiative and gain psychological as well as physical advantages utilizing diplomatic means; sophisticated and rapid information, electronic and cyber operations; covert and occasionally overt military and intelligence action; and economic pressure."

It also points out that during the Crimean operations in February-March 2014 "Russian forces demonstrated integrated use of rapid deployment, electronic warfare, information operations (IO), locally based naval infantry, airborne assault and special-forces capabilities, as well as wider use of cyberspace and strategic communications. The latter was used to shape a multifaceted and overall effective information campaign targeted as much at domestic as foreign audiences."

In eastern Ukraine, Moscow demonstrated the ability to quickly create "pressure groups" composed of "elements of the local population" but that are managed and supported from outside, and that such a tactic can be used to defend ethnic minorities.

In this regard, the document stated that NATO considers hybrid warfare a serious challenge because it takes place in a "gray zone" of the alliance's obligations and could lead to a split between its members.

It is not difficult to see that these definitions of hybrid war, and especially the characterization of Russia's actions in 2014 as such, are out of touch with reality. For example, it is unclear which special "information" and "cyber operations" — much less which "wider use of cyber space and strategic communications" Moscow employed during its operations in Crimea. No information has come to light concerning "cyber operations" in Crimea — and what need was there for them considering the archaic condition of the Ukrainian armed forces?

Russia conducted only a sluggish propaganda campaign in support of the Crimea operation, for both foreign and domestic audiences. In fact, Moscow did not so much broadcast its actions in Crimea or the reason behind them as keep silent on the subject, concealing its end game.

As a result, the annexation of the peninsula came as a surprise to many. The de facto justification for those actions also seemed like an afterthought. The annexation of Crimea enjoyed wide popular support in Russia without much propaganda because most Russians already believed that Crimea is Russian land. On the other hand, Russian forces occupying Crimea apparently waged an active propaganda campaign aimed at the besieged Ukrainian soldiers there, proposing that they switch allegiance to the Russian side.

That effort was successful. Only about 20 percent of those Ukrainian soldiers decided to retain their allegiance and evacuate Crimea, while the other 80 percent either joined the Russian army or deserted.

At the same time, this success was due more to the fact that most of the military personnel on Crimea were residents of the peninsula and had no desire to leave than to any particular merits of the propaganda employed.

The actions attributed to so-called hybrid warfare are fairly standard to any "low intensity" armed conflict of recent decades, if not centuries. It is difficult to imagine any country using military force without providing informational support, using methods of "secret warfare," attempting to erode enemy forces, exploiting internal ethnic, social, economic, political or other divisions in the enemy camp, and without the use of retaliatory economic sanctions. These have been the fundamentals of war since antiquity.

The widely accepted definition of a hybrid war as using a combination of overt and covert actions, including the deployment in Crimea of "polite men in green" ignores the unique nature of that military operation. In Crimea, Russia relied on the nearly total support of the local population and the resultant complete isolation of the Ukrainian forces there.

It was this fact that made it possible for soldiers in unmarked uniforms to remain in place as long as necessary. However, that is also specific to the situation in Crimea. Such polite men in green would not last long if they showed up in, say, Poland or the American Midwest. In that case, simply concealing their origins would not help them.

In fact, there is a long history of soldiers concealing their identities and using unmarked uniforms for limited military actions and special operations, just as there are historical precedents for claiming that regular army soldiers are actually local "volunteers."

In essence, history shows that any external military intervention by a foreign army into another country's civil war has inevitably involved similar practices. Neither is this the first time that a government has used both regular army and rebel forces together. Such practices are standard when deploying military resources under specific conditions. Recall that one of the main tasks of the U.S. Special Forces is the organization and support of "friendly" rebel and guerrilla movements.

With this in mind, the current Ukrainian conflict bears less resemblance to Germany's annexation of the Sudetenland in 1938 — where, by the way, German irredentist militia were active — and more to the United States' Mexican War of 1846-48 that led to the accession of Texas and a number of other Mexican states to the U.S., and also to the Italian Risorgimento that unified Italy in the mid-19th century.

In both cases, the reason for an irredentist war is evident, as well as the fact that the "mother country" could not openly intercede militarily on behalf of the irredentists. That is why they used the widest possible array of methods to support the irredentist cause — by supporting and replenishing their fighting formations, sending large numbers of real and alleged volunteers, as well as camouflaged units of their armed forces, and by staging limited interventions.

Thus, the novelty of this so-called hybrid war begins to fade upon a closer look at history. Russia's hybrid war is simply a modern application of an age-old set of military and political practices.

It is the presence of forces friendly to the outside power that makes it possible to employ methods that have now become known as "hybrid." In applying the term hybrid war to the conflict in Ukraine, modern observers use politically biased wording to overstate the importance of external factors in the conflict and to downplay the significance of internal factors.

That attempt to downplay the significance of internal factors in the Ukrainian conflict goes over very well in the West, and explains why it persists in suggesting that Russia's hybrid war is something new.

Ruslan Pukhov is director of the Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies and publisher of the journal Moscow Defense Brief.

OUTLAW 09
05-27-2015, 07:54 PM
Thermobaric weapons are not being built and fielded in eastern Ukraine SO where did these new weapons come from??????

VIDEO Russian proxy LPR tests new weapon 'Dragon'. For clearing minefields/trenches?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_rIvvdQ9z4 … pic.twitter.com/93noR2oCGN

LPR new weapon is yet another example that this is Russias war against Ukraine. pic.twitter.com/ui7YDmlfmz

The reign of terror in #Lugansk has tested a thermobaric missile. Although there are no munitions factory. A Miracle. pic.twitter.com/6z2AjLpuN2

OUTLAW 09
05-27-2015, 07:58 PM
BREAKING: MOLDOVA BANNED THE RUSSIAN TV ROSSIA 24 http://www.hotnews.ro/stiri-russia_report-20192169-republica-moldova-fost-sistata-retransmiterea-postului-rossia-24-reactia-ministerului-rus-externe-nu-lasat-asteptata.htm …

BREAKING: MOLDOVA POLICE FIND MOLOTOV COCKTAILS, DETONATORS, MASKS
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_MOLDOVA_BOMB_CACHES_?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2015-05-27-11-37-52 …
in doing so, it confiscated 40 firearms, 200 grenades, 100 shells and 40 landmines."

NOTICE the signature of the Ukrainian "separatist" weapons of choice.

EXPERTS: Foreign forces are preparing the violent overthrow of Moldova's government
http://www.timpul.md/articol/alerta-se-pregatete-rasturnarea-violenta-a-puterii-de-stat-a-r-moldova-74985.html …

BREAKING: Bomb squad finds explosives at two addresses in Chisinau, calls to Russia made from mobile phones
http://www.ipn.md/en/societate/69659

World Bank to provide 12-million-dollar-worth loan to Moldovan fruits producers
http://www.moldpres.md/en/news/2015/05/26/15003535

OUTLAW 09
05-27-2015, 08:04 PM
In Russian propaganda and or disinformation there are the famous 4Ds, distract, distort, dismiss and dismay.

A sub set that we are now seeing in the Ukraine is the concept of I will take your statements and flip them around and confront you with your own words. Example --you state you have been shelled 45 times--we argue we have been shelled 45 times--if you say something you are not planning to do ie not attack me then I will turn around and state you are in fact planning to attack me. Distract and distort straight forward.

The following is an interesting article as it is the first time Russia is attempting to down play our use of the term hybrid warfare by distorting and distracting the basis of their own military doctrine by attempting in this case to use the argument that there are pressing internal factors at play that the West is overlooking.

Yet missing the simple fact that if the eastern portion of the Ukraine was so rabid proRussian then out of a fighting force of 34,000 mercenaries there are only at last estimate 4,000 local Ukrainians and the Russian FSB officer that kicked the whole thing off Strelkov aka Girkin often complained bitterly he could not get anyone to volunteer to fight for New Russia.

Also notice how he nicely defines it as a civil war but ignores that it was a Russian FSB team that kicked everything off.

Well worth the read as this is a good enough reason to fully understand UW and political warfare.

BTW--EVEN US SF gets a mention.

Be sure to check the author as he sits in a position of knowing about his own UW military doctrine and yet seemed to completely overlook it.

http://www.themoscowtimes.com/opinion/article/nothing-hybrid-about-russi...

Nothing 'Hybrid' About Russia's War in Ukraine

By Ruslan Pukhov
May. 27 2015 00:00

http://www.osw.waw.pl/en/publikacje/point-view/2015-05-19/devil-details-information-warfare-light-russias-military-doctrine

The devil is in the details. Information warfare in the light of Russia's military doctrine

Point of View

2015-05-19

Jolanta Darczewska


By highlighting informational threats and giving them a military dimension, the authors of the Russian Federation's military doctrine have outlined the concept of information warfare. It is a kind of combat conducted by both conventional and indirect methods, open and concealed, using military and civilian structures. It has two dimensions: broader ("non-nuclear containment", i.e. combat waged on various levels - political, economic, diplomatic, humanitarian, military) and narrower (as an element supporting of action).

An analysis of these issues enables us to identify several rising trends over the period 2000-2014 in Russian security policy. These boil down to a blurring of the boundaries between internal and external threats, introducing non-military methods and organisational structures to armed combat, and conferring an ideological character on this combat. This leads to a blurring of the contours of inter-state conflicts, which allows Russia to take part in armed conflicts in which it is not officially a party.
There is a great pdf attached to the link.

OUTLAW 09
05-27-2015, 08:45 PM
Does Obama, Hollande and Merkel want to step forward and claim Minsk 2 is working??


Oh hey look, Minsk II is working. Exclusive: Russia masses heavy firepower on border with Ukraine - witness: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/05/27/us-ukraine-crisis-russia-military-idUSKBN0OC2K820150527 …

Over the four days, trains arrived delivering a total of at least 26 tanks, about 30 Uragan launchers, dozens of trucks ...as well as several armored personnel carriers and self-propelled howitzers

NATO SecGen ups the rhetoric: "Russia's recent use of nuclear rhetoric, exercises & operations are deeply troubling" http://m.france24.com/en/20150527-russias-nuclear-threats-deeply-troubling-nato-chief?ns_campaign=reseaux_sociaux&ns_source=twitter&ns_mchannel=social&ns_linkname=editorial&aef_campaign_ref=partage_aef&aef_campaign_date=2015-05-27&dlvrit=66745&utm_content=buffer42e82&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer …

OUTLAW 09
05-27-2015, 08:48 PM
And the shellings just keep on shelling--and Minsk 2 is a raging success --seems though Russia forgot to stop shipping in literally tons of munitions.

#Dokuchajevsk 10:42PM
#Yasne incoming https://twitter.com/Shrik_E/status/603647605587968000 …

#Donetsk 10:54PM
Petrovka - loud, outgoing https://twitter.com/062_Region/status/603651056535543808 …

#Dokuchajevsk 11:10PM
Very loud, incoming shelling now. https://twitter.com/ua_patriotka1/status/603654601410256897 …

#Dokuchajevsk 11:11PM
Ukr is shooting back now https://twitter.com/Darren_Aro/status/603654665536933888 …

11:08PM
Powerful incoming in the area of #Berezove-#Stepne https://twitter.com/Darren_Aro/status/603653995006156800 …

#Dzerzhynsk 11:05PM
Sometimes noisy https://twitter.com/blessmaster/status/603653163657334785 …

The #car #blew up near the #airport of #Odessa at 9 p.m. tonight on May, 27 pic.twitter.com/u2JxWNPaht

OUTLAW 09
05-27-2015, 09:15 PM
Slideshow of growing Russian military presence near #Ukraine border http://www.reuters.com/news/picture/exclusive-russia-masses-heavy-firepower?articleId=USKBN0OC2K820150527&slideId=1051668046 … via intrepid @reuters photographer @m_tsvetkova

#Russia|n Commanders Give Servicemen Marching Orders To Rostov Staging Post, Further Deployment To #Ukraine - Reuters Cites Local Sources

Per military analyst:
UK held COBRA meeting re: #Ukraine as situation has escalated. Huge Russian offensive estimated to start soon.

OUTLAW 09
05-27-2015, 09:17 PM
Major battles are underway at the moment-----

#Avdiivka 11:56PM
Shooting, far away. https://twitter.com/rechnikato/status/603666147528048641 …

#Olenivka
GRAD worked briefly from the old elevator, it's quiet now https://twitter.com/nektonh/status/603665401759793152 …

#Olenivka 23:30
Loud outgoing.
No incoming. https://twitter.com/GirkinGirkin/status/603660810519478273 …

#Marinka 23:33
Battle moves from traffic police post area tow #Oleksandrivka
Very hot in the area of #Telmanovo https://twitter.com/hyeva_maryinka

at #Marinka is an attempt to assault our positions! @SputnikATO

#Donetsk Petrovka 11:36
Listen to battle since 1.5hours towards #Marinka or #Krasnohorivka https://twitter.com/PVB40/status/603661163021361152 …

11:45PM
Towards #Berezove-#Stepne tracers in the sky and constant incoming. https://twitter.com/person0009/status/603663219593445376

#Debaltsevo 23:55
"Visible flashes towards #Lohvynove" https://twitter.com/audrius1977/status/603668020645474304 …

#Footage
Russian airborne troops base in #Luhansk city (playing "LPR").
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OI6Mdg2RX0g …
pic.twitter.com/ywMrT5C6Np

Another newly posted Russian #Grad firing video.
I can not verify the action's date.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQ8KhB74smk …
pic.twitter.com/zRaqXyeMMx

OUTLAW 09
05-27-2015, 09:17 PM
NATO SecGen: “Russia’s nuclear sabre-rattling is unjustified, destabilizing & dangerous” http://www.wsj.com/articles/nato-secretary-general-says-russias-nuclear-threats-destabilizing-1432740612 … pic.twitter.com/PrhWOzRMwI

NATO SG @jensstoltenberg: "when it comes to nuclear weapons, caution, predictability and transparency are vital”

OUTLAW 09
05-27-2015, 09:19 PM
http://maidantranslations.com/2015/05/27/dmitry-tymchuk-military-update-5-27-freesavchenko/

Dmitry Tymchuk: Military update 5.27

Posted on May 27, 2015 by tilamuse

Translated and edited by Voices of Ukraine


Operational data from Information Resistance:

Over the past 24 hours, attacks by Russian-terrorist forces have somewhat declined. Insurgents opened fire from various weapons, including 120-mm mortars, artillery systems, and armored vehicles, which were to be withdrawn from the line of contact under the Minsk Agreements.

The most difficult situation is observed in the seaside direction. In the vicinity of Shyrokyne, terrorists have used the entire set of infantry weapons, including 120-mm mortars and AGS-17 “Plamya” automatic grenade launchers. Fire support from several firing groups of illegal armed gangs with 122-mm cannon artillery has been observed near Chermalyk and Pavlopil.

In the vicinity of Pisky and Lozove, terrorists used anti-tank missile systems and grenade launchers, trying to strike the personnel and equipment of Ukrainian units located at the engineering facilities at the forefront.

Insurgents fired at positions of the ATO forces from mortars and large-caliber machine guns near the settlements of Luhanske and Myronivskyi. Shelling of our positions from the enemy’s BMP-2 has been observed in the vicinity of Kyrove and Troitske; ZU-23-2 anti-aicraft autocannon has provided fire support [to the enemy]. During the firefights near Hranitne, Ukrainian troops have destroyed a 120-mm mortar detachment of terrorists with retaliatory fire.

Movement of Russian-terrorist forces’ military units and equipment:

A well-guarded convoy from six army trucks and three BTR-80 has been moved from Lutuhyne to Krasnyi Luch.

A convoy of 16 vehicles and military equipment, including six specialized vehicles and special-purpose car vans of a long-distance communication station, two MT-LB and four ACS 2S1 “Carnation,” have been seen moving between Ilovaisk and Khartsyzsk in the direction of Donetsk.

A transfer of seven terrorist tanks to a site near Stanytsia Luhanska through Mykolaivka has been observed; the tanks were subsequently used to conduct adjusted fire on the positions of the ATO forces in the area.

In the vicinity of Donetsk, Novotoshkivka, and Katerynivka, a group of Russian-terrorist forces continue to get reinforced. A convoy from seven army trucks and two BMP-2 has procceded into the area.

The transfer of armored vehicles has been recorded in the northwestern and eastern parts of Horlivka’s illegal armed gangs. During the past 24 hours, the transfer of four tanks has been observed to an area in the vicinity of Leninske – Shumy.

OUTLAW 09
05-28-2015, 07:32 AM
Are we NATO and the US together with the EU sliding into a pre WW1 environment and or in fact are we actually sliding into a new European War OR worse yet are we on the literal verge of a war as of today 28 May????

The core problem with informational warfare is the simple fact--does the leadership of the country using the informational warfare as part and parcel of their UW (means) that is supporting their "political warfare" (the ends) believe their own propaganda OR can they inherently tell the difference from propaganda and REALITY?

I have for months now used the term to refer to any number of Russian comments either from Putin, his FM and or other Russian officials semi public or public or so called "insiders"---"an altered state of reality" or what Orwell calls "double speak".

It is great that propaganda is directed at one's own civil society to ensure they support your decisions BUT when it becomes apparent that one's own propaganda is actually being believed by the Russian leadership WE the West are in serious trouble since they have nuclear weapons.

Putin and his FM crossed into the realm of "believing their own propaganda about six months ago and it has become more apparent daily with increased threats of force against NATO, increased and reckless nuclear threats against NATO and the US, to the unannounced and not registered with OSCE snap AF and AD exercises over the last few days to this comment below.

Putin vastly over estimated the takeover and eventual annexation of eastern Ukraine, he and especially his military vastly and the word is vastly over estimated the resiliency of the Ukrainian Army to come back after Crimea, he vastly underestimated the willingness of so call ethnic Russians in Donbass to flock to his banner, he vastly underestimated the day to day cost of the war in the Ukraine which is around 30-4-M USD per day and the drain on his elite units together with their actual manpower loses.

AND he totally underestimated NATO, the EU and especially the US with it's even poor Presidential leadership--he had assumed that as in the invasion of Georgia the West would go back to "business as usual" which it did under Bush BUT this time it did not go back to "business as usual".

You can time by both Putin and his FM they have been attempting for the last four months to do exactly that get back to "business as usual" and have been floating a number of "options" that are not designed to "save face and find an exit" BUT rather are designed to reinforce the "image" Putin is the overall "winner" and damaging the EU, NATO and the US in that "win".

On top of everything he vastly underestimated the Ukrainian government as he assumed if he just piled on the economic pressure via natural gas, import stops and blockades, and applied massive pressure the Ukrainian would turn away from both NATO and the EU---Putin simply did not understand the underlying civil society change in the Ukraine after Maidan--the Ukraine did not cave and has stayed on the path to Europe.

Actually his military also underestimated the willingness of the UA to fight back and both the Ukrainian government actions together with the UA being able to box in his military in a limited area of eastern Ukraine has effectively backed Putin into a corner where any compromise now looks like a "loss" to both him and the Russian civil society.

That is also an inherent danger in the over use of propaganda--you set the expectation levels to high thus anything else is a "failure".

Remember this is an ongoing "war of perception" and "perceptions count".

I wrote her over a year ago Putin will choose the "war path" and gave a number of reasons for that and IMO he has in fact chosen that path.

All indications over the last ten days fully indicates a major offensive is in progress and in typical Russian military fashion it starts slow and builds--we see that slow start already unfolding daily.

AT the same time the "war" rhetoric" has increased massively from "insiders" stating "we are at war with the US" to this below and on and on.

THEN we got over the last few days a number of press releases, insider comments, and article that the "New Russia" project was a failure, coupled with Russian FM comments as well as comments from Putin "we want the separatists to remain in the Ukraine--ALL nothing more that smoke and mirrors or typical Russian camouflage.

ALL this at the exact same time massive weapons and unit buildup is currently ongoing on the Rostov border areas in the same august 2014 invasion routes into the Ukraine, massive arms shipments via rail have arrived as will as a large Russian military convoy crossed today into the Ukraine.

It appears to be reaching an hysterical level which is totally un-normal for Russia.

so again the simple does all of this indicate "a willingness to fulfill Minsk 2" OR has Putin chosen the "path to war"?

IMO again--he has chosen the path to "war". And it is coming sooner than later.

MFA Russia ✔ @mfa_russia
Alexander Grushko: #Russia has every right to ensure its security if #NATO expands http://tass.ru/en/russia/797112 …

Peskov on Russia's Ukraine plans: "I find the wording of this question, 'if an invasion is being prepared', inappropriate as such" @Reuters

The #OSCE says the area of active fighting in eastern #Ukraine has expanded http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/28-may-the-osce-says-the-area-of-active-fighting-in-eastern …

LARGE Russian troop/supply convoy crossing into the Ukraine—NOT the standard “humanitarian aid” convoy!!! This convoy was not announced thus a military convoy.

100 trucks of another #Russia's illegal convoy are heading to #Donbas. Are to cross into Ukr via uncontrolled border http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2015/05/28/7069337/ …

OUTLAW 09
05-28-2015, 07:58 AM
After a long night and now in the morning series of massive shellings across the entire Minsk 2 front lines coupled with major ground attack/close combat one might be inclined to state “we are seeing the slow but steady battlefield prep (using traditional Russian attack methods) for a major offense if it has not already started”.

OR does none of the below indicate anything different?????

#Kirovsk @thisnameerror on May26 up to 15 vehicles cut across Luhan river in Samsonivka (Berezivske) area

Same Special Forces #Александров #Ерофеев,#Lugansk Airport in September 2014
https://twitter.com/LUGANSK_TODAY/status/603611192251260929 …

#Luhansk 8:04AM
6 tanks towards east, maybe to Stanitsya Luhanska https://twitter.com/UkroSpider/status/603788967905996800 …

#Marinka 9:40
At the checkpoint a huge queue. https://twitter.com/hyeva_maryinka/status/603815861439340544 …

00:21 #Donetsk #Petrovka @Astelitus 1.5hr battle sounds fr/Trudovski-#Maryinka direction

00:18 #Kirovsk @kish_fish "What great nights we've got - volleys w/nightingale singing in background"
00:05 @samotniyvovk Howitzers or SPG, more than 20 shots fro now

00:06 #Kirovsk @thisnameerror Fire direction like #Myronivka

00:14 #Donetsk Petrovka @zzzwefzzz 2 trucks w/Vasilek|s tow/Trudovski

00:10 #Maryinka @hyeva_maryinka Battles in town outskirts still in progress

23:40 #Olenivka @nektonh Battle in "8th" direction, there were incoming, now double outgoings
@whicard5 #Dokuchaevsk hears

LARGE Russian troop/supply convoy crossing into the Ukraine—NOT the standard “humanitarian aid” convoy!!! This convoy was not announced thus a military convoy.

100 trucks of another #Russia's illegal convoy are heading to #Donbas. Are to cross into Ukr via uncontrolled border http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2015/05/28/7069337/ …

#News
Russian forces used 122 mm artillery pieces along the entire front last night.
Also tanks took part in the offensive.

Soldiers fr 7th Military Base received Combat Medals after duties in Ukraine https://en.informnapalm.org/more-soldiers-from-7th-military-base-received-combat-medals-after-temporary-duties-in-ukraine/ … @en_informnapalm pic.twitter.com/fZtDHrL8ql

In Ukraine, Gen. Ruban says virtually all prisoner swaps between Ukraine, Russia-backed separatists are suspended http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2015/05/28/7069335/ …

Unpublished imagery : #Shyrokyne there isn't one square meter that hasn't been shelled by #Russia forces pic.twitter.com/FzOBwhFccr

Video evidence: Russian ceasefire violations #Ukraine http://bit.ly/1ew3mX0
#Russia MO: Get Ukraine to w/draw heavy weapons then blast away

OUTLAW 09
05-28-2015, 08:04 AM
One of the best social media open source intel analysis done on Russian involvement in the Ukraine done in combination with bellingcat and the Atlantic Council.

Well worth logging in and watching--reports will definitely be posted........just wish the mainstream western media had done this far far earlier and now they play catchup--exception is Reuters who has broken a number of stories on Russian military movements by being physically on the ground especially this week

US Mission to NATO ✔ @USNATO
Today, Atlantic Council: Hiding in Plain Sight: Putin's War in Ukraine + Nemtsov's Putin War. http://goo.gl/hIqWHz pic.twitter.com/fq6SV5n55v

US Mission to NATO ✔ @USNATO
'Armed With Google and YouTube, Analysts Gauge Russia’s Presence in Ukraine' @GordonNYT

OUTLAW 09
05-28-2015, 08:19 AM
"Hiding in Plain Sight" has now been released as a report.

http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/publications/reports/hiding-in-plain-sight-putin-s-war-in-ukraine-and-boris-nemtsov-s-putin-war
May 27, 2015

Hiding in Plain Sight: Putin's War in Ukraine and Boris Nemtsov's Putin War.

By Maksymilian Czuperski, John Herbst, Eliot Higgins (bellingcat), Alina Polyakova, and Damon Wilson


Russia is at war with Ukraine. Russian citizens and soldiers are fighting and dying in a war of their government's own making. Russian President Vladimir Putin continues to deny Russian involvement in the fighting, but the evidence is overwhelming and indisputable. Drawing upon open source information, Hiding in Plain Sight: Putin's War in Ukraine provides irrefutable evidence of direct Russian military involvement in eastern Ukraine.

This report, the result of an Atlantic Council Working Group launched to examine direct Russian military involvement in Ukraine, has five key findings:

1.Satellite images confirm the movement of Russian troops and camp buildups along the Ukrainian border.

2.Russian training camps stationed along the Ukrainian border are the launching points of Russia's war in Ukraine. These camps are the staging ground for Russian military equipment transported into Ukraine, soon to join the separatist arsenal, and for Russian soldiers mobilized across Russia to cross into Ukraine.

3.Commanders order Russian soldiers to conceal the identifying features of military vehicles, remove insignia from uniforms, and travel across the border to join separatist forces in eastern Ukraine.

4.A variety of Russian manufactured arms and munitions—not used by the Ukrainian military—have appeared in the hands of separatists, including shoulder launched surface-to-air missiles (MANPADS), various types of rocket launchers, anti-tank guided missiles, landmines, and various small arms.

5.During key offensives, Russian forces in Ukraine have received cover from Russian territory. A combination of satellite data, crater analysis, and open source materials confirms that many attacks originated in Russia.

Read the Report (PDF)

OUTLAW 09
05-28-2015, 08:22 AM
The @20committee prediction of a WWIII starting this summer has made it to ukr-language web http://wartime.org.ua/18827-anb-kervnictvo-nato-tretya-svtova-pochnetsya-vltku-2015.html …

OUTLAW 09
05-28-2015, 09:23 AM
Slideshow of growing Russian military presence near #Ukraine border http://www.reuters.com/news/picture/exclusive-russia-masses-heavy-firepower?articleId=USKBN0OC2K820150527&slideId=1051668046 … via intrepid @reuters photographer @m_tsvetkova

#Russia|n Commanders Give Servicemen Marching Orders To Rostov Staging Post, Further Deployment To #Ukraine - Reuters Cites Local Sources

Per military analyst:
UK held COBRA meeting re: #Ukraine as situation has escalated. Huge Russian offensive estimated to start soon.

Reference the large number of Russian heavy weapons and troops now located near the Ukrainian border if they have not already crossed into the Ukraine and as spokesperson for Putin stated today when questioned about Russian intents stated "it is not an appropriate question".

Russian humor----

Vladimir Putin
Those are not Russian tanks. They are not moving closer to "Ukraine".
;) pic.twitter.com/nQnMzKlCll

Nonsense: they are just preparing for an extended vacation. Remember: "What happens in Ukraine, stays in Ukraine."

OUTLAW 09
05-28-2015, 09:24 AM
More indications of Russian Spetsnaz at work.

01:57 @AlexRychkoff Fr/#Olenivka direction a RUS raider group crawled out to UKR positions

Indications of a new Russian artillery piece or new type of shells being field tested under combat conditions????

04:19 #Kirovsk @kish_fish Absolutely unfamiliar volleys
04:22 Very long singles, 5 for now
04:24 Ceased, 'new toy tested'

OUTLAW 09
05-28-2015, 09:32 AM
Captured Russian Soldier Aleksandrov Will Not Appeal Detention In Kiev

16:41 (GMT)

Will be interesting to see just how long the Spetsnaz CPT will hold out on saying anything as his trial goes forward in the coming weeks.

This is an interesting comment from a former Swedish SF sniper type who fought with the Azov BN and is now their senior combat trainer for new recruits joining the Azov BN.

I have mentioned that there will be a serious moral problem in the coming months and years within Spetsnaz when the story gets fully around their Spetsnaz Brigades--nations and their militay do not "abandon" their elite fighting units and members AND then expect no blowback.

Mikael Skillt @MikaelSkillt
Would be interesting to meet with captured #Russian SF, can't even imagine the sadness they feel after bring abandoned by their country.

Will be interesting when "cognitive dissonance" fully sets in what they will be telling the Ukrainian State Security about Russian Spetsnaz operations inside the Ukraine and the more important question WHEN did they start??

There were some Russian Face Book entries that indicated Russian Spetsnaz was already in the Ukraine during Maidan.

OUTLAW 09
05-28-2015, 10:34 AM
so Russian troop losses are in fact becoming a sensitive informational warfare message aimed fully at the Russian civil society--the losses must in fact be far higher than previously reported.

Especially on the Spetsnaz side of the house--the elite of the elite.

Putin Signs Law Making It Crime To Report Losses From 'Special Operations' During Peacetime.

http://www.interpretermag.com/ukraine-live-day-465-one-killed-one-injured-after-explosion-in-kiev/#8533 … pic.twitter.com/wsIxCWKUop

OUTLAW 09
05-28-2015, 10:35 AM
#Donetsk
At 9:20 from the Motel in #Makiivka direction moved a huge convoy of military trucks with RU fighters. https://twitter.com/marisya99/status/603833180106432512 …

Russian Engineering Troops with pontoon ferry on Seversky Donets River, Rostov reg, May 2015 https://vk.com/wall-62474637?q=%23%D0%90%D1%80%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%8F_%D0%A 0%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%B8&w=wall-62474637_132099%2Fall … pic.twitter.com/nVlRWGqKs0

Outskirts maybe, I also read about Lohvynove. There were some meetings in Makeevka, Horlivka etx against 'junta shelling'... ...they may shell occupied cities more and more to create formal causa belli.

I can read about this only in pro-RU sources, claim Ukr shelled. They use old pic's from Debaltsevo to illustrate.

Ukrainian Military Reports Intense Combat Around Donetsk. http://www.interpretermag.com/ukraine-live-day-465-one-killed-one-injured-after-explosion-in-kiev/#8531 …

Putin accuses US of meddling in FIFA affairs, trying to stop Blatter re-election & take away Russia's world cup – Reuters

ATO spox: UA police & soldiers confiscated RPG-22, anti-tank guided missile, 4 grenades, boxes with ammo in Artemivsk pic.twitter.com/mE6ucR4NsI

OUTLAW 09
05-28-2015, 10:36 AM
https://russiandefpolicy.wordpress.com/2015/05/28/impatient-putin/

Impatient Putin
Posted on May 28, 2015


Once flagship of a robust Russian military press, NVO isn’t what it was. What is after 15 years of Putin? But NVO still has moments. Its 22 May editorial is one.

NVO writes that recent Roskosmos failures overshadowed President Vladimir Putin’s mid-May meetings with Defense Ministry and defense industry leaders on the GOZ and GPV. Still the 9 May Victory Day parade on Red Square showed much has been done to rearm Russia. But much doesn’t mean every problem has been solved. Rather, NVO contends, problems in the realization of GPV 2011-2020 and GPV 2016-2025 are “snowballing.”

The paper offers cases in point:
◾The fifth generation T-50 (PAK FA) fighter didn’t fly over Red Square even though it’s supposed to be in serial production already. The impatient Putin gave Russian designers just five years to field the T-50 while the Americans took 14 years from first flight to first delivery with the F-22 and 12 with the F-35.
◾Only a short time — two years — has been allowed for serial production of the new Armata tank. The Soviet T-64 took 10-15 years from the start of testing until all development work was finished. The call for Armata tanks and other armored vehicles on the same base in 2015 is just a “wish.” Serial production won’t begin earlier than 2018.
◾There are delays in other key military programs — S-350 Vityaz, S-500 Triumfator-M, and missile defense systems (no specifics provided).

Then NVO reels off a list of weapons the Russian military needs that, the editorial asserts, aren’t exactly rolling off assembly lines:
◾Transport aircraft;
◾UAVs;
◾Air-launched missiles;
◾Air ordnance;
◾Artillery and fire control systems;
◾Space systems.

Regarding the final bullet, the paper notes that “even a huge investment of budget resources still won’t save Roskosmos from its systemic crisis.”

NVO concludes:

“On the whole, fulfillment of GPV-2020 and GPV-2025 has been summoned to restore Russia to military parity with NATO, if only the Russian economy can withstand the strain. If not, the history of the USSR may be repeated.”

Some will quibble about particular systems NVO claims Moscow will have trouble fielding, but the general point remains: far from everything needed by a military neglected for 20 years is being successfully procured. There are more than a few independent Russian economists who say Moscow’s current high level of defense spending is damaging an economy already challenged by lower oil prices and Western sanctions.

OUTLAW 09
05-28-2015, 01:01 PM
My latest on @bellingcat: How to tell whether that's a T-72B3 in your backyard. https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/2015/05/28/tankspotting-how-to-identify-the-t-72b3/ … pic.twitter.com/KQihw4fP9N

Russian soldiers fighting in #Ukraine left traces of their activity on VKontakte and Odnoklassniki http://www.politico.eu/article/russian-weapons-ukraine-atlantic-council/ … via @alinasphere

OUTLAW 09
05-28-2015, 01:03 PM
So Russian troop losses are in fact becoming a sensitive informational warfare message aimed fully at the Russian civil society--the losses must in fact be far higher than previously reported.

Especially on the Spetsnaz side of the house--the elite of the elite.

Putin Signs Law Making It Crime To Report Losses From 'Special Operations' During Peacetime.

http://www.interpretermag.com/ukraine-live-day-465-one-killed-one-injured-after-explosion-in-kiev/#8533 … pic.twitter.com/wsIxCWKUop

Also appears that open source analysis of the Spetsnaz and their deaths contributed to a rather sudden decision on Putin's part to actually admit Russian troops are being killed in some numbers--not even talking about the wounded which have been heavy as well.
Putin's decree confirms what everyone knows - Russian troops are dying in Ukraine. This makes it easier to coverup. pic.twitter.com/XyW2kX7kSi

Russia classifies it's military casualties in peacetime during "special operations". Journalism in Russia RIP. http://bigstory.ap.org/urn:publicid:ap.org:11c15b8690db4c3fa2060ea1aa666a 9d …

Hot on the heels of Ru Spetsnaz KIA in UA report
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2015/05/22/three-graves/ …

Putin makes peacetime losses state secret http://slon.ru/posts/52072

OUTLAW 09
05-28-2015, 01:05 PM
Russian EW and SIGINT assets in the Ukraine--definitely not be manned by "miners and truck drivers".


Russian Electronic Warfare and other "special equipment" by manufacturer "Revtrud" http://www.revtrud.com/page/14 pic.twitter.com/HbO1mJw2i2
Left: Combined radio R-145BM-1
Top: Command-staff R-149BMRg
Bot: Automated jamming station HF radio designed to interfere with landlines

Manufacturer "Borisoglebsk-2B": VHF radio jamming station designed to interfere with land-line http://www.revtrud.com/page/15 pic.twitter.com/uPyj6LeqGS

Latest Russian weapons: "Borisoglebsk-2B" complex for SIGINT and electronic warfare jamming, 1 April 2015 https://youtu.be/ornJoNACqLY?t=17s …

"Borisoglebsk-2" complex: Command Post (R-330KMV) + Jammers (R-378BMV, R-330BMV, R-934BMV, R-325UMV) on MT-LB chassis http://www.arms-expo.ru/news/armed_forces/noveyshiy_kompleks_radioelektronnoy_borby_postupil _v_soedinenie_vvo_v_buryatii/ …

We think, no front cradle on MT-LBu R-330B EW (VHF jammer) vehicle types http://www.ausairpower.net/APA-REB-Systems.html … pic.twitter.com/VFSJOeJnqJ

Cropped and enlarged view: pic.twitter.com/Inlctk9fGW

We'd like expert opinion if this is "Borisoglebsk-2" EW/countermeasures/jamming/radio vehicle? http://www.reuters.com/news/picture/russia-on-the-border?articleId=USRTX1ETQC&slideId=1051671888 … pic.twitter.com/m5TqIcT09w

Russian "Borisoglebsk-2B" electronic warfare (EW) complex: Р-330КМВ (R-330KMV) command post http://www.russianarms.ru/forum/index.php?topic=8521.0 … pic.twitter.com/oLrtv7CFK0

"Borisoglebsk-2B" electronic warfare (EW) complex being tested in field (Buryatia) Eastern Military District Jan 2015 pic.twitter.com/ccWnLYjuNc

"Borisoglebsk-2B" complex: Р-934БМВ (R-934BMV) jammer station (right on R photo) pic.twitter.com/qrm00b0Sv7

Last one in the set! "Borisoglebsk-2B" complex: Р-325УМВ (R-325UMV) jammer station pic.twitter.com/4M15sQNwHH

Russian "Borisoglebsk-2B" complex R-330BMV (Р-330БМВ) jammer for SIGINT and electronic warfare pic.twitter.com/l9ZQotZd6J

Russian "Borisoglebsk-2B" complex R-330BMV (Р-330БМВ) jammer for SIGINT and electronic warfare pic.twitter.com/iwSHEJRr6A

Russian "Borisoglebsk-2B" electronic warfare complex consists of command vehicle + 4 remote control jamming stations pic.twitter.com/QrlMCcSwOt

OUTLAW 09
05-28-2015, 01:06 PM
Several weeks ago it was reported that the Russian mercenaries--probably Spetsnaz--were driving to fake OSCE vehicles--the decals were right but not the correct vehicles being used by OSCE and now this report of UN vehicles.

12:30 #Makeevka: Fake UN jeeps went towards #Khartsyzk "like these" (photos not fr/Makeevka) via @MordorOutdoor pic.twitter.com/7Fd0E7qyDO

Watch: Dramatic battle violates Ukraine cease-fire http://bit.ly/1Kr5WYl

Tymchuk: Russia is deploying new command/control centers & army supply bases in residential areas of Donetsk, Horlivka, & Debaltseve Ukraine

OUTLAW 09
05-28-2015, 01:26 PM
Someone one gets the unique feeling that it is “Putin himself who is defending the right to corruption”—remember actually the use of corruption as a formal non linear warfare weapon system is in fact allowed—even we in Iraq often used the term “money is a weapons system”.

So after the “weaponization of information NOW we have” weaponization of money” as part and parcel of the Russia UW doctrine.

Begs the question though--just why is Putin so sensitive???

1. is he afraid that Russia will lose the World Cup 2018 OR
2. is he angry about the millions they paid in bribes being confiscated by the DoJ???? OR
3. is he angry he got caught???

OR--ALL of the above???

BREAKING: Obama pledges "no boots on the ground" to remove FIFA President Blatter

Over 80% of all financial transactions worldwide are conducted in dollars

US alleges FIFA suspects sent illegal funds via US banks, discussed bribes in US. Putin says none of US's business. http://www.wsj.com/articles/vladimir-putin-accuses-u-s-over-pursuit-of-fifa-executives-1432813137?tesla=y …

Putin accuses US of pursuing FIFA officials in the same "selfish" and "unlawful" way it pursued Snowden and Assange

Probably to be expected, the fiercest defense of FIFA so far has come from Vladimir Putin. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/29/sports/vladimir-putin-fifa-corruption-soccer.html … pic.twitter.com/sIieGprtr2

OUTLAW 09
05-28-2015, 01:45 PM
Russian EW and SIGINT assets in the Ukraine--definitely not be manned by "miners and truck drivers".


Russian Electronic Warfare and other "special equipment" by manufacturer "Revtrud" http://www.revtrud.com/page/14 pic.twitter.com/HbO1mJw2i2
Left: Combined radio R-145BM-1
Top: Command-staff R-149BMRg
Bot: Automated jamming station HF radio designed to interfere with landlines

Manufacturer "Borisoglebsk-2B": VHF radio jamming station designed to interfere with land-line http://www.revtrud.com/page/15 pic.twitter.com/uPyj6LeqGS

Latest Russian weapons: "Borisoglebsk-2B" complex for SIGINT and electronic warfare jamming, 1 April 2015 https://youtu.be/ornJoNACqLY?t=17s …

"Borisoglebsk-2" complex: Command Post (R-330KMV) + Jammers (R-378BMV, R-330BMV, R-934BMV, R-325UMV) on MT-LB chassis http://www.arms-expo.ru/news/armed_forces/noveyshiy_kompleks_radioelektronnoy_borby_postupil _v_soedinenie_vvo_v_buryatii/ …

We think, no front cradle on MT-LBu R-330B EW (VHF jammer) vehicle types http://www.ausairpower.net/APA-REB-Systems.html … pic.twitter.com/VFSJOeJnqJ

Cropped and enlarged view: pic.twitter.com/Inlctk9fGW

We'd like expert opinion if this is "Borisoglebsk-2" EW/countermeasures/jamming/radio vehicle? http://www.reuters.com/news/picture/russia-on-the-border?articleId=USRTX1ETQC&slideId=1051671888 … pic.twitter.com/m5TqIcT09w

Russian "Borisoglebsk-2B" electronic warfare (EW) complex: Р-330КМВ (R-330KMV) command post http://www.russianarms.ru/forum/index.php?topic=8521.0 … pic.twitter.com/oLrtv7CFK0

"Borisoglebsk-2B" electronic warfare (EW) complex being tested in field (Buryatia) Eastern Military District Jan 2015 pic.twitter.com/ccWnLYjuNc

"Borisoglebsk-2B" complex: Р-934БМВ (R-934BMV) jammer station (right on R photo) pic.twitter.com/qrm00b0Sv7

Last one in the set! "Borisoglebsk-2B" complex: Р-325УМВ (R-325UMV) jammer station pic.twitter.com/4M15sQNwHH

Russian "Borisoglebsk-2B" complex R-330BMV (Р-330БМВ) jammer for SIGINT and electronic warfare pic.twitter.com/l9ZQotZd6J

Russian "Borisoglebsk-2B" complex R-330BMV (Р-330БМВ) jammer for SIGINT and electronic warfare pic.twitter.com/iwSHEJRr6A

Russian "Borisoglebsk-2B" electronic warfare complex consists of command vehicle + 4 remote control jamming stations pic.twitter.com/QrlMCcSwOt

Why are we so interested in Russian "Borisoglebsk-2B" complex? Because we think it's being used to insert #psyops in Donbas comms networks.

Peter Johnson @alcebaid
@GorseFires but it is not the only REW system russians have, and there were others reported in Donbass (Krasukha-4, etc)

OUTLAW 09
05-28-2015, 01:47 PM
Also appears that open source analysis of the Spetsnaz and their deaths contributed to a rather sudden decision on Putin's part to actually admit Russian troops are being killed in some numbers--not even talking about the wounded which have been heavy as well.
Putin's decree confirms what everyone knows - Russian troops are dying in Ukraine. This makes it easier to coverup. pic.twitter.com/XyW2kX7kSi

Russia classifies it's military casualties in peacetime during "special operations". Journalism in Russia RIP. http://bigstory.ap.org/urn:publicid:ap.org:11c15b8690db4c3fa2060ea1aa666a 9d …

Hot on the heels of Ru Spetsnaz KIA in UA report
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2015/05/22/three-graves/ …

Putin makes peacetime losses state secret http://slon.ru/posts/52072

This sums up nicely Putin's move with his new law today.

Putin classifies data on deaths of Russian soldiers in Ukraine, who *weren't* Russian, *weren't* soldiers and *didn't* die in Ukraine

Little wonder the two captured Russian Spetsnaz POWs feel "abandoned".

OUTLAW 09
05-28-2015, 01:49 PM
Now from the “I told you so” corner---

John Schindler @20committee
If only someone had offered warnings about #SnowdenOp, RU aggression, Putin's nuke games & NATO's need for deterrence http://20committee.com/2015/05/28/i-told-you-so/

AHEM: Putin's "separatists" in Donbas have more tanks than Germany, France, and the Czech Republic combined http://euromaidanpress.com/2015/05/26/separatists-in-donbas-have-more-tanks-than-germany-france-and-czech-republic-combined/ …

A year ago I explained that without more deterrence, war in Europe was possible. Now top NATO officials say the same. http://20committee.com/2015/05/28/i-told-you-so/ …

OUTLAW 09
05-28-2015, 01:51 PM
Russian combat operations are massively ramping up over the last 48 hours to include this morning. Check the attached pic.twitter for the range and depth.

Ukrainian Military Reports Intense Combat Around Donetsk http://bit.ly/1FPWzlj pic.twitter.com/1UkHhPi2rd

OUTLAW 09
05-28-2015, 01:52 PM
Someone one gets the unique feeling that it is “Putin himself who is defending the right to corruption”—remember actually the use of corruption as a formal non linear warfare weapon system is in fact allowed—even we in Iraq often used the term “money is a weapons system”.

So after the “weaponization of information NOW we have” weaponization of money” as part and parcel of the Russia UW doctrine.

Begs the question though--just why is Putin so sensitive???

1. is he afraid that Russia will lose the World Cup 2018 OR
2. is he angry about the millions they paid in bribes being confiscated by the DoJ???? OR
3. is he angry he got caught???

OR--ALL of the above???

BREAKING: Obama pledges "no boots on the ground" to remove FIFA President Blatter

Over 80% of all financial transactions worldwide are conducted in dollars

US alleges FIFA suspects sent illegal funds via US banks, discussed bribes in US. Putin says none of US's business. http://www.wsj.com/articles/vladimir-putin-accuses-u-s-over-pursuit-of-fifa-executives-1432813137?tesla=y …

Putin accuses US of pursuing FIFA officials in the same "selfish" and "unlawful" way it pursued Snowden and Assange

Probably to be expected, the fiercest defense of FIFA so far has come from Vladimir Putin. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/29/sports/vladimir-putin-fifa-corruption-soccer.html … pic.twitter.com/sIieGprtr2

When you thought you've heard it all. Putin now claims #FIFAgate is a conspiracy by the US to spread its juristiction to other countries.

OUTLAW 09
05-28-2015, 04:49 PM
UKR Mission to OSCE @UKRinOSCE
#Prokopchuk: RUS occupants in #Crimea continue repressive policy, which is mostly targeted against CrimeanTatars&Ukrainians

UKR Mission to OSCE @UKRinOSCE
#Prokopchuk: Provocative shellings of resid.areas & criminal infighting btwn militants’ gangs pose direct threat 2lives of local civilians

UKR Mission to OSCE @UKRinOSCE
#Prokopchuk: List of irrefutable evidence of RUS presence #Donbas was further enlarged after UA forces shot down RUS military #Forpost UAV

Russian tanks, APCs, AA, engineers and EW vehicles nr Matveev Kurgan, Rostov region (20km from Ukraine border) 26 May pic.twitter.com/nps1LDuVxc

Canada at NATO ✔ @CanadaNATO
#NATO SecGen says #Russia snap exercises helped annex #Crimea & destabilize #Ukraine: http://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/opinions_120166.htm … pic.twitter.com/rpZhbVupQr

OUTLAW 09
05-28-2015, 04:51 PM
This sums up nicely Putin's move with his new law today.

Putin classifies data on deaths of Russian soldiers in Ukraine, who *weren't* Russian, *weren't* soldiers and *didn't* die in Ukraine

Little wonder the two captured Russian Spetsnaz POWs feel "abandoned".

Strange that you have a problem with dead soldiers during peace, that's kinda the only time you shouldn't. Only in #Russia

OUTLAW 09
05-28-2015, 04:53 PM
When you thought you've heard it all. Putin now claims #FIFAgate is a conspiracy by the US to spread its juristiction to other countries.

Pure hypocrisy-----

Putin whines that US enforcing law beyond its shores over FIFA.

THEN, Russia opens criminal case on Ukraine shelling that occurred in the Ukraine--is that not beyond Russia shores????

http://lifenews.ru/news/154712 LifeNews is being referred these days to--- as "lienews".

OUTLAW 09
05-28-2015, 05:28 PM
Luhansk @djljktqvfhrtn Today a long column moved - tanks,BTRs,trucks w/field kitchens fr/bus station dir'n tow/Gaevogo block

19:00 #Maryinka @hyeva_maryinka "There were some MG bursts, now it just thunders a bit"

18:23 #Maryinka @faina_ukr Several massive incoming [hits]

18:09 #Donetsk Proletarsky @DoneckiiPatriot Loud rumble, not thunder for there was air blast
@Shymanovski Gvardeyka heard

More RUAF activity in south baltic sea - su27?

Russia and the West: Alternative reality -- my brilliant colleague in Moscow sums it all up http://econ.st/1J8Vear via @TheEconomist

More photos from Reuters, Rostov region near Ukraine border in recent days http://www.reuters.com/news/picture/russia-on-the-border?articleId=USRTX1ETQC … pic.twitter.com/QAXH26o7kH

OUTLAW 09
05-28-2015, 06:08 PM
Just what the heck is this…………???? Russian propaganda is now officially out of control…..

Student: "My boyfriend from moscow recieved order to fight in #donetsk. Goal: Liberation of #Ukraine from Amercian Invaders!"

Ukrainian "red line in the sand" has been laid down.

Poroshenko Ready To Declare Martial Law If "Demarcation Line Is Crossed" By Russian-Backed Forces http://bit.ly/1QdiLax

OUTLAW 09
05-28-2015, 06:10 PM
Really exceptionally quiet this evening on the shelling and ground attacks--must be the weather with heavy rain and thunderstorms--maybe the Russians think they are sugar and will melt. OR maybe the Russian military supply system forgot to send rain ponchos with the shipments that arrived today.

But quiet is good.

OUTLAW 09
05-28-2015, 06:51 PM
Strange that you have a problem with dead soldiers during peace, that's kinda the only time you shouldn't. Only in #Russia

Sometimes I am not really sure if the Russians know exactly just what the heck they are doing........the statement just released begs the question---JUST where then are the Russians "fighting in peace"????---Africa, South American, Cuba,--Asia????

Does any SWJ commenter know exactly where Russia is losing troops outside of the Ukraine--if so maybe you should call Moscow and let them know where their troops are--yes I know they tend to be on "vacation" in a number of places all in the Ukraine BUT this is press statement is a tad unbelievable--do they really think the West is that stupid???

Here we go again! Putin spokesman says secrecy decree over Russian troops casualties has none to do with Ukraine https://twitter.com/svobodaradio/status/603982983696113664 …

OUTLAW 09
05-28-2015, 06:53 PM
Interesting map study of where the large Russian armored force is sitting on the Ukrainian border.

Regarding the recent sightings of russian armor in Matveev Kurgan : it's the fastest way to Donetsk. pic.twitter.com/q2M5Cvg1QY

U.S. Mission to OSCE Warns That Joint Russian-Separatist Attacks Are Taking Place In Ukraine http://bit.ly/1HPfcIi

This is how a #Shyrokine street looks like after months of Russian shelling. VIDEO https://twitter.com/mihovil78/stat

OUTLAW 09
05-28-2015, 07:35 PM
Russian propaganda has 4Ds--distract, distort, dismiss, dismay

Which of the above fits this Russian TASS press release????

http://tass.ru/en/world/797417?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=ITAR-TASS

Kiev’s deployment of weapons near engagement line fraught with conflict escalation — envoy

World
May 28, 21:34 UTC+3


"There is information about Ukrainian troops’ concentrating heavy weapons, including artillery, near the disengagement line," Russian Permanent Representative at the OSCE said

Militia spot Kiev’s heavy weapons pointed at Donetsk near contact line — spokesman

MOSCOW, May 28. /TASS/. Ukraine’s deployment of heavy weapons, including artillery, in the vicinity of the line of disengagement in Donbas in fraught with further escalation of the conflict, Russian Permanent Representative at the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Andrei Kelin said on Thursday.

"There is information about Ukrainian troops’ concentrating heavy weapons, including artillery, near the disengagement line," he said at a meeting of the OSCE Permanent Council. "The number of subversive acts and provocations is growing. Ukrainian forces are sensing defence of DPR and LPR (Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics) militias to find their sore points. It is fraught with escalation of the conflict."

The Russian diplomat said in this context that of serious concern was the Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada’s (parliament) resolution on possible deviation from liabilities under the European Convention on Human Rights. "Isn’t it a preparation for a new round of tensions in southeastern Ukraine?"

"The United States and the European Union must exert their influence on Kiev to prevent escalation of tension in Donbas," he underscored.

OUTLAW 09
05-28-2015, 07:36 PM
Russian propaganda has 4Ds--distract, distort, dismiss, dismay

Which of the above fits this Russian TASS press release????

http://tass.ru/en/world/797417?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=ITAR-TASS

Kiev’s deployment of weapons near engagement line fraught with conflict escalation — envoy

World
May 28, 21:34 UTC+3

Seems the OSCE has a totally different view as to who is responsible for the massive increase in shellings OSCE report: http://www.interpretermag.com/ukraine-live-day-465-one-killed-one-injured-after-explosion-in-kiev/#8543 … pic.twitter.com/sNes8EoT3l

OUTLAW 09
05-28-2015, 07:37 PM
"Hiding in Plain Sight: Putin's War in Ukraine" by @atlanticcouncil is example of revolution in open source intel.

Situation in ATO zone gets worse: militants fire anti-aircraft systems, mortars
http://www.unian.info/war/1083285-situation-in-ato-zone-gets-worse-militants-fire-anti-aircraft-systems-mortars.html … pic.twitter.com/PYJqWLAbHE

OUTLAW 09
05-28-2015, 07:48 PM
http://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/opinions_120180.htm

From NATO today----from the Deputy Secretary General of NATO in Kyiv.


As serious as they are, Russia’s aggressive actions in Ukraine are only one part of a broader picture of destabilising behaviour – behaviour that threatens the sovereignty and territorial integrity of its neighbours, in violation of the commitments Russia made in the early 1990s.

In 2008, after the Russia-Georgia war, Russia recognised the Georgian regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia as independent republics and, in an echo of the Berlin Wall, built a security fence between them and the rest of Georgia. It also still has troops in Moldova that it originally pledged to withdraw in 1999

Russia has done everything it could to prevent its western neighbours from following their own path. It has tried to block Georgia’s aspirations for NATO membership, and Moldova’s attempt to move closer to the European Union.

Russia claims that these countries represent a “zone of privileged interest”. Essentially, it wants carte blanche with regard to its neighbours. I had hoped that we had consigned such notions – and their dire consequences – to history. Alas, that appears not to be the case.

I have mentioned here a number of times Putin wants to sit down with the US and have a "new Yalta" giving Russia "a zone of privileged interest" what he refers to but really he often interchanges this term with spheres of interest.

What he is really saying though is he wants to reestablish Russian hegemony over the former Soviet Republics that broke away, the Ukraine, Poland, Bulgaria, and the Baltics.

BTW----both he and his FM have mentioned this new Yalta a number of times recently--it should not be a surprise to the West.

OUTLAW 09
05-28-2015, 07:52 PM
Really exceptionally quiet this evening on the shelling and ground attacks--must be the weather with heavy rain and thunderstorms--maybe the Russians think they are sugar and will melt. OR maybe the Russian military supply system forgot to send rain ponchos with the shipments that arrived today.

But quiet is good.

This is the only report to have come in lately--hope it stays that way but it might start at around midnight as it has in the past week or so.

#Marinka 9:29PM
Here we go again, automats firing and something heavy... https://twitter.com/faina_ukr/status/603991529108176896 …

OUTLAW 09
05-28-2015, 08:07 PM
The former head of Stanichno-Lugansk , who organized the separatist referendum, was arrested pic.twitter.com/bPVRvOLRrf http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/28-may-the-former-head-of-stanichnolugansk-district-council …

"Gazprom" has considered that "Naftogaz" has already $200 million of debt for gas supplies in Donbas http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/28-may-gazprom-has-considered-that-naftogaz-has-already-200 …

#Footage
Pro-Russian media claims, the Ukr army fired #MLRS vs. #Horlivka recently.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4uL7j4lRpU …
pic.twitter.com/sP7mI2xXSs

OUTLAW 09
05-29-2015, 05:19 AM
#Shyrokyno
Incooooooooooming!!!
https://youtu.be/nmi6gBcz024 via @YouTube

Интенсивность стрельбы в Широкино возрастает,The intensity of the fire increases in #Shyrokyno https://youtu.be/yFdsRnYHK5g

Donbass battalion in #Shyrokyno https://youtu.be/MLreeWGO7Yw via @YouTube

Night battle in #Shyrokyno. https://youtu.be/dCjNPEXNlYQ via @YouTube

#Dzerzhynsk 12:50AM
Artillery working. https://twitter.com/blessmaster/status/604042024086544384 …

Zakharchenko plans to take 3 more cities of Donetsk reg; Slavyansk, Konstantinovka, Krasnoarmeysk http://www.pravda.com.ua/rus/news/2015/05/29/7069462/?utm_medium=twitter&utm_term=%23%D0%A3%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B8%D0%BD%D 0%B0&utm_source=twitterfeed … via @ukrpravda_news

OUTLAW 09
05-29-2015, 10:15 AM
NSDC of Ukraine ✔ @NSDC_ua
One Ukrainian soldier KIA, 6 got wounded. Most casualties around Donetsk.

NSDC of Ukraine ✔ @NSDC_ua
Ukrainian soldiers averted terrorist act in Luhansk region – deactivated 120mm mortar mine

Most complicated situation in Donetsk sector. Renewed clashes near airport. Enemy used 120mm mortars and 122mm guns. Clashes in Mariyinka

NSDC of Ukraine ✔ @NSDC_ua
Ukraine State Emergency Service deactivated 297 explosives in ATO zone throughout last week.

NSDC of Ukraine ✔ @NSDC_ua
Ukrainian servicemen spotted 4 flights of enemy UAVs yesterday.

NSDC of Ukraine ✔ @NSDC_ua
Hotspots in Luhansk sector: Zolote, Tryokhizbenka, Shchastya, Stanytsia Luhanska. № of ceasefire violations decreased.

#Donetsk 12:30
Tekstilist district - hear powerful shots. https://twitter.com/tekstilevskia/status/604218622706356224 …

NSDC of Ukraine ✔ @NSDC_ua
Hotspots in Donetsk sector: airport area, Maryinka, Berezove. UA positions shelled from Grad missile systems for 30 mins.

NSDC of Ukraine ✔ @NSDC_ua
Fighting continues in Shyrokyne. Militants were most active in the evening. No record of heavy arms use.

NSDC of Ukraine ✔ @NSDC_ua
Map. Situation in eastern #Ukraine, May 29, 12:00 EET pic.twitter.com/8iUsoW8jSW

OUTLAW 09
05-29-2015, 10:16 AM
Separatist website unintentionally posts proof of Russian weapon presence in Donbas http://uatoday.tv/politics/separatist-website-unintentionally-posts-proof-of-russian-weapon-presence-in-donbas-430139.html … #Lugansk pic.twitter.com/N9ONZ2MQM9

Tactical use of this Russian weapon system is to clear a path through minefields during offensives... https://twitter.com/uatodaytv/status/604208093162016768 …

@LUGANSK_TODAY NOT A JOKE! We talked to this #Russian soldier and he is ready to say what he saw if we pay him $$$ pic.twitter.com/weJbQoRDaY

OUTLAW 09
05-29-2015, 10:17 AM
Eliot Higgins @EliotHiggins
Who’s Lying? An In-depth Analysis of the Luhansk Buk Video https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2015/05/29/whos-lying-an-in-depth-analysis-of-the-luhansk-buk-video/ … #MH17 #PutinAtWar pic.twitter.com/ZhjWHzRK9B

DNR's Zakharchenko says he's going to take #Mariupol #Slavyansk #Kramatorsk "with force".
http://inforesist.org/zaxarchenko-zayavil-chto-zaxvatit-slavyansk-kramatorsk-i-mariupol/ … pic.twitter.com/IfKJ0u4VTS

#Russia's troll army hits US websites..in pretty bad English
by @maxseddon
http://www.buzzfeed.com/maxseddon/documents-show-how-russias-troll-army-hit-america#.oapyz34Nm … pic.twitter.com/OK8UVwCcWG

OUTLAW 09
05-29-2015, 10:18 AM
Adhering to the party line it seems…….So when will even the CPT now start talking about his Spetsnaz missions over the last 1.5 years in the Ukraine????

Russian consul: Captured GRU officers are "mercenaries", "LNR policemen" "have nothing to do with Russian Army".
http://inforesist.org/konsul-ozvucil-oficialnuyu-poziciyu-rf/ …

Acc t 1 of GRUs detained in Ukraine, Rus consul told them: "If they jail you, it won't be for long" http://zn.ua/UKRAINE/esli-nas-posadyat-eto-budet-nenadolgo-plennyy-grushnik-aleksandrov-177733_.html … Ain't that sweet?

Both POWs via their lawyers---- were massively pxxxxxxxd off about his comments after his visit—are Russian officials deliberately trying to force them to say “everything they do know but have not said”????

If I were them-simply ask for political asylum stating I was forced to go to the Ukraine and in then national TV in Russian explain their entire mission set for the three times in the Ukraine and beam it into all of the Russian speaking areas. Would be the greatest media move in the informational war.

Captured Russian soldier Yerofeyev: I want to be accused of espionage, not terrorism
http://www.unian.info/society/1083491-captured-russian-soldier-yerofeyev-i-want-to-be-accused-of-espionage-not-terrorism.html … pic.twitter.com/CD9Aez6EPA

OUTLAW 09
05-29-2015, 10:19 AM
2nd Russian Spetsnaz Brigade headed towards Mariupol-----in GermanDie 2.

Brigade der Sonderbestimmung des GRU in Mariupoler Richtung. - http://InformNapalm.org (Deutsch) http://fb.me/3Tk83sURw

OUTLAW 09
05-29-2015, 10:26 AM
BREAKING: MOLDOVA POLICE FIND MOLOTOV COCKTAILS, DETONATORS, MASKS
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_MOLDOVA_BOMB_CACHES_?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2015-05-27-11-37-52 …
in doing so, it confiscated 40 firearms, 200 grenades, 100 shells and 40 landmines."

NOTICE the signature of the Ukrainian "separatist" weapons of choice.

EXPERTS: Foreign forces are preparing the violent overthrow of Moldova's government
http://www.timpul.md/articol/alerta-se-pregatete-rasturnarea-violenta-a-puterii-de-stat-a-r-moldova-74985.html …

BREAKING: Bomb squad finds explosives at two addresses in Chisinau, calls to Russia made from mobile phones
http://www.ipn.md/en/societate/69659

World Bank to provide 12-million-dollar-worth loan to Moldovan fruits producers
http://www.moldpres.md/en/news/2015/05/26/15003535

So there is some possible truth to the few comments that recently indicated Moldavia was the next Putin target not the Baltics.

Russian mercenaries "showing up in Moldavia" is a solid indicator of that intent.

"Lieutenant" from Givi's gang detained in #Moldova, call sign "Academician".
On holidays?
http://www.sbu.gov.ua/sbu/control/uk/publish/article?art_id=144428&cat_id=39574 … pic.twitter.com/6REzRQT2TZ

OUTLAW 09
05-29-2015, 11:52 AM
So there is some possible truth to the few comments that recently indicated Moldavia was the next Putin target not the Baltics.

Russian mercenaries "showing up in Moldavia" is a solid indicator of that intent.

"Lieutenant" from Givi's gang detained in #Moldova, call sign "Academician".
On holidays?
http://www.sbu.gov.ua/sbu/control/uk/publish/article?art_id=144428&cat_id=39574 … pic.twitter.com/6REzRQT2TZ

This is the key piece of information concerning Russian intent on destabilizing Moldavia----this Russian mercenary who had been fighting in eastern Ukraine ARRIVES via Moscow.

He had participated in the early "separatist" takeovers and then in the heavy fighting, somehow ends up in Moscow and now in Moldavia--and that is not a connection?

#Moldova detained a terrorist from #Donetsk who arrived by plane from Moscow. http://censor.net.ua/photo_news/338068/v_moldove_zaderjan_odin_iz_glavareyi_terroristiche skoyi_gruppy_somali_sbu_fotoreportaj … pic.twitter.com/Pe8RbW3njs

It all has to do with the land corridor from Crimea over Mariupol, Odessa and into Transnistria where 1500 Russian "peacekeepers" who were under OSCE agreement to have been in pulled out in 1999 --BUT are still there and marooned by the decision of the Ukraine to stop all Russian transit rights through the Ukraine to Transnistria.

OUTLAW 09
05-29-2015, 11:54 AM
Russia still frantically looking for and creating excuses for heating up the conflict. https://twitter.com/MikkoLaaksonen1/status/604147959949844480 …

Yesterday, RU forces attacked Shyrokyne 9 times with 82mm & 120mm mortars, small arms. 1 Ukraine soldier wounded
http://www.mariupol.tv/news/war/mariupol/4160/pod_mariupolem_ranen_boec_nacgvardii.html …

2 #Ukrainian servicemen tripped a mine in outskirts of Stanytsia Luhanska. 1 was killed, another wounded, in hospital http://moskal.in.ua/?categoty=news&news_id=1771 …

OUTLAW 09
05-29-2015, 12:23 PM
This is the key piece of information concerning Russian intent on destabilizing Moldavia----this Russian mercenary who had been fighting in eastern Ukraine ARRIVES via Moscow.

He had participated in the early "separatist" takeovers and then in the heavy fighting, somehow ends up in Moscow and now in Moldavia--and that is not a connection?

#Moldova detained a terrorist from #Donetsk who arrived by plane from Moscow. http://censor.net.ua/photo_news/338068/v_moldove_zaderjan_odin_iz_glavareyi_terroristiche skoyi_gruppy_somali_sbu_fotoreportaj … pic.twitter.com/Pe8RbW3njs

It all has to do with the land corridor from Crimea over Mariupol, Odessa and into Transnistria where 1500 Russian "peacekeepers" who were under OSCE agreement to have been in pulled out in 1999 --BUT are still there and marooned by the decision of the Ukraine to stop all Russian transit rights through the Ukraine to Transnistria.

AND THE PLOT THICKENS------


Subversive caught by SBU in Moldova w/ #Russia|n GRU files marked "secret" & "military formations"
https://twitter.com/RobPulseNews/status/604235797571723264 …

SBU together w Moldovan authorities detained leader of terror group "Somalia" in #Moldova after arriving fr #Donetsk
http://www.sbu.gov.ua/sbu/control/uk/publish/article?art_id=144428&cat_id=39574 …

Head of #Ukraine Border Service -there is now threat of war with #Russia created #Transnistria http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=2&hl=en&prev=search&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=uk&u=http://uapress.info/uk/news/show/78477&usg=ALkJrhiEuWFlxU7rJTduXizbt-Yvsvx0Xg … pic.twitter.com/02T7alxORm

OUTLAW 09
05-29-2015, 12:25 PM
Russian GRU and Russian Nazi's both one and the same fighting in the Ukraine.

Where Yulia Kharlamova goes Alexei Milchakov, a Russia|n #GRU soldier; #Nazi; & puppy torturer, is never far away: pic.twitter.com/51Mz8gxTCQ

#Russia's #Nazi's fighting in #Ukraine held a ceremony.
Noticeably, Russian FSB agent Yulia Kharlamova was there too pic.twitter.com/OUqtUMdjDh

Kyiv's Nazi junta?
Bandera's from Lviv?
Relax. They're just Russian "anti-fascists" in Ukrainian Donbass. pic.twitter.com/RBWZbaTesD

GRU unit who captured Lugansk's airport later disbanded separatists groups in Krasnodon http://lugansk-news.com/royal-flush-russian-special-forces-soldier-fighting-in-ukraine-showed-us-all/russiansoldierval1/ … pic.twitter.com/wH4GBQwnYB

Canada at NATO ✔ @CanadaNATO
Russian troops amassing heavy weaponry on #Ukraine border:
http://europe.newsweek.com/russian-troops-amassing-heavy-weaponry-ukraine-border-327904 … pic.twitter.com/SjkZDwX3OD

OUTLAW 09
05-29-2015, 12:26 PM
Adhering to the party line it seems…….So when will even the CPT now start talking about his Spetsnaz missions over the last 1.5 years in the Ukraine????

Russian consul: Captured GRU officers are "mercenaries", "LNR policemen" "have nothing to do with Russian Army".
http://inforesist.org/konsul-ozvucil-oficialnuyu-poziciyu-rf/ …

Acc t 1 of GRUs detained in Ukraine, Rus consul told them: "If they jail you, it won't be for long" http://zn.ua/UKRAINE/esli-nas-posadyat-eto-budet-nenadolgo-plennyy-grushnik-aleksandrov-177733_.html … Ain't that sweet?

Both POWs via their lawyers---- were massively pxxxxxxxd off about his comments after his visit—are Russian officials deliberately trying to force them to say “everything they do know but have not said”????

If I were them-simply ask for political asylum stating I was forced to go to the Ukraine and in then national TV in Russian explain their entire mission set for the three times in the Ukraine and beam it into all of the Russian speaking areas. Would be the greatest media move in the informational war.

Captured Russian soldier Yerofeyev: I want to be accused of espionage, not terrorism
http://www.unian.info/society/1083491-captured-russian-soldier-yerofeyev-i-want-to-be-accused-of-espionage-not-terrorism.html … pic.twitter.com/CD9Aez6EPA

Special Report: Russian fighters, caught in Ukraine, cast adrift by Moscow
Insightful @Reuters interview with the captured Russian GRU soldiers in #Ukrainehttp://www.reuters.com/article/2015/05/29/us-ukraine-crisis-captured-specialreport-idUSKBN0OE0YE20150529 …

OUTLAW 09
05-29-2015, 12:27 PM
Well, this is going to be interesting - a kremlin troll turns on her employer

https://meduza.io/en/news/2015/05/29/internet-troll-sues-her-employer …

OUTLAW 09
05-29-2015, 01:39 PM
http://maidantranslations.com/2015/05/29/dmitry-tymchuk-military-update-5-28-freesavchenko/

Dmitry Tymchuk: Military update 5.28

Posted on May 29, 2015 by tilamuse

Operational data from Information Resistance:


Russian-terrorist forces continue blatantly violating the ceasefire imposed by the Minsk Agreements by firing at ATO forces’ positions along the entire line of contact.

In the Donetsk sector, insurgents fired at ATO forces positions using heavy infantry weapons, including “banned” 120-mm caliber mortars. Insurgents employed snipers and infantry firing groups in the vicinity of Pisky, Opytne, Avdiivka, Kirove, Leninske, Mariinka, and Krasnohorivka. We have spotted several armored terrorist groups (a total of 20 tanks and armored fighting vehicles) operating as “roaming firing units” between Krasnohorivka and Opytne, and shelling the ATO forces.

In the Seaside [Mariupol] sector, insurgents used small arms, mortars, and 122-mm artillery systems.

In the Luhansk sector, pro-Russian terrorists used armored vehicles and artillery to shell the ATO forces. They delivered precision fire from 122-mm artillery, tanks, and infantry fighting vehicles in the vicinity of Krymske, Shchastia, Sokoniki, and Stanytsia Luhanska. Ukrainian troops near Novotoshkivske, Zolote, and Donetske were also shelled by the enemy’s maneuvering armored groups, ZU-23-2 mobile anti-aircraft autocannons, and 122-mm artillery. Illegal armed gangs have also become more active in these areas.

matryoshka_soldiers

All insurgent units operating in the vicinity of the Bakhmut highway, Stakhanov, Alchevsk, and other settlements north of the Donetsk-Luhansk highway have moved under the “central military command” of the LNR terrorist organization [Luhansk People’s Republic]. Manpower and equipment are accumulating at the flank positions in the area near the Zholobok – Slovianoserbsk stretch and northeast of Pervomaisk. 17 armored vehicles and trucks have been transferred into the area.

Regrouping of terrorist manpower and equipment continues between Yasynuvata and Horlivka. Two firing units operating 122-mm artillery have been moved to this area through Panteleymonivka (eight D-30 howitzers), while 12 tanks and armored combat vehicles were transferred through Yenakijeve.

Several mortar batteries operating 82-mm and 120-mm mortars (up to 16 mortars in total) have been moved to the Kirovskyi district of Donetsk.

Two support convoys consisting of 15 vehicles, including tanker trucks, have passed from Krasnodon in the direction of Luhansk and Lutuhyne.

Multiple trucks have been spotted moving towards Horlivka and Donetsk through Makiivka.

Men wearing military uniforms ride atop an armoured personnel carrier (APC) during exercises at the Kuzminsky military training ground near the Russian-Ukrainian border in Rostov region
Men wearing military uniforms ride atop an armoured personnel carrier (APC) during exercises at the Kuzminsky military training ground near the Russian-Ukrainian border in Rostov region

In the Starobesheve – Komsomolske area, we observed the movement of two terrorist tactical groups; the groups included 110 people on board BTR-80 armored personnel carriers, BMP-2 infantry fighting vehicles, MT-LB trucks, and civilian vehicles.

Several additional control points and logistical supply bases have been established in Donetsk, Horlivka, and Debaltseve. We observed the movement of command and staff vehicles, mobile radio stations, and a concentration of military equipment, supplies, and personnel in several areas of these settlements.

OUTLAW 09
05-29-2015, 01:41 PM
RU VDV/Spetsnaz training to seize and hold "hostile" airfields until main force arrives http://tass.ru/en/russia/797489 …

My latest: Putin's new bases to fight covert #Ukraine war- big spread w @benhoyle http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/world/europe/article4454144.ece … pic.twitter.com/FEU0iLfegB

#Surprise RU openly mocking NATO fears over RU troop deployment & NATO FMs singing "We Are The World" http://tass.ru/en/russia/797442 …

Found in the Ukraine---
CZ-1P flexible demolition charge #armsID pic.twitter.com/VkJvyFSB51

Lugansk News Today @LUGANSK_TODAY
Massive terrorist attack prevented in Stanytsia Luhanska located on demarcation line. Read at http://lugansk-news.com/massive-terrorist-attack-prevented-in-stanytsia-luhanska-located-on-demarcation-line/ … pic.twitter.com/rGApUXneh2

OUTLAW 09
05-29-2015, 01:44 PM
Russia, Iran and the Chinese all have per doctrine their own designed UW strategies tailored to each of their "political warfare" goals.

It seems that the Chinese have basically deduced the US --is weak based on the Us responses which have been actually weak ---will not challenge Putin with force if it comes to that.

So the following does not surprise me--BTW the Iranians have deduced the same thing when they recently captured in neutral waters a US flagged container ship and the US did not respond.

VIDEO Is #China like #Russia w military aggression?Now lays claim to South China Sea https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DT0t4V3pjp4 … pic.twitter.com/09M6li7L4W

OUTLAW 09
05-29-2015, 01:59 PM
The former head of Stanichno-Lugansk , who organized the separatist referendum, was arrested pic.twitter.com/bPVRvOLRrf http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/28-may-the-former-head-of-stanichnolugansk-district-council …

"Gazprom" has considered that "Naftogaz" has already $200 million of debt for gas supplies in Donbas http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/28-may-gazprom-has-considered-that-naftogaz-has-already-200 …

#Footage
Pro-Russian media claims, the Ukr army fired #MLRS vs. #Horlivka recently.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4uL7j4lRpU …
pic.twitter.com/sP7mI2xXSs

Part and parcel of the Russian non linear warfare ie hybrid warfare is an economic component ---Gazprom played this very same game with the Georgians when the Russians took the Georgian enclave--they kept shipping natural gas to the region basically forcing the Georgians to support economically the Russian enclave and the bill eventually reached 6B USD.

The Ukraine understanding this game did the following when Gazprom had the same announcement of supplying nature gas to the Russian occupied zones of eastern Ukraine.

Ukraine response was---the delivery contract we have with you Gazprom foresees gas shipments over a specifically stated border terminal under our control and metered by Naftogaz and must be part and parcel of your delivery contract.

The Ukraine further stated the gas line you will be using is not part of the overall delivery contract, and the metering station is not under our control per our legally binding contract--thus your statements are null and void--if you want to bill us basically take the contract to court and get a court decision knowing Gazprom would not do it as their actions were basically illegal.

You can delivery all you want but we are not paying for it--you can view it as Russian "humanitarian aid" to the region.

Then Gazprom makes this announcement yesterday and the Ukraine simply ignored it knowing the legal grounds supported them.

Gazprom made no further attempts via press releases as the first press release went nowhere in the global news cycle.

The massive elephant in the china shop is the outstanding Ukrainian demand recently dropped on Russia of 350B USD for lost buildings, infrastructure, military installations and equipment not returned to the Ukraine, and other properties suing the recognized legal decisions which Kuwait used in recovering damages from Iraq in 1990/91---which suddenly surprised Russia with the demands.

Russian response was then you have no further claims on the Crimea--Ukrainian response--Crimea is ours and these damages are the damages you created and have nothing to do with your illegal annexation of the Crimea.

So Russia is trying to build up outstanding debt to balance the Ukrainian demands of 350B USD which equals their entire foreign reserves.

Gazprom must start threading very lightly as they have only 60 remaining days to respond to the EU anti-trust charges which the fines alone could equal 80B USD---AND right now the Naftogaz and Gazprom are in a 24B USD arbitration over outstanding gas bills which the Ukraine argues and probably will win --are violations of various business laws and gross overbilling--- ie they charged the Ukraine for undelivered gas--meaning the former President in exile signed a deal that if the Ukraine did not use the amount of gas in the contracts they will still have pay for the undelivered amounts--almost a private corruption deal for Gazprom hidden in the overall contract and not even the Ukrainian Energy Ministry knew of the hidden clauses.

OUTLAW 09
05-29-2015, 05:15 PM
New Russian snap exercise: Russian Airborne & special force units will seize hypothetical enemy’s aerodromes http://tass.ru/en/russia/797489 …

Russian Cartoonist Satirizes Putin's Decree Prohibiting Disclosure of Military Deaths http://bit.ly/1FRQ0yF pic.twitter.com/PSwx9obFMw

News report: A Bizarre Tale of Russia Concealing Its Soldiers’ Deaths in #Ukraine via @thefiscaltimes

Russian humor----
Vladimir Putin
The existence of Russia is now a state secret.

Eliot Higgins @EliotHiggins
Who’s Lying? An In-depth Analysis of the Luhansk Buk Video https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2015/05/29/whos-lying-an-in-depth-analysis-of-the-luhansk-buk-video/ … pic.twitter.com/oTKSx0bXBP

Great, complex story from @weinbergersa on Russian schemes to get sensitive Western military tech. https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/05/28/u-s-cyber-firm-alleges-hacked-emails-reveal-russian-front-operation/ …

Deputy editor of @rgrus criticizes U.S. for 'losing touch with reality,' while being fooled by satirical article:
https://meduza.io/en/news/2015/05/29/the-russian-government-s-official-newspaper-thought-john-mccain-really-wants-the-us-to-invade-fifa …

OUTLAW 09
05-29-2015, 05:18 PM
http://carnegie.ru/eurasiaoutlook/?fa=60249&mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRonva3NZKXonjHpfsX57%2BQuW6Kg 38431UFwdcjKPmjr1YIERMV0aPyQAgobGp5I5FEIQ7XYTLB2t6 0MWA%3D%3D

Why the Kremlin Is Shutting Down the Novorossiya Project

Posted by: Andrei Kolesnikov
Friday, May 29, 2015


On May 20, the leaders of the Lugansk and Donetsk People’s Republics (LNR and DNR) announced the abandonment of the Novorossiya project, a hypothetical confederation of states in southeastern Ukraine stretching from Kharkiv to Odessa. DNR Foreign Minister Alexander Kofman said that the idea hadn’t attracted enough support outside the separatist territories. Oleg Tsaryov, the speaker of Novorossiya’s “Unitary Parliament” and a frequent guest on Russian television, offered a different explanation: “The work of Novorossiya [official] structures has been frozen because it does not conform to the [Minsk II] peace agreement signed in the presence of the Normandy Four countries [Ukraine, Russia, Germany, and France, on February 12].”

It is no coincidence that the closure comes just days after Secretary of State John Kerry met with President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Sochi, and Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland met with her counterparts in Moscow, marking the highest-level meetings between U.S. and Russian officials in Russia since the beginning of the crisis in Ukraine. Although representatives from the Russian Foreign Ministry insisted that they would not cut a deal with the Americans, the two sides seem to have come to some kind of agreement.

The Novorossiya project would not have been shuttered had Moscow not overtly pressured separatist leaders. A week before the closure, the ultra-right Russian ideologue Alexander Dugin suggested in his weekly column for the “Novorossiya Information Agency” that a “Crimea for Novorossiya” deal was about to be negotiated. According to this agreement, he suggested, the separatists would comply with the Minsk II agreements and attempt to strengthen the DNR’s and LNR’s autonomy within the borders of Ukraine. Dugin was not alone in his prediction: others have long suggested that such an exchange was possible.

The abrupt abandonment of the Novorossiya project was accompanied by more surprises from the Russian authorities. First, RBC.ru, a Russian newspaper, reported that the date of next year’s parliamentary elections might be brought forward, perhaps to September 2016 instead of December 2016. The presumed goal of moving the election would be to lower voter turnout and attention by holding the vote right after the busy summer holidays, thereby creating a parliament that is more favorable to the Kremlin.

Second, the State Duma expeditiously passed and Putin signed a law banning “undesirable” foreign non-government organizations. The new law, which evidently covers commercial entities, creates the legal basis to close any foreign entity, including businesses. This move displays a willingness to curtail economic ties with the West, scare away Western investment, and continue the authorities’ self-destructive counter-sanctions regime against Western businesses.

These draconian measures seem to be the Kremlin’s way of compensating some bellicose members of the Russian elite for agreeing to shut down the Novorossiya project, a move that effectively closes the door on their dreams of restoring the Russian empire.

Thus, Moscow seems to have come to the realization that Ukraine has been lost. The West will not let Russia seize the Donbas; thousands of people have died in vain.

If the project is indeed shut down, the Kremlin effectively has admitted defeat, no matter how it tries to spin it. Russian radicals and the ultra-right will see the abandonment of Novorossiya as a victory for the “Atlantic forces” within the country’s elite, which they have dubbed the “sixth column.” These radicals will have only the Commander-in-Chief to blame.

Perhaps Putin has realized that the expansionist project overextended itself; it is now too dangerous to continue beating the war drum. Or perhaps the Russian president simply lost interest in Novorossiya. He has a different game to play now—that of Russia’s “pivot to the East.” He has already made this a priority, as evidenced by his lively discussion with Chinese President Xi Jinping during the May 9 Victory Day parade. This game is, like the Novorossiya one, rife with imitations and illusions, and its stakes—strategic and otherwise—are extremely high. Still, the “empire” seems poised to expand eastward or, at the very least, turn its attention to the East and away from eastern Ukraine.

Some Russian mercenaries just have not gotten the word yet it appears????

Novorossiya still dead. Self-Declared Separatist Leader Vows to Retake Several Key Towns: http://www.interpretermag.com/ukraine-live-day-466-russia-considers-captured-spetsnaz-men-mercenaries/#8558 …

OUTLAW 09
05-29-2015, 05:21 PM
http://carnegie.ru/eurasiaoutlook/?fa=60249&mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRonva3NZKXonjHpfsX57%2BQuW6Kg 38431UFwdcjKPmjr1YIERMV0aPyQAgobGp5I5FEIQ7XYTLB2t6 0MWA%3D%3D

Why the Kremlin Is Shutting Down the Novorossiya Project

Posted by: Andrei Kolesnikov
Friday, May 29, 2015



Some Russian mercenaries just have not gotten the word yet it appears????

Novorossiya still dead. Self-Declared Separatist Leader Vows to Retake Several Key Towns: http://www.interpretermag.com/ukraine-live-day-466-russia-considers-captured-spetsnaz-men-mercenaries/#8558 …


BUT just BUT this might be the core reason--Russia and her mercenaries have "lost" the fight for the "hearts and minds" of the remaining ethnic Russian Ukrainians.

Woman demands #Russia proxy fighters STOP 'protecting' them as they fail 2recruit new recruits in Donetsk

https://youtu.be/WJEil5MpR84

Lady: "What are you protecting us from?"
Terrorist: "I'll take you to Kiev if thats what you want!"
Lady: "THATS WHERE I'M GOING!"

Project "DNR" in real life, loathed by locals

OUTLAW 09
05-29-2015, 05:24 PM
Russian Spetsnaz soldier desperately trying to delete his Russian Face Book (VK) photos proving he is a member of the 2nd Spetsnaz Brigade GRU and he is currently in the Ukraine.

Nikolay Semenov, Russian 2nd Spetsnaz Brigade GRU has deleted photos (11 May) of himself in Novoazovsk Raion, Ukraine pic.twitter.com/P4Tb9hDShX

...deleted from https://vk.com/albums106286742?profile=1&z=photo106286742_365997238%2Fphotos106286742 … Other photos of Nikolay Semenov from his VK page pic.twitter.com/rgBXtkCKcc

Here he is again---he is having extreme difficulty in deleting all of his VK photos—appears 2nd Brigade Spetsnaz is trying to “disappear” itself even though they are still in the Ukraine.

pic.twitter.com/eqx0XQCHgV

OUTLAW 09
05-29-2015, 05:26 PM
This is the key piece of information concerning Russian intent on destabilizing Moldavia----this Russian mercenary who had been fighting in eastern Ukraine ARRIVES via Moscow.

He had participated in the early "separatist" takeovers and then in the heavy fighting, somehow ends up in Moscow and now in Moldavia--and that is not a connection?

#Moldova detained a terrorist from #Donetsk who arrived by plane from Moscow. http://censor.net.ua/photo_news/338068/v_moldove_zaderjan_odin_iz_glavareyi_terroristiche skoyi_gruppy_somali_sbu_fotoreportaj … pic.twitter.com/Pe8RbW3njs

It all has to do with the land corridor from Crimea over Mariupol, Odessa and into Transnistria where 1500 Russian "peacekeepers" who were under OSCE agreement to have been in pulled out in 1999 --BUT are still there and marooned by the decision of the Ukraine to stop all Russian transit rights through the Ukraine to Transnistria.

This was a joint Moldavian and Ukrainian State Security operation--he was extradited in record time back to the Ukraine on terrorism charges.

Believe the court hearing lasted all of three minutes and he was on a return plane.

The Ukrainian State Security has been on a very successful series of arrests and operations over the last three weeks--seems they have punched holes in the FSB and Russian military security system somewhere.

OUTLAW 09
05-29-2015, 05:29 PM
Russia is no longer truly attempting to hide it’s participation in the eastern Ukraine----this is a telling observation made by OSCE especially after Russia flipped out and declared it’s own Spetsnaz “mercenaries—JUST what is the regular Russian Army doing in Ukraine if they do not "exist there"???

#OSCE: Individuals with #Russia|n Armed Forces insignia+ vehicle with RF plates observed in #DPR controlled Petrivske http://bit.ly/1d3GSf0

OUTLAW 09
05-29-2015, 05:33 PM
Russian GRU and Russian Nazi's both one and the same fighting in the Ukraine.

Where Yulia Kharlamova goes Alexei Milchakov, a Russia|n #GRU soldier; #Nazi; & puppy torturer, is never far away: pic.twitter.com/51Mz8gxTCQ

#Russia's #Nazi's fighting in #Ukraine held a ceremony.
Noticeably, Russian FSB agent Yulia Kharlamova was there too pic.twitter.com/OUqtUMdjDh

Kyiv's Nazi junta?
Bandera's from Lviv?
Relax. They're just Russian "anti-fascists" in Ukrainian Donbass. pic.twitter.com/RBWZbaTesD

GRU unit who captured Lugansk's airport later disbanded separatists groups in Krasnodon http://lugansk-news.com/royal-flush-russian-special-forces-soldier-fighting-in-ukraine-showed-us-all/russiansoldierval1/ … pic.twitter.com/wH4GBQwnYB

Canada at NATO ✔ @CanadaNATO
Russian troops amassing heavy weaponry on #Ukraine border:
http://europe.newsweek.com/russian-troops-amassing-heavy-weaponry-ukraine-border-327904 … pic.twitter.com/SjkZDwX3OD

The FSB woman in the photo (Yulia) is being seen in the occupied zone and has the work title of "nurse" and where she works is never mentioned.

Convenient FSB cover.

OUTLAW 09
05-29-2015, 05:46 PM
http://maidantranslations.com/2015/05/29/dmitry-tymchuk-military-update-5-29-freesavchenko/

Dmitry Tymchuk: Military update 5.29

Posted on May 29, 2015 by tilamuse

Translated and edited by Voices of Ukraine


Operational data from Information Resistance:

Russian-terrorist forces continue to fire on the positions of the ATO forces and civilian settlements. Throughout the past 24 hours, shelling has been observed in the vicinity of Lozove, Hranitne, Novosilka, Verhkniotoretske, Pisky, Vodiane, Krymske, Novotoshkivske, Shchastya, and Stanytsia Luhanska. Insurgents fired from small arms, grenade launchers, and 82-mm and 120-mm mortars.

Insrgent use of 122-mm artillery on the positions of ATO forces has been observed near Opytne. North of Verhkniotoretske, Ukrainian servicement engaged in an armed confrontation with terrorist tactical groups, who attempted to carry out ‘reconnaissance by fire’ in the direction of Dzerzhynsk – Artemivsk.

In the seaside direction, insurgents operated in the vicinity of Shyrokyne. Shellings, using small arms, mortars, and ZU 23-2 mobile anti-aircraft auto cannons, of the positions of the ATO forces have been recorded.

Movement of equipment and units of the Russian terrorist forces:

During the past 24 hours, the so-called “northern route” – from Krasnodon towards Luhansk, Lutuhyne, Krasnyi Luch, Debaltseve or Snizhne and the “southern route” – from Ilovaisk, Amvrosiivka towards Starobesheve, Olenivka, Komsomolske, and Telmanove have been the busiest on the occupied territory. Insurgent vehicles have been actively moving in Donetsk, Luhansk, and their outskirts.

In Donetsk, a rearrangement of insurgent forces continues from the Kirovskyi and Petrovskyi districts of Donetsk, Spartak and Yasynuvata. Overall, the terrorists moved 35 armored vehicles, including 20 tanks, to their new positions.

A reinforcement of three 122-mm 2S1 Grozdivka self-propelled howitzers has advanced towards the terrorist artillery group of 16 weapons, including eight MSTA-B [152-mm howitzer], which were deployed earlier to the vicinity of Horlivka.

The transfer of several terrorist units has been observed through Snizhne and Krasnyi Luch. A reinforced insurgent company has proceeded towards Shakhtarsk (130 people on regular vehicles and 7 AFVs). A terrorist unit of 60 people has been transferred in the direction of Debaltseve by two army trucks, a bus, and two BTR-80.

Northwest of Luhansk, starting from Oleksandrivsk, insurgents continue increased transfers along bypass roads using Bakhmut highway towards Zhelobok and Slovyanoserbsk, as well as Triokhizbenka and Sokolniki. During the past 24 hours, at least two convoys of vehicles, ACVs, and tankers proceeded through here.

OUTLAW 09
05-29-2015, 05:51 PM
RU VDV/Spetsnaz training to seize and hold "hostile" airfields until main force arrives http://tass.ru/en/russia/797489 …

My latest: Putin's new bases to fight covert #Ukraine war- big spread w @benhoyle http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/world/europe/article4454144.ece … pic.twitter.com/FEU0iLfegB

#Surprise RU openly mocking NATO fears over RU troop deployment & NATO FMs singing "We Are The World" http://tass.ru/en/russia/797442 …

Found in the Ukraine---
CZ-1P flexible demolition charge #armsID pic.twitter.com/VkJvyFSB51

Lugansk News Today @LUGANSK_TODAY
Massive terrorist attack prevented in Stanytsia Luhanska located on demarcation line. Read at http://lugansk-news.com/massive-terrorist-attack-prevented-in-stanytsia-luhanska-located-on-demarcation-line/ … pic.twitter.com/rGApUXneh2

Reference the suddenly announced Russian Airborne/Spetsnaz large scale snap exercises aimed at taking and holding enemy airfields until relieved.

closure through 3 Jun, altitude 500m 15km radius pic.twitter.com/6eUNxT9X2E

I wonder if this airfield, just a few km north of Ukrainian border, is on the agenda for the snap airborne exercise pic.twitter.com/CVVe5xvsR9

OUTLAW 09
05-29-2015, 05:54 PM
Russia, Iran and the Chinese all have per doctrine their own designed UW strategies tailored to each of their "political warfare" goals.

It seems that the Chinese have basically deduced the US --is weak based on the Us responses which have been actually weak ---will not challenge Putin with force if it comes to that.

So the following does not surprise me--BTW the Iranians have deduced the same thing when they recently captured in neutral waters a US flagged container ship and the US did not respond.

VIDEO Is #China like #Russia w military aggression?Now lays claim to South China Sea https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DT0t4V3pjp4 … pic.twitter.com/09M6li7L4W

So what did that "Asian pivot get us"????

Just in: #China placed artillery on artificial islands in #SouthChinaSea http://cnn.it/1J8ppzU pic.twitter.com/n1oaO9BsXh

Agence France-Presse ✔ @AFP
#BREAKING China deployed artillery on manmade island in S.China Sea: US

OUTLAW 09
05-29-2015, 06:01 PM
Shellings and ground attacks this evening are none to a little--maybe the Russian troops and her mercenaries are just busy moving into their attack positions as there has been a lot on vehicle and troop movement reporting.

Might pickup around the traditional mid night timeframe.

OUTLAW 09
05-29-2015, 06:20 PM
http://www.interpretermag.com/ukraine-live-day-466-russia-considers-captured-spetsnaz-men-mercenaries/#8567

OSCE Spots Soldiers with Russian Military Insignia & Russian License Plates Inside Ukraine. Child Soldier Also Spotted
17:04 (GMT)


A major headline coming out of the latest OSCE report on Ukraine:

Key excerpts from the report which is dated yesterday, May 28, at 19:30 Kiev time, show that the number of ceasefire violations are once again on the rise:

From an observation point at the “Donetsk People’s Republic” (“DPR”)-controlled Donetsk central railway station (8km north-west of Donetsk city centre), the SMM noticed an increase in the number of ceasefire violations compared to previous days. Over a nine hour period during the day, the SMM heard 150 explosions from west and north-west, mostly consistent with mortar (82 and 120mm) and tank fire. In Luhansk region the SMM heard explosions in the area of government-controlled Trokhizbenka (33km north of Luhansk) and “Lugansk People’s Republic” (“LPR”)-controlled Frunze (40km north-west of Luhansk)[1]. Due to security considerations, the SMM was unable to observe the situation in Shyrokyne (20km east of Mariupol). However, from its position in Mariupol, the SMM heard several explosions emanating from an easterly direction.

But this next paragraph is the big headline -- not only are soldiers with Russian military insignias and Russian license plates operating inside Ukraine, but they are also hindering the OSCE's mission:

In Petrivske (“DPR”-controlled, 38km south-east of Donetsk) the SMM spoke to a young man who said that the former local holiday camp was currently occupied by an unknown armed group. He could not specify for how long this armed group had been stationed in the village. In the village the SMM spoke to two women, both wearing military uniforms, with caps with Russian Federation Armed Forces insignia. They said that they were from Kramatorsk. During the conversation with the two women a vehicle with Russian Federation number plates stopped next to the OSCE vehicles and two armed men, similarly dressed, exited the car and ordered the women to stop the conversation with the SMM. Behind a tall fence inside the holiday camp, the SMM observed one infantry fighting vehicle.

Buried under this headline is a single line that is also interesting -- the spotting of a child soldier in Makiivka, not far from the front line of battle:

At a checkpoint on the outskirts of “DPR”-controlled Makiivka (10km east of Donetsk), the SMM observed a child, approximately 12-14 years old, wearing a camouflage uniform and holding an AK-47 rifle.

Another interesting item from the OSCE report may spark even more speculation about the controversial figure Aleksandr Zakharchenko:

Alexander Zakharchenko, the “prime minister” of the “DPR” told the SMM that he was unavailable to attend meetings outside the country until the end of July due to health reasons.

This is not the first time there have been rumors about Zakharchenko's health. On May 9, at the Victory Day celebration, video was taken which appeared to show him swaying on his feet. This raised speculation that he was intoxicated, though others suggested that he was still suffering from a leg injury incurred during fighting against the Ukrainian military.

Yet another interesting section of this OSCE article is a segment on the closing of a bridge in Lugansk province. What may not be obvious from the OSCE update, however, is that the Russian-backed separatists have been engaged in active battles in this area, north of Lugansk, in order to secure more territory and, perhaps most importantly, key river crossings -- all of which belong to the Ukrainian military under the Minsk agreement. Thus, the closing of the bridge for "security reasons" is both the consequence of these attacks and suspicious in its own right, as it could signal that the bridge may be used for exclusively military purposes here on out:

In government-controlled Stanytsia Luhanska (16km north-east of Luhansk), a male resident told the SMM that on 27 May at around 00:00hrs, he heard heavy artillery fire until 01:30hrs near the bridge. According to the interlocutor, on 27 May there had been a gathering at the village administration building, where people had been informed by a municipal employee that the bridge in town would remain closed for 60 days, based on the decision of Luhansk governor Moskal from 26 May. He said that this announcement had caused bitterness among people present at the gathering.

The SMM met with the Stanytsia Luhanska deputy district head and a representative of the village council. According to the interlocutors, the reason for closing the bridge was the deteriorating security situation. They stated that the district had received EUR 2.1 million from Luhansk regional administration to repair infrastructure damaged by shelling. However, given the resumption of shelling, infrastructure repairs were suspended. The officials explained that the shelling was the reason behind the governor’s decision to close the bridge. The officials acknowledged large queues formed on a daily basis, as people hope to cross the bridge. According to them on 27 May, in order to accommodate people’s wish to cross into “LPR”-controlled areas, the village administration organized free public transportation to transfer people to one of the official crossing points that remain open, such as government-controlled Zolote (60km north-west of Luhansk). Approximately 200 local inhabitants used this service. However, the interlocutors pointed out that their current budget would not enable them to continue this service. According to the officials on 28 May, there were 150 people gathering at the government-controlled side of the bridge demanding access to “LPR”-controlled territory.

While the OSCE has witnessed heavy weaponry belonging to both the Ukrainian government and the Russian-backed fighters in areas which are violations of the Minsk ceasefire agreement, there is also a clear pattern -- the Russian-backed forces have far more heavy weaponry beyond the line of demarcation. This serves as evidence to support the Ukrainian government's claims that it is only breaking the Minsk agreement to respond to attacks by the Russian-backed separatists. The newest OSCE report provides more evidence -- no Ukrainian vehicles were seen out of compliance with the Minsk agreement, yet 17 vehicles belonging to their opponents were in violation. This latest report focused on the area near Lugansk, mentioned above. It's also worth noting that the Russian soldiers recently captured by Ukraine were captured near Schastye, north of Lugansk:
The SMM re-visited two Ukrainian Armed Forces and one “LPR” heavy weapon holding areas observing that weapons previously recorded were in situ, and that their locations comply with the respective withdrawal lines.

Despite claims that withdrawal of heavy weapons was complete, the SMM observed 17 tanks in two concentrations in “LPR”-controlled areas north and north-west of Luhansk city.
Continued…………..

OUTLAW 09
05-29-2015, 06:46 PM
Adhering to the party line it seems…….So when will even the CPT now start talking about his Spetsnaz missions over the last 1.5 years in the Ukraine????

Russian consul: Captured GRU officers are "mercenaries", "LNR policemen" "have nothing to do with Russian Army".
http://inforesist.org/konsul-ozvucil-oficialnuyu-poziciyu-rf/ …

Acc t 1 of GRUs detained in Ukraine, Rus consul told them: "If they jail you, it won't be for long" http://zn.ua/UKRAINE/esli-nas-posadyat-eto-budet-nenadolgo-plennyy-grushnik-aleksandrov-177733_.html … Ain't that sweet?

Both POWs via their lawyers---- were massively pxxxxxxxd off about his comments after his visit—are Russian officials deliberately trying to force them to say “everything they do know but have not said”????

If I were them-simply ask for political asylum stating I was forced to go to the Ukraine and in then national TV in Russian explain their entire mission set for the three times in the Ukraine and beam it into all of the Russian speaking areas. Would be the greatest media move in the informational war.

Captured Russian soldier Yerofeyev: I want to be accused of espionage, not terrorism
http://www.unian.info/society/1083491-captured-russian-soldier-yerofeyev-i-want-to-be-accused-of-espionage-not-terrorism.html … pic.twitter.com/CD9Aez6EPA

Russian propaganda 4Ds—dismiss, distract, distort, dismay

Really has the Russian Consul who visited the POWs been lying to his Ambassador who in turn has been lying to Lavrov??—someone is lying to somebody OR somewhere the “truth” got lost in translations.

So again-------distort, distract, dismiss or all three????

1. Even when the Ukrainians stated they can be visited by the Russian Embassy---no one showed up for ten days and even the Ukrainians started to ask why not.

2. They have been abandoned and has so stated that a number of times in their statements to the media and to the Ukrainian and Russian press—if you are an active duty service member and suddenly you are "declared a LNR policeman and mercenary" I would call that being abandoned. If your wife is not answering her phone when he attempts to call her—that is not being abandoned?? If you are called a "former service member" but are on active duty---then you are abandoned.

If your wife is basically lying on national Russian TV then that is not being abandoned??

3. Has the Russian FM even read the interview articles???? OR seen the public videos???—seems to me the Russian Spetsnaz are explaining themselves quite clearly. The Russian FM it appears cannot read and or listen.

4. The Spetsnaz SGT has declared that he will work with the SBU in his case and is satisfied with his lawyer.

5. Both lawyers are highly qualified and have their own law practices, not public defenders and both have from day one aggressively defended their clients by challenging the charges of terrorism—does not sound like third rate public defenders working on a limited budget.

A spirited Ukrainian defense of Russian soldiers using the rule of law--strange war is it not???

So again which of the 4Ds of Russian propaganda fit this Russian FM press releases???

MFA Russia ✔ @mfa_russia
#Lavrov: We had no access to Russians captured in #Ukraine until Wednesday; they are in good spirits

MFA Russia ✔ @mfa_russia
#Lavrov: We’ll make every effort to ensure a maximally objective and effective defence for our citizens, and will work for their release

MFA Russia ✔ @mfa_russia
#Lavrov: They have been appointed public lawyers, but the lawyer they want hasn’t been granted permission to defend them yet

MFA Russia ✔ @mfa_russia
#Lavrov: We’ve been trying to help them from day one; it was unfair of certain media to write that we’ve abandoned them

OUTLAW 09
05-29-2015, 07:46 PM
Shellings have resumed along the entire Minsk 2 contact front line. Ground attaks usual following the artillery and mortar preps.

Does not sound like Russia is honoring Minsk 2 does it??????

Russian propaganda 4Ds---dismiss, distract, distort, dismay

MFA Russia ✔ @mfa_russia
#Lavrov: We discussed the situation in #Ukraine. We have the common position that the Minsk Agreements of Feb. 12 must be fully observed

#Donetsk 9:51PM
Budennovskyi district - heavy outgoing https://twitter.com/OlenaDonetsk/status/604359541485096961 …

10:10PM
#Donetsk, #Avdiivka LOUD
Heavy incoming in the area of #Sparta, #Optyne, #Pisky https://twitter.com/062_Region/status/604364244352667649 …

#Avdiivka
Was loud in the area of #Orlivka-#Lastochkine.
About 30 "gifts" https://twitter.com/audrius1977/status/604368689132093440

#Krasnohorivka
Hits (incoming) in area of the kolkhoz and the collective farm https://twitter.com/666_mancer/status/604368308733771776 …

#Petrovka - listening to the incessant salvos
10:20PM
https://twitter.com/Don_Riccio/status/604366842614943744 …

#Marinka
22:10 Hear automats shooting
22:15 At road police post area heavier and more intense shooting https://twitter.com/hyeva_maryinka/status/604366391723085824 …

OUTLAW 09
05-29-2015, 07:47 PM
Another album of Russian military vehicles practicing for "Army-2015" https://vk.com/album-47011808_216230567 …
Russian 2nd Guards Motor Rifle 'Tamanskaya' Division album (location/dates unknown, Russia) https://vk.com/album-47011808_216198305 … pic.twitter.com/bNsuzmx0q5

Russian army engineers river-crossing exercise (somewhere in Russia May 2015) album https://vk.com/album-47011808_216193225 … pic.twitter.com/9lqfoKLYSf

Training in Alabino (near Moscow) for "Army-2015" Expo in June. Album https://vk.com/milinfolive?z=album-47011808_216275928 … pic.twitter.com/FzeCCOpmCn

Last tweet: Oka River-crossing exercise by combat engineers 21 May, 1000 troops. 2nd album https://vk.com/album-62474637_216170173 … pic.twitter.com/bW7KgfEHT9

This week's Top Extremism- and Terrorism-Related Stories in Russia http://extremistrussia.com/2015/05/29/top-extremism-and-terrorism-related-stories-in-russia-23-29-may-2015/ …

>30% of the #Ukrainian bank system were under corruption control of the former Prez #Yanukovych & his family - @anders_aslund at #KSF2015

OUTLAW 09
05-29-2015, 07:48 PM
Evidence of Another GRU Officer from the 3rd Brigade Found by InformNapalm and Lugansk News http://bit.ly/1KCZPUg pic.twitter.com/Vh6JCgSUWc

The two Spetsnaz POWs came from 2nd BN 3rd Spetsnaz GRU Brigade as well.

OUTLAW 09
05-29-2015, 07:49 PM
An the next Russian based on US definitions “incursion” but based on reality “invasion” is underway.

Russian slow stepping the invasion as to not raise Western anger.

Gen Staff: Two large convoys of RU military equipment entered #Donbas | InfoResist http://inforesist.org/shtab-na-donbass-vtorglis-dve-bolshie-kolonny-voennoj-texniki/?_utl_t=tw

OUTLAW 09
05-29-2015, 08:04 PM
Russia opened criminal proceedings against the leader of Crimea Tatars for threatening Russia's territorial integrity http://ru.krymr.com/content/news/27043186.html …

BUT he resides in the Ukraine?—did not Russia just openly complain that the US was trying to expand it’s jurisdiction to all parts of the world reference FIFA—IS Russia trying it as well????

AND Crimea is the Tartar homeland and it is still Ukrainian just under Russia military occupation.

OUTLAW 09
05-29-2015, 08:07 PM
Russian propaganda 4Ds--dismiss, distract, distort, dismay

Which one or combination is this Russian FM press release from today?--takes knowing western press comments over the last weeks.

MFA Russia ✔ @mfa_russia
Vladimir Chizho : West growing irritated at Ukrainian authorities http://tass.ru/en/world/797683

Hint--irritated about what or why -----notice not a single example as the subtle hint lies in the Lavrov subtle blaming of the failure of Minsk 2 being the fault of the Ukrainians--if one is tracking the Russian FM press release you will notice an intertwining of the releases completing while separate in nature - a complete "narrative".

It is the "narrative" they want people to focus on and then one gets so tangled up in the "narrative" one does not remember what the problem was to begin with.

OUTLAW 09
05-29-2015, 08:41 PM
This is the Spetsnaz vehicle of choice-----

Russian soldier bemoans the loss of a BMP-97 in #Ukraine: https://instagram.com/p/1SKOI1vehh/ https://en.informnapalm.org/luhansk-transpele-co-basis-russian-military-technics-identified/ … pic.twitter.com/8jgJ43irLk

JUST what the heck is this—is Russia really wanting a war with NATO????
Appears so as they are setting the propaganda stage for an assault into the Ukraine----

BREAKING: Russia - "Border guards have recorded increased activity of NATO near our borders" http://wp.me/p3Hhco-1Mm prin @wordpressdotcom

Fighters of Right Sector from Russia visit captured Russian soldier Alexandrov. pic.twitter.com/snANrTlEB4 via @xyevii_kharkov

OUTLAW 09
05-29-2015, 08:42 PM
BREAKING: MOLDOVAN DEFENSE MINISTER - "WE SHOULD DECLARE RUSSIA AS POTENTIAL AGGRESSOR"

http://www.europalibera.org/content/article/27043726.html …

OUTLAW 09
05-30-2015, 05:31 AM
VIDEO This is what Putin is stuffing Crimea with these days. Anybody knows what it is?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9H_lPCZ0ry0 … pic.twitter.com/9Q5kAdAEfo

VIDEO Russian proxy war-criminals and civilian-killers are showering themselves with medals
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFbvqqwEx6M … pic.twitter.com/WlLfmBYGI6

VIDEO A large fresh convoy of Russian BMPs (22) and trucks (19) just arrived in Lugansk.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwHdc1U9RKg …

VIDEO Russian Spetsnaz filmed on an 'observation' mission North of Lugansk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0B-ket2wK4 …

VIDEO Local filming the rear end of a Russian column near Debaltseve.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_F2Kt3VEsk …

VIDEO Ukrainan BMPs patrol an area near Lysychansk that has been shelled by Terrorussians.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2T9MI2ZZ3U … pic.twitter.com/uXYDxyb2tG

A (Russian Army only) BMP-97 Vystrel was photographed destroyed while it was earlier seen in Lugansk.
@LUGANSK_TODAY pic.twitter.com/gX2xQymXTM

Photo 1+2 = #Sudak beaches in summer 2013, before #Russia invaded #Crimea
Photo 3 = Sudak beaches now pic.twitter.com/YXysF744Ob

OUTLAW 09
05-30-2015, 05:39 AM
The Russian propaganda 4Ds---dismiss, distract, distort, dismay

A serious core problem is now showing itself--when a government repeatedly uses their own propaganda THEN at some point they begin to believe their own propaganda.

Does the Russian Foreign Ministry "himself" truly believe what he is uttering below??--because if he truly believes there are no Russian military personnel inside the Ukraine he and WE have one heck of a serious problem.

There is an old Russian "Czarist" saying---

"I do not care if a Russian soldier, a peasant, a miner and or truck driver, a volunteer, a vacationer is driving a Russian military BMP-2 or a T-72B he is "Russian".

Seems Lavrov has forgotten his "Czarist" sayings.

Lavrov: the US has not presented any fact of the presence of Russian troops in the Donbass http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/30-may-lavrov-the-us-has-not-presented-any-fact-of-the-presence …

AdamG
05-30-2015, 07:17 AM
Russian President Vladimir Putin, in the face of widespread evidence to the contrary, has repeatedly said there are no Russian soldiers in Ukraine – only volunteers who have gone to help the separatists of their own accord.

http://news.yahoo.com/special-report-russian-fighters-caught-ukraine-cast-adrift-101124248.html

OUTLAW 09
05-30-2015, 08:39 AM
Adam--the following is in response to your comment and it begs a serious question--while the Lavrov press release is pure propaganda WHY is it the US intel community does not in fact push back at all since 2014?

Why is it at least from appearances being left up to the social media open source analysts who IMO have gotten really good at using open source which even the Western mainstream media is shying away from.

Ever ask yourself--what is the US IC hiding?--maybe the answer is --"fear the public will demand a response" if it knows even half of the truth--that namely a war is ongoing in Central Europe.

IMO Lavrov "knows" the US intel community has the evidence and is shy about producing it to the general public out of the exact reason I gave above--boy are we being played as a US civil society.

http://sputniknews.com/politics/20150530/1022735234.html#ixzz3bbnqT4Fe

Lavrov: US Failed to Prove Alleged Presence of Russian Troops in Ukraine© AFP 2015/ Genya Savilov

01:58 30.05.2015Get short URL


Washington has failed to present convincing proof pointing out at the alleged presence of Russian troops in Ukraine despite having advanced reconnaissance capability, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Friday in an interview with Rossiya-24 television.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) — In mid-May, during an interview with the German public broadcaster ZDF, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko once again claimed that some 11,000 Russian servicemen were allegedly deployed in eastern Ukraine

“We are hearing claims about up to 10,000 Russian servicemen [being deployed on the Ukrainian territory]. I think these claims are rather conspicuous considering that the Americans, with all their technological capabilities, have so far failed to show us any real, convincing and concrete proof.”

The minister added that Russia is currently studying poor-quality Xeroxed copies of US satellite images that have been recently handed over to Moscow.

“We are studying them, but it’s hard to discern what has been photographed there,” Lavrov stressed.

After Kiev launched a military operation in Donbas in April 2014, the Ukrainian government, the United States and its allies repeatedly accused Russia of aiding pro-independence fighters of Donetsk and Luhansk including by sending troops to fight on their side. These claims, however, have not been confirmed independently.

Remember Russian propaganda has 4Ds--dismiss, distract, distort, dismay WHICH is designed to cause 2Ds----distrust and doubt

WHICH one of the 4Ds and 2Ds are being used in just this short press release???????

OUTLAW 09
05-30-2015, 08:43 AM
AND THE SOCIAL MEDIA OPEN SOURCE RESPONSE TO THE RUSSIAN FM LAVROV:

Russian Official Account of Attack on Ukraine Border Guards via @bellingcat https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2015/05/30/russian-official-account-of-attack-on-ukraine-border-guards/ …

Russian Official Account of Attack on Ukraine Border Guards

May 30, 2015

By Aric Toler


The hacker collective “Ukrainian Cyber Forces” released a trove of documents from servers of the Russian Interior Ministry in December 2014, revealing a document that disclosed details of a Russian military attack on Ukrainian border guards. Among the 36GB of files (1.7gb cache here), the vast majority are completely unrelated to Ukraine—bureaucratic paperwork, criminal cases, border inspections, and so on. However, buried underneath endless minutiae is Донесение Тарасовский 26.08.2014 2.doc.

This report was written to A.P. Larionov, an official of the Russian Interior Ministry in the Rostov oblast’ from I.I. Trofimenko, an official of the Russian Interior ministry of the Tarasovsky district. The report is a police account written on August 26 describing the circumstances of a battle that took place on August 25 between Russian soldiers and the Ukrainian National Guard. Four of these Russian soldiers were injured in the fight and were evacuated to a Rostov garrison hospital. The key section of the account is as follows (translation from original Russian):

On August 25, 2014 around 3:50pm, M.V. Polstyankin, O.Yu. Volgin, Yu.A. Alekseev, and A.A. Gerasimenko, serving in contracted Unit 51182 of the Millerovo locality, suffered injuries in the performance of official duties during a clash with the forces of the National Guard of Ukraine 10km north-west of the small village of Prognoi of the Tarasovsky region. At 6:52pm on August 25, 2014, the wounded were evacuated to the Rostov garrison hospital via a Mi-8 helicopter of the Russian armed forces.

Using open source investigation, we can find various pieces of information that confirm that this leaked account did indeed occur. On August 26, the day after the events described in the above leaked document, the spokesperson of the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council gave a briefing that details an attack on Ukrainian border guards. This attack took place in the area of Krasnaya Talovka, resulting in the death of four border guards and three injuries.

On August 25 in the area of “Krasnaya Talovka” of the Luhansk oblast, a sabotage and reconnaissance group which crossed the border from Russia was detected. At 3:00pm, a well-disguised border detail used automatic weapons to stop the advance of the saboteurs. Additional operational combat groups of border guards arrived at the battle as reinforcements. The fierce battle with Russian mercenaries lasted for two-and-a-half hours. The diversionary group was supported with fire from mortars, two APCs, and two IFVs from the Russian Federation. Additionally, Ukrainian border guards were fired upon by unguided rockets from two Mi-24 combat helicopters of the Russian armed forces. During the battle, four border guards died and three were wounded. Thanks to the actions of the heroes, a breakthrough across the border did not occur. The enemy suffered significant losses. The wounded and killed saboteurs were evacuated from the battlefield in Russia with an IFV under the cover of fire from APCs and helicopters.

There are numerous details in the two accounts that align, leading us to believe that the Ukrainian and Russian accounts are describe the same event.
•Both events occurred at August 25. According to the Russian account, four soldiers were injured “around 3:50pm,” while the Ukrainian account details how the two sides engaged at 3:00pm.
•The Ukrainian details how account says that the border guards stopped a “sabotage and reconnaissance group” coming from Russia. The Russian account details how four Russians were injured “in the performance of official duties” while clashing with forces from the Ukrainian National Guard.
•Both accounts describe how a helicopter entered the battlefield at the end of the fight. The Russian account goes into more detail, describing how the four wounded soldiers were evacuated with a Mi-8 helicopter.
•The Ukrainian account describes how the fight took place near Krasnaya Talovka, while the Russian account says that the clash happened “10km north-west of the small village of Prognoi.” Krasnaya Talovka is almost exactly 10km north-northwest of Prognoy.
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All of the press releases and leaked documents pale in comparison with the human stories of this fight, which are painfully real, despite any doubts that many cast on the veracity of the leaked documents. This human suffering exists for both Russian and Ukrainian families. As described in the leaked Russian document, the young Russian paratrooper Mikhail Polstyankin, who was serving in military unit 51182 in Millerovo, died in the fight with Ukrainian border guards. The Gruz200 blog (not to be confused with similar efforts that share the name) presented four posts from social media, including Facebook and VK, documenting the death of Mikhail Polstyankin. Two people from his hometown posted regarding the death of the soldier on August 28, three days after the firefight on the border, and a third person posted a message [archived] celebrating the “Eternal memory of Misha Polstynkin—The young Russian warrior who was for the Russian language and Rus’!!!”

There are also remarkable stories within these leaked documents regarding Ukrainian soldiers, with one standing out. In one document, a report describes how a Ukrainian lieutenant named Eduard Masko was injured on July 16, 2014 while fighting separatist soldiers. As we find in an article on Faktu.ua, Lt. Masko was indeed wounded while fighting on July 16 (further bolstering the legitimacy of these leaked documents) after separatist forces attack a block post near Marinovka, Ukraine. Masko was badly burned and could not walk on either of his legs, as one was broken and the other burned. Eventually after being dragged to a nearby safe area, an ambulance took Masko to a hospital—in Russia. However, as we learn in an interview with the injured soldier, the doctors and nurses at this hospital saved his life by amputating his injured leg. Unfortunately, Masko’s comrade who was also injured in the attack died in this hospital—the Russian doctors and nurses cried after he died. Soon after, Masko returned to Kyiv to receive additional treatment. He is now alive and well—perhaps even better than before. His newborn son Kostya was born shortly after he received near deadly injuries, and Masko was able to travel to America to receive superior treatment for his burns.

While leaked documents cannot always be trusted at face value, they can also be valuable in providing extra validation of some events. Leaked documents or not, there was a border clash on August 25, and Eduard Masko was hurt on July 16 and treated in a Rostov hospital. However, by following the leads provided in these leaked documents, the narratives can gain many dimensions with open source information, including both the tragedy of Russian soldier’s death after attacking a Ukrainian checkpoint and the joy in the kindness of ordinary Russians in saving a Ukrainian soldier’s life.

OUTLAW 09
05-30-2015, 08:44 AM
AND THE SOCIAL MEDIA OPEN SOURCE RESPONSE TO THE RUSSIAN FM LAVROV:

Russian Official Account of Attack on Ukraine Border Guards via @bellingcat https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2015/05/30/russian-official-account-of-attack-on-ukraine-border-guards/ …

Russian Official Account of Attack on Ukraine Border Guards

May 30, 2015

By Aric Toler

Before & After photo.
Russian BMP-97 -"Battle Vehicle of the Border Guard"
Donbass is a dangerous place for invaders pic.twitter.com/UNngyJT086

JUST a side note the BMP-97 is the preferred vehicle of choice for the Russian Spetsnaz--and in the above mentioned battle--it was not your normal "border guards that were involved"--suspect it was actually a Russian Spetsnaz team attempting a recon crossover from Russian territory and got caught in the process---the mere fact that MI-24 and APCs were on station reflect a Russian Army unit not a "border guard unit". As someone was ready for a fight. The APCs and IFVs reflect enough armor to support a 14 man Spetsnaz team on an infiltration op.

Remember as well the timeframe of August 2014--this was the exact same time the Russian army was pushing into the Ukraine an invasion force of over 10,000 in order to stop the Ukrainian forces that were on the edge of defeating all Russian mercenary forces in eastern Ukraine.

Something the Russian military leadership and Putin himself had not thought possible.

OUTLAW 09
05-30-2015, 08:54 AM
http://news.yahoo.com/special-report-russian-fighters-caught-ukraine-cast-adrift-101124248.html

Adam--by the way thanks for checking in with a comment--one never knows who is reading and is it of interest what is being posted.

I enjoy doing it as history is now literally in the making.

Would enjoy more comments as there is so much info flowing one never knows which way to direct the flow.

So I am just placing my toe into the water and trying to cover the relevant parts of the Russian UW strategy of nonlinear warfare tied to their informational warfare and political warfare and hope along the way to hit the soft spot.

OUTLAW 09
05-30-2015, 09:16 AM
[18+] #RussianWorld in #Donbas, nowadays @bura_tino pic.twitter.com/wyAsFIUlrg

Russian trolls are opening up on the Russian info war side of the house---

#Russian internet 'troll sues former employer,will reveal paying schemes fr political comments http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/29/russia-troll-sues-former-employer#img-1 … pic.twitter.com/gLgfpvEHTa

Separatists have stolen suits+notebook from a sanctioned singer #Kobzon visiting DNR/ LNR with a concert tour. https://twitter.com/24todaynetua/status/604483707374837760 …

Artis Pabriks @Pabriks
because of being blacklisted I will not be able to have my summer holiday in Siberia, place of concentration camps of our parents

Officials banned from entering #Russia by nationality: #Poland - 18, #UK - 9, #Estonia - 8, #Lithuania - 7, #Latvia - 4, #Germany - 4.

Russia didn't check wikipedia or google b4 blacklisting UK's @nick_clegg, who's related to Russian tsarist nobility: http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2010/apr/20/nick-clegg-russian-aristocrat …

A month or so ago Orban was “the greatest friend of Putin’s NOW this????

#Orban: "#Hungary’s future is With the EU and NATO." Does he want to make it to the Russian blacklist too? http://blogs.wsj.com/brussels/2015/05/29/orban-hungarys-future-is-with-the-european-union-and-nato/

Moscow is desperately trying to get back “to business as normal” but it ain’t working for them it seems as they keep sending out these trial balloons.
rbc.ru/rbcfreenews/55691e979a79476b55384ae2 … Lavrov reminds Washington that Russia is ready to resume military contact with the US anytime it likes.

OUTLAW 09
05-30-2015, 09:18 AM
Remember Russian propaganda has 4Ds--dismiss, distract, distort, dismay WHICH is designed to cause 2Ds----distrust and doubt

Lavrov: the West understands that Kyiv has impeded the implementation of the "Minsk-2"

Good social media open source denial of what the Russian FM states here.

Blogger proves that #Russia'n- separatist forces, not #Ukraine are responsible for shelling of #Horlivka on May 26. https://twitter.com/7Prima7/status/604419365795164160 …

It has been amazing to watch the slow develop on the Ukrainian blogger side of good open source analysts who are taking their clue from individuals such as bellingcat and Ukraine@war.

The way to defeat the massive Russian "weaponization of information" is simply pushing back with the truth that is available everywhere in the open source world--it takes work to find it but it is there and it is the most effective way for denying such Russian FM comments made above.

The Russian propaganda is built on "creating a narrative to keep everyone running around in the wrong circle" truth is the way to break the "narrative" and end the circle chasing.

Remember the use of "weaponization of information" is to create a "perception"---a "perception" that the Russian want the West to believe.

This is as much a "battle of perceptions" as it is a "battle of values".

OUTLAW 09
05-30-2015, 09:28 AM
Had an alarming chat about Russian nuke TTP with a top NATO official. Can't divulge but I am going for the good cognac tonite. Need a drink.

It's all well & good to put a redline in the SCS. But are we really willing to go to the dance? Because it's all about the dance, folks.

OUTLAW 09
05-30-2015, 09:29 AM
I have been repeating here as if a mantra--Putin really wants to sit down with the US at a "new Yalta" that allows him to "define" a new region for his "privileged control" WHAT we in the West call "spheres of influence" but really pay attention to the Russian and how it translates out to "privileged control" NOT "spheres of influence".

This region of "privileged control" literally if you read the various comments that have been coming out over the last year--ALL former SU Republics--Poland, the Baltics, Ukraine, Romania and Bulgaria and throw in Georgia and Moldavia for good measure.

Putin wants to reestablish the old Czarist Empire with US approval which will cement in his eyes the superpower status of Russia as an equal nation to the US.

http://intersectionproject.eu/article/russia-europe/russia%E2%80%99s-minsk-and-yalta-projects …

29 May 2015

Russia / Europe

Russia’s Minsk and Yalta Projects

Author: James Sherr


The proximity of the 70th anniversary of the Yalta conference (4-11 February 1945) and the second Minsk accord (12 February 2015) is an unsettling coincidence. On 4 February Russia State Duma Speaker Sergei Naryshkin delivered what was in effect a sermon, admonishing the West to relearn the ‘lessons of Yalta’ or run the risk of war.

Russia apart, the co-sponsors of the ‘Minsk process’ would deny any intention of laying the groundwork for a second Yalta in Europe. But by definition, a process is unfinished business. For those who know what is to be achieved and how, it is a tool; for those who lack such clarity, it is a trap. On the Western side, clarity has been the first casualty of the Minsk process which seems to be driven less by political purpose than by an incongruity in policy.

The incongruity lies in a mismatch between ends and means. Since the annexation of Crimea, Western policy has been predicated on the premise that steady economic pressure would induce Russia to modify its policy. Yet it has done nothing of the kind. The expanded sanctions that came into effect last autumn (Tier 3) will, if left in place, have a crippling cumulative impact. But their immediate impact is bearable. In terms measured not in years, but in weeks and months, Russia has usable power, and it is using it. The military offensives that preceded the respective Minsk accords were designed to demonstrate the futility of the West’s approach, and the accords bear witness to their success. Instead of a diplomatic process reinforced by Western pressure, we have ended up with a series of political retreats under Russian pressure.

By combining a cease-fire with provisions of a political settlement, both accords violate sound diplomatic practice. Cease-fires emerge out of urgency. Peace settlements require deliberation (which in a democracy must include representative structures of power). Second, the accords grant a de jure status to those whom neither Ukraine nor the West regard as lawful authorities. They preserve the fiction that Russia is an interested party, rather than a protagonist in the conflict, not to say the instigator of it. Third, in the alchemy of the process, the West appears to have lost sight of its original objectives: the restoration of Ukraine’s sovereignty, territorial integrity and internationally recognised borders. After Minsk, the West no longer linked the lifting of sanctions to these objectives, but to the implementation of Minsk. Since Minsk-2, sanctions have been linked to Minsk-2.

Yet even by comparison with Minsk-1, Minsk-2 is a house full of booby traps [ловушки]. It says nothing about naval armament, allowing Russia to concentrate maritime forces (and naval infantry) in the Sea of Azov at will. It formalises the frozen conflict that was only implicit in Minsk-1. Future election modalities, constitutional reform and the restoration of border control are subject to the agreement of the separatists (Articles 4, 8, 9, 11, 13), who now have license to withhold their consent indefinitely. Most perilously, it stipulates the withdrawal of ‘foreign’ military ‘equipment’ [техники] and irregular forces [наемники], thereby allowing the separatists and their Russian backers to present the West’s supply of non-lethal provisions (e.g., body armour, night-vision goggles and winter clothing), to say nothing of training contingents and volunteers fighting with Ukrainian forces, as a violation of the accords. If Poroshenko, Merkel and Hollande received military advice, there is no sign of it. Put most charitably, the provisions are subject to interpretation. Experience shows that Russia adheres only to its own. If and when it chooses to renew military operations, it will have ample grounds to do so.

Therefore, the logic of the Minsk process leads naturally to Minsk-3 and Minsk-4. So long as Europe clings to the mantra that ‘there can be no military solution’, Russian military force will be the arbiter of this process. At some point, the appetite for a final, conclusive settlement – call it ‘Yalta-2’ or what you will – might prevail over the determination to maintain the rigours of the sanctions regime. So, at least, the Kremlin hopes. In its eyes, the logic of Minsk and the logic of Yalta are connected.

If the West wishes to overturn this logic, it will need to rehabilitate three axioms. First, in the words of Carl von Clausewitz, ‘war is a tool of policy’. The danger confronting us today is not a ‘military solution’ but a political solution imposed by force of arms. Second, in the words of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, ‘he who wills the ends wills the means’. A military defeat of Russian and separatist forces is not achievable. Containment and deterrence are, but only if we afford Ukraine the means to defend itself. Third, time is a strategic variable. In the long-term, time favours the West. But that is of scant comfort to Ukraine. In the short term, Russia holds all the cards and has powerful incentives to use them. These are dangerous incentives, and they pose perils for Europe as well as Ukraine.

OUTLAW 09
05-30-2015, 09:47 AM
Really worth the read as I was about to comment on the inherent four core weaknesses that I have seen in a year of Russian non linear warfare that in fact can be used to counter Russian UW.

http://intersectionproject.eu/article/security/bolshevik-legacy-hybrid-warfare#sthash.W0QKvOJK.dpuf

22 May 2015

The Bolshevik Legacy of Hybrid Warfare

Author: Pavel Luzin

Continued......................................... .


The term ‘hybrid’ or ‘proxy’ warfare became more widely-used in international political terminology after Russia annexed Crimea and then subsequently turned chronic socio-economic issues to the point of a full-scale war in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions of Ukraine.

The Essence of Hybrid Warfare

Hybrid warfare is essentially when one country acts aggressively against the government and army of another by mobilizing rebels or combatants within the country under attack. Unofficially, the rebels or combatants supply weapons, volunteers and military experts. On their side, whole combatant units can secretly fight the aggressor state. On behalf of the rebels, alternative public authorities are created, which are in fact completely controlled by the aggressor as its proxy force. In reality it is an international conflict between two states but inaccurately portrayed as an internal political and civil conflict.

It is fairly easy for military and other experts to identify a hybrid war. It is much more difficult for other actors, including the state political institutions, those interested in resolving the conflict and international organizations to do so. These actors simply do not know how to operate in a situation such as hybrid war, and moreover, certain principles often preclude them from getting involved. In addition, since decisions taken by political institutions are based on documented facts, the collection of which requires time, these institutions simply do not have the necessary time to react to what is happening. Russia skillfully took advantage of this major weakness in February 2014, though this is far from the first time something like this has occurred.

According to Carl von Clausewitz, a Prussian general and military theorist, hybrid warfare is another method of perpetuating a policy. Modern Russia inherited this method from the Bolsheviks. The very genesis of the Bolshevik regime in Russia is founded on what we today call hybrid warfare. We cannot say, however, that it has become exclusively Russian know-how. It is important to understand that the party behind this system started in the underground and learned from its own experience. It was a political machine aimed at seizing power in Russia and abroad.

The Evolution of Hybrid Warfare

It began in the fall of 1917, when the Bolsheviks staged a coup in Russia, using the lower social strata recruited from Petrograd’s military garrison. With this assistance, they were able to seize power in what was then the Russian capital. What followed evolved into a bloody civil war. The communists used a hybrid method of conflict to assume power in Azerbaijan and Ukraine. During the Red Army offensive in Poland in the summer of 1920, the Bolsheviks attempted to launch a hybrid war by establishing the Provisional Polish Revolutionary Committee. Also, in 1920 the Bolsheviks created a proxy-state—the Far Eastern Republic—which allowed them to control the provinces east of Lake Baikal.

To expand power and influence beyond Russia and to carry out covert aggression, the Bolsheviks created the Communist International (Comintern). It was under this guise that the Red Army fought in Spain and the Soviet military supported the Chinese Communists. Specific elements of hybrid warfare were used by Moscow in the following cases: to support the radical Indian nationalists; in the occupation and annexation of eastern Poland in fall 1939; in the war with Finland from 1939-1940; and during the seizure of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia in 1940.

After the Second World War, the Soviet Union continued using this method in China and Korea. There was even an attempt to launch a communist insurgency in Indonesia. However, the expansion of the Bolsheviks gradually contracted. Instead of seizing power outside its zone of influence, they turned to buying allies and financing communist movements. The Soviet army was used mainly to protect and preserve existing political regimes, such as in North Vietnam or Afghanistan. Hybrid warfare was no longer necessary, but its fundamental principles were studied by senior officers in the army and the KGB.

The renaissance of hybrid warfare appeared in the beginning of the 1990s, when Russia began to fight for preserving its influence in the former Soviet Union. Instances of this type of warfare and its key elements were observed in the conflicts in Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Transnistria; an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow Dzhokhar Dudayev in Chechnya in the fall of 1994; and the Russian-Georgian war of 2008. Interestingly, this renaissance received specific ideological-political content.

Hybrid Warfare and the Russian Government

In post-Soviet Russia, the army and intelligence agencies showed increased interest in the works of Evgeny Messner, a tsarist officer who fought in the Russian Civil War with the Bolsheviks and spent time fighting in Hitler's army. He later emigrated and ultimately ended his life in Argentina. In a series of papers, he tried to explain the phenomenon of hybrid warfare, describing it as a war by an insurgency.

Such interest among the highest-level officers coincided with their leaning towards radical nationalism, chauvinism and worship of imperial military history, which emerged in response to the demoralized state of the army after the collapse of the Soviet Union. If one can speak about the Weimar syndrome in relation to Russia, then in the army and intelligence services, it was the most widespread.

The Russian government developed two paranoid viewpoints as a result of the country’s failing economic and political modernization processes in 1990s through 2000; the inclusion of a large number of people from the KGB/FSB into positions of power; and the tragedies of war in Chechnya.

The first viewpoint is that the feud between Russia and the West continues and that it is the cause of all failures. Hybrid warfare in the face of this foreign hostility has become the optimal way for the authorities to maintain influence in the former Soviet Union and within the country. This current Russian approach to hybrid war differs from the Bolshevik one. Previously, a hybrid war was a means of expansion, today it is a means of political survival.

The second viewpoint is that the West is also using the same method of hybrid warfare against Russia. The Russian leadership blames the West for organizing ‘color revolutions’ in Georgia, Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan; overthrowing friendly to Russia Muammar Gaddafi in Libya; the civil war in Syria; and at times the events around the Arab Spring. On a rhetorical level, such an idea was formulated at various levels of government from the top all the way down to the Chief of the General Staff during Dmitry Medvedev’s presidency. According to these viewpoints, since 2011 the Russian opposition’s mass actions and opposition movement were considered acts of war—a hybrid method used by the United States and Europe against the Kremlin.

The official formalization of such viewpoints and the crisis in the Russian political system contributed to the hybrid method to wield influence becoming political doctrine during the third presidency of Vladimir Putin. Civil protests in the country and in neighboring countries are now perceived by the Kremlin as an external military threat, which is reflected in Russia's military doctrine updated in 2015.

This evolution also meant that the aggressive Russian external politics in post-Soviet territory not only became probable, but also desirable. Hybrid warfare became a priority method for promoting such politics.

Why did this happen? As a result of the crisis within its political system, Russia lost the ability to play within the well-established rules of international relations, it could not remain appealing to post-Soviet states, and certainly could not fulfill its declared global ambitions.

The Weakness of Hybrid Warfare

Of course the situations described above did not mean that Russian leadership is completely removed from reality. The war with Georgia in 2008 demonstrated that the army, regardless of its numbers and weaponry, was very badly organized and not well-prepared for modern warfare. In order to solve this problem, large-scale military reforms were undertaken in Russia, the results of which were displayed in 2014 in Crimea.

The fact remains that to terminate a hybrid war and achieve the political goals of one, sooner or later, the aggressor must formally introduce regular military units into the fight under the pretext of assisting or carrying out a peacekeeping mission. The reason is simple: they proxy forces are rarely able to win on their own. Moreover, their independence runs contrary to the aggressor country’s plans.

The length of hybrid warfare is also a problem. The longer it lasts, the lesser the chance of victory for the aggressor. Russian history shows that the average life span for a proxy power is a few months to a half-year. What follows is either political corruption or the aggressor is no longer depend upon. If the government that launched a hybrid war does not shift the conflict into an official level and begin to operate openly, the political goals of the war are unattainable.

Continued.......


This means that time is essentially the weak spot in waging hybrid warfare. Having started a hybrid war in 2014 against Ukraine, Russia is now trapped.

OUTLAW 09
05-30-2015, 09:48 AM
Really worth the read as I was about to comment on the inherent four core weaknesses that I have seen in a year of Russian non linear warfare that in fact can be used to counter Russian UW.

http://intersectionproject.eu/article/security/bolshevik-legacy-hybrid-warfare#sthash.W0QKvOJK.dpuf

22 May 2015

The Bolshevik Legacy of Hybrid Warfare

Author: Pavel Luzin

Continued......................................... .

I will comment later on this sentence as Russia is truly actually trapped by their own UW strategy and simply never foresaw it coming.

Bill Moore
05-30-2015, 10:36 AM
As I stated previously, Russia's non-linear warfare strategy has already failed at the strategic level. They're not invincible, and there is no need for us to do more than we're doing currently. Let him continue to bleed out in Ukraine, much like the USSR bled out in Afghanistan.

What were the strategies strong points? To a large extent, he has control of the media (information domain) within Russia. Up to a point he was able to garner internal or nationalistic support based on the narrative he wove. However, that seems to be cracking now. He has nuclear weapons and a superior conventional force (at least materially and size, but actual fighting ability is in question), that can provide an umbrella of physical and psychological protection for his proxies. There really was an issue of Russian discrimination within Ukraine/Crimea (though not to the extent he argued) that he could leverage. He has successfully annexed Crimea, probably a fait complete, but finds himself in a quagmire in Eastern Ukraine. Finally, he skillfully stayed below any redline that would prompt NATO to act until it was a fait complete.

Strategically it could have been a victory if he didn't much for more than Crimea, and just stopped his nonsense. He put a weak economy in further peril as European nations start looking for alternative sources for procuring their energy. He has alerted NATO to his non-linear strategy, so they're more likely to be able to counter it. There are also few locations where he can could repeat this, because as we all know there are certain internal political conditions that must exist. His desire for a Eurasian community to counter balance the EU is going nowhere. As Professor Gaddis wrote, we won the Cold War largely with other than our military power, read "soft-power." Soft power wouldn't have worked if we didn't have a viable defense capability to deter his hard power. In many regards we're in the same place today. Putin's message isn't resonating, in fact it is causing people to strengthen their defenses because they want nothing to do with his vision.

Where does that leave us? Best scenario is that he can continue to muddle in eastern Ukraine to protect his image at home, or find an honorable way out where he is able to project a win. The most dangerous scenario is that he escalates with conventional forces or nuclear forces, which will require a much tougher response underwritten by a strong and united political will. Is it there? I don't know, but I would hope the political leadership of NATO members are discussing this. As for a counter-UW strategy, I think I see one forming, and for the most part it is self-emerging in countries that Putin may try to execute his non-linear doctrine against.

Still a very dangerous situation, but Putin has not proved to be the strategic genius we initially made him out to be. He found and exploited a vulnerability, and now he's stuck.

AdamG
05-30-2015, 03:02 PM
Adam--by the way thanks for checking in with a comment--one never knows who is reading and is it of interest what is being posted.

I enjoy doing it as history is now literally in the making.

Would enjoy more comments as there is so much info flowing one never knows which way to direct the flow.

So I am just placing my toe into the water and trying to cover the relevant parts of the Russian UW strategy of nonlinear warfare tied to their informational warfare and political warfare and hope along the way to hit the soft spot.


I think someone is about to rearrange the furniture in the Lebensraum.



Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree to make losses of Russian troops in peacetime a secret.

The amendment bans information about the deaths of Russian forces "during special operations" in peacetime.

The Kremlin has consistently denied sending regular troops and armour to help rebels in eastern Ukraine.

But a new report from the US says Russia has been using training camps near the border as "launching points of Russia's war in Ukraine".

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-32913929



Russia's army is massing troops and hundreds of pieces of weaponry including mobile rocket launchers, tanks and artillery at a makeshift base near the border with Ukraine, a Reuters reporter saw this week.

Many of the vehicles have number plates and identifying marks removed while many of the servicemen had taken insignia off their fatigues. As such, they match the appearance of some of the forces spotted in eastern Ukraine, which Kiev and its Western allies allege are covert Russian detachments.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/05/27/us-ukraine-crisis-russia-military-idUSKBN0OC2K820150527

AdamG
05-30-2015, 03:03 PM
Still a very dangerous situation, but Putin has not proved to be the strategic genius we initially made him out to be. He found and exploited a vulnerability, and now he's stuck.

Guys like Vlad tend to double-down when in that position. Make popcorn, gonna be an interesting summer.

OUTLAW 09
05-30-2015, 03:09 PM
Guys like Vlad tend to double-down when in that position. Make popcorn, gonna be an interesting summer.

Adam--a helmet and a bunker might be more appropriate----one minute ago across the net---something is up--this is not usual activities even by Russian standards.

RUSSIAN BLACK SEA NAVY FLEET HAS BEEN NOW PUT ON FULL ALERT

Bill Moore
05-30-2015, 03:12 PM
Guys like Vlad tend to double-down when in that position. Make popcorn, gonna be an interesting summer.

Agree, his initial strategy while successful at the tactical level initially has at least partially failed if his goal was to weaken NATO and scare other countries to come into the Kremlin fold. Instead they're all giving him the finger.

More to your point, this could be viewed now as existential threat to his power base if he is perceived as losing (why I recommended a soft landing alternative to an outright defeat). Options? Like you said, double down, but that means the non-linear strategy will get thrown out the window and we'll creep closer to a more traditional war between states.

OUTLAW 09
05-30-2015, 03:26 PM
Adam--a helmet and a bunker might be more appropriate----one minute ago across the net---something is up--this is not usual activities even by Russian standards.

RUSSIAN BLACK SEA NAVY FLEET HAS BEEN NOW PUT ON FULL ALERT

Has anyone on the States side of the Atlantic seen anything on this --comes from normally a solid Romania blogger who tends to be on the leading edge of developments in that part of the world--but nothing yet on the German side SO is this a typical Russia propaganda move for internal consumption OR is something up with the USS Ross that DC has said nothing about yet?????

OR is it Russian troll activity without a shred of evidence??

Russian media claims the jets forced the US warship to move into neutral waters http://ria.ru/defense_safety/20150530/1067315178.html …

BREAKING: RUSSIAN NAVY SENT INTERCEPTOR JETS TO STOP USS ROSS FROM "ENTERING ITS TERR WATERS" THEY CLAIM http://www.hotnews.ro/stiri-russia_report-20200294-marina-rusa-trimis-avioane-opreasca-distrugatorul-uss-ross-intre-apele-sale-teritoriale-ria-novosti.htm …

USS ROSS IS EQUIPPED WITH AEGIS SYSTEM, TOMAHAWK MISSILES, SEA-AIR RIM-156 SM-2 MISSILES AND RUM-139 VL-ASROC ANTISUB MISSILES

OUTLAW 09
05-30-2015, 03:39 PM
Really worth the read as I was about to comment on the inherent four core weaknesses that I have seen in a year of Russian non linear warfare that in fact can be used to counter Russian UW.

http://intersectionproject.eu/article/security/bolshevik-legacy-hybrid-warfare#sthash.W0QKvOJK.dpuf

22 May 2015

The Bolshevik Legacy of Hybrid Warfare

Author: Pavel Luzin

Continued......................................... .

I found this article actually to very close to a serious reality check of where Putin is militarily.

He vastly overplayed his hand by getting into the Ukraine far to late to capitalize on the Crimea roll and had not prepared the ethnic Russia Ukrainians for the "coming savior".

He has actually been openly critiqued by the actor who started all of this mess Strelov aka Girkin who has stated a couple of times Putin was hesitant to initially make any moves.

We have seen a series of articles that the New Russian project is dead--to me just typical Russian "deception" it is not dead far from it.

The West has made it a habit of saying "the fighting cannot be won militarily"--I totally disagree--it means simply one has to define "winning".

Right now the Ukraine is in fact "winning" by "bottling up the mercenaries" in a relatively unimportant chunk of Ukrainian territory that is not even economically viable and being forced to negotiation their way out of the problem.

Putin on the other hand knows he must "win" militarily--taking the entire Donbas region in order to make it a viable economic unit that could equally negotiate with Kyiv. Agree with the article that his time clock is running way into the "red zone" and he must act or it will be viewed as a "defeat".

Agree with Adam--Putin is going to expand this in the coming days if not a week or two--he needs to and he has his entire militay on high alert right now.

Remember his recent self movie on the taking of the Crimea--he put everything on high alert to include nuclear forces right before he moved into Crimea in anticipation of Western reactions.

IMO we are back to that exact Crimea scenario and he has his entire military to include his rapid deployment airborne and Spetsnaz on full combat alert and in a "snap"exercise right now.

Helmet and bunker is needed in the coming days--not sure DC gets it.

OUTLAW 09
05-30-2015, 04:18 PM
UNCONFIRMED: Report that Ukrainian army has captured two more Russian GRU special ops soldiers. https://www.facebook.com/vowk.vadik/posts/711956745597675 …

Reported by Vadym Vovk, geo-tagged in Volnovakha. He writes that 2 Russian GRU officers were captured alive by 30th brigade

The preferred vehicle of choice for Russian Spetsnaz—but they really do have to get better at driving the darn thing. Maybe include a driving course in their SF training cycle.

Lugansk News Today
Another #Russian Army BPM-97 "Vystrel" got lost and run out of petrol in #Ukraine.... They have no idea about GPS? pic.twitter.com/XvwB1Cg21J

OUTLAW 09
05-30-2015, 04:21 PM
RIP #Novorossiya: '#Kremlin Is Shutting Down Novorossiya Project'. What next for breakaway regions? http://ln.is/carnegie.ru/eurasiao/YqVMW …

‘Novorossiya’ Falls From Putin’s Vocabulary as Ukraine Crisis Drags and ahead of European decision on sanctions http://www.wsj.com/articles/novorossiya-falls-from-putins-vocabulary-as-ukraine-crisis-drags-1432936655 …

Interesting: number of mentions of the term 'Novorossiya' on Russian state TV Losses among terrorists reported in clash near Triokhizbenka http://en.censor.net.ua/n338199pic.twitter.com/S7BXVYkx6

Valid question--is this "reality" or simply Russian deception to lull the West before the EU decides again on Russian sanctions with an extension or not in June.

Russian desperately wants the sanctions lifted.

OUTLAW 09
05-30-2015, 04:26 PM
For the last three hours there have been both extensive and on occasions massive shellings by Russian troops and her mercenaries all along the Minsk 2 contact line.

So just how does that jive with this statement from the Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov????????

Seems Russia "does not have enough influence" to get them to adhere to the ceasefire and to withdraw their heavy wepaons and to allow OSCE to monitor all areas inside their occupied zone.

Russian propaganda 4Ds--dismiss, distract, distort, dismay designed to created the 2Ds --distrust and doubt.

Which of the four are at work here????

http://en.censor.net.ua/n338194Source: http://en.censor.net.ua/n338194
30.05.15 12:11

Sergei Lavrov admits Russia governs militants

The Russian Federation insists that it strongly encourages the ‘DPR’ and ‘LPR’ terrorists to conduct a dialogue with Kyiv.


Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov declared, Censor.NET reports citing RiaNovosti.

Lavrov said that Russia is ready to continue to work with the 'DPR' and 'LPR' terrorists at implementation of the Minsk Agreement, stressing that the work has never been stopped before.

"The fact that they [the terrorists] have agreed to sign the Minsk Agreements, accepting to be part of Ukraine, is a result of Kremlin's solid piece of work. Otherwise, they would declare independence," Lavrov said.

NOTICE he states nothing about adhering to the actual points in Minsk 2--only that Russia got them to "sign" the agreement.

OUTLAW 09
05-30-2015, 04:55 PM
Now we see the intertwining of the Russian and Chinese UW strategies as directed towards the US.

BREAKING: Russia announces intention to hold joint naval exercises with China in South China Sea
http://sputniknews.com/asia/20150530/1022753332.html …

OUTLAW 09
05-30-2015, 05:38 PM
Russian Troll's salary - $778 monthly for 12-hour shifts posting political comments on various websites, paid in cash.
via @EliotHiggins

More soldiers from 7th Military Base received Combat Medals after temporary duties in Ukraine
https://en.informnapalm.org/more-soldiers-from-7th-military-base-received-combat-medals-after-temporary-duties-in-ukraine/ … pic.twitter.com/6ilr7qoJQI

Fisherman hit a mine in the water near Vynohradne (#Mariupol area) and was killed http://www.0629.com.ua/news/842454 pic.twitter.com/i8MhGH58yP

OUTLAW 09
05-30-2015, 05:42 PM
For the last three hours there have been both extensive and on occasions massive shellings by Russian troops and her mercenaries all along the Minsk 2 contact line.

So just how does that jive with this statement from the Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov????????

Seems Russia "does not have enough influence" to get them to adhere to the ceasefire and to withdraw their heavy wepaons and to allow OSCE to monitor all areas inside their occupied zone.

Russian propaganda 4Ds--dismiss, distract, distort, dismay designed to created the 2Ds --distrust and doubt.

Which of the four are at work here????

http://en.censor.net.ua/n338194Source: http://en.censor.net.ua/n338194
30.05.15 12:11

Sergei Lavrov admits Russia governs militants

The Russian Federation insists that it strongly encourages the ‘DPR’ and ‘LPR’ terrorists to conduct a dialogue with Kyiv.

NOTICE he states nothing about adhering to the actual points in Minsk 2--only that Russia got them to "sign" the agreement.

There are way too many individual reports on the stream of constant shellings—

ATO Press Center reports enemy contact throughout the ATO today, including artillary and mortar fire https://www.facebook.com/ato.news?fref=nf …

Does not seem like the Russian FM has much "influence" over those mercenaries he got to sign the Minks 2 agreement--NOW if they could only "influence them" to read it and implement it NOW that would be Russian "influence"------is never going to happen.

The Russian FM cannot even stop the last two Russian convoys that entered eastern Ukraine late yesterday AND he could have "influenced that".

OUTLAW 09
05-30-2015, 07:28 PM
Has anyone on the States side of the Atlantic seen anything on this --comes from normally a solid Romania blogger who tends to be on the leading edge of developments in that part of the world--but nothing yet on the German side SO is this a typical Russia propaganda move for internal consumption OR is something up with the USS Ross that DC has said nothing about yet?????

OR is it Russian troll activity without a shred of evidence??

Russian media claims the jets forced the US warship to move into neutral waters http://ria.ru/defense_safety/20150530/1067315178.html …

BREAKING: RUSSIAN NAVY SENT INTERCEPTOR JETS TO STOP USS ROSS FROM "ENTERING ITS TERR WATERS" THEY CLAIM http://www.hotnews.ro/stiri-russia_report-20200294-marina-rusa-trimis-avioane-opreasca-distrugatorul-uss-ross-intre-apele-sale-teritoriale-ria-novosti.htm …

USS ROSS IS EQUIPPED WITH AEGIS SYSTEM, TOMAHAWK MISSILES, SEA-AIR RIM-156 SM-2 MISSILES AND RUM-139 VL-ASROC ANTISUB MISSILES

Hope this is humor????

Crew of the USS Ross salute the Russian Air Force, somewhere in Black Sea... pic.twitter.com/w90fbHhaSI

OUTLAW 09
05-30-2015, 07:29 PM
Russian bombers spotted near Cornwall believed to have gathered "vital intelligence" | West Briton http://po.st/PBmYI6

One sortie, 2 Bear H's flew "dry-run" offshore of Britain's two main Royal Navy bases: Plymouth & Portsmouth.

Russia and her mercenaries have developed a thriving business environment in the Donbas—the future model of Russia.

#Luhansk
"Saturday, 13:00 Oboronna, Absolyut supermarket. No place to park car in the past" pic.twitter.com/FEwRljORyv

OUTLAW 09
05-30-2015, 07:33 PM
More on Moldavian Russia issues--ongoing saga.

Russian MFA: "We will not allow anymore the refusal of Moldova to allow entry for Russian citizens" http://epochtimes-romania.com/news/pacificat

In 2015, 40 Russian "peacekeepers" were denied entry in Moldova, in transit to Transnistria.

Whoa! So #Russia can ban 98 dignitaries but #Moldova must let Russians in.
Sounds about right for the #Kremlin

#Ukraine's #army preparing to repell Russia agression from in-fact blocked Transnistria pic.twitter.com/JARveCGV39 http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/30-may-ukraines-army-preparing-to-repell-russia-agression

OUTLAW 09
05-30-2015, 07:34 PM
Russia seems to have a totally different understanding on just what the term "dialogue" means.

The Russian Federation insists that it strongly encourages the ‘DPR’ and ‘LPR’ terrorists to conduct a dialogue with Kyiv.

BREAKING #Ukrainian armed forces came under #Russian proxies's fire near #Vodyane, combat just stopped | EMPR source pic.twitter.com/mWmSHXT4cq

VIDEO #Putin new armored convoy of BMPs,MTLBs,ets enter #Luhansk #UKRAINE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwHdc1U9RKg … (Poss from Samara) pic.twitter.com/an3E1r8sxq

21:40 #Donetsk @AlfaNubovsky Just before dusk a big smoke pillar was visible from the center in Makeevka somewhere on horizon

#Horlivka
Apparently there was a clash at Hluboka (Gagarina coalmine settlement), 1 ruscist KIA, 4 WIA. https://twitter.com/ikanipurati/status/604723896449933312 …

Battalion "SICH" say today at 07:00 and between 15:00-16:00 RU forces shelled Avdiivka with self-propelled artillery
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1586266894955880&id=1446948288887742&refid=17&_ft_=top_level_post_id.1586266894955880&__tn__=%2As …

OUTLAW 09
05-30-2015, 08:20 PM
Hope this is humor????

Crew of the USS Ross salute the Russian Air Force, somewhere in Black Sea... pic.twitter.com/w90fbHhaSI

Both US and Russian Defense Ministries refuse to comment the incident so far, according to Buratino TV.

OUTLAW 09
05-30-2015, 08:26 PM
UNCONFIRMED: Report that Ukrainian army has captured two more Russian GRU special ops soldiers. https://www.facebook.com/vowk.vadik/posts/711956745597675 …

Reported by Vadym Vovk, geo-tagged in Volnovakha. He writes that 2 Russian GRU officers were captured alive by 30th brigade

The preferred vehicle of choice for Russian Spetsnaz—but they really do have to get better at driving the darn thing. Maybe include a driving course in their SF training cycle.

Lugansk News Today
Another #Russian Army BPM-97 "Vystrel" got lost and run out of petrol in #Ukraine.... They have no idea about GPS? pic.twitter.com/XvwB1Cg21J

Appears the capture of not two but in fact three GRU Spetsnaz officers did occur---seems to have been accomplished via Ukrainian SF unit.

Video report on detention of 3 russian GRU commandos on May 28. https://youtu.be/j871RB9E80Q via @YouTube

There has been some indications that the Ukraine has captured far more but have quietly released them back to Russia--since there was no improvement in Russian actions it seems the Ukraine is now holding any captured for trial and not returning them to Russia.

It is interesting that the Ukraine has developed an ease in countering Russian Spetsnaz.

OUTLAW 09
05-30-2015, 08:29 PM
Now we see the intertwining of the Russian and Chinese UW strategies as directed towards the US.

BREAKING: Russia announces intention to hold joint naval exercises with China in South China Sea
http://sputniknews.com/asia/20150530/1022753332.html …

Recent exercises between Russia and Chinese naval forces should have Eastern Europe worried: http://ow.ly/NE6eo pic.twitter.com/pocVTeqFPt

OUTLAW 09
05-30-2015, 08:31 PM
All this Russian FM talk about "influence" with her mercenaries--all propaganda.

This evidently is the extent of Russian "influence".

Two Ukr soldiers WIA in battle at #Krasnohorivka https://twitter.com/902Albi/status/604542463500529664 …

#Marinka
22:45 Fight intensity subsided but gunfire still ongoing.
22:50 Again ascending and mortars too. https://twitter.com/hyeva_maryinka/status/604739043537108992 …

#Marinka 22:40
Battle continues. https://twitter.com/hyeva_maryinka/status/604735589863329793 …

#Marinka 22:20
Mortars joined https://twitter.com/hyeva_maryinka/status/604732474657243137 …

#Marinka
21:55 shooting in the traffic police post area https://twitter.com/hyeva_maryinka/status/604723867249180672 …

The positions of our troops in #Shyrokyne continued to be under fire also today from AGS, machine guns and automats. https://twitter.com/UaForces/status/604735127969742848 …

VIDEO Intense fighting w #Putin forces & #Ukraine troops #Shyrokyne near #Mariupol #Ukraine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uNVm_n5m4A … pic.twitter.com/ibkIpeYGET

VIDEO Inside #Shyrokyne near #Mariupol & poss. of new offensive by #Putin forces https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEWdhVs38Zs … #Ukraine pic.twitter.com/SccGTChj8c

Drone of militants spotted in Manhush http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/30-may-drone-of-militants-has-spotted-in-manhush …

IMPORTANT NOTE: Manhush is 21 km WEST of Mariupol

Bloodshed on the frontline exposes hollowness of Ukraine peace deal" - my report from Shyrokyne, with video: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/ukraine/11640537/Bloodshed-on-the-frontline-exposes-hollowness-of-Ukraine-peace-deal.html …

#Shyrokyno 30.05.2015 https://youtu.be/PUPpM9LIgc8 via @YouTube

VIDEO: Night battle in Shyrokyne (via @Guderian_Xaba)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvWNQfJKb08&sns=tw … pic.twitter.com/NJzdJrwQpr

OUTLAW 09
05-30-2015, 08:50 PM
Another Russian military convoy arrived in eastern Ukraine—Russia is slow walking their invasion now so no one notices it as everyone is so wrapped up the new EU cannot enter Russia list.

Interesting just how Russia plays the deception game.

#Alchevsk @GirkinGirkin Fr/tunnel direction 48°29'3"N,38°47'3"E on May28-29 long hardware columns arrived incl tanks.

#Alchevsk @GirkinGirkin Most of them are stationed in Stal football stadium & some in depot

OUTLAW 09
05-30-2015, 08:52 PM
Report coming out of Russia today:
Since Putin signed decree making talk of Russian losses in Ukraine a state secret, everyone has been talking about Russian losses in Ukraine

Even Putin cannot control human nature at work--will be interesting when the next polling comes out just how many Russians now support the war in the Ukraine and support Russian soldiers fighting there in light of this new secrecy law that everyone is talking??


VIDEO #Ukraine Border Guards receive 300 new vehicles inc surveillance & armored Ford Rangers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0xp2pnYo0Y … pic.twitter.com/ncJdcevbam

Bill Moore
05-31-2015, 04:14 AM
Canada claims the Ukraine is preparing for a full fledged war with Russia. Canada is stepping up its rhetoric and support for the Ukraine, but I can't help but think this is at least partially linked to the future status of the Artic.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/ukraine-preparing-for-full-scale-war-says-former-envoy-to-canada-1.2964887

Ukraine preparing for 'full-scale war,' says former envoy to Canada


"We don't want to scare everybody, but we are preparing for full-scale war."

What to do in the face of such a threat? For starters, get over your fears, he says.

"What we expect from the world is that the world will stiffen up in the spine a little," he says. "Everybody is afraid of fighting with a nuclear state. We are not anymore, in Ukraine — we've lost so many people of ours, we've lost so much of our territory.

"However dangerous it sounds, we have to stop [Putin] somehow. For the sake of the Russian nation as well, not just for the Ukrainians and Europe."

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/ukraine-crisis-canada-sending-200-trainers-for-ukraine-military-1.3031806

Ukraine crisis: Canada sending 200 trainers for Ukraine military


The U.S. has deployed 800 troops to train three — possibly four — battalions in western Ukraine, and the British recently sent 75 soldiers to give instruction in command procedures, tactical intelligence and battlefield first aid.

Canada will only be dealing with recognized Ukrainian government forces and not the kind of ad hoc militias that emerged earlier in the conflict, Kenney said.

The defence minister said the estimated cost for the first year of the mission would be $16 million, of which $3 million would be a contingency fund to be drawn only if necessary. Because the bulk of the trainers are actually joining a U.S.-led mission, Canada can co-locate at the existing base and save money, Kenney said.

OUTLAW 09
05-31-2015, 08:06 AM
Canada claims the Ukraine is preparing for a full fledged war with Russia. Canada is stepping up its rhetoric and support for the Ukraine, but I can't help but think this is at least partially linked to the future status of the Artic.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/ukraine-preparing-for-full-scale-war-says-former-envoy-to-canada-1.2964887

Ukraine preparing for 'full-scale war,' says former envoy to Canada



http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/ukraine-crisis-canada-sending-200-trainers-for-ukraine-military-1.3031806

Ukraine crisis: Canada sending 200 trainers for Ukraine military

Bill--you have touched something has been rather unspoken on the net over the last few days.

The dude that kicked this whole thing off---Strelkov aka Girkin a FSB operative and a Kosovo vet from GRU days--decided evidently on his own to leave the Crimea after he had been there and go into the eastern Ukraine to continue what he thought would be the next Russian move BUT Putin hesitated--you can see the hesitation in his actions if one really followed that period closely.

Once Strelkov had taken over a large area and then lost most of it by August 2014 Putin sent in his troops to save his proxy. By the way in much the same way as the article that I posted here states as well on the potential failure of Russian hybrid warfare--the time factor.

Strelkov was then pulled out and sent back to Russia---some called him a loose cannon and has been in St. Petersburg ever since.

Now the interesting part--he has been giving literally a series of interviews since his return that are to a degree quite critical of Putin and some are actually surprised he is still "alive"--the question is what does he both know and hold to keep himself alive?

Four weeks ago he agave an interview indicating the Putin "New Russia" project was dead in the water for lack of public support inside the occupied zones and the Ukrainian Army was gathering strength that he himself was impressed by --admitted that they were solid resilient fighters and motivated. Now we see the drumbeat of the New Russia project is dead--but is it just propaganda to get a positive outcome on the sanctions side in June or is it real--IMO a little of both.

This week he bounces up again and states--the Ukrainian Army is about one year away from being able to carry the fight to Russia--western media did not pick up the interview--some of us perked up our years and intently listened.

Why--what is not so well known in the West is that the UA when the Budapest Memorandum was signed had a standing military of over 600K, a well trained AF and a solid AD. Russia via corruption tactics, and infiltration deliberately set about eroding that force structure---via Russian backed Presidents who cut the budgets, via corruption in the defense industries and ministries etc. Now those factories are pumping overtime "on their own dime" for the troops--there is a volunteering outpour for the troops unmatched anywhere else in the world to include the US.

Maidan is their battle cry and their guiding light--we in the West never fully understood that. In some ways it reminds of the our own Revolutionary War efforts of building an army in the middle of fighting.

So that by Crimea the Ukrainian military was just a hallow shell of 1990.

Now there has been a renewal of the defense industries and out of pure nationalism they are working overtime to bring back into the force some 3000 armored fighting vehicle, their own designed T64 was even rated by the Russians to be far better than their T90, they have brought back into service all of their 203mm nuclear artillery, beefed up the ground AD even though they still have not real AF---but in A2C2 if you can control the AD battle one does need an AF.

Here though is the kicker--their General Staff is a disaster--BUT at the Brigade and BN levels they have after a year of solid fighting developed some quality in fire and maneuver and have surprised me with their own version of Mission Command--lower units actually on their own to form the battle space--not waiting for GS decisions--something still utterly lacking in the Russian Army.

We saw this in 2012 and 2013 when we trained them at Grafenwoehr.

They have actually effectively played the two Minsk agreements for TIME--time to rebuild, time to produce and field heavy equipment AND more importantly field their new ATM that out flies our own TOW--and suddenly one of their defense companies stated this week they can lengthen the control distance of that ATM to 12kms---12 kms--that is stand off AT defenses that is double the distance of an Abrams in stationary mode.

Take the tank away from Russian military doctrine and it forces them to fight with a conscript army that is not all that motivated at the infantry level--their professional core of 45K has and is being ground into the ground on constant Ukraine rotations in an attempt to keep individual unit loses low so the home public does not notice it.

So yes I see them at some point going over to offense--BUT only to the borders of the Ukraine and Russia and threatening to enter Crimea to force negotiations and it's return.

Quietly behind the scenes and with US financial advisors they have slowly started to get the corruption in their financial side under control and are doing an amazing job at renegotiating their outstanding debts and passing the necessary reforms for more aid--there was a small comment yesterday that indicated they are actually on a strong economic recovery path for the second half of 2016 and that in the middle of a war.

All in all--the Canadian comment does not surprise me--why Canada has the largest Ukrainian diaspora outside of the Ukraine and there is a natural affinity between the two countries.

But the comment I think is 300% percent correct AND it goes to the various US various out of Obama and his NSC about delivery of US TOWs--they know the intel about as well as I do from the OSINT side so they are afraid of the UA actively taking on the Russian Army in eastern Ukraine.

Example--since the UA is now fielding their own ATM and have built roving ATM hunter killer teams notice there has not been much more openly said about the non delivery of US TOWs?

Secondly--the Ukrainian President recently after the capture of the Spetsnaz made an off hand comment that totally flew over the heads of all western media and was not questioned--we have captured a total of 80 Spetsnaz and we released them back to Russia--that heard that before but assumed it was RUMINT--evidently he decided over his military advisors---it was an attempt to signal to Putin hey we are willing to give you an off ramp--BUT Putin did not respond.

Thus now the Ukrainians are simply holding onto all they capture--BTW another three yesterday.

The massive Russian propaganda play yesterday about the USS Ross in the Black Sea was designed strictly for internal consumption--ie War with the US is a possibility and the question is not IF but WHEN.

That is a major change--that is worrying. Putin has literally boxed himself into four corners and there is no "gentle way out".

OUTLAW 09
05-31-2015, 08:14 AM
So much for all that Russian "influence" the Russian FM stated this week--or can anyone else see any "influence"?

Last night 2 small battles happened btw Russia-led terrorists & #Ukrainian forces in eastern #Ukraine - #ATO press center report.

02:15 #Avdeevka @JuZolyshkaLia Quiet
03:50 #Donetsk Kyivsky @Shymanovski 3 single dull heavy [gunshots] in Putilovka dir'n

03:57 #Donetsk Kyivsky @Shymanovski Gunfire continues

04:22 #Donetsk @idinmor "I counted 8 massive explosions wafting on my ear fr/airport direction

08:00 #Maryinka @hyeva_maryinka The night was quiet, about 04:30 skirmishes started and continued till 07:30

08:15 #Maryinka @faina_ukr Right now AGL bursts are heard
08:30 SA & AGL don't cease round the clock, heavy w/"tea pauses"

08:00 #Maryinka @hyeva_maryinka Skirmish again

08:28 #Maryinka @faina_ukr The night passed over in constant skirmishes, ceasing for few min. Not SA shelled w/1-2hr pauses

#Maryinka @hyeva_maryinka
09:15 Quiet
09:20 Small arms skirmish

That's all for now, the night was moderately quiet even in Donetsk let along Maryinka. No shelling reports from Luhansk Note: if there were no reports in social networks, no guarantee that something serious didn't happen... ...for sometimes things happen in places where is no internet or electricity is down

OUTLAW 09
05-31-2015, 08:15 AM
Donetsk lawlessness makes people fear the night
http://www.kyivpost.com/content/kyiv-post-plus/donetsks-lawlessness-makes-people-afraid-to-stay-out-at-night-389910.html … pic.twitter.com/tNP9f5KvJ1

#Ukraine's state security service is still infiltrated by Russian operatives - @MarkGaleotti of @nyuniversity
http://buff.ly/1J6IrVW

We deny there is criminality in #Russia. http://www.themoscowtimes.com/mobile/news/article/russian-sports-minister-says-theres-no-criminality-in-russia-video/522685.html …

OUTLAW 09
05-31-2015, 08:16 AM
Hope this is humor????

Crew of the USS Ross salute the Russian Air Force, somewhere in Black Sea... pic.twitter.com/w90fbHhaSI

USSRoss observed flights of Su-24s in Black Sea http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/31-may-ussross-observed-flights-of-su24s-in-black-sea- … pic.twitter.com/S2UBazurD0 via @USNATO

OUTLAW 09
05-31-2015, 08:22 AM
The "Maidan" Putin's worst nightmare.

"Antimaidan" Police exercise in #Russia http://russia.liveuamap.com/en/2015/30-may-antimaidan-police-exercise-in-russia … pic.twitter.com/knIelbGKyY

OUTLAW 09
05-31-2015, 12:36 PM
Russian propaganda 4Ds--dismiss, distract, distort, display is designed to cause the 2Ds distrust and doubt

Putin concerned over shelling of civilian facilities by Ukrainian servicemen

Russia
May 29, 20:58 UTC+3

"The Russian side stressed its concern in connection with more frequent incidents of shelling by the Ukrainian army of civilian facilities that resulted in deaths of civilians," Kremlin reported

Russian Investigative Committee opens criminal case over Gorlovka shelling by Ukraine
NOTE: An excellent open source analysis done by a Ukrainian blogger disproved this Russian myth and the MRLS rockets were in fact fired from Russian locations not Ukrainian.


MOSCOW, May 29. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin, in a phone conversation with French President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, expressed concern over shelling by Ukrainian servicemen of civilian facilities, the Kremlin reported Friday.

"The Russian side stressed its concern in connection with more frequent incidents of shelling by the Ukrainian army of civilian facilities that resulted in deaths of civilians," the statement said.

"They exchanged opinions on possible additional measures designed to ensure strict observation of the ceasefire regime and de-escalation of tensions," it said.

The Kremlin said "the crisis situation in Ukraine was discussed in the context of the necessity to implement by southeast conflict participants of all items of the Package of Measures agreed in Minsk on February 12 this year."

"It was noted that rigorous implementation of the agreements on withdrawal of heavy armaments under OSCE supervision and establishment of demilitarized zones at the contact line is important," the statement said.

The Kremlin said "special attention will be paid to the activity of four working subgroups in the framework of the Contact Group."

"The leaders discussed the course of implementation of the Minsk agreements, including the schedule of continuation of contacts at the expert level," presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.

The Kremlin press service used only that wording. As for the Elysee Palace in Paris, it said the agreement has been reached that the next meeting in the Normandy format (Russia, France, Germany, Ukraine) at the level of deputy foreign ministers or political directors will be held June 10 in Paris.

NOTICE--not once did he concern himself with the total failure of his own mercenaries in their constant shellings and ground attacks and their total failure to exchange ALL POWs including the ones kidnapped to Moscow NOR the removal of mercenary heavy weapons over 100mm NOR the killing of Ukrainians by his shellings in their Ukrainian towns and villages.

OUTLAW 09
05-31-2015, 12:42 PM
Russian propaganda 4Ds--dismiss, distract, distort, display is designed to cause the 2Ds distrust and doubt

Putin concerned over shelling of civilian facilities by Ukrainian servicemen

Russia
May 29, 20:58 UTC+3

"The Russian side stressed its concern in connection with more frequent incidents of shelling by the Ukrainian army of civilian facilities that resulted in deaths of civilians," Kremlin reported

Russian Investigative Committee opens criminal case over Gorlovka shelling by Ukraine
NOTE: An excellent open source analysis done by a Ukrainian blogger disproved this Russian myth and the MRLS rockets were in fact fired from Russian locations not Ukrainian.

NOTICE--not once did he concern himself with the total failure of his own mercenaries in their constant shellings and ground attacks and their total failure to exchange ALL POWs including the ones kidnapped to Moscow NOR the removal of mercenary heavy weapons over 100mm NOR the killing of Ukrainians by his shellings in their Ukrainian towns and villages.

NOTICE that for all of the Russian FM recent statement of Russian "influence over the mercenaries AND Putin's CONCERNS--nothing absolutely nothing seems to move one millimeter on the mercenary side AND Russia and her mercenaries are still in clear and
blatant violation/non compliance with Minsk 2.

NSDC of Ukraine ✔ @NSDC_ua
Donetsk sector: airport area – Pisky, Aviivka, Maryinka & outskirts of Horlivka. Militants used 120mm mortars & 122 artillery

NSDC of Ukraine ✔ @NSDC_ua
Shyrokyne remains the only hotspot in the Mariupol sector. 4 ceasefire violations occurred there

Uploaded 30 May (prob Feb?): Russian 2S1 Gvozdika SPG battalion, occupied Donbas https://vk.com/dprarmy?z=photo-51146063_368382433%2Fwall-51146063_3596 … pic.twitter.com/bjseYfpwvC

Russian forces (DPR "Vostok" unit) armour 25 May somewhere in occupied Donbas https://vk.com/dprarmy?w=wall-51146063_3597 … #PutinAtWar pic.twitter.com/ju104pqoul

Russian artillery during Battle of Debaltseve (Feb): 2S1 Gvozdika and Strela-10 https://vk.com/dprarmy?w=wall-51146063_3594 … pic.twitter.com/rtpxXeF1OC

Recent (upld 30 May) Russian armour occupied Donbas (prob Komsomolske-Telmanove) #PutinAtWar https://vk.com/dprarmy?z=photo-51146063_368355260%2Fwall-51146063_3591 … pic.twitter.com/5CVA3KjnTF

OUTLAW 09
05-31-2015, 12:44 PM
Is this (Left) Russian Ground Forces Col-Gen Lentsov's point man in the LPR? Equivalent of Basurin (Right) in DPR?
pic.twitter.com/hubN1TqsJY

Source video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=zDp1Jtu6VpY … (We haven't seen his face before (looks like Russian military to us).

OUTLAW 09
05-31-2015, 12:46 PM
So much for the Russian FM stated "influence over her mercenaries" and Putin's "concerns for civilians"---the shellings and ground attacks are still ongoing and in direct violation of Minsk 2.

#Donetsk - periodic shooting in #Pisky, #Optyne, #Spartak, Airport area.
- via @062_Region

13:08 #Maryinka-#Novomykhaylivka @AMykhailova RUS [#Kadyrov thugs] raider group killed 2 UKR servicemen

13:02 #Maryinka @AMykhailova "RUS raider group penetrated, it is being neutralized"
13:03 in #Novomykhaylivka area

Azov fighter reported WIA at #Shyrokyno

#Hranitne shooting in The outskirts all morning. No bread today, supply car came under fire.
- Via @666_mancer

#Horlivka district 6/7 battle. Small arms, mortars and something heavy.
Via @062_Region

Luhansk, 29.05.2015. A Kamaz-4350 "Mustang" - in service of the #Russia army from 2002 https://twitter.com/olarhat/status/604804677318942720 …

OUTLAW 09
05-31-2015, 12:48 PM
Seems that Russian Spetsnaz teams are in the attack mode now----

Russian mercenaries 'go full retard' with "tactical beard" as worn by #SOF! Laugh or cry? https://vk.com/public93369497?w=wall-93369497_93 … pic.twitter.com/7AfG7ii7Ar

NSDC of Ukraine ✔ @NSDC_ua
SBU detained 4 “LPR” fighters who were plotting attacks on volunteers and members of volunteer battalions. Confiscated arms, grenades, ammo.

NSDC of Ukraine ✔ @NSDC_ua
“DPR” leaders announced lack of funds to pay salaries to 4,000 miners: intend to close down state mining enterprise and fire personnel

NSDC of Ukraine ✔ @NSDC_ua
Other hotspots included Popasna, Kirove & Zolote. Ukrainian Armed Forces successfully fought away attacks near Troyitske & Lozove

NSDC of Ukraine ✔ @NSDC_ua
Luhansk sector: Shchastya, Stanytsia Luhanska. UA forces uncovered enemy intelligence group by Tryokhizbenka and forced them to flee

OUTLAW 09
05-31-2015, 01:30 PM
NOTICE that for all of the Russian FM recent statement of Russian "influence over the mercenaries AND Putin's CONCERNS--nothing absolutely nothing seems to move one millimeter on the mercenary side AND Russia and her mercenaries are still in clear and
blatant violation/non compliance with Minsk 2.

NSDC of Ukraine ✔ @NSDC_ua
Donetsk sector: airport area – Pisky, Aviivka, Maryinka & outskirts of Horlivka. Militants used 120mm mortars & 122 artillery

NSDC of Ukraine ✔ @NSDC_ua
Shyrokyne remains the only hotspot in the Mariupol sector. 4 ceasefire violations occurred there

Uploaded 30 May (prob Feb?): Russian 2S1 Gvozdika SPG battalion, occupied Donbas https://vk.com/dprarmy?z=photo-51146063_368382433%2Fwall-51146063_3596 … pic.twitter.com/bjseYfpwvC

Russian forces (DPR "Vostok" unit) armour 25 May somewhere in occupied Donbas https://vk.com/dprarmy?w=wall-51146063_3597 … #PutinAtWar pic.twitter.com/ju104pqoul

Russian artillery during Battle of Debaltseve (Feb): 2S1 Gvozdika and Strela-10 https://vk.com/dprarmy?w=wall-51146063_3594 … pic.twitter.com/rtpxXeF1OC

Recent (upld 30 May) Russian armour occupied Donbas (prob Komsomolske-Telmanove) #PutinAtWar https://vk.com/dprarmy?z=photo-51146063_368355260%2Fwall-51146063_3591 … pic.twitter.com/5CVA3KjnTF

Seems that Putin has to ask his own Foreign Minister just exactly how this IFV made it from Russia to the Ukraine--geo tagged and tracked all the way--there is no other excuse than Russia supplied it.

The Avalanche that Went from Russia to Ukraine vía @bellingcat pic.twitter.com/4tn4AIXMnH

OUTLAW 09
05-31-2015, 01:31 PM
Seems that Russian Spetsnaz teams are in the attack mode now----

Russian mercenaries 'go full retard' with "tactical beard" as worn by #SOF! Laugh or cry? https://vk.com/public93369497?w=wall-93369497_93 … pic.twitter.com/7AfG7ii7Ar

NSDC of Ukraine ✔ @NSDC_ua
SBU detained 4 “LPR” fighters who were plotting attacks on volunteers and members of volunteer battalions. Confiscated arms, grenades, ammo.

NSDC of Ukraine ✔ @NSDC_ua
“DPR” leaders announced lack of funds to pay salaries to 4,000 miners: intend to close down state mining enterprise and fire personnel

NSDC of Ukraine ✔ @NSDC_ua
Other hotspots included Popasna, Kirove & Zolote. Ukrainian Armed Forces successfully fought away attacks near Troyitske & Lozove

NSDC of Ukraine ✔ @NSDC_ua
Luhansk sector: Shchastya, Stanytsia Luhanska. UA forces uncovered enemy intelligence group by Tryokhizbenka and forced them to flee

Another GRU Spetsnaz team was detected and stopped.

Lugansk News Today @LUGANSK_TODAY
Border guards of @DPSU_ua and #Ukrainian soldiers stopped a group of 6 terrorists last night http://lugansk-news.com/ukrainian-border-guards-got-in-a-fight-with-a-group-of-terrorists/ … pic.twitter.com/vY7avecs4S

OUTLAW 09
05-31-2015, 01:33 PM
Moldavia--Putin's next target-----his troops are basically "frozen" and trapped inside Transnistria.

Notice the same ramp up in "Nazi propaganda"????

Romanian Fascists striving for power in Moldova - says Russia's NTV channel.via @dacoromania https://twitter.com/dacoromania/status/604957561704579072 …

OUTLAW 09
05-31-2015, 01:34 PM
Azov reports about ongoing fight in Shyrokyne, another battle under way near Triokhizbenka
http://www.unian.info/war/1084011-azov-reports-about-ongoing-fight-in-shyrokyne-another-battle-under-way-near-triokhizbenka.html … pic.twitter.com/EYByFQGxZs

Russian Army rations found close to #Mariupol in occupied Novoazovsk - via @uamuzik @24tvua https://twitter.com/uamuzik/status/604992079945707520 …

Notice in this photo they tried to remove the tactical number marking "542" but failed.
@tsnua pic.twitter.com/rrpyu7EAqX

Two Ukrainian soldiers killed, 1 wounded, 2 captured by Russian forces in Slavne village http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/31-may-two-ukrainian-soldiers-killed-1-wounded-2-captured …

#Litvinenko's docs revealed #Putin's business relations with Columbian drug cartel. pic.twitter.com/BOjo9dtfR2

OUTLAW 09
05-31-2015, 01:36 PM
Did not the Russian MoD and the Russian FM accuse recently the US of lying when they stated Russian AD systems were near are in the contact line?

THEN the Russian MoD made a blunt statement that there are no Russian AD systems in eastern Ukraine--that one has been really hard to back away from lately.

Multiple #Russia|n 9K35 Strela-10 SAM systems ID'd in east #Ukrainehttps://pp.vk.me/c629123/v629123523/231e/URlxR46Nmmw.jpg …
https://pp.vk.me/c628123/v628123474/594e/QnlqUQRX4WY.jpg … pic.twitter.com/roythzBhMz

OUTLAW 09
05-31-2015, 01:38 PM
http://zik.ua/en/news/2015/05/31/donbas_republics_are_kremlins_creation__girkin_594 611

Donbas republics are Kremlin’s creation – Girkin

True rebels are leaving Donbas because they can see the snafu there and realize that they are fighting for the criminals-run republics, not defending the Russian World [Putin’s doctrine justifying Russia’s interference in territories populated by Russian-speaking people – Ed.], the one-time leader of Donetsk republic and FSB officer, Igor Girkin (aka Strelok) says, Izvestia reports May 31.


“One must be a fool to imagine the rebels could set up republics in Donbas – they are Kremlin’s creation,” Girkin says.

Ukraine is leading the rebels in the creation of a combat-ready army and will be able soon to tackle the Russian troops, he says.

“In some time, maybe a year or less, Ukrainians will be able to fight against the Russian army,” he says.

The former rebels leader says the level of discipline in the separatist formations is very low. “All of them are drinkers and many are drug addicts,” he says.

“In rebel-held territories the authorities are plundering the local population and stealing the humanitarian assistance,” Girkin says.

OUTLAW 09
05-31-2015, 01:42 PM
Bill--you have touched something has been rather unspoken on the net over the last few days.

The dude that kicked this whole thing off---Strelkov aka Girkin a FSB operative and a Kosovo vet from GRU days--decided evidently on his own to leave the Crimea after he had been there and go into the eastern Ukraine to continue what he thought would be the next Russian move BUT Putin hesitated--you can see the hesitation in his actions if one really followed that period closely.

Once Strelkov had taken over a large area and then lost most of it by August 2014 Putin sent in his troops to save his proxy. By the way in much the same way as the article that I posted here states as well on the potential failure of Russian hybrid warfare--the time factor.

Strelkov was then pulled out and sent back to Russia---some called him a loose cannon and has been in St. Petersburg ever since.

Now the interesting part--he has been giving literally a series of interviews since his return that are to a degree quite critical of Putin and some are actually surprised he is still "alive"--the question is what does he both know and hold to keep himself alive?

Four weeks ago he agave an interview indicating the Putin "New Russia" project was dead in the water for lack of public support inside the occupied zones and the Ukrainian Army was gathering strength that he himself was impressed by --admitted that they were solid resilient fighters and motivated. Now we see the drumbeat of the New Russia project is dead--but is it just propaganda to get a positive outcome on the sanctions side in June or is it real--IMO a little of both.

This week he bounces up again and states--the Ukrainian Army is about one year away from being able to carry the fight to Russia--western media did not pick up the interview--some of us perked up our years and intently listened.

Why--what is not so well known in the West is that the UA when the Budapest Memorandum was signed had a standing military of over 600K, a well trained AF and a solid AD. Russia via corruption tactics, and infiltration deliberately set about eroding that force structure---via Russian backed Presidents who cut the budgets, via corruption in the defense industries and ministries etc. Now those factories are pumping overtime "on their own dime" for the troops--there is a volunteering outpour for the troops unmatched anywhere else in the world to include the US.

Maidan is their battle cry and their guiding light--we in the West never fully understood that. In some ways it reminds of the our own Revolutionary War efforts of building an army in the middle of fighting.

So that by Crimea the Ukrainian military was just a hallow shell of 1990.

Now there has been a renewal of the defense industries and out of pure nationalism they are working overtime to bring back into the force some 3000 armored fighting vehicle, their own designed T64 was even rated by the Russians to be far better than their T90, they have brought back into service all of their 203mm nuclear artillery, beefed up the ground AD even though they still have not real AF---but in A2C2 if you can control the AD battle one does need an AF.

Here though is the kicker--their General Staff is a disaster--BUT at the Brigade and BN levels they have after a year of solid fighting developed some quality in fire and maneuver and have surprised me with their own version of Mission Command--lower units actually on their own to form the battle space--not waiting for GS decisions--something still utterly lacking in the Russian Army.

We saw this in 2012 and 2013 when we trained them at Grafenwoehr.

They have actually effectively played the two Minsk agreements for TIME--time to rebuild, time to produce and field heavy equipment AND more importantly field their new ATM that out flies our own TOW--and suddenly one of their defense companies stated this week they can lengthen the control distance of that ATM to 12kms---12 kms--that is stand off AT defenses that is double the distance of an Abrams in stationary mode.

Take the tank away from Russian military doctrine and it forces them to fight with a conscript army that is not all that motivated at the infantry level--their professional core of 45K has and is being ground into the ground on constant Ukraine rotations in an attempt to keep individual unit loses low so the home public does not notice it.

So yes I see them at some point going over to offense--BUT only to the borders of the Ukraine and Russia and threatening to enter Crimea to force negotiations and it's return.

Quietly behind the scenes and with US financial advisors they have slowly started to get the corruption in their financial side under control and are doing an amazing job at renegotiating their outstanding debts and passing the necessary reforms for more aid--there was a small comment yesterday that indicated they are actually on a strong economic recovery path for the second half of 2016 and that in the middle of a war.

All in all--the Canadian comment does not surprise me--why Canada has the largest Ukrainian diaspora outside of the Ukraine and there is a natural affinity between the two countries.

But the comment I think is 300% percent correct AND it goes to the various US various out of Obama and his NSC about delivery of US TOWs--they know the intel about as well as I do from the OSINT side so they are afraid of the UA actively taking on the Russian Army in eastern Ukraine.

Example--since the UA is now fielding their own ATM and have built roving ATM hunter killer teams notice there has not been much more openly said about the non delivery of US TOWs?

Secondly--the Ukrainian President recently after the capture of the Spetsnaz made an off hand comment that totally flew over the heads of all western media and was not questioned--we have captured a total of 80 Spetsnaz and we released them back to Russia--that heard that before but assumed it was RUMINT--evidently he decided over his military advisors---it was an attempt to signal to Putin hey we are willing to give you an off ramp--BUT Putin did not respond.

Thus now the Ukrainians are simply holding onto all they capture--BTW another three yesterday.

The massive Russian propaganda play yesterday about the USS Ross in the Black Sea was designed strictly for internal consumption--ie War with the US is a possibility and the question is not IF but WHEN.

That is a major change--that is worrying. Putin has literally boxed himself into four corners and there is no "gentle way out".

http://zik.ua/en/news/2015/05/31/donbas_republics_are_kremlins_creation__girkin_594 611

Donbas republics are Kremlin’s creation – Girkin

True rebels are leaving Donbas because they can see the snafu there and realize that they are fighting for the criminals-run republics, not defending the Russian World [Putin’s doctrine justifying Russia’s interference in territories populated by Russian-speaking people – Ed.], the one-time leader of Donetsk republic and FSB officer, Igor Girkin (aka Strelok) says, Izvestia reports May 31.


One must be a fool to imagine the rebels could set up republics in Donbas – they are Kremlin’s creation,” Girkin says.

Ukraine is leading the rebels in the creation of a combat-ready army and will be able soon to tackle the Russian troops, he says.

“In some time, maybe a year or less, Ukrainians will be able to fight against the Russian army,” he says.

The former rebels leader says the level of discipline in the separatist formations is very low. “All of them are drinkers and many are drug addicts,” he says.

“In rebel-held territories the authorities are plundering the local population and stealing the humanitarian assistance,” Girkin says.

OUTLAW 09
05-31-2015, 01:44 PM
Both US and Russian Defense Ministries refuse to comment the incident so far, according to Buratino TV.


According to the US Navy, there was no "incident" in the Black Sea with the Russian AF yesterday http://cne-cna-c6f.dodlive.mil/navy-statement-on-uss-ross-ddg-71-interaction-with-russian-aircraft/ …

OUTLAW 09
05-31-2015, 03:11 PM
#Rovenki @olegroven9 "Many suicides and starvation deaths in the town. Certainly, all quiet and silence is kept"

Ukrainian troops repel militants' attacks on Triokhizbenka, Schastia without casualties
http://www.unian.info/war/1084025-ukrainian-troops-repel-militants-attacks-on-triokhizbenka-schastia-without-casualties.html … pic.twitter.com/tHXnffpTpi

17:09 #Maryinka @Irina16135931 The attack was repelled, 2 wounded

More indications of Russian Spetsnaz sabotage teams on the go----
gov #Moskal:Before noon 55yo dad&his 14yo son died, tripped a mine [trip wire] in #Stanytsia_Luhanska
http://moskal.in.ua/?categoty=news&news_id=1781 …

16:33 #Donetsk @666_mancer [fb] It's getting noisy in #Putilovka

09:42 #Krasniy_Luch @ukropchik65 Sometimes a truck w/aerials on the roof cruises around
Appears to be a radio intercept vehicle---definitely not driven by “miners and truck drivers”

#Maryinka @hyeva_maryinka
16:15 Skirmish in horse stable direction
16:25 It's getting louder
16:35 They have ceased

#Donetsk 16:33
Putilovka is very noisy! https://twitter.com/666_mancer/status/605004912594944000 …

16:15 #Donetsk @funkermanjke "4pm passed&RUS arty's up"behind Putilovka closer to Metro/airport
#Avdeevka @avdey_avdey affirm

Russian mercenaries are not that we prepared nor fight well in Shyrokyne.

Majority in Shyrokyne unlikely regular army. Reason? Not well-disciplined, well-prepared, well-supplied

Ukr positions — on hill — much better than rebels in Shyrokyne village below. From evidence I saw, rebel side not well supported at moment

OUTLAW 09
05-31-2015, 03:13 PM
First indication from locals of a possible mass grave site for killed Russian mercenaries and Russian troops.

#Pervomaysk @100007182042214 "Cemetery in #Sokolohorivka is one of unidentified #Ruscist mass grave places, several ones in each grave"

OUTLAW 09
05-31-2015, 03:44 PM
According to the US Navy, there was no "incident" in the Black Sea with the Russian AF yesterday http://cne-cna-c6f.dodlive.mil/navy-statement-on-uss-ross-ddg-71-interaction-with-russian-aircraft/ …


Naval Forces Europe ✔ @USNavyEurope

Statement on #USSRoss interaction w/Russian A/C - Ross cont. mission A/C returned to base. http://cne-cna-c6f.dodlive.mil/navy-statement-on-uss-ross-ddg-71-interaction-with-russian-aircraft/ … pic.twitter.com/GBQjpbcDrw

OUTLAW 09
05-31-2015, 03:45 PM
NKVD troops disguised as UPA for subversive campaigns in Ukraine, end of WW2.http://www.istpravda.com.ua/articles/2015/05/12/148247/ … pic.twitter.com/lVwhmsXm4W

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3QUKX5gTUM … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRwB3Irra_A … #Russian paratroopr fr #Bryansk Obl,#Russia,talks 'endless' 'holy war' on 'fascist' #Ukraine

OUTLAW 09
05-31-2015, 03:48 PM
Moldavia--Putin's next target-----his troops are basically "frozen" and trapped inside Transnistria.

Notice the same ramp up in "Nazi propaganda"????

Romanian Fascists striving for power in Moldova - says Russia's NTV channel.via @dacoromania https://twitter.com/dacoromania/status/604957561704579072 …

Separatist" Army of PMR, Pridnestrovian Moldavian Rep. aka #Transnistria, occupied Moldova https://vk.com/album-62474637_216370796 … pic.twitter.com/ludUIJKfOf

OUTLAW 09
05-31-2015, 03:49 PM
Ukrainian #SOF seize Russian RPO-A "Shmel" infantry flamethrowers (rocket with thermobaric warhead) during fight https://twitter.com/LUGANSK_TODAY/status/604984101901373440 …

Ukrainian Special Forces solder shows trophies got in a fight. 3 Russians WIA and retreated.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=10&v=hqWTLVv-4wI …

Seems that the Ukrainian SF side is covering up that the three WIA were in fact three captured Russian Spetsnaz who was on a sabotage mission and were interdicted by Ukrainian SF.

OUTLAW 09
05-31-2015, 04:24 PM
This the “Russian reality” of those ethnic Russian Ukrainians that were enticed to flee the Donbas from the “Nazi junta” ---their fleeing was then turned around and hammered out as propaganda of how brutal the “Nazi junta” was/is. AND it was important for Russia to protect them.

1. they are the victims literally of the Russian propaganda
2. if this is how Russia treats “Russians” who then needs “Russia”
3. massive indication that the “so called New Russia project has utterly failed”
4. indication that the Russia non linear warfare is failing as well

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=847212535362578&id=553978201352681
Has accompanying video---


As expected, it's tragic for those who fled Donbas to go to Russia. This is the treatment they were experiencing and this family has now actually returned to the war zone in Donetsk. They would "rather face shelling in Donetsk than live as outcasts in Russia. "I'm no longer afraid. What difference does it make where you die? Die here of hunger and of the way we are treated, or die at home among our own people? Russia itself is experiencing massive layoffs, people are losing their jobs. No one needs us here."

After fleeing the conflict in eastern Ukraine last fall, the Denisenkos and their four children are facing hostility, unemployment, and crushing poverty in Russia.

OUTLAW 09
05-31-2015, 04:29 PM
Russian propaganda 4Ds --dismiss, distract, distort, dismay designed to create the 2Ds--distrust and doubt.

Which one of the four is this!!!!

Actually is it a subtle indication that if one has to blame others then in fact you might be actually "losing".


Donetsk Republic: Mercenaries from US, Poland, Georgia fighting for Kiev forces
May 31, 17:19 UTC+3

This fact evidences that owing to poor psychological condition of Ukraine’s servicemen, the Ukrainian leadership is making the main emphasis on foreign private military companies, Basurin said

http://tass.ru/en/world/797809


MOSCOW, May 31. /TASS/. Mercenaries from the United States, Georgia and Poland are fighting for pro-Kiev forces in the area of combat operations in the Donbass region in east Ukraine, the Defense Ministry of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) said on Sunday.

"Up to a company of personnel [from 60 to 100 men] from the Georgian volunteer battalion was spotted in the populated settlement of Verekhenetoretskoye. A company of US and Polish servicemen was deployed at the Veterok checkpoint between Gorlovka and Dzerzhinsk," DPR Defense Ministry spokesman Eduard Basurin was quoted by the Donetsk News Agency as saying.

According to the DPR’s reconnaissance, Polish military formations were spotted in Dzerzhinsk, Dimitrovka, Slavyansk, Mironovskoye, Konstantinovka and Kramatorsk. The Polish personnel’s strength is up to 1,000 servicemen.

Two companies of the Ichkeria volunteer battalion were spotted in Krasnogorovka.

A battalion with the personnel of up to 800 men was spotted in the populated settlement of Lastochkino. Most of the personnel are "representatives of the Negroid race," the DPR Defense Ministry spokesman said.

Also, two platoons of black-skin servicemen were spotted in Slavnoye.

"Volunteers from Arab countries were detected on the territory of a psychiatric hospital in Yasnobrodovka. It is not ruled out this unit may have direct relation to the Islamic State terrorist organization," Basurin said.

The arrival of 14 attack drones from Israel with special personnel was registered in the port of Odessa. According to the DPR’s data, this unit will serve in the Angrif battalion of the Ukrainian Interior Ministry, the spokesman said.

"This fact evidences that owing to low morale and poor psychological condition of Ukraine’s servicemen, the Ukrainian leadership is making the main emphasis on foreign private military companies, which may be involved in subversion activities in Donbass," Basurin said.

Thousands have been killed and hundreds of thousands of people have fled Ukraine’s embattled southeast as a result of clashes between Ukrainian troops and local militias in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions during Kiev’s military operation, launched in mid-April 2014 to regain control over parts of the breakaway territories, which call themselves the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s republics.

OUTLAW 09
05-31-2015, 04:31 PM
Russian propaganda 4Ds --dismiss, distract, distort, dismay designed to create the 2Ds--distrust and doubt.

Which one of the four is this!!!!

Actually is it a subtle indication that if one has to blame others then in fact you might be actually "losing".


Donetsk Republic: Mercenaries from US, Poland, Georgia fighting for Kiev forces
May 31, 17:19 UTC+3

This fact evidences that owing to poor psychological condition of Ukraine’s servicemen, the Ukrainian leadership is making the main emphasis on foreign private military companies, Basurin said

http://tass.ru/en/world/797809

Seems he is looking for a reason as to why the Ukrainian Army is showing a strong resilience and in reality has the mercenaries and the Russian Army boxed in.

After two weeks of intense shellings and ground attacks the Russian Army and her mercenaries have not moved forward at all.

OUTLAW 09
05-31-2015, 04:57 PM
Reference the shot down of MH17


https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2015/05/31/mh17-forensic-analysis-of-satellite-images-released-by-the-russian-ministry-of-defence/


MH17 – Forensic Analysis of Satellite Images Released by the Russian Ministry of Defence

May 31, 2015

By Bellingcat


In this new report Bellingcat examines satellite images released by the Russian Ministry of Defence as part of the July 21st 2014 press conference on the downing of Flight MH17.

The Russian MoD stated at the press conference that the satellite photos show the activities of Ukraine’s air defences on the day that Flight MH17 was shot down. In particular, the position of two Ukrainian Buk missile launchers south of the village Zaroschinskoe were shown to be within firing range of MH17. The Bellingcat investigation has found the following –

– Satellite images presented by the Russian Ministry of Defence claiming to shown Ukrainian Buks linked to the downing of MH17 on July 14th and 17th are in fact older images from June 2014.

– The discrepancies visible in the Russian MoD satellite map imagery which shows they are incorrectly dated are visible in publicly available imagery on Google Earth.

– Error level analysis of the images also reveal the images have been edited.

– This includes a Buk missile launcher that was removed to make it appear the Buk missile launcher was active on July 17th, and imagery where Buk missile launchers were added to make it appear they were within attack range of Flight MH17.

Full versions of the report are available in Russian, German, and English. Images used in this report can be found here, and here without text..

With this new report all four major claims made at the Russian Ministry of Defence press conference have now been shown to be false:

– The flight path was not altered in the way claimed by the Russian Ministry of Defence. Data from the Dutch Safety Board’s preliminary report and other sources show Flight MH17 made no major course changes such as the one described in the Russian Ministry of Defence press conference.

– The Russian Ministry of Defence claimed the video of the Buk missile launcher presented by the Ukrainian Ministry of Interior was filmed in the Ukrainian government control town of Krasnoarmeisk. This has been proven to be untrue, with analysis of the video showing it was filmed in the separatists controlled city of Luhansk.

– Radar imagery was described as showing an aircraft close to Flight MH17 after it was shot down. Experts interviewed by various media organisations have stated this is almost certainly debris from Flight MH17 as it broke up over Eastern Ukraine.

– Satellite imagery shows Ukrainian Buk activity around July 17th. As this report shows, those claims are untrue, and were based on fabricated satellite imagery.

These claims, representing the majority of information publicly presented by the Russian government since the downing of Flight MH17, are a clear attempt by the Russian government to deceive the public, global community, and the families of the Flight MH17 victims, only days after Flight MH17 was shot down.

OUTLAW 09
05-31-2015, 05:00 PM
Reference the shot down of MH17


https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2015/05/31/mh17-forensic-analysis-of-satellite-images-released-by-the-russian-ministry-of-defence/


MH17 – Forensic Analysis of Satellite Images Released by the Russian Ministry of Defence

May 31, 2015

By Bellingcat

Summary

The subjects of the Bellingcat investigation team’s forensic investigation were two of six satellite photos released by the Russian Ministry of Defense in an international press conference following the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 on 17 July 2014 in eastern Ukraine. The images were subsequently published on the MoD’s official website.

One of the pictures, Picture 5, was republished on 1 August 2014 on the official web page of the MoD as a higher-quality version called Picture 5-analytics. This image was also analyzed.

The satellite photos were presented to the public at an international press conference on 21 July 2014 and published simultaneously on the Russian MoD’s official website.

The forensic analysis conducted by the Bellingcat investigation team clearly and undoubtedly demonstrates that the dates of the satellite photos have been falsified, and that the photographs were digitally modified using Adobe Photoshop CS5 software.

OUTLAW 09
05-31-2015, 05:23 PM
Here is another one of those so called non existent Russian AD systems inside the Ukraine that the Russian MoD and the Russian FM absolutely stated "does not exist in the Ukraine".

Russia’s Pantsir-S1s Geolocated in Ukraine via @bellingcat https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/case-studies/2015/05/28/russias-pantsir-s1s-geolocated-in-ukraine/ … pic.twitter.com/lSb53nSQPK

Definitely not driven and or operated by "miners and truck drivers".

OUTLAW 09
05-31-2015, 05:53 PM
Appears that the shellings are getting more intense and ground fighting periods longer----


18:30 #Horlivka Holma @pvinogradov90f Few explosions in plant area

19:55 #Donetsk Kirovsky ds @UrriKara4en Active skirmish fr/#Pisky direction, various weapons

19:43 #Shakhtarsk @Helgi__UA 6 mil fuel trucks & 2 covered trucks fr/#Donetsk direction eastwards

#Maryinka @hyeva_maryinka
19:25 Skirmish started, also mortarsare used
19:40 It's getting more intense

Fighting near Maryinka lasts for almost 24 hours, two ATO soldiers killed
http://www.unian.info/war/1084046-fighting-near-maryinka-lasts-for-almost-24-hours-two-ato-soldiers-killed.html … pic.twitter.com/IJqsHCI4Ve

20:06 @Don_Riccio Battle near #Maryinka seems to be intense. Volleys, explosions, small arms,machine guns are heard long time

#Horlivka 8:42PM
Again noisy, sounds like incoming at Hluboka https://twitter.com/062_Region/status/605066788141969408 …

@BuTaJIu4eK Russian ground forces staging area at Rozdolne, Donetsk region, Ukraine (via @Max_Bondar 30 May) pic.twitter.com/o2NuQ8YW9Z

OUTLAW 09
05-31-2015, 08:00 PM
Appears that the shellings are getting more intense and ground fighting periods longer----


18:30 #Horlivka Holma @pvinogradov90f Few explosions in plant area

19:55 #Donetsk Kirovsky ds @UrriKara4en Active skirmish fr/#Pisky direction, various weapons

19:43 #Shakhtarsk @Helgi__UA 6 mil fuel trucks & 2 covered trucks fr/#Donetsk direction eastwards

#Maryinka @hyeva_maryinka
19:25 Skirmish started, also mortarsare used
19:40 It's getting more intense

Fighting near Maryinka lasts for almost 24 hours, two ATO soldiers killed
http://www.unian.info/war/1084046-fighting-near-maryinka-lasts-for-almost-24-hours-two-ato-soldiers-killed.html … pic.twitter.com/IJqsHCI4Ve

20:06 @Don_Riccio Battle near #Maryinka seems to be intense. Volleys, explosions, small arms,machine guns are heard long time

#Horlivka 8:42PM
Again noisy, sounds like incoming at Hluboka https://twitter.com/062_Region/status/605066788141969408 …

@BuTaJIu4eK Russian ground forces staging area at Rozdolne, Donetsk region, Ukraine (via @Max_Bondar 30 May) pic.twitter.com/o2NuQ8YW9Z

#BREAKINGNEWS
5 #Ukraine soldiers killed today by #Russia|n forces:
2 near #Slavne
2 at #Marinka
1 in #Troitske

OUTLAW 09
05-31-2015, 08:02 PM
#Volodymyrivka, #Blahodatne drone flying. https://twitter.com/solomazheka/status/605088227108765696 …

#Novorossiya's local Orthodox Slavs looking to protect their ethnic Russian heritage. pic.twitter.com/G2dxHRgVou

Watch the video: actual "Army of Russia" ration pack that lost it's GPS co-ordinates, ending up nr Mariupol #Ukraine
https://youtu.be/S0LItqCLP5o?t=14s

#Russia's army nr #Mariupol lost a "Army of Russia" ration pack
Kremlin will be silent on this

Another Russian fake debunked: DNR claimed to retrieve Nazi flags from Ukrainian tanks, used Photoshopped WWII image. pic.twitter.com/7XKFhe11g6

Meanwhile, the Luhansk separatists claim US spies among int monitors (read OSCE observers) are working for Ukrainians http://lug-info.com/news/one/sotrudniki-spetssluzhb-ssha-shpionyat-v-polzu-vsu-pod-vidom-mezhdunarodnykh-nablyudatelei-3615 …

VIDEO: People protesting against the war with Ukraine, beaten in Moscow
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xumMXulfysQ&sns=tw … pic.twitter.com/XMiBJVCW1v

#Russia's military engineering troops ID'd w/ Russian weapons, armor, inc Strela-10 SAM sys in #Donbas east #Ukraine: pic.twitter.com/gXcDjJBiUO

Russians fired yesterday evening at the church from #Zolote with 152-mm ATGM "Kornet" http://www.hromadske.tv/society/boioviki-obstrilyali-tserkvu-v-zolotomu/ …

In Severodonetsk tank fell off a Transporter platform pic.twitter.com/9zBAoVLM6y

Another Russian Spetsnaz team attack---
28th Mechanized Brigade say 4 of their men were trapped after being ambushed by DRG near Slavne (Dokuchajevs'k Dist)
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1090826557597903&id=1060798357267390&refid=17&_ft_=top_level_post_id.1090826557597903&__tn__=%2As …

Rossiya-1 "documentary" claims that during the Prague Spring Warsaw Pact troops saved Czechoslovakia from #NATO invasion

What appears to be an Italian soldier fighting with Russian fascist group #Rusich for #Novorossiya armed forces pic.twitter.com/gbjijXxj9q

OUTLAW 09
05-31-2015, 08:07 PM
Moldavia--Putin's next target-----his troops are basically "frozen" and trapped inside Transnistria.

Notice the same ramp up in "Nazi propaganda"????

Romanian Fascists striving for power in Moldova - says Russia's NTV channel.via @dacoromania https://twitter.com/dacoromania/status/604957561704579072 …

#Russia-occupied Transnistria may hold valuable clues2 Putins next steps in his Eurasian dream
http://news.nationalpost.com/full-comment/matthew-fisher-tiny-transnistria-could-hold-best-clue-to-putins-expansionist-vision … pic.twitter.com/R6WtcmOnGw

OUTLAW 09
06-01-2015, 09:15 AM
#BREAKINGNEWS
5 #Ukraine soldiers killed today by #Russia|n forces:
2 near #Slavne
2 at #Marinka
1 in #Troitske

The Ukraine has been under massive pressure by the US, Germany, and France to maintain the Minsk 2 "ceasefire" along the contact line.

BUT the Ukrainian military is now starting to take a major loss on manpower to maintain this "defensive status quo" that the West wants ALL the while getting virtually no Obama, Hollande, Merkel verbal support NOR defensive weapons in order to adequately defend itself from more tanks than all the tanks now in FIVE NATO armies COMBINED.

NO military can be asked to continue to lose manpower and YET has the ability to fight back to lower those loses.

At some point the Ukraine will need to shift to offensive defense in order to cut their loses--their civil population will --if they do not-- start to question the sanity of their senior civilian and military leadership.

The West has never even questioned statements constantly coming out of Moscow that they have "influence" over their mercenaries--WHY NOT???

#News
4 Ukrainian national guard soldiers were injured in intense Russian attacks on #Shyrokyne yesterday. - sector M command

Militants fired at Ukr forces from tank on #Artemivsk direction: near Krasny Pakhar and at control point in Zaitseve https://www.facebook.com/ato.news/posts/1006978102646329 …

#Russia's proxies shelled #Shyrokyne from 120mm mortars. 5 Azov servicemen were WIA y-day. 1 of them died in hospital http://www.0629.com.ua/news/843195

Two Ukrainian soldiers killed, one taken captive in militant attack outside Maryinka
http://www.unian.info/war/1084131-two-ukrainian-soldiers-killed-one-taken-captive-in-militant-attack-outside-maryinka.html … pic.twitter.com/rOtDGe16gX

The Telegraph reports that #Russia is preparing new cross-border assault http://uatoday.tv/politics/the-telegraph-reports-that-russia-is-preparing-new-cross-border-assault-430623.html … pic.twitter.com/Sv6I5qjkAN

From Russian media: Moscow May Deploy Nuclear Arms Anywhere in #Russia, Including Crimea http://sputniknews.com/russia/20150601/1022794128.html#ixzz3bnGCoXvT …
The Russian MFA: Russia has right to deploy nuclear weapons in Crimea

VIDEO #Putin #Russia(n) idiots in #Shyrokyne #Ukraine blow up a house for the fun of it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWWeNeZF2kI … pic.twitter.com/VDKZhSgGfE

OUTLAW 09
06-01-2015, 09:24 AM
Western media and some US political pundits have been starting a recent drumbeat that the sanctions against Russia are not working and maybe it is time to talk---supported actually but nice and gentle nudges from the Russian propaganda machine and paid PR firms mainly in the US.

But in fact the Russian economy is badly struggling--if one sat on the German Polish border and counted the number of Russian long haul trucks carrying anything that can be converted to USDs one would see an uptick of over 500% in the last four months---Russia is literally selling grandma and her bath tub if it would make USDs.

Russia is hurting regardless of what Putin and his Russian FM often state.

Frmr finmin Russia Aleksey Kudrin predicts heavy decline in Russ economy in 2nd quarter. 'The top of the crisis is still ahead', he warns
Russ ex-minfin Kudrin: average drop of Russ income might amount 7%, unprecedented under Putin's rule
Kudrin says that situation in dozens of Russian sectors is VERY alarming
Russ ex-minifin Kudrin: 4% donwfall in GDP this year, reforms urgently needed.

Russia's Deposit Insurance Agency is running out of money, looking for a loan of 110B rubles from the Central Bank http://kommersant.ru/doc/2738307

Russia is trying everything possible to "show it willingness to compromise over the Ukraine" if the sanctions can come off--if they are not hurting then why worry about them????

Haaretz: Russia reportedly pulling experts from #Syria, in bid to save itself from sanctions …

BUT in every attempt they make that is one step forward then they make 20 steps to the rear--by blacklisting 89 EU parliament members they cannot expect the sanctions to come off in June--they did themselves no favors with that decision.

More “see through Russian propaganda”---is there anything that comes out of Moscow that can in fact be either “trusted” or “believed”???????

The Russian Foreign Ministry: "black list" of European diplomats is not a political step.
EU---And what type of step is it, if not political?

Oops: Moscow thought it was doing Europeans a favor by releasing visa blacklist, says surprised by reaction http://www.interfax.ru/russia/444879#.VWwdys8c5-o.twitter …

OUTLAW 09
06-01-2015, 09:25 AM
Impressns fm #Moscow: 2 delusions: 1) every problem in Europe is really about #US vs #Russia; 2) #China will bail out RU econ & politically

Brookings Institution expert takes US administration to task over #Ukraine http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/05/a-way-forward-for-the-west-on-ukraine-and-russia-118471.html#.VWwWq2D8LIW

Why does Chechnya have such impact on Putin and Russia---check the massive money flows to it—pay off fees to it’s leader???
In Russian ---
kommersant.ru/doc/2736101
Money flow chart—
pic.twitter.com/Ua1uduHul7

OUTLAW 09
06-01-2015, 09:38 AM
Some key individuals in Europe and the Ukraine never tire of saying "the US has thrown the Ukraine under the bus" in order to get Russian support on Syria and Iran AND if one really takes a thorough and hard look at every move Obama has made that might in fact be the truth.

This Russian move in Syria is interesting as it goes to that theory--meaning "look at me Russia--I am pulling my personnel out thus I am earning from Brownie Points towards getting you to look the other way in the Ukraine.

BUT here is the big BUT that it seems Obama and his NSC does not get it.

For four long years Russia has repeatedly blocked any UNSC actions on the Syrian problem, has blocked UNSC decisions on humanitarian aid and possible no fly zones, HAS supplied Assad with the weapons and money needed to fight his opponents, has trained Assad's military AND more importantly provided aircraft and copters needed to constantly bomb Syrian civilians.

Putin is pulling out simply because the Islamists and moderate Syrians are now winning and Assad only controls 25% of the country--mainly the large cities and even Iran and Hezbollah are hurting and now limiting their support due to having to fight a two front war with IS.

NOTICE this report says nothing about Russia giving up it's Syrian naval port which it really wants to keep similar to say Kaliningrad. A Russian "island" in Syria after all the dust settles thus preserving their foothold in the Med.

SO now they indicate a "pullout" as a sign of good faith towards the coming sanctions decisions in late June.

Typical Russian non linear warfare--maintain my geo political goals ("end state")--just change the "means".

Notice in the article no linkage to getting out of Crimea or eastern Ukraine after "in theory sanctions are pulled".

Haaretz: Russia reportedly pulling experts from #Syria, in bid to save itself from sanctions …
http://www.haaretz.com/news/middle-east/1.658918

Continued……….

According to the report based on Western and Arab sources, primarily in the Gulf, Russia is consolidating its new position based on contacts with Gulf states, in an attempt to halt the economic sanctions with which it has been contending since the beginning of the Ukraine crisis.

Sources in the Syrian opposition said that Russia has evacuated 100 senior officials, including experts and strategists, through the Latakia airport. The sources said these officials including experts who had manned Assad's operations room, and that there was no plan to replace them.

According to the report, personnel at the Russian embassy in Damascus have been limited, with most employees evacuated, even as sources in the Syrian opposition say that the Kremlin has made a decision regarding the provision of equipment and parts for Syrian war planes.

It is interesting the comment on manning the Assad operations room--DOES this in fact mean Russian GRU and GRU Spetsnaz have been involved in the actual war planning and fighting in Syria???---the insurgents over ran a month or so ago a major GRU intel/SIGINT center--THAT got little to no major western media coverage on what was found in that center.

OUTLAW 09
06-01-2015, 10:10 AM
It appears that just maybe Putin "is protecting ethnic Russians in the totally wrong place" --this was his explicit reason for going into the Ukraine--to protect "ethnic Russians" and anchored in his Duma speech ie the "Putin doctrine".

Fewer than 1/3 @PaulGoble1: Ethnic Russians Now a Minority in Moscow, Consultant to Russian Force Structures Says http://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2015/05/ethnic-russians-now-minority-in-moscow.html …

Seems he is marching in the "wrong direction"?????

OUTLAW 09
06-01-2015, 10:11 AM
Western media and some US political pundits have been starting a recent drumbeat that the sanctions against Russia are not working and maybe it is time to talk---supported actually but nice and gentle nudges from the Russian propaganda machine and paid PR firms mainly in the US.

But in fact the Russian economy is badly struggling--if one sat on the German Polish border and counted the number of Russian long haul trucks carrying anything that can be converted to USDs one would see an uptick of over 500% in the last four months---Russia is literally selling grandma and her bath tub if it would make USDs.

Russia is hurting regardless of what Putin and his Russian FM often state.

Frmr finmin Russia Aleksey Kudrin predicts heavy decline in Russ economy in 2nd quarter. 'The top of the crisis is still ahead', he warns
Russ ex-minfin Kudrin: average drop of Russ income might amount 7%, unprecedented under Putin's rule
Kudrin says that situation in dozens of Russian sectors is VERY alarming
Russ ex-minifin Kudrin: 4% donwfall in GDP this year, reforms urgently needed.

Russia's Deposit Insurance Agency is running out of money, looking for a loan of 110B rubles from the Central Bank http://kommersant.ru/doc/2738307

Russia is trying everything possible to "show it willingness to compromise over the Ukraine" if the sanctions can come off--if they are not hurting then why worry about them????

Haaretz: Russia reportedly pulling experts from #Syria, in bid to save itself from sanctions …

BUT in every attempt they make that is one step forward then they make 20 steps to the rear--by blacklisting 89 EU parliament members they cannot expect the sanctions to come off in June--they did themselves no favors with that decision.

More “see through Russian propaganda”---is there anything that comes out of Moscow that can in fact be either “trusted” or “believed”???????

The Russian Foreign Ministry: "black list" of European diplomats is not a political step.
EU---And what type of step is it, if not political?

Oops: Moscow thought it was doing Europeans a favor by releasing visa blacklist, says surprised by reaction http://www.interfax.ru/russia/444879#.VWwdys8c5-o.twitter …

#imho #terrorrussia #stocks market is heading towards mother of all meltdowns in the next couple months pic.twitter.com/LfTyoiCvtO

OUTLAW 09
06-01-2015, 10:12 AM
NSDC of Ukraine ✔ @NSDC_ua
Map. Situation in eastern #Ukraine, June 1, 12:00 EET pic.twitter.com/dmyG0NBsaC

Ukraine Reports Attacks On Front-Line Crossing Points. http://www.interpretermag.com/ukraine-live-day-469-2-ukrainian-soldiers-killed-1-wounded-1-captured-during-attack-outside-marinka/#8586 …

VIDEO #Putin created DNR,DNI-Whatever "Militia" firing on #Ukraine troops in #Shyrokyne https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pIqKUyEk9Q … pic.twitter.com/oxVLHpOpf9

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bQpyMtg5_M … Ta da! GF of #Russia's neo-#Nazi #Milchakov(#Rusich unit chief)pops up in #Donetsk. #Ukraine pic.twitter.com/xuQgt802z2

This was the second reported Russian convoy entering the Ukraine from Russia but no video or photos were available—just field reporting about it.
30/05/15 A new convoy of #Russia(n) armor enter #Makeevka #Ukraine via @mak_zel
pic.twitter.com/7avvpCPooZ

OUTLAW 09
06-01-2015, 10:15 AM
Summary

The subjects of the Bellingcat investigation team’s forensic investigation were two of six satellite photos released by the Russian Ministry of Defense in an international press conference following the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 on 17 July 2014 in eastern Ukraine. The images were subsequently published on the MoD’s official website.

One of the pictures, Picture 5, was republished on 1 August 2014 on the official web page of the MoD as a higher-quality version called Picture 5-analytics. This image was also analyzed.

The satellite photos were presented to the public at an international press conference on 21 July 2014 and published simultaneously on the Russian MoD’s official website.

The forensic analysis conducted by the Bellingcat investigation team clearly and undoubtedly demonstrates that the dates of the satellite photos have been falsified, and that the photographs were digitally modified using Adobe Photoshop CS5 software.

Then this Russian "MH17 myth" was shot down also---back in 2014 as well.

Here's what the Buk Russian claimed was moved on July 17th looked like in August http://ukraineatwar.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/ukraine-destroyed-buks-that-were-at.html … pic.twitter.com/Kh07rPhLww

OUTLAW 09
06-01-2015, 10:20 AM
http://zik.ua/en/news/2015/05/31/donbas_republics_are_kremlins_creation__girkin_594 611

Donbas republics are Kremlin’s creation – Girkin

True rebels are leaving Donbas because they can see the snafu there and realize that they are fighting for the criminals-run republics, not defending the Russian World [Putin’s doctrine justifying Russia’s interference in territories populated by Russian-speaking people – Ed.], the one-time leader of Donetsk republic and FSB officer, Igor Girkin (aka Strelok) says, Izvestia reports May 31.



Bill-just as Russia is moving it AD into the Ukraine to deny Ukrainian AF the airspace the Ukraine is also "denying" the Russian use of the airspace by elegantly placing their newer Ad systems into key choke points and with their range they are outside Russian missile and artillery strikes.

Which means this will be remain largely a SF, infantry, tank and artillery war.

Ukrainian SAM SA-19 Grison in ATO zone http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/1-june-ukrainian-sam-sa19-grison-in-ato-zone … pic.twitter.com/Kc9bH07DgK via @banderenko

We the US have never had to address the failure to control A2C2 and be not able to fly SEAD missions due to totally denied airspace--even drones are being shot down in the Ukraine on both sides.

OUTLAW 09
06-01-2015, 10:50 AM
Really well worth reading-------as his observations are totally correct and do not get much mention in the general western mainstream media----

http://www.rferl.org/content/what-putin-got-wrong/27041667.html

The Power Vertical

What Putin Got Wrong

May 28, 2015


Since the Ukraine crisis erupted, Vladimir Putin has befuddled his foes with hybrid-war tactics, poisoned discourse with a sophisticated disinformation campaign, and alarmed the West with a series of provocative moves aimed at probing NATO's defenses.

The Russian president has kept his opponents off balance and on the defensive; and he's kept everybody guessing what he will do next.

But while it is seductive to think that the wily Kremlin leader is a chess master in a global arena full of checkers players, he's also gotten some important things spectacularly wrong.

And when all is said and done, Putin's costly errors may turn out to be more consequential than his little green men, armies of trolls, and slick propaganda machine.

So what did Putin get wrong?

Money Can't Buy You Love

Well, for one thing, he thought he could buy Ukraine.

The crisis began in November 2013 when Viktor Yanukovych, then Ukraine's pro-Moscow president, backed out of a landmark free-trade agreement with the European Union in favor of closer ties with Russia.

The EU deal was six years in the making and hugely popular; its abandonment enraged much of the public. Weeks later, Putin announced that Russia would invest $15 billion in Ukraine and give the country a one-third discount on gas imports.

The tactic was typical of Moscow's approach to spreading its influence: buy the elites and own the country.

In a 2012 report for Chatham House, James Greene wrote that a key part of Putin's method is to use corrupt business schemes to make elites in former Soviet states compliant. It is an extension of his strategy for controlling his own Kremlin elite.

"Putin used the carrot of corruption in conjunction with the stick of 'compromat' to establish patron-client political relationships" inside Russia, Greene wrote.

"By broadening this approach to the corrupt transnational schemes that flowed seamlessly from Russia to the rest of the former Soviet space -- and oozed beyond it -- Putin could extend his shadow influence beyond Russia's borders and develop a natural 'captured' constituency for maintaining a common Eurasian business space."

But the approach failed. While Putin succeeded in buying off Yanukovych, Ukrainian society was another matter entirely.

The aid package only served to inflame the anti-Yanukovych demonstrations that erupted in Kyiv. The protesters' message was plain and simple: We cannot be bought.

Ukraine Isn't Russia

And this led to Putin's second miscalculation. He encouraged Yanukovych to crack down on Euromaidan demonstrators, apparently assuming that the same repressive tactics Russia used at home would work in Ukraine.

But Ukraine is not Russia. Its civil society is far more developed and more assertive than Russia's. Its press is freer and its elite more pluralistic. Dissent and antigovernment protests had long been tolerated, and common. And Ukraine had scant history of using force against political demonstrations.

So when parliament passed a series of laws in January 2014 restricting freedom of speech and assembly, they had the opposite effect.

Protests in Kyiv swelled, demonstrators in western Ukrainian cities began occupying government buildings, and Yanukovych was forced to backtrack. Parliament annulled the laws and Mykola Azarov, the adamantly pro-Moscow prime minister, resigned.

Then on February 20-21 -- after Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev warned Yanukovych to stop allowing his opponents to walk all over him "like a doormat" -- Kyiv witnessed its worst violence in nearly seven decades when police again clashed with protesters.

On February 22, Yanukovych fled Ukraine for Russia shortly after signing an agreement with the opposition to end the crisis.

Putin's miscalculation, which cost him his man in Kyiv, is rooted in what appears to be a deep fear of -- and complete lack of understanding of -- civil society.

"The attempt to break up the Maidan was not just an attempt to break up something that would be a threat if it were copied and exported to Russia. It is that kind of threat. But it also poses a deeper kind of threat by representing something called civil society," Yale University professor Timothy Snyder said in a speech at the Chicago Humanities Festival last year.

Ethnic Russian Doesn't Equal Pro-Moscow

When Putin decided to intervene in Ukraine after Yanukovych fled, it appeared to be predicated on the assumption that Russian speakers and ethnic Russians would automatically back Moscow.

And while this was the case in Crimea and to some extent in Donbas, elsewhere in Ukraine the assumption was deeply flawed.

Language and ethnicity, it turned out, do not necessarily translate into political loyalty.

The Kremlin's much-hyped Novorossia project to unite Russian-speaking regions of eastern Ukraine into a single pro-Moscow separatist entity failed spectacularly.

In Russophone cities like Odesa, Mariupol, Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhya, Kharkiv, and elsewhere, the vast majority of Russian-speakers turned out to be loyal Ukrainian citizens.

Many have their complaints about Kyiv, of course. But they also prefer to be citizens of a free -- albeit imperfect -- Ukraine, rather than subjects of Vladimir Putin's autocratic kleptocracy. Democracy and human rights, it turns out, trump language and ethnicity.

Residents of Odesa have even been known to boast that theirs is the freest Russian-speaking city in the world.

Putin's flawed assumption that ethnicity is destiny cost Moscow dearly. Russia may have gained Crimea and two economically devastated exclaves in Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts -- but it has lost Ukraine, perhaps forever.

Getting Germany Wrong

In addition to getting Ukraine wrong in a number of ways, Putin also misread Russia's most important ally in Europe -- Germany.

Prior to the Ukraine crisis, Berlin was Moscow's main advocate on the continent. Germany advocated accommodating Russia's interests and resisted U.S. efforts to expand NATO to include former Soviet republics like Georgia.

Germany is also Russia's most important trading partner in Europe.

That Putin, a German speaker who spent five years as a KGB agent in Dresden, would get this country so wrong is mind-boggling. But get it wrong he did.

Somehow, Putin failed to grasp that Germans would be deeply disturbed by the first forceful change in borders in Europe since World War II. As the crisis continued, German Chancellor Angela Merkel reportedly became increasingly frustrated -- and furious -- with Putin.

As a result, Berlin was transformed from Russia's biggest advocate in Europe into one of its harshest critics.

And as Stephen Szabo, author of the book Germany, Russia And The Rise Of Geo-Economics, wrote in commentary in U.S. News & World Report, this happened despite a Herculean lobbying effort from Moscow.

Putin, Szabo wrote, "has used his extensive business and criminal network, including a number of former members of the East German secret police who worked for him when he was a KGB agent in East Germany, to foster corruption and to buy favor among German decision-makers. This effort has largely failed."

The result of this was that Western unity on sanctions ended up being far stronger than anyone expected.

So, yes, Putin has indeed managed to baffle, bewilder, and distract everybody with his hybrid war in Ukraine. But the consequences of his failures and mistakes will likely be much more enduring than his shock-and-awe tactics.
-- Brian Whitmore

OUTLAW 09
06-01-2015, 10:54 AM
It's such a relief we have the Minsk2 ceasefire...do not hear any voices of Obama, Hollande and Merkel about the constant shellings and ground attacks being in direct violation of Minsk 2.

Did hear the Russian FM state "that Russian has influence over her mercenaries" and I heard Putin state his "concern" for civilians--BUT below seems to run counter to what they are "saying"???? But what they always say is just Russian propaganda anyway and not worth listening to as they themselves do not believe what they are saying.

Some "influence and concern".

The NSDC of Ukraine reported for yesterday:
3 KIA, 4 WIA, 2 POW.

DPR commander 'Varyag' (Varangian) 1 Jun: "without #Mariupol, there is no Donetsk republic" https://vk.com/gvardiyadnr?w=wall-85052601_6639 … pic.twitter.com/n4sXYrAPSW

Note, DPR cmdr 'Varyag' makes veiled threat to DPR politicians: they will be removed from power if they don't make more territorial gains.

“DNR's" Zakharchenko threatens Minsk again, pledges to retake towns by force.
http://goo.gl/tol6ye http://twitter.com/WBStevens/status/605288714143707136/photo/ …

Ukrainian observers say Rus terrorists continue to use MLRS. Five such cases in May
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1007055645971908&id=820651001279041&refid=17 … pic.twitter.com/EMhjA6ocEu

Militants continue to use Grads - statement of JCCC http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/1-june-militants-continue-to-use-grads--statement-of-jccc … #Ukraine pic.twitter.com/z5i3U02YFE via @ukrpravda_news

#Russia|n soldiers fighting AGAINST #Putin visit RU POWs in #Ukraine hospital.Imagine reverse?https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=860125647400282&set=a.180274162052104.46006.100002085647117&type=1 … pic.twitter.com/YKCYiggiCp

Watch our multimedia presentation of Hiding in Plain Sight: Putin's War in Ukraine http://ln.is/www.youtube.com/6HJhI … via @YouTube

VIDEO #Putin created "DNR" "Militia"#Russia(n) Mercenaries from #Siberia #Shyrokyne https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zKCCIvjtCI … #Ukraine pic.twitter.com/feRP9OOsVE

OUTLAW 09
06-01-2015, 10:56 AM
Reference Russian "information conflict".

The Russian television is manageable. From morning until late at night just propaganda channels. pic.twitter.com/2CBoXkBOT7

Twitter botnet massfollowing the President of Estonia.
pic.twitter.com/iwmuiUNE5j

OUTLAW 09
06-01-2015, 11:37 AM
US “spys” working in OSCE---US, UK and Polish mercenaries to include Arabs/IS fighting for the Ukraine—“fake” Russian AF SU-24 story about the USS Ross and the fake stories just keep on rolling—
Ukrainian shellings against civilians, Ukrainian in countless violations of Minsk 2---BUT absolutely nothing about Russian violations????

They keep talking about offensive (and working on it) while blaming Ukraine for not sticking to Minsk 2 deal. Two major Russian tank, APC and truck convoy’s arrived this week from Russia and the ground attacks just keep on rolling along.

24 hrs before Minsk contact group meeting, Russian military maskirovka (deception) increases false blame on Ukraine. https://vk.com/gvardiyadnr?w=wall-85052601_6643

Cache of weapons found in #Severodonetsk https://twitter.com/StopRussia2014/status/605310603821842432 …

Chechen police arrived to #Donetsk reg. to support terrorists #Putin's in #Ukraine: http://bit.ly/1M3rnA2 #Ukraina pic.twitter.com/YAA1LsTo7d

Despite wearing "DPR" insignia, the "Republican Guard", we believe, are primarily Russian Airborne Forces (VDV) troopers and officers.

PS. Statement by DPR commander callsign 'Varyag' is transmitted by "Republican Guard DPR" which in effect is a Russian Ground Forces unit.

Russia high-ranked network trafficked weapons via Odessa & Mariupol maybe since USSR. Desperate now.

Russian-backed insurgents continue using heavy weapons in Donetsk, Mariupol direction http://24today.net/open/427781 pic.twitter.com/vM4dJacWEr

OUTLAW 09
06-01-2015, 11:39 AM
Never knew the Russian FM placed any values what so ever on “ethnics”????

Lavrov: Leakage of Russian blacklist in the media violates ethical norms http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/1-june-lavrov-leaked-russian-blacklist-in-the-media-violates … pic.twitter.com/c1Tr0VrMXF via @RT_russian

SO since it was a Russian "blacklist" then Lavrov should be asking himself WHO in his office "leaked" the document as it did not come out of western news channels at first.

OUTLAW 09
06-01-2015, 11:42 AM
Important dates-----

1st Minsk agreement "relatively" hold 05.09.2014 - 08.01.2015 - 126 days

2nd agreement for now 110 days (since 12 Feb) or 100 days since fall of Debaltseve(21.02)

So depending on the 12 Feb or 21 Feb dates were are X number of days away from another "total Minks failure".

THEN the EU Russian sanctions decision on 26 Jun--if it extends the sanctions as is being pushed by Germany --- expect then a general mercenary/Russian troop offensive to begin shortly after 26 June.

OUTLAW 09
06-01-2015, 03:44 PM
Just what the blooming heck is the Russian FM talking about—he has now gone formally over the cliff of reality and has entered somewhere else but not in the realm of reality.

#Lavrov: When they seized power and said that Russians must be driven from Crimea because they wouldn’t praise Bandera, the EU kept silent

#Lavrov & @mfa_russia went full-retard:

MFA Russia ✔ @mfa_russia
#Lavrov: Everything depends on our partners and their ability not to hide the truth and not to pretend that they don’t know what’s going on

MFA Russia ✔ @mfa_russia
#Lavrov: This opened the door to the coup, which was driven by ultra-nationalists, including those who used Nazi symbols

MFA Russia ✔ @mfa_russia
#Lavrov: That agreement was trampled the very next day, and no one in the EU, including those ministers, said a word in its defence

MFA Russia ✔ @mfa_russia
#Lavrov: The EU did not honour the agreement signed by three #EU foreign ministers on February 21, 2014

#Russia caught faking #MH17 satellite images is one reason @mfa_russia has gone into meltdown today, quoting #Lavrov https://twitter.com/CNBCWorld/status/605372381788573696 …

OUTLAW 09
06-01-2015, 03:48 PM
Russian shellings have started earlier than normal today--nothing yet from Obama, Hollande and Merkel concenring increased Russian shellings and ground attacks all in violation of Minsk 2.

16:45 #Donetsk @funkermanjke Since 16:30 volleys started fr/Metro/airport dir'n, 'orcs arn't accurate, started at 4pm usu.'

#Donetsk 16:55PM
#Pisky-#Avdiivka heard explosions. Shoot at them like from Ekonomicheskiy, Putilovka, Yasinovataya https://twitter.com/PVB40/status/6

#Donetsk 5:14PM
Putilovka - sounds like both outgoing and incoming fire https://twitter.com/jackson_villi/status/605376828392513536 …

#Donetsk 17:02
Airport - skirmish. https://twitter.com/idinmor/status/605373775652208641 …

#Avdivka 17:20
Hearing rumble from #Spartak https://twitter.com/GirkinGirkin/status/605379375211679745 …

#Avdiivka 5:23PM
It sounds like the evening fun has started. Incoming fire in #Optyne-#Spartak area. https://twitter.com/bamr69/status/605379215530323970 …

Today in Shyrokyne, after a quiet morning, at 1pm Rus forces resumed shelling with 120-mm mortars - Sector "M" spox
http://www.5.ua/ato-na-shodi/Boiovyky-obstrilialy-selyshche-Shyrokyne-82386.html …

OUTLAW 09
06-01-2015, 03:52 PM
Remember when the Russians "claimed their SU-24s" drove the USS Ross out of their territorial waters.--even made their mass propaganda press release media outlet RIA.

Now the "truth"--notice not a single comment out of Russia about the "incident" they claimed occurred.

USSRoss continued to conduct routine ops. Ross on routine patrol conducting naval ops with allies & partners in #BlackSea.

Video of USS Ross interaction with Russian aircraft in the Black Sea pic.twitter.com/fHxYOrDrQH http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/1-june-video-of-uss-ross-interaction-with-russian-aircraft … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jno04l

Russian "story"
Russia’s state-run media agency RIA Novosti reported Saturday that the country’s navy scrambled Su-24 fighter jets when the American guided-missile destroyer USS Ross allegedly approached Russian territorial waters after departing port in Romania. It quoted an unnamed source as saying the ship’s crew was acting “provocatively and aggressively.”

According to the report, the ship changed course after detecting the aircraft.

US Naval truth
U.S. Naval Forces Europe-Africa denied that account in its statement, saying the ship was operating in international waters and never altered operations. The release said the ship observed the Su-24 aircraft in routine operations but did not interact with them and that ship crewmembers acted professionally.

Ross' Sailors observed that the SU 24 carried no weapons - wings were "clean."

OUTLAW 09
06-01-2015, 04:24 PM
A woman from the country of Georgia fighting for #Ukraine. Photo: Noah Brooks #Shyrokyne #Mariupol @Polk_Azov pic.twitter.com/KHZCLQrknR

#Donetsk became e. #Ukraine's lawless city, in-which marauding 'militias' spread terror & fearhttp://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2015/05/17/donetsk-ukraine-separatists-marauding-militias/27190647/ … pic.twitter.com/idlLofnzn0

Colonel of RF Internal Troops vacationing in Rostov was murdered when visiting a stranger https://goo.gl/ozyBRh https://twitter.com/podrobnosti/status/605392823425355776 …

OUTLAW 09
06-01-2015, 04:25 PM
Col-Gen Shamanov: Russian VDV ready to act "anywhere in the world... we don't need a visa, we need only the order of the Supreme Commander".

Source: http://www.military-informant.com/interviews/9065-shamanov-riski-vtyagivaniya-rossii-v-vojnu-vozrastayut.html … and ENG auto-translation https://translate.google.ie/translate?sl=ru&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.military-informant.com%2Finterviews%2F9065-shamanov-riski-vtyagivaniya-rossii-v-vojnu-vozrastayut.html&edit-text= …

OUTLAW 09
06-01-2015, 04:33 PM
Just a side comment--the Azov BN is an interesting development in the Ukraine--it began as a "volunteer unit" with limited weapons and little to no military experience or training and has developed into a rather elite fighting force which has been at the fore front of all the serious fighting and is feared by the Russian mercenaries--lately they have resisted massive shelling after shelling and have repealed ground attack after ground attack inflicting a high loss rate among Russian mercenaries.

In some ways it is copying the US Ranger concepts in their recruitment and recruit training and have an espirit de corp rivaled even by US military units.

A former Swedish elite sniper is behind their basic recruit training.

If we look at say the lack of fighting abilities by the US trained Iraq Army --that does not fight for flag and country--Azov fights for flag and country and that alone has made the difference.

http://khpg.org/index.php?id=1433162736

‘Azov Battalion’ Show Trial brewing in Russian-occupied Crimea

01.06.15 | Halya Coynash


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Foul anti-Semitic graffiti that appeared within 24 hours of Russian soldiers seizing control in Simferopol. The emblem on the right is a mirror image of that normally used by Ukrainian nationalists

Exactly one month after the arrest in Crimea was reported of an alleged member of the ‘Azov’ Battalion, the man remains unnamed, but the list of his supposed offences now includes an attack on a synagogue and on a mosque, as well as on the prosecutor’s office. Let’s hope the court learns his name since, according to Crimean Prosecutor Natalya Poklonskaya, this Mr ‘Azov fighter’ is facing a life sentence.

The Azov Battalion has received a great deal of attention and negative comment over the last year due to the pronounced neo-Nazi views of at least some of its leaders, and its use of an inverted Wolfsangel. This is presumably why it seems to have replaced ‘Right Sector’ as the target for dubious prosecutions in Crimea under Russian occupation. Poklonskaya announced on May 29, for example, that criminal proceedings had been brought against Stanislav Krasnov whom she called a member of the “punitive Azov battalion”. Krasnov is in fact the commander of the ‘Crimea’ battalion, and was on Maidan with Oleksandr Kostenko. The latter was recently sentenced by a Crimean court to 4 years imprisonment over an alleged and unproven injury to a Berkut officer in Kyiv before Russia invaded and annexed Crimea. Poklonskaya’s claim that Kostenko ‘confessed’ and gave testimony against Krasnov is almost certainly false.

None of these inaccuracies make the claims regarding the person allegedly arrested on May 1 any more credible. The Azov Battalion immediately denied that any of its fighters had been detained in Crimea. It added that it does not fight civilians, nor does it have any branches or units in Crimea.

This would surely have been the moment for the Prosecutor or Russian Centre for Countering Extremism to produce evidence and, at very least, name the man. Instead only further accusations have been made and the assertion that a life sentence is envisaged.

Tragically, it seems likely that some individual is being held incommunicado and under the total control of ‘investigators’ whose task will be to extract ‘confessions’.

The man was initially accused of an arson attack on a Simferopol mosque on June 13 and an attempted terrorist attack on the prosecutor’s office in August 2014 when a bag with explosives was found outside the building.

Then on May 19, the deputy prime minister of the de facto government Ruslan Balbek claimed that this same unnamed individual had been planning provocation around the anniversary of the Deportation of the Crimean Tatar People on May 18. Balbek said then that the arrested man “has already confessed that he came here to organize provocation around May 18 in order to arouse a wave of disgruntlement among Crimean Tatars so that the world community received a ‘picture’ of how the Crimean Tatar people are suffering here.”

Mr ‘Azov fighter’, according to the Crimean prosecutor and Centre for Fighting Extremism, certainly gets around. As well as finding time to fight in eastern Ukraine, and on top of charges linked with June and August 2014, and May 2015, he now appears to be accused of desecrating the Simferopol synagogue back in February 2014, the day after Russian soldiers seized control.

Anatoly Gendin, head of the Crimean Association of Jewish Communities and Organizations has been informed that the Crimean prosecutor has appealed against the termination of the criminal investigation into the desecration of the Ner Tamid Synagogue and sent it for additional investigation. Gendin was told that a 20-year-old, arrested a month ago, is now suspected of the offence. Although he has also not been told the man’s name, the same person is allegedly an Azov fighter and is suspected of the above-mentioned arson attack and alleged terrorist plan. Vyacheslav Likhachev, researcher and long-time monitor of xenophobia and anti-Semitism, notes drily that the man would seem to have first desecrated the synagogue, set fire to the mosque and attempted a terrorist attack before, at the earliest in August last year, joining up with Azov and fighting, in order to then arrive back in Spring to await arrest.

The Ner Tamid Synagogue was desecrated during the early hours of Feb 28, with the words ‘death to Jews’ (an offensive word is used) daubed in red paint on the door, as well as a swastika and a wolf’s hook. Likhachev notes that the image of the Wolfsangel was the mirror image of that used by Ukrainian nationalists such as those in the Azov battalion (who say that it represents ‘I’ and ‘N’ - Idea of the Nation). He points out that the anti-Semitic vandalism was actively used to discredit ‘Ukrainian nationalists’ with the term used to describe anybody asserted Ukrainian territorial integrity and therefore opposing Russia’s invasion and annexation of Crimea. In fact, however, the synagogue was desecrated within 24 hours of the seizure of control by Russian soldiers, at a time when to his knowledge, there were no organized Ukrainian radical nationalists active in Simferopol.

The attack on the Chukurcha-Dzhami Mosque, when three Molotov cocktails were thrown at the building was recorded by a surveillance camera. The same assailant was probably responsible for a swastika daubed on the fence nearby, with the date 13.06.2014 and letters NS/WP (the letters for national socialism, white power).

Worth noting that there have been a number of attacks on mosques over the last year, as well as cases of desecration of Crimean Tatar monuments. There is no evidence at all of the authorities trying to either stop them or properly investigate.

Likhachev is surely correct in pointing out the clear parallel to the situation last year when four opponents of Russia’s annexation were arrested and charged with a ‘Right Sector terrorist plot’. They included renowned film director Oleg Sentsov and left-wing civic activist Oleksandr Kolchenko who both asserted they were tortured to force ‘confessions’. Unlike the other two men – Gennady Afanasyev and Oleksy Chirniy – Sentsov and Kolchenko have continued to deny the charges and are now facing sentences of up to 20 years imprisonment.

There are serious grounds for fearing that a young man is being held in custody and being tortured into ‘confessing’ to various anti-Semitic and anti-Muslim offences in order to come up with a show trial, with ‘Ukrainian nationalists’ and especially the Azov battalion as the alleged villains.

OUTLAW 09
06-01-2015, 04:37 PM
Reference Russian Spetsnaz units in the Ukraine----


#Kremlin's"Hunting":#Russia|n special service in #Donbas:Eliminate"rebel commanders":http://bit.ly/1eLlqMV pic.twitter.com/KptPdIX9sx

In the interview video of the captured Spetsnaz CPT--one of his mission sets was the surveillance of what he referred to as the "resistance".

OUTLAW 09
06-01-2015, 04:39 PM
A good video on Putin's mind set from RFE/RL.

RFE/RL ✔ @RFERL
"Vladimir Putin's objectives in Ukraine have always been contradictory" -- @PowerVertical http://bit.ly/1JjePoq
http://www.rferl.org/content/daily-vertical-stalemate-inside-putins-head/27047190.html

OUTLAW 09
06-01-2015, 05:21 PM
Russian shellings have started earlier than normal today--nothing yet from Obama, Hollande and Merkel concenring increased Russian shellings and ground attacks all in violation of Minsk 2.

16:45 #Donetsk @funkermanjke Since 16:30 volleys started fr/Metro/airport dir'n, 'orcs arn't accurate, started at 4pm usu.'

#Donetsk 16:55PM
#Pisky-#Avdiivka heard explosions. Shoot at them like from Ekonomicheskiy, Putilovka, Yasinovataya https://twitter.com/PVB40/status/6

#Donetsk 5:14PM
Putilovka - sounds like both outgoing and incoming fire https://twitter.com/jackson_villi/status/605376828392513536 …

#Donetsk 17:02
Airport - skirmish. https://twitter.com/idinmor/status/605373775652208641 …

#Avdivka 17:20
Hearing rumble from #Spartak https://twitter.com/GirkinGirkin/status/605379375211679745 …

#Avdiivka 5:23PM
It sounds like the evening fun has started. Incoming fire in #Optyne-#Spartak area. https://twitter.com/bamr69/status/605379215530323970 …

Today in Shyrokyne, after a quiet morning, at 1pm Rus forces resumed shelling with 120-mm mortars - Sector "M" spox
http://www.5.ua/ato-na-shodi/Boiovyky-obstrilialy-selyshche-Shyrokyne-82386.html …

7:24PM
Krasnyi Pahar - terrible explosions! https://twitter.com/BylByleva/status/605409649458868224

7:21PM
Krasnyi Pahar very loud! House trembles in blast waves. https://twitter.com/old_dn/status/605408853363163137 …

#Donetsk outgoing artillery fire can be heard in many districts now, and some incoming too

#Donetsk 7:13PM
Kirovskyi district - shooting https://twitter.com/ADivinorum/sta

#Marinka 19:25 quiet.
Hearing powerful rumble from #Donetsk. https://twitter.com/hyeva_maryinka/status/605410747666046976 …

OSCE Witnesses Heavy Fighting Near Donetsk, In Shirokino. Another OSCE Drone Jammed http://bit.ly/1Jey3Nq pic.twitter.com/HyIonmb0UX

#BreakingNews
Multiple reports of heavy trade of artillery and tank fire between Pisky, Opytne, Spartak and Donetsk.
Another Russian attack.

Many reports of shelling #Donetsk fr/locations around Donetsk and within it, also intense shelling of Spartak-Opytne area

Seems like there is heavy fighting in many districts of #Donetsk right now, mortars, tank and heavy MG fire. Black smoke over Tochmash plant

#Donetsk 8:16PM
Black smoke in Tochmash plant area https://twitter.com/brigida_ta/status/605422566442979328 …

#Donetsk 8:07PM
Putilovka - hearing incoming https://twitter.com/brigida_ta/status/605420348981542913 …

#Donetsk 8:20PM
In Putilovka-#Spartak area serious battle, incoming-outgoing, machine guns. https://twitter.com/98760333/status/605423805222121472 …

#Donetsk 8:03PM
Hearing explosions and salvos, Kirovskyi district https://twitter.com/ropogckou/status/605419513555894273 …

#Donetsk 20:00
The heavy guns joined from Tochmash, similar to the mortars from Putilovka bridge https://twitter.com/UkraineSuper1/status/605419723828920320 …

#Donetsk 20:05
#Spartak-#Optyne area tank attack/battle, salvos-direct-fire. Artillery shelling fr Tochmash/airport https://twitter.com/nixer79/status/605421214367137795 …

19:34
15 Min ago there were incoming at #Pobeda. Dropped at the stadium and near the stalls. https://twitter.com/666_mancer/status/605417951211204608 …

OUTLAW 09
06-01-2015, 05:44 PM
http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/natosource/nato-countering-strategic-maskirovka

June 1, 2015

NATO: Countering Strategic Maskirovka

By Julian Lindley-French, Canadian Defense and Foreign Affairs Institute

What must NATO do to counter President Putin? Maskirovka is the traditional Russian use of military deception and Russia's seizure of Ukraine-Crimea and incursion into eastern Ukraine is just the beginning of a new multi-dimensional Russian challenge to NATO and the West. Moscow has established a new level of ambition – strategic Maskirovka – by which disinformation is applied against all levels of NATO's command chain and wider public opinion to keep the West politically and militarily off-balance.


First, NATO's strongest military powers must demonstrate the will and the capacity to meet the Russian challenge. Second, NATO, an alliance of democracies, must re-establish itself at the core of a world-wide web of secure, mutually-reinforcing democracies anchored on the United States. Third, defence expenditure of all the NATO allies must move towards 2% GDP and quickly. Fourth, the Alliance must mean what it says. Strategic unity of effort and purpose is key to deterring Russia. Fifth, Europeans must take the lead in efforts to convince President Putin that Russia has nothing to gain from such an aggressive strategy.

President Putin is an opportunist. He believes that the West is decadent and declining and that his use of strategic Maskirovka can keep the Allies sufficiently divided and politically offbalance to enable him to achieve his primary strategic objective: the creation of a new Russiancentric sphere of influence around Russia's borders and the ending of 'frozen conflicts' in Eastern Europe and Central Asia in Russia's favour. Putin also believes that whatever weapons systems NATO has at its disposal, Europeans are so weak and divided that little or no military action will ever be taken against him. Putin may be right and his gamble (for that is what it is) could pay off if the Alliance does not stand firm and act together....

OUTLAW 09
06-01-2015, 06:34 PM
7:24PM
Krasnyi Pahar - terrible explosions! https://twitter.com/BylByleva/status/605409649458868224

7:21PM
Krasnyi Pahar very loud! House trembles in blast waves. https://twitter.com/old_dn/status/605408853363163137 …

#Donetsk outgoing artillery fire can be heard in many districts now, and some incoming too

#Donetsk 7:13PM
Kirovskyi district - shooting https://twitter.com/ADivinorum/sta

#Marinka 19:25 quiet.
Hearing powerful rumble from #Donetsk. https://twitter.com/hyeva_maryinka/status/605410747666046976 …

OSCE Witnesses Heavy Fighting Near Donetsk, In Shirokino. Another OSCE Drone Jammed http://bit.ly/1Jey3Nq pic.twitter.com/HyIonmb0UX

#BreakingNews
Multiple reports of heavy trade of artillery and tank fire between Pisky, Opytne, Spartak and Donetsk.
Another Russian attack.

Many reports of shelling #Donetsk fr/locations around Donetsk and within it, also intense shelling of Spartak-Opytne area

Seems like there is heavy fighting in many districts of #Donetsk right now, mortars, tank and heavy MG fire. Black smoke over Tochmash plant

#Donetsk 8:16PM
Black smoke in Tochmash plant area https://twitter.com/brigida_ta/status/605422566442979328 …

#Donetsk 8:07PM
Putilovka - hearing incoming https://twitter.com/brigida_ta/status/605420348981542913 …

#Donetsk 8:20PM
In Putilovka-#Spartak area serious battle, incoming-outgoing, machine guns. https://twitter.com/98760333/status/605423805222121472 …

#Donetsk 8:03PM
Hearing explosions and salvos, Kirovskyi district https://twitter.com/ropogckou/status/605419513555894273 …

#Donetsk 20:00
The heavy guns joined from Tochmash, similar to the mortars from Putilovka bridge https://twitter.com/UkraineSuper1/status/605419723828920320 …

#Donetsk 20:05
#Spartak-#Optyne area tank attack/battle, salvos-direct-fire. Artillery shelling fr Tochmash/airport https://twitter.com/nixer79/status/605421214367137795 …

19:34
15 Min ago there were incoming at #Pobeda. Dropped at the stadium and near the stalls. https://twitter.com/666_mancer/status/605417951211204608 …


#Donetsk 8:45PM
Now shooting in the area of #Spartak / airport https://twitter.com/skolyada/status/605429870190075904 …

19:01 #Luhansk @Edward_Lugansk At 18:30 there were distant massive rumbles, it is less 'green men' in the city today

The #Ukraine City #Vuhlehirsk today, destroyed by #Russia|n artillery
pic.twitter.com/CV0PGSnd9A

#Mariupol once again can hear heavy rumble in the city center. Direction north-east. Outgoing from #Novoazovsk reported.

#Mariupol @sir_T_Lawrence Incoming at #Shyrokyne are heard,no fire in reply yet

#Avdiivka 20:10
Normal batch, automatic guns, grenades and men shouting can be heard from the sports shop area https://twitter.com/audrius1977/status/605429157615542272 …

20:04 #Makeevka Gvardeyka @vuiko65 Heavy volleys heard (position unclear), smoke over Putilovka, something on fire there

OUTLAW 09
06-01-2015, 06:35 PM
Former Adm. Jansson: Russians "preparing to put nuclear mines in Swedish locations likely to host NATO naval units"

http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/natosource/foreign-incursions-into-swedish-territorial-waters-expose-stockholm-s-military-shortcomings …

OUTLAW 09
06-01-2015, 06:39 PM
Just a side comment--the Azov BN is an interesting development in the Ukraine--it began as a "volunteer unit" with limited weapons and little to no military experience or training and has developed into a rather elite fighting force which has been at the fore front of all the serious fighting and is feared by the Russian mercenaries--lately they have resisted massive shelling after shelling and have repealed ground attack after ground attack inflicting a high loss rate among Russian mercenaries.

In some ways it is copying the US Ranger concepts in their recruitment and recruit training and have an espirit de corp rivaled even by US military units.

A former Swedish elite sniper is behind their basic recruit training.

If we look at say the lack of fighting abilities by the US trained Iraq Army --that does not fight for flag and country--Azov fights for flag and country and that alone has made the difference.

http://khpg.org/index.php?id=1433162736

‘Azov Battalion’ Show Trial brewing in Russian-occupied Crimea

01.06.15 | Halya Coynash


As a result of his injuries a warfighter from AZOV died today @Polk_Azov pic.twitter.com/Be35aMG8Hn

The photo of this killed Azov fighter reflects their deep unit pride not seen in other Ukrainian BNs above it all they constantly stress they are Ukrainians fighting for the Ukraine.

OUTLAW 09
06-01-2015, 06:42 PM
Reference the shot down of MH17----

Russian propaganda 4Ds dismiss, distract, distort, dismay --designed to create 2Ds ---distrust, doubt and this article is again which one?

Russia's propaganda apparatus uses a discredited blogger from Russia's MoD to repeat alleged libel. Disturbing. https://twitter.com/EliotHiggins/status/605415659384762369 …


http://sputniknews.com/europe/20150601/1022820260.html

MH17 – Forensic Analysis of Satellite Images Bellingcat
Exposed: Russian Blogger Cuts British Online Investigators Down to Size

Europe
18:55 01.06.2015(updated 19:20 01.06.2015)


A well-known Russian blogger has debunked the so-called forensic analysis by British online investigative group Bellingcat of satellite photos of the downed MH17 flight released by the Russian Ministry of Defense.

Russian blogger 'ntv' uncovered a number of obvious logical errors, exposing the incompetence of the amateur sleuths who accused the Russian Ministry of Defense of falsifying the imagery, based on irrelevant and insufficient evidence.

For example, in their eagerness to find a 'smoking gun', the investigators jumped at the revelation that the photos were digitally modified using Adobe Photoshop CS5 software.

The blogger however explains that the use of Adobe Photoshop CS5 software is the standard method for changing the size of the pictures and the ministry obviously used it for this very purpose and not, in fact, to modify the actual imagery.

Russian blogger 'ntv' uncovered a number of obvious logical errors, exposing the incompetence of the amateur sleuths who accused the Russian Ministry of Defense of falsifying the imagery, based on irrelevant and insufficient evidence.

Russian blogger 'ntv' uncovered a number of obvious logical errors, exposing the incompetence of the amateur sleuths who accused the Russian Ministry of Defense of falsifying the imagery, based on irrelevant and insufficient evidence.

The blogger went even further and uploaded a random photo from the Bellingcat website onto the website used by the group for analysis, only to find out that it had also been artfully edited in Adobe Photoshop.

The blogger also debunks the Error Level Analysis (ELA) of the imagery that Bellingcat claimed was so significant.

The ELA for Picture 4 shows five areas with significantly different error levels

ELA identifies areas within an image that are set to different compression levels. With JPEG images, the entire picture should be at roughly the same level. If a section of the image is at a significantly different error level, then it likely indicates a digital modification.

The investigators claim they revealed five areas with significantly different error levels which clearly indicated a digital modification. The blogger however proves that this type of analysis is also insufficient by analyzing knowingly unedited photos yet finding the exact same result.


The blogger however proves that this type of analysis is also insufficient by analyzing knowingly unedited photos yet finding the exact same result.

The blogger however proves that this type of analysis is also insufficient by analyzing knowingly unedited photos yet finding the exact same result.

The blogger goes further and rips into Bellingcat's argument based on the chronology of the photos, and in so doing finds it harder and harder to hide his disbelief at the crude level of incompetence contained in the Bellingcat report.

And now it is worth mentioning looking at Bellingcat itself in a little more detail.

The blogger goes further and rips into Bellingcat's argument based on the chronology of the photos, and in so doing finds it harder and harder to hide his disbelief at the crude level of incompetence contained in the Bellingcat report.

The blogger goes further and rips into Bellingcat's argument based on the chronology of the photos, and in so doing finds it harder and harder to hide his disbelief at the crude level of incompetence contained in the Bellingcat report.

Bellingcat was started on 15th July 2014, funded by a Kickstarter campaign, just 2 days before the MH17 tragedy by British journalist and blogger Eliot Higgins, also known as Brown Moses.

In the blogger community he is well-known “for having, through incompetence or design, passed on, passed off, incorrect MH17 information”, according to The Truth Speaker website.

The blogger, the website claims, “has a long track record for selling his 'citizen journalist reports' to anyone willing to pay.”

Back in 2013, before the war in Donbass, Eliot was covering the war in Syria, despite either speaking the language, or ever having been there, as is the case with Ukraine/Donbass.

The website notes that he covered Syria, and covers Donbass as a ‘citizen blogger’, analyzing video evidence, despite admitting to having no expertise in the sphere: "before the Arab spring I knew no more about weapons than the average Xbox owner. I had no knowledge beyond what I’d learned from Arnold Schwarzenegger and Rambo," Higgins apparently claimed.

NOTICE--bellingcat and Atlantic Council made a clear decision to release the analysis of the fake Russian MoD satellite photos in Russian.

At first the Russian propaganda machine did not respond to their analysis but when the Russian report made it back into Russia --THEN Russian counter propaganda kicked in.

Google Earth trick proves Russia lied about the passenger plane shot down in eastern Ukraine http://buff.ly/1KygdSG pic.twitter.com/iPlyoGx5aO

MANTRA from Russian trolls--the work was not checked by any experts---response--Jane's checked every piece of analysis that was conducted.

OUTLAW 09
06-01-2015, 06:50 PM
Reference the shot down of MH17----

Russian propaganda 4Ds dismiss, distract, distort, dismay --designed to create 2Ds ---distrust, doubt and this article is again which one?

Russia's propaganda apparatus uses a discredited blogger from Russia's MoD to repeat alleged libel. Disturbing. https://twitter.com/EliotHiggins/status/605415659384762369 …


http://sputniknews.com/europe/20150601/1022820260.html

MH17 – Forensic Analysis of Satellite Images Bellingcat
Exposed: Russian Blogger Cuts British Online Investigators Down to Size

Europe
18:55 01.06.2015(updated 19:20 01.06.2015)



NOTICE--bellingcat and Atlantic Council made a clear decision to release the analysis of the fake Russian MoD satellite photos in Russian.

At first the Russian propaganda machine did not respond to their analysis but when the Russian report made it back into Russia --THEN Russian counter propaganda kicked in.

Google Earth trick proves Russia lied about the passenger plane shot down in eastern Ukraine http://buff.ly/1KygdSG pic.twitter.com/iPlyoGx5aO

MANTRA from Russian trolls--the work was not checked by any experts---response--Jane's checked every piece of analysis that was conducted.

bellingcat challenge to the Russian MoD-----

We'll be shortly be starting a crowdfunding campaign to buy sat imagery from July 17th of the site Russia faked imagery of. #MH17

Maybe the Russian MoD should have let dead cats lay----once the original sat photos are available wonder what the next defense will be.

The sat photos will cost 1200 USD and a crowd funding request went out to social media--response----

bellingcat @bellingcat

Past the halfway mark already after just 20 minutes, thanks all for your help! http://www.gofundme.com/bellingcatsat

OUTLAW 09
06-01-2015, 06:53 PM
One of the best social media open source analysis of the Russian troll campaign directed against the West in the ongoing Russian informational warfare.

#Social #Network Analysis Reveals Scale of #Kremlin's #Twitter #Bot Campaign.by @LawrenceA_UK|https://globalvoicesonline.org/2015/04/02/analyzing-kremlin-twitter-bots/ … pic.twitter.com/u2t2kthfL7

OUTLAW 09
06-01-2015, 07:35 PM
Footage
#Donetsk this evening. Shelling, smoke and explosions in the - of course: #Western - distance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeeIAVHQe-g …

#Donetsk resident abt fighting in city right now:"One of the most furious battles in the northwest I heard since winter assault" - @loogunda

Artillery hits a house in Donetsk. LifeNews journos are the first to visit the accident. Coincidence? https://twitter.com/Frm_dn_ua/status/605450744075055104 …

On eve of 2 June Minsk contact group/subgroup talks, this happens: Russian self-shelling to pin blame on Ukraine... https://twitter.com/loogunda/status/605453911856521216 …

#Donetsk. Tank battle in #Spartak-#Opytne area, intense shelling in #Pisky direction, outgoing vollyes can be heard in the centre of city.

Heavy continuous artillery shelling on #Pisky and #Avdeevka the entire evening. Heavy outgoing coming from #Donetsk

Shelling in #Donetsk , #Horlivka, #Avdiivka, #Pisky, #Opytne, #Makiivka, #Shyrokyne and #Novhorodske tonight. pic.twitter.com/FQE3fnOhrw

21:14 #Novhorodske @LeeZernoganja Intense battle at #Hlyboka-#Stakhanivska line for a long time

#Horlivka 10:01PM
Hluboka - LOUD https://twitter.com/xy_gorlov4an/status/605449065090977793 …

OUTLAW 09
06-01-2015, 07:38 PM
#Putin trolls trying to hide proof of #Russia troops in #Ukraine. Video of new convoy deleted https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwHdc1U9RKg … pic.twitter.com/goV8wPmotk

So YouTube plays the Russian troll game--when does a Russian military convoy fulfill the following from YouTube????

This video has been removed as a violation of YouTube's policy against spam, scams, and commercially deceptive content.

Guess Russian troops who are in the military and yet on vacation in the Ukraine could in fact be called a scram or commercially deceptive???

No registration plates, BTR-60 junk, Msta-B
The #RussianArmy goes on vacation in #Ukraine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-Wi_hSEKtM … pic.twitter.com/dzlMKA1C4a

Watch this video get deleted as well.

Dishonesty
06-01-2015, 11:23 PM
Freedom of Navigation in action!

In February 1988, USS Yorktown, entered the Soviet Union's 12 mile (22.2 km) territorial waters limit in the Black Sea off the Crimean Peninsula without permission. Under established international law, this act was permissible if the transiting foreign ship is progressing from one point in international waters to another point in international waters via the shortest course possible. The Soviet Union had however claimed the right to authorize or prohibit travel in selected areas within the 12 mile limit. The United States did not recognize the Soviet claim. To prevent it from becoming accepted precedent, the US Navy had sailed warships through such areas at regular intervals in the past.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0w9WJRiSFM

Interesting proportion size USN and Soviet ships.

OUTLAW 09
06-02-2015, 04:41 AM
VIDEO by ALJAZEERA #Russia Military Vehicles spotted near #Ukraine border https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbzFgiIv3r4 … pic.twitter.com/xGmaynJ89A

#Footage
Russian army T-72B1 has some problems in occupied #Donbas.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKsWMJCuR4g …

#Donetk 3:57AM
Mines falling on #Spartak, or further. https://twitter.com/idinmor/status/605538726576570369 …

UN Officials Interview Russian Soldiers Invading Ukraine http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN0OH2SK20150601?irpc=932 … pic.twitter.com/pK4b8el3kF

#Russia/s Neo-#Nazi Network > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3hCXPB5ffs … reason why Russian #propaganda claims "nazi threat" from west?

#Ukraine's ongoing revolution sees the rise of civil society, institutions http://tmt-go.ru/522826 via @MoscowTimes pic.twitter.com/SM36dCjFbf

VIDEO: Russian soldier fights on Ukraine's side.
"What the Russian media says should not be taken seriously. It... http://fb.me/1I05yksn1

#Russia's MoD spares no expense in protecting #Putin's media stooges in #Ukraine— they get armed escort 2gather intel pic.twitter.com/2w4j1PmOYE

OUTLAW 09
06-02-2015, 09:56 AM
Social media open source analyst @finriswolf has been pulling together all of the new Russian munition dumps and heavy weapons parks that have sprung up in eastern Ukraine over the last two months or so--where previously the parks were empty.

And he has only reviewed 1/3 of the available sat imagery.

Well so much for Russian "non support to her mercenaries and there is no coming general offensive"!!

#Ukraine There are probably 30-40 sites in #Luhansk with kilometer after kilometer of ammo boxes in the open air pic.twitter.com/QIfsQiqRhH

#Ukraine More "rebel" "captured" equipment jam packed all over #Luhansk http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=48.537794&lon=39.356391&z=18&m=b&v=1 … pic.twitter.com/KTzRIdsgff

#Ukraine "rebels" with more 'found' armored vehicles in #Luhansk http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=48.527214&lon=39.361385&z=18&m=b&v=1 … pic.twitter.com/81YcIcN5oB

Ukraine "rebels" with so much ammo/kit they have to pack it in all over #Luhansk airbase http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=48.527349&lon=39.375531&z=18&m=b&v=1 … pic.twitter.com/aSsZwZsDdK

#Ukraine : "Rebel" base in #Luhansk was empty short time ago now jam packed with kit and ammo http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=48.522277&lon=39.375161&z=18&m=b&v=1 … pic.twitter.com/nujqkaizjh

#Ukraine : Unpublished #Luhansk "rebel" base packed with ammo boxes & vehicles that were not there a few months ago pic.twitter.com/mnBlvwD9vt

#Ukraine #Luhansk "Rebels" must have 'captured' 3 complete armored battalions over last couple weeks. Let's take a look at 1 of them

PT #Ukraine I have only scanned 1/3 of #Luhansk and there are 20+ large ammo dumps and12+ vehicle-parks (15 or more vehicles in each)

OUTLAW 09
06-02-2015, 09:57 AM
VIDEO For Russias Hybrid Soldiers killing Ukrainians and ruining civilian lives is a joke.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FT6Icl5SzCA … pic.twitter.com/Af9b38Tmc9

VIDEO Russias 'hybrid' soldiers in Ukraine signing mortar shells they unleash on #Shyrokyne
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyOHLRR3-yA …

Combat Selfie Video of Russias Hybrid soldiers of so-called DPR
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_JZ1TpYX88 … pic.twitter.com/g6dkIarAmA

OUTLAW 09
06-02-2015, 09:58 AM
Reference the two Russian Spetsnaz that were recently captured by Ukrainian forces--

Full video from phone of captured GRU officers Yerofeyev and Alexandrovhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5CCN4ROKRk …
pic.twitter.com/G7VM9FmU0Y
via @Ukropo4kA

youtube.com/watch?v=waCexNP9XRk … 'I embraced #Ukrainian land as my native,' #Russian commando tells his unit in video BEFORE capture.

Definitely your so called typical Russian "vacationers". No wonder Russian abandoned them.

OUTLAW 09
06-02-2015, 10:01 AM
Russian propaganda 4Ds---dismiss, distract, distort, dismay designed to create 2Ds—distrust and doubt.

So which one of the 4Ds is the Russian BUK manufacturer attempting to use???

Reference Russian BUK shot down of MH17—now Russia is having the BUK manufacturer explaining WHY it could not have been a “Russian BUK”—kind of like having the NSA explain “we do not sweep the entire internet”.

Not a single Russian official and or BUK have exactly explained WHO that BUK seen being transported back to Russia belonged to—to this day they have not been able to explain it. Other than it was the “Ukrainians”.

After the recent social media indicating the fake satellite photos done by the Russian MoD Russia is getting highly concerned about the final Dutch investigation report due out in October 2015 and are trying to be preemptive.

Buk manufacturer to explain why accusations of MH17 shoot-down unfair. Ever heard the expression, when you're in a hole, stop digging?

MH17 analysis by BUK missile maker showing BUK could not possibly have been responsible: media conference now pic.twitter.com/mfyK8wJGj6

Almaty-Antey Director Novikov: We will prove absolute non-involvement in #MH17 with "new evidence." And so it begins. pic.twitter.com/4B4XVxMEYL

'We used our experience including 2001 Ukraine shootdown of Russian airliner to analyze MH17 cirumstances': BUK missile maker

Lots of charts and graphs. pic.twitter.com/HMiSuYXlpE

Almaz-Antey showing what it claims to be evidence that Ukrainian Buk M1 downed #MH17. pic.twitter.com/pKLX9kDJud

They show plane again. Plane! pic.twitter.com/RrzhZChwv5

Eliot Higgins @EliotHiggins
I'm expecting some pretty amazing doublethink coming from the SU-25 truthers #MH17

Yep, the SU-25 era is officially over. Let the ukrainian BUK time begin

Report by "Russian military engineers" mysteriously leaked last month blamed MH17 on a Ukrainian Buk M1. http://www.novayagazeta.ru/inquests/68332.html …

Eliot Higgins @EliotHiggins
Looks like the SU-25 truthers will finally have to admit they were wrong all along.

OUTLAW 09
06-02-2015, 10:03 AM
Reference the shot down of MH17----

Russian propaganda 4Ds dismiss, distract, distort, dismay --designed to create 2Ds ---distrust, doubt and this article is again which one?

Russia's propaganda apparatus uses a discredited blogger from Russia's MoD to repeat alleged libel. Disturbing. https://twitter.com/EliotHiggins/status/605415659384762369 …


http://sputniknews.com/europe/20150601/1022820260.html

MH17 – Forensic Analysis of Satellite Images Bellingcat
Exposed: Russian Blogger Cuts British Online Investigators Down to Size

Europe
18:55 01.06.2015(updated 19:20 01.06.2015)



NOTICE--bellingcat and Atlantic Council made a clear decision to release the analysis of the fake Russian MoD satellite photos in Russian.

At first the Russian propaganda machine did not respond to their analysis but when the Russian report made it back into Russia --THEN Russian counter propaganda kicked in.

Google Earth trick proves Russia lied about the passenger plane shot down in eastern Ukraine http://buff.ly/1KygdSG pic.twitter.com/iPlyoGx5aO

MANTRA from Russian trolls--the work was not checked by any experts---response--Jane's checked every piece of analysis that was conducted.


Reference the bellingcat/Atlantic Council report on the ”fake” MoD sat MH17 photos and the massive propaganda article from Sputnik against the bellingcat article THEN this today:

Eliot Higgins @EliotHiggins
Russia Today just emailed me to ask if I'd be on their #MH17 documentary. I suspect it would be rather like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVQuZf1FewU …

OUTLAW 09
06-02-2015, 10:14 AM
Russian propaganda 4Ds---dismiss, distract, distort, dismay designed to create 2Ds—distrust and doubt.

So which one of the 4Ds is the Russian BUK manufacturer attempting to use???

Reference Russian BUK shot down of MH17—now Russia is having the BUK manufacturer explaining WHY it could not have been a “Russian BUK”—kind of like having the NSA explain “we do not sweep the entire internet”.

Not a single Russian official and or BUK have exactly explained WHO that BUK seen being transported back to Russia belonged to—to this day they have not been able to explain it. Other than it was the “Ukrainians”.

After the recent social media indicating the fake satellite photos done by the Russian MoD Russia is getting highly concerned about the final Dutch investigation report due out in October 2015 and are trying to be preemptive.

Buk manufacturer to explain why accusations of MH17 shoot-down unfair. Ever heard the expression, when you're in a hole, stop digging?

MH17 analysis by BUK missile maker showing BUK could not possibly have been responsible: media conference now pic.twitter.com/mfyK8wJGj6

Almaty-Antey Director Novikov: We will prove absolute non-involvement in #MH17 with "new evidence." And so it begins. pic.twitter.com/4B4XVxMEYL

'We used our experience including 2001 Ukraine shootdown of Russian airliner to analyze MH17 cirumstances': BUK missile maker

Lots of charts and graphs. pic.twitter.com/HMiSuYXlpE

Almaz-Antey showing what it claims to be evidence that Ukrainian Buk M1 downed #MH17. pic.twitter.com/pKLX9kDJud

They show plane again. Plane! pic.twitter.com/RrzhZChwv5

Eliot Higgins @EliotHiggins
I'm expecting some pretty amazing doublethink coming from the SU-25 truthers #MH17

Yep, the SU-25 era is officially over. Let the ukrainian BUK time begin

Report by "Russian military engineers" mysteriously leaked last month blamed MH17 on a Ukrainian Buk M1. http://www.novayagazeta.ru/inquests/68332.html …

Eliot Higgins @EliotHiggins
Looks like the SU-25 truthers will finally have to admit they were wrong all along.

Lots of graphs and graphics going on here. Basic claim so far seems to be that it was from a Ukrainian BUK M-1 pic.twitter.com/pVoFbBsur5

Desperate Russians throwing in yet another pathetic attempt to cover up their killings of #MH17. https://twitter.com/danielb_rt/status/605668075992719361 …

This is where they claim the BUK was fired from pic.twitter.com/CxsbkMzAqz

Eliot Higgins @EliotHiggins
And this is yet more proof that the Russian Ministry of Defences July 21st press conference was a pack of lies and fabrications #MH17

wasn't there, I really wasn't there, I so wasn't there. Okay, I was there, but I didn't do it. I didn't do it. Oh. #buk

This appeared on my timeline just as I'm watching reconstruction of MH17 (also 777) shot down with BUK at press conf https://twitter.com/AeroflotManUtd/status/605451194555756545 …

watch from this point on. It is utterly revolting that Russian state tv broadcasts this bilge https://youtu.be/bwKGHMbwVaQ?t=1009 …

1. Almaz Antey: we have HUGE BREAKING news, so we will convene presser
2. Almaz Antey: MH17 was shotdown with Buk missile.

OUTLAW 09
06-02-2015, 10:15 AM
Social media open source analyst @finriswolf has been pulling together all of the new Russian munition dumps and heavy weapons parks that have sprung up in eastern Ukraine over the last two months or so--where previously the parks were empty.

And he has only reviewed 1/3 of the available sat imagery.

Well so much for Russian "non support to her mercenaries and there is no coming general offensive"!!

#Ukraine There are probably 30-40 sites in #Luhansk with kilometer after kilometer of ammo boxes in the open air pic.twitter.com/QIfsQiqRhH

#Ukraine More "rebel" "captured" equipment jam packed all over #Luhansk http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=48.537794&lon=39.356391&z=18&m=b&v=1 … pic.twitter.com/KTzRIdsgff

#Ukraine "rebels" with more 'found' armored vehicles in #Luhansk http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=48.527214&lon=39.361385&z=18&m=b&v=1 … pic.twitter.com/81YcIcN5oB

Ukraine "rebels" with so much ammo/kit they have to pack it in all over #Luhansk airbase http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=48.527349&lon=39.375531&z=18&m=b&v=1 … pic.twitter.com/aSsZwZsDdK

#Ukraine : "Rebel" base in #Luhansk was empty short time ago now jam packed with kit and ammo http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=48.522277&lon=39.375161&z=18&m=b&v=1 … pic.twitter.com/nujqkaizjh

#Ukraine : Unpublished #Luhansk "rebel" base packed with ammo boxes & vehicles that were not there a few months ago pic.twitter.com/mnBlvwD9vt

#Ukraine #Luhansk "Rebels" must have 'captured' 3 complete armored battalions over last couple weeks. Let's take a look at 1 of them

PT #Ukraine I have only scanned 1/3 of #Luhansk and there are 20+ large ammo dumps and12+ vehicle-parks (15 or more vehicles in each)


#Ukraine There could be 200+ "captured" tanks just 'parked' inside #Luhansk alone. http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=48.579127&lon=39.268178&z=18&m=b&v=1 … pic.twitter.com/imhx4VXgTP

kaur
06-02-2015, 11:49 AM
After this Almaz Antey "explanation", this is time to watch again ministry of defence "explanation" from last summer about Su-25.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKCaEmvhr6w

OUTLAW 09
06-02-2015, 12:37 PM
After this Almaz Antey "explanation", this is time to watch again ministry of defence "explanation" from last summer about Su-25.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKCaEmvhr6w

kaur--at some point one has to feel actually sorry for any official Russian agency or in this case the actual BUK manufacturer--once they began the lying to cover up their shot down of MH17 things went from bad to worse with every "new story".

In the middle of the BUK presentation from the manufacturer the social media open source analysts were "shredding into really really small pieces" the myths being stated by even the BUK manufacturer.

It took all of 20 minutes to debunk this new "story" --seems that even the BUK manufacturer got their launch coordinates wrong and placed the launch site FULL in mercenary controlled territory to start the social media types laughing.

You would really think that with all of that FSB and MoD brainpower they might be able to come up with something better and or at least "not faked".

NICE TRY #Russia! BUK maker- #MH17 shot down by old missile version no longer in use http://24today.net/open/428766 #Ukraine pic.twitter.com/swMZnmePQx

Russia: "We do NOT have 9М38-M1 #Buk missiles!!! REALLY!!!"
9th May 2015 (!) in #Chita: 2x 9М38-M1
video @g39452441
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXaVIJX7iT4 …

Eliot Higgins @EliotHiggins
I do wonder if they realize they're pointing to a launch site in separatists territory on purpose #MH17

Buk M-1 was the missile system seen by @AP reporters in the area 3hrs before #MH17 disaster. July 2014 AP report http://bit.ly/1mNKpM1 2/3

Acc to official Ukrainian map (no 17), launch site proposed today was inside rebel territory when MH17 was shot down http://www.radiosvoboda.org/media/photogallery/26969959.html …

This is the missile system Russia says shot down MH17:
pic.twitter.com/kIHk4ejdpr

Another weapons system for shooting down MH17 comes out of the BUK presentation today.

In short: Boeing was shot down like that (Ukr Su+missiles from Ukr Buk). It's possible next version of "Almaz-Antei" pic.twitter.com/fPN5YFLfZn

Maxim Tucker @MaxRTucker
Following @bellingcat debunking of all #Russia's old #MH17 lies, here comes a whole crop of new ones, courtesy of the #Buk manufacturers.

In 2012 #Russia Defense Ministry TV posted a video of Russian troops firing a 9М38-M1 missile. via @g39452441
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQT6Rd3p1eQ …

Here is a nice shot of 16x 9М38-M1 #Buk missiles, the #Kremlin, #Russia's flag, #RedSquare... missing 297 #MH17 dead. pic.twitter.com/j9PZ0xmHPV

OUTLAW 09
06-02-2015, 12:38 PM
Russia about to be labeled as a party of the war against Ukraine and a state sponsoring terror. http://en.censor.net.ua/news/338436/representatives_of_russian_federation_should_be_ex cluded_from_osce_mission_majorgen_rozmaznin …

Representatives of Russia should be excluded from OSCE mission - Major-Gen. Rozmaznin | http://EN.Censor.net http://en.censor.net.ua/news/338436/representatives_of_russian_federation_should_be_ex cluded_from_osce_mission_majorgen_rozmaznin …

Yes, pull them out! "Most of OSCE officers understand the situation in ATO zone, exception is the RF reps." @OSCE_SMM http://24today.net/open/428708

UN: Russian servicemen involved in fighting in #Ukraine
http://uatoday.tv/geopolitics/un-russian-servicemen-involved-in-fighting-in-ukraine-431130.html … pic.twitter.com/7CL7rdsdCc

OUTLAW 09
06-02-2015, 12:39 PM
Russia’s Top 5 Fakes & Stupidities About Ukraine This Week

http://www.interpretermag.com/moscows-top-five-myths-fakes-and-stupidities-about-ukraine-this-week … @PaulGoble1 via @Interpreter_Mag pic.twitter.com/lXLLcsjLY1

OUTLAW 09
06-02-2015, 12:40 PM
http://maidantranslations.com/2015/06/02/dmitry-tymchuk-military-update-6-01-freesavchenko/

Dmitry Tymchuk: Military update 6.01

Posted on June 2, 2015 by tilamuse

Translated and edited by Voices of Ukraine


Operational data from Information Resistance:

Over the last 24 hours, Russian-terrorist forces in Donbas shelled the positions of Ukrainian troops and civilian objects from infantry and heavy infantry weapons, artillery, and armored vehicles.

The positions of ATO forces were repeatedly shelled in the vicinity of Pisky and Opytne, fire strikes were inflicted on positions near Avdiivka, several mine explosions were recorded in the vicinity of Vodyane. Terrorists used 82- and 120-mm mortars, as well as SPG-9 “Kopye” during these attacks. Two firestrikes were made from ZU-23-2 anti-aircraft systems mounted on vehicles.

In the vicinity of Shumy and Leninske, several insurgent infantry groups invaded the “neutral zone” and shelled the outposts and forward positions of ATO forces from small arms and heavy machine guns. Ukrainian troops returned fire, forcing the enemy to return to its starting positions.

Several enemy sniper teams are operating on the Mariinka – Shumy stretch. These groups fight using the same tactics: they approach the forward positions of the ATO forces under cover of their unit’s small arms fire, they disguise themselves, open fire on command, and then, they step back to their starting positions under cover of their insurgent unit’s small arms fire (sometimes – mortars). A sniper terrorist group that uses the same tactics has been observed in the vicinity of Shyroka Balka (Artemivsk direction).
NOTE: Indication of Spetsnaz sniper teams--my comment.

An insurgent sabotage and reconnaissance group (12 people) has been discovered by a military guard near an outpost of Ukrainian troops. After a brief firefight, the enemy sabotage and reconnaissance group retreated to the Syhnalne – Olenivka stretch.
NOTE: Indication of Spetsnaz team--my comment.

Near Shyrokyne, terrorists fired using 82- and 120-mm mortars, AGS-17 “Plamya” automatic grenade launchers, and SPG-9 mounted grenade launchers. Several fire strikes from 122-mm artillery have been observed (the [strikes] adjusted due to the change of firing positions of the insurgent artillery units).

In the vicinity of Shchastya, Trokhizbenka, and Zolote active armed clashes continued between insurgent sabotage and reconnaissance groups and the ATO forces. Positions of Ukrainian troops in the vicinity of Shchastya received aimed fired from machine guns and AGS-17.
NOTE: Indication of Spetsnaz --my comment.

The enemy used tanks, BTR-80, and BMP-2 to fire north of Yasynuvata near Troitske.

During the past 24 hours, insurgents continued intensive road transports on occupied territory. The most active movement of transport has been observed in the vicinity of Donetsk and Luhansk. Two convoys have been observed between Alchevsk and Luhansk (6 and 13 vehicles respectively). One of the convoys was escorted by a BTR-80. In addition, active transport movement has been recorded between Amvrosiivka – Starobesheve – Dokuchajevsk (a tactical group centered between Dokuchajevsk and Olenivka replenishes material and technical resources).

Movement of military units and equipment:

• A “DNR army” unit numbering 150-160 people has arrived in the vicinity of Spartak. The unit includes mortar crew detachements (three 82-mm mortars), four IFVs [infantry fighting vehicles], and up to 10 trucks.

• A local terrorist “battalion” in the Petrovskyi district of Donetsk has held a rotation and received reinforcements (for resupply up to 50 insurgents came with small arms and 3 SPG-9 units came from the south).

• The movement of armored vehicles has been observed between Yasynuvata and Horlivka: 11-12 vehicles proceeded in the northern direction (six of them – tanks). Insurgents set up a service center for armored vehicles near Panteleymonivka.

• The transfer of terrorist equipment and weapons continues between Pervomaisk – Stakhanov – Donetsk. Seven tanks and four ACVs have been transferred from Stakhanov towards the Bakhmut highway (three BMP-2 and a MT-LB). Six APCs and ACVs have been moved to Pervomaisk. Three D-30 howitzers on a trailer and two APCs have been transferred towards Perevalsk through Debaltseve and Chornukhyne. 18 ACVs and five or six tanks have been moved from Oleksandrivsk towards Zholobok.

• There is continued transfer of military equipment to insurgent “training centers” near Lutuhyne from Luhansk and Krasnodon; some of the equipment is transported from the Russian Federation by Russian servicemen. During the past 24 hours, we observed four BTR-80, two 80A\82A APCs, an armored reconnaissance and patrol vehicle, two BTR-70 APCs and four MT-LB armored towing vehicles being transferred to these “educational centers” (the latter vehicles – as modified artillery fire control vehicles). Currently, terrorist units from the “LNR army” get trained near Lutuhyne for operations in the northern districts of Luhansk region.

OUTLAW 09
06-02-2015, 01:00 PM
kaur--from our favorite Russian mercenary aka Girkin who is married, drives a great new MB, now resides in St. Petersburg and still is giving interviews--strange that he is still alive after everything he has been saying lately.

Most of which has actually been true.

Alleged statement from Strelkov claims Surkov was in Donetsk this week for stormy consultations with DNR leadership http://vk.com/strelkov_info?w=wall-57424472_61411 …

If true--then why the heavy shellings and ground attacks unless it is the last hurrah for the mercenaries before that they to pack in the New Russia concept and bury the idea they will be annexed into Russia.

OUTLAW 09
06-02-2015, 01:04 PM
kaur--at some point one has to feel actually sorry for any official Russian agency or in this case the actual BUK manufacturer--once they began the lying to cover up their shot down of MH17 things went from bad to worse with every "new story".

In the middle of the BUK presentation from the manufacturer the social media open source analysts were "shredding into really really small pieces" the myths being stated by even the BUK manufacturer.

It took all of 20 minutes to debunk this new "story" --seems that even the BUK manufacturer got their launch coordinates wrong and placed the launch site FULL in mercenary controlled territory to start the social media types laughing.

You would really think that with all of that FSB and MoD brainpower they might be able to come up with something better and or at least "not faked".

NICE TRY #Russia! BUK maker- #MH17 shot down by old missile version no longer in use http://24today.net/open/428766 #Ukraine pic.twitter.com/swMZnmePQx

Russia: "We do NOT have 9М38-M1 #Buk missiles!!! REALLY!!!"
9th May 2015 (!) in #Chita: 2x 9М38-M1
video @g39452441
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXaVIJX7iT4 …

Eliot Higgins @EliotHiggins
I do wonder if they realize they're pointing to a launch site in separatists territory on purpose #MH17

Buk M-1 was the missile system seen by @AP reporters in the area 3hrs before #MH17 disaster. July 2014 AP report http://bit.ly/1mNKpM1 2/3

Acc to official Ukrainian map (no 17), launch site proposed today was inside rebel territory when MH17 was shot down http://www.radiosvoboda.org/media/photogallery/26969959.html …

This is the missile system Russia says shot down MH17:
pic.twitter.com/kIHk4ejdpr

Another weapons system for shooting down MH17 comes out of the BUK presentation today.

In short: Boeing was shot down like that (Ukr Su+missiles from Ukr Buk). It's possible next version of "Almaz-Antei" pic.twitter.com/fPN5YFLfZn

Maxim Tucker @MaxRTucker
Following @bellingcat debunking of all #Russia's old #MH17 lies, here comes a whole crop of new ones, courtesy of the #Buk manufacturers.

In 2012 #Russia Defense Ministry TV posted a video of Russian troops firing a 9М38-M1 missile. via @g39452441
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQT6Rd3p1eQ …

Here is a nice shot of 16x 9М38-M1 #Buk missiles, the #Kremlin, #Russia's flag, #RedSquare... missing 297 #MH17 dead. pic.twitter.com/j9PZ0xmHPV

Russian MH17 humor:
Vladimir Putin
Every victory day the Russian military displays its BUK units which are of a type only Ukraine has. ;) #MH17 pic.twitter.com/i76gNjw3zz

OUTLAW 09
06-02-2015, 01:05 PM
Putin's greatest single fear--a "Moscow Maidan".

Russian police is getting ready for a serious confrontation w/civilians: video of mil exercises on shooting protests https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eflt0NTM-ek …

OUTLAW 09
06-02-2015, 01:44 PM
Russian propaganda 4Ds---dismiss, distract, distort, dismay designed to create 2Ds—distrust and doubt.

So which one of the 4Ds is the Russian BUK manufacturer attempting to use???

Reference Russian BUK shot down of MH17—now Russia is having the BUK manufacturer explaining WHY it could not have been a “Russian BUK”—kind of like having the NSA explain “we do not sweep the entire internet”.

Not a single Russian official and or BUK have exactly explained WHO that BUK seen being transported back to Russia belonged to—to this day they have not been able to explain it. Other than it was the “Ukrainians”.

After the recent social media indicating the fake satellite photos done by the Russian MoD Russia is getting highly concerned about the final Dutch investigation report due out in October 2015 and are trying to be preemptive.

Buk manufacturer to explain why accusations of MH17 shoot-down unfair. Ever heard the expression, when you're in a hole, stop digging?

MH17 analysis by BUK missile maker showing BUK could not possibly have been responsible: media conference now pic.twitter.com/mfyK8wJGj6

Almaty-Antey Director Novikov: We will prove absolute non-involvement in #MH17 with "new evidence." And so it begins. pic.twitter.com/4B4XVxMEYL

'We used our experience including 2001 Ukraine shootdown of Russian airliner to analyze MH17 cirumstances': BUK missile maker

Lots of charts and graphs. pic.twitter.com/HMiSuYXlpE

Almaz-Antey showing what it claims to be evidence that Ukrainian Buk M1 downed #MH17. pic.twitter.com/pKLX9kDJud

They show plane again. Plane! pic.twitter.com/RrzhZChwv5

Eliot Higgins @EliotHiggins
I'm expecting some pretty amazing doublethink coming from the SU-25 truthers #MH17

Yep, the SU-25 era is officially over. Let the ukrainian BUK time begin

Report by "Russian military engineers" mysteriously leaked last month blamed MH17 on a Ukrainian Buk M1. http://www.novayagazeta.ru/inquests/68332.html …

Eliot Higgins @EliotHiggins
Looks like the SU-25 truthers will finally have to admit they were wrong all along.

Social media open source analysts debunked this Russian BUK myth today inside of 20 minutes BUT it seems western mainstream is by definition just an extension of Russian informational warfare--do they not do fact checking any more????

.@AP & @YahooNews propagate Kremlin propaganda on #MH17.
http://news.yahoo.com/russian-missile-maker-mh17-shot-down-ukrainian-missile-104254947.html …
cc: @bellingcat pic.twitter.com/STNvcARaWO

RU report on "rebels" shooting down #MH17 [when they thought it was Ukrainian]:
http://ria.ru/world/20140717/1016409306.html …
Archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20150602123937/http://ria.ru/world/20140717/1016409306.html …

.@XSovietNews And don't forget Strelkov admitted they'd just shot down a plane on July 17th, quickly deleted later. pic.twitter.com/NPdbpIl7l1

Both the June Kursk convoy Buk and the "rebel" Buk were armed with 9M38M1missiles (that Almaz-Antei says hit MH17). pic.twitter.com/DLzYCLOFZ2

OUTLAW 09
06-02-2015, 01:46 PM
Russia says there’s no evidence that its troops are fighting in #Ukraine.
The UN disagrees.http://goo.gl/2X9ePw pic.twitter.com/s1bP6XmQYb


Mother of killed in Donbas Rus military openly talks about her son's death
Video with English subtitles (from 9 min)http://donbass.hromadskeradio.org/2015/06/02/mat-ubitogo-na-donbasse-voennogo-rf-otkryito-govorit-o-gibeli-syina-video/ …

OUTLAW 09
06-02-2015, 01:47 PM
Ukraine: SBU has detained three commandos in Kharkiv. They'd received training at GRU bases in #Russia.
https://twitter.com/akil115/status/605709562864390144 …

Picture allegedly taken today in Russia, Matveeva Kurgan (Rostov).
About 50 pieces of military equipm. tow. Ukraine. https://twitter.com/100007182042214/status/605719789915373569 …

kaur
06-02-2015, 02:27 PM
Outlaw, the only reason why Girkin/Strelkov is alive, is that he has good protection. No surprise :) I think that he is just symbol of failed Kremlin's plan A in Ukraine. I suspect that according to plan A Kremlin seriously thought that Donbas people will rebel against Kiev and pick up the arms that Grikin brought in in with the help of service X. Plan A failed right in the beginning when Girkin was sitting on the pile of ATGM and MANPAD-s boxes compaining that there are no local men to fight in May 2014. Plan B started with hordes of Russian cossacks and Chechens. When plan B failed, Russian regular troops moved in en masse in August 2014. I dare to speculate that this Russian failure reminds Cuban invasion in 1961. It was over in very short time, but Russians have extended their clandestine operation for very long. Russians want to hide their role like US intended.
Girkin may be used to let steam out of disappointed veterans from Donbas and supporters of Russkii Mir/Novorossiya in the future.

OUTLAW 09
06-02-2015, 05:04 PM
Outlaw, the only reason why Girkin/Strelkov is alive, is that he has good protection. No surprise :) I think that he is just symbol of failed Kremlin's plan A in Ukraine. I suspect that according to plan A Kremlin seriously thought that Donbas people will rebel against Kiev and pick up the arms that Grikin brought in in with the help of service X. Plan A failed right in the beginning when Girkin was sitting on the pile of ATGM and MANPAD-s boxes compaining that there are no local men to fight in May 2014. Plan B started with hordes of Russian cossacks and Chechens. When plan B failed, Russian regular troops moved in en masse in August 2014. I dare to speculate that this Russian failure reminds Cuban invasion in 1961. It was over in very short time, but Russians have extended their clandestine operation for very long. Russians want to hide their role like US intended.
Girkin may be used to let steam out of disappointed veterans from Donbas and supporters of Russkii Mir/Novorossiya in the future.

kaur--have you noticed that the old SBU now new SSU has been increasingly effective in their arrests against key individuals in the last weeks as well as the capture of key mercenaries??

OUTLAW 09
06-02-2015, 05:20 PM
Shellings and ground attacks have been light today in view of the last few days and weeks, and the Russian BUK manufacturer's myth of the Ukrainian BUK was literally shot out of the water by social media 20 minutes into their presentation AND social media is being literally overwhelmed by the resignation of FIFA President.

Turned out the massive propaganda around the Russian BUK manufacturer's story was a rehash of a debunked Russian engineer story from several weeks ago.

Russia is simply digging the hole even deeper instead of coughing it up and admitting they were responsible for the shot down of MH17.

So I am taking the evening off but will lightly monitor the net to see if anything of interest comes up.

OUTLAW 09
06-02-2015, 05:41 PM
Reference MH17 shot down presentation today by the Russian BUK manufacturer --the launch site they claim that came from their own research seems to be at first glance to be the exact same site as in the "faked" MoD satellite photos.

Noticed the BUK presentation pushed off the front page blog wise the Russian MoD "faked" sat photos story--may have been the intent behind their presentation.

Noticed also a not so subtle shift--meaning is the Russian leadership now slowly placing the full blame on the shot down on the mercenaries BUT with a "stolen Ukrainian BUK" naturally as the launch site is fully in mercenary controlled territory and it would have been impossible for the Ukrainians to have driven a BUK into the area and back out without having been shot at.

OUTLAW 09
06-02-2015, 06:23 PM
Shellings and ground attacks have been light today in view of the last few days and weeks, and the Russian BUK manufacturer's myth of the Ukrainian BUK was literally shot out of the water by social media 20 minutes into their presentation AND social media is being literally overwhelmed by the resignation of FIFA President.

Turned out the massive propaganda around the Russian BUK manufacturer's story was a rehash of a debunked Russian engineer story from several weeks ago.

Russia is simply digging the hole even deeper instead of coughing it up and admitting they were responsible for the shot down of MH17.

So I am taking the evening off but will lightly monitor the net to see if anything of interest comes up.

Stand corrected--all and I mean all the standard hot spots from the last five days have been under shelling attacks and several ground attacks--reporting has just not filtered up due to FIFA over running everything it seems.

Some of the shellings have been intense and for over several hours now.

OUTLAW 09
06-02-2015, 06:46 PM
Here is a nice shot of 16x 9М38-M1 #Buk missiles, the #Kremlin, #Russia's flag, #RedSquare... missing 297 #MH17 dead. pic.twitter.com/j9PZ0xmHPV

This is the Russian BUK unit that has been alleged to have entered the Ukraine and shot down MH17.

Interesting in the simple fact that in the Victory Day Moscow Parade a number of Russian units took part who had fought in the Ukraine.

OUTLAW 09
06-02-2015, 10:11 PM
OSCE saw 37 T-72 tanks in Donetsk (=attacker) and 9 from Ukraine (=defender)
http://www.osce.org/ukraine-smm/161686 …
v @OnlineMagazin pic.twitter.com/EsMLMTZQM1

#Footage
Russian TV with Russian troops at the front near #Stanytsia_Luhanska.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VCRlgpcClc …

Reporters of the Russian TV channel "Russia 24" were arrested in Kiev. They were handed over to the SBU. pic.twitter.com/GbyPGfsygf

“War, faces, situations”: American photographer's images from the front line in Shyrokyne, Ukraine (PHOTOS) http://world.korupciya.com/2015/06/02/war-faces-situations-american-photographer-posted-images-from-front-line-in-shyrokyne-photos/ …

VIDEO #Putin created LNR-Whatever "Local Militia" from former Soviet countries & not #Ukraine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHM9FLeK6_Y … pic.twitter.com/gze7gAo8O4

Some lead, some follow.
More unfortunate footage for the #OSCE, being led around by #Basurin.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zV-BPb3WHmw … pic.twitter.com/3zxmF1cTe5

#News
In #Chermalyk Russian forces tried to breach the front towards #Mariupol.
They were stopped by the Ukr army,but it suffered casualties

.@akihheikkinen 1st Guards Tank Army consists of: 2nd Guards Motorized Infantry Taman and 4th Guards Tank Division Kantemirovskaya

#Russia secretly (re)created 1st Guards Tank Army. http://www.bbc.co.uk/russian/russia/2015/06/150602_russia_tank_army …

#News
Russian forces attacked #Shyrokyne with mortars, RPGs, small arms and sniper rifles today. - the Ukr army.

European Parliament Fires Back At Russian Travel Bans By Suspending Cooperation, Blocking Kremlin Official's Access http://bit.ly/1dcVkBs

Lilia Shevtsova brilliantly skewers official propaganda by asking: "How can a declining West humiliate Russia?" http://www.the-american-interest.com/2015/06/02/humiliation-as-a-tool-of-blackmail/ …

VIDEO #Ukraine SBU seized weapons & arrested terrorists planning attacks in #kharkiv https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxyrJWDEUiI … pic.twitter.com/pMbMcXNhPK

#Yenakiieve was shelled. Take a look at the map, how will they accuse Ukraine this time
#Debalseve was also shelled

OUTLAW 09
06-03-2015, 05:16 AM
Challenge any SWJ reader a Starbucks coffee if they hear, see, or read any comment/comments from Obama, Hollande, Merkel on the intense and massive overnight and into this morning (as of now even) shellings and ground attacks.

Do they honesty believe that by ignoring, sweeping it under the carpet, remaining silent THIS is going to go away. right now there is a full on war being driven by Russia.

AND remember it was just last week Russia's Putin and his FM kept stating they wanted a settlement and full implementation of Minsk 2 AND they had "influence" over their mercenaries.

Seems Western leaders still want to believe lairs as it tends to make decisions easier--meaning no decision.

Ever wonder why is that ???


23:28 @Darren_Aro Hits preliminarily near #Berezove

23:40 @SPaWN_ua Futher north fr/#Yasne RUS shelled 28th brigade positions w/SPGs

7:18AM
#Berezove checkpoint is under fire, traffic is blocked https://twitter.com/Shrik_E/status/605951582677684224 …

23:20 #Artemivsk @GirkinGirkin Impacts on the outskirts, wounded

#Avdiivka 4:49AM
Not quiet! https://twitter.com/JuZolyshkaLia/status/605914178050650115 …

#Donetsk 4:44AM
Kirovsky district, Lidiyevka - Abakumov. Almost continuous rumble of heavy outgoing, towards south. https://twitter.com/UrriKara4en/status/605913026961666050 …

June02 #Luhansk @esorrrose Distant volleys are heard

June02 23:02 #Maryinka @hyeva_maryinka Variable fire intense, AGL joined

MLRS shelling in Mar'inka http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/3-june-mlrs-shelling-in-marinka … via @JuMistress

#Staromikhailivka 7:48AM
Incoming, one house burns https://twitter.com/fhntv29/status/605959160920834048 …

#Donetsk 4:42AM
Salvos from mine 29 https://twitter.com/relictDon/stat

June02 22:45 #Maryinka @hyeva_maryinka Mortars and small arms

Putin AGAIN defending Stalin's pact with Hitler & now lying on why Russia invaded Czechoslovakia in 1968...!

Smoke after MLRS shelling in Donetesk http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/3-june-smoke-after-mlrs-shelling-in-donetesk … pic.twitter.com/dx3IvGvUP2 via @fhntv29

#Donetsk 4:34AM
Volleys of artillery, very powerful, fly away from Skochinsky, Biryuzova str. https://twitter.com/sameta_ota/status/605910482638151682 …


Outgoing shelling from Petrovsky district of Donetsk in direction of Mariinka http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/3-june-outgoing-shelling-from-petrovsky-district-of-donetsk … #Ukraine via @GirkinGirkin

June02 17:08 @thisnameerror About 1pm fr/#Stakhanov mil commissariat tow/#Irmino at least...

At least 3 houses destroyed in Karlivka after artillery attack http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/3-june-at-least-3-houses-destroyed-in-karlivka-after-artillery … via @MariyaYablynes

Krasnohorivka is burning after morning attack of Russian MLRS http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/3-june-krasnohorivka-is-burning-after-morning-attack-of-russian … via @GirkinGirkin

#Donetsk 5:39AM
Heavy single volleys from mine 29, Petrovsky forest area https://twitter.com/relictDon/status/605926853325365249 …

5:25AM
Towards #Krasnohorivka smoke https://twitter.com/sameta_ota/status/605923269657493505 …

#Donetsk 5:08AM
Kirovskyi district, Lidiyevka - Abakumov. Heavy fire from howitzers, SPG https://twitter.com/UrriKara4en/status/605918857404874752 …


AND this is just the tip of the shelling reports that are streaming in.

The entire Minsk 2 contact front is under intense shellings including some new locations not previously shelled.

OUTLAW 09
06-03-2015, 05:19 AM
The Secret Money Behind Vladimir Putin's War Machine http://bloom.bg/1M2o5wl

Something you don't often see: Russian MFA transcript says the boss got it wrong. http://goo.gl/d4AcYw pic.twitter.com/UZDlKAcTBH

OUTLAW 09
06-03-2015, 05:35 AM
Raise the challenge to a dinner in a 4 star here in Berlin--nothing will come from Western leaders.

NOW major ground attacks underway since 0500----

Marinka 6:10AM
Battle continues. Mostly small arms. https://twitter.com/Serzzze/status/605937721824059393 …

#Donetsk
6x SPGs "Gvozdika", 1 "Nona", 1-2x "BMP" over 20 tanks.
All went towards #Marinka in the AM https://twitter.com/ADivinorum/status/605935785066430464 …

6:38AM
Sounds like battle at #Stanitsya_Luhanska too. https://twitter.com/100007182042214/status/605941609805447168 …

Russian Spetsnaz and mercenaries are attempting to breach the contact line A direct violation of Minsk 2--AND yet silence from the West.

OUTLAW 09
06-03-2015, 09:19 AM
Well I save my offered Starbucks coffee and a 4 star dinner--NOT a single peep out of Merkel and Hollande who pushed for Minsk 1 and 2 AND certainly nothing out of Obama concerning a MAJOR Russian offense to take more territory in clear violation of Minsk 2.

Why should they--it is argued in western media and reinforced by these same leaders Ukraine is not critical and not worth fighting over.

BUT did even one of them stop and think that the linchpin between the NATO eastern flank and the southern flank ALL runs through the Ukraine--control the Ukraine and you control NATO's flanks.

In my humble opinion--this has got to be the weakest set of western leaders in 40 odd years. Afraid of making serious decisions, afraid of confronting a terrorist rouge state that has broken all security understandings of the last 30 odd years---but are more than willing to bomb IS--how strange it that??

Remember that when ATMs would have helped counter over 800 tanks--none was offered by the West--and yet the West pushes rule of law, good governance and democracy YET when a civil society makes that decision the West runs from it's unspoken responsibilities to assist.


MAJOR RUSSIAN OFFENSE IS UNDERWAY

Mariinka and Peski are taking fire. https://twitter.com/YevhenS/status/606023084659867648 …

#Donetsk 11:19AM
Under the bridge by mine 29 there are GRADs and from there to Petrovka all tanks https://twitter.com/DobryShubin/status/606012252345483264 …

Headquarters: towards Mar′inka moved 1000 fighters and tanks | InfoResist http://inforesist.org/shtab-pod-marinku-vydvinulis-1000-boevikov-i-tanki/?_utl_t=tw … … no fun situation @InfoResist

#BREAKINGNEWS
The Ukrainian army confirms 1000 Russian troops with 20 tanks, storming #Marinka.
- Ukr army sector "B" spox Eugene Sylkin

Maxim Tucker @MaxRTucker
Looks like #Russia/separatist forces have launched an offensive on #Marinka, at least 25 #Ukraine soldiers reported wounded in bombardment.
In #Ukraine's Parliament (Rada), now:
"In #Marinka more than 30 wounded. How and where to take them out!" https://twitter.com/kristina157317/status/606022615749300224 …

OUTLAW 09
06-03-2015, 09:25 AM
REMEMBR—Putin recently stated “his concerned for the killing of civilians—SEEMS he just does not care---all propaganda.

#BreakingNews
Intense Russian shelling hit a civilian car in #Kryakivka, killing the couple (67 and 64) inside. pic.twitter.com/Wm7LV2OUAU

OUTLAW 09
06-03-2015, 09:25 AM
Well I save my offered Starbucks coffee and a 4 star dinner--NOT a single peep out of Merkel and Hollande who pushed for Minsk 1 and 2 AND certainly nothing out of Obama concerning a MAJOR Russian offense to take more territory in clear violation of Minsk 2.

Why should they--it is argued in western media and reinforced by these same leaders Ukraine is not critical and not worth fighting over.

BUT did even one of them stop and think that the linchpin between the NATO eastern flank and the southern flank ALL runs through the Ukraine--control the Ukraine and you control NATO's flanks.

In my humble opinion--this has got to be the weakest set of western leaders in 40 odd years. Afraid of making serious decisions, afraid of confronting a terrorist rouge state that has broken all security understandings of the last 30 odd years---but are more than willing to bomb IS--how strange it that??

Remember that when ATMs would have helped counter over 800 tanks--none was offered by the West--and yet the West pushes rule of law, good governance and democracy YET when a civil society makes that decision the West runs from it's unspoken responsibilities to assist.


MAJOR RUSSIAN OFFENSE IS UNDERWAY

Mariinka and Peski are taking fire. https://twitter.com/YevhenS/status/606023084659867648 …

#Donetsk 11:19AM
Under the bridge by mine 29 there are GRADs and from there to Petrovka all tanks https://twitter.com/DobryShubin/status/606012252345483264 …

Headquarters: towards Mar′inka moved 1000 fighters and tanks | InfoResist http://inforesist.org/shtab-pod-marinku-vydvinulis-1000-boevikov-i-tanki/?_utl_t=tw … … no fun situation @InfoResist

#BREAKINGNEWS
The Ukrainian army confirms 1000 Russian troops with 20 tanks, storming #Marinka.
- Ukr army sector "B" spox Eugene Sylkin

Maxim Tucker @MaxRTucker
Looks like #Russia/separatist forces have launched an offensive on #Marinka, at least 25 #Ukraine soldiers reported wounded in bombardment.
In #Ukraine's Parliament (Rada), now:
"In #Marinka more than 30 wounded. How and where to take them out!" https://twitter.com/kristina157317/status/606022615749300224 …

Strelkov Info VK status update (never clear how reliable) says 7 rebel fighters killed in Marinka clashes https://vk.com/strelkov_info?w=wall-57424472_61558%2F6f1d2a228aed0455c2 …

OUTLAW 09
06-03-2015, 09:50 AM
Well I save my offered Starbucks coffee and a 4 star dinner--NOT a single peep out of Merkel and Hollande who pushed for Minsk 1 and 2 AND certainly nothing out of Obama concerning a MAJOR Russian offense to take more territory in clear violation of Minsk 2.

Why should they--it is argued in western media and reinforced by these same leaders Ukraine is not critical and not worth fighting over.

BUT did even one of them stop and think that the linchpin between the NATO eastern flank and the southern flank ALL runs through the Ukraine--control the Ukraine and you control NATO's flanks.

In my humble opinion--this has got to be the weakest set of western leaders in 40 odd years. Afraid of making serious decisions, afraid of confronting a terrorist rouge state that has broken all security understandings of the last 30 odd years---but are more than willing to bomb IS--how strange it that??

Remember that when ATMs would have helped counter over 800 tanks--none was offered by the West--and yet the West pushes rule of law, good governance and democracy YET when a civil society makes that decision the West runs from it's unspoken responsibilities to assist.


MAJOR RUSSIAN OFFENSE IS UNDERWAY

Mariinka and Peski are taking fire. https://twitter.com/YevhenS/status/606023084659867648 …

#Donetsk 11:19AM
Under the bridge by mine 29 there are GRADs and from there to Petrovka all tanks https://twitter.com/DobryShubin/status/606012252345483264 …

Headquarters: towards Mar′inka moved 1000 fighters and tanks | InfoResist http://inforesist.org/shtab-pod-marinku-vydvinulis-1000-boevikov-i-tanki/?_utl_t=tw … … no fun situation @InfoResist

#BREAKINGNEWS
The Ukrainian army confirms 1000 Russian troops with 20 tanks, storming #Marinka.
- Ukr army sector "B" spox Eugene Sylkin

Maxim Tucker @MaxRTucker
Looks like #Russia/separatist forces have launched an offensive on #Marinka, at least 25 #Ukraine soldiers reported wounded in bombardment.
In #Ukraine's Parliament (Rada), now:
"In #Marinka more than 30 wounded. How and where to take them out!" https://twitter.com/kristina157317/status/606022615749300224 …

REMEMBER Russian FM Lavrov “prided himself” in the so call Russian “influence” on the mercenaries and her own troops—and this I guess is what he and Putin call “influence”????

A clear and concise violation of Minsk 2 and yet nothing out of western leaders—actually the German news media is more concerned as to when Putin will be allowed back in the G7.

New aggression from #Donetsk started after #Surkov had visited the city. From the very evening of his visit

NOTE: Surkov is Putin's right hand man handling the eastern Ukraine from the very beginning.

11:15 #Maryinka @Serzzze [vk] "Trench battles for now in the outskirts, no town bombardments yet again

#Russia|n trolls on social networks claim ' #Marinka is ours! ' already.
Of course this is NOT the case now

11:30 #Maryinka @audrius1977 Several loud impacts over last 15 min, skirmishes at most

#Marinka under attack since 6 hours now. 30 #Ukraine soldiers WIA and 1 KIA.
thats not official numbers but reports from the ground

11:05 #Maryinka @audrius1977 [vk] No changes for now - sporadic skirmishes and explosions in entire frontline

11:30 #Maryinka @audrius1977 Several loud impacts over last 15 min, skirmishes at most

11:37 #Maryinka @audrius1977 "[looks like] main battle is on in Sovkhoz direction" http://vk.com/mariynka_zonaato …

Ukrainian forces suffer casualties in close combat in Donetsk region
http://www.unian.info/war/1084879-ukrainian-forces-suffer-casualties-in-close-combat-in-donetsk-region.html … pic.twitter.com/FKeVrI4Aum

OUTLAW 09
06-03-2015, 09:52 AM
SBU/SSU captured a Russian trained sabotage team member attempting to conduct a rail cut.

Photo indicates a cell phone detonator on a plastic charge on top of an anti tank mine---standard Spetsnaz IED training thus I do not believe he is a local.
goo.gl/ICzD9k
pic.twitter.com/ta9x6Y3leJ

#Ukraine’s Security Service arrested terrorist group controlled by #Russia's military #PHOTOS
http://euromaidanpress.com/2015/06/03/ukraines-security-service-arrested-terrorist-group-controlled-by-russian-military-intelligence-photos/ … pic.twitter.com/Y12OMNvmGw

OUTLAW 09
06-03-2015, 10:26 AM
REMEMBER Russian FM Lavrov “prided himself” in the so call Russian “influence” on the mercenaries and her own troops—and this I guess is what he and Putin call “influence”????

A clear and concise violation of Minsk 2 and yet nothing out of western leaders—actually the German news media is more concerned as to when Putin will be allowed back in the G7.

New aggression from #Donetsk started after #Surkov had visited the city. From the very evening of his visit

NOTE: Surkov is Putin's right hand man handling the eastern Ukraine from the very beginning.

11:15 #Maryinka @Serzzze [vk] "Trench battles for now in the outskirts, no town bombardments yet again

#Russia|n trolls on social networks claim ' #Marinka is ours! ' already.
Of course this is NOT the case now

11:30 #Maryinka @audrius1977 Several loud impacts over last 15 min, skirmishes at most

#Marinka under attack since 6 hours now. 30 #Ukraine soldiers WIA and 1 KIA.
thats not official numbers but reports from the ground

11:05 #Maryinka @audrius1977 [vk] No changes for now - sporadic skirmishes and explosions in entire frontline

11:30 #Maryinka @audrius1977 Several loud impacts over last 15 min, skirmishes at most

11:37 #Maryinka @audrius1977 "[looks like] main battle is on in Sovkhoz direction" http://vk.com/mariynka_zonaato …

Ukrainian forces suffer casualties in close combat in Donetsk region
http://www.unian.info/war/1084879-ukrainian-forces-suffer-casualties-in-close-combat-in-donetsk-region.html … pic.twitter.com/FKeVrI4Aum

Yatsenyuk: "Russia yday foiled a tripartite meeting, and today ordered its terrorists to begin a military operation" http://gazeta.ua/articles/np/_rosiya-pochala-vijskovu-operaciyu-acenyuk/629724 …

THIS ties into the Surkov surprise visit into the Donetsk yesterday as well.

First battle video out of this major Russian attack across the Minsk 2 contact line—CLEAR and PRESENT violation of Minsk 2.

#Marinka 03.06.2015 BATTLE https://youtu.be/lGcTXGPHSyE via @YouTube

#Maryinka UPD:1500 #Russian militants w/tanks attack,#UA soldiers hold positions,no encirclmnt:http://inforesist.org/1500-boevikov-pri-podderzhke-tankovoj-gruppy-nachali-nastuplenie-na-marinku/ … pic.twitter.com/29rwWUydEK

More than 1000 Russian troops with tanks are trying to storm #Marinka right now - ATO http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/3-june-more-than-1000-russian-troops-with-tanks-are-trying …

"We've successfully repelled another attack by enemy infantry group. The situation is complicated but under control" https://twitter.com/UaForces/status/606034134562144256 …

PHOTOS: Fires burn in #Marinka a front line town in #Ukraine following heavy fighting there this morning - @Liveuamap
pic.twitter.com/iYsfi4jYd7

According to various reports, the Russian-backed insurgents are attempting to surround Ukrainian forces in... http://fb.me/7rJKVaPCJ

#OSCE @olarhat: "3 OSCE cars drove already to contrariwise from #Maryinka

More GRAD salvos on #Mariinka.
'Situation complicated but under control'. I don't like that sentence!

"All units on the front lines in full readiness! If this is abstractive maneuver, our soldiers are ready. We pray" https://twitter.com/UaForces/status/606036519481147393 …

AND western leaders are totally asleep at the wheel and wanting a great stay in Garmisch Germany for G7 meeting--and do not really care what happens in the Ukraine.

12:05 @AMykhailova "Battle in #Maryinka since 5am, RUS used #Grad|s, tank and mortar fire for now, UKR firein reply"

Lysenko: Ukrainian military repeal off all attacks and hold their positions. http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/3-june-lysenko-ukrainian-military-repeal-off-all-attacks …

#MArinka 12:20
Non-stop canonade from all sides, also on the street, difficult to say who is shooting where. https://twitter.com/Serzzze/status/606040341259669504 …

OUTLAW 09
06-03-2015, 10:29 AM
Russian-Backed Forces Launch Major Assaults North And South-West Of Donetsk. http://www.interpretermag.com/ukraine-live-day-471-russian-backed-forces-launch-major-assaults-north-and-south-west-of-donetsk/#8623 … pic.twitter.com/3E42gxXEN7

11:58 #Donetsk Zolote_Kiltse @io_dine Artillery outgoing w/30-40 sec interval

12:00 #Donetsk Tochmash @AlfaNubovsky Heavy volleys, mortar each 1-3 sec

13:01 #Donetsk @evergreen_dn Fr/center tow/Petrovka: ambulance cars; before 12 more tanks moved tow/Petrovka

Eastern #Ukraine this sitrep morning
pic.twitter.com/qWxZn3evXJ

Ukrainian Positions On Donetsk-Mariupol Highway Attacked. http://www.interpretermag.com/ukraine-live-day-471-russian-backed-forces-launch-major-assaults-north-and-south-west-of-donetsk/#8624 …

12:50 @Limoncello100 1 Ural truck w/troops & 1 tank tow/Tekstilschik/Petrovka

also more trucks and tanks on the move to the front

OUTLAW 09
06-03-2015, 10:39 AM
Reference Moldavia---Transnistria--Potential war being so not subtly suggested by Russia propaganda media.

http://sputniknews.com/europe/20150603/1022888233.html#ixzz3bzgd31Bz

Kiev’s Blockade of Transnistria Fraught With New War

Europe
12:59 03.06.2015(updated 13:02 03.06.2015)


On May 21 the Ukrainian parliament voted to suspend all military cooperation with Russia. The new law effectively terminated the 1998 agreement on the transit of Russian military units to Transnistria through the territory of Ukraine.

Kiev's decision to scrap its military cooperation agreements with Russia, including transit rights for Russian peacekeepers and equipment to Transnistria, have created the potential to destabilize regional security, says Transnistrian Foreign Minister Nina Shtanski.

© RIA Novosti. Sergei Kuznetsov

Kiev's Blockade of Transnistria a Threat to Regional Security – FM
Simultaneously, Moldova tightened the rules of transit for Russian military personnel traveling via Chisinau airport.

Chisinau had periodically blocked and deported Russian soldiers who were not clearly identified as international peacekeepers or who had failed to give sufficient advance notice.

Even though much cooperation was of course already suspended, throughout the current crisis Russia had been able to use Ukrainian territory to supply its peacekeepers in Transnistria, a narrow strip of land on Ukraine's western border. No longer.

Russia’s response was quick and stern.

"The Ministry of Defense is left with no other option than to supply Russian forces with all the necessities by air bridge, with military-transport aircraft," Yuri Yakubov, a senior Russian MoD official, said after the Ukrainian vote.

"The Russian contingent will be supplied under any circumstances," he added.

Adding to Russia’s worries, the Moldovan authorities have reportedly been arresting and deporting Russian soldiers who try to fly into Moldova en route to Transnistria.

Moldova hasn't stopped all Russian soldiers from traveling through its territory — only those not in the Moldova-supported peacekeeping mission, and only those who don't give a month's notice that they will be traveling to Moldova.

Of the roughly 1,500 Russian troops stationed in Moldova, about 1,000 are in the Operational Group of Russian Forces in Moldova, which Moldova does not support; the rest are peacekeepers regulated by the Joint Control Commission, which includes representatives of Moldova, Transnistria, and Russia.

Though small, the Russian peacekeeping contingent is a potent deterrent guaranteeing the security of the Transnistrian republic, because any outside attack on it will be interpreted as an attack on Russia itself.

Still, the Moldovan transit ban means that the Russian contingent will shrink and may eventually cease to exist.

This, in turn, could encourage Moldova to try to bring the breakaway region back into its fold by force.

Kiev’s suspension of defense cooperation agreements with Russia and the Moldovan ban on the transit of Russian soldiers to Transnistria comes as NATO continues beefing up its military presence in neighboring Romania.

The tensions mounting around Transnistria could easily spin of control and just how far the sides are ready to go in this standoff remains anybody’s guess…

OUTLAW 09
06-03-2015, 10:40 AM
Reference Moldavia---Transnistria--Potential war being so not subtly suggested by Russia propaganda media.

http://sputniknews.com/europe/20150603/1022888233.html#ixzz3bzgd31Bz

Kiev’s Blockade of Transnistria Fraught With New War

Europe
12:59 03.06.2015(updated 13:02 03.06.2015)

Russia cries over termination of 1998 agreement. While they have terminated agreements with Ukraine themselves

Especially the 1994 Budapest Memorandum----AND the Helsinki Accords.

OUTLAW 09
06-03-2015, 10:41 AM
Russia is still stealing Ukrainian coal--are they economically hurting that much?????


OSCE monitors still see Russia stealing #coal from #donbas
http://uatoday.tv/politics/osce-monitors-still-see-russia-stealing-coal-from-donbas-431849.html … pic.twitter.com/ttsGGOErxj

OUTLAW 09
06-03-2015, 10:56 AM
Yatsenyuk: "Russia yday foiled a tripartite meeting, and today ordered its terrorists to begin a military operation" http://gazeta.ua/articles/np/_rosiya-pochala-vijskovu-operaciyu-acenyuk/629724 …

THIS ties into the Surkov surprise visit into the Donetsk yesterday as well.

First battle video out of this major Russian attack across the Minsk 2 contact line—CLEAR and PRESENT violation of Minsk 2.

#Marinka 03.06.2015 BATTLE https://youtu.be/lGcTXGPHSyE via @YouTube

#Maryinka UPD:1500 #Russian militants w/tanks attack,#UA soldiers hold positions,no encirclmnt:http://inforesist.org/1500-boevikov-pri-podderzhke-tankovoj-gruppy-nachali-nastuplenie-na-marinku/ … pic.twitter.com/29rwWUydEK

More than 1000 Russian troops with tanks are trying to storm #Marinka right now - ATO http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/3-june-more-than-1000-russian-troops-with-tanks-are-trying …

"We've successfully repelled another attack by enemy infantry group. The situation is complicated but under control" https://twitter.com/UaForces/status/606034134562144256 …

PHOTOS: Fires burn in #Marinka a front line town in #Ukraine following heavy fighting there this morning - @Liveuamap
pic.twitter.com/iYsfi4jYd7

According to various reports, the Russian-backed insurgents are attempting to surround Ukrainian forces in... http://fb.me/7rJKVaPCJ

#OSCE @olarhat: "3 OSCE cars drove already to contrariwise from #Maryinka

More GRAD salvos on #Mariinka.
'Situation complicated but under control'. I don't like that sentence!

"All units on the front lines in full readiness! If this is abstractive maneuver, our soldiers are ready. We pray" https://twitter.com/UaForces/status/606036519481147393 …

AND western leaders are totally asleep at the wheel and wanting a great stay in Garmisch Germany for G7 meeting--and do not really care what happens in the Ukraine.

12:05 @AMykhailova "Battle in #Maryinka since 5am, RUS used #Grad|s, tank and mortar fire for now, UKR firein reply"

Lysenko: Ukrainian military repeal off all attacks and hold their positions. http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/3-june-lysenko-ukrainian-military-repeal-off-all-attacks …

#MArinka 12:20
Non-stop canonade from all sides, also on the street, difficult to say who is shooting where. https://twitter.com/Serzzze/status/606040341259669504 …

Goebbels would have been proud!!!!

The greatest single example of the Russian propaganda 4Ds--dismiss, distract, distort, dismay designed to create the 2Ds distrust and doubt.
Notice how this has it all!!

From Russian wires: DNR spox Basurin says the rebels are not advancing to Marinka but the Ukrainians are simply "leaving."

From Interfax today:
BREAKING:
BASURIN: #DPR IS NOT ON LARGESCALE OFFENSIVE IN MARYINKA, UKRAINIAN TROOPS ARE LEAVING THIS POPULATED AREA OF THEIR OWN

OUTLAW 09
06-03-2015, 11:00 AM
AND it just keeps on getting bad from the reporting side--STILL not a single response out of DC, Paris and or Berlin.

Their own created Minsk 2 is going down in flames and yet they say nothing and that is "western leadership?????

By now they must certainly believe you cannot trust a single with emphasis on single word out od Putin and or Lavrov.

1:31PM
Road from #Kurakhovo to #Marinka is closed https://twitter.com/olarhat/status/606045536173604864 …

BREAKING: Footage from #Marinka frontline today, heavy fighting:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGcTXGPHSyE …

Unconfirmed:
"In #Krasnohorivka very difficult situation. There are KIA and surrounded by #Russia|ns"
via @Guderian_Xaba

Reports Of 4 Civilians And 12 Soldiers Wounded In Marinka And Krasnogorovka. http://www.interpretermag.com/ukraine-live-day-471-russian-backed-forces-launch-major-assaults-north-and-south-west-of-donetsk/#8627 …

Reports of up to 13 #Ukraine troops KIA in #Krasnohorivka. Unconfirmed so far.

BREAKING: Heavy artillery fire from #Donetsk this morning, situation is escalating it seems:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GCyizlD13RU&feature=youtu.be

Explosions are heard in Dzerzhinsk http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/3-june-explosions-are-heard-in-dzerzhinsk …

AND yet the West virtually demands from the Ukraine they hold to Minsk 2.

OUTLAW 09
06-03-2015, 11:51 AM
1:31PM
Road from #Kurakhovo to #Marinka is closed https://twitter.com/olarhat/status/606045536173604864 …

BEAKING: Footage from #Marinka frontline today, heavy fighting:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGcTXGPHSyE …

VIDEO Smoke rising from Marinka near Donetsk where an attack by Russias 'DPR' is going on.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZM0D15rp2U …


Fergal Keane ✔ @fergalkeane47
Ukraine serious escalation of fighting around Marinka near Donetsk. UKr claims rebel assault If confirmed would constitute most serious violation of Minsk 2 ceasefire. Weapons banned under deal are being used.

Detained Russian soldier is heavily WIA, crying&saying he's sorry. UA @psb4ukr

Fire At Sokol Market In Donetsk. http://www.interpretermag.com/ukraine-live-day-471-russian-backed-forces-launch-major-assaults-north-and-south-west-of-donetsk/#8633 … pic.twitter.com/rVXEX6HokN

#Donetsk Politboytsov str. 3
Hits, today. https://twitter.com/666_mancer/status/606059222015594497 …

OUTLAW 09
06-03-2015, 11:52 AM
SBU/SSU captured a Russian trained sabotage team member attempting to conduct a rail cut.

Photo indicates a cell phone detonator on a plastic charge on top of an anti tank mine---standard Spetsnaz IED training thus I do not believe he is a local.
goo.gl/ICzD9k
pic.twitter.com/ta9x6Y3leJ

#Ukraine’s Security Service arrested terrorist group controlled by #Russia's military #PHOTOS
http://euromaidanpress.com/2015/06/03/ukraines-security-service-arrested-terrorist-group-controlled-by-russian-military-intelligence-photos/ … pic.twitter.com/Y12OMNvmGw

VIDEO SBU released video of captured saboteurs trying to blow up railway near Kharkiv
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWcBE5t-TDE …

OUTLAW 09
06-03-2015, 11:53 AM
Russian humor:

Vladimir Putin
Ukraine shot down Sepp Blatter with a BUK provided by the CIA piloted by a mechanic.

OUTLAW 09
06-03-2015, 11:54 AM
Shelling Reported In Dzerzhynsk, north-west of Gorlovka: "Loud in Dzerzhynsk!!!" https://twitter.com/dimetros7776/status/606052388819083264 …

#Dzerzhynsk 1:55PM
Ours shot heavily on ruscists
https://twitter.com/YevhenS/status/606051581679804416 …

28th Brigade Say They Are Not Surrounded In Marinka. http://www.interpretermag.com/ukraine-live-day-471-russian-backed-forces-launch-major-assaults-north-and-south-west-of-donetsk/#8629 …

Kurakhovo checkpoint (sector B) to #DNR closed because of fighting #Mariinka #East-Ukraine

#Marinka 13:25
The bombing continues. Large number of casualties among the civilian population. https://twitter.com/666_mancer/status/606052411090845696 …

OUTLAW 09
06-03-2015, 11:56 AM
Russian mercenaries are taking loses that they at least are admitting to so the numbers are much higher as they always go low.

"DPR": at least 15 our soldiers killed http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/3-june-dpr-at-least-15-our-soldiers-killed …

BUT wait did not Interfax just release a press release quoting the DPR "that the Ukrainians had given up and left the city to them""--THEN why are they getting killed--by local citizens maybe????

OUTLAW 09
06-03-2015, 11:58 AM
Ah….the Russian "truth" comes out---so in fact the numerous articles on the demise of New Russia were in fact nothing more than a deep deception on the West and designed to lull.

Man did western news pundits "buy the story hook, line and massive sinker"--to include DC news pundits.

Just asked Strelkov: Surkov in Donbass? "Can't talk of it. Sorry." But he was there? "Da." Novorossiya dead? "Never." pic.twitter.com/edGhfUYh2L

OUTLAW 09
06-03-2015, 02:15 PM
Minsk 2 is now formally dead in the water and non existent.

Ukrainian General Staff confirms their orders to return all heavy artillery, MRLSs and tanks to the forward contact line. As Russia with her troops and mercenaries have clearly and deliberately violated Minsk 2.

NOW just what will be the western response especially they are all in Garmisch Germany enjoying the countryside while a war is being fought in the middle of Europe --a war they really do want to forget as they have absolutely no idea how to rein in an aggressor with a nuclear trigger finger dead set on the discrediting of NATO, the EU and especially his deep hatred of a decadent and neo liberal US.

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OUTLAW 09
06-03-2015, 02:17 PM
Minsk 2 is now formally dead in the water and non existent.

Ukrainian General Staff confirms their orders to return all heavy artillery, MRLSs and tanks to the forward contact line. As Russia with her troops and mercenaries have clearly and deliberately violated Minsk 2.

NOW just what will be the western response especially they are all in Garmisch Germany enjoying the countryside while a war is being fought in the middle of Europe --a war they really do want to forget as they have absolutely no idea how to rein in an aggressor with a nuclear trigger finger dead set on the discrediting of NATO, the EU and especially his deep hatred of a decadent and neo liberal US.

UKRAINIAN MILITARY INFORM OSCE ABOUT ENEMY'S PROVOCATION NEAR MARYINKA, KRASNOHORIVKA - HQ REPRESENTATIVE

Orig reports: MILITIA BEGAN ANOTHER STORM OF UKRAINIAN POSITIONS IN MARYINKA, CITY ON FIRE - MILITARY OPERATION HEADQUARTERS

BREAKING: A fresh attempt to take #Marinka is happening right now. Reported by the Military operation HQ

ATO speaker: New assault on #Ukraine positions in #Marinka. The city is on fire.

#BREAKINGNEWS
#Ukraine Army reports about a new big #Russia|n offensive to take #Marinka right now.
"The city is on fire

VIDEO Massive shell explosion supposedly in #Marinka knocks cameraman down https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09aF61EyK6Y … #Ukraine #Russia pic.twitter.com/licnIw8oCY

OUTLAW 09
06-03-2015, 02:18 PM
Minsk 2 is now formally dead in the water and non existent.

Ukrainian General Staff confirms their orders to return all heavy artillery, MRLSs and tanks to the forward contact line. As Russia with her troops and mercenaries have clearly and deliberately violated Minsk 2.

NOW just what will be the western response especially they are all in Garmisch Germany enjoying the countryside while a war is being fought in the middle of Europe --a war they really do want to forget as they have absolutely no idea how to rein in an aggressor with a nuclear trigger finger dead set on the discrediting of NATO, the EU and especially his deep hatred of a decadent and neo liberal US.

If War is back on? I don't know but Fog of War definitely is:https://twitter.com/xuilolala/status/606090487246823424

Be aware: #Russia|n propaganda sources spreading information that #Ukraine airforce sent attack planes from #Nikolayev.

OUTLAW 09
06-03-2015, 02:34 PM
For those news pundits and western leaders who professed to believe that a war in Central Europe was impossible--well think again we are at war now in Central Europe and one side has over 800 tanks and hundreds of artillery and MRLSs.

AND just what do we hear from Obama, Hollande and especially Merkel-TOTAL silence.


Minsk Agreement Officially Over? Ukraine's General Staff Says They Are Redeploying Heavy Weapons To The Front http://bit.ly/1M4AMqv

Gen Staff authorized Ukr Armed Forces to return fire w/ artillery near #Maryinka due to enemy offensive http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2015/06/3/7070024/ …

A Statement Of The General Staff of Ukraine: Militants broke Minsk agreements pic.twitter.com/bXl0X4jHEm http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/3-june-a-statement-of-the-general-staff-of-ukraine-militants …

Ukraine informed OSCE monitors: We are ready to use all means, #Maryinka. pic.twitter.com/aHvg73UGfk

#BREAKING Ukrainian forces say massive new assault on #Marinka happened just twenty minutes ago at 17:00 local time pic.twitter.com/4rl4JdTM5i


AND the Russian propaganda 4Ds kicks right in as always:
#DPR: "At least 15 of our soldiers killed. Total breakdown of #Minsk Agreement. #Kiev is to blame for it". Sure...déjà vu again in #Ukraine.

OUTLAW 09
06-03-2015, 03:09 PM
Interesting question--why is it that the Ukrainians seem to have more confidence in themselves than all of the Western leaders have?

Maybe it is because we are seeing for the first time in Europe a joint "whole of civil society" effort??

СММ ОБСЄ в Україні @OSCE_SMM
Complete breakdown of the ceasefire violations directly observed by the #OSCE_SMM, 2 June pic.twitter.com/Y0LjYDhKFc

Ukrainian military repels militant attack on Marinka without loss - Poltorak
http://www.unian.info/war/1085089-ukrainian-military-repels-militant-attack-on-marinka-without-loss-poltorak.html … pic.twitter.com/k5SeWlhAte

Everyone holding positsions! Reinforcements on the way. Noone left anything! Spirit is high! - Ua Army https://twitter.com/UaForces/status/606110754748657664 …

Source in Ukr reinforcement unit in Mariinka said 'fight almost over, many KIA separatists' But now possibly seeing 2nd wave of attack

#Odessa 28mech brigade repels RU attacks at #Maryinka,Odessa residents post words of support &collect medicines pic.twitter.com/A8eBl9AkU8

#Ukraine forced to use artillery and heavy weapons to defend #Marinka & #Krasnogorovka http://news.liga.net/news/politics/5923824-sily_ato_vynuzhdeny_primenit_artilleriyu_protiv_bo evikov_genshtab.htm … #Putin pic.twitter.com/Rd6u2v8I0L

Chilling video from today's #Marinka, East Ukraine: guy films fighting, a shell nearly hits him too
https://youtu.be/09aF61EyK6Y

OUTLAW 09
06-03-2015, 03:14 PM
More Russian propaganda 4Ds--dismiss, distract, distort, dismay--designed to create distrust and doubt.

Heavy fighting in #Marinka continues. #Russia|n forces reporting in their accounts that they capture Marinka. Many dead and wounded

Russian military TV channel Zvezda now reporting very dramatically about the new fighting by #Donetsk:
https://twitter.com/zvezdanews/status/606101299252367360 …

#Russia's Ministry of Defense outlet 'Star' claims 15 people killed in Donbas today https://twitter.com/zvezdanews/status/606108698700840960 …

#Mariinka: 1 civilian killed, 4 wounded as of 16:55, June 3 as a result of #Russia'n-separatist shelling. #Ukraine https://twitter.com/666_mancer/status/606105479467663361 …

VIDEO Multiple explosions (poss GRAD) in #Marinka/#Mariinka 5 AM this morning https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEQLFjbCxcw … #Ukraine #Putin pic.twitter.com/leRebKhYHm

Some #Donetsk locals report of RUS & DNR TV channels off-stream, some other of DNR ones only.

OUTLAW 09
06-03-2015, 03:16 PM
Strelkov has more nasty words for Putin’s indecisiveness over Novorossiya. “The US is beating Russia and Putin.” http://tvrain.ru/teleshow/here_and_now/strelkov_ssha_medlenno_valjat_rossiju_i_putina_byv-388510/ …

"We now have a very creative predator in the Eastern European ecosystem" http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/natosource/post-crimea-europe-nato-in-the-age-of-limited-wars … pic.twitter.com/ex6AZCPoKd

SBU detained UA low ranking officer who deserted in Dec.2014 & charged him with "creating terrorist group" https://twitter.com/ServiceSsu/status/606090333932371968 …

OUTLAW 09
06-03-2015, 04:11 PM
Because of those pesky 173rd Airborne guys we are on the verge of a possible Russian declaration of the use of force "aboard".

Russian militants page In VK
"US troops from Yavoriv are now going to the East"
https://vk.com/wall-57424472_61617 … pic.twitter.com/zvk0tEjUdQ

Russian "rebels" report 300 american paratroopers in full gear moving to Donbass. Ukrs pleading "rebels" for mercy https://twitter.com/strelkov_info/status/606122217320148992 …

Speaker of upper house of Russian parliament asks members to stay close, another emergency session is possible soon. https://meduza.io/en/news/2015/06/03/russia-s-senate-speaker-warns-another-emergency-session-could-be-imminent …

Why is Matvienko saying there may be an emergency Federation Council meeting...? http://www.interfax.ru/445527

@MarQs__ @meduzaproject @sterion75 "usage of troops abroad" https://meduza.io/news/2015/06/03/matvienko-predupredila-o-vozmozhnom-sozyve-ekstrennogo-zasedaniya-soveta-federatsii … pic.twitter.com/wGAjFHc32g

OUTLAW 09
06-03-2015, 04:12 PM
Dnipropetrovsk admin:confirmed that they received 18 wounded.Doctors 28 Brigade on front line have everything they need

Hard to call at this stage. Ukrainian army say they brought up artillery to drive off a major tank and infantry attack...

Grads being used around Maryinka, near #Donetsk. Fighting seems v localised at present. Ukrainians say they're holding positions

I still can't find a logical explanation that makes sense for todays assault on Marinka

Confirmed that the 22nd Russian GRU Spetsnaz Brigade is in the Ukraine:
Militrangehrige der 22. Speznas-Brigade #GRU #Russlands, die im #Luhansker Gebiet agiert... http://nplm.in/7gd pic.twitter.com/tDPUXiKhko

Heavy Fighting In Marinka, But What Is The Significance Of This Battle? http://bit.ly/1ePE5qX pic.twitter.com/Xpci15bPLZ

Attack on #Marinka/#Mariinka may be an initial step in encircling #Mariupol & #Putin plan for his Novo-crap pic.twitter.com/bUWzNA8P9L

Fighting for Maryinka goes on, new ATO forces sent to back up
http://www.unian.info/politics/1085123-fighting-for-maryinka-goes-on-new-ato-forces-sent-to-back-up.html pic.twitter.com/2Yg9A5XIU9

ANOTHER ongoing major battle is now finished:
#Tsaplienko: Hard battle in #Luhanske area finished, UKR: 1 KIA, 11 WIA
via @vitaliy00700


MORE Russian propaganda---

Separatists Claim To Have Taken Most Of Marinka, Also Report Artillery Duel On Donetsk-Mariupol Highway http://www.interpretermag.com/ukraine-live-day-471-russian-backed-forces-launch-major-assaults-north-and-south-west-of-donetsk/#8645