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

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Friday, Jan 9, near Old Bridge in #Lugansk fierce fighting all day http://mignews.com.ua/regiony/lugansk/4528739.html …

Militants shelled Stanytsia Luhanska w/ artillery, mortars. Damaged kids' sports school. Close-in combat on
http://moskal.in.ua/?categoty=news&news_id=1358 …

#Estonia, #Lithuania, #Denmark & #UK call on #EU, #NATO to respond to #Russia's information war, #propaganda
https://euobserver.com/foreign/127155

Russia-backed rebels intensify shelling in east #Ukraine. Reports of civilian casualties. http://bbc.in/1zZQyLM
pic.twitter.com/H1Xnj5Psie

Ru helicopters probing the border along #Crimea x 4 yesterday
http://inforesist.org/pogranichniki-zafiksirovali-chetyre-vertoleta-nad-administrativnoj-granicej-s-krymom/ …
pic.twitter.com/7OtdOsNvrL

Finally on western media again:
#Ukraine crisis: Rebels 'intensify #Donetsk and #luhansk attacks'
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-30744825?ocid=socialflow_twitter …

Russian militants ambushed the patrol battalion of the National guard. 2 killed. pic.twitter.com/f58spMGj9m
http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/9-january-russian-militants-ambushed--the-patrol-battalion …

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Dmitry Tymchuk, Head of the Center for Military and Political Research, Coordinator of the Information Resistance group, Member of Parliament (People’s Front)
01.08.2015
Translated and edited by Voices of Ukraine

Operational data from Information Resistance:

Russian-terrorist forces continue to regroup their forces, most of which are concentrated in several directions – the seaside stretch (along the axis of Novoazovsk – Mariupol), south of Donetsk (Dokuchajevsk – Telmanove), and along the Alchevsk – Stakhanov stretch (including the units blocking the Debaltseve bridgehead from the south and east). The accumulation of the majority of material and technical resources (ammunition, fuel, spare parts) at “centralized” depots and bases continues in these areas. Separate enemy formations operate in the western and northwestern parts of Donetsk, at the Horlivka – Yenakiieve junction, and are also fighting in the area north of Luhansk, carrying out “local” assignments.

In the western and northwestern districts of Donetsk that are directly adjacent to the advanced positions of the Ukrainian troops, the activity of the Russian-terrorist forces continue to be observed. The activity of at least three maneuverable enemy fire groups (that consist of armored vehicles, including tanks and anti-aircraft guns and mortars mounted on vehicles) has been observed. These maneuverable groups periodically launch fire strikes at the positions of Ukrainian troops, and then change their positions. During the attacks, these groups serve as fire support for the insurgent infantry units.

In addition, in the stretch from Mariinka to Yasynuvata, at least two artillery groups of Russian-terrorist forces provide fire support for the acting formations of Russian troops (6 firing batteries, including cannon artillery, anti-tank guns, MLRS). Periodically, these artillery groups are reinforced with men and weapons for specific tasks (mostly mortars and MLRS), from among the units concentrated in the southeast of Donetsk (Shakhtarsk – Starobesheve).

In the area of Chornukhyne (Debaltseve bridgehead), units of Russian-terrorist forces are shelling the advanced positions of Ukrainian troops with heavy infantry weapons. A reinforcement of these enemy units with armored vehicles has been observed (for the last 2 days, the arrival of up to 10 armored vehicles was recorded). The insurgent units operating in this area are assisted by a consolidated artillery group (up to 20 cannon artillery guns, mostly 122-mm D-30 howitzers and 6 units of MLRS BM-21 “Grad”). Spotters and artillery scouts have also been observed at work.

On the stretch of Dokuchajevsk – Telmanove, the tension continues to grow – insurgents are increasing their combat activity (primarily in the form of reconnaissance and sabotage operations). Also, combat formations of Russian-terrorist forces at this site are reinforcing their battle formations – powerful weapons systems (artillery and armored vehicles) are being pulled forward into the front line, in the second echelon, tactical reserves disguised as Russian Armed Forces “militia” units are being created, and a full-scale supply and logistics system is unfolding.

In the area of Novoazovsk – Shyrokyne, as well as to the north of it, enemy battalion tactical groups (BTGs) carry out a partial rearrangement to improve their system of defense.

Gangs operating on the territory of the “LNR” [Luhansk People’s Republic] have dramatically increased their anti-tank capabilities. As such, Stakhanov “Cossacks” and A. Mozgovoy “brigades” have been observed to be armed with numerous MT-12 “Rapira” 100-mm anti-tank guns, which arrived from the territory of the Russian Federation. In addition, these gangs receive deliveries of anti-tank guided missiles (a transfer of about 20 ATGM “Fagot” and several Russian ATGM “Kornet” have been recorded).

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Here is a #Russian #soldier captured fighting in #Ukraine. And they claim they are fighting #Fascism!
pic.twitter.com/5JMvTsf9s2

Ukrainian Cyborgs at meteorology station Donetsk Airport 'celebrating' day 229of defence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=451rfmHRy1U …
pic.twitter.com/ypEtVM9QSK

Donetsk is hearing some of the heaviest fire in a long time right now. Heavy-calibre weapon fire audible from the city centre.

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Heavy fighting by #Donetsk Airport.

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Security esp in areas controlled by "DPR” said to have deteriorated considerably in past 24hrs - @OSCE_SMM
http://www.osce.org/ukraine-smm/133751 …

Here's members of the Russian 53rd brigade whose brigade shot down #MH17 with one of their Buks. Time to speak up?
pic.twitter.com/uVTdUUKkWa

In Mariupol police seized an arsenal of weapons.
https://m.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1406692296290107&set=a.1393213520971318.1073741829.100008480501304&type=1&theater …
pic.twitter.com/LFASDtdH3C

Ukrainian Security Agents Detain Russian-Backed Fighter Suspected of Preparing Terrorist Attacks in Zaporozhe
http://www.interpretermag.com/ukraine-live-326-two-civilians-and-four-ukrainian-soldiers-killed-over-last-24-hours/#6134 …

Scouts of 346th Brigade of GRU Spetsnaz in the Occupied Crimea:
http://nplm.in/gjb
pic.twitter.com/UqPFaZpDKA

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This is the field where the BUK missile was launched according
http://bit.ly/1FArBiH

Dutch newspaper AD: eyewitnesses tell where the missile was launched
http://bit.ly/1tTyMxl #MH17

Marcel van den Berg☁ @marcelvandenber
#MH17 was hit by missile exactly head-on. Course of missile 295 degrees.

German journalists @correctiv_org prove what #Ukraine supporters knew since summer: #MH17 was shot down by #Russia
https://mh17.correctiv.org/english

We're going to publish additional research on Flight #MH17 over the next few days. Stay tuned.
http://mh17.correctiv.org

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#humantrafficking @evasiljeva reports #Russia|n officials selling #Ukraine POWs as slaves to Caucas,@ChechenCenter finds 8 in #Chechnya @hrw

#Ukraine POWs turn up in #Chechnya as slaves,sold by #Kadyrovites

Moscow Dissects Central-Eastern Europe. @CEPA 's Janusz Bugajski dissects the ongoing strategy. http://wp.me/p4ja0Z-rmW

Russia's Downgrade Paints Horrific Picture Of Economic Collapse "No Growth Until 2017" http://www.businessinsider.com/russias-economic-collapse-2015-1#ixzz3OOlmo7z5 … pic.twitter.com/H5oaCvK3QO

Separatist Militant: “On the 1st of #January the #Kremlin Began an Open #War against the Russians in...
http://fb.me/2EakXGmN2

Luhansker “Kopfschuss” für die #Kremlpropaganda
Die Aufmerksamkeit des #InformNapalmTeams hat ein...
http://fb.me/3WBe8I6Uk

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Ladies & gentlemen, I present to you August 2014 Russian invasion force at Golovinka basecamp
http://ukraineatwar.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/aaas-report-may-show-actual-russian.html …
pic.twitter.com/nbVutgEFPI

@olliecarroll: Horlivka resident: "City is practically closed to outsiders"

"Horlivka resident: "We're talking abt many soldiers.100+ KAMAZ vehicles, some full of weapons. Vehicles based in car showroom, HQ opposite"

From conversations w Horlivka resident: "Russian armed forces now based in city, alongside ex Bezler division, DNR forces - all separate"

Horlivka resident: "Some have Russian chevrons, some say they are from Russia, with others you can tell by the accent"

"From conversations w Horlivka resident: "Russian armed forces now based in city, alongside ex Bezler division, DNR forces - all separate"

#Ukraine forces destroyed 2 #Russia|n tanks from Rus fighters this morning near Dokuchaevsk
http://novosti.dn.ua/details/242217/
pic.twitter.com/uEPiACLiYC

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RUSSIAN troops have stepped up their troop activities in the last few days to levels just after their invasion in August 2014:

Russian Army escalates war against Ukraine
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-30744825 …
pic.twitter.com/xQ0kMLgSV4

12/18/2014, Putler: "Russian soldiers fight against Ukraine for free, without salary" https://vk.com/id200487799?z=photo200487799_344873589%2Fphotos200 487799 … pic.twitter.com/foccWv6yH7

Russian Army losses today: 2 tanks, 9 KIA, 18 WIA of Russia's 33rd and 136th Mechanized infantry brigades in Dokuchaevsk, Ukraine.

US intel group @AAAS_News confirms my assessment!
Base established in #March to invade #Ukraine in #August!
pic.twitter.com/xxHhe95dtb

Massive Russian base used for #kremlin 's intervention in #Ukraine reportedly uncovered http://uatoday.tv/geopolitics/massive-russian-base-used-for-kremlin-s-intervention-in-ukraine-reportedly-uncovered-401872.html …
pic.twitter.com/GOn5YgfWDm

"Making sense of the latest Russian offensives in eastern Ukraine"
http://conflictreport.info/2015/01/09/making-sense-of-the-latest-russian-offensives-in-eastern-ukraine/ …

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BREAKING!
4 Russian APC BMP-97 Vystrel are in Krasnodon now. Same RU GRU/FSB unit killed "Batman"
http://youtu.be/W60GEa1dRxw
pic.twitter.com/69reTZFTpt

Terrorist forces in #Donbas brag of firing at #Ukraine forces"entire light day".Right after another RU human.convoy
pic.twitter.com/3TtEcoqPmm

#Donetsk - two 2S9 NONA mortars cruising along the airport area, shelling to both sides.
https://www.facebook.com/skitalec/posts/868693976495898?pnref=story … pic.twitter.com/Dh0kk50bc5

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With pressure now increasing on Russia with more analysis pointing to their involvement in the shot down of MH17--then comes out via info war a "new witness" lending confusion to the matter.

They are really fast at this and interesting to watch them attempt to divert attention and muddy the waters.

Latest trend in creating MH17-confusion is to introduce A NEW launch location based on ONE verbal report from local.
pic.twitter.com/G5PrmE1buQ

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Vladimir Putin's Long Shadow - the fifth estate:
devastating 45 min documentary on sleaze & thuggishness of Putin regime https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAAMPiF_BSg&feature=youtu.be …

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Ukrainian guerrilla units are in full swing---there has been one small announcement that they are even operating inside the Russian border side to Rostov.

6 freight cars loaded with Russian Army weapons has been blown up today by Ukrainian guerillas in Donetsk. 300 Russian occupants KIA&WIA.

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BREAKING!
4 Russian APC BMP-97 Vystrel are in Krasnodon now. Same RU GRU/FSB unit killed "Batman"
http://youtu.be/W60GEa1dRxw
pic.twitter.com/69reTZFTpt

Terrorist forces in #Donbas brag of firing at #Ukraine forces"entire light day".Right after another RU human.convoy
pic.twitter.com/3TtEcoqPmm

#Donetsk - two 2S9 NONA mortars cruising along the airport area, shelling to both sides.
https://www.facebook.com/skitalec/posts/868693976495898?pnref=story … pic.twitter.com/Dh0kk50bc5

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJbHQebulgI … More tensions/infighting in #Russia-held #Luhansk, #Ukraine. Killed warlord Bednov's base surrounded in #Krasnodon.

"Batman" was eliminated by Plotnitsky.http://www.rferl.org/content/ukraine-luhansk-bednov-plotnitsky-assassination-russia-torture-arrest/26775163.html …
#Russia #Ukraine #GRU photo via @novostidnua
pic.twitter.com/30aNT4VmeU

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and Commander of "Odessa rebels" says 90% of my fighters are from Russia. Yes local rebels ... NOT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-zarAjs5iI&app=desktop …

HEAVY MLRS VOLLEY HIT NORTHERN #DONETSK SUBURBS AS WE SPEAK.
pic.twitter.com/mDhYu2QVl5

In #Luhansk;Trehizbenka,Krymske,Stanitsa-Luganska,Schastya and Valuisky were attacked with #Grad missiles TODAY!
1 civ injured

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Massive Russian base could be 40 sqkm & larger than heathrow found by @DajeyPetros. Question: why didn't so called 'journos' find it?

Since 7AM illegal armed groups opened fire 34 times on UKR forces w/ mostly heavy weapons - tanks, artillery & Grad –
https://www.facebook.com/ato.news


We need to really ask ourselves why NATO/UK/Fra/GER didn't/couldn't find/release info about the base found by @DajeyPetros.

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Russian Howitzers filmed today in #Donetsk, eastern #Ukraine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYSYXqBZUz4 …

Russian tanks visible at Aug 31st sat.img at Lugansk Airport.
pic.twitter.com/ygsnZmjtxj

This is the FIRST EVER (mortar) impact I have seen on a satellite image (at Lugansk Airport). Also fires visible.
pic.twitter.com/1wF7XT18nW

Google Earth (finally) shows updated pictures from Luhansk Airport Aug 31st with ONGOING battle!!! via @kaizen_consu
pic.twitter.com/mldyigpLy5

Very likely some Russian burning armor at Lugansk airport August 31st.
pic.twitter.com/NcEqNyUYTL

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Formal announcement of the Ukrainian guerrilla war in the Donbas.

Front for Liberation of Donbass & Lugansk: 300 Ru forces killed /wounded when pro-ukr forces detonated arms shipment

https://www.facebook.com/FrOsDon/posts/562375907232033 …

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#Russia|n #SOF cleans"volunteers".Drain Novor...or preparation for war on full scale?

http://bit.ly/1tVI9N0
pic.twitter.com/MwZT1OytVU

Russian airborne forces (VDV) Generals Lentsov then Vyaznikov on ground in occupied Donbas to prepare for (more) war.

15 trails leading into bushes with Russian armor hiding in there at Lugansk Airport Aug 31st
pic.twitter.com/JNX8u6nlWd

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Ru special forces take control of separatist base, Odessa near #Lugansk http://lugansk-news.com/russian-army-units-in-krasnodon-blocked-the-base-of-local-terrorists-at-least-4-russian-bpm-97-vystrel-in-the-video/ … @LUGANSK_TODAY
pic.twitter.com/x5iG5u1AOh

Russian terrorist eliminated by Ukrainian Army
https://vk.com/id268162616
pic.twitter.com/X7EGqQkGci

This is how #Russian_invaders look when you ask them if they kill each other: "All propaganda,fakes and provocation!"
pic.twitter.com/uLiwpuHh1o

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Buk 332 that shot down #MH17 came to #Ukraine with a 9S18M1 Target Acquisition Radar & a 9S470 Command Post Vehicle.
pic.twitter.com/8DRQtfSzSU

9S18M1 Target Acq. Radar identifies friend or foe
9S470 Command Post assigns targets
therefore #Russia officers gave order to fire at #MH17

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Artillery shelling in #Luhansk region kill 14-yo girl, her mother & 64-yo grandmother

http://nbnews.com.ua/ua/news/140649/
pic.twitter.com/gY7WFnXnjA


Nightly routine in #Donetsk
#Gestapo,äh #OMON,äh #DNR police stopping people, searching cars.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLPafuG9L1g …
pic.twitter.com/IrkdwLemV3

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Open source analysis of the Russian invasion in August 2014 using Google Earth---the question arises why did the western intelligence agencies NOT see the same thing and WHY the term "incursion" is used WHEN the term "invasion" is exactly what it was.

@DajeyPetros situation on 31 august
pic.twitter.com/j0nUn8t4j7

It looks like @Google and @GoogleEarth has updated a HUGE area near Lugansk. They are being REALLY nice to me :D.

Artillery firing position of Russian invasion army near Lugansk Airport August 31st
pic.twitter.com/sHiSORS3Ma

Maybe even S300 and some more of Russian army near Lugansk Airport August 31st.
pic.twitter.com/C70U9rTgPB

A whole bunch of supply/support vehicles for the Russian invasion army at Lugansk Airport August 31st.
pic.twitter.com/94sqJ4dMSa

Two dugin Ukrainian BTRs facing these superior Russian numbers at Lugansk airport August 31st.
pic.twitter.com/6KtjCHXEY1

This whole treeline is full of firing positions/tanks at 4,5 kms distance of Lugansk Airport. I counted some 20.
pic.twitter.com/fEwfpyRI6Y

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Milchakov, a Neo-nazi sadist in #Russia's special forces posts photo of himself riding on BMP in east #Ukraine
#Putin pic.twitter.com/hEr1bQrrwr

After shooting of"Batman"&raids #Russia-SOF,"militia"in tens call-SBU&ask for amnesty.
http://bit.ly/1x9tBno
pic.twitter.com/B98o9qJw8F

They found Kalashnikovs, RPGs, ammunition, grenades, topographic map of Sloviansk + lists of OSCE monitoring teams
http://www.sbu.gov.ua/sbu/control/uk/publish/article?art_id=135852&cat_id=39574 …

Ukraine security service seized a weapons cache of ”DNR“ terrorists in Artemivsk,Donetsk region

Yulia Kharlamova is also an FSB operative who allegedly organized #Kiev provocations
http://ukrainewarlog.blogspot.com/2014/10/violent-kiev-clashes-provocation.html …
Denial: http://youtu.be/B4tAGXUPA3M

On her video posted on @vkontakte she calls Milchakov a hero "by going to defend #Luhansk Peoples republic," #Ukraine
http://youtu.be/ff8Ue-S3VEw

Massive destruction and desperate people after Russian #Grad salvos on #Stanitsa_Luhanska.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDFDTQS1y0k …
pic.twitter.com/yrg6lge8wb

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Irregular Brigade commander : "90% of our Brigade are Russians. Why Russian Army fights against us ?"
http://censor.net.ua/video_news/319442/nasha_brigada_na_90_sostoit_iz_rossiyan_ne_ponimay u_pochemu_rossiyane_voyuyut_protiv_nas_banda_odess a?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter …

ATO HQ: situation's worsening in ATO area
http://mw.ua/UKRAINE/ato-hq-situation-s-worsening-in-ato-area-884_.html …

Piece I did for the King's College blog - Social media and conflict zones: the new evidence base for policymaking https://blogs.kcl.ac.uk/policywonkers/social-media-and-conflict-zones-the-new-evidence-base-for-policymaking/ …

Eliot Higgins @EliotHiggins
I see Stratfor put together a diagram of a barrel bomb based on my work
pic.twitter.com/tyJ470L8IK

Tanks, rocket systems&another military equipment, manpower, fuel etc.-learn about real Russia's convoys covered...
http://fb.me/4k6vrgKcV

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The "real convoys behind those white trucks
http://atocrimea.ukrinform.ua/en/publication/the-real-convoys-behind-white-trucks … @NSDC_ua
pic.twitter.com/JprXhUHvUG

Seizing Assets in #Crimea, From Shipyard to Film Studio http://nyti.ms/14FD0g5

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Buk 332 that shot down #MH17 came to #Ukraine with a 9S18M1 Target Acquisition Radar & a 9S470 Command Post Vehicle.
pic.twitter.com/8DRQtfSzSU

9S18M1 Target Acq. Radar identifies friend or foe
9S470 Command Post assigns targets
therefore #Russia officers gave order to fire at #MH17

SU-25, #MH17 and the Problems with Keeping a Story Straight
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2015/01/10/su-25-mh17-and-the-problems-with-keeping-a-story-straight/ …
pic.twitter.com/nLhYPxWp8N

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Still trying to understand just why the current US government attempts to "maintain" the idea that Russia is conducting an "incursion" vs. "invasion"
especially after Google Earth and open source analysts prove what the entire western ISR capabilities seems unable to "see".

Via open source and Google one can now fully understand the Russian "invasion".

Google Earth shows ACTUAL attack of Russian army on Lugansk Airport Aug 31st
http://ukraineatwar.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/google-earth-shows-attack-of-russian.html …
pic.twitter.com/Zm8JhAr7gy

See the trails? Russians advance BEHIND A VILLAGE and take positions IN there. Lugansk Airport Aug 31st
pic.twitter.com/l8kRnjR6Gt

Ukrainian defensive position Lugansk Airport. 1 tank 2 BTR and something... Aug 31st.
pic.twitter.com/92rE9cL0Ef

Another Ukrainian defensive position. 2 tanks, 1 BTR. Lugansk Airport Aug 31. pic.twitter.com/vEfaX8T5PF

Ukrainian defensive position near Lugansk Airport Aug 31st. 2 tanks and 1 BTR.
pic.twitter.com/UNzoRlBC0v

Why do Ukrainians have their vehicles parked groups IN THE OPEN while an attack is going on? Lugansk Airport Aug 31st
pic.twitter.com/bBiafFFnhi

Shelled and destroyed Russian positions. Some vehicles still intact. Lugansk Airport Aug 26th.
pic.twitter.com/GPakJAEUTJ

Now THAT is some SERIOUS blast. Lugansk Airport Aug 26th. Before and after.
pic.twitter.com/JlECjd1ID1

HEAVILIY shelled area by Ukrainians, but there is nothing there. Maybe one position hit. Lugansk Airport Aug 31st.
pic.twitter.com/nCPeNcPpXO

Defensive fortifications built by the Russians near Lugansk Airport Aug 31st. Probably for in case of a counterattack
pic.twitter.com/913q9RSU4T

Another Russian MSTA artillery battery near Lugansk Airport. August 31th.
pic.twitter.com/5XlUDvi1GG

Some SERIOUS transports by train seem to have been ofloaded here. Lugansk Airport August 31.
pic.twitter.com/HBvh6g7wKi

Battery of Russian MSTA and 2S1 Gvozdika. Lugansk Airport August 31st.
ic.twitter.com/v4hYOEKjow

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Russian winter offense has started over the last few days and the West has been so tied in knots over Paris---the global media seems to be missing it.

BREAKING: Large scale bombardment of #Donetsk airport, #Avdeevka and #Pisky started by #Russia|n fighters
http://www.62.ua/news/708424

#BREAKINGNEWS
EXTREMELY HEAVY BATTLES AROUND #DONETSK AIRPORT RIGHT NOW
HEAVY GUN FIRE AND EXPLOSIONS.

BREAKING: New record of 52 #Russia|n attacks hit #Ukraine towns and positions yesterday.

In #Pisky something difficult today, #Russia|ns using heavy 250mm artillery"

Inch'Allah!
Chechen-Russian invasion forces in the center of #Donetsk city
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZR9Uj3lrCH4 …
pic.twitter.com/bDLpEM7MD5
"Local Separatists" NOT Islamic terrorists like the West would call them in Paris

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Fighting on ALL frontlines in #Ukraine. Talk about peace.

pic.twitter.com/TrCfcTgvip

As U prbbly gathered by now, #CharlieHebdo events are used (designed?) as smokescreen 4 INTENSE #Russia offensive in #Donbas .

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Russian winter offense has started over the last few days and the West has been so tied in knots over Paris---the global media seems to be missing it.

BREAKING: Large scale bombardment of #Donetsk airport, #Avdeevka and #Pisky started by #Russia|n fighters
http://www.62.ua/news/708424

#BREAKINGNEWS
EXTREMELY HEAVY BATTLES AROUND #DONETSK AIRPORT RIGHT NOW
HEAVY GUN FIRE AND EXPLOSIONS.

BREAKING: New record of 52 #Russia|n attacks hit #Ukraine towns and positions yesterday.

In #Pisky something difficult today, #Russia|ns using heavy 250mm artillery"

Inch'Allah!
Chechen-Russian invasion forces in the center of #Donetsk city
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZR9Uj3lrCH4 …
pic.twitter.com/bDLpEM7MD5
"Local Separatists" NOT Islamic terrorists like the West would call them in Paris

Nonstop artillery and GRAD impacts at #Donetsk airport. Never heard such heavy fighting since a very long time. Serious escalation!

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Nonstop artillery and GRAD impacts at #Donetsk airport. Never heard such heavy fighting since a very long time. Serious escalation!

Ukrainian snipers shot down today A LOT of Russian soldiers from 107th Brigade of RU Ministry for Internal Affairs.
pic.twitter.com/OiLxd5wLLy

Holy ........t what on earth was THIS??? Intense sounds of explosions and then many lights went off..#Donetsk

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NEW RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE:

PLEASE LISTEN TO THIS, THIS IS #DONETSK RIGHT NOW:http://vocaroo.com/i/s1aXRCps8t7y

guess it's safe to say that ceasefire is absolutely dead and a new offensive has begun in #Donetsk

Many lights are dark now in #Donetsk after HEAVY explosions via @MarQs__ pic.twitter.com/Vkb2Ne0bjp

At the moment fierce battles are going on in: Donetsk, Dokuchaevsk, Makiїvka, Avdiїvka

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NEW RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE:

PLEASE LISTEN TO THIS, THIS IS #DONETSK RIGHT NOW:http://vocaroo.com/i/s1aXRCps8t7y

guess it's safe to say that ceasefire is absolutely dead and a new offensive has begun in #Donetsk

Many lights are dark now in #Donetsk after HEAVY explosions via @MarQs__ pic.twitter.com/Vkb2Ne0bjp

At the moment fierce battles are going on in: Donetsk, Dokuchaevsk, Makiїvka, Avdiїvka

And naturally the Russian info war at work:

LOL
Pro-#Russia|n sources reporting #Ukraine is attacking them on ALL fronts.

ATO HQ: Situation is getting worse. 41 shelling from the morning
http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/11-january-ato-hq-situation-is-getting-worse-41-shelling …
pic.twitter.com/r82NJFM0xB

BREAKING: Dozens of bright flashes just seen on the #Donetsk live cam, even the explosions were visible

Non-stop explosions in Donetsk for some hours
http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/11-january-nonstop-explosions-in-donetsk-for-some-hours … pic.twitter.com/fb48glBJst

#BREAKING just spoke to people on the ground in #Donetsk and a new offensive is expected any time now

Attacks continue along west #Donetsk w/ heavy weapons as Ru force attempt to overrun Ukr positions pic.twitter.com/Szxhz0JSbA
VIDEO: WAR IN #DONETSK - VOLUME WARNING! GRAD IMPACTS AT #DONETSK AIRPORT
http://www.vidup.de/v/Z13tz/

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Evidence of funding"DNR&LC"by RF in amount of monthly spending on project"New #Russia"http://bit.ly/1yUS7Q2
pic.twitter.com/UT1UcixCdX

Militants attacked Ukrainian checkpoint near Mariupol
http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/11-january-militants-attacked-ukrainian-checkpoint-near-mariupol …

364 PEOPLE SAID TRAPPED AFTER ARTILLERY FIRE HITS ZASYADKO MINE IN EASTERN UKRAINE

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And naturally the Russian info war at work:

LOL
Pro-#Russia|n sources reporting #Ukraine is attacking them on ALL fronts.

ATO HQ: Situation is getting worse. 41 shelling from the morning
http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/11-january-ato-hq-situation-is-getting-worse-41-shelling …
pic.twitter.com/r82NJFM0xB

BREAKING: Dozens of bright flashes just seen on the #Donetsk live cam, even the explosions were visible

Non-stop explosions in Donetsk for some hours
http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/11-january-nonstop-explosions-in-donetsk-for-some-hours … pic.twitter.com/fb48glBJst

#BREAKING just spoke to people on the ground in #Donetsk and a new offensive is expected any time now

Attacks continue along west #Donetsk w/ heavy weapons as Ru force attempt to overrun Ukr positions pic.twitter.com/Szxhz0JSbA
VIDEO: WAR IN #DONETSK - VOLUME WARNING! GRAD IMPACTS AT #DONETSK AIRPORT
http://www.vidup.de/v/Z13tz/


#BREAKINGNEWS
Intense fighting around #Donetsk #airport.
Both sides exchanging heavy MLRS barrages after Russian storming attempts.

VIDEO: WAR IN #DONETSK - VOLUME WARNING! GRAD IMPACTS AT #DONETSK AIRPORT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EATTXcMofGQ …

Heavy military vehicles on the move in Olenivka
MAP LOCATION: https://www.google.de/maps/place/Elenovka/@47.7617195,37.7755085,10z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x40e0bc1d37ae8f35:0xd37a278378da9 6be …

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More outgoing #Grad projectiles were reported in Russian-held #Kirovks.
Entire northern front line under MLRS fire, we can conclude.
#Trokhizbenka was hit by many #Grad missiles this evening, seen flying by and impacting by residents in #Shchastya.
pic.twitter.com/yHm2znQjxs

Residents in Russian-occupied #Alchevsk report 10 #Grad missiles outgoing 2 hours ago. Direction unclear. Krymske or Debaltseve.

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.@AtlanticCouncil VP @BarryPavel on national security debate: “Whatever we're doing, it doesn't seem to be working”

http://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=1709 …

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Another (pro) Russian fighter asks Putin to rein in corrupt Russian-sponsored warlords in Donbas Ukraine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRMZF

In Donetsk spotted Russian Vodnik GAZ-3937 armored vehicle
pic.twitter.com/Oy3L7WAbUL
http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/11-january-in-donetsk-spotted-russian-vodnik-gaz3937-armored …"

Revisiting the InformNapalm Story about the T-90 Near Lugansk International Airport http://bit.ly/1DyD0NO

AP footage of Chechen fighters at a separatist checkpoint in the Donetsk region on Sunday http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/-Ukraine-Chechens/

[kaur]

Outlaw mentioned slready Vodnik vehicle in Krasnodon Luhansk. This is te video. Many Kamaz armoured vehicles.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kulTLXFjqw4

Watching this kind of Russian modern vehicles column makes me belive that this story is true.

http://www.unian.info/society/1028406-sbu-intercepts-telephone-call-among-militants-about-tanks-rockets-and-soldiers-from-medvedev.html

One blogger claims that cossack is talking in interceptedd call about this Russian general.

http://yadocent.livejournal.com/662426.html

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#BREAKINGNEWS
ATO hq: "THERE ARE MORE RUSSIAN TROOPS IN DONBAS THAN OUR UNITS. This includes terrorists and Russian Federation soldiers."

#Report
Rus radio message intercepted in #Donetsk: 39 KIA by Ukr missile
Most fr. #Vladikavkaz
http://www.62.ua/news/709090
pic.twitter.com/4ba7rNfiub

#Luhansk Ppl's Republic" is fed w/electricity fr. #Ukraine -held #Shchastya power plant -YET #Russia artillery shells it WEEKLY

Interpol issues wanted notice for ousted Ukrainian president Viktor #Yanukovych: http://www.interpol.int/notice/search/wanted/2014-13031 …
pic.twitter.com/jnrrxlSzji

Sweden Launched Second Secret Hunt for Russian Submarine in Their Territorial Waters - January 12, 2015...
http://tmblr.co/ZC3D0x1aUWJ5T

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Golovinka base shows 'white' Russian BTRs in October (left) seen in december in Ukraine (right)
pic.twitter.com/ukBhGMEtcq

#BreakingStatement
Terrorist leader A.#Purgin in "Novorossiya" TV:
"We returned to the phase of active hostilities."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyCQ0L4lbLU …

Chechen fighters drive into Donetsk to demand the DNR hand over man (they say) killed their mate.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZR9Uj3lrCH4 …

#Donetsk airport live stream cam just shook because of close hit of artillery via @OFC_videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JfDmJEJdz0

I just turned in to the RT livestream in #Donetsk
No change in the situation. Nonstop shelling,all I hear is ougtoing.
Also small arms fire.

Very interesting, the "Paris Match" Buk photo in Der Spiegel is actually different from the original
pic.twitter.com/vb5r9Ga4m7

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hui! This was an #imcoming Grad salvo. Around 10 impact blasts in 4 seconds.
Very intense fighting can be heard all over northern #Donetsk, it never really stopped since yesterday afternoon.

BRK #Lavrov on #Ukraine:"We have information,that the security forces are preparing a new attempt for a military solution to the conflict."

ATO spokesman: Starting from 6pm yesterday evening illegal armed groups fired 22 times at the positions of Ukrainian military

Non stop Machine guns, shelling in #Donetsk
http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/12-january-non-stop-machine-guns-shelling-in-donetsk-- …

"Asked whether he intended to return to the battlefield, [Strelkov] frowned and said, “That does not depend on me""
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/11/east-ukraine-summit-angela-merkel-french-russia-ceasefire?CMP=share_btn_tw …

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Really poor Russian OPSEC:

Russian Top Gear magazine accidentally publishes a photo of a top secret submarine. Oops.
http://slon.ru/fast/russia/top-gear-sluchayno-opublikoval-foto-sekretnoy-rossiyskoy-podlodki-1203420.xhtml …
pic.twitter.com/LzSUE8UAW2

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Gas pipeline hit in Donetsk. Burning now

http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/12-january-gas-pipeline-hit-in-donetsk-burning-now …

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2yfI4GoUn4
pic.twitter.com/vlCdQjyP1n

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Interesting comments from Putin in a May 10 2005 speech in Moscow and his actions in Crimea in 2014:

You know, the Russian Federation lost tens of thousands of pieces of its historic territory as a result of the collapse of the Soviet Union. And are we now to divide everything up again? Should we demand the return of the Crimea and parts of the territory of other former Soviet republics and so on? How about giving back Klaipeda then? Let’s all start dividing Europe again. I doubt that this is what you want. We are calling on Latvia’s politicians to stop their political demagogy and begin constructive work. Russia is ready for such work.

In that same speech he condemns the Molotov/Ribbentrop agreements and in 2014 praises them--and he is not in an altered state of reality?

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Intense Fighting At Donetsk Airport This Morning - More Intense than It's Been in Months
http://bit.ly/1AHX1Ok

#Breaking
"Cyborgs repelled another attack on the new terminal."
HOW MANY MORE, I ASK???
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YurRYqnddq4 …
pic.twitter.com/yBvTJiPfXr

#BreakingFootage
Russian Invasion Forces try to storm #Donetsk #airport in close range battle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izYD1oe4Hkc …
pic.twitter.com/BKAtBVchS2

[OUTLAW 09]

Live cam feed pointed towards Donetsk airport --shellings in live color and sound

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hx_CUXrw7K8

GRAD impacts just now, bright flashes in the sky. #Donetsk

[OUTLAW 09]

Reference the Spiegel Online review of the Russian downing of MH17.

Our official response to all these nice conspiracy-theory emails we got about mh17
http://mh17.correctiv.org
pic.twitter.com/3Evi5V5sLq

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Live cam feed pointed towards Donetsk airport --shellings in live color and sound

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hx_CUXrw7K8

GRAD impacts just now, bright flashes in the sky. #Donetsk

#Breaking
#Grad missiles raining on #Spartak or #Avdeevka.
Dozens of flashes!
Getting brutal all around now
pic.twitter.com/hgebEvNynK

Imo, 90% of the fighting is left to the camera now. Pisky and around.

#Breaking
Quick flares going down.
We're at face to face once again!
pic.twitter.com/vACkvHU2r5

#Insane #footage
Cyborgs, defending #Donetsk #airport reotate,passing Russian invasion tanks.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grBXaUqPpa8 …
pic.twitter.com/8kGM6zf66O

#Ukraine troops repelling attacks on #Donetsk airport, two Ukr soldiers killed
http://www.kyivpost.com/content/author/interfax-ukraine/ …

#Breaking
The 92nd mechanized brigade in #Shchastya says:
"#Cossacks, #Chechens and #local_separatists attack us daily. - censor_net

SBU detain girl who worked sniper & killed at least 10 Ukr soldiers, part of FSB trained team
http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2015/01/12/7054778/?attempt=1 …
pic.twitter.com/6LKd2mdSLJ

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http://youtu.be/pJiYpRJuyII?t=2m57s …
Warlord Mozgovoi (#Russia-held #Luhansk,#Ukraine): Decreased bloodshed loses media attention
pic.twitter.com/tS8QeJ4Wj3

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BREAKING: HUGE explosion visible on the #Donetsk airport stream just now pic.twitter.com/IMNqpQDDlK

Endless outgoing fire for almost a minute!! Car alarms ringing like heck

New video of lates GRAD attack in #Donetsk, bad quality, what's the blue explosion at 0:20? Transformer hit?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWf0rrpAxPc …

Desperate attacker of #Donetsk airport: "Russians must fire more vs. the airport."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLJapyuw3mM …
pic.twitter.com/eWv6o3DMaw

Intense fighting again around Donetsk by various accounts. Rebel leader Zacharchenko blames #Ukraine, offers no proof http://novorossia.su/ru/node/12411

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BREAKING: HUGE explosion visible on the #Donetsk airport stream just now pic.twitter.com/IMNqpQDDlK

Endless outgoing fire for almost a minute!! Car alarms ringing like heck

New video of lates GRAD attack in #Donetsk, bad quality, what's the blue explosion at 0:20? Transformer hit?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWf0rrpAxPc …

Desperate attacker of #Donetsk airport: "Russians must fire more vs. the airport."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLJapyuw3mM …
pic.twitter.com/eWv6o3DMaw

Intense fighting again around Donetsk by various accounts. Rebel leader Zacharchenko blames #Ukraine, offers no proof http://novorossia.su/ru/node/12411

After a short break, fighting restarted at #Donetsk airport and surroundings

[OUTLAW 09]

In a speech just given by the Russian FM it seems that Russia is groping for reasons to actually "legally" invade the Ukraine.

Some of his comments truly seem to be in an altered state of reality.

"Illegal armed groups [like the Right Sector] control wide parts of Ukraine. This is the danger. " - insane Lavrov

#BREAKINGNEWS
#RUSSIA AGAIN MOVING ON THE WAR PATH: "WE HAVE INFOS, #UKRAINE MOBILIZES UP TO 200.000 FORCES TO ATTACK DONBAS."

Moscow has information that #Ukraine is mobilizing troops

[OUTLAW 09]

Not to be outdone by US radar systems, Russia is reportedly sending TOS-1 thermobaric rocket launchers into Ukraine
pic.twitter.com/QBxhwqy2OU

Russian Southern MD mechanised infantry combat readiness exercises began today. MoD 12 Jan
http://function.mil.ru/news_page/country/more.htm?id=12005527@egNews …
pic.twitter.com/djRjwCcCof

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Russian troops and their mercenaries are now on the offensive while the West seems to not want to now call it a full scale "invasion".

Russia launched an offensive along the entire line of the disengagement & increased number of attacks
http://24tv.ua/news/showNews.do?kreml_planuye_rozshiriti_zonu_konflikt u_na_kilka_oblastey_ukrayini__zhurnalist&objectId=530522 …

LIVE VIDEO Ongoing shelling explosions #Donetsk Airport non stop https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFk0WFyQlnk …
pic.twitter.com/S88h0NkWOo

VIDEO #Russia Special Forces #Luhansk #Ukraine w AS "Val" Machine Guns https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjOHLfJaLAk …
http://bit.ly/14MqYlC pic.twitter.com/oSfPp41BCh

SMM witnessed multiple shelling in areas adjacent to Donetsk airport. JCCC - marked increase ceasefire violations
http://bit.ly/1KD1asy

Pro-Russian terrorists got new type f weapon frm #Russia: heavy flamethrower syst TOS-1spotted, OPCOM 'North' reports
pic.twitter.com/R80wZnr19W

From 7am this morning until 18pm this evening, #Russia|ns attacked #Ukraine forces 58 times. Wonder how they count attacks on airport?

#Russia forces attack Novoselivka,Mykolaivka,Chermalyk &Hnutove.nr #Mariupol
http://bit.ly/1y5kn0U #Ukraine #Donetsk
pic.twitter.com/b8nssrHJne

On Jan 12, Russia-led terrorists 58 times (!) opened fire, hit 29 settlements in e. #Ukraine, blame #Kyiv for it.
https://www.facebook.com/ato.news

Ukraine Live: Shelling Of Donetsk Airport Increasing Right Now http://bit.ly/1KCTJSc Video - Behind The Fighting
pic.twitter.com/zNiS4GsMS6

Head of #Luhansk Oblast Gennadiy #Moscal says 10 villages were captured by #Russian militants during 'ceasefire' http://conflict.rbc.ua/rus/v-luganskoy-obl-10-sel-uzhe-nahodyatsya-pod-kontrolem-boevikov--12012015161900 …

A Long Showdown In The Ruins Of The Donetsk Airport http://www.rferl.org/media/video/donetsk-ukraine-conflict-separatists/26788933.html …

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How to identify Russian tanks in Ukraine. An easy guide.

http://ukraineatwar.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/how-to-identify-russians-tanks-in.html …
pic.twitter.com/CBpY7cp9hU

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Ukraine: Fighting in Donetsk between army and Rus-backed rebels at highest level for months http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/ukraine-crisis-fighting-in-donetsk-between-army-and-russianbacked-rebels-at-highest-level-for-months-9973723.html …
pic.twitter.com/ohLXfff55l

#Footage
#Donetsk from a private home this evening.
The drums of war.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6fZACUrs_A …

VIDEO #Russia terrorist #Donetsk Airport misfires RPG trying to shoot at #Ukraine troops
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-roIdp6cM8 …
pic.twitter.com/SG3SgdQ5Wy

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Build-up of Russian troops in Snizhne & Luhansk in the last 3 days. Just after convoy #11.

https://m.facebook.com/dmitry.tymchuk/posts/621214341340558 …

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All according to plan – #Russia’s winter #war in #Ukraine was foreseeable
http://conflictreport.info/2015/01/12/all-according-to-plan-russias-winter-war-was-foreseeable/ …
pic.twitter.com/F4jwenc2Hn

There are no Russian Army in Ukraine...
OK! UA, Debaltseve: The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation representative
pic.twitter.com/XUtCZg7lIv

One of most significant victories of"cyborgs"-destruction of about 30secret of #Russia|n special forces unit"VYMPEL".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMXP8Z

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The Ukrainian army says #Avdeevka and #Pisky "withstand enemy attacks" with several attacking tanks destroyed so far.

#BreakingNews
Soldiers of the 80th airmobile brigade broke through to #Donetsk #airport last night, providing Cyborgs w/ammo+evacuated WIA.

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UKR ARMY SEEMS TO PREPARE FOR LARGER WAR. "Project "Novorossiya" is back on track. We prepare for full scale hostilities

Large formation of #Russia|n #Army in near future will invade in area Snizhne #Donetsk reg.#Ukraine:Tymchuk
pic.twitter.com/b4cVJrgpx9

300 Rus Armed Forces troops arrived in #Luhansk. Wear winter camo, well-equip. Dislocate at Agrar Univ dormit
https://www.facebook.com/dmitry.tymchuk/posts/621214341340558 …

Russian SA-15 Gauntlet team 3 kms from Ukrainian border Dec 24th http://www.peeep.us/7cbb4ef3#/photo260418218_348744624 … via
@stabilizec
pic.twitter.com/J5kO2xTfCe

The SBU detained the organizer of the explosion in the"New Post Office" in Nikopo http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/13-january-the-sbu-detained-the-organizer-of-the-explosion …

35 minute ling video that shows evidence of Russian Invasion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFJYPpwJbAQ&feature=youtu.be …

[OUTLAW 09]

After extremely heavy Russian troop and mercenary shellings the last three days:

#Footage
The last minutes before the #Donetsk #airport #tower collapse this morning.
http://youtu.be/6kyDbIqmLo0
pic.twitter.com/rnXOsg3EZa

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And yet the West and the US still insist there is not a "war between Russia and the Ukraine".

This is how 82 Russian attacks on 24 hours look on the latest ATO #map.
pic.twitter.com/Mbmq8GxNgP

Militants issued an ultimatum to Ukrainian fighters in airport
http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/13-january-militants-issued-an-ultimatum-to-ukrainian-fighters … pic.twitter.com/PbwyESfJ7M

And if we gonna be losing, we will destroy the entire world, Eurasian Youth Union encourages so-called Novorosiya
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7Ku54P4HC0 …

Russian cares about protecting civilians?
Due to yesterday's Russian strike by Grad missiles on #Donetsk, the heating was lost in 138 houses, 3 hospitals, 5 schools, 5 kinder gardens

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It does seem like the latest US strategy on the Ukraine is in fact silence---ie let the Ambassador say something just so we do not have to go on record with anything.

Not yet has there been a single statement by the US civilian leadership on the extreme increase in Russian supported fighting in the Ukraine or did I miss it?

If Minsk is suppose to be the solution and the EU/Ukraine are trying to hold to it--one would think the NSC might advise the President to say something anything--but then again they advised him to send no one to the Paris marches this last weekend.

Has the IS in Iraq so tied the hands of the NSC and this President that they have lost their voices--nothing on the massive killing by BH which is also building an Islamic State, nothing on the current Russian offense in the Ukraine and punting on sending someone of importance to Paris?

U.S. Ambassador to #Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt: #Russian militants attempt to redraw the demarcation line in #Donbas
http://www.unian.info/society/1030887-pyatt-militants-attacks-are-attempt-to-change-demarcation-line.html …

New series of attacks started in Pisky village near the #Donetskairport
http://uatoday.tv/politics/new-series-of-attacks-started-in-pisky-village-near-the-donetsk-airport-402427.html …
pic.twitter.com/U2VmgX3fOT

DTN Ukraine: Militants attack Ukrainian forces about 900 times during latest ‘ceasefire’: There have been 877 ...
http://bit.ly/1FPvv7m

[OUTLAW 09]

Well worth the read as it sets out the current Russian FP directions--check the last paragraph--goes to the heart of Putin's current strategic goals;
1. disband NATO
2. force the US out of Europe
3. disband/modify the EU

These goals are inherently behind his Crimea and eastern Ukraine geo political moves nothing more nothing less and the West ie the US "still does not see it"?


Russia, Turkey and the Vision of Greater Europe

Igor Ivanov
RIAC President, RF Minister of Foreign Affairs (1998–2004), Professor of MGIMO-University, RAS Corresponding Member

Russia and Turkey have many common features, predetermined by their respective histories, geographical locations and cultures. Among these numerous common features one can single out very complex and controversial relations of our two nations with the European ‘core’ – countries and societies that are united within the current borders of the European Union. On the one hand, Europe for centuries has been a major source of new technologies, best social practices and intellectual inspiration for both St. Petersburg and Istanbul, for Moscow and Ankara. On the other hand, Russia and Turkey have never been or aspired to become just ‘normal’ European countries – both Russians and Turks have always valued and cherished their unique Eurasian identities and their trans-continental destinies.

Of course, there are some important differences between Russia and Turkey in this regard as well. After the Second World War Turkey adopted a long term multifaceted strategy of integrating into the European ‘core’; it became a NATO member and was put on the waiting list for joining the European Union. Russia, on the contrary, till early 1990s regarded NATO as the main threat to its national security and tried to compete with the European Union by promoting its own integration project in Eastern Europe. However, today our two countries find themselves in somewhat similar positions: in the foreseeable future their chances to become integral parts of the European ‘core’ are not very high.

Speaking of Russia, I have to observe that the current relations between Moscow and Brussels experience a deep and profound crisis – maybe, the most serious crisis we’ve seen during the whole history of this relationship after the end of the Cold War. As a former Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation, I am particularly sorry for the current bleak state of affairs: together with my European counterparts we invested a lot of time and efforts into building a stronger Russia-EU partnership, including the economic dimension of this partnership. Today many of our past plans, hopes and expectations look like pipe-dreams - with remote, if any, relevance to current political realities. Of course, the most graphic manifestation of the crisis is the situation in and around Ukraine. We can debate about who is to blame for this situation and whether it could have been avoided. In my view, both Russia and the European Union should take a share of responsibility for the unfortunate developments in this country since last fall. However, as I can see it, Ukraine is not the main cause of the Russia – EU crisis; it is rather a catalyst of more fundamental rifts that emerged between Moscow and Brussels over last years. To cut it short, the Russia-EU partnership did not work the way it was anticipated some ten – twelve years ago.

The current problems between Ankara and Brussels are much less dramatic and, probably, we cannot label them as a ‘crisis’. However, one can indicate growing disappointments and frustrations in this relationship as well. The prospect of the full Turkish membership to EU remains elusive, to say the least. No wonder that in both our countries many intellectuals, politicians and opinion makers are now thinking about alternative futures for Russia and Turkey. These alternative futures imply different geographical priorities and different identities for the two countries – Middle East and the Turkic-speaking world for Turkey and the Asia-Pacific region for Russia.

Such ideas and moods are easy to understand – the two nations with their rich histories, great cultures, economic potentials and geopolitical ambitions can hardly accept the position of being nothing more but a part of the “European periphery”. They claim – and rightly so – more central places in the emerging system of international relations of the XXI century. And they are not likely to agree to an inferior status that Brussels might want to offer them.


However, neither Russia, nor Turkey can turn away from Europe without an extremely high toll to pay for that move. Cooperation with the European Union is not necessarily a matter of national survival for our two nations. But without Europe neither the Russian, nor the Turkish modernization project is likely to succeed. Europe has many things that our other international partners cannot offer today – modern technologies and investments, relevant economic models and best social practices, technical standards and legal norms, which are indispensable for both Russia and Turkey.

On the other hand, the European ‘core’ needs our two countries as well. Russia and Turkey constitute natural geographical extensions of Europe, major underutilized repositories of human capital, natural resources and investment opportunities that could give a boost to the stagnant EU economies. Russia and Turkey are also natural gateways to other regions and other markets that Europe can explore. Finally, one cannot seriously discuss the European security without Russia and Turkey – if our two countries are not a part of the equation, the eastern and the southern EU borders remain chronically instable.

In my view, the time has come to start working together on a new European – or even a Euro-Atlantic architecture that would go beyond both the European Union and NATO. In the economic dimension we need to move in the direction of a Eurasian common market from Lisbon to Vladivostok. In the security dimension we have to get back to the Paris Charter of 1990 and the Helsinki Act of 1975 modifying the provisions of the two documents to serve European security needs on the XXI century. These are the pillars, on which we can start shaping the vision of the Greater Europe that should be inclusive, democratic, unambiguous and attractive to all European nations – Russia and Turkey including.

First published in Analist Magazine, USAK

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Hopes for peace are fading fast as #Russia and #Ukraine accuse each other of preparing attack

http://www.kyivpost.com/content/kyiv-post-plus/astana-peace-summit-postponed-as-both-sides-mobilize-in-east-ukraine-2-377285.html … pic.twitter.com/wStHdhly7R

Intense video of @GrahamWP_UK leaving Kubishevsky today, under #Ukraine army shelling https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cOrVfZXMFU …

Graham is a former UK RT reporter kicked three times out of the Ukraine an illegally inside eastern Ukraine reporting for the Russian military.

BREAKING: #Luhansk authorities decided to return heavy artillery to the front line & mobilise "people's militia" via @yurybarmin

Ukrainian journalist Shuklinov writes that Ukrainian authorities send reinforcement to Donetsk Airport.
http://uatoday.tv/politics/the-tower-of-donetsk-airport-is-destroyed-by-insurgents-402452.html …

[kaur]

I think Russian NTV made full movie about Graham kind reporter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkwFmr-RM9w

[OUTLAW 09]

Just as in the MH17 shot down where Russian mercenaries in an intercepted cell call “claimed at first to have shot down an AN26 then denied ever saying it over a cell phone”.

Reportedly passenger bus near #Volnovakha was shelled from RU-controlled territory #Dokuchaevsk, 10 killed 13 injured
pic.twitter.com/DM8bvly1Wi

Russians admit to "destroying Ukrainian post" - didn't know about the bus and dead
pic.twitter.com/JnXPSkruNl

THEN THIS after they discovered they had hit a bus:

Rebels deny they fired, claim area is outside their artillery range, call it "provocation". Ukrainian “false flag” attack.
http://tvrain.ru/articles/v_donetskoj_oblasti_pogibli_desjat_chelovek_iz_za_ popavshego_v_avtobus_snarjada-380518/ …

16 reportedly killed 13 wounded in a bus hit by shrapnel, ATO says 6 dead 20 wounded nearby http://bit.ly/14QCKvn
pic.twitter.com/9voaAwQujh

A Ukraine armed forces official says the bus was shelled from Dokuchaevsk, and that Russian TV reporters were in that town at the time.

"Novorossiya" news tells about #Ukraine CP shelled by DPR militia@Disowns the attack after the news about bus appear
pic.twitter.com/RUQ3wgLuiz

#MH17 2.0
Russian invaders delete claim of bombing Ukrainian checkpoint where 23 civilians fit killed and injured.
pic.twitter.com/pLYK9H2k7N

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Just as in the MH17 shot down where Russian mercenaries in an intercepted cell call “claimed at first to have shot down an AN26 then denied ever saying it over a cell phone”.

Reportedly passenger bus near #Volnovakha was shelled from RU-controlled territory #Dokuchaevsk, 10 killed 13 injured
pic.twitter.com/DM8bvly1Wi

Russians admit to "destroying Ukrainian post" - didn't know about the bus and dead
pic.twitter.com/JnXPSkruNl

THEN THIS after they discovered they had hit a bus:

Rebels deny they fired, claim area is outside their artillery range, call it "provocation". Ukrainian “false flag” attack.
http://tvrain.ru/articles/v_donetskoj_oblasti_pogibli_desjat_chelovek_iz_za_ popavshego_v_avtobus_snarjada-380518/ …

16 reportedly killed 13 wounded in a bus hit by shrapnel, ATO says 6 dead 20 wounded nearby http://bit.ly/14QCKvn
pic.twitter.com/9voaAwQujh

A Ukraine armed forces official says the bus was shelled from Dokuchaevsk, and that Russian TV reporters were in that town at the time.

"Novorossiya" news tells about #Ukraine CP shelled by DPR militia@Disowns the attack after the news about bus appear
pic.twitter.com/RUQ3wgLuiz

#MH17 2.0
Russian invaders delete claim of bombing Ukrainian checkpoint where 23 civilians fit killed and injured.
pic.twitter.com/pLYK9H2k7N


UPD: Ukraine's Prosecutor General's office stated insurgents fired 40 Grad rockets. Attack treated as 'act of terror'
http://uatoday.tv/news/10-bus-passengers-killed-by-insurgent-artillery-strike-in-donetsk-region-402496.html …

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On the background of breaking news about Donetsk airport & #Volnovakha, RU forces taking control over new #Ukraine lands (Orlovo-Ivanivka).

Situation in #Donetskairport improves thanks to supporting artillery fire
http://www.unian.info/society/1031356-situation-in-donetsk-airport-improves-thanks-to-supporting-artillery-fire.html … |

#Analysis #Map
#Grad missiles hit civilian areas near #RT cam position.
pic.twitter.com/bE23DGcok3

Militants shelling Hranitne with MLRS GRAD and self-propelled artillery
http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/13-january-militants-shelling-hranitne-with-mlrs-grad-and …

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On the background of breaking news about Donetsk airport & #Volnovakha, RU forces taking control over new #Ukraine lands (Orlovo-Ivanivka).

Situation in #Donetskairport improves thanks to supporting artillery fire
http://www.unian.info/society/1031356-situation-in-donetsk-airport-improves-thanks-to-supporting-artillery-fire.html … |

#Analysis #Map
#Grad missiles hit civilian areas near #RT cam position.
pic.twitter.com/bE23DGcok3

Militants shelling Hranitne with MLRS GRAD and self-propelled artillery
http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/13-january-militants-shelling-hranitne-with-mlrs-grad-and …

WHY DONETSK AIRPORT?!
Read one of my latest articles on the topic to understand the situation.http://conflictreport.info/2015/01/09/making-sense-of-the-latest-russian-offensives-in-eastern-ukraine/ …
pic.twitter.com/ApNZ4MN7yO

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Russian special forces in Luhansk: armed with AS "Val" assault rifles - weapon used by the Russian Army only. VIDEO
http://24today.net/open/270896

#Breaking
#MLRS volley hits west of #Donetsk #airport Terminal1.

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Wonder what the response will be from this White House?--silence has been the past experience--there is a war going on and it is being caused by an actual Russian Army invasion and yet as of this hour still no comments from either the WH and or the sec of State.

So just what does the SOCEUR see that the WH is not "seeing"?

NATO Military Commander: Fighting Has Resumed in Eastern Ukraine http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/natosource/nato-military-commander-fighting-has-resumed-in-eastern-ukraine … #
pic.twitter.com/ilO64yJ425

Gen @PMBreedlove: "There has been...a fairly important uptick in the fighting across the last couple of days" Ukraine

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Appears that the Russian Army attack on the airport today resulted in potentially over 250 killed and countless others wounded---the KIAs are still on the ground and have not been recovered---highly accurate Ukrainian artillery fire stopped the assault in mid tracks.

The 80th hold #Donetskairport , injuries yes, but no death. Attack by Ru forces stopped after retaliation by #UkrCyborgs @InfoResist

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Russian separatists want you to think this is a bullet hole in the Volnovakha bus rather than shrapnel damage
pic.twitter.com/b5sy6pLO1C

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Have we not seen this exact scenario in the MH17---first the mercenaries cheer they destroyed a checkpoint, then when it comes out the bus was hit---it ain't us is the refrain--typical.

MOSCOW, January 14. /TASS/. Shelling of a passenger bus in eastern Ukraine undermines efforts to reach a peace settlement of the Ukrainian crisis, Russian Foreign ministry’s envoy for human rights, democracy and the supremacy of law Konstantin Dolgov said on Wednesday.

“The selling of a passenger bus near Donetsk causes resentment,” he said. “It is another crime committed by the Ukrainian military.”

“It undermines peace settlement efforts,” he underscored. “Kiev continues to blatantly violate human rights.”

Moscow “demands an impartial investigation of this crime, including by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe /OSCE/ and punishment of those responsible,” he said. “The international community must resolutely demand this!”.

Geolocation of yday's #Volnovakha bus massacre: #GradMissile could only B fired fr. #Russia side. Via @DajeyPetros
pic.twitter.com/3dMYPTiCTt

'DNR' terrorists in #Donbas wear the same uniform as #ISIS terrorists. Via @podrobnosti pic.twitter.com/TXxDg7IH05

Islamists in the Ukraine and not a word from the White House. Since when are Chechens “separatist mercenaries”?
#Russians from #Chechnya admit locals aren't fighting - THEY are https://www.facebook.com/KopatyNews/posts/637902679669684 …
pic.twitter.com/E5N5kwyDwX

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Another morning in the hell of northern #Donetsk.
Heavy nonstop fighting in and around the #airport.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_ocgl1nJvA …


2 Chechen Interior Ministry troops were taken POW near Donetsk Airport. Others KIA
https://m.facebook.com/dmitry.tymchuk/posts/621674831294509 …

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Islamic State fighters and Novorossiya rebels must be shopping at the same military fashion outlet:
pic.twitter.com/uu5KK43Z8p

From #ISIS to Donbass #Ukraine, #Russia'n mil gear Gorka is trending among the terrorists. /B]
pic.twitter.com/4OGYdaWhvz

UKR MP @DmitryTymchuk reports 2 Chechnya's Internal Affairs men caught during intense fighting at Donetsk airport https://www.facebook.com/dmitry.tymchuk/posts/621674831294509 …

Who can explain sign on Kadyrov's chest? Resembles IS emblem. Used in other context too?
pic.twitter.com/yBJmtDaKEb”

[B]Donetsk Airport Battle: Kremlin-backed insurgents using Russian Buratino heavy flame throwers
http://uatoday.tv/politics/the-tower-of-donetsk-airport-is-destroyed-by-insurgents-402452.html … pic.twitter.com/ErFSC4NnLv

BREAKING: #Russia trps used #thermobaric ("vacuum bomb") weapon in attack on #Ukraine -held village of Vesele - UA mil. spox. #АТО

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Donetskairport returned fire destroy 200 staff of Ru military, dozen Grad, large # of stationary & mobile artillery
https://www.facebook.com/Zlobyn?fref=nf

Remote-contr IED blasts as Ukr Ural truck passes nr Teple. 2 servicemen are seriously wounded http://moskal.in.ua/?categoty=news&news_id=1368 …
pic.twitter.com/sV4iMXMs6z

No losses over night in the 81th brigade defending the #Donetsk airport. All injured have been evacuated https://www.facebook.com/HelpArmy.in.ua/posts/1539127693038904 …

Near Hnutove militants unsuccessfully attacked w/ mortars, cannon artillery for hrs
https://www.facebook.com/dmitry.tymchuk/posts/621674831294509 …
pic.twitter.com/NS9GCsJJjg

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Islamic State fighters and Novorossiya rebels must be shopping at the same military fashion outlet:
pic.twitter.com/uu5KK43Z8p

From #ISIS to Donbass #Ukraine, #Russia'n mil gear Gorka is trending among the terrorists. /B]
pic.twitter.com/4OGYdaWhvz

UKR MP @DmitryTymchuk reports 2 Chechnya's Internal Affairs men caught during intense fighting at Donetsk airport https://www.facebook.com/dmitry.tymchuk/posts/621674831294509 …

Who can explain sign on Kadyrov's chest? Resembles IS emblem. Used in other context too?
pic.twitter.com/yBJmtDaKEb”

[B]Donetsk Airport Battle: Kremlin-backed insurgents using Russian Buratino heavy flame throwers
http://uatoday.tv/politics/the-tower-of-donetsk-airport-is-destroyed-by-insurgents-402452.html … pic.twitter.com/ErFSC4NnLv

BREAKING: #Russia trps used #thermobaric ("vacuum bomb") weapon in attack on #Ukraine -held village of Vesele - UA mil. spox. #АТО

Reference the TOS-1 thermobaric weapon system:

More important: Russia's Army has ~16 of these in active use... they would never allow anyone else to use their few.

To all reporters in #Donbas.
If you take a photo of a TOS-1 Buratino in #DNR/#LNR hands: #Jackpot! #Pulitzer!
pic.twitter.com/M7QVKsoH2W

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This individual makes a good point--check the picture on the same ISIS/Russian military field uniform.

Stop referring to terrorists in #Ukraine as "rebels"! You can't be a "rebel" by terrorizing someone else's country.
pic.twitter.com/vsWMrg27us

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Military Studies @ArmedResearch turns out to be a Russian Propaganda Troll

http://ukraineatwar.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/military-studies-armedresearch-is.html …

Russian army is shelling schools and other community buildings in Avdiyivka, - chief of Donetsk region police says.
pic.twitter.com/pgZzkFlLk4

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Dutch investigators are putting #MH17 back together. Piece by piece & it already shows: all impacts on front left side. Proving: it was #Buk

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#BreakingNews
#Avdeevka is under heavy Russian shelling.
Several residential buildings, #school and other social facilities hit.

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Just as in the MH17 shot down where Russian mercenaries in an intercepted cell call “claimed at first to have shot down an AN26 then denied ever saying it over a cell phone”.

Reportedly passenger bus near #Volnovakha was shelled from RU-controlled territory #Dokuchaevsk, 10 killed 13 injured
pic.twitter.com/DM8bvly1Wi

Russians admit to "destroying Ukrainian post" - didn't know about the bus and dead
pic.twitter.com/JnXPSkruNl

THEN THIS after they discovered they had hit a bus:

Rebels deny they fired, claim area is outside their artillery range, call it "provocation". Ukrainian “false flag” attack.
http://tvrain.ru/articles/v_donetskoj_oblasti_pogibli_desjat_chelovek_iz_za_ popavshego_v_avtobus_snarjada-380518/ …

16 reportedly killed 13 wounded in a bus hit by shrapnel, ATO says 6 dead 20 wounded nearby http://bit.ly/14QCKvn
pic.twitter.com/9voaAwQujh

A Ukraine armed forces official says the bus was shelled from Dokuchaevsk, and that Russian TV reporters were in that town at the time.

"Novorossiya" news tells about #Ukraine CP shelled by DPR militia@Disowns the attack after the news about bus appear
pic.twitter.com/RUQ3wgLuiz

#MH17 2.0
Russian invaders delete claim of bombing Ukrainian checkpoint where 23 civilians fit killed and injured.
pic.twitter.com/pLYK9H2k7N

Russian mercenaries and trolls tried to dispel the shellings as coming from them by a story that it was a possible Ukrainian landmine that caused the killing of 12 bus passengers.

This video definitely shows a GRAD shelling occurring against the checkpoint put as in all Grad shelling unless fired by a very good artillery unit--tends to miss it's target. Shelling definitely came from the mercenaries as they immediately claimed via Russian FB they had destroyed the checkpoint only later to delete their entry.

Video reportedly showing yesterday's artillery strike at Volnovakha https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=821912881214440&set=vb.100001872086860&type=2&theater

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Russian mercenaries and trolls tried to dispel the shellings as coming from them by a story that it was a possible Ukrainian landmine that caused the killing of 12 bus passengers.

This video definitely shows a GRAD shelling occurring against the checkpoint put as in all Grad shelling unless fired by a very good artillery unit--tends to miss it's target. Shelling definitely came from the mercenaries as they immediately claimed via Russian FB they had destroyed the checkpoint only later to delete their entry.

Video reportedly showing yesterday's artillery strike at Volnovakha https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=821912881214440&set=vb.100001872086860&type=2&theater

A longer video clearly showing the GRAD missile strike on the bus.

Here is even a much longer webcam video of the attack. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDhHqeqdqLw …
pic.twitter.com/2hiZeRXqFl

@LUGANSK_TODAY 1st rocket attack missed UA checkpoint, so there was another rocket shoot to correct the fire, this rocket landed near bus

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Ru terrorist FSB officer I. Girkin declared DNR ready to use tactical missile - Tochka-U @NATO SS-21 @InfoResist
pic.twitter.com/Yb4kgqGIVQ

Russian self-propelled rocket fired at #Ukrainian town Schastie. Sticker on the fin "Gift from LNR"
pic.twitter.com/l5OtwTT1G8

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A longer video clearly showing the GRAD missile strike on the bus.

Here is even a much longer webcam video of the attack. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDhHqeqdqLw …
pic.twitter.com/2hiZeRXqFl

@LUGANSK_TODAY 1st rocket attack missed UA checkpoint, so there was another rocket shoot to correct the fire, this rocket landed near bus

There are actually people on VK who think this video was "photoshopped"
http://youtu.be/CDhHqeqdqLw
Was the artillery hot enough to melt steel?!

1. Grad 9m28f rocket indeed has 5.5g pellets.
2. Video of Grad damage matching the bus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-1VIO2_VPs&feature=player_detailpage#t=67 …

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Russian Army to get upgraded "flame weapons" over next 6 years. Intern'l Business Times 13 Nov
http://www.ibtimes.com/russian-army-get-upgraded-flame-weapons-will-modernize-70-its-arsenal-2020-1722981 …
pic.twitter.com/8VMAJZAFpX

#BreakingNews
A heavy Russian mortar attack hit #Staryi_Aidar during the last hour.

RUAF VHF comms consistent with SU27 fighters in Baltic Sea

#BREAKINGNEWS
Heavy battle around #Donetsk #airport
http://bit.ly/1u4rDdL
pic.twitter.com/OQUMpoVp95"

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[QUOTE=OUTLAW 09;164344]Donetskairport returned fire destroy 200 staff of Ru military, dozen Grad, large # of stationary & mobile artillery
https://www.facebook.com/Zlobyn?fref=nf

Last night's major battle at the airport did in fact cost the Russian troops and Chechens dearly---loses seemed to be exceeding 250 KIA and artillery.

Reports of Mutiny in the DNR, Russian Officer Shot After Chechens Get "Schawarma Stuffed" At Donetsk Airport
http://bit.ly/1u4wknS

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Reports of Mutiny in the DNR, Russian Officer Shot

17:04 (GMT)

Liveuamap reports on accounts of a rebellion within the Russian-backed fighters of the "Donetsk People's Republic" (DNR) in crime.in.ua.

After the latest storming of the Donetsk Airport, during which Russian paratroopers and Chechen police suffered major losses, there was a "settling of scores," says crime.in.ua.

There have been a number of reports of Chechen police from the Interior Ministry fighting in Ukraine.

Blogger Oleg Yarchuk, who often publishes intercepts of Russian military radio communications, has the report of the killing of a Russian officer from Ulyanovsk:


Area of Donetsk. Emergency. For your information, as a result of arguments that erupted over hostile personal differences, an officer of the combined shock battalion of the Chechen Republic Interior Ministry (ChRMVD), an officer of the 31st Guards Air Assault Brigade of the Airborne Troops (unit 73612 in Ulyanovsk--Ed) was shot dead. Asking for instructions for immediate transfer of the combined strike battalion of the ChRMVD.


Further reports indicate that the Kadyrovites, as Chechen fighters loyal to Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov are known, went to the Donetsk State Administration for further confrontations with Prime Minister Aleksandr Zakharchenko.

Blogger Zloy Odessit [Angry Odessian] has an account translated by The Interpreter:

The "topic of the day" - the high-spirited battlers for the Russian World didn't like the fact that they got their schawarma stuffed yesterday [were defeated--The Interpreter], and several Orthodox were taken captive. They demand that the so-called DNR chief make a deal with the Cyborgs [Ukrainian forces at the airport--The Interpreter] on exchange of POWs.

It will be interesting to observe how this situation turns out; in fact with this state of affairs, yesterday clearly it was no joke to pull the tail of the Kadyrovites. Really, there haven't been such losses for the mercenaries since the May shooting of the seps at the Airport. Then the entire Russian Caucasus resounded with the wails at funerals.

Russian independent press reports at the time indicated there were a large number of Chechens and others from the North Caucasus among the 40 or so killed at the airport.

Yesterday, Ukrainian forces took two Chechen Interior Ministry officers as prisoners of war, crime.in.ua reported, citing Dmitry Tymchuk.

We have been unable to confirm these reports.

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Has Russia Used Thermobaric Multiple Launch Rocket Systems In Donetsk?

16:39 (GMT)

Earlier today, Leonid Matyukhin, a press officer at the Ukrainian military's ATO headquarters, told reporters at a briefing in Kiev that Russian-backed forces had shelled targets near Donetsk Airport with TOS-1 Buratino MLRS on the night of January 13.

According to Matyukhin, the outskirts of Vesyoloye, which lies just between Donetsk Airport and the city proper, were shelled with the 220 mm thermobaric weapons.

This would be the first time such weapons were reported as being used in Ukraine, though there have been unverified rumours in the past.

The TOS-1 Buratino is a self-propelled multiple-launch rocket system (MLRS) firing rockets armed with thermobaric warheads, which disperse fuel throughout the air on impact before detonating, using environmental oxygen as their oxidizing agent.
Such warheads, also seen on the RPO-A Shmel portable rocket launcher, have a devastating effect on confined spaces or targets hiding in ruined buildings as they not only create huge fireballs and devastating pressure waves, but burn up the air around the impact site, creating a vacuum and asphyxiating those hiding in bunkers or basements.

Buratinos were put to use with devastating effect during the Second Chechen war.

Buratinos are not in Ukraine's arsenal. No video or photographic evidence of the presence of Buratinos inside Ukraine has emerged so far.

Both last night and tonight, huge volleys of artillery and rockets have rained over Donetsk Airport and the surrounding area.

Images and video from tonight do indicate the use of extremely powerful weaponry, though we cannot say what type:

The pattern on each blast is distinctive: a huge flash is followed by a dense fireball that takes a few seconds to subside.

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There are actually people on VK who think this video was "photoshopped"
http://youtu.be/CDhHqeqdqLw
Was the artillery hot enough to melt steel?!

1. Grad 9m28f rocket indeed has 5.5g pellets.
2. Video of Grad damage matching the bus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-1VIO2_VPs&feature=player_detailpage#t=67 …

UPDATE: I have counted and mapped 50 impacts now. Prediction: there are a lot more off-camera.
http://ukraineatwar.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/volnovakha.html … pic.twitter.com/4TDMwC0qBj

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Reports of Mutiny in the DNR, Russian Officer Shot

17:04 (GMT)

Liveuamap reports on accounts of a rebellion within the Russian-backed fighters of the "Donetsk People's Republic" (DNR) in crime.in.ua.

After the latest storming of the Donetsk Airport, during which Russian paratroopers and Chechen police suffered major losses, there was a "settling of scores," says crime.in.ua.

There have been a number of reports of Chechen police from the Interior Ministry fighting in Ukraine.

Blogger Oleg Yarchuk, who often publishes intercepts of Russian military radio communications, has the report of the killing of a Russian officer from Ulyanovsk:


Area of Donetsk. Emergency. For your information, as a result of arguments that erupted over hostile personal differences, an officer of the combined shock battalion of the Chechen Republic Interior Ministry (ChRMVD), an officer of the 31st Guards Air Assault Brigade of the Airborne Troops (unit 73612 in Ulyanovsk--Ed) was shot dead. Asking for instructions for immediate transfer of the combined strike battalion of the ChRMVD.


Further reports indicate that the Kadyrovites, as Chechen fighters loyal to Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov are known, went to the Donetsk State Administration for further confrontations with Prime Minister Aleksandr Zakharchenko.

Blogger Zloy Odessit [Angry Odessian] has an account translated by The Interpreter:

The "topic of the day" - the high-spirited battlers for the Russian World didn't like the fact that they got their schawarma stuffed yesterday [were defeated--The Interpreter], and several Orthodox were taken captive. They demand that the so-called DNR chief make a deal with the Cyborgs [Ukrainian forces at the airport--The Interpreter] on exchange of POWs.

It will be interesting to observe how this situation turns out; in fact with this state of affairs, yesterday clearly it was no joke to pull the tail of the Kadyrovites. Really, there haven't been such losses for the mercenaries since the May shooting of the seps at the Airport. Then the entire Russian Caucasus resounded with the wails at funerals.

Russian independent press reports at the time indicated there were a large number of Chechens and others from the North Caucasus among the 40 or so killed at the airport.

Yesterday, Ukrainian forces took two Chechen Interior Ministry officers as prisoners of war, crime.in.ua reported, citing Dmitry Tymchuk.

We have been unable to confirm these reports.

Morning attack on #Donetsk airport was repelled. Terrorists suffered losses, kept shelling w/ mortars, tanks
https://www.facebook.com/ato.news/posts/932504713427002 …

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Footage from #Donetsk airport (said to be today) near the meteorological station
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qq7NLuWUQwI

Crossed the border of #Ukraine hundreds of "Cossacks"(396) with stickers on cars "DNR" & "LC"-#OSCE.
http://bit.ly/1xpUxQ6

Heavy machine gunfire and what sounds like tank fire can be heard at #Donetsk live feed. Close combat ongoing.

Roads sealed off, a gas pipline aflame in #Donetsk. Heavy fighting casts doubt on peace talks http://www.kyivpost.com/content/kyiv-post-plus/ukraine-seals-off-roads-to-donbas-as-fighting-intensifies-377219.html …
pic.twitter.com/4DZ6FquUyS

Today between the hours of 6am-6pm, terrorists attacked Ukrainian positions 85 times
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=932504713427002&id=820651001279041&refid=17&notif_t=notify_me …

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Is this not what some of us wrote here exactly when the Crimea events started? Combat troops not the current logistics types that make a bulk of the current force.

"The value of Europe-based American forces has become increasingly obvious"

http://warontherocks.com/2015/01/cutting-u-s-force-structure-in-europe-a-reprieve/?singlepage=1 …

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Over 3K militants finish training in occupied #Crimea and Rostov-on-Don, #Russia. Ready to be sent to #Donbashttps://www.facebook.com/dmitry.tymchuk/posts/622076521254340 …

Militants increase number, intensity of fire at Ukr forces, localities: 44 times at night, 129 t in last day
https://www.facebook.com/ato.news/posts/932778850066255 …

The world called it Russian-Georgian war in 2008 but why they refuse to call it Russian-Ukrainian war this time ?
Russia's integration of S. Ossetia by @TomdeWaalCEIP http://carnegie.ru/eurasiaoutlook/?fa=57706 … Turns Russian-Georgian 2008 into war of territorial conquest.

Rus forces in Pavlopil were reinforced w/ a "company tactical group, having in its composition 3 tanks and 12 armored fighting vehicles" –IR

#OSCE confirms Grad rocket struck civilian bus in eastern #Ukraine Read more:
http://www.empr.media/news/osce-confirms-grad-rocket-struck-civilian-bus-in-eastern-ukraine … pic.twitter.com/jIJtlpooCG

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#Ukraine military medic Alexander Sivy was MIA at Ilovaisk, later imprisoned in Rostov, #Russia, and then Moscow jail
pic.twitter.com/nG3S1MdR9f

For cyborgs at airport in #Donetsk #Ukraine were"gifts"left by terrorists during retreat.Large caliber rifle KAFP 6C8
pic.twitter.com/IrZGUStmyx
KSVK #Russian sniper rifle caliber made in #Russia in Degtyarev factory.Later KAFP for #Army.
http://www.taringa.net/comunidades/migs29/7946048/Rifle-francotirador-KSVK-6C8.html … pic.twitter.com/7hS8VjVkvH

In #Donetsk Khadyrov Chechen fighter shot #Russia officer because he did not like him http://bit.ly/14YBTce

Russia is awarding soldiers medals for Military Valor for service in #Ukraine
https://informnapalm.org/4646-buryatov-5-j-tankovoj-brygady-nagrazhdayut-medalyamy-za-voynskuyu-doblest …
pic.twitter.com/unOQrMcOz6

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SBU counterintelligence neutralized sabotage group of “LPR Defense Ministry"
http://www.sbu.gov.ua/sbu/control/uk/publish/article?art_id=135957&cat_id=39574 … pic.twitter.com/1bNVrSGJ50

Poroshenko signs order for 3 waves of mobilisation, Ukr sec council report 52K Russ soldiers nr border. Little room for optimism, folks

Turchynov: militants have 4 SS-21 «Scarab A» http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/15-january-turchynov-militants-have-4--ss21- …«

Result suicide assaults on positions "Cyborgs" at airport in #Donetsk #Ukraine by terrorists "Cargo 200" for #Russia
pic.twitter.com/RSNqEAsqkT

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UPDATE: I have counted and mapped 50 impacts now. Prediction: there are a lot more off-camera.
http://ukraineatwar.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/volnovakha.html … pic.twitter.com/4TDMwC0qBj

Reference Russian GRAD attack on civilian bus killing 13 wounding 17.

Rocket fragments found at site of #Volnovakha bus attack.
pic.twitter.com/s7vkubMruH

What more confirmation do you want about the direction? #Volnovakha
pic.twitter.com/Qk7RcfTBBL

What a day... CLEAR proof about #Volnovakha. Trolls wrenching themselves in all directions. And now WHAT will the world do?

[OUTLAW 09]

Maybe this is why the Ukrainian government is pushing a rather large 3rd round mobilization of 100k plus?

52.000 battle ready Russian soldiers on Ukrainian border , 300 tanks, 1800 armoured vehicles
http://society.lb.ua/war/2015/01/15/292137_turchinov_rasskazal_skoplenii.html …

[OUTLAW 09]

#Footage
Ukrainian troops/"Cyborgs" defending the #Donetsk #airport #radar towers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fqj-tn5YFF8 …
pic.twitter.com/jVL9YSSFLl

Complete #footage
From #Donetsk #airport to #Avdeevka
30 mins through Russian-held territory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVYTNlVAr5g …
pic.twitter.com/r6bOdp8gEH

[OUTLAW 09]

Maybe this is why the Ukrainian government is pushing a rather large 3rd round mobilization of 100k plus?

52.000 battle ready Russian soldiers on Ukrainian border , 300 tanks, 1800 armoured vehicles
http://society.lb.ua/war/2015/01/15/292137_turchinov_rasskazal_skoplenii.html …

542 Russian tanks in occupied Donbas region
pic.twitter.com/aKQ1fCcjsF

[OUTLAW 09]

Islamic State fighters and Novorossiya rebels must be shopping at the same military fashion outlet:
pic.twitter.com/uu5KK43Z8p

From #ISIS to Donbass #Ukraine, #Russia'n mil gear Gorka is trending among the terrorists. /B]
pic.twitter.com/4OGYdaWhvz

UKR MP @DmitryTymchuk reports 2 Chechnya's Internal Affairs men caught during intense fighting at Donetsk airport https://www.facebook.com/dmitry.tymchuk/posts/621674831294509 …

Who can explain sign on Kadyrov's chest? Resembles IS emblem. Used in other context too?
pic.twitter.com/yBJmtDaKEb”

[B]Donetsk Airport Battle: Kremlin-backed insurgents using Russian Buratino heavy flame throwers
http://uatoday.tv/politics/the-tower-of-donetsk-airport-is-destroyed-by-insurgents-402452.html … pic.twitter.com/ErFSC4NnLv

BREAKING: #Russia trps used #thermobaric ("vacuum bomb") weapon in attack on #Ukraine -held village of Vesele - UA mil. spox. #АТО

Looks like the IS fighter wearing the Russian field uniform was killed in Kobane.

IS reporting that Abu Sa'ad al-Daghistani (#Dagestan), fighter in latest Hayat video, killed in #Kobane.

[OUTLAW 09]

URGENT! Terrorists plan to bomb OSCE and blame Ukrainian forces - ATO press center
https://m.facebook.com/ato.news?fref=nf&refsrc=http%3A%2F%2Fm.censor.net.ua%2Fnews%2F32002 8%2Fterroristy_vplotnuyu_priblizilis_k_pozitsiyam_ kiborgov_idet_boyi_shtab_ato&_rdr …


ATO news center: militants are on offensive at the #Donetsk airport, plan provocation against OSCE monitors who are heading there

[OUTLAW 09]

41 Russians were suspected in #terrorism and #spying by #SBU on the territory of #Ukraine
pic.twitter.com/bE2pJxu7MD
http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/15-january-41-russians-were-suspected-in-terrorism-and-spying …


#UAF captures 3 Russians.#Novorossiya says they were confused & just trying to book a flight home at #Donetsk airport

[OUTLAW 09]

Battle is on for #Donetsk Airport 1 #Ukraine soldier killed 6 wounded,two serious. Unknown number #Russia terrorists
pic.twitter.com/mLbzxlefHT

Ukrainian military say DNR using OSCE (and journos) as human shield to take airport. Shelling continues…
https://www.facebook.com/ato.news/posts/932840426726764 …

VIDEO #Ukraine troops near #Donetsk Airport capture #Russia Anti-Tank Guided Missiles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dE4FZm8dLxk …
pic.twitter.com/lbvwDlgmy2

Close combat at Donetsk Airport... Handgrenades used.
pic.twitter.com/2boye1U4xQ

BREAKING VIDEO #Russia terrorists fighting #Ukraine troops IN NEW TERMINAL #Donetsk Airport https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GY-ko8dH1nE#t=20 …
pic.twitter.com/ynxRcm4yFx

VIDEO #Russia Special Forces involved in fighting #Donetsk Airport https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOer41M8zoA …
pic.twitter.com/GIUPyFvh8y

[OUTLAW 09]

BREAKING: Dashboard cam of the #Volnovakha bus attack.
http://youtu.be/XATf-y9DmIk?t=1m11s …

#BREAKING
Ukr transport security office recommends #complete_stop in passenger traffic between #Ukraine and Russian-occupied territories.

#BREAKING: A shell hit a bus in #Donetsk minutes ago, multiple casualties reported.

Another bus attack in Donetsk http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/15-january-another-bus-attack-in-donetsk …
pic.twitter.com/c0FZBYT3W9

[OUTLAW 09]

#Ukraine troops #Donetsk Airport say they are fighting #Russia troops not mercenaries
pic.twitter.com/aB4swYDFL2

Easy, easy. As for 17:40 (Kiev) its controffensive. Help arrived. Terroris hold basement and 3rd floor. Not proven...

Lifenews in Donetsk blasts "Airport Liberated!" Still disputed but here's video with rebels
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0oguW7aBBg&feature=youtu.be …
pic.twitter.com/z2bqHShC4Z

Artillery attacks on #Donetsk airport continue. #Cyborgs get artillery support to fight back - Gen Staff spox
http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2015/01/15/7055179/ …

Givi told me in October the Donetsk airport is key to regain all territory lost to Ukraine forces last summer

Battle for #DonetskAirport: Ukrainian counter-attack underway
http://uatoday.tv/news/east-ukraine-conflict-live-blog-15-january-2015-402858.html …

All reports say that regular Russian army units are taking part in one of the fiercest battles for Donetsk airport which is happening now.

In a fierce close-in combat #Cyborgs pushed enemy back frm most of the 2nd floor of the airport's new terminal
https://www.facebook.com/butusov.yuriy/posts/913785815328382 …

From Russia mercenaries claiming they found large numbers of US M16s at the Donetsk airport.
Weapons look way to new to have been actively used in combat plus they fire the 556 round for which it would be hard to get ammo replacements.
Militia showed OSCE American arms from Donetsk airport
http://warfiles.ru/show-78035-opolchency-pokazali-obse-amerikanskoe-oruzhie-iz-aeroporta-donecka.html … pic.twitter.com/VB4hAtkDU4

This is the REAL situation at Donetsk airport from half an hour ago as reported by a Cyborg:
pic.twitter.com/3ePE2jYJWT

[OUTLAW 09]

#Footage
Heavy fighting for the airport tonight.
http://youtu.be/bvE6rrQm5vQ

2nd source: Battle 4 #Donetsk airport right now.
Ukrainian mil. kick out Russia-backed forces
https://news.pn/ru/RussiaInvadedUkraine/123525 …
pic.twitter.com/YMMFb9ih80

#Donetsk this evening.
Crazy shelling in its darkest hour.
http://youtu.be/pYCVY-fghYM
pic.twitter.com/PJPK0l8v5e

Airport's new terminal is under contrl f Ukr forces. Enemy's in basement, on 3rd floor, flew flag on terminal's edge
https://www.facebook.com/butusov.yuriy/posts/913785815328382 …

Hell is about to freeze over. @OSCE says that Russians are firing at #Donetsk airport from residential areas.

Shelling in #Donetsk continues tonight after fierce close quarters fighting at airport earlier today
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYCVY-fghYM …

Video apparently shows heavy fighting in Schastye tonight.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYCVY-fghYM …

DPR used #OSCE so they could "gain ceasefire from cyborgs" so they could attack #Donetsk #airport cyborgs

Intense outgoing fire near #Donetsk cam continues, bright flashes on the horizon. Fighting continues.

#Cyborgs at #Donetsk airport: we're dealing w/ #Russian troops. Militants r not trained well to fire this way
https://www.facebook.com/alex.mochanov/posts/1552348618349584 …

Donetsk Airport. Russian troops(no more pretence of separatist forces)fighting & Ukrainians desperately defending.A hellish mini-Stalingrad!

[OUTLAW 09]

Journalist: Two Ukrainian soldiers killed in fierce fighting for Donetsk airport

15.01.2015 | 18:35

A fierce battle raged in the ruins of Donetsk airport on Thursday, with reports from a journalist on the scene that two Ukrainian soldiers have been killed while defending the facility from attacks by militants.

"Today, two Ukrainian heroes died a heroic death in the battle for the airport. Seven soldiers were wounded,” the chief editor of news Web site Tsenzor.Net, Yuriy Butusov, wrote in a post on Facebook.

"[Here is] the operational environment at Donetsk airport on January 15, at 1600: The battle for the airport has reached the same intensity as in late September and early October - at the peak of the fighting.”

According to the journalist, the enemy is directing heavy fire from tanks and artillery on the Ukrainian-held parts of the airport, and is blasting the new terminal with the aim of causing it to collapse.

"This morning, as a result of an enemy artillery barrage ahead of the attack, further damage was done to the [ruined] control tower of Donetsk airport - the remaining second and third floors collapsed. Walls on the second floor in the new terminal also collapsed."

After the artillery barrage, there was an attack by infantry on the terminal building, Butusov reported.

“Taking advantage of the collapse of the walls, the enemy penetrated the second floor of the new terminal,” he wrote.

“Attacks were also carried out on the basement, [and] on the first and third floors. The enemy is using the tactics of assault groups. The enemy assault units are fully manned by Russian citizens. The units of up to platoon [in strength] are extremely well equipped and armed, with flame-throwers and RPGs, [and] close in on our defensive line, producing intense fire at close range, and secure [their positions]. After that, they fire on the identified positions of our soldiers. "

According to Butusov "violent melees at distances of 50-100 meters with a large force of infantry have continued all day, and continue at this moment."

He said that in spite of the intense fire from all types of weapons on the new terminal and the fierce assault by enemy attack units, "[Ukrainian] soldiers are fighting in the terminal with dignity, and are holding their positions. Nobody is going to retreat. The morale of our guys is very high. "

http://www.unian.info/society/1032415-journalist-two-ukrainian-soldiers-killed-in-fierce-fighting-for-donetsk-airport.html#

#BREAKINGNEWS
Russian forces started firing "all their artillery towards Donetsk" this evening.
Locals speak of "Russian genocide in Donbas"

Militants shelling Yenakiyeve and Donetsk, civilian casualties reported
http://24today.net/open/273877
pic.twitter.com/W9iOuhP154

[OUTLAW 09]

OSCE observers unable to reach Donetsk airport as shelling intensifies. Condemns fighting in civilian areas.
http://bit.ly/1IOBfKE

#Donetsk right now - Russian invasion forces 2S1 Gvozdika, sounding damaged, returns from the airport.
#Ukraine
pic.twitter.com/oYpISMyox2

Reinforcem Ukr forces got is deployed in D. airport. All injured have been evacuated, taken to #Dnipropetrovsk
https://www.facebook.com/HelpArmy.in.ua/posts/1539966216288385?fref=nf …

#Donetsk airport: Ukr forces control all floors of terminal, fought bck part f territory. Artillery shelling ceased
https://www.facebook.com/HelpArmy.in.ua/posts/1539966216288385?fref=nf …

Spotted some ambulances going on top speed with police to hospital. Wounded from Donetsk airport.

VIDEO - Shelling in Donetsk, supposedly tonight.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDOejTRR0hs&sns=tw …
pic.twitter.com/VjOnhkecZm

Here is the video with English Subs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgE92WJTmmE … of meeting of #Ukraine Comm & #Putin BADBOY #Zakharchenko #Donetsk

Insurgents shell Donetsk 'in bid to discredit Ukrainian forces'
http://uatoday.tv/politics/cyborgs-stand-firm-as-fighting-intensifies-403033.html …

Shelling of Donetsk airport is being conducted from the territories of residential areas - OSCE
http://www.ukrinform.ua/rus/news/obstreli_donetskogo_aeroporta_vedutsya_s_territori y_gilih_rayonov___obse_1703065 …

#Footage
Russian army tanks, training in #Luhansk.
Probably some weeks old.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pscPB6oHdhM …
pic.twitter.com/RNkhdFwouy

Shelling on the southern #Donetsk front in the #Petrovsky district tonight.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDOejTRR0hs …
pic.twitter.com/41hZkI1rS6

[OUTLAW 09]

BREAKING: Dashboard cam of the #Volnovakha bus attack.
http://youtu.be/XATf-y9DmIk?t=1m11s …

#BREAKING
Ukr transport security office recommends #complete_stop in passenger traffic between #Ukraine and Russian-occupied territories.

#BREAKING: A shell hit a bus in #Donetsk minutes ago, multiple casualties reported.

Another bus attack in Donetsk http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/15-january-another-bus-attack-in-donetsk …
pic.twitter.com/c0FZBYT3W9

Just as in the MH17 incident the Russian info war is trying badly to push back on the fact that it was their own mercenaries or their own troops that shelled at bus killing 13 and wounding 17 yesterday.

Russian channel shows fake survivor frm shelled bus blaming #Ukrainian forces.But woman w/such name wasnt even n bus pic.twitter.com/pthuo6Kpk3

[OUTLAW 09]

#OSCE staff look at artillery reconnaissance complex 'Aistenok' in action.Filmed by #Russian force
pic.twitter.com/x9O6mqUSiI

The situation at the airport in #Donetsk #Ukraine on tonight:It #Stalingrad in the 21st century.
pic.twitter.com/MxpWPbjWiL

[OUTLAW 09]

For those that still do not think this is a full blown war after an invasion---this was sent out via FB from the Dontesk airport by an Ukrainian fighter involved in extremely heavy fighting the last few days which at times was hand to hand and grenades in under 50m.

By the way--the "Separatists" were in fact true Russian troops that were fighting there not mercenaries.

What it felt to be a Donetsk Airport Cyborg today

"It’s nighttime now. It’s in your home that the lights are on, because you don’t like stepping on something in the dark, you’re worried about twisting your ankle or running into an obstacle… And here, in the terminal, the night sets in much, much earlier, as soon as it starts getting dark.

Every fighter is strictly in his place, at his base point, next to his comrades-in-arms. The lighting is simple; just the flames from shots that are being fired. In the darkness, a burst of flame is an enemy. We snap-shoot at those bursts. They are many, and they must be suppressed. This is no Counter-Strike or Call of Duty here…

Here, you are being the target, and your bullets are flying to kill the enemy. To kill – or else, he will kill you. There’s no third option. There’s no reloading this “game”… Just like there’s no lifting a fallen friend to his feet, a friend who, just a few minutes back, you shared a cigarette or a sip of water with. A friend whose wound you were pushing a Celox into, your fingers black from the dirt, just a few minutes back. His hot thick blood was sticking to your skin… His final groan, final word, final request, or final silence… His eyes will remain with you for the rest of the life… A short one, of just a few minutes – or the long years, whatever is meted out by God.

Kadyrov's men have been walking around the second floor of the new terminal, screaming with joy that they managed to break through the wall of artillery fire that was securing access routes to the terminal. The wall of bursts and splinters that were methodically mowing down the Putinjugend infantry. They are screaming into their radios demanding reinforcement. They are yelling to our guys to surrender, but we do know that there’s no surrendering. Kadyrovtsy are remarkable for their cruelty."

Today, the Ukrainian Cyborgs in the Donetsk airport were under attack all day. They reportedly lost two defenders and destroyed 300 separatist troops, securing the crucial second floor of the airport.

https://www.facebook.com/Zlobyn/posts/764606580288298



15.01.15 23:59
"Artillery fire ceased. The Armed Forces of Ukraine recaptured part of separatists’ territory” - volunteer Tetiana Rychkova’s update of Donetsk airport situation

The Armed Forces of Ukraine managed to force the pro-Russian terrorists out from the part of the Donetsk airport territory.

Volunteer Tetiana Rychkova reported Thursday night on Facebook, Censor.NET informs.

"News from the front line: The artillery fire ceased at the Donetsk airport at the moment."

"The situation has stabilized more or less after the Armed Forces recaptured part of the separatists' territory and deployed there the reinforcements armed with artillery systems that arrived recently. This fact forced the tank that was annoying us in the morning to disappear from the airport.

"The wounded servicemen were evacuated and taken to Dnipropetrovsk. All levels of the terminal are occupied by the Armed Forces of Ukraine servicemen.

"We will cope! Everything will be fine!" she wrote Source: http://en.censor.net.ua/n320117Source: http://en.censor.net.ua/n320117

[OUTLAW 09]

Illegal convoys from Russia gave new toy: Aistenok mobile radar.Track of 81-155mm projectiles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPFh-pLUUlo …
pic.twitter.com/E5FcfMk7ZX

ATO spokesperson: SBU detains a #DPR spy in Odesa who fought against UA forces in #Donetsk airport

#Ukraine's Secret Service probes #Russia's energy giant #Lukoil of financing LNR, DNR

Col. Lysenko: Ukrainian operatives detained two #DPR spies in #Donetsk oblast

Col. Lysenko: "Terrorists bring more military equipment closer to ceasefire demarcation line."

The "LNR" terrorists blew up a bridge in Lutuhyne (Luhansk region)
pic.twitter.com/JvYiAQvuQ6

[OUTLAW 09]

If true, very disturbing - Russian-backed "DNR" using truce to collect dead as a deception 2 gas out #Ukraine's cyborgs frm #Donetsk airport

Russian-backed "DNR" forces gassing Ukraine Cyborgs out of #Donetsk airport?-unverified report
http://tsn.ua/ukrayina/boyoviki-pustili-gaz-u-budivli-doneckogo-aeroportu-403169.html … pic.twitter.com/CQQweb4hTa

smoke grenades were used, TSN are idiots

Fighting on ALL fronts. #Ukraine #Russia #war
pic.twitter.com/bIdxlsNKmG

#BreakingNews
24 Ukrainian troops were killed and wounded in #Donbas yesterday.
6 KIA
18 WIA

A three km long tank convoy moving towards #Ukraine troops near #Horlivka / demarcation linehttp://inforesist.org/cherez-gorlovku-k-poziciyam-ato-idet-3-kilometrovaya-kolona-tankov-boevikov-lysenko/ …

[kaur]

Outlaw posted Komosomolka video about new Russian made radar. I hope that OSCE people asked where they got the training. The Russian proxies must prove that they can handle the thing in a right way. Maybe they got training from local Donetsk radar salesman :D

[OUTLAW 09]

If true, very disturbing - Russian-backed "DNR" using truce to collect dead as a deception 2 gas out #Ukraine's cyborgs frm #Donetsk airport

Russian-backed "DNR" forces gassing Ukraine Cyborgs out of #Donetsk airport?-unverified report
http://tsn.ua/ukrayina/boyoviki-pustili-gaz-u-budivli-doneckogo-aeroportu-403169.html … pic.twitter.com/CQQweb4hTa

smoke grenades were used, TSN are idiots

Fighting on ALL fronts. #Ukraine #Russia #war
pic.twitter.com/bIdxlsNKmG

#BreakingNews
24 Ukrainian troops were killed and wounded in #Donbas yesterday.
6 KIA
18 WIA

A three km long tank convoy moving towards #Ukraine troops near #Horlivka / demarcation linehttp://inforesist.org/cherez-gorlovku-k-poziciyam-ato-idet-3-kilometrovaya-kolona-tankov-boevikov-lysenko/ …

Terrorists let off smoke to recover their many wounded and dead in new terminal today
https://m.facebook.com/butusov.yuriy/posts/914254865281477?pnref=story …

[OUTLAW 09]

The fight continues near the #Hranitne. Badly wounded soldier of #Ukraine army & Azov evacuated
http://iveuamap.com/en/2015/16-january-the-fight-continues-near-the-hranitne-hard-wounded …

Ukr soldiers confirm,Chechen invaders are in the basement+Motorola is still on the 3rd floor
http://www.unian.net/society/1032779-v-podvale-donetskogo-aeroporta-kiborgi-zorvali-kadyirovtsev-jurnalist.html …

Update fm airport: OUN alongside 93 div + Pravy Sektor still @ airport. "Ukr art'ly working. Encirclement Possibility - but there fm day 1"

#Ukrainian soldiers repel militants’ tear-gas attack on #Donteskairport. The battle is ongoing http://www.day.kiev.ua/uk/news/160115-biyci-ato-v-doneckomu-aeroportu-vidbyly-ataku-boyovykiv-zi-slozoginnym-gazom …

#BREAKINGNEWS
Heavy artilly fire hitting #Donetsk #airport right now.
pic.twitter.com/xn0izIHzOQ

Explosions have rocked airport basement where Kremlin-backed Chechen fighters were blockaded
http://uatoday.tv/politics/cyborgs-stand-firm-as-fighting-intensifies-403033.html …
pic.twitter.com/tPwxRhGG6w

Very intense fighting can be heard at #Donetsk airport, artillery and machine gun fire can be heard. Bright flashes in the sky.

As long as the Russian-backed fighters are shelling Donetsk Airport, that means Ukraine controls Donetsk Airport
http://bit.ly/1sGtDIa

BREAKING: Ukrainian army starts tank assault on #Donetsk airport.
Guns and artillery also used.
via https://twitter.com/p_pieniazek/status/556099701255450625 …

[OUTLAW 09]

A serious problem for even trusting that the OSCE is neutral in eastern Ukraine or simply a tool for the Russian Army.

Indeed, evidence suggests Russian intelligence, inc use of Serbian agents, have infiltrated @OSCE_SMM

[OUTLAW 09]

The Putin regime has far more in common with Islamic terrorism than they realize in the West.

http://www.themoscowtimes.com/opinion/article/kremlin-troll-army-shows-russia-isnt-charlie-hebdo/514369.html …

[OUTLAW 09]

The Ukrainian government is still providing the utilities to the Donbas and not being paid for it and yet the mercenaries collect and that is not extortion?

Militants threaten to evict #Donetsk residents for failure to pay utility bills

http://uatoday.tv/news/militants-threaten-to-evict-donetsk-residents-for-failure-to-pay-utility-bills-403231.html … pic.twitter.com/H9BZuZ3LxN

[OUTLAW 09]

Russia is v. concerned the fake #Volnovakha bus survivor story is being exposed:

http://www.ostro.org/general/society/news/462040/ …
pic.twitter.com/FOdoMXBy9p

#Volnovakha was not her first rodeo.
I recall the fake baby crucifixion story
pic.twitter.com/FVNwTciS2s

For all the Russian Trolls who can't afford spectacles due to underpayment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIwWdk28itI …
pic.twitter.com/5IUjnvB2Hq

1st actress was a wife of the Russian fighter. 2nd is a girl convicted of theft and active #Russia supporter

Snezhanna Karpeka is her real name. She lives in Donetsk and actively supports "Novorossiya".

#Footage
Russian major at the location of the #Volnovakha #BusMassacre.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvM43_Wht8k …
pic.twitter.com/GleG9zCxKR

So it was OSCE who proposed to invite Russian army leaders (=Perpetrator? Enemy? Spy?) to #Volnovakha crime scene? pic.twitter.com/UecCsXaWqz

WHY IS A RUSSIAN MAJOR VISITING #VOLNOVAKHA CRIME SCENE??? (Perpetrator? Enemy? Spy?)
https://twitter.com/Conflict_Report/status/556114613411258368 …
pic.twitter.com/z6csjFPVB0

[OUTLAW 09]

#Situation in the terminal
"They're trying to kill us,we try not to let them do it and destroy more of their people."
http://www.unian.net/society/1032839-kombat-pro-donetskiy-aeroport-myi-uderjivaem-pozitsii-v-novom-terminale-i-nikuda-ottuda-uhodit-ne-sobiraemsya.html …

130 dead bodies of the #Russian militants were taken from #Donetsk airport by RU forces
ttp://CRIME.in.UA http://fb.me/48QHPJuTI

Source is commander of the 5th Battalion of Right Sector troops, holding the building. - It's easy as that.

Smoke grenades militants used to take their KIA + burning plastic cover at Donetsk airport were taken for gas https://www.facebook.com/yuri.biriukov/posts/1548645658737579 …

#Russian mass-media keep saying #Donetskairport taken over by militants. But #Ukraine's army repels all attacks What's the purpose of lying?

[OUTLAW 09]

#Russia|n military equipment base identified, located in #Zhdanovka, #Donetsk region #Ukraine
https://informnapalm.org/4731-zhdanovka-donetskaya-oblast-ydentyfytsyrovana-baza-raspolozhenyya-rossyjskoj-voennoj-tehnyky …
pic.twitter.com/fY95MBVoPp

100s of pieces of military equipment have flowed from #Russia into #Ukraine since Minsk, says US at #OSCE -
READ: http://1.usa.gov/1CrNj2I

Tanks arriving by train in #Taganrog, will probably go to #Novoazovsk for #Mariupol attacks
pic.twitter.com/0evW0yg0py

[OUTLAW 09]

Commander of RightSector's 5th batt: Ukr servicemen r holding positions in airport's new terminal. Combat is on

http://www.hromadske.tv/society/kombat--chornii--pro-aeroport-donetska-voni-nastup/ …

A video purportedly showing #Ukraine's cyborgs playing football today in the new terminal at #Donetsk airport:
http://youtu.be/k5cV1kNH5CE?t=25s …

[OUTLAW 09]

Kyiv Post ✔ @KyivPost

#Russia accuses EU of gunning for war after bloc enourages arming #Ukraine

http://www.kyivpost.com/content/kyiv-post-plus/russia-accuses-european-parliament-of-gunning-for-war-377618.html … #Ukraine pic.twitter.com/sjxjNvD4V7

[OUTLAW 09]

#Ukraine #Kirovohrad Special Forces #Army #Ukraina,are at airport #Donetsk,had captured several terrorists

#BreakingReport
A large #Russian_army column passed #Novosvetlovka towards #Luhansk city today.
There are many GAZ - 2330 "Tiger" in it.
I guess the invasion army command in Moscow is unhappy with the slow advance in northern Luhansk compared to Donetsk.
--> Reinforcements.

#Russia could soon run multiple #Ukraine-sized operations: U.S. general
http://reut.rs/1E71Lyf

'We took locals into captivity, tortured & killed them'-conversation with Russian mercenaries
http://www.radiosvoboda.org/content/article/26797673.html …

Ukraine Live: Russia Propaganda Journalist Posts Video Of Donetsk Airport, Distorts Narrative
http://bit.ly/1G9cZqJ
pic.twitter.com/scSELTU0K8

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#BreakingNews
Local shops in #Makeevka started selling T-80 battle tanks the OSCE says!!

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Who and or where did the unusually large number of M16s being seen in Russian SF hands in the Ukraine come from---Iraq??????

One of the Russian SF acting as Novorosiya terrorist holding M16 rifle
@DajeyPetros
pic.twitter.com/YP2UD5bTJm

[kaur]

Outlaw, this rifle pic may be PSYOPS. Maybe not. Russians got from Georgia according to RIA Novosti M-4 rifles.

http://ria.ru/osetia_mm/20080820/150521905_150519864.html

If the rifle is made by Bushmaster, it may be From Georgia.

http://www.ar15.com/archive/topic.html?b=3&f=118&t=562039

If I remember correctly some models of AR were made in Ukraine. We saw one during Crimea annexion.

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Learn how Russia plans for Arctic supremacy.
http://social.stratfor.com/cff
pic.twitter.com/aiWhcjyHkx

Russia is interested in the Arctic for number of reasons, though natural resources & pure geopolitical imperatives are major driving forces

106th Airborne Division in Tula received new BTR-MD «Rakushka» via @zvezdanews http://tvzvezda.ru/news/forces/content/201501140856-vj2t.htm …
pic.twitter.com/wnqsR1u57O

Russian Airborne Forces (VDV) to get first of 1500 BMD-4M IFVs and 2500 BTR-MD Rakushka APCs in 2015. Sputnik 15 Jan
http://sputniknews.com/military/20150115/1016945481.html …

Ukraine restarting T-64-based IFV development. IHS Jane's Defence Weekly 15 Jan http://www.janes.com/article/47949/ukraine-restarting-t-64-based-ifv-developmen … pic.twitter.com/Mwun3IhSdO

Russian special forces Southern MD receive first of 50 "Typhoon" armoured vehicles. MoD 16 Jan http://function.mil.ru/news_page/country/more.htm?id=12005753@egNews … pic.twitter.com/02i2vv8PNB

Over 1,000 Russian main battle tank (MBT) and APC drivers start extreme training in Eastern MD. MoD 17 Jan
http://function.mil.ru/news_page/country/more.htm?id=12005757@egNews …

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'Separatists asking for ceasefire to collect their dead & wounded at the battlefield. Calm at the airport right now'

https://www.facebook.com/tomasz.maciejczuk.16 …

#Russia equip in #Ukraine ? #OSCE insp separatist RU origin 'Aistenok' counter-mortar radar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPFh-pLUUlo …
pic.twitter.com/aAHScFFXjr

As fighting intensifies & Donetsk airport leveled, Russian diplomacy aims to keep Europe hopeful while diplomacy intentionally goes nowhere

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Outlaw, this rifle pic may be PSYOPS. Maybe not. Russians got from Georgia according to RIA Novosti M-4 rifles.

http://ria.ru/osetia_mm/20080820/150521905_150519864.html

If the rifle is made by Bushmaster, it may be From Georgia.

http://www.ar15.com/archive/topic.html?b=3&f=118&t=562039

If I remember correctly some models of AR were made in Ukraine. We saw one during Crimea annexion.

kaur---this is the second such photo since Wednesday---the DNR "displayed" 10-15 in a wooden box they claimed they captured in the airport and it proved the US was supplying weapons to the UA.

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Arresting aerial footage of Donetsk's destroyed airport from yesterday. Gives you an idea of scale of the territory

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2dsVMpyL40&feature=youtu.be …

[kaur]

About American rifle Zahhartchenko's soldier was holding.

This is the screenshot from Donetsk.

http://sakhapress.ru/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/UVvT6s21.jpg

I suppose that among visitors of this forum are a lot of AR markings specialists. I'm talkinga about ejection port dust cover marking on the photo. There is visible white square. If you look at the Russian thropys they got from Georgia you can see similar square. Look at the photo where AR is together with Negev LMG.

http://szhaman.livejournal.com/243103.html?thread=4509343

Is this widespread marking or something special?

This is not Ukrainian made AR.

http://www.zbroyar.com.ua/z15.php

Another good resolution pic about Georgian AR.

http://zbroya.info/storage/medias/2012/03/22/22/грузия_М4.jpg

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Shells landing heavily in #Avdeevka locals report

13:40 'Pravyi sector' has established a new way to the airport from #Pisky village, brought ammo, picked up woundedhttp://uatoday.tv/politics/cyborgs-stand-firm-as-fighting-intensifies-403033.html …

"Right Sector"#Army #Ukraine:embossed new road to airport #Donetsk from village Pisky #Ukraina.
http://uatoday.tv/politics/cyborgs-stand-firm-as-fighting-intensifies-403033.html … pic.twitter.com/B2vMDwwtVt

Minsk talks cancelled. No surprise given Russian Forces' latest attempt to seize #DonetskAirport. Minsk always was a stall-for-time device.

Battalion #Kavkaz report attack on #Russia barracks. 25 fatalities.
http://divannaya-sotnya.com.ua/ATO/batalon-ka

14:45 #Makeevka APCs with troops on the top rushing towards #Donetsk

Ukraine NSDC is not scaremongering. While we watch #DonetskAirport, Russian Army sneaks around close to border. Why?
http://uacrisis.org/andrijj-lisenko-16/ …

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The more the Russians deny they shot down MH17 the more the open source bloggers disprove Putin and his FM.

Bellingcat found another photo of the Russian BUK 3 X 2 blamed for the actual shot down in the Russian version of FB. Russian FSB/GRU really having a hard time with their own internet opsec.

New photo the @Bellingcat investigation team dug up of Buk 3x2 inside Russia in June #MH17
pic.twitter.com/Zbd2u1e9ma

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Post Stalingrad---the fight at the Donetsk airport is taking on epic contours in the use of defensive vs offensive ops. Stalingrad went only 155 days this is well into the 230 range.

Interesting that a rag tag group of volunteers and a few regular UA have defeated just about everything including Russian elite SF/GRU troops killing in the process a major Russian SF General and yet they still hang on.

Maybe the Iraqi Army could learn something from them---fighting for a flag and country sometimes does wonders when you are the definitive underdog.

Nonstop heavy artillery shelling can be heard at #Donetsk live cam for HOURS now! Endless outgoing fire and explosions.

"Cyborgs" to Ukrainians: We are not going to retreat http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/17-january-cyborgs-to-ukrainians-we-are-not-going-to-retreat …
pic.twitter.com/c9ZvwEv5jg

Confront continues In Donetsk #airport. The militants have asked to stop the fight
NOTE: usually to recover wounded and killed and there were many today on their side of the fight.

More footage from the same day.
Mostly #Right_Sector troops.
Where is the #Ukrainain_Army?!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlXMr2q9oBM …
pic.twitter.com/AcYF7f1NX8

Impressive #footage
Cyborgs defending the #Donetsk #airport #radar station, 11 days ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZS518akTja0 …
pic.twitter.com/9Heky1bIUG

Cyborgs from #Belarus raise national flag in #Pisky and help #Ukraine troops defend #Donetsk airport
pic.twitter.com/Fucbz3CXUO

Heavy fighting continues in Donetsk airport, UA forces try to block RU fire & make safe corridor for evacuation of wounded from new terminal

#BreakingFootage
Cyborgs are still holed up in some basement section of the new terminal, vowing to stay.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRxblXfyJBo …

Ukrainian forces have destroyed terrorists' tank in Donetsk Airport
http://uatoday.tv/politics/cyborgs-stand-firm-as-fighting-intensifies-403033.html … p
pic.twitter.com/UIfvgYt3Kh

#Footage
Russian BM-21 #Grad convoy moves towards offensive positions in #Donetsk city.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DFjMxRyHh0 …
pic.twitter.com/foxLrAC5BT

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Alleged sexual slavery of women aged 17-22 held by Russian-backed forces in #Luhansk #Ukraine

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=705652352803404&set=a.242761135759197.52544.100000759368523&type=1 …
pic.twitter.com/r7BNwTXiUX

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Post Stalingrad---the fight at the Donetsk airport is taking on epic contours in the use of defensive vs offensive ops. Stalingrad went only 155 days this is well into the 230 range.

Interesting that a rag tag group of volunteers and a few regular UA have defeated just about everything including Russian elite SF/GRU troops killing in the process a major Russian SF General and yet they still hang on.

Maybe the Iraqi Army could learn something from them---fighting for a flag and country sometimes does wonders when you are the definitive underdog.

Nonstop heavy artillery shelling can be heard at #Donetsk live cam for HOURS now! Endless outgoing fire and explosions.

"Cyborgs" to Ukrainians: We are not going to retreat http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/17-january-cyborgs-to-ukrainians-we-are-not-going-to-retreat …
pic.twitter.com/c9ZvwEv5jg

Confront continues In Donetsk #airport. The militants have asked to stop the fight
NOTE: usually to recover wounded and killed and there were many today on their side of the fight.

More footage from the same day.
Mostly #Right_Sector troops.
Where is the #Ukrainain_Army?!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlXMr2q9oBM …
pic.twitter.com/AcYF7f1NX8

Impressive #footage
Cyborgs defending the #Donetsk #airport #radar station, 11 days ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZS518akTja0 …
pic.twitter.com/9Heky1bIUG

Cyborgs from #Belarus raise national flag in #Pisky and help #Ukraine troops defend #Donetsk airport
pic.twitter.com/Fucbz3CXUO

Heavy fighting continues in Donetsk airport, UA forces try to block RU fire & make safe corridor for evacuation of wounded from new terminal

#BreakingFootage
Cyborgs are still holed up in some basement section of the new terminal, vowing to stay.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRxblXfyJBo …

Ukrainian forces have destroyed terrorists' tank in Donetsk Airport
http://uatoday.tv/politics/cyborgs-stand-firm-as-fighting-intensifies-403033.html … p
pic.twitter.com/UIfvgYt3Kh

#Footage
Russian BM-21 #Grad convoy moves towards offensive positions in #Donetsk city.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DFjMxRyHh0 …
pic.twitter.com/foxLrAC5BT

Well forget about shelling reduced..back on in full force. #Donetsk

Fighting around #Donetsk airport moves to the west.
Massive MLRS volleys hit #Pisky and #Vesele, visible on the cam.

Donetsk airport: w/powerful artillery support enemy's forces have been destroyed, enemy suffered heavy losses
Militants' infantry refuses to come as reinforcement to the #Donetsk airport, enemy's tank was destroyed
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1541042622847411&set=a.1416780781940263.1073741827.100008250640127&type=1

[kaur]

Ukrainians are tracking opponents in open sources and collect them there.

http://gruz200.net

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This from the former Swedish FM just now who is highly respected here in the EU:


Carl Bildt ✔ @carlbildt

All indications point at fighting over Donetsk airport intensifying. Ukraine soldiers under very heavy pressure.

Will the world react?

Interesting question----

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Flashes in the Air, Massive bombardement going on at Donetsk Airport and surroundings.
LIVE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRujbSn6pUU …
This is the live RT cam facing the airport.

Yes, it still rages on. #DonetskAirport and area getting many strikes from Russian artillery, including many big flashes

Parts of #Donetsk just went dark again

#BREAKINGFOOTAGE
Russian #Grad systems work on #Donetsk #airport.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQJvBOyi9ps …
pic.twitter.com/tTp7MPzZAK

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#Footage from #Donetsk's Kievsky district.
Hundreds of shells hit civilian areas thoughout the city.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSWgSiBZ1X4 …

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#Russia|n tanks on flank of #Debaltsevo node.It is important from airport in #Donetsk http://bit.ly/1zodr0H
pic.twitter.com/bGiLtndVrl

Map makes clear: #Debaltseve (ie Russian Forces) controls flanks of Luhansk and Donetsk (which then controls flank of Mariupol).

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Breaking: #Ukraine used FGM-148 Javelin against #Russia in DonAirport against tank brigade from Ulan-Ude. Unconfirmed

http://patrioty.org.ua/sered-teroristiv-panika-u-kiborgiv-z-yavilas-nova-potuzhna-zbroya …

Lifenews says #Ukraine startet counter offensive, 100 soldiers + tanks on the runway. They probably realize airport not in Russian hands.

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Video of unknown object flying from #Donetsk airport towards the cam. Possibly rocket artillery

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwQh3a1HKuY …

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#ATO new center: fierce combat is on at #Donetsk airport, Cyborgs r blocking the enemy w/ fire to evacuate WIA

https://www.facebook.com/ato.news/posts/933809553296518 … |

[davidbfpo]

In the midst of the winter fighting Professor John Schindler has a column, 'Why Ukraine Is Losing' and draws an interesting comparison with Croatia, who truly mobilised and regained lost territory:http://20committee.com/2015/01/17/why-ukraine-is-losing/

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In the midst of the winter fighting Professor John Schindler has a column, 'Why Ukraine Is Losing' and draws an interesting comparison with Croatia, who truly mobilised and regained lost territory:http://20committee.com/2015/01/17/why-ukraine-is-losing/

Would agree with the article with the simple exception Croatia got hidden NATO weapons support and was "privately and quietly allowed" to make their military moves.

The Ukraine has been bluntly told to adhere to the Minsk agreements if they want financial aid from the EU and especially the US and notice there has not been a single US visit since the last one from Biden AND NATO ie the US has refused weapons--AND not a single mention in any recent US open press conference and silence out of the Congress. Even in the face of the killing of 13 and wounding of 17 in the Russian missile strike this week--not even mentioned in the US press. check who bought it up in the UNSC--no one from the "allies-UK/US---strange right?

NATO/EU/US wants no military conflict with Russia and has made that clear repeatedly even as late as yesterday. Croatia did not have the same inhibitors that the Ukraine is having and had quiet understandings within NATO and the US.

If the report today of a Javelin ATM being used is correct then that is the first indication the Baltics are assisting the Ukraine as they recently purchased 16M dollars worth of them---that makes a real difference in a tank heavy environment.

Notice it is the Baltics and Poland that are verbally and militarily supporting the Ukraine---and no one else in either the EU and or NATO.

For that matter seven EU countries being held by France WANT to in fact loosen Russian sanctions and there was absolutely no push back today from the US/UK both of whom signed the 1994 Budapest Memorandum. Or did anyone hear that today from Obama in London?

The Ukraine has in fact mobilized and mobilized and has fought and fought and only has asked for defensive weapons and political support and what has comeback from the EU/NATO and the US.

Currently over 500 Russian tanks are inside the Ukraine with 10K Russian troops, over 400 rocket systems, over 800 IFVs, and four SS21 systems and yet NATO, EU and US and the global press have totally failed and or do not want to use the single word "war" and in 2008 everyone used the word and called it the "Russian-Georgian war".

Strange is it not?

Otherwise a good article---

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Remember I mentioned the Ukraine is being held to hold the ceasefire by the EU/US-this explains his actions as he cannot do anything different than he is currently doing if he wants EU assistance:
I dont get Poroshenko at all. UA forces are dying every day, and he's acting like the ceasefire is going perfect

#PravySektor resupplied #DonetskAirport #cyborgs today; not the regular #Ukraine Army... #Poroshenko didn't even say a word...

And the Ukraine is not fighting?:
23 Cyborgs / Ukrainian troops defending #Donetsk #airport were killed and wounded today.
3 KIA
20 WIA
pic.twitter.com/gVnJuEQQoe

Pictures of today. Ukrainian Soldiers evacuated the dead and wounded comrades.
http://inforesist.org/iz-aeroporta-vyvezli-pogibshix-i-ranennyx/ …
pic.twitter.com/9r4W0TafUS

If true that there are now fighter aircraft inside the Ukraine--who is flying them and WHAT will the West say this time---not an invasion?
LifeNews reporting ”Donetsk Republic“ now has air force. Translation: Russia will begin bombing Ukraine with jets.”

Putin is Ukraine's greatest nation builder. Turned some useless ruins in Donetsk into a hugely powerful symbol that will stay forever

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In the face of perfect video footage taken at the exact moment of the Russian GRAD shellings that killed 13 and wounded 17 in a bus the Russians still state "it ain't us" and reject any hint it was them.

Ambassador of RF to the OSCE: OSCE data deny version of Kyiv and US about the reasons of tragedy near Volnovaha
http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/17-january-ambassador-of-rf-to-the-osce-osce-data-deny-the …

OSCE says though----
OSCE crater analysis of Grad rockets at #Volnovakha confirms launch from separatist territory
pic.twitter.com/p4Ds2HqRJC

Marcel van den Berg☁ @marcelvandenber
My next post will debunk the Russia Today documentary. Many lies in that one. Can't wait

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#ATO new center: fierce combat is on at #Donetsk airport, Cyborgs r blocking the enemy w/ fire to evacuate WIA

https://www.facebook.com/ato.news/posts/933809553296518 … |

#Ukraine #ATO:enemy liquidated 10,injured 17,were lost 2,all 1065th Artillery Reg.(Kostroma)98th Airborne Airborne Division of #Russia #army

VIDEO #Ukraine 93rd Brigade & Right Sector expanded the corridor to #Donetsk Airport to 2km
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRPqQiBi_Tg#t=11 …
pic.twitter.com/tEt0F5yQiH

Fighting continues around #Donetsk airport as Ukrainian forces widen the area they control. Large Russian forces still present there.

#Motorola (one of the leader of #Russian terrorists in E #Ukraine) reportedly killed in #Donetsk. Updates soon

Earlier today a damaged #Russia tank was seen slowly leaving #Donetsk Airport #Ukraine indicative of fighting there
pic.twitter.com/ZqDWAVk1AR

#Russia troops near #Donetsk Airport using Electronic Warfare Vehicles to jam and disrupt communications
pic.twitter.com/TOMGU97fvJ

Biryukov: at least 64 Russian dead after Ukrainian artillery strike
http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/17-january-biryukov-at-least-64-russian-dead-after-ukrainian …
pic.twitter.com/2GnHmtFujA

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In the face of perfect video footage taken at the exact moment of the Russian GRAD shellings that killed 13 and wounded 17 in a bus the Russians still state "it ain't us" and reject any hint it was them.

Ambassador of RF to the OSCE: OSCE data deny version of Kyiv and US about the reasons of tragedy near Volnovaha
http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/17-january-ambassador-of-rf-to-the-osce-osce-data-deny-the …

OSCE says though----
OSCE crater analysis of Grad rockets at #Volnovakha confirms launch from separatist territory
pic.twitter.com/p4Ds2HqRJC

Marcel van den Berg☁ @marcelvandenber
My next post will debunk the Russia Today documentary. Many lies in that one. Can't wait

The Russians will have an extremely hard time debunking this excellent open source analysis of their GRAD shelling of a civilian bus killing 13.

Somebody might actually have seen and filmed the outgoing GRAD attack that hit #Volnovakha bus
http://ukraineatwar.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/possible-launch-location-determined-for.html …
pic.twitter.com/Fs912HFqjr

Possible launch location determined for Volnovakha attack
http://ukraineatwar.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/possible-launch-location-determined-for.html …
pic.twitter.com/6VWmzq2V5N

#Volnovakha video compilage of GRAD launches, CCTV, and dashcam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_G_dCApelw …
pic.twitter.com/xvjcN2TSF3

But they still try to divert the finger being correctly pointed at them just as in MH17 even in the face of 200% truth and evidence that has been in fact geotagged
MFA Russia ✔ @mfa_russia
#OSCE information disproves Kiev allegation of the guilty in the tragedy near Volnovakha
http://itar-tass.com/en/world/771741

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Remember I mentioned the Ukraine is being held to hold the ceasefire by the EU/US-this explains his actions as he cannot do anything different than he is currently doing if he wants EU assistance:
I dont get Poroshenko at all. UA forces are dying every day, and he's acting like the ceasefire is going perfect

#PravySektor resupplied #DonetskAirport #cyborgs today; not the regular #Ukraine Army... #Poroshenko didn't even say a word...

And the Ukraine is not fighting?:
23 Cyborgs / Ukrainian troops defending #Donetsk #airport were killed and wounded today.
3 KIA
20 WIA
pic.twitter.com/gVnJuEQQoe

Pictures of today. Ukrainian Soldiers evacuated the dead and wounded comrades.
http://inforesist.org/iz-aeroporta-vyvezli-pogibshix-i-ranennyx/ …
pic.twitter.com/9r4W0TafUS

If true that there are now fighter aircraft inside the Ukraine--who is flying them and WHAT will the West say this time---not an invasion?
LifeNews reporting ”Donetsk Republic“ now has air force. Translation: Russia will begin bombing Ukraine with jets.”

Putin is Ukraine's greatest nation builder. Turned some useless ruins in Donetsk into a hugely powerful symbol that will stay forever

The fighting today will have to go down as one of the hardest fought battles of the 21st century and the West did nothing- not even a press conference to even "complain" of Russian troops being invovled.

Report from airport #Donetsk,#Army&reporter:Today was one of most hellish days in airport area
pic.twitter.com/XZDJywm2yA

AND the Ukraine is not fighting?---not a word from the West---or did they somehow miss it? Does the West even understand the single word---war?
Especially since it is the West that has the Ukraine on a leash in order to not provoke Russia.

Twenty-three Ukrainian troops killed, nearly 100 wounded in past 24 hours - military operation spokesman http://en.interfax.com.ua/news/general/213221.html …

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For those in the Obama NSC--there is in fact now an open war between the Ukraine and Russia forced upon the Ukraine by a Russian "invasion not an incursion" and yet the typical head in the sand approach

Today Donetsk airport saw one of the biggest tank battles of the Russo-Ukrainian war. Right now Ukrainian tanks are streaming into the area

LIVE VIDEO Massive explosions #Donetsk Airport.(#Ukraine offensive clear around area?)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFk0WFyQlnk …
pic.twitter.com/vHyJCLnQs8

VIDEO - Ukrainian tanks are coming to the aid of the Donetsk airport.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nn4nMDeKvrY&sns=tw …
pic.twitter.com/lVYj8oSxtb

[davidbfpo]

See Post 1652 for a critique of the Ukrainian military effort to date.

I had read a similar article on the bizarrre civil government earlier this week, it is this 'The New Ukraine Is Run by Rogues, Sexpots, Warlords, Lunatics and Oligarchs' from a small circulation NY paper.
Link:http://observer.com/2015/01/the-new-ukraine-is-run-by-rogues-sexpots-warlords-lunatics-and-oligarchs/#ixzz3P7I4zFoh

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See Post 1652 for a critique of the Ukrainian military effort to date.

I had read a similar article on the bizarrre civil government earlier this week, it is this 'The New Ukraine Is Run by Rogues, Sexpots, Warlords, Lunatics and Oligarchs' from a small circulation NY paper.
Link:http://observer.com/2015/01/the-new-ukraine-is-run-by-rogues-sexpots-warlords-lunatics-and-oligarchs/#ixzz3P7I4zFoh

Davd--you bring up a good point---but the core problem is we in the West have never experienced nor seen since the end of WW2 the attempted restart of a government and it's country.

The Maidan was for a number of reasons but mostly though would be as Robert J often writes all about--- the rule of law and good governance---the Ukraine was never given a chance to develop out of the old Soviet system of state run enterprises ie subsidized coal for 300 a ton vs Polish for 65 and or SA for 85 a ton--the oligarchs took over much as they did in the old SU and here was the core trigger---the levels of corruption that permeated the Ukraine and their criminal gangs even rivaled those of Russia.

Basically the Ukraine is rebuilding on the fly literally on the fly--- a government, new security apparatus, new military, new draft systems, trying to limit the oligarchs, and attempting to reform it's state run businesses ALL while fighting a war.

Which to my knowledge has not been attempted in Europe since 1945---even the breakup of the Czechoslovakia went far easier although Slovakia is still struggling.

Historically the closest thing to the Ukraine upheaval would be our own Revolutionary War which by the way did not get any form of a stabile form of government until long after the fighting had stopped and we only survived when the French entered the war supporting us--which has not happened for the Ukraine---the France the Ukraine is looking for is the EU and NATO.

As for the fighting abilities--if one really looks at the period up to the Russian invasion using Russian tanks, artillery and troops on foreign soil the rag tag UA and especially the volunteer BNs basically did in effect defeat by early August the "mercenary separatists" with no assistance from the west outside of money. Which if then allowed to stand would have reunified the Ukraine--that is why Russia stepped in.

The Ukrainians suffered a brutal defeat in a key battle in early August and hundreds were killed after the Russian Army stated they had the freedom to leave the encirclement BUT some on the blogs did point to the Russians doing the same thing in Chechnya and also killing hundreds there but Putin and his Generals said it would not happen--and it did and yet we the West seem to still "wanted to believe him". They were killed because the Russian troops and those supporting mercenaries all claimed they were fascists and Nazi's fighting for a junta which notice has not been said for a long while now.

Then they were pushed back by far superior Russian forces---but they slowed them to a standstill, and have been rebuilding, refitting, rearming all the while strangely holding to an unilateral ceasefire three times that never really was and WHY? Because the major EU members-France, Germany and even the UK pushed them to hold it while they dealt with Putin--BUT really all of the EU/NATO and the US was doing was attempting to avoid armed conflict with Putin using the Ukraine as a buffer.

Remember the last few former Ukrainian presidents over the last ten years totally drove the UA into the ground, cutting troop numbers, low pay, no rights and more especially mothballed a lot of their equipment and stopped purchasing anything new--so at the August invasion the UA was just a shell of an army.

So yes is democracy crazy right now in the Ukraine and countless axes are being ground but they have managed in fact to pass a series of new laws that if even half way implemented take the Ukraine out of the Soviet system once and for all---and it will be messy, dirty and hard but who said democracy is easy for an entire population which by the way is what they expressed at the Maidan they wanted--something else that Robert J writes here about--the self determination of an entire population meaning determined by themselves not by outsiders.

And here is the surprise the Ukrainian population while dreaming to be in the EU definitely knows it will be a hard slog but seem to be willing to go down that path if it means breaking from their Soviet/Russia past.

Putin has become for the Ukraine a great nation builder.

By the way the key for a successful going forward is the current airport fight largely overlooked by virtually most of the western media and western leaders. Notice today the combat at the airfield is extremely quiet--the Russians were stunned yesterday.

What occurred there over the last three days will rival Stalingrad for hand to hand fighting and heavy artillery strikes in a small area-- what turned the tide was the standing up of a large number of mid range UA/volunteer LTCs and COLs who had fought with NATO and the US in Iraq and AFG taking over tactical command coupled with an extremely experienced volunteer BN and the UA airborne that got aggressive and fought their way back in taking over the entire airport and pushing 2km past it and the Russian propaganda that was stating they are in full control and have won died a quick death late last night and is virtually silent today.

That sent a clear signal to the Russians that when allowed the UA can fight back and is good at it--that signal should have been sent sooner--and now this ties back into the original article---if the cost is high enough Putin will stop---yesterday the price was high enough.

Plus the accuracy of the UA artillery was vastly enhanced with the counter battery radars the US sent--that should not be forgotten also a signal to Putin. My complaint--IMHO it should have been far sooner along with drones and night vision.

[OUTLAW 09]

See Post 1652 for a critique of the Ukrainian military effort to date.

I had read a similar article on the bizarrre civil government earlier this week, it is this 'The New Ukraine Is Run by Rogues, Sexpots, Warlords, Lunatics and Oligarchs' from a small circulation NY paper.
Link:http://observer.com/2015/01/the-new-ukraine-is-run-by-rogues-sexpots-warlords-lunatics-and-oligarchs/#ixzz3P7I4zFoh

David--would like though to see what the professor would say and write about the Russian model that Putin is pushing under his "federated" concept---ie Bosnia.

[OUTLAW 09]

Needless to say that shelling is ABSOLUTELY INTENSE in #Donetsk today.
MLRS, artillery hitting EVERY SECOND since hours.

Footage of a large Grad launch in Donetsk, eastern #Ukraine today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahNEamuabGk …

attacking from inside civilian sectors, then complaining about return fire

Looking beyond #Donetsk:
Krymske, Shchastya, Trohizbenka, Pisky, Tonenke and Opytne were hit by Russian #Grad missiles over the last 12 hrs.

#Russia troll says these are"foreign" & "#NATO"...
When did #KrAZ of #Kremenchuk leave #Ukraine & join NATO? pic.twitter.com/GP717xPt83

Another example of delirious attempts to obscure #Volnovakha crime. From notorious Russian Propagandist
pic.twitter.com/NQNUkeCj19

[OUTLAW 09]

A poster in Moscow hoping to gather money for Donetsk-rebels. Dress him for 34590 rub, gun not included
pic.twitter.com/xBjauDtsxQ

#Luhansk showed L-29 jet that is part of its Air Force now. Note that it wasn't shown flying http://rutube.ru/video/2f475d501bb15f2229f84e304ab4d57f/?ref=logo …
pic.twitter.com/rLiFjt9xN9

Special forces unit of the Russian Federation is liquidated by Army of Ukraine in Donetsk

Army of Ukraine entered Donetsk. This photos are from today from Ukrainian soldier: https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1579311982281494&id=100006081228724&pnref=story …
pic.twitter.com/M8gSCTMwav

Stanytsia Luhanska is liberated by Ukrainian Army from russian occupants.
pic.twitter.com/jgPApQ1PZe

Ukrainian soldiers removes Russian flag from flagpole in Donetsk
pic.twitter.com/qvNjqSWw4Z

[OUTLAW 09]

Situation in Stanytsia Luhanska, another hot spot of Russo-Ukraine war, was stabilized: Russian forces failed to establish control over it.

Poroshenko Gives Order to Fire on Russian-Backed Separatist Positions
http://www.interpretermag.com/ukraine-live-day-335-the-battle-for-donetsk/#6317 … …

NEW ARTICLE OUT NOW
Six questions answered about the Russian invasion army’s new “air force”
http://conflictreport.info/2015/01/18/six-questions-answered-about-the-russian-invasion-armys-air-force/ …

NEW report: Motorola is dead.
Can anyone confirm this?
https://twitter.com/AMykhailova/status/556810090293231617 …
pic.twitter.com/MCwYhJSkVE

More and more Pro-#Russia|n sources (RT RU, Lifenews,..) reporting about #Ukraine fighter jets seen and/or attacking today

[OUTLAW 09]

Interesting that Russia still is failing to implement Minsk 1 agreements, is still sending troops and heavy weapons into the Ukraine and think "complains" when they take a beating.

Nothing like double standards.

BREAKING: #Moscow expresses "deep concern" over events in #Donetsk & #Gorlovka.

[OUTLAW 09]

More roles of Maria Tsypko,amazing con-artist/actress. Latest-widow of #Donetsk policeman
https://www.facebook.com/dstalkerus/posts/1527616227518056 … pic.twitter.com/dCQGPGLGld

[OUTLAW 09]

#Ukraine reasserts itself in & around #Donetsk Airport and #Russia trolls/propaganda starts All with 1-5 followers
pic.twitter.com/gtzh2kl1YY

Tense situation in #Horlivka, #conflictzone E #Ukraine. All inhabitants became #Russian #terrorists's hostages
http://patrioty.org.ua/teroristi-zahopili-v-zaruchniki-vsyu-gorlivku-na-vulitsyah-trupi-kriki-sotsmerezhi/ …

Putilovsky bridge, which leads to the airport from central Donetsk has been blown up. (pix from @Vasilevskaya_RT)
pic.twitter.com/pGO8d7QH6z

#Horlivka updates: witnesses report that #Russian forces don't stop shelling at the residential buildings all over the city

Pro-#Russia|n sources even claim they have #Pisky under their control now

[OUTLAW 09]

Critical for the EU/NATO and US to read.

Putin Is in No Hurry to Resolve Ukraine Crisis
http://tmt-go.ru/514523 #opinion

[OUTLAW 09]

Day nearing it's end and we still have no clue what's going on in #Donetsk..

The war in Ukraine has reached another critical phase:
http://www.businessinsider.com/r-ukraines-military-says-troops-retake-most-of-donetsk-airport-from-rebels-2015-1#ixzz3PBgfMfWC …
pic.twitter.com/gxhKcEnNfg

Flares in the sky again. #Donetsk
pic.twitter.com/1tZRabmIqj

[OUTLAW 09]

Donetsk airport attacks--- second round coming:

#Breaking
Russian army BMP column driving towards the #airport right now!
pic.twitter.com/gRuf0Khgka
pic.twitter.com/a1UTE8H8Hj

SEVERAL LARGE RUSSIAN COLUMNS GOING TOWARDS THE AIRPORT NOW. pic.twitter.com/mnHbYk6Hcy

Artillery next to RT cam active again, car alarms ringing


Separatists shelling #Ukraine positions in #Pisky near #Donetsk airport http://www.theinsider.ua/politics/54bbb9f138ed8/ …

[OUTLAW 09]

Why Is Donetsk Airport So Important?

https://inmoscowsshadows.wordpress.com/2015/01/18/why-is-donetsk-airport-so-important/ …

The excellent @MarkGaleotti speculates on this important question.

[OUTLAW 09]

This proves the ultimate Russian altered state of reality of both Putin and his FM.


#Russia MFA demands to return the #Donetsk airport under full RU militants control as it was agreed by #Minsk talks. Surprise?

Roland Oliphant @RolandOliphant
.@MID_RF says Donetsk airport should have been handed to DNR under Minsk protocol. I'm not aware of such a clause.
http://mid.ru/brp_4.nsf/newsline/29445754B3CE3EE743257DD1005A625B …

MFA Klimkin: renewed Rus-backed offensive in Donbas aims @ disrupting Minsk agreement & force its renegotiation
http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/klimkin-russia-trying-to-force-renegotiation-of-minsk-deals-377709.html …

[OUTLAW 09]

Donetsk airport had a relatively quiet day.

Looks like #Zakharchenko had a bad night, hu?! ;-)
pic.twitter.com/cNcT6NDy0A

Blowing up the Putilov bridge is a big setback for Terrorussians, because it is supply line to Donetsk Airport.
pic.twitter.com/pAlT0eSk7I

Wow many tracers flying in the air over #Spartak now. Big battle ongoing there!

Russia deploys to Ukraine its modern MKTK-1A Judoist ECM vehicle which was accepted into service by RU army in 2012
pic.twitter.com/y39Zc8TeW9

#Russia|n NTV channel needs more actors. First German journalist, then German nun joining "rebels to fight fascism"
pic.twitter.com/t3fdCYKloQ

Russian journo in #DNR says the military columns with ammunition heading to Donetsk airport and to Mariupol area.
pic.twitter.com/51awXaqckT

Convoy standing in front of RT camera
http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/18-january-convoy-standing-in-front-of-camera …
pic.twitter.com/H9GoFq8mrp

Another Russian army convoy passed the RT cam.
This time away from the airport.
pic.twitter.com/h1JrP8Up9W

Donetsk shelling this evening from a residential home.
Hard stuff ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oDXvNqglaE …

Unbelievable and impossible to summarize.
Ukrainian towns under Grad, artillery and mortar attack TODAY.
#Ukraine pic.twitter.com/1CLLyr99mq

[OUTLAW 09]

The Russians will have an extremely hard time debunking this excellent open source analysis of their GRAD shelling of a civilian bus killing 13.

Somebody might actually have seen and filmed the outgoing GRAD attack that hit #Volnovakha bus
http://ukraineatwar.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/possible-launch-location-determined-for.html …
pic.twitter.com/Fs912HFqjr

Possible launch location determined for Volnovakha attack
http://ukraineatwar.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/possible-launch-location-determined-for.html …
pic.twitter.com/6VWmzq2V5N

#Volnovakha video compilage of GRAD launches, CCTV, and dashcam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_G_dCApelw …
pic.twitter.com/xvjcN2TSF3

But they still try to divert the finger being correctly pointed at them just as in MH17 even in the face of 200% truth and evidence that has been in fact geotagged
MFA Russia ✔ @mfa_russia
#OSCE information disproves Kiev allegation of the guilty in the tragedy near Volnovakha
http://itar-tass.com/en/world/771741

When Russia is trapped by the truth then it is always someone else just as in MH17:

MOSCOW SLAMS UKRAINE, U.S. FOR BLAMING DEADLY ATTACK ON BUS IN VOLNOVAKHA ON MILITIA -Interfax

.@AricToler @bellingcat unpacks the multiple absurd & tangled DNR claims re #Volnovakha bus tragedy
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2015/01/18/unpicking-the-donetsk-peoples-republics-tangled-volnovakha-bus-massacre-narrative/ …

THIRD OSCE #Volnovakha fact-finding mission: 5 impacts examined; rockets came from NNE...
pic.twitter.com/is76xcDfDF

#Volnovakha video compilage of GRAD launches, CCTV, and dashcam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_G_dCApelw …
pic.twitter.com/xvjcN2TSF3

[OUTLAW 09]

Donetsk airport had a relatively quiet day.

Looks like #Zakharchenko had a bad night, hu?! ;-)
pic.twitter.com/cNcT6NDy0A

Blowing up the Putilov bridge is a big setback for Terrorussians, because it is supply line to Donetsk Airport.
pic.twitter.com/pAlT0eSk7I

Wow many tracers flying in the air over #Spartak now. Big battle ongoing there!

Russia deploys to Ukraine its modern MKTK-1A Judoist ECM vehicle which was accepted into service by RU army in 2012
pic.twitter.com/y39Zc8TeW9

#Russia|n NTV channel needs more actors. First German journalist, then German nun joining "rebels to fight fascism"
pic.twitter.com/t3fdCYKloQ

Russian journo in #DNR says the military columns with ammunition heading to Donetsk airport and to Mariupol area.
pic.twitter.com/51awXaqckT

Convoy standing in front of RT camera
http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/18-january-convoy-standing-in-front-of-camera …
pic.twitter.com/H9GoFq8mrp

Another Russian army convoy passed the RT cam.
This time away from the airport.
pic.twitter.com/h1JrP8Up9W

Donetsk shelling this evening from a residential home.
Hard stuff ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oDXvNqglaE …

Unbelievable and impossible to summarize.
Ukrainian towns under Grad, artillery and mortar attack TODAY.
#Ukraine pic.twitter.com/1CLLyr99mq

Today without doubt the most intensive and frequent shelling Donetsk has seen. Parts of city without electricity now.

russian mil convoi just came speeding back from the combat area. looks like they had an anti-air rocket system with them. #Donetsk

Evidence that Russian marines are fighting at Donetsk Airport
pic.twitter.com/82DXCLnu9R
pic.twitter.com/2KkpaJWROs

Whith the Putilov Bridge blown up, Ukraine could easily take and KEEP ENTIRE Donetsk Airport area up till railway.
pic.twitter.com/RkVXWzM3bg

#BreakingStatement
"Today, #each of the 63 attacks by the opponent got an adequate response." - ATO command

Nr #Volnovakha Ukr forces destroyed militants' reinforcem convoy heading to #Donetsk incl enemy's command post
https://www.facebook.com/alexnoiyit/posts/862275783792457 …

Tochka-U has successfully worked on the accumulation of castles in #Donetsk, here in this place:
pic.twitter.com/cqmYTvTJ3D
Tochka-U has successfully worked on the accumulation of GRADS in #Donetsk, here at this place:
pic.twitter.com/O6DpE0LTuo

[OUTLAW 09]

This proves the ultimate Russian altered state of reality of both Putin and his FM.


#Russia MFA demands to return the #Donetsk airport under full RU militants control as it was agreed by #Minsk talks. Surprise?

Roland Oliphant @RolandOliphant
.@MID_RF says Donetsk airport should have been handed to DNR under Minsk protocol. I'm not aware of such a clause.
http://mid.ru/brp_4.nsf/newsline/29445754B3CE3EE743257DD1005A625B …

MFA Klimkin: renewed Rus-backed offensive in Donbas aims @ disrupting Minsk agreement & force its renegotiation
http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/klimkin-russia-trying-to-force-renegotiation-of-minsk-deals-377709.html …

#PUTIN URGES PARTIES TO #UKRAINE CONFLICT TO CEASE FIRE, WITHDRAW GUNS OF CALIBER LARGER THAN 100mm TO POSITIONS SET BY MINSK MEMORANDUM –IF

If Putinism descends into madness, per this MT piece, how would we tell the difference exactly? http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/analysts-predict-a-russian-descent-into-madness/514538.html …

English-language translation of the Sept. 19 cease-fire memorandum in Minsk
http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/english-language-translation-of-the-sept-5-cease-fire-memorandum-in-minsk-365460.html …

[Firn]

War was it, war is it. Every day of the Putin's war does bring more death and destruction to the region, especially if the fighting is relative intense as it was today. The conditions for the civilian populations in the areas of the fighting and occupation have certainly not improved in the last months. I wonder how many are left in Russian-held zone.

[OUTLAW 09]

Just how is it possible that an open source blogger can build a checklist ID system for identification of Russian military units in the Ukraine and still we call it "an incursion".

Checklist can be found at ukraineatwar.blogspot.nl.

[OUTLAW 09]

Terrorussians playing dirtier & dirtier. Battery of 2S1 Gvozdika firing from residential area https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8djmKZRv2M …
pic.twitter.com/6Mu0T9XiTb

Chechens ("Allahu akbar") fighting at Donetsk Airport. Must be from before counterattack?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yubSbfwwHzQ

Terrorussians firing at Ukrainian positions with D-30 artillery last night https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FFrYja0EiI …
pic.twitter.com/fAmZthe9z4

Residents of Horlivka talk about the shelling of their city today https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRCunyZrD3I …
pic.twitter.com/2mTUgyhgoC

[Chris jM]

If the report today of a Javelin ATM being used is correct then that is the first indication the Baltics are assisting the Ukraine as they recently purchased 16M dollars worth of them---that makes a real difference in a tank heavy environment.


Are there are any updates as to whether the Ukrainian Army has / has employed Javelin?

That would be an interesting development - would any of the Baltic states risk FMO/EULA processes and jeopardise their ability to tap into the US DoD-approved military arsenal by shifting weapons without the permission of Washington?

I also note that only Estonia and Lithuania have Javelin, with Latvia having the Israeli Spike (according to Jane's reporting).

[kaur]

Outlaw, what is your logic! If there is Javelin in Ukraine, why they are from Baltic states? Maybe France helped them? Is there any Javelin at all :)

[OUTLAW 09]

Are there are any updates as to whether the Ukrainian Army has / has employed Javelin?

That would be an interesting development - would any of the Baltic states risk FMO/EULA processes and jeopardise their ability to tap into the US DoD-approved military arsenal by shifting weapons without the permission of Washington?

I also note that only Estonia and Lithuania have Javelin, with Latvia having the Israeli Spike (according to Jane's reporting).

If one looks at the reported use---it appeared only once and never again and from a blogger not common on this particular blog BUT that said the following;

On the really bad fighting day at the airport which was Saturday following a really bad Friday for the defenders a number of Russian T72bs were supporting a Russian Marine Infantry unit that has been identified in their assault on the new terminal area--total of three/four tanks had the building surrounded and were firing point blank into the building.

Suddenly a reported series of two tank explosions occurred drastically reducing the effectiveness of the Russian assault into the area and the Russian Marines took a beating --have posted their unit emblem and a video of their being at the airport--last week during another attack there had been the reporting of the killing of several Russian Marines but largely ignored by western media which is par for the course these days.

As the airport defenders had no heavy ATMs was surprised by the initial report and the blogging world wrote it off to artillery strikes but if one paid attention to the actual reports the "tanks simply exploded" and there was at the same time a pause in shelling which then writes off artillery as the cause for the explosions.

Something hit the tanks and it was not artillery---have also learned by watching the ebb and flow of the blog reports and remember even the UA soldiers were blogging from inside the buildings while under attack--at no time did they report the use of any ATMs. The UA did not start their evening counterassault with tanks until around 1600-1700 and the 72s had been hit in the morning.

Some one wanted the west to fully understand ATMs had been used and their effectiveness in the fight---that particular blogger has never come back so it was a one time event--definitely was not the typical Russian troll at work trying to cause confusion around the argument the US supplied weapons as they did yesterday with the AR15s--absolutely no Russian troll jumped on it which shows to me they totally missed the blog.

Suspect the ATM came from the Baltics and would the US close one eye ---yes they would--- as they are on the official record of not delivering weapons to the Ukraine---but the US Ukrainian newly signed support law "does allow" for the shipping of defensive weapons and ATMs fall under that law. So in effect there would have been no violation of US laws.

By the way right now there are 5 different Islamist groups firing US ATMs in Syria and no one has seemed to be interested in a law violation there--strange is it not?

[OUTLAW 09]

#BREAKING
Moscow talks of a withdrawal of heavy weapons while its #Msta_B shells #Luhansk obl
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSRFTVqqvno …
pic.twitter.com/2wnWYkgd

Militants shelled Debaltseve. 15-20 shells hit city center. 10 wounded civilians incl a kid http://mvs.gov.ua/mvs/control/main/uk/publish/article/1314815 …
pic.twitter.com/CoYkohO810

Militants shell #Donbas localities w/Grad. Hnutove was fired @ w/Grad, anti-tank missile syst 8times -ATO news center
pic.twitter.com/udu2T8HFpv

Russian Naval Infantry (Marines) storm #DonetskAirport https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5CQ1edznoc …
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_Infantry_%28Russia%29 …
pic.twitter.com/QrZxSlJ6pY

Grozny may be in Russia, but its huge anti-Charlie Hebdo demonstration happening now looks like a Hezbollah war rally
pic.twitter.com/BXQ7NQjqfV

@Mariupol_TV Vasilyeva:Russian flamethrower battalion responsible for tragedy at #Volnovaha http://www.mariupol.tv/news/war/mariupol/2118/rossijskij_ognemetnyj_batalon_vinoven_v_tragedii_p od_volnovahoj_vasileva.html … pic.twitter.com/6u1VaNTWyg

Yet another handy guide: How to identify Russian units in Ukraine with tactical amrkings http://ukraineatwar.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/how-to-identify-russian-units-in-ukraine.html … pic.twitter.com/vrVPGT1px7

Turkey says Putin has not fulfilled a single promise made to Crimean Tatars since annexation of Crimea:
http://goo.gl/QWM2sM

[OUTLAW 09]

I often write here at SWJ about the "weaponization of information": for some info war---here are two great examples:

And we the west are nowhere close to being even in the info war game--Russia has long ago won it and we did not even come in the top 30.

"Fully 20,000 journalists employed by the state are now compelled to help the Kremlin fight its propaganda war ..." http://www.themoscowtimes.com/opinion/article/russia-will-stick-with-putin-till-the-bitter-end/514371.html …

"Documents Show How Russia’s Troll Army Hit America" Not only America, but a key piece. http://www.buzzfeed.com/maxseddon/documents-show-how-russias-troll-army-hit-america?utm_term=.dblyVQGNX …

[OUTLAW 09]

So here is Russian Occupation Forces response to Ukraine MFA's offer of ceasefire: #DonetskAirport being shelled now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRujbSn6pUU …

Pro-#Russia|n media, you fail. Not airport, but "Metro" mall not far from it. Airports don't sell flowers or bread!
NOTE: the Russian news media was trying yesterday in video reports to indicate they were still in the airport terminal but ended up using a destroyed Ukrainian mall in Donetsk as the background claiming it was the airport

Ukrainian authorities have fully closed traffic into areas of Luhansk Oblast occupied by Russia @HromadskeTV reports.
pic.twitter.com/kkldqzpwVh

The battle in the Shastye
http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/19-january-the-battle-in-the-shastye- … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uE9vIOPNb80

More photo evidence suggesting missile that shot down #MH17 provided by Russia @bellingcat
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2015/01/17/new-images-of-the-mh17-buk-missile-launcher-in-ukraine-and-russia/ …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVl_wY7glSk …

Russian media spins lie that Putin suggests "Ukraine conflicting parties cease fire, pull back artillery guns 100mm+" !!
Heavy fighting continues along many of the front lines between Russian and Ukrainian forces. There is a tank battle at Donetsk airport.

#ATO battle-groups assault&destroyed enemy position which fired in"Cyborgs"airport,enemy withdrew to residential areas of #Donetsk #Ukraine

"Who controls what of Donetsk airport – a clarification attempt"
http://conflictreport.info/2015/01/19/who-controls-what-of-donetsk-airport-a-clarification-attempt/ …

INTENSE GRAD ATTACK IN #DONETSK RIGHT NOW, ENDLESS EXPLOSIONS
Very different sound of fighting today, a lot of tank fire very near the cam (?!)

[OUTLAW 09]

ATO spokesperson: #LPR claims they have own “Air Force” of 2 jets. This can be used to hide the use of #Russia|n aviation

In case Rus aviation is used against civilians or Ukr military forces, air targets will be destroyed - ATO spox Lysenko

Listening thru headphones #DonetskAirport webcam: Today is wider variety of weapons being fired over wider area. Intense fighting.

BREAKING: 3 #Ukraine soldiers were killed and 66 (!!!) got wounded in the last 24 hours - ATO spokesperson

Statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of #Ukraine on state of implementation of the #Minsk agreements...
http://fb.me/6izCotIUD

Per Minsk accords heavy equip needs b withdrawn 15km, would mean terrorists leav half of Donetsk w/out control, thus they need airport - ATO

ATO Headquarters: Militants suffer substantial losses of manpower and equipment at Donetsk airport
http://uatoday.tv/news/ato-headquarters-militants-suffer-substantial-losses-of-manpower-and-equipment-at-donetsk-airport-403603.html …

I can't understand: where is "cease" and where is "fire" at the map?
pic.twitter.com/LSRTgfdLJf

BREAKINGNEWS
Ukrainian or Russian offensive?!
Reports of an invasion army ground assault on #Pisky right now!!

[OUTLAW 09]

Late yesterday the Russian MFA declared that the Donetsk airport was to have been given to the "separatists/mercenaries" under the Minsk agreements which is a total falsehood at the highest Russian governmental levels--and never called out by western media.


The Ukraine has released the English version of the Minsk Agreement which indicated absolutely nothing and then this today:

No coordinates were put into Minsk agreem when signing as to location of forces, delimit. Forces supposed to stay where they were - ATO spox

#Putin is upset that a dishonest peace proposal of his for a conflict he adamantly denies to be involved in has been rejected by #Ukraine.

TASS ✔ @tassagency_en
Kiev should immediately start weapons removal in Ukraine’s south-east — Russian ForMin
http://tass.ru/en/russia/771915 …

[OUTLAW 09]

No wonder the Russian info war is so busy attempting to push back on their shelling of a Ukrainian bus killing 13.

#SBU:#Zakharchenko - Prime suspect in the shooting attack #terrorist of the bus #Volnovaha #Ukraine
pic.twitter.com/5rv3m3BmSv

Remember he recently claimed to actually have seen the physical shot down of MH17 at 15kms but did not explain why he was in the crash site area at the exact time of the shot down.

[OUTLAW 09]

Shells are indeed falling in the middle of Donetsk. Hospital on Shevchenko hit. Via @Fredotchka pic.twitter.com/BQDci5ARuD

Putin: Russia ready to monitor ceasefire in Donbas together with OSCE
http://uatoday.tv/news/putin-russia-ready-to-monitor-ceasefire-in-donbas-together-with-osce-403606.html …

NOTE: Putin has been trying from the beginning to get his “peacekeeping 14/15th Bdes into the Donbas but the Ukrainians have been good a diverting it—now with the Russian troops and mercenaries actively shelling all villages and towns and then blaming the Ukrainians he sees his chances.

Video-Report about situation in zone #ATO #Pisky #Donetsk #Ukraine - http://bit.ly/1CGimaZ - #Donbas #Army #Ukraina
pic.twitter.com/fpxTj5GtGo

[OUTLAW 09]

Reports of tank battle at #Donetsk Airport & #Pisky/ #Peski now #Russia T-72s,T-64s supposedly seen in area
pic.twitter.com/ZoENWfvV1a

Russia media blames #Ukraine for increased fighting. RT: @Ruptly
Heavy shelling continues as Kiev escalates conflict
http://ow.ly/HvWET

#News
Mortar and small arms attacks are also conducted vs. #Battalion_Azov troops in #Hranitne now. Russians want to cross the #Kalmius.

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This AR-type weapons episod is just wierd. Some headlines say that Zakhartshenko presented this found weapon to OSCE observers. I'm sure those specialists would take producer's data and serial numbers. Has anyone heard OSCE statement? I suspect that the rifle is Georgia-Russia war trophy taken by propaganda guys to Donbass.
Stupid thing is to deliver AR type weapon to country where generations of men went through conscription training with Kalashnikovs. If I remeber correctly if Georgians had chance to choose between AR and AK, they took AK.
Another stupid thing is to bring 5,56x45 weapons to siege situation, where rest of the guys are using 5,45x39 ammo.

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First indication via twitter about this--if confirmed and true then it is a major escalation by Russia and then what will the West do as they do not have any other plan outside of sanctions and that has not stopped the mercenaries and Russian troops from their constant shellings and ground attacks as them have expanded their controlled territories by over 500 sq kms since Minsk and that is certainly not a "ceasefire".


#Putin intends to escalate to full war - 2 #Russia Army Groups (about 1000 troops) cross into #Ukraine today #Donetsk
pic.twitter.com/H63NsVVW6T

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First indication via twitter about this--if confirmed and true then it is a major escalation by Russia and then what will the West do as they do not have any other plan outside of sanctions and that has not stopped the mercenaries and Russian troops from their constant shellings and ground attacks as them have expanded their controlled territories by over 500 sq kms since Minsk and that is certainly not a "ceasefire".


#Putin intends to escalate to full war - 2 #Russia Army Groups (about 1000 troops) cross into #Ukraine today #Donetsk
pic.twitter.com/H63NsVVW6T

APPEARS to be confirmed by the Ukrainian Security Council---two Russian Combat BN Tactical Groups.\which in effect could be the firs Russian "peacekeeping" Bde to enter the Ukraine.

Now what will the West response be---again silence?

Russia via Putin has no intentions in holding to the Minsk Agreements he had signed in the name of Russia and he totally disregarded the Budapest Agreement as well and yet the West "believes" one can talk with him and trust him?

Many fail to remember all the things Putin has openly stated he was going to do and or had done and in the end nothing.

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This is an open source article that you will never see in the NYTs, WAPO, the Daily Beast, Politico or Foreign Policy--ever wonder why?

Will be broken into two parts due to length--it is that important to fully understand the Russian ground invasion that we the West call "incursion".

By the way these Russian generals are deep practitioners of the new Russian UW strategy--New Generational Warfare--and were responsible for the development of Russian military units/tactics/TTPs built around that UW strategy.

http://ukraineatwar.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know.html

EVERYTHING you EVER wanted to know about Russian Generals in Ukraine
Part One
A Tale of Two Russian Generals
The small Ukrainian Armed Forces checkpoint at Buhas on the H20 highway 2 km north of Volnovakha is now infamous due to a GRAD rocket strike there on 13 January 2015. (Another infamous attack happened near Volnovakha on 22 May 2014.) Ten civilian bus passengers were killed instantly, another two died later in hospital, and another 17 passengers were injured according to the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) [source].
However, the subsequent visit to the site of the Volnovakha bus massacre by a SENIOR RUSSIAN OFFICER tells its own tale.

It is the presence of Major-General Alexander (or Aleksandr) Yuryevich Vyaznikov that concerns us.

What is the Commander of Russian Federation forces in the occupied Donbas region of South-East Ukraine doing 65km from the Russian border, inside Ukraine? The Buhas checkpoint lies 7 or 8 km from Novotroitske: the nominal contact line between Ukrainian defenders and the Russian invaders and their DPR militia, southwest of Donetsk city. This may not sound far. But in terms of ‘military diplomacy’ the presence of Vyaznikov on Ukrainian soil at all, let alone across the contact line, is alarming.

The JCCC headquarters (HQ) is in Debaltseve, 55 km northeast of Donetsk city. The Ukrainian and Russian military staffs are each led by a senior officer, selected by their respective General Staffs in Kyiv and Moscow. These two Chiefs of Staff or ‘representatives’ at JCCC HQ are military negotiators with considerable power to make decisions concerning the so-called ‘ceasefire’ and the ‘buffer zone’ that extends 15 km each side of the agreed contact line between opposing forces. They are in effect the senior military commanders on the ground.
We now focus on the Russian representative.

When the JCCC became operational on 26 September 2014*, the first Russian representative was Lieutenant-General (2 star) Aleksandr Ivanovich Lentsov. We mention him because, as you will see, there is a pattern.

Briefly, Lentsov is a veteran of the Soviet war in Afghanistan and the Chechen Wars [source and source]. In the First Chechen War, he earned a reputation as a hardcore Colonel commander of tactical groups of Russian Airborne Troops (VDV). Subsequently promoted to Major-General (one star), Lentsov then commanded a Russian peacekeeping brigade of 1,500 paratroopers (drawn from 76th and 98th airborne divisions) in Bosnia in 1996 [source and source]. Lentsov was given command of the 98th Airborne Division (Ivanovo).

By 2006 Lentsov was a Deputy Commander of VDV. In 2011, VDV Commander Lieutenant-General Vladimir Shamanov gave Lentsov the task of developing VDV ‘interoperability’: joint planning and operations with Ground Troops and Naval Infantry (marines) brigades [source]. Lentsov was subsequently promoted to Deputy Commander of the Ground Forces of the Russian Federation and raised to Lieutenant-General (2 stars).

Everything that happened in Donbas since 26 September 2014 that involved Russian Forces happened ON LENTSOV'S WATCH.
As Russia’s JCCC representative, Lentsov lead negotiations with Ukraine’s JCCC representative (first Lieutenant-General Yuryi Dumanskyi, later Lieutenant-General Voldymyr Askarov) about all military matters, including the conflict point at Donetsk Airport. monitored by SMM.

For example, in Donetsk on 22 November they discussed options for de-escalation of the situation at Donetsk airport and the use of UAVs [source]. At other times Lentsov met with members of either DPR or LPR without the Ukrainian representative (e.g. in Luhansk on 3 December [source].

(At the end of November 2014 we received rumint that Lieutenant-General Lentsov was saying the so-called ‘Army of Novorossiya’ is a piss-poor militia that should be replaced by Russian Ground Forces contractors.)

But as we know, while these meetings involving one of Russia’s most senior military officers were taking place, Russian military equipment, troops and supplies destined for pro-Russian militias CONTINUED TO FLOOD across the border into Donbas throughout October to December. It is absurd to think that Lentsov (and Russian General Staff back in Moscow) was ignorant of these efforts to support and strengthen the Russian military occupation.

On 8 December at JCCC HQ, Askarov, Lentsov, Denis Pushilin (DPR) and Aleksandr Shubin (LPR) signed orders to implement a general ceasefire to start 09:00 hrs on 9 December [source]. On the day of the ‘ceasefire’ the same signatories were instructing their JCCC officers to follow up on numerous reports of ceasefire violations! [source].

From 16 December, as part of the rotation of officers in the JCCC, the head of the Ukrainian side, Askarov, was replaced by Major-General Aleksandr Razmaznin, Deputy Head of the Joint Operations Centre of the Armed Forces of Ukraine; and the head of the Russian Representation to south-eastern Ukraine, Lentsov, was replaced by Major-General Alexander Vyaznikov, Deputy Commander of VDV peacekeeping operations and the Collective Security Treaty Organisation’s (CSTO) Collective Rapid Reaction Force (CRRF) [source]. At this juncture, Lentsov was rotated back to Moscow and promoted on 13 December to Colonel-General (3 stars)**.

At first, it would appear that Lentsov was replaced by a lesser-rank officer (a Major-General). At the time, some commentators said it indicated that Russia’s Minister of Defence, General Sergei Shoigu, and General Staff were downplaying Russia’s representation in the JCCC. The alternative view (and hindsight) is that Moscow decided on a change of emphasis: less negotiation and more operational cover for covert Russian military activities in Donbas.

In reality, Vyaznikov is a specialist: ideally suited (more so than Lentsov) for Russia’s operations in Donbas – and potentially beyond. Who is this Vyaznikov, and why is he so important?


Vyaznikov first came to our attention in August 2014 at a time when it looked as if Russian General Staff were preparing to send a large contingent of Peacekeeping Forces (MC) to ‘keep and enforce the peace’, in other words occupy, Donbas.
On 24 May, Vyaznikov told Anna News that Russian peacekeeping troops were ready to enter the territory of Ukraine. “If we receive an appropriate order, we are ready to carry it out”, said Vyaznikov [source]. On 22 August 2014, TASS reported that Russian VDV had completed the formation of a 5,000-strong peacekeeping force under Vyaznikov [source].

Vyaznikov is a veteran of the First and Second Chechen Wars. He gained a reputation as an effective ‘assault and occupy’ combat leader. In 2008, Colonel Vyaznikov was Commander of the Tula Division or 106th Guards Airborne Division [source] before moving to command the 7th Guards Air Assault (Mountain) Division. Around 2009-2010 Vyaznikov was instrumental in reforming the VDV [source]. He gained a reputation as a moderniser with a strong focus on maximum combat training [source], which lead to promotion (2011?) to Major-General and appointment in 2013 as a Deputy Commander of both VDV Peacekeeping Operations and the Russian-led the CSTO CRRF [source]. In November 2014, Vyaznikov led ‘Srem 2014’, a joint exercise between Russian airborne troops and Serbian special forces [source]. From this advanced combat exercise involving cooperation and coordination between Russian VDV and ‘allied’ forces (for that substitute DPR/LPR militias), Vyaznikov moved to JCCC HQ in December.

On their first day at JCCC HQ, Vyaznikov and Ukrainian representative Major-General Razmaznin said their focus would be on fact-finding regarding ceasefire violations [source]. Since then, the working relationship between Ukrainian and Russian representatives at JCCC has been ‘matter of fact’. Vyaznikov has a reputation for professionalism but difficult. For example:

According to SMM, on 19 December Razmaznin announced that all JCCC members would be fully ready to launch joint patrols across all DPR and LPR-controlled territories by 28 December [source]. However, on 25 December – three days after speaking at LPR press conference in Luhansk [source and source] – Vyaznikov announced that the Russians would not take part in joint patrols. Instead, Vyaznikov suggested the Ukrainians should carry out joint patrols with DPR and LPR militias [source].

But recent events on the ground in Donbas and at Donetsk Airport speak volumes about what Major-General Vyaznikov has really been doing since his arrival at Debaltseve.

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EVERYTHING you EVER wanted to know about Russian Generals in Ukraine
Part Two


On 22 December we stated that Vyaznikov is not in South-East Ukraine to negotiate; he is there to plan assault operations and the occupation of Donbas. On what basis? Although The Russian Ministry of Defence maintains that Vyaznikov is a ‘peacekeeper’ who is in JCCC to ‘negotiate’, Vyaznikov’s entire professional career is that of a hardcore airborne assault leader. The fact that he is entrusted with responsibility for the CSTO’s Collective Rapid Reaction Force speaks loudly. Vyaznikov is a specialist in airborne forces combat tactics and logistics, peace-enforcement operations (i.e. violent suppression of forces) and interoperability operations (i.e. between VDV and special forces and/or marines and/or militias). A dangerous skill set, for an alleged negotiator.

On 22 December we also stated “There’s only one reason Russian MoD puts someone like that as head of Russian Occupation Forces”. Vyaznikov is a ‘seize and hold’ tactician. He’s the kind of hardcase commander needed for the job of taking territory, holding it, organising supporting fire and logistical support, and extending Russian military authority over local militias. All of these things have happened in Donbas on Vyaznikov’s watch. From the consolidation of Russian Forces’ occupation, elimination of troublesome (uncontrollable) militia commanders, advancing across the agreed contact line to seize more Ukrainian territory south of Donetsk, to the recent and ongoing assaults to occupy Donetsk Airport. Vyaznikov is definitely on the ground in Russian-occupied Donbas to prepare for (more) war. Vyaznikov is anything but a forces’ withdrawal specialist (Yes, there are such things!) and peace negotiator.

Conclusion
Major-General Alexander Vyaznikov, Deputy Commander VDV and CSTO Rapid Reaction Force, is the senior Commander of Russian Federation forces in the occupied Donbas. He has authority over all Russian units in South-East Ukraine, including the pro-Russian DPR and LPR militias. No GRAD MLRS or D-30 howitzer is loaded and fired at Ukrainian positions without his knowing it or his say-so. If Vyaznikov wanted Russian artillery to stop firing on Donetsk Airport, it would stop. That’s why we became very angry when we saw a photo of him standing with Russian troops ‘inspecting’ – under OSCE monitors’ noses – Ukrainian supply trucks on their way to resupply the Cyborg defenders at Donetsk Airport. But even angrier when we see Vyaznikov ‘inspecting’ the site of the Volnovakha bus massacre on 16 January.
HE HIMSELF... has responsibility for the GRAD rockets fired from Russian-occupied territory that killed those innocent civilians.

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Meanwhile, Ukr army reports sighting two new Russian battalions entering #Ukraine to reinforce existing units after Ukr counterattack.

2 battalions of Russian troops invade Ukraine to assist separatists http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2015/01/19/7055567/ …

Battle in Donetsk airport is intensifying, UA repels attacks. OSCE fails to reach airport; RU may use them as shield.
pic.twitter.com/USkTXj8FZa

Ukrainian wounded by gas used by Russian forces in Donetsk airport http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1xgYWtnao8 …

Ukr govt source tells me #Russia'n marines filmed at #Donetsk airport believed to be from Murmansk-based brigade
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=1YRl-dg0aMk

5 SMM vehicles en route towards Artemivsk and Perevalsk were stopped by armed persons who fired at their direction http://www.osce.org/ukraine-smm/135251 …

Trying to get to Ukrainian positions overlooking #DonetskAirport in Pisky. Now under heavy artillery barrage, not safe, say Ukr military.

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Part of the ceiling of the second floor of the new terminal at #DonetskAirport has collapsed
http://uatoday.tv/politics/cyborgs-stand-firm-as-fighting-intensifies-403033.html … pic.twitter.com/euu8STex9X

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Russian-Backed Forces Have Been On The Attack For Months. Now Ukraine's Fighting Back And Moscow Wants 'Peace'
http://bit.ly/15qEueA

NOTICE yesterday Putin showed concern about this town Gorlovka when it made no sense as it had not been mentioned at all lately in any of the blogging sites? And today it is supposedly “bombed”---is this the pretense that Putin has been looking for to send in his “peacekeeping” Bdes?

Sputnik: BREAKING: At least 30 civilians killed in #Kiev airstrikes on #Gorlovka in eastern #Ukraine - Donetsk authorities

Just heard outgoing fire from really close to Artyoma street. It seems DNR forces are still firing from #Donetsk city center

Pictures coming through of large attack on Ukr-controlled Debaltsevo today. This right next to train station.
pic.twitter.com/lviGs944Bo

Russians made up stories of Ukraine troops crucifying a boy. Now venerate their soldier who murdered a 6 month baby.
pic.twitter.com/ZlKHPgPnqM

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Russian supported and paid "jihadi's" in eastern Ukraine.

Chechen Ismail shouts "Allah Akbar" in Donetsk before he shoots towards Ukrainian positions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDtqc-aplCA …

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#BREAKINGNEWS
MARKED RUSSIAN ARMY BATTALION WITH BTR-80A ARRIVES IN DONETSKhttp://youtu.be/MdWpWI__Ef0
pic.twitter.com/So00m4Fiii

Russian activist: 382 Russian soldiers killed in Ukraine during last three days http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/russian-activist-382-russian-soldiers-killed-in-ukraine-during-last-three-days-377786.html …

#Novorossiya leader Gubarev reportedly detained by DNR 'authorities' fr frauds w/ hum aid. http://ukropnews.com/news/_7122.html
pic.twitter.com/u56LMvMQhE

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High Russian troops losses in the last three days of fighting at the Donetsk airport.

Respected Russian human rights activist Elena Vasilieva has announced that 382 Russian soldiers have been killed in Ukraine during the last three days.

"[I] came back from the war zone. It is impossible to call it an ATO zone - it is a real merciless war there," Vasilieva writes on her official website. "I'm already afraid to write these numbers. The Russian army has huge losses over the past three days. 382 people - selected Special Forces, marines, paratroopers. Up to 500 injured. More likely the number of wounded is much higher. But we have no access to the full information about the injured from the Russian side."

The activist said that, counting the most recent 382 deaths, the total loss on the Russian side is 6,242 killed.

It's impossible to verify Vasilieva's claim because the Russian government insists that no Russian soldiers are fighting in Ukraine -- only volunteers -- and the Ukrainian government also does not have reliable figures on the number of enemy casualties.

Vasilieva in early August said she created the group called “Cargo 200 from Ukraine to Russia” in social networks. Its name is a reference to dead bodies carried across the border. The name caught attention of tens of thousands of people, and the group started receiving information about regular army soldiers, officers and former military who volunteered to fight and were killed in eastern Ukraine.

Vasilieva became the source of information for hundreds of Russians women whose sons and husbands secretly went (or were sent) to war. Vasilieva is the one who tells them what military units of the Russian Federation took part in which fights, and what to do if a soldier has not been in communication for some weeks.

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Excellent synopsis of RUS hypocrisy re Donetsk airport fighting, from http://Interpretermag.com http://x2t.com/343602 p
pic.twitter.com/CN0nHMT2xi

Russian-backed separatists in Ukraine are raiding museums to build an air force — http://read.bi/1DUANww
pic.twitter.com/zS4fsvGTYY

well Pisky remains Ukrainian, villages around Pisky also in Ukraine hands, corridor to airport open again for Ukraine troops
Just back from front line around #donetsk airport #pisky #ukraine, I have never been in such violent situations. Oh my f……….

Russian army in Krasnyi Luch
pic.twitter.com/4YqcxroAfV
http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/19-january--russian-army-in-krasnyi-luch …

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High Russian troops losses in the last three days of fighting at the Donetsk airport.

Respected Russian human rights activist Elena Vasilieva has announced that 382 Russian soldiers have been killed in Ukraine during the last three days.

"[I] came back from the war zone. It is impossible to call it an ATO zone - it is a real merciless war there," Vasilieva writes on her official website. "I'm already afraid to write these numbers. The Russian army has huge losses over the past three days. 382 people - selected Special Forces, marines, paratroopers. Up to 500 injured. More likely the number of wounded is much higher. But we have no access to the full information about the injured from the Russian side."

The activist said that, counting the most recent 382 deaths, the total loss on the Russian side is 6,242 killed.

It's impossible to verify Vasilieva's claim because the Russian government insists that no Russian soldiers are fighting in Ukraine -- only volunteers -- and the Ukrainian government also does not have reliable figures on the number of enemy casualties.

Vasilieva in early August said she created the group called “Cargo 200 from Ukraine to Russia” in social networks. Its name is a reference to dead bodies carried across the border. The name caught attention of tens of thousands of people, and the group started receiving information about regular army soldiers, officers and former military who volunteered to fight and were killed in eastern Ukraine.

Vasilieva became the source of information for hundreds of Russians women whose sons and husbands secretly went (or were sent) to war. Vasilieva is the one who tells them what military units of the Russian Federation took part in which fights, and what to do if a soldier has not been in communication for some weeks.

They were never there: Russia's silence for families of troops killed in Ukraine
http://gu.com/p/44tkx/stw

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And now it "starts":

Russian underground organizations mobilized in Latvia
http://inforesist.org/v-latvii-aktivizirovalis-prorossijskie-podpolnye-organizacii/ …

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This AR-type weapons episod is just wierd. Some headlines say that Zakhartshenko presented this found weapon to OSCE observers. I'm sure those specialists would take producer's data and serial numbers. Has anyone heard OSCE statement? I suspect that the rifle is Georgia-Russia war trophy taken by propaganda guys to Donbass.
Stupid thing is to deliver AR type weapon to country where generations of men went through conscription training with Kalashnikovs. If I remeber correctly if Georgians had chance to choose between AR and AK, they took AK.
Another stupid thing is to bring 5,56x45 weapons to siege situation, where rest of the guys are using 5,45x39 ammo.

kaur---fully agree with you---the high rate of fire by the 15 requires a constant ammo resupply and the weapon must be cleaned often otherwise it jams---it really is a strange story

great for room to room but the AK is far better in the airport area

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Russian supported and paid "jihadi's" in eastern Ukraine.

Chechen Ismail shouts "Allah Akbar" in Donetsk before he shoots towards Ukrainian positions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDtqc-aplCA …

if terrorists in the EU were using mine throwers against the government while yelling Allah Akbar it'd be on CNN 24/7.

----The commenter does make a point---especially since there has been little to no media coverage over the fighting the last few days in most of the western media.

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Pay a lot of attention to this series of comments--there have been some under the hand comments concerning possible Russian involvement in the Paris killings but they are still under the radar.

Today kidnapped: Gubarev accused Kadyrov of involvement in terrorist attacks in France".
http://newsdaily.com.ua/post/676642
pic.twitter.com/QnZeu5PryQ

#Novorossiya leader Gubarev reportedly detained by DNR 'authorities' fr frauds w/ hum aid.
http://ukropnews.com/news/_7122.html
pic.twitter.com/u56LMvMQhE

The Unstoppable Rise Of Ramzan Kadyrov
http://www.rferl.org/content/profile-ramzan-kadyrov-chechnya-russia-putin/26802368.html …

Chechen Ismail shouts "Allah Akbar" in Donetsk before he shoots towards Ukrainian positions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDtqc-aplCA …

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Givi shares details of tank fight at Putilov Bridge Donetsk. But only believe 50% of what he says! Givi is a Russian mercenary leader and there was a burning Russian tank under the bridge
http://youtu.be/Hy24ud415-I

The Ukrainian intelligence confirms yet another fact of Russia's supply of forces and equipment into Ukraine.
http://on.fb.me/1uiJXdw

#BreakingNews
More than 10 - partly "massive" Russian attacks on the front east of #Mariupol today.
Attack #Map: pic.twitter.com/Apr8MbVf8N

Massive reinforcement is heading to #Cyborgs at the #Donetsk airport - volunteer Rychkova
http://www.unian.ua/politics/1033700-do-zahisnikiv-aeroportu-yde-masovane-pidkriplennya-richkova.html …

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Reports of much fighting around Mariuupol; no ship transponders in Sea of Azov; and http://Mariupol.tv that was good source not on line.

BreakingNews
More than 10 - partly "massive" Russian attacks on the front east of #Mariupol today.
Attack #Map: pic.twitter.com/Apr8MbVf8N

We sincerely hope that @DefenceU and @NATO share our concerns regarding risk to #Mariupol (Crimea's east flank).

A sudden breakthrough to link up with Crimea & control Black Sea cld boost Putin's standing to military genius in eyes of ordinary Russians.

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Rus army casualties in Ukr: 5586 KIA, 2827 MIA, 2607 WIA - Vasiliyeva, activist @SLOVOiDILO
http://goo.gl/hlm3Wf
pic.twitter.com/LLsONMjENu

1 more #Russian military 'tourist' got lost & killed in #Ukraine brought to #SaintPetersburg
http://rustelegraph.ru/news/2015-01-19/V-Peterburg-pribyl-ocherednoi-gruz-200-s-Donbassa-25000/ …
pic.twitter.com/Hr2kizY9dG

Tymchuk: #Russia moves 25 #tanks and 30 AFVs without #crews to #Luhansk
http://mw.ua/UKRAINE/tymchuk-russia-moves-25-tanks-and-30-afvs-without-crews-to-luhansk-963_.html …

Ukrainian military shelled more than one hundred times in past 24 hours
http://bit.ly/1yCDUEC

At least 2 towns in Ukraine, Shchastia (near Lugansk) and Avdiyivka (Donetsk reg), were heavily shelled by (pro-)Rus militants this morning

Ukr artillery counter-fired at enemy's artillery, mortars posit-s nr Stanytsia Luhanska
https://www.facebook.com/dmitry.tymchuk/posts/624349777693681 …
pic.twitter.com/d9g1rTUXov

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Cyborgs keep holding to their positions at the #Donetsk airport. No further info is being disclosed - ATO spox
http://www.unian.net/politics/1033821-kiborgi-prodoljayut-uderjivat-novyiy-terminal-donetskogo-aeroporta-shtab.html …

Ukr forces consolidated on Spartak outsk. Militants lost part f flank positions at airp https://www.facebook.com/dmitry.tymchuk/posts/624349777693681 …
pic.twitter.com/8mhKnvi54r

#Volnovakha tragedy: 88 Grad rockets were launched by #Russian militants under direct orders of DPR terrorists leader
http://en.censor.net.ua/n320510

In #Luhansk r. terrorists shelled localities 10 times. Krymske was shelled 4 times w/ Grad, 2 w/ mortars - pic.twitter.com/hGVjyDKP0p

#Russia denies claims that its forces are going into #Ukraine
http://cnn.it/1yAIR0O
pic.twitter.com/YZml4Hg5yg

#Russia|n tank, ammunition, fuel: #Putin's goons had a forward resupply point under #Putilovsky Bridge in #Donetsk
pic.twitter.com/KJBfFfdGoi

So would this be capture of infamous (camouflaged) Buratino on UA Cyber Force webcam Donetsk?
http://youtu.be/P2myCdWZqCU?t=5m25s …
pic.twitter.com/QHAswENlFo

Possible Rusian advance on #Pavlopil.The entrance is blocked by the Ukr army.Unclear if fighting inside.
pic.twitter.com/zh81Jh2p04

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Another indicator that the Ukrainian guerrilla war teams are becoming more effective in the Russian occupied areas of the Donbas.

Appears after the killing of the 12 civilians in a bus by a GRAD attack of over 88 missiles ---the Ukrainian guerrillas targeted a Russian General who is in charge of the area where the GRADs were fired from.

Will be interesting to see if Russia even acknowledges the killing.

Volnovakha revenge: Ukrainian guerillas executed Russian general near Donetsk #Donbas #Ukraine
http://bit.ly/1AFUBx8
pic.twitter.com/C68yieudh2

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Another indicator that the Ukrainian guerrilla war teams are becoming more effective in the Russian occupied areas of the Donbas.

Appears after the killing of the 12 civilians in a bus by a GRAD attack of over 88 missiles ---the Ukrainian guerrillas targeted a Russian General who is in charge of the area where the GRADs were fired from.

Will be interesting to see if Russia even acknowledges the killing.

Volnovakha revenge: Ukrainian guerillas executed Russian general near Donetsk #Donbas #Ukraine
http://bit.ly/1AFUBx8
pic.twitter.com/C68yieudh2

Appears the Ukrainian guerrilla units are operating under the operational name "the shadows"--they definitely seemed to find the Russian General.

Report: #Donetsk partisans "shadows" ambushed & killed Major General RU army Peter G. Pavlov plus two body guards
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=687758971341962&set=pcb.687759101341949&type=1&theater … pic.twitter.com/dgH4Kx5RiK

Both accounts are not confirmed --there is an attempt ongoing to find out what or who this Russian General was and what was he doing in the Donbas region as he was never mentioned before---could have been SF/GRU as one has already been killed in the Mariupol region.

If true though--raises the question--- just how did they find him and his route?

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Pay a lot of attention to this series of comments--there have been some under the hand comments concerning possible Russian involvement in the Paris killings but they are still under the radar.

Today kidnapped: Gubarev accused Kadyrov of involvement in terrorist attacks in France".
http://newsdaily.com.ua/post/676642
pic.twitter.com/QnZeu5PryQ

#Novorossiya leader Gubarev reportedly detained by DNR 'authorities' fr frauds w/ hum aid.
http://ukropnews.com/news/_7122.html
pic.twitter.com/u56LMvMQhE

The Unstoppable Rise Of Ramzan Kadyrov
http://www.rferl.org/content/profile-ramzan-kadyrov-chechnya-russia-putin/26802368.html …

Chechen Ismail shouts "Allah Akbar" in Donetsk before he shoots towards Ukrainian positions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDtqc-aplCA …


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvfyypWBqII … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1L5pT6Z6pFA … '#Putin's combat infantry,' as #Kadyrov put it, at #Ukraine's #DonetskAirport. Very vocal.

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Something major is ongoing in the Donetsk airport area—bloggers and Twitter accounts have been asked by the Ukrainian government to not report anything until this evening as a special operation is underway.

#Breaking
The Ukr gov. "strongly advises bloggers to join the silence" and not spread information about #Donetsk #airport due to "spec op".

The usual crew with their own UA connections are in fact refraining from any comments until the Ukrainian government says they can-- interesting to see them refrain out of respect of their responsibilities in the op sec world vs the Russian Facebook users.

Paul Brennan @paulrbrennan
Sounds like the situation in #Donetsk is getting really intense, but with impeccably bad timing, I am on the road to Dnipropetrovsk

THEN this started:

BREAKING: "Evacuation alert" in the #Russia|n-occupied #Donetsk Regional State Administration building. All with guns

After #RT went offline, there is only one working webcam left in entire #Donetsk.
And it has no sound sadly ...
pic.twitter.com/Co4d6YQkpN

But even with only ONE cam left,you don't need to wait more than 5 minutes to see Russian forces roaming the streets!
pic.twitter.com/nw3bG3DL8x

Don't forget the Donbass Arena webcams. A miracle they still work as usual. But don't show much, of course. ;-))

Reports are coming in from all over Donetsk that people are taking cover including @ the reg administration building as shelling intensifies

Currently bloggers and Twitter are holding quiet as asked. Even mainstream media in the Donbas from the UK/US are holding quiet.

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As Russian forces hide artillery inside residential #Donetsk, civilians flee the city for areas controlled by Ukraine
pic.twitter.com/dGPCYOhwqM

Funerals of Artyom, 4yo, killed by shelling on Sunday. Rebel artillery moving around and shooting from the cemetery pic.twitter.com/21wJmsGQlf

Scorched earth policy: #Russian-backed militants increase fire attacks on localities
http://empr.media/news/scorched-earth-policy-russian-basked-militants-increase-fire-attacks-on-localities …
pic.twitter.com/8uDCXX3Vyq

Attack of tanks and infantry of Russian forces on the 31st and 29th checkpoints. http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/20-january-attack-of-tanks-and-infantry-of-russian-forces …

Many confirmations: 31st checkpoint is lost for now.

BREAKING: Confirmed that #Russia|ns captured CP31, #Ukraine soldiers left after heavy tank and artillery fire, battle at CP29 now

Russian forces enter Zholobok village
http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/20-january-russian-forces-enter-zholobok-village …
pic.twitter.com/Npof5Qqg7q

Maxim Tucker @MaxRTucker
Just had to dive in a basement as grads land 500m away in #Debaltseve. Only things likely to hit that direction civilian.
Bit hairy #Ukraine

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Laugh or cry? TASS headline: "Russia's support for Ukraine will not be endless — Russian PM"
http://tass.ru/en/russia/772142 …
Do they see the irony?

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Something major is ongoing in the Donetsk airport area—bloggers and Twitter accounts have been asked by the Ukrainian government to not report anything until this evening as a special operation is underway.

#Breaking
The Ukr gov. "strongly advises bloggers to join the silence" and not spread information about #Donetsk #airport due to "spec op".

The usual crew with their own UA connections are in fact refraining from any comments until the Ukrainian government says they can-- interesting to see them refrain out of respect of their responsibilities in the op sec world vs the Russian Facebook users.

Paul Brennan @paulrbrennan
Sounds like the situation in #Donetsk is getting really intense, but with impeccably bad timing, I am on the road to Dnipropetrovsk

THEN this started:

BREAKING: "Evacuation alert" in the #Russia|n-occupied #Donetsk Regional State Administration building. All with guns

After #RT went offline, there is only one working webcam left in entire #Donetsk.
And it has no sound sadly ...
pic.twitter.com/Co4d6YQkpN

But even with only ONE cam left,you don't need to wait more than 5 minutes to see Russian forces roaming the streets!
pic.twitter.com/nw3bG3DL8x

Don't forget the Donbass Arena webcams. A miracle they still work as usual. But don't show much, of course. ;-))

Reports are coming in from all over Donetsk that people are taking cover including @ the reg administration building as shelling intensifies

Currently bloggers and Twitter are holding quiet as asked. Even mainstream media in the Donbas from the UK/US are holding quiet.

So far, so good. But if we see any media breaking Kyiv's requested embargo on info about #DonetskAirport today we'll jump down their throat!

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Two full Russian Combat BN Tactical groups entered the Ukraine over the last two days and were confirmed to have entered and now a major Russian troop attack.

Absolutely nothing being said by the US/EU/NATO and yet the bombing on IS still goes one---just exactly again are what the priorities for the West?

For this (incremental) offensive, that is probably why Russia sent across 600-800 fresh troops 24-48hrs ago.

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Pay a lot of attention to this series of comments--there have been some under the hand comments concerning possible Russian involvement in the Paris killings but they are still under the radar.

Today kidnapped: Gubarev accused Kadyrov of involvement in terrorist attacks in France".
http://newsdaily.com.ua/post/676642
pic.twitter.com/QnZeu5PryQ

#Novorossiya leader Gubarev reportedly detained by DNR 'authorities' fr frauds w/ hum aid.
http://ukropnews.com/news/_7122.html
pic.twitter.com/u56LMvMQhE

The Unstoppable Rise Of Ramzan Kadyrov
http://www.rferl.org/content/profile-ramzan-kadyrov-chechnya-russia-putin/26802368.html …

Chechen Ismail shouts "Allah Akbar" in Donetsk before he shoots towards Ukrainian positions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDtqc-aplCA …

AND AGAIN JUST WHAT ARE RUSSIANS DOING IN PARIS PLANNING FOR ATTACKS--

A few commenters have indicated that actually the initial Paris attacks while claimed by AQAP have actually a Russian background and many laughed--and now?

Agence France-Presse ✔ @AFP
#BREAKING Five Russians held in France on suspicion of planning attack: prosecutor

AFP is reporting that 5 Russian citizens have been held in France on suspicion of planning an attack. Exact details to come.

UPDATE: 5 men 4 chechen, 1 austrian arrested in Beziers France, Suspected of preparing an attack in Austria.

John Schindler @20committee
5 Russians "from N Caucasus" arrested for plotting terrorism in France...now why on earth would they do that?

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And there is "no Russian invasion"?

Russian troops are now in full offensive mode and are attacking with there actual combat troops--not mercenaries and the West still believes they can talk to Putin?

Russian forces have broken through Ukrainian checkpoint 31 & are quickly advancing on Lysychansk, the heart of Ukraine-controlled #Luhansk

Remember those over 500 Russian T64/72/80/90s that were "not Russian" but were just on "vacation" well they are now on the move and what has been reported in western media and or from the US/EU/NATO---total silence but again silence could be a strategy?

Semenchenko also:
Entire National Guard is put in combat alert.
Ukraine's NSDC must decide now to defend Ukraine.
Russian army tank attack.

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And there is "no Russian invasion"?

Russian troops are now in full offensive mode and are attacking with there actual combat troops--not mercenaries and the West still believes they can talk to Putin?

Russian forces have broken through Ukrainian checkpoint 31 & are quickly advancing on Lysychansk, the heart of Ukraine-controlled #Luhansk

Remember those over 500 Russian T64/72/80/90s that were "not Russian" but were just on "vacation" well they are now on the move and what has been reported in western media and or from the US/EU/NATO---total silence but again silence could be a strategy?

Semenchenko also:
Entire National Guard is put in combat alert.
Ukraine's NSDC must decide now to defend Ukraine.
Russian army tank attack.

Notice the hypocrisy of the US strategy if there is one out there somewhere ie yes they can defend themselves BUT we will not help with anything that looks like a weapon to the Russians.

US Ambassador @GeoffPyatt - "We recognize Ukraine's right to protect its sovereign territory"
http://interfax.com.ua/news/general/245624.html …

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AND AGAIN JUST WHAT ARE RUSSIANS DOING IN PARIS PLANNING FOR ATTACKS--

A few commenters have indicated that actually the initial Paris attacks while claimed by AQAP have actually a Russian background and many laughed--and now?

Agence France-Presse ✔ @AFP
#BREAKING Five Russians held in France on suspicion of planning attack: prosecutor

AFP is reporting that 5 Russian citizens have been held in France on suspicion of planning an attack. Exact details to come.

UPDATE: 5 men 4 chechen, 1 austrian arrested in Beziers France, Suspected of preparing an attack in Austria.

John Schindler @20committee
5 Russians "from N Caucasus" arrested for plotting terrorism in France...now why on earth would they do that?



#Russia's "holy #Orthodox crusade" against the West fought in #Donbas mostly by #muslim #Chechens against Orthodox #Ukrainians...

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Captured tank" video deleted. Proven propaganda.
More things and footage start to make little sense in the "failed Ukr assault" story
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTKatUeaNdI …
Russians claim it's Ukrainian tank. But 'Волки' is Terrorussian nickname, so it's Russian

#Donetsk: intense outgoing mortar fire near apartment in Kievsky, firing towards #DonetskAirport
http://ln.is/www.youtube.com/HV2NE …

1st #Footage
Rus invaders ordered an "emergency evacuation" of #Frunze near Rus army assault.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlhQR2V2Uxs …
pic.twitter.com/2lviOUdZYH

Reported terrorist attack on railway bridge at Kuznetsovka on line Zaporizhzhia-Polohy to #Volnovakha (where it joins Donetsk-Mariupol line)

Terrorists blew up a key rail bridge to supply Ukr operations.
Loation: #Kuznetsovka,Zaporozhye region.
ic.twitter.com/E4Y8QtYqz4

"Partisan War" (e.g. terrorism) spreading across southern Ukraine. http://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2015/01/partisan-war-said-spreading-across.html …
Karma will be ugly for Russia.

Different reports about CP31 and 29 now, some say CP29 under #Russia|n attack, some say #Ukraine forces regrouped at CP29 and attacking CP31
1 #Ukraine soldier killed, 7 injured at CP#31
#UPDATE
CP31 was surrendered
1 Ukr KIA, 7 WIA
8 Russian tanks attacked
More on the way from Luhansk
Ukr low on ammo
https://www.facebook.com/newapplecrysis?fref=nf

Russian Forces & militias in occupied Donbas mount offensives to gain ground. Part of this is ratchet-up disinfo' & agitprop to create 'fog'

Beware Russian (LifeNews) propaganda story: Interviewed POW could be an actor/militiaman in Ukrainian jacket "supervised" by Russian GRU.

VIDEO #Ukraine soldiers near #Donetsk Airport
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5pQzOZoWyU …
pic.twitter.com/NFZE4A96PX

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AND AGAIN JUST WHAT ARE RUSSIANS DOING IN PARIS PLANNING FOR ATTACKS--

A few commenters have indicated that actually the initial Paris attacks while claimed by AQAP have actually a Russian background and many laughed--and now?

Agence France-Presse ✔ @AFP
#BREAKING Five Russians held in France on suspicion of planning attack: prosecutor

AFP is reporting that 5 Russian citizens have been held in France on suspicion of planning an attack. Exact details to come.

UPDATE: 5 men 4 chechen, 1 austrian arrested in Beziers France, Suspected of preparing an attack in Austria.

John Schindler @20committee
5 Russians "from N Caucasus" arrested for plotting terrorism in France...now why on earth would they do that?

There are more Chechen mercenaries on Putin's payroll than there are roaming radicalized Chechens looking to kill foreigners.

25,000 Chechens reside in Austria and the targets were to be Russian

CHECHNYA’S KADYROV CALLS FOR JIHAD AGAINST CHARLIE HEBDO
http://sheikyermami.com/chechnyas-kadyrov-calls-for-jihad-against-charlie-hebdo/ …

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We should often not forget to go back and reread articles that came out in the August 2014 timeframe in reference to the aims of the Russian Army in the Ukraine.

And we always should go back and inhale the new Russian UW strategy that they are actively implementing---in all the fog of war we must never forget the three main Russian strategic goals that their political warfare is aiming at;

1. the discrediting of NATO as a defense organization
2. splitting the US from Europe
3. discrediting the EU as a political and economic group

RF doing plan revealed Aug: Donetsk airport done, north of Luhansk doing now, next Mariupol etc.

http://www.interpretermag.com/moscow-military-review-lists-seven-probable-targets-in-novorossiya/ …

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These statements by a US General do in fact point to the need for a US strategy which is markedly missing in the Ukraine.

Gen Hodges: "the Baltic states & Georgia appear to be safe for now, but possibly not for long" http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/natosource/russia-could-soon-run-multiple-ukraine-sized-operations-us-general …
pic.twitter.com/qLemYaRnPA

Gen. Hodges: Russia's neighbors "thinking they have got 2 or 3 years to get ready before they may become the target" http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/natosource/russia-could-soon-run-multiple-ukraine-sized-operations-us-general …

NATO strategists giving thought to possibility Russia could stage Crimea-style operation in a country such as Estonia http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/natosource/russia-could-soon-run-multiple-ukraine-sized-operations-us-general …

NATO officer: Russia has "capability to mass quickly & conduct an offensive before we could milt respond fast enough" http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/natosource/russia-could-soon-run-multiple-ukraine-sized-operations-us-general …

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Russian #army from #Rostov-on-Don in #Russia to #Doneck in Donbas #Ukraine pic.twitter.com/grR2U1SNFL

#Ukraine has lost control over 13 villages in #Lugansk oblast after retreating from two checkpoints.”

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Captured tank" video deleted. Proven propaganda.
More things and footage start to make little sense in the "failed Ukr assault" story
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTKatUeaNdI …
Russians claim it's Ukrainian tank. But 'Волки' is Terrorussian nickname, so it's Russian

#Donetsk: intense outgoing mortar fire near apartment in Kievsky, firing towards #DonetskAirport
http://ln.is/www.youtube.com/HV2NE …

1st #Footage
Rus invaders ordered an "emergency evacuation" of #Frunze near Rus army assault.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlhQR2V2Uxs …
pic.twitter.com/2lviOUdZYH

Reported terrorist attack on railway bridge at Kuznetsovka on line Zaporizhzhia-Polohy to #Volnovakha (where it joins Donetsk-Mariupol line)

Terrorists blew up a key rail bridge to supply Ukr operations.
Loation: #Kuznetsovka,Zaporozhye region.
ic.twitter.com/E4Y8QtYqz4

"Partisan War" (e.g. terrorism) spreading across southern Ukraine. http://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2015/01/partisan-war-said-spreading-across.html …
Karma will be ugly for Russia.

Different reports about CP31 and 29 now, some say CP29 under #Russia|n attack, some say #Ukraine forces regrouped at CP29 and attacking CP31
1 #Ukraine soldier killed, 7 injured at CP#31
#UPDATE
CP31 was surrendered
1 Ukr KIA, 7 WIA
8 Russian tanks attacked
More on the way from Luhansk
Ukr low on ammo
https://www.facebook.com/newapplecrysis?fref=nf

Russian Forces & militias in occupied Donbas mount offensives to gain ground. Part of this is ratchet-up disinfo' & agitprop to create 'fog'

Beware Russian (LifeNews) propaganda story: Interviewed POW could be an actor/militiaman in Ukrainian jacket "supervised" by Russian GRU.

VIDEO #Ukraine soldiers near #Donetsk Airport
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5pQzOZoWyU …
pic.twitter.com/NFZE4A96PX

As always in the fog of war---CP31 back in Ukrainian hands tonight.

Inter TV jurno denies reports that CP31 was captured by #Russia|ns, #Ukraine soldiers regrouped and back on positions
http://uatoday.tv/news/unian-rumors-swirl-of-russian-tank-attack-north-of-luhansk-403988.html …

29th and 31st checkpoints were attacked, combat w/ regular Rus troops are currently on between Zemygirya and Slovianoserbsk - ATO spox

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Now open and direct combat between Russian Army units and units of the Ukrainian military.

No mercenaries involved---Putin's eighth phase of their new UW strategy in play now.

More specifically Lysenko said Ukr. forces were facing regular Russian army units between Slov'yanoserbs'k & Zymohir'ya in Luhansk region

#Donetsk airports runway completely out of service, fierce combat is on. #Ukraine forces attacked by #Russia|n regular army – Lysenko

Large #Russia|n army column near #Ukraine border, location not exactly known yet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zvbj60jQ_yM&feature=youtu.be …

On the #DonetskAirport Lysenko said Ukr. forces holding their positions but facing sustained attack

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Now open and direct combat between Russian Army units and units of the Ukrainian military.

No mercenaries involved---Putin's eighth phase of their new UW strategy in play now.

More specifically Lysenko said Ukr. forces were facing regular Russian army units between Slov'yanoserbs'k & Zymohir'ya in Luhansk region

#Donetsk airports runway completely out of service, fierce combat is on. #Ukraine forces attacked by #Russia|n regular army – Lysenko

Large #Russia|n army column near #Ukraine border, location not exactly known yet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zvbj60jQ_yM&feature=youtu.be …

On the #DonetskAirport Lysenko said Ukr. forces holding their positions but facing sustained attack

For the first time since August #Ukraine admits that the country is under attack of the #Russia|n Armed Forces

And where are the immediate sanctions the West loudly stated would occur if things got worse on the part of Russia---well do Russia troops in actual combat inside a country now count as a serious incident worth more sanctions or just business as usual and silence.

Actually, the war in Ukraine is like a command & conquer game where 1 side has a cheat code for unlimited ammo but denies it is even playing

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Now open and direct combat between Russian Army units and units of the Ukrainian military.

No mercenaries involved---Putin's eighth phase of their new UW strategy in play now.

More specifically Lysenko said Ukr. forces were facing regular Russian army units between Slov'yanoserbs'k & Zymohir'ya in Luhansk region

#Donetsk airports runway completely out of service, fierce combat is on. #Ukraine forces attacked by #Russia|n regular army – Lysenko

Large #Russia|n army column near #Ukraine border, location not exactly known yet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zvbj60jQ_yM&feature=youtu.be …

On the #DonetskAirport Lysenko said Ukr. forces holding their positions but facing sustained attack


NATOSource @NATOSource
Dempsey: For 1st time in a "very long time," US & allies are facing "very distinct threats" from Russia & terrorism http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/natosour


Putin’s #Russ.Do traces of KGB,FSB & GRU lead to #IS?
http://bit.ly/1BzPlkl
by @LaurinaviciusM

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And the US strategy is what again?

US ambassador to #Ukraine Pyatt: hundreds of units of [Russian] military equipment are crossing the border"
http://24today.net/open/279243

Tanks from Russia cross Ukrainian border https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=7qMNO2z8qH4 …
pic.twitter.com/ulMEUce4c4

According this article's sources, the West is more concrned with not creating conflict w/ Russia than saving Ukraine
http://www.wsj.com/articles/john-vinocur-is-there-no-one-who-will-stand-up-for-ukraine-1421702240 …

Only Kyiv can start dialogue within #Ukraine to end war – Moscow
Spksman says Ukraine soldiers came under attack from Russian regular forces in north of conflict zone in east Ukraine on Jan20.
Actually, the war in Ukraine is like a command & conquer game where 1 side has a cheat code for unlimited ammo but denies it is even playing

The cheat code are the humanitarian convoys.

Donbas: Sept-Dec: Build up forces.1/2 Jan non-stop bombardment/small attack.1st mini Ukraine counter-move LAUNCH Russian military offensive.

I count 25 in 1 minute. Tanks from Russia cross Ukraine's border
https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=7qMNO2z8qH4 …
pic.twitter.com/ZU2I5SeiSW

Putinitis: a self-harming condition afflicting leaders with no policy apart from opportunism and obstructionism

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Since August 2014 I have seen numerous European information/disinformation articles written by both fake and real writers BUT one written by an American surprises me greatly as he seems to have completely missed the entire social media which has been covering the Russian invasion inch by inch with videos, photos and open source analysis.

This author seems to want to imply that all of the above has not been done and it the fault of the West that Russian invasion troops are actively fighting in the Donbas.

Strange to see this type of article from an American although reuters has been involved in carrying articles that later proved to be false.

Opinion: Perhaps you missed it: We’re at war with Russia
Published: Jan 20, 2015 9:55 a.m. ET

But nobody has explained what our vital interest is in Ukraine

By
Chris
Martenson
Reuters

Secretary of State John Kerry has accused Russia of providing heavy arms to Ukrainian separatists, but has offered no proof.

The U.S. has been waging economic, financial, trade, and political war against Russia and even kinetic war-by-proxy in Ukraine. Worryingly, nobody in power in the U.S. or Europe really seems willing to tell us exactly why.

From the Russian point of view, everything from their plunging ruble to bitter sanctions to the falling price of oil are the fault of the U.S., either directly or indirectly. Whether that is fair or not is irrelevant; that’s the view of the Russians right now. So no surprise, it doesn’t dispose them towards goodwill negotiations with the West generally, and the U.S. specifically.

Recently the anti-Russian stance in the U.S. press has quieted down, presumably because the political leadership has moved its attention on to other things, and that means Russia is largely out of the U.S. news cycle. However, there’s plenty of serious action going on in Russia and Ukraine, as well as related activity in the U.S. that deserves our careful attention.

The U.S. (via John Kerry) and NATO have steadily accused Russia of having funneled hundreds of tanks, armored personnel carriers and other heavy equipment to the separatists in eastern Ukraine.

These assertions bring to mind the Sherlock Holmes case of the dog that did not bark where the absence of a piece of evidence leads us to a very different conclusion than the one the U.S. political establishment would like us to believe.

The sorts of weaponry that NATO and the U.S. have charged Russia with providing are virtually impossible to conceal from the air. Snapping high-resolution photos of such war machinery is child’s play for today’s military satellites, and even civilian ones too. If the assertions were true, we should have seen a flood of photographs of Russian heavy equipment every step of the way as it passed into Ukraine.

But none have been offered, not even one so far. And the simplest explanation for this is that none exist. If they did, you can be 100% certain they’d have been released and replayed over and over again on CNN until everybody and their uncle could distinguish a T-72 tank outline from that of a T-64.

What concerns me even more than these undocumented charges are two especially ill-conceived, if not overtly confrontational, pieces of legislation passed by the Congress in December.
The first is H.Res 758 passed on Dec. 4, which, among other charges, accused Russia of having invaded Ukraine again without providing or referring to any sort of evidence photographic or otherwise. Entitled “Strongly condemning the actions of the Russian Federation, under President Vladimir Putin, which has carried out a policy of aggression against neighboring countries aimed at political and economic domination” the resolution is packed with a variety of one-sided assertions and leaves no diplomatic wiggle room for the possibility that Russia has a different view of what has transpired in Ukraine.

According to Ron Paul, these sorts of resolutions are dangerous because they politically commit the U.S. political structure to rigid stances that are politically difficult to back down from and have historically been a stepping stone on the path to war.

The Ukraine Freedom Support Act of 2014, or S.2828, was passed by the Senate on Dec. 11. This goes even further than merely condemning Russia and authorizes the distribution of both lethal and non-lethal military aid to Kiev, including sniper and assault rifles, mortars and shells, stinger missiles, anti-tank missiles, night vision goggles, radar systems and a host of other hardware items.

If the tables were turned, and it were the Russian lawmakers passing a resolution condemning the U.S. for a variety of international crimes for which exactly zero proof was offered, and then were actively arming a dangerous conflict right on the U.S. border, I think we all know just how ablaze with indignity the U.S. political leadership would be. And rightly so.

So is it any surprise that Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said in response, “Both houses of the U.S. Congress have approved the Ukraine Freedom Support Act bypassing debates and proper voting. The overtly confrontational message of the new law cannot but evoke profound regret. Once again Washington is leveling baseless sweeping accusations against Russia and threatening more sanctions.”

The really bizarre part of this story is that I cannot yet find any credible analysis or commentary explaining exactly what the U.S.’s interests are in Ukraine that are so compelling as to risk increasing confrontation with Russia. And it bothers a great many analysts that the U.S. is on an increasingly combative course with yet another country without providing any evidence in support of its accusations and actions. Again.

In response, Russia is rapidly withdrawing from additional dialog with the U.S. and Europe, while drawing ever closer to China, Turkey and India. Russians feel that they are already under siege from the U.S., and that acts of war have already been committed.

Despite being almost completely out of the U.S. news cycle, events are in and around the Ukraine situation are actually picking up pace. On Jan. 15, Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko signed a decree mobilizing 50,000 new servicemen to the front lines, and Russia just announced that Europe will have to accept gas via Turkey as the Ukraine route is being shut down.

This situation remains much more fluid and nuanced than we’re being told by the Western media, with much more to this story than a short column allows, Those interested in delving deeper can read our latest report here.

But in short, the situation is getting more strained, not less, and it has the very real chance of blossoming into something far larger and more deadly than the sparse coverage in the Western press might imply.

If it looks like a war, acts like a war and smells like a war, it may just be a war. Everyone should be very concerned by these events, but especially European readers.

Chris Martenson is an economic researcher and futurist specializing in energy and resource depletion, and co-founder of PeakProsperity.com
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Now open and direct combat between Russian Army units and units of the Ukrainian military.

No mercenaries involved---Putin's eighth phase of their new UW strategy in play now.

More specifically Lysenko said Ukr. forces were facing regular Russian army units between Slov'yanoserbs'k & Zymohir'ya in Luhansk region

#Donetsk airports runway completely out of service, fierce combat is on. #Ukraine forces attacked by #Russia|n regular army – Lysenko

Large #Russia|n army column near #Ukraine border, location not exactly known yet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zvbj60jQ_yM&feature=youtu.be …

On the #DonetskAirport Lysenko said Ukr. forces holding their positions but facing sustained attack


#News
The Ukrainian army "stopped the advance of #regular Russian troops between Checkpoint 31 and 29. Fiercest fighting continues." - ATO

[Firn]

The reasons why there is no stronger diplomatic response to Russia's invasion is the seemingly expendiency of denying open war by many political players in Europe, the US and other parts of the world like China. As I stated before that doesn't make it less of a war of aggression by Russia.

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The reasons why there is no stronger diplomatic response to Russia's invasion is the seemingly expendiency of denying open war by many political players in Europe, the US and other parts of the world like China. As I stated before that doesn't make it less of a war of aggression by Russia.


#BREAKINGREPORT
100 RUSSIAN ARMY TANKS, 70 GRAD SYSTEMS APPROACH #LUHANSK CITY RIGHT NOW.
http://informator.lg.ua/?p=63027

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For those policy makers that never believed there was not a war and an invasion and that one can "talk" with Putin and there is not such a thing as Russian neo nationalistic imperialism ie Russian fascism think again.

We now have the Russo Ukrainian war thanks to those that felt "soft power" was the way forward. National foreign policy built strictly on soft power without a hard power backup will always fail and since 9/11 the US European hard power projection option was reduced to absolutely nothing by all Presidents.

Humpty dumpty will never be put back together after this major failure and who would have thought that 25 years after the Wall fell and in Central Europe the US/NATO and EU would have even "allowed" the thought of war to even exist. One now has to ask are even any international agreements, treaties and or laws even worth the paper they are written on if there is a Russian signature on them?

VIDEO #Russia Spetsnaz Special Forces outside #Donetsk Airport https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5dZLRTzB30 …
pic.twitter.com/GzdAhdUfC9

Entire day in #Debaltseve and no evidence that Grad rockets hit even a single military target-only civilian #Donetsk pic.twitter.com/6Ie8uzZb2L

Russian terror squad shelling in #Horlivka.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPzaY3ctbhg …
pic.twitter.com/OCZKEaM63x

#BreakingNews
Another 3 Russian army tactical battalions are waiting at the #Izvaryne border crossing ready to invade Ukraine at any moment

Lysenko on Hromadske radio right now: 3 batallions are close to the border at Izvarine, 400-450 men each”Height of Russian hypocrisy. Debaltseve is location of Ukraine-Russia #JCCC HQ for "ceasefire". No mistaking the message

At the moment, it looks like the main direction of Russian attack is Debaltseve and the area along Siverskyi Donets river.

These batallions in sum are close to a brigade size

Artillery division is close to Novoazovsk, on the Russian side of the border, but can fire at long distance

"Tanks, BTRs, all the [Russian] armor, rushing toward the [Ukraine] border,"
http://bit.ly/1yEJ4jD

What exact version of the T-72 is this, approaching Ukraine today?!
They might be in Luhansk region by now.
pic.twitter.com/cE4YEetnPZ

How close to homes can Terrorussians actually get? Next time firing from WITHIN homes? WARCRIME pic.twitter.com/tUeXqvP70c

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For those policy makers that never believed there was not a war and an invasion and that one can "talk" with Putin and there is not such a thing as Russian neo nationalistic imperialism ie Russian fascism think again.

We now have the Russo Ukrainian war thanks to those that felt "soft power" was the way forward. National foreign policy built strictly on soft power without a hard power backup will always fail and since 9/11 the US European hard power projection option was reduced to absolutely nothing by all Presidents.

Humpty dumpty will never be put back together after this major failure and who would have thought that 25 years after the Wall fell and in Central Europe the US/NATO and EU would have even "allowed" the thought of war to even exist. One now has to ask are even any international agreements, treaties and or laws even worth the paper they are written on if there is a Russian signature on them?

VIDEO #Russia Spetsnaz Special Forces outside #Donetsk Airport https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5dZLRTzB30 …
pic.twitter.com/GzdAhdUfC9

Entire day in #Debaltseve and no evidence that Grad rockets hit even a single military target-only civilian #Donetsk pic.twitter.com/6Ie8uzZb2L

Russian terror squad shelling in #Horlivka.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPzaY3ctbhg …
pic.twitter.com/OCZKEaM63x

#BreakingNews
Another 3 Russian army tactical battalions are waiting at the #Izvaryne border crossing ready to invade Ukraine at any moment

Lysenko on Hromadske radio right now: 3 batallions are close to the border at Izvarine, 400-450 men each”Height of Russian hypocrisy. Debaltseve is location of Ukraine-Russia #JCCC HQ for "ceasefire". No mistaking the message

At the moment, it looks like the main direction of Russian attack is Debaltseve and the area along Siverskyi Donets river.

These batallions in sum are close to a brigade size

Artillery division is close to Novoazovsk, on the Russian side of the border, but can fire at long distance

"Tanks, BTRs, all the [Russian] armor, rushing toward the [Ukraine] border,"
http://bit.ly/1yEJ4jD

What exact version of the T-72 is this, approaching Ukraine today?!
They might be in Luhansk region by now.
pic.twitter.com/cE4YEetnPZ

How close to homes can Terrorussians actually get? Next time firing from WITHIN homes? WARCRIME pic.twitter.com/tUeXqvP70c

And the current US policy/strategy is again what?

Seemingly endless columns of Russian soldiers/tanks are entering an outgunned and outnumbered Ukraine. The West is readying its hashtags.

Aerial #drone footage of the battlefields of #Ukraine this winter. Horrible and captivating.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2dsVMpyL40 …

This video is such a perfect portrait of the war. Russia & proxies devastate region, yet desperate to blame Ukraine

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Since August 2014 I have seen numerous European information/disinformation articles written by both fake and real writers BUT one written by an American surprises me greatly as he seems to have completely missed the entire social media which has been covering the Russian invasion inch by inch with videos, photos and open source analysis.

This author seems to want to imply that all of the above has not been done and it the fault of the West that Russian invasion troops are actively fighting in the Donbas.

By
Chris
Martenson
Reuters

Secretary of State John Kerry has accused Russia of providing heavy arms to Ukrainian separatists, but has offered no proof.

The U.S. has been waging economic, financial, trade, and political war against Russia and even kinetic war-by-proxy in Ukraine. Worryingly, nobody in power in the U.S. or Europe really seems willing to tell us exactly why.

From the Russian point of view, everything from their plunging ruble to bitter sanctions to the falling price of oil are the fault of the U.S., either directly or indirectly. Whether that is fair or not is irrelevant; that’s the view of the Russians right now. So no surprise, it doesn’t dispose them towards goodwill negotiations with the West generally, and the U.S. specifically.

Recently the anti-Russian stance in the U.S. press has quieted down, presumably because the political leadership has moved its attention on to other things, and that means Russia is largely out of the U.S. news cycle. However, there’s plenty of serious action going on in Russia and Ukraine, as well as related activity in the U.S. that deserves our careful attention.

The U.S. (via John Kerry) and NATO have steadily accused Russia of having funneled hundreds of tanks, armored personnel carriers and other heavy equipment to the separatists in eastern Ukraine.

These assertions bring to mind the Sherlock Holmes case of the dog that did not bark where the absence of a piece of evidence leads us to a very different conclusion than the one the U.S. political establishment would like us to believe.

The sorts of weaponry that NATO and the U.S. have charged Russia with providing are virtually impossible to conceal from the air. Snapping high-resolution photos of such war machinery is child’s play for today’s military satellites, and even civilian ones too. If the assertions were true, we should have seen a flood of photographs of Russian heavy equipment every step of the way as it passed into Ukraine.

But none have been offered, not even one so far. And the simplest explanation for this is that none exist. If they did, you can be 100% certain they’d have been released and replayed over and over again on CNN until everybody and their uncle could distinguish a T-72 tank outline from that of a T-64.

What concerns me even more than these undocumented charges are two especially ill-conceived, if not overtly confrontational, pieces of legislation passed by the Congress in December.
The first is H.Res 758 passed on Dec. 4, which, among other charges, accused Russia of having invaded Ukraine again without providing or referring to any sort of evidence photographic or otherwise. Entitled “Strongly condemning the actions of the Russian Federation, under President Vladimir Putin, which has carried out a policy of aggression against neighboring countries aimed at political and economic domination” the resolution is packed with a variety of one-sided assertions and leaves no diplomatic wiggle room for the possibility that Russia has a different view of what has transpired in Ukraine.

According to Ron Paul, these sorts of resolutions are dangerous because they politically commit the U.S. political structure to rigid stances that are politically difficult to back down from and have historically been a stepping stone on the path to war.

The Ukraine Freedom Support Act of 2014, or S.2828, was passed by the Senate on Dec. 11. This goes even further than merely condemning Russia and authorizes the distribution of both lethal and non-lethal military aid to Kiev, including sniper and assault rifles, mortars and shells, stinger missiles, anti-tank missiles, night vision goggles, radar systems and a host of other hardware items.

If the tables were turned, and it were the Russian lawmakers passing a resolution condemning the U.S. for a variety of international crimes for which exactly zero proof was offered, and then were actively arming a dangerous conflict right on the U.S. border, I think we all know just how ablaze with indignity the U.S. political leadership would be. And rightly so.

So is it any surprise that Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said in response, “Both houses of the U.S. Congress have approved the Ukraine Freedom Support Act bypassing debates and proper voting. The overtly confrontational message of the new law cannot but evoke profound regret. Once again Washington is leveling baseless sweeping accusations against Russia and threatening more sanctions.”

The really bizarre part of this story is that I cannot yet find any credible analysis or commentary explaining exactly what the U.S.’s interests are in Ukraine that are so compelling as to risk increasing confrontation with Russia. And it bothers a great many analysts that the U.S. is on an increasingly combative course with yet another country without providing any evidence in support of its accusations and actions. Again.

In response, Russia is rapidly withdrawing from additional dialog with the U.S. and Europe, while drawing ever closer to China, Turkey and India. Russians feel that they are already under siege from the U.S., and that acts of war have already been committed.

Despite being almost completely out of the U.S. news cycle, events are in and around the Ukraine situation are actually picking up pace. On Jan. 15, Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko signed a decree mobilizing 50,000 new servicemen to the front lines, and Russia just announced that Europe will have to accept gas via Turkey as the Ukraine route is being shut down.

This situation remains much more fluid and nuanced than we’re being told by the Western media, with much more to this story than a short column allows, Those interested in delving deeper can read our latest report here.

But in short, the situation is getting more strained, not less, and it has the very real chance of blossoming into something far larger and more deadly than the sparse coverage in the Western press might imply.

If it looks like a war, acts like a war and smells like a war, it may just be a war. Everyone should be very concerned by these events, but especially European readers.

Chris Martenson is an economic researcher and futurist specializing in energy and resource depletion, and co-founder of PeakProsperity.com
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The second such US infowar article this time via Salon--it is interesting to see how they are moved through the US media.

Wednesday, Jan 21, 2015 01:00 AM +0100 via Salon

Distortions, lies and omissions: The New York Times won’t tell you the real story behind Ukraine, Russian economic collapse

International papers will cover America's role in the world honestly. Only our best paper willingly blinds itself
But nobody has explained what our vital interest is in Ukraine

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The following is a small counter to the two written Russian disinformation articles posted via Reuters and Salon over the last two days---after the Russian FM press conference today one has to finally admit Russian leadership is truly in "an altered state of reality"--by the way not mentioned at all by the two writers.

After reading several of the Russian FMs comments and then seeing what is going on inside the Ukraine one wonders if any conversation can be carried on with Russian officials who basically are lying every time they mention anything.

#Lavrov says #Russia received assurance from ‘rebels’ in #Ukraine that they agreed to retreat to previously agreed front line

Question from Ukrainian journo: 'then how do you account for the Russian equipment found in Donbas if you deny Russian involvement?

Unian cotrespondent tales Lavrov to task for denying russian involvement in Donbass. Lavrov blanky denies it again

If the statement above is true from the FM then why is this statement also being released today by the mercenaries---seems the FM is not in touch with reality inside the Ukraine.

"We will conquer #Pisky & #Avdeevka next" - #DNR "defense minister" E. Basurin

The Russian MFA has repeatedly stated over the last few days that the Donetsk airport was to be given to the mercenaries as based on Minsk but there is nothing in the agreement over than the demarcation line. When the actual agreement was released in English two days ago --Russian response was that it was in the fine print but then a review of the fine print also indicated nothing---not sure what document the Russians are actually talking about?

Since NarniaRussians have difficulties findinging exact borders... a small reminder about Minsk and Donetsk airport.
pic.twitter.com/cCH8Q4URsp

The Russian army offensive in northern Luhansk region - Day 1 http://wp.me/p5sx0x-5k с помощью

Militants withdraw five convoys with their killed soldiers http://24today.net/open/280118

OSCE confirms Mon grad shelling of Debaltsevo came fm western DNR positions. Covered approx 1 sq km range (!) http://tvrain.ru/articles/obse_obvinila_opolchentsev_v_obstrele_debaltsevo-380868/ …

FINALLY...!!! OSCE records Terrorussians firing GRADs into Ukrainian city killing civilians http://www.osce.org/ukraine-smm/135491 …
pic.twitter.com/rfYiwYYkX8

Now this video is interesting in that both the US writers of the two disinformation articles stated there are no Russian troops in the Ukraine because the US Intel community has released nothing but somehow they missed the social media side.

VIDEO #Russia Spetsnaz Special Forces outside #Donetsk Airport https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5dZLRTzB30 …
pic.twitter.com/GzdAhdUfC9

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Both writers interestingly skipped over a terrorist attack using GRAD rockets against a civilian bus which killed 12 and wounded 17 and which Russia has attempted to point towards the Ukrainians just as they did with MH17.

There has been extensive open source analysis of this Russian attack confirming the rockets 88 in number were in fact fired out of Russian controlled areas.

Even the OSCE investigation proved they were fired out of Russian controlled areas all though the Russian FM again lied in stating publicly that the OSCE had stated it was the Ukrainians.

The following is some really excellent open source analysis work done on a video filmed in the Russian controlled areas that in fact confirms the actual launch of those missiles using the sun to calculate the approximate launch time against videos recorded at the Ukrainian checkpoint where the bus was hit.

Sun position and shadows show: GRAD video was filmed at SAME TIME as #Volnovakha attack.
http://ukraineatwar.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/dokuchajevsk-grad-video-was-filmed-at.html … pic.twitter.com/T5MKptDEH0

[OUTLAW 09]

Third counter to the two writers of the disinformation articles---they both basically stated the exact same thing—strange that both they and the Russian FM have the same exact talking points but in two separate locations and a few days apart.

This is basically another outright lie based on the sheer number of open source photos and vidoes in social media showing new Russian military hardware that is only in the Russian Army since 2011/2013 and never exported. Did the equipment also “accidently go on vacation as well”?

Seems the two writers need some assistance on how to use social media to do research on topics they write.

This is how Lavrov and @RT_com will 'proof' there is no Russian army in Ukraine. pic.twitter.com/lQkBVCacEy

Russian FM Lavrov stated in his press conference the following:
“Russia does not supply weapons to the Ukraine, show us evidence if you disagree”
On.rt.com/avzjbb

After the launch of the #MH17 Russian Buks are gone. Now use the terrorists' Tor-M1 system. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7Kt4Lvo984&feature=youtu.be …
pic.twitter.com/8kPDrvJ3gf

http://ukraineatwar.blogspot.nl/2015/01/how-to-identify-russians-tanks-in.html

Here it is ladies & gentlemen: geolocation of Russian convoy heading towards Ukraine: http://bit.ly/1Gr5uLV
pic.twitter.com/ZlTRzEtqEm

VIDEO #Russia Spetsnaz Special Forces outside #Donetsk Airport https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5dZLRTzB30 …
pic.twitter.com/GzdAhdUfC9

[OUTLAW 09]

This is just from today via social media so again is the Russian FM living in "an altered state of reality"?

Remember this is what he stated just this morning.

This is how Lavrov and @RT_com will 'proof' there is no Russian army in Ukraine. pic.twitter.com/lQkBVCacEy

Russian FM Lavrov stated in his press conference the following:
“Russia does not supply weapons to the Ukraine, show us evidence if you disagree”
On.rt.com/avzjbb

100s of Rus army vehicles entered ctrl #Luhansk tonight, dividing into groups heading 4 Shchastya,St-Luhanska+ the west

Near #Luhansk Rus troops w/out insignia. Nr Krasnodon 60 Rus tanks, BMPs, 100 Tiger vehicles, 100 Rus tanks nr Shakhtarsk, Torez - ATO spox

Col. Lysenko: #Russia violates Minsk Protocol. 60 RU tanks, 50 APCs and 100 “Tiger” armored vehicles arrived to #Krasnodon

Combat is on at the #Donetsk airport, militants have blasted the runway, reinforcement to Ukr forces arrived - ATO spox presser

Y'day approach of 3 Rus batt tact groups to Ukr border spotted nr Kamyansk-Shakhtynsky, 1 Rus art division nr Myrny, E f Novoazovsk -ATO spx

it gets intense with every day, T-80U spotted close to the border and SA-15 Gauntlet in Ukraine
pic.twitter.com/fFWjPSvXrb

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Russian FM "spins the truth" and western journalists swallowed it hook line and sinker.

He stated when asked about their violation of the 1994 Budapest Memorandum --the Russian FM openly stated the Agreement only concerned itself in defending the Ukraine from nuclear attacks. Russian signed it so therefore they must have read the entire document before signing it.

Quote/unquote:

Then a number of respected western media journalists tweeted out that the Russian FM was basically correct in his comments---it is amazing that western media journalists do not take the time to actually read cover to cover the 1994 Budapest Memorandum as it includes in open and clear text---the sovereignty and territorial borders of the Ukraine will be protected.

Then social media pushed back on them:

Want to diminish your credibility? Parrot Lavrov's interpretation of the Budapest Memorandum & say it only pertains to nuclear attack.

By the way just a small note in history---Lavrov actually signed the document for Russia.

The UN version of the Budapest memorandum (signed by Lavrov)
http://www.un.org/en/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=A/49/765 … "to respect the...existing borders of Ukraine"

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The Russian lies just keep on giving for social media:

*Repeat as necessary*
Lysenko: "A significant number of Russian soldiers ... have been spotted in Luhansk"
Lavrov: "Please present proof"

Roland Oliphant @RolandOliphant
On "where's your proof." Didn't get to ask Lavrov whether's he'd been down to Rostov region to count army trucks with no plates. Pity.

Russia to seek immediate ceasefire at Ukraine talks http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN0KU0RI20150121 …

NOTE: the Ukraine has held to three unilateral ceasefires since 19 Sept Minsk agreement and none were held to by the mercenaries and the Ukraine had more civilians loses and military loses in those ceasefires than during actual combat.

NOTE: the problem is Russia only talks about talking about a ceasefire and NEVER implements anything it has promised since August and now we are to truly believe they want an immediate ceasefire--maybe a Ukrainian ceasefire but will the mercenaries and Russian Army hold to it?

More Russian probing operations: Ukraine says its forces attacked by Russian troops
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN0KT21U20150121 …

Likely new Russian offensive: Russia is boosting its military presence in east Ukraine, says Kiev military
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN0KU17W20150121 …

Nice info graphic. Left is #Russia reg army in #donbas .right - on #Ukraine border. http://elise.com.ua/?p=75030
pic.twitter.com/wXOHvqSRE1”

Russian forces shelling eastern #Mariupol city.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoT_ja_Ft8o …

Ukrainian MP and leader of Pravy Sektor Dmytro #Yarosh is wounded in #Donetsk #Airport http://uatoday.tv/politics/cyborgs-stand-firm-as-fighting-intensifies-403033.html …

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This is how Lavrov and @RT_com will 'proof' there is no Russian army in Ukraine.
pic.twitter.com/lQkBVCacEy

Russian FM Lavrov stated in his press conference the following:
“Russia does not supply weapons to the Ukraine, show us evidence if you disagree”
On.rt.com/avzjbb

#BREAKINGNEWS
Full scale Russian invasion acc. to #Ukraine's @NSDC_ua
#Krasnodon: 60 tanks, 50 BTR/BMP, 100 TBM" Tiger "
#Thorez: 100 tanks

Battalion #Azov, defending #Hranitne, is under heavy Russian army attack.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?x-yt-ts=1421782837&x-yt-cl=84359240&v=sUgXgE1GIz4 …

#Breaking
Situation in #Avdeevka "critical", constant #Grad shelling, no electricity, no water, children evacuated

Canada at NATO ✔ @CanadaNATO
#Russia denies sending troops to #Ukraine, but families of troops killed tell different story:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/19/russia-official-silence-for-families-troops-killed-in-ukraine?CMP=twt_gu …
pic.twitter.com/KiNMaaPpoR

Some dude made a 3D model of the remains of Donetsk airport... no comments.
https://sketchfab.com/models/268bc119d57b45dabaead5ad1a7f91e5 …
pic.twitter.com/J2B52FmT4p

#Russia sending more troops to #Ukraine, launching more offensives on UA-controlled territories symbolizes ceasefire #Kremlin-style

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This is how Lavrov and @RT_com will 'proof' there is no Russian army in Ukraine.
pic.twitter.com/lQkBVCacEy

Russian FM Lavrov stated in his press conference the following:
“Russia does not supply weapons to the Ukraine, show us evidence if you disagree”
On.rt.com/avzjbb

The Russian army's assault on Mariupol and Volnovakha seems imminent. Same as we saw in July and August.

Already started. Here: All from this morning!
pic.twitter.com/riVtqj4TE5

#Breaking
The railway bridge in #Rozovka, Zaporiz'ka oblast, was destroyed this morning.
#Mariupol cut off.
pic.twitter.com/8ryIM0DknC

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#Footage
Russian invasion forces from #Chelyabinsk, approaching #Donetsk #airport.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDnXmiMDhiE …
Ukraine pic.twitter.com/iBDtGWcCOJ

Militants unit from #Serbia "Serbian goosars" on offense in Piski
pic.twitter.com/ySkw6LPD2x
http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/19-january-militants-unit-from-serbia-serbian-goosars-on …

MAJOR BREAKTHROUGH: OSCE first time publishes photo! Impact area #Volnovakha
http://www.osce.org/ru/ukraine-smm/135566 …

Confirmed location of #Russian Army 9K35 Strela-10 in #Bryanka, #Lugansk Region. Details at
http://lugansk-news.com/confirmed-location-of-russian-army-9k35-strela-10-in-bryanka-lugansk-region/ …
pic.twitter.com/t79fKyHHtP

"LNR" created air force #Novorossiya
Jan 15: http://rusvesna.su/news/1421326396
Now this Jan 17 video: http://youtu.be/IyhEYKHCEok
pic.twitter.com/L29uaCGYac

Video of 'LNR Air Force' means only 1 thing: soon we will see Russian air attacks.
http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/21-january-air-force-of-lnr- … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyhEYK