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

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MFA Russia ✔ @mfa_russia
#Lavrov: Only the people of #Ukraine, without any foreign interference, must determine their future

MFA Russia ✔ @mfa_russia
#Lavrov: The Minsk agreements, achieved largely due to the Russian President, offer practical grounds for settlement in #Ukraine

Now we truly see a Russian Foreign Minister in an “altered state of reality”—is not it the 9000 or so Russian troops and hundreds of tanks, artillery and rocket launchers that are interfering in eastern Ukraine?

Seems that while Russia signed the Minsk Agreeement they have not implemented a single point found in that document so the same man that signed the 1994 Budapest Memorandum seems to have a track record in signing but not implementing agreements that sound great---And yet the West talks to him—how strange is that?

BREAKING: #Poroshenko says more then 9,000 #Russia|n troops on #Ukraine territory, demands immediate withdrawal.

Russian tourists arriving in Ukraine.
pic.twitter.com/kpxoFDeAx1

Around midday, an AP reporter saw nine Gvozdika self-propelled howitzers and six anti-tank cannons moving near Perevalsk.
along the same road, the AP saw four Grad multiple rockets launchers accompanied by four trucks carrying ammunition and 15 tanks

LPR Chief Terrorist (ex-Soviet Army Major) Igor Plotnitsky to sign law on #Luhansk military mobilisation. TASS 21 Jan
http://tass.ru/en/world/772484

Fighting Continues Near Bakhmutka Highway.
http://www.interpretermag.com/ukraine-live-day-338-ukraine-says-russia-is-sending-more-units-to-ukraine-amidst-intense-combat/#6398 …

How many @OSCE_SMM observers r in #Luhansk,#Thorez or #Krasnodon NOW? None allowed?!
This alone should be enogh to #blame_Russia for it all!

This is the same OSCE that Russia demanded enter the Ukraine and pushed to be a joint member in the JCCC and yet the OSCE is not being allowed to enter Russian controlled areas---how strange is that?

And the West is to trust anything Putin or his FM said and or do?

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Putin desperately wants to get back to business as usual---this was his initial assumption as to what would happen when he made his moves into the Ukraine based on the Georgian adventure of 2008 and he totally miscalculated.

The offer of the economic discussions was a German offer of four weeks ago in trying to get some Russian engagement going and now with the current Russian troop offensive hardly believe it will now go anywhere.

The duck will not fly---again Putin has badly miscalculated.

MFA Russia ✔ @mfa_russia
#Lavrov: The first step is to begin talks on a free trade area between the #EAEU and the #EU. This is President Putin’s initiative

MFA Russia ✔ @mfa_russia
#Lavrov: We call on our #American partners to return to constructive cooperation both in bilateral affairs and international issues

MFA Russia ✔ @mfa_russia
#Lavrov: Relations between Moscow and Washington have seriously deteriorated. The #US administration has scrapped two-way dialogue

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Taken from an interesting conference today with Ukrainian officials in Davos---if true about Putin then highly interesting.

UKRAINE OFFICIAL: Putin Is Escalating, Is Emotional, And Hasn't Spoken To President Poroshenko For 11 Days
http://uk.businessinsider.com/ukraine-official-putin-is-escalating-the-conflict-2015-1 …

Taken from the article---notice the Ukrainians are also stating there is little to no Western support

The Ukrainian government believes time is working against Putin. The combination of economic sanctions, plunging oil prices, and a backlash against Putin's aggression are putting Putin in an increasingly isolated position. Putin is responding by escalating his forces and aggression.
The Ukrainian government says it does not know what Putin wants. The administration believes that even Putin does not know what he wants. Putin's tone changes on every phone call with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, the official said.
The last time Putin spoke with Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko was 11 days ago.

Russian "terrorism," including a missile attack on a civilian bus, has united the country against Putin. A year ago, the country was split in its loyalties between Europe and Russia. Now, the administration official says, the country is solidly pro-Europe.

Ukraine is frustrated with the lack of support from the West.

The official applauded support from China.

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Again just what was that US strategy towards Russia and the Ukraine---"soft
power" or none?

Someone else sees virtually a total failure by this administration in the Ukraine.
This what happens when there is a distinct lack of a strategic strategy other than silence.

Politics
Obama Tries to Out-Putin Putin

Leonid Bershidsky
time iconJan 21, 2015 10:39 AM EST Bloomberg
By Leonid Bershidsky


According to his State of the Union address, U.S. President Barack Obama has solved the Russia problem. His brief passage on the subject shows he's either blind to the dangers of the deteriorating relationship between Moscow and the West or merely too quick to take credit for a victory that is not even on the horizon.

Here's what Obama had to say about the biggest threat to European stability since the fall of the Berlin wall 25 years ago:

We're upholding the principle that bigger nations can't bully the small -- by opposing Russian aggression, supporting Ukraine's democracy and reassuring our NATO allies. Last year, as we were doing the hard work of imposing sanctions along with our allies, some suggested that Mr. Putin's aggression was a masterful display of strategy and strength. Well, today, it is America that stands strong and united with our allies, while Russia is isolated, with its economy in tatters. That's how America leads -- not with bluster, but with persistent, steady resolve.

Every one of these sentences is, to put it mildly, a stretch.

The U.S. has indeed disapproved of Russian aggression in Ukraine, and loudly enough for everyone to hear. But that doesn't mean it has supported Ukraine's democracy.

Ukraine has long asked the West for help in tracking down the money and assets amassed by its former corrupt rulers. Last year, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation and U.S. Treasury even set up a task force to assist that effort. But nothing has been heard since. In the meantime, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden's son Hunter has been hired as the top lawyer for Burisma, Ukraine's biggest independent natural gas producer, which is owned by former ecology minister Mykolai Zlochevsky, whom Ukrainian prosecutors seek for corruption-related crimes. Biden Senior takes regular trips to Kiev to talk up democracy and reforms and to condemn Russia, while his son's boss is probably hiding out in Moscow like most other close allies of former President Viktor Yanukovych.

The U.S. government has also offered financial help for Ukrainian democracy -- $1 billion in loan guarantees last year and $1 billion in the first half of this year (and perhaps another billion at some later date). But it's a tiny fraction of the $15 billion shortfall Ukraine faces this year, and that's assuming the International Monetary Fund continues disbursing its $17 billion aid package as planned. The European Union has committed more funds to Ukraine: This year alone, Brussels has promised 1.8 billion euros ($2.1 billion) in loan guarantees, while Germany kicked in 500 million euros on its own.

As for reassurance to NATO allies, the U.S. has told the Baltic states that NATO would come to their rescue in the event of Russian aggression. Obama even traveled to Tallinn, Estonia, where he promised that the U.S. will defend the small countries' territorial integrity. The Balts don't seem particularly reassured, however. Lithuania has recently put out an emergency response manual on what citizens should do if Russia invades, which includes advice on what to do if foreign soldiers show up at your home and how to organize civil disobedience.

Obama's description of sanctions as "hard work" on the part of the U.S. is laughable. In the first 11 months of 2014, U.S. exports to Russia actually increased to $10.22 billion from $10.18 billion from the same period the previous year. U.S. imports from Russia decreased to $21.97 billion from $25.49 billion, a change of just $3.5 billion. America's European partners have suffered all the pain. In the first eight months of 2014, they lost $8.5 billion in exports to Russia and $7.5 billion in imports from Russia, and that was before the more serious sanctions hit.

Whether or not the sanctions have worked is arguable. They certainly angered Russian President Vladimir Putin and made him dole out ever more generous government support to his cronies' businesses. (One of the insiders, Arkady Rotenberg, will now build a $3.5 billion bridge from Russia to occupied Crimea.) And sanctions have made it all but impossible for Russian entities to borrow in the West, causing Russia's external debt to shrink to $599.5 billion from $728.9 billion at the beginning of last year. In the medium term, this might just make Russia more resilient to external shocks.

Yet Sanctions have also united Russians around Putin, whose approval rating is still above 80 percent. At this point, 57 percent of Russians believe their country should ignore Western criticism, according to a Levada Center poll taken in late December, up from 38 percent in 2007. The share of those who believe the West is hostile toward Russia has increased to 43 percent, from 24 percent in 2007.

The sanctions certainly have not ripped the Russian economy to "tatters." The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development says the Russian economy may shrink by 5 percent in 2015, but according to Piroska Nagy, EBRD's director of country strategy and policy, "The single most important factor here is the huge drop in oil." The U.S. has caused the oil-price drop only indirectly, in that its shale-oil producers are the target of Saudi Arabia's price war. Russia's losses are collateral damage.

As for Russia's isolation, vodka is flowing at Russian state company parties at the World Economic Forum in Davos. The forum's founder, Klaus Schwab, made a rare appearance at one to tell his "Russian friends" they were welcome in Davos. Some former Western partners will probably shun the 73-strong Russian delegation, but "isolation" is certainly not what it's experiencing at the posh Swiss resort.

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, however, won't be seen there frowning at Russian excess. He had to fly home ahead of schedule, because fighting in eastern Ukraine has resumed in earnest, and his government says Russian troops are involved. When a cessation of hostilities is discussed in Berlin today, no U.S. representative will be there; the foreign ministers of Germany and France will mediate between their Russian and Ukrainian colleagues. The search for a diplomatic solution, like the economic hardship, has fallen to America's European allies. Despite U.S. willingness to let Russia get away with its Crimea land grab if it steps back from eastern Ukraine -- hardly a strong defense of Ukraine's territorial integrity -- all U.S. diplomatic efforts have failed.

"That's how America leads," Obama said proudly. It's more comforting to think he's faking that pride than to imagine he really doesn't understand how ineffective the U.S. has been in Ukraine. The president would have done better not to talk about Russia and Ukraine at all.

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The style of the interview of Ukrainian POWs by this Russian journalist indicates that he is a well trained intelligence officer---RT and Life News journalists working in the Ukraine are in fact FSB officers using the cover of journalists.

Nothing said by the West on this issue --probably do not think it is an issue.

#LifeNews journo Makarenko interrogating captured wounded #Ukrainian soldiers in #Donetsk.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?x-yt-cl=84411374&v=7kzct7Q8UEk&x-yt-ts=1421828030 …
pic.twitter.com/O4KhF0HrNC

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Another Ukrainian SBU voice intercept clearly shows the strategy of the current Russian Army offensive.

The #Russian army in #Ukraine was ordered to capture settlements on the demarcation line - interception by @SSU http://news.liga.net/news/politics/4836237-v_sbu_podtverdili_vtorzhenie_v_ukrainu_voennoy_tek hniki_iz_rf.htm …

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#Report
20 Russian soldiers from the 11th Paratrooper Brigade near Ulan-Ude returned from #Ukraine.
In body bags.
http://censor.net.ua/news/320888/v_ulanude_prishel_gruz200_20_rossiyiskih_desantnik ov_11yi_odshbr_komahidze …

#Footage
Battalion Azov patrols #Marinka. "Daily shelling and saboteurs" back in the town.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxEAP0sOkc4 …
pic.twitter.com/ExkRblMOsI

#Footage
The Ukrainian town of Dzerzhyns'k under attack from Russian forces in #Horlivka.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mplbvkKYCcE …

Video Shows Russian State Journalist Holding Gun, Saluting Separatist Fighters
http://bit.ly/183gDTH
This journalist is a UK citizen and has been around and documented a serious number of mercenary POW war crimes.

#Footage
Massive #Grad salvo by Russian invaders from #Battalion_Vostok.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZ1EU2A-9DM …
pic.twitter.com/EmehKPidO6

#Analysis #Map
The tactical situation along the "#Bakhmutka highway" today, according to available data.
pic.twitter.com/rLybD9U3so

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One of #Lenin's quotes is: "If for the sake of Communism it is necessary for us to destroy 9/10ths of the people, we must not hesitate."

Whoever shelled Russian Cossack-held #Stakhanov today ... he caused a bloodbath. (#graphic!)21+
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yG0fiKKFYNE …
pic.twitter.com/cBR9OvsF5N

If you need more information about the course of the battle for #CP31 yesterday, read my detailed #article about it:
http://conflictreport.info/2015/01/20/the

#Donetsk airport, actual alignment of forces.
http://www.pravda.com.ua/cdn/cd1/air/index.html …
pic.twitter.com/Jw29VZPTQw

#BreakingReport
Ukrainian forces manning CP 517 and 717 in the western outskirts of #Horlivka repelled a Russian attack. - ATO command

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Again just what was that US strategy towards Russia and the Ukraine---"soft
power" or none?

Someone else sees virtually a total failure by this administration in the Ukraine.
This what happens when there is a distinct lack of a strategic strategy other than silence.

Politics
Obama Tries to Out-Putin Putin

Leonid Bershidsky
time iconJan 21, 2015 10:39 AM EST Bloomberg
By Leonid Bershidsky


According to his State of the Union address, U.S. President Barack Obama has solved the Russia problem. His brief passage on the subject shows he's either blind to the dangers of the deteriorating relationship between Moscow and the West or merely too quick to take credit for a victory that is not even on the horizon.

Here's what Obama had to say about the biggest threat to European stability since the fall of the Berlin wall 25 years ago:

We're upholding the principle that bigger nations can't bully the small -- by opposing Russian aggression, supporting Ukraine's democracy and reassuring our NATO allies. Last year, as we were doing the hard work of imposing sanctions along with our allies, some suggested that Mr. Putin's aggression was a masterful display of strategy and strength. Well, today, it is America that stands strong and united with our allies, while Russia is isolated, with its economy in tatters. That's how America leads -- not with bluster, but with persistent, steady resolve.

Every one of these sentences is, to put it mildly, a stretch.

The U.S. has indeed disapproved of Russian aggression in Ukraine, and loudly enough for everyone to hear. But that doesn't mean it has supported Ukraine's democracy.

Ukraine has long asked the West for help in tracking down the money and assets amassed by its former corrupt rulers. Last year, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation and U.S. Treasury even set up a task force to assist that effort. But nothing has been heard since. In the meantime, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden's son Hunter has been hired as the top lawyer for Burisma, Ukraine's biggest independent natural gas producer, which is owned by former ecology minister Mykolai Zlochevsky, whom Ukrainian prosecutors seek for corruption-related crimes. Biden Senior takes regular trips to Kiev to talk up democracy and reforms and to condemn Russia, while his son's boss is probably hiding out in Moscow like most other close allies of former President Viktor Yanukovych.

The U.S. government has also offered financial help for Ukrainian democracy -- $1 billion in loan guarantees last year and $1 billion in the first half of this year (and perhaps another billion at some later date). But it's a tiny fraction of the $15 billion shortfall Ukraine faces this year, and that's assuming the International Monetary Fund continues disbursing its $17 billion aid package as planned. The European Union has committed more funds to Ukraine: This year alone, Brussels has promised 1.8 billion euros ($2.1 billion) in loan guarantees, while Germany kicked in 500 million euros on its own.

As for reassurance to NATO allies, the U.S. has told the Baltic states that NATO would come to their rescue in the event of Russian aggression. Obama even traveled to Tallinn, Estonia, where he promised that the U.S. will defend the small countries' territorial integrity. The Balts don't seem particularly reassured, however. Lithuania has recently put out an emergency response manual on what citizens should do if Russia invades, which includes advice on what to do if foreign soldiers show up at your home and how to organize civil disobedience.

Obama's description of sanctions as "hard work" on the part of the U.S. is laughable. In the first 11 months of 2014, U.S. exports to Russia actually increased to $10.22 billion from $10.18 billion from the same period the previous year. U.S. imports from Russia decreased to $21.97 billion from $25.49 billion, a change of just $3.5 billion. America's European partners have suffered all the pain. In the first eight months of 2014, they lost $8.5 billion in exports to Russia and $7.5 billion in imports from Russia, and that was before the more serious sanctions hit.

Whether or not the sanctions have worked is arguable. They certainly angered Russian President Vladimir Putin and made him dole out ever more generous government support to his cronies' businesses. (One of the insiders, Arkady Rotenberg, will now build a $3.5 billion bridge from Russia to occupied Crimea.) And sanctions have made it all but impossible for Russian entities to borrow in the West, causing Russia's external debt to shrink to $599.5 billion from $728.9 billion at the beginning of last year. In the medium term, this might just make Russia more resilient to external shocks.

Yet Sanctions have also united Russians around Putin, whose approval rating is still above 80 percent. At this point, 57 percent of Russians believe their country should ignore Western criticism, according to a Levada Center poll taken in late December, up from 38 percent in 2007. The share of those who believe the West is hostile toward Russia has increased to 43 percent, from 24 percent in 2007.

The sanctions certainly have not ripped the Russian economy to "tatters." The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development says the Russian economy may shrink by 5 percent in 2015, but according to Piroska Nagy, EBRD's director of country strategy and policy, "The single most important factor here is the huge drop in oil." The U.S. has caused the oil-price drop only indirectly, in that its shale-oil producers are the target of Saudi Arabia's price war. Russia's losses are collateral damage.

As for Russia's isolation, vodka is flowing at Russian state company parties at the World Economic Forum in Davos. The forum's founder, Klaus Schwab, made a rare appearance at one to tell his "Russian friends" they were welcome in Davos. Some former Western partners will probably shun the 73-strong Russian delegation, but "isolation" is certainly not what it's experiencing at the posh Swiss resort.

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, however, won't be seen there frowning at Russian excess. He had to fly home ahead of schedule, because fighting in eastern Ukraine has resumed in earnest, and his government says Russian troops are involved. When a cessation of hostilities is discussed in Berlin today, no U.S. representative will be there; the foreign ministers of Germany and France will mediate between their Russian and Ukrainian colleagues. The search for a diplomatic solution, like the economic hardship, has fallen to America's European allies. Despite U.S. willingness to let Russia get away with its Crimea land grab if it steps back from eastern Ukraine -- hardly a strong defense of Ukraine's territorial integrity -- all U.S. diplomatic efforts have failed.

"That's how America leads," Obama said proudly. It's more comforting to think he's faking that pride than to imagine he really doesn't understand how ineffective the U.S. has been in Ukraine. The president would have done better not to talk about Russia and Ukraine at all.


This reflects as well what US Generals have been saying the last two days:

.@zbig recommends that US "deploy now in the Baltic states some tripwire NATO contingents, including from the US."

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21 January 2015


Poroshenko says Ukraine won't negotiate with Russia

By dpa correspondents
Davos, Switzerland/Berlin (dpa) - Ukraine won't enter into negotiations about the bloody conflict in eastern Ukraine, which will only be solved if Russia stops the flow of fighters and arms to the region, President Petro Poroshenko said Wednesday.

"Our approach is very simple. We have nothing to negotiate," Poroshenko told the World Economic Forum in the Swiss resort of Davos.

The president argued that the only needed step is the implementation of last year's ceasefire agreement, which stipulates halting foreign supplies of troops, weapons and ammunitions, and the withdrawal of heavy arms from the front line.

"If you want to discuss something different, you are not for peace, you are for war," he said.

Poroshenko reiterated his appeal for international solidarity with Ukraine by comparing the recent shelling of a bus that killed 13 in eastern Ukraine with the Paris terror attacks.

"We are fighting for European security, we are fighting for European values," he said, while holding up a shrapnel-riddled fragment of the bus.

The separatists have denied responsibility for the January 13 attack on the bus.

Poroshenko was speaking as the foreign ministers of Ukraine, Russia, France and Germany were preparing to hold another round of talks about the conflict later Wednesday in Berlin.

The ministers are to explore the chances of a summit with the leaders of their countries. However, German Chancellor Angela Merkel dampened expectations, pointing out that the ceasefire in eastern Ukraine was getting "shakier and shakier."

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said earlier that the separatists in eastern Ukraine are ready to give up territorial gains and move back to the front line defined in the Minsk ceasefire accords of September.

"We used our influence on the (separatists') leadership and they agreed," Lavrov said in Moscow.

Andrei Purgin, a leader of the self-declared Donetsk People's Republic, said that the separatists were ready to discuss turning Donetsk airport into a demilitarized zone, the Interfax news agency reported.

Casualties mounted on Wednesday as fighting continued in Ukraine's eastern regions. Separatist leaders said that at least nine civilians were killed and 30 injured by Ukrainian artillery fire, among them four in Stakhanov, a city in the Luhansk region.

Authorities in the government-controlled areas of the Donetsk region said that six people were killed and 24 injured on government-held territory during the past 24 hours.

In his Davos speech, Poroshenko renewed accusations that regular Russian troops are fighting alongside the rebels. "Over 9,000 Russian troops are now in Ukraine. If this is not an aggression, then what is an aggression?" he asked.

Lavrov again denied this and claimed that Ukraine and the West had not produced evidence for its allegations: "Before you ask us to stop doing something, first show us proof that we are doing it."

Foreign journalists have encountered Russian troops in eastern Ukraine on numerous occasions. There have also been numerous reports of funerals in Russia of soldiers who mysteriously died in Ukraine.

Also on Wednesday, Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk asked the parliament in Kiev to increase the country's armed forces by 68,000 to 250,000 soldiers.

Ukraine this week began a massive mobilization drive that will bring more than 100,000 reservists to join the military.

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21 January 2015


Poroshenko says Ukraine won't negotiate with Russia

By dpa correspondents
Davos, Switzerland/Berlin (dpa) - Ukraine won't enter into negotiations about the bloody conflict in eastern Ukraine, which will only be solved if Russia stops the flow of fighters and arms to the region, President Petro Poroshenko said Wednesday.

"Our approach is very simple. We have nothing to negotiate," Poroshenko told the World Economic Forum in the Swiss resort of Davos.

The president argued that the only needed step is the implementation of last year's ceasefire agreement, which stipulates halting foreign supplies of troops, weapons and ammunitions, and the withdrawal of heavy arms from the front line.

"If you want to discuss something different, you are not for peace, you are for war," he said.

Poroshenko reiterated his appeal for international solidarity with Ukraine by comparing the recent shelling of a bus that killed 13 in eastern Ukraine with the Paris terror attacks.

"We are fighting for European security, we are fighting for European values," he said, while holding up a shrapnel-riddled fragment of the bus.

The separatists have denied responsibility for the January 13 attack on the bus.

Poroshenko was speaking as the foreign ministers of Ukraine, Russia, France and Germany were preparing to hold another round of talks about the conflict later Wednesday in Berlin.

The ministers are to explore the chances of a summit with the leaders of their countries. However, German Chancellor Angela Merkel dampened expectations, pointing out that the ceasefire in eastern Ukraine was getting "shakier and shakier."

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said earlier that the separatists in eastern Ukraine are ready to give up territorial gains and move back to the front line defined in the Minsk ceasefire accords of September.

"We used our influence on the (separatists') leadership and they agreed," Lavrov said in Moscow.

Andrei Purgin, a leader of the self-declared Donetsk People's Republic, said that the separatists were ready to discuss turning Donetsk airport into a demilitarized zone, the Interfax news agency reported.

Casualties mounted on Wednesday as fighting continued in Ukraine's eastern regions. Separatist leaders said that at least nine civilians were killed and 30 injured by Ukrainian artillery fire, among them four in Stakhanov, a city in the Luhansk region.

Authorities in the government-controlled areas of the Donetsk region said that six people were killed and 24 injured on government-held territory during the past 24 hours.

In his Davos speech, Poroshenko renewed accusations that regular Russian troops are fighting alongside the rebels. "Over 9,000 Russian troops are now in Ukraine. If this is not an aggression, then what is an aggression?" he asked.

Lavrov again denied this and claimed that Ukraine and the West had not produced evidence for its allegations: "Before you ask us to stop doing something, first show us proof that we are doing it."

Foreign journalists have encountered Russian troops in eastern Ukraine on numerous occasions. There have also been numerous reports of funerals in Russia of soldiers who mysteriously died in Ukraine.

Also on Wednesday, Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk asked the parliament in Kiev to increase the country's armed forces by 68,000 to 250,000 soldiers.

Ukraine this week began a massive mobilization drive that will bring more than 100,000 reservists to join the military.

"Over 9,000 Russian troops are now in Ukraine. If this is not an aggression, then what is an aggression?" he asked.
Lavrov again denied this and claimed that Ukraine and the West had not produced evidence for its allegations: "Before you ask us to stop doing something, first show us proof that we are doing it."

BREAKING: #NATO’s Stoltenberg: we call on #Russia to end support for separatists. We have seen presence of #Russia|n forces in #Ukraine
At the funeral of 11 yr old killed in #Debaltseve. Random shells fall 10 min later. This is the new #Russia roulette.
pic.twitter.com/YOt8peWIiT

A family decimated in #Debaltseve - father and 11 yr old son killed, mother and 8 yr old daughter wounded
pic.twitter.com/8zQhPl0LsN

Identification of the enemy: the T-80 at the border and Tor-M2 in Shahtersk.
http://bit.ly/1CBoBN5

Sweden to the OSCE @SwedeninATOSCE
Worrying Russian attempts trying to redefine Trilateral Contact Group, which consists of Russia, Ukraine and OSCE CiO repr & nobody else

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"Over 9,000 Russian troops are now in Ukraine. If this is not an aggression, then what is an aggression?" he asked.
Lavrov again denied this and claimed that Ukraine and the West had not produced evidence for its allegations: "Before you ask us to stop doing something, first show us proof that we are doing it."

Oops, RussiaTV shows Russian marines–w/insignia–storming #DonetskAirport https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YRl-dg0aMk …
pic.twitter.com/qvzx3qA5V

Ukraine Live: Russian-Backed Fighters Claim to Take Over Checkpoint No. 31 http://bit.ly/1umcHCg pic.twitter.com/jhIMIZA5Sb

MFA of Ukraine ✔ @MFA_Ukraine
#OSCE confirms that self-proclaimed #DNR shelled Debaltseve and killed civilians pic.twitter.com/jYNGO2PxPF

Former Ukr police chief wanted by Interpol and Kyiv for mass murder on Euromaidan working for Putin in Moscow
http://www.rferl.org/content/zakharchenko-ukraine-putin-associate-yanukovych/26799151.htmlYou …

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#Lithuania rejects any calls to re-negot the terms for ceasefire, #Russia's attempts to change #Minsk accords to its benefit unaccept - UNSC

#UNSC Lithuania - russoterrorists captured 550 sq km of additional territory, UA has inherent right to defend itself against invasion

Unilateral changes to #Minsk accords, selective implementation of the document's positions is unacceptable - #UN Under-Sec Gen Feltman

Russian Ambassador responds to condemnations at UN Security Council by reading quotes from Ukrainian leaders dead for 60 years

Six Reasons Why Putin has Stepped Up Russian Aggression in Ukraine Now: Economy, Sanctions, Cyborgs, & the Weak West
http://bit.ly/1yLmUzl

Ukraine Live: It's Not Clear Who Controls Donetsk Airport, But Destruction There Is Shocking
http://bit.ly/1CCc8so
pic.twitter.com/5OFGxIwHme

Terrorists in Donbas doubled their weapons during cease-fire - U.S. Army in Europe Commander
http://en.censor.net.ua/n320959

VIDEO 20/01/15 Force 30+ #Russia BM-21 Grad Launchers on M4 fr Rostov to #Ukraine https://www.youtube.com/watch?x-yt-cl=84411374&v=zCYwumPngFQ&x-yt-ts=1421828030#t=11 …
pic.twitter.com/oR5J4OZoXN

Some of the separatist heavy armour on the way to fight Ukraine forces around checkpoint 29/31 in Luhansk region http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/-Ukraine-Convoy/6cdc40e84e7511be3c60a3e7632252ec?

#Russia|n tanks have approached Netaylove to surround #Peski -
http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/21-january-russian-tanks-have-approached-netaylove-to-surround …

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Six Reasons Why Putin has Stepped Up Russian Aggression in Ukraine Now

Paul Goble January 21, 2015

Staunton, January 21 – Since Moscow’s Anschluss of Crimea almost a year ago, many in Russia, Ukraine and the West have asked not only why Vladimir Putin has chosen the path of aggression, but also why he has chosen it now rather than at some other time and what his timing says about his broader plans for the future.

Some have suggested that it reflects simply a desire to save himself by “a short victorious war.” Others have said that his moves are a reflection of his assumption that no Western leader will stand up to him. And still others that the Kremlin leader is animated by a sense of his own greatness as the latest “ingatherer of the Russian lands.”

Now that it has become clear that the Kremlin leader is stepping up the level of Russian aggression in Ukraine by sending additional men and materiel into Ukraine in an effort to end the stalemate that had been emerging between pro-Moscow and Ukrainian forces there, analysts are again asking Why now? and What does Putin’s timing presage for the future?

Today, as reported by Kseniya Kirillova, Nikolay Vorobyev, a Ukrainian analyst now living in Washington, provides six reasons for Putin’s latest moves, reasons that he says were “predictable” if not always taken seriously.

The six are:
•The Russian economy. Putin and his entourage “are beginning to understand that the economic problems” Russia faces now are fundamentally different and much worse than those of 2008. They are “serious and long-term,” and consequently, the Kremlin wants to divert Russian attention from those to a foreign enemy lest protests against itself start up.
•The European Union. It is no clear that “no one intends to lift the sanctions against the Russian Federation” anytime soon. As a result, Vorobyev says, “Putin decided to launch an asymmetrical military strike not only against Ukraine but also to ‘show his teeth’ to the entire West,” lest the West disconnect Russia from the SWIFT banking system or do something else.
•The Minsk Agreements. Neither Moscow nor its clients in the Donetsk or Luhansk is going to observe the September 5 accords. “Putin needs a new Minsk and new accords that will be even more unfavorable for Ukraine.” Therefore, his ‘force them to peace’ effort began earlier than planned.
•The Donetsk airport. The airport had become “a symbol of the steadfast nature of Ukrainian forces” and at the same time a very public indication of the weakness of the Russian side. That was too much for Putin and those around him and consequently, Vorobyev says, Moscow decided to intervene more massively and publicly than before.
•The United States. Not only is military assistance beginning to reach Ukraine, but the prospects are that there will be more of it now that the Republicans control Congress and Senator John McCain heads the defense committee. As a result, the situation for Russia in Ukraine is likely to worsen, and “the Kremlin decided to attack now.
•Financial Assistance to Ukraine. The IMF, the World Bank and the US are beginning to provide the level of assistance to Kyiv that may allow Ukraine to avoid a default. Given that “the main goal of the Kremlin today is to weaken the economy as much as possible” before that aid arrives, Putin decided to move.

Given all these factors, Vorobyev says, “Ukraine today as never before must show the maximum of firmness, patience and solidarity.” What is happening now recalls the events in the Maidan last February 18-19, he says, and “we all know the result” of that for Ukraine and for its future.

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UKUN_NewYork ✔ @UKUN_NewYork
Despite persistent claims to the contrary, the evidence of #Russia’s support is beyond denial - pic.twitter.com/l0gNtIdQQ7

Hundreds of #Russian troops and thousands of so-called "volunteers" remain on Ukr territory, must be withdrawn - #UK Rep to #UN #UNSC

The #UK Rep to #UN mentions #Russian T-72 BM tanks spotted near #Luhansk. Ukrainian army is not in possession of such equipment #UNSC

#UK Rep says militants in E #Ukraine have the newest weaponry that #Ukraine army never had. #Russia exports all to local #terrorists

UKUN_NewYork ✔ @UKUN_NewYork
2 days ago, 2 companies of Russian troops, inc 30 armoured personnel carriers & a dozen tanks were seen crossing into #Ukraine

GRAPHIC: Dead (likely Ukrainian) soldiers at Donetsk Airport, which seems in Russian control.
http://youtu.be/4RNdrQTFkoY
pic.twitter.com/jRnebtjyyj

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If the US/EU/NATO but more importantly Germany had read and fully understood the new Russian UW doctrine and all of it's eight phases they would realize that diplomatic talking is noting more than their UW phases two and three and yet the West seems to think talking is "great".

No one seems to learn anything even when it is written on paper and in front of them---strange is it not?

The concept of diplomacy in the 21st is not that of the 19th century.

Big risk for German-led diplomacy on Ukraine: that peace negotiations are being used by Russia as an instrument of its territorial conquest

Notice the term territorial conquest and then reread the Russian UW doctrine.

Here is where I am coming from--what was agreed to yesterday by the four--pull back of heavy artillery 15kms from the Minsk lines--heck the heavy artillery is already pulled back due to the ranges of 20-40kms---"so that is what diplomatic success"?

All the while Russian troops and mercenaries keep advancing way past the Minsk lines in a territorial land grab--and that is again WHAT--diplomatic success?

Remember the Russian FM stated yesterday in his press conference that the "separatists would pull back to the Minsk lines"---did anyone notice any pullbacks anywhere in eastern Ukraine yesterday? AND if they are going to pull back then why advance in the first place?

There is an old Soviet saying that US decision makers must claw back into their memory---"where the flag of the Red Army lands--IT STAYS"!

All the while US utters just words and says nothing other than what their two Generals and one Ambassador state---AND that is what again "successful US diplomacy"?---come on this is the 21st century.

WHY is it we hear not a single American in any form of leadership position stand up and ask the simple question --"Just what is the strategy"?--there is none.

And for that we need a NSC--again for what?

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Col. Lysenko: Russia moves new tanks, APCs, self-propelled guns and “Grad” missile systems closer to the UA-RU border

#Ukraine's ex-President: #Putin afraid of open coflict, wants hybrid war http://belsat.eu/en/articles/ukraines-ex-president-russias-putin-afraid-open-war/ … #Kuchma

ATO spox says both Ukr KIA and WIA might b remaining under wreckage of the new terminal. Combat is on, not possible to approach now -presser

ATO spox: saying that #Donetsk airport has been compl aband by Ukr forces is not true, airp is a battlefield, fighting is on NOW – presser

Ozeryanivka and #Mykhailivka SW of #Horlivka has fallen to Russian forces https://twitter.com/b_misteryo/status/558209766020087808 …

#Ukraine forces hold to their positions in #Avdiivka, #Pisky near the airport. Combat is on there - ATO spox presser

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Another bus shelling killing more than nine---Russian mercenaries first claimed it was from Ukrainian mortars but the closest Ukrainian army units are 15kms away.

Open source analysis is slowly starting to point the finger directly at the "typical roving mortars that the mercenaries have been firing out of civilian areas".

Tram stop in Donetsk shelled this morning causing civilian casualties was hit from a roving mortar, nrest ATO posit away in Pisky - ATO spox

Open source analysis again is debunking this latest bus shelling
So THIS is how they shell Ukrainian cities: hiding mortar in truck and fire 'unseen'...!!!
http://censor.net.ua/photo_news/293607/v_kramatorske_vzryvy_v_luganske_boeviki_gotovyat_h imicheskuyu_ataku_nujno_maksimum_razrusheniyi_i_sm erteyi …
pic.twitter.com/L98ZM7bHp6

Open sources already pointing the finger at the mercenaries based on their statement it was a mortar attack by the Ukrainians as always check this map workup
pic.twitter.com/BprfsX9j0M

From the Russian MFA--the Russian Foreign Ministry says the attack on civilians in east #Ukraine is a 'blunt provocation'

Will Russia now use this as an excuse to move in their "peacekeeping forces" that are parked just next to the Ukrainian border that the West says nothing about lately?

Shelling attack on a trolley bus in #Donetsk,9 civilians killed
pic.twitter.com/v6EFNKqLwm”

New #Volnovakha:at least 8civil killed n #Donetsk b #Russian terrorists w/ mrtar.Learn details:
http://empr.media/news/new-volnovakha-at-least-8-civilians-killed-in-donetsk …
pic.twitter.com/zz2EHKTVG7

Alim Asanuly: DONETSK- Russia kills civils. Mortar could shoot 6-7 km. Until the closed Ukr military- more than 15km.
pic.twitter.com/6N5KuRRV3v

Zakharchenko visits scene of #Donetsk bus attack as five empty Grad trucks drive by. Rebels order cameras away.
pic.twitter.com/b8uhOlHmC6

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Concerning Ukrainian POWs taken at the airport fighting---mistreatment and the use of Russian Ministry of Interior vehicles to transport them when the Russian FM says there are no Russians and or their equipment inside the Ukraine as of yesterday.

car on which captured UA soldier was brought to #Donetsk belongs to MIN OF RUSSIAN INTERIOR AFFAIRS
pic.twitter.com/eUO5oxrf0h”

#INTERESTING, Ukrainian POW inside #Donetsk are transported with #Russian #Ministry of Internal Affairs vehicles!!!
pic.twitter.com/c8bBJ7nChm

Dear @OSCE_SMM,
as you were on the scene, you saw the Ukrainian POW was moved there by a Russian operational vehicle from #Yekaterinburg?!

Appalling treatment of POWs by the DNR, marching them through the streets of Donetsk and allowing them to be beaten after the bus bombing

Now it appears captured Ukrainian soldiers are being marched through the streets of Dontesk
http://instagram.com/p/yJ4ZvGRWxY
pic.twitter.com/wFwSfaQvtK

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At the #Donetsk airport Ukr forces preserve control over the fire station, air control tower, runway - #ATO spox Lysenko presser

"Cyborgs" continue to hold a #number #of #objects at Donetsk airport."
"Ukrainian troops were withdrawn from the new terminal." - ATO

Kindergarten, #Debaltseve. Hit 15 mins before we arrived, still smoking. Artillery fire all around- too hot to stay
pic.twitter.com/XlioSsh8e4

Kindergarten hit by separatist rocket. Jets overhead and shells falling all around us in Ukrainian held #Debaltseve
pic.twitter.com/vVCAAV3dEr

Tanks, BMD, BMP, self-prop artil were spotted moving in Rostov reg to Ukr border w/out insignia or w/ Rus mil numberplates - ATO spox

#OSCE "observed 469 persons in military-style clothing crossing the border. 234 persons entered the RF while 235 left for Ukraine
"Donetsk" border crossing and on ONE day.
More interesting
OSCE has observed military supplys from russia to ua cross border.
http://www.osce.org/om/135686

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An absolutely quick thinking field journalist who fully understands the value of open source analysis in the shelling today of a Donetsk bus the mercenaries are again blaming on the Ukrainians.

It is this quick thinking coupled with open source analysis that has pointed the finger at the Russians shooting down MH17 and the Russians shelling a bus last week killing 13 AND used yesterday by the US Ambassador to the UNSC during the UNSC meeting on the Ukraine.

.@ChristopherJM does something BRILLIANT: Impact site of second shell next to trolley line in #Donetsk. #Leninsky
pic.twitter.com/8OOfBcrOFx

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An absolutely quick thinking field journalist who fully understands the value of open source analysis in the shelling today of a Donetsk bus the mercenaries are again blaming on the Ukrainians.

It is this quick thinking coupled with open source analysis that has pointed the finger at the Russians shooting down MH17 and the Russians shelling a bus last week killing 13 AND used yesterday by the US Ambassador to the UNSC during the UNSC meeting on the Ukraine.

.@ChristopherJM does something BRILLIANT: Impact site of second shell next to trolley line in #Donetsk. #Leninsky
pic.twitter.com/8OOfBcrOFx

Sometimes I wonder just why our billions of dollars worth of IC cannot work as fast--this was the twitter exchange to get additional field details in all of about six minutes and will greatly assist in pointing the true finger after open source analysis is completed.

Right, Russians are so stupid that can't calculate 82mm mortar range

Can you point direction?

coordinates?

What about the caliber?

Puts it at 139 degrees, approx NW

Very very useful, thank you

really? that a "impact" hole? the edges are curved INSIDE...

The wonders of open source social media--it has been hurting Russia now for months as they try to maintain the basic lie of not being in the Ukraine.

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Sometimes I wonder just why our billions of dollars worth of IC cannot work as fast--this was the twitter exchange to get additional field details in all of about six minutes and will greatly assist in pointing the true finger after open source analysis is completed.

Right, Russians are so stupid that can't calculate 82mm mortar range

Can you point direction?

coordinates?

What about the caliber?

Puts it at 139 degrees, approx NW

Very very useful, thank you

really? that a "impact" hole? the edges are curved INSIDE...

The wonders of open source social media--it has been hurting Russia now for months as they try to maintain the basic lie of not being in the Ukraine.

Here comes the first analysis which is probably true and if true then the "alleged" story by the Russian mercenaries that it was the Ukrainians that fired is totally false as the closest they are 15kms --way outside 82mm range which was again the first thing the mercenaries stated as they are always quick to state until they get caught in their web of lies.


Ukraine@war @DajeyPetros

Crater of #Leninsky shell near bus is smaller than phone from @ChristopherJM. Indicating it may be 82mm shell.
pic.twitter.com/wYp7ODgBLW

So THIS is how they shell Ukrainian cities: hiding mortar in truck and fire 'unseen'...!!!
http://censor.net.ua/photo_news/2936...iyi_i_smerteyi …
pic.twitter.com/L98ZM7bHp6

Open sources already pointing the finger at the mercenaries based on their statement it was a mortar attack by the Ukrainians as always check this map workup
pic.twitter.com/BprfsX9j0M

Let's keep it simple.
It was again the Russians
#LeninskyBusMassacre pic.twitter.com/HuBh84anTg

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BREAKING: @OSCE_SMM report says #Ukraine troops at #Donetsk airport on Jan 19 were allegedly attacked by poison gas
http://www.osce.org/ukraine-smm/135671 …

very strange that there is no visible wounds at all
no visible wounds
- reported symptoms "muscle spasms, vomiting and difficult breathing" http://www.osce.org/ukraine-smm/135671 …
Gas attack?

Yes, In a previous video from the airport the Russians where washing their faces with water do to heat or something else…

No obvious entry wounds or blood, could be

During the Russian assault there had been reports of gas being used and some wrote it off as smoke grenades but then there were fighters available for immediate interviews and now this comes out.

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Here comes the first analysis which is probably true and if true then the "alleged" story by the Russian mercenaries that it was the Ukrainians that fired is totally false as the closest they are 15kms --way outside 82mm range which was again the first thing the mercenaries stated as they are always quick to state until they get caught in their web of lies.


Ukraine@war @DajeyPetros

Crater of #Leninsky shell near bus is smaller than phone from @ChristopherJM. Indicating it may be 82mm shell.
pic.twitter.com/wYp7ODgBLW

So THIS is how they shell Ukrainian cities: hiding mortar in truck and fire 'unseen'...!!!
http://censor.net.ua/photo_news/2936...iyi_i_smerteyi …
pic.twitter.com/L98ZM7bHp6

Open sources already pointing the finger at the mercenaries based on their statement it was a mortar attack by the Ukrainians as always check this map workup
pic.twitter.com/BprfsX9j0M

Let's keep it simple.
It was again the Russians
#LeninskyBusMassacre pic.twitter.com/HuBh84anTg

Notice how quickly the Russian propaganda jumps on the event--Russian MFA now in the game--it will take the western press about two days to catch up with the initial open source analysis side placing the blame on the Russians if they stick to the mortar story which will change as they become aware of the open source analysis.


Russia's FM Lavrov puts blame for Donetsk trolleybus attack on Ukraine army
https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mid.ru%2Fbrp_4.nsf%2Fnewsline%2 F92D7B3A4DB015E6B43257DD5003E94F4&edit-text= …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_iAk42pC84 …

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BREAKING: @OSCE_SMM report says #Ukraine troops at #Donetsk airport on Jan 19 were allegedly attacked by poison gas
http://www.osce.org/ukraine-smm/135671 …

very strange that there is no visible wounds at all
no visible wounds
- reported symptoms "muscle spasms, vomiting and difficult breathing" http://www.osce.org/ukraine-smm/135671 …
Gas attack?

Yes, In a previous video from the airport the Russians where washing their faces with water do to heat or something else…

No obvious entry wounds or blood, could be

During the Russian assault there had been reports of gas being used and some wrote it off as smoke grenades but then there were fighters available for immediate interviews and now this comes out.

Journalists and bloggers attempting to locate approx. 11 Ukrainian fighters who were evaced out of the terminal to see if they had any of the reported problems.

if u know anything of the 11 men transferred to #Dnepropetrovsk hospital pls contact
#Ukraine cc @MaxRTucker @KyivPost @InformNapalm @hrw

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Here comes the first analysis which is probably true and if true then the "alleged" story by the Russian mercenaries that it was the Ukrainians that fired is totally false as the closest they are 15kms --way outside 82mm range which was again the first thing the mercenaries stated as they are always quick to state until they get caught in their web of lies.


Ukraine@war @DajeyPetros

Crater of #Leninsky shell near bus is smaller than phone from @ChristopherJM. Indicating it may be 82mm shell.
pic.twitter.com/wYp7ODgBLW

So THIS is how they shell Ukrainian cities: hiding mortar in truck and fire 'unseen'...!!!
http://censor.net.ua/photo_news/2936...iyi_i_smerteyi …
pic.twitter.com/L98ZM7bHp6

Open sources already pointing the finger at the mercenaries based on their statement it was a mortar attack by the Ukrainians as always check this map workup
pic.twitter.com/BprfsX9j0M

Let's keep it simple.
It was again the Russians
#LeninskyBusMassacre pic.twitter.com/HuBh84anTg

AND now the open source is kicking in:

Ukraine@war @DajeyPetros

"Witness heard 5 shots". Maybe four? Indication that Vaselik was used? #Leninsky bus attack Donetsk
pic.twitter.com/Ra8BOKdZAw

The Vaselik has by the way been identified by social media as being used by the Russian mercenaries in the Donbas on a number of occasions recently. Remember as mentioned below there are Russian SF and airborne troops in the Donetsk fighting at the airport area.

The 2B9 Vasilek (Cornflower) is an automatic 82 mm gun-mortar developed in the Soviet Union in 1967.[1] It was based on the F-82 automatic mortar and subsequently fielded in 1970 to the Soviet Army.[1] Unlike conventional mortars, the 2B9 can fire in single and automatic mode using four-round clips. Rounds can be loaded from either the muzzle or the breech. Because of its wheeled carriage, the 2B9 resembles a light artillery piece more than a conventional mortar.

The 2B9 was used in Afghanistan by Soviet units and is still found in Russian airmobile infantry units. In the fighting in Afghanistan, Soviet units found the 2B9 a versatile and useful weapon.[3] The 2B9 can fire high-explosive, armor -piercing, smoke, and flares. The armor-piercing projectile, which weighs 3.1 kg and has a 75 g warhead that can penetrate 100mm of armor.[4] Upon blast, the shell produces 400 to 600 fragments.[1]

By 1988, the 2B9 was also deployed as a self-propelled weapon by mounting the gun-mortar in the rear of an MT-LB armored personnel carrier.[5]

During the Syrian Civil War, the 2B9M Vasilek is used by the Syrian Armed Forces and the Islamist group Ansar al-Sham. The militants used a 2B9M automatic mortar near Mount Chalma, Kesab district.[6]

In 2014, the 2B9 Vasilek was used by Novorossiyan rebels in the War in Donbass

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During the Crimea and the initial mercenary takeover in eastern Ukraine I took a lot of heated comments from some commenters who felt that diplomacy was the way forward and sending weapons to the Ukraine and or assisting them and or use of really heavy sanctions ie SWIFT was the totally wrong way to go.

Now seven going on eight months in-- who basically was right?

We had yesterday a perfect example of "western" diplomacy at work in Berlin and at the UNSC---and what exactly again was "achieved" not a darn thing.

Putin is driving on his new military UW doctrine and a geo political strategy---AND we the west do not even have a strategy yet---Putin does not want an open conflict and prefers the hybrid route and yet we do not confront on the conflict side to test his will power.

Right now the Ukraine would love to declare war and have a total mobilization BUT cannot WHY--the IMF will not lend any money to a country that is actively in a declared "war" and they need the money---Soros had it really simple idea recently and yet he was totally ignored---the West should provide 50B and get the Ukraine off the financial hook, then let the Ukraine declare war with western anti tank and air weapons and go at it.

Putin is and has been deeply afraid of an open conflict and yet we do not test that assumption all we do is talk and that is not a strategy these days.

So for those that commented here that diplomacy was the way forward---want to try that concept again?-- might work in Arizona but not in the Ukraine.

BUT he knows the west will not go down that rabbit hole thus he pushes and pushes and pushes and no one says stop and this is the 21st century?

The Ukraine and Russia are effectively now at WAR and the west does what again? Talk

#BreakingStatement
"The enemy is preparing a powerful offensive."
- Ukr @NSDC_ua secretary Turchynov

#BreakingNews
Russian offensive across the #Kalmius to start soon
13 tanks/apc seen near #Hranitne
22 attacks in 24 hours east of #Mariupol

#BREAKINGNEWS
10 Ukrainian soldiers killed,16 injured yesterday.
Makes 17 KIA in 48 hours.
The full-scale Russian offensive is gaining pace

#BREAKINGFOOTAGE
24 Russian army #Grad systems shortly before entering #Donetsk city.
http://youtu.be/zCYwumPngFQ
pic.twitter.com/rAgdxyIeOb

Large Russian forces are now advancing on Mariupol and Lysychansk (heart of Ukraine-controlled Luhansk region) under massive artillery cover

New #Russia military vehicles heading to #Ukraine BMD,BMP,Tanks,MSTA-S; Nona;Grad,KAMAZ trucks
http://bit.ly/15vv1T8
pic.twitter.com/r0bagP95Wf

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Journalists and bloggers attempting to locate approx. 11 Ukrainian fighters who were evaced out of the terminal to see if they had any of the reported problems.

if u know anything of the 11 men transferred to #Dnepropetrovsk hospital pls contact
#Ukraine cc @MaxRTucker @KyivPost @InformNapalm @hrw

have you seen osce report on gas at airport.remember Russian ctw opp in moscow theatre

More evidence 'gas' used by #Russia-backed forces on #Ukraine's army to take #Donetsk airport
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=193484104179404&id=100005534477952 … pic.twitter.com/u9U3jsToiz
We can't show you everything!

Have a look at the dead cyborgs. What should be the cause of death? I have a feeling that something is wrong here.
pic.twitter.com/1NL5YmubKP

Daniel Sandford ✔ @BBCDanielS
"80 Ukrainian soldiers...suffered...uncontrollable muscle spasms, vomiting and difficult breathing." http://www.osce.org/node/135671

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AND now the open source is kicking in:

Ukraine@war @DajeyPetros

"Witness heard 5 shots". Maybe four? Indication that Vaselik was used? #Leninsky bus attack Donetsk
pic.twitter.com/Ra8BOKdZAw

The Vaselik has by the way been identified by social media as being used by the Russian mercenaries in the Donbas on a number of occasions recently. Remember as mentioned below there are Russian SF and airborne troops in the Donetsk fighting at the airport area.

The 2B9 Vasilek (Cornflower) is an automatic 82 mm gun-mortar developed in the Soviet Union in 1967.[1] It was based on the F-82 automatic mortar and subsequently fielded in 1970 to the Soviet Army.[1] Unlike conventional mortars, the 2B9 can fire in single and automatic mode using four-round clips. Rounds can be loaded from either the muzzle or the breech. Because of its wheeled carriage, the 2B9 resembles a light artillery piece more than a conventional mortar.

The 2B9 was used in Afghanistan by Soviet units and is still found in Russian airmobile infantry units. In the fighting in Afghanistan, Soviet units found the 2B9 a versatile and useful weapon.[3] The 2B9 can fire high-explosive, armor -piercing, smoke, and flares. The armor-piercing projectile, which weighs 3.1 kg and has a 75 g warhead that can penetrate 100mm of armor.[4] Upon blast, the shell produces 400 to 600 fragments.[1]

By 1988, the 2B9 was also deployed as a self-propelled weapon by mounting the gun-mortar in the rear of an MT-LB armored personnel carrier.[5]

During the Syrian Civil War, the 2B9M Vasilek is used by the Syrian Armed Forces and the Islamist group Ansar al-Sham. The militants used a 2B9M automatic mortar near Mount Chalma, Kesab district.[6]

In 2014, the 2B9 Vasilek was used by Novorossiyan rebels in the War in Donbass

More from the social media side--what is interesting while the Russian MFA is screaming for an investigation it seems the Russian pundits and trolls are extremely quiet after the social media releases.

'DNR' already destroyed evidence (artillery on truck) #Leninsky bus attack http://vz.ru/news/2015/1/22/725677.html … via @pete_leonard
pic.twitter.com/plSQPp7fbO

Liveuamap @Liveuamap
NW-N-NE - if mortar fire, than it shelled from Donetsk pic.twitter.com/P9DPjgEcHv

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Now we see the real US foreign policy ie strategy towards the aggression being carried out by the Russian Army inside another country--all just talk and the problem will disappear.

We have a large nation bullying a smaller one in the SOTU speech, we have the Russian Army willingly annexing the Crimea and "vacationing" in eastern Ukraine and it is what "back to business as usual"?

Makes no sense.

BREAKING: GEN BREEDLOVE - "NATO WILL REESTABLISH THE COMMUNICATIONS WITH THE RUSSIAN ARMY"
http://www.hotnews.ro/stiri-international-19168981-nato-planifica-restabilirea-comunicatiilor-armata-rusa.htm#.VMEKl_XoIws.twitter …

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Really worth the read to understand the current Russian understanding of their UW strategy and how they are carrying it out.

neweasterneurope.eu/articles-and-commentary/1461-is-russia-a-state-sponsor-of-terrorism …

Is Russia a State Sponsor of Terrorism?


Published on Thursday, 22 January 2015 09:12 Written by Taras Kuzio


PART ONE of the article


As France and Europe mourned and condemned the senseless terrorism in Paris, the European Parliament only a few days later, in a tough resolution on Ukraine, refused to describe the Russian-sponsored separatist enclaves in eastern Ukraine as “terrorist.” Why the double standards?

Promoting terrorism

EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini’s proposal to the EU to return to business with Russia and not only ignore its state-backed terrorist campaign but even its hybrid war was rejected by member states. US Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey has declared that the threat of Russian aggression and terrorism in Europe are growing. After all, the arrest of five Russian citizens in France on January 20th on terrorism charges showed how futile it is to try and sanitise developments in one part of Europe and separate them from those in another.

Europe’s focus on Russia’s hybrid war has ignored Russia’s second front of promoting terrorism in Ukraine. While the hybrid war in the Donbas seems far away for most Ukrainians, the terrorist campaign, which is spreading and becoming more deadly as seen in explosions in Kharkiv, which injured 20 people, and Zaporizhzhya which derailed a train, are very much closer to home. On January 20th the Ukrainian National Security and Defence Council introduced heightened security measures throughout the country because of the growing number of terrorist attacks.

Intelligence reports point to these terrorist attacks as not being the work of “lone wolves”, as in Boston, Ottawa, and Paris, but a well-coordinated campaign orchestrated by Moscow. Coordinating centres ‘Novaya Rus’ (New Russia) are training groups of 3-5 Ukrainian and Russian citizens in Russia (Belgorod, Tambov, Taganrog, and Rostov), Crimea and Moldova’s frozen conflict zone of Transnistria.

Training is provided by Russian military intelligence (GRU), which controls the “little green men” that led to the annexation of Crimea and capture of state buildings in Donetsk in the spring, and are known as such because of the absence of country insignia on their uniforms. The Federal Security Service (FSB), Russia’s domestic intelligence service that is tasked with operating not only in Russia but also throughout the former USSR, is also involved in providing intelligence and training.


The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) and military intelligence have captured terrorist groups Svat, Dzygit, Staryy, Pryzrak, Kharkov Partyzany, Kulykove Pole, and Koban. Captured terrorists from the Svat group who were active in the Mariupol region have testified to attending training camps in Sevastopol where they were taught how to build bombs and undertake urban guerrilla warfare, reconnaissance, and intelligence operations behind enemy lines.

Russian weapons and explosives have been intercepted while being sent using private postal services. Roadblock checkpoints have also discovered explosives and weapons hidden in cars and trucks travelling to Kyiv from Eastern Ukraine. In one incident near Kyiv last month terrorists travelling in a car that was randomly checked threw hand grenades at traffic police.

The greatest concentration of terrorist attacks have taken place in four key areas – the capitol city of Kyiv, the two swing regions of Odesa and Kharkiv, where in the spring of 2014 pro-Russian and pro-Ukrainian forces battled for control, and the port city of Mykolayiv which was temporarily occupied by separatists and is key to any Russian attempt at establishing a land bridge from Russia to Crimea. Security expert Oleksiy Melnyk from Kyiv’s Razumkov Centre believes these four cities are “where Russian-backed forces feel there’s still a possibility to destabilise the situation.”

In spring of 2014, Russia invested enormous resources in destabilising Kharkiv and Odesa, which after the failure of these operations have borne the brunt of terrorist attacks.

The battle for Ukraine

In May, the PBS Frontline documentary “The Battle for Ukraine” reported how pro-Russian vigilantes were trained and paid 40 US dollars per hour by Russian intelligence to beat up “Ukrainian fascists” (i.e. EuroMaidan supporters). Ultimately their plans were foiled by the mobilisation of Russian-speaking Ukrainian patriots and in Kharkiv patriotic football fans coined the well-known chant “Putin hhuilo!”, which translates as “Putin is a dickhead!”. Kharkiv-born Interior Minister Arsen Avakov assisted local patriots in defeating the pro-Russian Oplot (Bulwark) vigilantes who moved to Donetsk to form Donetsk People’s Republic Prime Minister Aleksandr Zakharchenko’s elite forces. Oplot was one of a number of separatist organisations sanctioned by the US government last month.

The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) believes that Oplot members now operating underground in Kharkiv have undertaken these terrorist attacks. In Kharkiv, terrorists have targeted the city’s prosecutor’s office, a military hospital, a furniture factory owned by a Euromaidan activist, and a rock pub called Stina (“Wall” in English) where EuroMaidan activists gathered. An underground explosives and printing factory in Kharkiv was closed down in October and a number of separatist organisations were banned. In an ongoing anti-terrorist operation in Kharkiv, members of the Iskhod terrorist organisation were captured.

In Odesa there has been calm since early May, when street battles between pro-Ukrainian and pro-Russian forces led to over fifty deaths, mainly of pro-separatist activists who died in the Trade Union building. But, since the Minsk peace accords the number of terrorist attacks have markedly risen, and after seven recent attacks Kyiv dispatched National Guard units to Odesa to assist the local police forces.

A group of five terrorists were detained in Odesa in September of last year who had been trained in Russia. A second detained terrorist group had planned to copy the violent seizure of state buildings undertaken in the Donbas in the spring. One terrorist accidentally blew himself up last month while planting a bomb at a military academy. Other terrorist targets have included Euromaidan civil society support groups who collect supplies for Ukraine’s military, shops owned by these activists, train lines, and freight cars transporting oil. On January 20th, three were shot in Odesa, including a volunteer who had been collecting supplies for the Ukrainian army.

Besides these four strategic targets, terrorist groups planning to commit acts of terror have been captured by Ukraine’s security forces throughout the country from Trans-Carpathia and Lviv in the West, to Zhitomir, Khmelnytskyy and Vynnytsya in Central Ukraine, and in the Kyiv metro and near Kyiv’s Borispil airport. In eastern and southern Ukraine, terrorist groups have been captured in Zaporizhzhya, Odessa, Kherson, Mylolayiv, and Dnipropetrovsk. Two terrorist attacks targeted the private home of the popular Mayor of Lviv, Andriy Sadovyy, whose new Samopomych (Self Reliance) party came in third in the October 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary elections. Kharkiv Mayor Hennadiy Kernes survived an April assassination attempt by Oplot.

The Dnipropetrovsk region, led by Jewish-Ukrainian oligarch and Governor Igor Kolomoyskyy, is on the frontline of the Donbas conflict and is key to supplying Ukrainian army and National Guard units and treating wounded casualties. Last month the SBU detained a group backed by the Communist Party planning to launch a series of terrorist attacks in Dnipropetrovsk against banks and military bases. Pryvat Bank, owned by Kolomoyskyy and his business partners, has been nationalized in Crimea and has been extensively targeted by terrorists in Ukrainian cities.

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Is Russia a State Sponsor of Terrorism?

neweasterneurope.eu/articles-and-commentary/1461-is-russia-a-state-sponsor-of-terrorism …

PART Two of article

Five goals of Russian-backed terrorists

Generally speaking, terrorist groups have been trained by Russia with five strategic goals.

First, blow up train lines (as in Zaporizhhya this week) and key government buildings, launch small-scale hit-and-run attacks on offices at military-industrial plants, bomb anniversaries of World War Two victory and Ukrainian Independence Day rallies, military recruiting centres and National Guard training facilities.

Second, destabilise and terrorise the population and provoke panic in the different regions, according to a SBU communiqu.

Third, collect intelligence on movements of Ukrainian armed forces and National Guard battalions. Terrorists mingle with the civilian population operating as spotters for separatist artillery and grad missile attacks against Ukrainian security forces. Terrorists have been captured with intelligence on key economic targets such as the Mariupol port, with the purpose of planning future terrorist attacks.

Fourth, establish underground print shops to publish pro-Russian separatist leaflets and newspapers propagating the ideology of New Russia as well as hostility to pro-European Ukrainians, who are collectively referred to as fascists.

Fifth, infiltrate Ukrainian National Guard battalions to collect intelligence about their locations, strengths and weaknesses, and military plans. Russian and separatist forces absolutely loathe volunteers fighting in the National Guard, and when they are captured they have been summarily executed.

Je suis Volnovakha

At the close of 2014, Russian President Vladimir Putins New Russia project was shelved after pro-Russian support failed to materialise in fourem1716 Russian-speaking regions of Eastern-Southern Ukraine while in two others, the swing regions of Kharkiv and Odesa, pro-Ukrainian forces eventually gained the upper hand. Russia controls only a third of Donbas territory and has been unable to dislodge Ukrainian forces from strategic installations such as the Donetsk airport. The current Russian-led offensive is, according to Zakharchenko, aimed at taking control of the whole of the Donbas. This will meet stiff resistance from pro-Ukrainian regions of northern, western and southern Donetsk and northern Luhansk, which have negative experience of separatist control from the Russian occupation of their regions in the spring and summer of 2014.

While the New Russia project has been shelved, President Putins hybrid war and terrorist campaign continue to operate together. Over the course of the winter months Russia is seeking to establish a more coherent and united separatist military force from a multitude of often warring groups, and towards this end has stationed up to 10,000 soldiers in the Donetsk and Luhansk Peoples Republics. Russian military equipment continues to cross into Ukraine, including inside so-called humanitarian convoys, according to the Moscow representative of the ICRC, and Ukrainians estimate there to be 8, 000 Russian troops in eastern Ukraine. In the last week, BBC news reports have shown Russian marinesclearly evident from their lapel badgesfighting in the Donetsk airport.

The Donbas conflict has killed 5,000 civilians and upwards of 10,000 Ukrainian, separatist, and Russian combatants. Officially no state of war exists between Ukraine and Russia as Kyiv is undertaking a so-called Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO), while Russia continues to deny it is intervening in Ukraine. Nevertheless, 80 per cent of Ukrainians believe their country is at war with Russia and only ten per cent believe relations between both countries are friendly. Meanwhile a high 85 per cent of Ukrainians believe relations with Russia are difficult and hostile and consider President Putin, who is personally blamed by Ukrainians for the stab-in-the-back annexation of Crimea and inflaming of the Donbas conflict, the most negatively-rated foreign leader. A recent Gallup poll found that only five per cent of Ukrainians approved of President Putin, including as low as even 12 per cent in Ukraines Eastern and Southern regions.

If the Donbas conflict returns to full-scale hostilities as looks increasingly likely - Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko may have little alternative but to introduce a state of emergency as a prelude to declaring Ukraine to be in a state of war with Russia. Donetsk Airport is already Europes first Stalingrad since Second World War.

The Ukrainian government has sent criminal claims to the ICC (International Criminal Court) and the European Court on Human Rights (ECHR), charging Russia with financing and supporting terrorism, annexing Crimea, and corporate raiding Ukrainian-owned businesses and state structures. Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk has said that Ukraine is seeking compensation from Russia for its war of aggression and terrorism against Ukraine, and international recognition that Russia has violated the International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism, adopted by the UN in December 1999.

Russia has long become what the US State Department calls a state sponsor of terrorism according to Section 2656f(d) of Title 22 of the United States Code. The US State Department determines countries to have provided support for terrorism pursuant to three laws: section 6(j) of the Export Administration Act, section 40 of the Arms Export Control Act, and section 620A of the Foreign Assistance Act.

Donbas separatist groups fit the definition of international terrorism and there are multiple sources that point to Russian training and military support for violent separatist and terrorist groups in Ukraine. Russias use of special forces in the spring to back the initial separatist campaign, Moscows extensive supply of high-tech weapons such as the BUK missile system that shot down the Malaysian civilian airliner, and training of separatist and terrorist groups classify Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism.

Nevertheless, there is still a lack of political will at the highest levels of the EU and US to declare Russia a state sponsor of terrorism. Washington does not want to recognise the DNR and LNR as terrorist states, as Ukrainian President Poroshenko requested during his October visit to Washington DC, because to do so would lead to the next step of Russia replacing Cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism alongside Iran, Sudan, and Syria. If the US defined Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism, the EU would be obliged to follow suit and extensive tougher sanctions would follow.

After the murder of 11 civilians on a bus this week by Russian-backed and -supplied terrorists, it is time to also say Je Suis Volnovakha! A return to a Yalta-style divided Europe cannot be permitted, with human rights on only one side of the fence, and terrorism should be viewed as terrorism wherever it takes place.

Taras Kuzio is a research associate at the Centre for Political and Regional Studies, Canadian Institute for Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta and non-resident fellow at the Center for Transatlantic Relations, School of Advanced International Relations, Johns Hopkins University.

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I have mentioned here a number of times --Bosnia is the model Putin now envisions for the Ukraine and that does not bode well for the EU and or NATO.

#Putin has design to effectively divide #Ukraine into spheres of influence, similar to #Bosnia
Read http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ambassador-muhamed-sacirbey/construction-according-to_b_6195834.html … @chrisbrulak

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#Russia|n troops moved through the #Ukraine border under cover of air defense systems - #NATO
http://www.segodnya.ua/ukraine/voyska-rf-peredvigayutsya-cherez-ukrainskuyu-granicu-pod-prikrytiem-sistem-pvo-nato-586320.html …


Another 25 RF army tanks+BMP+500 troops are in #Stakhanov,one report says
Aim is to create a boiler around #Krymske

https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&hl=en&ie=UTF8&prev=_t&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http://informator.lg.ua/%3Fp%3D63478&usg=ALkJrhi_se2U1qYm-rszHkD49Tup8LXuPA

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#BREAKINGFOOTAGE
GIANT #Russian_Army column moving through #Donbas.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TEqjHq5ET8 …
pic.twitter.com/lAbYtA8BIs

While #Russia talks of the withdrawal of heavy weapons,it reportedly sends #BM27 to #Makeevka
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q65IfxXKr8Y …
pic.twitter.com/Cgdap8JQCP


Russians relocating BM-30 Smerch 16kms from frontline. Range: 70-90 kms. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q65IfxXKr8Y … Steinmeier...?
pic.twitter.com/5Cgdpy7X3s

Ukraine Pres #Poroshenko -army in tank battles,3 #Russia tank,2 ammo truck destroyed http://bit.ly/15gSpn7
pic.twitter.com/hvF0DM3ZUj

#Analysis #Map
#EVIDENCE: Multiple Russian invaders' BM-21 fire from #Horlivka at #Debaltseve
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1nF7gfkbnI …
pic.twitter.com/kUoXIwQOQQ

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Nato colonel sheds light on Russia 'psy-ops'
https://euobserver.com/foreign/127174
pic.twitter.com/TtMc8ouL20

More photos of soldiers with Russian insignia in Donetsk http://www.rferl.org/content/russian-military-insignia-donetsk/26808445.html …

#Kremlin sends to fight in #Ukraine recently dialed "conscripts" #Petersburg #Russia.
http://bit.ly/186ohwG
pic.twitter.com/dQZ3uVEbho

Stakhanov is here... CP31 was overrun recently. +43 vehicles means it'll get REALLY HOT there soon.
pic.twitter.com/TQJi2OR5SR

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At first the Russian troops and mercenaries would tell you in their interviews that they were fighting the Nazi's, the fascists and the junta---that changed about three months ago and now you get this as their fighting propaganda--kill Ukrainians.

#EVIL itself attacks #Ukraine
Invader: "This is for your peace!" - and 4 BM-21 start to fire.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXSyU3ais08 …
pic.twitter.com/GW0zq070jx

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What again is the exact role of German diplomacy as it seems the US Obama NSC has deferred to Germany since the US has no strategy?

If in fact we have the Russian mercenary leader of the DNR openly stating what the goals of the Russian and Russian mercenary offensive is then WHY does the West seem to think "talking" will get anything done---notice the german FM comments---the only thing that came out of Berlin was a repeat of a single point that was already in the Minsk Agreement ANd did not Lavrov in his press conference openly to the world state the "separatists are listening to our suggestion to pull back to the Minsk lines---DID anyone see that in the last five days and as well today?

So was the Russian FM simply lying to gain more time for their offensive?

GermanForeignOffice ✔ @GermanyDiplo
FM #Steinmeier in Morocco on Eastern #Ukraine: Call on all sides to implement the agreement reached in Berlin.
pic.twitter.com/2dw87BdudA

#Donetsk leader Zakharchenko says he doesn't want peace talks, and there won't be a ceasefire, but new offensive to take remainder of region

Zakharchenko: We need to take Slavyansk before we take Mariupol. We need Slavyansk's water supplies. This is why we aren't pushing there now

BBC Breaking News ✔ @BBCBreaking
Pro-Russia rebel leader in east Ukraine says his troops are on the offensive - he does not want truce talks
http://bbc.in/1t56csg

German "public" media does not repot on the fall of Donetsk airport
It would blast its(Russian-pushed) narrative of an "Ukrainian offensive"


AGAIN just what is the inherent German position towards the Ukraine? --as a perfect example take this particular German member of the OSCE-SMM that is in the Ukraine AND he was not "neutral" which is the requirement for being on those types of missions.

Seems he was tweeting Pro Russian propaganda and when called out on it by the social media suddenly his tweeter account was closed--telling.

By the way this is not the first time OSCE has been caught in supporting the Russian "story" and using their vehicles to transport mercenaries around the battlefield.

Wonder who wanted the OSCE in the Ukraine badly--was pushed by Russia and the OSCE is again not neutral?

This is the seem OSCE that allowed Russia for years to not destroy their required number of tanks and APCs that are now in the Ukraine.

BLOG: @OSCE_SMM observer Herbert Meyer-Bade is tweeting STRAIGHTOUT Russian Propaganda ttp://ukraineatwar.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/oscesmm-observer-is-tweeting.html …
pic.twitter.com/Fuo44dyAGy

Ukraine@war @DajeyPetros
Yesterday I blogged about Meyer-Bade (@OSCE_SMM monitor), tweeting Russian propaganda. Today his account is removed.
http://ukraineatwar.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/oscesmm-observer-is-tweeting.html …

Does @OSCE REALLY want to say that crater near #Leninsky bus was 8 meters NORTHEAST of it?
pic.twitter.com/ygsL9PytUN
https://twitter.com/DajeyPetros/status/558361426705022976 …

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Putilovsky, #Donetsk
Not a building on the street that hasn't been hit... Heavy shelling still audible from airport pic.twitter.com/bXsf5JOhxN

Level of destruction in #Donetsk's Kievsky district near airport unbelievable. Whole buildings razed. A ghost town.
pic.twitter.com/2grA1BL3Xz

Russian army warehouse & weapons in Sukhodilsk, Krasnodon
pic.twitter.com/tpZlNFLQnT

Russian soldier with DNR flag 20kms from Ukraine border ready to enter
pic.twitter.com/adz021RjJy
http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/22-january-russian-soldier-with-dnr-flag-in-rostov-region …

Growing fights -#Gorlovka #Ukraine:People en masse leave the city,wounded fighters.
http://bit.ly/1yAyBH4
pic.twitter.com/ELbTNhpqse

#EVIDENCE
Brand new #Russian_Army 2B26 Grad-K system takes part in shelling #Donetsk #airport
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXSyU3ais08 …
pic.twitter.com/m1WJBYIynj
NOTE: even more new Russian equipment never seen outside of Russia and the Russia FM says what again--prove it---here it is.

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Weird vehicle in recent Ukri Cyber Cam might be this? http://militaryrussia.ru/blog/topic-737.html … https://twitter.com/DajeyPetros/status/557515438239023105 …
pic.twitter.com/NRGsgpsLKh
NOTE: another photo for the Russian FM showing Russian equipment in the Ukraine---he must have been in an altered state of reality when he made that statement yesterday---where is the evidence prove it.


#BreakingNews
Ukr fighters at #CP29: "Russian forces use new, heavier weapons against us. One example is #Grad with 120mm mine warheads.
NOTE: more proof for the Russian FM

Battel tact gr of Rus troops+militants moved to Debaltseve platoon. Incl 12tanks, 25arm comb veh, cannon art -Tymchuk
pic.twitter.com/cKcteHN4wp

Constructed by a #Russian_army MT-55A AVLB, I would say.
pic.twitter.com/wmhbaPWnnG

Ukr forces eliminated a group of over a dozen of militants heading to #Donetsk airport, 1 militant detained
https://www.facebook.com/yuri.biriukov/posts/1551371708464974 …

#EVIDENCE
#Luhansk bridge collapsed under #Russian_Army BMP-1.
Army sappers built new one!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zB-VB7GWLAU …
pic.twitter.com/kxJPIgm82q

Terrorists located Smerch MRLS N-W of Makiivka for fire support at #Donetsk direction https://www.facebook.com/dmitry.tymchuk/posts/625699687558690 …
pic.twitter.com/LNyGJizLYm

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If the entire West and the Obama NSC really wanted to get serious and to stop the current Russian offensive to grab more Ukrainian territory dead in its tracks---here is the single point of failure for the entire Russian economy that will even get the attention of a rather lately quiet Putin.

Seriously--Russia is going to go to war over SWIFF--if the West falls for that line then they really do need to pack it in and go home.


VTB's Kostin @wef: We already have an alternative to SWIFT, but if the US exclude us from SWIFT this means war.

[OUTLAW 09]

Should actually be interesting to see if there is a single response from any western leader, political party and or political organization ie OSCE, EU, NATO today to the declaration of war against the Ukraine issued just this morning by the DNR Russian mercenary leader.

The intent of this declaration could not be clearer and notice as of this minute 12am Berlin it has not been refuted by the Russian FM, Putin and or any Russian news media so just what does that tell us and one does not need the NSC and a glass ball to figure this one out.

So again now just what is the US/EU/NATO strategy again after that big statement in the President's speech that large countries cannot bully smaller ones---or was it just another "sound bite" moment by the WH/NSC?

I took a beating from commenters here when I stated that Putin had to make a decision at the beginning of the sanctions--to back off and or go for it as that is his geo political goal--I tipped he would go for it and that has never changed since I stated it over six months ago.

He has been dead set on getting the land corridor to the Crimea and cutting the Ukraine off from Odessa and Mariupol which gives him as well almost complete control of the Black and Azoz Seas and places the Ukraine economically in a dependence position to Russia.

A number of commenters here defended the use of negotiations and diplomacy and that got us to this moment and has basically totally failed.

THEN this today-----

BREAKING: #Zakharchenko's 'declaration of war' on #Ukraine
pic.twitter.com/zn9dhFP3en
Clear DNR, w/ territory it has now, lacks infrastructure to sustain life, economy. W/o Moscow bringing into fold, needs all Donetsk region.

So the urgent question I keep posting here is ---OK National Command Authority and NSC just what is the strategy for Russian and the IS?---as the world is slowly realizing there is none outside of words.

Great fanfare yesterday about how many IS killed and how many leaders killed but the last time I checked IS was still gaining in the ME and openly competing to take over the AQ top spot globally.

[OUTLAW 09]

Should actually be interesting to see if there is a single response from any western leader, political party and or political organization ie OSCE, EU, NATO today to the declaration of war against the Ukraine issued just this morning by the DNR Russian mercenary leader.

The intent of this declaration could not be clearer and notice as of this minute 12am Berlin it has not been refuted by the Russian FM, Putin and or any Russian news media so just what does that tell us and one does not need the NSC and a glass ball to figure this one out.

So again now just what is the US/EU/NATO strategy again after that big statement in the President's speech that large countries cannot bully smaller ones---or was it just another "sound bite" moment by the WH/NSC?

I took a beating from commenters here when I stated that Putin had to make a decision at the beginning of the sanctions--to back off and or go for it as that is his geo political goal--I tipped he would go for it and that has never changed since I stated it over six months ago.

He has been dead set on getting the land corridor to the Crimea and cutting the Ukraine off from Odessa and Mariupol which gives him as well almost complete control of the Black and Azoz Seas and places the Ukraine economically in a dependence position to Russia.

A number of commenters here defended the use of negotiations and diplomacy and that got us to this moment and has basically totally failed.

THEN this today-----

BREAKING: #Zakharchenko's 'declaration of war' on #Ukraine
pic.twitter.com/zn9dhFP3en
Clear DNR, w/ territory it has now, lacks infrastructure to sustain life, economy. W/o Moscow bringing into fold, needs all Donetsk region.

So the urgent question I keep posting here is ---OK National Command Authority and NSC just what is the strategy for Russian and the IS?---as the world is slowly realizing there is none outside of words.

Great fanfare yesterday about how many IS killed and how many leaders killed but the last time I checked IS was still gaining in the ME and openly competing to take over the AQ top spot globally.

"Hold onto your chair---here comes 1914----"

Ukraine readies move ATO to full-scale war as DNR "PM" Zakharchenko outlines plan to expand DNR-LNR to all of Donbas http://www.pravda.com.ua/rus/news/2015/01/23/7056062/ …

Who in the 21st century would have even thought that the US/EU/NATO would on their own "allow" a full scale war in Central Europe to even be thought possible.

WHEN the West assumed that soft power would always work that was the first mistake and the mistakes have gotten bigger since then especially when they did not immediately go to hard sanctions---dragging one's feet is not a strategy when dealing with Putin as he correctly assessed the West as unwilling to defend it's basic values even with force if need be. I have never seen such a disarray in the American foreign policy as the last eight months have clearly shown.

No imagination, no vision, no out of the box thinking, no adaptation to changing events---nothing except words. AND yet we wonder why the Baltics and Poland have been so vocal lately and have been trying to warn the US leadership but basically were either sidelined or ignored. This also includes a massive critique of the very poor quality of western media coverage of the Ukraine.

They seemed to have completely misread Putin and his "ethno-imperialism" which is just another form of fascism and they completely misread that diplomacy will work. They also apparently never read the new Russian UW strategy and they sure did not understand "political warfare".

Ukr forces at the frontline are being reinforced, incl w/ reserves and volunteers - ATO spox presser

To a degree this completely discredits the German diplomacy approach which has regardless of what many thought--- been proRussian from the start.

[OUTLAW 09]

Should actually be interesting to see if there is a single response from any western leader, political party and or political organization ie OSCE, EU, NATO today to the declaration of war against the Ukraine issued just this morning by the DNR Russian mercenary leader.

The intent of this declaration could not be clearer and notice as of this minute 12am Berlin it has not been refuted by the Russian FM, Putin and or any Russian news media so just what does that tell us and one does not need the NSC and a glass ball to figure this one out.

So again now just what is the US/EU/NATO strategy again after that big statement in the President's speech that large countries cannot bully smaller ones---or was it just another "sound bite" moment by the WH/NSC?

I took a beating from commenters here when I stated that Putin had to make a decision at the beginning of the sanctions--to back off and or go for it as that is his geo political goal--I tipped he would go for it and that has never changed since I stated it over six months ago.

He has been dead set on getting the land corridor to the Crimea and cutting the Ukraine off from Odessa and Mariupol which gives him as well almost complete control of the Black and Azoz Seas and places the Ukraine economically in a dependence position to Russia.

A number of commenters here defended the use of negotiations and diplomacy and that got us to this moment and has basically totally failed.

THEN this today-----

BREAKING: #Zakharchenko's 'declaration of war' on #Ukraine
pic.twitter.com/zn9dhFP3en
Clear DNR, w/ territory it has now, lacks infrastructure to sustain life, economy. W/o Moscow bringing into fold, needs all Donetsk region.

So the urgent question I keep posting here is ---OK National Command Authority and NSC just what is the strategy for Russian and the IS?---as the world is slowly realizing there is none outside of words.

Great fanfare yesterday about how many IS killed and how many leaders killed but the last time I checked IS was still gaining in the ME and openly competing to take over the AQ top spot globally.

I took a beating from some commenters here on my use of the term "an altered state of reality" when referring to Putin and his leadership team.

The Ukraine held to three unilateral ceasefires and took heavy loses after not even returning counterbattery fire when shelled repeatedly, the Russian troops and their mercenaries have been relentless in shelling Ukrainian towns and villages, and they openly attacked the airport all the while "claiming" that it belonged to them based on the Minsk Agreements which was a blatant falsehood, Ukraine offered to hold to all points of Minsk, even signed the Minsk Agreements, offer a special trade status for the Donbas, offered a special political arrangement BUT conditioned on the mercenaries holding to Minsk , Russian pulling out it's troops, withdrawing support to the mercenaries and closing the entire Russian Ukraine border.

AND Russia signed the agreement by the way so they know they own requirements under Minsk but ignore it anywhere just as they ignored the 1994 Budapest Memorandum when it suited them.

AND on top of the above Putin floods troops and heavy equipment into the Ukraine all the while stating "it ain't me"--AND by the way never a single western intelligence service provided briefing by any NATO member to "disprove" Putin---did anyone notice that subtle approval of Russian moves into the Ukraine by NATO?

OR is there some reason the West has remained totally silent and left that up to the social media to prove beyond a doubt and even had the gumption to use social media open source analysis at the UNSC instead their own analysis?

ABSOLUTELY nothing was done by Russia outside of uttering words, words and more words.

NOW from Putin today and if anyone here at SWJ can convince me Putin is not in "an altered state of reality" I am totally all ears.

This is the height of hypocrisy by a nation state in the 21st century.

#PUTIN:Russia received no clear response from #Kiev on ways to settle crisis,Ukraine began full-blown attacks instead
http://sputniknews.com

From Interfax today---another "altered state" comment--by the way Russia completely ignored the Ukrainian response after Berlin as they did not want to hear it--the Ukraine stated shortly after the Berlin meeting that the Russian proposal was already anchored in the Minks Agreements and that both Russia and the mercenaries were not adhering to the agreement and they would pull back whenever Russia signaled they were ready to adhere to Minsk and start implementation.

What Russian really wants is via this proposal to reopen the Minks Agreements and make changes because the Agreement actually goes against the mercenaries and Russia got a bad deal in the agreement so they are trying to pressure the Ukraine to renegotiate it.

14:13 PUTIN: MOSCOW DID NOT RECEIVE CLEAR RESPONSE FROM KYIV CONCERNING PROPOSAL TO WITHDRAW HEAVY WEAPONS FROM LINE OF CONTACT==is already in the Minks agreement--seems Russia cannot read well these days what they themselves actually signed.

MORE "altered state" that flies in the face of reality from Putin--somehow the idea that the Donbas is not Ukrainian territory and they are not responsible for the territory --but Russia is does not seem to sink in
:
Putin blames Kiev for "criminal orders" that led to thousands of civilian deaths
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/putin-points-finger-at-kiev-for-civilian-deaths-in-ukraine/514823.html …”
Yep. Kiev always to blame

[OUTLAW 09]

"Hold onto your chair---here comes 1914----"

Ukraine readies move ATO to full-scale war as DNR "PM" Zakharchenko outlines plan to expand DNR-LNR to all of Donbas http://www.pravda.com.ua/rus/news/2015/01/23/7056062/ …

Who in the 21st century would have even thought that the US/EU/NATO would on their own "allow" a full scale war in Central Europe to even be thought possible.

WHEN the West assumed that soft power would always work that was the first mistake and the mistakes have gotten bigger since then especially when they did not immediately go to hard sanctions---dragging one's feet is not a strategy when dealing with Putin as he correctly assessed the West as unwilling to defend it's basic values even with force if need be. I have never seen such a disarray in the American foreign policy as the last eight months have clearly shown.

No imagination, no vision, no out of the box thinking, no adaptation to changing events---nothing except words. AND yet we wonder why the Baltics and Poland have been so vocal lately and have been trying to warn the US leadership but basically were either sidelined or ignored. This also includes a massive critique of the very poor quality of western media coverage of the Ukraine.

They seemed to have completely misread Putin and his "ethno-imperialism" which is just another form of fascism and they completely misread that diplomacy will work. They also apparently never read the new Russian UW strategy and they sure did not understand "political warfare".

To a degree this completely discredits the German diplomacy approach which has regardless of what many thought--- been proRussian from the start.

While @GermanyDiplo did bla bla in Berlin, Russians took Donetsk Airport & now Zakharchenko declares war. Well done!
pic.twitter.com/nJV925Lj0t

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SA-22 Greyhound on the border with Ukraine
http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/23-january--sa22-greyhound-on-the-border-with-ukraine … #Ukraine
pic.twitter.com/tJCWYOkmW4

Two Russian army 2S1 in #Frunze near the #Bakhmutka front.
Picture link -> source.
pic.twitter.com/MZBhX6MCzw

Russian delegation to @OSCE_SMM's JCCC pulling out of #Debaltseve bc of "deteriorating security situation"

The Ukrainian town of #Shchastya was under heavy #Grad and artillery fire, almost for the whole night.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0IhvaRvxXc&x-yt-cl=84503534&x-yt-ts=1421914688 …

Ukr forces at the frontline are being reinforced, incl w/ reserves and volunteers - ATO spox presser

Huge queues in Dnipropetrovsk as people donate blood for Ukrainian soldiers
http://uatoday.tv/news/people-line-up-in-giant-queues-in-dnipropetrovsk-to-donate-blood-for-ukrainian-soldiers-404637.html …
pic.twitter.com/JyMX48FjxC

SP Councilman: 138th Motorized Brigade from Russia's W District to be shipped to #Ukraine on 9 Feb

http://nr2.com.ua/News/world_and_russia/Boris-Vishnevskiy-V-Kamenke-pod-Peterburgom-srochnikov-pod-davleniem-zastavlyayut-podpisyvat-kontrakty-i-hotyat-poslat-na-Ukrainu--88776.html …

One source here:
http://tsn.ua/ukrayina/rosiyskih-soldativ-strovikiv-pid-tiskom-zmushuyut-yihami-voyuvati-na-donbas-404592.html …

80 conscripts of the 138th Motorized Infantry Guards Brigade in St. Petersburg were forces to sign for immediate dispatch on February 9.

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A perfect example of Russian disinformation TV


Do you recognize? It is the inventor of 'crucified boy'. Yesterday at the parade of prisoners in Doentsk risen again.
pic.twitter.com/f4HuJXKf5O

Welcome to RU media:same woman:told story ab"crucified boy",was injured in #Volnovakha,witnessed shelling in #Donetsk
pic.twitter.com/vZuKQZsrKI

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Russian troops and mercenaries are trying to move on Mariupol now.

Tymchuk UPD 22/1: #Russia-terrorist troops attempt to advance to #Mariupol
http://maidantranslations.com/2015/01/23/dmitry-tymchuk-military-update-1-22-freesavchenko/ …
pic.twitter.com/Gi1xWA3CqB

Tymchuk: Mariupol region, intense fighting continued. Advanced groups of Russian-terrorist troops could not move N/NE of the city. ...

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Addressed to the US senior civilian leadership and the other western leaders as well and it goes to the heart of the current lack of a western strategy at any level. As well as the western media.

BBC just carried the comments by the Russian mercenary about not wanting to talk to Kiev about a ceasefire BUT totally somehow forgot to mention that in the same press release he was going to war to take all of the Donetsk region--actually kind of a big think in the media world but totally overlooked by BBC---wonder why?

John Schindler @20committee
How much evidence does Putin need to provide that he's doubling down, not backing off, now for Western press & politicos to notice, care?

NOW we see the formal structuring of the Russian Ground Force Commander of all Russian forces and mercenaries inside the Ukraine---they have been there all the time and were picked up by social median open source analysis but totally ignored by western media--wonder why?

Understandably @OSCE SMM in Ukraine implies JCCC "business as usual". But not so. Separation of command staffs is PRELUDE to major conflict

Separate Russian Command HQ is CLEAR indication that Russian Ground/Airborne Forces and DPR/LPR militias INTEND to make major offensives

Separation of Russian from Ukrainian Chiefs of Staff in Eastern Ukraine came after Vyaznikov consulted General Staff (Gerasimov) in Moscow.

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Kind of sums up the UE/EU/NATO strategy towards Russia or actually no strategy.

Zakharchenko (Russia): "We will take the whole #Donbas, no truce."

EU US and #Ukraine: "But, but... We want peace talks!"

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If the entire West and the Obama NSC really wanted to get serious and to stop the current Russian offensive to grab more Ukrainian territory dead in its tracks---here is the single point of failure for the entire Russian economy that will even get the attention of a rather lately quiet Putin.

Seriously--Russia is going to go to war over SWIFT--if the West falls for that line then they really do need to pack it in and go home.


VTB's Kostin @wef: We already have an alternative to SWIFT, but if the US exclude us from SWIFT this means war.


John Schindler @20committee

When members of the Russian elite publicly say war with the USA may be imminent, good idea to pay attention. http://www.buzzfeed.com/miriamelder/russian-elite-warns-of-war-with-the-us?utm_term=4ldqpia&bftw=world …

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New #Russian weapons filmed in occupied Makievka - some of the most powerful MRLS, "Smerch" http://fakty.ictv.ua/ua/index/view-media/id/79770/album/83 …

Particularly intense fighting/shelling observed in area of Pavlopil–Sartana. Enemy artillery is leading massive fire strikes ... on advanced positions of Ukrainian troops, trying to create conditions for further advancement of insurgent groups.

FM Lavrov assured the world again and again, there are no Russian troops in pic.twitter.com/5yJTmYq3ej

#Ukraine Railways restored rail link 2 #Mariupol disrupted by #Russia sabotage explosion on a railbridge + 2 more earlier-hit bridges. #АТО

NEW ARTICLE OUT NOW
Hard evidence, the regular Russian army invades Ukraine
http://conflictreport.info/2015/01/23/hard-evidence-the-regular-russian-army-invades-ukraine/ …
Maybe the Russian FM Lavrov should read it

Donbass Commander Claims Russian Forces Have Left Checkpoint 31 On Bakhmutka Highway. http://www.interpretermag.com/ukraine-live-day-340-dnr-leader-zakharchenko-no-more-ceasefires/#6466 …

Footage of what appears to be an ongoing battle at Donetsk airport in eastern Ukraine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1LJ-Q9cWOU …
pic.twitter.com/6zyHknZceF

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More examples of the Russian "altered state of reality".

Envoy to the #OSCE Andrey Kelin’s remarks on the situation in #Ukraine and violations of the Minsk agreements by Kiev
http://bit.ly/1AYsqtJ

Zakharchenko: We expect to get recognition from these countries. We might even get recognition from Venezuela, Nicaragua

Zakharchenko: “Kindness is taken 4 weakness. No more ceasefires, rotations of Ukr troops. But we will xchange POWs” pic.twitter.com/ZpUqVUMQwf

Zakharchenko: Do we need international recognition? Life isn't bad in Abkhazia, Ossetia, Transnistria....

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A perfect reason that the West simply needs to stop talking with Russia as it cannot be any longer trusted on anything.

Russia signed the 13 November implementation agreement for the ceasefire and Minks demarcation lines and then on 19 January "decides to unsign/recall it".

What the heck does "unsign/recall" mean---if they simply declare that no treaty, agreement or memorandum that they have ever signed no longer exists as being valid then why "talk" with Russia---waste of time as the Germans are finding out lately.

The Russian Federation has recalled its signature on the schedule of the implementation of the Minsk agreements dated November 13, 2014.

On January 18, Ukraine suggested it be signed again, Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the UN Yuriy Serheyev has said.

BUT remember it was Putin today and his Russian FM that accused the Ukraine or not responding to the Berlin proposal when in fact the 13 November Russian signed document addressed exactly the same proposals made in Berlin .

AND that is not "an altered state of reality"?

Can in fact Russia be trusted on anything they say and or do and or sign--should be asked in the capitals of the US/EU/NATO?

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Another perfect example of the total confusion in the west on how to deal with Russia---the US remains silent, the Germans are spinning in a circle and now this EU decision.

Does not the EU realize exactly what the Russian strategic geo political goals are--seems not. Letting now Russia dictate to the EU on what they will or will not do--strange is it not?

The EU seems to be now in the back pocket of Putin--game over.

EU agrees to let #Russia choose which EU states exempt from food ban https://euobserver.com/foreign/127318

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For those SWJ commenters here that when the Crimea occurred and then eastern Ukraine--often would state Putin was not after annexation and the Odessa land corridor for the Crimea--need to rethink your thinking.

And that he was only doing it because of NATO expansion and "humiliation"---time to rethink those ideas as it was never about that --he has three geo political goals in mind and he has never come off them since--- BUT hey even the NSC and WH should have known that.

Here comes the Odessa/Crimea corridor military campaign---and I ask again the response from the US/EU and NATO is again what?

And so the battle for the corridor to Odessa begins. #Mariupol suburbs under attack, reports of rebel/RU armor on the move #Ukraine #Russia

Militants launch tank attack on Mariupol suburbs
http://www.unian.info/society/1035572-mp-militants-launch-tank-attack-on-mariupol-suburbs.html …

Kyiv-1 battalion commander Yevhen Deidei says terrorists' tank start attacking in the areas near #Mariupol
https://www.facebook.com/evgeniy.deidei/posts/742959402462277?pnref=story …

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For those SWJ commenters here that when the Crimea occurred and then eastern Ukraine--often would state Putin was not after annexation and the Odessa land corridor for the Crimea--need to rethink your thinking.

And that he was only doing it because of NATO expansion and "humiliation"---time to rethink those ideas as it was never about that --he has three geo political goals in mind and he has never come off them since--- BUT hey even the NSC and WH should have known that.

Here comes the Odessa/Crimea corridor military campaign---and I ask again the response from the US/EU and NATO is again what?

And so the battle for the corridor to Odessa begins. #Mariupol suburbs under attack, reports of rebel/RU armor on the move #Ukraine #Russia

Militants launch tank attack on Mariupol suburbs
http://www.unian.info/society/1035572-mp-militants-launch-tank-attack-on-mariupol-suburbs.html …

Kyiv-1 battalion commander Yevhen Deidei says terrorists' tank start attacking in the areas near #Mariupol
https://www.facebook.com/evgeniy.deidei/posts/742959402462277?pnref=story …

AND here comes the economic warfare card being played by Putin--if the Ukraine is now smart they simply cut all power/gas/water to the Crimea and eastern Ukraine and point the finger directly back to Putin--BUT will the West allow the Ukrainians to do that--not so sure.

Russia stops coal supplies to Ukrainehttp://uatoday.tv/news/russia-stops-coal-supplies-to-ukraine-again-404695.html …
pic.twitter.com/gXEzx1dmNt

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For those SWJ commenters here that when the Crimea occurred and then eastern Ukraine--often would state Putin was not after annexation and the Odessa land corridor for the Crimea--need to rethink your thinking.

And that he was only doing it because of NATO expansion and "humiliation"---time to rethink those ideas as it was never about that --he has three geo political goals in mind and he has never come off them since--- BUT hey even the NSC and WH should have known that.

Here comes the Odessa/Crimea corridor military campaign---and I ask again the response from the US/EU and NATO is again what?

And so the battle for the corridor to Odessa begins. #Mariupol suburbs under attack, reports of rebel/RU armor on the move #Ukraine #Russia

Militants launch tank attack on Mariupol suburbs
http://www.unian.info/society/1035572-mp-militants-launch-tank-attack-on-mariupol-suburbs.html …

Kyiv-1 battalion commander Yevhen Deidei says terrorists' tank start attacking in the areas near #Mariupol
https://www.facebook.com/evgeniy.deidei/posts/742959402462277?pnref=story …


And the White House leadership strategy is again WHAT and or is there any leadership out of this White House since they have effectively outsourced everything to Germany who has equally failed in a grand style.

John Schindler @20committee
Looks like the expected Russian drive on Mariupol is getting underway. Get ready for the partition of #Ukraine.
http://20committee.com/2015/01/23/the-fate-of-ukraine/

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For those in Washington that still do not want to believe the Russians never wanted to annex eastern Ukraine CHECK THIS---and again just what is the new US strategy when Russia has fully annexed eastern Ukraine.

Symbols mean a lot to the Russians and the Russian flag flying over the Donetsk airport says it all to Obama--his policies have totally failed and he has no more.

Now on major Russian TV channel: the flag of Russia flying from #Donetsk airport. NOT flag of "Novorossiya" or "DNR":

http://youtu.be/R1pPnSBCwkc

Notice just ho quiet it is in DC?

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When will the US/EU and NATO finally realize diplomatic approaches with the Russians have basically failed --notice throughout today there has been no statement to the Russian mercenary declaration of war coming out of the west until just now by the Germans---almost a full five hours after it was issued and carried on social media.

Even the Germans are having a hard time accepting that their efforts have actually failed--not sure just why they had assumed it would work.


FM #Steinmeier: Signatories to #Minsk+#Berlin agreements now need to ensure that these agreements become a reality.

FM #Steinmeier in #Tunis: Public statements made by separatist leaders from Eastern #Ukraine are "nothing but warmongering.“

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Am not the only one seeing the actual US white house and NSC failures in the Ukraine.

If the #US is really supporting #Ukraine, as Obama claims, then why are Kiev’s forces getting hammered?

http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/01/22/the-death-of-ukraines-cyborg-army-ukraine-russia-donetsk-airport-shelling/ …

This is way to late---and why is it to late?

Army Recognition @ArmyRecognition
#US #military advisers to start training National Guard of #Ukraine's troops in spring:
http://bit.ly/1F8QQbt
pic.twitter.com/sqpR558q0z

AND this is the next Russian move and the US strategy is again what?

Here is Russia's plan for arctic supremacy — via @Stratfor :
http://read.bi/1t6puxt
pic.twitter.com/zF4o35ey4S

The Arctic-Kaliningrad-Crimea: Strategic Russian Defense Triangle. Zvezda 15 Jan via Russian Military News in English http://shokidriver.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/the-

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Am not the only one seeing the actual US white house and NSC failures in the Ukraine.

If the #US is really supporting #Ukraine, as Obama claims, then why are Kiev’s forces getting hammered?

http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/01/22/the-death-of-ukraines-cyborg-army-ukraine-russia-donetsk-airport-shelling/ …

This is way to late---and why is it to late?

Army Recognition @ArmyRecognition
#US #military advisers to start training National Guard of #Ukraine's troops in spring:
http://bit.ly/1F8QQbt
pic.twitter.com/sqpR558q0z

AND this is the next Russian move and the US strategy is again what?

Here is Russia's plan for arctic supremacy — via @Stratfor :
http://read.bi/1t6puxt
pic.twitter.com/zF4o35ey4S

The Arctic-Kaliningrad-Crimea: Strategic Russian Defense Triangle. Zvezda 15 Jan via Russian Military News in English http://shokidriver.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/the-

Well worth the reading:

Brzezinski > not providing lethal weapons to Ukraine to deter Russia increases Russia's intentions to escalate @zbig
http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/01/21/394182/Putin-playing-with-fire-Brzezinski …

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Ukrainian artillery by Donetsk have killed more than 20 Russian soldiers and militants, 10 POWs taken.

http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/23-january-ukrainian-artillery-have-destroyed-more-than-20 …

A bridge fight near Spartak, close to #airport with 20 RU tanks - Ukraine 25th brigade #Russian|s lost 8 tanks, many KIA, some POW's in tank battle near Spartak. NOT the Ukrainian army!

Footage of several Ukrainian tanks moving to the front line.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKBI1FWjZaA …
pic.twitter.com/sNBhlmvTGY

Passports and military IDs from Russians that were defeated at Donetsk Airport area today
pic.twitter.com/7erz6RPfqk via @SputnikATO

#Analysis
The Rus #Verkhnotoretske offensive is SIGNIFICANT and more successful than the CP31 one.
RF forces captured 30km² in 48 hours !!

Pres adviser Biryukov asks Lavrov where he wants Russian dead buried.Says LA Times were there
https://www.facebook.com/yuri.biriukov/posts/1551706065098205?pnref=story …
pic.twitter.com/Zcrw3bHxP9

#Footage
The Russian army needs fuel for its push inside #Ukraine.
Here it comes!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzFD63kLHvs …
pic.twitter.com/qCio87ntuM

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Why does NATO/EU/US keep insisting on the word incursion when in fact if it an outright invasion and war.

NATO sees movement of Russian air defense & electronic warfare systems similar to 2 previous incursions into Ukraine http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/natosour

NATO Gen.: Russian-backed forces "have in several places moved the line of contact to the west. & this is concerning" http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/natosource/threat-of-new-russian-incursion-as-violence-flares-in-ukraine …

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Ukrainian artillery by Donetsk have killed more than 20 Russian soldiers and militants, 10 POWs taken.

http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/23-january-ukrainian-artillery-have-destroyed-more-than-20 …

A bridge fight near Spartak, close to #airport with 20 RU tanks - Ukraine 25th brigade #Russian|s lost 8 tanks, many KIA, some POW's in tank battle near Spartak. NOT the Ukrainian army!

Footage of several Ukrainian tanks moving to the front line.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKBI1FWjZaA …
pic.twitter.com/sNBhlmvTGY

Photo evidence of Russian soldiers in Ukraine
http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/23-january-photo-evidence-of-russian-soldiers-in-ukraine …
pic.twitter.com/R76DZ1RzI5

#Analysis
The Rus #Verkhnotoretske offensive is SIGNIFICANT and more successful than the CP31 one.
RF forces captured 30km² in 48 hours !!

https://www.facebook.com/yuri.biriukov/posts/1551706065098205?pnref=story …
pic.twitter.com/Zcrw3bHxP9


Pres adviser Biryukov asks Lavrov where he wants Russian dead buried.Says LA Times were there
https://www.facebook.com/yuri.biriukov/posts/1551706065098205?pnref=story …
pic.twitter.com/Zcrw3bHxP9

Russian media: #Ukraine is going to declare war on #Russia
http://translate.google.com/translate?depth=1&ie=UTF8&prev=_t&rurl=translate.google.com&sandbox=0&tl=en&u=http://inforesist.org/rossijskie-smi-ukraina-sobiraetsya-obyavit-vojnu-rossii/ …

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Message for Lavrov (from Donetsk Airport area today)
pic.twitter.com/l4DmEb88n1 via @SputnikATO

Russian passports were taken from killed Russian troops and 10 Russian POWs today at the Donetsk airport.

Passports and military IDs from Russians that were defeated at Donetsk Airport area today
pic.twitter.com/7erz6RPfqk via @SputnikATO

Compare the military IDs of DNR (L) and Russia (R).Printed by the one security printer - Guess a name, location.
pic.twitter.com/D4dLGbuFl8

Burnt tank, burnt truck and RU passports, RU military service record cards.
They are not there, @MID_RF?
pic.twitter.com/y6rnvppguo

How much more evidence does the US/EU/NATO need to finally implement the long threatened tougher sanctions ie SWIFT and finally admit there is a full war ongoing in the Ukraine.

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For those SWJ commenters here that when the Crimea occurred and then eastern Ukraine--often would state Putin was not after annexation and the Odessa land corridor for the Crimea--need to rethink your thinking.

And that he was only doing it because of NATO expansion and "humiliation"---time to rethink those ideas as it was never about that --he has three geo political goals in mind and he has never come off them since--- BUT hey even the NSC and WH should have known that.

Here comes the Odessa/Crimea corridor military campaign---and I ask again the response from the US/EU and NATO is again what?

And so the battle for the corridor to Odessa begins. #Mariupol suburbs under attack, reports of rebel/RU armor on the move #Ukraine #Russia

Militants launch tank attack on Mariupol suburbs
http://www.unian.info/society/1035572-mp-militants-launch-tank-attack-on-mariupol-suburbs.html …

Kyiv-1 battalion commander Yevhen Deidei says terrorists' tank start attacking in the areas near #Mariupol
https://www.facebook.com/evgeniy.deidei/posts/742959402462277?pnref=story …

Transdniestria conducted practice mobilization at border with Ukraine’s Odessa region
http://tass.ru/en/world/772841

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DNR" war declaration means #Putin #Novorossiya is back on.#Ukraine can now expect attack fr #Transnistria & #Crimea
pic.twitter.com/hPUH88RQbL

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They are everywhere in #Donetsk
#Reuters photo, Jan 21
pic.twitter.com/yIsML7FelO

#Ukraine troops killed 50 #Russia troops,captured 5,destroyed 4 tanks etc #Donetsk
http://news.liga.net/news/politics/4860866-v_donetskoy_oblasti_unichtozheno_bolee_50_boevikov _minoborony.htm … #Ukraine pic.twitter.com/d95kKpAK5S
Bad news for #Debaltseve they're able to get so far
pic.twitter.com/zd5VxQPRJs

THERE IS A HEAVY RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE HAPPENING BETWEEN HORLIVKA AND ADVEEVKA W/O ANY MEDIA/UKR ARMY REFLECTION pic.twitter.com/4nTOyXH9Y0

#Ukrainian forces recaptured 31 checkpoint - Press Center #ATO
pic.twitter.com/xxGU2uGfox

VIDEO: Journalists escorted by Russian soldier running for cover in #Horlivka for ongoing shelling. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIfhAo7tdas …

Commander Russian Armed Forces (Vyaznikov) established new HQ at Soledar, closer to #Sloviansk http://www.osce.org/ukraine-smm/135926 …
pic.twitter.com/iTcV24BHqC
NOTE: this town where the Russians relocated to is next to a major Russian objective---Sloviansk

Pictures from the battle today near Donetsk Airport. 8 Russian tanks/vehicles destroyed pic.twitter.com/VByj5Tl99A via @SputnikATO

Daniele Monigatti @DMonigatti
Kyiv verifying reports that militants used chemical weapons at Donetsk airport
http://disq.us/8lvaky

[Firn]

I have a bad memory but wasn't there some sort of truce agreement lately in Berlin or so? Not many days ago?

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I have a bad memory but wasn't there some sort of truce agreement lately in Berlin or so? Not many days ago?

Firn--actually no--what was agreed to was the removal of all artillery over
100mms 15kms from each side of the Minsk defined demarcation line--which also was the core point mentioned in the Sept Minsk agreement signed by Russia--so really there was nothing agreed to in berlin that had not already been agreed to in Sept in Minsk---all propaganda and the Russians appearing to be willing to negotiate that is all.

The only existing ceasefire was the Ukrainian November declared period of silence and it was unilateral and not held to by either Russian troops and their mercenaries. For a long time even the Ukrainians would not return fire even is heavily shelled.

Steinmeier & @GermanyDiplo- how is that "retreat heavy weapons 15km" thing going?
#Russia advanced 15km since you had this "success"...

Remember it was the Russian FM Lavrov who in Moscow before flying to Berlin stated that the Russian mercenaries had listened to Russian and would pull back to the Minsk demarcation line--see anything like that happening lately--thus the FM cannot be ever trusted and I am not sure why the US keeps trying to deal with him.

And this seems to have been overlooked by the US NSC---

#Putin Once Casually Said He Could Destroy The US In A Half-An-Hour Or Less
http://www.businessinsider.com/putin-said-he-could-destroy-the-us-2015-1#ixzz3PfwDlk8u …
pic.twitter.com/4HOBXc4PFP

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They are everywhere in #Donetsk
#Reuters photo, Jan 21
pic.twitter.com/yIsML7FelO

#Ukraine troops killed 50 #Russia troops,captured 5,destroyed 4 tanks etc #Donetsk
http://news.liga.net/news/politics/4860866-v_donetskoy_oblasti_unichtozheno_bolee_50_boevikov _minoborony.htm … #Ukraine pic.twitter.com/d95kKpAK5S
Bad news for #Debaltseve they're able to get so far
pic.twitter.com/zd5VxQPRJs

THERE IS A HEAVY RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE HAPPENING BETWEEN HORLIVKA AND ADVEEVKA W/O ANY MEDIA/UKR ARMY REFLECTION pic.twitter.com/4nTOyXH9Y0

#Ukrainian forces recaptured 31 checkpoint - Press Center #ATO
pic.twitter.com/xxGU2uGfox

VIDEO: Journalists escorted by Russian soldier running for cover in #Horlivka for ongoing shelling. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIfhAo7tdas …

Commander Russian Armed Forces (Vyaznikov) established new HQ at Soledar, closer to #Sloviansk http://www.osce.org/ukraine-smm/135926 …
pic.twitter.com/iTcV24BHqC
NOTE: this town where the Russians relocated to is next to a major Russian objective---Sloviansk

Pictures from the battle today near Donetsk Airport. 8 Russian tanks/vehicles destroyed pic.twitter.com/VByj5Tl99A via @SputnikATO

Daniele Monigatti @DMonigatti
Kyiv verifying reports that militants used chemical weapons at Donetsk airport
http://disq.us/8lvaky

This is how Ilovaisk 2.0 will be created at Debaltseve now that Russian general moved away.
pic.twitter.com/dZSGWl5VaG

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Russian howitzers in Tahanrig, Rostov region
http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/23-january-russian-howitzers-in-tahanrig-rostov-region …
pic.twitter.com/yFLAtLrjSE

Unbelievable: Donbas Russian seperatist Strelkov appears to have become a war expert on Russian TV.
NOTE: He started this whole mess----
pic.twitter.com/4fZrzhDWdK


VIDEO 22/01/15 #Russia 9A52-2 Smerch-M Rocket Launcher in #Makeevka
https://www.youtube.com/watch?x-yt-ts=1421914688&v=4DjWjyQyyTo&x-yt-cl=84503534 …
pic.twitter.com/NrlvTwtpaw

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Were Chemical Weapons Used in Donetsk Airport’s Last Stand?

https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2015/01/23/were-chemical-weapons-used-in-donetsk-airports-last-stand/ …

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Why Ilovaisk 2.0 is in the making RIGHT NOW.

http://ukraineatwar.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/ilovaisk-20-in-making-at-debaltseve.html …
pic.twitter.com/AyOEQMXy2v

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Thousands of Russian Troops in Airport Push Newsweek

By James Rupert 1/23/15 at 6:12 PM

A “substantial number” of Russian Federation special forces troops led this week’s capture of the Donetsk airport amid what appears to be Russia’s biggest direct military offensive in Ukraine since last summer.

The offensive, by thousands of Russian troops, appears aimed at least in part at forcing a re-negotiation of the September cease-fire agreement, which has proven an obstacle for the Kremlin in its key goal: constraining Ukraine’s pursuit of closer ties with Europe and the West.

After months of intense, high-explosive combat amid the ruins of southeastern Ukraine’s main airport, Russian special forces commandos this week led the attacks that killed or drove back the Ukrainian troops and national guardsmen that both sides had dubbed “cyborgs” for their tenacious, defense of the airport’s main buildings, according to Atlantic Council analyst John Herbst. The Russian special forces are fighting at the airport “in substantial numbers,” said Herbst, a former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine who returned this week from a talks with Ukrainian and Western officials in Kyiv and Brussels.

In recent weeks, Russia has boosted its troop numbers inside southeastern Ukraine’s Donbas region to about 9,000, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said this week in a speech at Davos, Switzerland. Ukraine’s intelligence services routinely monitor Russian military movements across the stretches of the Ukraine-Russia border that are under the effective control of Russian forces.

Along with NATO, which uses satellite surveillance of the same area, Ukraine has reported what Herbst says is “a massive resupply of Russian heavy equipment—tanks, armored personnel carriers, missile systems—into Ukraine over the past month. Obviously, these are all things that were stocked for the offensive that we’re seeing right now.”

War’s Cost: $6 Million Daily

The new offensive follows what has been a creeping seizure of territory “since the putative cease-fire was agreed to in early September,” said Herbst, who directs the Atlantic Council’s Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center. “The Russians and separatist forces have captured another 500 square kilometers of Ukrainian territory”—about 190 square miles, about three times the area of Washington, D.C. “So the cease-fire violations are not just in shooting but in seizing land,” Herbst said in an interview.

“Another key takeaway” of his talks in Kiev “is the cost of the war to Ukraine,” Herbst said. “Ukrainian security officials we spoke to said Ukraine is spending $6 million to $7 million every day, just to maintain their forces in the east to oppose the Kremlin’s aggression.”

Ukrainian military officers in Donbas told The New York Times that Russian troops also are spearheading a drive in Lugansk province that seized border checkpoint from Ukrainian troops and villages north of Lugansk city.

Russia’s Offensive: What Goals?

The Russian offensive’s immediate territorial goals are unclear. Alexander Zakharchenko, a Ukrainian who is the declared prime minister of the Russian-sponsored Donetsk People’s Republic, told Russian news agencies today that the Russian-backed forces would re-capture all of Donetsk province (an objective he has declared for many weeks). Ukraine last summer pushed the Donetsk separatist forces out of the northern half of the province before the Russian army deployed its own paratroopers, tanks and artillery units to halt their advance.

Some military analysts, notably Georgetown University professor and former Pentagon strategist Philip Karber, have warned that a new Russian drive into Ukraine was likely in the spring. US government analysts in Washington have told the Atlantic Council in recent weeks that Russia might move in the winter, rather than wait for spring, in part because it has a tactical advantage over Ukraine with its greater transport and logistical capacities amid snow and freezing temperatures.

Whatever Russia’s immediate aims in a winter offensive, President Vladimir Putin’s strategic need is greater military leverage against the Ukrainian government than that permitted him under the September cease-fire accord. [B]That deal confined the Russian-led forces to only the southern half of the Donbas region, and has failed to deter the government in Kiev from pursuing its closer association with the European Union and the West.

Putin has insisted that Ukraine must remain in the Russian sphere of influence and join a Russian-led economic bloc that is a centerpiece of Putin’s strategy for maintaining Russia’s long-term security and economic future as the dominant power in Eurasia.

Lavrov Says ‘Prove It’

Amid the Russian offensive this week, German officials reported that Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov had agreed with his German, French and Ukrainian counterparts on a plan for both sides to pull their heavy weapons back from the line agreed in the September 5 cease-fire deal, signed in Minsk, Belarus.

Russia denies that it has troops in Ukraine or that it is the financial and military backer of the Donetsk and Lugansk “people’s republics.” Those entities were created and are sustained by Ukrainians opposed to the “fascist” and “neo-Nazi” government in Kiev, the Kremlin says.

To journalists in Davos, Lavrov on January 21 re-stated Moscow’s denial that it has sent weapons or troops, or that it has any other direct involvement in the war. “I say every time: If you allege this so confidently, present the facts. But nobody can present the facts, or doesn't want to," Lavrov told a news conference before heading to the peace talks in Berlin with the foreign ministers of Ukraine, Germany and France. “So before demanding from us that we stop doing something, please present proof that we have done it," Lavrov said.

In fact, a wide base of reporting from Ukraine and Russia—including independent reporting by Western and Russian journalists; by non-government organizations including the Russian committees of mothers of soldiers and the Russian director of the Red Cross in Moscow; by international and Russian human rights groups and activists; and by Russian citizens and soldiers posting their stories and pictures on social media sites—have documented Russia’s provision of weapons; its deployments of troops; the deaths of its soldiers on Ukrainian battlefields; its government’s support for Russian military veterans’ recruitment as mercenaries; the presence of its (Cossack and Chechen) paramilitary forces in Ukraine’s war; and other elements of Russia’s role.

Many such reports also have detailed the censorship, beatings, and legal actions by the Russian government to suppress the evidence that Lavrov said had never been offered.

James Rupert is an editor at the Atlantic Council.

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Thousands of Russian Troops in Airport Push

By James Rupert 1/23/15 at 6:12 PM

A “substantial number” of Russian Federation special forces troops led this week’s capture of the Donetsk airport amid what appears to be Russia’s biggest direct military offensive in Ukraine since last summer.

The offensive, by thousands of Russian troops, appears aimed at least in part at forcing a re-negotiation of the September cease-fire agreement, which has proven an obstacle for the Kremlin in its key goal: constraining Ukraine’s pursuit of closer ties with Europe and the West.

After months of intense, high-explosive combat amid the ruins of southeastern Ukraine’s main airport, Russian special forces commandos this week led the attacks that killed or drove back the Ukrainian troops and national guardsmen that both sides had dubbed “cyborgs” for their tenacious, defense of the airport’s main buildings, according to Atlantic Council analyst John Herbst. The Russian special forces are fighting at the airport “in substantial numbers,” said Herbst, a former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine who returned this week from a talks with Ukrainian and Western officials in Kyiv and Brussels.

In recent weeks, Russia has boosted its troop numbers inside southeastern Ukraine’s Donbas region to about 9,000, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said this week in a speech at Davos, Switzerland. Ukraine’s intelligence services routinely monitor Russian military movements across the stretches of the Ukraine-Russia border that are under the effective control of Russian forces.

Along with NATO, which uses satellite surveillance of the same area, Ukraine has reported what Herbst says is “a massive resupply of Russian heavy equipment—tanks, armored personnel carriers, missile systems—into Ukraine over the past month. Obviously, these are all things that were stocked for the offensive that we’re seeing right now.”

War’s Cost: $6 Million Daily

The new offensive follows what has been a creeping seizure of territory “since the putative cease-fire was agreed to in early September,” said Herbst, who directs the Atlantic Council’s Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center. “The Russians and separatist forces have captured another 500 square kilometers of Ukrainian territory”—about 190 square miles, about three times the area of Washington, D.C. “So the cease-fire violations are not just in shooting but in seizing land,” Herbst said in an interview.

“Another key takeaway” of his talks in Kiev “is the cost of the war to Ukraine,” Herbst said. “Ukrainian security officials we spoke to said Ukraine is spending $6 million to $7 million every day, just to maintain their forces in the east to oppose the Kremlin’s aggression.”

Ukrainian military officers in Donbas told The New York Times that Russian troops also are spearheading a drive in Lugansk province that seized border checkpoint from Ukrainian troops and villages north of Lugansk city.

Russia’s Offensive: What Goals?

The Russian offensive’s immediate territorial goals are unclear. Alexander Zakharchenko, a Ukrainian who is the declared prime minister of the Russian-sponsored Donetsk People’s Republic, told Russian news agencies today that the Russian-backed forces would re-capture all of Donetsk province (an objective he has declared for many weeks). Ukraine last summer pushed the Donetsk separatist forces out of the northern half of the province before the Russian army deployed its own paratroopers, tanks and artillery units to halt their advance.

Some military analysts, notably Georgetown University professor and former Pentagon strategist Philip Karber, have warned that a new Russian drive into Ukraine was likely in the spring. US government analysts in Washington have told the Atlantic Council in recent weeks that Russia might move in the winter, rather than wait for spring, in part because it has a tactical advantage over Ukraine with its greater transport and logistical capacities amid snow and freezing temperatures.

Whatever Russia’s immediate aims in a winter offensive, President Vladimir Putin’s strategic need is greater military leverage against the Ukrainian government than that permitted him under the September cease-fire accord. [B]That deal confined the Russian-led forces to only the southern half of the Donbas region, and has failed to deter the government in Kiev from pursuing its closer association with the European Union and the West.

Putin has insisted that Ukraine must remain in the Russian sphere of influence and join a Russian-led economic bloc that is a centerpiece of Putin’s strategy for maintaining Russia’s long-term security and economic future as the dominant power in Eurasia.

Lavrov Says ‘Prove It’

Amid the Russian offensive this week, German officials reported that Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov had agreed with his German, French and Ukrainian counterparts on a plan for both sides to pull their heavy weapons back from the line agreed in the September 5 cease-fire deal, signed in Minsk, Belarus.

Russia denies that it has troops in Ukraine or that it is the financial and military backer of the Donetsk and Lugansk “people’s republics.” Those entities were created and are sustained by Ukrainians opposed to the “fascist” and “neo-Nazi” government in Kiev, the Kremlin says.

To journalists in Davos, Lavrov on January 21 re-stated Moscow’s denial that it has sent weapons or troops, or that it has any other direct involvement in the war. “I say every time: If you allege this so confidently, present the facts. But nobody can present the facts, or doesn't want to," Lavrov told a news conference before heading to the peace talks in Berlin with the foreign ministers of Ukraine, Germany and France. “So before demanding from us that we stop doing something, please present proof that we have done it," Lavrov said.

In fact, a wide base of reporting from Ukraine and Russia—including independent reporting by Western and Russian journalists; by non-government organizations including the Russian committees of mothers of soldiers and the Russian director of the Red Cross in Moscow; by international and Russian human rights groups and activists; and by Russian citizens and soldiers posting their stories and pictures on social media sites—have documented Russia’s provision of weapons; its deployments of troops; the deaths of its soldiers on Ukrainian battlefields; its government’s support for Russian military veterans’ recruitment as mercenaries; the presence of its (Cossack and Chechen) paramilitary forces in Ukraine’s war; and other elements of Russia’s role.

Many such reports also have detailed the censorship, beatings, and legal actions by the Russian government to suppress the evidence that Lavrov said had never been offered.

James Rupert is an editor at the Atlantic Council.

AND this above is not a "war" vs the US term "incursion"?

Ukraine rebel Zakharchenko 'rejects truce talks' -- Who asks for a truce when he's winning?
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-30949527 …

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So now that we are seeing a full blown Russian invasion and resulting war there is a single point of failure for Putin---the question is -----is the US/EU and NATO willing if at all to pull the trigger?

It will bring the Russian economy to it's knees and present Putin with a series of serious decisions to make--namely risk his entire economy to come to a literal stand still and that over the next tens years or he pulls out.

SWIFT


Leonid Ragozin @leonidragozin
Interesting how top Russian officials are promising a full-out war if SWIFT sanctions are in place. Here is their pain barrier.

[Bill Moore]

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/24/world/europe/ukraine-violence.html?_r=0

War Is Exploding Anew In Ukraine; Rebels Vow More


Unexpectedly, at the height of the Ukrainian winter, war has exploded anew on a half-dozen battered fronts across eastern Ukraine, accompanied by increasing evidence that Russian troops and Russian equipment have been pouring into the region again.

Surprise to who exactly? Our diplomats?


With the appearance in recent weeks of what NATO calls sophisticated Russian weapons systems, newly emboldened separatist leaders have abandoned all talk of a cease-fire. One of the top leaders of the Russian-backed rebels said Friday that his soldiers were “on the offensive” in several sectors, capitalizing on their capture of the Donetsk airport the day before.

As for Russia's economy, all the more reason to attack to maintain national identity. One also should wonder how long King Saud's successor will keep oil prices suppressed.

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Gubarev Kidnapped by Chechens - and Released; Fighters from Caucasus Take Over Krasnodon http://www.interpretermag.com/russia-update-january-23-2015/#6483 … pic.twitter.com/WfuExMBq1e

http://top.rbc.ru/politics/24/01/2015/54c2b9259a7947c082c09464 … Ukraine says it's captured the former mayor of Debaltseve, who's suspected of organizing the DNR's referendum.

#Ukraine troops killed a bunch "rebels". One of which forgot to not bring his #Russia|n Army billet (issued in 2011).
pic.twitter.com/XnB4SksaBU

VIDEO "DNR" (#Russia soldiers) firing artillery in direction of #Mariupol #Donetsk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJjkNd8m42o …
pic.twitter.com/DvURSGyVb4

Russian artillery is pounding Popasna & can soon be able to surround Ukrainian forces in Debaltseve, 1 of Ukraine's most strategic positions

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How is it possible that social media can in fact identify specific Russian combat units inside the Ukraine on any given day when a photo or video pops up on the net and yet we hear virtually nothing of the kind from the US intelligence community?

We get vague comments like we see "signs" of this or that but nothing specific--why is that? For all the billions spent on them in the last 13 years and the sheer levels of technical abilities with the new ISR platforms and all we get are "signs"?

And social media is free and unclassified---even if they used the free stuff they would inherently classify it so the public then learns nothing--strange is it not?

Tactical marking on #Reuters photo from #Donetsk Jan 21 is #Russia's 20th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade
pic.twitter.com/ldfWkPtini

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/24/world/europe/ukraine-violence.html?_r=0

War Is Exploding Anew In Ukraine; Rebels Vow More



Surprise to who exactly? Our diplomats?



As for Russia's economy, all the more reason to attack to maintain national identity. One also should wonder how long King Saud's successor will keep oil prices suppressed.

Have come long ago to believe the White House, the NSC and our diplomatic corp just really does not care as that would require development of a strategy and carrying out that strategy which they really do not want to do. Example--Congress passes a bill for defensive aid to the Ukraine--Russia declares it will be a really bad thing if the US sends weapons as they will have to do it to---then Obama freezes the bill with virtually no support even on the money side---AND yet Russia streams in massive weapons and troops AS we lay frozen in our own indecision and we still somehow think that is US leadership?

Second example---this was announced yesterday for the "spring"--by "spring" Russia will have settled the issue---this is a smoke and mirrors drill as it should have been done immediately after the Crimea and yet this WH and NSC simply did nothing hoping it would go away before they were seriously forced to make decisions--the decision time has arrived and yet still nothing.

Army Recognition @ArmyRecognition
#US #military advisers to start training National Guard of #Ukraine's troops in spring:
http://bit.ly/1F8QQbt
pic.twitter.com/sqpR558q0z

Putin reads Obama like a champ---and we do what again? I have been asking here at SWJ again and again- show me the strategy---there is none. Why do I say that---if the common man/woman in the streets of Houston TX cannot see it then it does not exist.

Even NATO is now sending signals to Russia they want to go back to business as usual. How did that happen in the face of this Russian declaration of war on the Ukraine.

Here is the problem---we just cannot some how get use to the fact that a "proxy" can in fact do things in the name of the supporting nation state that it could not do itself--so when the DNR declared war yesterday it was really the Russians declaring war and yet did we see anything coming out of DC other than words---and that was sparse at best.

You and I have had different opinions on just what is the greater threat--and presto NATO and JCoS Dempsey stated yesterday both Russia and terrorism are on the same level--my question is why did it take so long and now is Russia truly the number one threat as they have fully revealed their true intentions which have been there all along to see--by the way Russia is far easier to read than is IS.

By the way part of the problem is our own making--Ukraine needs badly financial support or they will default shortly---it costs them 7M a day to fight --Russian costs have to be in excess of 20M per day----but because of IMF rules they cannot support a country that is at "war" thus the Ukraine hangs onto the term ATO not using the correct term war that the have long ago wanted to use. Let the Ukraine declare this is a war of independence and then let's see the Russian reaction--by making this a supposedly internal dispute the US sidesteps making decisions.

Soros was recently so so so correct in his assumption --give the Ukraine 50B to end their financial crisis, then give them weapons and let them fight on their own terms.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/24/world/europe/ukraine-violence.html?_r=0

War Is Exploding Anew In Ukraine; Rebels Vow More



Surprise to who exactly? Our diplomats?



As for Russia's economy, all the more reason to attack to maintain national identity. One also should wonder how long King Saud's successor will keep oil prices suppressed.

Bill--here is IMHO the core problem with this administration---the headlines scream "war is exploding" but what occurred yesterday was the first time I have seen an "actual declaration of war" being voiced in the mass media--AND notice Putin and his FM backed it up immediately with their own comments AND not a single comment out of this administration--not an urgently called NSC, not an urgently called press conference, not a demand for an immediate UNSC meeting---nothing, zero, nada occurred and or was stated yesterday from this administration.

This is where we differ--Russia is the greatest actual threat seen by us since 9/11--why because a crazy has his finger on the nuclear button and he jokingly stated a few months ago he could destroy the US in under a half hour---nowhere have I seen that threat verbalized by IS--not even AQ has gone that far in their many threats they have uttered over the years.

Breaking: Mariupol city shelling reported
http://www.0629.com.ua/news/719982
pic.twitter.com/dpAIjgZoHO

Video from #Mariupol
#Mariupol: #Russkies #Grad|s hit residence buildings https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3P2MlDQhCs …”

BREAKING: Heavy rockets hit government-held #Ukraine port of #Mariupol: mayor’s office - AFP

#Azov regiment says there r wounded civilians as a result of E #Mariupol shelled. Resid area, market affected
https://www.facebook.com/azov.batalion/posts/985813928115396 …

Russian Grad rockets hit Mariupol Ukraine as Russian forces advance on the city. Civilian casualties are reported
pic.twitter.com/7zf3MDD1Z2

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A Dutch bloggers view of the Ukrainian fighting and why the US/EU/NATO does not respond---am afraid I actually agree with him.

Really read it from end to end and you will notice I have mentioned much of it here on this thread---and regardless of my respect for Bill M Russia is inherently the greatest threat against the US in 25 years --OR has no one in the US noticed Putin has effectively disowned the nuclear concept of MAD and that is far more dangerous than a bunch of black flag waving fascist islamists trying to create a Sunni nation.

Putin has effectively with this current US president shown to the world the "fakeness of US foreign policy".

THERE is though an economic "nuclear weapon" that the US/EU have that will end Putin's aggression immediately and it is a two step process--step one cut off all Russian companies from any capital anywhere outside of China, and step two disconnect Russia from SWIFT---the core question is do western leaders have the courage to pull the trigger--this is where the blogger is correct--they do not.

Poroshenko's dilemma

"I am a president of peace. Not of war." said president Poroshenko.

The problem is: his country is at war whether he likes it or not.

But Poroshenko knows it is a war he can not win.

Why?
Because Putler has nukes (and many other nasty tricks of course).

E.V.E.R.Y single time Ukraine upscaled it's response to the Russian aggression to counter it, the Russians upscaled THEIRS even more.
And where does that end?

If the road of upscaling-aggression would be walked, in the end Putin would use nukes. And Ukraine does NOT have an answer to that.
So an all out war with Russia... Ukraine will loose that. Period.

And THUS Ukraine seeks help from the West and started with an unilateral ceasefire and later Minsk bilateral, EVEN THOUGH everybody knew the Russians would use it to restructure and reinforce their forces in Ukraine.
But Ukraine can not win the war against Putler without the West. That's why Poroshenko listens to them. To get their help. And THEY say: don't fight.


Because the West does not want war. Not in Europe but neither in Ukraine. It's bad for business!
So the West hesitates. Lingers. Tries to find a 'diplomatic solution'.
And they tell Poroshenko: do not fight, because we will sanction Putin. Show the world HE is the aggressor and not you and we will hit him in his pocket.

Why they do it this way? Why not send weapons?
Because Putin has nukes!
We don't want a nuclear war. We don't want upscaling-aggression all the time with the use of nukes in the end.


Sanctions are working pretty good when you look at the Ruble. But it's not good enough. Because it takes a loooot of TIME before it really has a good effect.
But ALSO because the West does not understand Putins game. Putin does not play by the rules. That is: OUR rules. Putin has his own set of rules and PRETENDS to play OUR game. That's why he is able to endlessly fool Western diplomats.

If sanctions hurt Putin... he will STEAL what he needs to survive. He STEALS Crimea. He STEALS coal from Donbas and sells it to Ukraine who has no option but to buy it. He steals a complete factory for helicopter engines from Donbas, transports it in his humanitarian white trucks and builds it up again somewhere in Russia.
Putin will STEAL from the West too. Mark my words. He will if he needs to do that for his survival.


Because NOBODY can get Putin and his gang. Why? He has nukes.
Imagine... one bomb on Berlin and Europe is out.
Because what we gonna do? Nuke back? And get an all out Nuke war? We don't want THAT.

And THUS the West has to allow Putin grabbing what he wants and HOPING things will get better anyways.

But what the West does not fully understand is that they have REALLY GONE MAD in Russia. Beyond imagination. To this point that almost all of them believe the crazy propaganda they produce themselves. It is a vicious circle they are in. A VERY aggressive one.
AND they have nukes... a lot of them!
That is a very dangerous combination. Madness and Nukes...


Putin is going to grab what he wants with force. If anybody wants to stop him, he will upscale. Our collective (Ukrainian AND European) dilemma is this: How much will we allow him to grab before we say it is enough? Until he is in Berlin?

You think he will not go to Berlin? Of course he will. U.N.L.E.S.S somebody or something stops him.
(That is... he and his gang, because they are all in it together.)

And therefor the ULTIMATE question we have to ask ourselves is this: how are we going to deal with Putlers nukes if he would start to use them?

Do we have an answer to that?
If we DON'T have this answer, he will eventually (between now and so many years) run all over Europe with his crappy tanks, with uncountable victims.

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#Marioul East, the Kyivskyi Market directly hit.
Russian propaganda says its West.
via @Neiswestnij @molevitckiy
pic.twitter.com/CkI9JiJxdR

DNR denies it shelled #Mariupol "@vesti_news:

It was the heavier "Uragans" that Russians shelled on Mariupol today
pic.twitter.com/pvjyt1VX8W

Ukrainian MFA: At least 10 civilians including children have been killed at Mariupol shelling pic.twitter.com/qv2vBe0FOO

Azov in Mariupol reporting several dead and many wounded after MLRS hit a market http://u.afp.com/zNp
pic.twitter.com/5b4rXYNKEt

#Mariupol, Vostochny. Shelling from Novoazovsk direction.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKAq9nmm93A …
pic.twitter.com/uSL9ELEt39

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#Marioul East, the Kyivskyi Market directly hit.
Russian propaganda says its West.
via @Neiswestnij @molevitckiy
pic.twitter.com/CkI9JiJxdR

DNR denies it shelled #Mariupol "@vesti_news:

It was the heavier "Uragans" that Russians shelled on Mariupol today
pic.twitter.com/pvjyt1VX8W

Ukrainian MFA: At least 10 civilians including children have been killed at Mariupol shelling pic.twitter.com/qv2vBe0FOO

Azov in Mariupol reporting several dead and many wounded after MLRS hit a market http://u.afp.com/zNp
pic.twitter.com/5b4rXYNKEt

#Mariupol, Vostochny. Shelling from Novoazovsk direction.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKAq9nmm93A …
pic.twitter.com/uSL9ELEt39

Seems the Russians have no earthly idea of the ranges of their BM27s these days.
“Our militias have no weapon systems near Mariupol that would be able to shell that region. Our positions are simply too far away,”

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The following this week were Russia's actions and statements:

1. the Russian FM in an open press conference states---we have influenced the DNR to pull back to the Minsk demarcation line

2. then the DNR declaration of war followed by two statements by Putin and his FM 1) the Ukraine did not respond to our proposals about the artillery pull back and 2) we are not involved in the internal affairs of the Ukraine

3. claimed they wanted the Normandy talks to proceed

4. recalled their signatures on the 13 November ceasefire agreement and claimed they still supported the Minsk demarcation line

5. then Russian troops go on a full attack

6. Putin claims in the face of lies--that the Ukrainian AF bombed Russian citizens

7. AND now importantly Putin sends "suggested changes to the Minsk demarcation lines" which if followed would create the "New Russia" and the Ukraine does not respond--the actual reason for this declaration of war and Russian offensive

8. Russia places Crimea troops on full alert after they shell Mariupol

Now the following below and we still think the IS is the direct threat--read the NYTs "Holy War" article?

Russia "is on a holy mission. It’s at war with the US..." - Moscow professor's take on escalating Ukraine war
http://nyti.ms/1uG3Vom

Kremlin Leader’s Distorted View of the World.
http://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2015/01/talking-to-putin-about-ukra... …

Here Putin claims that the Ukrainians used aviation to bomb Donbass in recent days.
http://www.kremlin.ru/news/47505

Russia is getting nervous about the possibility of being cut off from SWIFT - calls such move tantamount to war
http://on.ft.com/1Cm0oMC

URGENT! In connection with the events in #Mariupol, the #Russia|n Armed Forces in #Crimea alerted!

Zerkalo Nedeli publishes #Putin letter to #Poroshenko and shows his suggested new border with separatists
http://zn.ua/UKRAINE/pismo-putina-poroshenko-polnyy-tekst-i-putinskaya-k... …

[Bill Moore]

I'll start with a joke from the State of the Union Address.


Second, we’re demonstrating the power of American strength and diplomacy. We’re upholding the principle that bigger nations can’t bully the small -- by opposing Russian aggression, and supporting Ukraine’s democracy, and reassuring our NATO allies. (Applause.)

Last year, as we were doing the hard work of imposing sanctions along with our allies, as we were reinforcing our presence with frontline states, Mr. Putin’s aggression it was suggested was a masterful display of strategy and strength. That's what I heard from some folks. Well, today, it is America that stands strong and united with our allies, while Russia is isolated with its economy in tatters. That’s how America leads -- not with bluster, but with persistent, steady resolve. (Applause.)

I think I had a tear in my eye after he said that because I knew Americans were probably swallowing this line of bull hook, line, and sinker. Then again less than 40% of Americans actually watched it. Was there something on MTV that was more important? I'll stop . . . for now.

I'll repeat my hypothesis that our economic sanctions have made Putin stronger, at least in the near term. Over time they may have the desired effect, but I just don't see Putler swallowing his pride. Our sanctions, I suspect, will unify the Russian people behind Putin. I have been to Russia, and one thing I took away from my visit is that they're a proud people. To this day they have deep cultural memory of the hardship they endured during WWII. I always had respect for the stoicism the British displayed during WWII, but I think the Russians topped their performance in that regard. The point is we're not likely to compel them to change their behavior with sanctions alone.

Grand strategy, again in my opinion, is largely about exploiting challenges and opportunities when they arise to shape the world in way that is more beneficial to a nation's interests. Of course you have to understand the world, and have some idea of where you want to go to see and respond appropriately to the challenges and opportunities. Other actors have their grand strategy, and they see our sanctions as an opportunity to partner with Putler to mitigate the strength of the U.S. on the world stage. Hell, even Germany apparently signed a non-aggression pact with Russia recently. Keep the oil and gas flowing please. I'm not as convinced Russia is as isolated as the White House suggests. We also fail to understand the growing power of transnational crime (exponentially richer than now than a mere decade ago) to help sustain a country using illicit pathways facilitated by the forces of globalization. In short, we have a strategy based on the world the way it was in the 1980s, and even then it would be a weak strategy.

[Bill Moore]

Russia is inherently the greatest threat against the US in 25 years --OR has no one in the US noticed Putin has effectively disowned the nuclear concept of MAD and that is far more dangerous than a bunch of black flag waving fascist islamists trying to create a Sunni nation.

If Russia is at war with us, then absolutely you are right. If Russia is at war with a few peripheral states and playing chess with us, then we need to worry about the groups that are actually attacking our interests (destabilizing the Middle East, and reaching out beyond the ME), and threatening to attack the homeland. It certainly isn't infeasible to foresee a chemical weapon attack in the U.S. conducted by ISIL. You can counter, that isn't as dangerous as Russia launching a nuke at NYC and you would be right. The difference is ISIL seeks to attack the U.S., while Russia implies a threat if we attack them. That difference isn't subtle. We could probably reach out to ISIL and make a deal, we really don't mind if you over throw these illegitimate governments if you leave us along and keep the oil flowing, but it would run against the grain of our national values on human rights to embrace that approach.

I don't know what the answer is with ISIL, but I don't agree the threat is isolated to Syria and Iraq. They don't pose an existential threat to us, but they do to many states in the region.


Putin has effectively with this current US president shown to the world the "fakeness of US foreign policy". True, so Putin basically has two years to play with to pursue his ends until we have a new administration.


THERE is though an economic "nuclear weapon" that the US/EU have that will end Putin's aggression immediately and it is a two step process--step one cut off all Russian companies from any capital anywhere outside of China, and step two disconnect Russia from SWIFT---the core question is do western leaders have the courage to pull the trigger--this is where the blogger is correct--they do not.

That would be an act of war, so it involves more than courage, it involves the will to fight a war with another nuclear power over an irrelevant state that has historically since its independence been one of the most corrupt countries in the world.


E.V.E.R.Y single time Ukraine upscaled it's response to the Russian aggression to counter it, the Russians upscaled THEIRS even more.
And where does that end?

It doesn't have to end, they could continue to trend to CvC's absolute war, but I suspect mitigating forces will limit the escalation at some point.


If the road of upscaling-aggression would be walked, in the end Putin would use nukes. And Ukraine does NOT have an answer to that.
So an all out war with Russia... Ukraine will loose that. Period.

That would certainly change the world strategically wouldn't it? It has been 70 years since an atomic bomb has been employed, and it shocked the world into developing other forms of warfare (proxy warfare) to avoid a nuclear confrontation which was widely recognized as a lose-lose proposal. I agree that we should certainly start thinking deeply about what it means if Russia actually uses a tactical or strategic nuke. Even threatening to use a nuclear weapon upsets the uneasy stability we have enjoyed since the end of the Cold War.


And THUS Ukraine seeks help from the West and started with an unilateral ceasefire and later Minsk bilateral, EVEN THOUGH everybody knew the Russians would use it to restructure and reinforce their forces in Ukraine.
But Ukraine can not win the war against Putler without the West. That's why Poroshenko listens to them. To get their help. And THEY say: don't fight.

So in reality it isn't Russia that is isolated, it is Ukraine.


Because the West does not want war. Not in Europe but neither in Ukraine. It's bad for business! So the West hesitates. Lingers. Tries to find a 'diplomatic solution'.
And they tell Poroshenko: do not fight, because we will sanction Putin. Show the world HE is the aggressor and not you and we will hit him in his pocket.

It is all about the market state now, not about ideology (for the West). That is why we think sanctions are so powerful. We suffer from the mirror effect and assume others will bend to the forces of the market like we would.


Why they do it this way? Why not send weapons?
Because Putin has nukes!
We don't want a nuclear war. We don't want upscaling-aggression all the time with the use of nukes in the end.

and the point is?


Putin does not play by the rules. That is: OUR rules. Putin has his own set of rules and PRETENDS to play OUR game. That's why he is able to endlessly fool Western diplomats.

Putin doesn't fool us, we fool ourselves.


Because NOBODY can get Putin and his gang. Why? He has nukes.
Imagine... one bomb on Berlin and Europe is out.
Because what we gonna do? Nuke back? And get an all out Nuke war? We don't want THAT.

He just described a limitation, so their strategy should embrace that limitation and seek to impose costs on Russia short of a nuclear war. Russia has vulnerabilities well beyond the borders of Ukraine that could be targeted by Ukraine SOF operatives, insurgent groups in other locations on Russia's border could be supported, etc. Sounds like the author is only looking at this conflict from a symmetrical perspective.


And THUS the West has to allow Putin grabbing what he wants and HOPING things will get better anyways.

Hope and smoke and mirrors pretty much describes the world view of our Department of State. Diplomats in fairy tale land.


But what the West does not fully understand is that they have REALLY GONE MAD in Russia. Beyond imagination. To this point that almost all of them believe the crazy propaganda they produce themselves. It is a vicious circle they are in. A VERY aggressive one.

We should understand this, we produce a lot of our own propaganda and embrace it.


That is a very dangerous combination. Madness and Nukes...

Pakistan and North Korea have nukes too. Very dangerous, this madness and nukes, yet at least so far the mad men haven't used them.


Putin is going to grab what he wants with force. If anybody wants to stop him, he will upscale. Our collective (Ukrainian AND European) dilemma is this: How much will we allow him to grab before we say it is enough? Until he is in Berlin?

He'll only upscale to the point he thinks he can win, but of course we no longer have a credible deterrent capacity in his view due to our political weakness.


You think he will not go to Berlin? Of course he will. U.N.L.E.S.S somebody or something stops him.
(That is... he and his gang, because they are all in it together.)

This is complete hyperbole.


And therefor the ULTIMATE question we have to ask ourselves is this: how are we going to deal with Putlers nukes if he would start to use them?

Do we have an answer to that?
If we DON'T have this answer, he will eventually (between now and so many years) run all over Europe with his crappy tanks, with uncountable victims

Disagree, but only time will tell. I think his objectives are more limited to regaining influence over former Warsaw Pact countries minus Germany, but he'll have economic leverage over the market state of Germany with his oil and gas reserves.

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If Russia is at war with us, then absolutely you are right. If Russia is at war with a few peripheral states and playing chess with us, then we need to worry about the groups that are actually attacking our interests (destabilizing the Middle East, and reaching out beyond the ME), and threatening to attack the homeland. It certainly isn't infeasible to foresee a chemical weapon attack in the U.S. conducted by ISIL. You can counter, that isn't as dangerous as Russia launching a nuke at NYC and you would be right. The difference is ISIL seeks to attack the U.S., while Russia implies a threat if we attack them. That difference isn't subtle. We could probably reach out to ISIL and make a deal, we really don't mind if you over throw these illegitimate governments if you leave us along and keep the oil flowing, but it would run against the grain of our national values on human rights to embrace that approach.

I don't know what the answer is with ISIL, but I don't agree the threat is isolated to Syria and Iraq. They don't pose an existential threat to us, but they do to many states in the region.

True, so Putin basically has two years to play with to pursue his ends until we have a new administration.



That would be an act of war, so it involves more than courage, it involves the will to fight a war with another nuclear power over an irrelevant state that has historically since its independence been one of the most corrupt countries in the world.



It doesn't have to end, they could continue to trend to CvC's absolute war, but I suspect mitigating forces will limit the escalation at some point.



That would certainly change the world strategically wouldn't it? It has been 70 years since an atomic bomb has been employed, and it shocked the world into developing other forms of warfare (proxy warfare) to avoid a nuclear confrontation which was widely recognized as a lose-lose proposal. I agree that we should certainly start thinking deeply about what it means if Russia actually uses a tactical or strategic nuke. Even threatening to use a nuclear weapon upsets the uneasy stability we have enjoyed since the end of the Cold War.



So in reality it isn't Russia that is isolated, it is Ukraine.



It is all about the market state now, not about ideology (for the West). That is why we think sanctions are so powerful. We suffer from the mirror effect and assume others will bend to the forces of the market like we would.



and the point is?



Putin doesn't fool us, we fool ourselves.



He just described a limitation, so their strategy should embrace that limitation and seek to impose costs on Russia short of a nuclear war. Russia has vulnerabilities well beyond the borders of Ukraine that could be targeted by Ukraine SOF operatives, insurgent groups in other locations on Russia's border could be supported, etc. Sounds like the author is only looking at this conflict from a symmetrical perspective.



Hope and smoke and mirrors pretty much describes the world view of our Department of State. Diplomats in fairy tale land.



We should understand this, we produce a lot of our own propaganda and embrace it.



Pakistan and North Korea have nukes too. Very dangerous, this madness and nukes, yet at least so far the mad men haven't used them.



He'll only upscale to the point he thinks he can win, but of course we no longer have a credible deterrent capacity in his view due to our political weakness.



This is complete hyperbole.



Disagree, but only time will tell. I think his objectives are more limited to regaining influence over former Warsaw Pact countries minus Germany, but he'll have economic leverage over the market state of Germany with his oil and gas reserves.

Russian has a number if strategic geo political goals one of the major ones is in fact the reestablishment of the Soviet Empire under the guise of "buffer states" ie spheres of influence which is so dead after 1991.

The shelling this morning of Mariupol invoked the following responses from the Crimea and in fact is the above major geo political goal that I mentioned.

former "Deputy Premier of Crimea" : "Liberation of Mariupol started. To Crimea its 280 km"
pic.twitter.com/bS1QjpLMzR

#BreakingNews
Pro-Russian occupation authority in #Crimea calls #Mariupol_Massacre "start of #liberation", calls for breakthrough to Crimea.

Reference SWIFT---SWIFT is a private company and can if it wants disconnect a country for not adhering to the guide lines and politics is a guideline.

Just as Russia uses the simple threat of a tactical nuclear strike to freeze and place fear into the EU SWIFT is the single point of failure for Russia---and just as the nuke is a threat SWIFT will freeze Russian thinking if the threat appears to be truly real---the West will not use it though as they do not have the courage necessary to have a backbone.

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#Russia|n forces goes on the offensive on #Debaltseve pic.twitter.com/10PvWhqaf4 http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/24-january-russian-forces-goes-on-the-offensive-on-debaltseve …

#BREAKINGNEWS
107 CIVILIANS KILLED AND WOUNDED IN THE #RUSSIAN_ARMY-CAUSED #MARIUPOL_MASSACRE.
20 fatalities
87 injured

Terrorussians admitting they fired on #Mariupol? That would be the first time... https://twitter.com/Automaidan/status/558959310903189505 …
pic.twitter.com/iXQHRwqO5M

RT ✔ @RT_com
URGENT: E. Ukraine militia denies shelling Mariupol, accuses Kiev of provocation http://on.rt.com/880c26 pic.twitter.com/PUQIfuYT6M

VIDEO Mariupol shortly after shelling. Another impact from East.
http://youtu.be/HLwWjrh2Nc8
pic.twitter.com/fkdjc0abZF

A local described on video that he saw the Grads coming from the east: https://twitter.com/RobPulseNews/status/558966835224530944 …

#Ukrainian Artilleryman at Debaltseve: between Sept. 5th and three days ago we fired around 3,000 grads. In last 3 days we've fired 1,000

Note max range of 120mm Sani mortar fm 25 Prospekt Mira is 7.18km, not 7.1-8km as transcribed. I.e. unlikely fired fm official Ukr positions

5 aircraft observed in the sky over city of #Luhansk today
http://inforesist.org/v-nebe-nad-luganskom-zamechena-reaktivnaya-aviaciya-smi/ …

#Mariupol hit by GRADs from Novoazovsk - evidences. VIDEO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzmuS_gYwtM …

Corridor to Crimea . Mariupol first step
pic.twitter.com/TB8KgRh1Qr

[Bill Moore]

Reference SWIFT---SWIFT is a private company and can if it wants disconnect a country for not adhering to the guide lines and politics is a guideline.

Just as Russia uses the simple threat of a tactical nuclear strike to freeze and place fear into the EU SWIFT is the single point of failure for Russia---and just as the nuke is a threat SWIFT will freeze Russian thinking if the threat appears to be truly real---the West will not use it though as they do not have the courage necessary to have a backbone.

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Speaking at a panel in Davos on Friday Andrei Kostin, chief executive of VTB, Russia’s second-largest bank, said: “If there is no Swift, there is no banking . . . relationship, it means that the countries are on the verge of war, or they are definitely in a cold war.”

“The next day, the Russian and American ambassadors would have to leave the capitals,” he added.

As for being isolated, that is BS, and we're doing little more than creating more enemies for America with our sanctions. It is a coward's approach and we'll reap what cowards reap.

Later in the article he commented on developing an alternative system separate from the U.S. dollar. Major out reach with China, and the other BRIC countries are willing to help also.

Power corrupts, absolute power ladi, ladi, . . .

People around the world are tiring of the U.S. imposing their values on them, and the resistance to our absurdly arrogant behavior will only get stronger. I looked up SWIFT after you pointed out and noted the U.S. took over $26K from the Netherlands during a SWIFT money transfer between Germany and the Netherlands because another country, a sovereign state decided to buy Cuban cigars against sanctions driven by a few radical Cuban-Americans in Florida.

We need to weld our power when it counts, and when it does count we need to weld it decisively. These pin prick attempts at welding power under the current administration and others make us look like a joke. We're conducting global strategy like we conduct COIN, winning hearts and minds with a little coercion here and there, and a few carrots there, and making up assessments that indicate we're winning, thus reinforcing ineffective behavior.

Obama is right that our sanctions didn't work against Cuba and we need to do something else. He is probably right about Iraq and Afghanistan, but the way he haphazardly goes about things and then spins them makes our country look weak and frankly we look silly and disconnected from reality.

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As for being isolated, that is BS, and we're doing little more than creating more enemies for America with our sanctions. It is a coward's approach and we'll reap what cowards reap.

Later in the article he commented on developing an alternative system separate from the U.S. dollar. Major out reach with China, and the other BRIC countries are willing to help also.

Power corrupts, absolute power ladi, ladi, . . .

People around the world are tiring of the U.S. imposing their values on them, and the resistance to our absurdly arrogant behavior will only get stronger. I looked up SWIFT after you pointed out and noted the U.S. took over $26K from the Netherlands during a SWIFT money transfer between Germany and the Netherlands because another country, a sovereign state decided to buy Cuban cigars against sanctions driven by a few radical Cuban-Americans in Florida.

We need to weld our power when it counts, and when it does count we need to weld it decisively. These pin prick attempts at welding power under the current administration and others make us look like a joke. We're conducting global strategy like we conduct COIN, winning hearts and minds with a little coercion here and there, and a few carrots there, and making up assessments that indicate we're winning, thus reinforcing ineffective behavior.

Obama is right that our sanctions didn't work against Cuba and we need to do something else. He is probably right about Iraq and Afghanistan, but the way he haphazardly goes about things and then spins them makes our country look weak and frankly we look silly and disconnected from reality.

This is where the Ukraine is headed unless both the Ukraine, US and EU get serious and yes SWIFT is a serious threat --it though is a threat that gets attention and says we are serious---but again this administration only talks and or remains silent---for over six years there is no really serious foreign policy and the NSC is a joke.

Creating Novorossiya would deprive Ukraine of any coastline, which is another reason Putin may seek to do that. It needs to be understood that, after so many needless and humiliating Ukrainian defeats, Putin is only one operational-level victory away from breaking hard-pressed Kyiv’s military in any meaningful sense. The Kremlin can already dictate its terms in the Southeast of Ukraine, and soon it will be able to exert its political will, without a full-scale invasion, over the whole shambolic country.

Putin has the military means to take over all Ukraine, particularly given Russia’s total control of the air, but that would be a fool’s errand, a humanitarian nightmare coupled with an endless insurgency. We can assume the General Staff has told “the boss” what would happen in that case, and we can hope Putin is listening. More likely is the creation of Novorossiya, step by step, under the Russian tricolor, and with that the shattering of any Ukrainian conventional military capability — and political will.

After that, the partition of Ukraine will be easy. The most likely end-state would be a three-way cutting up of the country, with Novorossiya, like Crimea, being joined to the Motherland by a triumphant Putin. The middle of the country around Kyiv, still called Ukraine, would emerge a rump Russian vassal state, independent in name only, to serve as a buffer between Russia and NATO. Ukraine’s West would go its own way, by default. Consisting of an expanded East Galicia, Austrian until 1918, this is the heartland of Ukrainian nationalism, unclaimed even by Russian hardliners, who acknowledge its special status and history. Those with long memories will recall that in 1918, after the Habsburgs fell, the West did not seek immediate union with the rest of Ukraine: expect the Kremlin to “remember” this soon. West Ukraine, the remnant not eaten by the Russian shark, would soon join NATO and the EU, as the Russians off-record understand and accept.

This fate is not preordained, yet it approaches fast, and should be acknowledged as the likely outcome of this war by Ukrainians who seem unable to grasp the gravity of the situation Ukraine faces — starting with Poroshenko. Should Ukraine be broken and partitioned by Russia, a sad history will have repeated itself, and Putin will have thoroughly overturned Europe’s post-Cold War order. This is only part of a broader struggle between Putin and the West — since members of the Russian elite are publicly warning of war with the United States, we may want to pay attention — but Ukraine is the main battleground for now. There Putin is winning, and he will continue to triumph unless Kyiv decides to get serious about the war that has been forced upon Ukraine. They will lose much more than Crimea and the Donbas if they do not.

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This is where the Ukraine is headed unless both the Ukraine, US and EU get serious and yes SWIFT is a serious threat --it though is a threat that gets attention and says we are serious---but again this administration only talks and or remains silent---for over six years there is no really serious foreign policy and the NSC is a joke.

Creating Novorossiya would deprive Ukraine of any coastline, which is another reason Putin may seek to do that. It needs to be understood that, after so many needless and humiliating Ukrainian defeats, Putin is only one operational-level victory away from breaking hard-pressed Kyiv’s military in any meaningful sense. The Kremlin can already dictate its terms in the Southeast of Ukraine, and soon it will be able to exert its political will, without a full-scale invasion, over the whole shambolic country.

Putin has the military means to take over all Ukraine, particularly given Russia’s total control of the air, but that would be a fool’s errand, a humanitarian nightmare coupled with an endless insurgency. We can assume the General Staff has told “the boss” what would happen in that case, and we can hope Putin is listening. More likely is the creation of Novorossiya, step by step, under the Russian tricolor, and with that the shattering of any Ukrainian conventional military capability — and political will.

After that, the partition of Ukraine will be easy. The most likely end-state would be a three-way cutting up of the country, with Novorossiya, like Crimea, being joined to the Motherland by a triumphant Putin. The middle of the country around Kyiv, still called Ukraine, would emerge a rump Russian vassal state, independent in name only, to serve as a buffer between Russia and NATO. Ukraine’s West would go its own way, by default. Consisting of an expanded East Galicia, Austrian until 1918, this is the heartland of Ukrainian nationalism, unclaimed even by Russian hardliners, who acknowledge its special status and history. Those with long memories will recall that in 1918, after the Habsburgs fell, the West did not seek immediate union with the rest of Ukraine: expect the Kremlin to “remember” this soon. West Ukraine, the remnant not eaten by the Russian shark, would soon join NATO and the EU, as the Russians off-record understand and accept.

This fate is not preordained, yet it approaches fast, and should be acknowledged as the likely outcome of this war by Ukrainians who seem unable to grasp the gravity of the situation Ukraine faces — starting with Poroshenko. Should Ukraine be broken and partitioned by Russia, a sad history will have repeated itself, and Putin will have thoroughly overturned Europe’s post-Cold War order. This is only part of a broader struggle between Putin and the West — since members of the Russian elite are publicly warning of war with the United States, we may want to pay attention — but Ukraine is the main battleground for now. There Putin is winning, and he will continue to triumph unless Kyiv decides to get serious about the war that has been forced upon Ukraine. They will lose much more than Crimea and the Donbas if they do not.

The Kremlin now believes they are at war with the United States, an Orthodox Holy War in the eyes of many Russians, and that struggle is defensive and legitimate. It would be good if Obama and his staff paid attention. This is about much more than Ukraine.

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The Kremlin now believes they are at war with the United States, an Orthodox Holy War in the eyes of many Russians, and that struggle is defensive and legitimate. It would be good if Obama and his staff paid attention. This is about much more than Ukraine.

Bill M--see the connection and how it ties back to the Russian UW doctrine and political warfare strategy.

Russian Foreign Ministry accused #Latvia of discrimination against Russian-speaking population
http://www.mid.ru/brp_4.nsf/newsline/F1D4CD9DD330630643257DD7003FD0D7 …
pic.twitter.com/goKvyGxGmV

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Militants leader announces launch of assault on Ukraine's Mariupol http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/24-january-militants-leader-announces-launch-of-assault-on …

OSCE Chief Monitor condemns Mariupol shelling as reckless, indiscriminate, disgraceful attack on civilians http://www.osce.org/ukraine-smm/136031 …

Lugansk News Today
#Turchinov repoorts that yesterday at Security Council in Kremlin Putin gave the order to increase attacks on Ukraine
http://youtu.be/E7MAqoF3wOs

Western journalists who have been silent during a 7 month long shelling of Donetsk & Lugansk civilians suddenly care about Ukrainians again?

Russian Foreign Ministry accused #Latvia of discrimination against Russian-speaking population http://www.mid.ru/brp_4.nsf/newsline/F1D4CD9DD330630643257DD7003FD0D7 … pic.twitter.com/goKvyGxGmV

Ukr artillery destroyed 4 of 6 Grad systems that shelled #Mariupol. Terrorists are reportedly deploying more
http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2015/01/24/7056209/ …

Azov regiment says militants are shelling #Mariupol w/ Grad AGAIN http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2015/01/24/7056214/

According to @Conflict_Report, that's the smoking gun of #Russia-n regular army in #Ukrainehttp://conflictreport.info/2015/01/23/hard-evidence-the-regular-russian-army-invades-ukraine/ … pic.twitter.com/JfMb6JLZPH

[Bill Moore]

Bill M--see the connection and how it ties back to the Russian UW doctrine and political warfare strategy.

Russian Foreign Ministry accused #Latvia of discrimination against Russian-speaking population
http://www.mid.ru/brp_4.nsf/newsline/F1D4CD9DD330630643257DD7003FD0D7 …
pic.twitter.com/goKvyGxGmV

I agree, and I think this sentiment is underappreciated by U.S. leadership. Also underappreciated is that although many states recognize Putler to be little more than a thug in a suit, they're willing to partner with him to counter arrogant U.S. foreign policies that foolishly and needlessly in many cases attempt to impose our values and norms on other states and cultures.

We are destroying our soft power, which is important for coalition building. We have severely reduced the credibility of our hard power by not recognizing a red line that perhaps never should have been drawn in the sand to begin with.

We really need a new approach to national security, and contrary to media pundits who blame everything on the President it is often Congress that prevents change (e.g. Cuba). Hopefully the next administration will demonstrate the quality of leadership needed by a President to bring the next Congress along with him or her, instead of dividing Congress from the Executive branch. We need a deep revamp of our national security system and strategy, but in a democracy that can't be done without consensus.

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Russian artillery radio communication at Mariupol Ukraine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvCTB0AusZU …

Operation „Walküre“
Das InformNapalmTeam hat eine einzigartige Funksprachabhörung der Arbeit der russischen... http://fb.me/78JDZ2qvv

Losses of Russian troops and militants in E Ukraine from 17 to 22 Jan: 600 KIA, 275 WIA - Defense Ministry
http://www.mil.gov.ua/news/2015/01/24/onovleno-vtrati-rosijskih-vijsk-ta-teroristichnih-ugrupovan-na-shodi-kraini-protyagom-ostannogo-tizhnya--7096/ … |EMPR

ATO HQ spox - Russia is preparing a "provocation, to create an excuse for putting troops in Ukraine"
http://www.unian.net/politics/1035860-rossiya-gotovit-provokatsiyu-chtobyi-sozdat-povod-dlya-vvoda-voysk-v-ukrainu-shtab-ato.html …

Russian #LieNews
3:48pm - DNR army launched attack on #Mariupol
6:23pm - DNR army is not going to attack Mariupol
pic.twitter.com/Ny86TtVmPH

Detailed NATO statement on Russian involvement. http://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/news_116852.htm …
pic.twitter.com/blxja4g62p

Russian troops in unmarked uniforms apparently joining the separatists in the assaults on Ukrainian positions." http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/01/24/world/europe/ukraine-violence.html …

Zakharchenko Announced Attack on Mariupol – Video
http://www.interpretermag.com/ukraine-live-day-day-341-russian-backed-forces-continue-push-into-ukraine/#6495 …
pic.twitter.com/7Sb6xXB5R4

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According to this Russian propaganda troll, US MERCENARIES are fighting in Mariupol Ukraine... sigh. pic.twitter.com/UbIOYcKcLw

#OSCE #SMM to #Ukraine confirms that #Mariupol shelling was caused by Grad and Uragan rockets from #DPR territories
pic.twitter.com/YL3kHzmuce

Both HRW rep on ground & OSCE monitoring mission say Mariupol missiles came from separatist areas. No official Russian reaction at all yet.

Zakharchenko: "Today an offensive was launched on Mariupol. This will be the best possible monument to all our dead."
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-30967949 …

Here uploaded the video w/ Zakharchenko claiming they shelled #Mariupol. It can be no more removed https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=929452153731592&set=vb.869903109686497&type=2&theater …

Ex #Lugansk journo @osobov: "Today about 00:30pm eet city inhabitants observed jet air unit (3 planes)".
If true, then planes were Russian.

Russia #Intelligence System- reinforcing, not informing Putin. By @MarkGaleotti
http://wp.me/pjjTl-D3
pic.twitter.com/MVh1FMTjaE

#Russia pulls VKontakte (http://vk.com ) as it might carry #Putin DNR created attack on #Mariupol #Ukraine
pic.twitter.com/t82GQu5HTx

Mariupol - OSCE: Rockets came from DNR; HRW: Rebels likely did it. Ukraine: Terrorists did it. DNR: Ukraine did it in error; Russia: Silence

SBU,record conversation,proof,preparation of #terrorist attack by militants in #Mariupol #Ukraine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?x-yt-ts=1421914688&x-yt-cl=84503534&v=H1a_KkguBlg …

UKR Scty Svc (SBU) releases SIGINT said to be DNR troops discussing today's MRL atrocity in Mariupol that killed 30 http://www.unian.ua/politics/1035861-sbu-oprilyudnila-dokazi-prichetnosti-boyovikiv-do-teraktu-v-mariupoli-audio.html …

Occording to @OSCE @OSCE_SMM BOTH GRAD (NE) and URAGAN (E) had been fired.
http://www.osce.org/ukraine-smm/136061#Ukraine …
pic.twitter.com/yqESm0LIsc

VERY INTENSE VIDEO: dashcam camera records moment of impacts Mariupol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuQjfctHLZ4&feature=youtu.be …
pic.twitter.com/5dowIw6kHM

[kaur]

About Latvia by RF minister of foreign affairs in 2004.

http://www.mid.ru/bdomp/brp_4.nsf/f68cd37b84711611c3256f6d00541094/6f668dfaba008acec3256e4a004bfbc0!OpenDocument

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Western leaders have said repeatedly "if" new Russian aggression,"then" more sanctions. To not follow through undermines Western credibility

Here is video of #Zakharchenko saying DNR won’t storm #Mariupol. sounds forced. also only 1 mic on table: Rossiya 24
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4hVd1LTgjA&feature=youtu.be …

Compilation of Russian Army Battalion Tactic Groups (BTG) That Have Fought in the Ukraine
http://goo.gl/iZsfod

Intercepted radio exchange of MRLS crews shelling Mariupol,accent is of mainland Russia,not any Ukrainian region.
http://fb.me/6ZREzjHaC

Soldiers Mothers report signs that Russian army might be preparing a surge in Ukraine
http://avmalgin.livejournal.com/5188429.html

Security Service of #Ukraine: terrorist talks intercepted over shelling of #Mariupol - EN subs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmMVfWboWzo …

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I agree, and I think this sentiment is underappreciated by U.S. leadership. Also underappreciated is that although many states recognize Putler to be little more than a thug in a suit, they're willing to partner with him to counter arrogant U.S. foreign policies that foolishly and needlessly in many cases attempt to impose our values and norms on other states and cultures.

We are destroying our soft power, which is important for coalition building. We have severely reduced the credibility of our hard power by not recognizing a red line that perhaps never should have been drawn in the sand to begin with.

We really need a new approach to national security, and contrary to media pundits who blame everything on the President it is often Congress that prevents change (e.g. Cuba). Hopefully the next administration will demonstrate the quality of leadership needed by a President to bring the next Congress along with him or her, instead of dividing Congress from the Executive branch. We need a deep revamp of our national security system and strategy, but in a democracy that can't be done without consensus.

Bill--appears the West especially Obama has now reached a "tipping point" with the killing of 30 Ukrainians and wounding of another 100---and all available open source, videos, OSCE crater analysis clearly points the finger now fully at Russia and all Russian media and Putin and the Russian FM have been totally silent. The "ain't us" argument is now fully in the trash can for Putin.

Check the English translations of the SBU intercept of the missile crews that fired.

Western leaders have said repeatedly "if" new Russian aggression,"then" more sanctions. To not follow through undermines Western credibility

Security Service of #Ukraine: terrorist talks intercepted over shelling of #Mariupol - EN subs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmMVfWboWzo …

Intercepted radio exchange of MRLS crews shelling Mariupol,accent is of mainland Russia,not any Ukrainian region.
http://fb.me/6ZREzjHaC

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The most advanced Russian AA system Pantsir-S1 (not in service w/ UAF) spotted in Shakhtarsk
pic.twitter.com/51KddfxSGo

Fmr "DPR" PM, Pavel Gubarev, openly admits #Mariupol attack in tweet & @vkontakte post Jan 24
http://vk.com/wall10352774_48056 …
pic.twitter.com/U5mGX4FSs6

The @AP photographed this column of #Russia|n army 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled howitzers @ Slovianoserbsk nr #Luhansk
pic.twitter.com/m4GreSGwE0

Strelkov admits #Russia troops forced #Crimea MP to vote to leave #Ukraine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aelwn_UfeN0&app=desktop … …"

RIA Novosti& ITAR-TASS omit territories "controlled by DNR",while citing OSCE report on Jan 24 attacks in #Mariupol.

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Azov Battalion commander says situation is dire, generals & politicians have lost the war with Russia & Ukrainians need to arm themselves

Russian forces shelled Makiivka & Donetsk . They confirmed it
http://bit.ly/1yRj8mu

Actual headline: "Russia could be one of world's last civilizations - Church official"http://www.interfax-religion.com/?act=news&div=11784 …
They misspelled "lost".

Steinmeier on Mariupol: pic.twitter.com/tKRhRjxjzY EVERYTHING? Like doing blabla while Russia takes Donetsk Airport?
https://twitter.com/DajeyPetros/status/558050852951580672 …

Cyborgs returned to what was left of the terminal. Repulsed those shooting back in ruins.
http://dailylviv.com/news/polityka/kiborhy-povernuly-sobi-vtsilili-sporudy-aeroportu-donetska-duk-15252 … pic.twitter.com/uKX2TZg8xA

In dark twist of irony, Mariupol victim #17 asked Putin to "save Donbass people from UA army"
pic.twitter.com/JTMjY6FrKm

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Can anyone here at SWJ explain exactly what the heck the US meant with this sentence other than "business as usual" as it has been the same sentence stated ten different ways for now over seven months and yet we believe somehow the US has a "foreign policy"?

Obama live fr New Dehli: "We won't engage military with RF at this stage, but we will continue to support Ukraine to defend its territory,"

Congress passes an Ukrainian Aid Bill and he signed it effectively allowing the US to send "defensive weapons" of the sort ie ATMs that the Ukraine badly needs to head off over 500 Russian tanks inside the Ukraine--is it not strange that the US will supply the ATMs "to moderate islamists" whatever that term means but will not to a country that has been effectively invaded and the US signed a security memorandum with.

Yet this is called what again---US leadership?

"We will continue to support Ukraine to defend its territory"---these will the words of Obama's legacy---since when are words and hot air a national level strategic strategy?

Would be interesting as a journalist at their next press conference to ask the following question---just what have you provided to the Ukrainians that allowed them to defend their territory?---already know the answer--nothing.

Again, US has no political will to act, and EU won't do anything until US does. Result? Ukraine is lost to Russia. Baltics soon to follow.

.@BarackObama from India on #Ukraine: Following "the latest separatist aggression...we'll continue to ratchet up the pressure on Russia."

Unless this President is truly willing to pull the SWIFT trigger that would definitely show Putin he is massively serious this sentence is just another hot air statement for the press---actions are needed finally-- not words--or does this President now finally realize Putin only understands actions and not words?

Simply embarrassing.

Does the White House not fully realize if I see this ---the rest of the global community sees it as well.

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Russian troops execute POWs as it was Russian troops that took this Ukrainian town in the last week.

After the DNR declared war on the Ukraine and not a single response by the US to that declaration--the proxy leader of the DNR openly and unchallenged stated the following--"there will be no further prisoner exchanges because we will take no prisoners" Quote/Unquote.

THEN this occurs--and yet the US/Germany calls for more and more talks---and nothing changes in Russian behavior.

This is called again what?---great leadership? Or simply the blind leading the blind?

Notice the Russian FM statement from today--does the killing of POWs actually contribute/support the Russian statement or does it appear as always to be just Russian bla bla bla at work?

Lavrov said Russia ready to undertake anything necessary for solving Ukrainian conflict
http://tass.ru/en/russia/773222 …

Ukrainian POWs executed in cold blood by Russian enemy at #Krasnyi_Partyzan pic.twitter.com/q4jBCPgr78
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6of0JZ (No longer available)[/URL] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6of0JZ)

#Russia troops execute #Ukraine #POWs in Krasnyi Partyzan. Video Proof.
[URL]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6of0JZ4_PbA … (Needs log in for age reasons)

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Lavrov said Russia ready to undertake anything necessary for solving Ukrainian conflict http://tass.ru/en/russia/773222 …

Lavrov tells Kerry Ukraine is responsible for "the situation aggravating," but doesn't assign blame for Mariupol.
http://www.mid.ru/brp_4.nsf/newsline/F8CB06079676665343257DD800485EDE …

Sputnik ✔ @SputnikInt
#Russia, #US call for immediate ceasefire in #Donbas http://bit.ly/1xTpAVG pic.twitter.com/2fUu08Qexp

FM #Steinmeier: Efforts for de-escalation need to be continued. I hope that - even after the past 3 days - not everything is lost.

#Russia|n soldiers are holding hostages 15 civilians in Zhelobok, Luhansk region! pic.twitter.com/PuiXsSUmvq

Again, US has no political will to act, and EU won't do anything until US does. Result? Ukraine is lost to Russia. Baltics soon to follow.

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Maximilian Clarke @MTIClarke
More shelling so I enter a local shop. Radio is paying "nothing is indestructible". Never have pop music lyrics been so apt! #donetsk

#Russian Major General Kuzovlev is leading the offensive on #Popasnaya. pic.twitter.com/0bxOuzW1KZ

#Popasnaya - right now: Under the recurrent fire of #Russians for two days.
#Ukraine's forces hold positions.
pic.twitter.com/HXATbD4Qoi

Mariupol: here's our rough map of some of the impacts yesterday. Why Grads shouldn't be used in populated areas.
pic.twitter.com/TQF1eVjzI9

As fighting intensifies in #Debaltseve, read here about why it's important (and more):
http://mashable.com/2015/01/25/why-war-has-returned-to-ukraine/?utm_cid=hp-hh-pri … pic.twitter.com/lDlM8iL9iY

Confirmed: #Russia|n armed forces 64th Motorized Infantry Brigade h51460 #Khabarovsk, id'd in central #Donetsk Jan 22
pic.twitter.com/H1Y39UU87a

On-going fights since 2pm in #Debaltseve confirmed by military sources. Main road to there too dangerous to use due to massive shelllings

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#Chechnya was warning one. #Georgia warning two. #Crimea warning three. #Ukraine warning four. When will US & EU wake up?

.@BarackObama: Separatist aggression “with Russian backing, Russian equipment, Russian financing, Russian training and Russian troops”

5 pm - Houses burning aft shelling center, Komsomolska, Ordzhonikidze st. Casualties.

Strelkov: "We forcibly herded Crimean deputies to vote for secession from #Ukraine"#
Interview with Strelkov/Girkin:
http://youtu.be/aelwn_UfeN0

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ATO HQ: the Attack on Popasnaya is directed by Russian general-mayor Kuzovlev
pic.twitter.com/k5BT8Tsa8a
http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/25-january-ato-hq-the-attack-on-popasnaya-is-directed-by …

Commander of "rebels" advancing into #Ukraine is GenMaj Sergei Yuryevich KUZOVLYEV, CoS of RF 58th Army since 2012 & a 1-star RU general
KUZOVLYEV born 1967 in Tambov, 1990 graduate of Ryazan Abn Academy, served as "peacekeeper" in Georgia & Chechnya; GenMaj since Feb 2014
NOTE: the 58th is one of the elite Russian Army units

This is Strelkov a) self-aggrandizing & exaggerating his own role b) taking heat from Putin. That's his job.
http://uatoday.tv/news/moscow-agent-strelkov-admits-russian-army-behind-crimean-referendum-404995.html …

Statnitsa Luhanska is once again under heavy Russian artillery shelling this afternoon.
Also #Krymske was shelled the whole day.

#Uglegorsk / Vuhlehirs'k 7 pm - controlled by Ukraine forces. Under moderate recurrent shelling.
pic.twitter.com/L1esepJ0lh

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#Ukraine jets hit #Russia base near #Novoazovsk #Mariupol http://zik.ua/en/news/2015/01/25/ukraine_jets_hit_russian_base_near_mariupol_blogge r_says_559010 … #Donetsk #Luhansk #Putinhulyo
pic.twitter.com/S6sa7zolVu

Russian troops support rebel offensive in Ukraine, NATO says http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN0KY01020150125?irpc=932 …
pic.twitter.com/E3QtFXS2QS

Motorola in Chechnya
pic.twitter.com/HVirZ0rJQe

Video: Fighting in #Debaltseve from inside the #Ukraine trenches.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvnK3jcmSLc

Russian forces have their base in Rozdolne https://www.google.de/maps/place/Rozdol'ne,+Donetsk+Oblast,+Ukraine/@47.6161165,38.0102326,9z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x40e0d98d46c5348f:0x9ac00f794cb22 3ae …
pic.twitter.com/ndgozfwraW

Ukrainian troops going offensive on Olenivka
http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/25-january-ukrainian-troops-going-offensive-on-olenivka …

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#Popasnaya - Ukraine-held, 5 days shelled, 20 houses destr, 2 killed - city Mayor.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-k2HhOFnlA …

ATO fighters destroyed squad Kadyrovites who had organized dances on the ruins of the airporthttp://ukraineenglishnewsforum.createaforum.com/general-discussion/ukraine-crisis-news-in-brief-weekend-24-25-january-(ukrainian-sources)/msg1508/#msg1508 …"

Kremlin UK "journo" Graham Phillips helped stage mass hatred at #Ukraine POW's marched to #Donetsk bus attack location
pic.twitter.com/mjZjCXBxOw

SBU: 30 terrorists involved in #Mariupol shelling were destroyed http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/25

Kadyrov's dogs come to plunder #Ukraine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRBNcEG9S3c …

Ukrainian checkpoint in #Debaltseve, 40th battalion, tank attack.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvnK3jcmSLc&feature=youtu.be …

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24 Jan #Zakharchenko said he would order DPR militia to "take no prisoners". Today video of executed Ukrainian POWs

pic.twitter.com/il3Ev9a4zE

Zakharchenko: "We'll take no prisoners"
#Russia|n troops executed 11 POWs in Krasnyi Partyzan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6of0JZ4_PbA&sns … pic.twitter.com/IKTeIUVsfz

Moments before these captured Ukrainian troops where murdered by the Putin's Russian forces.
pic.twitter.com/XdBqdHTDzQ

Europe is heading for a Balkans-type War. In Ukraine. On your watch. Time to get tough on Russia.
pic.twitter.com/Va9brYpSmZ

[Firn]

It is pretty difficult to see a diplomatic solution to this war if one country invading and occupying another is denying it is doing so at all despite over 5000 estimated deaths and over a million refugees. Sadly I fear, as I have written months ago, that this might go one for several years. The Ukrainian forces, formed out of a hollow shell not even a year ago are still ridden with difficulties but certainly they can no longer be pushed aside or defeated without considerable effort and price in blood by the Russian military. Quite a change from the early days.

On a strategic level the blood spilled on both sides will make it quite difficult to talk about a slavic brotherhood anytime soon. Russia lost almost all of Ukraine with significant effort on Putin's side.

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Moscow based security expert: "The Donbas warloards are considered scum" by Russian military in Ukraine https://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/pavel-felgenhauer-putins-aim-is-to-destroy-ukraines-independence-defeat-west-378372.html …

Motorola served in Russian anti-terror op in Chechnya. Now he's fighting against Ukraine anti-terrorist op @sashakots pic.twitter.com/s1JPUhPLEd

Russian lieutenant colonel from the Spetsnaz Interior Troops of RF in Styla, Donetsk Region pic.twitter.com/N76WgLvaBy
http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/25-january-russian-lieutenant-colonel-from-the-spetsnaz-interior …

#Marinka, #Krasnogorovka under severe GRAD, artillery fire by militants, can't evacuate children http://bit.ly/1uQ2SSR

Over the last day militants fired 115 times at east Ukraine residential areashttp://uatoday.tv/politics/over-the-last-day-militants-fired-115-times-at-east-ukraine-residential-areas-405110.html …
pic.twitter.com/KDWmhC4EBc

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Column of #Russia|n military vehicles passed #Bryanka towards #Alchevsk this morning http://twitter.com/LUGANSK_TODAY/status/559640955612299264/photo/1pic.twitter.com/YiPM5y9Lsa http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/26-january-column-of-military-vehicles-passed-bryanka-one …

#Debaltseve received large reinforcements, means it's not completely encircled! pic.twitter.com/9wmdgWU7r7
http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/26-january-debaltsevo-received-large-reinforcements …

#Russian_Army units controlling "Mikhailovka" (can not say which one).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpC5a_MEptA …
pic.twitter.com/YCPfbuFFtO

Lugansk News Today @LUGANSK_TODAY
Just now convoy of #Russian Army trucks moving through #Bryanka to #Alchevsk direction. One truck stuck, smth broken
pic.twitter.com/ctHmvV8UIn

FREE! Red Alert Update: At the Heart of the #Mariupol Crisis
http://social.stratfor.com/tdr
pic.twitter.com/c7fgW60W4V

#Footage
Nightly routine in #Donetsk. Controls by the pro-Russian terrorist regime.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B95pYYSWD7M …
#Ukraine pic.twitter.com/n8KYyKsxDd

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The following concerning the execution of Ukrainian POWs goes to the heart of the article I recently posted titled "Is Russia a State Sponsor of Terrorism".

Now the second question would be--is that anything difference in IS beheading prisoners and Russia executing POWs.

@DajeyPetros Here 'Dushman' seen with Russian actress/scammer Maria #Tsipko http://instagram.com/p/uVe5XbOTgz/
pic.twitter.com/C8dW4mYzBb

This man is commander 'Dushman' of brigade 'Vostok' that ordered executing of POWs. Anybody know more about him? pic.twitter.com/Bz5eJduvys

'Dedouka' has filmed the POW-movie that killed four Ukrainians http://ukraineatwar.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/graphic-warcrimes-russians-shoot.html …
pic.twitter.com/xjmHlyWu04

POW still alive when filmed after shot by Russians at Krasnyi Partizan. Later he was dead.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5J-9xJLe48 …
pic.twitter.com/CrkOeWmb58

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Heavy fighting reported in Popasnaya & Mironovskiy as rebel forces push forward towards #Debaltseve #Ukraine
pic.twitter.com/wJZJerNsUk

#Donetsk militant leader calls for new east #Ukraine offensive
http://uatoday.tv/news/donetsk-militant-leader-calls-for-new-east-ukraine-offensive-405169.html … pic.twitter.com/FDCR1tn7bh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-gJ46pVLMo … #Russia's TV networks film #Ukrainian POWs abused by"#Somalia" in #Ukraine.EXTREMELY GRAPHIC.pic.twitter.com/P9vBcLqHMJ

Numerous IL-76 "with an unknown cargo" landed in #Rostov region - Russian VDV?http://www.pravda.com.ua/rus/news/2015/01/26/7056394/ …

Russian air force increased activity reported near Ukrainian airspace http://www.pravda.com.ua/rus/news/2015/01/26/7056394/ …

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SBU published complete chronology of the attacks on Mariupol. Attacks led by an officer from the Russian Federation @liveuamap.com reports.
Ukrainian security services: Russian officer commanded Mariupol artillery attackhttp://uatoday.tv/news/ukrainian-security-services-russian-officer-commanded-mariupol-artillery-attack-405175.html …
pic.twitter.com/msmfW9WcE6

VIDEO Russian column 10 tanks, 4 trucks, 1 BMP, 2 vans at #Stakhanov #Debaltseve https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mh_PpNkt-Qk …
pic.twitter.com/LaJv0zrRaa

Russian terrorists are pulverized by mortar of the Ukrainian army. Video depicts mortar round landing on a Russian patrol all filmed by Russian press
https://www.youtube.com/watch?x-yt-ts=1421914688&v=ZsM0lbtRAxc&feature=player_embedded&x-yt-cl=84503534 …
pic.twitter.com/nD8NqxP1X4

25jan #Bryanka, Russian #tank convoy
http://youtu.be/mh_PpNkt-Qk

Russians fighting in Ukraine. Evidence presented Ukraine's Security Service. Full presentation:
http://www.sbu.gov.ua/sbu/control/uk/publish/article?art_id=136521&cat_id=39574 …
pic.twitter.com/d6S5IiRn0Q

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FSB raids offices of Crimean Tatar channel ATR looking for February footage of Russians seizing Crimean govt offices. http://www.hromadske.tv/society/u-simferopoli-fsb-vlashtuvala-obshuk-na-krimskotat/ …

Russia warns West not to blackmail it over Ukraine
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/01/26/us-ukraine-crisis-russia-lavrov-idUSKBN0KZ15J20150126 …

Yatseniuk: The government introduced a state of emergency in #Donetsk and #Luhansk oblasts

#Novozvanivka is under heavy fire from #Stakhanov, the village is nearly desolated, no dead as of yday's morning. #Popasna rgn

#Ukraine forces captured "LPR" tank driver - Russian who was sent to serve in exchance of imprisonment - ATO press
https://www.facebook.com/ato.news/posts/938378816172925 …

Gun spotter detained in #Mariupol testifies that city was shelled by Russian battery under command of Russian officer
pic.twitter.com/4LK4pbVBoP

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So-called volunteers. #mercenary
pic.twitter.com/cncbGm485U

Gorlovka police, complete with Russian flag pic.twitter.com/nPnv52O9PT

"#Alchevsk: since 3 am artillery from both sides does mot subside. Small 30 min pauses and the same over again"

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Comments by the Russian FM since the DNR declaration of war on the Ukraine.

Prefect example of the Russian “altered state of reality” meaning if I recall the Russian FMs own statement just after he learned that Russian troops had shelled Mariupol killing 30 and wounding over 100 “we will do any solution that it takes to stop the conflict” Quote/Unquote:

See anything that reflects that statement and his previous statement “the DNR through our influence will pull back to the Minsk demarcation lines”---see anything along those lines appearing lately? Right after
His statement the DNR “declared war” and stated they will take the entire Donbas.

MFA Russia ✔ @mfa_russia
#Lavrov: We hope that our Western partners and the US refrain from any moves that could make Kiev think the West supports all of its actions

MFA Russia ✔ @mfa_russia
#Lavrov: Confident that the peace process must be revived, we focus on steps to promote dialogue between Kiev and the self-defence fighters

NOTE: Notice how now the Russian “separatists” are now “self defense fighters---whatever the heck that is defined as---Russian troops executing POWs and shelling civilians I guess does make them “self defense fighters” which is though a big stretch in the English language.

MFA Russia ✔ @mfa_russia
#Lavrov: As far as I know, contacts between them are expected to take place in the days to come. We seek to facilitate them

MFA Russia ✔ @mfa_russia
#Lavrov: They announced that their actions are aimed at destroying positions Ukrainian forces use to fire at residential areas

NOTE: FM still does not recognize the fact that open source analysis has fully proven Russian troops and their mercenaries shelled two buses and civilians in Mariupol. This is called the Russian MH17 shuffle.

MFA Russia ✔ @mfa_russia
#Lavrov: It would be naïve to expect the militia to do nothing while their communities are shelled at the orders of the Ukrainian president

NOTICE just how the Russian FM sidesteps the Russian supported shellings of two buses and civilians in Mariupol and NOTICE how he avoids the two statements by the DNR mercenary leader that he is in an offensive and that he declared “war” on the Ukraine? NOTICE how he provides absolutely no evidence of the Presidential "order".

MFA Russia ✔ @mfa_russia
#Lavrov: In this situation, it would be naïve to expect any appeasing rhetoric from the other side #Ukraine

MFA Russia ✔ @mfa_russia
#Lavrov: Unfortunately, Kiev put the Berlin arrangement into question the very next day #Ukraine

NOTE: another FM falsehood as their proposal to pull back 15kms was firmly anchored already in the Minsk Agreement PLUS the Ukrainians stated we will pull back when we see no shellings from the mercenaries and Russian troops as they had been in a previous unilateral ceasefire from Nov 2014 which initially had even a Russian signature that they then “recalled” whatever that means to them.

AND during the last unilateral ceasefire (there have been 3 total since Sept 2014) they were fired on over 600 times.

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Lost Russian “vacationers”? From today.

Passing a small, stalled military convoy outside Donetsk, notice soldiers referring to a map. Lost, perhaps?

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Comments by the Russian FM since the DNR declaration of war on the Ukraine.

Prefect example of the Russian “altered state of reality” meaning if I recall the Russian FMs own statement just after he learned that Russian troops had shelled Mariupol killing 30 and wounding over 100 “we will do any solution that it takes to stop the conflict” Quote/Unquote:

See anything that reflects that statement and his previous statement “the DNR through our influence will pull back to the Minsk demarcation lines”---see anything along those lines appearing lately? Right after
His statement the DNR “declared war” and stated they will take the entire Donbas.

MFA Russia ✔ @mfa_russia
#Lavrov: We hope that our Western partners and the US refrain from any moves that could make Kiev think the West supports all of its actions

MFA Russia ✔ @mfa_russia
#Lavrov: Confident that the peace process must be revived, we focus on steps to promote dialogue between Kiev and the self-defence fighters

NOTE: Notice how now the Russian “separatists” are now “self defense fighters---whatever the heck that is defined as---Russian troops executing POWs and shelling civilians I guess does make them “self defense fighters” which is though a big stretch in the English language.

MFA Russia ✔ @mfa_russia
#Lavrov: As far as I know, contacts between them are expected to take place in the days to come. We seek to facilitate them

MFA Russia ✔ @mfa_russia
#Lavrov: They announced that their actions are aimed at destroying positions Ukrainian forces use to fire at residential areas

NOTE: FM still does not recognize the fact that open source analysis has fully proven Russian troops and their mercenaries shelled two buses and civilians in Mariupol. This is called the Russian MH17 shuffle.

MFA Russia ✔ @mfa_russia
#Lavrov: It would be naïve to expect the militia to do nothing while their communities are shelled at the orders of the Ukrainian president

NOTICE just how the Russian FM sidesteps the Russian supported shellings of two buses and civilians in Mariupol and NOTICE how he avoids the two statements by the DNR mercenary leader that he is in an offensive and that he declared “war” on the Ukraine? NOTICE how he provides absolutely no evidence of the Presidential "order".

MFA Russia ✔ @mfa_russia
#Lavrov: In this situation, it would be naïve to expect any appeasing rhetoric from the other side #Ukraine

MFA Russia ✔ @mfa_russia
#Lavrov: Unfortunately, Kiev put the Berlin arrangement into question the very next day #Ukraine

NOTE: another FM falsehood as their proposal to pull back 15kms was firmly anchored already in the Minsk Agreement PLUS the Ukrainians stated we will pull back when we see no shellings from the mercenaries and Russian troops as they had been in a previous unilateral ceasefire from Nov 2014 which initially had even a Russian signature that they then “recalled” whatever that means to them.

AND during the last unilateral ceasefire (there have been 3 total since Sept 2014) they were fired on over 600 times.

Self evident--no need for comments:

Russia's rational leader? RT: PUTIN: #Ukraine's army is a legion of #NATO used to deter Russia
http://sputniknews.com
pic.twitter.com/ktYnsAN0z6

Zakharchenko has announced that "DNR" and "LNR" "are working on creating joint front line". @uatodaytv Smoke screen for #Russia'n advance.

Tourist season in Donetsk. Part of the Chechen “Death” battalion, today guarding DNR leader Zakharchenko
pic.twitter.com/RPE926GEvc

Who says politics can't be fashionable?! Chechen fighter in #Donetsk sports Ramzan Kadyrov baseball cap. pic.twitter.com/Q3U4tRYyBG

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In order to fully understand the Putin "altered state of reality" one just needs to read his own comments--posted here as well as another article alluding to "English speaking personnel in Mariupol posted next.

Reference the bus and Mariupol---the article as presented attempts to allude that it was the fault of the Ukraine and does not reflect mercenary and Russia troops being behind the shellings as open source analysis clearly shows.

AND absolutely nothing on the declaration of war by the DNR---

Ukrainian armed forces are in essence a 'NATO legion', which is not serving the country's national interests, Russian President Putin said.

ST.PETERSBURG, January 26 (Sputnik) — Russian President Vladimir Putin said Monday that the Ukrainian army has been used by NATO as a deterrent against Russia.

"It, in essence, is not an army anymore but a foreign legion, a NATO-controlled foreign legion, which is not serving to protect Ukraine's national interests," Putin said at a meeting with university students in St. Petersburg.

"They are pursuing other goals linked with attaining geopolitical goals of deterring Russia contrary to the interests of the Ukrainian people," Putin said.

Kiev is refusing to search for peaceful solution in eastern Ukraine standoff and have used a brief ceasefire to regroup its forces, the Russian president said.

"Unfortunately, the Kiev authorities refuse to chose a peaceful path [in the Ukrainian conflict] through the use of political means," Putin said.

"They used a brief ceasefire only to regroup their forces, and started military operation again," the president said.

Many in Ukraine have already realized that the country is caught in a civil war that had taken lives of thousands of people.

http://sputniknews.com/politics/20150126/1017361213.html

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English-Speaking Armed Men Filmed in Mariupol Following Shelling Attack
© AFP 2015/ STRINGER

Europe
11:47 26.01.2015(updated 15:52 26.01.2015)

Videos, depicting uniformed men fluently speaking English, sparked suggestions that foreign combatants might have been involved in the recent shelling attack on the city.

MOSCOW, January 26 (Sputnik) — Uniformed armed men speaking fluent English appeared in videos, one of which was recorded by Ukrainian journalists following Saturday’s shelling attack, raising questions about the alleged involvement of foreign military contractors in the Ukrainian conflict.

The heavy shelling attack took place in Mariupol, a city located in southeastern Ukraine, on Saturday. The city was attacked with Grad and Uragan multiple-rocket launchers, with Kiev troops and the Donbas militia trading blame for the incident. The attack claimed lives of 30 civilians.

The first man, accidently recorded on the video by the Mariupol News Service, refused to comment on the correspondent’s question and quickly went away with the words “Outta my face, outta my face, please.”

The other video depicts a uniformed man scouting the area for unexploded ordnance. The operator, holding the camera speaks English with accent, but the man on the video seems to be a native speaker.

In September 2014, the conflicting parties reached a ceasefire agreement in Minsk. However, violence came up to a head in January, with both parties blaming each other for violating the truce.

http://sputniknews.com/europe/20150126/1017344326.html

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More on the Putin "altered reality" statement about NATO/US: And this is not about Russian war aims towards the US?J

John Schindler @20committee
Yes, Putin called Ukraine's military a "NATO legion" aimed @ “achieving geopolitical goals of restraining Russia.”
http://rt.com/news/226319-putin-nato-russia-ukraine/

NATO General Secretary Stoltenberg: "The only foreign legions on Ukrainian territory are Russian"
http://www.pravda.com.ua/rus/news/2015/01/26/7056434/ …

John Schindler @20committee
Key Putin talking points: it's a civil war, it's Ukraine's fault, NATO/US are really pulling the strings, and Russia's position is defensive

John Schindler @20committee
Putin is directing the #Ukraine war to win it. Nothing short of direct threats from NATO to halt -- which will not happen - will stop him.

John Schindler @20committee
Helpful ===> "US can’t cope" with Russian strategic nuclear missiles, Dep PM Rogozin says
http://www.unian.info/world/1036306-us-cant-cope-with-russian-strategic-missiles-rogozin-says.html …

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Canada at NATO ✔ @CanadaNATO
#Russia began to send criminal-retsedivists in #Donbass
http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/26-january-russia-began-to-send-criminalretsedivists-in-donbass … pic.twitter.com/IjXY6LsKyH

#NATO Secretary General: #Russia has continued to abet violence with training, equipment and forces.

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#Mariupol ex-cop says he used Google maps, texted #Ukraine army positions to #Russia officer, who missed by 1 km: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&x-yt-cl=84503534&x-yt-ts=1421914688&v=CXpXmkBKubw …

Givi threatened the cyborg commander with a knife and sword. If everything is seen in the video.
pic.twitter.com/nuVWKla8FC

Battlefield #Ukraine: strategic city #Debaltseve not encircled. Ukraine army holding positions. Communications jammed
pic.twitter.com/KJDgaLkywk

Infamous Russian actress Maria #Tsipko spotted at POW parade in Donetsk, recording a 'crying local'? pic.twitter.com/BHGDRfOvLy

Obama Points to Russian Soldiers in Ukraine http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/natosource/obama-points-to-russian-soldiers-in-ukraine …
pic.twitter.com/WmeKyXrMUP

#US needs to spend USD348 bn on #nuclear weapons modernisation if triad of nuclear-capable ICBMs maintained
http://bit.ly/1zfWWV0

Russian forces near #Kirovsk again took #CP29 west of #Zholobok under heavy fire today.
No reports yet on the outcome yet.

#Russia's #Strelkov/#Girkin("I pulled the trigger of war")says he has "God's blessing"fr Rus Orthodox Church
http://youtu.be/vtvCRYcfUG0?t=

A Russian army tank force tried to break through the Ukrainian ring around #Debaltseve yesterday in #Sanzharovka.
It was repelled

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#zholobok 15 civilian hostages captured by Russians. OSCE lokal rep STEEN PEDERSEN refused to help today

#Givi throws Ukrainian POW from a tank.
He spells his fate by his actions.
The day will come, he gets punished.
pic.twitter.com/XvTQn5iLH4

#Ukraine's security service release confession, audio intercepts indicating #Russia unit carried out #Mariupol attack http://www.kyivpost.com/content/kyiv-post-plus/sbu-says-it-has-proof-russian-military-were-behind-mariupol-shelling-that-killed-30-people-video-378455.html …

#ATO:The most tense situation near #Debaltsevo #Ukraine.
http://bit.ly/1DaKsLW
pic.twitter.com/IWq5o4xMVK

#Breaking @Reuters report on #Russia's offensive on Ukrainian city of #Debaltseve Jan 26
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/01/26/us-ukraine-crisis-military-idUSKBN0KZ0L920150126 …
pic.twitter.com/bgTTlOxf8m

Russian build-up (tanks, APCs) #Pokrovskoye/#Покровское, Rostov region 50km east of Ukraine border pic.twitter.com/s749CiXVay

#BreakingFootage
Russian troops in #Donetsk move on #Pisky.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MEMeKv49IE …
pic.twitter.com/Pm5CPULIkC

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New #pictures from the initial capture of #CP31.
Not only the Far East trooper was a #Russian_soldier.
pic.twitter.com/SIGTcV0o9z Video this summer of truck-mounted Vasilyok firing in middle of city. Just like #Leninsky bus attack http://youtu.be/FigkFTC_cmM

This video from a REAL Donetsk local shows how the Cyborg POW Parade was staged... Empty streets!
http://youtu.be/i51XzMopVZw

Dead "Cossack" found at Troits'ke after battle is indeed Russian criminal from #Tyumen.
pic.twitter.com/yOgeYoemqo

"DPR" created a special "rebel" Russian army plate to 'disguise' Russia's army trucks / MLRS Grad launchers!pic.twitter.com/03fMHVMm9e

Russians hold #CP31 despite heavy Ukrainian artillery fire.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GrhMgvoCAg …
Like the damaged 2A19!
pic.twitter.com/Cyj4THTXZL

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Cossacks LNR recorded an angry appeal to Putin and Plotnitsky:
https://en.informnapalm.org/cossacks-lnr-recorded-angry-appeal-putin-plotnitsky/ … pic.twitter.com/o9c6du5Pwi
Some insides fm Cossacks:
1) have nt takn Papasnaya
2) Mozgovoi left Alchevsk, "somewhere in Russia"
3) still cant stand LNR ldr Plotnitsky

Samantha Power ✔ @AmbassadorPower
#Russia says separatist threats of 3-sided offensive "taken out of context." What context justifies offensive vs Mariupol's 500k residents?

Phil Breedlove @PMBreedlove
#OSCE findings tell different story than #Russian claims that Kiev is to blame for surge in violence http://on.thestar.com/1GW8LmA

Russian MFA continues their continuous falsehoods:
#Churkin continues to tell outrageous lies about "peace-loving rebels" who "keep moving back their artillery"
pic.twitter.com/DJLNH7thUj

Good if #Czechs airlifted weapons inc. tanks to #Ukraine
#Russia will claim Obama sent them to NATOs "foreign legion"pic.twitter.com/fhvBUd5OwR

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Lugansk News Today @LUGANSK_TODAY
In #Putin's world #Ukraine is superpower country that made #NATO to join Ukraine Armed Forces. Yes, he said that!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUG_Pa0d_R8 …

Awful video of DNR commander Givi forcing captured Ukrainians to eat their patches. Bosnia-level stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-gJ46pVLMo&feature=youtu.be&oref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DD-gJ46pVLMo%26feature%3Dyoutu.be&has_verified=1 …

TASS attempted to remove all references to Zakharchenko's words about moving on Mariupol via @ReggaeMortis1 @RuslanLeviev

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#Russia sending tanks from St Peterburg to Rostov, all-day-long shipment 26/01
http://www.fontanka.ru/2015/01/26/148/ pic.twitter.com/NXcDxHdH2N

.@GrahamWP_UK KNOWS these POWs were executed by his Vostok friends and yet he writes this: pic.twitter.com/xF3Qb0uJcR

Another angle on the military column, going towards #Pisky today.
"#Russian #tanks!" the filming resident says.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rX8RS6DIIo …

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It is becoming dangerous due to the simple fact that the Russian leadership is now truly in an altered state of reality that does not even acknowledge reality.

Trapped by their own disinformation campaign---not good.

Notice he never even mentioned that the shellings have been investigated up and including the OSCE and he never mentions Russian troops and heavy combat equipment which has been photographed and video over 100s of times since August to include actual Russian military personnel as POWs.

MFA Russia ✔ @mfa_russia
Vitaly #Churkin: We call for objective investigation of Mariupol and Donetsk, and before that of Maidan and Odessa
http://sputniknews.com/military/20150127/1017382785.html

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Evacuation is carried out in Mar'inka and Krasnogorivka
http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/27-january-evacuation-is-carried-out-in-marinka-and-krasnogorivka … pic.twitter.com/Zp7oZ8DEHV

Unintended 1st frame in Kremlin shill @GrahamWP_UK's Krasniy Partizan horror video id's this #Russia 'journo':
Name?
pic.twitter.com/M9abMEdfB6

Captive says that many "LNR Army" soldiers are Russian convicts given pardons in exchange for fighting in Ukraine.
http://grani.ru/Society/Law/m.237238.html …

There are 38 #Russia artillery units pounding #Ukraine's left flank at #Debaltseve from the town of Horlivka, military analysts say

Four MI-24 helicopters of DNR/LNR destroyed by #Ukraine forces - General Staff press.
http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2015/01/27/7056507/

Putin Acting as a Terrorist Because He Can’t Afford Full-Scale Invasion of Ukraine, Kirillova Says http://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2015/01/putin-acting-like-terrorist-because-he.html …

Ukrainian Forces destroy 4 Russian tanks, 9 IFVs, 4 Smerch & 12 Grad MLRS, 18 other vehicles,10 aircraft incl 4 Mi-24
http://www.unn.com.ua/ru/news/1430720-za-minulu-dobu-teroristi-ponesli-znachni-vtrati-zhivoyi-sili-ta-tekhniki-minoboroni …

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Ukrainian troops retreat from #Ozeryanovka
pic.twitter.com/Bho9dI0rOM
http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/27-january-ukrainian-troops-retreat-from-ozeryanovka …

Russian-backed militias are preparing the ground for the introduction of Russian troops. @UKRINFORM 27 Jan http://www.ukrinform.ua/ukr/news/boyoviki_gotuyut_pidstavu_dlya_vvedennya_rosiyskih _viysk_2014733 …

#BREAKINGNEWS
The Ukrainian army conducted attacks on the re-activated #Luhansk Aviation Museum airfield it seems! pic.twitter.com/4lLcIeS3df

Ukrainian forces destroy militant aircraft fleet
http://uatoday.tv/news/ukrainian-forces-destroy-militant-aircraft-fleet-405455.html … pic.twitter.com/s5NEtE8ohk

The Ukrainian government claim they have recaptured checkpoint 31 from pro Russian militants in the east of the country.

Noah Sneider @NoahSneider
'The War in #Ukraine: No Exit’ My latest dispatch from #Donetsk, where artillery has been booming almost all day: http://www.economist.com/news/europe/21640777-war-donbas-escalating-and-dragging-west-deeper-conflict-russia-no-exit …

#Russia's "DPR" troops used a knife, hammer & various implements to torture the #Ukraine POW's before killing them.
pic.twitter.com/BaSRIlk2mT

Terrorists preparing provocation: want to attack "Putin convoy" to give reasons for invasion of Russia - Speaker ATO
http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/27-january-terrorists-are-preparing-another-provocation-want …

#Russia|n troops tried to cross Seversky Donets River with a "Pontoon" to attack #Ukraine troops with tanks
http://bit.ly/1DcSWSx

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Russia's emerging Holy War

http://20committee.com/2015/01/24/rus

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It is becoming dangerous due to the simple fact that the Russian leadership is now truly in an altered state of reality that does not even acknowledge reality.

Trapped by their own disinformation campaign---not good.

Notice he never even mentioned that the shellings have been investigated up and including the OSCE and he never mentions Russian troops and heavy combat equipment which has been photographed and video over 100s of times since August to include actual Russian military personnel as POWs.

MFA Russia ✔ @mfa_russia
Vitaly #Churkin: We call for objective investigation of Mariupol and Donetsk, and before that of Maidan and Odessa
http://sputniknews.com/military/20150127/1017382785.html

We see that "altered state" even with the DUMA members:
Russian Duma speaker Naryshkin at #PACE: "Russia is the only country capable of standing up to Washington's aggressive plans".

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Beware of undercover #Putin’s trolls trying to spread panic re #Debaltsevo:
https://twitter.com/ReggaeMortis1/status/560055485215559680 …
pic.twitter.com/ZKfS6hsYdT

True "civil war" in #Ukraine.
pic.twitter.com/5N38iP3RzI

Hospital in Svetlodarsk (Donetsk oblast) hit by separatist Grad attack. At least one dead (a nurse), with a number of patients injured.

Tymchuk: Militants concentrate about 22 tanks and nearly 2,000 troops near Horlivka
http://www.unian.info/war/1036761-tymchuk-militants-concentrate-about-22-tanks-and-nearly-2000-troops-near-horlivka.html …
pic.twitter.com/EafmOr3rH1

Here's more details such as types of aircraft destroyed. http://en.censor.net.ua/news/321813/special_operation_of_ukrainian_army_destroys_terro rists_aviation_obnovlen …

Ukrainian soldiers fire in 90° angle north of #Donetsk #airport.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDdkeZ9wxYc …
#UkraineUnderAttack pic.twitter.com/FVvGPitFq6

Twelfth #Russian ‘aid convoy’ heading for #Donbas
http://www.unian.info/society/1036697-twelfth-russian-aid-convoy-heading-for-donbas.html … pic.twitter.com/EuNPDOgBb6

One of the reasons why #OSCE in #Ukraine is useless & compromised #Donetsk #Luhansk #Russia #Mariupol #Debaltseve pic.twitter.com/EpmtTRBPfg

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@DajeyPetros "Russian paratroopers that operated in Crimea as 'Ukrainian Berkut'.
pic.twitter.com/zdYk6BkSXx

#BREAKING
A #RUSSIAN_ARMY ATTEMPT TO BUILD PONTOON BRIDGES OVER THE RIVER SEVERSKY-DONETS NEAR STANYTSIA-LUHANSKA WAS LAST-MINUTE-THWARTED

Reservists mobilised across #Belarus:Threat from #Russia or #NATO? (ENG vid) http://belsat.eu/en/articles/reservists-mobilised-across-belarus-threat-russia-or-nato-eng-video/ …
pic.twitter.com/9Ouk0cXfUN

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MFA of Ukraine ✔ @MFA_Ukraine

Russian Myths About Crimea In a Nutshell. In English. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5aDgRb2jzQ

New Belarus law makes appearance of "little green men" act of war. Another result of #Russia aggression vs #Ukraine.
http://www.rferl.org/content/green-men-in-belarus-will-mean-war/26814048.html …

Appears 3 men in an Audi Q7 have just been arrests in Malinovski market #Odessa. In the Audi, explosives & guns. Audi with Moldavian plates

Russian forces capture Ukrainian army column between #Ozeryanivka and #Verkhnotoretske.
MT-LB, BRDM, BMP-1
pic.twitter.com/eWj25YedMT

#PACE adopted an amendment to the resolution on #Ukraine calling to #FreeSavchenko, Rus deputies voted for
http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2015/01/27/7056562/ …

Russian D-30 artillery attacks at #Debaltseve now accompanied with music and Jesus-icon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmslsI-WYlo …
pic.twitter.com/XlMKGYgUaX

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We see that "altered state" even with the DUMA members:
Russian Duma speaker Naryshkin at #PACE: "Russia is the only country capable of standing up to Washington's aggressive plans".

The "altered state" never seems to end---

MFA Russia ✔ @mfa_russia
Moscow сondemns Western attempts to manipulate facts Over #Ukraine crisis –
http://bit.ly/1BuBCbX

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The Ukraine-Russia War
http://www.ecfr.eu/article/commentary_the_ukraine_russia_war411?utm_content=b uffer4839c&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
Commentary
Gustav Gressel
26th January, 2015

Solid article worth reading

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Great similarity between IS combat videos and Russian combat videos---this time with music AND both fight "Holy Wars.

Russian D-30 artillery attacks at #Debaltseve now accompanied with music and Jesus-icon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmslsI-WYlo …
pic.twitter.com/XlMKGYgUaX

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OSCE President Kanerva called on Russia to close its border with Ukraine to help counter the increased violence in the Donbass region.

MOSCOW, January 27 (Sputnik) — The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly has called on Russia to close its border with Ukraine following intensified hostilities in Donbass.

"Russian leaders have spoken of their support for a peaceful resolution to the conflict in Ukraine," OSCE Parliamentary Assembly President Ilkka Kanerva said

"In keeping with that pledge, I call on Russia to close the border to halt the flow of any weapons or fighters – whether volunteers or not – which may be entering eastern Ukraine."

The OSCE PA president also said that the provision of humanitarian aid to the war-torn eastern Ukrainian regions should be considered if the border was closed.

Kanerva noted the escalation of the eastern Ukrainian conflict refering to the recent Mariupol attack. He welcomed the OSCE declaration that calls for an immediate ceasefire in Ukraine and the full implementation of the Minsk agreements.

Earlier today, Moscow called on the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) to provide proof that Russia has troops in Ukraine.
Last week, Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council claimed that two battalion tactical groups from the Russian Armed Forces had apparently crossed the Russian-Ukrainian border.

However, the US State Department was unable to confirm these allegations. According to OSCE observers based at two border crossing points at the Russian-Ukrainian border, there had been no movement of military equipment over the border.

Since the start of the government forces' military assault on eastern Ukraine's independence supporters in April 2014, Kiev and the West have repeatedly accused Russia of intervening in the Ukrainian crisis. The accusations went as far as to claim that Moscow sent troops and weapons to help the independence militias.

However, the Kremlin has dismissed the claims as not corroborated by any evidence.

A true altered state of reality statement----

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Robert Jones often writes here about the rule of law and good governance as drivers of populations.

Yale prof.Timothy Snyder is just about to begin speaking to a packed hall at Prague Charles University.

Tweeted by Robert Coalson

That's all, folks. Snyder had left the building, heading for a lecture in Krakow.

Snyder: war had consolidated Ukrainian political identity more than anything else ever could have.

Snyder: main result of last year was permanent split between Russian and Ukrainian public opinion.

Snyder: before one thread of Ukrainian nationalism relied on Bandera, but now Ukrainian nationalism is developing a new mythology of Maidan.

Snyder: Putin is limited bc Russians don't want a war in Ukraine. Has to maintain the myth that Russia is not fighting there.

Snyder: growing casualties is main constraint on Russia now. That's one reason for reliance on Chechen mercenaries.

Snyder: war in Ukraine has civil society at its heart. It is about choosing a model of society

Snyder: one idea about civil society is notion that when state does not follow its own rules, society has right to act unpredictably.

Snyder: Ukraine has been ruled by oligarchical pluralism w no rule of law. Maidan was abt breaking that. Led by "Russian-speaking Kyiv".

Snyder: Until recently, Soviet experience and especially WWII have bound Ukraine and Russia together. Those bounds now broken.

Snyder: before 1991, neither Russia nor Ukraine ever really had a national state.

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Senior #UN officials are calling last week's GRAD missile attacks in #Mariupol a "war crime" due to civilian targets

#Lugansk #Transpele. Russian military vehicles base identified
via @InformNapalm @Ykraino4_ka
https://informnapalm.org/5208-lugansk-kompanyya-transpele-ydentyfytsyrovana-baza-rossyjskoj-voennoj-tehnyky …
pic.twitter.com/aryK6wMiiP

Odesa police detain group of recent bombings suspects| Ukrinform http://www.ukrinform.ua/eng/news/odesa_police_detain_group_of_recent_bombings_suspe cts_328531 …

Alexander Dugin is Russia's foremost fascist. Called for a genocide of Ukrainians. Here he is with Greece's new FM: pic.twitter.com/MzeDcjlI8A

DPR say they have #Debaltseve. #Ukraine soldier based there now tells me: "Absolutely not. We stand." http://dan-news.info/defence/vsu-pokidayut-rajon-debalcevo-minoborony-dnr.html …

First Republican Bank" in DNR-held #Dokuchaevsk. Closed for now. Little money. No electricity since yesterday. pic.twitter.com/NjGSSpVdL4

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"Ukrainian" website claiming to help defecting from mobilization eventually turned out Russian. pic.twitter.com/qiuUWKErxs

Tymchuk UPD 27/1: the most difficult situation is developing in #Debaltsevo
http://maidantranslations.com/2015/01/27/dmitry-tymchuk-military-update-1-27-freesavchenko/ … pic.twitter.com/Tovv8XbS9J

On this site the terrorists park in #Lugansk their Russian military equipment. https://www.google.de/maps/place/OOO+%22Kompaniya+%22Transpele%22/@48.537678,39.35116,521m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0xf43bab3ec35dcd21?hl= de …
pic.twitter.com/x0XDXwdtbw

Popasna 9:00pm eet: [Russian] militants do not even try to enter the city, just shell all round.

Latest from @OSCE_SMM: Russian military officers and “LPR” and “DPR” members still absent from JCCC headquarters http://bit.ly/1yLyQzk

Ukraine's #SBU: part of the equipment used to shell #Mariupol already on Russian territory
http://euromaidanpress.com/2015/01/27/sbu-part-of-the-equipment-used-to-shell-mariupol-already-on-russian-territory/ …

Russian deputy prime minister: US defenses can't stop our ballistic nuclear missiles anymore — @IBTimes http://read.bi/1wzkVGX

#Russia say no troops #Ukraine yet company"Uralspetszashchita Ent."develops uniforms for them http://ura.ru/content/primenews/27-01-2015/news/1052199463.html#_ … pic.twitter.com/HFqCp2KWQ0

8.17pm eet #Stakhanov: After 40 mins of inactivity 3 #Grad volleys again from a single location, 10 mins interval.

.@LUGANSK_TODAY "Tonight #Lugansk was pounded. #Grad shelled from #Vidnoe, there are eyewitnesses"
pic.twitter.com/UVP6SBLOnu

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#Russia sent tanks & up to 1,000 "infantry" troops to #Mariupol Jan 21 http://nvua.net/ukraine/protivnik-podvel-k-mariupolyu-tanki-i-do-1-tys-pehoty-is-30996.html …
https://twitter.com/RobPulseNews/status/558971835149484032 …
pic.twitter.com/exDIxpHcNe

A boychik with his tankchik: Russia's tanks filmed in Donetsk today
http://youtu.be/y9JzQMwUdAI

This early evening #Luhansk was shelled (the first time since weeks or months?!). 5 people were injured.
Rus&Ukr blame each other.

Russian army forces in #Kirovsk are shelling #CP29 and #Novotoshkivske with 2S4(!) and 2S1.
#Ukraine pic.twitter.com/4YEK7ES1PJ

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New MH17 open source analysis done by bellingcat that points to Russian fired BUK---reference the launch site location.


Very comprehensive report via @bellingcat on MH17 missile launch site. Field clean on July 16, scorched on July 20. https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2015/01/27/is-this-the-launch-site-of-the-missile-that-shot-down-flight-mh17/ …

We also established the US imagery of the launch location pointed close to the same field. pic.twitter.com/HNAhSn60zl

You can see how narrow the burn is. Much more confined area.

@ChristopherJM I see I'll update it accordingly

No, this is correct location. But what you're seeing isn't a scorched area. This was only scorched part pic.twitter.com/M7vLVZCg2a

Also, look at the pics of scorch mark I published before. Size of scorch mark 30ftX15ft at most.

But said when he arrived there, nothing was at the site -- no machinery, etc.

Farmer told us he was surprised to find his field burning. Had no idea what started small blaze.

Maybe by the farmer, maybe to hide signs of the launch

@ChristopherJM @RolandOliphant It looks like in the imagery there was a barrier to stop burning spreading, I think it was done on purpose

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It is becoming dangerous due to the simple fact that the Russian leadership is now truly in an altered state of reality that does not even acknowledge reality.

Trapped by their own disinformation campaign---not good.

Notice he never even mentioned that the shellings have been investigated up and including the OSCE and he never mentions Russian troops and heavy combat equipment which has been photographed and video over 100s of times since August to include actual Russian military personnel as POWs.

MFA Russia ✔ @mfa_russia
Vitaly #Churkin: We call for objective investigation of Mariupol and Donetsk, and before that of Maidan and Odessa
http://sputniknews.com/military/20150127/1017382785.html

Part of the current problem when dealing with either Putin, his FM and or his DUMA is that they are so trapped in their own generated propaganda they no longer have a grasp on reality thus in this state of altered reality they are making decisions that are driving them closer to total economic failure and potentially WW3.

Several articles below are well worth the reading.

@PowerVertical looks at the frightening signs that Putin is now suffering from dangerous groupthink.
http://goo.gl/OR46bL

This type of mystic-racism drives Russia today. Read this. Without exaggeration or hyperbole, this is insane.
pic.twitter.com/9OW66lyXaq

Russian Duma is contemplating condemnation of German re-unification in 1989 as "annexation" of the GDR - "revanche" for "Crimean criticism"

TASS reports the Russian Duma will consider a condemnation of the German reunification in 1989 as "annexation" of the GDR |

The Russian Duma will investigate the legality of German reunification, in response to PACE’s condemnation of Crimea.

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Everyone needs to go back and reread the MFA released comments by the Russian FM on the war crime committed by Russian artillery troops when they fired on the civilians of Mariupol.

"We will do anything that it takes to get a ceasefire" or roughly those words--AND Now?

So I guess doing anything it takes means launching a full scale assault on Ukrainian positions.

Re #Debaltsevo: "Main road being shelled all time, but are diff ways through. Town w/o water, firemen delivering water supplies"

I have done some border checking last night.. Another large concentration of Russian troops.. pic.twitter.com/ehlMlHdfac

Russian forces attacked #Novobakhmutivka last night
http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/28-january-russian-forces-attacked-novobakhmutivka-last-night …
pic.twitter.com/PsVcVfVdqK

The Ukrainian army also reports #clashes in the vicinity of #Pisky and #Vodyane. Does that mean #Opytne is lost ??? pic.twitter.com/QEezOV79Ge

"#Debaltsevo, situ as of last night: "No retreat. Only border guards + local police left. All military still there."

BPM-97 Vystriel number "300" (1) in Tskhinvali, 2009-2012, (2) in Luhansk, #Ukraine, 2014 pic.twitter.com/CftGf1kdTK

More WW2 porn. DNR claim Kiev uses "anti-retreat troops" to shoot their own (with no proof), Russian media reprints.
http://rt.com/news/226831-ukraine-barrier-troops-donetsk/ …

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And the Russia army assaults are still continuing so I guess we must in the future simply ignore anything coming out of Moscow as being falsehoods and nothing more.

Russian army firing BM-21, "trying to close the pocket of #Debaltseve".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZayqUXa4HnM …
pic.twitter.com/UraruzQ7tv

Two engagements occurred at night: near Pisky-Vodyane, Novobahmutivka. Enemy was repelled https://www.facebook.com/ato.news/posts/939285159415624 …
pic.twitter.com/5zpp321jZj

#FOOTAGE
RUSSIAN ARMY ACTION IN #LUHANSK REGION.
T-72B1, T-64BV, MT-LB, BMP-1, Ural, ribbons.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6INnqMOB58 …
pic.twitter.com/jqBUSji5IY

Tymchuk: enemy's forces at #Debaltseve stronghold incl 2,5K militants+Rus troops, 50 combat arm veh, up to 35 tanks, 22 MRLS, artillery syst

#Ukraine use NATO HESCO fortification at checkpoint near #Marinka &survived GRAD rockets #Donetsk #Mariupol #Luhansk pic.twitter.com/BTzdEdAkdk

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“Holy War” Priest of the #Russian church of St Peterburg killing at LNR, #Luhansk.
http://sirgis.info/2015/01/20/russian_preacher_kills_ukrainians_in_ukraine/ … pic.twitter.com/QvcTn7ASVW

#Russian marine from Sakhalin says he was filmed at the #Donetsk airport.
http://sirgis.info/2015/01/28/militant_from_sahalin_was_in_donetsk/ …
pic.twitter.com/S0b4UFzvvB

Popasna @PopasnaUA
#Popasna mayor Onishchenko: 2 civilians killed, 6 wounded due to shelling. Most of the town w/o electricity, gas and water

Another Russian “vacationer” from Far East tells newspaper regular troops fighting Ukrainians http://www.echo.msk.ru/blog/netema/1482152-echo/ …
pic.twitter.com/3hOEasuYzH

#Transnistria'ns detained n #Odesa 27Jan suspects f terrorist attcks n Od order b RU srvcs via http://dumskaya.net
pic.twitter.com/SOOgGGPz71

Proof: BPM-97 in #Lugansk. These vehicles are only in service the Russian Army. https://informnapalm.org/5151-tshynvalskye-vystrely-v-luganske …
pic.twitter.com/uXbRL9fZXU

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The following concerning the execution of Ukrainian POWs goes to the heart of the article I recently posted titled "Is Russia a State Sponsor of Terrorism".

Now the second question would be--is that anything difference in IS beheading prisoners and Russia executing POWs.

@DajeyPetros Here 'Dushman' seen with Russian actress/scammer Maria #Tsipko http://instagram.com/p/uVe5XbOTgz/
pic.twitter.com/C8dW4mYzBb

This man is commander 'Dushman' of brigade 'Vostok' that ordered executing of POWs. Anybody know more about him? pic.twitter.com/Bz5eJduvys

'Dedouka' has filmed the POW-movie that killed four Ukrainians http://ukraineatwar.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/graphic-warcrimes-russians-shoot.html …
pic.twitter.com/xjmHlyWu04

POW still alive when filmed after shot by Russians at Krasnyi Partizan. Later he was dead.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5J-9xJLe48 …
pic.twitter.com/CrkOeWmb58


Seems strange and more proof of the Russian "altered state of reality" these
days.
First they parade and abuse Ukrainian POWs taken in the airport fighting, THEN they execute Ukrainian POWs and then the UN states the shelling of civilians with 122/220mm GRADS is a war crime and NOW this?????

Donetsk separatist magazine demands humane treatment for prisoners pic.twitter.com/hLhcTd78DT

Really.....humane treatment---must not apply to them I guess?

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Yuriy Levashov, a mercenary fom Novosibirsk (Russia). Killed Jan 23 @ Matiupol (Ukraine) via @RUopol4enec
pic.twitter.com/ghqDamP7na

Mihail Ursol, a mercenary from Megion (Khanty–Mansi AO, Russia). Killed Jan 25 @ Gorlika via @RUopol4enec
pic.twitter.com/6SYtJbtc45

Separatists getting weapons from #Russia says OSCE to German media: http://goo.gl/9yBN0o http://twitter.com/Jay_Janzen/status/560140861397561344/photo/1pic.twitter.com/GrV91yMm53 pic.twitter.com/XW6DzRtDzd

Russian soldiers brag about participation in recent fighting at Donetsk airport
http://citysakh.ru/news/44281/

NSDC of Ukraine ✔ @NSDC_ua
SBU liquidated a terrorist group in #Kharkiv that was about to instigate armed provocations in #Donetsk region. Confiscated arms

NSDC of Ukraine ✔ @NSDC_ua
Ukrainian counter-intelligence detained a DPR informer. Also, SBU detained 2 DPR terrorists who attacked Ukrainian forces

NSDC of Ukraine ✔ @NSDC_ua
Ukrainian Border Guard detained a terrorist suspect who attempted to leave the country

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Part of the current problem when dealing with either Putin, his FM and or his DUMA is that they are so trapped in their own generated propaganda they no longer have a grasp on reality thus in this state of altered reality they are making decisions that are driving them closer to total economic failure and potentially WW3.

Several articles below are well worth the reading.

@PowerVertical looks at the frightening signs that Putin is now suffering from dangerous groupthink.
http://goo.gl/OR46bL

This type of mystic-racism drives Russia today. Read this. Without exaggeration or hyperbole, this is insane.
pic.twitter.com/9OW66lyXaq

Russian Duma is contemplating condemnation of German re-unification in 1989 as "annexation" of the GDR - "revanche" for "Crimean criticism"

TASS reports the Russian Duma will consider a condemnation of the German reunification in 1989 as "annexation" of the GDR |

The Russian Duma will investigate the legality of German reunification, in response to PACE’s condemnation of Crimea.

Reading Orwell's 1984 is a great start in understanding this Russian "altered state of reality". Mentioned it here several times and took a beating on the comments--but now seven months later seems to have been an accurate statement.

Russia is getting more surreal and Orwellian: State Duma denounces West German "annexation" of GDR in 1990
http://itar-tass.com/politika/17271

Even their media is getting into the altered state action now---
Russian media claims Finnish tour operator to arrange vacation packages in Crimea, company CEO vehemently denies. http://yle.fi/uutiset/venajan_media_suomalaisyhtio_aloittaa_matkat_krimi lle__toimitusjohtaja_taytta_puppua/7765515 …

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Nice bluff by the US towards the Russian Army and Putin---doubt it would ever happen as that would be a massive break in the thinking of the NSC and this WH which truly believes in "soft power".

So while a nice statement ---bluff and Russia knows it.

Now if a C17 landed and cameras were rolling during the offloading and shows US TOWs ---that would get Putin's attention in a hurry and the message heard loud and clear.

NSDC of Ukraine ✔ @NSDC_ua
Victoria Nuland condemned Russian aggression. If it continues, USA can reconsider its view on whether to give lethal weapons to Ukraine

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Raising Baltic tensions to divert from Russian attacks in the Ukraine---

Russian Navy activity Baltic. @uascan: "Rather intense traffic on ru baltoc sea navy sw nets" / "strategic flash message to baltic sea navy"

Russian Navy activity in Baltic Sea Region. Tu-95 Bear strategic bombers airborne (possibly also Baltic region)

Latitude 67N SIGINT @uascan
@uascan strategic flash message to baltic sea navy

Larry Van Horn @MilcomMP
8112.0 kHz CW Russian TU-95 Bear Net up with CW traffic.

Bomb alarm in Lithuanian LNG terminal: DEFENCE24 http://www.defence24.pl/news_alarm-bombowy-na-litewskim-terminalu-lng …

Caller detained, no bomb found: http://en.delfi.lt/lithuania/energy/people-evacuated-after-bomb-threat-at-lithuanias-lng-terminal.d?id=67023566 …

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#Russia|n forces started another attempt to storm #Troitske & #Svitlodarsk, attack repulsed by #Ukraine troops - ATO

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#NAF troops shell the Ukrainian held city of Debaltseve in the east of the country.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8t0J086Ef8 … pic.twitter.com/5IZOquBo2Z

Vehicle with license plates and terrorists from the district of Moscow in #Ukraine. pic.twitter.com/0C8SjzZL9r

Russian army BPM-97 in #Luhansk city.
via @censor_net pic.twitter.com/7VuFpSrFJI

#Breaking
Russians abused more fleeing civilians as "suicde bombers",detonating a car near #CP29.
3 civilians inured.
pic.twitter.com/wmHmpHdhks
Russian forces released hostages in car packed with explosives which exploded near Ukrainian checkpoint 29; 2 people in critical condition.
Aftermath picture of the car bomb attack on the Ukr Marinka checkpoint.
Car was secretly right rigged with explosives pic.twitter.com/li1KeHPYlC

#Russia says #Ukraine conflict heading towards escalation - FM Website

By Labelling Russia an Aggressor, Ukraine has Gained a Great Deal, Analysts Say http://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2015/01/by-labeling-russia-aggressor-ukraine.html …

How Russia invaded Ukraine and destroyed Ilovaisk volunteer battalions in the 'safe corridor'.
http://ukraineatwar.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/google-earth-shows-how-russians-crossed.html … pic.twitter.com/Q2DXkahLT1

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Nice bluff by the US towards the Russian Army and Putin---doubt it would ever happen as that would be a massive break in the thinking of the NSC and this WH which truly believes in "soft power".

So while a nice statement ---bluff and Russia knows it.

Now if a C17 landed and cameras were rolling during the offloading and shows US TOWs ---that would get Putin's attention in a hurry and the message heard loud and clear.

NSDC of Ukraine ✔ @NSDC_ua
Victoria Nuland condemned Russian aggression. If it continues, USA can reconsider its view on whether to give lethal weapons to Ukraine

Bluff poker--interestingly played now by the US---Russia will be hard pressed to exactly interpret the statements.

US general calls for weapons to be given to Ukrainehttp://www.unian.info/world/1037371-us-general-calls-for-weapons-to-be-given-to-ukraine.html … pic.twitter.com/qFfQ5dwrEd

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Kostya Gorelov from Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk "vacationed" at #Donetsk airport with Motorola's gang.http://citysakh.ru/news/44281/
pic.twitter.com/1xmuIMYlnL

Kostya travelled almost 1/4 of Earth's circumference to attack Ukraine.
Journos would describe him as a "local rebel"
pic.twitter.com/IP5CcvTRLi

#BreakingFootage
Russian 2S1 group shells #Debaltseve.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOmi4WAT87w …
#Ukraine #Russia pic.twitter.com/OzJ5MrhCHH

Interesting photo. Looks like you can fire a GRAD at much shorter range than 5 kms like this... pic.twitter.com/89tpd9RaSu

#Russian Duma releasing 300 thousand of criminals. Sending them to Donbas? 1953 repeats.http://lenta.ru/news/2010/02/25/freedom/ …
http://cripo.com.ua/?sect_id=10&aid=187629 …

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Part of the current problem when dealing with either Putin, his FM and or his DUMA is that they are so trapped in their own generated propaganda they no longer have a grasp on reality thus in this state of altered reality they are making decisions that are driving them closer to total economic failure and potentially WW3.

Several articles below are well worth the reading.

@PowerVertical looks at the frightening signs that Putin is now suffering from dangerous groupthink.
http://goo.gl/OR46bL

This type of mystic-racism drives Russia today. Read this. Without exaggeration or hyperbole, this is insane.
pic.twitter.com/9OW66lyXaq

Russian Duma is contemplating condemnation of German re-unification in 1989 as "annexation" of the GDR - "revanche" for "Crimean criticism"

TASS reports the Russian Duma will consider a condemnation of the German reunification in 1989 as "annexation" of the GDR |

The Russian Duma will investigate the legality of German reunification, in response to PACE’s condemnation of Crimea.

The drumbeat of "altered state of reality" just keeps on giving:

MFA Russia ✔ @mfa_russia
New hostilities provoked by Kiev lead to #Ukraine conflict escalation
http://itar-tass.com/en/russia/773913 …

Seems the Russian MFA "simply forgot" the mercenary leader of the NDR "declared war" on the Ukraine and has been attacking ever since---seems they forgot to mention that small detail.

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Bluff poker--interestingly played now by the US---Russia will be hard pressed to exactly interpret the statements.

US general calls for weapons to be given to Ukrainehttp://www.unian.info/world/1037371-us-general-calls-for-weapons-to-be-given-to-ukraine.html … pic.twitter.com/qFfQ5dwrEd

Or is it a bluff?

New statement from US General Breedlove about Russia's actions in #Ukraine.
pic.twitter.com/XIasb1vflx

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A concerted & orchestrated attack is underway to permanently delete @EuromaidanPress's @facebook site.
#Kremlin clearly see it a threat..

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Now the mercenaries want to invite Texas to their conference---we have now entered the true Twilight zone"

DNR "foreign minister" announces forthcoming conference of "unrecognized states" -- says Texans are invited (!)
http://lenta.ru/news/2015/01/27/unrecognised/ …

Russian invasion forces launched heavy #Grad volleys all over #Luhansk tonight.
Targets e.g. #Debaltseve, #Popasna and #Chornukhyne.

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Those 'little green men' who popped up in the Crimea were a textbook case of the Russian practice of 'maskirovka' ".
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-31020283 …

Russian invaders also tried to storm #Chermalyk and #Pavlopil near Mariupol last night under mortar cover but were repulsed.

This is the second time in less than three months that the so called US company Face Book with a Russian investor of over 700M USD has started blocking accounts that are not viewed as “Russian friendly”.Interesting what 700M USD gets you these days.
Blocking @EuromaidanPress for #Azov insignia ridiculous whne FB posts Dugin, LifeNews or KP pic.twitter.com/6YLk8eGu1u

Tanya Lokshina: Russia Is Waging an Invisible War in Dagestan (Video) | Opinion | The Moscow Times http://www.themoscowtimes.com/opinion/article/russia-is-waging-an-invisible-war-in-dagestan/515054.html …

Russian forces attempted to storm #Maloorlivka on the southern defensive ring of #Debaltseve last night. pic.twitter.com/3nonhH6alb

#News
Russian forces conducted 103 attacks on Ukrainian targets during the last 24 hours. - ATO command

Was this nervous man the executioner of Ukrainian POWs? Or just a witness of it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIa8CiUSRvA … pic.twitter.com/kbYsdYxnmU

VIDEO: brand new Russian army truck with Russian tactical markings got hit by Ukraine near Elenovka
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSDxn_biXso …

#Russia latest model of T-72 the T-72B3 tank in #Donetsk pic.twitter.com/uar15IFqor
http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/28-january-russia-latest-model-of-t72-the-t72b3-tank-in-donetsk …

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This "separatist" incident from 9 may 2014 where the "separatists" claimed the Ukrainian Army was shooting at them in Mariupol just keeps coming up. Seems like a lifetime ago.

Relooked by the open source analysts who have gotten good at it since MH17.

This was one of my first blogs!!! What happened to Lenin street victims Mariupol May 9th http://ukraineatwar.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/what-happened-to-victims-on-lenin.html … pic.twitter.com/Gu7yyX06HA

With Mariupol in news again Bellingcat comes with May 9th 2014 reconstruction. https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2015/01/28/a-reconstruction-of-clashes-in-mariupol-ukraine-9-may-2014/ … pic.twitter.com/6z1rTdYd7H

GRAPHIC Republished: stabilized part of video where civilian gets a 'headshot' Mariupol May 9th 2014 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoztnUBPM2Q …

Republished: composition and synchronised videos Mariupol Leninstreet clash for better understanding what happened https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08GgnkTKCig …

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Estonian air force chief says Russian violations of #Baltic air space deliberate
http://uatoday.tv/politics/estonian-air-force-chief-says-russian-violations-of-baltic-air-space-deliberate-405860.html …

#Ukraine's government offers soldiers cash for destroying opponent vehicles: $3,000 for a tank -$7,600 for a planehttp://www.kmu.gov.ua/control/ru/publish/article?art_id=247909196&cat_id=244843950 …


VIDEO: Pro-Russian artillery firing against Ukrainian forces near #Debaltseve
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JCRFJ5kk1Q … pic.twitter.com/2aysehy7HD

Enemy failed to create the #Debaltseve pot due to effective actions of Ukr artillery, enemy suffered losses https://www.facebook.com/dmitry.tymchuk/posts/628752377253421 …

Russian army aggressors are losing war on eastern Ukraine https://www.facebook.com/dmitry.tymchuk/posts/628752377253421 …

War crime: Russian army engages children not attained the age of 15 yrs to take direct part in hostilities in Ukraine pic.twitter.com/ILJjISg7FP

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From Interfax today:

12:22 Self-proclaimed Donetsk republic defense minister: Minsk agreements no longer valid

When the DNR declared war on the Ukraine both Putin and his FM provided them supporting statements and did not deny the declaration--NOW will be interesting to see how they react if at all as they signed the Minsk agreement and have been throwing at the Ukraine they were not holding to it when they themselves have never implemented a single point in the agreement.

12:02 MOSCOW CONDEMNS PLANS TO DELIVER MUNITIONS FROM BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA TO UKRAINE - RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY

This is a shocker for the Russian Army as their plan of driving the Ukrainian Army to the point of running out of munitions for their Russian systems hit a brick wall so to speak.

If you had noticed the UA had refrained from returning artillery fire during the three ceasefires for that exact reason and now that they are firing just as hard as the Russians and evidently scoring well against the Russian Army they need resupplies urgently.

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More open source analysis of exactly where new Russian heavy weapons are inside the Ukraine.
Russian Pantsir-S1 short-range air defense missile system in Makeyevka (East of #Donetsk). pic.twitter.com/WwGwJPUgTt

Security Service of UKR presents evidence of crimes against humanity by RUS military and RUS-led terrorists. pic.twitter.com/HykZgeelAU

#Army of #Ukraine under #Debaltseve destroyed 30 tanks militants in #Donetsk the morgue full. #ATO pic.twitter.com/a3LFAF2iBt

#Russian troops near Olenivka-Starobesheve: 2 battalion tactical groups up to 1K, 18 tanks, 65 combat arm veh
Almost all enemy's forces nr Olenivka-Starobesheve are Rus reg troops disguised for militants
https://www.facebook.com/dmitry.tymchuk/posts/628752377253421 … pic.twitter.com/9LC83Upoxy

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Yesterday via bloggers it was reported that the Russians were holding an extremely large Baltic naval exercise as a not so subtle threat to the entire Baltics and yet as of today still no western media picked up on it--ever wonder why?


FIFTY+ Russian naval vessels now drilling in #Baltic but not yet 1 report in western media?! Rus mil statement here: http://function.mil.ru/news_page/country/more.htm?id=12006372@egNews …

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Another example of the height that the Russian "altered state of reality" has reached---just not sure if the Russians even believe what they state as I am not sure that the Europeans will just "renew" for Russia so Russia might be out for a long while.

Rogozin's Stalinist ally Biryukov says "Russia will return to PACE when Europe begins to renew itself."
http://goo.gl/FIqRlu

Sometimes when propaganda is in play the expounder of propaganda gets lost in their own words and worlds--that in itself is dangerous and leads eventually to miscalculations as they no longer can tell the difference between reality and non reality.


Another interesting piece (in Ru) on whether Putin, allies have started to believe their own distortions:
http://goo.gl/SSxRdU

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Daily Mail: Russian bombers in the skies over Bournemouth pic.twitter.com/qUjTeOnhtF http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/29-january-daily-mail-russian-bombers-in-the-skies-over-bournemouth …

#Russia|ns use mobile crematoria:#Donbas.Trying to hide part in fighting|@Defence24pl|http://bit.ly/1DbRIXq #Ukraine pic.twitter.com/9YjnmAIfi1

NOTE: this is the second such reporting ---first one came out in early Sept 2014 just after Russian troops crossed into the Ukraine---it had been parked in Rostov.

Evgeniy Chudakov, a mercenary from Karelia (Russia), killed in Ukraine.
http://lostivan.com/ivan/3759 via @lostivan200 pic.twitter.com/gfqOIrDQAk

Rinat Kasimov, a mercenary from Yakutia (Russia), killed in Ukraine. http://lostivan.com/ivan/3760 via @lostivan200 pic.twitter.com/bk0RKNXKei

Andrey Simachenko, a mercenary from Russia, killed in Ukraine. http://lostivan.com/ivan/3761 via @lostivan200 pic.twitter.com/QgIhPOxNOA

Russian paratroopers.
pic.twitter.com/3ssaCjdizc

Putin's hybrid war moves to Latvia? "Latvian People's Republic" appears. http://www.eurointegration.com.ua/rus/news/2015/

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From Interfax today:

12:22 Self-proclaimed Donetsk republic defense minister: Minsk agreements no longer valid

When the DNR declared war on the Ukraine both Putin and his FM provided them supporting statements and did not deny the declaration--NOW will be interesting to see how they react if at all as they signed the Minsk agreement and have been throwing at the Ukraine they were not holding to it when they themselves have never implemented a single point in the agreement.

12:02 MOSCOW CONDEMNS PLANS TO DELIVER MUNITIONS FROM BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA TO UKRAINE - RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY

This is a shocker for the Russian Army as their plan of driving the Ukrainian Army to the point of running out of munitions for their Russian systems hit a brick wall so to speak.

If you had noticed the UA had refrained from returning artillery fire during the three ceasefires for that exact reason and now that they are firing just as hard as the Russians and evidently scoring well against the Russian Army they need resupplies urgently.

Moscow calls on Bosnia and Herzegovina not to deliver weaponry to Kiev http://bit.ly/18xx3UJ pic.twitter.com/fyuF9R8wlf

NOTICE that Russian forbids weapons from other countries but continues massive weapons shipments into the Ukraine all the while stating it "ain't us".

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This has been floating around for the last two months on what Russia envisions for the Ukraine "peaceful settlement".

Putin wants a Bosnia-style constitution for #Ukraine giving separatists veto power over security policy -by @vfroloffhttp://www.themoscowtimes.com/opinion/article/putin-is-in-no-hurry-to-resolve-ukraine-crisis/514523.html …

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It seems that while the UA has in fact lost some towns and villages along the Minsk demarcation line they are surprisingly holding out well at the four critical points that the Russian Army assumed they would swarm over with ease.

During the summer fighting there had been several reports on the accuracy and effectiveness of the Ukrainian Army's artillery units from the separatist side--suspect now with the US counterbattery radars they has stepped it up and evidently the Russian campaign is stalling in a number of areas.

With the bounty being paid now there is a far greater urge by the UA to engage---there have been numerous reports that UA soldiers from the rank of MAJ down have been actually fighting extremely well---but still a bad form of senior leadership still making major tactical mistakes.

a lot of losses on Russian side around Debaltseve. They confirmed that minimum 100 KIA and 30 tanks destroyed

Just so you understand how little changed in Russians' war tactics, as their horde now tries to take #Debaltseve despite high casualties

Militants shell Ukrainian positions in eastern part of country over 100 times http://24today.net/open/290023
pic.twitter.com/KI4UjfKACL

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Yesterday via bloggers it was reported that the Russians were holding an extremely large Baltic naval exercise as a not so subtle threat to the entire Baltics and yet as of today still no western media picked up on it--ever wonder why?


FIFTY+ Russian naval vessels now drilling in #Baltic but not yet 1 report in western media?! Rus mil statement here: http://function.mil.ru/news_page/country/more.htm?id=12006372@egNews …

ENTIRE Russian Baltic Fleet (50+ ships) with air support out on "excercise". Russian Bear H Tu-95MS bombers "buzz" England S coast. Threats?

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Enemy deployed huge reserves to #Debaltseve area, lost dozens of equip, hundreds of fighters, is awaiting counter attack fr Ukr f - ATO spox

Russian OPSEC is not working well—FSB charges mother of Russian soldier.
FSB charges mother-of-seven with treason for telling Ukraine embassy a military base in Smolensk had emptied out http://kommersant.ru/doc/2656046

US and the CIA are to blame again at PACE
Russian senator says Britain and US int. agencies (CIA) are running a "party of war" inside @PACE_News (RU)

DNR accuses #Ukraine of burning dead soldiers’ bodies in portable crematoria. Now Ukr throwing back the charge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1vFMuL0yww&feature=youtu.be&app=desktop …

NSDC: Terrorists regroup their forces near #Debaltseve and #Mariupol. More enemy forces focus in south #Donetsk region

Lukashenko repeats Poroshenko's quote about keeping gunpowder dry in a clear warning to Russia that Belarus will fight an aggression

Russian "maskirovka":
"All human history can be portrayed as the history of deception."
- How profoundly Russian. http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-31020283 …

NSDC of Ukraine ✔ @NSDC_ua
Ukrainian anti-aircraft troops continue drills to take down enemy UAVs

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This BTR-80 APC only made in #Russia , there's only 1 way #Ukraine trps. could've gotten it (hit). pic.twitter.com/2EeRHLaK3M

#Ukraine's Security Service post proof that #Mariupol was fired by Russian officers http://uatoday.tv/politics/ukraine-s-security-service-post-a-proof-that-mariupol-was-fired-by-russian-officers-406015.html … pic.twitter.com/Y12VXYDJhl

"#AZOV":terrorists М.left positions under #Debaltseve,in fighting suffered heavy losses 50-200 & 80-300.#Ukraine #ATO
pic.twitter.com/P3bBHw7kaH

[VIDEO] #Ukraine: The volunteer war? http://youtu.be/nzSz-MXAjyg

VIDEO Debaltseve area. Russians evacuating wounded from under fire https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-Aw_ykYmiw …

Here we go: Russian tanks and infantry broke through to Vuhlehirsk, combat is on... https://www.facebook.com/alex.mochanov/posts/1558136024437510?pnref=story … pic.twitter.com/wmURAhRcXq

BREAKING: First footage of Ukraine POWs from #Vuhlehirsk battle
http://youtu.be/RUKX8RdDQSw

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Confirmed location of #Russia Army 9K35 Strela-10 surface-to-air missile launcher, Lugansk Oblhttp://lugansk-news.com/confirmed-location-of-russian-army-9k35-strela-10-in-bryanka-lugansk-region/#sthash.irZ8kbtx.dpuf … pic.twitter.com/tOIVBV01By

The man in beret seems 2 be #Russia|n citizen Anton Korobkov-Zemlyansky @korobkov, from #Moscow
Fighting in #Ukraine? pic.twitter.com/5Ep8HyJZ0P

Russian soldiers around #Debaltseve.
One gets killed or injured.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KaIhoMHOvI …
pic.twitter.com/dPD9U8mm1H

#Footage
Black Russian BTR-80 in #Donetsk oblast.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=156kf6aSXVU …
pic.twitter.com/yQgccKjowW

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Report: "militants unit deserted from the battle scene near Vuhlehirsk" pic.twitter.com/K8deJqXT1t http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/29-january-report-militants-unit-deserted-from-the-battle …

How we found evidence of a Russian fighting in Ukraine https://www.echosec.net/russian-fighting-in-ukraine/ …

Russia Bear overflights of the UK
'They haven't flown this far south before' - UK summons Russian ambassador after aircraft disrupt civil aviation:
http://reut.rs/1ES3xna

#Footage
Russian forces evacuate "wounded commander" from Ukrainian shelling near #Debaltseve.
Tanks and apc around.http://youtu.be/o8UdXoqmMWg

#Ukraine's Azov battalion says FIFTY of Mozgovyi's #Russia|n-backed troops were killed & 80 WIA, nr #Debaltseve today pic.twitter.com/IIS3nn5GK0

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"Only a big catastrophe can result from such developments."

(Reuters) 29.1.2015- Russia's envoy to the European security watchdog OSCE urged the United States and Europe on Thursday to stop supporting the "party of war" in Ukraine and warned "catastrophe" could result, Interfax news agency reported.

"I would like to appeal to the states that have influence on Kiev's leadership, most of all to Washington. It's time to stop indulging Ukraine's party of war," said Russia's OSCE envoy, Andrei Kelin.

"Only a big catastrophe can result from such developments."

Russia has increasingly blamed the United States and NATO for the flare-up in violence in eastern Ukraine. The West accuses Moscow of feeding a pro-Russian insurgency with guns and soldiers.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said this week the Ukrainian army itself was a legion of NATO sent to geopolitically contain Russia.

"It's time to stop covering (Kiev's) inhuman actions, it is unacceptable to push (them) toward the continuation of war in eastern Ukraine," said Kelin.

Russia denies accusations it is sending money, arms or weapons to eastern Ukraine, where a pro-Russian uprising began months after Ukraine's Moscow-backed President Viktor Yanukovich was ousted by street protests.

NOTE: The ultimate it "ain't us" in their altered state of reality.

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Confirmed location of Russian Army 9K35 Strela-10 in Bryanka, Lugansk Region - See more at: http://lugansk-news.com/confirmed-location-of-russian-army-9k35-strela-10-in-bryanka-lugansk-region/#sthash.irZ8kbtx.0uHS8mNP.dpuf … pic.twitter.com/SlTcARqliu

Disturbing Videos Raise War-Crimes Concerns In #Ukraine http://www.rferl.org/content/ukraine-prisoners-of-war-separatists-war-crimes-questions/26816285.html …

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Interesting German translation of hacked Russian documents reflecting the "exchange of BUK crew" referencing the MH17 shot down shortly after the shot down occurred.

InformNapalm.org (Deutsch)
Aktuell
Ein Staatsbeamter Putins schrieb nach der MH-17-Boeing Katastrophe ber den Austausch der BUK-Bedienungsmannschaft



Vier Tage nach der Katastrophe der malaysischen Boeing ber dem Donezker Gebiet hat der stellvertretende Leiter der Innenpolitikfhrung der Verwaltung des Prsidenten Russlands Timur Prokopenko eine Notiz ber den Austausch der Bedienungsmannschaften der BUKs geschrieben.

Dies folgt aus dem privaten Briefwechsel und Notizen, die von der Hacker-Gruppe Anonymous International (auch bekannt als Schaltai Boltai) verffentlicht wurde.

Die Kriegsfinanzierung, die Einbeziehung der adressierten Newsmaker, ukrainische Einwrfe, die Analyse der Erklrungen vom Donnerstag: Poroschenkos, BUK mit zwei Raketen. Die Kommandeure und die Bedienungsmannschaft der BUKs sind ausgewechselt worden,- schrieb er in einer Notiz fr sich selbst (Orthographie ist beibehalten worden).

Die Hacker fgten hinzu, dass diese Notiz nach einer Tagung bezglich dessen, wie man die Tragdie mit der malaysischen Boeing richtig zu beleuchten hat erstellt wurde.

Uns hat der Satz Kommandeure und Bedienungsmannschaften sind ausgewechselt worden ein wenig stutzig gemacht. So etwas gab es doch weder in der ffentlichkeit noch in der Untersuchung. Von welchen Kommandeuren und Bedienungsmannschaften der BUKs weiss Timur Walentinowitsch?- fgten die Mitglieder des Anonymous International hinzu.

Insgesamt haben die Hacker ein Datenmassiv an Briefen und Notizen von Prokopenko in einer Grsse von 1,3 GB (hier kann man das ganze Datenmassiv auch herunterladen) verffentlicht.

Der Beamte beschftigt sich mit der Koordination von Auftragsmaterialien fr die Medien und Blogger. Zum Beispiel legt ihm die bekannte proputinsche Aktivistin Kristina Potuptschik ihre Artikel zur Genehmigung vor. Prokopenko selbst wiederum besucht Tagungen bezglich der Beleuchtung der Ereignisse in den Medien in der Verwaltung des Prsidenten Russlands.

Wie bekannt, wurde die malaysische Boeing ber dem Donezker Gebiet am Donnerstag, dem 17. Juli 2014 abgeschossen. Infolge dieser Katastrophe sind 298 Menschen gestorben.

Nach Meinung vieler Experten wurde das Flugzeug mit einer Boden-Luft Rakete BUK (NATO-Bezeichnung: SA-17 Grizzly) abgeschossen, die aus Russland geliefert wurde.

Quelle: pravda.com.ua; bersetzt von Irina Schlegel


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Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine: Participation of Russian troops… http://goo.gl/fb/UzPxXE

HEAVY RUSSIAN ARMY FORCES TOOK #VUHLEHRISK:
THE UKRAINIAN FRONTLINE AROUND #DEBLATSEVE COLLAPSED. pic.twitter.com/DdvuATr3CI

Frontline east #Ukraine : Situation around #Debaltseve and #Mariupol remains tense
http://uatoday.tv/geopolitics/frontline-east-ukraine-situation-around-debaltseve-and-mariupol-remains-tense-406107.html … pic.twitter.com/DBEO3Zl6bj

346th GRU Brigade from Kabardino-Balkaria in Donbas pic.twitter.com/tWUJQNmDUR

Russia will transfer 3000 of its soldiers now serving in Tajikistan to the Ukrainian border (& possibly into Ukraine) http://www.echo.msk.ru/news/1483682-echo.html …

Russian army tank driver arrested by Security service of Ukraine - video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLo3BmeGH2A …

They don't care anymore. "Emergency Ministry" fuel trucks between "rebel" Ural, tanks, Kamaz and apc.
It's all the same.

#BREAKINGFOOTAGE
Russian army forces entering #Makeevka.
Incl. T-72, overpainted "MC" + fuel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HluwFlzjrQE … pic.twitter.com/lkYUtBHtjt

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Screenshots from video of Russian army in #Vuhlehirsk
pic.twitter.com/OzzfRrrHon

According to Roman Burko this is situation at #Vuhlehirsk. https://www.facebook.com/burkonews/posts/457918917689320 … pic.twitter.com/Y3cAcFUzcE

#Breaking
BOTH sides now say, fighting in #Vuhlehirsk is ongoing and "it is too early to see the outcome of it".

#Ukraine National Guard, Artemivsk: fight on for Vuglehirsk, DNR took half, Ukr try to reclaim. Debaltseve sporadic shelling, Svitlodarsk OK

NSDC of Ukraine ✔ @NSDC_ua
Ukrainian policemen detained ex-convict who joined #LPR. UA border guards detained pro-Russian militant who corrected artillery fire

NSDC of Ukraine ✔ @NSDC_ua
SBU detained a #DPR terrorist. Russian military instructors trained him and sent to organize terrorist acts in #Dnipropetrovsk

NSDC of Ukraine ✔ @NSDC_ua
#LPR forcefully mobilizes students to fight against the Ukrainian Army. Students will be coerced to fight in 10-day shifts.

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Russian battle group with 4 tanks driving through Makeevka: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HluwFlzjrQE …

Batlle footage: Ukrainians having a shootout with Russian( proxie)s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XD_mxgHlT_E …

Half of #Vuhlehirsk is controlled by Ukr forces, combat is on for the 2nd half - Dep Head Police HQ Donetsk reg
http://tsn.ua/ukrayina/u-vuglegirsku-yde-zapekliy-biy-za-polovinu-mista-406102.html …

Documentary from the Donbas war made by the brave Polish journo & beauty Bianka Zalewska.
http://youtu.be/P3zByBcvTfQ

#Luhansk, “Transpele” Co. Basis of Russian military technics identified @en_informnapalm http://nplm.in/3vb pic.twitter.com/z8bNQztboT

New #footage from the #Pisky front.
Guess, who took over control ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJInq5Vniyc …
#UkraineUnderAttack pic.twitter.com/1PcvxIQsDI

Russian 2S7 Pions spotted in Makeevka https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LARtj2fEtLE … http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2S7_Pion

#Vuhlehirsk is not controlled by militants, combat w/ artillery is on - ATO spox Lysenko presser

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US Army General says Russian drones causing heavy Ukrainian casualties
http://uatoday.tv/news/us-army-general-says-russian-drones-causing-heavy-ukrainian-casualties-406158.html … pic.twitter.com/RTSDx3NO3a

VIDEO viaduct south of Lugansk has been completely blown up https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBVpHVc5Jsw … https://www.google.com/maps/@48.4677706,39.2764442,317m/data=!3m1!1e3 …

.@LUGANSK_TODAY's analysis of Russian MLRS attack on Lugansk with geo-location http://lugansk-news.com/pro-russian-terrorist-shelled-at-lugansk-using-mrls-detailed-analysis-with-geo-location/ … pic.twitter.com/uSWI9TzuME

Also shows they are STILL fighting from firestation at Donetsk Airport. http://wikimapia.org/31896856/ru/ Руины-пожарной-части pic.twitter.com/TO3jU050YB

Russian tv reporting about #Vuhlehirsk showing they are inside city https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubP5552M_lk …

What I don't get is why bother w/legal req of making conscripts sign contracts if war itself is unofficial/illegal? http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/conscripts-relatives-fear-theyll-be-sent-to-ukraine-amid-alleged-coercion/515139.html …

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Another day in the life of the "altered state of reality":

DNR planning a "summit of unrecognized states". "Forgets" Kosovo, adds Texas. http://www.rferl.mobi/a/ukraine-separatists-summit-unrecognized-states/26820366.html …

A senior Russian lawmaker says learning foreign languages is a threat to Russia's "traditions." https://meduza.io/news/2015/01/30/irina-yarovaya-ob-yavila-izuchenie-inostrannyh-yazykov-ugrozoy-traditsiyam …

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And the Russia UW strategy just keeps expanding with no thought given to it by the US NSC.

UKRAINE TODAY @uatodaytv

#Latvia probes separatist threat over online map promoting ethnic Russian breakaway region

http://uatoday.tv/geopolitics/latvia-investigates-controversial-map-on-social-media-backing-split-of-country-406186.html … pic.twitter.com/BoCRsQPXVC

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The Russian bombers intercepted over the English Channel were carrying nukes — via @thefiscaltimes http://read.bi/1DesZ4Q

3-4 militant columns passing through #Luhansk #Ukraine every day
http://www.unian.info/war/1038234-tymchuk-3-4-militant-columns-passing-through-luhansk-every-day.html …

Ukrainian military contact on the #Debaltsevo situation
pic.twitter.com/ayYi3mRgWr
Report is from a fighter within Debaltsevo and the UA is holding its own quite well it appears.

Why are dead Russian soldiers called "Cargo 200" and what is a "Black Tulip"? This explains https://www.opendemocracy.net/od-russia/rodric-braithwaite/russians-in-afghanistan-part-ii … pic.twitter.com/mfYebCQqVi

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Ongoing #Debaltseve battle is "like Stalingrad; battlefield strewn with hit Russian tanks"
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=&sl=ru&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fsociety.lb.ua%2Fwar%2F2015%2F01%2F2 9%2F293741_ranenie_boytsi_debaltsevo_tam.html&sandbox=1 …

Force #ATO has blown up the railroad and cleaned the #Orehovo. pic.twitter.com/G32E3dExG8 http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/29-january-force-ato-has-blown-up-the-railroad-and-cleaned …

Russia says nuclear arms to keep military edge over NATO, United States http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/01/30/us-russia-military-idUSKBN0L311E20150130 …”

Tank from Russian battlegroup 'Somalia' (commander Givi) manoeuvring near their HQ at Donetsk Airport. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8dSlG3PFcg …

Albert Vardanyan, a mercenary from Rostov-on-Don (Russia). via @RUopol4enec pic.twitter.com/AyDwp8tKOm

Aleksandr Pashkov, a mercenary from Voronezh (Russia). Lost his leg in Ukraine. via @RUopol4enec pic.twitter.com/6fcisVw56R

#Russia Airborne Spetsnaz involved in attack on ,#Vuhlehirsk pic.twitter.com/FGS3kR7nv7 http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/30-january-russia-airborne-spetsnaz-involved-in-attack-on

Captured Russian MT-LB and howitzer http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/30-january-captured-russian-mtlb-and-howitzer …
pic.twitter.com/1LxPh73XIc

Yuriy Vetrov, a mercenary from Moscow (Russia). Fighting in Ukraine since Oct, 2014. via @RUopol4enec pic.twitter.com/vRlhe06688

Russian forces shelled Ukrainian positions in Talakivka http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/30-january-russian-forces-shelled-ukrainian-positions-in …

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Representatives of so-called DNR and LNR leave peace talks after #Ukraine refuses to attend without militant leaders

#Ukraine MFA spox dismisses claims by #Pushilin on Kyiv withdrawal from Minsk meeting,says Ukraine ready for talks w/ Minsk deal signatories

Weekend is coming up, expect some new provocations from #Russia. Shelling in #Donetsk today was a start, now "peace talks" cancelled.

Timeline:
- Rebels ready for truce talks in #Minsk
- Attack on #Donetsk - 12 dead
- Minsk talks cancelled

Rebels are prepared to seize territory from #Ukraine gov't forces and take all of eastern Ukraine’s two main regions-rebel official Pushilin

No #Minsk talks today: #Ukraine fails to recognise powers of #DPR, #LNR reps http://belsat.eu/en/articles/no-talks-ukraine-minsk-kyiv-fails-recognise-powers-dpr-lnr-representatives/ …

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Russian journalist: #Ukraine’s military successes against #Russia's force are truly impressive
http://euromaidanpress.com/2015/01/30/russian-journalist-ukraines-military-successes-are-truly-impressive/ … pic.twitter.com/JWjtnNxJTX

Here you have it, Russian journo: Russia wages war with Ukraine with forces MAGNITUDE MORE POTENT than in september. pic.twitter.com/kV5d60LE38


The ability of the Ukrainian army to “defend the perimeter” across the entire “front line” in the east of the country indicates that Ukraine is winning in the Donbass stated the Russian playwright and journalist Vladimir Golyshev in an interview to “Obozrevatel.”

“We’re talking about a country that at the time when this military campaign began, practically had no weapons. It is easy to remember that at the end of August – September all forces that could be mobilized and put under arms to that point suffered a very serious defeat. But since September, to this day, while the fighting was limited, every day Ukraine used as efficiently as possible,” – said the expert.

He drew attention to the fact that the military power of Russia during these months has increased considerably. “The number of Russian troops brought inside Ukraine now cannot be compared with that little limited contingent, which was in September. How many heavy weapons was brought in this time, how many rocket artillery systems. Now Russia conducts the war with Ukraine using forces an order of magnitude more potent than it was in September. Ukraine, however, defends the perimeter. Nowhere along the line of contact there is a breakthrough” – reminded Golyshev.

“That should impress Ukrainians. I do not understand why they are not too impressed,” – he said. “Now they are asking: Who is to blame for the fact that Ukraine wins. It is a paradox that from aside looks like schizophrenia,” – said the expert

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BBC: Footage shows Russian soldiers under fire in Ukraine (VIDEO) http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-31065849 …

Russian Conscripts' Relatives Fear They'll Be Sent to Ukraine Amid Alleged Coercion: http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/conscripts-relatives-fear-theyll-be-sent-to-ukraine-amid-alleged-coercion/515139.html … pic.twitter.com/rtdomjt5qC

Ukrainian soldier: "My guess is that there are both Russian troops here and Russian specialists training the separatists"

#Debaltseve encirclement attempts thwarted by Ukrainian artillery
http://uatoday.tv/news/debaltseve-encirclement-attempts-thwarted-by-ukrainian-artillery-405912.html … pic.twitter.com/KGgJdTZRGi

.@lifenews_ru film #Russia|n tanks firing at #Ukraine's army, allegedly nr #Debaltseve Jan 30:
http://lifenews.ru/news/149179 pic.twitter.com/rXf23fBGVU

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Another day in the life of the "altered state of reality":

DNR planning a "summit of unrecognized states". "Forgets" Kosovo, adds Texas. http://www.rferl.mobi/a/ukraine-separatists-summit-unrecognized-states/26820366.html …

A senior Russian lawmaker says learning foreign languages is a threat to Russia's "traditions." https://meduza.io/news/2015/01/30/irina-yarovaya-ob-yavila-izuchenie-inostrannyh-yazykov-ugrozoy-traditsiyam …

Russian-Backed Separatists Plan 'League of Newest States' to Bolster 'People's Republics'
http://www.interpretermag.com/russia-update-january-29-2015/#6587 … pic.twitter.com/WDT7cdBayz

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VIDEO #Russia troops #Vuhlehirsk #Debaltseve fire at #Ukraine forces take return fire &Killed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KaIhoMHOvI&feature=youtu.be … pic.twitter.com/bBP5Dd7yad

Courtesy of @AFP, hi-res images of a #Russia|n T-72Б tank & "DPR" fighters at #Yenakievo, eastern #Ukraine, Jan 29th: pic.twitter.com/6cJbBAI1l7

VIDEO #Putin DNR #Zakharchenko & #Russia troops #Vuhlehirsk #Debaltseve under #Ukraine sniper https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xS2XPGRNOE0 … pic.twitter.com/72XYCXB9dz

Please help identify this Russian army tactical marking on the T-72Б tank pic.twitter.com/5ddsgl4nnv

http://Mariupol.tv Rpt. Ukrainian mil. positions near Mariupol came under fire Friday from mortars and "Grad"near Gutova. No Casualties

Russian Spetsnaz GRU flag on an APC in #Vuhlehirsk yesterday. Don't even bother telling me it was bought.
pic.twitter.com/lDID3LfzgK

J Michael Waller @JMichaelWaller
Defense secretary-designate Ashton Carter in 1994 was the Pentagon official responsible for funding Ukraine's unilateral nuclear disarmament

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More on the "altered state of reality" concerning Putin. "Hybrid war equals hybrid truth"?

Putin lying more and less convincing. He a victim of his own propaganda or is information he receives too filtered?

http://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2015/01/hybrid-truth-as-putins-new-reality.html?spref=tw …

AND even more "altered state of reality" statements from the Russian MFA---at least they are using the same sheet of disinformation.

RussianEmbassyCanada @RussianEmbassyC
Try to hear and listen to other side of conflict, #Donetsk and #Lugansk, to avoid "wag the dog" trap relying only on what is said in #Kiev

RussianEmbassyCanada @RussianEmbassyC
No alternative to direct political dialogue between Kiev authorities and leaders of Donetsk and Lugansk #Ukraine #Ukraineconflict #diplomacy

RussianEmbassyCanada @RussianEmbassyC
Attempts to isolate #Russia lead to self-isolation from being part of international decision-making on strategic stability, arms control

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Enemy keeps deploying reinforcem for its tact group fighting in #Vuhlehirsk: 8 tanks, 14 BMPs & APCs, supplies https://www.facebook.com/dmitry.tymchuk/posts/629942870467705 … |EMPR

Shakhtarsk residents reported movement of Russian "Pantsir-S1" close range air defense pads http://novosti.dn.ua/details/243980/ pic.twitter.com/SzmFRKA3lU

Ahead of rebel offensive to take Debaltsevo, not only locals fled city. Russians, too. http://on.wsj.com/1HtbG6F

Georgian government approved its citizens to fight for Ukraine against Russia http://tsn.ua/svit/gruzinam-dozvolili-voyuvati-v-ukrayini-406312.html … …

In #Vuhlehirsk the situation remains tense, combat is ongoing - #ATO news center https://www.facebook.com/ato.news/posts/941002135910593 …

#Russian special train towards Ukraine border https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0S9j5y801HM …

#Russia. Train with weaponry. Kids film. "It goes to #Ukraine!" VIDEO @InfoResist http://fb.me/1S0zutDxi

Fierce fighting continues around #Debaltsevo & #Vuhlehirsk #Russian militants sent reinforcements with tanks &APCs https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?sl=uk&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Ftsn.ua%2Fato%2Fnayzapeklishi-boyi-trivayut-bilya-debalcevogo-ta-vuglegirska-boyoviki-styaguyut-tanki-i-bronetehniku-406309.html&edit-text= …

Ongoing fighting in #Vuhlehirsk #Russian militants shelled a number of #Ukraine controlled settlements overnight http://bbc.in/1EVr6ve

RUS have pounded Stanitsa area all night thru. At least 5 houses damaged. Inhabitants are in cellars

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Russian officer of #Ukrainian National Guard: "I told my father in Russia that Russian soldiers fight against us" http://en.censor.net.ua/n322148

OSCE: Movement of unmarked #Russian military vehicles observed on DPR-controlled territory http://en.censor.net.ua/n322498

Passports of Russian mercenaries who came to #Ukraine to kill and destroy.
All of them are eliminated by Ukr army pic.twitter.com/7ePTvwNMhV

7:01am #Shakhtarsk: 1 more #Uragan volley northwards
7:09am #Chernukhine-#Debaltseve area is pounded from #Zorinsk-#Alchevsk area
6:35am #Shakhtarsk 2 #Uragan volleys northwards
6:56am Heavy explosions sound from #Kirovske direction
6:44am Sounds of the shelling from #Bryanka-#Stakhanov direction, different artillery shell
9:16pm 30jan #Horlivka: #Grad|s towards #Vuhlehirsk. Novohorlivla is in cellars

#Ukrainian soldiers secured Orikhove-Donetske village. VIDEO http://en.censor.net.ua/n322260

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I have repeated over and over that there is no apparent US strategy for both Russia and the Ukraine.

Scenes from #Ukraine are looking an awful like those from the Yugoslavia war. We were late then, and we are late now.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/31/world/europe/mortar-attacks-in-donetsk-as-ukrainian-fighting-rages-on.html …

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First uncensored #footage of Russian army tanks "outside #Debaltseve".
More than u can count.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-kCZqnPyfo … pic.twitter.com/UQGZHA5vRN

It's getting boring to prove the obvious, if you know what I mean...
Earth is a sphere.
These tanks come from Russia. pic.twitter.com/pBGS9cGgCl

To all Western journalists, politicians, media &2 Ukrainian leaders: You can not fight an enemy you don't acknowledge http://ukraineatwar.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/ukraine-you-can-not-fight-enemy-you.html …

So vividly evident, disguised Russian peacekeepers presently in #Ukraine:
Is this #Russia|n army unit from Georgia? pic.twitter.com/JtvlHMkzHe

Pay attention to Russian army Kevlar helmets. They also acknowledge a number of casualties in last two days. pic.twitter.com/EgUcWQ3OE5

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I geolocated another Rus-Ukr front position in #Vuhlehirsk.
(The right one on the map. Light one is the graveyard). pic.twitter.com/CQE5pRneGk

I updated blog about execution of POWs, because a thirteenth victim has been identified. RIPhttp://ukraineatwar.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/graphic-warcrimes-russians-shoot.html … pic.twitter.com/pdTvjVIwnW

Advanced Russian Ground Radar System Spotted In Uglegorsk (Vuhlehirsk) West Of Debaltsevo? http://bit.ly/1CUKtWr pic.twitter.com/R9SoGyrJbc

Russian tank from battalion Vostok firing at Ukrainian (mine?)tower used as lookout point. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frsdP-8Pp1Y … pic.twitter.com/lI1xrAcBxQ

VIDEO Russian T-72 tanks & trucks on the road to #Vuhlehirsk near #Debaltseve https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVX0OCkfeYI … pic.twitter.com/TptcSTkABq

Militants shelled Svitlychne, hit a water pump station. All occup territ-s f #Luhansk reg got no central water supply http://moskal.in.ua/?categoty=news&news_id=1438

Militants of so-called "Cossack" units have suffered big losses at #Debaltseve platoon. Unsatisfied w Rus command https://www.facebook.com/dmitry.tymchuk/posts/629942870467705 …

This morning positions of Ukr forces near Pavlopil were fired upon w mortars, no losses http://www.0629.com.ua/news/726781 pic.twitter.com/cp9e9Etf3B

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#Ukrainian blogger: #Russian paratroopers panic retreat from Uglegorsk was ruthlessly stopped by special RU MIA squad
http://goo.gl/pYO8PL

Don cossacks damaged water service of all LNR controlled territory

@belpartisan Belarus president #Lukashenka flew to Moscow in the evening 30 jan.

#Debaltseve horrific and terrifying. No heat, water, electricity. Outgoing and incoming shelling all the time.

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Well worth the read------


Russia and Ukraine: Understanding Putin’s plans. The situation more perilous than in the cold war.

http://econ.st/1A1rmK8 via @TheEconomist

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According 2 #ukraine 'warrior' mp S.Semenchenko ukr forces launched attack near debaltseve. While evacuation ongoing? pic.twitter.com/8ZOhGa0sUG

Ukrainian Army Started Counterattack From Debaltseve Bridgehead http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/31-january-ukrainian-army-started-counterattack-from-debaltseve …

Debaltseve is burning - fire brigades not working under shelling http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/31-january-debaltseve-is-burning--fire-brigades-not-working …
pic.twitter.com/a2q5jsNfjZ

Pantsir-S1 SAM, AA system was spotted on the move in Shakhtarsk. Bought in local store? http://informator.lg.ua/?p=65866
pic.twitter.com/KDgyzJU9a5

#BREAKINGREPORT
"Fighting near #KRAMATORSK" - German journalist on the ground @DEmmerich

Johan Fredriksson @nyheternajohan
#Ukraine the most dangerous conflict in Europe in decades. Follow TV4 SWEDENs coverage from Donbass - start from tomorrow

"Separatists are less then half a kilometer away from #Debaltseve outskirts. They are approaching, despite losses"https://www.facebook.com/andriy.tsaplienko …


http://www.osce.org/ukraine-smm/138176 … OSCE monitors observe a howitzer & "a column of 7 unmarked armored personnel carriers heading west towards Donetsk."

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In video he's driving thru #Donbas in a tank & taking selfies.
He allegedly tortured #Ukraine POW's too.
pic.twitter.com/nwu2PKPy3t

#Analysis #Map
Ukrainian volunteers at the M03/M04 intersection in the south of #Debaltseve.
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1559113094339803 … pic.twitter.com/vOxiVgVVRN

Now #Russia|n soldier Dimitry Gritsyuk frm St Petersburg spotted by @DajeyPetros in recent vid
http://youtu.be/IfgO9jcEzJc?t=3m21s … pic.twitter.com/jMXA0gdy1F

When u c THIS flag & battery of THESE 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled artillery firing... TYPICAL 'rebel offensive'! #NOT pic.twitter.com/u5mvWMuWbA

350 Russian troops with 12 tanks and 25 APC prepare to storm Troit'ske and Sanzharivka. - IR pic.twitter.com/EUoB20koR4

"That's a lie!" "No, it is hybrid truth!" pic.twitter.com/QcwmMm10kg

#Footage
Russian army special forces prepare to storm #Pisky.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mBEgJEu2Yg …
pic.twitter.com/LWlVu0AyuB

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When 'weeping' "Irina" is interviewed there's still no tears - in both Graham nor @CNN's video
@HalaGorani @RamCNN pic.twitter.com/eOMXkYLXkL

New Russian army units arrived to Donbas. Danger of offensive at Mariupol remains http://24today.net/open/292878

#Battalion #Azov to the Russian invaders:
"Mariupol and all the Donbas will be your tomb!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDxEGIBPg38 … pic.twitter.com/gubaJivsHx

#Russian opposition leader Nemtsov: #Putin sends to #Ukraine penal battalions of convicts whom he calls "volunteers" https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=ru&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fobozrevatel.com%2Fcrime%2F06817-putin-shlet-v-ukrainu-shrafbatalonyi-iz-zekov-kotoryih-budut-nazyivat-dobrovoltsami-nemtsov.htm …

WTF?!?!
Looks like #Russia sends #WW2 ISU-122 and T-34 to #Ukraine ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHhBQc-n0vo … pic.twitter.com/jhrcLt6zTB

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BREAKING: #Ukraine deploys additional 1000 Nat. Guardsmen 2 secure border w/ #Transnistria ( #Russia de-facto enclave in south-west) - spox.

Meanwhile in #Vuhlehirsk: UA men vs RU tanks, #Ukraine troops ordered to clear town outskirts from #Russians
pic.twitter.com/NYUhWabcOz

Putin's war of revenge on Ukraine is leading Russia to fascism. http://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2015/01/putins-war-in-ukraine-opening-way-to.html …

#Analysis #Map
Russian army forces holding #Olenivka south of #Donetsk.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaXARqWHRzc …
pic.twitter.com/vmOgtRjtdo

Roland Oliphant @RolandOliphant
Pretending to know what Putin thinks is easier than selling snake oil. "http://www.the-american-interest.com/2015/01/27/in

Kristina Jovanovski @kjovano
I met rebels earlier this week who were wounded about 30 km from #Debaltseve. They said many wounded+killed on their side
Russian army column on the march in #Donbas.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3Kd75P6lXI …
#Ukraine pic.twitter.com/i9ziipfCZi

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Really bad when Russian troops and or their mercenaries do not even know the names of the Ukrainian towns they are fighting in---typical "vacationers"?

'Local rebels' don't even know the name of location where they are... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLWvlMGrq9k … pic.twitter.com/68tSWwr8sp

Location: pic.twitter.com/m4kxuqfcAB

Russian soldiers in Vuhlehirs'k http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/31-january-russian-soldiers-in-vuhlehirsk … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLWvlMGrq9k …

Russians flooding Vuhlehirsk area with armor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLWvlMGrq9k … pic.twitter.com/wDp2fbTCEw

#Footage is from #Vuhlehirsk.
Russian troops hit, but not destroyed ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPUbXVB92JQ … pic.twitter.com/iYpJrCrYYv

THE UKRAINIAN ARMY DESTROYED SEVERAL RUSSIAN ARMY TANKS.
But due to endless resupply, they still advance! pic.twitter.com/tj0VmxIC2Y

The Ukrainian Army is struggling with the sheer numbers of Russian tanks and armored vehicles--ATMs which is defensive should have been supplied to them via the newly signed US law BUT they must have gone to someone in the ME where the numbers are nowhere that large.

So the Russians just keep on advancing and all Ukraine gets is a Kerry visit?

Russian spetsnaz in Ukraine with Made in Russia only: silenced gun АС "Вал", LMG "Печенег" and armored car "Выстрел" pic.twitter.com/kFqXl5cTcB

Russian tanks near #Vuhlehirsk Ukrainian checkpoint blew up on mines, but troops advancing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPUbXVB92JQ … pic.twitter.com/HQUfTrRYYf

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More from the Russian "altered state of reality" and more about Russian "fascisim".

Dugin, flower of Russian thought, wants Austria, Hungary, Romania, et al. in a Russia dominated 'Eurasian empire.'
http://ibt.uk/A006EZF

Dugin with Austrian fascists pic.twitter.com/uXifmSSAp8

Russian MP from Pskov "Russia is today prepared to turn into a Fascist state " http://gordonua.com/news/war/Pskovskiy-deputat-SHlosberg-Segodnya-Rossiya-eto-strana-idealno-gotovaya-k-fashizmu-63986.html …

Putin's war of revenge on Ukraine is leading Russia to fascism.
http://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com...ng-way-to.html …

Neo-nazi & former "people's governor" of #Donbas, Pavel #Gubarev & his wife
pic.twitter.com/xXCj3RBuaR

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Why is one of the most modern Russian army air defense systems in Makeevka, Ukraine? http://wp.me/p5sx0x-6Z

Militant leader of so-called DNR invites Texas separatists to summit of unrecognised stateshttp://uatoday.tv/geopolitics/militant-leader-of-so-called-dnr-invites-texas-separatists-to-summit-of-unrecognised-states-406358.html … pic.twitter.com/w09fRcmZcn

Neo-nazi & former "people's governor" of #Donbas, Pavel #Gubarev & his wife
pic.twitter.com/xXCj3RBuaR

Crimea 2013, Ukraine 2014/2015 one needs to look at the uniforms of the Russian “green men” both the same

#BREAKING
100s of Russian army forces advance as the front N-E of #Vuhlehirsk is NOT attacked
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLWvlMGrq9k … pic.twitter.com/CHN86nrvcz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xftivaZiOQw … #Ukrainian troops in #Debaltseve,#Ukraine, on "foreign territory," #Russia 24 weatherman says pic.twitter.com/jQk88OlZdm

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Russia 24 announces "pro-Russian rebels" completely taken Mariupol. pic.twitter.com/yoz1QzPKk4

Russian terrorist says: We will repair these thanks and we'll roll in Lviv, Warsaw and London https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSRRyM4sSQ0&feature=youtu.be … pic.twitter.com/YZzP0aK2Un

Russian Stetsnaz base in #Pershozvanivka, Ukraine https://archive.today/7lNp9#selection-203.4-203.28 … pic.twitter.com/Nvvy7ysfSF

Photo album of guy from Ryazan, who right now is a "local rebel" at #Debaltseve & before was a #Russia Army soldier: https://vk.com/id123959274

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Russian army forces near #Vuhlehirsk severely hit
Advance seems to be stopped there!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsV16JkyRW4 … pic.twitter.com/IUq7gyEqFM

Ivan Suvorov, born October 8, 1995, from #Arkhangelsk in #Russia.
"Local rebel" at #Debaltseve; before: #Russian Army pic.twitter.com/Gm3LdYnhth

So-called insurgent rebels in #Ukraine. #Debaltseve #Uglegorsk pic.twitter.com/DB6OiJtXtb

Troops from Russia's Pacific Far East play prominent role in war 4200 miles to west #ACUkraine http://ln.is/atlanticcouncil.org/Z5vQe …

Volunteer Alex Mochanov says #Debaltseve is under Ukr forces control. There r many enemy's subv groups operating in the area – FB

Ukrainian counterattack allows to evacuate blocked UA battalion which has been defending #Vuhlehirsk for last 3 days https://www.facebook.com/dostali.hvatit/posts/893222820712493?fref=nf …

Oleg Lukyanov, from #Krasnoyarsk, #Russia. "Local rebel" at #Debaltseve & before Russian 76th Guards Air Assault Div. pic.twitter.com/5Y3bHAZ0Mj

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And Russia is not on a “Holy War” in the Ukraine?
"We are from Chelyabinsk , Dagestan Allahu Akbar" http://coub.com/view/4r9e8

Alex Panchenko @AlexPanchenko2
#Russia spies begin massive fear rumor-mongering campaign in #Ukraine military towns: "xchanged POWs returned all castrated", "suicides

Sergey Petrushenko, from Saint Petersburg #Russia. Another #Russian soldier, who got lost "on holiday" in #Ukraine. pic.twitter.com/QYOsKkyag7

Alexey Usachev, September 2, 1984 from Stary Oskol, #Russia. Now #Debaltseve, #Ukraine: before 16th Spetsnaz Brigade pic.twitter.com/9iRgVyskQL

Vitaly Demyanov, #Russia|n fighter against #fascism making an anti-#fascist gesture while "on holiday" in #Donetsk. pic.twitter.com/sRyYF46f1i

RU troops (whom some media still call "militias") ask each other what city they just captured https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhqEwUU5BI8 … pic.twitter.com/v1lcw5YPQn

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Long column of #Russia|n fuel trucks in #Donetsk today
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTfywujUyUA …

With UNESCO"Peacemaker"database by police #Kramatorsk #Ukraine was arrested first terrorist"DNR"Belov-A.Gerashchenko. pic.twitter.com/SCpUkgboDf

Rebels plan Iloviask II. Zakharchenko: Anyone trying to leave #Debaltseve "cauldron" will come under our artillery pic.twitter.com/pZXPoYWr3C

Sevastopol training centre teaches "survival skills" to Russian troops from Volgograd, Rostov, Astrakhan, Maykop http://function.mil.ru/news_page/country/more.htm?id=12006787@egNews …

#Russian soldiers shooting at civilians trying to flee #Debaltsevo #Ukraine. And you thought these animals couldn't stoop any lower?

Destroyed Ru forces near #Vuhlehirsk /Broken tanks, Putin fighters: http://youtu.be/xsV16JkyRW4

Russian tourist invited for role-playing in Ukraine. Now 'insurgent rebel' #Debaltseve #Vuhlehirsk pic.twitter.com/m6chhmHSuf

Ukrainian sniper killed Zaharchenko´s bodyguard during live reportage of Russian state TV https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PNbj74jD18 …

Rebels Suffer Heavy Losses in Battle for Ukraine's Debaltseve http://www.nbcnews.com/watch/nbc-news/artur-i-am-a-little-bit-demoralized-391455811726 …

Long column of fuel trucks in #Donetsk today for 'rebel-backed' Russians fighting in Ukraine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTfywujUyUA …

#NATO's Secretary General spells out the challenge posed by #Putin's #Russia: http://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/opinions_116854.htm … pic.twitter.com/uWjgA4TJ7w

As a result of a direct hit by #Army of #Ukraine in car of the unit MVD #Russia|n army "8-200" & "20-300" in Uglegorsk reg.

VIDEO Knocked out #Russia tanks #Vuhlehirsk (#Uglegorsk) near #Debaltseve https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AELIcuAAJgc … pic.twitter.com/SOeKKghJ6C

Pavel Fedchenko from #Ryazan, #Russia showing his salary for 3 months of killing while "on holiday" in #Ukraine. pic.twitter.com/nTiI1bgPwN

Corporal Yarik Motsart, born August 18, 1989, of #Russia's 19th Motor Rifle Brigade, lost in #Debaltseve, #Ukraine. pic.twitter.com/mPPsZVBaLS

Glad to see, there is some "silent" military buildup happening on the Ukrainian side.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDkoSZ47tc0 … pic.twitter.com/fjKr2qhXZv

Same "unmarked Ukr. BMP column" seen in Kharkiv(l)+Lisiciansk(r)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoFhHyE8eP4 …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RS-ybtW67hY … pic.twitter.com/YnGnkcyNI8

Under #Mariupol Ukrainian soldiers destroyed enemy tank and neutralized the living force of the enemy 5-200 -the city's defense HQ

Gorlivka-Debaltseve enemy tries unsuccessfully to break through the defense,enemy armored vehicles with Russian flags pic.twitter.com/MCntGZQcT7

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Ukrainian army is improving fast and learning how to beat the Russians. Ukraine is becoming a meat grinder for Russian soldiers. #Debaltseve

Putin wages war with wanton disregard for his own troops, like a Red Army political commisar. "Cossacks" slaughtered in Debaltseve assault.

Tymchuk UPD 31/1: reinforcements for Russian-terrorist troops come to Yenakiieve – Vuhlehirsk
http://maidantranslations.com/2015/02/01/dmitry-tymchuk-military-update-1-31-freesavchenko/ … pic.twitter.com/MuF6W3cTie

3-star: Ukraine army improving, but U.S. Army can still help http://militari.ly/1BwBohP via @armytimes

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Russian terrorists under heavy and precise Ukrainian artillery, Grad & mortar fire #Uglegorsk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pt1l9pNBgjw&app=desktop … pic.twitter.com/uXLea8dd42

Militants shell Ukr forces positions & localities w/ anti-tank missile syst, artillery, mortars. Shelled #Debaltseve w Grad -ATO news center

BREAKING: Rumor was true, Battalion #Donbas ambushed, 4 fighters killed, 11 wounded. Semenchenko wounded too!
http://inforesist.org/vo-vremya-osvobozhdeniya-uglegorska-pogiblo-4-bojca-semenchenko-kontuzhen-smi/ …

The great @20committee on Russia's emerging Holy War http://20committee.com/2015/01/24/russias-emerging-holy-war/ …

Nice! Ukr army reporter drives Luhans'ke-Debaltseve to prove,there is no siege
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAWfSY0-E_E … pic.twitter.com/bMaXJ1pIRa

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5 Ukr servicemen (51st brigade, Donbas) were liberated fr captivity. Swapped for 5 suspects -militants' collaborators http://www.5.ua/ato-na-shodi/z-polony-vizvolili-pyatoh-biiciv-ato-68889.html …

Der Spiegel: By arresting Davydova, Russia indirectly confirms that Russian soldiers are indeed in Ukraine

Governor Moskal: Fighting in #Popasna outskirts right now, tanks used against Ukrainian forces.
Governor Moskal: #Popasna shelled from Pervomaysk from 3 to 9 AM, multiple impacts on residental houses, mobile communication is out.
Localities of #Luhansk reg/ r under constant militants' fire: 1 civilian killed in Popasna, 2 in Zolote, 2 servicemen in Shchastia - Moskal

Damning indictment from OSCE on the unwillingness of the Russian terrorists to engage with the Minsk TCG https://www.facebook.com/euromaidanpr/posts/357152217801920 …

Report: Norwegian SIGINT shared w/ UK MoD confirmed Tu-95 over English channel carried nuclear anti-sub missile. http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/555454/Intercepted-Russian-bomber-was-carrying-a-nuclear-missile-over-the-Channel …

Heavy fighting continues around #Debaltseve & #Vuhlehirsk. Ukrainian reinforcements arrived but larger Russian forces are moving in as well

OSCE: #Ukraine separs weren't ready to negotiate. Came to annul #Minsk accord. @HromadskeTV http://goo.gl/ebxQmm pic.twitter.com/WJDw2CODsE”
New #Minsk "peace deal"? Only if based on our new/expanding borders, head of #Russia-held #Luhansk, #Ukraine, says

Look at Russia's military buildup in the #Murmansk oblast on the Finnish-Russian border http://neweasterneurope.eu/articles-and-commentary/1468-russia-s-military-buildup-in-the-murmansk-oblast … pic.twitter.com/W6NN4pnAhW

My story for @NBCNews - talking to rebels about their heavy losses in fight for Debaltseve. Video from @roman_donetsk http://tinyurl.com/o7zzxsn

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#Russia Forces lost its entire 3rd Brigade? (app 400) in #Vuhlehirsk (#Uglegorsk) near #Debaltseve #Ukraine #Donetsk pic.twitter.com/fhmloR9CCK

Just saw famed Ukrainian anti-corruption campaigner Tetyana Chernovol brandishing a Kalashnikov in a pizza place. Civil society in action

Ukrainians captured 8 Russian POWs who admitted to suffer heavy losses http://inforesist.org/sily-ato-vzyali-v-plen-7-boevikov-iz-batalona-vostok-vozle-aeroporta-video/ …

#Picture
New Ukrainian army POW from #Vuhlehirsk appears on Russian TV.
#war_crime. pic.twitter.com/WNJ2vXVHKF

@Liveuamap that tank have Russian markings for train transport pic.twitter.com/gVzy9Us5BV

#News
The Ukrainian army attacked and arrested a mortar team of 7 "near #Donetsk #airport".
Among the captured are Russian soldiers.

Resident of #Horlivka, separatist-held territory, #Ukraine tells me yesterday a church was hit there, heavy shelling continues today.

This is a typical local coal miner in Donbas pic.twitter.com/CPhSCltXCj

Russia's Intelligence System - a presentation by @MarkGaleotti https://inmoscowsshadows.wordpress.com/2015/01/24/russias-intelligence-system-a-presentation/ … #RussianIntel #FSB #SVR #FSO #GRU

#Confirmation #Nikishyne fell.
Russian troops stand in #Chornukhyne.
http://society.lb.ua/war/2015/02/01/294028_voennie_ostavili_nikishino_bliz.html …

The Russian assaults on Nyzhnje Lozove and Sanzharivka (N and N-W of #Debaltseve) continue as well. pic.twitter.com/OpbtRvLgKB

Maxim Tucker @MaxRTucker
Spent last couple of hours pinned down by howitzers at Karlovka checkpoint, #Ukraine listening to shells get progressively closer. Not fun.

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How is it that the West feels they can negotiate with Putin when both he and his FM have repeatedly accused Ukraine of not adhering to the Minks agreement when in fact both Russia and it's mercenary led proxies want to change the same document they signed in Sept 2014--and the West is to do what "trust" Russia"?

REMEMBER it was Russia, Putin and his FM that wanted the OSCE involved in the Ukraine and then this yesterday---again can any government in the West outside of currently Greece "trust" anything coming out of Moscow?--not really.

MINSK, 31 January 2015 - The participants in the Trilateral Contact Group came to Minsk for consultations with the representatives of certain areas of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions. The TCG had prepared a detailed plan for the concrete implementation of the Minsk Protocol and Memorandum, which continue to be the indispensable basis for any peaceful settlement.

Unfortunately, the signatories of these documents from Donetsk and Luhansk did not participate, although they had been personally invited by the Trilateral Contract Group. Their representatives who were present were not in a position to discuss the proposal put forward by the TCG. In fact, they were not even prepared to discuss implementation of a ceasefire and withdrawal of heavy weapons. Instead, they called for revision of the Protocol and Memorandum. The meeting was adjourned.

The TCG remains open to continuing consultations at any time. In view of the seriously deteriorating situation and growing numbers of casualties, the TCG calls on all actors involved to engage responsibly in the comprehensive implementation of the Minsk documents with no further delays.

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This superb report from @PaulSonne even more important in light of the reported direct hit on JCCC today. Diplomacy? http://www.wsj.com/articles/ukraine-general-says-russia-knew-rebel-offensive-was-coming-1422648760 …”

UA #Vuhlehirsk defenders: Vuhlehirsk is now under RU control, the frontline is along the road Vuhlehirsk-#Debaltseve https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7J-Ucpe8UiU …

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Some important facts & figures about the military situation in #Ukraine pic.twitter.com/jeMsJpBDuA

GradRussian Gorshkov frigate build may slow without Ukrainian gas turbines
http://www.janes.com/article/48313/russian-gorshkov-frigate-build-may-slow-without-ukrainian-gas-turbines … pic.twitter.com/HtlW6j3gzL

#SITUATION MAP OF THE AREA AROUND #DEBALTSEVE - 1.2.2015
Based on analyzed reports and footage from both sides. pic.twitter.com/IGMrWijae7

Dangerous games: did Russian bombers bring a nuclear weapon to within 25mi of British airspace last week? http://goo.gl/fb/Ppa3Ct

Meanwhile on planet Russia ... pic.twitter.com/84aFL0xyOW
Russia trolls attempting to state Russia was not responsible for the shelling and killing of 31 civilians in Mariupol.

Ukrainian troops fire Grad missiles at enemy positions in eastern #Ukraine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vG2KPwy0_SQ … pic.twitter.com/QnsxrU3qwL

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#Debaltseve is under Ukr control. Part of #Vuhlehirsk is controlled by militants, the frontline goes through outskirts/ the city -NSDC

Video of a train of Ukrainian tanks moving to the front line in Eastern #Ukraine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tg4QEBrD6QI … pic.twitter.com/Ea5ryWaKsp

http://youtu.be/_KaIhoMHOvI?t=1m29s … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KaIhoMHOvI … http://youtu.be/HyhR2wuEzcI?t=27s … Different angles. #Debaltseve #Ukraine #Russia pic.twitter.com/p1cu5grQMU

As fighting escalates in #Ukraine, Russia has saturated the media with stories showing defeated and demoralized Ukrainian military.

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Now that the minsk Agreement is officially "dead in the water and Russia/Putin wants major changes to the demarcation line to create the New Russia".

Just what is now the response of the US/EU/NATO?---still talk and all the while provide weapons to the Kurds but nothing to the Ukraine?

Again total failure of US "soft power".

#Russia Terrorists want revision of demarcation line by Minsk Agreemnt(Acc to #Putin)
http://en.censor.net.ua/news/322601/terrorists_demand_to_revise_the_demarcation_line_f ixed_by_minsk_agreement … pic.twitter.com/KWnsqSj1cp

During #Minsk talks, #Ukraine's envoy #Kuchma said rebels demanded unilateral ceasefire, or they will start offensive on all front line
Russian invasion along whole eastern Ukraine front NOW. Bandits=irrelevant diversion. Consequence of WEAK EU/US response to Mariupol shelling

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Russian army field base near #Debaltseve.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxjJZgbehfY …
#Ukraine pic.twitter.com/y18UWW4CbE

Outskirts #Popasnaya this morning #Russia troops attackd #Ukraine position w tanks http://news.liga.net/news/politics/4945062-na_okraine_popasnoy_c_utra_idet_boy_boeviki_ispolz uyut_tanki.htmc … pic.twitter.com/3UTLXeiTSu

Zacharchenko called "Separatisten Fuhrer" on German TV pic.twitter.com/B88kRS0Qxh

Doctor who fled Luhansk: “There are Russian soldiers and Chechen mercenaries all over the town.” http://www.kyivpost.com/content/kyiv-post-plus/war-clouds-darken-378907.html …

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Possible SS-21 missile launch by #Ukraine troops near Artemovsk this afternoon
pic.twitter.com/1FDUwxqia1

After taking #Nikishyne #Russia|n tank forces attacked Ukrainian checkpoints between #Mius and #Fashchivka.
Via @Conflict_Report

Today, courtesy of @Reuters this #Russia|n armed forces T-64БB tank is seen driving thru #Donetsk flying "DPRs" flag: pic.twitter.com/KM1KMkl44W

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A disguised column of #Russia|n armed forces "peacekeepers" in #Makiivka nr #Donetsk #Ukraine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q88q5DHB2BQ … pic.twitter.com/Ms4QstjI7D

Russian joke. General: Your husband is hybridely alive on business trip in Ukraine. Wife: He's killed??!! General: Hush, state treason.

Harriet Salem @HarrietSalem
Shells hitting all over #Donetsk tonight, one of the heaviest I've encountered. Ground shaking, windows rattling. Tbh terrifying

"Local Rebels" from Kazan in Debaltseve/Ukraine pic.twitter.com/VjLydAPLm

The entire Ukrainian front -from Stanitsia Luhanska over Krymske,Vodyane, Pisky until Hranitne- was under Grad/mortar/arty fire today.

There was another Russian army storming attempt in the area of #Stanitsia_Luhanska today, which was repelled acc. to the Ukr army.

Locals from #Debabaltseve leave the town as the artillery duel between government and Russia backed separatists goes pic.twitter.com/oorYCQTJmQ

"Putin's paid "locals" don't even know where they are. pic.twitter.com/jTmBJXqSJi

Actually, Zakharchenko ("DNR") and Plotnitskiy ("LNR") signed Sept 5 Minsk protocol. AND now they demand a "new Minsk demarcation line".

#Debaltseve: 2 buses & city hall - evac. point fo civilians shelled by terrorists. 12 wounded. http://tsn.ua/ato/u-debalcevomu-pid-obstrili-potrapili-dva-avtobusi-ta-budivlya-vikonkomu-12-lyudey-postrazhdali-406477.html … pic.twitter.com/cxq9LAps0h

Question as I watch Western media: Since when are Russian spetsnaz troops in #Ukraine "insurgents."Enough of newspeak already

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Three different comments that allude to the fact that the Russo Ukrainian war is drifting into a 1914 style European war.

The West still wants to talk and have not fully realized Putin is no longer willing to talk--he is letting the military do the talking for him and yet the West does not see it.

A Norwegian military listening post intercepted cockpit conversations revealing that one of the Tu-95 flying around the coast of Norway last Wednesday had a nuclear payload onboard. Two F-16s were scrambled from Bod airbase and met the Russian planes outside Finnmark.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHBJnoYIj0w Killing thy neighbor, looting their home. Some #Russians think #God OKs it. #Ukraine #Russia pic.twitter.com/kXnsLgU192

Headquarters of joint Ukrainian-Russian center tasked with overseeing the ceasefire shelled in Debaltsevo. Allegory? http://www.wsj.com/articles/shelling-hits-building-key-to-cease-fire-mission-as-talks-falter-1422815165

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Main repair base of RU military equipment exploded and burns in #Donetsk http://zloy-odessit.livejournal.com/1107203.html
pic.twitter.com/ygI5UQtiTH

Near Mariupol Ukrainian fighters intercepted the militants drone http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/1-february-near-mariupol-ukrainian-fighters-intercepted-the …

VIDEO #Russia troops attack #Debaltseve fr Bryanka w tanks but was repulsd by #Ukraine forces
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jci5ymxwfBw … pic.twitter.com/BUVREiHVdt

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Appears that Ukrainian IT types have build a massive social media database and are sweeping Russian sites and incorporating what they find into this database to be used by Ukrainian police and military when they arrest and or take prisoners.

This blows my mind: Ukrainian database of social media presence of Eastern Ukrainian "terrorists"
https://psb4ukr.org/criminal/ @katypearce

"Peacemaker"
RESEARCH CENTRE FEATURES OF CRIMES AGAINST UKRAINE'S NATIONAL SECURITY, PEACE, SECURITY AND HUMANITY international law

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdVIXvAwIdw … #Israel: #Russian-language channel compares "#Somalia" #Russians (irregulars) in #Ukraine to #ISIS

IMAGES #Ukraine troops in #Debaltseve waiting, preparing for #Putin troops attack. #Donetsk #Luhansk #Russia pic.twitter.com/vg7xiRzgkI

Putin is Milosevic but worse, and only arms can stop arms in Ukraine, argues Timothy Garton Ash http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/feb/01/putin-stopped-ukraine-military-support-russian-propaganda?CMP=share_btn_tw …

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Ukrainian officer becomes Internet hero after saving Russian soldier's life
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/ukrainian-officer-becomes-internet-hero-after-saving-russian-soldier-s-life/515165.html …
via @MoscowTimes

VIDEO #Ukraine armored column moving near #Debaltseve https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CR4FGaDsyA4 …
pic.twitter.com/1Mv33N1mDO

"#Putin could destroy NATO with one phone call" - Vesti.Ru removed the article from its page.
http://pressa.today/politics/udalyayut-so-vseh-sajtov-putin-mozhet-unichtozhit-nato-odnim-telefonnym-zvonkom/ … pic.twitter.com/UvDDdPcMUw
Though constantly under fire #Debaltseve is under Ukr control. In #Vuhlehirsk militants r in a fire trap - NSDC http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2015/02/1/7057095/ …

Ukr artillery destroyed a convoy (equip, artil, manpower) heading to reinforce militants' offensive on #Debaltseve https://www.facebook.com/zoryan.zoryan/posts/847866145274334 …

#Oucht!
Russian state TV own goal. pic.twitter.com/2j7F7C4DdI

VIDEO #RUSSIAN SOLDIERS having tea outside #Vuhlehirsk near #Debaltseve https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxjJZgbehfY … pic.twitter.com/ePza3PFrwf

Russian Armor Spotted In Uglegorsk (Vuhlehirsk) West Of Debaltsevo
http://www.interpretermag.com/ukraine-live-day-347-at-least-seven-dead-in-shelling-attacks/#6602 … pic.twitter.com/t9JKuB7r4n

#Donetsk region governor (Ukraine-appointed) may cut electricity supply to Donetsk amid shelling of Debaltseve
http://www.ostro.org/general/society/news/463419/ …

How a general Russian attack to occupy the corridor to Crimea will unfold https://viewsonrussia.wordpress.com/2015/02/01/the-corridor-to-crimea/ …

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The latest in the Russian theater of "altered state of reality".

Not even sure he knows what he is talking about? And the West thinks "talking" is going to go somewhere?

RUS MP:"We need 24 hours to leave Council of Europe to execute millions & millions prisoners"
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tPi-f-iaoMk … pic.twitter.com/IyZ1yjvKKd

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There is a current series of actions that fully indicate that in fact and contrary to what US media and US decision makers have been saying and doing there is a full blown Central European War going on that could in effect be called the Russo Ukrainian War v2 as v1 was in 1919.

The West seemingly assumed rather falsely that one could in fact negotiate with a Russian fascist intent on empire building and that the "rules of diplomacy" of the 19/20th centuries applied to the 21st century.

Putin has rewritten those rules and yet the West still thinks they will somehow work---now 13K Russian troops inside the Ukraine later, with 50K sitting directly on the border and literally hundreds of Russian heavy tanks, artillery, MLRSs and APC not to mention fuel and munitions being regularly supplied under the guise of "humanitarian relief supplies" the West is still attempting to come to terms with the apparent failure of "diplomacy ie soft power".

Now there is talk of supplying the UA with weapons and NOW we are getting the standard Russian threat thrown back at the West BUT Putin just keeps on supplying both troops and weapons on top of the Russian threats against Bosnia for supplying munitions to the Ukraine.

Duma deputy warns of ”irrevocable consequences“ if the US does indeed provide Ukraine with weapons http://ria.ru/world/20150202/1045454773.html …


When will the West ie the US finally learn to stand up and state we are shipping weapons as you ship weapons and then release all intelligence data that has been collected to the UN GA, UNSC, OSCE, PACE and the EU Parliament and then let's see if Russia decides war is the way forward.

Meaning---We will stop shipping weapons when you stop shipping--we will provide military trainers until you pull out "your so called vacationers" and match move for move. That is in effect true leadership---all the talking the EU and US has done has achieved absolutely nothing.

With the current Russian ethno nationalism ie fascism driving their decision making processes only the true threat of "force" will get Putin's attention.

Myself and others have said this since the Crimea and nothing has changed that perspective--the West has greatly underestimated the impact of a Russian styled fascism on this current Russian leadership. It has in fact taken until this month to start even seeing articles in western media begin to discuss Russian fascism ie their "Holy War" with the West

Anything else is just an utter waste of everyone's time and at the same time displays the total lack of unity among Western leaders which in Moscow is being interpreted as a "sign of weakness".

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Putin has new plan on how to blend Russian troops & "vacationers" in Donetsk with 100,000 men force "mobilization" http://tvrain.ru/articles/zaharchenko_rasskazal_ob_objavlenii_vseobschej_mob ilizatsii_v_dnr-381405/ …
Donetsk rebels announce plans to draft 100,000 people, which is twice the current size of the Ukrainian army. http://ria.ru/world/20150202/1045450550.html …

First ever footage from the #Russia|n army's western front in #Kalynove. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jowC_DzwifY … pic.twitter.com/OR0uERNn

Russia's main assault on #Debaltseve Ukraine is now a frontal attack involving large regular Russian army units pic.twitter.com/wEn21MtXgY

Ukrainian military beat off the attack of Russian-backed militants in #Debaltseve http://uatoday.tv/politics/ukrainian-military-beat-off-the-attack-of-russian-backed-militants-in-debaltseve-406486.html … pic.twitter.com/xUK8b0eHAq

Tymchuk: 3,5 k #Russia troops, 35 tanks, 90 BMPs fight against #Ukraine army in #Debaltsevo lodgement pic.twitter.com/55gzntW5ZS

In #Taganrog, Rostov region, Russia: BM-27 Uragan "Hurricane" MLRS. On route to near #Mariupol? pic.twitter.com/T8iJr2S6T2

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Russian invasion forces have KamAZ 63968 "Typhoon" AVs, used by spetsnaz (via @InformNapalm) https://informnapalm.org/5462-novejshye-broneavtomobyly-tajfun-na-vooruzhenyy-rossyskyh-syl-vtorzhenyya … pic.twitter.com/8kh2tyBo1L

New #footage from south of #Vuhlehirsk,where Russian army #sappers recover own damaged tanks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofkMwgo8Elg … pic.twitter.com/TDbmo29veW

UAA general working with @OSCE_SMM shows RU army attacks increased on #Debaltseve since RU mil observers left Jan.19 pic.twitter.com/3jIZxRmBuq

Russian Eastern Military District receives «Krasukha-S4» EW System via @RostecRussia http://rostec.ru/news/4515432 pic.twitter.com/suzMKT6VPk

Rebel-backed Russians before they attacked Vuhlehirsk some days ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wtyblzm7I4M … pic.twitter.com/IP5vF2ZDur

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First the Russian FSB arrests a Russian mother of seven for calling the Ukrainian embassy and telling them a GRU Brigade was headed to the Ukraine because her son was in the Brigade---and now the same Russian government “claims the GRU Brigade did not go at all”—then why did they arrest here for treason and by the way she is still in jail?

Russians now denying 201st deployment, if they do it'll be on the spot for sure. Cat is out of the bag.

A Russia army sappers armored engineer tractor had some problem with the ground...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiF8z9-F_FQ … pic.twitter.com/JihMrtnYWe

Shelling of #Popasna goes on. Town is turning into ruins. "Grad" systems used most likely from Stahanov.
pic.twitter.com/RuJj1cELro

Before #NATO can re-engage w/ #Russia, #Kremlin must de-escalate in E. #Ukraine, stop sending rebels weapons & implement Minsk Agmt in full

Russian commandant of #Perevalsk raion colonel Shirko Genadiy Semenovich is dead. They tried to assault #Chernukhine.

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Current Ukrainian Army positions and Russian troop positions around and in the Debaltseve pocket—Ukrainian artillery and tank units have been rather surprisingly successful in their defensive postures-russian losses in equipment and manpower have been high even among the Russian elite units. pic.twitter.com/cGzhYCWHga.

#Footage
Captured fighters admit: "We were trained by the Russian army in Russian tanks. Training was near #Torez" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x12ULTvzCgE&x-yt-cl=85114404&x-yt-ts=1422579428 …

Regular Russian army fighting near Debaltseve - Shkiryak http://24today.net/open/294240

#Footage
The Russian front near #Vuhlehirsk.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hr7m3ScmIA …
BTR-80 and BMP-2 pic.twitter.com/z1EhswqsHb

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There is a current series of actions that fully indicate that in fact and contrary to what US media and US decision makers have been saying and doing there is a full blown Central European War going on that could in effect be called the Russo Ukrainian War v2 as v1 was in 1919.

The West seemingly assumed rather falsely that one could in fact negotiate with a Russian fascist intent on empire building and that the "rules of diplomacy" of the 19/20th centuries applied to the 21st century.

Putin has rewritten those rules and yet the West still thinks they will somehow work---now 13K Russian troops inside the Ukraine later, with 50K sitting directly on the border and literally hundreds of Russian heavy tanks, artillery, MLRSs and APC not to mention fuel and munitions being regularly supplied under the guise of "humanitarian relief supplies" the West is still attempting to come to terms with the apparent failure of "diplomacy ie soft power".

Now there is talk of supplying the UA with weapons and NOW we are getting the standard Russian threat thrown back at the West BUT Putin just keeps on supplying both troops and weapons on top of the Russian threats against Bosnia for supplying munitions to the Ukraine.

Duma deputy warns of ”irrevocable consequences“ if the US does indeed provide Ukraine with weapons http://ria.ru/world/20150202/1045454773.html …


When will the West ie the US finally learn to stand up and state we are shipping weapons as you ship weapons and then release all intelligence data that has been collected to the UN GA, UNSC, OSCE, PACE and the EU Parliament and then let's see if Russia decides war is the way forward.

Meaning---We will stop shipping weapons when you stop shipping--we will provide military trainers until you pull out "your so called vacationers" and match move for move. That is in effect true leadership---all the talking the EU and US has done has achieved absolutely nothing.

With the current Russian ethno nationalism ie fascism driving their decision making processes only the true threat of "force" will get Putin's attention.

Myself and others have said this since the Crimea and nothing has changed that perspective--the West has greatly underestimated the impact of a Russian styled fascism on this current Russian leadership. It has in fact taken until this month to start even seeing articles in western media begin to discuss Russian fascism ie their "Holy War" with the West

Anything else is just an utter waste of everyone's time and at the same time displays the total lack of unity among Western leaders which in Moscow is being interpreted as a "sign of weakness".

Some inside NATO are finally awakening to the realization of Russian aggression having gone on far longer than just now with the Ukraine---starting way back in 2008 and actually as far back as 1992 if one really analyzes Russian aggressive actions against it's neighboring countries since the Wall fell.

Russia’s aggression against Ukraine reflects evolving pattern of behavior that has been emerging for several years - NATO's Vershbow.

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For those SWJ commenters that are tracking the capabilities of the new Russian military equipment especially the Pantsir S-1 that Iran really wants along with the S300.

Check this:

First hits by the "Pantsir S-1" ?!
Ukrainian Toshka-U "shot down near #Luhansk".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbCD-7If2Ig …
#Ukraine pic.twitter.com/qR58Yb7ES5

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NapnJYhaRDU … #Russians ("rebels") claim downing #Ukrainian SS-21(spent booster).With what?# pic.twitter.com/1FGp52tD8s

#Russia Air Force combat capable transport! Il-76MD armed with practice bombs during exercise
http://www.ilyushin.org/press/media/gallery/242/ … pic.twitter.com/T8dtF5N4TU

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French volunteers (French fascists) fighting in Donbas have resurfaced in this Lenta interview. http://lenta.ru/articles/2015/02/02/france/?t …

MRLS BM-27 Uragan systems delivered by IL-76 to Taganrog, Russia. In hurry?
http://sprotyv.info/ru/news/12257-v-rossiyskiy-taganrog-dostavleny-uragany-gumkonvoy-pod-
mariupol-foto … pic.twitter.com/Rdi55CkaKx"

Highway area between #Karlivka & #Pisky was invaded by an enemy group of subversive-intelligence agents: pic.twitter.com/eUElYfeTKk

pro-Rus/Russian troops've tried 5 attempts to take Debaltseve in the last 24 hours http://interfax.com.ua/news/general/248146.html …

Hui!
Heavy shelling in #Nyzhnya_Krynka today. 20 km deep inside Russian-held soil.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKG1UFppeFE …
#Ukraine pic.twitter.com/N6HP2hMEFy

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In over a very long year for the Ukrainian military they have gone from rag tag groups of hollow units mainly depending on "volunteer" fighting groups to being able to hold their own rather successfully in the latest round of fighting Russia troops and their supported mercenaries and even against Russian SF/GRU/Airborne elite units.

The US Army has attempted for over three years now to instill "Mission Command" into the force and preserve the idea of being an "adaptive force" and still struggles with it.

There is something to having to reform, retrain and re-motivate a hollow force in the middle of fighting--we often forget our own Army developments starting at Lexington until the support of the French at Yorktown.

While the Google translation leaves much to be desired one gets the feeling from the twitter pic that the Ukrainian Army is learning and adapting faster to MC than the entire US Army and is fighting with élan with older equipment and winter hand me downs supplied by volunteers from their civil society and from some NATO countries---while we the US still talk about support on the lethal defensive aid side.

Goes to show that one can develop an army in the middle of a war with your back to the wall "without OCO money and defense contractors".

Granted their senior leadership is weak and bad but it seems their combat units from COL down to the Private are fighting extremely well considering the sheer amount of heavy armor and artillery they are facing with little to no drones and EW/jamming equipment.

The situation in #Vuhlehirsk according to Ukraine's Butusov:
https://www.facebook.com/butusov.yuriy/posts/923313081042322
Thx to @ig2k for mentioning. pic.twitter.com/17GWGTXZQJ.

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The Russian "altered state of reality" is getting stranger and stranger lately.

Russian want dialogue but cannot even hold to the Minsk Agreement they even signed in Sept 2014 and somehow NATO is to blame for everything.

TASS ✔ @tassagency_en
Russia still interested in strategic dialogue with EU — diplomat http://tass.ru/en/russia/774840 …

Here is the new #propaganda line by #Putin:
#NATO did it! #Russia|ns in #Donbas are being killed by #NATO's legion. pic.twitter.com/GctwNGIoAB

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The enemy threw 1200 people and new vehicles in #Debal'tseve pic.twitter.com/Ay9zsEa10O http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/2-february-the-enemy-threw-1200-people-and-new-vehicles-in …

#Russia|n brig."Batman"http://bit.ly/1uQIlYQ : confirm defeat under Debaltseve:Audio-http://bit.ly/1zvsa93 pic.twitter.com/kidPfdF5i4

Russian conscripts ‘refusing to be sent to war in Ukraine’ http://www.unian.info/war/1039107-russian-conscripts-refusing-to-be-sent-to-war-in-ukraine.html …

Russian invaders attempted to storm the front between #Fashchivka and Mius twice today, once backed by tanks. pic.twitter.com/4dDgStCu7A

Breaking: #Ukraine army sources confirm to me, @obk and @burskayaz that 9 Rus marines from Ulyanovsk were captured by Ukrainians last Friday

VIDEO #Russia pull all troops,weapons towards #Debaltseve? Roads to #Donetsk Airport empty https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6tzBW1wEvk&x-yt-ts=1422579428&x-yt-cl=85114404#t=27 … pic.twitter.com/QjnxusUi9H

Source: Ukr on outskirts of #Uglegorsk, to left of Debaltsevo bottlneck. "Town itself not strategic enough 4 offensive. Not worth dying for"

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Reliable Ukr military source re #Debaltsevo: "Situation stable critical, but risk of pocket reduced. Perhaps 20-30%"

ex-DNR commnder & Novorossiya cult hero Igor Strelkov says he’s “ready" to be mobilized for further duty in #Ukraine https://www.facebook.com/sputpom/photos/a.287321078022225.69487.287285068025826/781029535318041/?type=1 …

Russian invaders fire #Grad missiles at south of #Donetsk "to stop the Ukr advance".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZOnj3zMiNc … pic.twitter.com/ig020zXdda

#Russia units spotted in #Vuhlehirsk, west of #Debaltseve, engaging #Ukraine forces in battle 4 strategic crossroads http://www.interpretermag.com/ukraine-live-day-347-at-least-seven-dead-in-shelling-attacks/#6602 …

Warehouses with Russian Military Equipment&Ammunition in Donetsk Oblast https://en.informnapalm.org/warehouses-russian-military-equipment-ammunition-telmanove-raion-donetsk-oblast/ … via @en_informnapalm pic.twitter.com/2cQGAwDUIP

A must read. Twitter community ridicules Putin remark of destroying NATO with a phone call http://www.rferl.org/content/russia-kiselyov-twitter-putin-nato-ridicule/26826215.html …

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UA Mi24 Attack helicopters over #Artemovsk heading for #Debaltseve. pic.twitter.com/vBYBQJtqDP
UA Mi-24 attack choppers, but on a medevac mission.

New footage of the Russian army 2S7
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUIuzVyFwgQ … pic.twitter.com/onI1R4kqRv

Russians leave boobytraps everywhere they have been... v2015в2015 pic.twitter.com/FAcBpTMSJ4