Ukraine: Russo-Ukr War (June-December 2015)

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Shellings are slow in starting this evening--maybe they are low on munitions as another Russian 100 truck munitions convoy came in today. After each munitions convoy then the shellings intensify.

OSCE: situation in Donetsk noticeably tenser yesterday than previous 2 days. New craters seen near Avdiivka #Ukraine

19:44 #Donetsk @Newrashkineits 5 outgoing

19:44 #Donetsk @HeleneHelene5 Sounds of very heavy volleys fr Smolyanka or Azotny, flying w/aftersound

19:35 #Luhansk south @esorrrose "A small arms burst somewhere, boneheads"

19:33 #Donetsk @nixer79 A battle for abt 15min in#Spartak-Yastnuvata fork+mortaring fr/Putilov grove

19:21 #Dokuchaevsk @whicard5 Prepare for shelling from us, Yasny: 1 tank, 1 Ural w/ammo, 3 mortars; Alexandrinka: 5 mortars

18:54 #Dokuchaevsk @Pink_Shark___ At #Yasny settlement today there is 1 tank, 3 mortars, a truck w/ammo

19:55 #Donetsk @Gong_Ego Within 10 min since 19:40 they've shelled w/large calibre for abt 25 times tow/#Opytne and that's all. As if peace

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Shellings are slow in starting this evening--maybe they are low on munitions as another Russian 100 truck munitions convoy came in today. After each munitions convoy then the shellings intensify.

OSCE: situation in Donetsk noticeably tenser yesterday than previous 2 days. New craters seen near Avdiivka #Ukraine

19:44 #Donetsk @Newrashkineits 5 outgoing

19:44 #Donetsk @HeleneHelene5 Sounds of very heavy volleys fr Smolyanka or Azotny, flying w/aftersound

19:35 #Luhansk south @esorrrose "A small arms burst somewhere, boneheads"

19:33 #Donetsk @nixer79 A battle for abt 15min in#Spartak-Yastnuvata fork+mortaring fr/Putilov grove

19:21 #Dokuchaevsk @whicard5 Prepare for shelling from us, Yasny: 1 tank, 1 Ural w/ammo, 3 mortars; Alexandrinka: 5 mortars

18:54 #Dokuchaevsk @Pink_Shark___ At #Yasny settlement today there is 1 tank, 3 mortars, a truck w/ammo

19:55 #Donetsk @Gong_Ego Within 10 min since 19:40 they've shelled w/large calibre for abt 25 times tow/#Opytne and that's all. As if peace

Well so much for the so called heavy weapons withdrawal as someone is shelling Ukrainian positions with heavy artillery.

21:03 #Horlivka @tgorlovka Explosions heard from the west

21:06 #Horlivka @ahab7822 Night 'greeting' starts, seldom volleys from #Novhorodske direction, smoke plume in the field

21:03 #Horlivka @tgorlovka Booms from the west [unclear either incoming or outgoing]

Lysychansk 8:50PM
Something exploded, smoke rising now from 2 houses in microdistrct 35. https://twitter.com/lis_hunta/status/624275290685050880 …

Horlivka 21:01
Artillery working https://twitter.com/fenix_dnr/status/624278139494117377 …

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Russia|n special forces ID'd guarding GWP concocting propaganda w/ aid delivery in #Ukraine:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ua07fP8crc … pic.twitter.com/wQPYGxGf7l

In a 2nd video from the same scene another #Russia|n soldier guards GWP & aid truck from the other side of the road. pic.twitter.com/pblew0GwaQ
Source video:
https://youtu.be/4zRRN57GOuo?t=2m42s …

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Well so much for the so called heavy weapons withdrawal as someone is shelling Ukrainian positions with heavy artillery.

21:03 #Horlivka @tgorlovka Explosions heard from the west

21:06 #Horlivka @ahab7822 Night 'greeting' starts, seldom volleys from #Novhorodske direction, smoke plume in the field

21:03 #Horlivka @tgorlovka Booms from the west [unclear either incoming or outgoing]

Lysychansk 8:50PM
Something exploded, smoke rising now from 2 houses in microdistrct 35. https://twitter.com/lis_hunta/status/624275290685050880 …

Horlivka 21:01
Artillery working https://twitter.com/fenix_dnr/status/624278139494117377 …

22:15 #Donetsk @ropogckou Petrovskogo St: there was lasting roar, it sounded like tanks on move

20:50 #Lysychansk @lis_hunta Something exploded, the smoke goes up near #35, 2nd microdistrict

22:40 #Avdeevka @rechnikato Rumble

22:47 @vladicvp Short #Avdeevka shelling. at 8pm-9pm SA and mortars in Spartak-airport

22:50 #Luhansk @LuhanskJunta Ongoing shelling at #Stanytsia_Luhanska, smth heavy has been used, 1hr ago it wasn't that loud

#Donetsk 22:24
Tekstilshchik ds prepared for the evening. Tracked equpment went towards Petrovka. https://twitter.com/PVB40/status/624299252446007296 …

Dokuchaevsk @Shrik_E
22:15 Track vehicles moved tow/Yasny
22:35 And they have just moved back

22:33 #Donetsk @vladicvp Since 18:00 in/#Krasnohorivka-Abakumova a battle started, RUS shell w/tanks, UKR reply

22:30 #Maryinka @hyeva_maryinka [vk] Quiet, sporadic [rumbles] in #Krasnohorivka direction

22:54 #Luhansk @esorrrose They calmed down

Mercenaries “claimed they had withdrawn their tanks”—appears to be lies again
Tracked armor on Petrovskogo St heard in Donetsk, to Mariinka direction. https://twitter.com/PVB40/status/624299252446007296 …

Heavy explosions non-stop from the direction of Stanytsia Luhanska. As always after #Russian "humanitarian" aid convoy...

Ukraine's Volunteers Saving the Day. "If it wasn't for the volunteer fighters Russia would be at Dnipro River by now" http://www.huffingtonpost.com/diane-m-francis/ukraines-volunteers-savin_b_7832224.html …

Oleg "Aka". Liquidated in #Marinka, July 19, 2015 → https://vk.com/id297120092
pic.twitter.com/m3PepBcS9H

Krasnohorivka 22:46
Gunfire, assault rifles https://twitter.com/hyeva_maryinka/status/624307753603870720 …

Dokuchaevsk, Yasne, outgoing mortar shelling has begun. https://twitter.com/whicard5/status/624307536519262208 …

Avdiivka 22:40
Explosions started https://twitter.com/JuZolyshkaLia/status/624303033489473536 …

22:55 @vladicvp Distant rumbles are heard in #Ilovaysk and #Dokuchaevsk

22:44 @vladicvp Quiet in #Dokuchaevsk, #Makeevka, #Starobesheve, #Mariupol, #Ambrosievka, #Volnovakha, #Krasniy_Pakhar, #Ilovaysk, #Kirovsk

Dokuchajevsk 22:57
Shooting from the old #Aleksandrovka farm https://twitter.com/Shrik_E/status/624307325835161604 …

UA Army officer: Brgd 28 under Berezove getting hit. Probably howitzers, no less than 100 mm. @OSCE_SMM ?? https://twitter.com/SPaWN_ua/status/624310651201019904 …

Map update. Mortars positioned 5 hours ago, shelling is RIGHT NOW LIVE. pic.twitter.com/1yg1yG2jC6

23:04
In #Stepne loud incoming. #Taramchuk probably gets more, or falling in Taramchuk-Stepne-Berezove triangle. https://twitter.com/Darren_Aro/status/624309207232180224 …

NOTICE the shelling by mortars and artillery kind of violates what the Russians and her mercenaries claim when they stated all weapons of 100mm have been withdrawn and when the mercenaries were supposed to have withdrawn all the heavier ones of 122mm to 152mm

FULLY indicates that they are not in any compliance of Minsk 2 and have been basically lying since Feb 2015.

latest update to the map, ruscists shelling UA 28 brigade under Dokuchaevsk pic.twitter.com/wa83kQl9Q5

Shelling in Berezove is still ongoing. Brigade 28 of UA army is hit with mortars from Dokuchaevsk abandoned farm

UPDATE Dokuchaevsk: probably ruscists got return fire, 2 explosions and they shut up. https://twitter.com/person0009/status/624315685989027844 …

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OSCE's Hug, clearly not a happy man: "Protest today was organised vandalism, 30 cars rendered unusable" pic.twitter.com/qH1v3jiatd

OSCE SMM calls for inquiry into spray paint incident involving SMM vehicles
http://en.interfax.com.ua/news/general/279807.html …

IRC vehicles vandalized as well
Donetsk today, luxury hotel were Intl Red Cross is based pic.twitter.com/DIZ2xj2qvR

Russian forces with 9K111 'Fagot' Anti-Tank Guided Missile, occupied Donbas, July 2015 https://vk.com/warsonline_military_observer?w=wall-62474637_158195 … pic.twitter.com/NHgyMwZE8m

Unveiling Hidden Connections with Google Analytics IDs via @bellingcat https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/how-tos/2015/07/23/unveiling-hidden-connections-with-google-analytics-ids/ … pic.twitter.com/fChuMfj0UQ

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Russia Disregards Immunity Principles of the Council of Europe.

Russia seems to have forgotten also that being a CoE member since 1996 they signed on to accepting all EHRC decisions and lately they have had several court decisions go against them for over 100B USDs ----Yukos being one of them.

After losing in court to the EHRC they are also refusing to accept any future EHRC decisions.

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OSCE's Hug, clearly not a happy man: "Protest today was organised vandalism, 30 cars rendered unusable" pic.twitter.com/qH1v3jiatd

OSCE SMM calls for inquiry into spray paint incident involving SMM vehicles
http://en.interfax.com.ua/news/general/279807.html …

IRC vehicles vandalized as well
Donetsk today, luxury hotel were Intl Red Cross is based pic.twitter.com/DIZ2xj2qvR

Russian forces with 9K111 'Fagot' Anti-Tank Guided Missile, occupied Donbas, July 2015 https://vk.com/warsonline_military_observer?w=wall-62474637_158195 … pic.twitter.com/NHgyMwZE8m

Unveiling Hidden Connections with Google Analytics IDs via @bellingcat https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/how-tos/2015/07/23/unveiling-hidden-connections-with-google-analytics-ids/ … pic.twitter.com/fChuMfj0UQ

OSCE's Hug says their drones being jammed & their vehicles wrecked by "organized vandalism." What are seps hiding? https://twitter.com/Millermena/status/624313948955807746 …

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http://maidantranslations.com/2015/07/23/dmitry-tymchuk-military-update-7-23-freesavchenko-2/

Dmitry Tymchuk: Military update 7.23

Posted on July 23, 2015 by codenamenox

Translated and edited by Voices of Ukraine


Operational data from Information Resistance:

Russian-terrorist troops in Donbas continue heavily shelling the ATO forces positions and civilian objects, employing 120 mm mortars, 122 mm and 152 mm artillery, and armored vehicles.

In the areas west and northwest of Donetsk, along the entire stretch between Mar’inka and the northwestern outskirts of Horlivka, militants are using heavy armaments for virtually uninterrupted bouts of shelling.

Over the course of the past 24 hours, militants in the vicinity of Donetsk Airport opened fire from the on-board armaments of tanks, APCs and IFVs, trying to engage Ukrainian troop advanced positions. The militants’ armored groups are operating under the cover fire of 120 mm mortars and ZU-23-2 anti-aircraft guns. In addition, enemy infantry groups were active in this area over the past 24 hours, attempting to find positions in the surrounding ruins and vegetation that would be best for firing at the positions of Ukrainian troops.

Militants used 120 mm mortars and 122 mm artillery to fire on the ATO forces positions east of Opytne, on civilian objects near Avdiivka (Chapaeva and Lenina streets), and the eastern outskirts of Vodyane. Fire was conducted from positions in the vicinity of Mineralne and Spartak. The enemy’s sabotage and reconnaissance groups were also active in this area.

Militants also opened intermittent “harassing” mortar fire on areas northeast of Avdiivka (Novobakhmutivka, Novoselivka, Vesele).

The settlements of Novhorodske, Pisky, Leninske, and Lozove were shelled from 120 mm artillery.

The ATO forces position in the vicinity of Luhanske were shelled from 120 mm mortars. Terrorists used the shelling to support their infantry groups operating in the greenery, who, in turn, were trying to suppress the ATO forces’ firepower on the front line. In addition, militants resumed using the “roving tanks” tactic during nighttime. The tanks, operating under the fire cover provided by 120 mm mortars and AGS-17 grenade launchers, are shelling the positions of Ukrainian troops with high-explosive shells, from firing positions prepared in advance.

In the stretch between Berezove, Stepne, Taramchuk, and Novotroitske (an area of Dokuchajevsk), terrorists continue shelling with the use of 82 mm and 120 mm mortars. Occasionally, 122 mm D-30 howitzers are used, from firing positions behind Dokuchajevsk (2 batteries).

Dense terrorist shellings with the use of small arms, 82 mm and AGS-17 grenade launchers were recorded in the following areas over the past 24 hours:

– vicinity of Mar’inka;
– Krasnohorivka – Lozove stretch;
– vicinity of Luhanske;
– Krymske – Sokilnyky stretch;
– south and southwest of Svitlodarsk (area of Vuhlehirsk thermal power plant);
– individual areas near Popasna, Zolote, Orikhove, and Novotoshkivka.

Individual enemy snipers and sniper groups are recorded in the areas of Shyrokyne, Chermalyk, north of Hranitne, near Mar’inka, between Luhanske and Myronivske, near Krymske, Schastya, and Stanytsia Luhanska.

The transfer of the forces and equipment of the terrorist “brigade” continues, from the Mospyne – Komsomolske line directly to the “front line.” The Volnovakha direction is receiving reinforcements: a “motorized infantry battalion” (part of the brigade), together with a tank company and anti-aircraft equipment has transferred to the Novobesheve – Starobesheve – Styla – Komunarivka area. Some of the forces (14 armored vehicles, including 6 tanks and 10 motor vehicles) were transferred south, through Telmanove, to reinforce terrorist tactical groups deployed near Novoazovsk and north of the town (opposite Chermalyk – Pavlopil).

In Donetsk, militant armored vehicles and artillery are being concentrated in several “combat vehicle parks.” The group operating in the direction of Avdiivka is receiving reinforcements. We recorded transfer of two batteries of 122 mm D-30 howitzers. Two tank companies advanced east of Panteleimonivka, total strength of up to 20 tanks, plus several APCs and IFVs.

A militant tank company (7 tanks), escorted by trucks carrying ammunition and suppliers (4 trucks) was transferred from Komsomolske in the direction of Starohnativka.

Large deliveries of ammunition (122 mm rocket projectiles for BM-21 Grad MRLS) are moving in the direction of Frunze and Zholobok, transported along the Bakhmut motorway (11 trucks of ammunition over the past 24 hours).

110-120 militants with small arms and mounted SPG-9 grenade launchers have been transferred to Stakhanov and Pervomaisk, moving through Alchevsk. The group includes three 120 mm mortars.

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Militants concentrated considerable forces at front line: attacks recorded all around Horlivka . MAP http://en.censor.net.ua/n345027

Russian military base near the border of Ukraine http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/23-july-russian-military-base-near-the-border-of-ukraine … pic.twitter.com/kYmg5eoy7K via @Review_News_Net pic.twitter.com/rUBEL5cgjC

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Maryinka 7:53AM
Machine guns towards Sovkhoz (collective farm), not intensive https://twitter.com/hyeva_maryinka/status/624444571855024128 …

ATO press center: From 2:45AM #Pisky was shelled for 1 hour from tank, and #Krasnohorivka by mortars starting from 4:30AM.

128th brigade - 1KIA at #Stanytsia_Luhanska, shrapnel wounds. http://uanews.uz.ua/other/2015/07/23/43974.html … via @twitterapi

Ruscist in #Donetsk shows off new kit received from Russia. https://twitter.com/tombreadley/status/624324800165445632 …

@Guderian_Xaba " 90% of Azov's equipment, ammunition, food, clothes, vehicles and fuel are donated by Ukrainian citizens."

Donetsk 3AM
For 30mins powerful volleys fr "withdrawn" not less 120mm caliber, gone far. Like from Putilovka groves https://twitter.com/nixer79/status/624425687642959872 …

@Guderian_Xaba "Most of the reporting that comes out of Ukraine, which is published by the mainstream Western media, is quite inaccurate."

The Front Lines. #Shyrokyno, Azov. Article:
http://www.wrath-bearingtree.com/dispatches/2015/7/17/the-front-lines …

Cossack checkpoints are back again in #Antratsyt http://antratsit.net/news/2113-v-antracit-vozvraschayutsya-blok-posty.html …

'We like partisan warfare.' Chechens fighting in Ukraine - on both sides | World news | The Guardian http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/24/chechens-fighting-in-ukraine-on-both-sides …

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OSCE's Hug says their drones being jammed & their vehicles wrecked by "organized vandalism." What are seps hiding? https://twitter.com/Millermena/status/624313948955807746 …

Donetsk @vladicvp I asked vata [=local Putin supporters] 'what over 30 #OSCE cars were vandalized for' and got answer 'Are they holy?'

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Yesterday militants attacked positions of Ukrainian troops 78 times. As of 06:00 today, attacks continue - ATOhttps://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1036974182980054&substory_index=0&id=820651001279041&refid=17&_ft_=top_level_post_id.1036974182980054&__tn__=%2As …

Newly appointed Head of #Luhansk reg/ admin Tuka: 2 vehicles w/ smuggled goods were stopped near delimitation line http://censor.net.ua/blogs/742/otchety_quotletuchekquot …

Echelon of military Kamaz trucks near the border of Ukraine pic.twitter.com/ps4VP3ovPT http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/24-july-echelon-of-military-kamaz-trucks-near-the-border …

Kuzminka: Self-contained Russian army tactical group with enough fuel bowsers for an offensive/long-distance pic.twitter.com/1DwZ8Z3Mji

Kuzminka: Russian motor rifle (mechanised infantry) and tank tactical group with SPG/MLRS artillery support pic.twitter.com/sSkioWVwRn

Russian Army base at Kuzminka (Vodino/Golovinka), Rostov region 6 July 2015 PHOTOS
http://ru.tsn.ua/foto/otdyh-otpusknikov-s-tankami-vblizi-rostova-eksklyuzivnye-foto-poligona-kuzminskiy-456176.html …
http://reviewnews.net/ukraine-1/3641-smi-opublikovali-foto-voennoj-bazy-rf-vozle-granits-ukrainy …

Ready to roll. Russian Army base at Kuzminka (Vodino/Golovinka), Rostov region (55km from Ukraine border) 6 July pic.twitter.com/rNqZ11gP1y

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Putin is attempting to force the Ukrainians to deal directly with the Russian mercenaries which would then give them the "appearance of being legitimate" and then in the so call federalization that Putin envisions they would have seat in the RADA and being able to block anything that appears like the Ukraine is trying to do with NATO and or the EU--this is Putin's "Bosnian solution".

The NYTs recently wrote an article on the so called "Putin Bosnian model" for the Donbass regions.

Notice Russia in is press release says absolutely nothing on what they and her mercenaries should be doing to implement fully Minsk 2--not a single word is wasted--it is all about WHAT the Ukraine needs to do.

Currently the discussion on the 30km buffer zone was also originally proposed by the Russian General in the Russian JCCC--again a Russian solution--it was proposed during the extremely heavy fighting near Mariupol as the Russians attempted to break through to Mariupol and when civilians were still in the town--none are there now.

Secondly the supposedly "good faith pull back" is not so "good faith" as they only pulled back a total of 1.5km and still shell Ukrainian positions daily.

NOTICE Putin is demanding a "pull back" much in the same tone he demanded when actual Russian troops were attacking Debaltseve.

Troubling is when Holland Merkel and actually Obama are putting extreme pressure on the Ukraine to concede point after point to Putin unilaterally WITHOUT a single reciprocal move by Russian and or her mercenaries.

There was to be a teleconference on Monday night between Nuland and here Russian back channel much announced by the Russians AND nothing was released from that teleconference--telling.

NOW the Ukrainian High Command is attempting to keep their own troops when heavily shelled and or involved in ground attacks from returning artillery and mortar fire to protect themselves--THE key question WHO is applying pressure on them to do that WHEN every day there are over 80 major shelling and aground attacks being conducted against them.

AND that so called 100mm weapons withdrawal--total lies by Russia and her mercenaries--the furthest they moved back was 3km not the demanded 30km.

So has Obama, Nuland,Hollande and Merkel decided now is the time to unilaterally conceded the Ukraine to Russian in order to "save his face" and so "gratitude" for his assistance with Iran???????

Appears so------

http://www.unian.info/politics/1104375-putin-urges-kyiv-to-agree-with-militants-on-special-status-of-donbas.html

Putin urges Kyiv to agree with militants on special status of Donbas

24.07.2015 | 09:21


Russian President Vladimir Putin believes that Kyiv should establish a direct dialogue and coordinate with the DPR and LPR terrorist organizations the legislative support of a special status of the militant-occupied territories and the amnesty law, as well as determine the modalities and the procedure for the local elections, according to the Kremlin’s press service.

"The sustainable comprehensive settlement of the crisis is impossible without a direct dialogue between Kyiv and representatives of Donbas," Putin said during a telephone conversation with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande.

The Russian president called on the Ukrainian side to strictly follow the letter and spirit of the Minsk agreements. In particular, Kyiv must agree with the DPR and LPR and enact a permanent legislative support of the special status of the regions and the amnesty law, as well as determine the modalities and the procedure for the local elections, the press service said.

In addition, the Kremlin called "a goodwill gesture" the withdrawal of militants from the village of Shyrokyne and emphasized the need of the Ukrainian servicemen leaving the village.

"In this regard, it is necessary to withdraw the Ukrainian armed forces from the village of Shyrokyne, as it was previously done by the militants as a gesture of goodwill," the press service of the Russian president said.

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Putin is attempting to force the Ukrainians to deal directly with the Russian mercenaries which would then give them the "appearance of being legitimate" and then in the so call federalization that Putin envisions they would have seat in the RADA and being able to block anything that appears like the Ukraine is trying to do with NATO and or the EU--this is Putin's "Bosnian solution".

The NYTs recently wrote an article on the so called "Putin Bosnian model" for the Donbass regions.

Notice Russia in is press release says absolutely nothing on what they and her mercenaries should be doing to implement fully Minsk 2--not a single word is wasted--it is all about WHAT the Ukraine needs to do.

Currently the discussion on the 30km buffer zone was also originally proposed by the Russian General in the Russian JCCC--again a Russian solution--it was proposed during the extremely heavy fighting near Mariupol as the Russians attempted to break through to Mariupol and when civilians were still in the town--none are there now.

Secondly the supposedly "good faith pull back" is not so "good faith" as they only pulled back a total of 1.5km and still shell Ukrainian positions daily.

NOTICE Putin is demanding a "pull back" much in the same tone he demanded when actual Russian troops were attacking Debaltseve.

Troubling is when Holland Merkel and actually Obama are putting extreme pressure on the Ukraine to concede point after point to Putin unilaterally WITHOUT a single reciprocal move by Russian and or her mercenaries.

There was to be a teleconference on Monday night between Nuland and here Russian back channel much announced by the Russians AND nothing was released from that teleconference--telling.

NOW the Ukrainian High Command is attempting to keep their own troops when heavily shelled and or involved in ground attacks from returning artillery and mortar fire to protect themselves--THE key question WHO is applying pressure on them to do that WHEN every day there are over 80 major shelling and aground attacks being conducted against them.

AND that so called 100mm weapons withdrawal--total lies by Russia and her mercenaries--the furthest they moved back was 3km not the demanded 30km.

So has Obama, Nuland,Hollande and Merkel decided now is the time to unilaterally conceded the Ukraine to Russian in order to "save his face" and so "gratitude" for his assistance with Iran???????

Appears so------

http://www.unian.info/politics/1104375-putin-urges-kyiv-to-agree-with-militants-on-special-status-of-donbas.html

Putin urges Kyiv to agree with militants on special status of Donbas

24.07.2015 | 09:21

Hilarious
#Putin demands fr. #Merkel,#Hollande that #Ukraine retreats from #Shyrokyne,while #OSCE conf., Rus have 11 MBT, 30 apc, 8 km east

MFA Russia ✔ @mfa_russia
Comprehensive settlement of #Ukraine’s crisis possible if Kiev establishes direct dialogue w/ Donbass representatives http://goo.gl/GmeERL

[OUTLAW 09]

Putin is attempting to force the Ukrainians to deal directly with the Russian mercenaries which would then give them the "appearance of being legitimate" and then in the so call federalization that Putin envisions they would have seat in the RADA and being able to block anything that appears like the Ukraine is trying to do with NATO and or the EU--this is Putin's "Bosnian solution".

The NYTs recently wrote an article on the so called "Putin Bosnian model" for the Donbass regions.

Notice Russia in is press release says absolutely nothing on what they and her mercenaries should be doing to implement fully Minsk 2--not a single word is wasted--it is all about WHAT the Ukraine needs to do.

Currently the discussion on the 30km buffer zone was also originally proposed by the Russian General in the Russian JCCC--again a Russian solution--it was proposed during the extremely heavy fighting near Mariupol as the Russians attempted to break through to Mariupol and when civilians were still in the town--none are there now.

Secondly the supposedly "good faith pull back" is not so "good faith" as they only pulled back a total of 1.5km and still shell Ukrainian positions daily.

NOTICE Putin is demanding a "pull back" much in the same tone he demanded when actual Russian troops were attacking Debaltseve.

Troubling is when Holland Merkel and actually Obama are putting extreme pressure on the Ukraine to concede point after point to Putin unilaterally WITHOUT a single reciprocal move by Russian and or her mercenaries.

There was to be a teleconference on Monday night between Nuland and here Russian back channel much announced by the Russians AND nothing was released from that teleconference--telling.

NOW the Ukrainian High Command is attempting to keep their own troops when heavily shelled and or involved in ground attacks from returning artillery and mortar fire to protect themselves--THE key question WHO is applying pressure on them to do that WHEN every day there are over 80 major shelling and aground attacks being conducted against them.

AND that so called 100mm weapons withdrawal--total lies by Russia and her mercenaries--the furthest they moved back was 3km not the demanded 30km.

So has Obama, Nuland,Hollande and Merkel decided now is the time to unilaterally conceded the Ukraine to Russian in order to "save his face" and so "gratitude" for his assistance with Iran???????

Appears so------

http://www.unian.info/politics/1104375-putin-urges-kyiv-to-agree-with-militants-on-special-status-of-donbas.html

Putin urges Kyiv to agree with militants on special status of Donbas

24.07.2015 | 09:21

https://www.facebook.com/dmitry.tymchuk/posts/728150403980284?pnref=story …
Report
Tymchuk says,there is a "witch-hunt" going on in the Ukr army,searching for Ukrainian soldiers who returned fire. Prohibited now.

Tymchuk: The ATO command in "compliance w Minsk agreements", concluded in the strictest ban Ukrainian troops to open fire in response... .in the event of attacks (including fr heavy weapons) by the Russian forces & terrorist forces.

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An odd comparison. Medvedev: Ukraine could end like Yugoslavia.https://twitter.com/ellie_knott/status/624476028644237312 …

This is not an "odd comment"--during the run up to fully annexing Crimea there was a number of articles released by Russian propaganda about the Ukraine being not really be a nation state--but really composed of four or five different ethnic groups and these articles suggested that the Ukraine be broken up into the ethnic groups with Poland, Hungary, Romania, Russia and Georgia getting portions of the now Ukraine.

Interesting that Hungarian intel agents recently got caught working in the region of ethnic Hungarians since the Hungarian government is pro Russian leaning.

Interesting to see this pop up again as it tells me the eastern Ukraine is now "frozen" meaning it is "freezing" Russian in place not vice versa--Russia has to pay for everything and send in supplies and troops and heavy equipment at a cost of 30-40M USDs per day.

Thus their shrill tones in trying to get the Ukrainians to deal directly with her mercenaries which the Ukraine refuses to do stating they are not the truly elected officials and will not deal with them until there are Ukrainian held elections as stated in Minsk 2.

Putin desperately needs a "Bosnian solution" and the Ukraine sees right through it and is deflecting it nicely angering Putin to no end thus the shrillness lately and his demanding tone when he talks to Hollande, Merkel and Nuland about implementing Minsk 2.

WHEN Russia has not implemented a single point in the agreement YET demands incessantly full compliance from the Ukraine AND it was Russia that invaded eastern Ukraine and annexed the Crimea NOT the Ukraine invading Russia.

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http://uatoday.tv/politics/media-kremlin-anxious-of-ukrainian-maidans-across-russia-462125.html

Jul. 24, 2015

Media: Kremlin anxious of Ukrainian 'Maidans' across Russia
Rapid response force established to monitor potential protests: Nezavisimaya Gazeta


The Kremlin's fear about anti-government protests like Ukraine's EuroMaidan uprising have led Russian authorities to begin establishing a new rapid response force.

The new unit will focus on quelling any discontent or uprising in society, not only through direct interception but also with direct contact with protest group organizers and working groups.

According to a source in Russian publication ‘Nezavisimaya Gazeta' (Independent newspaper), the rapid response force was created due to the authorities growing anxiety that their current popularity may soon turn sour, as regional budgets are slashed in the wake of the Russian economic crisis.

An analyst at the Moscow-based independent pollster ‘The Levada Centre' said: "In view of the economic downfall and declining living standards, people's discontent could manifest itself anywhere. Labor protests may erupt, caused by non-payment of wages, medical staff reduction, etc. They have the potential of getting politicized quickly, so the creation of monitoring bodies supported by security forces indicates that the authorities are preparing for this scenario in advance".

Austerity Hurts: Putin just fired 110k employees of Russia's interior ministry http://money.cnn.com/2015/07/24/news/russia-putin-layoffs/index.html …

Well there is still the eastern Ukraine employment available at 450 USDs per month and all the bullets you can fire.

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Kuzminka: Some interesting "shapes" in the background - Wish we had better quality photos! pic.twitter.com/Gq3aTN39PA

Same also visible in 2 other photos pic.twitter.com/Dlln5kUwJA

Kuzminka: Battery of 2B26 Grad-K MLRS on KamAZ chassis (modernized version of BM-21 Grad) http://www.military-today.com/artillery/grad_k.htm … pic.twitter.com/jEk0RbRdJS

15:27 #Horlivka, #Donetsk @vladicvp
Quiet in all districts, distant rumbles only

13:27 @vladicvp No water services in #Yuzhnokomunarivsk, Lisny, #Luhansk Kambrod, Kirovske, #Starobesheve

ATO staff: Attacks decreasing, but not near Donetsk
http://www.unian.info/politics/1104549-ato-staff-attacks-decreasing-but-not-near-donetsk.html … pic.twitter.com/SRXuzmNvn4

1 #Ukrainian serviceman was killed in action in the last day, 3 were wounded in action - #ATO daily report

#Fact
#Russian-organised "protesters" first painted swastikas on @OSCE cars.
Then made #Novorossiya flags out of them pic.twitter.com/Gi6O5y9J78

Same with @ICRC cars.
So f*ing revealing ... pic.twitter.com/zuP2q1sH2j

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After 5months of daily RU attacks, they stopped right now, while there are non-stop attacks everywhere.

Ukr Gen Staff said it will withdraw troops from Shyrokyno if RU attacks cease. And... they did!

Translation: We will withdraw soon Ukr troops from #Shyrokyno, as Russia requested. No need for them to be there anymore.

ATO spox: "In #Mariupol sector ceasefire holds. First time since Minsk II no violations".

Got #Thermobaric? #Ukraine pic.twitter.com/H6nYdVKCa1

Donetsk #rumours @666_mancer It is rumoured that one of these days lots of Russian hardware will be delivered.

SBU detained two of the Lviv separatists from the organization "Galician hawk" http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/24-july-sbu-detained-two-of-the-lviv-separatists-from-the …

Russian military equipment, Novocherkassk, Rostov region 18 July. via @GirkinGirkin pic.twitter.com/I9wZykbX17 Map https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Novocherkassk,+Rostov+Oblast,+Russia/@47.4375165,40.0768601,9z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x40e2492534227313:0xc3c03d8f6214c 8ca …

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.@nytimes MUST READ article: how #Russia groups crowd-fund the war in #Ukraine w/ SM, propaganda like GWP http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/12/world/europe/russian-groups-crowdfund-the-war-in-ukraine.html?_r=0 …

Meanwhile, GWP's @JustGiving fundraiser 4 crowdfunding the war in #Ukraine has been REMOVED
https://www.justgiving.com/search?q=Donbass … pic.twitter.com/Ua6iv3uPku

Russia still trying hard to get that missile defense system out of European as it could in fact target Russian missiles BT since they keep threatening the use of tactical nuclear weapons might as well leave it in place.

MFA Russia ✔ @mfa_russia
Vladimir Chizhov: There is no need for a US missile defense system in Europe after #Irandeal was struck http://sputniknews.com/europe/20150724/1024988734.html …

MFA Russia ✔ @mfa_russia
Ambassador to #EU Vladimir Chizhov: Results of #MH17 Crash Investigation Must Be Disclosed http://sputniknews.com/europe/20150724/1024990369.html …
BUT not disclosed to an international tribunal where we will be the criminal in the court room.

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15:30 #Torez @PloxShakhtar 1 Ural & BTR w/troops on armour escorted by 2 cars w/RUS number plates tow/#Shakhtarsk

In ground combat today---
Dokuchaevsk @whicard5 "Yday's RUS casualties: 5 KIA, 2 WIA"

Huh? DPR "Ministry of Defence" denies desertion of soldiers from Marinka position (as claimed by Col Galushko, ATO) https://vk.com/dnrarmy?w=wall-51146063_4587 …

Donetsk, Ilyicha Ave today around noon, armoured vehicles track traces on image #4 @DoneckiiPatriot pic.twitter.com/2bowOTYuNu

Interesting (maybe). The VK_com account of DPR "Republican Guard" 'has been suspended due to a violation of VK Terms of Service'

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http://tass.ru/en/world/810608

Ukraine amasses up to 7,000 troops on border with Transdniestria — republic leader

World
July 24, 17:34 UTC+3

Earlier, the head of the Ukrainian State Border Service said that Russia’s military threat was coming from Transdniestria]


MOSCOW, July 24. /TASS/. Ukraine concentrates its armed forces and equips firing points on the border with Transdniestria, from 5 to 7 thousand troops are currently deployed there, head of the unrecognized Transdniestrian Moldovan Republic Yevgeny Shevchuk told the Rossiya 24 TV channel on Friday.

"After the events in Ukraine, we feel the pressure of some negative factors. One of them is the concentration of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, the National Guard, reinforcement and expansion in the number of Ukrainian frontier guards along the border, additional equipment of engineering constructions, the digging of trenches… Some firing points are equipped along the border, and substantial amounts of troops are being concentrated - according to our estimates, from 5 to 7 thousand are deployed in close proximity to the border with Transdniestria," he said.

On May 21, 2015, Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada denounced the agreement with Russia on transit of the Russian military personnel and cargo via Ukraine’s territory, and on May 29 head of the Ukrainian State Border Service Viktor Nazarenko told Ukraine’s Channel Five that Russia’s military threat was coming from Transdniestria.

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Appears the withdrawal of heavy weapons under Minsk 2 is a failure, the 30km buffer zone and withdrawal of 100mm and lower weapons is not working either.

HOW else can one explain shellings by heavy weapons and tanks on Ukrainian positions.

18:35 #Starohnativka @Staroignatievca Terrible blasts, perhaps impacts on the village

20:13 #Horlivka @Soniyka_777 [As far as] humanitarian convoy arrived, booms [are now heard] in #Mayorsk-#Mykytivka directions

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Yesterday militants attacked positions of Ukrainian troops 78 times. As of 06:00 today, attacks continue - ATOhttps://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1036974182980054&substory_index=0&id=820651001279041&refid=17&_ft_=top_level_post_id.1036974182980054&__tn__=%2As …

Newly appointed Head of #Luhansk reg/ admin Tuka: 2 vehicles w/ smuggled goods were stopped near delimitation line http://censor.net.ua/blogs/742/otchety_quotletuchekquot …

Echelon of military Kamaz trucks near the border of Ukraine pic.twitter.com/ps4VP3ovPT http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/24-july-echelon-of-military-kamaz-trucks-near-the-border …

Kuzminka: Self-contained Russian army tactical group with enough fuel bowsers for an offensive/long-distance pic.twitter.com/1DwZ8Z3Mji

Kuzminka: Russian motor rifle (mechanised infantry) and tank tactical group with SPG/MLRS artillery support pic.twitter.com/sSkioWVwRn

Russian Army base at Kuzminka (Vodino/Golovinka), Rostov region 6 July 2015 PHOTOS
http://ru.tsn.ua/foto/otdyh-otpusknikov-s-tankami-vblizi-rostova-eksklyuzivnye-foto-poligona-kuzminskiy-456176.html …
http://reviewnews.net/ukraine-1/3641-smi-opublikovali-foto-voennoj-bazy-rf-vozle-granits-ukrainy …

Ready to roll. Russian Army base at Kuzminka (Vodino/Golovinka), Rostov region (55km from Ukraine border) 6 July pic.twitter.com/rNqZ11gP1y

2nd Guards Motor Rifle 'Taman' Div and 4th Guards 'Kantemir' Tank Div received "Tornado-G" MLRS to replace Grad BM-21 http://tass.ru/armiya-i-opk/2136010

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NEW POST: @EliotHiggins on using Google Earth, Yandex, Echosec and Yomapic for verification https://medium.com/1st-draft/searching-the-earth-essential-geolocation-tools-for-verification-89d960bb8fba … pic.twitter.com/aQu1tcxZti

Having vandalized #OSCE cars ruscists achieved their goal in #Donetsk. Less OSCE, less RUS activity recorded. https://twitter.com/UkrWatchTower/status/624646344351817729 …

The OSCE SMM is to limit activity in Donetsk because of pressure on observers - Hug
http://112.ua/ato/missiya-obse-ogranichit-aktivnost-v-donecke-iz-za-davleniya-na-nablyudateley-hag-247515.html …

It just so happened that pro-Kremlin media - @Ruptly, were there to film it all
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vj8if12FrDs …

BBC News - Why would Russia deploy bombers [Tu-22M3] in Crimea? http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-33649298 … via @BBCrussia 24 Jul

About 200 Ukrainians still held hostage by Russian-separatist forces - advisor to SBU chief http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/about-200-ukrainians-still-held-hostage-by-russian-separatist-forces-advisor-to-sbu-chief-394221.html … via Kyiv Post 24 Jul

Anyone knows when Kredo-M1 entered service? other users apart from Russian Armed Forces? http://www.almaz-antey.ru/en/catalogue/millitary_catalogue/1219/1242/1331 … pic.twitter.com/vSVO5O90j8

There are no "representatives" of Donbas right now (& Russia & her proxies are obstructing elections to get some) http://osce.usmission.gov/mobile/jul_23_15_reply_to_russia.html …

Criminal group behind 1 bn $ Moldovan theft linked to the 20 bn Russian Laundromat™
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2015/07/24/grand-theft-moldova/ … via @OCCRP and @bellingcat

Another Russian spy drone shot down in east Ukraine (Video)
http://uatoday.tv/news/another-russian-spy-drone-shot-down-in-east-ukraine-video-461708.html … pic.twitter.com/14b5IeAJBG

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http://www.themoscowtimes.com/article/526147.html

Russian Official Calls for Obligations to International Law to be Struck from Constitution

By Anna Dolgov
Jul. 24 2015 13:53


The head of Russia's Investigative Committee has called for scrapping from the country's Constitution all mentions of adherence to international law, according to an interview with official government daily Rossiiskaya Gazeta.

The proposal by Alexander Bastrykin, which was part of an interview published by Rossiiskaya Gazeta on Thursday follows a Constitutional Court decision earlier this month ruling that Moscow can refuse to comply with European Court of Human Rights judgments.

Bastrykin praised the court's decision, but said the country needed to take it further.

Without a doubt, it is necessary to eliminate from the Constitution the provisions according to which the widely accepted principles and norms of international law are an inalienable part of the legal system of the Russian Federation," Bastrykin, a lawyer by training, was quoted as saying.

Article 15 of the Russian Constitution reads that the "widely accepted principles and norms of international law and the international agreements of the Russian Federation are a component part of its legal system."

The article also says that in case of contradictions between Russia's international agreements and domestic laws, international agreements take precedence.

The article has been the object of Bastrykin's ire for months. He called it "legal sabotage" during a meeting with Investigative Committee officials in February, saying it should be abolished, Kommersant reported at that time.

The ruling by the Constitutional Court on the European Court of Human Rights was a step toward measures that Bastrykin has been advocating.

In its July 14 decision, the court ruled that "in exceptional cases, Russia can diverge from fulfilling the obligations imposed upon it if such deviation is the only possible way to avoid violating fundamental constitutional principles."

"The European Convention on Human Rights and the legal positions taken by the [European Court] based on [the convention], cannot undermine [Russia's] Constitution, which takes priority," the court said in a statement.

The Constitutional Court's decision was seen as opening the way for Moscow to avoid paying compensation to former shareholders of Mikhail Khodorkovsky's defunct Yukos oil company. The European court ruled last year that the handling of Yukos assets violated its shareholders' rights, and ordered Moscow to pay compensation to them.

Bastrykin told Rossiyskaya Gazeta that Russia needs to "continue and expand" the Constitutional Court's decision to avoid "legal collisions," adding that the Constitution — adopted in 1993 — may be due for a thorough overhaul.

"Beside the provisions on the priority of international law, an array of other constitutional provisions could be corrected, considering the more than 20-year service of our Constitution," Bastrykin was quoted as saying. He did not elaborate on what provisions he thought should be changed.

The issue of Russia's abidance by international law and treaties has repeatedly been called into question since Moscow annexed Crimea from Ukraine in March 2014. Western governments and Kiev have accused Russia of violating international law and agreements with Ukraine, including the 1994 Budapest Memorandum — which reaffirmed Ukraine's territorial integrity in exchange for the country agreeing to give up nuclear weapons — and the 1997 Friendship Treaty between Russia and Ukraine.

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Heavy shellings and ground attacks this evening—so much for all the hype from Russia about implementing Minsk 2 and so much for US, France and German appeasement “to save Putin’s face”

This is the direct result of their unilateral moves with no reciprocal demands on Russia.

22:00 #Starohnativka @Staroignatievca Heavy volleys and blasts nearby

Maryinka @hyeva_maryinka [vk]
21:20 Quiet
21:21 Just wrote and a boom at once

21:23 #Novhorodske @LeeZernoganja [Recently] a couple of projectiles hit rails, couple more at old dachas.

20:59 #Alchevsk @protiv_voiny What is that rumbling? Drills?

21:19 #Dzerzhynsky @blessmaster Lots of small arms fire, mortars in #Shumy/Yuzhna mine direction

20:52 #Zalizne (#Novhorodske) @LeeZernoganja My village was shelled, several impacts, like direct fire. Smoke plumes

20:18 #Maryinka @hyeva_maryinka [vk] And again few heavy machine gun bursts

20:56 #Zalizne (part of #Novhorodske) @LeeZernoganja Something on fire pic.twitter.com/vdmQheBfEr

20:46 #Mariupol @p251977 Who has heard boom?
20:51 @ukrmarik I thought it seemed to me

22:09 #Volnovakha @lapa545 Strong booms somewhere. Dogs are barking, hard to get where, I guess north/northeast

22:16 #Dokuchaevsk @goky4_ykpauHa Also audible in #Dokuchaevsk

22:14 #Volnovakha @solomazheka Rumble for about 20min in the east, approx #Starohnativka, ongoing battle, heavy [arty]

22:22 @solomazheka Stir in #Volnovakha or sort of [road police] interception oper'n, all cars are checked, never been before

22:33 #Dzerzhynsk @dimetros7776 Impacts on houses on Yuzhna St, incoming were fr/#Horlivka direction, UKR almost didn't reply

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Heavy shellings and ground attacks this evening—so much for all the hype from Russia about implementing Minsk 2 and so much for US, France and German appeasement “to save Putin’s face”

This is the direct result of their unilateral moves with no reciprocal demands on Russia.

22:00 #Starohnativka @Staroignatievca Heavy volleys and blasts nearby

Maryinka @hyeva_maryinka [vk]
21:20 Quiet
21:21 Just wrote and a boom at once

21:23 #Novhorodske @LeeZernoganja [Recently] a couple of projectiles hit rails, couple more at old dachas.

20:59 #Alchevsk @protiv_voiny What is that rumbling? Drills?

21:19 #Dzerzhynsky @blessmaster Lots of small arms fire, mortars in #Shumy/Yuzhna mine direction

20:52 #Zalizne (#Novhorodske) @LeeZernoganja My village was shelled, several impacts, like direct fire. Smoke plumes

20:18 #Maryinka @hyeva_maryinka [vk] And again few heavy machine gun bursts

20:56 #Zalizne (part of #Novhorodske) @LeeZernoganja Something on fire pic.twitter.com/vdmQheBfEr

20:46 #Mariupol @p251977 Who has heard boom?
20:51 @ukrmarik I thought it seemed to me

22:09 #Volnovakha @lapa545 Strong booms somewhere. Dogs are barking, hard to get where, I guess north/northeast

22:16 #Dokuchaevsk @goky4_ykpauHa Also audible in #Dokuchaevsk

22:14 #Volnovakha @solomazheka Rumble for about 20min in the east, approx #Starohnativka, ongoing battle, heavy [arty]

22:22 @solomazheka Stir in #Volnovakha or sort of [road police] interception oper'n, all cars are checked, never been before

22:33 #Dzerzhynsk @dimetros7776 Impacts on houses on Yuzhna St, incoming were fr/#Horlivka direction, UKR almost didn't reply

OSCE monitors cannot confirm arms withdrawal by Russian-separatist forces http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/osce-monitors-cannot-confirm-arms-withdrawal-by-russian-separatist-forces-394242.html …

23:09 #Starohnativka @Staroignatievca Lull
Lull before next shellings--resupplying

23:03 #Krasnohorivka @hyeva_maryinka [vk]
22:30 Skirmishes on the front line don't cease
22:55 Ongoing shooting

Starohnativka: scary explosions, perhaps shell landings in a village. https://twitter.com/Staroignatievca/status/624603811861000193 …

Hot spots atm: Horlivka, Krasnogorivka, Starohnativka

.@lisova1992 It has been reported on #Rovenki militants KIA near #Stanytsia_Luhanska

Russian artillery barrage near #Starohnativka (W of Bila Kamyanka, E of Volnovakha), Donetsk region https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Starohnativka,+Donetsk+Oblast,+Ukraine/@47.5410735,37.7800835,11z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x40e0d2fe87f250eb:0x73caefec39e49 5c0 … via @loogunda

intensive machineguns in Krasnogorovka https://twitter.com/arthurnkua/status/624669361513611265 …

22:52 #Starohnativka @Staroignatievca Hell again, massive explosions, the sky is flashing

22:41 #Donetsk @JRijJyY08AkRzL8 We can hear you, burst wave reaches us, cheer up! https://twitter.com/loogunda/status/624660986147024896 …

Results of shelling by militants of Novhorodsʹke (July 24)Video here >https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1037239246286881&id=820651001279041&refid=17&_ft_=top_level_post_id.1037239246286881&__tn__=%2As … pic.twitter.com/fIOuTE4C8V

Ukraine soldier killed in clashes following peace talks http://f24.my/1Or3FOG pic.twitter.com/o01qwGFAzi

BBC journalist at Donetsk airport: "This is what Armageddon feels like"
http://www.unian.info/war/1104723-bbc-journalist-at-donetsk-airport-this-is-what-armageddon-feels-like.html … pic.twitter.com/6ptuJjf1OQ

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We witnessed the inititation ceremony that turns ragtag rebels into cossacks Ukraine https://news.vice.com/article/we-witnessed-an-initiation-ceremony-that-turned-ragtag-rebels-into-cossacks … via @vicenews

Defender of Ukraine on guard.
via @ukatayka777
pic.twitter.com/PhQPBtYAAW

If I were Putin I would be ditching anything to do with the Donbass—the Rubel is tracking parallel to the price of oil and that is falling badly and will fall into the 30-40 USD ranges in the next week or two and remain there for a long while as Iranian oil slowly comes into the market and the USD is growing stronger daily.

WTI Crude Oil: $48.00 ��
Brent Crude Oil: $54.40 ��
USD=RUB: $1 = 58.5220 ��

Shoplifting in Russia is soaring as the economy crumbles ;( https://twitter.com/WBStevens/status/624574303225425920 …

U.S. troops to train regular Ukrainian military troops: State Department http://reut.rs/1DCJurh

Why @ICRC as “guardian” of international humanitarian law is ignoring its statutory duties to declare RU involvement? pic.twitter.com/GBbNisHsOY

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So much for Russian mercenaries "pulling back their tanks from the front lines"

23:15 #Horlivka #Mykytivka @mihailovith Outgoing, they sound like tank shots

23:35 #Komsomolske @Ukr_Che Hard to get where from and to, incoming or outgoing, but very loud and massive booms

So, the OSCE now discusses not if there are ceasefire violations or not, but "the level of ceasefire violations" http://www.osce.org/ukraine-smm/174346?utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzRss&utm_campaign=oscelatestnews …

23:25 #Maryinka @hyeva_maryinka [vk] Again sporadic shooting

23:20 #Komsomolske @lukliketramp Both incoming and outgoing, started 10 min ago.

23:20 #Komsomolske @lukliketramp Behind the kettles something's on fire (who can affirm?), flashes behind the waterworks

Overview: Russian 'hybrid' volunteer units (DPR/LPR) are training hard, rotating troops at front line positions, calibrating weapons etc.

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Appears that the US/Obama is in fact throwing the Ukraine under the bus for Russian assistance in Iran and Syria---by making unilateral moves with no reciprocal demands on Russia.

Basically a new Munch 1938 in the name of "legacy".

http://www.jamestown.org/single/?tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=44204&tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=7&cHash=676519bcd3d785fea95d530861f2811b#.VbKl2OoVhM s

Obama Administration Undercutting Ukraine’s Position in the Minsk Armistice Negotiations

Publication: Eurasia Daily Monitor Volume: 12 Issue: 139

July 24, 2015 02:00 PM

By: Vladimir Socor


Urged by US Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland in Kyiv last week, Ukraine took a first step toward legalizing the secessionist authorities in the country’s constitution (see EDM, July 20). Concurrently, US Vice President Joseph Biden asked Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko to accept local elections being held and possibly validated in the secessionist territory (Ukrinform, White House press release, July 17). In the Contact Group, in Minsk this week, Ukraine faced similar pressure to legitimize the Donetsk and Luhansk authorities through local elections there (UNIAN, July 22).

Russia, Western Europe generally, and the Barack Obama administration each seem to favor “freezing” this conflict as fast as possible, on terms acceptable to Russia, since these are the only terms presently available. But there are two possible ways of freezing this conflict.

One way, the Russian “classical,” is seen with local variations in Transnistria, Abkhazia and South Ossetia, Karabakh and Crimea. There, the secessionist authorities receive no international legitimacy, no status, no subsidies from the aggressed country, and no chance to subvert the latter’s political system.

The other way to freeze is Russia’s latest innovation, using Donetsk and Luhansk in Ukraine’s east. This kind of freeze—still not resolving the conflict—would legalize the secessionist authorities and re-insert their entities into Ukraine’s political system, with prerogatives that would ensure instability, Russian influence and even Ukrainian subsidies to the legalized secessionist authorities.

The Obama administration is now pushing for the second version, the one even more detrimental to Ukraine. The United States’ push tips the balance decisively. Berlin and Paris failed on their own to persuade Kyiv to move in that direction, but Washington apparently wields stronger leverage.

The White House has reordered its policy priorities toward working with Russia on the Middle East, correspondingly becoming more accommodating to Russia’s position on implementing the Minsk armistice in Ukraine. From May 12 (Secretary of State John Kerry’s overture to Russian President Vladimir Putin in Sochi) to July 14 (signing of the international agreement on Iran’s nuclear program), the rapprochement with Russia looks rewarding to the Obama administration. The latter now hopes for Russia’s “help” on Syria; while the European Union feels that it “needs” Russia on Libya. With or without direct tradeoffs over Ukraine, as Lilya Shevtsova observes, Putin has put Washington “on the debtor’s roll” (Kasparov.ru, July 16).

The administration portrays Russia again as a partner, a difficult but necessary, indeed “indispensable” partner to help “jointly resolve” common problems. It no longer describes Russia as “isolated,” nor as “merely” a regional power. The White House treats Putin as a desirable interlocutor again. Presidents Obama and Putin have conducted two long, detailed telephone conversations focusing on the Middle East. In their June 25/26 conversation, Obama did mention tangentially that Russia ought to remove its forces from Ukraine’s territory. Putin parried, as usual, that Russia has no forces in Ukraine, hence nothing to withdraw. In the July 15 Obama-Putin conversation, Ukraine was left unmentioned (White House and Kremlin readouts, cited by Interfax and RFE/RL, respectively, July 16).

Washington and Moscow have established an unprecedented, bilateral format of negotiations on Ukraine, but in which Ukraine is not represented. Russia’s Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister Grigory Karasin and US Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland are in charge of this channel. The United States, as leading Western power, had recused itself from both of the existing formats, namely the Minsk Contact Group (Ukraine, Russia and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe—OSCE) and the Normandy Quartet (Russia, Germany, France and Ukraine, where Ukraine is often isolated but at least represented). Kerry and Russia’s Foreign Affairs Minister Sergei Lavrov had discussed Ukraine intermittently and inconsistently, never in a dedicated “format.”

Kerry proposed a bilateral US-Russia channel in Sochi (see above). In that location, fronting on the Russian-occupied Abkhazia on one side and on Russian-annexed Crimea on the other side, Kerry mentioned neither. Instead, taking his hosts’ bait at the news conference, Kerry warned Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko preemptively, lest he breaches the armistice (State.gov, May 12).

Putin readily agreed with Kerry’s proposal on the Nuland-Karasin channel. This bilateral format excludes Ukraine while operating without publicity, below the principals’ level. Second, it equalizes Russia with the US in a superior league, above the European powers, while blindsiding these (Berlin in particular). Third, it enables Moscow to play this channel off against the “European” Normandy Quartet. Fourth, and of determinant significance, Moscow insists that the US alone could (if it only would) pressure Ukraine into concessions to Russia, e.g., by changing Ukraine’s constitution and legitimizing the Donetsk-Luhansk authorities.

Nuland and Karasin met several times during May and June on an exploratory basis. The chief of Russia’s presidential administration, Sergei Ivanov, declared the bilateral Russia-US format to be more effective than the Normandy format (Rossiya 1 TV, June 20). In that vein, Lavrov urged Kerry “to influence Ukraine to establish a direct dialogue with Donetsk and Luhansk, which is key to the implementation of the Minsk agreements” (Interfax, July 1).

On June 25/26, Putin called Obama to discuss some details of “helping” the United States in the Middle East (see above). The Nuland-Karasin channel was fully activated as a direct by-product of that telephone call. On July 2, Nuland told a Russian interviewer that Kerry had proposed, and Putin agreed, on the Nuland-Karasin channel “to help facilitate the implementation of the Minsk agreements” (Ekho Moskvy, July 3).

The US, however, had never been a party to the Minsk Two document (February 12), nor to the accompanying declaration by the Normandy group, which pledged to facilitate that document’s implementation. In early July, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande pressured the Ukrainian leaders to meet Russia’s main current demand, namely to start legalizing the secessionist authorities in Ukraine’s constitution (see EDM, July 9, 10). They failed momentarily; but, within days, Nuland scored a first success where Merkel and Hollande had failed (see EDM, July 20).

Washington had retained flexibility by keeping its distance from the deeply flawed Minsk process. The US, with commendable insistence, calls on Russia to remove its forces from Ukraine’s territory, citing the Minsk armistice, although that document stipulates nothing about Russia. The US had not, until now, asked Kyiv to legalize the secessionist authorities in Ukraine’s constitution, or to accept secessionist local “elections” in that territory. But Nuland’s visit to Kyiv and Biden’s phone call from Washington (see above) have shifted that position brusquely (see accompanying article).

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Has Obama committed the ultimate Munich 1938 appeasement by conducting unilateral moves without demanding reciprocal Russian moves all in the name of his “legacy”.

Ukraine Accepts Constitutional Amendment to Russia’s Advantage at US Insistence

Publication: Eurasia Daily Monitor Volume: 12 Issue: 139

July 24, 2015 03:35 PM

By: Vladimir Socor


The international context of negotiations to implement the Minsk armistice is changing in Russia’s favor. As the leading Western power, the Barack Obama administration effectively pressures Ukraine to legitimize the Donetsk-Luhansk authorities in the constitution and through elections. This would satisfy Russia’s main demands at this stage (with more demands awaiting).

German chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande recently failed to pressure Kyiv into those concessions to Russia (see EDM, July 9, 10). From lower hierarchical rungs, US Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland and Vice President Joseph Biden are pressuring Ukraine more successfully, since US leverage on Kyiv is stronger and tips the balance (see accompanying article).

Increasingly, the object of negotiations is Ukraine’s own constitution—namely, accommodating Russia’s demands to insert its Donetsk-Luhansk proxies into Ukraine’s political system. The focus on Ukraine’s constitution means that Ukraine itself, instead of Russia’s aggression, becomes the object of negotiations. In that sense, the diplomatic process is rapidly turning into negotiations “on,” and potentially “over,” Ukraine.

Western powers now hold Ukraine its to constitutional “obligations”—the new buzzword—vis-à-vis Russia, under the Minsk Two agreement (February 12); although this is no “agreement” but a diktat and not a valid source of Ukrainian “obligations.” Wiggling out of onerous obligations is a standard diplomatic practice; but Western diplomacy does not support Ukraine to wiggle out from political “obligations” to the Kremlin’s Minsk Diktat.

No Western power had ever held Georgia, Moldova or other aggressed countries to political (let alone constitutional) “obligations” toward Moscow or Moscow’s proxies. Ukraine is now experiencing this Western pressure for the first time. While this message is not surprising from Berlin, and certainly not shocking from Paris, it is only Washington that can enforce those “obligations” on Ukraine.

Assistant Secretary Nuland acted as enforcer during her July 15–16 visit to Kyiv. She sounded the “obligations” buzzword more loudly and more frequently than any Western diplomat yet (America House Kyiv news release, Ukrinform, UNIAN, Ukraine Media Crisis Center, July 15–17). Nuland prevailed on President Petro Poroshenko and parliamentary leaders to approve a constitutional amendment that, if confirmed in subsequent votes, would insert Russia’s armed proxies from Donetsk and Luhansk as legitimate players in Ukraine’s political system (see EDM, July 20).

From the Obama White House’s domestic political perspective, Nuland was ideally suited for such enforcement. As the most forward-leaning official of this administration on Ukraine, she enjoys unparalleled confidence in Congress, specifically on Ukraine policy. In Kyiv, it seemed shocking that Nuland of all possible emissaries should demand constitutional concessions to Russia at Ukraine’s expense. But she apparently had her marching orders from the top. That a “mere” US assistant secretary should force the Ukrainian president’s hand, meanwhile, seems normal in Kyiv, reflecting US influence there and Ukrainian reliance on the United States.

Moscow had publicly insisted all along that the US alone holds the leverage to pressure Kyiv into concessions. The Kremlin readily accepted the US proposal to create the US-Russia channel of Nuland and her Russian counterpart, Grigory Karasin, for bilateral handling of Ukrainian matters, without Ukraine and without publicity. This channel is a direct by-product of the Obama White House’s rapprochement with Russia over the Middle East. As the rapprochement advanced closer to fruition over Iran, the Nuland-Karasin channel became increasingly active. Following their meeting in Zurich, on July 9, Karasin declared: “We have agreed to meet periodically in order to exert a constructive influence on Kyiv, to facilitate the fulfillment of these [Minsk] agreements, by Kyiv in the first place. Washington has great influence; we hope that our contacts will allow us to use this influence” (Interfax, RIA Novosti, July 10).

According to Russian media, citing the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Karasin and Nuland conferred by telephone on July 20 and 22, about “practical matters regarding the constitutional reform in Ukraine.” This was a follow-up to Nuland’s intercession with Kyiv to approve the constitutional amendment that would legalize the secessionist authorities. In this follow-up, Karasin “insisted on a start to direct dialogue between the representatives of Kyiv and those of Donetsk and Luhansk” (Interfax, July 20, 22). While Moscow offers such tidbits on the Karasin-Nuland channel, Washington does not comment—for instance, about Moscow’s assertion that Ukraine’s constitution has become an object of informal US-Russia talks.

Speculation is rife in Kyiv that the Obama administration might short-change Ukraine as a quid-pro-quo for Russia’s “help” (current and prospective) on the Middle East. Asked about this in Kyiv, Nuland replied: “It is offensive to suggest that the US does tradeoffs. The US never trades one thing for another thing in international relations” (Ukrinform, Zerkalo Nedeli, July 16). It may well be that no deal exists, at least not directly; and the indignant rejoinder was perhaps fully sincere. But, according to Serhiy Tolstov of the Kyiv Institute of Political Analysis, the rejoinder in that form and that context “sounded ridiculous to any graduate from international relations courses” (17-07-FP-info, accessed July 24).

President Poroshenko tried very hard, against his own wisdom, to line up the governing coalition behind this constitutional amendment. He resorted to the ultimate argument, far beyond the intrinsic merits of the case: “Do not create with your own hands a situation that would leave Ukraine facing the aggressor one on one” (Ukrinform, July 16). Had Poroshenko been threatened with loss of Western support? Regardless, some deputies from this camp declined to vote for the constitutional amendment, or voted against it, bucking coalition discipline. Conversely, the parliamentary factions that originate in the former Party of Regions genuinely approved this constitutional amendment. The amendment passed thanks to the former Party of Regions deputies; and even so, far short of the constitutional majority that will be required in the final reading.

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So much for Russian mercenaries "pulling back their tanks from the front lines"

23:15 #Horlivka #Mykytivka @mihailovith Outgoing, they sound like tank shots

23:35 #Komsomolske @Ukr_Che Hard to get where from and to, incoming or outgoing, but very loud and massive booms

So, the OSCE now discusses not if there are ceasefire violations or not, but "the level of ceasefire violations" http://www.osce.org/ukraine-smm/174346?utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzRss&utm_campaign=oscelatestnews …

23:25 #Maryinka @hyeva_maryinka [vk] Again sporadic shooting

23:20 #Komsomolske @lukliketramp Both incoming and outgoing, started 10 min ago.

23:20 #Komsomolske @lukliketramp Behind the kettles something's on fire (who can affirm?), flashes behind the waterworks

Overview: Russian 'hybrid' volunteer units (DPR/LPR) are training hard, rotating troops at front line positions, calibrating weapons etc.

We are concerned by about Russian artillery actvity east of Volnovakha (ie Komsomolske, Starohnativka

00:20 #Komsomolske @lukliketramp I thought it went quiet, but no. It's stable [=shelling again]

17:07 #Dokuchaevsk @whicard5 In town outskirts RUS troops rotation is finished, also more ammo delivered and hardware swapped

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If Russia blocks UN Security Council tribunal for MH17 downing, use Council of Europe: no veto http://bit.ly/1HXnMAa pic.twitter.com/gi9LFgHz0X

Russia likely to veto UN vote on MH17 http://www.3news.co.nz/world/russia-likely-to-veto-un-vote-on-mh17-2015072508#.VbKtCRxXYFI.twitter …

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Appears that the US/Obama is in fact throwing the Ukraine under the bus for Russian assistance in Iran and Syria---by making unilateral moves with no reciprocal demands on Russia.

Basically a new Munch 1938 in the name of "legacy".

http://www.jamestown.org/single/?tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=44204&tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=7&cHash=676519bcd3d785fea95d530861f2811b#.VbKl2OoVhM s

Obama Administration Undercutting Ukraine’s Position in the Minsk Armistice Negotiations

Publication: Eurasia Daily Monitor Volume: 12 Issue: 139

July 24, 2015 02:00 PM

By: Vladimir Socor

Biden and Nuland tag teaming the Ukraine in the name of appeasement for a proPutin Ukrainian settlement and that is called “US Foreign Policy”??????

What happened to the US signature on the 1994 Budapest Memorandum????

Vice President Joe Biden spoke today with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko: pic.twitter.com/4IQIVpZNW5

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Appears that the US/Obama is in fact throwing the Ukraine under the bus for Russian assistance in Iran and Syria---by making unilateral moves with no reciprocal demands on Russia.

Basically a new Munch 1938 in the name of "legacy".

http://www.jamestown.org/single/?tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=44204&tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=7&cHash=676519bcd3d785fea95d530861f2811b#.VbKl2OoVhM s

Obama Administration Undercutting Ukraine’s Position in the Minsk Armistice Negotiations

Publication: Eurasia Daily Monitor Volume: 12 Issue: 139

July 24, 2015 02:00 PM

By: Vladimir Socor

So while Obama is full appeasement mode and is not demanding that Putin implement anything in Minsk 2 this the reality on the ground in eastern Ukraine--pay close attention to the last paragraph and ask the question does this look like a Putin who is trying to "freeze" or a Putin willing to use force to acquire the entire Donbas under his control??

http://maidantranslations.com/2015/07/24/dmitry-tymchuk-military-update-7-24-freesavchenko/

Dmitry Tymchuk: Military update 7.24

Posted on July 24, 2015 by chervonaruta

Translated and edited by Voices of Ukraine


Operational data from Information Resistance:

In addition to “traditional” shelling with 120-mm mortars as well as 122-mm and 152-mm artillery, Russian-terrorist forces in Donbas have stepped up the use of armored vehicles and air reconnaissance (at least 10 UAV flights recorded) during the past twenty-four hours. Active operations by “small groups” of militants in the “greenery” have not ceased, while terrorist sabotage and reconnaissance groups and raiding parties are active across the whole of the Luhansk sector (especially along the Severskyi Donets river).

The situation has intensified the most in the Donetsk and Horlivka areas, where the bulk of the shelling and armed provocations by militants occurred in the past day. In addition to the sector from Mar’inka to the northwestern outskirts of Horlivka, another area of especially heightened enemy activity consisted of the settlements of Svitlodarsk, Luhanske and Mironovskyi.

So, in the past twenty-four hours, militants repeatedly carried out fire strikes using 122 mm and 152 mm artillery in the Shyroka Balka – Novhorodske area. The enemy opened fire with 82 mm and 120 mm mortars on the advanced positions of Ukrainian troops from Ozeryanivka and the eastern shore of the Horlivske reservoir, at the same time as terrorists made active use of AGS-17 automatic grenade launchers along the demarcation line close to Leninske – Shumy.

Near the Donetsk airport and the settlement of Opytne, militants used several armored groups (each with 5-6 AFVs–armored fighting vehicles – IFVs–infantry fighting vehicles or APCs–armored personnel carriers). These armored groups opened intensive fire from their on-board weapons on the advanced positions of Ukrainian troops. The militants used 122 mm artillery to provide cover fire for their armored vehicles as the latter took firing positions. Firing was by two batteries of D-30 howitzers – one from the vicinity of Spartak, the other – from beyond the settlement of Vesele, and south of Stratonavtiv Street (Donetsk city).

Militants shelled the southern suburbs of Avdiivka, Opytne and Pisky using 120 mm mortars.

In the area of Mar’inka, Krasnohorivka and Lozove, the movements of small terrorist infantry groups, under cover of the “greenery,” were recorded. In particular, the enemy tried to approach the ATO forces’ positions in order to scout out the front edge of the Ukrainian troops. These groups opened small arms fire randomly to provoke retaliatory fire from ATO forces and in this way identify their firing positions.

Shelling from 82 mm mortars was recorded near the settlement of Luhanske. An enemy armored group was also operating in this area – fire strikes from tank guns were directed at the advanced ATO forces’ positions.

In the direction of Alchevsk, a militants’ mortar group (six 82 mm mortars and three 120 mm mortars) kept shelling the positions of ATO forces near the settlement of Krymske.

Armed clashes among the “greenery” were recorded in the Zolote, Orikhove, Vesela Hora and Shchastya sector and near the settlement of Stanytsia Luhanska. Near the settlement of Shchastya, the enemy used AGS-17 grenade launchers several times.

In the coastal direction (near Shyrokyne and east of Hnutove), militants operating as infantry groups opened fire several times using small arms.

The number of militant troops and armored vehicles continue to grow south of Donetsk and towards the coast. A manoeuvring of part of the Russian-terrorist troops and their materiel was recorded towards the Kulykove–Shevchenko–Kozatske sector from the Komsomolske–Starobesheve district. At least two additional units of “infantry-company” strength (totalling 160-180 men) accompanied by eight tanks and 16-18 AFV–armored fighting vehicles (mainly IFV-1 and IFV-2 armoured fighting vehicles and 1 MT-LB multipurpose light-armoured transporter) have been observed moving to the front line. Both units arrived from the north through Telmanove. Some arriving forces are in the process of deploying to the east of this sector as a tactical reserve (in particular, another subunit of a combat tank company of up to 8 tanks and a company of infantry troops unaccompanied by armored vehicles on Kamaz\Ural trucks).

Another tactical terrorist group has been spotted in the Bezimenne – Patriotychne –Samsonove area. It consists of 10 tanks, 25-26 AFV–armored fighting vehicles and 30 trucks and other transport vehicles.

To the east of Highway T0508, several militant artillery units (two 4-gun batteries of 122 mm D-30 howitzers, as well as six SAU 2S1 “Gvozdika” [self-propelled guns] have been identified. A terrorist two-battery BM-21 “Grad” MLRS division is being deployed near the settlement of Huselshchykove.

North of Luhansk (in the area of Vesela Hora – Khristovo – Pankivka) a new militant armored group has been spotted (10 tanks and 9 APCs–armored personnel carriers, including four of the latest Russian APC-82A model). The armored vehicles are being camouflaged and dug in.

The IR group concludes, based on operational information, that the terrorists are currently forming two large tactical strike forces: the first in the Volnovakha direction (south of Donetsk) in the section from Olenivka to Hranitne and Staromarivka. And the second, directly in the coastal area itself from slightly north of Bezimenne to Pavlopil and Chermalyk.

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Appears that the US/Obama is in fact throwing the Ukraine under the bus for Russian assistance in Iran and Syria---by making unilateral moves with no reciprocal demands on Russia.

Basically a new Munch 1938 in the name of "legacy".

http://www.jamestown.org/single/?tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=44204&tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=7&cHash=676519bcd3d785fea95d530861f2811b#.VbKl2OoVhM s

Obama Administration Undercutting Ukraine’s Position in the Minsk Armistice Negotiations

Publication: Eurasia Daily Monitor Volume: 12 Issue: 139

July 24, 2015 02:00 PM

By: Vladimir Socor

So much for the much heralded so called “withdrawal” by Russian troops and her mercenaries of any heavy weapons and or 100mm or less.

So that great unilateral move by Obama without Russia reciprocal moves is a great success it seems???

Yesterday militants attacked positions of Ukrainian troops 70 times. Attacks intensified during the night - ATO
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1037427169601422&substory_index=0&id=820651001279041&refid=17&_ft_=top_level_post_id.1037427169601422&__tn__=%2As …

Any attack numbers above 50-55 is an indicator of full combat ops on the part of the Russians.

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Latitude 67N SIGINT @uascan
RUAF strategic air force (Tu22/Tu95/Tu160) sw net up with voice traffic. Bears, Backfires or Blackjacks flying today?

Energy expert: Gazprom has nowhere to sell its gas
http://www.unian.info/economics/1104775-energy-expert-gazprom-has-nowhere-to-sell-its-gas.html … pic.twitter.com/3G6vnsY23G

Maryinka @hyeva_maryinka [vk]
06:40 Nothing changed since last evening, as it's rumbled occasionally in the night, as it is

Russian forces on Friday afternoon, shelled Novgorodske with incendiary shells http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/25-july-russian-forces-on-friday-afternoon-shelled-novgorodske …

The BBC in Donetsk's former airport, where the Cyborgs have held the line for 8 months: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-33646562 … pic.twitter.com/o0BXd5YhuP

NEW Russian troops in the Ukraine—clear indicator----
Jul24 15:55 @messy_dn_ua At 3pm In #Snizhne they were asking locals which way is to #Donetsk https://twitter.com/loogunda/status/624560087634472960 …

During the last day 1 Ukrainian soldier and 1 civilian were wounded in the Stanytsia Luhanska area - Luhansk RSA

01:00 today Positions of 72nd Mechanized Brigade near Volnovakha came under massive artillery bombardment - Butusov
https://m.facebook.com/butusov.yuriy?fref=ts&refsrc=http%3A%2F%2Fm.censor.net.ua%2Fnews%2F34524 9%2Fpozitsii_72yi_mehanizirovannoyi_brigady_pod_vo lnovahoyi_podverglis_massirovannoyi_bombardirovke_ butusov&_rdr …

Russian skilled workers in Donbass: Cotton Pickers. pic.twitter.com/z5ZWk6pBGt

While Obama applies unilateral pressure on the Ukraine to cave in and implement fully Minsk 2 to their own detriment--- massive artillery strikes are being carried out against Ukrainian positions from the "so called " withdrawn heavy weapons and tanks (120mm mortars, tanks with 125mm 122mm/152mm SPGs and artillery) really for the unilateral move by the US what did it get back from Moscow---nothing.

AND Putin is still not in compliance with Minsk 2 YET Obama demands the Ukrainians come into compliance--and that is a great US foreign policy position???

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After 5months of daily RU attacks, they stopped right now, while there are non-stop attacks everywhere.

Ukr Gen Staff said it will withdraw troops from Shyrokyno if RU attacks cease. And... they did!

Translation: We will withdraw soon Ukr troops from #Shyrokyno, as Russia requested. No need for them to be there anymore.

ATO spox: "In #Mariupol sector ceasefire holds. First time since Minsk II no violations".

Got #Thermobaric? #Ukraine pic.twitter.com/H6nYdVKCa1

Donetsk #rumours @666_mancer It is rumoured that one of these days lots of Russian hardware will be delivered.

SBU detained two of the Lviv separatists from the organization "Galician hawk" http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/24-july-sbu-detained-two-of-the-lviv-separatists-from-the …

Russian military equipment, Novocherkassk, Rostov region 18 July. via @GirkinGirkin pic.twitter.com/I9wZykbX17 Map https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Novocherkassk,+Rostov+Oblast,+Russia/@47.4375165,40.0768601,9z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x40e2492534227313:0xc3c03d8f6214c 8ca …

From the Mariupol area where Putin wants the Ukraine to withdraw from as a "sign of good faith" this happened yesterday.

Appears Putin really badly wants the area taken without a fight much like he demanded for Debaltseve.

Yesterday militants 8 times attacked UKR positions in sector "M". Both Starohnativka (6) and Chermalyk (2) attackedhttp://m.0629.com.ua/news/902205

Sector M is Mariupol area of the front line.

Maybe Obama and Nuland with their "special Putin relationship" can ask him why there is still fighting in this area when they were suppose to be pulling back and claimed they pulled back.

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.@UaForces UKR positions near #Luhanske were shelled w/122mm artillery about midnight Jul24

Ukr army's 72nd brigade was massively shelled near Volnovakha w/ 122-mm artillery. Enemy used UAVs to direct fire https://www.facebook.com/butusov.yuriy/posts/1023327441040885 …

My #Donbas source: @GrahamWP_UK was jealous @TomBurridgebbc's got access to #DonetskAirport, so he denounced him & his crew as spies.

Fighting is still ongoing in this area-----
10:03 #Novhorodske @LeeZernoganja [Impacts on] vegetable plot edge, fire in a woodline, rails hit. On nothing in brief

Yday afternoon RUS fired at #Novhorodske with incendiaries" http://youtu.be/gpt6Ef1kg1k

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http://www.politico.eu/article/europe-russia-denial-ukraine-baltics-central-europe-attack/

Europe’s Russia denial

The likelihood of further moves in the Baltics and Central Europe is uncomfortably high.

By Andrew A. Michta
25/7/15, 5:18 AM CET


Though it still seems counterintuitive to many, the risk of war in Europe has not been this high since the end of the Cold War. Nor have the leaders of Europe’s largest powers been in this much denial about Vladimir Putin’s political objective — the restoration of Russia’s sphere of influence — or how quickly the war in Ukraine could morph into a larger conflict along the continent’s northeastern flank.

Despite tough rhetoric and repeated warnings to Putin from NATO’s leadership, most of Europe’s capitals and Washington about what would happen should he try to stir trouble beyond NATO’s red line, the overall level of military readiness in Europe to respond to a rapidly escalating crisis remains inadequate. After years of defense cuts, the European allies are now in a situation where they provide barely a quarter of NATO’s military capabilities, with a number of countries unable to operate outside their national territories — a sine qua non of allied response in a contingency.

There can be no denying that Europe’s overall military weakness has played a role in Russia’s calculus, not only during the annexation of Crimea and the escalation in Donbas but already in its 2008 war against Georgia, Putin’s first direct challenge to the normative security order, albeit not yet in Europe itself. Simply put: Weakness invites further aggression.

Putin has been successful in moving forward with his project to reestablish a sphere of Russia’s privileged interest in Eastern Europe in large part because the Western response has been weak and contradictory. With the United States distracted by the unraveling of the Middle East and the growing geostrategic competition with China, dealing with Russia’s aggression in Ukraine has become a European, or rather a German, project, with the United States offering support. Only recently has the U.S. begun to move beyond exercises, offering to move equipment to Poland and the Baltic States.

The overall level of military readiness in Europe to respond to a rapidly escalating crisis remains inadequate.

For the most part, the high-sounding rhetoric condemning Russia’s aggression has been accompanied by half-measures, in terms of economic sanctions, and quarter-measures or less when it comes to a military response. The so-called “reassurance” of NATO allies along the northeastern flank has so far resulted in limited military exercises, U.S. troop “drive-throughs” through the region back to Germany, and most recently in the decision to pre-position tanks and equipment for 5,000 troops.

While the West disarms

Since Berlin has declared from the start that “there is no military solution” in Ukraine, Kiev has been left in a strategic no-man’s land, where it is a matter of time before the combined economic and military factors bring about state failure and further partition. But without significant military assistance to Ukraine to arm its military, Russia can contemplate its next steps at leisure, whether that’s another move in Ukraine or stirring up ethnic tensions in the Baltics, either keeping current semi-frozen conditions in place or choosing to escalate. If the latter happens, this incursion into NATO territory would test the Alliance’s credibility at a time when consensus on allied solidarity is in doubt.

The risk of war in Europe has increased in parallel with the progressive demilitarization of the continent , both in terms of troops and equipment and the overall public outlook. Defense spending across the board has shrunk in Europe to 1.5 percent and continues to drop. Europe’s contribution to NATO’s military capability, which a decade ago was still at approximately half of its forces, today is at less than 25 percent and that figure too is dropping. Several countries in Europe, including some of the largest, have decimated their armor and seriously put into question their readiness to field more than a few thousand troops. The situation is even more dire when it comes to the high end of the spectrum , as well as logistics and transport. Today, the United States provides 70 percent of all NATO defense spending.

The process of Europe’s demilitarization over the last decade has coincided with Russia’s ambitious military modernization to the tune of $700 billion over 10 years, with targeted programs to introduce the next generation of armor, aircraft, and missiles and to modernize the nuclear forces. Although Russia’s expenditures cannot compare to the U.S. defense budget, they show an important paradigm shift when taken in the context of regional power balances in the Nordic-Baltic-Central European region.

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.@UaForces UKR positions near #Luhanske were shelled w/122mm artillery about midnight Jul24

Ukr army's 72nd brigade was massively shelled near Volnovakha w/ 122-mm artillery. Enemy used UAVs to direct fire https://www.facebook.com/butusov.yuriy/posts/1023327441040885 …

My #Donbas source: @GrahamWP_UK was jealous @TomBurridgebbc's got access to #DonetskAirport, so he denounced him & his crew as spies.

Fighting is still ongoing in this area-----
10:03 #Novhorodske @LeeZernoganja [Impacts on] vegetable plot edge, fire in a woodline, rails hit. On nothing in brief

Yday afternoon RUS fired at #Novhorodske with incendiaries" http://youtu.be/gpt6Ef1kg1k

More than just another ceasefire (Minsk) violation: #Volnovakha is a key strategic objective (#Mariupol north flank) https://twitter.com/EuromaidanPR/status/624861649476972544 …

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Stakhanov @kusseivv2014 There is no Stakhanov checkpoint anymore pic.twitter.com/Hf0K70GPO4

@ObichniyChell No passport control in #Pervomaysk
#Bryanka @kusseivv2014 No stop sign near commandant's office pic.twitter.com/fttqdaeJw8

@thisnameerror No militants near #Stakhanov military commissariat
@kusseivv2014 3-4 trucks w/troops depart daily fr/#Pervomaysk

Stanitsa Luhanska shelled, gas pipe line damaged, two wounded inc one female resident.
Via @5channel

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Appears Russia is seeing ghosts where there are no ghosts--or maybe what they have been smoking is giving them paranoia.


A Kremlin's official claims Romania and Ukraine have a deal to start a military conflict in Transnistria
http://stirileprotv.ro/special/oficial-de-la-kremlin-romania-si-ucraina-pregatesc-un-conflict-militar-in-transnistria-nu-e-o-teorie-a-conspiratiei.html …

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VP Biden welcomed the originally from Putin proposed 30km buffer….really…?

DON'T believe Russian "withdrawal" promises: Tanks withdrawn to 30km can return to front line in LESS THAN 1 HOUR.
pic.twitter.com/24iTmvYFLt

dispute the so called withdrawal by the Russian mercenaries OSCE could not confirm a single verified pull back by anything controlled by the Russia Army AND the heavy shellings just keep on happening from those "so called withdrawn heavy weapons.

So Biden and Obama really do believe Putin.........????

Ground reality just from today--seems that even Biden and Obama are in an "altered state of believe".

ATO Press Center reports that pro-Russian terrorists attacked Ukrainian village in Donetsk Region.

July 25, 2015 Donetsk


On July 24 pro-Russian terrorist groups of so-called Donetsk People’s Republic shelled Ukrainian village Novgorodske located in Donetsk Region using high caliber incendiary rounds.

The weather was dry and hot and houses of local people started to burn after shelling. Ukrainian military of ATO forces arrived to help to stop fire, but terrorists attacked them and didn’t let to save burning houses.

Russian-terrorist forces continue to violate Minsk Agreements and shell residential areas and positions of ATO forces.

This village had no troop positions in and or around it--so really a direct war crime in attacking civilians with heavy artillery especially with incendiary rounds BUT does Biden/Obama really care when one is attempting to appease Putin is the core question??

Thought that Russian heavy artillery had already been withdrawn as required under Minsk 2--so then Russia is not in compliance with Minsk 2--but does Biden even care???

Border Service: "20 UAV recorded in Donetsk and Luhansk regions"
Not a good sign. https://twitter.com/DPSU_ua/status/624901047174172672 …

More ground reality for Biden to think about---

Ukrainian troops come under major shelling near Volnovakha - journalist

25.07.2015 | 13:12

Combained Russian-terrorist forces engage 122mm artillery against positions of the 72nd motorized brigade near Volnovakha overnight, Yuriy Butusov, a Ukrainian journalist, wrote on Facebook.


"The shelling comes from 122 mm artillery division. The fire is precisely aimed, drones are being used for adjustment. This is Russian artillery – the shelling is closely grouped, well-coordinated and quickly adjusted. Our people do not sleep, maneuvering to get out from under fire. The shelling continues. Of course, there is no OSCE anywhere around. It's probably the way they prepare for the demilitarization of Shyrokyno. This is probably to show "Normandy Four" Russia's willingness to comply with the terms of the ceasefire, and to speed up the withdrawal of weapons of an under 100mm caliber. Be safe, guys," says Butusov.

As UNIAN earlier reported, Russian proxies attacked Ukrainian troops more than 70 times overnight on July 24.

So Biden feels that Putin is in full compliance with implementing Minsk2 and he is not behind this constant shellings from heavy weapons that were to have been long ago withdrawn as Russia keeps saying they were withdrawn.

http://www.unian.info/politics/1104805-ukrainian-troops-come-under-major-shelling-near-volnovakha-journalist.html

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Russian supplied ground radar, satcom, or drone controller being setup in the Ukraine by Russian operators???????
pic.twitter.com/l4SdpXHosJ

Anyone know what it is????

SBU exposes sponsors of Russian-backed terrorists in Donbas
http://www.unian.info/economics/1104818-sbu-exposes-sponsors-of-russian-backed-terrorists-in-donbas.html … pic.twitter.com/2QeZniKwzK

Air Force Freak @AirForceFreak74
RUAF bomber voice net 8909 USB noted active 0700Z.

Staroignatievka #Starohnativka was under heavy russian shelling at night, by tanks, SPG's and heavy artillery. http://www.0629.com.ua/news/902205

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Russian mercenary reality hitting the Russian "altered state of reality"---interesting to watch the cognitive dissonance.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/07/25/can-putin-afford-to-keep-east-ukraine.html

Marko Djurica/Reuters

07.25.1512:01 AM ET

Can Putin Afford to Keep East Ukraine?

The Russian-backed blitz that seemed imminent hasn’t materialized. One reason: confusion about what Moscow and the rebels really want.


DONETSK, Ukraine — The military commandant in this embattled city, Andrei Shpigel, was having an emotional discussion with officers and soldiers of his “DPR Army” on the veranda of a local restaurant. They were talking about the future of their self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic. Would it eventually become a peaceful region of Ukraine, or be annexed by Russia, or stay an independent but unrecognized separatist territory?

For Shpigel and perhaps 15,000 other rebel soldiers controlling this part of eastern Ukraine, a return of Kiev’s legal and military authority over their “republic” would mean potential prison terms and even worse: “mass physical elimination,” they agreed, nodding at each other. The commandant told The Daily Beast that DPR forces would never allow their self-proclaimed republic to reunite with Ukraine.

And yet, the struggle for quasi-independence appears to have lost momentum. “Whatever happened to the Russian ‘blitz’ that everybody was predicting a month ago?” I asked the soldiers. Then, Kremlin-backed rebel forces launched a violent offensive on Ukrainian positions in Maryinka, a village outside Donetsk city. It seemed that the clashes were going to escalate through the summer, much as they had done last year.

As the soldiers tell the story, there was a bureaucratic and administrative problem. “That blitz has never happened because our DPR Army did not support the idea of the Maryinka operation, the attack was conducted by the DPR interior ministry,” Shpigel explained to The Daily Beast. Reaching out for a piece of paper and a pen, the commandant drew a simple optical illusion of cylinders that could be curved or square depending on the angle: “There are at least three truths,” he said: “One in Russia, one in Ukraine and one in the DPR— but there is only one reality.”

In their ideal reality, the Donetsk separatists would keep all their weapons and power, receive financial support from Russia and do business with the Ukraine. But in the real reality people living in rebel-controlled territories are suffering for lack of medicine, waiting months expecting Moscow to pay their pensions and salaries and even to deliver groceries and consumer goods. A commander named Mamai chimes in: “Putin’s man, administrator Vladislav Surkov, is here right now cleaning up the upper circles around Zakharchenko,” he says, referring to the supposed leader of the DPR, Alexander Zakharchenko.

“Today two of our guys with guns can enter any minister’s office and decide politics in our people’s republic.”

But the rebel commanders insisted it’s not just a matter of Moscow making decisions for DPR. Shpigel suggested, “The Kremlin’s power has at least three heads, liberals from Yeltsin’s family, Putin’s men and Putin himself.”

A 24-year-old soldier named Vladimir put in a word: “What politicians are you talking about? Today two of our guys with guns can enter any minister’s office and decide politics in our people’s republic,” he said.

In spite of the divided opinions and controversial tensions among rebels, Russia has supplied food, gas, clothes and other goods to Donbas residents. On July 16, a caravan of over 30 trucks with “Humanitarian Help from Russian Federation” written on their sides arrived in Donetsk; on Thursday, 100 more trucks loaded with over one thousand tons of goods reached the border with the rebel controlled territories.

A special investigative report by the Russian RBK agency described the complicated subterfuge by which Russian money flowed the Eastern Ukraine through South Ossetia, a breakaway Georgian republic that, unlike DPR, had accounts in Russian banks.

Was Russian president Vladimir Putin’s strategy to back the breakaway republics, while expecting Ukraine to pay the pensions and other bills? If so, he miscalculated. Ukraine stopped paying salaries and pensions to the breakaway republics last summer and today the economy, political scandals and internal conflicts have become the Kremlin’s headache. To provide pensions for over one million retired people in the breakaway territory, Russia had to take a part of the money from its own budget.

In interviews with the Daily Beast, residents of Horlivka, Snizhnoye, Rassypnoye, Grabovo complained about tiny pensions of about $25 to $30 a month.

There is also a dramatic shortage of medicine and speculators bringing medicine from Russia or Ukraine sell it at prices local pensioners can’t afford.

Enrique Menendez, a participant in the Responsible Citizens volunteer movement, , told The Daily Beast that many babies born in Donetsk are premature and neede special medicines, but “at the moment there are only four boxes of medicine for premature babies left in all of Donetsk, while we need at least ten boxes.” Patients with diabetes cannot buy insulin inside DPR. A recent United Nations report noted that 8,000 HIV patients have been left without medicine.

Russian officials, including Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, have pointed out again and again that Russia does not have the money to feed Donbas and that the breakaway territories were Ukraine’s responsibility.

So, who would supply medicine to millions of people in rebel republics of Luhansk and Donetsk? Donbas should not expect much from Russia on that front, either. Its pharmaceutical market depends on for foreign producers who demand payment from dwindingly supplies of foreign currency.

In fact, Russia does not have money left to feed itself: on Wednesday, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, admitted that there was no money left in Russia’s budget to support 94 so-called crisis cities dependent on single industries; about 19 million Russians live in these one-factory towns, now, without support programs.

Maybe the Kremlin should have thought a year ago whether Russia was prosperous enough for a foreign policy that leaves neighboring areas expecting support from Moscow.

“Very soon crowds of angry Russians will blame the Kremlin for annexing Crimea and backing Donbas while Russia itself is desperate and hungry,” Timur Olevsky of Rain TV told The Daily Beast. “Under new regulations, Russian law enforcement will have a right to shoot at protesters,” he suggested.

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Carl Bildt ✔ @carlbildt
OSCE vehicles vandalised in Donetsk. OSCE drone jammed and crashes. Russia is hampering monitoring efforts in Eastern Ukraine.

I'm not sure why, but "DNR" published a list of their activists, it's long.
http://dan-news.info/obshhestvennoe-dvizhenie-doneckaya-respublika …
@ServiceSsu should really check this!

Morning battle of 5th Regiment of Dnipro-1 battalion. VIDEO http://ln.is/en.censor.net.ua/vid/nn4ZE … via @censor_net

Sputnik’s (#Russia government) #MH17 Reporting Spins Out of Control via @bellingcat https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2015/07/24/sputniks-mh17-reporting-spins-out-of-control/ …

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http://www.chathamhouse.org//node/18207#sthash.HvTOchqp.dpuf

To Support Ukraine, West Must Go Beyond Sanctions

23 July 2015

James Sherr

Providing critical military assistance to Ukraine would devalue Russia’s advantage in negotiations.


From the outset of the Ukraine crisis, the West has acted on the premise that economic sanctions would induce Russia to modify its actions. But while sanctions do constrain capacity, they do not constrain behaviour. Their immediate impact is bearable. Moreover, they do nothing to diminish Russia’s most usable and effective form of power: military force. Given the stakes, the case for strengthening Ukraine’s defences is compelling.

The Russian military offensive of August 2014 secured diplomatic concessions in Minsk that would not have been granted otherwise. An even more devastating offensive of January-February 2015, in blatant violation of the first Minsk agreement, produced a second Minsk accord even more flawed than the first. According to its terms, future election conditions, constitutional reform and the restoration of border control are subject to the agreement of the separatists, who have licence to withhold their consent indefinitely.

It is blindingly obvious to the Kremlin that the separatist enclaves are neither absorbable by Russia nor sustainable in the long term. They are useful solely as a bridgehead for securing Russia’s wider objectives in Ukraine: its ‘federalization’ (loss of sovereignty), ‘non-bloc status’ (enforced neutrality) and the abandonment of its European course. So far, military force has been the arbiter of this process.

But if Russia’s military card is devalued, so is the bridgehead. And there are good reasons to believe strengthening Kyiv’s military muscle would be effective.

Russia has underestimated Ukraine’s resilience. Ukrainian national sentiment and civil society have been strengthened by the war, especially in the east. It also has underestimated the capacity of Ukraine’s fighting forces. Despite 16 months of armed insurgency and two military offensives backed by regular Russian troops, Russia’s separatist allies control less than five percent of Ukraine’s mainland territory.

Russia’s military system is potent but under strain. Its battle groups are not occupation forces. They strike hard and withdraw. The maintenance of 40-50,000 troops in theatre have placed demands on ground forces units as far away as Kazakhstan and Vladivostok. There is reluctance to risk prolonged exposure of ethnic Russian servicemen to hostile Russian-speaking populations in eastern Ukraine.

Nevertheless, Ukraine’s armed forces lack the means to prevail in high-intensity combat against well-armed Russian troops. They are burdened by the hangover of a largely unreformed defence system, by distrust between volunteer units and higher command echelons, and by a deficit of competent command and staff officers above unit level. Yet they are also dangerously outmatched in hard capability. In the Debaltseve offensive, Russia brought into the field advanced weapons systems against which Ukraine had no countermeasures.

Kyiv needs capabilities that will protect its forces and slow down the battlefield. If opposition forces are likely to face effective resistance and protracted combat, they will be less likely to attack. And the equipment needed to achieve this — secure communications, electronic counter-measures and long-range passive counter-battery radar — are neither ‘lethal’ weapons nor politically high-profile. Yet, in their absence, even a well-trained and highly motivated force risks evisceration in battle.

Much has changed since President Obama first declined Ukraine’s request for non-lethal assistance, and NATO allies are now contributing to Ukraine’s defence in a variety of ways. The problem is that the contribution is unsystematic, uncoordinated and unevenly matched to Ukraine’s needs.

In many quarters, it is now axiomatic that a refocusing and enhancement of Western assistance will ‘provoke’ Putin into a dramatic escalation of the conflict. The risk exists. Yet there is nothing in Putin’s record to support this assumption. What has repeatedly provoked him however is weakness and bluff.

In a contest with high-risk players, there is no such thing as a risk-free policy. Failure to modify an ineffective policy invites at least as much danger as a more robust course. Today’s dangers are created by Russia’s political aims, its military actions and its increasingly febrile and conspiratorial view of the world. So far, within these ominous parameters, the Kremlin has behaved according to a rational calculus. In this calculus, no respect is shown to opponents who are stronger, but unwilling to use their strength.

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Cyber warfare and cyber crime are not far apart in the Russian non linear warfare.

Concerning the large scale hack of the Italian software firm “The Hacking Team”.

hackingteam sold directly to the Russian secret Service FSB in 2012 https://www.wikileaks.org/hackingteam/emails/emailid/454323 … pic.twitter.com/oQs0flGaad

hackingteam FSB was already testing their product from the very beginning in 2010 https://www.wikileaks.org/hackingteam/emails/emailid/454318 … pic.twitter.com/fvBkzD3OA3

hackingteam the FSB was using their technology until surely march 2015 https://www.wikileaks.org/hackingteam/emails/emailid/1002044 … pic.twitter.com/HVMUpZo3Ld

hackingteam Russian Kvant FSB license http://69.60.98.14/jdkw3fjiiAAwe341 in Miami https://www.wikileaks.org/hackingteam/emails/emailid/644554 … pic.twitter.com/5WyLxrSGaV

hackingteam https://www.wikileaks.org/hackingteam/emails/emailid/508803 … two Russian attackservers - look licencenumber pic.twitter.com/xyfVQP5znc

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So Germany can ban Nazism but Ukraine can't ban communism. https://twitter.com/halyapuff/status/624966713449283584 …

Satellite Imagery and Other Online Unclassified Resources Available for Geolocation of Targets - July 25,... http://tmblr.co/ZC3D0x1qQsqVd

Situation in ATO tense: Non-stop shelling toward Donetsk
http://www.unian.info/war/1104863-situation-in-ato-tense-non-stop-shelling-toward-donetsk.html … pic.twitter.com/BCYx2IzFmP

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Today (up to 18:00) militants shelled positions of Ukrainian troops 35 times - ATO press center https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1037634822913990&id=820651001279041&refid=17&_ft_=top_level_post_id.1037634822913990&__tn__=%2As …

19:34 #Avdeevka @fingerw80 Some battle in #Opytne direction, maybe closer. High-caliber automatic weapons, pretty intense

19:38 #Avdeevka @fingerw80 Again high-calibre automatic weapons, further not that intense w/long pauses. However as usually

Casualties are rising as Russian forces continue around-the-clock shelling. Ukrainian officials say 3 UA soldiers were KIA/5 WIA in last 24h

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Cyber warfare and cyber crime are not far apart in the Russian non linear warfare.

Concerning the large scale hack of the Italian software firm “The Hacking Team”.

hackingteam sold directly to the Russian secret Service FSB in 2012 https://www.wikileaks.org/hackingteam/emails/emailid/454323 … pic.twitter.com/oQs0flGaad

hackingteam FSB was already testing their product from the very beginning in 2010 https://www.wikileaks.org/hackingteam/emails/emailid/454318 … pic.twitter.com/fvBkzD3OA3

hackingteam the FSB was using their technology until surely march 2015 https://www.wikileaks.org/hackingteam/emails/emailid/1002044 … pic.twitter.com/HVMUpZo3Ld

hackingteam Russian Kvant FSB license http://69.60.98.14/jdkw3fjiiAAwe341 in Miami https://www.wikileaks.org/hackingteam/emails/emailid/644554 … pic.twitter.com/5WyLxrSGaV

hackingteam https://www.wikileaks.org/hackingteam/emails/emailid/508803 … two Russian attackservers - look licencenumber pic.twitter.com/xyfVQP5znc

hackingteam on one russian attackserver was also the old nokiapcsuite malware with its own domainname

looks like hackingteam was attempting to spoof @google's ssl private key
rcs-dev\share\HOME\Naga\ssl\google.key|.crt

hackingteam this server was even used for demo https://wikileaks.org/hackingteam/emails/emailid/508622 … pic.twitter.com/qhjY6MkIAH

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Ukraine’s Dnipro Battalion Combines Drone Footage with Open Source Intelligence https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2015/07/25/ukraines-dnipro-battalion-combines-drone-footage-with-open-source-intelligence/ … pic.twitter.com/6FNzNStAnL

Russians (Kadyrov Chechens) abuse a Ukrainian POW: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIuWRczew8Q … pic.twitter.com/tc4EKr8Nw2

From yesterday: Msta-S delivery to Pokrovskoye? Painted over & ready to be sent to #Ukraine https://archive.is/kpVjI pic.twitter.com/zwddIzjva3

Latest from SMM (24/07): SMM observed weapons movements in “Lugansk People’s Republic”- & government-controlled areas http://eepurl.com/bue_L1

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It is going to be a very long night—wonder if Obama, Nuland and Biden fully understand just what the ground reality is on the eastern front?

23:02 #Horlivka @062_Region Started over

23:03 #Horlivka @tgorlovka It was quiet, but just now they started firing again

Horlivka 22:46
Hear volleys far away. https://twitter.com/ahab7822/status/625029397570023424 …

22:50 #Horlivka @77bot1 It has been reported on impacts on the field westward from Stroitel

22:53 #Horlivka @NovaGorlivka Zhovanka-Holma - mortar rounds heard; 6-7 mine - Gagarina mine - Shumy – battle

22:38 #Horlivka @tgorlovka Outgoing again?

22:27 #Horlivka @tgorlovka Electricity's up
@77bot1 they started to give electricity , then shelling peak is over for today

22:23 #Horlivka @tgorlovka A battle in #Shumy settlement direction heard fr/#Dzerzhynsk

22:19 #Dzerzhynsk @blessmaster I wanted to write 'it ceased', but again very distant blasts started

22:14 @sv_inaya They say there was Grad fr/Artemivsk

22:18 #Horlivka 5th block @cacab06 [No] singles both outgoing&incoming

DNR is reportedly mortaring Gorlovka at this moment... so they fire at Dzerzhinsk AND at town they supposedly protect..

22:10 #Horlivka @NovaGorlivka Mortars are working at the city

22:02 #Horlivka @123Brunhilda About 10 outgoing from the 5th block

22:11 #Dzerzhynsk @blessmaster AGL

22:04 #Horlivka @tgorlovka Electricity down in half city, impacts on #Mykytsky ds [#Mykytivka area]

21:55 #Horlivka @77bot1 5th block is getting reply. Electricity down at Gagarina, Rtutny [cinnabarite pit], Stroitel, Kalinovka, Bessarabka

Terrorists renewed attacks in Mariupol sector – ATO speaker http://en.censor.net.ua/n345272

SBU detained militants who fought near Debaltseve and Donetsk airport http://en.censor.net.ua/n345271

22:01 #Horlivka @andreyboss77 Now landings at 5th block

16:35 #Horlivka Stroitel @ahab7822 2 BMP from the city through Stroitel

21:57 #Horlivka 5th block @cacab06 About 5 more booms. Outgoing
21:58 Incoming started

21:44 #Horlivka 5th block @cacab06 2 more times [=gunshots]. Much closer the last one

21:38 #Horlivka @NovaGorlivka Just now RUS howitzers are shelling at Dzerzhynsk direction from Rumyantseve cemetery area

21:43 #Dzerzhynsk @dimetros7776 "No reply fire at all, we have Minsk here"

21:39 #Dzerzhynsk @dimetros7776 Impacts became closer

21:41 #Dzerzhynsk @dimetros7776 One incoming after another

21:40 #Dzerzhynsk @blessmaster "I didn't hear outgoing, at least nearby. Incoming for now - curtains are shaking"

21:35 #Horlivka @kristy31415 Shot-blast interval = 10 sec

21:32 #Dzerzhynsk @dimetros7776 Incoming heard

21:33 #Dzerzhynsk @hdzerz It started to boom here

21:32 #Horlivka @Julia_Twinkle Battle in #Zaytseve direction started]

21:08 #Avdeevka @rechnikato [as for #rumour UKR CPs were dismounted:] At coking plant there is a checkpoint but with no troops for now

21:02 #Krasnohorivka @Serzzze [fb] About 20min ago there were half score of incoming

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It is going to be a very long night—wonder if Obama, Nuland and Biden fully understand just what the ground reality is on the eastern front?

23:02 #Horlivka @062_Region Started over

23:03 #Horlivka @tgorlovka It was quiet, but just now they started firing again

Horlivka 22:46
Hear volleys far away. https://twitter.com/ahab7822/status/625029397570023424 …

22:50 #Horlivka @77bot1 It has been reported on impacts on the field westward from Stroitel

22:53 #Horlivka @NovaGorlivka Zhovanka-Holma - mortar rounds heard; 6-7 mine - Gagarina mine - Shumy – battle

22:38 #Horlivka @tgorlovka Outgoing again?

22:27 #Horlivka @tgorlovka Electricity's up
@77bot1 they started to give electricity , then shelling peak is over for today

22:23 #Horlivka @tgorlovka A battle in #Shumy settlement direction heard fr/#Dzerzhynsk

22:19 #Dzerzhynsk @blessmaster I wanted to write 'it ceased', but again very distant blasts started

22:14 @sv_inaya They say there was Grad fr/Artemivsk

22:18 #Horlivka 5th block @cacab06 [No] singles both outgoing&incoming

DNR is reportedly mortaring Gorlovka at this moment... so they fire at Dzerzhinsk AND at town they supposedly protect..

22:10 #Horlivka @NovaGorlivka Mortars are working at the city

22:02 #Horlivka @123Brunhilda About 10 outgoing from the 5th block

22:11 #Dzerzhynsk @blessmaster AGL

22:04 #Horlivka @tgorlovka Electricity down in half city, impacts on #Mykytsky ds [#Mykytivka area]

21:55 #Horlivka @77bot1 5th block is getting reply. Electricity down at Gagarina, Rtutny [cinnabarite pit], Stroitel, Kalinovka, Bessarabka

Terrorists renewed attacks in Mariupol sector – ATO speaker http://en.censor.net.ua/n345272

SBU detained militants who fought near Debaltseve and Donetsk airport http://en.censor.net.ua/n345271

22:01 #Horlivka @andreyboss77 Now landings at 5th block

16:35 #Horlivka Stroitel @ahab7822 2 BMP from the city through Stroitel

21:57 #Horlivka 5th block @cacab06 About 5 more booms. Outgoing
21:58 Incoming started

21:44 #Horlivka 5th block @cacab06 2 more times [=gunshots]. Much closer the last one

21:38 #Horlivka @NovaGorlivka Just now RUS howitzers are shelling at Dzerzhynsk direction from Rumyantseve cemetery area

21:43 #Dzerzhynsk @dimetros7776 "No reply fire at all, we have Minsk here"

21:39 #Dzerzhynsk @dimetros7776 Impacts became closer

21:41 #Dzerzhynsk @dimetros7776 One incoming after another

21:40 #Dzerzhynsk @blessmaster "I didn't hear outgoing, at least nearby. Incoming for now - curtains are shaking"

21:35 #Horlivka @kristy31415 Shot-blast interval = 10 sec

21:32 #Dzerzhynsk @dimetros7776 Incoming heard

21:33 #Dzerzhynsk @hdzerz It started to boom here

21:32 #Horlivka @Julia_Twinkle Battle in #Zaytseve direction started]

21:08 #Avdeevka @rechnikato [as for #rumour UKR CPs were dismounted:] At coking plant there is a checkpoint but with no troops for now

21:02 #Krasnohorivka @Serzzze [fb] About 20min ago there were half score of incoming

Zaitsevo 23:11
Very heavy shelling, it wasn't like this since a long time. https://twitter.com/oksi_art/status/625035593077100544 …

23:13 #Horlivka
something heavier falls towards #Zaitsevo https://twitter.com/062_Region/status/625036114949238784 …

22:58 #Dzerzhynsk - sounds like it calmed down.
23:02 - Not anymore. Volley is heard and incoming. https://twitter.com/blessmaster/status/625032346337693696 …

In #Avdiivka 2 Ukr Army blockposts were abandoned. Volunteers from Sich Battalion doesn't know what's happening. https://twitter.com/rechnikato/status/625032303291572224 …

23:11 #Krasnohorivka @hyeva_maryinka [vk] Small arms skirmish in Mayak area

22:57
On #Horlivka distr. 6/7, #Mayorsk periodically fires: something heavy, mortars, tank. https://twitter.com/062_Region/status/625032149406777344 …

23:06 #Dzerzhynsk @blessmaster [started over] too, however not that intense and loudly as before, mostly reaches us from afar

Horlivka 23:50
Again heavy volleys https://twitter.com/062_Region/status/625045597926637568 …

23:50 #Horlivka @123Brunhilda They've reloaded and started over
23:51 @tgorlovka Again firing
23:52 @cacab06 Again outgoing

Horlivka 23:52
Again 3 outgoing. https://twitter.com/cacab06/status/625045892425515008 …

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TALK about the rule of "unintended consequences"--NOW the Russian MoD has a serious problem on their hands and Putin as well.

A full fledged MAJ in the Russian Army in active service and in full combat uniform and carrying Russian military ID documents was captured yesterday by the UA at a checkpoint after taking a wrong road turn.

So just how fast with the Russian MoD "declare him retired or out of the service". That is going to be extremely hard.

Pros&cons of Ukrainian roads: (-) no signs (+) invaders easily lost http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/26-july-in-the-donetsk-region-detained-kamaz-truck-with-the?ll=47.77348;37.59084000000009&zoom=8 … pic.twitter.com/DUzXS56yV5

2 ruscists unexpectedly arrived at UA checkpoint in Berezove at night, on a truck full of grenades and bullets. https://twitter.com/666_mancer/status/625173683645095936 …

Russia|n armed forces Major among two detained in #Ukraine w/ a "KAMAZ" truck full of ammo:
https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fdpsu.gov.ua%2Fua%2Fabout%2Fnews%2Fn ews_7985.htm …
pic.twitter.com/KIvbhLyyeP

Russian army officer missed the turn and brought truck full of ammo to #Ukrainian checkpoint http://lugansk-news.com/russian-army-officer-captured-on-ukrainian-checkpoint-near-donetsk-with-a-truck-full-of-ammo/ … pic.twitter.com/1iNMglUFrj

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The US active Army no longer as GRS units in the active line units--only in the Reserves--maybe time to bring them back to where they should have been in the first place.

Should actually refer to is as SBR-3, the 'Fara' designations seem a bit ambiguous. More pics: http://vitalykuzmin.net/?q=node/409 pic.twitter.com/RuA3SnCr2d

Fara-1 ground surveillance radar seeing battlefield use in Ukraine. pic.twitter.com/Fzx9vKnZ0z

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Major ground combat ops are on again by Russian troops and her mercenaries-

Maybe someone should tell Obama, Nuland and Biden that the Russians have no intentions in a ceasefire of any kind and by pressuring the Ukrainians to give in and do unilateral appeasement moves to implement their side of Minsk 2 WHEN the Russians are absolutely doing nothing to implement their side leads only to failure and blowback.

There is a growing feeling in some circles in Europe that Obama only cares about his "legacy" and has no intentions on "confronting his new found friend-Putin" as he needs him for other "legacy victories".


Militants fired with small arms, mortars, howitzers & tanks. Battles raged on the the outskirts of Krasnohorivka and Mariinka - 28th Brigade

Near Berezove enemy infantry under cover of tanks & BMPS attacked. Fighting lasted almost 3 hrs. attack successfully repelled - 28th Brigade

08:55 #Maryinka @hyeva_maryinka [vk]
Mortars and howitzers or SPG were used. Quiet for now

08:55 #Maryinka @hyeva_maryinka [vk]
There was rumble in Sovkhoz, GAI CP, boarding school, #Kransohorivka direction.

Maryinka [vk] @hyeva_maryinka
08:55 The night passed over w/restless periods, first around 1am, then at half 4am, half 5am then.

Ukraine's 28th Brigade say during the last day their positions came under fire 22 times
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1123815817632310&id=1060798357267390&refid=17&_ft_=top_level_post_id.1123815817632310&__tn__=%2As … pic.twitter.com/XXhKZuI0p6

Major Russian shelling damage to an 8 story apartment building—
Krasnohorivka [vk] @hyeva_maryinka
#8, Solnechna Str, 1st entrance:
pic.twitter.com/bqAiRNPUw2

Krasnohorivka [vk] @hyeva_maryinka
04:44 There were hits near 9-storey house on Sovetska St near the petrol station

Krasnohorivka [vk]
05:10 Started over
05:20 Ceased
05:40 [Donetsk side] Few SA shots&hum of a flying over projectile, distant landing

Krasnohorivka [vk] @hyeva_maryinka
04:40 Abt 10 blasts more, first one near the front line, latter like in town limits
05:00 Ceased

Staromykhaylivka @hyeva_maryinka [vk]
09:12 Incoming [impactson Chkalova and Bakinskikh_Komissarov St]

Ukraine : Russians shelled #Hranitne so villagers 'closed' the bridge to Putin's "liberation" http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=47.447862&lon=37.866869&z=16&m=b&v=1 … pic.twitter.com/4gm6OqmgfM

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@vpkivimaki this is the one that can be used as fire direction for PKM/Kord/AGS... few pictures of them pic.twitter.com/ztcX2J5pVN

Expert says Russia's threat to conquer Ukraine in 3-5 days aimed to frighten West http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/zik-expert-says-russias-threat-to-conquer-ukraine-in-3-5-days-aimed-to-frighten-west-394290.html …

Donetsk region, police seized grenade launcher and ammunition in the house of a local resident
http://www.mvs.gov.ua/mvs/control/main/ru/publish/article/1573656 … pic.twitter.com/8DGbxv7RYz

Ukrainian rebel" Babay returned from Donbass to Russia and has no work and money now pic.twitter.com/LZ5qgQoxKY http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/26-july-ukrainian-rebel-babay-returned-from-donbass-to-russia …
NOTE--this individual was first seen in the Crimea during the takeover there and then in the early days of the Russian takeover of the Donbass.

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Putin is attempting to force the Ukrainians to deal directly with the Russian mercenaries which would then give them the "appearance of being legitimate" and then in the so call federalization that Putin envisions they would have seat in the RADA and being able to block anything that appears like the Ukraine is trying to do with NATO and or the EU--this is Putin's "Bosnian solution".

The NYTs recently wrote an article on the so called "Putin Bosnian model" for the Donbass regions.

Notice Russia in is press release says absolutely nothing on what they and her mercenaries should be doing to implement fully Minsk 2--not a single word is wasted--it is all about WHAT the Ukraine needs to do.

Currently the discussion on the 30km buffer zone was also originally proposed by the Russian General in the Russian JCCC--again a Russian solution--it was proposed during the extremely heavy fighting near Mariupol as the Russians attempted to break through to Mariupol and when civilians were still in the town--none are there now.

Secondly the supposedly "good faith pull back" is not so "good faith" as they only pulled back a total of 1.5km and still shell Ukrainian positions daily.

NOTICE Putin is demanding a "pull back" much in the same tone he demanded when actual Russian troops were attacking Debaltseve.

Troubling is when Holland Merkel and actually Obama are putting extreme pressure on the Ukraine to concede point after point to Putin unilaterally WITHOUT a single reciprocal move by Russian and or her mercenaries.

There was to be a teleconference on Monday night between Nuland and here Russian back channel much announced by the Russians AND nothing was released from that teleconference--telling.

NOW the Ukrainian High Command is attempting to keep their own troops when heavily shelled and or involved in ground attacks from returning artillery and mortar fire to protect themselves--THE key question WHO is applying pressure on them to do that WHEN every day there are over 80 major shelling and aground attacks being conducted against them.

AND that so called 100mm weapons withdrawal--total lies by Russia and her mercenaries--the furthest they moved back was 3km not the demanded 30km.

So has Obama, Nuland,Hollande and Merkel decided now is the time to unilaterally conceded the Ukraine to Russian in order to "save his face" and so "gratitude" for his assistance with Iran???????

Appears so------

http://www.unian.info/politics/1104375-putin-urges-kyiv-to-agree-with-militants-on-special-status-of-donbas.html

Putin urges Kyiv to agree with militants on special status of Donbas

24.07.2015 | 09:21

NOTE to Obama, Nuland and Biden--that so called "good faith gesture" that Putin talks about does not quite seem to be "in good faith" as the Russian pullback was only 1.5kms where they built a new defensive line and they have attacked three times since this Putin statement the exact location where they are demanding a "good faith gesture"

So has Obama, Nuland and Biden "fallen" for Russian propaganda and or are they really interested in just throwing the Ukraine under the bus for Obama's "legacy".

In Mariupol activists are demanding an explanation from ATO HQ about the demilitarization of Shyrokyne.
http://112.ua/obshchestvo/v-mariupole-aktivisty-trebuyut-u-shtaba-ato-obyasneniy-o-demilitarizacii-shirokino-korrespondent-247760.html …

Andriy Lysenko reports terrorists renewed attacks in Mariupol sector http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/censornet-andriy-lysenko-reports-terrorists-renewed-attacks-in-mariupol-sector-394297.html …

Yesterday in Sector "M" militants attacked Starohnativka (SPGs), Shyrokyne and Chermalyk (small arms) - Sec. M spox
http://m.0629.com.ua/news/902836

The key question Obama, Nuland and Biden should be asking themselves is WHY after five hard months of intense fighting and massive shellings of Shyrokyne and they lost all the fights--just WHY are the Russian even pulling back.

They should be asking themselves if the Russian Army gains ground WHY give it up? That is not their military doctrine of 2013.

Remember the DMZ concept was first proposed four months ago by a Russian JCCC General.

Unilateral moves without a required reciprocal move is called in the international relations world simply "appeasement". One could in fact do that IF there was "trust" BUT remember in 2014 Obama openly stated to the entire world "we will judge Putin on his actions not his words".

Seems Obama forgets his own statements as often as he forgets his own red lines.

Remember recently he stated again "if the fighting gets serious we will implement harder sanctions"--well the fighting is extremely serious and heavy and yet nothing from Obama--seems he forgot again..

If one really looks at the Minsk 2 agreement the French and Germans built such an agreement knowing full well that unless the military steps were not implemented there would never be political steps--AND Obama has now "reversed" that plan--AND for exactly what reasons--his "legacy and showing gratitude" towards Putin is the answer.

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It is interesting to read this article in light of the fact that at the height of the Cold War we had hundreds of people doing exactly what this writer talks about in the article and they got it right most of the time---so here we are 25 years later and we do not have the capability at all--nor the needed linguists.

Well worth reading---------

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/07/25/russia-s-stalinist-diplospeak.html

Neo-Soviet Lingo

07.25.1510:00 PM ET

Russia’s Stalinist Diplospeak


A Russian linguist closely examines how the Russian Foreign Ministry’s communication has resurrected the creepy old Soviet style.

Russian is a tough language to learn not because of the complex tenses and six cases, but because the style of communication is what matters most. The Russian style not only expresses the mood of the speaker or writer, a certain political situation, or the time and circumstances of the moment; the Russian style also “smells.” Or stinks.

Thus, Russian politics are all about the style of expression, and the language used to convey a political message in Russia is more than just a mere communication tool. It’s a cult and has been one since 1917.

Within the first year after the Bolshevik Revolution, Lenin changed the Russian alphabet, the grammar, the syntaxes and even the time: the country finally adopted the Gregorian calendar and established time zones. But the most significant alteration occurred in the style of Soviet discourse. Stalin later converted what wasn’t even his native tongue (he grew up speaking Georgian) into a veritable arsenal for warfare, redefining way state officials spoke, wrote and, regrettably, thought. It was all done to mask his Big Lie in layer upon layer of obfuscation and hidden meaning.

Stalin’s style was difficult to ignore because there were four main foundations underlying it.

Self-questioning

Stalin’s classic essay “Marxism and the Issues of Language Studies” gives a perfect example of this style: “The question arises, what have changed in Russian language since the October Revolution? The vocabulary shifted significantly, in a sense that it got amended with a large number of words and idioms.”

The question here only “arose” because Stalin himself raised it.

Metonymy

As developed in the Stalinist style, this is when the speaker seamlessly assigns a much broader and encompassing name to refer to a specific thing or constituency. Some pure examples remain in the Soviet archives, such as this statement from 1976:

“Those forces in the West are capable of any deception method to complicate the issue of the termination of the arms race.”

“Those forces in the West” refers to the American military-industrial complex but note how much more ambiguously menacing the reformulation is. “Forces” suggests a multitude with global reach.

Proactive Commentary

This is when the speaker says something even if no one is seeking his opinion. Overreaction laden with clichés of ideology and emotive abuse is the defining feature. A classic form of such commentary was an unsolicited “reaction to anti-Soviet hysteria in country X”.

The following quote, for instance, is taken from a 1977 Soviet communique:

“In China, (we observe) a widening scale of the anti-Soviet campaign that is maintained by propagandistic institutions and officials at all levels. Chinese press and other media distributes daily obvious lies and slanders in regard to the USSR, those are not much different from imperialist propaganda that has long discredited itself with the peoples of the world.”

Now here’s one by Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich, reacting to a U.S. State Department report on human rights in June 2015, which of course contained criticism of Russian human rights abuses:

“The report published on June 25 by The Department of State of the USA on the conditions of human rights in the world, as with all previous opuses, is plagued with politicized remarks and rude ideological stock phrases. The document is nothing more than a serial specimen of American mentorship and lecturing manner in the area of human rights. This manner is grounded on a false logic of US’s infallibility and perceived problems other states have on the issue.”

In neither case was Moscow’s response necessary. It was freely offered, almost with a joyous expectancy of being able to get its “retaliation in first.”

Criminal Vocabulary

The Russian Civil War birthed a new gangland vocabulary for everyday use to denigrate real and perceived opponents of the Soviet order. It transcended Stalin’s own style to amplify the underlying mood of belligerence, if not mercilessness.

In the 1930s, the Stalinist criminal vocabulary became the subject of a famous satire, “Golden Calf” by Ilia Ilf and Eugeny Petrov. The central character, Ostap Bender, is a talented adventurist who tries to make his fortune on the edge of NEP (the New Economic Policy, which constituted a temporary turn back to capitalism in the USSR from 1921-1930). In one of the episodes, Bender travels on the train with a group of Soviet journalists whose verbal resources are maximally constrained by the new rules on revolutionary reportage. Bender creates a dictionary of over 100 clichéd constructions which perfectly comply with the Party’s editorial standards for journalism, he successfully sells it to the bored journalists who can now use it as boilerplate.

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Today, Vladimir Putin, has resurrected Stalin’s four foundations of style and encouraged his diplomats and government officials to employ them with the same frequency and purpose as his Soviet forbears.

I have analyzed all official communications of the Russian Foreign Ministry from September 2011 to June 2015, indexed them, and run them through a specific linguistic software called Voyant Tools, based on Stanford Natural Language processing toolkit. The total database consists of 2.5 million words, and 21,765 documents. Here’s what I found.

Self-Questioning

Self-questioning is barely present in Foreign Ministry statements until the Fall of 2012, with the occasional use of a formulation such as, “Some partners of Russia question that…” But starting in 2013, when Putin took a harder stance against the West, self-questioning became much more frequent. The method skyrocketed in 2014, reaching 188 total uses, most commonly deployed by the nameless “press statements” on behalf of the Foreign Ministry, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, and Foreign Ministry Spokesman Alexander Lukashevich.

Official press statements are much less speculative and rarely employ Stalin’s favorite tool: a meager 25.

Lavrov is a great fan of self-questioning. He holds 66 of 189 uses of the formulation “the question arises” and its manifold variations.

The winner of self-questioning, however, is Lukashevich, with 101 uses, but some of his briefings and statements just repeat Lavrov’s earlier sentiments.

Metonymy

Likewise, metonymy has made a comeback. Consider this comment by Lavrov in his November 2013 Address to the State Duma:

“Some countries are guided with an opportunistic interest to circumvent the global limits on the use of force in international relations… It’s obvious for us that some countries exercise the power they possess more frequently and tend to redraw the guiding principles of international relations.”

He means only one country.

Since the beginning of the Ukraine crisis, however, the frequency of Stalinist metonymy grows. “Western partners,” “hegemonic force,” “some country that imagines itself a policeman of the world”—all these become have become frequent stand-ins for “White House” or “United States.”

Criminal Vocabulary

Putin himself is famous for deploying Bender-like formulations. He uses “whack” like an Italian mobster when he refers to what Russia will do to terrorists. Another favorite: “If my grandmother had balls, she’d be my grandfather,” used to derisively dismiss what he considers a non-possibility, such as the capacity for the post-Yanukovych Ukrainian transitional government to perform.

Typically, professional diplomats don’t resort to gangland jargon, but in Putin’s Russia, the exceptions are subtly smuggled in.

For instance, one Foreign Ministry briefing on June 29, 2012, read, in Russian, “Americans prefer to pull down their allies rather than take their interests into account.” To the untrained reader, this sounds hostile but ho-hum. However, the usage here of the verb, opustit (“to pull down”), in the Russian criminal argot refers to homosexual rape. Opustit in fact, refers to how tougher inmates make weaker ones their “bitches.”

Proactive Commentary

When Russia abandoned its Soviet identity in 1991, its Foreign Ministry’s language changed accordingly. Diplomats attempted a sober neutrality and a more rational mode of communicating with the outside world. Until 2007, Russian diplomacy maintained a formal, if sometimes murky, style which rarely conveyed a single, unambiguous meaning. Moscow knew that its post-Soviet leaders would need wiggle room to dodge and obfuscate; in a democracy, climb-downs from original “official positions” were inevitable in the course of engagement other countries.


But in 2007, at the Munich Security Conference, Putin put paid to this new mode of Russian “diplospeak.” He presented the idea that the collapse of the USSR “was the largest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century.” This was hardly unambiguous and signaled a calcification in the Russian view of recent history. Further, Putin blamed the West in seeking to humiliate Russia, thus wakening the “sleeping beasts” of the Soviet style.

I was working in Russian media at the time and remember this grim return to form quite well.

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

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Cyber warfare and cyber crime are not far apart in the Russian non linear warfare.

Concerning the large scale hack of the Italian software firm “The Hacking Team”.

hackingteam sold directly to the Russian secret Service FSB in 2012 https://www.wikileaks.org/hackingteam/emails/emailid/454323 … pic.twitter.com/oQs0flGaad

hackingteam FSB was already testing their product from the very beginning in 2010 https://www.wikileaks.org/hackingteam/emails/emailid/454318 … pic.twitter.com/fvBkzD3OA3

hackingteam the FSB was using their technology until surely march 2015 https://www.wikileaks.org/hackingteam/emails/emailid/1002044 … pic.twitter.com/HVMUpZo3Ld

hackingteam Russian Kvant FSB license http://69.60.98.14/jdkw3fjiiAAwe341 in Miami https://www.wikileaks.org/hackingteam/emails/emailid/644554 … pic.twitter.com/5WyLxrSGaV

hackingteam https://www.wikileaks.org/hackingteam/emails/emailid/508803 … two Russian attackservers - look licencenumber pic.twitter.com/xyfVQP5znc

Could not agree more with the following comment----

hackingteam those who think that this is just about delivering some tools to dictators don't understand all the consequences of these finds

hackingteam that server in Miami was hosting IE exploits in 2014 - the ones that got patched only recently pic.twitter.com/AbQAKq0KoQ

REMEMBER this was the FSB licensed server using a legally paid for license which was updated March 2015 SITTING inside the US.

hackingteam another server the Russians used in 2014 http://69.60.98.14/jdkw3fjiiAAwe341 pic.twitter.com/eCPIaEOT5r

hackingteam and back to that US server with exploits - it had an excellent reputation - except with Barracuda https://www.robtex.com/en/advisory/dns/69/60/98/14/ …

hackingteam police Czech used US server to infect people ? Legal international operation ? https://wikileaks.org/hackingteam/emails/emailid/959614 …

hackingteam if Office files only do office-like things and not send all those instructions across the computer kernel we would be safer

hackingteam this analysis shows what an infected Office file can do - https://www.hybrid-analysis.com/sample/913b8096904cfdbe32d6a8c583fde81780d6a6834f35292f07 ead07e9f56bb9a?environmentId=5 …

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Wonder how Obama, Nuland and Biden would respond to a press question about this headline if it was splashed across the WAPO and NYTs when they woke up today-------

They made a bad unilateral decision that smacks of Munich 1938 in exchange for nothing not even a singular reciprocal move by Putin and they call that "diplomacy".

More and more in Central Europe and the Baltics are openly calling it "appeasement".

RUSSIAN ARMY KAMAZ-5350 W/ RF ARMY MAJ AT THE WHEEL, TRANSPORTING RF ARMY ARMS IN THE UKRAINE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcPD13haiCA … pic.twitter.com/ipBBjxzaBn

Russian mercenary response----typical—it’s the fault of the Ukrainians for capturing a active duty Russian MAJ with his entire set of IDs in a KAMAZ full of munitions and grenades—come on…….

BUT we still do not have the Russian response which will be "he got lost as we do not have quality maps and GPS" to potentially "we fired him and he is not in the military"--just an "ordinary civilian helping his Nazi tormented Russian brothers" in the Russian world.

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New/developing Russian Army base near Kadamovskiy, Rostov region, Russia (50km from Ukraine border) pic.twitter.com/BuJVyBh8J1

RU Army base "Kadamovskiy", Rostov region - Instagram photos (contd in convo)
30 March 2015 http://www.pikore.com/m/952223481155454458_1004890928 … pic.twitter.com/eiK5fQ8jea

Kadamovskiy 10 May 2015 http://www.pikore.com/m/981583903840088405_426317123 … pic.twitter.com/dKsN1LSJ5K

Kadamovskiy 10 April 2015 http://www.pikore.com/m/960155915800601360_41939663 … pic.twitter.com/SmhsxhxGRH

Kadamovskiy 7 April 2015 http://www.pikore.com/m/958122150134804682_1504348579 … pic.twitter.com/vrwdCMQH24

Type "АПЛ-500": new stand-alone field camp of the Russian army (each holds 500 soldiers) http://twower.livejournal.com/1728780.html pic.twitter.com/STlF6fDmTN

Russian Army Type "АПЛ-500" stand-alone field camp http://twower.livejournal.com/1730243.html pic.twitter.com/fHqZ7bcnOu

RU Army Base "Kadamovskiy" -
Location: https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Kadamovskiy,+Rostovskaya+oblast%27,+Russia,+346498/@47.5202205,40.2273991,9z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x40e245f84efe7093:0xc88ff2b5b08a5 238 …

Sat image (Google): https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Kadamovskiy,+Rostovskaya+oblast%27,+Russia,+346498/@47.5202205,40.2273991,2884m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m2!3m1!1s0x40e245f84efe7093:0xc88ff 2b5b08a5238 … pic.twitter.com/Zo2JnR8JrU

RU Army Base "Kadamovskiy" - Only one of three "АПЛ-500" stand-alone field camps currently appears on Google maps pic.twitter.com/k6Do16Ooh0

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Russian army soldiers, Rostov region, (21) July 2015. Note the armour in the background. Src: https://vk.com/wall-62474637?q=%23%D0%90%D1%80%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%8F_%D0%A 0%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%B8&z=photo-62474637_373982975%2Falbum-62474637_00%2Frev … pic.twitter.com/K4aI1qMpj6

Russian Army only UAV is being used in the Ukraine----
Russian UAVs GRANAT (Pomegranat) in the East Ukraine.
http://translate.google.com.ua/translate?hl=en&sl=ru&u=https://informnapalm.org/10824-rossyjskye-bpla-granat-v-arsenale-shahterov-novorossyy&prev=search …
v @newsburko pic.twitter.com/Dg4YUlq7lI

28 Brigade at Krasnogorovka Maryinka Berezove repelled 22 RUS attacks of with mortars, 122 mm howitzers, tanks, APCs. pic.twitter.com/C27Ar5Kem4

News
The Ukr army reports more Russian infrantry, artillery and tank attacks on Krasnohorivka, Mar'inka & Berezove. pic.twitter.com/yrobSAFpeF

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Ukraine farmers thank Putin for killing all the Nazi corn in their fields.

"Liberation" 1000 shells at a time

pic.twitter.com/Dm4VEUlMeN

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Wonder how Obama, Nuland and Biden would respond to a press question about this headline if it was splashed across the WAPO and NYTs when they woke up today-------

They made a bad unilateral decision that smacks of Munich 1938 in exchange for nothing not even a singular reciprocal move by Putin and they call that "diplomacy".

More and more in Central Europe and the Baltics are openly calling it "appeasement".

RUSSIAN ARMY KAMAZ-5350 W/ RF ARMY MAJ AT THE WHEEL, TRANSPORTING RF ARMY ARMS IN THE UKRAINE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcPD13haiCA … pic.twitter.com/ipBBjxzaBn

Russian mercenary response----typical—it’s the fault of the Ukrainians for capturing a active duty Russian MAJ with his entire set of IDs in a KAMAZ full of munitions and grenades—come on…….

BUT we still do not have the Russian response which will be "he got lost as we do not have quality maps and GPS" to potentially "we fired him and he is not in the military"--just an "ordinary civilian helping his Nazi tormented Russian brothers" in the Russian world.

NOW will finally this administration wake up and smell the coffee and finally call it what it is --a Russian hybrid invasion using a Russian hybrid army in a new form of UW military aggression in full violation of the UN Charter and international laws.

Russia is going to have a hard time denying their own MAJ's statements made after capture.

Russia is in the Ukraine so DC wake up and call a spade a spade instead of always waffling..............I know it is hard to lead but sometimes one does have to make hard decisions that have nothing to do with one's own "legacy" but for the good of the global civil societies.

LUGANSK_TODAY BREAKING UPDATE! Full transcript of #Russian POW video added. Read at http://lugansk-news.com/russian-army-officer-captured-on-ukrainian-checkpoint-near-donetsk-with-a-truck-full-of-ammo/ … pic.twitter.com/gQRJHMczqe

Below is the full transcript of the conversation between the Ukrainian solder and the captured Russian POW.

Ukrainian soldier: Where were you brought to?

Russian soldier: We were brought to the Army Corps.

Ukrainian soldier: Where is that Army Corps?

Russian soldier: I don’t know the address…

Ukrainian soldier: City?

Russian soldier: Donetsk.

Ukrainian soldier: Donetsk. How do you know that was the Army Corps? Somebody told you that?

Russian soldier: Yes.

Ukrainian soldier: Who?

Russian soldier: The senior. When I reported on my arrival. We were taken inside the building quickly, we were taken on the 3rd or 4th floor to the conference room with all our stuff. They told us not to leave the building. Nobody was given us any instructions or anything like that. Later representatives were just coming, from military units… Fictitious names…

Ukrainian soldier: Fictitious?

Russian soldier: Yes.

Ukrainian soldier: So when you were coming from the Russian territory, each of you already had his own fictitious name?

Russian soldier: Yes.

Ukrainian soldier: OK, tell me the name.

Russian soldier: Mine?

Ukrainian soldier: Yes, fictitious.

Russian soldier: Ovsyannikov.

Ukrainian soldier: Ovsyannikov… What position you took in the brigade?

Russian soldier: I got in the brigade on a position of the head of the security.

Ukrainian soldier: Of the brigade?

Russian soldier: Yes.

Ukrainian soldier: 5th brigade?

Russian soldier: Yes.

Ukrainian soldier: How long have you been in Donetsk?

Russian soldier: Since March 5.

Ukrainian soldier: Until what day?

Russian soldier: Until today.

Ukrainian soldier: So today you were driving from Donetsk?

Russian soldier: Yes.

Ukrainian soldier: And where were you driving to?

Russian soldier: To Yasnoye.

Ukrainian soldier: Where?

Russian soldier: Yasnoye.

Ukrainian soldier: Who gave you the task?

Russian soldier: The commander of the brigade.

Ukrainian soldier: Have you been driving there before?

Russian soldier: No. So I didn’t know the way. On the last checkpoint I was told to go straight. There will be…

Ukrainian soldier: When did he give you the last task?

Russian soldier: Yesterday I was on the meeting

Ukrainian soldier: Personally with him?

Russian soldier: Yes, sure, and today in the morning on a briefing he told me not to forget that we were going tomorrow to the camps in Yastnoye. He asked me what I was supposed to do. I told him my task was to take ammo there and he told me “do it”.

The truck that belongs to illegal armed groups arrived to Ukrainian checkpoint from the direction of Olenivka village located on the territory of Donetsk Region which is under control of Donetsk People’s Republic. There were 2 men in military uniform without any insignia. In order to stop the vehicle border guards shot in the air few times and called for support.

AND there no Russians in the Ukraine as stated so often by Putin and his Foreign Minister --so now can DC finally believe see the lies both utter and there is to be "trust" on anything they say and or do????

Obama's own words--we will judge Putin on his actions not his words".

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I have been commenting here for over a year now that Putin really wants a "new Yalta" to give him "privileged control" in certain areas--behind that "privileged control" which is just really a new term for "spheres of influence" lies the not so subtle threat that he means the entire former Central/Southern European border countries that formed a border to Russian the then Soviet Union and he never really defines what he exactly means with the term "privileged control".

http://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.de/2015/07/preparing-for-war-in-2025-putin-wants.html

Sunday, July 26, 2015

Preparing for a War in 2025, Putin Wants New Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact to Divide Up Ukraine, Felgengauer Says

Paul Goble


Staunton, July 26 – Vladimir Putin changed his public assessment of the 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact which opened the way to World War II because he wants a new Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact with the West to divide up Ukraine and give him time to prepare for a new world “resource war” at the end of the 2020s, according to Pavel Felgengauer.

Felgengauer, perhaps Russia’s leading independent military analyst, says that in Moscow today, there is still circulating the view that the West would be prepared to give up Ukraine in exchange for something else and that such a swap could serve Russia’s purposes because Moscow does not want Ukraine or even part of Ukraine to be part of the West.

Since at least February 2013, he continues, Russian military planners have been convinced that sometime “after 2025 or 2030,” there will be “a major world war” over resources and that Russia would be at risk because of its size and immense reserves of oil, gas, water and so on (apostrophe.com.ua/article/world/ex-ussr/2015-07-26/rossiya-gotovitsya-k-bolshoy-mirovoy-voyne-datyi-opredelenyi---voennyiy-ekspert-iz-rf/2007).

Felgauner notes in an interview with Artem Dekhtyarenko of “Apostrophe” that Nikolay Patrushev raised those concerns to a higher level in remarks last fall and that, over the objections of former finance minister Aleksey Kudrin, Moscow launched a multi-billion-ruble plan to rearm in preparation for that conflict.

According to the Kremlin authors of this plan, the analyst says, the Americans have been thinking about how to block it and they have supposedly chosen to put Ukraine in Russia’s way so that Moscow will have to spend money on a conflict there rather than invest in its larger and from the American point of view more threatening rearmament program.

Because that is how the Kremlin views the situation, Felgengauer suggests, “there are no chances to speak even about the freezing of the conflict” there “because a freezing of the conflict would leave Ukraine in the West and that is unacceptable.”

Kremlin officials constantly say that Russia does not want to fight with NATO, but what they are really saying, the analyst argues, is that “we do not intend to fight now. We are preparing for 2025 or 2030.” Russia is not prepared to fight now, but it can be prepared to fight by then.

Russia is spending enormous sums on this program of rearmament, Felgengauer says. It is cutting social programs and the population is being impoverished, with “all efforts being through at military rearmament and in the first case nuclear rearmament in order to restrain the Americans.”

Russia today is “much weaker qualitatively and quantitatively” than NATO overall, but there are some places on “the eastern front” where it has certain advantages. Nonetheless, qualitatively [Russia] is not ready. I hope,” Felgengauer says, “that is this is understood by everyone including in the Kremlin.”

Nonetheless, direct confrontation between Moscow and the West will likely continue to grow, he argues. And even if Moscow does not attack the Baltic countries – and Felgengauer says the West would have defended them making any such attack unlikely – there are risks that an accident could trigger a war far sooner than the Kremlin wants.

Both sides are increasing military maneuvers, and the Russian side is flying its planes in a way that could lead to an accident that would trigger a crisis. Russian military planes are flying in places and without transponders as they did in the Cold War, but there are ten times as many civilian aircraft in those zones as 30 years ago – and that makes an accident more probable.

In other comments, Felgengauer says that Russia’s turn to China is intended to address its needs for capital now that it cannot get that from the West, but Moscow and Beijing have a partnership not an alliance because they want different things and some of these things are incompatible.

Moreover, he reminds that NATO could take in Ukraine as a member even “without the Donbas and Crimea” because there is nothing in the NATO Charter that precludes that happening. At the same time, however, he points out that Article Five does not mean that NATO would necessarily go to war if one of its members were to be attacked.

And he suggests that while he has doubts that “Putin gave the order” to shoot down the Malaysian airliner, the Kremlin leader began lying about the true situation early and has made a decision to continue to lie even if that is not in his interests just as Richard Nixon did at the time of Watergate.

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I have been commenting here for over a year now that Putin really wants a "new Yalta" to give him "privileged control" in certain areas--behind that "privileged control" which is just really a new term for "spheres of influence" lies the not so subtle threat that he means the entire former Central/Southern European border countries that formed a border to Russian the then Soviet Union and he never really defines what he exactly means with the term "privileged control".

http://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.de/2015/07/preparing-for-war-in-2025-putin-wants.html

Sunday, July 26, 2015

Preparing for a War in 2025, Putin Wants New Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact to Divide Up Ukraine, Felgengauer Says

Paul Goble

There is in the article a little paranoia on the part of Russia that is interesting---while Russia is a raw resource provider of oil and gas it is reliant on other countries for major raw resources it currently needs for advance manufacturing and military production--note--much of it coming from the Ukraine --especially rare earth resources.

So is the article signaling their are rearming and building a strong defense really as a strong offense to enter those countries in their "privileged control zone" and take what they need via military power.

Much as they are currently stealing complete factories, coal and scrap metal from the occupied eastern Ukraine???

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OMG! Sunday school at Church of St John the Warrior, Rostov-on-Don, Russia, 13 July 2015 http://psgp.ru/13-iyulya-2015-goda.html … pic.twitter.com/PFxqaYM0HJ

If you don't find this disturbing, you're either Russian Orthodox or mentally ill. (Rostov) http://psgp.ru/22-iyunya-2015-goda.html … pic.twitter.com/HrArnLV4jO

Even the US Ambassador to the Ukraine recognizes the extreme importance of social media open source analysis----they have carried the information warfare against Putin for over a year now with virtually no support from western leaders.

Geoffrey Pyatt ✔ @GeoffPyatt
Armed With Google and YouTube, Analysts Gauge Russia’s Presence in Ukraine' @GordonNYT: http://goo.gl/Vr1cRS pic.twitter.com/GChfGucWFy

Russian SPGs & other military equipment accumulates in #Luhansk Oblast,E #Ukraine |EMPR Video http://empr.media/video/conflict-zone/russian-spgs-and-other-military-equipment-accumulates-in-luhansk-oblast-of-ukraine … pic.twitter.com/MfbHTMszAG

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NOW will finally this administration wake up and smell the coffee and finally call it what it is --a Russian hybrid invasion using a Russian hybrid army in a new form of UW military aggression in full violation of the UN Charter and international laws.

Russia is going to have a hard time denying their own MAJ's statements made after capture.

Russia is in the Ukraine so DC wake up and call a spade a spade instead of always waffling..............I know it is hard to lead but sometimes one does have to make hard decisions that have nothing to do with one's own "legacy" but for the good of the global civil societies.

LUGANSK_TODAY BREAKING UPDATE! Full transcript of #Russian POW video added. Read at http://lugansk-news.com/russian-army-officer-captured-on-ukrainian-checkpoint-near-donetsk-with-a-truck-full-of-ammo/ … pic.twitter.com/gQRJHMczqe

Below is the full transcript of the conversation between the Ukrainian solder and the captured Russian POW.

Ukrainian soldier: Where were you brought to?

Russian soldier: We were brought to the Army Corps.

Ukrainian soldier: Where is that Army Corps?

Russian soldier: I don’t know the address…

Ukrainian soldier: City?

Russian soldier: Donetsk.

Ukrainian soldier: Donetsk. How do you know that was the Army Corps? Somebody told you that?

Russian soldier: Yes.

Ukrainian soldier: Who?

Russian soldier: The senior. When I reported on my arrival. We were taken inside the building quickly, we were taken on the 3rd or 4th floor to the conference room with all our stuff. They told us not to leave the building. Nobody was given us any instructions or anything like that. Later representatives were just coming, from military units… Fictitious names…

Ukrainian soldier: Fictitious?

Russian soldier: Yes.

Ukrainian soldier: So when you were coming from the Russian territory, each of you already had his own fictitious name?

Russian soldier: Yes.

Ukrainian soldier: OK, tell me the name.

Russian soldier: Mine?

Ukrainian soldier: Yes, fictitious.

Russian soldier: Ovsyannikov.

Ukrainian soldier: Ovsyannikov… What position you took in the brigade?

Russian soldier: I got in the brigade on a position of the head of the security.

Ukrainian soldier: Of the brigade?

Russian soldier: Yes.

Ukrainian soldier: 5th brigade?

Russian soldier: Yes.

Ukrainian soldier: How long have you been in Donetsk?

Russian soldier: Since March 5.

Ukrainian soldier: Until what day?

Russian soldier: Until today.

Ukrainian soldier: So today you were driving from Donetsk?

Russian soldier: Yes.

Ukrainian soldier: And where were you driving to?

Russian soldier: To Yasnoye.

Ukrainian soldier: Where?

Russian soldier: Yasnoye.

Ukrainian soldier: Who gave you the task?

Russian soldier: The commander of the brigade.

Ukrainian soldier: Have you been driving there before?

Russian soldier: No. So I didn’t know the way. On the last checkpoint I was told to go straight. There will be…

Ukrainian soldier: When did he give you the last task?

Russian soldier: Yesterday I was on the meeting

Ukrainian soldier: Personally with him?

Russian soldier: Yes, sure, and today in the morning on a briefing he told me not to forget that we were going tomorrow to the camps in Yastnoye. He asked me what I was supposed to do. I told him my task was to take ammo there and he told me “do it”.

The truck that belongs to illegal armed groups arrived to Ukrainian checkpoint from the direction of Olenivka village located on the territory of Donetsk Region which is under control of Donetsk People’s Republic. There were 2 men in military uniform without any insignia. In order to stop the vehicle border guards shot in the air few times and called for support.

AND there no Russians in the Ukraine as stated so often by Putin and his Foreign Minister --so now can DC finally believe see the lies both utter and there is to be "trust" on anything they say and or do????

Obama's own words--we will judge Putin on his actions not his words".

Russian BDE XO took a wrong turn w/ resupply truck, got snatched by #Ukraine

Capturd #Russia|n Major says b4 "volunteers" sent to #Ukraine given fake name http://goo.gl/k92BHe pic.twitter.com/dG8UEEjsL3

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Russian army soldiers, Rostov region, (21) July 2015. Note the armour in the background. Src: https://vk.com/wall-62474637?q=%23%D0%90%D1%80%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%8F_%D0%A 0%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%B8&z=photo-62474637_373982975%2Falbum-62474637_00%2Frev … pic.twitter.com/K4aI1qMpj6

Russian Army only UAV is being used in the Ukraine----
Russian UAVs GRANAT (Pomegranat) in the East Ukraine.
http://translate.google.com.ua/translate?hl=en&sl=ru&u=https://informnapalm.org/10824-rossyjskye-bpla-granat-v-arsenale-shahterov-novorossyy&prev=search …
v @newsburko pic.twitter.com/Dg4YUlq7lI

28 Brigade at Krasnogorovka Maryinka Berezove repelled 22 RUS attacks of with mortars, 122 mm howitzers, tanks, APCs. pic.twitter.com/C27Ar5Kem4

News
The Ukr army reports more Russian infrantry, artillery and tank attacks on Krasnohorivka, Mar'inka & Berezove. pic.twitter.com/yrobSAFpeF

ATO presser: 11:55 from #Obozne RUS fired at UKR positions near Schastya with tanks, SPG, small arms https://www.facebook.com/ato.news/posts/1038097252867747 …

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New/developing Russian Army base near Kadamovskiy, Rostov region, Russia (50km from Ukraine border) pic.twitter.com/BuJVyBh8J1

RU Army base "Kadamovskiy", Rostov region - Instagram photos (contd in convo)
30 March 2015 http://www.pikore.com/m/952223481155454458_1004890928 … pic.twitter.com/eiK5fQ8jea

Kadamovskiy 10 May 2015 http://www.pikore.com/m/981583903840088405_426317123 … pic.twitter.com/dKsN1LSJ5K

Kadamovskiy 10 April 2015 http://www.pikore.com/m/960155915800601360_41939663 … pic.twitter.com/SmhsxhxGRH

Kadamovskiy 7 April 2015 http://www.pikore.com/m/958122150134804682_1504348579 … pic.twitter.com/vrwdCMQH24

Type "АПЛ-500": new stand-alone field camp of the Russian army (each holds 500 soldiers) http://twower.livejournal.com/1728780.html pic.twitter.com/STlF6fDmTN

Russian Army Type "АПЛ-500" stand-alone field camp http://twower.livejournal.com/1730243.html pic.twitter.com/fHqZ7bcnOu

RU Army Base "Kadamovskiy" -
Location: https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Kadamovskiy,+Rostovskaya+oblast%27,+Russia,+346498/@47.5202205,40.2273991,9z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x40e245f84efe7093:0xc88ff2b5b08a5 238 …

Sat image (Google): https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Kadamovskiy,+Rostovskaya+oblast%27,+Russia,+346498/@47.5202205,40.2273991,2884m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m2!3m1!1s0x40e245f84efe7093:0xc88ff 2b5b08a5238 … pic.twitter.com/Zo2JnR8JrU

RU Army Base "Kadamovskiy" - Only one of three "АПЛ-500" stand-alone field camps currently appears on Google maps pic.twitter.com/k6Do16Ooh0

RU army training ground Kadamovskiy existed for long time, but developed dramatically in March 2014 pic.twitter.com/FZaoDLbcGE v @ReggaeMortis1

Russian peacekeeping forces (MC) at Kadamovskiy range, Rostov region, Russia (40km from Ukraine border) 1 Aug 2014 http://instagram.com/p/rKtvu4JgR0/

Russian "peacekeeping forces" (MC) at Kadamovskiy army base/training ground, Rostov reg in October 2014 pic.twitter.com/bEbProOeV0 v @ravelin_by

Shortly after this MC training the 14th Russian Peacekeeping Brigade was reported inside the Ukraine and spotted via social media open source analysis via photos and videos taken from their VK pages.

NOTE: The commander and staff of the 14th Brigade had been through two peacekeeping training events held by the US Army in Grafenwoehr Germany in 2012/2013

Persianovskiy railhead, Rostov region (nr Kadamovskiy training area) Depot (L) Trainload (R) https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Persianovskiy,+Rostovskaya+oblast%27,+Russia/@47.522317,40.1014263,721m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m2!3m1!1s0x40e23876cdf32f2f:0xe2581 f5a8c6d4755!6m1!1e1 … pic.twitter.com/UOw6BB85kk

Russian Army training ground, Kadamovskiy, Rostov reg (50km from Ukraine border) Album 30 Apr http://milkavkaz.livejournal.com/18430.html pic.twitter.com/mlnlQthgQr

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Obama, Nuland and Biden have basically forced the Ukraine to unilaterally accede to the Russia demands of a 30km buffer zone which was originally proposed by the Russian general who led the Russian contingent to the JCCC.

What the above US decision makers do not fully realize is that they have never been the military nor to the city port of Mariupol Ukraine that the accepted 30km buffer actually lands in the middle of the city port Mariupol.

WHAT the same US decision makers failed to realize in their sudden desires for unilateral moves that the Ukrainian government especially the Azov Regt initially fought to keep the city from falling into the hands of the Russian mercenaries and have been fighting to protect the city since then.

SO how do these US decision makers want to block Russian forces from taking the city WHICH is in fact critical to the Russian mercenaries as it would give them a harbor and it is the key strategic point in taking a land corridor to Odessa connecting Transnistria to Crimea.

Did they truly believe that Russian troops had pulled back--yeah right...exactly 1.5kms and built new positions and have been shelling the area for now two days--so much for a demilitarized zone they demand the Ukraine create.

SO why the sudden interest by US decision makers about abandoning Mariupol to the Russian mercenaries when now the city is well protected?

AND why do they seem to now be supporting Putin/Russian demands?

THEN on top of this unilateral move they pressured the Ukrainians to pull back their 100mm and weapons from the front lines.

What a #joke!
Ukrainian forces are to withdraw even RPGs from #Shchastya while Russians shell them with 82mm mortars.
4 Ukr WIA this morning

ALSO what Obama, Nuland and Biden seem to forget is that the civil society has for over a year help the volunteer BNs defend the city as well AND now they are confused by the suddenness to give up the city.

So is in fact Obama, Nuland and Biden just version 2 of the 1938 Munich appeasement deal????

Their decision is causing internal civil distress to apopulation that is stressed enough already--so why did they do it--probably to "save Putin's face"????

Mariupol protests against "Buffer zone", demand president Poroshenko to come to discuss the Minsk agreement. https://twitter.com/HromadskeTV/status/625245193646813184 …

Staff ATO denies withdrawal of regiment "Azov" and battalion "Aydar" from their positions. There's planned rotation.http://censor.net.ua/news/345332/ni_odno_podrazdelenie_sil_ato_ne_ostavilo_svoih_po zitsiyi_idet_planovaya_rotatsiya_azova_i_ayidara_s htab …

Head of M sector Gen Fedorov comes to talk to #Mariupol activists: troops deployed to the area are capable of defense pic.twitter.com/FcBzK56g28

News
#Donetsk regional police reassures people in #Mariupol that Ukr troops will only leave #Shyrokyne if military police replaces them.

Halyna Odnorog: #Mariupol falls into 30km buffer zone, we ask Prez, #ATO command to explain us, we don't understand pic.twitter.com/SJxokmyUb4

Much speculation and rumors about #Ukraine withdrawl from frontline and/or #Shyrokyne. Let's wait for some facts. One fact is that fighting is going on. E.g. heavy fighting near #Mariinka at the moment.

ATO Staff: neither #Azov nor #Aidar are withdrawn. Rotation is underway: marines, ground forces take up positions https://www.facebook.com/ato.news/posts/1037978859546253 …

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BreakingNews
Heavy Russian attacks on #Marinka and #Shchastya going on right now.pic.twitter.com/UW7MeHpZhH

15:05 #Maryinka @666_mancer [vk] Around an hour the battle in #Novomaryinka [direction] lasts. MG, mortars

Donetsk 17:00 howitzer outgoing, possibly 2, from Mandrykine side https://twitter.com/tekstilevskia/status/625306107519586304 …

News
3 Ukrainian troops were injured in ongoing Russian attacks at the #Minsk front line any beyond.
No KIA luckily.

heavy shelling from south of Donetsk is heard even 30 km from there https://twitter.com/Darren_Aro/status/625306709813264384 …

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NOW will finally this administration wake up and smell the coffee and finally call it what it is --a Russian hybrid invasion using a Russian hybrid army in a new form of UW military aggression in full violation of the UN Charter and international laws.

Russia is going to have a hard time denying their own MAJ's statements made after capture.

Russia is in the Ukraine so DC wake up and call a spade a spade instead of always waffling..............I know it is hard to lead but sometimes one does have to make hard decisions that have nothing to do with one's own "legacy" but for the good of the global civil societies.

LUGANSK_TODAY BREAKING UPDATE! Full transcript of #Russian POW video added. Read at http://lugansk-news.com/russian-army-officer-captured-on-ukrainian-checkpoint-near-donetsk-with-a-truck-full-of-ammo/ … pic.twitter.com/gQRJHMczqe

Below is the full transcript of the conversation between the Ukrainian solder and the captured Russian POW.

Ukrainian soldier: Where were you brought to?

Russian soldier: We were brought to the Army Corps.

Ukrainian soldier: Where is that Army Corps?

Russian soldier: I don’t know the address…

Ukrainian soldier: City?

Russian soldier: Donetsk.

Ukrainian soldier: Donetsk. How do you know that was the Army Corps? Somebody told you that?

Russian soldier: Yes.

Ukrainian soldier: Who?

Russian soldier: The senior. When I reported on my arrival. We were taken inside the building quickly, we were taken on the 3rd or 4th floor to the conference room with all our stuff. They told us not to leave the building. Nobody was given us any instructions or anything like that. Later representatives were just coming, from military units… Fictitious names…

Ukrainian soldier: Fictitious?

Russian soldier: Yes.

Ukrainian soldier: So when you were coming from the Russian territory, each of you already had his own fictitious name?

Russian soldier: Yes.

Ukrainian soldier: OK, tell me the name.

Russian soldier: Mine?

Ukrainian soldier: Yes, fictitious.

Russian soldier: Ovsyannikov.

Ukrainian soldier: Ovsyannikov… What position you took in the brigade?

Russian soldier: I got in the brigade on a position of the head of the security.

Ukrainian soldier: Of the brigade?

Russian soldier: Yes.

Ukrainian soldier: 5th brigade?

Russian soldier: Yes.

Ukrainian soldier: How long have you been in Donetsk?

Russian soldier: Since March 5.

Ukrainian soldier: Until what day?

Russian soldier: Until today.

Ukrainian soldier: So today you were driving from Donetsk?

Russian soldier: Yes.

Ukrainian soldier: And where were you driving to?

Russian soldier: To Yasnoye.

Ukrainian soldier: Where?

Russian soldier: Yasnoye.

Ukrainian soldier: Who gave you the task?

Russian soldier: The commander of the brigade.

Ukrainian soldier: Have you been driving there before?

Russian soldier: No. So I didn’t know the way. On the last checkpoint I was told to go straight. There will be…

Ukrainian soldier: When did he give you the last task?

Russian soldier: Yesterday I was on the meeting

Ukrainian soldier: Personally with him?

Russian soldier: Yes, sure, and today in the morning on a briefing he told me not to forget that we were going tomorrow to the camps in Yastnoye. He asked me what I was supposed to do. I told him my task was to take ammo there and he told me “do it”.

The truck that belongs to illegal armed groups arrived to Ukrainian checkpoint from the direction of Olenivka village located on the territory of Donetsk Region which is under control of Donetsk People’s Republic. There were 2 men in military uniform without any insignia. In order to stop the vehicle border guards shot in the air few times and called for support.

AND there no Russians in the Ukraine as stated so often by Putin and his Foreign Minister --so now can DC finally believe see the lies both utter and there is to be "trust" on anything they say and or do????

Obama's own words--we will judge Putin on his actions not his words".

Wow….even the Russian mercenary explanation is off in space—especially in the face of an admitted Russian MAJ and his own documents-----

DNR says #Ukraine's special forces 'staged' ammo capture near Donetsk - #Russia @interfax_news
http://www.interfax.ru/world/456076 pic.twitter.com/70wsXMI2KQ

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Could not agree more with the following comment----

hackingteam those who think that this is just about delivering some tools to dictators don't understand all the consequences of these finds

hackingteam that server in Miami was hosting IE exploits in 2014 - the ones that got patched only recently pic.twitter.com/AbQAKq0KoQ

REMEMBER this was the FSB licensed server using a legally paid for license which was updated March 2015 SITTING inside the US.

hackingteam another server the Russians used in 2014 http://69.60.98.14/jdkw3fjiiAAwe341 pic.twitter.com/eCPIaEOT5r

hackingteam and back to that US server with exploits - it had an excellent reputation - except with Barracuda https://www.robtex.com/en/advisory/dns/69/60/98/14/ …

hackingteam police Czech used US server to infect people ? Legal international operation ? https://wikileaks.org/hackingteam/emails/emailid/959614 …

hackingteam if Office files only do office-like things and not send all those instructions across the computer kernel we would be safer

hackingteam this analysis shows what an infected Office file can do - https://www.hybrid-analysis.com/sample/913b8096904cfdbe32d6a8c583fde81780d6a6834f35292f07 ead07e9f56bb9a?environmentId=5 …

It is just not Russia who uses attack servers located in the US-----

hackingteam the vietnamese attack infrastructure is in the US and in Germany (second server) - enough legal questions

hackingteam consider all the hackingteam tools - known or not yet attributed - to be 'common knowledge' - downloads pic.twitter.com/o64SnsuDZ0

hackingteam the malware msndxhd1.6tb1.livebin is nearly unknown in virustotal pic.twitter.com/2iZ9nDx3AN

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Wow….even the Russian mercenary explanation is off in space—especially in the face of an admitted Russian MAJ and his own documents-----

DNR says #Ukraine's special forces 'staged' ammo capture near Donetsk - #Russia @interfax_news
http://www.interfax.ru/world/456076 pic.twitter.com/70wsXMI2KQ

Full story of how Ru officer got lost in Ukr w/ truck w/ weapons: http://lugansk-news.com/russian-army-officer-captured-on-ukrainian-checkpoint-near-donetsk-with-a-truck-full-of-ammo/ … @LUGANSK_TODAY |EMPR News pic.twitter.com/vW9wwiiL2y

Russia caught red-handed arming "rebels." Russian Major, DNR militant captured in truck hauling ammo for Ukraine http://www.svoboda.mobi/a/27153231.html

Russians on a vacation in Ukraine.
Eye bandage is in fashion! pic.twitter.com/38uCESvMow

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Visiting Kaliningrad Putin confirms the adoption of new naval doctrine w/ more assertiveness in Atlantic & Arctic

http://goo.gl/5HQYn7

Russia forgets it signed UNSCR 1612 prohibiting use of child soldiers pic.twitter.com/QXBnVXxyuP http://www.un.org/press/en/2005/sc8458.doc.htm … https://twitter.com/JulianRoepcke/status/625095886297792512 …

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Russian shellings and ground attacks continued throughout the day-the evening is going to one of a heck of an evening if the day is an example-----

Even the OSCE is catching a shelling---

SMM confirms mortar fire landed near 2 OSCE vehicles w/5 monitors today on S. side of bridge to Luhansk. SMM condemns shelling incident

Mariinka, now, no changes, still occasional shooting.

18:48 #Shyrokyne @sex_Dombas We are firing at a UAV

Mariinka 18:50 active combat again, a few powerful landings, there weren't such as of today yet. https://twitter.com/666_mancer/status/625333549571440643 …

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Reference recent Georgian illegal land annexation by Russia----

Another Georgian man kidnapped out of his own garden on boundary with #SOssetia http://dfwatch.net/?p=37402 pic.twitter.com/4qvI9BrrXV

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Russian shellings and ground attacks continued throughout the day-the evening is going to one of a heck of an evening if the day is an example-----

Even the OSCE is catching a shelling---

SMM confirms mortar fire landed near 2 OSCE vehicles w/5 monitors today on S. side of bridge to Luhansk. SMM condemns shelling incident

Mariinka, now, no changes, still occasional shooting.

18:48 #Shyrokyne @sex_Dombas We are firing at a UAV

Mariinka 18:50 active combat again, a few powerful landings, there weren't such as of today yet. https://twitter.com/666_mancer/status/625333549571440643 …

Hot spots again: Donetsk shells Mariinka, Gorlovka shoots at Dzerzhinsk. if previous days are a clue, it will heat up at night.

19:24 #Avdeevka @bamr69 Again explosion at [#Donetsk explosives plant] DKZRKhI, it shaked us good, cigarette butt again?

Dzerzhynsk 19:30
It has become noisy https://twitter.com/blessmaster/status/625342351658078208 …

Russian Spetsnaz back on their ground attacks---
At 07:55 and 08:20-08:30 enemy subversive-intelligence group tried to break through UKR positions in Shchastya. Both attacks repelled - ATO

Today (up to 18:00) militants 35 times attacked positions of Ukrainian troops - ATO press center
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1038206012856871&substory_index=0&id=820651001279041&refid=17&_ft_=top_level_post_id.1038206012856871&__tn__=%2As …

Nova_Laspa, RUS position on a hemp field @JuMistress pic.twitter.com/0Ra3LHv3Ph

BTR column near #Rostov https://instagram.com/p/5mTRVpplO7/ https://instagram.com/p/5mihFPSMPN/ pic.twitter.com/JF36WQGeaL

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RUSSIA’S TOP 160 LIES ABOUT UKRAINE http://www.russialies.com/russias-top-160-lies-about-ukraine/ …

Astonishing.. 3-4 @JuliaDavisNews articles exposing #Russia propaganda in @examinercom were DELETED
inc top140 lies:
http://web.archive.org/web/20150717050908/http://www.examiner.com/list/russia-s-top-140-lies-about-ukraine …

Has @examinercom succumbed to #Putin's pawns? #censorship
The article is now on http://RussiaLies.com
http://www.russialies.com/russias-top-160-lies-about-ukraine/ …

So does a US news media outlet work directly now for Putin-------

Thought #Russia was done with concocting outlandish #MH17 theories? Think again! Same RIA printed news on the right. pic.twitter.com/tpRQjvVvLv

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Russian PSNR-8M ground reconnaissance system in DNR - VIDEO
http://translate.google.com.ua/translate?hl=en&sl=ru&u=https://informnapalm.org/10963-rossyjskyj-kompleks-nazemnoj-razvedky-psnr-8m-v-arsenale-nvf-han-dnr&prev=search …
v @newsburko pic.twitter.com/qoyRFrS467

got it, thanks. I'm interested in it as the guys using the radar are Spaniards

I watched the video till the end. They compare with the Civil war in Spain. Madness.

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Appears that the US/Obama is in fact throwing the Ukraine under the bus for Russian assistance in Iran and Syria---by making unilateral moves with no reciprocal demands on Russia.

Basically a new Munch 1938 in the name of "legacy".

http://www.jamestown.org/single/?tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=44204&tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=7&cHash=676519bcd3d785fea95d530861f2811b#.VbKl2OoVhM s

Obama Administration Undercutting Ukraine’s Position in the Minsk Armistice Negotiations

Publication: Eurasia Daily Monitor Volume: 12 Issue: 139

July 24, 2015 02:00 PM

By: Vladimir Socor

So the question to be asked is --is Obama, Nuland and Biden actively working to support the Ukraine as they claim they are doing and or they actively supporting Putin who has stated a number of times he will use tactical nuclear weapons against NATO??

It is a valid question.

Over 40 vehicles of the OSCE/IRC were vandalized this week , their drone was jammed by Russian troops in clear violation of Minsk 2 this week AND today they were mortared and NOT by the Ukrainians-AND the Russians actively turned back this week a IRC 1000 ton humanitarian aid shipment all the while claiming a serious humanitarian problem in eastern Ukraine

--Russia is definitely not wanting the OSCE to be actively monitor their occupied zones and the question is WHY????

THEN today a active service Russian MAJ trucking a truck load of munitions with a mercenary are captured inside the Ukraine--AND Putin keeps stating there are no Russian troops in the Ukraine???

Even Obama and Nuland fully understand that the OSCE mission that even Russia supported is to fully monitor events in eastern Ukraine.

Russia is waging war on Ukraine, not “hampering monitoring”. Meanwhile, US harasses UKR to concede to Putin’s demands and self-destruct.

ANDRIY BILETSKY'S RESPONSE TO THE DEMAND OF THE "NORMANDY FOUR" TO DEMILITARIZE #SHYROKYNE #Mariupol pic.twitter.com/3mggJGCnke

Interesting that "legacy" rules over common sense as the current US foreign policy.

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So the responses from Obama, Nuland and Biden who forced unilateral appeasement on the Ukraine in order to safe "Putin's face" is exactly what again????

Intensive shellings and equally extensive/intensive ground attacks underway tonight on the eastern front.

So Obama's words of "we will judge Putin's action and not his words" meant exactly what????

Confirmation
Three Russian infantry attacks on #Shchastya were repulsed by Ukrainian forces over the day. - ATO command

Mariinka heavy combat. https://twitter.com/Maxi_Good/status/625371221258043392 …

Maryinka 21:14
Heavy battle https://twitter.com/Maxi_Good/status/625371221258043392 …

21:18 #Donetsk @Don_Riccio Firing in #Trudovski direction, small arms and heavy [MG or artillery?]

Donetsk 21:13
Trudovsky ds - something powerful shooting https://twitter.com/Maxi_Good/status/625368292811767808 …

Donetsk 21:10
Glow and smoke visible from the #Starobeshevo road area https://twitter.com/GirkinGirkin/status/625369626151530496 …

Donetsk [Chemical plant direction?] @vitaliy00700 https://twitter.com/vitaliy00700/status/625373103187734528 …

19:57 #Avdeevka @bamr69 Rumble, #Opytne-#Pisky. Large calibre automatic weapons, a couple of blasts

19:56 #Dzerzhynsk @blessmaster They made some noise and calmed down soon.

20:04 #Kramatorsk @sv_inaya What has just rumbled?

21:05 #Avdeevka @avdey777ka [vk] About 10 projectiles hit #Orlovka

Guess how many times was Donetsk shelled during past 24 hours? None. Zero. While the monkeys are firing everywhere they can.

20:38 #Avdeevka @JuZolyshkaLia Shelling once and again, I lost count of volleys. Hisses.

Avdiivka 20:31
"Lots of salvos, lots. Shooting... scared!" https://twitter.com/JuZolyshkaLia/status/625357707583848448 …

20:35 #Avdeevka @tiamat007 Heavy [cannons] came into play, hiss of [projectiles] flying over heard

20:30 #Avdeevka @rechnikato A strong volley, loud hiss, but no blast heard

20:40 #Marinka whirr again 10 minutes. Mostly AGS. Has never been applied in such quantities @hyeva_maryinka

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So the responses from Obama, Nuland and Biden who forced unilateral appeasement on the Ukraine in order to safe "Putin's face" is exactly what again????

Intensive shellings and equally extensive/intensive ground attacks underway tonight on the eastern front.

So Obama's words of "we will judge Putin's action and not his words" meant exactly what????

Confirmation
Three Russian infantry attacks on #Shchastya were repulsed by Ukrainian forces over the day. - ATO command

Mariinka heavy combat. https://twitter.com/Maxi_Good/status/625371221258043392 …

Maryinka 21:14
Heavy battle https://twitter.com/Maxi_Good/status/625371221258043392 …

21:18 #Donetsk @Don_Riccio Firing in #Trudovski direction, small arms and heavy [MG or artillery?]

Donetsk 21:13
Trudovsky ds - something powerful shooting https://twitter.com/Maxi_Good/status/625368292811767808 …

Donetsk 21:10
Glow and smoke visible from the #Starobeshevo road area https://twitter.com/GirkinGirkin/status/625369626151530496 …

Donetsk [Chemical plant direction?] @vitaliy00700 https://twitter.com/vitaliy00700/status/625373103187734528 …

19:57 #Avdeevka @bamr69 Rumble, #Opytne-#Pisky. Large calibre automatic weapons, a couple of blasts

19:56 #Dzerzhynsk @blessmaster They made some noise and calmed down soon.

20:04 #Kramatorsk @sv_inaya What has just rumbled?

21:05 #Avdeevka @avdey777ka [vk] About 10 projectiles hit #Orlovka

Guess how many times was Donetsk shelled during past 24 hours? None. Zero. While the monkeys are firing everywhere they can.

20:38 #Avdeevka @JuZolyshkaLia Shelling once and again, I lost count of volleys. Hisses.

Avdiivka 20:31
"Lots of salvos, lots. Shooting... scared!" https://twitter.com/JuZolyshkaLia/status/625357707583848448 …

20:35 #Avdeevka @tiamat007 Heavy [cannons] came into play, hiss of [projectiles] flying over heard

20:30 #Avdeevka @rechnikato A strong volley, loud hiss, but no blast heard

20:40 #Marinka whirr again 10 minutes. Mostly AGS. Has never been applied in such quantities @hyeva_maryinka

Getting worse by the hour...............

Avdeevka, coke plant area is hit. About 100 shells. Saw video. Reportedly 2 WIA civilians. https://twitter.com/rechnikato/status/625382699268763648 …
http://youtu.be/TA3KAOLs9pw

26/07/15 #Avdiivka,evening shooting http://youtu.be/TA3KAOLs9pw https://twitter.com/666_mancer/status/625383102261665792 …

Avdiivka was massively shelled by RU after 20:40, hits in Chimic ds, near train station, steel plant, Orlovka, etc. http://timer-odessa.net/news/avdeevka_podverglas_massirovannomu_obstrelu_705.ht ml …

Horlivka 22:20
Thunders heavily to north.
Nikotovka and Holma incoming from #Mayorsk https://twitter.com/Julia_Twinkle/status/625382789605683200 …

21:33-21-35 #Donetsk Petrovka, #Maryinka @Maxi_Good Calmed down a bit

Avdiivka 21:49
Volleys started again, the fall barely audible or not audible. https://twitter.com/JuZolyshkaLia/status/625377351057190912 …

Krasnohorivka 21:30
Disturbing sounds can be heard from towards #Maryinka https://twitter.com/hyeva_maryinka/status/625376382005157888 …

Maryinka 21:20
Battle shifted from boarding school to Sovkhoz area. Sparlkes, volleys, tracers across the sky. https://twitter.com/hyeva_maryinka/status/625375806194384897 …

Something's on fire in #Donetsk. https://twitter.com/GirkinGirkin/status/625372822760636416 …

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Serious fighting is ongoing both via Russian shellings and Russian ground attacks.

AND where is exactly now those that assumed one can do "appeasement" with Putin--this was the answer----for all to see.

Obama--"we will judge Putin's actions not his words--well we have the actions and the US response is again what --silence.


4 UKR WIA, 2 RU KIA fighting near #Schastya reports gov #Lugansk George Tuka FB page https://www.facebook.com/george.tuka/posts/799866930127712 … pic.twitter.com/n5D1wcfjHC

Luhansk 22:50
10 minutes ago ruscists began shelling #Stanytsia_Luhanska https://twitter.com/LUGANSK_TODAY/status/625392860188274689 …

Yelenovka watching missiles launching from Petrovka district, three pieces.
#Donetsk 22:16 https://twitter.com/nektonh/status/625384309562712064 …
Rockets (MLRS), not missiles.

Maryinka 22:00
Situation unchanged, battle continues.

Mariinka as of 22:45 - no let up at all. Machineguns non-stop and occasional AGLs. https://twitter.com/666_mancer/status/625393708423348224 …

22:58
Already since several hours rumble at #Maryinka https://twitter.com/pinokioner/status/625395341240717313 …

Avdiivka 22:35
"115 shells fell" https://twitter.com/avdey777ka/status/625389060392099842 …

Horlivka 22:45
Blue glow in district 6/7 area https://twitter.com/tetznka/status/625391501753872384 …

22:00 #Donetsk @donetsk_paradis About 1hr ago 3 tanks moved fr/#Starobesheve tow/Budennovsky

Avdeevka railway station is heavily damaged, lots of hits. https://twitter.com/avdey777ka/status/625386931447332864 …

VIDEO: Shelling of Avdiivka tonight
(Via @666_mancer)https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tfAd48Nmc6s&feature=youtu.be … pic.twitter.com/JquKnJbxP9

4 soldiers wounded as result of russian shelling at #Shchastya. https://twitter.com/Dbnmjr/status/625389116226727937 …

Core problem with the UA—their senior commanders are a lost lot---too much of the old Soviet system in them ---
Sector M commander: "Водяное, не наша территория" = "Vodyane, not our territory". Who's territory is? It's in Ukraine http://inforesist.org/komanduyushhij-sektora-poobeshhal-chto-sily-ato-ne-budut-vyvodit-iz-mariupolya/?_utl_t=tw …

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Military command denies withdrawal of #azov and Aidar battalions from east #Ukraine conflict zone

SR-3M Vikhr, ORSIS T-5000, VSSK Vychlop, 9A-91... nice choice of Russian SOF/Recce weapons in #Ukraine via @Dbnmjr pic.twitter.com/Q86HH3z49B

Massive Russian army concentration in Luhansk oblast. Mostly 2S1 and Ural pic.twitter.com/SDylo4Lytn http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/26-july-massive-russian-army-concentration-in-luhansk-oblast …

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Latest Russian myth for the shot down of MH17---they have come full circle with their myths.

New RU #MH17 theory: Ukrainian BUK shot at Ukrainian SU-25 by mistake. Now they've officially run out of permutations http://ren.tv/novosti/2015-07-26/smi-ukrainskie-siloviki-priznalis-chto-mogli-sbit-malayziyskiy-boing …

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It is just not Russia who uses attack servers located in the US-----

hackingteam the vietnamese attack infrastructure is in the US and in Germany (second server) - enough legal questions

hackingteam consider all the hackingteam tools - known or not yet attributed - to be 'common knowledge' - downloads pic.twitter.com/o64SnsuDZ0

hackingteam the malware msndxhd1.6tb1.livebin is nearly unknown in virustotal pic.twitter.com/2iZ9nDx3AN

hackingteam these are the Russian spyfiles in 2012 according to the article pic.twitter.com/K8ZVBa9NA8

[VIDEO] #Ukraine #documentary: defending the Ukraine from #CyberAttack.

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What to say it--fully agree with social media tonight --the war is in full gear as of this evening---Russian troops and her mercenaries have been gradually raising the levels of violence to lull the West into thinking it is not an offense but now it is hard to hide.

AND the responses from Obama, Nuland, Kerry, Hollande and Merkel----silence.

Donetsk 23:17
Towards Trudovsky-#Maryinka very hot. The war is in full swing. https://twitter.com/666_mancer/status/625400687510339584 …

23:25 #Horlivka @adochek Volleys. Lots of. Loud, but further than yesterday.

Heavy battle in Mariinka http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/26-july-heavy-battle-in-mariinka …

23:20
In Kurakhovo volleys heard https://twitter.com/DmitriyKatsapov/status/625400220826894337..

23:35 #Avdeevka @666_mancer [vk] "Impacts on the coking plant" "Started to shell again" "alert siren at the plant"

German media is now reporting extremely heavy shelling tonight as well with videos.

+EIL+
Vororte von #Donezk liegen unter schwerem russischen Artilleriefeuer.
Marinka https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfAd48Nmc6s …
Avdiivka https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfAd48Nmc6s …

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Reference the captured Russian MAJ at the Ukrainian checkpoint.

News
Ukr. volunteer with the army Катерина Яресько posts all personal information on #RussianArmy POW on Facebook. pic.twitter.com/0eQUAvxBws

He was caught almost 1.500 km from his hometown #Zuyevka in central #Russia, has a wife and child.
Blame #PutinAtWar! pic.twitter.com/WzzYZc66AK

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Wonder what Obama, Nuland, Kerry, Hollande, Merkel have to say about their decision to conduct and force the Ukraine into a unilateral appeasement move that in fact seems to have endangered the Ukraine more than it helps--just exactly why does this group of western leaders insist in "saving Putin's face"???

It just cannot be about "business as usual" do they really understand Putin and his imperialistic expansion drive.

Even the OSCE was shelled by Russian troops and her mercenaries --AND the response to this attack by the West is again what--silence????

The ATO presser reported a record number of russian attacks from 12AM-6AM. The enemy used the entire range of heavy arms they have.

Escalating situation: 86 attacks on #Ukraine positions yesterday, 50 of them from 6 to midnight. Multiple GRAD attacks - ATO statement

"They will put the marines only the post 14a".
Do you know where is post 14a near Shyrokyno?

Despite #Ukraine General Staff denies, soldiers say the got order and now withdraw 15km from #Shyrokyne. via @Guderian_Xaba

Heavy shelling overnight in eastern #Ukraine. Reports of all kind of weapons used including several loads of MLRS GRAD.

Same at Optyne, Pisky Vodyane, Hranitne, Starohnativka. Russian tanks shelled also Krasnohorivka.
What a lovely #ceasefire.

Stanitsya Luhanska, Mayorsk, Shchastya, Pershotravneve, Mykolaivka hit from 152- and 122-mm artillery, 120mm mortars.

Optyne was shelled by russian tanks, 120-mm mortars & MLRS BM-21 "Grad". #Vodyane was also hit by GRADs fr #Donetsk-Spartak.

Svitlodarsk was shelled around 1AM with 152-mm artillery. From Vesele Hory they hit #Shchastya with tanks.

Truck full of ammo driven by Russian major might be one time that Russian soldier really did get lost in Ukraine pic.twitter.com/t2y0akcMMb

Svitlodarsk
Vuhlehirska power station hit, to "zero".
Sounds like totally destroyed? https://twitter.com/GirkinGirkin/status/625526000500215809 …

OSCE ✔ @OSCE
Spot report: Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) patrol is caught in fire in Shchastia but comes out unharmed http://www.osce.org/ukraine-smm/174491 …

Staromikhailivka 5:39AM
Incoming, on Marchenko str https://twitter.com/hyeva_maryinka/status/625516918351527936 …

#Krasnohorivka 7AM
Kalinina str - homes hit, nobody injured, only damage to houses https://twitter.com/hyeva_maryinka/status/625516118946529280 …

Avdiivka 6:04AM
You could hear the hum of machinery, must be tank.
Incoming @ #Optyne, Spartak. Hear only the fall https://twitter.com/JuZolyshkaLia/status/625502070657970176 …

#Donetsk 5:08AM
Again a volley of MRLS GRADs from Mineralne-#Yasynuvata, full load of 40 rockets. Like tow #Maryinka https://twitter.com/nixer79/status/625488499089739776 …

Donetsk 5:03AM
Hear explosions vaguely, feel the vibrations and all is shaking.
Good morning. https://twitter.com/idinmor/status/625486730393722880 …

Krasnohorivka
As scheduled, at 4:30 they have started to pound Ukr Army positions and homes with something heavy https://twitter.com/arthurnkua/status/625483203957137408 …

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Appears that the US attempt at an unilateral appeasement move forced on the Ukrainians did not "appease Putin"

Highest number of Minsk accords violations recorded yesterday, - ATO press center http://24today.net/open/483464

"Attack is the secret of defence; defence is the planning of an attack." -- General Sun Tzu (ca. 500BC)

Ukraine faces two choices: wait to be attacked (again & again) OR destroy every Russian (hybrid) forces object/group between FL and border.

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Appears that the US attempt at an unilateral appeasement move forced on the Ukrainians did not "appease Putin"

Highest number of Minsk accords violations recorded yesterday, - ATO press center http://24today.net/open/483464

"Attack is the secret of defence; defence is the planning of an attack." -- General Sun Tzu (ca. 500BC)

Ukraine faces two choices: wait to be attacked (again & again) OR destroy every Russian (hybrid) forces object/group between FL and border.

Near Kryakivka (Novoaidarsk distr, #Luhansk rg) Ukr recon unit repelled RU group, they throw away equipm to run away https://twitter.com/LUGANSK_TODAY/status/625540844255363072 …

Putin's War in #Ukraine: Ukrainian soldiers under attack near Luhansk (Exclusive Video) http://uatoday.tv/politics/putin-rsquo-s-war-in-ukraine-ukrainian-soldiers-under-attack-near-luhansk-exclusive-video-463395.html …

Russian Army snipers in DNR Somali gang, detailed investigation https://twitter.com/newsburko/status/625559086017433600 …

Yesterday 4 Ukrainian soldiers were wounded near Shchastya and 1 wounded (from mine) near Orikhove
https://m.facebook.com/odalug/posts/452704841578488 …

Tymchuk: Russian forces completed formation of 3 tactical groups (artillery) in Krasnoarmiisk, Telmanove & Bezimenne

Tymchuk: + 2 tactical groups (tanks) Mospyne to Komsomolske + 1 motor rifle battalion (infantry & tank) unit near Novoazovsk-Maksimov.

Dokuchajevsk 10:27AM
The shelling from Sovkhoz (state farm) in Nikolaevka continues. https://twitter.com/whicard5/status/625568142727741440 …

ATO press center reports unseen number of militant attacks after midnight: purposefully shelled residential areas of Opytne, Vodyane w Grad

Russians are now shelling Ukrainian villages and towns that have no Ukrainian military around them or near them.

Ukraine's 28th Brigade say militants intensified attacks on their positions yesterday.
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1124525664227992&substory_index=0&id=1060798357267390&refid=17&_ft_=top_level_post_id.1124525664227992&__tn__=%2As … pic.twitter.com/HqbNWLwkQD

Patriarch Kirill: 400 year old religious schism is the cause of war in 'the historic heart of Rus' -meaning Ukraine. http://obozrevatel.com/abroad/82617-i-smeh-i-greh--patriarh-kirill-nashel-prichinu-vojnyi-na-donbasse.htm …

Photo album (added 26 Jul) of Russian forces at training area in Luhansk region, Ukraine https://vk.com/dnrarmy?z=album-47011808_218675826 … pic.twitter.com/55ireSdhN3

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This is a great article on a specific event that occurred just after the annexation of the Crimea and the early events in eastern Ukraine--AND it depicts just how a really well known and respected US based think tank in Russia became a mouth piece for Russian propaganda and agitprop.

AND it explains why I early one simply do not read anything they have produced lately as it is Russian propaganda pure and simple.

Actually a shame as they were once renowned for their assessments of Russia.


http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/07/27/how-a-u-s-think-tank-fell-for-putin.html?via=desktop&source=twitter

How a U.S. Think Tank Fell for Putin
07.27.151:16 AM ET


The Carnegie Moscow Center used to be a hub of Russian liberalism. Now it stands accused of being a ‘trojan horse’ for Russian influence.

Last June, three months after Russia annexed the Crimean peninsula and just weeks before Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine shot down a civilian airliner, killing nearly 300 people, a small group of Americans and Russians gathered on the Finnish island of Boisto. Policy analysts and former government officials, they had come to discuss the fate of the post-Soviet country whose democratic revolution had helped sink U.S.-Russian relations to their lowest point in three decades.

The symbolism of the location could not have been lost on the meeting’s participants. Sharing an 800-mile long border with Russia, Finland has delicately managed relations with its neighbor. During the Cold War, it adopted a policy of formal neutrality, accepted Soviet interference in its domestic politics, and imposed rigorous self-censorship to avoid provoking Moscow. This phenomenon of voluntarily choosing limited sovereignty to appease a large and aggressive neighbor earned the moniker “Finlandization,” and the Soviet Union held up Finland as an example of its ability to live in peace and friendship with its neighbors. At the time of the Boisto meeting last summer, foreign policy luminaries like Henry Kissinger, Zbigniew Brzezinski, and David Ignatius were trumpeting “Finlandization” as a model for Ukraine to follow.

But what was most notable about the Boisto meeting—which eventually produced a 24-point plan to resolve the crisis—was what it lacked: Ukrainians. Large powers discussing the fates of smaller ones while simultaneously locking them out of the room has an understandably ugly resonance in Central and Eastern Europe. By excluding Ukrainians, the Boisto initiative signatories lent credence—wittingly or not—to the Russian view that Ukraine is not a real country and that outside forces can determine its fate. As for the Boisto proposals themselves, most were amenable to the Kremlin line.

For instance, in calling for both sides to withdraw forces from certain conflict areas in eastern Ukraine, the signatories treated aggressor and victim as moral equals, likening Russian removal of its soldiers with Ukraine’s withdrawing troops from its own, sovereign land. (Full disclosure: I signed an open letter at the time rejecting the Boisto initiative alongside dozens of other foreign policy analysts, including, most important, Ukrainians.)

Boisto was an example of what’s known in diplomatic parlance as a “Track II” negotiation: when parties close to, but not officially representing, national governments engage in discussions about topics of mutual concern. While America and its European partners ignored Boisto, the Russian Foreign Ministry seized on it. “On our behalf, we welcome intentions of the public and academic societies to contribute into the resolution of the situation in the Southeast of Ukraine and to put an end as soon as possible to bloodshed encouraged by Kiev authorities’ forceful measures,” read a Ministry statement. Happy to promote anything that flatters its self-image as a great power and goes over the heads of Ukrainians, Moscow evidently saw promotion of the Boisto proposal as in its interests.

The Boisto Group’s meeting was sponsored by three entities: the Finnish Foreign Ministry, the Institute for World Economy and International Relations (a think tank affiliated with the Russian Academy of Sciences), and the Carnegie Corporation of New York, one of the largest funders of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, which describes itself as “the oldest international affairs think tank in the United States.” Boisto’s first three signatories were Tom Graham, a former associate at the Carnegie Endowment, and a managing director at Kissinger Associates; Andrew Weiss, the Carnegie Endowment’s vice president for studies who also serves as a senior adviser at the Albright Stonebridge Group, and Deana Arsenian, vice president of the international program and director of the Russia program at the Carnegie Corporation. On the Russian side, the delegation included, among others, Alexei Arbatov, a scholar-in-residence at the Carnegie Moscow Center, and Vyacheslav Trubnikov, a former head of the country’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR).

Policy analysts who simultaneously work for major consulting shops founded by former secretaries of state (Henry Kissinger and Madeleine Albright, respectively), Graham and Weiss—who also served as co-chairs of the Boisto initiative—are influential players in the transatlantic conversation about Russia, although it’s unclear where their analytical work stops and their business interests begin. Graham’s bio at Yale’s Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, where he is a senior fellow, states that he “focuses on Russian and Eurasian affairs” for Kissinger Associates. (Graham did not reply to an email asking him to discuss the nature of his work.) Weiss’s bio at Albright Stonebridge states that he “assists clients with issues related to Russia and the countries of the former Soviet Union.” In an email, he told The Daily Beast, “My role at Albright Stonebridge Group is focused on helping Western companies and philanthropic foundations understand Russian political and economic realities,” and that, “[t]he Carnegie Endowment has strict conflict of interest policies about outside consulting, which I fully abide by.” Weiss did not elaborate on whether such policies prevent him from advising businesses trying to navigate around sanctions imposed on Russia for its behavior in Ukraine, telling me that he “can’t discuss client-specific work at Albright Stonebridge Group.”

“I don’t want to be holier than thou,” a Russia analyst at a prominent Washington think tank said when asked about Graham and Weiss’s work as business consultants while also dispensing ostensibly objective analysis. “It seems to be a direct conflict of interest. I actually think American business money is potentially more difficult to manage than Russian money, in all honesty, because I think the American corporate interests are engaging because they have an agenda with Russia and they’re much more savvy about how to exercise their influence.”

Arsenian, in her capacity as head of the Carnegie Corporation’s Russia program, has undertaken a project called “Rebuilding U.S.—Russia Relations,”, a website featuring brief articles by scholars, the vast majority of which argue for a diplomatic détente with the Kremlin, oppose arming Ukraine, or discourage Western sanctions against Russia. Under their tutelage, Carnegie has attempted to steer the debate over the Western response to Russia in a direction more aligned with Kremlin interests. Carnegie’s role as a convener and promoter of the Boisto plan is but one element of a dramatic shift in its agenda from an institution that once hosted some of the Kremlin’s sharpest critics to a place now urging Western appeasement of an ever more aggressive Russia.

Earlier this year, the Carnegie Corporation initiated a forum called “Rebuilding U.S.—Russia Relations,” overseen by Deana Arsenian. The vast majority of the pieces commissioned by the forum promotes the view that Russia—despite its riptide of anti-American disinformation and conspiracy theories that place the State Department and CIA at the center of every major geopolitical development—is a sometimes difficult friend to the United States.

In April 2014, posting on the corporation’s website in preface to an article in the Financial Times by Thomas Graham under the headline “Punishing an aggressive Russia is a fool’s errand,” Arsenian wrote: “The actions and the rhetoric of all involved are progressing along a dangerous path with potential negative ramifications for global peace and security.” Such a pox-on-both-your-houses moral equivalency, it’s true, is a common refrain heard among many policy intellectuals in the West who view the European Union, NATO, or U.S. policymakers as equally responsible as the Kremlin for the mess in Ukraine. But Arsenian went a step farther in justifying a policy of non-punishment for Moscow, arguing that “[f]actual information is hard [to] obtain” about events in Ukraine.

Is it, really, though? A welter of independent reporting and research conducted by nongovernmental organizations had solidly concluded quite a lot about the sequence of events concerning the Russian invasion and annexation of Crimea (an Anschluss that Putin himself acknowledged after having lied about it).

Despite all these easily verifiable acts of aggression, leading Carnegie figures persist in advising against any critical Western response. Though Weiss told me that his side gig consulting with Albright Stonebridge “is focused on helping Western companies and philanthropic foundations understand Russian political and economic realities,” he insisted, “I have never advocated nor do I support the lifting (or weakening) of sanctions imposed on Russia as a result of its aggression against Ukraine.” His public statements, however, paint a more complicated picture.

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The official newspaper of group "DNR" "Donetsk Republic" has reduced the circulation. There is no money. http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/27-july-the-official-newspaper-of-group-dnr-donetsk-republic …

Night attack on Avdiivka coke plant pic.twitter.com/z3FDamDIqC http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/27-july-night-attack-on-avdiivka-coke-plant …

Russian soldiers run away leaving ammo on a battlefield. Reported by #ATO Press Center. Read http://lugansk-news.com/russian-soldiers-run-away-leaving-ammo-on-a-battlefield-ato-press-center-report-in-lugansk-region/ … pic.twitter.com/n02YsYFXie

SBU source: about 200 Ukrainians held captive by Russian proxies. About 60 of them are civilians
http://www.unian.info/politics/1105237-sbu-source-about-200-ukrainians-held-captive-by-russian-proxies.html …

Reports: Kremlin ordered not to issue #Russia|n citizenship to #DPR leaders + Rus soldiers dig deep trenches in #Rostov at #Ukraine border.

Irony. Russian soldiers photographed thru Russian army rangefinder at firing range in occupied Luhansk reg, Ukraine. pic.twitter.com/AD2uwTLUbc
Source (photo uploaded 26 July) https://vk.com/dnrarmy?z=photo-47011808_376089036%2Falbum-47011808_218675826 …

Map. Situation in eastern #Ukraine, July 27, 00:00 EET pic.twitter.com/NFPaJv0JEn

Attempt to disguise identities of Russian army instructors. Training ground, Luhansk, Ukraine https://vk.com/dnrarmy?z=photo-47011808_376088911%2Falbum-47011808_218675826 … pic.twitter.com/Kj4qkw2kCP

footage from Krasnogorivka, morning shooting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_K7wWqSQcQg …

Russian withdrawal, or advance? Russian (hybrid) forces unit (Cmdr Pavel Dremov) Luhansk reg, (26) July pic.twitter.com/VO2aZaN7jx

DNR's mobile mortar in #Staromykhailivka https://twitter.com/Keleberda/status/625598965925416960 …

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News
The 28th Brigade of the Ukrainian army is under mortar, RPG and BMP shelling in #Krasnohorivka since the morning.

Escalation of situation in east of Ukraine | Ministry of Defence of Ukraine 27 Jul http://www.mil.gov.ua/en/news/2015/07/27/escalation-of-situation-in-east-of-ukraine/ …

BreakingNews
Heavy Russian artillery shelling killed another female civilian in #Avdeevka last night.
Severe damage to infrastructure.

Russia|n propaganda account claims that '#Novorossiya'n' forces destroyed #Ukraine tank..actually it's from 2014: pic.twitter.com/b59DaN78MO
you can find it in November 2014 here: http://vk.com/wall-76627576

Tired of shooting at each other, Ukraine's rebels & national troops take a time-out to fire at monitors & tourists. https://meduza.io/en/news/2015/07/27/osce-monitoring-mission-under-fire-in-ukraine …

Ukraine denies that its border guards fired at Russian tourists taking selfies at a checkpoint. "No bullets fired." https://slon.ru/posts/54490

Not sure he exactly knows the reality on the ground—if the buffer zone is 30km wide then that is 15km each side of the acknowledged front line set in stone by Minsk 2 which places the buffer zone in the middle of the town.

Poroshenko says #Mariupol not part of buffer zone along contact line
http://24today.net/open/483695

Killed Russian Spetsnaz in the Ukraine----
Three Soldiers of the 16th Spetsnaz Brigade Killed in Ukraine in May were Identified: https://en.informnapalm.org/three-spetsnaz-soldiers-of-the-16th-brigade-killed-in-ukraine-in-may-were-identified/ … @en_informnapalm pic.twitter.com/cSLRgE18kt

How strange is this----
Russian forces increase UAV recon flights, increase probing attacks on Ukrainian positions. And we get new uniforms!! pic.twitter.com/C3Cq5c4fCo
We need ATMs not uniforms----
Major added: "At least we have a nice new dress uniform to be buried in." (BTW, he knows what he talks about: he kills RU tanks

23.07.15 #Donetsk oblast #Horlivka
Terrorists' positions near Leninske
https://youtu.be/HGJU4Rm4tvU
http://img.ly/CheB pic.twitter.com/XTBXxyMkwV

27.04.15 #Donetsk oblast S of #Avdiivka
"Vostok" terrorists' positions
https://youtu.be/27PJp4Z_xU4
http://img.ly/Ci8b pic.twitter.com/IjdAci3q67

Krasnogorovka - Militant says "We are shelling the Ukrs"
v @hyeva_maryinka pic.twitter.com/2E9ESgMqQ8

This increase in Russian forces UAV flights is notable (and UAVs are not always spotted) https://twitter.com/uacrisis/status/625600878024781824 …

In last day, militants attacked Mariinka checkpoint with IFVs & small arms. 16 enemy drones recorded - Border guards
http://dpsu.gov.ua/ua/about/news/news_7997.htm …

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Putin in a recent telephone conference call with the Normandy Four demanded that the Ukrainians give "a sign of good faith" in pullling back from this town--then the US, France and Germany applied pressure to the Ukrainians to do so.

What is interesting is that while Putin demands a "sign of good faith" his Russian troops and her mercenaries are massively shelling and ground attacking virtually all of the Ukrainian positions on the front line AND shelling villages and towns that have no Ukrainian military anywhere close to them--and shellings of civilians is a war crime.

So exactly what did the West get for their unilateral appeasement move forced on the Ukrainians in return for this "good faith"--nothing but more shellings and ground attacks.

Remember Putin demanded during and after Minsk 2 the Ukrainians give up Debaltseve which was not to happen under Minsk 2 and the West remained silent there as well.

THIS is really what it is all about as the pull back was the original idea of the Russian General assigned to the JCCC--NOT Putin's idea.

There is a plan on Russian General Staff's table for exerting 100% control over Fortress Crimea's east (Mariupol) and west (Odessa) flanks.

News from this morning is Azov + Donbass Batalion have been withdrawn from Shyrokyne, replaced by marine corps. Shyrokyne now "cordoned off"

And Mariupol (the city) is not the Russian's objective: it's the port & metal industry infrastructure + control over Azov coast

Donbas batt &Azov Reg, most of them experienced veterans, have been rotating so the marines are not there for troop rotation

#Poroshenko: Each unit stays on its place, we only withdraw heavy artillery and MRLS. #Mariupol #Shyrokyne

No word if the marines will really be stationed in #Shyrokyne, especially on the strategic important high grounds.

He also said that demilitarisation of Shyrokyno must be signed at 3 Aug, latest. In Shyrokyno there is no Ukr heavy artillery &MRLS

Call it speculation, but i believe the Gen Staff doesn't trust the volunteer batt.'s and this is the reason of their pullback thought the same, the marines will withdraw when ordered, the volunteers probably not, so tell them it's rotation of forces and pull back the marines when volunteers left.

Azov went on offensive in Febr w/o the Gen Staff's approval. And Azov said many times the demilitarization is a very bad idea

My opinion is that this is why they were pulled back. The marines respect the orders always, w/o any comments.

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Putin in a recent telephone conference call with the Normandy Four demanded that the Ukrainians give "a sign of good faith" in pullling back from this town--then the US, France and Germany applied pressure to the Ukrainians to do so.

What is interesting is that while Putin demands a "sign of good faith" his Russian troops and her mercenaries are massively shelling and ground attacking virtually all of the Ukrainian positions on the front line AND shelling villages and towns that have no Ukrainian military anywhere close to them--and shellings of civilians is a war crime.

So exactly what did the West get for their unilateral appeasement move forced on the Ukrainians in return for this "good faith"--nothing but more shellings and ground attacks.

Remember Putin demanded during and after Minsk 2 the Ukrainians give up Debaltseve which was not to happen under Minsk 2 and the West remained silent there as well.

THIS is really what it is all about as the pull back was the original idea of the Russian General assigned to the JCCC--NOT Putin's idea.

There is a plan on Russian General Staff's table for exerting 100% control over Fortress Crimea's east (Mariupol) and west (Odessa) flanks.

News from this morning is Azov + Donbass Batalion have been withdrawn from Shyrokyne, replaced by marine corps. Shyrokyne now "cordoned off"

And Mariupol (the city) is not the Russian's objective: it's the port & metal industry infrastructure + control over Azov coast

Donbas batt &Azov Reg, most of them experienced veterans, have been rotating so the marines are not there for troop rotation

#Poroshenko: Each unit stays on its place, we only withdraw heavy artillery and MRLS. #Mariupol #Shyrokyne

No word if the marines will really be stationed in #Shyrokyne, especially on the strategic important high grounds.

He also said that demilitarisation of Shyrokyno must be signed at 3 Aug, latest. In Shyrokyno there is no Ukr heavy artillery &MRLS

Call it speculation, but i believe the Gen Staff doesn't trust the volunteer batt.'s and this is the reason of their pullback thought the same, the marines will withdraw when ordered, the volunteers probably not, so tell them it's rotation of forces and pull back the marines when volunteers left.

Azov went on offensive in Febr w/o the Gen Staff's approval. And Azov said many times the demilitarization is a very bad idea

My opinion is that this is why they were pulled back. The marines respect the orders always, w/o any comments.

NOTICE that after five days of intensive shellings and strong ground attacks by Russian troops and her mercenaries THERE has not been a single peep out of all the Western leaders especially NOTHING from Nuland and Biden.

So they in effect by remaining silent support the aggressive shellings and ground attacks.

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More Russian artillery hits strike same building in #Krasnohorivka every few hours.
via pic.twitter.com/jJMT4GWISY pic.twitter.com/7qc1lZPRzk

Where Do Russians Send T-80 Tanks?: https://en.informnapalm.org/where-do-russians-take-t-80-tanks/ … via @en_informnapalm pic.twitter.com/UiDBcpc2S9

Reminder: All DPR/LPR units in occupied Donbas are being reorganized by Romanchuk (Russian General at the JCCC) into extension of Russian Army Southern Military District

Damage to Vuhlehirsʹk thermal power plant caused by militant shelling overnight
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1038913202786152&id=820651001279041&refid=17&_ft_=top_level_post_id.1038913202786152&__tn__=%2As … pic.twitter.com/ETYs09iwpF

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http://www.themoscowtimes.com/opinion/opinion/article/the-origins-of-putins-foreign-policy/526234.html

The Origins of Putin's Foreign Policy

By S. Elliott Estebo

Jul. 26 2015 19:57


In September 2004, in the aftermath of bombings in the Moscow metro and the horrific school seizure in Beslan that left 334 dead, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced his plan to radically restructure Russia's political system by ending popular elections for governors.

Without offering a specific explanation for how the change would defeat terrorism and unify the country, Putin characterized the plan to appoint all governors and create a "single chain of command" as "enhancing national cohesion in the face of a terrorist threat … in order to strengthen the unity of the country and prevent further crises."

As the United States and Europe were engaged in the ongoing "war on terror" and sought greater cooperation with Russia in their efforts to prosecute that war, it was not difficult for Putin to evade criticism of his new reforms.

In contrast to the rhetoric employed when Putin first became president in 2000, Kremlin theorists now began referring to Russia's changing form of government as "sovereign democracy."

Though Putin always advocated the establishment of a strong Russian state, his emasculation of the State Duma and the takeover of independent media outlets by Kremlin-friendly companies ensured that penetrating criticism or serious opposition to the regime would not actually challenge his power.

The idea, therefore, of the new "sovereign democracy" was to maintain the outward appearance of a democratic form of government while providing security, accommodating economic growth, and undercutting actual democratic institutions.

By 2006, a parallel change in Russia's foreign policy orientation was evident. No longer expressing a willingness to integrate into the Western community, political leaders in Moscow began speaking about Russia as an independent center of power. Calling for a "geopolitical triangle" between Russia, the EU and the United States, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov emphasized Russia's potential role as an international mediator. In a December 2006 article for the Kommersant newspaper he wrote, "Russia … cannot take anybody's side in the conflict between civilizations. Russia is prepared to be a bridge."

According to political analyst Lilia Shevtsova, subscribing to Western values had come to be "regarded by Russian politicians as an ideological basis for defeatism and as a rejection of Russia's own identity and sovereignty."

So, what vision for the future replaced Western integration in the minds of Russia's political elite? In a word, Eurasianism. Although Russia had formed economic treaties with former Soviet states Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan prior to 2000, Putin began to focus Russia's foreign policy on Eurasian integration in 2007, and continued to pursue this strategy following the global financial crisis in 2008. Drawing on the anti-Western ideas of "New Eurasianists" such as Alexander Dugin and Sergei Glazyev, Putin began to replace the rhetoric of Western integration with that of pursuing an independent course, spreading traditional family values and protecting the "Russian world."

Since Putin's return to the presidency in 2012, and especially since Russia's involvement in the Ukraine crisis led to a series of Western sanctions that remain in place today, it seems that Putin now has few options but to continue pursuing Eurasian integration for Russia, providing assistance to and receiving support from Asia's autocratic regimes

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Putin in a recent telephone conference call with the Normandy Four demanded that the Ukrainians give "a sign of good faith" in pullling back from this town--then the US, France and Germany applied pressure to the Ukrainians to do so.

What is interesting is that while Putin demands a "sign of good faith" his Russian troops and her mercenaries are massively shelling and ground attacking virtually all of the Ukrainian positions on the front line AND shelling villages and towns that have no Ukrainian military anywhere close to them--and shellings of civilians is a war crime.

So exactly what did the West get for their unilateral appeasement move forced on the Ukrainians in return for this "good faith"--nothing but more shellings and ground attacks.

Remember Putin demanded during and after Minsk 2 the Ukrainians give up Debaltseve which was not to happen under Minsk 2 and the West remained silent there as well.

THIS is really what it is all about as the pull back was the original idea of the Russian General assigned to the JCCC--NOT Putin's idea.

There is a plan on Russian General Staff's table for exerting 100% control over Fortress Crimea's east (Mariupol) and west (Odessa) flanks.

News from this morning is Azov + Donbass Batalion have been withdrawn from Shyrokyne, replaced by marine corps. Shyrokyne now "cordoned off"

And Mariupol (the city) is not the Russian's objective: it's the port & metal industry infrastructure + control over Azov coast

Donbas batt &Azov Reg, most of them experienced veterans, have been rotating so the marines are not there for troop rotation

#Poroshenko: Each unit stays on its place, we only withdraw heavy artillery and MRLS. #Mariupol #Shyrokyne

No word if the marines will really be stationed in #Shyrokyne, especially on the strategic important high grounds.

He also said that demilitarisation of Shyrokyno must be signed at 3 Aug, latest. In Shyrokyno there is no Ukr heavy artillery &MRLS

Call it speculation, but i believe the Gen Staff doesn't trust the volunteer batt.'s and this is the reason of their pullback thought the same, the marines will withdraw when ordered, the volunteers probably not, so tell them it's rotation of forces and pull back the marines when volunteers left.

Azov went on offensive in Febr w/o the Gen Staff's approval. And Azov said many times the demilitarization is a very bad idea

My opinion is that this is why they were pulled back. The marines respect the orders always, w/o any comments.

Apropos to tweets, Donbass Battalion seem to be resisting withdrawal from Shyrokyne. Info re naval corps might not be correct. Azov hv left

President Poroshenko: "Mariupol is the eastern outpost that will be defended by Ukraine" http://www.president.gov.ua/en/news/prezident-mariupol-forpost-na-shodi-yakij-ukrayina-zahishati-35722 …

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Russia keeps on trying to destabilize the Ukraine……..
SBU has blocked the creation of the fake people's Republic In Kirovograd http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/27-july-sbu-has-blocked-the-creation-of-the-fake-peoples …

"Novorossiya Miners And Truck Drivers" Use Russian 'Granat' Drones: https://en.informnapalm.org/novorossiya-miners-use-russian-granat-drones/ … via @en_informnapalm pic.twitter.com/zwkLFscqob

Probability of full-scale invasion by the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation remains high - General Staff
https://m.facebook.com/GeneralStaff.ua?fref=ts&refsrc=http%3A%2F%2Fen.censor.net.ua%2Fnews%2F3454 46%2Fprobability_of_fullscale_invasion_of_the_arme d_forces_of_the_russian_federation_remains_high_ge neral&_rdr …

Russia sent Т-80У tanks from Naro-Fominsk to Rostov reg. as Ukraine announced a first batch.https://informnapalm.org/11038-tanky-t-80-vs-rossyy-perebrasyvayut-k-granytse-yz-g-naro-fomynsk … pic.twitter.com/cxhVAu9hBx

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http://www.cepa.org/content/militarization-black-sea

The Militarization of the Black Sea
Stephen Blank

July 20, 2015


By invading Ukraine and annexing Crimea, Russia shattered the belief that war in Europe was inconceivable. Consequently, the entire East European front from the Arctic to the Black Sea is now undergoing serious militarization. Although the invasion of Ukraine has understandably led NATO to concentrate on the Baltic States and Poland; NATO has not ignored the Black Sea and is sending forces to the Balkans and building bases there. Nevertheless, that has not allayed regional anxieties about Russian objectives and policies. And the reason for this anxiety is Russian policy.

Upon capturing Crimea, Moscow immediately seized all of Ukraine’s energy assets and began an ongoing and steady program of large-scale militarization. Moscow has deployed Iskander missiles in Crimea to threaten both the Balkans and South Caucasus regions. Russia has launched a long-term program to build combined land, sea, air, and air defense forces, whose purposes are to create an anti-access and area denial force (A2AD) against NATO and to conduct power projection into the Balkans as well as the Middle East. At the same time Moscow has shadowed NATO warships whenever they enter the Black Sea and is clearly sending a message that it insists that the Black Sea remain a closed Russian lake except for contingencies where Moscow seeks to project power abroad into the Mediterranean. To achieve that latter goal Russia has sought army bases in Serbia and a naval base at Bar in Montenegro on the Adriatic, and in Cyprus.

Concurrently, the war in Ukraine and Moscow’s recent veto of a UN resolution calling the Serbian massacre at Srebrenica in 1995 an act of genocide demonstrate that Moscow is still consistently playing the ethnic card throughout the Balkans and Black Sea area to prevent their stabilization as increasingly secure democratic zones. In this context, it is clear to see why the original objective of Putin’s campaign to create a New Russia (Novorossiya) entailed inciting ethnic uprisings and terrorism. By doing so, forces based in Crimea and the Donbass could seize those areas while forces based in Moldova marched the 80 kilometers to Odessa to seize that city and deprive Ukraine of its last port and the means of upholding its independence. And apart from inflaming pre-existing ethnic tensions or stoking new ones, Moscow has long utilized its connections with Russian and Balkan organized crime and key economic sectors like energy and the media to corrupt Balkan politicians, movements, and government institutions.

Meanwhile, Moscow continues to attempt to subordinate Balkan states with its energy program on a daily basis. The Black Sea pipeline now called Turk Stream would traverse formerly Ukrainian waters and ship 63 billion cubic meters (BCM) annually to Turkey, 47 BCM of which would then enter a pipeline ending at the Greek-Turkish border so that Russia could elude European Union jurisdiction. Moscow’s recent deal to build the next stage of this pipeline, would give Greece billions in tax receipts after the pipeline opens in 2019 and ensure Russian ownership so that the EU cannot interfere, expresses Moscow’s ambitions to fracture EU unity and subordinate Balkan states through their dependence upon energy imports. Similarly, hints from the new BRICS Bank that Greece could get debt relief show that Moscow is employing every instrument of power, whether economic or military, that it possesses to regain its influence in the Balkan and Black Sea areas, intimidate local governments into surrendering to its agenda, and undermine European integration.

Therefore, the EU and NATO cannot allow the Black Sea to become a closed Russian lake or let Russian threats, whether they occur in energy projects or in military force, go unanswered. Just as we need a coherent strategy for Ukraine we need an equally compelling multi-dimensional strategy for the Balkans. And as Greece shows, we need it now, not tomorrow or the day after.

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I have been commenting here that the US under Obama has made a clear decision due to his legacy to throw the Ukraine under the bus in order to get Russian assistance on;

1. Iran
2. Syria
3. MH17 shot down

We have seen in fact that Obama, Nuland and Biden pressured the Ukraine into the following unilateral appeasement moves without a single reciprocal move;

1. changes to the Constitution that in fact matched what Russia wanted
2. agreed to a 30km buffer zone
3. withdrawal of weapons 100mm and lower from the front contact line.

ALL in the face of over four weeks of shellings and ground attacks averaging 80-100 attacks per day.

AND that is a "ceasefire"??

Especially since the Russian mercenaries have never really stopped fighting at any point in Minsk 1 and 2-- so why believe they will now stop.

If the Russians renew their attacks after the 30km buffer is completed on the Ukrainian side then the 15kms that the Ukrainians pulled back will quickly be taken over and the Russian occupied Ukraine territory expanded by yet another 15km over 320 kms long.

We have seen videos filmed for the OSCE of their "so called pull back " that went only 1.4 kms and then they hid in a tree line--not the 15km as required AND both the DNR and the LNR proclaimed they had completed the 100mm weapons pull back and still the Ukrainians are getting shelled by tanks, 122mm and 152mm SPGs and artillery that were supposedly already pulled back.

Now the comments today of the Russian UN Ambassador concerning the shot down of MH17---

Churkin: in fact, i am VERY happy how we've been talking with our US partners lately. In the #MH17 case they're keeping very low profile

WHAT is amazing is that the Minsk 2 agreement has 11 points which led off with six points to settle the fighting, establish a full/effective ceasefire and the exchange of POWs then when the fighting was calmed down then they would move onto the harder pieces ---the political and reintegration points.

Obama, Nuland, Kerry, Holland and Merkel HAVE deliberately flipped the agreement and are trying to implement the political points without resolving the ongoing shellings and ground attacks AND absolutely NO POW exchanges when there are still verified over 200 Ukrainians POWs. One video was recently released indicating clear Ukrainian POW abuse by the Russian mercenaries and yet not a single comment from the West.

AND it was the Russian side who stopped all POW exchanges with no reason even through it is stated clearly in Minsk 2.

So the massive unilateral pressure on the Ukrainians to force them to fully implement Minsk 2 WITHOUT a single point being fulfilled by Russia.

ACTUALLY Obama stated in 2014--"we will judge Putin by his actions not his words". AND after five intensive shelling and ground attack days--absolutely no comment from DC, France and or Germany--utter silence.

WELL we are now in 2015 and Obama praises Putin for his Iranian support and writes about his gratitude AND now he is in an "appeasement mode" in order to "save Putin's face"

This is the core problem-- when a US President does not have any strategic strategy and is trying to achieve a "legacy" over the cost of 45M Ukrainians who actually believe in the rule of law, good governance and a transparent government --can any country in the future believe anything the US says, does or wants them to sign ie the 1994 Budapest Memorandum?

Question is does Obama believe in the same points?????

Probably not based on the Russian Ambassador's comment from today.

Heck he is throwing even 298 killed civilians under the bus in the name of legacy........in the face of literally solid evidence as to who shot down MH17.

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DNR doesnt allow humanitarian aid for 10 days.
@dopomozhemo

Air recon vid: Elenovka area, Donetsk-Mariupol road https://twitter.com/Pink_Shark___/status/625674162598739968 …

Odd move by Poroshenko: denies there's a buffer zone nr Mariupol but pulls back artillery/MLRS RU http://www.pravda.com.ua/rus/news/2015/07/27/7075832/ … via @ukrpravda_news

From the German government---they see a great step towards a successful ceasefire….What the hack are they all smoking in Berlin these days????
Bundesregierung sieht "großen Schritt in Richtung eines belastbareren, nachhaltigen Waffenstillstands".
Realität: pic.twitter.com/Dvbwxh1eab

Appears they did not the information about the last five days of intensive shellings and ground attacks from their Ukrainian Ambassador.

Seems Russians achieved their goal...
More #NoGoAreas in occupied Donbas for the @OSCE. https://twitter.com/OSCE_SMM/status/625698043548041216 …

Russians war criminals and murderers in Ukraine (brigade 20634 from VLADIKAVKAZ) https://metelyk.org/criminal/?cf[name]=&cf[country]=&cf[address]=&cf[phone]=&cf[desc]=%D0%B2%2F%D1%87+20634&cf[type]= … pic.twitter.com/W8gBS7yPJT

Today militants shelled Opytne and Vodyane with GRAD MLRS. Ukraine forces repelled enemy DRG near Kryakіvka - ATO
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1039048306105975&substory_index=0&id=820651001279041&refid=17&_ft_=top_level_post_id.1039048306105975&__tn__=%2As …

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BREAKING Snipers of the #Russian 19th Brigade Enlisted in ‘Somali’ Terrorist Battalion #Ukraine https://en.informnapalm.org/the-snipers-of-the-19th-brigade-in-the-ranks-of-somali-armed-formation/ …

Russia labels #Ukraine exercise "a provocation". Is #NATO ready to respond?: http://frces.tv/A1HkO1 pic.twitter.com/RjuN0G7AIZ

Ruscists tanks are shelling Stanitsa Luhanska, right now. https://twitter.com/Villa_riba/status/625743396225859587 …

Pisky 27.07.2015 https://youtu.be/A8HGFJRiJLo via @YouTube

Moscow Times: Rebel infighting bringing chaos to east #Ukraine http://uatoday.tv/news/moscow-times-rebel-infighting-bringing-chaos-to-east-ukraine-463955.html … pic.twitter.com/O9po4sVa9q

Let me summarise some hilarious Russian videos, which came out today.
pic.twitter.com/Rumz3ic5uG

VIDEO: Russian attack near Schastya http://www.unian.info/war/1105378-putins-war-in-ukraine-ukrainian-soldiers-under-attack-near-luhansk-exclusive-video.html …

Footage
Russian army sappers destroy UXO in #Luhansk region.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97elm1SQLsc …
pic.twitter.com/wNnMSDEw2c

Now we know where all of those Russian conspiracies come from. @lifenews_ru segment with psychics talking about #MH17 pic.twitter.com/pPhz5aRgCq

1/2 of RU supports #mh17tribunal cause they think UA done it, #putin is against cause he knows who's really responsible

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Just a short comment tonight---Russian shellings and ground attacks are now in progress as usual--running though a tad later than normal.

Will carry the reports tomorrow.

Sunken Russian recon/spy sub taken the headlines.

Intact and a serious problem for Putin now after the Russians made fun of the Swedish claims.

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Donetsk
Kaliniskyi ds - from 5AM till 6:30 salvos were heard from #Yasynuvata https://twitter.com/DoneckiiPatriot/status/625896546295513089 …

Kiev quietly exchanged the 2 high profile Russian commandos captured in Ukraine for its soldiers held in Russia http://www.gazeta.ru/politics/2015/07/27_a_7659805.shtml …
NOT confirmed as of yet

Governor Tuka: Terrorists shelled #Shchastya. The area is left without electricity. https://twitter.com/ryabtchuk_roman/status/625892925256417280 …

Battalion "Donbass" leaves Shirokino, volunteers in positions are replaced by Marines pic.twitter.com/mVh2EK58IX

Blasts, not volleys. In this Donbas slang in most cases:
бахи,минуса,лупят,гупает = volleys,outgoing
бабахи,плюса = incoming

Avdiivka 6:08AM
Has calmed down. Before there were volleys. https://twitter.com/JuZolyshkaLia/status/625865440854712320 …

Avdiivka 5:46AM
Already about 30-35 incoming https://twitter.com/fingerw80/status/625860366229196800 …

#Avdiivka 5:36AM
Good morning... incoming, 8 pieces already, perhaps in the region of the blockpost https://twitter.com/fingerw80/status/625858362333396992 …

Maryinka
The night was mostly quiet, sometimes volleys heard. From time to time battle sound from Novomarinka, machine guns and volleys.

#Krasnohorivka 1:53AM
Far outside the city heard battle, using artillery. https://twitter.com/hyeva_maryinka/status/625877873086308352 …

Jul27 #Shyrokyne: one #OSCE SMM member enjoyed RUS ceasefire & suffered a mild concussion & a bruise of the right leg http://www.osce.org/ukraine-smm/174716 …
OSCE observer injured in #Shyrokyno. http://tsn.ua/ato/u-shirokinomu-sposterigach-misiyi-obsye-otrimav-travmu-unaslidok-strilyanini-464054.html … via @tsnua

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Let's see Obama, Kerry, Nuland and Biden have applied unilateral appeasement pressure on the Ukraine in order that they "flip the Minsk 2" on it's head and implement Minsk 2 politically without Russian having a single demand to reciprocate on a single point of implementing the Minsk 2 agreement on the military side. WHY is that?????.

Actually DC, Paris and Berlin has virtually said nothing over the last two weeks that indicate they still stand by their statements that Putin must fulfill Minsk 2.

Now Kerry and Larvov are getting together again as they did in Sochi when the US signaled it's intent to throw the Ukraine under the bus.

NOTICE that even if the Ukraine made the unilateral moves as demanded by the US------- NOTHING has stopped the Russian intensive shellings and ground attacks of the last four weeks and especially the last week.

Russian troops and her mercenaries are now incessantly shelling civilians in towns and villages WITH NO Ukrainian military in them and or nearby AND is shelling and damaging Ukrainian critical infrastructures---gas, electricity, heating and coking.

The utter destruction of towns and villages is the exact same tactic the Russian Army used in the Chechen wars.

AND not a single peep out of DC, Paris, and Berlin--AND Nuland the so called great supporter of the Ukraine all the while she maintains a back channel to Putin and never discusses her conversations with the Ukraine --the actual aggrieved party in this war.

Donetsk @papandopoolo An old woman in the yard, "Don't sooth me, I am still able to distinguish thunder from volleys"

Luhansk region blackout after morning shelling of power plant in #Schastye pic.twitter.com/Y71cF5CeHC http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/28-july-luhansk-region-blackout-after-morning-shelling-of …

Multiple reports that Ukrainian soldiers replacing volunteer battalions in #Shyrokyne are lightly armed & will themselves be withdrawn soon.

Mariupol self-defense rep: Prez needs to come here and decide on the spot, involve local authorities, activists, mil in dialogue – presser

Spartak of Mariupol self-defense: in case of demilitarization of #Shyrokyne self-defense will go there w OSCE or substitute withdrawn troops

12:34 #Donetsk @papandopoolo It rumbles in the north, not thunder no doubt
@nyka1968 The center also hears that 'not thunder'

Horlivka
This was the worst night of all time in #Zaitsevo.
Ukr Army is on Bakhmuka, not in Zaitsevo. https://twitter.com/Innulja03/status/625953204912672768
…

VIDEO: Results of overnight shelling of Avdiivka
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zlmzLq8O5eM … pic.twitter.com/Nk0eSFOHEU

ATOspox: SBU detained Donetsk resident with 1.5 million rubles. She was engaged in changing hryvnia stolen in Luhansk pic.twitter.com/eRAclXDUgICol. Lysenko: Update on captured GRU operatives. Russian media spreads fakes about their exchange to distract attention from Savchenko trial

ATO spokesperson: SBU seized communications equipment that militants used to contact with Russian intelligence pic.twitter.com/3fF5Pfhz3d

ATO spox: Mariupol sector: fighting east of Telmanove. Militants targeted Starohnativka with artillery, mortared Hranitne fired at Chermalyk

Russian OG-7V grenades identified as part of the ammo captured at #Ukrainian checkpoint. http://lugansk-news.com/russian-og-7v-fragmentation-grenades-identified-as-part-of-the-ammo-captured-at-ukrainian-checkpoint/ … pic.twitter.com/ntyZNrZXqO

ATO spokesperson: Other hotspots in Donetsk sector: Avdiivka & Maryinka. Militants fired from Grad rocket launchers 3 times

ATO spox: Donetsk sector: Militants attacked Svitlodarsk residential dstrct with 152mm artillery. Attacked UA positions by Mykolayivka Druha

Russian Spetsnaz again on the attack ---
Col. Andriy Lysenko: Ukrainian troops fought off attack of militant subversive group near Kryakivka village.

Col. Andriy Lysenko: Luhansk sector: Hotspots: Stanytsia Lyhanska, Shchastya, Krymske. Local power plant partly stopped working.

Col. Andriy Lysenko: Conflict escalated. Russia-backed militants used Grad multiple rocket launchers first time in 5 weeks

During the last 24 hours 1 Ukrainian soldier was killed, 12 were wounded - ATO spokesperson

12:51 #Luhansk @Edward_Lugansk Massy booms heard from LVVAUSh direction,maybe something starts at #Stanytsia_Luhanska

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A short overview of the US, France, Russian unilateral pressure on the Ukraine to give up a critical strategic land as a “sign of good faith”—when Putin uses these words literally beware.

The Ukrainians also implemented the so called “30km buffer zone” and fully complied with pulling back tanks and heavy weapons ALL the while even OSCE cannot confirm if the Russian troops and her mercenaires “pulled anything back”.

Am I the only one seeing a complete failure of the West to ensure reciprocal moves by Russia--????
NOW a serious question directed at the French, Germans and Obama—after implementing this unilateral move EXACTLY what was the response by the Russians—even more intensive shellings and grounds attacks all along the front line.

Russian-backed forces withdrew around 2 kilometres back from the village on July 2.


On July 24, the Élysée Palace announced that the Normandy Quartet (formed of the French, German, Ukrainian and Russian leaders) had agreed that Ukrainian forces would indeed withdraw from Shirokino.

TSN's Andriy Tsaplienko reported in the early hours of this morning that naval infantry had rotated with Donbass fighters on their way back from Shirokino.

Tsaplienko said that the naval infantry were now manning both checkpoints and positions in Shirokino.

However Andriy Biletsky, MP and founder of the Azov Battalion (now a regiment), told Ukraine's 112 television channel today that the naval infantry were not in Shirokino itself but rear positions around Berdyanskoye, just to the west.

Later today, the Ukrainian military announced that all military hardware would be withdrawn from Mariupol itself, leaving only infantry and small arms.

While the withdrawal of forces from Shirokino has been discussed for several weeks now, this announcement is much more surprising.

UNIAN reports that Colonel Dmitry Gutslyak, a press officer for the ATO headquarters, announced at a briefing today that all heavy weaponry, including "armoured vehicles, tanks, mortars, and field guns" were being removed from Mariupol.

The aim of the move is compliance with the Minsk agreement, which stipulates the creation of a 30-kilometre buffer zone, free of heavy weaponry, along the front line. Since the signing of the agreement in February, there has been no such buffer zone in the Mariupol area. Fighting, including the use of heavy weaponry, has continued along most of the front on a daily basis.

Poroshenko announced on July 22 that the tripartite contact group in Minsk had agreed on renewed efforts to create such a buffer zone, this time including tanks, which were not subject to the original Minsk agreement.

Andriy Lysenko, military spokesman for the Presidential Administration, said today that the military expected an agreement to be signed on the withdrawal of weaponry with a calibre less than 100 mm, and that the armed forces had pre-emptively complied with the decision.

Lysenko said that troops would remain in Mariupol, but that they would be armed only with small arms and machine guns.

Both military spokesmen claimed that a rapid-reaction reserve force, armed with heavy weaponry, was being created to respond in the event of an offensive by Russian-backed forces.

The decision to withdraw all armour, which serves a primarily defensive purporse) from Mariupol comes as the OSCE observes Russian armour and artillery concentrating near Bezymyannoye, around 7 kilometres east by road from Shirokino.

Furthermore, large groups of armour have been spotted on regular occasions over the last few months along the eastern banks of the river Kalmius, east of Volnovakha - a town which would be a crucial target for any genuine offensive on Mariupol.
Meanwhile, OSCE spokesman Michael Bociurkiw has told 112 that, following the wounding of an OSCE observer yesterday, the organisation will not be stationing monitoring teams in Shirokino itself today.

NOTE:---one of the critical pieces now to the so called “demilitarized zone” was in fact the stationing of an OSCE observation point in the middle of the DMZ.

NOW that appears not to be the fact thus in fact the so called “DMZ” was just a cover to get Ukrainian troops to withdraw from a critical piece of land. Namely the heights area—WHCH many have forgotten was used months ago to shell the city of Mariupol killing 23 civilians and now those heights are only two kms from Russian tank positions.

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A short overview of the US, France, Russian unilateral pressure on the Ukraine to give up a critical strategic land as a “sign of good faith”—when Putin uses these words literally beware.

The Ukrainians also implemented the so called “30km buffer zone” and fully complied with pulling back tanks and heavy weapons ALL the while even OSCE cannot confirm if the Russian troops and her mercenaires “pulled anything back”.

Am I the only one seeing a complete failure of the West to ensure reciprocal moves by Russia--????
NOW a serious question directed at the French, Germans and Obama—after implementing this unilateral move EXACTLY what was the response by the Russians—even more intensive shellings and grounds attacks all along the front line.

Russian-backed forces withdrew around 2 kilometres back from the village on July 2.


Meanwhile, OSCE spokesman Michael Bociurkiw has told 112 that, following the wounding of an OSCE observer yesterday, the organisation will not be stationing monitoring teams in Shirokino itself today.

NOTE:---one of the critical pieces now to the so called “demilitarized zone” was in fact the stationing of an OSCE observation point in the middle of the DMZ.

NOW that appears not to be the fact thus in fact the so called “DMZ” was just a cover to get Ukrainian troops to withdraw from a critical piece of land. Namely the heights area—WHCH many have forgotten was used months ago to shell the city of Mariupol killing 23 civilians and now those heights are only two kms from Russian tank positions.

So we have now a US/Russian pressured "sign of good faith" that had a key point--namely two OSCE observation towers that will not be built because of a Russian sniper attack on the OSCE.

We have from the Russian side their admission and confirmed by OSCE they only pulled back 1.4km and the 30km buffer also pressured onto the Ukraine by Obama, Nuland and Biden ACTUALLY lands in the middle of the major Ukrainian city port of Mariupol.

Does that make any common sense to anyone other than Putin????

The ATO forces near Shirokino are on battle alert - headquarters http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/28-july-the-ato-forces-near-shirokino-are-on-battle-alert …

NOTE: if this was a "good faith" move then why are they on combat alert???

OSCE planned to build 2 observation points in #Shyrokyno, but will leave after the last incident when they came under fire.

The OSCE mission: Both sides return heavy weapons to the line of demarcation http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/28-july-the-osce-mission-both-sides-return-heavy-weapons …

In Mariupol sector, mil. engagements E. of Telmanove. Our positions near Starohnativka shelled with artillery, near Hranitne with mortars

NOTICE instead of fighting now in the DMZ it has moved to towns and villages closer to Mariupol that would be needed to be taken by the Russians if they are to attack Mariupol.

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Appears that the unilateral appeasement moves pushed on the Ukraine by the US, France and Germany have had absolutely no effect on the levels of fighting other than placing Ukrainian forces in worse off defensive posture.

Maybe that was actually the intent of Obama, Hollande and Merkel.

News
Altogether, there were 87 Russian attacks on the Ukr line and beyond yesterday, incl. 12 artillery raids and 3 BM-21 #Grad incidents.

Russian transport of "maskirovka" tanks http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/28-july-russian-transport-of-maskirovka-tanks- … #Ukraine pic.twitter.com/CLhPyAHYJB via @el_roosevelt

Avdiivka Coke Factory in the line of fire (VIDEO):... http://fb.me/2P84AIPBU

Russian army position near Olenivka pic.twitter.com/25zkUj5d47 http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/27-july-russian-army-position-near-olenivka …

The militants said that Ukraine is obliged to pay pensions to residents of DNR-LNR http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/28-july-the-militants-said-that-ukraine-is-obliged-to-pay …

Russian electronic warfare systems “Borisoglebsk-2" at the border and in the zone of the ATO. pic.twitter.com/vQBSVLNwnC http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/28-july-russian-electronic-warfare-systems-borisoglebsk2 …

Latvian Armed forces spotted Russian Merkury ship towing SAR ship near territorial waters http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/28-july-latvian-armed-forces-spotted-russian-merkury-ship …

News
#Shchastya is without electricity after a night of heavy artillery raids by the Russian invasion army.

Russian army prepared tanks to storm rivers pic.twitter.com/kgvvn2lT1t http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/28-july-russian-army-prepared-tanks-to-storm-rivers …

SBU returned from Russia border guard-traitor who fought on the side of DNR pic.twitter.com/PRrdJWHhlj http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/28-july-sbu-returned-from-russia-border-guardtraitor-who …

SBU eliminated 3 channels of smuggling of fuel from Russia In the Luhansk region pic.twitter.com/kM3c0gg95b http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/28-july-sbu-eliminated-3-channel-of-smuggling-of-fuel-from …

Last day, militants yet again fired on Mariinka checkpoint using small arms. 3 enemy drones recorded - Border guards
http://dpsu.gov.ua/ua/about/news/news_8005.htm …

Snipers of the Russian 19th Brigade Enlisted in 'Somali' Terrorist Battalion: https://en.informnapalm.org/the-snipers-of-the-19th-brigade-in-the-ranks-of-somali-armed-formation/ … pic.twitter.com/mCykK4HthO

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Let's see Obama, Kerry, Nuland and Biden have applied unilateral appeasement pressure on the Ukraine in order that they "flip the Minsk 2" on it's head and implement Minsk 2 politically without Russian having a single demand to reciprocate on a single point of implementing the Minsk 2 agreement on the military side. WHY is that?????.

Actually DC, Paris and Berlin has virtually said nothing over the last two weeks that indicate they still stand by their statements that Putin must fulfill Minsk 2.

Now Kerry and Larvov are getting together again as they did in Sochi when the US signaled it's intent to throw the Ukraine under the bus.

NOTICE that even if the Ukraine made the unilateral moves as demanded by the US------- NOTHING has stopped the Russian intensive shellings and ground attacks of the last four weeks and especially the last week.

Russian troops and her mercenaries are now incessantly shelling civilians in towns and villages WITH NO Ukrainian military in them and or nearby AND is shelling and damaging Ukrainian critical infrastructures---gas, electricity, heating and coking.

The utter destruction of towns and villages is the exact same tactic the Russian Army used in the Chechen wars.

AND not a single peep out of DC, Paris, and Berlin--AND Nuland the so called great supporter of the Ukraine all the while she maintains a back channel to Putin and never discusses her conversations with the Ukraine --the actual aggrieved party in this war.

Donetsk @papandopoolo An old woman in the yard, "Don't sooth me, I am still able to distinguish thunder from volleys"

Luhansk region blackout after morning shelling of power plant in #Schastye pic.twitter.com/Y71cF5CeHC http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/28-july-luhansk-region-blackout-after-morning-shelling-of …

Multiple reports that Ukrainian soldiers replacing volunteer battalions in #Shyrokyne are lightly armed & will themselves be withdrawn soon.

Mariupol self-defense rep: Prez needs to come here and decide on the spot, involve local authorities, activists, mil in dialogue – presser

Spartak of Mariupol self-defense: in case of demilitarization of #Shyrokyne self-defense will go there w OSCE or substitute withdrawn troops

12:34 #Donetsk @papandopoolo It rumbles in the north, not thunder no doubt
@nyka1968 The center also hears that 'not thunder'

Horlivka
This was the worst night of all time in #Zaitsevo.
Ukr Army is on Bakhmuka, not in Zaitsevo. https://twitter.com/Innulja03/status/625953204912672768
…

VIDEO: Results of overnight shelling of Avdiivka
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zlmzLq8O5eM … pic.twitter.com/Nk0eSFOHEU

ATOspox: SBU detained Donetsk resident with 1.5 million rubles. She was engaged in changing hryvnia stolen in Luhansk pic.twitter.com/eRAclXDUgICol. Lysenko: Update on captured GRU operatives. Russian media spreads fakes about their exchange to distract attention from Savchenko trial

ATO spokesperson: SBU seized communications equipment that militants used to contact with Russian intelligence pic.twitter.com/3fF5Pfhz3d

ATO spox: Mariupol sector: fighting east of Telmanove. Militants targeted Starohnativka with artillery, mortared Hranitne fired at Chermalyk

Russian OG-7V grenades identified as part of the ammo captured at #Ukrainian checkpoint. http://lugansk-news.com/russian-og-7v-fragmentation-grenades-identified-as-part-of-the-ammo-captured-at-ukrainian-checkpoint/ … pic.twitter.com/ntyZNrZXqO

ATO spokesperson: Other hotspots in Donetsk sector: Avdiivka & Maryinka. Militants fired from Grad rocket launchers 3 times

ATO spox: Donetsk sector: Militants attacked Svitlodarsk residential dstrct with 152mm artillery. Attacked UA positions by Mykolayivka Druha

Russian Spetsnaz again on the attack ---
Col. Andriy Lysenko: Ukrainian troops fought off attack of militant subversive group near Kryakivka village.

Col. Andriy Lysenko: Luhansk sector: Hotspots: Stanytsia Lyhanska, Shchastya, Krymske. Local power plant partly stopped working.

Col. Andriy Lysenko: Conflict escalated. Russia-backed militants used Grad multiple rocket launchers first time in 5 weeks

During the last 24 hours 1 Ukrainian soldier was killed, 12 were wounded - ATO spokesperson

12:51 #Luhansk @Edward_Lugansk Massy booms heard from LVVAUSh direction,maybe something starts at #Stanytsia_Luhanska

Latest estimated Russian troop numbers on the Ukrainian Russian border---up from an estimated 40K four weeks ago by NATO.

Fifty-two thousand Russian servicemen are now positioned on the border with Donbas - General Staff
http://www.ukrinform.ua/eng/news/52000_russian_servicemen_on_border_with_donbas___u kraines_general_staff_333312 …

Well so much for that "unilateral appeasement" move by Obama and Kerry.

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Tank in Eastern Ukraine shot down a truck with alcohol for "Cossacks" http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/28-july-tank-in-eastern-ukraine-have-shot-down-a-truck-with …

Moskal: smuggling across the border has actually stopped for the last 10 days http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/28-july-moskal-smuggling-across-the-border-has-actually-stopped …

OSCE: the parties are ready for level of escalation, which we haven't seen pic.twitter.com/sMqsJ1xQCu http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/28-july-osce-the-parties-are-ready-for-level-of-escalation …

Today #Shchastya's power plant was also hit by mortars and ceased 50% of its operations.
Seems deliberate attacks by the Russian side.

News
Russian artillery destroyed parts of the #Svitlodarsk powerplant.
100.000s without electricity.
pic.twitter.com/QfZqehUpxo

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http://www.themoscowtimes.com/business/article/new-russian-naval-doctrine-enshrines-confrontation-with-nato/526277.html

New Russian Naval Doctrine Enshrines Confrontation With NATO

By Matthew Bodner

Jul. 27 2015 21:19

But first they have to pay for the new Navy-----

Russia's ruble is tanking today..
Over 60 to a US$
And almost 95 to GBP pic.twitter.com/UfIGogBaGs

AND the price of Brent oil is tanking as well----

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http://www.themoscowtimes.com/business/article/new-russian-naval-doctrine-enshrines-confrontation-with-nato/526277.html

New Russian Naval Doctrine Enshrines Confrontation With NATO

By Matthew Bodner

Jul. 27 2015 21:19

After boosting Russia defense spending, announcing many new missiles, Putin blames it all on US withdrawal from ABM Treaty... which Bush administration announced in 2001. Putin did not object then. Now seems to resurrect issue as an excuse. Hardly plausible.

Notice Russian says nothing about their blatant violation of the INF and the threatened withdrawing from the INF over being accussed of their violation.

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Russian 4th Guards 'Kantemir' Tank Div T-80U's fitted with deep wading kit (Donbas rivers?) https://translate.google.ie/translate?sl=ru&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=https%3A%2F%2Finformnapalm.org%2F10976-4-gvardejskaya-tankovaya-dyvyzyya&edit-text= … pic.twitter.com/pjIooSRDoV

Stowed OPVT wading snorkel (separate system to Brod-M) takes 40min to prepare for underwater driving. pic.twitter.com/Tc4e9DkEhU

Brod-M system (air intake, valves, pumps) allows tank to overcome 1.8m water depth obstacle without preparation. pic.twitter.com/ucGfb7x3Vq

Development of "Kadamovskiy" Russian army base and training area, Rostov region 17 Sep 2014 to (27) July 2015 pic.twitter.com/MBFXtagmSU

Development of "Kadamovskiy" Russian army base and training area, Rostov region 4 May 2013 to 5 Sep 2014 pic.twitter.com/qKfcutcNsG

Russian military technique on the border to Latvia https://twitter.com/tvrain/status/626063574314696704 …

Kadamovskiy" Russian army base and training area, Rostov region: Google Maps screenshots 27 Jul 2015 pic.twitter.com/FUQo99HcNE

We are doing this job in order for our Ukraine not to become Russian" - Ukrainian anti-aircraft gunners. VIDEO http://en.censor.net.ua/video_news/345576/we_are_doing_this_job_in_order_for_our_ukraine_not _to_become_russian_ukrainian_antiaircraft_gunners …

The great @5urpher has found a match for a Russian tank in #Ukraine from this video! pic.twitter.com/rqp15UsPw2

A match for the first T-72B in the video.
http://codename-it.livejournal.com/687756.html pic.twitter.com/6GFsL8zO29

Frame from @el_roosevelt's Instagram video for comparison. pic.twitter.com/aB9X2fQlIv

Truck which took MH17 Buk to border (4267 AH 50) moved other units which went to Ukraine -> https://twitter.com/el_roosevelt/status/626075359411351553 … pic.twitter.com/5u98gPge34

New on The Hoplite: More evidence of relatively modern 9K135 Kornet ATGW system in #Ukraine http://www.armamentresearch.com/further-evidence-of-9k135-kornet-atgws-found-in-ukraine/ … pic.twitter.com/CzAqnToMlt

Russia's private military firms operate in legal grey area http://www.france24.com/en/20150728-video-russia-pmc-private-military-companies-mercenaries-slavonic-corps-ukraine-syria … pic.twitter.com/f5rTgpF3HF

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More Russian lies --------


As #RussiaLies warned, this was another #fake of #Russia's #propaganda. For more info, visit https://www.facebook.com/RussiaLies pic.twitter.com/zIf3XJ9fWS

GRU officer Alexandrov today, who "high-ranking Russian sources" lied had been swapped "after cruel torture by SBU" https://youtu.be/Ra-tK5AM1uQ

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Today (up to 18:30) militants shelled Ukrainian positions 47 times. Using heavy artillery, tanks and mortars - ATOhttps://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1039631126047693&substory_index=0&id=820651001279041&refid=17&_ft_=top_level_post_id.1039631126047693&__tn__=%2As …

The ceasefire in Ukraine is anything but. We went there to investigate. Our first dispatch: http://bit.ly/1IGGbGY pic.twitter.com/cV5SMwqjOq

18:26 #Lysychansk @lisichanskiy I am concerned with artillery activity, it rumbles for the 2nd day in a row

19:16 #Donetsk @BylByleva_ One can hear volleys from the southwest

19:08 #Donetsk Kalininsky ds @DoneckiiPatriot Something has [once] boomed very strongly

19:33 #Donetsk @CatBoobon Outgoing are now audible in the center.Distant dull sounds,low intensity.Heavy by sound.Not thunder

Volleys from the southwest of Donetsk http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/28-july-volleys-from-the-southwest-of-donetsk …

Militants actively shell Fasad strong point near Shchastia: "It’s tough there! They spray hard," http://en.censor.net.ua/n345608

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Today (up to 18:30) militants shelled Ukrainian positions 47 times. Using heavy artillery, tanks and mortars - ATOhttps://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1039631126047693&substory_index=0&id=820651001279041&refid=17&_ft_=top_level_post_id.1039631126047693&__tn__=%2As …

The ceasefire in Ukraine is anything but. We went there to investigate. Our first dispatch: http://bit.ly/1IGGbGY pic.twitter.com/cV5SMwqjOq

18:26 #Lysychansk @lisichanskiy I am concerned with artillery activity, it rumbles for the 2nd day in a row

19:16 #Donetsk @BylByleva_ One can hear volleys from the southwest

19:08 #Donetsk Kalininsky ds @DoneckiiPatriot Something has [once] boomed very strongly

19:33 #Donetsk @CatBoobon Outgoing are now audible in the center.Distant dull sounds,low intensity.Heavy by sound.Not thunder

Volleys from the southwest of Donetsk http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/28-july-volleys-from-the-southwest-of-donetsk …

Militants actively shell Fasad strong point near Shchastia: "It’s tough there! They spray hard," http://en.censor.net.ua/n345608

Basurin of DNR claimed that Dokuchaevsk was shelled. Get ready, anything is possible now! https://twitter.com/shuttle1907/status/626076535909412864 …

19:55 #Maryinka @hyeva_maryinka [vk] Intensity decreased a bit

Mariinka, Horlivka: war action now

20:25 #Avdeevka @JuZolyshkaLia Booms, small arms

20:29 @JuZolyshkaLia What's launched from the checkpoint?

20:42 #Krasnohorivka @hyeva_maryinka Some booms in Maryinka dir'n tow/evening, later skirmishes were heard fr/

20:46 #Donetsk Schetinina @DoneckiiPatriot Distant single volleys are audible

20:45 #Krasnohorivka @666_mancer [vk] The battle is on

20:51 #Krasnohorivka @666_mancer [vk] Abt 7pm a battle starts in Stalin's road area closer to Borysivka - AGL, mortar, SA,MG fires are heard

21:01 #Avdeevka @JuZolyshkaLia It calmed down

20:59 #Maryinka @hyeva_maryinka [vk] The shooting in #Novomaryinka has ended off

20:50 #Maryinka @hyeva_maryinka [vk] It ceased, maybe they went to get ready for watching football

Nothing mentioned out of DC, Paris and Berlin yet on these constant shellings, ground attacks and destruction of Ukrainian critical infrastructure by Russian heavy weapons which are in full and clear violation of Minsk 2 but again they seem to have forgotten exactly what Minsk 2.

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http://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.de/2015/07/none-of-eight-myths-in-putins-crimea-is.html

Tuesday, July 28, 2015

None of Eight Myths in Putin’s ‘Crimea is Ours’ Ideology Stands Up to Close Examination, Popov Says

Paul Goble


Staunton, July 28 – “’Krimnashizm’” – as the ideologem “Crimea is Ours” is spelled in Russian – consists of a complex of eight myths that are intended to justify Vladimir Putin’s policies in Ukraine and mobilize support for it, Arkady Popov writes in a 4500-word heavily footnoted article in today’s “Yezhednevny zhurnal.” (ej.ru/?a=note&id=28231).

The eight myths which form the core of “’Krimnashizm,’” in his telling are:

· Myth Number One: Crimea was Given to Ukraine
· Myth Number Two: Russia has a historic right to Crimea
· Myth Number Three: The Crimean people have freely voted to rejoin Russia
· Myth Number Four: Taking Crimea from Ukraine was a matter of “extreme necessity.”
· Myth Number Five: Ukraine is an artificial state.
· Myth Number Six: The Euro-Maidan was fascist.
· Myth Number Seven: Russia has risen from its knees.
· Myth Number Eight: Incorporating Crimea is cost-free.

In today’s edition, the Russian historian and commentator examines the first of these myths, that “Crimea was given to Ukraine and shows that none of the claims Putin and his propagandists have offered in defense of their seizure and occupation of the Ukrainian peninsula stands up to close examination (ej.ru/?a=note&id=28231).

The myth that Nikita Khrushchev took Crimea away from the RSFSR and gave it to Ukraine is “the very first brick in the edifice of ‘Krimnashizm.” Many Russian writers had complained about Khrushchev’s action and Boris Yeltsin’s failure to criticize it, but it is perhaps instructive that Putin did not join that “chorus” until 2014, just before he invaded.

“The first feeling” one has in reading statements about Khrushchev supposedly “giving” Crimea to Ukraine is “perplexity,” Popov says. Khrushchev had only been first secretary of the CPSU Central Committee for four months, hardly time enough for him to have enough power to act on his own on something like this.

Moreover, the “Krimnashizm” ideologists act as if Crimea were the only example of part of one republic being transferred to another. In fact, it happened quite frequently – for a listing, see this author’s, “Can Republic Borders Be Changed?” RFE/RL Report on the USSR, 28 September 1990) --and in Soviet times never with any consultation with the peoples involved.

According to Popov, there are three variants of the myth about Khrushchev giving away Crimea: the alcoholic one, the holiday one, and the political one. None is accurate. Khrushchev wasn’t drinking when the decision was made. It didn’t occur at a time linked to any particular holiday. And transferring Crimea to Ukraine might have been expected to cost him more support among Russian CPSU officials than any gains he would make among the less numerous Ukrainian ones.

Politics was involved in the decision, but not the kind the “Krymnashists” describe. After the death of Stalin and the removal of Beria, Moscow faced the problem of expanding agricultural production. Crimea was a disaster area but had the climate and soils to be a productive place.

Khrushchev and Georgy Malenkov visited Crimea in 1953 and concluded that it could be developed if it got water from Ukraine. Without that, its agricultural production would not go up and consequently linking the area to Ukraine instead of the RSFSR made sense, given the policy priorities of the leadership in Moscow.

What should have happened, of course, Popov writes, was the return of the peninsula to the Crimean Tatars “but apparently the time for such radical decisions had not yet come: from the moment of the death of Stalin had passed less than a year,” and Khrushchev’s rehabilitation of the punished peoples lay in the future.

As far as Khrushchev’s “’voluntarism’” on Crimea is concerned, there is no basis for such claims, the historian says. “In January 1954, Khrushchev was still not so strong that he could decide such questions on his own.” And it is clear that he spoke with other members of the leadership and they collectively agreed.

When claims to the contrary fall away, present-day “Krymnashists” argue that Khrushchev didn’t follow constitutional procedures, when in fact he did as much as any other Soviet leader, or that there wasn’t a proper quorum when in fact the record shows otherwise, Popov points out.

And when those are pointed out, the “Krymnashists” try to make a special case out of Sevastopol. But there too, there is no evidence for their contentions that that city was special in a territorial sense. The only reason this false argument is raised, he suggests, is that in 1993, Khasbulatov’s Supreme Soviet declared that Sevastopol had “federal status.”

“This absurd degree was disavowed by the president of the Russian Federation and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, and the UN Security Council at a special session declared that this decree did not have legal force,” Popov writes. At that time, Russia’s permanent representative did not cast a veto.

Those who raise questions about the transfer of Crimea from the RSFSR to Ukraine clearly forget that there are a lot of other places where similar questions could be raised: Tuva, Vyborg, Sakhalin, Kaliningrad, Karelia, and so on. Thus, making these kinds of arguments about Crimea is potentially very dangerous.

Many of the “Krymnashists” also attack Boris Yeltsin for not demanding “the return” of Crimea in 1991 when the USSR fell apart. But they forget two things: the peaceful dismantling of the Soviet Union was predicated on the absolute acceptance of the union republic borders as fixed and that Ukraine, including Crimea, has just voted to leave the USSR.

To have challenged those borders would have opened “a Pandora’s box” for Russia and all the others, Popov says.

“All myths,” the historian concludes, “offer a false picture of the world,” but artistic ones do not claim they are real. “Political myths are something else: their inventors and distributors angrily insist that in them is given the only reliable conception of reality” and that they must be respected regardless. And that makes them dangerous, even for those who employ them.

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http://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.de/2015/07/none-of-eight-myths-in-putins-crimea-is.html

Tuesday, July 28, 2015

None of Eight Myths in Putin’s ‘Crimea is Ours’ Ideology Stands Up to Close Examination, Popov Says

Paul Goble

Understand this and one will understand a massive amount of the Russian propaganda of the last year and an equal amount of Putin's mindset.

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AND this is a not so subtle Russian threat………….
Russian Colonel-General Viktor Yesin: “Topol is able to reliably overcome the US missile defense as part of a massive nuclear strike"

U.S. Navy Creates New Ballistic Missile & Air Defense Task Force for Europe
https://shar.es/1s9ats pic.twitter.com/lgMmaIp3ws

Russian proxies repair MLRS 9K57 Uragan in #Luhansk, #conflictzone in E #Ukraine | EMPR Video http://empr.media/video/conflict-zone/1806-russian-proxies-repair-mlrs-9k57-uragan-in-luhansk-oblast-of-ukraine … pic.twitter.com/9yp5toySoD

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Appears there is a serious disconnect after the Obama, Nuland, Kerry unilateral appeasement moves and the US Ambassador to the Ukraine---they demanded the Ukraine make political concessions and never demanded equal reciprocate moves by Russia.-

http://www.janes.com/article/53256/ukraine-at-risk-of-fur...


Moscow and the rebels it backs in eastern Ukraine are poised to seize territory "at their choosing" anywhere along the line of contact between themselves and Kiev's forces, warns Geoffrey Pyatt, the US ambassador to Ukraine. The US ambassador to Ukraine warns that pro-Russian forces stand ready to take more territory from Kiev's control when they choose.

Tensions also remain high in Ukraine's eastern port city of Mariupol whose residents "are very worried they could be a target," said his EU counterpart, Jan Tombinski. The two diplomats spoke to reporters during a joint tele-briefing on 28 July.

"I long ago swore off making any predictions, but we shouldn't focus only on Mariupol [as a potential target]," said Pyatt.

"Violations have occurred all along the contact line".

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Does this make any sense to any SWJ reader—Obama, Kerry and Nuland apply unilateral pressure on the Ukraine for the 30km buffer AND at the same time the 100mm weapons withdrawal knowing full well the Russians have not implemented a single point in Minsk 2 AND then this today----

White House sits on plan to send long-range counter-battery radar to Ukraine as pressure mounts for buffer zone http://goo.gl/oYS54t

AND for the last four weeks and especially the last week the Ukrainian military positions have been under extensive and massive shellings and ground attacks AND a lot of the time have not even returned fire in they attempt to prove to the west they are attempting to hold to Minsk 2.

AND THE SHELINGS AND GROUND ATTACKS JUST KEEP ON COMING AND THE WESTERN RESPONSE—ABSOLUTELY NOTHING-------

Active combat taking place in eastern Ukraine at multiple places tonight #Pisky #Horlivka #Mariinka #Avdeevka #Donetsk #Stanitsya_Luhanska

22:46 #Luhansk @LUGANSK_TODAY 10pm on the dot #Stanytsia_Luhanska shelling started,#OSCE members surely drank milk&are to bed

22:30 #Horlivka @062_Region After a short lull the battle started over. Heavy incoming in #Holma and #Zaytseve

Horlivka added, heavy combat reported

Mariinka, Avdeevka, Stanitsa Luhanska - combat of varying intensity

22:22 #Makeevka @VasyaMakeevskiy Single gunshots in #Spartak-#Yakovlivka direction

@100007182042214 They pound w/heavy [arty], it's audible in Luhansk
22:18 @LUGANSKA_JUNTA Quiet already

22:15 #Luhansk @100007182042214 It looks like the 4th hellish night starts in #Stanytsia_Luhanska.

22:21 #Luhansk @100007182042214 I hear volleys at Haevoho blc
@LUGANSKA_JUNTA Heard in the center shooting fr/Verhunka dir'n,no heavy

22:23 #Horlivka @adochek [Rumble] from the north

23:10 #Luhansk south @esorrrose I can gear again some very distant volleys, East[ern blocks] again?

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Kremlin banned captured commando’s mother from seeing her son in Kyiv, - Security Service

http://en.censor.net.ua/n345625 prin @censor_net

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Does this make any sense to any SWJ reader—Obama, Kerry and Nuland apply unilateral pressure on the Ukraine for the 30km buffer AND at the same time the 100mm weapons withdrawal knowing full well the Russians have not implemented a single point in Minsk 2 AND then this today----

White House sits on plan to send long-range counter-battery radar to Ukraine as pressure mounts for buffer zone http://goo.gl/oYS54t

AND for the last four weeks and especially the last week the Ukrainian military positions have been under extensive and massive shellings and ground attacks AND a lot of the time have not even returned fire in they attempt to prove to the west they are attempting to hold to Minsk 2.

AND THE SHELINGS AND GROUND ATTACKS JUST KEEP ON COMING AND THE WESTERN RESPONSE—ABSOLUTELY NOTHING-------

Active combat taking place in eastern Ukraine at multiple places tonight #Pisky #Horlivka #Mariinka #Avdeevka #Donetsk #Stanitsya_Luhanska

22:46 #Luhansk @LUGANSK_TODAY 10pm on the dot #Stanytsia_Luhanska shelling started,#OSCE members surely drank milk&are to bed

22:30 #Horlivka @062_Region After a short lull the battle started over. Heavy incoming in #Holma and #Zaytseve

Horlivka added, heavy combat reported

Mariinka, Avdeevka, Stanitsa Luhanska - combat of varying intensity

22:22 #Makeevka @VasyaMakeevskiy Single gunshots in #Spartak-#Yakovlivka direction

@100007182042214 They pound w/heavy [arty], it's audible in Luhansk
22:18 @LUGANSKA_JUNTA Quiet already

22:15 #Luhansk @100007182042214 It looks like the 4th hellish night starts in #Stanytsia_Luhanska.

22:21 #Luhansk @100007182042214 I hear volleys at Haevoho blc
@LUGANSKA_JUNTA Heard in the center shooting fr/Verhunka dir'n,no heavy

22:23 #Horlivka @adochek [Rumble] from the north

23:10 #Luhansk south @esorrrose I can gear again some very distant volleys, East[ern blocks] again?

Eastern front has gone quiet--maybe they are resupplying and having a round of vodka.

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Again massive shelling and ground attacks all along the eastern front and continues into the morning—including some serious ground attacks that were repelled by the UA and volunteer BNs.

AND where is Obama, Kerry, Nuland, Hollande and Merkel—MIA as leaders

Ukraine Marines in #Shyrokyne
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huIJWXNnYxk …

80 attacks on #Ukraine positions in the 24 hours. Around 100 #Russia|ns attacked #Shchastya but were repelled – ATO

Today as of 6AM enemy shelling recorded at #Stepne, #Novozvanivka, #Troitske, #Mykolaivka, #Popasna.

At 20.20 near #Avdiivka about 30 'militants' tried to capture the stronghold of our troops, repelled.

Ruscist group w about 100 fighters attacked Ukr positions at #Shchastya yday, after 3 hours battle attack repelled https://www.facebook.com/ato.news/photos/a.820671234610351.1073741828.820651001279041/1040074622670010/?type=1&theater …

Donetsk 7:02AM
Kalininskyi ds - volleys started https://twitter.com/DoneckiiPatriot/status/626243947329888256 …

#Donetsk 7:02AM
Distant periodic volleys https://twitter.com/BylByleva_/status/626242502811602944 …

Lysychansk
The night was noisy https://twitter.com/lisichanskiy/status/626250575554985984 …

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Cyber warfare and cyber crime are part and parcel of non linear warfare or what many call "hybrid" warfare.

There was a massive hack on an Italian software company "The Hacking Team"
which was 400G in size. This company had both a "white face" as well as a "dark face" and their "dark face" malware work can defeat virtually 95 to 98% of all available cheap to expensive AV software packages. A lot of their work is not detectable at all by any AV product.

The following individual has spent a massive amount of time literally taking apart their emails, code and malware and had major surprises along the way.

He was the first to warn Adobe after discovering it in the files about an extremely serious backdoor Zeroday in their Adobe Flash Player which Adobe knew nothing about but the dark side had known about it and had used for a long time.--Adobe immediately patched it.

This single hack has provided far more details into the dark side of the internet and it is worth following his work to fully understand what he has discovered.

It has changed the way I consult my customers in the area of critical infrastructure security. It has taught an "old dog in this business since 1993"--honestly some totally new tricks.

mailforlen @mailforlen

#hackingteam for the first time we have the real PRE-infect files and don't have to reverse engineer - but the big AV's are sleeping

#hackingteam all the malware coders have to do is to find the destroy-after-infect line to re-use the same file over and over agan

#hackingteam I always used to have several licenses for several small efficient AV in my work to double check - again and again

#hackingteam and there is only one small Italian av that can protect you for now .... wow... this will lteach the biggies a lesson . ...

hackingteam the security industry should understand that all that zeroday code and attack infrastructure is being downloaded wholescale

hackingteam there will be a before and an after, this is a watershed moment, anybody can set now a profes. attack infrastructure up FREE

hackteam needs volunteers doing a bit of the work, have lists of searchterms, checks and so on https://twitter.com/cryptostorm_is/status/623417334775042048 …

hackingteam another advantage of .rar files, anubis can't analyze them, need file inside but than you are infected pic.twitter.com/W7es67huvC

hackingteam all my links favourites or work done (some got distracted by adware and malware on the same servers) https://www.diigo.com/outliner/68bdod/hackingteam# …

hackingteam than we have to publish all the MD5 of the found infected files online so the other AV's start waking up

hackingteam if we want to clean the web we should upload all the HT files to https://www.metascan-online.com they seem to find them - all of them

hackingteam as I said every day we find new things .. biggest thing today... an antivirus that works against their files...

hackingteam feel like the little Belgian with his very cheap computer taking on bad guys again pic.twitter.com/lrqu2B8RbR

hackingteam we don't have to find their servers, have to understand how they worked and why our security didn't work and didn't protect us

I have often in the last several weeks posted comments concerning findings from the 400G hack of the Italian software company--"The Hacking Team".

Some might be offended that it does not fit this thread but and I hate to be repeating one's own self--BUT cyber warfare and the associated cyber crime are in fact part and parcel of all the new UW versions of non linear warfare--ie China, Iran, Russia and yes even the IS are into it as an element of their UW strategies.

The core issue with cyber warfare and cyber crime is that it is always after something happens that we hear about it not before and that is the current state of the IT security world, attacked, patch, repair, then attacked, patch and repair and it has been the IT world that is always one step behind the cyber warfare/cyber crime world.

The data dump of "the Hacking Team" is a major game changer as they had some amazingly good sophistication in their coding and attacks and attack methodologies that now allows us to fully understand the attack evolutions and their attack methods.

This now allows those of us in IT security world a chance to truly prevent and mitigate before and not after the fact which has been the case for the last several years.

It definitely would have helped the OPM.

QUOTE:

"Last week we discussed why the Hacking Team leak is a game-changing event for cyber security, providing a brief overview of the tools the team used and distributed to their clients and the rather sophisticated tactics they deployed in order to sustain long-term operations. This week, we’ll be focusing on their actual attack process, from the infection workflow to their RCS agent operation, and the different infection processes that they utilized."UNQUOTE:


QUOTE:

"With the public release of the Hacking Team’s secrets, our researchers took advantage of the ability to dig deeply into the minds behind their operational theater. For security researchers this information is a veritable gold mine, providing us with even more clues into the latest techniques and tactics hackers are using, and how easily they are able to maintain their attacks over time. Two of our security researchers recently sat down to examine the available data, and found some amazing details about Hacking Team's
activities, victims... and even the hackers that in turn brought them down.

This data dump is akin to the fall of the Soviet Union in a way. When the U.S.S.R. fell, global black markets were overflowing with Soviet weapons and, more importantly, knowledge of WMDs. This put more sophisticated weaponry and nuclear capabilities in the hands of the highest bidder, much like the Hacking Team leak has done. Except in this case the information is free, and none of the vendors whose products are exploitable, e.g.Adobe and Microsoft, were notified, amplifying the danger of the leak.

The widespread availability of this data is going to empower hacking teams across the globe, providing them with much more sophisticated techniques to launch their own attacks. These newer operations will have a completely different signature than Hacking Team’s efforts, but because of how detailed the information on their delivery server is, with perfectly readable code and extremely detailed comments, we can assess the behavior these attacks will follow and more accurately and quickly identify these operations in the
future."UNQUOTE:

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Luhansk administration: Gas pipeline was damaged again in #Stanytsia_Luhanska @LUGANSK_TODAY https://www.facebook.com/odalug/posts/453304508185188 … pic.twitter.com/CBtEOidmR7

Stanytsia Luhanska was shelled most intensely between 9-10pm. Gas pipeline is damaged, repair works are underway http://loga.gov.ua/oda/press/news/2015/07/29/news_67074.html …

Luhansk rg, #Tkachuk: 4 firings/shellings recorded within 24hr by 7am, 5 WIA within Jul27 21:30 - 01:00 Jul28 http://ato.lisichansk.in.ua/na-luganskomu-napryamku-4-obstrili-pozicij-zs-ukraini-v-tomu-chisli-artilerijskix.html …

Can anyone identify this Russian drone model?????
Footage
#RussianArmy drone action in #Ukraine's #Donetsk oblast.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Grk7mC3vS_I …
pic.twitter.com/B3mXMFk2Dy

Recent pics of ruins in #Ukraine-controlled Mironovsky settlement, not far from disputed #Debaltseve city @pharaon01 pic.twitter.com/9ujFCZnxig

In #Mariupol sector 1 militant attack was registered over 28 July: fired w/ automatic near Lebedynske, no losses http://www.0629.com.ua/news/906299

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And Putin wants to built his massive blue water navy??? He still needs a healthy economy which right now is not the case.

One of Russian opposition leaders @v_milov says Russia's reserve dramatically shrinking,3 trillion rubles in 4 months http://gordonua.com/publications/Rossiyskiy-oppozicioner-Milov--88696.html …

Russian banks look to Hong Kong to help Russian companies refinance $117B in external debt due in the coming year. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-07-28/russian-banks-turn-to-hong-kong-as-117-billion-global-debt-due …

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Russian “altered state of reali8ty” strikes again and again and again……….seems the Russian FM has forgotten western reactions are due directly to Russian actions not vice versa.

MFA Russia ✔ @mfa_russia
Russia & NATO can interact better if Alliance respect more Moscow's legitimate interests http://goo.gl/4a6Bd0 pic.twitter.com/oXwnTSavmI

AND all those international agreements and treaties Russia is violating does not gain much trust these days.

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Reference the Russian shot down myths of MH17 go in a new direction………

I didn't think there could be more RU permutations on #MH17, but I give you THIS >> http://lifenews.ru/news/158220 (it was an inside job on board)

One more RUS #schizo version of #MH17 crash by @lifenews_ru 'experts' - "Terrorist attack aboard". https://twitter.com/lifenews_ru/status/626280469278130176 …

Gotta love the #MH17 Truthers leaping on the new bomb theory as if they're not been banging on about it being downed by an SU-25 for a year

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Reference the Russian shot down myths of MH17 go in a new direction………

I didn't think there could be more RU permutations on #MH17, but I give you THIS >> http://lifenews.ru/news/158220 (it was an inside job on board)

One more RUS #schizo version of #MH17 crash by @lifenews_ru 'experts' - "Terrorist attack aboard". https://twitter.com/lifenews_ru/status/626280469278130176 …

Gotta love the #MH17 Truthers leaping on the new bomb theory as if they're not been banging on about it being downed by an SU-25 for a year

Next it will the Ukrainian launched Nazi UFOs and or Magic Beans.............

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Embarrassing when a President of a Central European country has to ask if the West especially the US has any strategy what so ever for the Russian aggression currently being seen in Central Europe.

@Poroshenko, the President of an invaded country asks the West: Are you with the barbarian or with the free world? http://www.wsj.com/articles/message-from-battlefield-ukraine-1438106297 …

Ukraine needs just 1,240 Javelin missiles to deter further Russian aggression, Poroshenko says http://en.censor.net.ua/n345651 via @censor_net

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A MUST read article by the Russian Ambassador to the UK---while it attempts to explain the Russian positions on a number of items it as always “blames the West” –notice never a single comment on Russia provocations, the annexation in the face of international laws, treaties and norms and the Russian invasion of eastern Ukraine—not a single word.

While Russia blames everyone else they have an equally hard time in accepting their own role in the Ukraine or Crimea.

http://rusemb.org.uk/article/417

29.07.2015

Ambassador Yakovenko writes to David Smith and comments on Chatham House report on Russia

Dear Mr Smith,


I am sorry for delay in my response to your letter. I wholly share your concern over the state of the Russo-British relationship. In the first place, Russia's policy in the Ukraine crisis was always reactive. Our Western partners admit that when they accuse us of both improvisation and pursuing a 'grand strategy'. It was not us who started all this destabilising mess. Not many care to have a look at its origins. So, I'll try to set the record straight on some key points.

The EU "Eastern Partnership" was declared by our EU partners as an instrument to deal with issues of our "common neighborhood", i.e. the countries of the former Soviet Union between the EU and Russia. We never minded. More than that, we suggested that trilateral projects, involving EU, focus countries and Russia, be implemented to sew the entire area together in terms of trade, economy, energy and infrastructure. We have never got any response to that.

NOTE: The EU did in fact respond to what Putin as called "a trading zone/political zone from Portugal to the Russian Far East--BUT Russia was demanding that it be under control and guidance by Russia-so the EU responded with a no and still does everyone time Putin states it and he does often these days as he wanted it tied to the EEAU.

Then we were told that a routine EU-Ukraine association agreement was in the works. Fine, we didn't mind that either. But in the autumn of 2013, it turned out that added to that agreement would be a Deep and Comprehensive FTA. In fact, in terms of consequences for our bilateral trade and economic ties it was nothing short of Ukraine becoming an EU member. In the past, when new members were admitted to the EU we held detailed bilateral and trilateral, including Brussels, talks on how to manage those consequences. But in the case of Ukraine this logic wasn't followed. We were told that it was none of our business, a purely bilateral matter for the EU and Ukraine. Only at the EU-Russia summit in January 2014, when the Ukraine crisis was already in full swing, our EU partners admitted that Russia had a legitimate economic interest in this matter, though we saw no willingness to follow it up. Later EU representatives admitted that, indeed, an FTA of the proposed scope with the EU wasn't compatible with Ukraine's membership in the CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States) FTA. Thus, it would have been honest and straightforward to offer Ukraine the EU membership, which would have ensured orderliness and due process, including clear-cut mutual obligations.

NOTE: Russia has attempted four times to inject an unusual number of economic complaints and changes into the EU Association Agreement in an attempt to control the dialogue and take major precedence in the discussions away from the Ukraine--the EU roundly dismissed all Russian complaints recently stating they have been thoroughly answered by the EU.

That is, among other things, why we deemed the entire Ukraine project as a political one with the EU acting as proxy for NATO. Shall I say that, as far as we know, no veritable talks (and it was a set of documents of roughly 2000 pages) were held between the Yanukovich Government and Brussels. It had never been subject to open and public debate both in Ukraine and the EU. Nobody discussed costs and impact. So, it looked like a piece of secret diplomacy akin to that which was responsible for Europe blundering into WWI. Why secret diplomacy in our time, when nothing could be kept secret? All the more so that we had agreed with the EU that projects of economic integration in various regions of Europe were compatible. Adherence to the WTO rules and norms would see to that.

This mode of operation by the EU further undermined trust between us, especially immediately after Libya, where the UN Security Council mandate was stretched to destroy the regime of Colonel Gaddafi (now all of us have to deal with the consequences). It is not that we, in Russia, are Darwinists. But any outside interference has to be thought and seen through, which, as a rule, requires of the meddling nation a total commitment at the levels, seen in the two world wars and the Cold War. Short of that commitment, a truly collective international effort, mandated by the UN, is the only viable option. We have always been speaking in favour of the latter. And in that regard the case of Ukraine is no different from those of Iraq, Afghanistan and the "Arab Spring".

Continued……………………………

There is no subjunctive mood in history. But the Ukraine crisis could have been easily avoided, had we joined effort to manage Ukraine's transformation from the very start. The problem is real. For example, Ukraine is the only former republic of the Soviet Union, which hasn't reached the pre-independence level of GDP. We have no designs on Ukraine's territory (it would be a drag on our own development) and will have no problem with a European Ukraine. All the more so that this is our ambition, too. But Europeanness means European values in practice, including human and minority rights. Why decentralization is good for Germany, Britain and Russia, but not for Ukraine, which experts say is a divided country. There is a choice to be made between war and reform, and to have both is a mission impossible. Subjecting its own citizens to economic and humanitarian blockade, wishing them chaos and destruction sound too bloody-minded for political traditions of this part of Europe. Russia insists on the rebel territories remaining part of Ukraine. Otherwise it won't be Ukraine at all. That requires implementation of all political provisions of the Minsk-2. Given the British experience in Northern Ireland, there is no other way forward, but return to politics of consensus and moderation.

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A MUST read article by the Russian Ambassador to the UK---while it attempts to explain the Russian positions on a number of items it as always “blames the West” –notice never a single comment on Russia provocations, the annexation in the face of international laws, treaties and norms and the Russian invasion of eastern Ukraine—not a single word.

While Russia blames everyone else they have an equally hard time in accepting their own role in the Ukraine or Crimea.

http://rusemb.org.uk/article/417

29.07.2015

Ambassador Yakovenko writes to David Smith and comments on Chatham House report on Russia

Dear Mr Smith,

Notice an interesting comment in the last paragraph--we have no designs and demands on the Ukraine and would like to see it a European Ukraine BUT and here comes the BUT we want it in our defined norm of Europe and we want it to have a federalization that we demand it is not decentralization and we do not want it in the EU nor NATO.

This article was countered by their own major propaganda article yesterday even quoted in Yahoo News that stated a move by the Ukraine and Georgia into the EU and NATO would be a disaster for Europe.

This Russian Ambassador is with a long letter attempting to cover all the bases of the Russian propaganda 7Ds----distract, distort, deflect, dismay designed to create doubt and distrust.

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Embarrassing when a President of a Central European country has to ask if the West especially the US has any strategy what so ever for the Russian aggression currently being seen in Central Europe.

@Poroshenko, the President of an invaded country asks the West: Are you with the barbarian or with the free world? http://www.wsj.com/articles/message-from-battlefield-ukraine-1438106297 …

Ukraine needs just 1,240 Javelin missiles to deter further Russian aggression, Poroshenko says http://en.censor.net.ua/n345651 via @censor_net

In the face of all the unilateral moves pressured onto the Ukraine by Obama and on the 27/7/2015 by Hollande in the Normandy meeting the Ukrainian President in no uncertain terms is signaling to Obama the total failure of the US Russian policies under Obama.

Ukraine's President asking the US for 1,240 Javelin anti-tank missiles - equivalent to the no of nuclear warheads given up in Budapest Memo

Notice there has been absolutely no discussion by DC of their failure in holding to statements inside the Budapest Memorandum that the US actually committed to and signed.

SO just how the US react if the Iranian violate the nuclear deal--the same way they have with the Budapest Memo--simply ignore it????

FRANCE demanded Ukraine to withdraw, de facto to surrender Mariupol to Russia after Donetsk airport, Debaltseve.
pic.twitter.com/Zd0YK9w7FC

This is the summation of the Russian translation of the French release PR of the 27/7/15 Normandy Four teleconference.

Notice it was not even picked up by the AFP nor for that matter any other western mass news media.

Took social media to catch the translation of the French take on the meeting and their Russian translation which by the way is very clear at least in Russian.

For those in DC and in Moscow that do not want to remember what they signed on 5 Dec 1994--here are the key points--



Joint Declaration by the Russian Federation and the United States of America, December 2009

The Presidents of Ukraine, Russian Federation and United States of America, and the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom signed three memorandums (UN Document A/49/765) on December 5, 1994, with the accession of Ukraine to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. Through this agreement, these countries (later to include China and France in individual statements) gave national security assurances to Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine. The Joint Declaration by the Russian Federation and the United States of America of December 4, 2009 confirmed their commitment.


Excerpt:

"Welcoming the accession of Ukraine to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons as a non-nuclear-weapon State,

Taking into account the commitment of Ukraine to eliminate all nuclear weapons from its territory within a specified period of time,

Noting the changes in the world-wide security situation, including the end of the cold war, which have brought about conditions for deep reductions in nuclear forces,

Confirm the following:

1. The Russian Federation, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the United States of America reaffirm their commitment to Ukraine, in accordance with the principles of the Final Act of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, to respect the independence and sovereignty and the existing borders of Ukraine;

2. The Russian Federation, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the United States of America reaffirm their obligation to refrain from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or

political independence of Ukraine, and that none of their weapons will ever be used against Ukraine except in self-defence or otherwise in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations;

3. The Russian Federation, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the United States of America reaffirm their commitment to Ukraine, in accordance with the principles of the Final Act of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, to refrain from economic coercion designed to subordinate to their own interest the exercise by Ukraine of the rights inherent in its sovereignty and thus to secure advantages of any kind;

4. The Russian Federation, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the United States of America reaffirm their commitment to seek immediate United Nations Security Council action to provide assistance to Ukraine, as a non-nuclear-weapon State party to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, if Ukraine should become a victim of an act of aggression or an object of a threat of aggression in which nuclear

weapons are used;

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Now Russia really leans forward on their shot down theories right before the UNSC vote for a tribunal—

New, amazing #MH17 conspiracy: American CIA agent in Ukraine named David Stern set it all up http://www.pressbox.co.uk/Government/David_L._Stern_s_phone_talks_before_Malaysia_Airli nes_Flight_17_plane_crash_1604679.html … pic.twitter.com/juxjvZahz2

It was the CIA agent who downed MH17 - says Russia with ref to some Caleb Gilbert and pressbox.uk pic.twitter.com/2U7MI9USnL

And it appears this 'evidence' was refused by Dutch investigation.
Probably b/c this individual is known to work for RF MoD.

the DSB report is done, so they would have had the physical evidence they need for a while

What the duck, is it the national MH17 conspiracy week?

Audio/video will not play--seems to be a fake link----

World Famous expert on plane crashes: Graham Phillips at the truth Medium LifeNews in Moscow. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSDSFmr8SfU&feature=youtu.be … pic.twitter.com/DiXxBYFVCU

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Now Russia really leans forward on their shot down theories right before the UNSC vote for a tribunal—

New, amazing #MH17 conspiracy: American CIA agent in Ukraine named David Stern set it all up http://www.pressbox.co.uk/Government/David_L._Stern_s_phone_talks_before_Malaysia_Airli nes_Flight_17_plane_crash_1604679.html … pic.twitter.com/juxjvZahz2

It was the CIA agent who downed MH17 - says Russia with ref to some Caleb Gilbert and pressbox.uk pic.twitter.com/2U7MI9USnL

And it appears this 'evidence' was refused by Dutch investigation.
Probably b/c this individual is known to work for RF MoD.

the DSB report is done, so they would have had the physical evidence they need for a while

What the duck, is it the national MH17 conspiracy week?

Audio/video will not play--seems to be a fake link----

World Famous expert on plane crashes: Graham Phillips at the truth Medium LifeNews in Moscow. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSDSFmr8SfU&feature=youtu.be … pic.twitter.com/DiXxBYFVCU

Appears as if Russia is throwing all kinds of mud against the wall in order to be able to present to the UNSC today that there are still "so many different possibilities about the shot down" that the Dutch Safety Boards investigation is not finished thus not finished means no tribunal.

Putin again tells Dutch leader not to form a Tribunal on Flight MH17 http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/50072 … 2nd time in as many weeks http://time.com/3963346/mh17-malaysia-airlines-flight-17-russia-ukraine/ …

Seems Putin is not aware that any member of the Council of Europe can in fact simply ask for a tribunal and Russia has no veto power in the CoE and they are a member of CoE. OR their could take it to the EHRC for the rights for the civilians murdered in a "war crime" and get their day in court OR take it to the Hague Court as a "crime against humanity".

If he vetoes it then the whole world will ask what is he covering up--massive creditability issue not that there is already a problem with his creditability.

AND NOW---

This insane 3rd-rate CIA agent transcript recording is being reprinted by the Russian MoD's news outlet. https://twitter.com/zvezdanews/status/626355485889929217 …

EVEN Putin thinks his own badly done propaganda is getting bad---

Ultimate Kremlin "mirroring". Putin calls for end to leaks to media of theories about downing of MH17 http://www.vesti.ru/doc.html?id=2641864 …

Basically admitting that it has all been propaganda every one of the last eight different and constantly changing stories---

Should #Russia veto #MH17 tribunal proposal during tonight's UN vote, it would be an admission of responsibility, says #Ukraine's President

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ATO Press Center: 80 attacks on #Ukrainian Army positions in #Donetsk and #Lugansk Regions. http://lugansk-news.com/ato-press-center-80-attacks-on-ukrainian-army-positions-in-donetsk-and-lugansk-regions/ … pic.twitter.com/RyfmBFUSqd

Russian positions in Zaichenko, 27 km from #Mariupol https://twitter.com/BuTaJIu4eK/status/626134187242708992 …

Check the latest - known - #RussianArmy RPG-7 rounds among the captured material in #Shyrokyne.
pic.twitter.com/VXxUq0OY94

Some more "Soldiers of the Army of New Russia, June 2015", in other words Russian Army https://vk.com/warsonline_military_observer?w=wall-62474637_160543 …

Europe's latest bloody war continues - Ukraine's Failed Ceasefire: Part 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTh0H9JpoKs … @vicenews

Russian military in #Transnistria plan combined arms warfare exercises https://vk.com/russianarmynews?w=wall-19746278_231414 …

Poroshenko is right. Ill-informed commentators say 'no' tank war possible. But Russian army increases tank forces. Ukraine needs Javelins.

Over now 700 hundred and or more Russian tanks are inside the Ukraine along with an estimated over 1000 IFV/APCs not counting the sheer hundreds of artillery pieces and MLRSs

.@poroshenko critics: Despite all rumours,Ukrainian marines hold the same positions in #Shyrokyne,#Donbas held before pic.twitter.com/iJRqsyoV6x

DNR militants pretended the peaceful residents protesting against @OSCE.
The commandant of Snizhne spotted. https://twitter.com/segodnya_online/status/625251645706903552 …

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AND Reuters again plays the Russian propaganda machine role….and yet does not fact check their own carried articles….this is not the first proRussian propaganda article carried by Reuters.

BEWARE! New Kremlin propaganda attack: Saving Ukraine from "maverick battalions" (free companies, routiers, mercenary soldiers)

Special Report: Ukraine struggles to control maverick battalions http://reut.rs/1D8nzh0

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Important info for SWJ twitter users------

Russian hackers of APT 29 using Twitter in a clever way to communicate with malware.

http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/580725/russian-hackers-use-twitter-mask-sneaky-data-theft/ …?

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Collapsing Airborne barracks to drunken Russian troops--Russia is not having a great positive new front.

http://www.rferl.org/content/tajikistan-russian-soldiers-underwear-brawl/27158872.html

By RFE/RL's Tajik Service

July 29, 2015


KULOB, Tajikistan – Residents near a Russian military base in southern Tajikistan say a group of drunken Russian soldiers in their underwear brawled in the street overnight with local Tajik men who had confronted them about their raucous behavior.

Witnesses say several of the Tajik men were injured in the street fight late on July 28 in the town of Kulob.

Jamshed, a Kulob resident who witnessed the violence and asked that his last name not be published, said the fight broke out after seven drunken Russian soldiers who had stripped down to their underwear began dancing, singing, and "yelling loudly" in a residential area of the city center.

"Local men asked the soldiers to return to their base but the Russians didn't listen and argued with them," Jamshed said. "The scuffle broke out and several other soldiers came from the military base to help their comrades."

Police were called to the scene. There were no immediate official comments about the brawl.

But an official from a law enforcement agency in Kulob told RFE/RL's Tajik Service on condition of anonymity that a criminal investigation has been launched into the case.

About 7,000 troops from Russia’s 201st Motor Rifle Division are stationed in Tajikistan at three different facilities – one at Kulob, another at the southern city of Qurghon-Teppa, and one near Dushanbe.

Under an agreement signed in October 2012, Russian troops are allowed to remain stationed in Tajikistan until 2042.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said in Dushanbe after the signing of the treaty that the deal would help preserve "our common strategic interests, the strengthening of security, and the stabilization of the situation in the Central Asian region as a whole."

Tajikistan's President Emomali Rahmon noted that Russia is providing Tajikistan's army with weaponry and assistance to improve other aspects of Tajikistan's defense sector under the deal.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said that Tajikistan wants Russian troops on its territory in order to secure its poorly controlled border with Afghanistan.

But the presence of Russian soldiers has led to some tensions with local residents near the bases in the past.

In February, a Russian officer was charged with severely beating a waiter at a restaurant in Kulob.

In the summer of 2014, two Russian officers stationed at the 201st Motor Rifle Division's facility in Dushanbe were arrested on suspicion of killing a Tajik man who lived in the capital.

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ATO spokesperson from today


Chief of staff of the 58th Army of the Southern Military District of the Russian Federation Major-General Sergey Kuzovlev personally commands the Russian-terrorist troops leading the offensive against the Ukrainian units near the town of Popasna.

This was reported by the press center of the Ukrainian Anti-Terrorist Operation. Kuzovlev’s photo was provided by the press center staff.

“Moscow curators of the so-called ‘DNR’ and ‘LNR,’ observing the failure of their ‘subjects’ to resist the organized actions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, have introduced Russian regular army units into the combat… This is one more confirmation of Russia’s aggressive policy toward Ukraine and Russian troops’ immediate presence in the Donbas,” – noted the staff.

Who Are The Russian Generals That Ukraine Says Are Fighting In The Donbas? http://www.rferl.org/content/russian-generals-fighting-in-ukraine/27108296.html … via @RFERL 3 Jul

Knowledge of Russian reorganisation (1st and 20th Armies) in Western MD not unexpected, eg 24 April 2014 banners http://tvzvezda.ru/news/forces/content/201404240550-shp1.htm …

The reason we point this out (Chaiko's old command staff) is because we *think* we have already seen officer on Left in Donbas.

Maj-Gen Chaiko with representatives of high command of 20th Combined Arms Army 12 Oct 2014 http://vyksa-eparhia.ru/news/news_ep/episkop_varnava_vstretilsya_s_komanduyuwim_20j_gva rdejskoj_obwevojskovoj_armiej_zvo_generalmajorom_a leksandrom_chajko/ … 3/3 pic.twitter.com/Q7XtjyXNJ6

Major-General Alexander Chaiko now commands Russian 4th Guards 'Kantemir' Tank Div (T-80U being moved to/into Donbas) pic.twitter.com/Ne9leZKUOg

Clear indication of major Russian offensive moves--as these T80Us with river crossing equipment were just railed close to the Ukrainian border.

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Kiev says rebels launch 2 large, failed offensives

14:29, 29 July 2015 Ukrainskaya Pravda


Ukrainian military officials say separatists in the east carried out two attacks on July 28.

According to the Ukrainian army, about 100 armed separatist fighters tried to push back pro-government forces near the town of Shchastye in the Lugansk region, using mortar launchers and a tank. The battle lasted for about three hours; the separatists suffered losses and ultimately retreated.

The second attack took place near the town of Avdeyevka in the Donetsk region. According to Kiev, 30 separatist fighters tried to take over a Ukrainian support point, but were forced to retreat.

Ukraine's military also says the separatists have shelled Ukrainian positions roughly 80 times in the past 24 hours.

The self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics have not yet commented on the incidents.

The Ukrainian Armed Forces did not suffer any losses in the military clashes near Shchastye and Avdeyevka.

→ Ukrainskaya Pravda


A ceasefire has been in place in eastern Ukraine since mid-February 2015, in accordance with the Minsk peace agreement, signed by Ukraine, Russia, Germany, and France. Since then, both the separatists and the Ukrainian government’s armed forces have regularly accused each other of violating the terms of the agreement.

Between July 26 and July 27, observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation (OSCE) came under fire twice. On July 26, shelling took place near a border checkpoint between separatist-controlled territory and Kiev-controlled territory in the town of Shchastye. On July 27, automatic grenade fire and explosions took place near two OSCE patrol vehicles in the village of Shyrokoe. Debris from one of the explosions hit one of the patrol leaders and split apart his helmet. He was hospitalized with a mild concussion and bruising.

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More information on the recently captured Russian MAJ who drove into the wrong checkpoint—one could argue he was the first truly “lost” Russian soldier in the Ukraine.

Briefing of head of SBU Grytsak on captured Russian Mayor Starkov http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/29-july-briefing-of-head-of-sbu-grytsak-on-captured-russian … #Ukraine pic.twitter.com/WV79bbPvs5 via @ServiceSsu

Today 409.3 kilometers of #Ukraine's state border is illegally controlled by #Russia|n troops
TT https://twitter.com/ServiceSsu/status/626366922586750977 …

Starkov is from Khabarovsk region, has a wife and two kids. Serving in Novocherkask of Rostov region pic.twitter.com/QHozU1jSK7

Russian trolls at work trying to deflect his capture and blame naturally the CIA and the Ukraine-----
And then looted by "DPR", put on KAMAZ trucks and driven around occupied Donbas by RF army staff!
Desperate lies ... pic.twitter.com/ozyRm3742R

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Appears that the US/Obama is in fact throwing the Ukraine under the bus for Russian assistance in Iran and Syria---by making unilateral moves with no reciprocal demands on Russia.

Basically a new Munch 1938 in the name of "legacy".

http://www.jamestown.org/single/?tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=44204&tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=7&cHash=676519bcd3d785fea95d530861f2811b#.VbKl2OoVhM s

Obama Administration Undercutting Ukraine’s Position in the Minsk Armistice Negotiations

Publication: Eurasia Daily Monitor Volume: 12 Issue: 139

July 24, 2015 02:00 PM

By: Vladimir Socor

Talk about "third and fourth order of effects" this is what unilateral appeasement gets the US and the EU with no reciprocal demands.

Well it looks like the Obama, Nuland, Kerry, Hollande and Merkel unilateral appeasement moves got this right—appeasement seems to be working great this week.

AND what has Russia done to fulfill the Minsk 2 agreements? Nothing.

Former PM Azarov to present Ukrainian government- and president-in-exile in Moscow on Thursday http://m.gazeta.ru/politics/news/2015/07/29/n_7418113.shtml …

Azarov and Co represent "alternative government" in #Moscow http://novosti.dn.ua/details/256314/ pic.twitter.com/K9VJHJoZTJ

THIs leads to a very interesting adventure facing the US and the EU--does now Russia negotiate with the "government in exile" for the annexation of eastern Ukraine? AND if so does THEN Russia using those agreements militarily expand the mini eastern Ukraine state to the full Donbas region.

AND the US, the EU and NATO cannot say a single word.

The problem with unilateral moves with no counter demands means at some point you lose--as simple as that and it appears the US and Europe have been outplayed.

Will be interesting to see if DC even mentions this in the coming days or attempts to gloss over it.

Yanukovych's Former PM Azarov To Present 'Alternative Ukrainian Government' In Moscow

13:17 (GMT)


Russia's Gazeta.ru reports that the former Ukrainian prime minister, Mykola Azarov, who resigned during the EuroMaidan protests on January 28, 2014, is to form an "alternative Ukrainian government" in Russia.

Azarov's press secretary, Sergei Zavorotny, told Gazeta.ru that an "alternative candidate for the president of Ukraine" will be presented at a press conference tomorrow at the Ukraina Hotel in Moscow tomorrow.

Zavorotny said that the committee to form this alternative government includes several former Ukrainian MPs from Yanukovych's Party of Regions: Igor Markov, Vladimir Oleynik and Oleg Tsaryov.

"Azarov himself may head the Ukrainian government in exile."

As Gazeta.ru notes, Azarov told RIA Novosti in February this year that he does not consider the current Ukrainian government to be legitimate.

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The four articles of the UNSC draft proposal for a MH17 tribunal that Russia will veto since they shot down MH17.


Draft Statute

International Criminal Tribunal for Malaysia AirlinesFlight MH17

Having been established by the Security Council acting under Chapter VII of theCharter of the United Nations, the International Criminal Tribunal for Malaysia AirlinesFlight MH17 (hereinafter referred to as “the Tribunal”), shall function and exercise itsjurisdiction in accordance with the provisions of the present Statute.
Section I
Jurisdiction of the Tribunal

Article 1
Crimes within the jurisdiction of the Tribunal The Tribunal shall have jurisdiction over persons responsible for crimes connected with
the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 on 17 July 2014.
Subject to paragraph 1, the Tribunal has jurisdiction in accordance with this Statute with respect to the following crimes: War crimes, as defined in article 2; Crimes against the safety of civil aviation, as defined in article 3; and Crimes under the Criminal Code of Ukraine, as defined in article
4.

Article 2
War crimes For the purpose of this Statute, war crimes means:
The following grave breach of the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, namely, wilful killing when committed against a person protected under the provisions of the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War.Other serious violations of the laws and customs applicable in international armed conflict, within the established framework of international law, namely, any of the following acts:
Intentionally directing attacks against the civilian population as such or against
individual civilians not taking direct part in hostilities; Intentionally directing attacks against civilian objects, that is, objects which are not
military objectives. In the case of an armed conflict, not of an international character, serious violations of Article 3 common to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, namely, violence to life and person, in particular murder of all kinds, mutilation, cruel treatment and torture committed against persons taking no active part in armed hostilities.
Other serious violations of the laws and customs applicable in armed conflicts not of an international character, within the established framework of international law, namely, intentionally directing attacks against the civilian population as such or against individual civilians not taking direct part in hostilities.

Article 3
Crimes against the safety of civil aviation For the purpose of this Statute, crimes against the safety of civil aviation means destroying, damaging or endangering the safety of aircraft as defined in section 9 of the Aviation Offences Act 1984 of Malaysia.

Article 4
Crimes under the Criminal Code of Ukraine For the purpose of this Statute, crimes under the Criminal Code of Ukraine means:
Murder as defined in Article 115;Negligent homicide as defined in Article 119;Wilful destruction of, or damage to, property as defined in Article 194;Smuggling as defined in Article 201;Crimes against public safety as defined in Articles 258 and 258-3 to 258- 5;Unlawful handling of weapons, ammunition or explosives as defined in Article 263;Concealment of a criminal offense as defined in Article 396;Trespass against life of a foreign state representative as defined in Article 443.

Interesting to see how Russia "sells their veto" since they are always claiming they adamantly support all international laws, regulations and norms when they claim they do anything.

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The four articles of the UNSC draft proposal for a MH17 tribunal that Russia will veto since they shot down MH17.

Interesting to see how Russia "sells their veto" since they are always claiming they adamantly support all international laws, regulations and norms when they claim they do anything.

After blocking anything on MH17 now this from Putin--wonder what his next move is going to be...........but since it is from the Russian side of the conversation who knows what it means??

Today Putin spoke with PM of Holland and said that"Russia's ready for close cooperation" in investigation of #MH17 pic.twitter.com/EGA8nET7g3

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More information on the recently captured Russian MAJ who drove into the wrong checkpoint—one could argue he was the first truly “lost” Russian soldier in the Ukraine.

Briefing of head of SBU Grytsak on captured Russian Mayor Starkov http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/29-july-briefing-of-head-of-sbu-grytsak-on-captured-russian … #Ukraine pic.twitter.com/WV79bbPvs5 via @ServiceSsu

Today 409.3 kilometers of #Ukraine's state border is illegally controlled by #Russia|n troops
TT https://twitter.com/ServiceSsu/status/626366922586750977 …

Starkov is from Khabarovsk region, has a wife and two kids. Serving in Novocherkask of Rostov region pic.twitter.com/QHozU1jSK7

Russian trolls at work trying to deflect his capture and blame naturally the CIA and the Ukraine-----
And then looted by "DPR", put on KAMAZ trucks and driven around occupied Donbas by RF army staff!
Desperate lies ... pic.twitter.com/ozyRm3742R

Starkov: rank of Major - served in Novocherkassk, Rostov region,
personal number - F-54930045
https://twitter.com/AlexandruC4/status/626379599463624704 …

@Ukropo4kA Documents of Major AFRF - driver of vehicle with weapons, which "got lost" in Donbass ............ Documents of Major AFRF. Document "DNR" issued with name Ovsyannikov. Ovsyannikova-wife's maiden name of Starkov
pic.twitter.com/54htkjk27J

ISBU intercepted conversation of militants after the detention of the Russian major http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/29-july-isbu-intercepted-conversation-of-militants-after …

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For those that do not fully understand the complexity of Russian mercenaries fighting in the eastern Ukraine----

Who are the foreigners fighting against the Ukrainian Army in the Donbas
http://pravda.dn.ua/details/256044/
TT @LyapunovS pic.twitter.com/v0sPlwbT4r

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Air Policing jets on 29 JUL in international airspace above the Baltic Sea near LV border identified RU AF 3xAn-26, Il-76, 4xMiG-31, 4xSu-24

During the last 24 hours 2 Ukrainian soldiers were wounded, no deaths - ATO spokesperson

ATO spox: SBU detained two wannabe militants at Volnovaha checkpoints pic.twitter.com/KMOXlPUGPJ

ATO spox: Mariupol sector: inactivity remains with the only exception of hostile actions 5 km to the North from Shyrokyne

Col. Motuzyanyk: Ukrainian Army is battle-ready at the front line stretching from Avdiivka to Maryinka.

ATO spokesperson: Militants` presence from Yasynuvata to Oleksandrivka remains highly-concentrated

ATO: Gas supply suspended to Stanytsia Luhanska due to hostile shelling.

Col. Oleksandr Motuzyanyk: Luhansk sector: Shchastya – epicenter of combat activity. UA military countered hostile attack

ATO spox: 6-hour-long shelling of Ukrainian positions in Luhanske village. Militant snipers detected

ATO spokesperson: Donetsk sector: Hotspots: UA positions around Svitlodarsk, Donetsk airport and Maryinka

ATO spokesperson: Ukrainian military positions around the Bakhmut road was under heavy hostile fire

Instead buckwheat Russia delivered the latest drone technology to the DNI. https://youtu.be/Grk7mC3vS_I pic.twitter.com/RcQigNOk1F
34th Russian "ammunition resupply aid" convoy due 30 Jul.

On patrolling of Shirokino: UA doesn't consider idea of OSCE about joint patrols with "police DNR" - Motuzyanik, APU pic.twitter.com/Q8X6AUHtzm
OSCE does not seem to realize this would "grant" the mercenaries a form of political "legality" that is not in Minsk 2--so just where did the OSCE get that idea??????

Five soldiers of 128th Transcarpathian brigade wounded in Stanitsa Luhanska pic.twitter.com/2nt6gyHX0W http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/29-july-five-soldiers-of-128th-transcarpathian-brigade-wounded …

(Re)formation of Russian 20th Combined Arms Army against Ukraine's border is a major threat http://tass.ru/en/russia/811376 … pic.twitter.com/0qradQ4psM

(Re)formation of Russian 1st Guards Tank Army against Ukraine's border is a major threat http://tass.ru/en/russia/811376 … pic.twitter.com/LxYDQczYA9

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More information on the recently captured Russian MAJ who drove into the wrong checkpoint—one could argue he was the first truly “lost” Russian soldier in the Ukraine.

Briefing of head of SBU Grytsak on captured Russian Mayor Starkov http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/29-july-briefing-of-head-of-sbu-grytsak-on-captured-russian … #Ukraine pic.twitter.com/WV79bbPvs5 via @ServiceSsu

Today 409.3 kilometers of #Ukraine's state border is illegally controlled by #Russia|n troops
TT https://twitter.com/ServiceSsu/status/626366922586750977 …

Starkov is from Khabarovsk region, has a wife and two kids. Serving in Novocherkask of Rostov region pic.twitter.com/QHozU1jSK7

Russian trolls at work trying to deflect his capture and blame naturally the CIA and the Ukraine-----
And then looted by "DPR", put on KAMAZ trucks and driven around occupied Donbas by RF army staff!
Desperate lies ... pic.twitter.com/ozyRm3742R

The accounts of relatives of the detainee at the Donbass Russian major are "cleaned" pic.twitter.com/olafwSRHSv http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/29-july-the-accounts-of-relatives-of-the-detainee-at-the …

OG-7V was also captured in KAMAZ
https://twitter.com/JulianRoepcke/status/625244492451418112 …
http://dpsu.gov.ua/ua/about/news/news_7985.htm … pic.twitter.com/jGwDzxd2F4

Detained Russian officer reported SBU number of military of Russia in Donbass - 2 000 pic.twitter.com/6E3rSusSnu http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/29-july-detained-russian-officer-reported-sbu-number-of-military …

Russian Major Starkov caught in Ukraine sings like a bird. Artillery expert used wife's name, gets triple pay.

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http://www.unian.info/war/1106150-lured-with-cash-and-sent-incognito-sbu-on-russian-troops-deployed-in-ukraine.html

Lured with cash and sent incognito: SBU on Russian troops deployed in Ukraine

29.07.2015 | 17:15


Russian military commanders promise triple allowance, while taking away military IDs and other documents that may identify soldiers as Russian citizens before sending them to Ukrainian Donbas, according to the SBU chief.

Russia has created a mechanism for coordination and direct involvement of its troops in the aggression against Ukraine, said Chairman of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) Vasyl Grytsak today during his joint press conference with Chairman the State Border Guard Service Viktor Nazarenko regarding the arrest of an officer of Russia’s Armed Forces in Donbas on July 25, an UNIAN correspondent reports.

According to Grytsak, at about 22:00 Kyiv time on July 25, the border guards detained a KamAZ truck at the Berezove checkpoint. Citizen of the Russian Federation Vladimir Starkov, born in 1978, a native of Khabarovsk region, was riding in the cabin.

"The testimony provided by Starkov, as well as his Russian-made notepad and other documents seized during his arrest once again confirm the existence of a well-established mechanism for coordination and direct involvement of military personnel from Russia’s Armed Forces in Russian aggression against our country," said Grytsak.

Grytsak explained the mechanism as follows: the servicemen of Russian Armed Forces are offered further military service in the illegal armed groups of the so-called "DPR" and "LPR" [Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics, respectively] and are promised triple allowance.

"Those who agree are stripped of all the documents that may identify them as citizens of the Russian Federation and as military personnel of Russian Armed Forces on active duty – passports, military IDs and personal badges," said the head of the SBU.

During a joint press conference, a video was shown to the journalists with details of intercepted conversations between militants regarding the capture of Starkov by Ukrainian authorities.

Attention: The video contains explicit language [in Russian].
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As UNIAN reported earlier with reference to the State Border Service of Ukraine, about 22:00 Kyiv time on July 25, the State Border Service officers detained a KamAZ truck loaded with ammunition at the Berexove checkpoint (Donetsk region). Two men in military uniform were in the vehicle, which was moving from the occupied territory.

Following the detention of the truck, border guards made a preliminary report that that one of the detained men was a Major of Russia’s Armed Forces, while the other detainee was a militant from an illegal armed group.

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Light humor for MH17---

As we've now decided it was a @CIA bomb, here's a pic showing all our theories of what shot down MH17, version 92. pic.twitter.com/hYVMmEwrqU

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Serbs,French & Hungarians from Jobbik Party fighting in Donbas against Ukrainians http://obozrevatel.com/crime/90564-na-donbasse-protiv-ukrainyi-voyuet-jobbik-i-ko.htm … pic.twitter.com/HRSAw04KQV

#Pisky under #Russia|n shelling now
https://twitter.com/666_mancer/status/626403218734452736 …

Demilitarization of Shyrokyne does not mean withdrawal of soldiers from Mariupol. Only heavy weapons - ATO
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1040234095987396&id=820651001279041&refid=17&_ft_=top_level_post_id.1040234095987396&__tn__=%2As …

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First the Russians attempt to kill their two captured Spetsnaz officers and then totally abandon them and now this.

BIG question is why is he so important and WHAT does he truly know for intel.

http://www.unian.info/war/1106207-moscow-orders-proxies-in-donbas-to-capture-ukrainian-officers-for-swap-sbu.html

Moscow orders proxies in Donbas to capture Ukrainian officers for swap – SBU

29.07.2015 | 18:35


The Russian authorities ordered the leaders of DPR and LPR terrorist organizations to capture Ukrainian officers in order to swap them for Vladimir Starkov, officer of the Russian Armed Forces, detained by Ukrainian border guards in Donbas on July 25, according to the head of SBU.

“According to reliable sources, after border guards detained the officer of Russia’s Armed Forces, Russian commanders have instructed the leaders of terrorist organizations, the so-called "DPR" and "LPR" to do everything possible to capture Ukrainian officers to further exchange them for Starkov," said Chairman of the State Security Service of Ukraine Vasyl Grytsak during his joint press conference with Chairman of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine Viktor Nazarenko today, an UNIAN correspondent reports.

Also, according to the head of the SBU, attempts were made to bribe Ukrainian border guards so that they released Major Starkov immediately after his arrest, but the officers did not succumb to provocations.

OR is his statements of Russians being in the Ukraine and physically being a Russian artillery expert in the Ukraine threatening to the Putin statements that there are no Russian troops in the Ukraine.

OR he is actually a GRU officer as he was filling a brigade Intel officers position when he was captured so he is well informed of Russian numbers and militay intentions thus a serious risk. Actually betting he is a full scale GRU Spetsnaz officer acting as a normal Russian staff officer as he had based on his documents and note pad far more documentation than is normal for a so called "contract officer" volunteering for eastern Ukraine.

The numbers he is giving ie 2-3K is interesting in that is the estimated numbers of Spetsnaz of the three brigades that are currently there now with a rumored fourth just arriving.

Russian caught driving truck of explosives says 2-3,000 Russian troops are in eastern Ukraine
Video
http://news.liga.net/video/politics/6290819-opublikovano_video_doprosa_zaderzhannogo_voennogo_ rf_starkova.htm … pic.twitter.com/i49DHqLIXE

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ATO spokesperson from today

Who Are The Russian Generals That Ukraine Says Are Fighting In The Donbas? http://www.rferl.org/content/russian-generals-fighting-in-ukraine/27108296.html … via @RFERL 3 Jul

Knowledge of Russian reorganisation (1st and 20th Armies) in Western MD not unexpected, eg 24 April 2014 banners http://tvzvezda.ru/news/forces/content/201404240550-shp1.htm …

The reason we point this out (Chaiko's old command staff) is because we *think* we have already seen officer on Left in Donbas.

Maj-Gen Chaiko with representatives of high command of 20th Combined Arms Army 12 Oct 2014 http://vyksa-eparhia.ru/news/news_ep/episkop_varnava_vstretilsya_s_komanduyuwim_20j_gva rdejskoj_obwevojskovoj_armiej_zvo_generalmajorom_a leksandrom_chajko/ … 3/3 pic.twitter.com/Q7XtjyXNJ6

Major-General Alexander Chaiko now commands Russian 4th Guards 'Kantemir' Tank Div (T-80U being moved to/into Donbas) pic.twitter.com/Ne9leZKUOg

Clear indication of major Russian offensive moves--as these T80Us with river crossing equipment were just railed close to the Ukrainian border.

NOTICE how this particular Russian Tank Division seems to connect a Russian general inside the JCCC in the Ukraine.

Russian JCCC rep Lt-Gen Romanchuk previously commanded the 2nd 'Taman' Motor Rifle AND 4th 'Kantemir' Tank Divisions pic.twitter.com/rEx1pmOsxZ

Now that the 4th Kantemir sits on the Ukrainian border with T80Us and river crossing equipment.

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Early 2015, command/staff of 20th Combined Arms Army were sent to coordinate troops deployed on border with Ukraine http://www.trud.ru/article/29-07-2015/1327406_v_rossii_pojavjatsja_dve_novye_tankovye_ar mii.html …

Ukraine rejected the offer to patrol Shyrokyne with militants. Media misinterpreted Rozmaznin's words - Gen. Staff
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=487713648064564&id=453559011480028&refid=17&_ft_=top_level_post_id.487713648064564&__tn__=%2As …

NATO jets scrambled 12 times today to escort #Russian planes above the #Baltic http://news.err.ee/v/International/766ca24c-4b86-4ec7-adab-6b2c9bc02dad … pic.twitter.com/2Gr5Jn7doA
After 12 Russian aircraft yesterday--a massive increase in Russian aircraft numbers the last few days.

Today militants shelled UKR positions from artillery (2 times), mortars (10) & tank. Hottest area near Donetsk - ATO
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1040271092650363&id=820651001279041&refid=17&_ft_=top_level_post_id.1040271092650363&__tn__=%2As …

Numbers-Stations.com @Spy_Stations
These East Germany STASI related documents are one of the most detailed so far on how numbers stations works
http://scz.bplaced.net/mfs_zco.html#matrix …

Poroshenko: High cost of direct invasion obvious to Russia
http://www.unian.info/politics/1106214-poroshenko-high-cost-of-direct-invasion-obvious-to-russia.html … pic.twitter.com/8DRskrpkKF

Azov News @Azov_News
Leader of the "Azov" Andriy Biletsky invited to speak at the European Parliament in #Brussels. pic.twitter.com/LjJPbBfJqp

Analysis of Russian Army General Staff Plans of Capturing Ukraine: https://en.informnapalm.org/analysis-of-russian-army-general-staff-plans-of-capturing-ukraine/ … pic.twitter.com/rlrY7s3iJ8

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Russian shellings of Ukrainian positions have been ongoing since noon and are starting to crank up in volume again.

18:28 #Donetsk @vladicvp #Pisky is rumbling. Where is it being pounded from?

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Russian shellings of Ukrainian positions have been ongoing since noon and are starting to crank up in volume again.

18:28 #Donetsk @vladicvp #Pisky is rumbling. Where is it being pounded from?

Militants are shelling Pisky http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/29-july-militants-are-shelling-pisky …

20:51 #Horlivka @xy_gorlov4an Massive [incoming] at Rtutny [cinnabarite pit]

20:45 #Horlivka Kurganka @xy_gorlov4an Incoming nearby

20:09 #Horlivka Stroitel @ahab7822 It's getting loud
20:58 #Horlivka @77bot1 A tank works

Convoy of Russian trucks with soldiers on high speed on Petrovsky St in the direction of Mariinka http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/29-july-convoy-of-trucks-with-soldiers-on-high-speed-on-petrovsky …

21:20 #Maryinka @hyeva_maryinka [vk] Small arms like in boarding school direction

21:01 #Horlivka @77bot1 @Ukr_Che Several very strong incoming in 6-7 mine area

21:46 #Donetsk @Don_Riccio They fire at #Krasnohorivka with MLRS

During UN sec council ruscists continue shelling Mariinka-Krasnogorivka-Peski from Azotniy d-t of Donetsk https://twitter.com/HeleneHelene5/status/626470171134271488 …

20:14 #Horlivka Stroitel @062_Region Rumble

20:11 #Dzerzhynsk-#Novhorodske @LeeZernoganja Volleys&blasts w/shortest intervals in set duel places, Stakhanivska - Gagarina

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First the Russians attempt to kill their two captured Spetsnaz officers and then totally abandon them and now this.

BIG question is why is he so important and WHAT does he truly know for intel.

http://www.unian.info/war/1106207-moscow-orders-proxies-in-donbas-to-capture-ukrainian-officers-for-swap-sbu.html

Moscow orders proxies in Donbas to capture Ukrainian officers for swap – SBU

29.07.2015 | 18:35



OR is his statements of Russians being in the Ukraine and physically being a Russian artillery expert in the Ukraine threatening to the Putin statements that there are no Russian troops in the Ukraine.

OR he is actually a GRU officer as he was filling a brigade Intel officers position when he was captured so he is well informed of Russian numbers and militay intentions thus a serious risk. Actually betting he is a full scale GRU Spetsnaz officer acting as a normal Russian staff officer as he had based on his documents and note pad far more documentation than is normal for a so called "contract officer" volunteering for eastern Ukraine.

The numbers he is giving ie 2-3K is interesting in that is the estimated numbers of Spetsnaz of the three brigades that are currently there now with a rumored fourth just arriving.

Russian caught driving truck of explosives says 2-3,000 Russian troops are in eastern Ukraine
Video
http://news.liga.net/video/politics/6290819-opublikovano_video_doprosa_zaderzhannogo_voennogo_ rf_starkova.htm … pic.twitter.com/i49DHqLIXE

Appears that the figure of 2-3K refers to Russian military officers not enlisted and or NCOs. So the estimated figures of 9-12K total of active duty Russians in the Ukraine might in fact be true.

That is why he is important.

HERE is another critical reason the Russians are concerned---

The detained #Russian officer acted as liaison to provide ammunition from Moscow region to terrorists in #Ukraine. pic.twitter.com/WFWi5HdyWL

Another potential reason he is GRU as one of the captured Spetsnaz during his interview stated one of the missions of the Spetsnaz was to maintain surveillance over the various mercenary units and what better way than running munitions to them.

Third reason--he was assigned to a true Russian Army active duty advisory unit that had true active duty Army personnel assigned to it who acted as direct Russian military advisors to various mercenary units--not "vacationers and or volunteers".

That is exactly why Russia has been exceptionally silent on his capture.

Interesting detail from captured Major Starkov about ways #Russia servicemen are ordered to serve in #Ukraine as advisers. @ukrpravda_news

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There are three different ways the Russian scan be placed into a tribunal without their veto and they may have wished for a UN tribunal after this kicks in.

Now the Dutch can routinely release the full investigations and the Russians cannot say a single word.

Obama and Kerry should ask themselves now if unilateral moves actally ever work when there is no reciprocal moves by the other side--actually an requirement when one negotiates.


Vote in UN: China, Venezuela, Angola - abstained

Churkin confirms Russia passed fake evidence to the Dutch Safety Board https://twitter.com/pistolpeteukr/status/626473828710019072 …

MH17 tribunal would be 'counterproductive', while pushing conspiracy propaganda through state outlets is productive? https://twitter.com/AricToler/status/626364699383328773 …

Churkin: "We can't see the tribunal precedents as successful, as they were too expensive and took too long"

Linas Linkevicius ✔ @LinkeviciusL
We must take serious note when permanent #UNSC member repeatedly goes against international peace & justice

Lithuania will support further efforts to pursue accountability for #MH17 downing, with or without #Russia's cooperation

Lithuania & other SC members who voted in favor of resolution sent a clear message: acts of violence against civilians cannot go unpunished

After Russia's Churkin rushes thru defensive, prepared speech at breakneck speed, @AmbassadorPower begins w/ passionate msg abt #MH17 vics.

Crucial words from @AmbassadorPower: #Russia's veto "cannot and will not deny justice" to the families of #mh17 victims

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Militants are shelling Pisky http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/29-july-militants-are-shelling-pisky …

20:51 #Horlivka @xy_gorlov4an Massive [incoming] at Rtutny [cinnabarite pit]

20:45 #Horlivka Kurganka @xy_gorlov4an Incoming nearby

20:09 #Horlivka Stroitel @ahab7822 It's getting loud
20:58 #Horlivka @77bot1 A tank works

Convoy of Russian trucks with soldiers on high speed on Petrovsky St in the direction of Mariinka http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/29-july-convoy-of-trucks-with-soldiers-on-high-speed-on-petrovsky …

21:20 #Maryinka @hyeva_maryinka [vk] Small arms like in boarding school direction

21:01 #Horlivka @77bot1 @Ukr_Che Several very strong incoming in 6-7 mine area

21:46 #Donetsk @Don_Riccio They fire at #Krasnohorivka with MLRS

During UN sec council ruscists continue shelling Mariinka-Krasnogorivka-Peski from Azotniy d-t of Donetsk https://twitter.com/HeleneHelene5/status/626470171134271488 …

20:14 #Horlivka Stroitel @062_Region Rumble

20:11 #Dzerzhynsk-#Novhorodske @LeeZernoganja Volleys&blasts w/shortest intervals in set duel places, Stakhanivska - Gagarina

Shelling fr/#Horlivka, impacts heard in #Dzerhzynsk

22:20 #Maryinka @hyeva_maryinka [vk] Electricity down. We hear dull booms for now

22:38 #Dzerzhynsk @blessmaster It started. Loud

22:39 #Horlivka @xy_gorlov4an That's from us

22:41 #Dzerzhynsk @blessmaster Randomly, series by 3-4 shots, sounds like a pop-gun in Artemove direction

21:59 #Donetsk Petrovsky wood enterprise - 29th mine area @GirkinGirkin @Don_Riccio [non-stop volleys]

22:43 #Dzerzhynsk @blessmaster And somewhere within earshot something heavy landed

22:42 #Horlivka @_John__Carter_ Volleys at #Dzerzhynsk after a short lull

Ukrainian positions shelled from tanks near Hranitne, - ATO press center http://en.censor.net.ua/n345760

Horlivka still heavy artillery, Mariinka Peski more or less quiet, Donetsk is hearing outgoing booms somewhere

22:45 #Horlivka Stroitel @ahab7822 I can hear both outgoing and blast, distantly

23:01 #Dzerzhynsk @blessmaster As of now it calmed down. Sometimes heavy volleys are heard within earshot

23:20 #Horlivka @77bot1 Impacts close to Stalsbyt

[B]NOW: Tanks, mortars, machine guns in battle in Stanytsia Luhanska http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/29-july-tanks-mortars-machine-guns-in-the-battle-in-stanytsia …

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Some videos of RU Buks you guys may have missed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFfO3pGrrII … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OeyDHDaYOk …

Russia: Holy water for the wrong Buk (211)
Try the one that shot down #MH17...
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2014/11/08/origin-of-the-separatists-buk-a-bellingcat-investigation/ …
pic.twitter.com/rqRcTMAcah

VSS Vintorez, AS Val, PKP Pecheneg,... homemade suppressor?
pic.twitter.com/r0CJieKqrA

youtube.com/watch?v=Grk7mC3vS_I … #Russians Anonymous (blurred faces) launch Элерон–3СВ (used by #Russia's army) in #Ukraine. pic.twitter.com/XjvsUzgJ61

26.07.2015, Taganrog, RU. 40km away from #Ukraine
https://instagram.com/p/5mK27TRzbq/
https://www.google.de/maps/@47.254295,38.89408,3a,75y,14.84h,101.33t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s0WlCuku4Xi9I22svoaBPUg!2e0!7i1 3312!8i6656!6m1!1e1 … pic.twitter.com/ik8aG6ut4q

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There are three different ways the Russian scan be placed into a tribunal without their veto and they may have wished for a UN tribunal after this kicks in.

Now the Dutch can routinely release the full investigations and the Russians cannot say a single word.

Obama and Kerry should ask themselves now if unilateral moves actally ever work when there is no reciprocal moves by the other side--actually an requirement when one negotiates.


Vote in UN: China, Venezuela, Angola - abstained

Churkin confirms Russia passed fake evidence to the Dutch Safety Board https://twitter.com/pistolpeteukr/status/626473828710019072 …

MH17 tribunal would be 'counterproductive', while pushing conspiracy propaganda through state outlets is productive? https://twitter.com/AricToler/status/626364699383328773 …

Churkin: "We can't see the tribunal precedents as successful, as they were too expensive and took too long"

Linas Linkevicius ✔ @LinkeviciusL
We must take serious note when permanent #UNSC member repeatedly goes against international peace & justice

Lithuania will support further efforts to pursue accountability for #MH17 downing, with or without #Russia's cooperation

Lithuania & other SC members who voted in favor of resolution sent a clear message: acts of violence against civilians cannot go unpunished

After Russia's Churkin rushes thru defensive, prepared speech at breakneck speed, @AmbassadorPower begins w/ passionate msg abt #MH17 vics.

Crucial words from @AmbassadorPower: #Russia's veto "cannot and will not deny justice" to the families of #mh17 victims

Technical investigation on #MH17 crash is nearly finished, report to be released in October - #Netherlands at #UNSC

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http://maidantranslations.com/2015/07/30/dmitry-tymchuk-military-update-7-29-freesavchenko/

Dmitry Tymchuk: Military update 7.29

Posted on July 30, 2015
by chervonaruta


Operational data from Information Resistance:

Russian-terrorist troops in Donbas continue heavily shelling the ATO forces positions and civilian objects (including those located on the occupied territory), using 120 mm mortars, 122 mm and 152 mm artillery, and armored vehicles.

In the stretch between Zelenopillya and the Horlivka – Artemivsk motorway, the enemy has repeatedly opened fire from 152 mm and 122 mm artillery, as well as 120 mm mortars, over the past 24 hours. These shellings provoked a highly negative reaction from the residents of the occupied areas (vicinity of Horlivka), who were accustomed to the reasonable safety of the motorway leading to Artemivsk. Local residents use this motorway to travel to Ukraine-controlled territory in order to receive social security payments and buy medicines, food, and other goods.

The advanced strongholds and ATO forces positions in the areas of Zaitseve – Travneve – Holmivskyi – Novoluhanske were also shelled from 122 mm artillery and 120 mm mortars.

Militants used 120 mm mortars to shell the southern parts of Avdiivka; several fire strikes were also made on the northern outskirts of the town. Terrorists shelled Mar’inka using 120 mm mortars and AGS-17 automatic grenade launchers. In addition to that, two terrorist sniper groups were reported operating in the vicinity of Mar’inka and north of it (in the direction of Krasnohorivka).

The settlements of Opytne and Vodyane were shelled from 122 mm artillery and 120 mm mortars by militants positioned in the vicinity of Donetsk Airport and Spartak. In the same area, small energy infantry groups opened fire from the greenery. Further south, in the direction of Pisky, the enemy deployed two ZU-23-2 mobile anti-aircraft units mounted on mobile platforms (used for random fire).

Terrorists deployed heavy armored vehicles in the vicinity of Shchastya. Namely, three insurgents tanks moved from the direction of Vesela Hora, took firing positions under cover fire of 82 mm and 120 mm mortars, and made up to 10 strikes on the ATO forces positions. Later, insurgents shelled the same area using AGS-17 grenade launchers.

In the vicinity of Zolote, Krymske, and between Popasna and Pervomaisk, insurgents continue using small groups, firing on the ATO positions from the greenery and planting minefields. Multiple clashes with the ATO forces’ battlefield security are reported (in those cases, terrorists usually prefer a quick retreat without engaging in combat).

Over the last twenty fours hours, insurgents used small arms (including RPG, SPG, and anti-tank missiles) for a “continuous harassing” fire in the areas of Mar’inka, Lozove, Pisky, Krasnohorivka, Verkhnetoretske, Opytne, Avdiivka, Luhanske, Svtilodarsk, Shyrokyne, Hranitne, Berezove, and Stanytsia Luhanska.

A terrorist armored group (5 tanks, up to 10 armored combat vehicles, including BMP-1 and BMP-2 infantry fighting vehicles, and BTR-80 armored personnel carriers) was spotted maneuvering in the area of Dokuchajevsk.

A tactical militant group previously spotted by the IR group during their transfer to the area of Starobesheve has now taken positions along the Starolaspa – Rozdolne line. As of this time, their camouflaged positions contain 26 tanks, 36 ACVs (including five of the latest Russian BTR-82A armored personnel carriers, and eight Russian GAZ-2330 Tiger armored combat vehicles, part of the reconnaissance unit of the Russian Armed Forces), and up to 20 Kamaz/Ural trucks (including three command vehicles).

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Technical investigation on #MH17 crash is nearly finished, report to be released in October - #Netherlands at #UNSC

Churkin's Freudian slip at UN. "We hope that there will be impunity for those who shot down the plane" http://www.mk.ru/politics/2015/07/30/churkin-na-sovbeze-oon-ogovorilsya-po-freydu.html …

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Shellings throughout the night and now into the morning all along the eastern front line.

Around midnight #Starohnativka was shelled with artillery and tanks http://censor.net.ua/n345775 via

Russia's aggression against Ukraine: implications for @NATO http://www.centerforintelligencestudies.org/INTELLIGENCE_BRIEFS.html …

Dzerzhynsk
There was incoming (shelling) at night. There are dead. https://twitter.com/fhntv29/status/626609691456614400 …

youtube.com/watch?v=9I1ZoYaFLYE … #Russians Anonymous (masked faces,Olkhon unit) flaunt 'not for sale' RuArmy rations. pic.twitter.com/TzX3p2ce0w

Donetsk 6:36AM
Periodically heavy volleys. https://twitter.com/BylByleva_/status/626597147266449408 …

Another Russian lie—claiming NATO round but is 7.92mm NATO is 7.62mm.
youtube.com/watch?v=Juc8Jjgi-6Q … #Luhansk: '7.92 caliber #NATO round' (#WWI,#WWII) 'not used by RuArmy.' #LOL #Ukraine #Russia pic.twitter.com/LQYk46UVf4

Trolling level: advanced. Vilnius mayor offers Russians a swap: dismantled Soviet statues for Lithuanian monumentshttp://ru.delfi.lt/news/live/vilnyus-soglasilsya-by-obmenyat-sovetskie-skulptury-na-cennosti-litvy-v-rf.d?id=68607022 …

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http://www.interpretermag.com/ukraine-live-day-528-nadezhda-savchenko-brought-to-court-in-donetsk-rostov-region/#9314

Civilian Casualties In Dzerzhynsk And Marinka

08:43 (GMT)


UNIAN reports that the Donetsk regional branch of the Interior Ministry (MVD) has announced that two civilians were killed by shelling in the early hours of this morning in Ukrainian-held Dzerzhynsk, north-west of Gorlovka.

According to the report, the centre of the village was shelled at around 3 am today. The two fatalities were men, born in 1982 and 1956.

Power lines in Dzerzhynsk were knocked out by the shelling, leaving two mines without power. The MVD claim that more than 200 miners were stuck underground as a result. They were, at the time of the announcement, being evacuated.

Meanwhile Nataliya Shiman, a press officer for the Donetsk MVD, told Ukraine's 112 television channel that a woman was wounded in Marinka, a Ukrainian-held suburb to the south-west of Donetsk.

According to Shiman, the civilian, born in 1962, sustained shrapnel injuries after Marinka was shelled at 22:00 last night.

The Ukrainian military's ATO Press Centre claimed today that Russian-backed forces had conducted 82 attacks yesterday.

From 18:00 on July 29 to midnight on July 30, the illegal armed groups fired on ATO forces near the city of Donetsk and the town of Artyomovsk.

"From 17:45 to 20:30 on July 29, the enemy was firing 120mm mortars on our fortified position near the village of Peski [close to the destroyed Donetsk airport]. At 21:00 and 22:00 Kyiv time, the Russian mercenaries fired tank shells from the town of Gorlovka on ATO forces near the village of Leninskoye. At 21:35 Kyiv time, the enemy's tank attacked our positions in the village of Triokhizbenka in Luhansk region. In addition, they three times fired 120mm mortars on the town of Krasnogorovka and the village of Mayorsk," the report says.

According to the press center, the enemy continued using large-caliber artillery systems.

"At 22:15 Kiev time, the militants fired 152mm artillery systems on the village of Yasnobrodovka in Donetsk region. At 22:35 Kiev time, they shelled ATO forces again near the village of Leninskoye, using 152mm and 122mm artillery systems. At 23:45 Kiev time, the positions of the Ukrainian armed forces near the village of Starognatovka in the Mariupol sector were under tank and artillery fire," the report reads.

After midnight, the Kremlin-backed mercenaries continued their armed provocations mainly in the directions of Artyomovsk and Donetsk.

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Great map indicating major combat areas and events---
82 attacks yesterday. Used 122 & 152mm artillery and MLRS. RF pushing tanks to frontline http://liveuamap.com pic.twitter.com/1LfVtP5pcN

Militants moved tanks closer to Shyrokyne. Cargo train expected to arrive in debaltseve from Russia - Tymchuk
https://m.facebook.com/dmitry.tymchuk/posts/731266417002016?pnref=story …

Tymchuk: To #Debaltseve train station 90 well-armed russian troops arrived w APCs, trucks, wait "very important cargo" http://www.ukrinform.ua/ukr/news/u_debaltsevomu_90_rosiyskih_viyskovih_zustrichayut _osoblivo_vagliviy_vantag_2079920 …

Militants moved 7 tanks from Bezimenne to Sakhanka, closer to Shyrokyne - Tymchuk pic.twitter.com/5eIvswLfBy http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/30-july-militants-moved-7-tanks-from-bezimenne-to-sakhanka …

SBU detained soldiers who sold weapons pic.twitter.com/4esmOiYkFr http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/30-july-sbu-has-detained-soldiers-who-sold-weapons- …

News
Russian attacks yesterday had the same pattern as the last days.
"Only" around 30 until sunset, more than 50 afterwards.

Yesterday militants 6 times fired on UKR pos. in Sector M, using SPGs, tanks. After midnight attacks intensified
https://m.facebook.com/mariupol.oborona/posts/657555354381401 …

Map. Situation in eastern #Ukraine, July 30, 00:00 EET pic.twitter.com/J41CDgupG4

Putin has started a new clash with the West, this time over the flow of oil through Georgia http://qz.com/464703 pic.twitter.com/RYPzk2TING

Russian army equipment shipped towards #Ukrainian border | EMPR Video http://empr.media/video/conflict-zone/russian-army-equipment-shipped-towards-ukrainian-border … pic.twitter.com/qu2J5EZ90y

Those that won Yukos 50B USD court decision now starting physical seizures of Russian property.
Police and bailiffs seized one of the buildings of Goszagransobstvennost in Paris, where MIA "Russia Today" located http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/30-july-police-and-bailiffs-seized-one-of-the-buildings-of …

ATO spox: Militants fired from a tank, shooting across Siverskyi Donets river. Mortar fire against Ukrainian troops registered near Krymske.

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Churkin's Freudian slip at UN. "We hope that there will be impunity for those who shot down the plane" http://www.mk.ru/politics/2015/07/30/churkin-na-sovbeze-oon-ogovorilsya-po-freydu.html …

Putin was the first to demand a #UN-investigation for #MH17...
but somehow by now has changed his mind... pic.twitter.com/QDCpjRZn6k

Peskov calls claim Russian veto on UN tribunal re #MH17 shows its guilt 'absurd.' Rsa supports finding responsible but doubts re investig

Strange comment from the spokesperson from Putin who was the first to call in the UN for an immediate open and transparent UN investigation BUT that was when he was accusing the Ukrainians--WHAT changed his mind????

Seems they did not like the initial Dutch draft of the investigation report and it one read the UN draft tribunal document all pointed straight at Putin.

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Technical investigation on #MH17 crash is nearly finished, report to be released in October - #Netherlands at #UNSC

Appears Russia has forgotten that they themsleves have placed into the public domain a total of six different shot down myths the last one being a UK journalist working for the CIA which was replaced yesterday by a CIA bomb being placed in the plane completed with animated video which was later pulled as it was really bad.


http://tass.ru/en/world/811608

Russia committed to thorough investigation of MH17 crash — foreign ministry

World
July 30, 11:51 UTC+3


MOSCOW, July 30. /TASS/. Russia remains committed to thorough and objective international investigation of MH17 crash over Ukraine and to bringing those guilty to justice, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Thursday.

"Russia will continue making the most energetic efforts on rendering all possible assistance to investigating the air crash," the document said. Russia refused to put through the politicized decision forced on the UN Security Council on establishing an international tribunal to bring those guilty in Malaysian Boeing-777 crash over Ukraine to justice, the Russian Foreign Ministry noted.

Russia tried to prevent the split in the UN Security Council and bring the issue into constructive framework, the document said. "This is exactly what the draft resolution proposed by Russia and based on [UN Security Council] Resolution 2166 was aimed at — to broadly employ UN mechanisms for soonest completion of full, transparent and trustworthy international investigation of the crash and subsequently search for the most appropriate format of legal proceedings," the foreign ministry said. "Only the full implementation of Resolution 2166 will allow to find those guilty and bring them to justice," the ministry added.

"Russia condemns the destruction of Malaysian plane MH17 by unidentified persons and once again expresses deepest condolences to the relatives of all passengers and crew members that became victims of this horrible tragedy," Russia’s diplomatic agency said.

The Russian Foreign Ministry expressed regret that initiators of the latest UN Security Council session ignored Russia’s proposal. "Instead of that, they preferred to hastily submit for voting in the Security Council their own version with establishing an international tribunal without discussing any other options," the ministry noted. "Our persistent explanations about inexpedience and counter-productiveness of such step, that had no precedents in the past, before the ongoing investigation into circumstances of the air crash is complete, were not taken into account," the diplomatic agency stressed.

Russia vetoes UN Security Council resolution

On Thursday, Russia vetoed the United Nations Security Council resolution on establishing an international tribunal to prosecute persons guilty of the MH17 plane crash over Ukraine on July 17, 2014 on Wednesday.

Eleven Security Council members voted for the Malaysia-proposed draft, which, in fact, was enough for its adoption but Russia used its right of veto.

Another three countries, including Angola, Venezuela and China, abstained from voting.

The two-page Malaysia-proposed draft resolution classifies the incident as a threat to international peace and security and provides for the creation of a tribunal under Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter in pursuit of a single goal — to prosecute persons responsible for the crimes linked to the destruction of the Malaysia Airlines plane (flight MH17). The statute (charter) of the proposed tribunal, which supplements the draft resolution, demands that all countries should cooperate with the future legal body in full measure.

Russian Ambassador to United Nations Vitaly Churkin told journalists on July 27 that Moscow had legal, practical and political objections regarding the proposal. Churkin said it was wrong to classify the air crash as a threat to international peace and security and create a tribunal proceeding from Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter.

"Never before international tribunals were established to investigate civilian plane crashes under Chapter VII of the UN Charter. No tribunal was set up to investigate the crash of a Russian airliner shot down by a Ukrainian anti-aircraft missile in 2001 or a US-destroyed Iranian plane," Churkin said.

MH17 crash in Ukraine

On 17 July 2014, a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 passenger airliner on flight MH17 from the Dutch city of Amsterdam to the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur crashed in the Donetsk Region in eastern Ukraine, killing all 298 people on board. Most passengers — 193 people — were Dutch nationals. The suspected cause of the crash is that the plane was hit by a surface-to-air missile. The Dutch Safety Board is conducting the investigation.

Putin is backed into a corner--every time a new social media BUK video and or a part of the Dutch report is released the Russians rush to counter it with their typical style of info warfare propaganda that then in turn gets shredded by social media forcing them to come out with another fake evidence report.

We are at six shot down different stories (where they claimed to have iron clad evidence that got destroyed by social media within two hours of their release) and an additional two really bad fakes yesterday---at some point they are at a loss to say anything more but they keep on trying.

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http://www.interpretermag.com/ukraine-live-day-528-nadezhda-savchenko-brought-to-court-in-donetsk-rostov-region/#9314

Civilian Casualties In Dzerzhynsk And Marinka

08:43 (GMT)

The Ukrainian government has now stated the shelling of Dzerzhynsk which was a purely civilian town with no UA close by and in it can be classified as a war crime under the Geneva Convention ie the shelling of civilians and their residences by heavy artillery.

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Col. Lysenko:UA security services detained two militants and their informer: militants in Artemivsk & Krasnyi Lyman; informer in Kramatorsk

ATO spox: No militants` war efforts in front area stretching from Pavlopil to Shyrokyne.

ATO spokesperson: Mariupol sector: Hostile military action resumed. Hotspots: Starohnativka, Hranitne, Mykolayivka.

Col. Lysenko: Front line stretching from Avdiivka to Maryinka remains under heavy hostile shelling.

Col. Andriy Lysenko: 2 civilians were killed, 1 more injured during militant shelling of Dzerzhynsk. Gas pipeline damaged.

Fighters of ATO memorize faces of separatists by playing cards pic.twitter.com/rbu41spVEU http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/30-july-fighters-of-ato-memorize-faces-of-separatists-by …

Despite the ceasefire Ukrainian forces are still fighting the DNR near Donetsk international airport - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_L0mzW4dIQ …

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A great article written in 2014 that is proving to be quite accurate—worth reading.

http://foreignpolicy.com/2014/04/21/putins-empire-of-the-mind/

How Russia's president morphed from realist to ideologue -- and what he'll do next.

By Mark Galeotti, Andrew S. Bowen
April 21, 2014

Putin’s Empire of the Mind


A specter is haunting Europe, the specter of Russian imperialism.

When Vladimir Putin first came to power in 1999, he talked ideologically but acted rationally. He listened to a range of opinions, from liberal economist Alexei Kudrin to political fixer Vladislav Surkov — people willing to tell him hard truths and question groupthink. He may have regarded the collapse of the Soviet Union as the greatest geopolitical disaster of the 20th century, but he knew he couldn’t re-create it. Perhaps the best metaphor is that while he brought back the Soviet national anthem, it had new words. There was no thought of returning Russia to the failed Soviet model of the planned economy. And as a self-professed believer who always wears his baptismal cross, Putin encouraged the once-suppressed Russian Orthodox Church.

He was a Russian patriot, but he also was willing to cooperate with the West when it suited his interests. One of the first leaders to offer his condolences after the 9/11 attacks, Putin shared Russian intelligence on al Qaeda with the United States. He did not hesitate to protect Russia’s interests against the West — in 2008 Putin undercut any thought of NATO expansion into Georgia by launching a war against its vehemently pro-Western president, Mikheil Saakashvili — but Putin’s challenges were carefully calibrated to minimize repercussions while maximizing gains. He shut off gas to Ukraine, unleashed hackers on Estonia, and, yes, sent troops into Georgia, but he made sure that the costs of asserting regional hegemony were limited, bearable, and short term.

But that was the old Putin. Today, the West faces a rather different Russian leader.

After all, the annexation of Crimea, by any rational calculation, did not make sense. Russia already had immense influence on the peninsula, but without the need to subsidize it, as Ukraine had. (Russia has already pledged $1.5 billion to support Crimea.) The Russian Black Sea Fleet’s position in the Crimean seaport of Sevastopol was secure until 2042. Any invasion would anger the West and force it to support whatever government took the place of Viktor Yanukovych’s administration in Kiev, regardless of its composition or constitutionality.

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Light humor concerning Russian propaganda------

Counterbalancing "Western propaganda" by watching RT is like healing drug addiction with vodka.

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Notorious "destroyed" Debaltsevo railway junction fully operable at DNR. Now Russia lacks marine port. Guess a name. https://twitter.com/InfoResist/status/626713468398379008 …

Tanks in Donetsk http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/30-july-tanks-in-donetsk … #Ukraine pic.twitter.com/w2YMrBlXR5 via @666_mancer

British journalist from Sky News asks militants to shoot at Ukrainian positions for ‘action’
Unbelievable (if true)
http://joinfo.com/world/1006857_british-journalist-sky-news-asks-militants-shoot-ukrainian-positions-action.html …

In last day, militants fired on Heorhiivka CP with artillery and mortars. Also fired on Berezove CP - Border guards
http://dpsu.gov.ua/ua/about/news/news_8029.htm …

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Very good article on a serious question by a Russian speaking specialist who understands Russia and Putin well and their drivers.

Well worth reading..............

http://warontherocks.com/2015/07/time-to-think-about-hybrid-defense/

Time to Think About “Hybrid Defense”

Mark Galeotti

July 30, 2015


If the new threat is so complex, political, and subtle, shouldn’t the response be the same?

Much is made these days of the new challenge to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) from “hybrid warfare” — the kind of blended military-political-intelligence-economic operations Russia has launched in Ukraine. Whether or not this really is something new can be debated, as should whether it ought really be called something else. In any case, it certainly now shapes the Western defense agenda. But if the threat is so complex and political, maybe Western countries need to be thinking more sharply and imaginatively about counter-measures? A “hybrid defense”?

After all, given that NATO is a military alliance, it is hardly surprising that it is concentrating on military means. Thus, U.S. heavy armor is to be prepositioned in the Baltic states, and a rolling series of exercises are seeing NATO troops and special forces in particular wargaming various scenarios, including the kind of unacknowledged, unidentified Russian “little green men” who took Crimea.

This is all admirable and useful, but Moscow’s current approach is based on the guerrilla’s basic maxims: avoid doing the obvious, play to your strengths rather than your opponent’s, and never get caught in a straight fight with a stronger enemy. If Russia ever does decide to make any moves against NATO, it will be with the intention of avoiding any direct war with an alliance that can outfight, outgun, and outman it. And it will try to avoid making a move for which the West is ready.

Crimea and the Donbas should not be considered playbooks we can expect the Russians to follow directly. Estonia’s senior military commander, Lt. General Riho Terras, has an uncompromising but effective answer to the little green men: “You should shoot the first one to appear.” Fair enough, but the Russians are unlikely to make it quite so easy.

The first little green man, after all, might instead be a 15-year-old Russian-Estonian girl waving a “Russian-speakers have rights, too” placard in the border city of Narva. Shoot her? Of course not. The second might be her older brother, throwing rocks at the police coming to arrest her. Shoot him? Hopefully not, especially as you can guarantee that footage of the incident would promptly be blasted across Russian TV channels. Meanwhile the Kremlin-backed Night Wolves motorcycle gang tries to force the border into Narva, unarmed but in numbers. At the same time, a bomb explodes in Tallinn’s railway station at rush hour, creating panic and chaos, while anonymous calls warn of other bombs around the city. A tanker truck gets into an unexplained accident just past the Luhamaa border crossing to the southeast, bursting into flames. As a noxious chemical cloud drifts across the border, Russian fire and hazmat trucks, escorted by police, demand to be allowed to deal with the scene.

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Boeing was shot down according to CIA agent orders.

http://matveychev-oleg.livejournal.com/2464098.html

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Well worth going through this to understand the direct Russian military actions and their physical activities inside the Ukraine.

Russian officer Starkov explained how Russian soldiers get recruited.

VIDEO+TRANSCRIPT at http://lugansk-news.com/captured-russian-officer-starkov-explained-how-and-how-many-russian-soldiers-get-recruited-to-fight-in-ukraine-full-transcript-of-the-video/ … pic.twitter.com/wf4v8NN3h2

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Reactive Flamethrower Schmel, captured in Mariinka http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/30-july-reactive-flamethrower-schmel-captured-in-mariinka … pic.twitter.com/hagMSLHCMZ

Russian-Terrorist Forces Accumulate Equipment Lying About Its Withdrawal https://en.informnapalm.org/urtf-accumulate-equipment-lying-about-its-withdrawal/ … pic.twitter.com/fUA3f2TnvY

Militants don't let OCSE monitors approach the border. pic.twitter.com/1MxLSY9CVe

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The Ukraine has now set into motion the necessary legal moves to demand estimated 400B USDs in damages from Russian reference the Crimea and eastern Ukraine. Similar demands were made on Saddam in his Kuwait adventure and the courts ruled in the favor of Kuwait for Billions which they did collect.

At first they will go the route of civil rights violations but that sets the stage for financial compensation later against Russia.

That is the key reason the Russians are changing their own Constitution to not recognize the EHRC decisions.

European Court recognizes Crimea and part of Donbas as occupied territory, - Agent of Ukrainian Government in the Affairs of ECHR

30.07.2015 18:08


Agent of the Ukrainian Government in the Affairs of European Court of Human Rights Borys Babin stated in the course of the round table, Censor.NET informs citing Ukrainski Novyny.

"The Court has accepted such terminology. These areas (Donetsk and Luhansk regions as well as Crimea annexed by Russia) are referred to as the occupied in official court's correspondence," he said.

Babin said that the absence of the official proclamation of war between Ukraine and Russia was not an obstacle for the recovery of compensation from Russia for violation of human rights in the occupied territory and its recognition as the aggressor state.

Read more: Ukrainians residing in the territories occupied by Russia are now able to file lawsuits against the aggressor state, Justice Minister says

According to him, the main purpose of lawsuit against Russia, which the Ministry of Justice expects to prepare and submit to the ECHR in September, is to stop violations of rights in the occupied territory but not recovery of financial compensation.

For Russia to ignore the EHRC they will have to pull out of the Council of Europe and PACE and potentially any connection's to the EU in order to avoid any decisions by the EHRC, BUT then if they do that they potentially not get investors into Russia as there will be no legal protections for such investments.

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Boeing was shot down according to CIA agent orders.

http://matveychev-oleg.livejournal.com/2464098.html

The Strange Story of the Ten Million Dollar MH17 Investigation https://www.byline.com/column/13/article/217 … pic.twitter.com/NP6KQpa2l4

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Another day and another night of intensive Russian shellings and ground attacks.


now
Donetsk outskirts: black smoke plume, conflicting information on location: maybe Vodyane or Petrovka area pic.twitter.com/9tWA6nXY5d

Reports that fire is near Karlivka - too unusual, and may be a sign of new stage of war http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/30-july-something-hit-on-the-outskirts-of-donetsk-most-likely?ll=48.10835;37.50801&zoom=8 … pic.twitter.com/9s7F2nK7Jw

same smoke from Yasinovataya https://twitter.com/GirkinGirkin/status/626814815281897472 … @sterion75

20:27 #Donetsk @14720Maro In Gvardeyka(Makeevka) dir'n intense black smoke plume
@tatyana17112009 There was a blast at Kalinova mine,no dead

20:25 #Krasnohorivka @hyeva_maryinka [vk] About 10 volleys more

20:33 #Donetsk @relictDon Smolyanka-Azotny are not calming down. Shot sounds became variuos.

Krasnohorivka @hyeva_maryinka [vk]
20:37 Sounds like AGL has fired,frightfully
Hits at Zhukivka near Zoryany
21:45 MG at Borysivka,Stalinka

HAMMERTOSS: Stealthy Tactics Define a Russian Cyber Threat Group
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UE9suwyuic8 …

20:29 #Donetsk @donetskye 2 more outgoing, Hornyak-Teplichny: 2 more
20:32 Azotny: damn lots of outgoing

22:39 #Maryinka-#Krasnohorivka @AMykhailova Very heavy impacts [now]

Mariinka is under shelling with MLRS Grad and howitzers http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/30-july-mariinka-is-under-shelling-with-mlrs-grad-and-howitzers …

Avdeevka today @Garik_Youmar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3y4ZoqLp7g …

22:33 @pinokioner Lots of heavy incoming south-eastward of #Kurakhove

#Donetsk smoke @666_mancer One more report on smoke: it's not Avdeevka, Zelenstroy behind Umansky lane, tidy shot
23:01 @AMykhailova RUS artillery works at #Maryinka, #Grad|s and SPG are audible. We cannot get there

23:10 #Kurakhove @pinokioner One can hear fr/K both #Maryinka direction & further south, blasts are clearly heard. Constantly

23:16 #Donetsk @666_mancer [vk] Ongoing battle in #Trudovski-#Maryinka, RUS shellw/arty once & again like from Petrovka

as for "Donetsk smoke" @AMykhailova "Having flubbed, RUS conflagrated w/projectiles someone's estate. No casualties, house is still on fire"

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youtube.com/watch?v=6qG1UBgEI1w … #Donbas Battalion. 'Demilitarized' out of #Shyrokyne. Hopefully, not to retake it. pic.twitter.com/RJ5ZzaPDRc

U.S. adds more entities and individuals to #Russia sanctions
http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/OFAC-Enforcement/Pages/20150730.aspx …

Military echelon in Rostov-on-Don pic.twitter.com/jnCbSIHzdh http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/30-july-military-echelon-in-rostovondon …

Russian military production is hurting as it is not getting the Ukrainian products they need.
Rus MilIndC suffering fr lacking Ukr input. Рогозин сообщил о перебоях с новыми кораблями без комплектующих с Украины
http://top.rbc.ru/politics/03/06/2015/556eb3839a79472dacc98378 …

[EN] The 4th Armor Division is Ready to Wade.
Our friends found a photo of unloaded equipment on the train... http://fb.me/4lWKKtKk0


Our friends found a photo of unloaded equipment on the train station of Neklinovka (village of Pokrovskoe, Rostov Oblast, Russia) in a Russian soldier online profile. At first glance this is a common picture – another train with military machines is unloaded at the Ukrainian border. But our attention was drawn by the hull numbers covered with paint and the ‘Brod’ [Wade] system tubes attached to the tanks.

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Massive shellings all night long all along the eastern front coordinated with ground attacks


Donetsk 6:53AM
Tekstilshchik ds hears rumble of guns from W. 120mm cannon, houses tremble. Outgoing fr Petrovka ds https://twitter.com/666_mancer/status/626983038262640640 …

Maryinka 6:40AM
There was shooting at night, then calmed down. Now quiet. https://twitter.com/hyeva_maryinka/status/626975415362547712 …
#Maryinka 1:05AM

Traffic police post or hospital area - shootout! Mortars and small arms. https://twitter.com/hyeva_maryinka/status/626974374898311168 …

Donetsk
6:33AM Single volley, probably area of mine 29
6:41AM Another 5 rounds https://twitter.com/ropogckou/status/626959888946737152 …

In addition to #Shchastya and #Stanytsia_Luhanska the night was hot at #Toshkivka and the outskirts of #Popasnaya https://twitter.com/100007182042214/status/626969185139183616 …

Horlivka
5:15AM volleys
5:23AM quiet https://twitter.com/UA_Gorlivka/status/626941317642362880 …

5:19AM #Dzerzhynsk
Powerful and intense volleys to south https://twitter.com/blessmaster/status/626940115542274048 …

2:28AM
Outgoing. #Kirovske https://twitter.com/kish_fish/status/626897078585819136 …

2:29AM - Minimum three D30 firing tow. checkpoint 25.

@stels967 - it's checkpoint 29 https://twitter.com/thisnameerror/status/626897420736155648 …

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Massive shellings all night long all along the eastern front coordinated with ground attacks


Donetsk 6:53AM
Tekstilshchik ds hears rumble of guns from W. 120mm cannon, houses tremble. Outgoing fr Petrovka ds https://twitter.com/666_mancer/status/626983038262640640 …

Maryinka 6:40AM
There was shooting at night, then calmed down. Now quiet. https://twitter.com/hyeva_maryinka/status/626975415362547712 …
#Maryinka 1:05AM

Traffic police post or hospital area - shootout! Mortars and small arms. https://twitter.com/hyeva_maryinka/status/626974374898311168 …

Donetsk
6:33AM Single volley, probably area of mine 29
6:41AM Another 5 rounds https://twitter.com/ropogckou/status/626959888946737152 …

In addition to #Shchastya and #Stanytsia_Luhanska the night was hot at #Toshkivka and the outskirts of #Popasnaya https://twitter.com/100007182042214/status/626969185139183616 …

Horlivka
5:15AM volleys
5:23AM quiet https://twitter.com/UA_Gorlivka/status/626941317642362880 …

5:19AM #Dzerzhynsk
Powerful and intense volleys to south https://twitter.com/blessmaster/status/626940115542274048 …

2:28AM
Outgoing. #Kirovske https://twitter.com/kish_fish/status/626897078585819136 …

2:29AM - Minimum three D30 firing tow. checkpoint 25.

@stels967 - it's checkpoint 29 https://twitter.com/thisnameerror/status/626897420736155648 …

After the Obama, Kerry, Nuland, Hollande and Merkel unilateral pressure on the Ukrainians to do a political implementation of Minsk 2 in order to tell the world hey they are the only ones fulfilling Minsk 2--THIS was all done without reciprocal demands on Russia to fulfill even a single point of Minsk 2.

AND as usual all western leaders seem to think that will work--wrong.

During the last day, July 30, the russian-terrorist forces carried out 105 attacks along the contact line http://www.ukrinform.ua/ukr/news/boyoviki_za_dobu_zniysnili_ponad_sto_obstriliv_208 0295 …

Any attack number of 50-55 per day means actual combat ops--anything over 100 attacks per day is in fact full war operations.

AND any comments from the West--not a single uttered word--why is that????

AND did anyone notice any comments by Obama, Holland and Merkel after the capture of a "true Russian officer" inside the Ukraine---not a word by any of them.

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The US, France and Germany together with Putin --with Putin demanding actually that the Ukrainians offer a "sign of good faith" and demilitarize the town of Shyrokyne. Actually the proposal first came from a former Russian General assigned to the JCCC who then convinced the OSCE that this was a good idea.

After the West's unilateral pressure on the Ukraine they did pull back and created a so called 30 km buffer zone--15km on each side of the front line.

The Ukrainian Azov Regt and the Donbas BN which had been fighting there for over four months were replaced by Ukrainian Marines. And the UA pulled out all tanks and artillery.

The Russians actually only pulled back 1.4 kms and their tanks and heavy artillery are parked only 7kms away--so much for the demanded by Putin "sign of good faith" and the pressured unilateral move on the Ukraine by the West.

Col. Andriy Lysenko: Brief armed mlitant provocation registered near Shyrokyne during the evening

Militants fired at Ukr positions in #Shyrokyne. Ukr troops returned fire w/ small arms to suppress firing points http://www.0629.com.ua/news/909103


SO in theory it should remain quiet if in fact Russia is adhering to the actual ceasefire there BUT guess what---they are not.

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Massive shellings all night long all along the eastern front coordinated with ground attacks

Donetsk 6:53AM
Tekstilshchik ds hears rumble of guns from W. 120mm cannon, houses tremble. Outgoing fr Petrovka ds https://twitter.com/666_mancer/status/626983038262640640 …

Maryinka 6:40AM
There was shooting at night, then calmed down. Now quiet. https://twitter.com/hyeva_maryinka/status/626975415362547712 …
#Maryinka 1:05AM

Traffic police post or hospital area - shootout! Mortars and small arms. https://twitter.com/hyeva_maryinka/status/626974374898311168 …

Donetsk
6:33AM Single volley, probably area of mine 29
6:41AM Another 5 rounds https://twitter.com/ropogckou/status/626959888946737152 …

In addition to #Shchastya and #Stanytsia_Luhanska the night was hot at #Toshkivka and the outskirts of #Popasnaya https://twitter.com/100007182042214/status/626969185139183616 …

Horlivka
5:15AM volleys
5:23AM quiet https://twitter.com/UA_Gorlivka/status/626941317642362880 …

5:19AM #Dzerzhynsk
Powerful and intense volleys to south https://twitter.com/blessmaster/status/626940115542274048 …

2:28AM
Outgoing. #Kirovske https://twitter.com/kish_fish/status/626897078585819136 …

2:29AM - Minimum three D30 firing tow. checkpoint 25.

@stels967 - it's checkpoint 29 https://twitter.com/thisnameerror/status/626897420736155648 …

And it just keeps on coming...--not a single comment by Obama, Hollande and or Merkel--they seem to no longer really care about the constant Russian violations of Minsk 2.


Col. Lysenko: Two Ukrainian servicemen KIA, 7 were wounded in action in last 24 hours

Col. Lysenko: Two Ukrainian servicemen KIA, 7 were wounded in action in last 24 hours

ATO spokesperson: Mariupol sector: Starohnativka was the epicenter of fighting in the region. 6-hour-long combat.

ATO spokesperson: 2/3 of ceasefire violations occur b/w Avdiivka & Maryinka

Col. Lysenko: Heavy hostile shelling of the front line stretching from Mykolaiivka Druha to Novhorodske

ATO spox: Donetsk sector: 12-hour-long mortar attack against UA troops near Svitlodarsk. Not a single servicemen was injured

ATO spokesperson: Militants were firing at Ukrainian forces between villages Zolote and Pervomaisk in the evening

ATO spokesperson: The enemy continued using 120 mm mortars in the nighttime.

Col. Lysenko: Luhansk sector: Incessant militants fire at Ukrainian positions near Stanytsia Luhanska continued throughout the whole day

Col. Andriy Lysenko: More than 100 militant attacks over the last day – disproportionately high number as a sign of escalation.

Kadyrov says the Chechens fighting against Kiev have left Donbas https://meduza.io/news/2015/07/31/kadyrov-rasskazal-ob-otzyve-chechenskih-boytsov-iz-donbassa …

In tonight's shelling in #Stanytsia_Luhanska 5 houses and one shop burned down http://informator.lg.ua/?p=109255#.Vbs8Lr7IEPw.twitter …

News
2 civilians (23-year old man, 80-year old woman) were injured in a #Russian #artillery attack on #Toshkivka. pic.twitter.com/lKwwitShj2

Map. Situation in eastern #Ukraine, July 31, 00:00 EET pic.twitter.com/Ysg8uqoMMI

Militants attack east Ukraine's town of Dzerzhynsk (video update) http://uatoday.tv/society/militants-attack-east-ukraine-rsquo-s-town-of-dzerzhynsk-video-update-466282.html …

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The OSCE constantly complained to Russia about the shipping of new heavy military weapons into the Donbas for their May Victory parades and the Russian response was they are only there for the parades BUT then we see them in the field ready for combat operations.

Again so much for "trusting Russian statements" and yet Obama continues to apply pressure on the Ukraine to do unilateral appeasement moves to help save "Putin's face".

Difference between Russian army star symbol in Luhansk parade (red, L) and Donetsk parade (red/white, R) pic.twitter.com/MFJ9IPbf6H

(L) Two Russian BM-21 Grad MLRS from 9 May Victory Day parade in Luhansk (R) on active service in Donbas pic.twitter.com/DrVxf16KYW

For those that doubt just how many heavy weapons systems Russia has shipped into the eastern Ukraine—just a small overview in this photo…..and no it was not “captured from the Ukrainians” or bought in a local miner and truck driver store.

The fleet of the DNR. Born from a few guns and rifles in Slavyansk. Coincidence? pic.twitter.com/Ayg3d7OtBa

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Col. Andriy Lysenko: Ukraine’s Security Service detained courier with piece of military equipment at UA-RU border pic.twitter.com/cAWr5JlHWL

ATO spox: @USTreasury imposes new sanctions on Russia targeting arms, oil, bank industries, RU & UA businessmen incl Oleksandr Yanukovych

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http://sputniknews.com/military/20150731/1025241761.html#ixzz3hSzgGH74

Russia Controls Arctic Airspace, Waters Over 300 Miles Off Coast
09:00 31.07.2015(updated 09:18 31.07.2015)


Russia is monitoring the situation in the Arctic Region at a distance of 310 miles from the coastline, the Defense Ministry said.

Russia to Deliver 140,000 Tonnes of Cargo for Troops in Arctic


MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Russia is monitoring the Arctic waters and airspace at a distance of over 300 miles from the coastline, a representative of the country’s Defense Ministry told journalists on Friday.

"The system of control of the situation in the Arctic is active at a distance of 500 kilometers [310 miles] from the shore," the representative said, adding that monitoring the situation in the region is key to ensuring Russia’s security in the north.

In 2013, Moscow announced a strategy to increase its presence in the Arctic and to boost the region's development by 2020. Since then, Russia has been particularly active in exploring opportunities in the Arctic and is planning to build a unified network of military facilities in the region in order to strengthen its border defense.

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https://twitter.com/tassagency_en/status/627009897826267136 …

Ukraine's self-proclaimed republics urge Kiev to agree on Donbas special status

July 31, 9:51 UTC+3


MOSCOW, July 31. /TASS/. Chief negotiators of the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk people’s republics (DPR and LPR) have urged Ukraine’s representatives in the Contact Group on the Ukrainian crisis resolution and the sub-group on political issues to make the final agreement on the special status of Donbas.

"We request that you reach the final agreements on issues of enactment of the law on the special status, granting amnesty to the combat operations’ participants both from the side of the militias and Ukraine, as well as the organization of local elections in Donbas under a separate special law," the DPR and LPR negotiators, Denis Pushilin and Vladislav Deinego, said in the run-up to a meeting of the Contact Group and its working sub-groups in the Belarusian capital Minsk due on August 3.

They also said that they have "once again sent to the Contact Group proposals on the settlement of these issues."

The LPR and DPR representatives said the republics were committed to fulfilling all the requirements of the Package of Measures to implement the Minsk agreements within the established deadlines.

"Therefore, we consider it necessary to accelerate our work. If we fail to settle these issues on August 3, we propose to Ukraine’s representatives to continue the work in Minsk until August 4 and August 5, if need be. If it takes a week, we are ready to stay in Minsk for the whole week," the LPR and DPR representatives said in a joint statement posted on the website of the Luhansk Inform Center.

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Russian Foreign Ministry: London arbitrarily interprets facts in Litvinenko case

July 31, 15:05 UTC+3

Moscow says the British side does not intend to swerve from its course towards politicizing the entire process
Kremlin has no faith in UK Litvinenko probe — spokesman

NOTICE just how Russia “has no faith" in UK probe or the Dutch MH17 probe or just about any probe where Russia and or Putin are deeply involved in—seems to be a standard mantra from them this year.

ALL the time declaring they are for open and transparent and thorough investigations and in the case of the MH17 even were the first to call for investigations by the UN of MH17 as they pushed “it’s the Ukrainians fault" never believing it could come back at them.


MOSCOW, July 31. /TASS/. The British side does not intend to swerve from its course towards arbitrarily interpreting the facts of the death of former Federal Security Service agent Alexander Litvinenko, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement posted on its website on Friday.

"The selective nature of the organizers of this ‘public inquiry’ and their stubborn unwillingness under any pretexts to professionally perceive the grounds of the Russian competent bodies serve as another proof that the British side does not intend to swerve from its course towards politicizing the entire process and arbitrarily interpreting the facts of the ‘Litvinenko case,’" Deputy Director of the Russian Foreign Ministry Information and Press Department Alexander Bikantov said.

"Further hearings with the unknown composition of participants will be held behind closed doors, which is apparently designed to achieve the results necessary for the prosecutors," the statement said.

NOTE: Moscow refused to allow the main suspect to testify via teleconference after he had initially started to---and the UK is not transparent????

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http://tass.ru/en/russia/811865

Russia
July 31, 13:04 UTC+3

Ramzan Kadyrov called the volunteers that participated in combat actions in Ukraine "hooligans"
Chechnya's leader says all Chechen volunteers returned home from Donbas


GROZNY, July 31. /TASS/. All Chechen volunteers who have fought on the side of the militias [of the self-proclaimed DPR and LPR republics] in the [Ukrainian eastern region of] Donbas have returned home, head of the Republic of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov said on Friday, calling them "hooligans."

"Everybody says that there are Chechen volunteers there [in Donbas]. When the ceasefire agreement was reached there, we invited all our volunteers home. We have taken home the hooligans that were there. So, none of them should now be present there," Kadyrov is quoted by his press service.

He also said that Russia is not involved in the conflict in the southeast of Ukraine, adding that had it really been involved, Kiev would have long ago felt it.

"Had, as they say, Russia participated in this, they would have long felt it," said the head of Chechnya.

Kadyrov said previously he did not know how many Chechen volunteers were fighting in the southeast of Ukraine.

NOTE: this is an interesting PR for two reasons--1) he had announced a number of months ago that the Chechen volunteers were pulling out--evidently not the case.,and 2) he is apparently not in tune with the fact that a fully active officer (MAJ) of the RF regular army was captured inside the Ukraine.

It should be noted that the Chechens were the single largest ethnic Russian group fighting in eastern Ukraine--now pulling out is interesting.

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Kremlin announced the "asymmetric response" to US sanctions
Hmm. What Russian technologies used by United States? https://twitter.com/rbc_ukraine/status/627073243728465921 …

Russian army military intel UAV (drone) used in Russian-occupied Donbas 29 Jul https://youtu.be/Grk7mC3vS_I
Looks like another Aileron-3SV.

Border Patrol: 10 UAV flights recorded in Donbas [within last 24hr] @DPSU_ua

Crimea: RUS D-30 howitzer 7km away from #Kherson region @erranta2_andrij pic.twitter.com/NKXK9AsnGz

Karlo-Marksove (village next to Enakieve) - DNR train ground was shelled, DNR tents destroyed, BM21 Grad destroyed, 8 rumored to be KIA.

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Lost Russian forces in Ukraine train Putin's proxies to use a modern Russian ATGM system:
https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ru&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=https%3A%2F%2Finformnapalm.org%2F11131-fagot-9m113m&edit-text= … pic.twitter.com/uYi2HOWIHE
pic.twitter.com/rVFHgrlDhX

3000+ Russian mechanised infantry & 400+ artillery offensive exercises, Orenburg region 31 Jul http://ria.ru/defense_safety/20150731/1155837968.html … pic.twitter.com/IoNb0Sl1cL

Acc. to gen. Reshetnikov (Russian Inst4SS), existing borders in the Balkans are artificial, and thus only temporary. http://www.novosti.rs/vesti/naslovna/politika/aktuelno.289.html:558150-Leonid-Resetnjikov-Mapa-Balkana-je-privremena-jer-su-granice-vestacke%20#.VbuAWWMpprs.twitter

Russian Western MD mechanised infantry (Leningrad reg) drivers began water-obstacle training https://defencerussia.wordpress.com/2015/07/30/wmd-drivers-to-swim-in-12-ton-combat-vehicles/ … pic.twitter.com/wUAF9y9QIq

Latest,30/07: SMM conducted crater analysis in #Donetsk & #Luhansk reg.,SMM patrol threatened by “DPR” E of #Mariupol http://www.osce.org/ukraine-smm/175591

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http://www.neweasterneurope.eu/articles-and-commentary/1675-has-putin-painted-russia-into-a-corner

Has Putin Painted Russia into a Corner?

Published on Friday, 31 July 2015 07:37
Written by Sijbren de Jong


Around a year and a half ago Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the annexation of Crimea. Whereas the takeover of the Ukrainian peninsula proceeded swiftly and without major difficulties, the ensuing conflict in eastern Ukraine has proven much more difficult to contain. Although by waging its clandestine war, Moscow succeeded in thwarting Ukraine’s ambitions to integrate westwards – for now at least – Russia has been unable to limit the fallout for itself. Rattled by sanctions, amplified by a catastrophic collapse in the price of oil, the prospects for the Russian economy look decidedly bleak. Seemingly undeterred by this perfect storm, Russia’s President looks set to continue on this course. In doing so, Putin may have maneuvered himself into a corner from where there is no escape.

With hydrocarbon revenues comprising over 50 per cent of the state budget, the collapse of the price of oil from its June 2014 high of $115 to around $56 today has thoroughly ransacked Russia’s economy. According to ING Bank, Russia needs oil at $80 per barrel to balance its budget. If prices remain at roughly $60 through next year the country will endure a two-year economic contraction. What’s more, the prospect of Iran coming out of its isolation and seeking to ramp up its oil production is likely to depress prices even further. The oil price tumbled immediately after the deal on Iran’s nuclear program was announced. It may time some time and a heavy dose of investments, but Iranian oil will make its way back onto the world market. And when that happens, Putin will bear the brunt of it. When sanctions caused Iran’s oil output to decline Russia eagerly stepped in owing to the similarity of bothcountries' chief export blends. An increase in globally available volumes of oil gives OPEC and Russia two devilish choices: either continue the ongoing price war, or collude and attempt to agree a reduction in production. Both strategies carry costs and risks, and there is no silver bullet.

Further compounding Putin’s problems is the fact that Russian regional governments’ debt grew by as much as 78 per cent in three years through 2014. Back in 2012 when there were large anti-government protests in Moscow, Putin set out plans to increase spending on healthcare, education and social services. That decision effectively doubled the debt load of Russia’s regions. The risk of a large region going bust is increasing, thus raising the risk of bailouts on an already heavily strained federal budget. Factor in the oil price collapse and the massive military spending that Putin refuses to let go, and it becomes clear that the government cannot come to the rescue indefinitely.

A way out of from under the sanctions would be the full implementation of the Minsk accord that was agreed in February 2015 between the leaders of Ukraine, Russia, France and Germany. Although Ukraine’s parliament recently approved constitutional changes that shift power from Kiev to regional governments, a measure demanded under the agreement, separatist leaders were quick to reject the initiative. According to Denis Pushilin, one of the representatives from the Donetsk-based separatists, the proposals did not grant the regions sufficient autonomy. What’s more, with violations of the cease-fire being recorded almost daily, it looks highly unlikely that the Minsk agreement will be fulfilled before the end of the year.

With Minsk not being implemented, this opens the door to a new round of sanctions. The US government seems to be preparing for exactly that. On July 18th, reports emerged that Washington stands ready to cut off western credit to Russia if Putin fails to deliver. Under the existing sanctions, some Russian companies can borrow for a maximum of 30 days compared with normal deals that last several years. Under the new proposals, this period could be shortened to as little as a few days. In effect that means that the oligarchs in Putin’s inner circle would have to renew credit deals on a weekly basis, thereby effectively annihilating any hope of their businesses securing long-term funding on western markets. Whereas Europe has so far refrained from blocking Russian access to the SWIFT inter-bank clearing system, as it is considered to be the ‘nuclear option’, the American proposals could very well amount to a tactical nuclear strike.

With no signs of backing down, Putin has maneuvered himself into a major predicament. He cannot play nice over Ukraine and push for sanctions relief as this would fatally expose the lies fanned out by the Kremlin’s relentless propaganda machine. Alternatively, continuing down the same path will almost certainly push the Russian economy even further into the ground and anger powerful people within the Russian business elite. Vladimir Putin has decided to play a dangerous game of geopolitical ice hockey where any decision he now takes is tantamount to scoring an own goal.

Sijbren de Jong, PhD, is a Strategic Analyst at the Hague Centre for Strategic Studies (HCSS) in The Netherlands, specialised in Eurasian energy security.

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The 2nd Spetsnaz Brigade in the Mariupol Area: https://en.informnapalm.org/the-2nd-spetsnaz-brigade-in-the-mariupol-area/ … via @en_informnapalm pic.twitter.com/QxnilLdpDW

Russia is no longer able to produce An-140 aircraft because of sanctions of Ukraine ... https://twitter.com/EspresoTV/status/627165315064053760 …

Latitude 67N SIGINT @uascan
RUAF strategic air force (Tu22/Tu95/Tu160) sw net up with voice traffic. Bears, Backfires or Blackjacks flying?

OSCE SMM patrol leaves village of Oktiabr after being threatened by DPR representative http://24today.net/open/488689 pic.twitter.com/c668A1vpHM

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Judging from recent reports, Russian (hybrid DPR/LPR) forces are creating "no go" areas for #OSCE_SMM.


Why? To hide deployments/preparations

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If one takes the average attack numbers of the intensive shellings and constant ground attacks we are activity now in the actual third war phase and no where close to a ceasefire.

Actually one could even call it a "fighting ceasefire" if anything.


Andriy Lysenko: Militants have violated the ceasefire 100 times over the past dayhttp://uacrisis.org/30293-ukrainian-andrij-lisenko-bilshe-100-faktiv-porushennya-rezhimu-tishi-z-boku-bojovikiv-bulo-za-minulu-dobu …

19:09 #Horlivka @Miloviche North/northwest: heavy [weapons work] heard

19:59 #Donetsk @PVB40 [fb] "I can hear explosions in #Pisky area, something heavy"

19:50 #Horlivka @77bot1 Intense battle in the north in #Zaytseve area, "RUS are having regilar evening attack"

20:07 #Pisky @AMykhailova It pounds. Small arms, AGL
Peski, it's showtime. machineguns, AGLs.

20:06 #Donetsk @PVB40 [fb] Gvardeyka, #Makeevka: heavy singles are audible from the northwest

20:17 #Avdeevka @owl_ok Rumble

20:04 #Makeevka @VasyaMakeevskiy Artillery volleys from Lisniy area, 4 tubes at least

Makeevka @VasyaMakeevskiy
20:10 Ceased (about 20 shots)
20:18 Again shelling from the same place
20:21 Intense fire ceased

20:11 #Horlivka @77bot1 in Mayorsk area too

Horlivka, loud.

20:20 #Donetsk #Makeevka @nixer79 Strong arty volleys fr/the area north/north-eastward fr/Grigoriev ettles started, 3-4 tubes

20:20 #Maryinka @hyeva_maryinka [vk] Quiet as before. Mine shaft dir'n: sporadic shooting, #Krasnohorivka dir'n:massive booms

Donetsk-Makeevka border, something heavy, outgoing

20:45 #Avdeevka @bamr69 Impacts on #Opytne area. Heavy ones again

[B]DNR soc net community: "Artillery of DNR is ready to attack UA troops and waiting orders to free the Motherland". https://twitter.com/Realuran/status/627071541637959680 …

@xuilolala incoming to Avdeevka.

Peski - battle, Makeevka/Chervonogvardeyski st - shells Avdeevka, Horlivka - war action ongoing, landings

Krasnogorivka/Staromikhailivka, Horlivka - ongoing battles

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Tymchuk: Russia is deploying more & more artillery, sending in more soldiers (non-Slavs), & intensifying the shelling of Ukrainian positions

Read an advance report on fire support trends in the Russo-Ukraine conflict today. The trends are disturbing.

UAS surveillance plus Russian thermobaric artillery rounds means that light infantry forces are either dug in or well done.

Russians also use DPICM plus those thermobaric rounds. We'll soon have neither.

In a combined DPICM/thermobaric fire mission from Russian MLRS lasting 3 minutes, two Ukrainian mechanized battalions were wiped out.

Artillery is causing 85% (!) of casualties on both sides.

you can cross Eastern Ukraine jumping through thermobaric ordnance and don't touch the ground

This conflict is putting tactical development into hyperdrive. Increasing use of combined arms companies. US way behind.

combined arms as a core competency has been neglected in defense focus for nearly 20 years

Russia mastered loop from UAS to IDF. We haven't.

C-RAM and C-UAS as much needed as longer range/superior performance artillery capabilities

Russian losses of UAVs are staggering even for a "limited" conflict, if Ukrainians got better C-UAS systems that'll help a lot

Russia is spreading artillery in battery size down to maneuver battalion level. Army concentrating it at division level. (DIVARTY)

Smaller loop between maneuver and fires = faster, more responsive integration, which is vital.

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Jews from occupied by Russia-led terrorists eastern #Ukraine seek refuge from Russian invasion http://www.wsj.com/articles/debunking-putins-fascist-kiev-myth-1438285884 …

youtube.com/watch?v=KmpCHreJnrI … 'All volunteers here,all unpaid.Everyone brings money here fr #Russia to help.'#LOL #Ukraine pic.twitter.com/Iu78K6vjXm

Latitude 67N SIGINT @uascan
@uascan RUAF strategic air forces sw marker W up :20

Ponomarev (Russian MP, now in exile): Putin has several plans for a full-scale invasion of Ukraine ready & is now waiting for the right time

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If one takes the average attack numbers of the intensive shellings and constant ground attacks we are activity now in the actual third war phase and no where close to a ceasefire.

Actually one could even call it a "fighting ceasefire" if anything.


Andriy Lysenko: Militants have violated the ceasefire 100 times over the past dayhttp://uacrisis.org/30293-ukrainian-andrij-lisenko-bilshe-100-faktiv-porushennya-rezhimu-tishi-z-boku-bojovikiv-bulo-za-minulu-dobu …

19:09 #Horlivka @Miloviche North/northwest: heavy [weapons work] heard

19:59 #Donetsk @PVB40 [fb] "I can hear explosions in #Pisky area, something heavy"

19:50 #Horlivka @77bot1 Intense battle in the north in #Zaytseve area, "RUS are having regilar evening attack"

20:07 #Pisky @AMykhailova It pounds. Small arms, AGL
Peski, it's showtime. machineguns, AGLs.

20:06 #Donetsk @PVB40 [fb] Gvardeyka, #Makeevka: heavy singles are audible from the northwest

20:17 #Avdeevka @owl_ok Rumble

20:04 #Makeevka @VasyaMakeevskiy Artillery volleys from Lisniy area, 4 tubes at least

Makeevka @VasyaMakeevskiy
20:10 Ceased (about 20 shots)
20:18 Again shelling from the same place
20:21 Intense fire ceased

20:11 #Horlivka @77bot1 in Mayorsk area too

Horlivka, loud.

20:20 #Donetsk #Makeevka @nixer79 Strong arty volleys fr/the area north/north-eastward fr/Grigoriev ettles started, 3-4 tubes

20:20 #Maryinka @hyeva_maryinka [vk] Quiet as before. Mine shaft dir'n: sporadic shooting, #Krasnohorivka dir'n:massive booms

Donetsk-Makeevka border, something heavy, outgoing

20:45 #Avdeevka @bamr69 Impacts on #Opytne area. Heavy ones again

[B]DNR soc net community: "Artillery of DNR is ready to attack UA troops and waiting orders to free the Motherland". https://twitter.com/Realuran/status/627071541637959680 …

@xuilolala incoming to Avdeevka.

Peski - battle, Makeevka/Chervonogvardeyski st - shells Avdeevka, Horlivka - war action ongoing, landings

Krasnogorivka/Staromikhailivka, Horlivka - ongoing battles

Going from bad to worse tonight

Krasnohorivka
Ongoing battle, assault rifles, mortars

Horlivka outskirts - 2 hours of combat

22:17 #Kirovsk @kish_fish "Suspisious booms like incoming, I'm not sure"

22:17 #Severodonetsk @DafterHius Heavy
22:21 @smsboxnet1 Heard 2 times, didn't get what it was

22:23 #Severodonetsk @DafterHius a couple times first, more a while after, reported on 29th CP area
22:23 @smsboxnet1 [From #Kirovsk]

22:16 @spirik_ An incoming. Karbonit [=Zolote]? Bakhmutka [road]?

[B]Donetsk 21:30
At airport battle, first mortars, then small arms and artillery joined https://twitter.com/Gong_Ego/status/627201653964414976 …

22:10 #Stanytsia_Luhanska @100007182042214 Again [shelling of S area]

22:19 #Severodonetsk @xy_gorlov4an Distant heavy blasts. like in #Novotoshkivske
@EvgenViktor The 2nd day in a row

22:24 #Horlivka @ahab7822 Distant massive boom

22:36
#Mayorsk, #Zaitsevo at blockpost very close battle! https://twitter.com/dimetros7776/status/627201264468795394 …

22:34 #Dzerzhynsk @dimetros7776 #Novhorodske: intense battle in Zalizne

Horlivka; NW of Donetsk - military action, all sorts of machineguns, mortars and god knows what else. thankfully, no MLRS.

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The 2nd Spetsnaz Brigade in the Mariupol Area: https://en.informnapalm.org/the-2nd-spetsnaz-brigade-in-the-mariupol-area/ … via @en_informnapalm pic.twitter.com/QxnilLdpDW

Russia is no longer able to produce An-140 aircraft because of sanctions of Ukraine ... https://twitter.com/EspresoTV/status/627165315064053760 …

Latitude 67N SIGINT @uascan
RUAF strategic air force (Tu22/Tu95/Tu160) sw net up with voice traffic. Bears, Backfires or Blackjacks flying?

OSCE SMM patrol leaves village of Oktiabr after being threatened by DPR representative http://24today.net/open/488689 pic.twitter.com/c668A1vpHM

Russian factory "Aviakor" suspended the production of AN-140 planes due to the lack of spares from Ukraine.

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Full Moon tonight. And Donetsk, Pisky, Marinka, Horlivka, Stanitsa Luhanska, Mayorsk, Zaitsevo, Bakhmut road on fire https://twitter.com/Liveuamap/status/627204411119534080 …

Nothing but heavy Russian artillery/mortar/MLRS strikes tonight used to cover tank and infantry attacks


Do you know Ukrainian night? Oh, you know nothing about Ukrainian night. Moon looks at you from the middle of the sky"
Gogol, 1829

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I will today provide a comment on the continued "sell out of the Ukraine" by a US President far more interested in his legacy than actually resolving a major war ongoing in Central Europe after 2 years of "so called peace" after the collapse of the soviet Union.

The actual core question is--is it really for his "legacy" or is he "appeasing Putin" in order to give him a saving face moment" AND is Putin actually playing this concept for his benefit of his expansionistic policies since 2006.

The following two part article goes to the core of this "sell out by the US" WHO has for years declared the concepts of "rule of law, good governance and transparency" to be the core US VALUES".

We all know US Presidents are always interested in their "legacy" BUT to watch a US President virtually "sell out" the very VALUES he keeps on stating are needed for the globe seems to be a massive contradiction. BUT is it not inherent in the job that at times "reality on the ground" demands a solution that in fact might just go against the "legacy'???

Many say in the US the Ukraine does not impact us--it does as it calls into question the seriousness of the US intent to be a leading democratic country in times of international turmoil when many civil societies yearn to be "like our civil society" which in their eyes is "rule of law, good governance and a transparent government".

YET in the Ukraine where these concepts were the driver of the Ukrainian civil society standing up and fighting for it on the "Maidan"--but again just how many in the US really know what the "Maidan" was all about--not many to include this President.

Since his speech in Cairo at the beginning of his first term WHERE "he awoke" these VALUES and in fact they contributed greatly to the "Arab Springs and the colored revolts" which awoke the entire ME--he then "backed away"--ever wonder why???

With the outbreak of Russian "aggression" and their total violations of international laws, international agreements and treaties dating back to Helsinki which set the stage for a peaceful Europe he was "aggressive with his words".

Even in 2014 he said the following "stating we will judge Putin by his actions and not his words"--AND WHERE is he now with that statement??

Notice he never refers to the Russian aggression in the Ukraine as an actual war--he never even uses the word aggressor.


We have a major Russia "summer offensive" underway with an average of over 80 intensive artillery, mortar and MLRS shellings and intensive ground attacks A DAY using part of those 800 Russian supplied tanks.

AND what do we get from the US President as a reply to this "Russian summer offensive".

SILENCE.... is all and that is a massive embarrassment for a country who declares the VALUES of "the rule of law, good governance and government transparency" to be paramount for a civil society.

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http://www.jamestown.org/single/?tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=44237&tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=7&cHash=b00276b3b44952d29052bb52be6d4c77#.VbxSHuoVhM t

PART ONE:

Elections in Ukraine’s Secessionist Territory: A Topic of International Negotiation (Part One)

Publication: Eurasia Daily Monitor Volume: 12 Issue: 144

July 31, 2015 03:25 PM Age: 9 hrs

By: Vladimir Socor


Ukraine is scheduled to hold local elections throughout the country (except the Russian-occupied territories) on October 25—the first such elections since the advent of a Western-oriented Ukrainian government.

Under Ukrainian laws, passed in March (and corresponding with international law), elections of Ukraine may not be held in territories of Ukraine not controlled by the government of Ukraine but that are, instead, under the control of foreign military forces and the nominees of a foreign power (Rada.ua, March 17, 18).

Moscow, Berlin, Paris and, apparently, Washington, however, are urging Kyiv to agree with the staging of local elections in “certain areas of the Donetsk and Luhansk provinces”—i.e., the Moscow-controlled Donetsk and Luhansk “people’s republics” (“DPR, LPR”). Russian and Western diplomats involved in this process may have reached consensus about the prerequisites to the holding of valid elections in this territory.

Left unmentioned in this context are the evacuation of Russian forces and disarmament or demobilization of “DPR-LPR” troops and security services. Such measures are not being listed as prerequisites to holding valid elections. It seems, therefore, that elections would be held under the gun in this territory.

The declared prerequisites (at this point) are, first, that elections in Donetsk-Luhansk should be deemed as part of Ukraine’s country-wide local elections, under Ukrainian law. And second, that the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) should prepare and observe the elections in that territory, in accordance with the OSCE’s standards. This implies, first, a wishful assumption that “DPR-LPR” could be made to appear as adhering to democratic standards; and second, that elections in Donetsk-Luhansk could be recognized as valid, if they are staged with Kyiv’s consent and simultaneously with local elections in the rest of Ukraine.

That is a path toward legitimizing the Donetsk-Luhansk authorities and inserting them into Ukraine’s political and institutional system. This has been Moscow’s scenario since the Minsk One armistice (September 2014). Under Minsk Two, moreover (February 2015), local elections in that territory are to be held not only under Ukrainian legislation, but also under “modalities” to be negotiated between Kyiv and Donetsk-Luhansk (article 4).

This approach compromises Ukrainian legislation in several ways. First, the mere fact of holding elections in this territory contradicts Ukrainian law (see above). Second, Ukraine’s electoral code is inherently incompatible with “DPR-LPR” election practices (as displayed in their November 2014 “parliamentary and presidential elections,” which produced the current authorities there). Third, the “modalities” of the proposed elections are to be negotiated by Kyiv with Donetsk-Luhansk, instead of being determined by Ukraine’s legislation. And negotiating with “DPR-LPR” authorities would imply recognition of those authorities by Kyiv. Thus, international reassurances that those elections would be held “under Ukrainian law” are misleading, irrespective from which capital they emanate.

Meanwhile, holding or even preparing elections in that territory would necessitate Ukraine’s consent, which Russia has failed on its own to obtain.

Western diplomacy, increasingly anxious to “freeze” this conflict, seeks Kyiv’s consent to holding elections in that territory. Pro-Russia authorities would predictably win. Yet, discussions are accelerating in the “Normandy” format (Russia, Germany, France, Ukraine), the bilateral Russia-US format (on the deputy ministerial level, Grigory Karasin–Victoria Nuland), and the Minsk Contact Group (Russia, Ukraine, OSCE, “DPR,” “LPR”), about holding elections in the secessionist territory.

Those forums and channels are, by definition, concerned with “implementing the Minsk agreement,” the main political clauses of which carry a December 2015 deadline. Russia bears no direct “obligations” on the military clauses; it is not even named. The burden of “Minsk obligations” is being shifted entirely on Ukraine at this stage: i.e., consenting to local elections being held in Donetsk-Luhansk and adopting a constitutional status for that territory. Even in that case, under Minsk Two, Ukraine would not regain control of its border with Russia, but could only start negotiating about that with the armed “DPR-LPR” (another form of recognition de facto).

Politically, “re-integrating” Donetsk-Luhansk in their existing form into Ukraine’s political system would eventually bring a contingent of pro-Russia deputies into the Ukrainian parliament. According to Hiorhiy Tuka, recently appointed governor of the liberated part of the Luhansk province, sentiment favoring Russia and the former Party of Regions is widespread, and would impact on elections accordingly (Ukraiynska Pravda, July 26). The Ukrainian government may be able to change that mood in the liberated area eventually, but the militarized “DPR-LPR” will remain beyond Kyiv’s reach in political terms, even if that territory is formally re-integrated with Ukraine.

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PART TWO

Elections in Ukraine’s Secessionist Territory: A Topic of International Negotiation (Part Two)

Publication: Eurasia Daily Monitor Volume: 12 Issue: 144

July 31, 2015 03:39 PM Age: 8 hrs

By: Vladimir Socor


At this point, Moscow seems content to watch Western diplomats urging Kyiv to legitimize the Donetsk-Luhansk authorities through local elections, and (as a consequence of this) enshrining an official status for that territory in Ukraine’s constitution (see EDM, July 20, 24).

According to Kyiv officials, cited by Zerkalo Nedeli (June 26), US Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland has “gently encouraged Ukraine to include the rebel territories in the upcoming local elections. When reproached politely about such a scenario being unrealistic, Nuland said with a smile: ‘Look for strong characters capable of winning a campaign there.’ Nuland named free access for all media and foreign observers as sufficient conditions for the occupied areas to express their wishes.”

Similarly, German Foreign Affairs Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier recently urged Kyiv to “go on, hold elections in those territories, change the constitution, and they [Donetsk-Luhansk] will gradually change, too,” according to Ukraine’s chief negotiator, the former president Leonid Kuchma (Zerkalo Nedeli, June 26).

Until mid-July, President Petro Poroshenko and Ukrainian parliamentary leaders resisted such entreaties; they stood firm even when German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President François Hollande turned their recommendations into outright pressures (see EDM, July 9, 10).

On July 16, however, Nuland prevailed on Kyiv to start the process of enshrining a constitutional status for Donetsk-Luhansk, as well as to hold talks in the Contact Group about local elections in that occupied territory (see EDM, July 20, 24). Nuland held Kyiv strictly to its “obligations” under the Minsk armistice.

The day after Nuland’s agitated visit, Poroshenko assured US Vice President Joseph Biden by telephone about “Ukraine’s undeviating fulfillment of the Mink agreement.” Biden, praising that first constitutional step, urged Ukraine onto the next step: “elections to be held throughout the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts [provinces]” (Ukrinform, White House press release, July 17).

Also on July 17, the leaders of the “Normandy” group of countries touched on the Donetsk-Luhansk elections in a telephone conference. Russian President Vladimir Putin, Chancellor Merkel, and President Hollande caucused in advance, then surprised Poroshenko with their call while he was visiting the Kryvyy Rih steel plant. Hollande said that all parties should implement their Minsk “obligations” by the end of this year, including local elections in Donetsk-Luhansk. And “the interlocutors agreed with him” (Ukrinform, Elysee.fr, Bundeskanzlerin.de, July 17).

Russia’s Foreign Affairs Minister Sergei Lavrov called his US and German counterparts, John Kerry and Frank-Walter Steinmeier, separately to discuss “Ukraine’s main obligations” at this stage of the Minsk document’s implementation: direct dialogue with Donetsk-Luhansk and local elections to be held there (Interfax, July 18).

On July 20, Poroshenko instructed Kuchma and the other Ukrainian delegates to the Minsk Contact Group to discuss holding elections in Donetsk and Luhansk, merely on the condition that the latter abandon their intentions to hold elections separately from the rest of Ukraine (Ukrinform, July 21). At that point, apparently, Kyiv was still in full retreat.

Meeting on July 21 in Minsk, however, the Contact Group broke down over “DPR-LPR’s” demand that Ukraine adjust its electoral legislation, taking into account “DPR-LPR’s” proposals, which they had submitted in May (see EDM, May 19, 22, 26) as a basis for holding local elections.

In the Minsk meeting, furthermore, Donetsk and Luhansk asked Kyiv to withdraw the constitutional amendment on the status of “certain areas in the Donetsk and Luhansk provinces” from consideration. The Verkhovna Rada (parliament of Ukraine) initiated the approval procedure of that constitutional amendment under Western pressure on July 16 (see EDM, July 20). Donetsk and Luhansk, however, insist that the amendment must be mutually agreed (as distinct from a unilateral Kyiv document), submitted to the Contact Group, and re-submitted in the modified form to the Verhkovna Rada. The “DPR-LPR” delegates in Minsk asked for negotiations with Kyiv about the electoral law and the constitutional amendment (Donetskoye Agentstvo Novostey, Luganskiy Informatsionnyi Tsentr, July 21, 22).

The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe’s (OSCE) chairman-in-office, Serbian Foreign Affairs Minister Ivica Dacic, exceptionally attended the Minsk meeting. He declared that “the conditions of holding the elections [in Donetsk-Luhansk], inviting the ODIHR [Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights—the OSCE’s election monitoring arm], etc., must be worked out by Kyiv and Donbas [Donetsk-Luhansk] in consensus” (Belta, Ukrinform, Interfax, July 21). And the Donetsk and Luhansk delegates, Denis Pushilin and Vladislav Deynego, went on to declare that their side “strictly adheres” to the Minsk Two document, while Kyiv contravenes it (Interfax, July 24).

A follow-up meeting, tentatively scheduled for July 30, does not seem to have taken place.

The Contact Group’s temporary breakdown may well have contributed to Poroshenko’s recovery of morale on July 29. While visiting Lviv, he declared that the constitutional amendment initiated on July 16 does not envisage any special status for Donetsk-Luhansk, but refers only to Ukraine’s already existing law, adopted unilaterally in September–October 2014, and supplemented with pre-conditions in March 2015. From the “dozen” conditions that must be met before that law goes into effect, Poroshenko cited the evacuation of Russian forces from Ukraine’s territory and the restoration of Ukraine’s sovereign control over its border with Russia. That same law (with its March supplement) also lists democratic election standards as pre-conditions to validating any local elections in Donetsk-Luhansk (Ukraiynska Pravda, July 29).

Russia is regularly citing the Minsk Two document to the effect that Kyiv may not unilaterally adopt decisions on the status of Donetsk-Luhansk and elections there, but only by negotiation with Donetsk-Luhansk authorities. It is a fact that, under the Minsk Two armistice, the constitutional status of Donetsk-Luhansk and the modalities of elections there are supposed to be agreed between Kyiv and the “representatives of those territories” (articles 11 and 12), as distinct from being adopted by Kyiv itself. Western officials will have to remember this, and stop holding Kyiv strictly to the “Minsk obligations,” when Kyiv tries to wiggle out from those Moscow-dictated “obligations.”

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When reading the previous two part articles on the US unilateral appeasement policy being forced onto the Ukraine and then go back and read the similar article from the same group about the US applying unilateral appeasement pressure on the "special law constitutional changes" and THEN this from last night.

Ask yourself does it make sense to flip Minsk 2 on it's head and push for political changes when absolutely none of the military points in Minsk 2 have been fulfilled at all by Russia.

Minsk 2 had 11 points the first six addressing the military aspects and the remaining five addressing the political side--BUT Obama has now gone to the political side and is ignoring the military side. WHAT good is it if one side attempts to fulfill the political side when Russia and her mercenaries constantly refuse to implement any point of the 11 points of Minsk 2???

Unilateral appeasement without a reciprocal demand have never worked in negotiations in the last 400 years and it will not now.

Does that make any sense WHEN they is now a major summer offensive in progress by Russian troops and her mercenaries??????

Why is it so hard for Obama, Nuland and Kerry to use the words "aggressor and invasion"?????

Even worse all of them seem to be unable to even see a "war" in Central Europe-- that is ongoing.


109 attacks from DPR side last night - ATO HQ

Following 109 attacks on Ukraine on Jul.31 russoterrorists turned to "scorched earth" tactic when Aug.1 night fell

01:59 @irenafcsd "Just imagine how massive #Horlivka shelling is if one can hear its aftersounds even in #Kramatorsk..." [about 50 km away]

07:35 @AMykhailova Battle in #Maryinka lasted overnight. Aircrafts transported badly wounded to Dnepropetrovsk..

Horlivka experienced one of the heaviest shelling to date last night

08:37 #Horlivka @77bot1 All in all there was no such night as today since winter

08:15, 09:50 @BylByleva One heard booms at #Mariupol road behind #Olenivka

08:06 #Donetsk Zaperevalna @666_mancer Sporadic distant booms

09:25 @902Albi "2 more volleys. Quiet in #Maryinka that means at #Krasnohorivka or #Pisky"

Peski, Airport side - loud action https://twitter.com/donetsk_ukrop/status/627360986681483264 …

10:46 #Luhansk @LUGANSKA_JUNTA Machine gun fire is audible from the east direction, drills?

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Behooves every SWJ reader to fully understand every sentence in the Minsk 2 Agreement signed in February 2015.

Since the Ukraine signed this agreement and during the "so called ceasefire" that I call a "fighting ceasefire" as there have never in history been a "fighting ceasefire"--the Ukraine military has lost over 229 KIAs and over 500 WIAs on the military side.

WHAT Obama, Kerry and Nuland seem to think --is that when one does say a unilateral appeasement from Russian demanded move to the political points in Minsk 2 Russia will reciprocate --THAT is literally the dumbest thought pattern since the annexation of Crimea.

NOTICE that if the "military points" had in fact been established--there would be no over 100 attacks (shellings and ground attacks) per day for the last week or so, all heavy weapons would have been drawn back thus no shellings, a buffer zone established thus no damage to civilians and critical economic infrastructure , PALL POWs finally exchanged, ALL Russian troops withdrawn and all mercenaries disarmed and returned to Russia.

BUT what do we get--the US, France and Germany all basically throwing the Ukraine under the bus for Russian support in Iran and Syria.

SOME in Europe political circles are saying that the new US sanctions this week were really an attempt to defuse the concept of throwing the Ukraine under the bus--BUT these sanctions were late and not the original ones the US leaked last week that are actually a form of "tactical nuclear economic strikes" that would have for the first time shown Putin the fallacy of his continued military attacks. and would have shown the seriousness of Obama and the other western leaders at ending the Ukrainian Russo war.


Minsk 2 Agreement

12:11PM GMT 12 Feb 2015


• Immediate and full ceasefire in particular districts of Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts of Ukraine and its strict fulfilment as of 00.00 midnight (Kiev time) on Feb. 15, 2015.


• Pull-out of all heavy weapons by both sides to equal distance with the aim of creation of a security zone on minimum 50 kilometres apart for artillery of 100mm calibre or more, and a security zone of 70km for MLRS and 140 kilometres for MLRS Tornado-S, Uragan, Smerch and tactical missile systems Tochka U.


– for Ukrainian troops, from actual line of contact;


– for armed formations of particular districts of Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts of Ukraine, from the contact line in accordance with the Minsk memorandum as of Sept. 19, 2014

• The pullout of the above mentioned heavy weapons has to start no later than the second day after the ceasefire and finish within 14 days.

• This process will be assisted by OSCE with the support of the Trilateral Contact Group.

• Effective monitoring and verification of ceasefire regime and pullout of heavy weapons by OSCE will be provided from the first day of pullout, using all necessary technical means such as satellites, drones, radio-location systems etc.

• On the first day after the pullout a dialogue is to start on modalities of conducting local elections in accordance with the Ukrainian legislation and the Law of Ukraine “On temporary Order of Local Self-Governance in Particular Districts of Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts,” and also about the future of these districts based on the above mentioned law.

• Without delays, but no later than 30 days from the date of signing of this document, a resolution has to be approved by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, indicating the territory which falls under the special regime in accordance with the law “On temporary Order of Local Self-Governance in Particular Districts of Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts,” based in the line set up by the Minsk Memorandum as of Sept. 19, 2014.

• Provide pardon and amnesty by way of enacting a law that forbids persecution and punishment of persons in relation to events that took place in particular departments of Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts of Ukraine.

• Provide release and exchange of all hostages and illegally held persons, based on the principle of “all for all”. This process has to end – at the latest – on the fifth day after the pullout (of weapons).

• Provide safe access, delivery, storage and distribution of humanitarian aid to the needy, based on an international mechanism.

• Define the modalities of a full restoration of social and economic connections, including social transfers, such as payments of pensions and other payments (income and revenue, timely payment of communal bills, restoration of tax payments within the framework of Ukrainian legal field)

• With this aim, Ukraine will restore management over the segment of its banking system in the districts affected by the conflict, and possibly, an international mechanism will be established to ease such transactions.

• Restore full control over the state border by Ukrainian government in the whole conflict zone, which has to start on the first day after the local election and end after the full political regulation (local elections in particular districts of Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts based on the law of Ukraine and Constitutional reform) by the end of 2015, on the condition of fulfilment of Point 11 – in consultations and in agreement with representatives of particular districts of Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts within the framework of the Trilateral Contact Group.

• Pullout of all foreign armed formations, military equipment, and also mercenaries from the territory of Ukraine under OSCE supervision. Disarmament of all illegal groups.

• Constitutional reform in Ukraine, with the new Constitution to come into effect by the end of 2015, the key element of which is decentralisation (taking into account peculiarities of particular districts of Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts, agreed with representatives of these districts), and also approval of permanent legislation on special status of particular districts of Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts in accordance with the measures spelt out in the footnotes, by the end of 2015.

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Remember in 1975 the Soviet Union was at it's height of power and yet did not feel threatened by the Helsinki aAccords nd signed Helsinki.

Carl Bildt ✔ @carlbildt
Helsinki Final Act sought security for states and rights for individuals. Instead Russia wants security for regimes. http://tass.ru/en/russia/812052 …

OTD in 1975 USSR signed Helsinki Accords promising to respect borders & let countries join what orgs like they like. pic.twitter.com/SKySI0Ne1L

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This is an interesting Russian press release in that one on hand they "state they support Helsinki" BUT on the other hand "they reinvent what they want Helsinki to be".

Instead of the protection of individual rights and the rights of countries to make their own choices---NOW Russia wants it to protect regimes and their decisions thus not required to support the views of their own civil society.

http://tass.ru/en/russia/812052

Ukraine crisis exposes system problems in European security, says diplomat

August 01, 10:29 UTC+3

"There is a feeling that different ‘color revolutions’ and other projects to replace legitimate regimes are aimed at triggering chaos and instability," Ivan Soltanovsky said



MOSCOW, August 1. /TASS/. The Ukrainian crisis has exposed system-related problems in the architecture of Euro-Atlantic security, the director of the Russian Foreign Ministry’s Department for European Cooperation, Ivan Soltanovsky, told TASS on Saturday.

"There is a feeling that different ‘color revolutions’ and other projects to replace legitimate regimes are aimed at triggering chaos and instability," Soltanovsky said in an interview timed to the signing of the Helsinki Final Act 40 years ago.

"Now, Ukraine has fallen a victim to such logic," he added. The diplomat said "the Ukrainian crisis has exposed system-related shortages in the architecture of the Euro-Atlantic security, which was not brought in compliance with the possibilities that opened after an epoch of confrontation of the second part of the 20th century had come to an end," he said.

Russian diplomat: OSCE monitoring mission reports often one-sided

Reports of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine are often one-sided, as it first of all monitors militias, Ivan Soltanovsky told.

"The SMM daily issues reports on the situation in Donbass and Ukraine. Unfortunately, these reports are often one-sided, to which we have repeatedly drawn attention," Soltanovsky said in an interview timed to the day when the Helsinki Final Act was signed 40 years ago.

"Too close attention is paid to militias, and at the same time there is much less information about what is going on west of the line of contact," he explained.

Soltanovsky reminded the interlocutor that the mission’s mandate included the whole territory of Ukraine, noting that this is why "it is very important to also watch how human rights and interests of national minorities are observed in Kiev, Odessa, Kharkov, Lvov, Ivano-Frankovsk, Chernovtsy and other regions of Ukraine".

At the same time, the diplomat highlighted the role of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe in the settlement of the Ukrainian crisis. He said OSCE representatives also worked within the framework of the Contact Group and its four subgroups.

"Besides, a group of OSCE observers is deployed at border crossing checkpoints Donetsk and Gukovo on the Russian-Ukrainian border in the Rostov region," he continued.

NOTE: Russia in violation of the OSCE SMM mandate refuses to allow the OSCE to monitor the entire length of the Russian Ukrainian border AND via their mercenaries REFUSES the OSCE the mandated right to freely travel in their mercenary and Russian troop controlled areas of the Dondas--typical Russian doublespeak.

"We are satisfied on the whole with its activity, observers are objectively fixing and reporting on the situation with travels across the border," the diplomat said.
AGAIN: Russian doublespeak--how can you in the begtinning of this PR complain about the one sidedness of the OSCE reporting AND then state this???

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This is an interesting Russian press release in that one on hand they "state they support Helsinki" BUT on the other hand "they reinvent what they want Helsinki to be".

Instead of the protection of individual rights and the rights of countries to make their own choices---NOW Russia wants it to protect regimes and their decisions thus not required to support the views of their own civil society.

http://tass.ru/en/russia/812052

Ukraine crisis exposes system problems in European security, says diplomat

August 01, 10:29 UTC+3

"There is a feeling that different ‘color revolutions’ and other projects to replace legitimate regimes are aimed at triggering chaos and instability," Ivan Soltanovsky said



AGAIN: Russian doublespeak--how can you in the begtinning of this PR complain about the one sidedness of the OSCE reporting AND then state this???

NOTICE: That when the OSCE this week stated that since Sept 2014 to June 2015 they had observed over 20,000 Russians in uniforms cross back and forth from Russia to the Ukraine--AND Russia did not push back on this reporting and now they praise the OSCE for their border reporting SO did they inadvertently agree that they are actively providing soldiers and fighters into the Ukraine from Russian territory???

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Now true paranoia has set in with the Russian troops and her mercenaries as to explain why the Ukrainians are shelling civilians and getting away with it-----AND to explain their own shellings as a
“preventive measure”…….

New RUS #schizo: "UKR have noiseless mortars" (video in Russian) @SobiNews_com https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jW94Dgpgtg …

USA combat veteran Nolan Peterson (@nolanwpeterson) embedded with the Ukraine army. http://bunews.com.ua/interviews/item/interview-us-combat-veteran-embedded-with-the-ukrainian-army … pic.twitter.com/fgQBUPSaHq

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Reference the Russian UNSC veto concerning MH17-----

Eliot Higgins @EliotHiggins
Churkin is proud of Russia's cooperation with the #MH17 investigation, can he confirm the MoD's July 21st evidence was given to the JIT?

From bellingcat----
Just emailed @RussianEmbassy to ask if the Russian MoD's July 21st 2014 evidence was supplied to the JIT, let's see if they reply.

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While no Russian tanks and infantry have crossed the eastern front lines yet we are well into the third phase of the Ukraine Russo war AND yet Obama, Hollande and Merkel appear to not have noticed it--wonder why???

Maxim Tucker @MaxRTucker
My scoop on the intelligence claiming separatists in #Ukraine are building radioactive weapon http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/world/europe/article4514313.ece … pic.twitter.com/DOOngpdKg0

Militants fired on Zolote with mortars. As a result, 2 soldiers of the 54th Brigade were wounded - Luhansk RSA
http://www.loga.gov.ua/oda/press/news/2015/08/01/news_67136.html …

MIA: a civilian in #Maryinka was wounded under shelling
via @HromadskeTV

Ukrainian side to the JCCC also reports 2 civilians were wounded in Dzerzhyns'k and Toshkivka.

Map. Situation in eastern #Ukraine, August 1, 00:00 EET pic.twitter.com/ThvGZXFfL8

Serious mercenary troop problem in eastern Ukraine---
Footage
Militants are p*xxxxxd: More tanks than crews...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgNbR8Dvqlk …
pic.twitter.com/lYKHA8YXMl

News
The 28th mechanised brigade of the Ukrainian army fought a 5-hour battle w/ sep.-backed Russian forces near #Krasnohorivka & #Marinka.

Russian spetsnaz was involved in this ground attack---
Also, an attack by enemy subversive-intelligence group was repelled near Berezove - 28th Brigade

#News
Russian forces are steadily escalating their attacks on the Ukrainian line of defence.
109 attacks yesterday.
Fighting all night long.

Overnight (from 21:00-03.28) militants conducted massive attacks across almost the whole line of demarcation - JCCC
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1041631929180946&id=820651001279041&refid=17&_ft_=top_level_post_id.1041631929180946&__tn__=%2As …

Location. Russian forces' previous forward position is at Bila Kamyanka (west of Komsomolske-Telmanove base complex) https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Starohnativka,+Donetsk+Oblast,+Ukraine/@47.4269216,37.5850761,10z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x40e0d2fe87f250eb:0x73caefec39e49 5c0 …

1 Aug: Russian (hybrid) forces attack strategic settlement of Starohnativka (east of Volnovakha, north of Mariupol) pic.twitter.com/eynQXkeJhL

youtube.com/watch?v=aQkmNugVA3A … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRGTxqO4Lu8 … #Russian infantry drill/IMTs in #Ukraine.Sophisticated stuff. #Russia pic.twitter.com/LTF0tDV3Cq

JCCC: Last night Russian (hybrid) forces massed along entire front line; heavy shelling to disrupt Minsk talks 3 Aug http://m.inforesist.org/sckk-boeviki-nekontroliruemy-vedut-massirovannyj-ogon/?_utl_t=tw …

Media Take Note: Martens Center report shows Russian military presence in Ukraine is a matter of fact, not opinion. http://www.martenscentre.eu/publications/caught-act-proof-russian-military-intervention-ukraine …

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First reports of shellings across Donbas. 6pm - fire time

The war is on big time--just that DC, Paris and Berlin have not figured it out yet.

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This is HOW western mass media in this case the BBC sees the current fighting in eastern Ukraine—ONE wonders just what they have been smoking as they claimed in the article the information is coming from Kyiv office of the BBC….one wonders if they actually are working directly for Putin and or just fail to fact check their own articles.

From 31 July 2015

QUOTE:
On the ground, sporadic clashes continue in the east. The West says there is clear evidence of Russian regular troops helping the rebels and arming them with heavy weapons - something Moscow denies.
UNQUOTE:

OVER 100 attacks a day does not qualify as "sporadic clashes continue......"

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Notice just how it really does appears Russians are smoking something stronger than a normal cigarette.

This Russian diplomat in quoting the Helsinki Accords for their military annexation of Crimea seems to have forgotten that Helsinki also ensured the territorial borders and sovereignty of countries was ensured—seems they forgot that point in their invasion of eastern Ukraine.

http://tass.ru/en/russia/812050

Diplomat: all Moscow moves in Crimea’s accession were in line with Helsinki principles

August 01, 10:39 UTC+3

"It is incorrect to say that the return of Crimea within Russia was a violation of any of the stated principles first of all from the legal point of view", Ivan Soltanovsky said


MOSCOW, August 1. /TASS/. All Moscow’s moves during Crimea’s reunification with Russia were strictly in line with the principles of the Helsinki Final Act, the director of the Russian Foreign Ministry’s Department for European Cooperation, Ivan Soltanovsky, told Tass.

"Attempts by some Western countries to accuse Russia of violating the principles of the UN Charter and Helsinki principles of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe are absolutely baseless," Soltanovsky said in an interview timed to the day when the Helsinki Final Act was signed 40 years ago.

"It is incorrect to say that the return of Crimea within Russia was a violation of any of the stated principles first of all from the legal point of view. It is obvious that such statements are purely politically motivated," he added.

He reminded the interlocutor that the Final Act of 1975 fixed the principles of territorial integrity of states and inviolability of borders, "and with that, this document as well as the Declaration of Principles [of International Law] of 1970 fix the principle of equality and people’s right to decide their own destiny".

"Thus, self-determination is one of the generally recognized principles of international law,m" the diplomat continued. "In case of Crimea, its declaration of independence and accession to Russia became the only possible option after the country had seen a coup with the use of force and its population faced violence of radical nationalists and saw their legitimate interests ignored," he said.

As for the UN Charter, the diplomat said the right to create a sovereign and independent state, freely join an independent state or unite with it was envisaged in the ‘Declaration on Principles of International Law concerning Friendly Relations and Co-operation among States in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations’.

As a result, by exercising their right to self-determination through holding a referendum, the Crimean residents protected their vitally important interests. "Accordingly, all Russia’s activity within that context was in strict compliance with the Helsinki principles," he added.

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Crimean Tatar leader Dzhemilev stated----

"A Muslim Battalion will serve for Defence Ministry and locate in Kherson region on the border to Crimea" Chechens,Ingushets,Crimean Tatars,Azeris & Uzbeks already agreed to join this Battalion. Fighters from other nationalities will follow.

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While this was an interesting theoretical discussion--facts on the ground in Russia occupied eastern Ukraine has fully supported this discussion as the Russian ground forces have completed just this "theoretical" reorganization and have moved into formal attacks positions all along the eastern front lines.

Good info to match with intercepted comms. before certain attacks

Pickar, C.K. (1991) Tactical Deep Battle: The Missing Link http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?Location=U2&doc=GetTRDoc.pdf&AD=ADA258092 …

Just had a very interesting discussion on topic: Is Russia reviving the Soviet "Deep Battle" concept?

Military experts tend to poopoo the idea of Russian "Deep Battle", but facts on the ground indicate the concept is being revived.

It appears that the Russian military (Ground, Airborne and Air Forces) are developing a modern "lite" version of "Tactical Deep Battle"

Deep Battle" was Soviet/Warsaw Pact era methodology: mechanised assault by combined arms armies. See Pickar 1991 http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA258092 …

Deep Battle has both defensive and offensive phases ...

Offensive phases: assault (breach front line/penetration of rear), deep operation (advance/envelopment of rear), consolidation/pursuit.

Deep Battle relies on mechanised/motorised infantry, tanks, (self-propelled) artillery, AT/AA cover, assault aviation and deep logistics.

Russian forces currently building motor rifle (mechanised infantry), tank, deep air assault and assault engineer capacity in east of Ukraine

Rapid reorganisation (by Southern Military Dist) of Russian (hybrid DPR/LPR) motor rifle and tank units "lodgement" in eastern Ukraine...Recent reorganisation and deployments of Russian 1st Tank Div and 20th Combined Arms Army in Western Military District together with......support the notion that the Russian military is preparing a "lite" Tactical Deep Battle operation in (eastern/southern) Ukraine

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While this was an interesting theoretical discussion--facts on the ground in Russia occupied eastern Ukraine has fully supported this discussion as the Russian ground forces have completed just this "theoretical" reorganization and have moved into formal attacks positions all along the eastern front lines.

Good info to match with intercepted comms. before certain attacks

Pickar, C.K. (1991) Tactical Deep Battle: The Missing Link http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?Location=U2&doc=GetTRDoc.pdf&AD=ADA258092 …

Just had a very interesting discussion on topic: Is Russia reviving the Soviet "Deep Battle" concept?

Military experts tend to poopoo the idea of Russian "Deep Battle", but facts on the ground indicate the concept is being revived.

It appears that the Russian military (Ground, Airborne and Air Forces) are developing a modern "lite" version of "Tactical Deep Battle"

Deep Battle" was Soviet/Warsaw Pact era methodology: mechanised assault by combined arms armies. See Pickar 1991 http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA258092 …

Deep Battle has both defensive and offensive phases ...

Offensive phases: assault (breach front line/penetration of rear), deep operation (advance/envelopment of rear), consolidation/pursuit.

Deep Battle relies on mechanised/motorised infantry, tanks, (self-propelled) artillery, AT/AA cover, assault aviation and deep logistics.

Russian forces currently building motor rifle (mechanised infantry), tank, deep air assault and assault engineer capacity in east of Ukraine

Rapid reorganisation (by Southern Military Dist) of Russian (hybrid DPR/LPR) motor rifle and tank units "lodgement" in eastern Ukraine...Recent reorganisation and deployments of Russian 1st Tank Div and 20th Combined Arms Army in Western Military District together with......support the notion that the Russian military is preparing a "lite" Tactical Deep Battle operation in (eastern/southern) Ukraine

REMEMBER just this week the OSCE SMM reported that on the border to Russia from Sept 2014 to June 2015 --the only portion they could monitor over 20,000 uniformed Russian soldiers crossed back and forth into eastern Ukraine--AND that was only what they could monitor

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A steady stream of death continues: Ukrainian military confirms that Russian forces killed 2 of its soldiers & wounded 14 in the last 24h

AND the fighting has reached now major levels and intensity ----

Peski: strong combat, tanks, mortars, machineguns https://twitter.com/062_Region/status/627522427342430208 …

Horlivka - massive loads of ammo were delivered to DNR positions today! prepare for the worst!!! https://twitter.com/NovaGorlivka/status/627518986993934336 …

JCCC says that terrorists increase military confrontation to sabotage #Minsk Agreements. http://lugansk-news.com/jccc-says-that-pro-russian-terrorists-increase-military-confrontation-in-attempt-to-sabotage-minsk-agreements/ … pic.twitter.com/MBSXuySkDT

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A steady stream of death continues: Ukrainian military confirms that Russian forces killed 2 of its soldiers & wounded 14 in the last 24h

AND the fighting has reached now major levels and intensity ----

Peski: strong combat, tanks, mortars, machineguns https://twitter.com/062_Region/status/627522427342430208 …

Horlivka - massive loads of ammo were delivered to DNR positions today! prepare for the worst!!! https://twitter.com/NovaGorlivka/status/627518986993934336 …

JCCC says that terrorists increase military confrontation to sabotage #Minsk Agreements. http://lugansk-news.com/jccc-says-that-pro-russian-terrorists-increase-military-confrontation-in-attempt-to-sabotage-minsk-agreements/ … pic.twitter.com/MBSXuySkDT

AND yet still not a single comment from Obama, Biden, Nuland, Kerry OR any European leader for that matter.

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AND yet still not a single comment from Obama, Biden, Nuland, Kerry OR any European leader for that matter.

Today (from 00:00-18:00) militants more than 40 times violated the ceasefire - ATO press center
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1041787622498710&id=820651001279041&refid=17&_ft_=top_level_post_id.1041787622498710&__tn__=%2As …

19:40 #Makeevka @VasyaMakeevskiy Distant frequent booms in #Donetsk direction

19"32 #Donetsk @666_mancer [vk] "rumble" "where is it landing?" "Mrtallurg: we can hear" "audible in Leninsky" "not outgoing by sound"

Yasynuvata shells Avdeevka 17:50 https://twitter.com/GirkinGirkin/status/627492552468496384 …

Donetsk, North-West, Airport direction - howitzer sounds

Starohnativka: UA positions are targeted, shelled

Horlivka, Zaitseve - just as always, things are starting up.... https://twitter.com/_John__Carter_/status/627532059670650880 …

#Luhansk rgn @100007182042214 Rail track was blown up at #Sentyanivka-#Shypilove section.

Fire on Mirgorodska street in Donetsk after shelling http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/1-august-fire-on-mirgorodska-street-in-donetsk-after-shelling … pic.twitter.com/nEJfHnwACE via @666_mancer

19:49 #Donetsk @Serzzze Oktyabrska was shelled, a house on fire
Donetsk Oktyabrski d-t reportedly shelled... brkng image pic.twitter.com/lk0l0kESdY

the smoke pillar at 19.40 was a house in Donetsk, Mirgorodska St. https://twitter.com/666_mancer/status/627543005763895296 …

20:45 #Maryinka @666_mancer [vk] Quiet here, booms are reaching us from afar

Alchevsk, Aug 1st https://twitter.com/GirkinGirkin/status/627538848906629120 …

Horlivka, mortars are warming up... https://twitter.com/xy_gorlov4an/status/627536303316451329 …

20:52 #Lysychansk @lisichanskiy 2 ambulance cars sped towards #Bakhmutka w/siren lights

Horlivka, outgoing howitzers https://twitter.com/_John__Carter_/status/627522968344727553 …

21:37 #Luhansk @Tkachov_TT AA-guns worked apart from #Kambrod, now distant shots, it sounds like mortars

21:36 #Horlivka Kalinovka @UA_Gorlivka "ka-boom"

21:20 #Krasnohorivka @hyeva_maryinka [vk] Impacts on woodlines from the side facing #Staromykhaylivka

21:27 #Maryinka @666_mancer [vk] Quiet, shooting and massive booms in #Krasnohorivka direction

21:30 #Dzerzhynsk @blessmaster For now also we can hear distant still non frequent booms

21:45 #Dzerzhynsk @blessmaster Blast and intense small arms fire in #Mayorsk direction

Krasnohorivka @hyeva_maryinka [vk]
21:22 It begins in Mayak dir'n, traditionally small arms start, 2 min ago there 2 starange rumbles

22:41 #Krasnohorivka @hyeva_maryinka [vk] Small arms don't go silent, several blasts in #Borysivka,Solnechna direction

Donetsk Petrovski d-t - loud

VIDEO: Shelling of Oktyabrsky district, Donetsk. August 1 2015. Via @xuilolala
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=f4ACLfTekHk … pic.twitter.com/QZ0pXmU6lQ

22:37 #Donetsk Rozy_Luksemburg @0954771 Distant volleys started

Horlivka was shelled tonight Aug 1, by the mobile mortars - reports. pic.twitter.com/FNd67bY7Wj

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SINCE 2014 W/ THE RUSSIAN ARMY,
SINCE 2015 W/ "PRO-RUSSIAN SEPARATISTS" IN UKRAINE:
THE AILERON-3-SV
pic.twitter.com/NC9fOf9Taj

Russian company ENICS http://www.enics.ru/main manufactures the Eleron-3SV UAV http://www.enics.ru/product?product_id=62 … pic.twitter.com/NMQpkJIAUe

Russian Eleron-3SV unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) Full-size photo http://77rus.smugmug.com/Military/Interpolitex-2011/i-3TD8W2h/0/O/InterpolitexPart608.jpg … (c) Vitaly V. Kuzmin pic.twitter.com/A7z2KoYcYS

Russian ground forces starting receiving shipments of Eleron-3SV UAVs in early 2014 http://sputniknews.com/voiceofrussia/2013_06_14/State-of-the-art-UAVs-to-enter-service-in-the-Russian-Army-0448/ … pic.twitter.com/lx4rrHyFAQ

Next time we see one of these UAVs in occupied-Donbas, Ukraine, it is an "Eleron-3SV" made in Russia by ENICS.ru pic.twitter.com/58xNvDJIpx
Source video (uploaded 29 July 2015) https://youtu.be/Grk7mC3vS_I

Russian armed forces have their drone. But Russian UAVs do not meet expectations http://in.rbth.com/economics/2015/06/30/russian_armed_forces_have_their_drone_43951.html … via @rireport (@RBTH Kremlin) 30 Jun

Note how the "Eleron-3SV" military recon UAV made in Russia by ENICS.ru is filled with foreign electronic components pic.twitter.com/4YrxAR05Yw

What's inside a Russian-made (ENICS.ru) "Eleron-3SV" UAV? Here's one shot down in Syria recently pic.twitter.com/VVpAaVa893

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While no Russian tanks and infantry have crossed the eastern front lines yet we are well into the third phase of the Ukraine Russo war AND yet Obama, Hollande and Merkel appear to not have noticed it--wonder why???

Maxim Tucker @MaxRTucker
My scoop on the intelligence claiming separatists in #Ukraine are building radioactive weapon http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/world/europe/article4514313.ece … pic.twitter.com/DOOngpdKg0

Militants fired on Zolote with mortars. As a result, 2 soldiers of the 54th Brigade were wounded - Luhansk RSA
http://www.loga.gov.ua/oda/press/news/2015/08/01/news_67136.html …

MIA: a civilian in #Maryinka was wounded under shelling
via @HromadskeTV

Ukrainian side to the JCCC also reports 2 civilians were wounded in Dzerzhyns'k and Toshkivka.

Map. Situation in eastern #Ukraine, August 1, 00:00 EET pic.twitter.com/ThvGZXFfL8

Serious mercenary troop problem in eastern Ukraine---
Footage
Militants are p*xxxxxd: More tanks than crews...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgNbR8Dvqlk …
pic.twitter.com/lYKHA8YXMl

News
The 28th mechanised brigade of the Ukrainian army fought a 5-hour battle w/ sep.-backed Russian forces near #Krasnohorivka & #Marinka.

Russian spetsnaz was involved in this ground attack---
Also, an attack by enemy subversive-intelligence group was repelled near Berezove - 28th Brigade

#News
Russian forces are steadily escalating their attacks on the Ukrainian line of defence.
109 attacks yesterday.
Fighting all night long.

Overnight (from 21:00-03.28) militants conducted massive attacks across almost the whole line of demarcation - JCCC
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1041631929180946&id=820651001279041&refid=17&_ft_=top_level_post_id.1041631929180946&__tn__=%2As …

Location. Russian forces' previous forward position is at Bila Kamyanka (west of Komsomolske-Telmanove base complex) https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Starohnativka,+Donetsk+Oblast,+Ukraine/@47.4269216,37.5850761,10z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x40e0d2fe87f250eb:0x73caefec39e49 5c0 …

1 Aug: Russian (hybrid) forces attack strategic settlement of Starohnativka (east of Volnovakha, north of Mariupol) pic.twitter.com/eynQXkeJhL

youtube.com/watch?v=aQkmNugVA3A … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRGTxqO4Lu8 … #Russian infantry drill/IMTs in #Ukraine.Sophisticated stuff. #Russia pic.twitter.com/LTF0tDV3Cq

JCCC: Last night Russian (hybrid) forces massed along entire front line; heavy shelling to disrupt Minsk talks 3 Aug http://m.inforesist.org/sckk-boeviki-nekontroliruemy-vedut-massirovannyj-ogon/?_utl_t=tw …

Media Take Note: Martens Center report shows Russian military presence in Ukraine is a matter of fact, not opinion. http://www.martenscentre.eu/publications/caught-act-proof-russian-military-intervention-ukraine …

Maxim Tucker @MaxRTucker
Good test of #Ukraine's dirty bomb intelligence will be DPR's response to any @OSCE_SMM request to visit radioactive waste burial site.

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'Spetsnaz GRU Brigades (in Ukraine) continue to use social networks and open sources of communication.' http://charter97.org/ru/news/2015/8/1/162592/ …

Russian Airborne (VDV) will grow from 45,000 to 60,000 troops, becoming approx the same size as the entire German Army (60,707 troops).

Allegedly an unnamed cemetery of killed #Luhansk residents found near the city. https://twitter.com/24todaynetua/status/627548189286105088 …

.@OSCE Scretary General @lamzannier on #Helsinki40. Our take:Russia violated its commitments. pic.twitter.com/YFurNHizBY

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Today (from 00:00-18:00) militants more than 40 times violated the ceasefire - ATO press center
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1041787622498710&id=820651001279041&refid=17&_ft_=top_level_post_id.1041787622498710&__tn__=%2As …

19:40 #Makeevka @VasyaMakeevskiy Distant frequent booms in #Donetsk direction

19"32 #Donetsk @666_mancer [vk] "rumble" "where is it landing?" "Mrtallurg: we can hear" "audible in Leninsky" "not outgoing by sound"

Yasynuvata shells Avdeevka 17:50 https://twitter.com/GirkinGirkin/status/627492552468496384 …

Donetsk, North-West, Airport direction - howitzer sounds

Starohnativka: UA positions are targeted, shelled

Horlivka, Zaitseve - just as always, things are starting up.... https://twitter.com/_John__Carter_/status/627532059670650880 …

#Luhansk rgn @100007182042214 Rail track was blown up at #Sentyanivka-#Shypilove section.

Fire on Mirgorodska street in Donetsk after shelling http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/1-august-fire-on-mirgorodska-street-in-donetsk-after-shelling … pic.twitter.com/nEJfHnwACE via @666_mancer

19:49 #Donetsk @Serzzze Oktyabrska was shelled, a house on fire
Donetsk Oktyabrski d-t reportedly shelled... brkng image pic.twitter.com/lk0l0kESdY

the smoke pillar at 19.40 was a house in Donetsk, Mirgorodska St. https://twitter.com/666_mancer/status/627543005763895296 …

20:45 #Maryinka @666_mancer [vk] Quiet here, booms are reaching us from afar

Alchevsk, Aug 1st https://twitter.com/GirkinGirkin/status/627538848906629120 …

Horlivka, mortars are warming up... https://twitter.com/xy_gorlov4an/status/627536303316451329 …

20:52 #Lysychansk @lisichanskiy 2 ambulance cars sped towards #Bakhmutka w/siren lights

Horlivka, outgoing howitzers https://twitter.com/_John__Carter_/status/627522968344727553 …

21:37 #Luhansk @Tkachov_TT AA-guns worked apart from #Kambrod, now distant shots, it sounds like mortars

21:36 #Horlivka Kalinovka @UA_Gorlivka "ka-boom"

21:20 #Krasnohorivka @hyeva_maryinka [vk] Impacts on woodlines from the side facing #Staromykhaylivka

21:27 #Maryinka @666_mancer [vk] Quiet, shooting and massive booms in #Krasnohorivka direction

21:30 #Dzerzhynsk @blessmaster For now also we can hear distant still non frequent booms

21:45 #Dzerzhynsk @blessmaster Blast and intense small arms fire in #Mayorsk direction

Krasnohorivka @hyeva_maryinka [vk]
21:22 It begins in Mayak dir'n, traditionally small arms start, 2 min ago there 2 starange rumbles

22:41 #Krasnohorivka @hyeva_maryinka [vk] Small arms don't go silent, several blasts in #Borysivka,Solnechna direction

Donetsk Petrovski d-t - loud

The West has accepted a new definition of "ceasefire." Fighting can continue as long as Russia temporarily fails to seize new territory.

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A very good overview of the Russian/Ukrainian issues---well worth the reading ------long though----

http://newleftreview.org/II/94/perry-anderson-incommensurate-russia

perry anderson

INCOMMENSURATE RUSSIA


It will soon be a quarter of a century since Russia left communism behind. Its present ruler has been in power for fifteen years, and by the end of his current term in office will have all but equalled the tenure of Brezhnev. From early on, Western opinion of his regime divided sharply. That under Putin—after a period of widespread misery and dislocation, culminating in near state bankruptcy—the country had returned to economic growth and political stability, was evident by the end of his first term; so too the popularity he enjoyed because of these. But beyond such bare data, there was no consensus. For one camp, increasingly vocal as time went on, the pivots of Putin’s system of power were corruption and repression: a neo-authoritarian state fundamentally inimical to the West, with a wrapping of legal proprieties around a ramshackle pyramid of kleptocracy and thuggery.

This view prevailed principally among reporters, though it was not confined to them: a representative sample could be found in Economist editor Edward Lucas’s The New Cold War (2009), Guardian journalist Luke Harding’s Mafia State (2012), Standpoint contributor Ben Judah’s Fragile Empire (2013), but expressed no less pungently by a jurist like Stephen Holmes. For Lucas, Putin, having seized power with a ‘cynical putsch’, and maintained it with the ‘methods of terrorists and gangsters’, had ‘cast a dark shadow over the eastern half of the continent’. For Harding, under Putin’s tutelage, ‘Russia has become bullying, violent, cruel and—above all—inhuman’. For Judah, Russia was ‘an anguished, broken society’ that is one of ‘history’s great failures’, in the grip of an apocalyptic system in which, since ‘Putin cannot leave power without fear of arrest’, the West ‘should ask itself whether it will offer him exile to avert blood’. For Holmes, ‘behind the mask of an authoritarian restoration’ there was no more than the ‘lawless feeding frenzy’ of ‘an internally warring, socially detached and rapacious oligarchy’, whose ‘various groups fight to grab their portion of massive cash flows’. [1]

The opposite camp had greater weight in the academy, where works by the two leading authorities on the politics of post-communist Russia delivered—without failing to note its darker sides—substantially favourable verdicts on Putin’s record in office. Daniel Treisman’s study of the country in the first two decades since the fall of the Soviet Union, The Return (2011), expanded on his earlier claim that Russia had become a normal middle-income country, with all the typical shortcomings of these—crony capitalism, corruption, income inequality, media bias, electoral manipulation—but one that was incomparably freer than the petro-states of the Gulf with which it was often compared; less violent than such a respectable member of the oecd as Mexico; less statist in its control of energy than Brazil. Most Russians felt their freedom had increased since 1997, and their happiness too. ‘Does it really serve the West’s long-run interests’, he asked, ‘to assume some unproven imperial agenda, to exaggerate the authoritarian features of the current regime, to demonize those in the Kremlin and romanticize its liberal opponents?’ [2]

For his part, Richard Sakwa—the most prolific scholar writing on Russia in the new century: four major works, and a plethora of articles—argued that while Putin had taken advantage of the powers afforded him by the constitution he inherited, he has always acted within its framework, whose liberal norms have never been repudiated. What had emerged under his rule was neither a modern autocracy—there was no state of emergency, no mass imprisonment, no literary or visual censorship—nor a softer version of the Soviet regime, but a ‘dual state’, composed of a legal-constitutional order and a discretionary-administrative system, held in tension with each other by Putin’s centrism. ‘The essence of the Putin system’, Sakwa wrote in The Crisis of Russian Democracy (2011), ‘was to keep the two pillars in parity’. The rough balance between them allowed for a hopeful evolution towards full arrival at what he called ‘the “standard package” of constitutionalism, liberal democracy and free markets’ in the West, as ‘the powerful latent potential in the formal institutions of post-communist Russian democracy’ was activated: ‘At that point, the mimetic institutions of the standard package will gradually gain an autonomous life of their own, and the constitutional state will overcome the arbitrariness of the administrative regime.

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

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Today (from 00:00-18:00) militants more than 40 times violated the ceasefire - ATO press center
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1041787622498710&id=820651001279041&refid=17&_ft_=top_level_post_id.1041787622498710&__tn__=%2As …

19:40 #Makeevka @VasyaMakeevskiy Distant frequent booms in #Donetsk direction

19"32 #Donetsk @666_mancer [vk] "rumble" "where is it landing?" "Mrtallurg: we can hear" "audible in Leninsky" "not outgoing by sound"

Yasynuvata shells Avdeevka 17:50 https://twitter.com/GirkinGirkin/status/627492552468496384 …

Donetsk, North-West, Airport direction - howitzer sounds

Starohnativka: UA positions are targeted, shelled

Horlivka, Zaitseve - just as always, things are starting up.... https://twitter.com/_John__Carter_/status/627532059670650880 …

#Luhansk rgn @100007182042214 Rail track was blown up at #Sentyanivka-#Shypilove section.

Fire on Mirgorodska street in Donetsk after shelling http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/1-august-fire-on-mirgorodska-street-in-donetsk-after-shelling … pic.twitter.com/nEJfHnwACE via @666_mancer

19:49 #Donetsk @Serzzze Oktyabrska was shelled, a house on fire
Donetsk Oktyabrski d-t reportedly shelled... brkng image pic.twitter.com/lk0l0kESdY

the smoke pillar at 19.40 was a house in Donetsk, Mirgorodska St. https://twitter.com/666_mancer/status/627543005763895296 …

20:45 #Maryinka @666_mancer [vk] Quiet here, booms are reaching us from afar

Alchevsk, Aug 1st https://twitter.com/GirkinGirkin/status/627538848906629120 …

Horlivka, mortars are warming up... https://twitter.com/xy_gorlov4an/status/627536303316451329 …

20:52 #Lysychansk @lisichanskiy 2 ambulance cars sped towards #Bakhmutka w/siren lights

Horlivka, outgoing howitzers https://twitter.com/_John__Carter_/status/627522968344727553 …

21:37 #Luhansk @Tkachov_TT AA-guns worked apart from #Kambrod, now distant shots, it sounds like mortars

21:36 #Horlivka Kalinovka @UA_Gorlivka "ka-boom"

21:20 #Krasnohorivka @hyeva_maryinka [vk] Impacts on woodlines from the side facing #Staromykhaylivka

21:27 #Maryinka @666_mancer [vk] Quiet, shooting and massive booms in #Krasnohorivka direction

21:30 #Dzerzhynsk @blessmaster For now also we can hear distant still non frequent booms

21:45 #Dzerzhynsk @blessmaster Blast and intense small arms fire in #Mayorsk direction

Krasnohorivka @hyeva_maryinka [vk]
21:22 It begins in Mayak dir'n, traditionally small arms start, 2 min ago there 2 starange rumbles

22:41 #Krasnohorivka @hyeva_maryinka [vk] Small arms don't go silent, several blasts in #Borysivka,Solnechna direction

Donetsk Petrovski d-t - loud

VIDEO: Shelling of Oktyabrsky district, Donetsk. August 1 2015. Via @xuilolala
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=f4ACLfTekHk … pic.twitter.com/QZ0pXmU6lQ

22:37 #Donetsk Rozy_Luksemburg @0954771 Distant volleys started

Horlivka was shelled tonight Aug 1, by the mobile mortars - reports. pic.twitter.com/FNd67bY7Wj

Donetsk this evening, #63 & #59 Myrhorodska St @Ykraino4_ka pic.twitter.com/Psuo3IITOj

23:05 #Krasnohorivka @hyeva_maryinka Borysivka: one heavy shot and quiet again

00:10 #Avdeevka @fingerw80 Incoming in town old part, strong, 5 of them already

00:14 #Avdeevka @fingerw80 Distant volleys, 12 for now, hiss and air blast heard at #Khimik...

00:27 #Avdeevka @fingerw80 Quiet for 5 min

00:34 #Donetsk @0954771 They've just started over after a short pause

Avdiivka shelling, seems from two guns https://twitter.com/fingerw80/status/627588968524161024 …

00:31 #Avdeevka @fingerw80 Again [incoming], 4 for now

00:38 #Avdeevka @fingerw80 It looks like it's 'cigarette break' again [=quiet]

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June 2015, RUS are shelling UKR positions (RUS UAV video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3mxGGb9ghk …

[OUTLAW 09]

Tymchuk: Russia is deploying more & more artillery, sending in more soldiers (non-Slavs), & intensifying the shelling of Ukrainian positions

Read an advance report on fire support trends in the Russo-Ukraine conflict today. The trends are disturbing.

UAS surveillance plus Russian thermobaric artillery rounds means that light infantry forces are either dug in or well done.

Russians also use DPICM plus those thermobaric rounds. We'll soon have neither.

In a combined DPICM/thermobaric fire mission from Russian MLRS lasting 3 minutes, two Ukrainian mechanized battalions were wiped out.

Artillery is causing 85% (!) of casualties on both sides.

you can cross Eastern Ukraine jumping through thermobaric ordnance and don't touch the ground

This conflict is putting tactical development into hyperdrive. Increasing use of combined arms companies. US way behind.

combined arms as a core competency has been neglected in defense focus for nearly 20 years

Russia mastered loop from UAS to IDF. We haven't.

C-RAM and C-UAS as much needed as longer range/superior performance artillery capabilities

Russian losses of UAVs are staggering even for a "limited" conflict, if Ukrainians got better C-UAS systems that'll help a lot

Russia is spreading artillery in battery size down to maneuver battalion level. Army concentrating it at division level. (DIVARTY)

Smaller loop between maneuver and fires = faster, more responsive integration, which is vital.

Russian UAV video depicts its use as a forward artillery observer for 152mm SPGs and then for BDA after the shelling to confirm target destruction.

June 2015, RUS are shelling UKR positions (RUS UAV video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3mxGGb9ghk …

RU UVA operator is extremely quick in the use of the camera which shows a solid ability with the use of the UAV.

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Maxim Tucker @MaxRTucker
Good test of #Ukraine's dirty bomb intelligence will be DPR's response to any @OSCE_SMM request to visit radioactive waste burial site.

An unusual number of explosions have occurred in this facility and not those types of explosions caused by artillery and or MLRS strikes--AND the mercenaries never accused the Ukrainians of firing into the facility.

This reporter has been accurate in his reporting over the last year from the eastern Ukraine and speaks fluent Russian.

For sure a lot of 'testing' had been going on there...
http://ukraineatwar.blogspot.nl/2015/06/why-do

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http://www.unian.info/world/1107194-russia-threatens-us-with-retaliation-if-russian-assets-in-yukos-case-seized.html

Russia threatens U.S. with retaliation if Russian assets in Yukos case seized

01.08.2015 | 23:55


Russia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs has notified the United States of retaliatory measures likely to be taken against U.S. entities if Russian assets in the U.S. are seized as part of a lawsuit brought by former Yukos shareholders, the Kommersant newspaper said on Saturday.

"Any attempts to apply injunctive and executive measures with respect to the Russian assets located in the U.S. will be regarded by Russia as a ground for taking adequate and commensurate reciprocal measures against the U.S., its citizens and legal entities," the newspaper quoted a letter from the U.S. Department of State to former Yukos shareholders, which quoted a Russian Foreign Ministry's response to a U.S. note.

The former Yukos shareholders, in whose favor an arbitration court in The Hague in July 2014 compelled Russia to pay $50 billion, had earlier asked a court in the District of Columbia to uphold and enforce this ruling in U.S. territory.

In a note to the Russian Foreign Ministry the U.S. stated that Russia has 60 days in keeping with the U.S. laws to reply or object to this lawsuit [the deadline is set for August 21], otherwise the legal proceedings would be launched in the absence of the respondent, the Kommersant wrote.

"It is clear from the Russian Foreign Ministry's reply to the U.S. Embassy that Russia disagrees with the claims made by former Yukos shareholders. The ruling by The Hague arbitration is seen by Russia as an 'unjust' and 'politically biased act' which was issued in 'utter violation of the applicable legal norms' and is 'incompatible with the ideas of the rule of law and independent, impartial and professional international justice,'" the Kommersant said.

"According to Russia, The Hague arbitration did not have the authority to consider the dispute, its decisions were made on the basis of an international treaty Russia is not a party to and in a dispute over which it has no effect, the note says. In view of this the Foreign Ministry believes that the upholding of The Hague resolution could 'seriously undermine the authority of a respectable U.S. court,'" the Kommersant said.

As UNIAN reported earlier, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ordered Russia to pay Yukos EUR 1.866 billion in compensation for violations of the right to property committed against the company. The ECHR also decided to pay Yukos another EUR 300,000 for the reimbursement of costs.

Appears that Russia has conventionally forgotten that when they joined the Council of Europe in 1997 they signed themselves up to accept decisions made by the EHRC--was not even hidden in fine print--was definitely in bold print and it was not an issue in 1997 as they wanted to be part of the European world and have a voice in European politics.

NOW they just raced a new reading of their Constitution through the Duma stating that their Constitution rules over all courts--thus they do not have to pay any damages as awarded by the EHRC.

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Deliberate Russian shellings of critical Ukrainian infrastructure is now ongoing in a more intensive fashion than ever before.

AND the comments against this from the West are exactly what again—none.

00:50 #Avdeevka @fingerw80 Volleys from #Spartak or Putilovka grove direction, loud, 6 of them, like at [coking] plant dir'n

01:00 #Avdeevka @rechnikato THe town's under shelling, warning siren at coking plant

01:08 #Avdeevka @owl_ok It sounds like the coking plant is under shelling

01:06 #Avdeevka @fingerw80 12 volleys already, all incoming at coking plant

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Deliberate Russian shellings of critical Ukrainian infrastructure is now ongoing in a more intensive fashion than ever before.

AND the comments against this from the West are exactly what again—none.

00:50 #Avdeevka @fingerw80 Volleys from #Spartak or Putilovka grove direction, loud, 6 of them, like at [coking] plant dir'n

01:00 #Avdeevka @rechnikato THe town's under shelling, warning siren at coking plant

01:08 #Avdeevka @owl_ok It sounds like the coking plant is under shelling

01:06 #Avdeevka @fingerw80 12 volleys already, all incoming at coking plant

AND the West seems to think there is no war in Central Europe--maybe a reread of the definition of the word "war" might help them.

[OUTLAW 09]

Active combat confrontation continuing all along the eastern front lines between the Ukrainian forces and the Russian-backed mercenaries using her own troops as well with Spetsnaz.

The total and utter silence of Obama, Nuland, Kerry, Biden, Hollande and Merkel actually is enabling the killing and wounding of Ukrainian military personnel and it’s civilians AND allows for the continued massive shellings ALL in full violation of the agreement THEY all “claim” they want implemented.

Obama 2014—“we will judge Putin by his actions not his words”—WELL we have his actions” AND from Obama and company—total silence.

WOW—massive improvement----Militants decreased number of attacks in all sectors but #Donetsk, fired 83 times on 1 Aug, 51 in Donetsk sector only DOWN from 109 attacks.
https://www.facebook.com/ato.news/posts/1042021405808665 …

VIDEO Russian artillery hitting Ukrainian positions at #Kurdyumivka.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3mxGGb9ghk …
https://www.google.com/maps/@48.4355624,37.9080865,803m/data=!3m1!1e3 …
pic.twitter.com/rDNg4vc8gJ

Aug01 #Dzerzhynsk @Ukr_Che UKR positions in #Kurdyumivka after shelling pic.twitter.com/yCk1GvVha1

06:06 #Horlivka @Miloviche Outgoing are also heard
05:47#Horlivka @UA_Gorlivka Those are outgoing, incoming heard softer after'em, 5 for now
@Xykalinovka Exactly incoming

05:42 #Horlivka @Xykalinovka Strong incoming in the north/northeast, loud in Kalinovka [not Donetsk one!], nearby

05:27 #Svitlodarsk @hu_svetlodarsk #Luhanske is being shelled for 02 min already

05:38 #Horlivka @Xykalinovka No, something w/calibre over 100mm

05:24 #Svitlodarsk @paty11976 That's at us in #Svitlodarsk
#Horlivka @sau152mm But machine gun as I can hear?

05:23 #Horlivka @sau152mm Something pounds for already 15 min in the north. Either heavy machine gun or [don't know being half awake]

Confrontation continues in the D sector – ATO press center http://24today.net/open/489478

This is why the Russians fought hard to take Debaltseve even though it was fully covered in Minsk 2 as Ukrainian--it is a major resupply railhead for Russian forces south of Dontesk and near Mariupol.

#Debaltseve train station packed with freight cars. That's what rebels / Buryats (far eastern Russian based active duty tank forces) fought for. http://nv.ua/ukraine/events/bespilotniki-volonterov-snjali-zapolnennyj-eshelonami-zheleznodorozhnyj-uzel-debaltsevo-61730.html … pic.twitter.com/HaidUICK8j

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http://eurasiangeopolitics.com/2015/07/21/why-russias-security-problems-cant-be-solved-in-ukraine/

Why Russia’s security problems can’t be solved in Ukraine
Posted on July 21, 2015 by Edward W. Walker UC Berkely



From the outset of the current crisis in Ukraine, Moscow’s policies have been driven primarily by geopolitical considerations, not by developments inside Ukraine itself. Despite its rhetoric, the Kremlin cares little if at all about the design of Ukrainian federalism, the rights of Russian speakers, or alleged “fascists” in Kyiv, except insofar as they affect Ukraine’s external orientation and Russia’s geopolitical interests. Ukraine was, and doubtless to a certain extent still is, a central element in the Kremlin’s ambitions to establish a Russian-dominated “Eurasian” pole in what it sees as an increasingly multi-polar world. But more importantly, it has been and remains critical to the Kremlin’s goal of keeping the United States, the European Union, and above all NATO from becoming politically, economically, and militarily preeminent in post-Soviet space.

Accordingly, anyone interested in forecasting the Kremlin’s next moves in Ukraine should keep his/her eye on the geopolitical ball. That in turn means assessing how Russian decision-makers are likely to see the evolving geopolitical context, as well as how they are likely to think Ukraine can, or cannot, be used to influence that context.

My take on this key question at the moment is as follows. The Kremlin has probably concluded that (1) the Ukraine crisis has made Russia’s already serious security problems with NATO much worse; (2) the repositioning of NATO hard power assets to the east, along with NATO’s growing military cooperation with Sweden, Finland, Ukraine, Georgia, and Moldova, constitute an acute threat to Russian national security; (3) although Russia may emerge from its current recession by the end of the year, its economy will very likely grow slowly for at least several years, and as a result it is going to be increasingly difficult to fulfill the Kremlin’s ambitious military spending plans; (4) a long period of weak economic performance may lead to domestic unrest at some point, which the West will seek to exploit; (5) a “pivot to China,” greater cooperation with the other BRICS countries, or alliances with anti-Western governments around the globe may help Russia’s geopolitical position in the long run, but they won’t solve the immediate security challenge from NATO; and (6) the Kremlin is nevertheless duty bound to ensure that the balance of hard power along its western borders does not shift decisively in NATO’s favor.

To put the problem bluntly, Russia has what it considers an acute problem with NATO, not with Ukraine, and it is not going to solve that problem by improved relations with China or the other BRICS countries. Neither it is easy, for reasons elaborated below, to see how Russia can use Ukraine to solve the problem.

What strategies, then, are available to the Kremlin to meet this challenge, and in particular what role can Ukraine play in its response?

It strikes me that there are at least five possibilities, as follows (moving from more to less likely).

1. Hunker Down. This would entail focusing primarily on internal and external security, including additional constraints on internal dissent and a continued effort to build up Russia’s military capabilities. In addition to continued spending on new arms, it would mean increased reliance on tactical and strategic nuclear weapons; the repositioning of conventional forces within Russia to its western borders; and probably a build up of its military presence in Belarus. In addition, the Kremlin would continue its efforts (so far very successful) to convince the Russian public that the country faces a dire external threat from NATO, that the government needs to take whatever military steps it can to address that threat, and that living standards may well suffer as a result. It would probably also mean eschewing economic liberalization because liberalization would make high levels of military spending difficult, at least in the short to medium run.

2. Try to weaken and divide the West using primarily political and economic means. Were the Kremlin to make this the centerpiece of its strategy, it might conclude that it would be more effective in dividing the West if it backed off on brinkmanship and military pressure intended to increase Western fears of a military confrontation between Russian and NATO. It might also try to bring about a lasting ceasefire in the Donbas (although full implementation of Minsk II is not going to happen). In both cases, the reasoning would be that Moscow needed to empower pro-Russian forces in the West that would successfully resist further NATO/EU expansion and efforts to reinforce NATO’s eastern defenses. It might also conclude that its best prospects for improving economic performance was to liberalize economically at home, try to attract Western investment, and take whatever steps it could to support those forces in the West that would like to see an end to sanctions and a return to business as usual. The general goal would be to exploit as best as possible the acute divisions within Europe resulting from the Euro crisis and growing nativism in Europe, preferably to the point where the entire European project collapsed. The reasoning would be a decisive political victory for anti-EU forces in Europe would likewise mean a decisive victory for anti-U.S. and pro-Russian forces, and might even lead eventually to the collapse of NATO.

CONTINUED......................................... ..............

[OUTLAW 09]

Active combat confrontation continuing all along the eastern front lines between the Ukrainian forces and the Russian-backed mercenaries using her own troops as well with Spetsnaz.

The total and utter silence of Obama, Nuland, Kerry, Biden, Hollande and Merkel actually is enabling the killing and wounding of Ukrainian military personnel and it’s civilians AND allows for the continued massive shellings ALL in full violation of the agreement THEY all “claim” they want implemented.

Obama 2014—“we will judge Putin by his actions not his words”—WELL we have his actions” AND from Obama and company—total silence.

WOW—massive improvement----Militants decreased number of attacks in all sectors but #Donetsk, fired 83 times on 1 Aug, 51 in Donetsk sector only DOWN from 109 attacks.
https://www.facebook.com/ato.news/posts/1042021405808665 …

VIDEO Russian artillery hitting Ukrainian positions at #Kurdyumivka.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3mxGGb9ghk …
https://www.google.com/maps/@48.4355624,37.9080865,803m/data=!3m1!1e3 …
pic.twitter.com/rDNg4vc8gJ

Aug01 #Dzerzhynsk @Ukr_Che UKR positions in #Kurdyumivka after shelling pic.twitter.com/yCk1GvVha1

06:06 #Horlivka @Miloviche Outgoing are also heard
05:47#Horlivka @UA_Gorlivka Those are outgoing, incoming heard softer after'em, 5 for now
@Xykalinovka Exactly incoming

05:42 #Horlivka @Xykalinovka Strong incoming in the north/northeast, loud in Kalinovka [not Donetsk one!], nearby

05:27 #Svitlodarsk @hu_svetlodarsk #Luhanske is being shelled for 02 min already

05:38 #Horlivka @Xykalinovka No, something w/calibre over 100mm

05:24 #Svitlodarsk @paty11976 That's at us in #Svitlodarsk
#Horlivka @sau152mm But machine gun as I can hear?

05:23 #Horlivka @sau152mm Something pounds for already 15 min in the north. Either heavy machine gun or [don't know being half awake]

Confrontation continues in the D sector – ATO press center http://24today.net/open/489478

This is why the Russians fought hard to take Debaltseve even though it was fully covered in Minsk 2 as Ukrainian--it is a major resupply railhead for Russian forces south of Dontesk and near Mariupol.

#Debaltseve train station packed with freight cars. That's what rebels / Buryats (far eastern Russian based active duty tank forces) fought for. http://nv.ua/ukraine/events/bespilotniki-volonterov-snjali-zapolnennyj-eshelonami-zheleznodorozhnyj-uzel-debaltsevo-61730.html … pic.twitter.com/HaidUICK8j

Overnight due to shelling of Kuibyshivs'kyi district (Donetsk) 2 civilians were wounded
http://112.ua/ato/v-donecke-v-rezultate-obstrelov-raneny-dva-mirnyh-zhitelya-249248.html …

05:53 #Horlivka Kalinovka @Xykalinovka No, there's another show in that direction, and here are incoming nearby

05:55 #Horlivka @Miloviche Both incoming and outgoing audible
@UA_Gorlivka I can hear both too
@Miloviche Direction #Bayrak-#Hurty

05:49 #Horlivka Kalinovka @UA_Gorlivka Strongly started at 5:40am, 5 massive volleys, position in field

06:39 #Horlivka Kalinovka @UA_Gorlivka Double "ka-boom", don't know incoming or outgoing, heard in the north, not loud, few times

06:28 #Horlivka center @ahab7822 [Gunnery] is heard from the north/northeast

05:30 #Horlivka @GirkinGirkin A column of mil hardware moved towards #Holma

06:09 #Debaltseve @Debaltsevo_UA We can hear that. And taking.
06:11 The most impressible ones are already in cellars

06:40 #Svitlodarsk @GirkinGirkin Svitlodarsk under shelling, image taken fr/#Debaltseve direction pic.twitter.com/FlPbmHPzku

What the heck is a COLT doing over Donetsk as the Russian mercenaries have no aircraft nor AF.
An-2 airplane over Kalinovsky district of Donetsk http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/2-august-an2-airplane-over-kalinovsky-district-of-donetsk … via @666_mancer

Donetsk Aug02, airplane image taken in Zaperevalna @666_mancer @marisya99 pic.twitter.com/1QKlDEgveP (such were used in agricultural aviation)

Normally in the past the AN-2 COLT is associated with Spetsnaz insertion missions.

“DNR"/whatever airforce.
Biplane flying over #Donetsk, today. Since months only UAVs and shells were flying there. https://twitter.com/666_mancer/status/627749594269655040 …

06:06 #Svitlodarsk @hu_svetlodarsk They shelled fr/#Debaltseve dir'n, ongoing UKR fire in reply for now

Artemovsk, #Kurdyumivka Jul31-Aug01 nightly shelling aftermath @GirkinGirkin pic.twitter.com/3gI6POJRmQ

07:20 #Svitlodarsk @GirkinGirkin Rumble again

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Large number of shelling reports from #Debaltseve / #Svitlodarsk direction this morning and right now.

12:36 #Horlivka @NovaGorlivka "Artillery barrage hit #Svitlodarsk and #Myronivka. #Horlivka was not hit"

Video of An-2 plane flying over #Donetsk. Let's hope it's not a test how safe the air space is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMXtPVlKmgs …

12:40 #Debaltseve @Debaltsevo_UA The west woke up again. One can hear [=rumble in the west resumed]

12:38 #Perevalsk @legion111113 Explosion in #Lohvynove direction, plume of smoke was visible from #Perevalsk

Map. Situation in eastern #Ukraine, August 2, 00:00 EET pic.twitter.com/vkig6xV2fH

12:03 #Horlivka @_John__Carter_ At 5:30am hardware moved tow/#Holma, at 8-9am a shelling at @Svitodarsk started

AN-2 COLT over Donetsk was used to drop a number of parachutists in honor of Russian “Airborne Day”.
11:00 #Donetsk @evergreen_dn One of paratroopers w/parachute pic.twitter.com/CiRdSwRyWH

Militants also at night fired on Mariinka and Krasnohorivka with tank, 122-mm self propelled guns and 120-mm mortars - Sector B spokesperson

At night militants fired on Avdiivka coke plant with incendiary ammunition - Sector B spokesperson
http://www.ukrinform.ua/rus/news/terroristi_zagigatelnimi_minami_nakrili_avdeevskiy _koksohim_1771316 …

Militants have blown up railway in Luhansk region http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/2-august-militants-has-blown-up-railway-in-luhansk-region … via @HromadskeTV

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Is now the total deafening silence by Obama, Hollande and especially Merkel--whose creation Minsk 2 is l----eading to an increased killing and wounding of Ukrainian military personnel and civilians???

MEANING the silence of the Western leaders indicates to Putin he has a clear lane for any military actions he undertakes in eastern Ukraine.

Due to heavy Russian shellings over the last two days---followings loses---

BreakingNews
8 Ukrainian troops injured in fighting Russian invaders on Saturday, already 6 in an assault on Marinka on Sunday morning.

Does not include Ukrainian civilians also wounded and or killed.

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Tenth Russian air crash in less than two months---no/little maintenance, high ops tempos, bad fuel, worn out air frames, bad pilots---

FIRST PHOTO: Mi 28N helicopter crashes at airshow in Russia http://on.rt.com/6o99 pic.twitter.com/67hrZDDxez

One of the pilots of the fallen Mi-28N "Night hunter" ejected http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/2-august-one-of-the-pilots-of-the-fallen-mi28n-night-hunter …

Mi-28N military helicopter crashed during a "Aviamix" http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/2-august-mi28n-military-helicopter-crashed-during-a-aviamix … pic.twitter.com/jIkoavRaCN

And second pilot is dead http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/2-august-one-of-the-pilots-of-the-fallen-mi28n-night-hunter … pic.twitter.com/mgG0gUi3If