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

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Numbers-Stations.com @Spy_Stations
Communications on 8909 khz between ground and aircraft. Issuing message in numbers group
http://www.numbers-stations.com/database/sites/default/files/Otchistka_2015-08-02T08-46-02Z_8909.0kHz.wav …

Numbers-Stations.com @Spy_Stations
8909 khz 98 130 I am Otchistka signal test over. Russian strategic aviation working.

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

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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

Right before Mi-28H went down in Ryazan,Russian Air Force Maj-Gen made statement that air show goal was to show RUS air power & reliability

Russia's latest military helicopter Mi-28H crashed at air show http://top.rbc.ru/society/02/08/2015/55bde4589a79474598721195 … pic.twitter.com/RPXET4u6S2

Mi-28N crash at Russia Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xuUqHTD2dA …

The helicopter belonged to the "Berkuty" ('Golden Eagles') flight display team.

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Continued Russian shelling attacks on critical Ukrainian infrastracture AND still not a single comment by Western leaders—almost as if they do not care.

13:10 #Svitlodarsk @chernyvaya Still incoming. Mironivske reservoir is hit...

News
Heavy Russian shelling has destroyed 1 house in #Zolote an 5 in in #Stanytsia_Luhanska overnight. #Ukraine pic.twitter.com/1qIy4qX4AA

12:50 #Horlivka @NeonDok "Yday I saw #OSCE in Rudakova St & understood the night would be quiet. "DRG" hesitate to shell in their presense"

Pictures
Troops under the Russian "airborne" flag hide with their BTR-80 between #Donetsk's residential buildings. pic.twitter.com/USISBuCmLn

In the last day militants fired on Checkpoints Mariinka, Zolote and Heorhiivka - Border guard service
http://dpsu.gov.ua/ua/about/news/news_8058.htm …

Separatists blew up railroad track in "grey zone". http://novosti.dn.ua/details/256578/ pic.twitter.com/Yy21ROI0K1

14:13 #Perevalsk @legion111113 Again explosion and smoke in #Luhvynove direction

13:50 #Avdeevka @Donetskyi Rumble heardin town old part, UKR arty shells

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One of "DNR" twitter accounts : Battle alert in Donetsk pic.twitter.com/Wchte4yU69

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Putin demanded from the Ukraine during the last Normandy Four meeting that the Ukrainians "give a sign of good faith" and pull back from Shyrokyne as had the Russian troops and her mercenaries AND based on this then the Ukrainians declared a 30km DMZ reaching towards the critical city port of Mariupol.

AND the Russians also stated they had pulled back all weapons of 10mm or less.

THEN on top of the Putin demand Obama, Nuland, Biden and the EU applied pressure on the Ukraine to do an "unilateral no reciprocal appeasement move" in order to appease Putin's demands.

BUT as always BOTH Putin and his Army lied--the actual distance pulled back by the Russians as 1.4kms NOT the 15km as required by the Putin proposed DMZ.

THEN the US Ukrainian ambassador praises the Ukrainians for fulfilling this unilateral demand.

BUT when dealing with Putin there should be absolutely no trust --or as Obama in 2014 stated--"we judge Putin hy his actions not his words"--AND this was the Russian response to the US pressured unilateral pull out.

April Fool's Day it seems----"their back"--appears to be right out of the movies. Western leaders it seems just never learn........

News
The Russians are back on the outskirts of #Shyrokyne.
Sniper, AA gun, heavy machine gun fire vs. Ukrainian positions since yesterday.

How is it possible that the US President just does not get that he must follow his own statements for a change??

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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


Maxim Tucker @MaxRTucker
Interview with BBC Radio about investigating #Ukraine's claim separatists are developing a dirty radioactive weapon https://soundcloud.com/max-tucker-1/ukraine-dirty-bomb-maxim-tucker-bbc-newshour-1-august …

BTW--it should be noted that independent of this article--the Ukrainian government formally asked the OSCE number of weeks ago to ensure that this particular nuclear waste storage site be inspected to ensure it was still protected and had not been breached.

Interesting that the Ukrainian government was several weeks ago concerned about a possible "breach of the site" --NOTICE the OSCE was unable to get into the area to inspect the site as they were constantly denied entry by the Russian troops and her mercenaries.

Wonder why????

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Right before Mi-28H went down in Ryazan,Russian Air Force Maj-Gen made statement that air show goal was to show RUS air power & reliability

Russia's latest military helicopter Mi-28H crashed at air show http://top.rbc.ru/society/02/08/2015/55bde4589a79474598721195 … pic.twitter.com/RPXET4u6S2

Mi-28N crash at Russia Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xuUqHTD2dA …

The helicopter belonged to the "Berkuty" ('Golden Eagles') flight display team.

All Mi-28s are now officially grounded.

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Russian propaganda 1 Aug: Women (actors) in front of cameras demand Basurin (DPR, Russian Army GRU) attack Ukraine https://youtu.be/OXk5bueNZPs

Svitlodarsk, 19.00 shelling continues. Via @GirkinGirkin pic.twitter.com/MX9LtOaMIj

Russian TV’s silence on troop deployments near border with Ukraine http://www.stopfake.org/en/russian-tv-s-silence-on-troops-near-ukraine/ … via @StopFakingNews 2 Aug

"Ukrainian rebel" from St. Petersburg: "Russians always come for their money, their land. This is our national idea" pic.twitter.com/zbouhNwn7O

Footage
Also in Ukrainian #Horlivka Russian airborne troops celebrated the Paratroopers' Day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2qYYnpKwr4 … pic.twitter.com/CP5WRgd9Uj

MT 'Debaltseve now running almost full strength/plays significant role in supplying Novorossian army' pic.twitter.com/BdoZmxa2QT

Painted over 2S9 Nona in Rostov: https://archive.is/3rHBd
Could be the end of this train (^ & https://archive.is/Rvr8v ) pic.twitter.com/TdNg2W3PFl

Rostov - next stop Debaltseve #Ukraine? pic.twitter.com/yZFP4xKnBS

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All Mi-28s are now officially grounded.

Pilot who survived the Mi-28N crash has said the chopper gave an alarm about a failure in the hydraulic system. http://www.rg.ru/2015/08/02/vertolet-site.html#superheader …

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SBU inspection in the Odessa port: finds smuggling of food and illegal rent of port equipement to private parties http://tsn.ua/ukrayina/sbu-opublikuvalo-pershi-rezultati-perevirki-v-odeskomu-portu-467247.html …

Update from the area (Novyy Rogachik/Prudboy) https://instagram.com/p/5i5aOHGIQm https://instagram.com/p/5cOMeAorkU https://vk.com/shnur00?z=photo55925034_374385030%2Falbum55925034_ 00 … pic.twitter.com/wVqIf5NJsK

Train loading still ongoing at this location:
https://instagram.com/p/5vzbLqgqcL/
https://vk.com/id281788146?z=photo281788146_374069102%2Fwall28178 8146_1593 …
https://instagram.com/p/5zuKzOoGYD/ pic.twitter.com/TmiwKRj5nH

Around 70 tanks, SAU and MTLB" at: https://www.google.com/maps/@48.679404,43.903712,3a,34.4y,22.68h,90.53t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1seuNYEFYTltq0RosMai93Qw!2e0!7i1 3312!8i6656?hl=en …: https://archive.is/sxHlh https://instagram.com/p/5FTWYdAht9/ pic.twitter.com/24C2bRbBqc

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Maxim Tucker @MaxRTucker
Interview with BBC Radio about investigating #Ukraine's claim separatists are developing a dirty radioactive weapon https://soundcloud.com/max-tucker-1/ukraine-dirty-bomb-maxim-tucker-bbc-newshour-1-august …

BTW--it should be noted that independent of this article--the Ukrainian government formally asked the OSCE number of weeks ago to ensure that this particular nuclear waste storage site be inspected to ensure it was still protected and had not been breached.

Interesting that the Ukrainian government was several weeks ago concerned about a possible "breach of the site" --NOTICE the OSCE was unable to get into the area to inspect the site as they were constantly denied entry by the Russian troops and her mercenaries.

Wonder why????

Let’s see three Russian trolls argue the article is rubbish, then the Russia mercenaries deny today that the nuclear waste storage site has not been breached BUT offer no video proof.

But the OSCE cannot confirm nor deny as the Russian mercenaries do not allow them access to the site.

Tend to think with OSCE not being allowed to check ie confirm and or deny------the UK Times might in fact be correct----

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It will be another long, long, long night on the eastern front lines--will be another 80-105 Russian shelling and ground attacks.

AND does any Western leader really care--apparently not.


Today (00:00-18:00) militants 51 times violated ceasefire. The area of Donetsk remains the most tense - ATOhttps://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1042244789119660&id=820651001279041&refid=17&_ft_=top_level_post_id.1042244789119660&__tn__=%2As …

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Paratroopers day in Gorlivka (occupied #Ukraine)
Possibly a RU MTLB:
http://streamable.com/v7ge
https://instagram.com/p/54D4cAQj_o/ pic.twitter.com/cQbMJjIjj8

Who doubts they really are Russian Airborne Troops (VDV) in DPR unit "Sparta"? https://vk.com/sparta_orb?w=wall-88853749_4678 … #PutinAtWar pic.twitter.com/Kaddy92yzp

In Horlivka today: Russian T-72B with Kontakt-5 ERA, BTR-60 R-145BM http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/2-august-in-horlivka-today-russian-t72b-with-kontakt5-era … pic

Artillery barrage hit Svitlodarsk and Myronivka http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/2-august-artillery-barrage-hit-svitlodarsk-and-myronivka …

Svitlodarsk. Fire after shelling - wood is burning http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/2-august-fire-after-shelling--wood-is-burning … #Ukraine pic.twitter.com/kpYGLWyJio via @GirkinGirkin

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Russia's GRU Captain says RF Consul doesn't visit many Russian POW's captured in #Ukraine
http://www.novayagazeta.ru/politics/69410.html … pic.twitter.com/aUxusCOdrw

From the independent Russia media interview just release this captured Russian CPT of the Spetsnaz is indicating that the Ukrainians hold more than 20 Russia officer POWs evidently also from Spetsnaz and they are in fact abandoned as he has been by Russian.

He is also indicating that the Russian military hold Ukrainian POWs physically on Russian soil.

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Let’s see three Russian trolls argue the article is rubbish, then the Russia mercenaries deny today that the nuclear waste storage site has not been breached BUT offer no video proof.

But the OSCE cannot confirm nor deny as the Russian mercenaries do not allow them access to the site.

Tend to think with OSCE not being allowed to check ie confirm and or deny------the UK Times might in fact be correct----

Maxim Tucker @MaxRTucker
#Ukraine rebels initially denied knowledge of radioactive bunker but now know what's inside. Yet it 'remains sealed' pic.twitter.com/REJ8XGEfO9

Russia-backed rebels in eastern Ukraine say storage of radioactive waste at chemical factory safe: http://apne.ws/1E24fNc

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Right before Mi-28H went down in Ryazan,Russian Air Force Maj-Gen made statement that air show goal was to show RUS air power & reliability

Russia's latest military helicopter Mi-28H crashed at air show http://top.rbc.ru/society/02/08/2015/55bde4589a79474598721195 … pic.twitter.com/RPXET4u6S2

Mi-28N crash at Russia Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xuUqHTD2dA …

The helicopter belonged to the "Berkuty" ('Golden Eagles') flight display team.

BTW-----the engines for this Russian copter come from the Ukraine which has stopped shipping them

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It will be another long, long, long night on the eastern front lines--will be another 80-105 Russian shelling and ground attacks.

AND does any Western leader really care--apparently not.

Today (00:00-18:00) militants 51 times violated ceasefire. The area of Donetsk remains the most tense - ATOhttps://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1042244789119660&id=820651001279041&refid=17&_ft_=top_level_post_id.1042244789119660&__tn__=%2As …

18:00 #Svitlodarsk @hu_svetlodarsk Yet another shelling at #Luhanske fr/#Vuhlehirsk or #Horlivka Kalinovsky ds direction,2-3 howitzers

18:18 #Svitlodarsk @hu_svetlodarsk After UKR response the shelling ceased
@paty11976 It shelled from #Lohvynove

18:23 #Svitlodarsk @hu_svetlodarsk I can swear,I heard volleys fr/the south, not southwest, morning ones were southwest

18:26 #Horlivka @adochek More incoming far away

18:41 #Svitlodarsk @GirkinGirkin pic.twitter.com/tvLSIutHPm
@hu_svetlodarsk In the morning shey shelled the same area, now like closer

18:28 #Horlivka @NovaGorlivka Artillery 'ouverture' for the show has begun. Mortar entrance for now

19:03 #Svitlodarsk @GirkinGirkin Shelling is on, over houses, fir-trees on fire pic.twitter.com/CZGreAkdd7

19:29 #Donetsk @relictDon Volleys from Azotny started at 7pm. One more series 20 min after

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18:00 #Svitlodarsk @hu_svetlodarsk Yet another shelling at #Luhanske fr/#Vuhlehirsk or #Horlivka Kalinovsky ds direction,2-3 howitzers

18:18 #Svitlodarsk @hu_svetlodarsk After UKR response the shelling ceased
@paty11976 It shelled from #Lohvynove

18:23 #Svitlodarsk @hu_svetlodarsk I can swear,I heard volleys fr/the south, not southwest, morning ones were southwest

18:26 #Horlivka @adochek More incoming far away

18:41 #Svitlodarsk @GirkinGirkin pic.twitter.com/tvLSIutHPm
@hu_svetlodarsk In the morning shey shelled the same area, now like closer

18:28 #Horlivka @NovaGorlivka Artillery 'ouverture' for the show has begun. Mortar entrance for now

19:03 #Svitlodarsk @GirkinGirkin Shelling is on, over houses, fir-trees on fire pic.twitter.com/CZGreAkdd7

19:29 #Donetsk @relictDon Volleys from Azotny started at 7pm. One more series 20 min after

Russian forces are once again escalating their attacks since sunset.
Heavy shelling in many areas of the 400 km long front.

19:50 #Maryinka @hyeva_maryinka [vk] Machine gun fired a bit and AGL in GAI direciton, quiet in general

20:25 #Donetsk @PVB40 [fb] Durna_Balka: "again Baikonur starts far away, outgoing as hell"

20:27 #Donetsk Kirovsky ds exec comitee @PVB40 [fb] Distant heavy outgoing volleys

20:27 #Donetsk @relictDon Onging rumble at Azotny. Shots became more frequent, various sounds

20:34 #Svitlodarsk @kmet7575 I can hear impacts on Zaluhan [part of #Troitske]

20:40 #Starohnativka @Staroignatievca "Party" started [=shelling]
20:59 Calmed down

20:43 #Donetsk @Serzzze Fireworks

20:49 #Volnovakha @AloneWolf5 'Concert' is on, incoming

21:02 #Taramchuk-#Stepne @Darren_Aro Regular sporadic distant volleys

21:02 #Donetsk Kalinovka @AlfaNubovsky For 30min either small arms shooting, or together with fireworks. They are Celebrating

21:23 #Starohnativka @Staroignatievca 'Party' is on, shelling again
21:41 Great and greater, sounds like tanks and arty joined [shelling]

Frontline: moderate shelling, Peski, Starognativka, Horlivka

21:30 #Luhansk @100007182042214 #Stanystsia_Luhanska is being shelled

22:02 #Avdeevka @JuZolyshkaLia Loud volleys, not very far off

Starohnativka; Avdeevka - more action unfolds...

20:40 #Luhansk @100007182042214 #Schastya outskirts - restless

22:56 #Donetsk @GirkinGirkin South outskirts: loud rumble, landings heard from #Dokuchaevsk direction
@shuttle1907 Quiet from us

23:10 #Donetsk @AkaDON12 Cannonade with misc sound volume [=various intensity] from the north/northwest lasts for 4 hours

23:25 #Avdeevka @owl_ok Rumble here

23:23 #Luhansk @antonio_fz1 Volleys from Luhansk, read vk [ruscist Luhansk group] "Ukrops are shelling fr/Schastya at Stanytsia", logged out

[I]Keep your eyes on Volnovakha... Russian attacks on Starohnativka are the route to Volnovakha (ie Mariupol north flank)

23:19 #Avdeevka @fingerw80 Short combats in #Opytne direction with pauses. Lighter calibre incoming there. Sporadic closer outgoing

23:24 #Donetsk @relictDon Sporadic single volleys from Azotny

22:13 #Horlivka Kalinovka @UA_Gorlivka It's hard to breath outside, eastern wind brings burnt odor from the fields, smth was burning there

23:40 #Avdeevka @JuZolyshkaLia Rumble
23:39 #Avdeevka @fingerw80 2 incoming in #Opytne and 5 outgoing from UKR

23:55 #Dzerzhynsk @blessmaster Heavy landings in #Novhorodske direction

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Typical of the corruption the Ukraine has to combat if it is to move forward-----

BMWX5 driven by police chief in a remote #Ukraine district where illegal #amber mining thrives. His salary ~$300/m pic.twitter.com/QwNtKpMFMh

Corruption is a systemic problem inherited from the Soviet days and refined ever since----

More than 100 Russian attacks each day with 10-20 casualties.
And Poro says,Ukraine will withdraw more arms from the front,leave #Shyrokyne.

Prez: we are only talking about withdrawal of Armed Forces from #Shyrokyne. In Berdyanske, on heights our units stay https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vHxPiWy6p0 …

Remember my tweets from Feb&March.
#Shyrokyne was always thought 2b a temporary battlefield.
https://twitter.com/JulianRoepcke/status/571440948196081664 …
https://twitter.com/JulianRoepcke/status/572512888784592896 …

Russian invaders inaugurated a BMD-1 monument in #Luhansk - "for the paratroopers killed, defending the republic". pic.twitter.com/wLMeLIoSDP

Of course, the BMD - and all "killed paratroopers" - are from #Russia itself.
But hey! Why should we care?! ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-xyc3w2nek …

Electronic Warfare: What US Army Can Learn From Ukraine http://bit.ly/1gBf2Jq pic.twitter.com/xKck8awQBD

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Maybe Obama, Nuland, Kerry, Hollande, Merkel should read this as their unilateral appeasement moves they are pressuring the Ukraine on are in causing stress inside the Ukrainian civil society and one is starting to seriously doubt the intentions of the West.

http://www.ecfr.eu/article/commentary_is_europe_losing_ukraine3088?utm_conten t=buffer74f80&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Is Europe losing Ukraine?

Note from Berlin
Gustav Gressel
30th July, 2015


Although temperatures remain low, summer time has started in German politics. Politicians have gone back to their constituencies, diplomats are being reshuffled, offices are being restructured, and even the efforts to save Greece have lost some of their drama in the last week. But beyond the empty corridors of the Bundestag, significant foreign policy challenges remain and in some cases grow. One of them is Ukraine.

On 11th June 2015, fighting in Mukaczewo in western Ukraine took the lives of two Prawy Sektor activists. While Prawy Sektor claims that these activists were acting as a vigilante force, trying to clean up smuggling operations conducted by corrupt local police and officials, the government described the Prawy Sektor's gunmen as the ones escorting smugglers to raise money for their organisation. Wherever the truth lies, this is a worrying sign: neither vigilantism nor a marriage between organised crime and political activists are reassuring for the future of Ukraine.

While it is unlikely that the Prawy Sektor will become a major force in Ukrainian politics, owing to its narrow support base, it could become a major destabilising factor – not unlike the Brigate Rosse in Italy or the 17N movement in Greece. Prawy Sektor, like these other groups, sees itself as having defended the country at the time of greatest need, but is deemed as unacceptable to mainstream politicians. Prawy Sektor portrays itself as the victim of political intrigues and Russian subversion and as true defenders of the ‘Ukrainian people’ against a corrupt, repressive, socially indifferent, subverted, and ineffective state apparatus. Mixing involvement in organised crime with a revolutionary zeal and ‘Robin Hood’-like arguments was one of the primary activities of the radical, violent left in southern Europe and could become a central activity of the Ukrainian far-right.

What is perhaps more worrying still is the increasing acceptance or indifference of the Ukrainian society towards the destabilising developments. And frustration in Ukraine is mounting over the way the West deals with Ukraine is increasing this frustration.

On 15th July the Ukrainian parliament adopted the law on the special status of the ‘Peoples’ Republics’ in the Donbas. The constitutional amendment was highly controversial, and a very emotional debate split the Ukrainian parliament. Ultimately, the amendment was passed to comply with the Minsk agreement, signed in February. Yet Russia for it's part has not met a single condition demanded by the Minsk agreement prior to Ukraine's constitutional reform: there is no ceasefire: there is no heavy weapons withdrawal, no prisoner exchange, no withdrawal of Russian troops, and no effective supervision.

So why should Ukraine implement the later stages of the agreement, if Russia hasn't moved at all? The answer is Western pressure. US and German diplomats were putting pressure on Ukraine to proceed with the implementation of the Minsk Agreement, despite the fact that Russia was not complying. There is the feeling that neither American nor European politicians are ready to tell their domestic audience that the Minsk II agreement has failed. And so Ukraine must take action in order to maintain the illusion that there is still progress. Indeed, the way in which the negotiations with Kyiv were conducted has left a black mark on the entire reform process. The West insists that Ukraine needs to “signal” its goodwill to Russia by advancing the agenda of the Minsk agreement unilaterally. But now, rather than seeing it as part of a genuine peace process, the Ukrainian public regards the entire decentralisation reform as a concession to Moscow and a surrender of Ukraine's sovereignty.

The new bailout agreement with Greece has further reinforced the feeling of unfair treatment in Kyiv. In the midst of fighting a war, Ukraine has had to embark on a dramatic reform programme in order to secure a €17 billion loan from the IMF. Greece, on the other hand, will receive a stopgap €7 billion for free and comparatively soft reforms will lead to a further aid package of €86 billion for Athens. At the same time the West – at least from a Ukrainian perspective – is providing little help for Ukraine regarding its military standoff with Russia. The feeling of anger and disappointment is spreading.

This rising disappointment coincides with two new trends in Ukrainian politics: the rise of populism and the emergence of the security sector as a political force. Populist gestures will collide with the reform agenda, especially as the slashing of MP and civil servant salaries conflicts with the desire to strengthen their political independence. The rise of the security sector in Ukrainian politics is a side-effect of the war. While not posing a threat to the Ukrainian democracy by itself, it reshapes the political culture and political climate in Ukraine. Security forces are usually more conservative and less interested in transparency – a natural habit of their working environment. In Eastern Europe the goal of NATO and EU enlargement has made the security apparatuses swallow limitations on their domestic powers and increasing democratic oversight. But such a clear direction is missing in Ukraine.

The situation should make western politicians – Europeans and Germans as well as Americans – rethink their strategy on Ukraine. First of all, while it remains true that Ukraine is over-centralised and in desperate need of reforms, pushing the reform agenda should be separated from the Minsk process. Otherwise it will delegitimise the entire effort. Second, the strategy towards Russia needs to be reconsidered. Russia is not implementing the Minsk-Agreement, instead airing new demands that would – if implemented – undermine Ukraine's sovereignty. Russia has not given up the hope to lure both the West and Kyiv into a trap of ‘bosnianisation’ - creating a failed state through ill-fated federalisation. The West needs to manoeuvre tactically to avoid this above all. And any solution that rests on unilateral concessions by Kyiv alone will not be sustainable. Moscow will demand more, until it reaches its goal of a paralysed Ukraine.

Last but not least, the West should consider how to strengthen the dynamism in EU-Ukrainian relations. The ratification and application of the association agreement could be a framework for new initiatives, if used pro-actively by Brussels and the member states. Still, the issue of the final destination will be on the table. With an increasingly hostile domestic climate against enlargement, few European politicians want to talk about membership for Ukraine. But it would need decades to fulfil the Copenhagen criteria – for the moment, at least, such a move would cost little. On the other hand, the less Europe is willing to engage directly in Ukraine, the more it has to accept that the outcome of the transformation process in Ukraine will differ from the European model.

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Maybe Obama, Nuland, Kerry, Hollande, Merkel should read this as their unilateral appeasement moves they are pressuring the Ukraine on are in causing stress inside the Ukrainian civil society and one is starting to seriously doubt the intentions of the West.

http://www.ecfr.eu/article/commentary_is_europe_losing_ukraine3088?utm_conten t=buffer74f80&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Is Europe losing Ukraine?

Note from Berlin
Gustav Gressel
30th July, 2015

Horlivka today (9 km fr the front)
T-72BM,2S1,BM-21
They shxxxxx on Minsk while Poroshenko sacrifices more land for it pic.twitter.com/u9zJ2g4xOI


Donetsk city today.
Because why not! ...
pic.twitter.com/Zbm6gToMXx

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Russian forces are once again escalating their attacks since sunset.
Heavy shelling in many areas of the 400 km long front.

19:50 #Maryinka @hyeva_maryinka [vk] Machine gun fired a bit and AGL in GAI direciton, quiet in general

20:25 #Donetsk @PVB40 [fb] Durna_Balka: "again Baikonur starts far away, outgoing as hell"

20:27 #Donetsk Kirovsky ds exec comitee @PVB40 [fb] Distant heavy outgoing volleys

20:27 #Donetsk @relictDon Onging rumble at Azotny. Shots became more frequent, various sounds

20:34 #Svitlodarsk @kmet7575 I can hear impacts on Zaluhan [part of #Troitske]

20:40 #Starohnativka @Staroignatievca "Party" started [=shelling]
20:59 Calmed down

20:43 #Donetsk @Serzzze Fireworks

20:49 #Volnovakha @AloneWolf5 'Concert' is on, incoming

21:02 #Taramchuk-#Stepne @Darren_Aro Regular sporadic distant volleys

21:02 #Donetsk Kalinovka @AlfaNubovsky For 30min either small arms shooting, or together with fireworks. They are Celebrating

21:23 #Starohnativka @Staroignatievca 'Party' is on, shelling again
21:41 Great and greater, sounds like tanks and arty joined [shelling]

Frontline: moderate shelling, Peski, Starognativka, Horlivka

21:30 #Luhansk @100007182042214 #Stanystsia_Luhanska is being shelled

22:02 #Avdeevka @JuZolyshkaLia Loud volleys, not very far off

Starohnativka; Avdeevka - more action unfolds...

20:40 #Luhansk @100007182042214 #Schastya outskirts - restless

22:56 #Donetsk @GirkinGirkin South outskirts: loud rumble, landings heard from #Dokuchaevsk direction
@shuttle1907 Quiet from us

23:10 #Donetsk @AkaDON12 Cannonade with misc sound volume [=various intensity] from the north/northwest lasts for 4 hours

23:25 #Avdeevka @owl_ok Rumble here

23:23 #Luhansk @antonio_fz1 Volleys from Luhansk, read vk [ruscist Luhansk group] "Ukrops are shelling fr/Schastya at Stanytsia", logged out

[I]Keep your eyes on Volnovakha... Russian attacks on Starohnativka are the route to Volnovakha (ie Mariupol north flank)

23:19 #Avdeevka @fingerw80 Short combats in #Opytne direction with pauses. Lighter calibre incoming there. Sporadic closer outgoing

23:24 #Donetsk @relictDon Sporadic single volleys from Azotny

22:13 #Horlivka Kalinovka @UA_Gorlivka It's hard to breath outside, eastern wind brings burnt odor from the fields, smth was burning there

23:40 #Avdeevka @JuZolyshkaLia Rumble
23:39 #Avdeevka @fingerw80 2 incoming in #Opytne and 5 outgoing from UKR

23:55 #Dzerzhynsk @blessmaster Heavy landings in #Novhorodske direction

AND the intensive shellings just keep on coming in --AND not single comment from any Western leader--as if they approve of the shellings for some strange reason.

Just short example of the early morning shellings--the reports of continued shellings and ground attacks are just now coming in.

Avdiivka
Effects of tonight's (2-3 Aug 2015) bombardment https://twitter.com/666_mancer/status/628067856287186944 …

Donetsk 4:33AM
Center - intensive artillery work, few seconds between the shots https://twitter.com/papandopoolo/status/628015703560462336 …

Donetsk 4AM
Ruscists artillery started working in Yakovlevksky shaft of mine Zasyadko-Mineralne area. 5-6 howitzers https://twitter.com/nixer79/status/628013145324421120 …

04:10 #Dzerzhynsk @blessmaster Something heavy lands in the south - in series of several shots. Few min interval between series, pretty loud

03:45 #Avdeevka @JuZolyshkaLia It calmed down...

03:29 #Dzerzhynsk @blessmaster Monotonous volleys far in the south, within earshot
#donbasreports

#Dzerzhynsk 4:10AM
Smth big flies in south in series of several pcs. Few mins interval betw series. Relatively loud https://twitter.com/blessmaster

03:24 #Avdeevka @fingerw80 10 more incoming in the same area

#Avdiivka 3:05AM
"Loud! Can hear salvos, the whistle and hit. No electricity!" https://twitter.com/JuZolyshkaLia/status/627993746827776005 …

03:09 #Avdeevka @fingerw80 About 30 [incoming] already... electricity went off

03:10 #Donetsk @ADivinorum RUS resumed, abt 5 outgoing, your incoming [in Avdeevka] are barely heard, shots so massive hear that roof shakes

03:05 #Avdeevka @JuZolyshkaLia Rumble. One can hear volley, hiss and landing. Electricity down

02:01 #Donetsk @ADivinorum It seems to me or they pound for 50 min from Pityevoy [pond] - I wen't out for acig break and cansee flashes

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Reference the Russian troops during the takeover of Crimea----
Head of Russian airborne troops: more than half of "polite people" were Russian paratroopers http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/2-august-head-of-russian-airborne-troops-more-than-half-of …

Painted over Р-166-0,5 near UA pic.twitter.com/4uSEnj3WUD http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/2-august-painted-over-16605-near-ua-- …

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Obama, Nuland, Kerry, Hollande, Merkel have applied direct pressure to the Ukraine to do unilateral appeasement moves and as " sign of good faith" as demanded by Putin--AND what has it gotten the Ukraine for these unilateral moves without a single reciprocal move by Russia----nothing but more dead and wounded.

With 43 Ukrainian soldiers killed & injured in 3 days, where does #Poroshenko and the west see ANY hope for an implementation of #Minsk2 !?!

4 Ukr servicemen were KIA in the last day, 15 were WIA - ATO spox

That was to be expected... Demilitarized zone and still getting KIA... https://twitter.com/Guderian_Xaba/status/628150376135585792 …

Shyrokyno
KIA among Ukr marines. https://twitter.com/sex_Dombas/status/628148303239213056 …

There are unconfirmed reports about KIA's among #Ukraine marines in #Shyrokyne

So how do western leaders explain the killing of Ukrainian Marines in a supposed DMZ which the Ukrainians did pull out of as demanded by Putin in a "sign of good faith"?????

WHY do they honestly seem to think Putin never lies??

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AND the intensive shellings just keep on coming in --AND not single comment from any Western leader--as if they approve of the shellings for some strange reason.

Just short example of the early morning shellings--the reports of continued shellings and ground attacks are just now coming in.

Avdiivka
Effects of tonight's (2-3 Aug 2015) bombardment https://twitter.com/666_mancer/status/628067856287186944 …

Donetsk 4:33AM
Center - intensive artillery work, few seconds between the shots https://twitter.com/papandopoolo/status/628015703560462336 …

Donetsk 4AM
Ruscists artillery started working in Yakovlevksky shaft of mine Zasyadko-Mineralne area. 5-6 howitzers https://twitter.com/nixer79/status/628013145324421120 …

04:10 #Dzerzhynsk @blessmaster Something heavy lands in the south - in series of several shots. Few min interval between series, pretty loud

03:45 #Avdeevka @JuZolyshkaLia It calmed down...

03:29 #Dzerzhynsk @blessmaster Monotonous volleys far in the south, within earshot
#donbasreports

#Dzerzhynsk 4:10AM
Smth big flies in south in series of several pcs. Few mins interval betw series. Relatively loud https://twitter.com/blessmaster

03:24 #Avdeevka @fingerw80 10 more incoming in the same area

#Avdiivka 3:05AM
"Loud! Can hear salvos, the whistle and hit. No electricity!" https://twitter.com/JuZolyshkaLia/status/627993746827776005 …

03:09 #Avdeevka @fingerw80 About 30 [incoming] already... electricity went off

03:10 #Donetsk @ADivinorum RUS resumed, abt 5 outgoing, your incoming [in Avdeevka] are barely heard, shots so massive hear that roof shakes

03:05 #Avdeevka @JuZolyshkaLia Rumble. One can hear volley, hiss and landing. Electricity down

02:01 #Donetsk @ADivinorum It seems to me or they pound for 50 min from Pityevoy [pond] - I wen't out for acig break and cansee flashes

Militants fired 99times at Ukr troops 2Aug. Were most active around Donetsk, intensified attacks in #Mariupol sector https://www.facebook.com/ato.news/posts/1042478412429631 …

Appears that all those from western leaders ie Obama and Nuland demanded unilateral appeasement moves by the Ukraine GOT absolutely nowhere.

When will western leaders wake up and realize that until there is a military solution and or implementation of military moves under Minsk 2 there never will be any political moves on Minsk 2---HOW is it they believe that if one does unilateral appeasement political moves that is going to push a Russian 152mm SPG 15kms away from the eastern front line??

Militants fired from 152-mm guns on the village Valuysky. http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/3-august-militants-fired-from-152mm-guns-on-the-village-valuysky …

Letters from Donetsk: living in a constant threat of being arrested, beaten, killed http://eng.appc.lv/?p=690 via #CEEPS pic.twitter.com/JzV6pn5r2L

Noo, impossible!
All the T-72 were removed and separatists do not have #RussianArmy KAMAZ 65225 tank carriers! ...

Russian tank carrier—never in the Ukrainian Army
Donetsk Aug02, 5th hospital area @GirkinGirkin pic.twitter.com/qEDapG8ReN

OSCE guys told me separatist & Russian soldiers are digging extensive trenches in east Ukraine, clearly preparing for serious escalation.

Footage
Volunteer from #Italy within Russian invasion forces gives interview.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRQwq1eq2Co …
#Ukraine pic.twitter.com/OqQtn3ksEq

During the last day, 1 civilian was wounded after Militants fired on Kurakhove - Donetsk RSA
http://donoda.gov.ua/?lang=ua&sec=02.03.09&iface=Mobile&cmd=view&args=id:29011;tags%24_exclude:46 …

News
Yesterday, a civilian was injured by a gun in #Kurakhove, 20 km west of the front. pic.twitter.com/h2O89UzGqL

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AND the intensive shellings just keep on coming in --AND not single comment from any Western leader--as if they approve of the shellings for some strange reason.

Just short example of the early morning shellings--the reports of continued shellings and ground attacks are just now coming in.

Avdiivka
Effects of tonight's (2-3 Aug 2015) bombardment https://twitter.com/666_mancer/status/628067856287186944 …

Donetsk 4:33AM
Center - intensive artillery work, few seconds between the shots https://twitter.com/papandopoolo/status/628015703560462336 …

Donetsk 4AM
Ruscists artillery started working in Yakovlevksky shaft of mine Zasyadko-Mineralne area. 5-6 howitzers https://twitter.com/nixer79/status/628013145324421120 …

04:10 #Dzerzhynsk @blessmaster Something heavy lands in the south - in series of several shots. Few min interval between series, pretty loud

03:45 #Avdeevka @JuZolyshkaLia It calmed down...

03:29 #Dzerzhynsk @blessmaster Monotonous volleys far in the south, within earshot
#donbasreports

#Dzerzhynsk 4:10AM
Smth big flies in south in series of several pcs. Few mins interval betw series. Relatively loud https://twitter.com/blessmaster

03:24 #Avdeevka @fingerw80 10 more incoming in the same area

#Avdiivka 3:05AM
"Loud! Can hear salvos, the whistle and hit. No electricity!" https://twitter.com/JuZolyshkaLia/status/627993746827776005 …

03:09 #Avdeevka @fingerw80 About 30 already... electricity went off

03:10 #Donetsk @ADivinorum RUS resumed, abt 5 outgoing, your incoming [in Avdeevka] are barely heard, shots so massive hear that roof shakes

03:05 #Avdeevka @JuZolyshkaLia Rumble. One can hear volley, hiss and landing. Electricity down

02:01 #Donetsk @ADivinorum It seems to me or they pound for 50 min from Pityevoy [pond] - I wen't out for acig break and cansee flashes


[I]Russians hit Ukr 34th battalion base in #Kurdyumivka with high-precision "Krasnopol" missiles, each cost $70.000 http://lugradar.net/2015/08/86875

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Russian Marine officer admits on camera that they invaded the Ukraine in August 2014---

RUSSIA_INVADED_UKRAINE.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roAzbidlGuY … pic.twitter.com/y93FfIK1Hr
“We came to the aid of the “new republic”.

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Maxim Tucker @MaxRTucker
#Ukraine rebels initially denied knowledge of radioactive bunker but now know what's inside. Yet it 'remains sealed' pic.twitter.com/REJ8XGEfO9

Russia-backed rebels in eastern Ukraine say storage of radioactive waste at chemical factory safe: http://apne.ws/1E24fNc

Maxim Tucker @MaxRTucker
No doubt @OSCE_SMM will be very interested in the type and cause of the 'deep craters' at #Ukraine radioactive bunker pic.twitter.com/c4oZpnerXa


OSCE has requested the right to monitor this specific nuclear site YET denied by Russian mercenaries---if all is fine as the mercenaries have so stated then why the NO????

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Reference the recently created in Moscow "Ukrainian Government" in exile---

Russia naturally claims they are not behind the recently created Ukrainian government in exile –made up of those corrupt and rich former government officials who fled to Moscow to avoid going to jail for corruption and crimes committed on the Maidan..

Today in Moscow ex-PM of Ukraine Azarov will present "committee on saving of Ukraine" pic.twitter.com/4bXSUwcVzs http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/3-august-today-in-moscow-expm-of-ukraine-aarov-will-present …

Committee to Save Ukraine:
Led by fmr PM Azarov in Moscow.
End war.
Crimea is Russia (Kiev's fault).
No Yanukovich.
Want new pres elex

Still unclear about the Azarov Ukraine committee: HOW they plan to take back ukraine and source of their funding, both q's were sidestepped

After an hour of press conference I still don't understand how the 'Committee to Save Ukraine' plans to win the election...

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http://euromaidanpress.com/2015/08/03/the-controversial-shyrokine-dmz-what-you-need-to-know/

The controversial Shyrokine DMZ: what you need to know

2015/08/03 • News


Shyrokine is a strategic village 8 kilometers to the east of Mariupol, a Ukrainian-held city of 450,000 on the coast of the Azov sea.

Since August last year, the invaders have been probing Mariupol’s defenses. While a key port itself, some suspect Mariupol could be the first step for a land corridor to Crimea.

In January 2015 Mariupol’s eastern outskirts suffered heavy Russian shelling coming from the East. Losing Shyrokine would put Mariupol’s residential areas under direct threat of Russian artillery attacks.

Shyrokine has been a conflict hotspot since March despite the Minsk accord, with both sides taking casualties. According to Azov commander Andriy Biletskyi’s estimate, Ukrainian forces lost about 60 killed and 200 wounded to the enemy’s 800 total casualties.

80% of houses in Shyrokine have been destroyed, all the locals have left the village

OSCE proposed demilitarization of Shyrokine, mutual withdrawal of troops and weapons up to 23mm in caliber. OSCE monitors would establish a permanent post in Shyrokine to monitor the ceasefire. There is no clear mechanism to prevent “DPR” troops from seizing Shyrokine as soon as Ukrainians withdraw.

Locals in Mariupol as well as the volunteer battalion Donbas (defending Shyrokine along with Azov) oppose the decision, calling it voluntary yielding of Ukrainian territory.

US ambassador to Ukraine has supported the DMZ plan, being in line with Minsk agreement and serving towards establishment of peace.

Some refugees from Shyrokine support the move, willing to return to normal life. Others believe normal life under Russian tank guns is impossible.

President Poroshenko stated Ukrainian troops would keep strategic heights surrounding Shyrokine and the DMZ wouldn’t spread to Mariupol itself. The city, he assured, would remain under firm Ukrainian protection.

Ukrainian military analyst Dmytro Tymchuk believes Ukrainian troops would be unable to recapture Shyrokine, should Russians move in upon breaking the ceasefire. He suggested a DMZ plan failure should bring a new round of sanctions against Russia.

On Tuesday, July 28, Azov and Donbas volunteer battalions (who weren’t eager to leave Shyrokine) have been withdrawn from the village, replaced by marines.

Ukrainian marines take positions in Shyrokine

The trilateral contact group is expected to present a more detailed DMZ plan later today after a meeting in Minsk.

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http://euromaidanpress.com/2015/08/03/the-controversial-shyrokine-dmz-what-you-need-to-know/

The controversial Shyrokine DMZ: what you need to know

2015/08/03 • News

Appears that the Putin demanded "sign of good faith" was really a smoke screen to get the Ukrainians out of this strategic town with the help of the US and the EU.

Since the Russians only pulled back 1.4km and not verified by the OSCE the Russians have attacked the Ukrainian position four times in the last three days.

Well so much for the US supported/demanded "sign of good faith'????

Guess in Russian doublespeak it means you pull back and get shot at and we do the shooting and do not pull back and yet demand a "sign of good faith" on your part.

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Major ground and artillery battle last night and into early morning today---
09:43 #Starohnativka @Staroignatievca [Night the battle started at 8:30pm and finished about 5am]

Russia|n tank on a Russian tank carrier in #Donetsk City
pic.twitter.com/CN5HDzYnJf
Should be here pic.twitter.com/6fsWwVVlxG

In the last day militants attacked Mariinka checkpoint (small arms) and Zolote CP (AGS, Small arms) - Border guards
http://dpsu.gov.ua/ua/about/news/news_8063.htm …

Border Guard Service: 12 UAV flights recorded in Donbas @DPSU_ua

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Results of another barbaric militant attack on Avdiivka Coke Plant yesterday - Ukraine side to the JCCC pic.twitter.com/KNk7NkF375

New footage @RoyalAirForceUK Typhoons intercept 10 #Russian military aircraft in single patrol http://ow.ly/Qq6AL pic.twitter.com/AwnU8loRvN

Ukr 30th brigade, 1st battalion's bunkers were bombed by russians yesterday evening.
2 KIA, 9 WIA https://twitter.com/roman_primorye/status/628189512120803328 …

Eleron-3SV – $200K #Russian military intelligence drone as a present to #Donetsk terrorists http://lugansk-news.com/eleron-3sv-200k-russian-military-intelligence-drone-as-a-present-to-donetsk-terrorists/ … pic.twitter.com/iykGbLhAKo

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Russian (hybrid LPR) forces exercises with 2A65 "Msta-B" howitzers in occupied-Luhansk, Ukraine 3 Aug https://youtu.be/wj6RVBBNEx4

Yet another Russian war crime—shelling of strictly civilians housing areas----

Latest: #OSCE SMM observed damage caused by shelling in #Horlivka, #Kurdiumivka, #Kodema & conducted crater analysis http://www.osce.org/ukraine-smm/175736 …


AND another war crime—using civilians as shields---

OSCE admits terrorist attacks from Donetsk residential areas, - Joint Centre for Contro http://24today.net/open/490717

Militants Made a Video Tutorial About Firing Modern '9М113М' Missiles: https://en.informnapalm.org/militants-made-a-video-tutorial-about-firing-modern-9m113m-missiles/ … pic.twitter.com/5trW5RaSCh

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More and more solid evidence of Russian troops fighting in the eastern Ukraine—and they are not hiding it any more---

Soldier guarding "DPR" weapons site admits to being from the 16th airborne brigade from Orenburg, Russia - OSCE
http://www.osce.org/ukraine-smm/175736 …

August 2014—10 captured Russian airborne troops
2015 –two captured Russian Spetsnaz
Captured Spetsnaz CPT stated in his last interview that there are 20 Russian soldiers as captives of the UA
Captured active duty Russian Staff Officer—MAJ July 2015

Identified as well—the 2, 3, 16th Russian Spetsnaz Brigades

AND today--the 16th Russian VDV Airborne

WHAT does it take for Obama and Merkel to finally wake up and call it a Russian armed act of aggression in violation of international treaties.

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OSCE Warns of Troop Buildup. "Preparedness to a degree we haven’t seen before.”


http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/3-august-osce-warns-of-troop-buildup-preparedness-to-a-degree

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Russia|n Buryats soldier lost in #Ukraine
via @666_mancer pic.twitter.com/EhnJPWLZHD

How ironic! Russian (hybrid DPR) VDV spetsnaz deomonstrate skills by attacking an ambulance! https://vk.com/dnrarmy?w=wall-51146063_4734 … pic.twitter.com/V5oEUeTslo

Russia compiles Donbass war crimes, puts faked photo on the cover http://sledcom.ru/news/item/953460/ … http://www.stopfake.org/v-seti-rasprostranyaetsya-fejkovoe-foto-goryashhego-donetska/ … pic.twitter.com/EhLkaL7VvS

JBANC chatter @JBANCchatter
Increased activity of Russian warplanes reported above #Baltic Sea near #Lithuania http://m.en.delfi.lt/article.php?id=68588762 …

New Russian gas deals are "enough to make even a seasoned energy observer's head spin"
http://cs.is/1LDKnqe pic.twitter.com/BAY7LJR7iI

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Appears that the Putin demanded "sign of good faith" was really a smoke screen to get the Ukrainians out of this strategic town with the help of the US and the EU.

Since the Russians only pulled back 1.4km and not verified by the OSCE the Russians have attacked the Ukrainian position four times in the last three days.

Well so much for the US supported/demanded "sign of good faith'????

Guess in Russian doublespeak it means you pull back and get shot at and we do the shooting and do not pull back and yet demand a "sign of good faith" on your part.

I had actually posted the French demand for the Ukrainians to pull back at exactly the same time as the Putin demand was issued.

Yes, concerted - both Elysee and Kremlin posted the demand on Ukraine withdrawal from Shyrokine same day. Mystery is why.

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Ukrainian military are starting to post via social media their feelings against the so called "western unilateral appeasements" in not returning fire in order to hold to a "ceasefire" that is not and the West says nothing about the constant Russian shellings in clear violation of the Minsk 2.


I hope this'll never happen, but for today there is such feeling...
Armed Forces of Ukraine after "Minsk-33" )))))) pic.twitter.com/gq7VDYGbfE

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Today militants violated ceasefire 46 times. Used artillery, mortars, grenade launchers, tanks - ATO press center
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1042724415738364&id=820651001279041&refid=17&_ft_=top_level_post_id.1042724415738364&__tn__=%2As …

And we are off and running for tonight--------

19:11 #Donetsk railway station @HuAdvokatos "They woke up" [=rumble]

19:00 @ropogckou A volley far in the north of Donetsk, Maybe a supper [signal]

19:57 #Donetsk @062_Region Battle in #Pisky, heavy machine gun fire

19:41 #Donetsk @666_mancer [fb] "Mortar? from Topaz area towards #Avdeevka? fly-over time is 20sec. More outgoing fr/position further west"

19:22 #Donetsk @relictDon Today evening gunnery in the northwest started as usually just after 7pm. Sporadic single gunshots from Azotny

20:21 #Dzerzhynsk @TarasUkrop_ Heavier weapon [than small arms] is started to be used

20:15 #Dzerzhynsk @TarasUkrop_ They started early today, small arms is heard well

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This is an interesting and valid comment--WHY do western leaders and the western mass media keep using the term "separatists" or "proRussian supported separatists" WHEN from the Russian invasion of the Ukraine in August 2014 it is nothing but a Russian "hybrid" army.

From a 32,000 Russian "hybrid army" only 6,000 are Donbas Ukrainians-the rest Russian active duty military and or Russian mercenaries.

6,000 Donbas "fighters" out of a civil population before the fighting of 3.2M now after many have fled only 1M and most of them are retirees and disabled.

AND if the Ukraine was actually invaded why does the mass western media keep using the term "civil war".

If THEY tell the @OSCE,they r #RussianSoldiers,why our politicians keep telling as,they r "pro-Russian separatists"?! pic.twitter.com/0NqqnP9FfX

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WHY is it the same every time Western leaders deal with Putin---he "demands from them" that they pressure the Ukraine to do unilateral appeasement moves as a "sign of good faith" WHICH they did and the Ukraine gave in.

BUT THEN THIS---seems to make the Western leaders especially Obama look like utter fools.

Russia moves artillery and armor into "demilitarized" zone near Shyrokino
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlfgNdagNFI …

Russians move artillery+armor into 'buffer zone' near Shyrokyne. http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/3-august-russians-move-artilleryarmor-into-demilitarizedbuffer … via @Ukroblogger pic.twitter.com/C3kHfkYLkM

If Obama wants to fully understand Putin then understand those that support him---

Zhirinovskiy wants Russian Federation to become The Russian Empire and bring "half of the World to its knees"http://gagauzpravda.md/social/zhirinovskij-potreboval-pereimenovat-rossiyu.html …

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Today militants violated ceasefire 46 times. Used artillery, mortars, grenade launchers, tanks - ATO press center
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1042724415738364&id=820651001279041&refid=17&_ft_=top_level_post_id.1042724415738364&__tn__=%2As …

And we are off and running for tonight--------

19:11 #Donetsk railway station @HuAdvokatos "They woke up" [=rumble]

19:00 @ropogckou A volley far in the north of Donetsk, Maybe a supper [signal]

19:57 #Donetsk @062_Region Battle in #Pisky, heavy machine gun fire

19:41 #Donetsk @666_mancer [fb] "Mortar? from Topaz area towards #Avdeevka? fly-over time is 20sec. More outgoing fr/position further west"

19:22 #Donetsk @relictDon Today evening gunnery in the northwest started as usually just after 7pm. Sporadic single gunshots from Azotny

20:21 #Dzerzhynsk @TarasUkrop_ Heavier weapon [than small arms] is started to be used

20:15 #Dzerzhynsk @TarasUkrop_ They started early today, small arms is heard well

More Russian war crimes in their shelling of civil housing areas—confirmed by OSCE---

#News
The @OSCE_SMM confirms once again that residential areas in #Horlivka ARE shelled by 122 / 152 mm artillery from N-N-W.

20:33 @kmet7575 Again incoming in #Luhanske area

Marinka and Zolote checkpoints shelled by Russian mercenaries over the past day-State Border Service http://en.censor.net.ua/n346262

21:30 #Vuhlehirsk @GirkinGirkin One can hear cannons working in the fields, no incoming

As contact group holds talks in Minsk, Horlivka is being peacefully shelled.

21:05 #Maryinka @hyeva_maryinka [vk] There were couple of booms in #Krasnohorivka direction, here a bit of MG fire in horse stables dir'n

Avdiivka 22:16
Assault rifles, towards #Optyne, very intense! https://twitter.com/fingerw80/status/628284231291170816 …

Avdiivka 22:18
Very strong breaks in #Optyne-#Pisky area. Outgoing from #Donetsk. https://twitter.com/bamr69/status/628283693052887040 …

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Appears that the Putin demanded "sign of good faith" was really a smoke screen to get the Ukrainians out of this strategic town with the help of the US and the EU.

Since the Russians only pulled back 1.4km and not verified by the OSCE the Russians have attacked the Ukrainian position four times in the last three days.

Well so much for the US supported/demanded "sign of good faith'????

Guess in Russian doublespeak it means you pull back and get shot at and we do the shooting and do not pull back and yet demand a "sign of good faith" on your part.

youtube.com/watch?v=M_wC6MuarKY … #Donbas Battalion chief:#Shyrokyne demilitarization 'betrayal of #Ukraine's interests.' 100%! pic.twitter.com/wywQ2v6ajk

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More Russian war crimes in their shelling of civil housing areas—confirmed by OSCE---

#News
The @OSCE_SMM confirms once again that residential areas in #Horlivka ARE shelled by 122 / 152 mm artillery from N-N-W.

20:33 @kmet7575 Again incoming in #Luhanske area

Marinka and Zolote checkpoints shelled by Russian mercenaries over the past day-State Border Service http://en.censor.net.ua/n346262

21:30 #Vuhlehirsk @GirkinGirkin One can hear cannons working in the fields, no incoming

As contact group holds talks in Minsk, Horlivka is being peacefully shelled.

21:05 #Maryinka @hyeva_maryinka [vk] There were couple of booms in #Krasnohorivka direction, here a bit of MG fire in horse stables dir'n

Avdiivka 22:16
Assault rifles, towards #Optyne, very intense! https://twitter.com/fingerw80/status/628284231291170816 …

Avdiivka 22:18
Very strong breaks in #Optyne-#Pisky area. Outgoing from #Donetsk. https://twitter.com/bamr69/status/628283693052887040 …

Reports of shelling tonight in Avdiivka, Dzerzhyns'k, Mar'inka, Novgorodske, Donetsk(outgoing)

Donetsk. Single shots turned into chaotic fxxxxxx crazy. Incomings, outgoings. Closer and further. Truce, in one word. https://twitter.com/TaylerRid/status/628292706771578881 …

22:59 #Avdeevka @bamr69 It looks like they are pounding from Abakumova mine - there are flashes

22:57 #Donetsk @donetskye Single outgoing from Topaz

22:47 #Avdeevka @owl_ok Machine gun rattles off

22:46 #Avdeevka @fingerw80 Short lull and again small arms fire in #Opytne
22:49 [3 impacts between Avdeevka and Opytne]

Minsk talks continue, Avdeevka is being shelled...

22:08 #Dzerzhynsk @blessmaster Battle sounds are becoming louder, AGL joined

22:42 #Avdeevka @fingerw80 Again incoming in #Opytne area

22:43 #Starobesheve @hubeshevo [cannonade is audible]

22:39 #Avdeevka @LuftGanze "Rumble, irrational town center shelling"

22:37 #Avdeevka @avdey777ka Town center has been shelled [no UKR reply at all]

22:36 #Dzerzhynsk @blessmaster "One more voltage drop. Btw, battle sounds went silent unnoted"

22:15 #Maryinka @hyeva_maryinka [vk] Made some noise and calmed down
22:25 Oh no, not ceased, GAI is noisy [=battle sounds]

22:28 #Donetsk @donetskye Again volleys at Avdeevka
22:30 Topaz joined [=volleys from Topaz]

22:08 #Dzerzhynsk @blessmaster Battle sounds are becoming louder, AGL joined

22:03 #Donetsk Tekstilschik @PVB40 [fb] We can hear massive single dull [outgoing rounds like from Topaz tow/#Pisky]

22:00 #Avdeevka @fingerw80 Schedule, again incoming in #Opytne direction

21:20 #Lysychansk @lisichanskiy Big flashes seen in #Popasna direction, almost no sound
21:22 Distant landings heard

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Talking, talking talking, shelling, shelling, shelling—over an agreement that both the mercenaries and Russians “claimed” they themselves proposed and in front of rolling Russian media cameras “claimed” they had already done—so why now the massive resistance over the “wording”.

Just gives the Russian troops and her mercenaries more time for shellings----

In Minsk talks will continue today on the text of an agreement to withdraw from the contact line arms caliber 100 mm or less.

BUT all the current Russian shellings are coming from 120mm and larger weapon systems THAT were to have been long ago pulled back and verified by OSCE—which the Russians did not allow.

AND the West responds exactly how---total utter silence that is how.

#Debaltsevo 5:20AM
(RU artillery) working from us. Looking forward to return fire. https://twitter.com/Debaltsevo_UA/status/628390077941592064 …

4:30AM
#Debaltsevo and #Svetlodarsk loud. https://twitter.com/audrius1977/status/628386234755362816 …

Avdiivka 1:50AM
"Pushkin now loud again.
Incoming, where is falling exactly I do not know " https://twitter.com/audrius1977/status/628338642981912578 …

Novohorlivka 1:32AM
Outgoing, from somewheare close to us https://twitter.com/Bad_Novoross/status/628332639666180096 …

Horlivka 1:33AM
Salvos. With a long echo or noise from a flying projectile. https://twitter.com/adochek/status/628332908642717696 …

[OUTLAW 09]

Reports of shelling tonight in Avdiivka, Dzerzhyns'k, Mar'inka, Novgorodske, Donetsk(outgoing)

Donetsk. Single shots turned into chaotic fxxxxxx crazy. Incomings, outgoings. Closer and further. Truce, in one word. https://twitter.com/TaylerRid/status/628292706771578881 …

22:59 #Avdeevka @bamr69 It looks like they are pounding from Abakumova mine - there are flashes

22:57 #Donetsk @donetskye Single outgoing from Topaz

22:47 #Avdeevka @owl_ok Machine gun rattles off

22:46 #Avdeevka @fingerw80 Short lull and again small arms fire in #Opytne
22:49 [3 impacts between Avdeevka and Opytne]

Minsk talks continue, Avdeevka is being shelled...

22:08 #Dzerzhynsk @blessmaster Battle sounds are becoming louder, AGL joined

22:42 #Avdeevka @fingerw80 Again incoming in #Opytne area

22:43 #Starobesheve @hubeshevo [cannonade is audible]

22:39 #Avdeevka @LuftGanze "Rumble, irrational town center shelling"

22:37 #Avdeevka @avdey777ka Town center has been shelled [no UKR reply at all]

22:36 #Dzerzhynsk @blessmaster "One more voltage drop. Btw, battle sounds went silent unnoted"

22:15 #Maryinka @hyeva_maryinka [vk] Made some noise and calmed down
22:25 Oh no, not ceased, GAI is noisy [=battle sounds]

22:28 #Donetsk @donetskye Again volleys at Avdeevka
22:30 Topaz joined [=volleys from Topaz]

22:08 #Dzerzhynsk @blessmaster Battle sounds are becoming louder, AGL joined

22:03 #Donetsk Tekstilschik @PVB40 [fb] We can hear massive single dull [outgoing rounds like from Topaz tow/#Pisky]

22:00 #Avdeevka @fingerw80 Schedule, again incoming in #Opytne direction

21:20 #Lysychansk @lisichanskiy Big flashes seen in #Popasna direction, almost no sound
21:22 Distant landings heard

ATO presser reported 109 russian attacks along the contact line yesterday. Continue to use mortars, artillery, tanks https://www.facebook.com/ato.news/posts/1043030522374420 …

NOTICE--none of these weapons are under the 100mm that they are talking about in Minsk AND secondly all of these weapons where to have been pulled back in February 2015--and were not and were not verified by OSCE.

SO--Russia is still not in full compliance and or has never implemented any point in Minsk 2 except they can talk, talk, and more talk.

[OUTLAW 09]

Contact group in Minsk yday agreed to restore the infrastructure of Donbass and exchanged lists of prisoners to be released.

NOTICE--it was the Russians that totally stopped all POW exchanges in March 2015--PER Minsk 2 ALL should have been exchanged by the end of February 2015--and yet more talk, talk and more talk-BUT it is just a list.

Minsk 2 demanded a full and complete exchange not lists---AGAIN Russia is not in compliance with Minsk .

[OUTLAW 09]

Examples of Russian Orwellian "doublespeak"---

BUT naturally not supported at all by Russia and or the FSB……..YET somehow they ended up in Moscow—BUT that is not “support” in Russian doublespeak.

Oh boy. Azarov, PM under Yanukovych & others in #Russia will actively work to remove #Ukraine's current pro-EU govt. https://twitter.com/MoscowTimes/status/628275546825342977 …

MORE Russian doublespeak—in Minsk they talk about rebuilding damaged infrastructure BUT then the Russians shell Ukrainian critical infrastructures---

Colonel Motuzyanyk: militants shelled the coking plant in Avdiyivka pic.twitter.com/d8BVwJCuBu

[OUTLAW 09]

All Russian shellings with weapons of 120mm or more are in clear violation of Minsk 2 and Russia is in full non compliance---

SBU seized the weapons of the terrorist group "Kharkiv partisans" http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/4-august-sbu-seized-the-weapons-of-the-terrorist-group-kharkiv … pic.twitter.com/Qwm96DqHBX via @ServiceSsu

ATO speaker: @OSCE_SMM spotted enemy military hardware in residential districts near the frontline

Another Russian war crime spotted this time by OSCE—Russia is using civilian shields to protect their own equipment and to shell the Ukrainian positions.

ATO spox: UA law enforcement troops found an arsenal in the Luhansk region: 2 grenades, 2 grenade launchers, ammo pic.twitter.com/lZujQxvxj0

Motuzyanyk: 10 enemy UAVs over ATO area, 7 – over Zaporizhya region

ATO spokesperson: 3 Ukranian soldiers KIA, 7 – wounded

Colonel Motuzyanyk: Mariupol sector: Combat actions near Starohnativka and Pavlopil

Col. Oleksandr Motuzyanyk: UA positions near villages 10-15 km away from the frontline remain under heavy hostile shelling.

ATO spox: On the western outskirts of Donetsk fighting continues day-and-night.

ATO spokesperson: Militants for more than an hour shelled Ukrainian positions near Troitske using 152-mm artillery.

Col. Motuzyanyk: After sunset the enemy uses tanks and heavy mortars firing straight from residential districts of Horlivka and its suburbs.

ATO spox: Donetsk sector: situation continues deteriorating. The enemy systematically violates cease-fire at the front area

ATO spokesperson: Short-term hostile shelling was noticed near Shchastya.

Col. Motuzyanyk: The enemy continues tactics of night attacks using mortars and grenade launchers.

Col. Oleksandr Motuzyanyk: Luhansk sector: Hotzones: UA positions near Stanytsia Luhanska and the right bank of Siversky Donets River.

Map. Situation in eastern #Ukraine, August 4, 00:00 EET pic.twitter.com/MKkUfdDlAQ

Yesterday militants twice tried to storm checkpoint Mariinka. Attacks were repelled - Border guard servicehttp://dpsu.gov.ua/ua/about/news/news_8070.htm …

Another cache of weapons found SBU in Novopskov district of Luhansk region http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/4-august-another-cache-of-weapons-found-sbu-in-novopskov … pic.twitter.com/G0svWTWk8l via @ServiceSsu

[OUTLAW 09]

Appears the Russian MFA—did not get the social media messages that the front cover picture was taken from some place other than the Ukraine—

MFA Russia ✔ @mfa_russia
Investigation Committee published the White Book of crimes committed in south-eastern #Ukraine http://tass.ru/en/russia/812278 … pic.twitter.com/HdnWPQdniO

Russian Book on #Ukraine Conflict With Fake Photo. Time to sue Russia for libel and slander!
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/russian-government-book-on-ukraine-conflict-illustrated-with-fake-photo/526890.html … pic.twitter.com/arLI5vnAOO

[OUTLAW 09]

UAVs in Zaporizhie region, caches of weapons in Kharkiv region and North of Luhansk region http://liveuamap.com pic.twitter.com/sbhPLHWhOe

Part of the heavy Russian howitzers of DNR in Donetsk. pic.twitter.com/nn6X58ejKv http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/4-august-part-of-the-heavy-russian-howitzers-of-dnr-in-donetsk …

Russian troops and her mercenaries just keep on moving around all of their heavy weapons to avoid detection by OSCE AND in complete violation of Minsk 2 and YET the West seems to think they can “trust” Putin??????

Footage
Invasion forces move 152 mm Msta-B around (must be in depots or outside Ukraine).https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wj6RVBBNEx4 … pic.twitter.com/7MvIRe0o2x

There is a reason we keep on tweeting about Russian Ground Forces motor rifle, tank, artillery and logistics combat readiness: They're ready

[OUTLAW 09]

Appears Russian tank drivers need more training---
Tank turns over at military games in Russia http://uatoday.tv/news/tank-turns-over-at-military-games-in-russia-468476.html … pic.twitter.com/1GNxH0OpWe

Cool look at the Cossack conundrum in east #Ukraine, via @AndrewKramerNYT http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/05/world/europe/cossacks-face-reprisals-as-rebel-groups-clash-in-eastern-ukraine.html?_r=0 …

More Ukrainian police moves against smuggling and corruption---

Record bulk of illegally produced amber seized in Rivne
http://www.unian.info/politics/1107888-record-bulk-of-illegally-produced-amber-seized-in-rivne.html … pic.twitter.com/lflEcM9d1y

Mariupol activists speak ab alleged authorities' misuse of state funds (UAH 2M) disbursed to repair houses damaged by Jan shelling –presser
Claimed five houses were damaged--were not then they pocketed the money.

[OUTLAW 09]

Let’s see three Russian trolls argue the article is rubbish, then the Russia mercenaries deny today that the nuclear waste storage site has not been breached BUT offer no video proof.

But the OSCE cannot confirm nor deny as the Russian mercenaries do not allow them access to the site.

Tend to think with OSCE not being allowed to check ie confirm and or deny------the UK Times might in fact be correct----

Maxim Tucker @MaxRTucker
.@Newsweek has now uploaded #Ukraine's 'DPR dirty bomb' documents here: http://www.scribd.com/doc/273410562/Donetsk-Radioactive-Waste-Documentshey … Given to OSCE, US, UK before publication.

OSCE still cannot get into the nuclear waster storage site---Russian mercenaries refused to allow them to enter the bunker area.

[OUTLAW 09]

Countdown to further Russian summer offensive—the artillery, mortar, MLRs shellings and ground attacks have been used to prep the stage for a largescale offensive.

WHEN the Russians pull together what they have into attack formations it becomes a “use or lose” situation—at some point they must attack or lose their edge and become bored. Now a question of no longer If-- BUT rather WHEN and how large.

Russian economy is so in tatters right now more sanctions heaped on it will not make much difference at this stage so Putin as a clear window to move now actually the sooner he moves the easier it is then to refocus on the economy.

Combat Readiness Evaluation (CREVAL) based on US Army equivalent capabilities (C-levels) scale 2010: http://www.apd.army.mil/jw2/xmldemo/r220_1/main.asp …

Significant mechanised infantry, tank & artillery units of Russian army are combat ready within reach of Ukraine

Russian railway transport #H2200 from garrisons & training areas in Central MD to Rostov region well established

While world focused on expensive watches of Kremlin officials, Russian Ground Forces CMD units reached capabilties (C-levels) C-3 to C-1

Significant Russian army motor rifle (mechanized infantry), tank, artillery & logistics units of Western & Southern MDs also at C3 to C1

Russian mechanised warfare specialist Lt-Gen Romanchuk, Dep Cmdr SMD & JCCC rep (Soledar), has successfully restructured DPR/LPR units.

We do not factor in Russian Airborne Troops (VDV) because they have pre-existing 72-12 hour standby capability exceeding 5,000 servicemen

Consolidation of command and control structures with Southern MD + C-3/C-2 capabilities of Russian DPR/LPR hybrid units = war readiness.

Coupled with the large number of OSCE spotting’s and comments that there has been a large reshifting and reorg of Russian troops and her mercenaries and large concentrated troop movements in key critical locations on the eastern front lines—completed over the last week

[OUTLAW 09]

Countdown to further Russian summer offensive—the artillery, mortar, MLRs shellings and ground attacks have been used to prep and shape the battlefield for a largescale offensive.

WHEN the Russians pull together what they have into attack formations it becomes a “use or lose” situation—at some point they must attack or lose their edge and become bored. Now a question of no longer If-- BUT rather WHEN and how large.

Russian economy is so in tatters right now more sanctions heaped on it will not make much difference at this stage so Putin as a clear window to move now actually the sooner he moves the easier it is then to refocus on the economy.

Combat Readiness Evaluation (CREVAL) based on US Army equivalent capabilities (C-levels) scale 2010: http://www.apd.army.mil/jw2/xmldemo/r220_1/main.asp …

Significant mechanised infantry, tank & artillery units of Russian army are combat ready within reach of Ukraine

Russian railway transport #H2200 from garrisons & training areas in Central MD to Rostov region well established

While world focused on expensive watches of Kremlin officials, Russian Ground Forces CMD units reached capabilties (C-levels) C-3 to C-1

Significant Russian army motor rifle (mechanized infantry), tank, artillery & logistics units of Western & Southern MDs also at C3 to C1

Russian mechanised warfare specialist Lt-Gen Romanchuk, Dep Cmdr SMD & JCCC rep (Soledar), has successfully restructured DPR/LPR units.

We do not factor in Russian Airborne Troops (VDV) because they have pre-existing 72-12 hour standby capability exceeding 5,000 servicemen

Consolidation of command and control structures with Southern MD + C-3/C-2 capabilities of Russian DPR/LPR hybrid units = war readiness.

Coupled with the large number of OSCE spotting’s and comments that there has been a large reshifting and reorg of Russian troops and her mercenaries and large concentrated troop movements in key critical locations on the eastern front lines—completed over the last week


Not a good sign---

Poroshenko urgently convened a War Cabinet http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/4-august-poroshenko-urgently-convened-a-war-cabinet- … pic.twitter.com/7PI4NE9OTp via @tweetsNV

The Minsk subgroup on safety failed to agree on the text about the withdraw of arms http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/4-august-the-minsk-subgroup-on-safety--failed-to-agree-on … via @KFM936

NOW can Obama, Nuland, Kerry, and especially Hollande finally admit they were in fact "suckered" by Putin's demand for a "sign of good faith".
The Russians and her mercenaries were never going to withdraw weapons of 100mm or less AS they never withdrew those of 120mm or more.

IT was strictly a propaganda move and used to film for Russian TV that they the Russians were the "willing ones" NOT the Ukrainians.

AND Putin got what he wanted--he literally forced Obama, Kerry, Nuland and Hollande to force the Ukrainians to instigate unilateral appeasement moves with no reciprocal demands on Russia.

The Ukrainians implemented the draw backs and 30km zones and DMZ AND the Russians just kept on shelling and even attacking inside their own proposed DMZ. THEN the US praises the Ukrainians BUT then yesterday-ZERO results from Russian sides.

Obama is suckered again by Putin.

Appears the saying---"the enemy of my enemy is my friend" fits the US and Putin and hurts the Ukraine.

[OUTLAW 09]

Cossacks Face Reprisals as Rebel Groups Clash in Eastern #Ukraine http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/05/world/europe/cossacks-face-reprisals-as-rebel-groups-clash-in-eastern-ukraine.html … via @nytimesworld pic.twitter.com/8wzBRxUAhW

Turchynov: Russia creates conditions for the offensive. Ukraine is working to counter pic.twitter.com/8Jo2dUw6du http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/4-august-turchynov-russia-creates-conditions-for-the-offensive …

In Odesa employee of the EU border mission was killed by unknown - MIA http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/4-august-in-odesa-employee-of-the-eu-border-mission-was-killed …

"I'm overall alarmed with the [lack of] coverage of Ukraine in the world" You are not alone, PM Yatseniuk. http://en.interfax.com.ua/news/general/281937.html …

[OUTLAW 09]

Russia attempts to discredit the OSCE-SMM in the Ukraine as they have already restricted much of the areas they use to monitor but now cannot.

Ukraine InfoMinistry says OSCE was set up when told about presence of "16th brigade from Orenburg" to discredit them http://m.nv.ua/ukraine/events/zajavlenie-o-brigade-iz-orenburga-natseleno-na-diskreditatsiju-obse---mininformpolitiki-62459.html …

Another multi million dollar lawsuit against the Russians---
Another lawsuit to be filed against Russia in ECHR
http://www.unian.info/politics/1107925-another-lawsuit-to-be-filed-against-russia-in-echr.html … pic.twitter.com/9uNXNshPmY

Ukrainian Mil Mi-8 evading detection by adversaries / russian radar h/t @bandarenko https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jye40dwDDlc&feature=player_embedded …

VDV general #Shamanov: Airborne Troops of #Russia are ready to help #Syria (if the order is given) http://tass.ru/armiya-i-opk/2164026 …

A member of the European Union Border Assistance Mission to Moldova and Ukraine was killed in Odessa https://twitter.com/rianru/status/628530209361383424 …

Many heavy #Russia|n howitzers inside #Donetsk City center.
pic.twitter.com/ce5siw8ppy

[OUTLAW 09]

Ah…another defacto Russian annexation—this time in the Artic—they had announced this week they had expanded their security zone to 500kms—way way past the international legal norm and way way past the UN stated zones for all five nations involved in the Artic.

Looks like they are trying to “legalize” their annexation.

AND the four other nations say not a single word or complain----asleep at the wheel appears to be the Western foreign policy these days in reference to Russian military moves.

MFA Russia ✔ @mfa_russia
#Russia submitted revised application to the #UN seeking expansion of its Arctic shelf border http://goo.gl/4S9SJC pic.twitter.com/CiGettjKUO

[OUTLAW 09]

It has been rather interesting that in fact social media had detected a number of somewhat strange explosions in and around this particular nuclear waste storage site BUT it was with accusations by the Russians of “heavy Ukrainian shellings” in the general area—social media had discounted that the shellings were in fact from the Ukrainian side.

Max Tucker a well known Russian linguist and solid reporter tends to not fall for “fake” Russian news items and has a some good reporting out of the Russian occupied zone from the beginning.

Coupled with the still denied monitoring ability of the OSCE-SMM in this specific area.

Coupled with the total stumbling contridictions made by Russian mercenaries when they first denied there was even a nuclear storage site and then denying they even knew what was in it and then admitting what was in it—WHEN actually all documentation of what was in it disappeared years ago.

What is equally strange was that the Ukrainian government two weeks ago had formally asked the OSCE-SMM to inspect the site to ensure it had not been breached—WHEN no one has even thinking of this topic.

http://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.co.uk/2015/08/moscow-mulling-nuclear-provocation.html
Tuesday, August 4, 2015

Moscow Mulling ‘Nuclear Provocation’ Against Ukraine, Kyiv Analyst Says

Paul Goble


Staunton, August 4 – To overcome the stalemate on the ground and to get itself out of the diplomatic corner it has painted itself into by vetoing the UN Security Council resolution on the Malaysian airliner tribunal, Moscow appears to be planning an act of “nuclear provocation” against Ukraine so as to turn the tables on Kyiv and the West, according to a Ukrainian analyst.

On Khvylya.net, Sergey Klimovsky argues that Moscow is now in a position where one must “consider seriously” the possibility that Russia will try to organize a small nuclear explosion possibly of a dirty bomb that it would be able to place the blame on Ukraine (hvylya.net/analytics/geopolitics/pochemu-ugrozu-yadernogo-udara-so-storonyi-rossii-po-ukraine-nuzhno-rassmatrivat-serezno.html).

The Ukrainian military and its supporters have forced the Kremlin from launching a direct invasion this summer, Klimovsky says, and their firmness have led the Russian side to shift from hybrid war to a more normal kind and “to go from attack to active defense.” But that clearly is not sufficient from Moscow’s point of view.

For any breakthrough to happen, he continues, Russia will need more fighters and more technology, especially since the shift from hybrid to regular war threatens to make it into a world conflict. Technically, Russia is “more or less” prepared for this. But “psychologically, the Russian federation is not ready for such a war,” and so the Kremlin is trying to remedy that.

Russian military flights over the Baltic and Europe are not only acts designed to intimidate the West, Klimovsky says, they are intended to make Russians accustomed to the idea that “their army can bomb something in Europe and that from this is required the expression of 100 percent approval of the party, government and bombers.”

That this is what is going on was suggested by Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the Kremlin’s “covert mouthpiece,” in comments on July 31. He called for renaming the Russian Federation the Russian Army, promised to put “half the world on its knees,” and assured Russians that Turks would give them massages and Italians would cook them spaghetti.

His words were warmly supported by his audience almost to Putinesque levels, Klimovsky says.

The next day, “The Times” of London carried a story entitled “Ukraine rebels ‘building dirty bomb’ with Russian scientists” (thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/world/europe/article4514313.ece). Its source was the Ukrainian intelligence service, and the DNR hastened to respond with a non-denial denial: a bunker with radioactive waste exists there, but no one is working with it.

That wasn’t enough so then propagandists for the Russian-occupied areas suggested that the US was preparing a nuclear bomb there and planning to use it against the Russians in the Donbas. Such absurdities are the norm in Russia’s info war, Klimovsky says, “but the threat of a nuclear terrorist act on the occupied portion of the Donbas and in Rostov oblast is real.”

The reason for that is “Churkin’s veto at the UN” on a resolution calling for a tribunal about the Malaysian airliner. Having cast it, Russia in effect “admitted that its forces shot down the passenger jet. If the Russian Federation had not been involved, then it would have supported the creation of the tribunal.”

Having landed in this position, Klimovsky says, “the Kremlin had to immediately create someone who could be called a greater terrorist than Russia.” A terrorist act in Africa wouldn’t have been enough to end the opprobrium visited on Moscow but an attack supposedly orchestrated by “’the bloody junta from Kyiv” again Russians would be “convincing.”

“A nuclear strike on the Donbas” would cause people to forget about the tribunal and would be used by Moscow to “justify its annexation of Crimea.” The Russian side would claim that “Kyiv apparently had not given up its nuclear arms” and “therefore Russia had done the right thing by seizing Crimea since Ukraine itself had violated the Budapest agreement.”

The most probable places where such an incident could be carried out and then blamed on the Ukrainians are Debaltsevo, Shirokino and Gorlovka. The first, where a train brought “an important cargo” on July 30 that required guards, would work because it is near Ukrainian lines and the total population is much smaller because many have left.

A thousand casualties from such an explosion would be enough for Moscow to begin talking about “a new Hiroshima.” And of course, “the Kremlin would be very happy if the wind would carry the radiation from an explosion further into Ukraine.” It might even arrange to have this happen on August 24, Ukraine’s Independence Day.

The other two sites would also serve, Shirokino because it would reduce Russian losses in an eventual attack on Mariupol and Gorlovka because a nuclear explosion there could set up a series of chemical explosions. The number of victims all that would cause make it perhaps “the most suitable candidate for Hiroshima-2,” as Russia Today would undoubtedly claim.

Right now, Klimovsky says, “three things can prevent a [Russian-orchestrated] nuclear terrorist act in Donbas:” the creation of a UN tribunal on the downing of the Malaysian aircraft, the introduction of UN peacekeepers into the Donbas, and the winds which normally at this time of year would carry any radioactive cloud into Russia.

For the time being, the Khvylya.net commentator concludes, “the winds are the most reliable means.”

[OUTLAW 09]

Russian shellings resumed earlier than normal today--probably due to the failed talks in Minsk to achieve their own arms withdrawal proposal aimed actually at weakening the Ukrainian Army positions.

15:13 shelling in the vicinity of the Optyne, the view from the road Horlivka-Donetsk. Via @666_mancer pic.twitter.com/vcW5KXOnqU

[OUTLAW 09]

Remember cyber warfare is part and parcel of Russian hybrid warefare as is the use of criminal gangs--

One of Russia's new favored cyber tactics "is to arm crime syndicates w/ sophisticated hacking tools & malware"

http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/natosource/new-twists-in-russia-s-cyber-campaign-against-nato-and-its-members …

New Twists in Russia's Cyber Campaign Against NATO and Its Members http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/natosource/new-twists-in-russia-s-cyber-campaign-against-nato-and-its-members … pic.twitter.com/K5QL3nnhKU

NATO cyber specialist: "it's pretty brazen really. We are being hit by the Russians more or less every day" http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/natosource/new-twists-in-russia-s-cyber-campaign-against-nato-and-its-members …

In Russia's milt doctrine war is never truly declared: instead aggression moves along a sliding scale http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/natosource/new-twists-in-russia-s-cyber-campaign-against-nato-and-its-members …

This is what we are currently seeing in the increasing shellings and ground attacks----

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In Eastern #Ukraine, we have #Ukrainian govt troops v. #Russian govt troops&collaborators. The rest is BS. pic.twitter.com/3mVmjzTdbX

The Ukrainian army suffers the heaviest casualties since the last days of the battle for Debaltseve.
53 KIA/WIA between Friday and Monday.


The Ukrainian Russo war is now in full swing and not even an utterance of any form of a comment from Obama, Nuland, Hollande and or Merkel.

AT SOME POINT the Ukraine will fight back as it has to in order to just defend itself and it's military personnel--right now they endure most evenings the shellings and ground attacks to "please Nuland and Obama" but that patience is wearing thin.

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MI-8 of Ukraine army – awesome Low Pass--AND no this is not a video game--it is reality to avoid radar detection and SAMs.

Great flying-------

http://defence-blog.com/?p=7129

pic.twitter.com/upC6ob59W0

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In Eastern #Ukraine, we have #Ukrainian govt troops v. #Russian govt troops&collaborators. The rest is BS. pic.twitter.com/3mVmjzTdbX

The Ukrainian army suffers the heaviest casualties since the last days of the battle for Debaltseve.
53 KIA/WIA between Friday and Monday.


The Ukrainian Russo war is now in full swing and not even an utterance of any form of a comment from Obama, Nuland, Hollande and or Merkel.

AT SOME POINT the Ukraine will fight back as it has to in order to just defend itself and it's military personnel--right now they endure most evenings the shellings and ground attacks to "please Nuland and Obama" but that patience is wearing thin.

Ukraine President Chairs War Cabinet Meeting As Frustration With Peace Process Grows http://bit.ly/1MK9rO2 pic.twitter.com/uxQIpO1xzE

Indicator that this patience is wearing thin--the UA now has the ability to strike back and hurt both Russian troops and her mercenaries AND Russia would be left with either pulling back and or further invading thus increasing the sanctions pressure even more.

The West especially the US, Germans and the French have harped constantly that there can be no military victory BUT WHAT if they have had it wrong all along??

WHAT if a military victory is defined as hurting the other side until Putin realizes his loses actually do hurt??

WHAT if it means bottling up the Russian troops and her mercenaries and allowing no further loss of ther own territory??

NOTICE--that is already happening now---

WHAT if "winning militarily means"---bringing the fighting to a stand still and truly forcing a dialogue at the negotiation table.

To that end the Ukrainians might in fact be able to "win militarily" using a new definition of "winning" the West is unwilling to even think about especially a US President concerned about his "legacy".

AND Europeans who absolutely have no idea what they want.

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AND we are into the evening shellings and ground attacks--and no one in the western mass media seems to really care that there is a full scale war in the middle of Central Europe--a ten hour car drive to Berlin Germany----

A lot of russian activity (shelling) all along the front lines in #Donbas. The talks in Minsk probably went (or ongoing) very well...

East #Ukraine Shelling: Government troops say militants are continuing to shell residential areas http://uatoday.tv/society/east-ukraine-shelling-government-troops-say-militants-are-continuing-to-shell-residential-areas-468822.html …

20:40 #Horlivka Stroitel @ahab7822 A flash in the south from Stroitel

20:38 #Donetsk Kyivsky ds @TaylerRid Very strong explosion with explosion wave on the ground

20:39 #Donetsk @14720Maro "Damn, some light blue flashes in the north somewhere between Putilovka & #Makiivka"

#Donetsk 20:33 On the horizon, beyond the airport, mines dropping
20:37 Now closer. Even from the window pushed back https://twitter.com/idinmor/status/628619795047518208 …

20:15 #Dnepropetrovsk @gdalinka A medical aircraft arrived 1/2hr ago, wounded are being delivered [to hospitals]

#Maryinka 20:00
Since over 1 hour to hear mortar fire and also something heavier towards traffic police post area https://twitter.com/audrius1977/status/628616545552482304 …

20:43 To north #Donetsk-#Makeevka something big shooting https://twitter.com/UkraineSuper1/status/628623088004005888 …

20:15 #Dzerhzynsk @blessmaster It's getting noisy bit by bit. Single [incoming mortar] bombs and automatic arms sometimes,direction unclear

Yakovlivka-Mineralne area, Msta-B howitzers, up to 5 units, outgoing from DNR. https://twitter.com/nixer79/status/628619540704964610 …

21:01 #Donetsk Kalinovka @funkermanjke AA-gun has worked out in Motel direction

#Donetsk 20:37
Hear artillery away, city center https://twitter.com/ludmilka1906/status/628620789210816512 …

#Krasnohorivka 20:40
heavy machine gun, very loud https://twitter.com/666_mancer/status/628625346917724161 …

21:06 #Horlivka @xy_gorlov4an Small arms, AGL in the west, not intense

21:04 #Avdeevka @bamr69 ...hits on the town outskirts

Mariinka, Dzerzhinsk, Avdeevka all experience war action of varying intensity

Donetsk, putilovski d-t, smoke reported

#Verkhnotoretske 20:49
(Shelling) started with AGS and they gradually increase it https://twitter.com/LeeZernoganja/status/628623790398939136 …

21:08 #Donetsk @postz5 Approx Gvardeyka direction https://twitter.com/loogunda/status/628627849684066305 …

WHAT THE HECK??????
21:03 #Horlivka @NovaGorlivka Serious battle in Shyroka_Balka, who fights whom is a question, no UKR there

Maybe between the Cossacks and the Russian mercenaries?????

Now it stopped----

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Skileva (near #Mironivsky) Aug03 shelling aftermath @chernyvaya pic.twitter.com/igDddRvxIw

Skileva (near #Mironivsky) Aug03 shelling aftermath @chernyvaya pic.twitter.com/igDddRvxIw

Krasnohorivka 21:10
LOUD
Small arms and something heavy too flies https://twitter.com/arthurnkua/status/628629142993563648 …

20:48 #Donetsk Putilovka @idinmor Now seemingly AA-gun sometimes fires. Calmed down [in general]

Nice to see the second half of the group I commanded working in #Marinka. https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=KqBtAlSGoLQ … Azov

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Ah…another defacto Russian annexation—this time in the Artic—they had announced this week they had expanded their security zone to 500kms—way way past the international legal norm and way way past the UN stated zones for all five nations involved in the Artic.

Looks like they are trying to “legalize” their annexation.

AND the four other nations say not a single word or complain----asleep at the wheel appears to be the Western foreign policy these days in reference to Russian military moves.

MFA Russia ✔ @mfa_russia
#Russia submitted revised application to the #UN seeking expansion of its Arctic shelf border http://goo.gl/4S9SJC pic.twitter.com/CiGettjKUO

Russia's Artic claim could expand its territory by 1.2 mn sqkm & give the country ~600 additional oil fields. http://barentsobserver.com/en/arctic/2015/08/russia-submits-claim-north-pole-04-08 …

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Another example of just how deep the US, France and Germany are pressuring the Ukraine to commit to unilateral decisions that are very similar to the "Bosnia solution" that Putin is pushing.

Question is WHY does it appear that Obama, Hollande and Merkel are "selling out the ukraine"?????

What happen to all their rethoric about "we judge Putin by his Actions NOT his words"???

http://www.jamestown.org/single/?tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=44247&tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=7&cHash=1faf90cc9a926de7a6835a4dbce5f592#.VcEFWZX76M 8

Elections in Donetsk-Luhansk ‘People’s Republics’ And Russia’s New Conflict-Freeze Model

Publication: Eurasia Daily Monitor Volume: 12 Issue: 145

August 3, 2015 05:17 PM Age: 21 hrs

By: Vladimir Socor



(Western governments regularly disagree with the Kremlin over the meaning of democracy and free elections. Nevertheless, Western diplomacy currently supports Moscow’s goal for local elections to be staged in the Russian-controlled territory of Ukraine’s east. If validated as apparently intended by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), such elections would legitimize the pro-Russia authorities in that territory. Holding an electoral mandate, but fronting for Russia, the authorities of Donetsk and Luhansk could then be seated at the table with Ukraine’s central government, to negotiate an “internal” Ukrainian constitutional settlement.

That would introduce an entirely new paradigm of “conflict freeze” in Europe’s East. For the first time in the 25-year history of those conflicts, Moscow and the main Western chancelleries are urging the aggressed country—Ukraine in this case—to authorize elections in the territory under Russian military and secessionist control, then bargain with the predetermined winners of those elections.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President François Hollande, and US Vice President Joseph Biden, among others, have recently pressed this message on Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in telephone calls (see EDM, July 9, 10, 20, 24, 31).

Russia has encouraged and instrumentalized numerous “elections” and “referendums” from 1991 to date in secessionist territories (Transnistria, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Crimea, Donetsk-Luhansk). In all of those cases, however, Russia could never expect Western support for staging such “elections,” let alone international validation of the results. Quite the contrary: Moldova, Georgia, Ukraine, as well as Western governments and institutions unanimously dismissed those voting rituals. The OSCE and other standard-setting institutions refused a priori to even observe those elections and referendums. They were deemed, in the first place, to violate the sovereignty of the legitimate states; and second, to lack the legal and democratic prerequisites to organizing such voting. Russia found itself alone validating such elections and referendums, with little or no practical consequences.

In Donetsk and Luhansk, however, Moscow does not need yet another voting ritual that the West will again ignore. Russia needs Western help to obtain Kyiv’s consent to staging those elections in the first place. If staged, Russia will need Western acceptance of the elections’ outcome and endorsement of the follow-up political steps.

The current intention is for the Donetsk and Luhansk “people’s republics” (“DPR, LPR”) to hold local elections that would supposedly confer democratic legitimacy on these proto-states. In the second step, based on that electoral mandate (obscuring their primordial mandate from Moscow), the “DPR-LPR” would negotiate a special relationship with the rest of Ukraine, as part of Ukraine’s political and institutional system.

The Minsk Two armistice (February 2015) stipulates both of those steps. Through this process, Moscow aims to destabilize Ukraine, project Russia’s influence within it, and compel Ukraine to subsidize the pro-Russia local authorities from Ukraine’s state budget.

Local elections are scheduled to be held throughout Ukraine on October 25. Pro-Russia forces would be guaranteed to win in the occupied territory, if Kyiv authorizes the staging of elections there. For a legal figleaf, elections in that territory would have to be held on the same date as in the rest of Ukraine. Authorizing such elections would also commit Kyiv to accepting the outcome and negotiating with those territory’s representatives on a new basis, much more favorable to them. Russia’s proxies would be recast as holders of a democratic mandate.

Staging elections in Donetsk-Luhansk would be legally impossible and politically worthless in the absence of Kyiv’s consent. Hence the convergent pressures on Kyiv to grant that consent. The whole point of the proposed elections is to set up negotiations between Kyiv and “duly elected” Donetsk-Luhansk authorities. It was Moscow that initially proposed staging elections in that territory, as part of Russia’s solution to “the Ukrainian crisis.” In recent weeks, however, Putin seems far less vocal, at least publicly. Moscow apparently expects Western diplomacy to encourage those elections more credibly than Moscow ever could.

The Minsk Two armistice has introduced an entirely new model of Russian conflict management and conflict conservation in Europe’s East. Although it includes some military clauses, the Minsk document—highly unusual for an armistice—is mainly political in content. It aims, first, to legitimize Donetsk-Luhansk as a state-within-the-state (in Ukraine, though not of Ukraine); and second, to create a relationship between Donetsk-Luhansk and Kyiv as between two contracting parties, changing Ukraine’s constitution accordingly.

Moscow had occasionally toyed with similar ideas in other “frozen-conflict” cases. But it is applying these ideas for the first time in Ukraine now. As such, these are radical innovations in Russia’s praxis of handling the “frozen” conflicts.

Both of those goals—legalizing a state-within-a-state and qualifying that new entity for a constitutional contract with the existing state—require organizing elections in that territory. A democratic-looking façade also makes it somewhat more palatable for Western diplomacy to cooperate with this aspect of Russia’s solution to the “Ukraine crisis.”

The OSCE stands ready to assist with the proposed elections. The organization is trying to elicit Kyiv’s consent through the Minsk Contact Group’s working group on political affairs (OSCE, Ukraine, Russia, Donetsk, Luhansk). The group’s most recent meetings in Minsk broke down over this and related issues (Interfax, Belta, July 21, 24, 28).

This marks Russia’s shift from the old conflict-freeze paradigm, where the secessionists remain outside the aggressed country’s political system, to the new conflict-freeze paradigm, literally injecting the secessionists back into the targeted country’s system in order to destabilize it and project Russia’s influence there.

This “freeze” model is unprecedented in that it would allow Russia’s protégés to enter Ukraine’s institutional system. This model contrasts with the “classical” frozen-conflict model, which keeps the foreign power’s protégés out of the targeted country’s political system.

Unable to win a war against Russia militarily, Kyiv would almost certainly go along with the “classical” way of freezing the conflict. That would involve, in a first phase, quarantining the secessionist authorities; immunizing Ukraine from the penetration of Russia’s political influence and organized crime via the “DPR-LPR”; and buying time for Ukraine to conduct its reforms without having to wage a defensive war at the same time. Pressuring Ukraine to enter into a constitutional bargain with Russia’s proxies, however, would mark the successful debut of Russia’s new conflict-freeze paradigm.

Ah.. the Obama "sell out" of US principles and values in exchange for his "leagcy".

AND we wonder just why the US is so mistrusted throughout the world ie TPP and TITPP

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youtube.com/watch?v=Ov_-j9K_te0 … From #Vologda, #Russia, fighting 'fascists' in #Ukraine. Have no idea they are the fascists. pic.twitter.com/J6dEkz00qZ

Russian-separatist forces upgrade equipment during ceasefire: Ukrainian officer
http://uatoday.tv/politics/russian-separatist-forces-upgrade-equipment-during-ceasefire-ukrainian-officer-468929.html … #Ukraine pic.twitter.com/Af606gvlZ4

20:40 #Krasnohorivka @hyeva_maryinka [vk] Stalino road - Borysivka area: heavy shots, MG, very loud
[Stalino road http://goo.gl/FldXh2 ]

21:36 #Horlivka @mihailovith Covered loaded trucks on move. Apparently imaginary [UKR] DRG will start shelling residential areas soon.

21:42 #Donetsk @AlfaNubovsky Since around 20:30 until 21:00 Kalinovka heard heavy volleys fr/Gvardeyka? direction, now small arms at UAV?

22:11 #Luhansk @LuhanskJunta RUS seemingly shot UKR UAV down. Not far fr/eastern blocks, fired from East UKR univ direction

22:07 #Luhansk @Tkachov_TT UAV flew through the city, AA-guns made noise in all city, but didn't shoot down it

22:05 #Donetsk @HeleneHelene5 [Sounds like] armoured vehicles aremoving along Leninsky tow/Mirny, deep roaring

22:05 #Luhansk center @BanderaLife Something fireworks-like in the center, tracers towards #Schastya

21:42 #Staromykhaylivka @hyeva_maryinka [vk] "Oktyabrska St was shelled"

22:20 #Dzerzhynsk @blessmaster Now we had one incoming/outgoing and AGL

22:28 #Donetsk Kalinovka @donetsk_ukrop [vk] "Boomed as hell"

22:26, 22:27, 22:28 #Donetsk @14720Maro Distant salvo, 7 sec, explosion then

In 3 districts of Donetsk (Kuibyshevskyi, Petrovsky, Kyivskyi) more than 50% of the housing stock has been destroyed
http://112.ua/obshchestvo/v-treh-rayonah-donecka-razrusheno-bolee-poloviny-obektov-zhilogo-fonda-lukyanchenko-249879.html …

22:31 #Donetsk City @donetsk_ukrop Volleys and landing at once

#Donetsk 22:31
Incoming at train station https://twitter.com/fhntv29/status/628649404199792640 …

22:30 #Donetsk @nyka1968 "It shook the center so much"

Donetsk 22:27
"Center - powerful vibration."
"Opened the window, very loud" https://twitter.com/ludmilka1906/status/628648394836320256 …

Donetsk 22:28
Kalinovka ds - again the chandelier jumps https://twitter.com/GrateHohol/status/628648789973319681 …

22:30 #Donetsk @AlfaNubovsky Windows vibrated to the few last volleys. Somewhere [also] mortar rounds and landings heard

22:32 #Donetsk @14720Maro Again distant volleys

It seems UA returned fire to positions next to Gvardeyka/Yakovlivka

Donetsk Kalinovka @GrateHohol "Again ceiling lamp is jumping"

Donetsk 22:28
Kalinovka ds - again the chandelier jumps https://twitter.com/GrateHohol/status/628648789973319681 …

22:36 @vladicvp Volleys from #Horlivka - Krasniy_Partyzan area. Landiings in #Donetsk-Gladkovka. 40sec betw shots by flashes,10sec by sound

#Donetsk 22:32
Kyivsky district listening to strong breaks https://twitter.com/062_Region/status/628649660027015168 …

22:37 #Donetsk @Ykraino4_ka Loud incoming

22:26 #Donetsk @nixer79 Shelling fr/Spartak, fly over Putilovka-Scheglovka, lands at Pastukhovka

22:36 @vladicvp Volleys from #Horlivka - Krasniy_Partyzan area. Landiings in #Donetsk-Gladkovka. 40sec betw shots by flashes,10sec by sound

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Boy did DoS Kerry misread the Russian FM OR did he simply not want to believe Russia would actually invade the Ukraine--for whatever reason his largest blunder and he should never forget it when dealing with Putin.

Yet it seems he has a very short memory.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/02/27/u-s-spies-no-russia-isn-t-about-to-invade-ukraine.html

Washington Bureau

02.27.14

6:15 PM ET

Putin’s Bluff? U.S. Spies Say Russia Won't Invade Ukraine


American intelligence has concluded that Russia won't openly invade Ukraine, despite a massive military exercise on the border and the armed takeover of local airports.

U.S. intelligence estimates conclude that Russia has no intention of invading Ukraine. This, despite the launch of a massive, new Russian military exercise near Ukraine’s border and moves from armed men to seize two key airports in the country's Crimea region.

The latest developments led Ukraine's interior minister Arsen Avakov Friday to accuse Russia of invading the Russian majority province of Crimea after armed militias took control of the civilian airport in Simferopol, the region's capital and the military airport in Sevastopol, where Russia's Black Sea fleet is based. Russian authorities meanwhile have denied any responsibility for the seizure of the two airports in the region.

On Wednesday Russia's president, Vladimir Putin, ordered 150,000 troops to take part in a military exercise his defense minister said was a routine test of combat readiness. A senior U.S. intelligence official told The Daily Beast that the timing of the military exercise, coming only days after the Ukrainian parliament voted to oust the pro-Russian president, Viktor Yanukovych, was suspicious. But nonetheless, U.S. intelligence agencies have collected no information suggesting the training exercises were preparation for an invasion.

“The mere fact of the timing when you consider what is going on in Ukraine and you see the sudden nature of the exercise would cause concern,” this official said. “From an intelligence perspective we don’t have any reason to think it’s more than military exercises."

The assessment is based in part on the fact that not enough medical units have been ordered to accompany the Russian troops to the Ukrainian border to suggest preparation for war, according to one Congressional staffer who has seen intelligence on Russia. This source also said no signal intercepts have detected plans for an invasion.

On Thursday, Secretary of State John Kerry acknowledged that he had been assured in conversations with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov that Russia respected the territorial integrity of Ukraine. Nonetheless, Kerry is urging all sides to stand down. Earlier in the week, Kerry warned Russia's leader not to mistake the current conflict in the Ukraine for Rocky IV, the 1985 movie about a steroid-addled Soviet boxer who is eventually defeated by the American, Rocky Balboa.

“From an intelligence perspective we don’t have any reason to think it’s more than military exercises.”

“We believe that everybody now needs to step back and avoid any kind of provocations,” Kerry told reporters in Washington Thursday.

Since Sunday, senior U.S. officials have publicly warned Russia not to escalate the already delicate situation in the Ukraine. At a conference for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in Brussels, Belgium, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel said, “We expect other nations to respect Ukraine’s sovereignty and avoid provocative action. That’s why I’m closely watching Russia’s military exercises along the Ukrainian border, which they just announced yesterday."

The stand off over Ukraine marks a low point in U.S.-Russia relations for President Obama. In 2009 he touted a "reset" in the relationship that had frozen in the last year of the Bush administration after Russia invaded two provinces of Georgia, a former Soviet Republic. This fall, Kerry and Obama touted Russia's offers to help destroy Syria's chemical weapons stocks as evidence of a mutually beneficial relationship with Moscow. But the Ukraine crisis pits the two former Cold War rivals in opposition. The now deposed Ukrainian president sparked the first protests in Kiev after he ended talks with the European Union over integrating his country with Europe. Putin has made it clear that he would like Ukraine to remain more closely tied to Russia than to the west.

The exercises have also raised concerns from top Republicans. Rep. Howard "Buck" McKeon, the Republicans chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, was even wistful for the end of the cold war when America's military budget was fattened to outspend the Soviet Union. “Look what’s happening in the Ukraine. Russia is now putting a 150,000 troop exercise on the border with the Ukraine. Russia is a problem,” McKeon said. “What, are we going to put troops on the other side of the border in Ukraine?”

One potential flashpoint will be Russian military installations in the Ukrainian province of Crimea.

American intelligence has concluded that Russia won't openly invade Ukraine, despite a massive military exercise on the border and the armed takeover of local airports.

Fiona Hill, the director of the Center on the United States and Europe at the Brookings Institution, said she did not expect Russia to launch a land invasion into Ukraine. She did however say that the Russian Navy’s presence in the Black Sea port of Sevastopol in the Crimea would be a potential flash point. “There is one place where they could indeed do something militarily, Crimea,” Hill said. “If there was any kind of threat to the bases, they could mobilize their forces.”

Russian intervention in Crimea would depend, according to Hill, on whether the current tensions in that province escalate. On Thursday masked gunmen reportedly stormed the regional parliament building in Crimea and hoisted Russian flags.

“Let’s say things move beyond attacks on administrative buildings in Crimea to attacks that start to move against the Russian Black Sea fleet installations or there is an attack on Russian soldiers or civilian workers,” Hill said. “Then this could be a trigger for Russian action. So far we have not seen anything like that.”

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Russian mercenaries are again shelling their own towns

22:28 #Donetsk Kalinovka @AlfaNubovsky I hear both volleys and explosions nearly at once. Shelling the city from inside the city started

22:31 #Donetsk City @donetsk_ukrop Volley and landing at once are audible

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Shelling reports are coming in at a high rate now--it is going to be another long, long night on the eastern front line--all along the front line actually.

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Fortress Crimea: Russia Shifts Military Balance in the Black Sea http://www.jamestown.org/programs/edm/single/?tx_ttnews[tt_news]=43181&cHash=aeb310d4b362ad5ae4fd3d3db1488c57 … by @JamestownTweets 9/12/2014 pic.twitter.com/lGypOmWg2T

The city of #Mariupol is important (port, metals industry). But more than that, it denies Russia control over Fortress Crimea's east flank.

Landbridge from Rostov region to Crimea: Not just an access issue. Russian military "Fortress Crimea" concept requires 100% flank control.

If report by Yuriy Tandyt (adviser to @ServiceSsu) accurate: Russia intends to take the Rostov to Crimea landbridge http://www.unian.info/politics/1108150-sbu-russia-attempted-to-trade-savchenko-for-crimean-route.html …

Kremlin: "We'll give you Nadia Savchenko back, and you'll let us force a route from Rostov to Crimea" http://www.unian.info/politics/1108150-sbu-russia-attempted-to-trade-savchenko-for-crimean-route.html … v @unian 4 Aug

SBU: Russia attempted to trade Savchenko for "Crimean Route" http://www.unian.info/politics/1108150-sbu-russia-attempted-to-trade-savchenko-for-crimean-route.html …

Donestk tonight, heavy shelling:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gnDfinl6kg …

Early morning hours—still shelling is ongoing---

Images taken by "Army SOS" UAV of Lohvynove (nr Debaltceve) now ghost town after being destroyed from winter fighting pic.twitter.com/ThEd7dWaWi

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News
3 Ukrainian border guards troops and 1 soldier injured in overnight attack on #Marinka.
Russian forces fired 7 tank shots.

Map. Situation in eastern #Ukraine, August 5, 00:00 EET pic.twitter.com/VkCDy34DJJ

SBU: Russian military filtering center set up in Rostov region to select Russian military for deployment in Ukraine
http://www.unian.info/war/1108227-filtering-center-set-up-in-rostov-region-to-select-military-for-deployment-in-ukraine.html …

11:34 #Dokuchaevsk @shuttle1907 2 RUS BMP w/troops on armour, 1 Ural truck w/troops and about 8 cars entered the town

At night militants fired with mortars on Troits'ke. 1 Ukrainian soldier was wounded - RSA
https://m.facebook.com/odalug/posts/455603884621917 …

Destruction to northern #Donetsk neighborhoods where Russian tanks, artillery and vehicles park August2015 pic.twitter.com/BqYuTgZxYD

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Fortress Crimea: Russia Shifts Military Balance in the Black Sea http://www.jamestown.org/programs/edm/single/?tx_ttnews[tt_news]=43181&cHash=aeb310d4b362ad5ae4fd3d3db1488c57 … by @JamestownTweets 9/12/2014 pic.twitter.com/lGypOmWg2T

The city of #Mariupol is important (port, metals industry). But more than that, it denies Russia control over Fortress Crimea's east flank.

Landbridge from Rostov region to Crimea: Not just an access issue. Russian military "Fortress Crimea" concept requires 100% flank control.

If report by Yuriy Tandyt (adviser to @ServiceSsu) accurate: Russia intends to take the Rostov to Crimea landbridge http://www.unian.info/politics/1108150-sbu-russia-attempted-to-trade-savchenko-for-crimean-route.html …

Kremlin: "We'll give you Nadia Savchenko back, and you'll let us force a route from Rostov to Crimea" http://www.unian.info/politics/1108150-sbu-russia-attempted-to-trade-savchenko-for-crimean-route.html … v @unian 4 Aug

SBU: Russia attempted to trade Savchenko for "Crimean Route" http://www.unian.info/politics/1108150-sbu-russia-attempted-to-trade-savchenko-for-crimean-route.html …

Donestk tonight, heavy shelling:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gnDfinl6kg …

Early morning hours—still shelling is ongoing---

Images taken by "Army SOS" UAV of Lohvynove (nr Debaltceve) now ghost town after being destroyed from winter fighting pic.twitter.com/ThEd7dWaWi

Peskov: in the Kremlin did not discussed the creation of a route from Russia to Crimea through Ukraine http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/5-august-peskov-in-the-kremlin-did-not-discussed-the-creation …

THIS in Russian doublespeak means it was actually discussed.

Nevermind the Kremlin's denials; Russian General Staff have plans to seize control of Rostov to Crimea landbridge... https://twitter.com/tassagency_en/status/628864652412354561 …

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Head of General Staff of RF Gerasimov and 10 more top officers are suspected in managing war on Donbas - SBU http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/5-august-head-of-general-staff-of-rf-gerasimov-and-10-more …

The presence of 3,5 thousand Russian soldiers near Illovaysk is proved – SBU http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/5-august-the-presence-of-35-thousand-russian-soldiers-near …

OSCE: militants used incendiary ammunition in Stanitsa Luhanska pic.twitter.com/rFaAKXSNpI http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/5-august-osce-militants-used-incendiary-ammunition-in-stanitsa …

Breedlove: Russia is a major security threat. NATO knows about Moscow's strategic objectives https://translate.google.ie/translate?sl=uk&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ukrinform.ua%2Fukr%2Fnews%2Fu_n ato_vge_znayut_pro_strategichni_tsili_moskvi_20817 48&edit-text= …

Strelkov: "Azarov's committee" (exile Ukrainian government wannabees) is a new project of Surkov pic.twitter.com/hmYEaH14xw http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/5-august-strelkov-azarovs-committee-is-a-new-project-of-surkov …

Strelkov was the original instigator for the eastern Ukraine takeover—FSB officer and seems to be constantly making comments that would normally get one killed for in Russia.
Surkov is Putin’s right hand man handling the eastern Ukraine and the Russian mercenaries.

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Russian proxies attack Ukrainian troops “81 times overnight" http://24today.net/open/492655

#News
Another 7 Ukrainian troops injured yesterday.
60 WIA/KIA in 5 days.

ATO spox: Mariupol sector: peace and quiet order was violated near Chemarlyk, when militants attacked UA positions with small arms

ATO spox: Ukrainian Armed Forces did not incur any casualties; seven servicemen were wounded in action in last 24 hours

Somewhere in Russian-occupied Luhansk region, Ukraine, 3 or 4 August 2015 https://vk.com/dnrarmy?w=wall-51146063_4750 … pic.twitter.com/QFHNl7XixM

Results of Militant artillery attack on positions of the 34th Brigade, couple of nights ago
https://m.facebook.com/ruhoporu.info/posts/522042534616076?__mref=message_bubble … pic.twitter.com/9zGe7AIWnE

Yesterday in the ATO zone was recorded 10 flights of Russian drones, and one over the sea of Azov http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/5-august-yesterday-in-the-ato-zone-was-recorded-10-flights …

Col.Lysenko: Luhansk sector: hostilities resumed near the Bakhmut road: enemy shelling of UA positions http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/5-august-collysenko-luhansk-sector-hostilities-resumed-near …

Col. Andriy Lysenko: Western outskirts of Donetsk: militants shelled residential districts of Avdiivka and Opytne for 5 times.

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News
3 Ukrainian border guards troops and 1 soldier injured in overnight attack on #Marinka.
Russian forces fired 7 tank shots.

Map. Situation in eastern #Ukraine, August 5, 00:00 EET pic.twitter.com/VkCDy34DJJ

SBU: Russian military filtering center set up in Rostov region to select Russian military for deployment in Ukraine
http://www.unian.info/war/1108227-filtering-center-set-up-in-rostov-region-to-select-military-for-deployment-in-ukraine.html …

11:34 #Dokuchaevsk @shuttle1907 2 RUS BMP w/troops on armour, 1 Ural truck w/troops and about 8 cars entered the town

At night militants fired with mortars on Troits'ke. 1 Ukrainian soldier was wounded - RSA
https://m.facebook.com/odalug/posts/455603884621917 …

Destruction to northern #Donetsk neighborhoods where Russian tanks, artillery and vehicles park August2015 pic.twitter.com/BqYuTgZxYD

Almost 0 civilian cars parked in #Donetsk housing areas but plenty of Russian tanks http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=48.062486&lon=37.775352&z=18&m=b&v=1 … pic.twitter.com/hHcHkpsIka

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Two Russian Spetsnaz teams beaten back during their attacks on Ukrainian positions---
ATO spox: In the region of Verhnotoretske, UA military repelled attacks of two hostile sabotage-reconnaissance groups.

Col. Lysenko: Late at night, Russian-backed troops carried out three shelling of Ukrainian positions near the Novhorodske village.

Another Russian Spetsnaz team beaten back during their attack--
ATO spokesperson: At night, militants sabotage group attacked UA positions near Leninske village. The attack was successfully repulsed.

Col. Lysenko: Donetsk sector: Traces from enemy shells were recorded even in the deep rear – 12 km from the front line.

ATO spox: Donetsk sector: The enemy continued systematic artillery and mortar shelling against UA positions near Svitlodarsk.

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Col. ATO spokesperson: Luhansk sector: Short-term, occasional hostile armed provocations were recorded along the entire contact line.

Col.Lysenko: Luhansk sector: hostilities resumed near the Bakhmut road: enemy shelling of UA positions near Orihove and Novotoshkivske

Stratfor: Rumors of escalating conflict abound in eastern Ukraine http://www.unian.info/politics/1108222-stratfor-rumors-of-escalating-conflict-abound-in-eastern-ukraine.html … via @UNIAN 5 Aug

Dnipro air reconnaissance squad improved UAV, it's able to fly up to 150km http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/5-august-dnipro-air-reconnaissance-squad-improved-their-uav … pic.twitter.com/jHxRY3IxFp via @Aero_Dnipro1

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Russian Drones in Service of Donetsk Militants: https://en.informnapalm.org/russian-drones-in-service-of-donetsk-militants/ … pic.twitter.com/vn4xm8AfgU

The “Russian way” to increase birth rates--------not so sure the sanctioning of western condoms is really going to hurt the EU or the US????

Ban on imported condoms will make Russians more disciplined,more thoughtful in chosing partners' says Onishenko http://www.rg.ru/2015/08/05/onishenko-anons.html …

Terrorists using KGB tactics in Donbas war. They dress in the uniforms of Ukrainian Armed Forces
http://euromaidanpress.com/2015/08/05/terrorists-using-kgb-tactics-in-donbas-war/ …

Fantastic photo essay and video abt soldiers of 95th brigade of Airborne Forces of Ukraine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=11&v=WN70BtRMSlE … pic.twitter.com/sHbYXYy09L

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Heavy Fighting Around Donetsk Continues This Morning

ATO Briefing

09:12 (GMT)


Russian-backed forces have continued to press attacks in the Donetsk area overnight, with fighting still reported to be under way this morning

A post on the Kyiv-1 Battalion's Facebook page at 6:30 GMT said that the battalion's fighters, located along the front line from Marinka to Krasnogorovka, were currently under mortar and sniper fire.

The State Border Agency (DPSU) announced today that three of their personnel and one soldier had been wounded in this same area in the early hours of Tuesday morning.

According to the report, a checkpoint in Marinka was shelled with around 100 mortar rounds. Russian-backed forces then used small arms, automatic grenade launchers, anti-aircraft artillery, guided anti-tank missiles and a tank against the Ukrainian position.

The DPSU said that Ukrainian troops had prevented an enemy advance by returning fire with small arms, as well as rocket-propelled and automatic grenades.

Colonel Andriy Lysenko, a military spokesman for the Presidential Administration, announced at noon today that seven Ukrainian servicemen had been wounded over the past day:

The Ukrainian military's ATO Press Centre reported this morning that Russian-backed forces had intensified their attacks in the Donetsk area over the last 24 hours.

According to the report, a Ukrainian defensive position in Opytnoye, north of Donetsk, was shelled several times throughout the night by tanks and mortars. Vodyanoye, a little to the west, was shelled with 120 mm mortars.

Residential areas of Avdeyevka, to the north-east, were, the Press Centre claims, shelled with 152 and 122 mm artillery at around 21:00 last night.

Both Colonel Lysenko and the ATO Press Centre report that two attempts were made by Russian-backed fighters to break through the Ukrainian front lines north-east of Donetsk, near Verkhnotoretskoye.

After two skirmishes, at 20:30 and 21:15, the attacking sabotage and reconnaissance groups retreated.

Russia's state-owned RIA Novosti news agency reported that one civilian had been wounded in the separatist-held village of Krasny Partizan, just south-east of Verkhnotoretskoye.

According to the report, Ukrainian forces shelled the village at 23:00 last night.

Lysenko reported further on fighting last night near Gorlovka:

In the Lugansk region, Lysenko reported fighting on the Bakhmutka highway, with Ukrainian positions near Orekhovo (Orihove) and Novotoshkovskoye (Novotoshkivske) shelled.

The Lugansk Military-Civil Administration announced today that a Ukrainian soldier had been wounded after the outskirts of Troitskoye were shelled with mortars at around 1 am today.

In Krymskoye, on the southern bank of the Seversky Donets river, seven cows were wounded by shelling, which also set off a fire that was not extinguished until late at night.

The DPSU reported that a Ukrainian checkpoint near Zolotoye was attacked yesterday with small arms and anti-aircraft artillery. Meanwhile, in Stanitsa Luganskaya, at the eastern end of the front line, two border guards were wounded after coming under fire.

In the south of the Donetsk region, Ukrainian military analyst Dmytro Tymchuk reports that positions east of Volnovakha, between Beryozovoye and Granitnoye, were fired-on by Russian-backed forces with mortars, automatic grenade launchers and anti-aircraft artillery.

Tymchuk claimed that Russian-backed forces had been noticed regrouping infantry along the front in this area.

Further south along the river Kalmius, Colonel Lysenko reported attacks near Chermalyk

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Russian army 2S1 Gvozdika (2С1 Гвоздика, 'Carnation') 122mm self-propelled howitzer munitions https://vk.com/dnrarmy?w=wall-51146063_4751 … pic.twitter.com/61uAeM3oq8

How is it there in the Ukraine?
- Putin: "Ok, i hope we will win" http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/5-august-boy-at-the-aquarium-said-to-putin-how-is-there-in … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSNKN_pdE3g …

In German---
KeinWitz
Junge zu #Putin: "Was ist los in der Ukraine?"
Putin: "Nichts. Ich hoffe, wir werden gewinnen."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSNKN_pdE3g …

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Reference the MH17 shot down----Russia is working overtime to deflect anything pointing to them being involved in the shot down.

Somehow Lavrov fails to mention the Russians themselves pushed out six different stories largely lies to include their own MoD being caught at lying by social media open source analysis.

Lavrov working hard smearing the JIT investigation - Russian foreign minister: #MH17 investigation team "prejudiced" http://bit.ly/1SNith8

Again Russian doublespeak—guess prejudice is when you are caught with your hand in the cookie jar and try to sell it as a jam jar.

The investigation of the crash of Boeing in the Donbass was not really international - Lavrov http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/5-august-the-investigation-of-the-crash-of-boeing-in-the … #Ukraine via @KFM936

Russian doublespeak again—not really international—let’s see—there was Boeing the manufacturer, then the Dutch, the UK, the Malaysians who had citizens killed and then there was the Ukraine where it crashed AND then Russia who claimed to have sent information pointing to the Ukrainians being the blamed party.

So exactly how many countries does it take to be “international”?????

Again Russian doublespeak----
Lavrov: RF had called US and Kyiv to publish satellite images and talks of dispatchers http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/5-august-lavrov-rf-had-called-us-and-kyiv-to-publish-satellite … via @RT_russian

WHAT he means here is “please publish what you have” so we can come up with a new “fake story”.

Let's cut to the chase, Lavrov just wants to say the #MH17 investigations are horribly biased against Russia and shouldn't be trusted.

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Reference the MH17 shot down----Russia is working overtime to deflect anything pointing to them being involved in the shot down.

Somehow Lavrov fails to mention the Russians themselves pushed out six different stories largely lies to include their own MoD being caught at lying by social media open source analysis.

Lavrov working hard smearing the JIT investigation - Russian foreign minister: #MH17 investigation team "prejudiced" http://bit.ly/1SNith8

Again Russian doublespeak—guess prejudice is when you are caught with your hand in the cookie jar and try to sell it as a jam jar.

The investigation of the crash of Boeing in the Donbass was not really international - Lavrov http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/5-august-the-investigation-of-the-crash-of-boeing-in-the … #Ukraine via @KFM936

Russian doublespeak again—not really international—let’s see—there was Boeing the manufacturer, then the Dutch, the UK, the Malaysians who had citizens killed and then there was the Ukraine where it crashed AND then Russia who claimed to have sent information pointing to the Ukrainians being the blamed party.

So exactly how many countries does it take to be “international”?????

Again Russian doublespeak----
Lavrov: RF had called US and Kyiv to publish satellite images and talks of dispatchers http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/5-august-lavrov-rf-had-called-us-and-kyiv-to-publish-satellite … via @RT_russian

WHAT he means here is “please publish what you have” so we can come up with a new “fake story”.

Let's cut to the chase, Lavrov just wants to say the #MH17 investigations are horribly biased against Russia and shouldn't be trusted.

My the Russian FM Lavrov is more than a little sensitive as he fully knows this war crime could in fact land him and Putin in front of the Hague.

"Stop speculating on and politicizing the MH17 investigation!" yells Lavrov, before going into a rant about Western plots to frame Russia.

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Russia resorts to war in Donbas to prevent encirclement of Donetsk by ATO forces in 2014
http://www.unian.info/war/1108341-russia-resorts-to-war-in-donbas-to-prevent-encirclement-of-donetsk-by-ato-forces-in-2014.html … pic.twitter.com/R9MYgry436

Crimean "Berkut" meets Rus guests of banned festival «Befooz»
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCJpYoNhHwY …
Welcome to "Russian" Crimea ... pic.twitter.com/6Koec29zf7

Matios: Russian invasion in Ukraine planned since 2013
http://www.unian.info/war/1108350-matios-russian-invasion-in-ukraine-planned-since-2013.html … pic.twitter.com/NrwixnnCGq

Militants deliberately destroy infrastructure in Avdiivka. Effects of 3/4 Aug shelling - Abroskin pic.twitter.com/VMZh2WF0k2

Since the start of the year, as a result of shelling in Avdiivka, 31 civilians have been killed and 87 wounded - Abroskin

R-142N combined radio station vehicle (GAZ-66 with 2 aerials) in background, occupied Donbas https://vk.com/dnrarmy?w=wall-51146063_4751 … pic.twitter.com/GOLTXatotD

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Russian Soldier Promises His Friends to Kill Ukrainians 'the Same Way As Last Summer': https://en.informnapalm.org/russian-soldier-promises-his-friends-to-kill-ukrainians-the-same-way-as-last-summer/ … pic.twitter.com/WVAQ0KowLn

21 Jul article by @en_informnapalm on (not necess' same) R-142N Radiostation spotted in the ‘Sparta’ Training Camp https://en.informnapalm.org/r-142n-radiostation-is-spotted-in-the-sparta-training-camp/ …

Ukrenergo asks SBU to verify "strange accidents" at Akhmetov’s facilities
http://www.unian.info/economics/1108326-ukrenergo-asks-sbu-to-verify-strange-accidents-at-akhmetovs-facilities.html … pic.twitter.com/s8mGzrSHXC

Dokuchaevsk @shuttle1907 "Half day RUS stir suspiciously. They didn't stir for a long time like this. Preparing something".

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Discuss in various sub-groups of the Minsk Contact group on Ukraine will continue via "Skype" - Lavrov http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/5-august-discuss-in-various-subgroups-of-the-minsk-contact …

Well the US and French pressured unilateral appeasement moves in support of Putin’s own demands seems to have gone nowhere---really via Sykpe????

That is like saying we will continue face to face but via snail mail.

So much for the Western leaders unilateral appeasement approach—so now what is Plan X going to be????

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Appears that the Ukrainians understand Putin’s mind set and his intentions far better than Obama, Nuland, Kerry, Hollande and Merkel all put together.

http://www.unian.info/politics/1108256-militants-venture-to-gain-control-over-whole-donbas-with-local-elections-source.html

Militants venture to gain control over whole Donbas with local elections – source

05.08.2015 | 11:41


The Russian proxies from the self-styled DPR and LPR will try to seize power over the whole of Donbas by holding local elections in the occupied territories on October 25, simultaneously with the rest of Ukraine, apostrophe.com.ua reports citing a source in the Presidential Administration.

"Despite [opposite] claims, the leaders of DPR and LPR want to hold [local] elections at the same time with the rest of Ukraine, that is on October 25, in order to obtain legitimate authority over the whole of Donbas, not just a small part of it, which is now under their control, - in case of reintegration [of the temporarily occupied areas of Donetsk and Luhansk regions],"- the source has told the publication.

"Now, we are trying to disrupt these plans," he added.

In addition, according to the source, this is the reason why the draft law on local elections adopted by Verkhovna Rada on July 17 has not yet been signed by the President

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Russian Soldier Promises His Friends to Kill Ukrainians 'the Same Way As Last Summer': https://en.informnapalm.org/russian-soldier-promises-his-friends-to-kill-ukrainians-the-same-way-as-last-summer/ … pic.twitter.com/WVAQ0KowLn

21 Jul article by @en_informnapalm on (not necess' same) R-142N Radiostation spotted in the ‘Sparta’ Training Camp https://en.informnapalm.org/r-142n-radiostation-is-spotted-in-the-sparta-training-camp/ …

Ukrenergo asks SBU to verify "strange accidents" at Akhmetov’s facilities
http://www.unian.info/economics/1108326-ukrenergo-asks-sbu-to-verify-strange-accidents-at-akhmetovs-facilities.html … pic.twitter.com/s8mGzrSHXC

Dokuchaevsk @shuttle1907 "Half day RUS stir suspiciously. They didn't stir for a long time like this. Preparing something".

http://www.unian.info/economics/1108326-ukrenergo-asks-sbu-to-verify-strange-accidents-at-akhmetovs-facilities.html

Ukrenergo asks SBU to verify "strange accidents" at Akhmetov’s facilities

05.08.2015 | 16:17


Acting Director of state enterprise NPC Ukrenergo Yuriy Kasich addressed the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) to verify a number of "strange accidents" at the facilities of power generating companies, resulting in the necessity to cover the shortage of electricity by means of emergency supplies from the Russian Federation, as stated in a letter of Ukrenergo Acting Director sent to SBU chief Vasyl Hrytsak, referred to by Ukrainian news service at theinsider.ua.

In particular, Ukrenergo director claims that in recent days there have been five power outages at the sites of DTEK and the state company Energoatom.

"We have to note an increase in the idle time of power units during generation facilities emergency repairs at DTEK Dniproenergo, DTEK Zakhidenergo and DTEK Skhidenergo," the letter reads.

The SBU has been asked to deal with the situation that jeopardizes the country’s energy system and causes economic losses to the state.


Akhmetov is a proRussian Ukrainian oligarch and if his power plants are not producing then the Ukraine is forced to purchase power from Russia which might well be the intent behind the so called "outages".

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Discuss in various sub-groups of the Minsk Contact group on Ukraine will continue via "Skype" - Lavrov http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/5-august-discuss-in-various-subgroups-of-the-minsk-contact …

Well the US and French pressured unilateral appeasement moves in support of Putin’s own demands seems to have gone nowhere---really via Sykpe????

That is like saying we will continue face to face but via snail mail.

So much for the Western leaders unilateral appeasement approach—so now what is Plan X going to be????

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/08/russia-ukraine-conflict-minsk-ceasefire-passports/400505/?utm_source=SFTwitter

Is This the End of Ukraine’s Peace Process?

Having failed to achieve its objectives in Ukraine through negotiations, Russia is turning to other means.

Brian Whitmore
7:28 AM ET


Mykola Azarov’s call for early elections and “total regime change” in Kiev was a bit of a head-scratcher. The ousted Ukrainian prime minister, after all, is deeply unpopular in his homeland and—with the exception of Ukrainian prosecutors who want to put him on trial—largely forgotten.

But in a high-profile press conference in Moscow on August 3 that was carried live on Russian state television, Azarov announced the creation of a Ukraine Salvation Committee that aims to oust the pro-Western government of President Petro Poroshenko.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov said Moscow has nothing to do with the initiative. But that has about as much credibility as Peskov’s claim that the $620,000 watch he was photographed wearing at his wedding was a gift. In fact, Azarov’s announcement fits into a pattern that suggests that the Kremlin is giving up on the Minsk accords as a means to achieve its objectives in Ukraine and is shifting to other methods of pressuring Kiev.

These include calls to offer Russian citizenship to residents of the separatist-held areas of the Donbas region, suggestions that it may turn the territories into a Russian protectorate or annex them outright, and bellicose moves suggesting a fresh military offensive. At the heart of Moscow’s problem is that it doesn’t want these territories. It doesn’t want to govern them. It doesn’t want to shoulder the cost of rebuilding them. It wants to use them to undermine and paralyze Kiev.

“It’s a mechanism to distract and destabilize the government in Kiev,” Steven Pifer, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, told me recently. “They can ratchet pressure up or ratchet it down in eastern Ukraine to cause problems for the government in Kiev.”

But ultimately Russia wants to get the separatist territories reintegrated into a hyper-federalized Ukraine as a fifth column, with the ability to veto any attempts by the government in Kiev to integrate with the West. And these efforts are failing—and the Kremlin is flailing as it searches for an alternative.

“The bottom line is that Russia has no good options in the Donbas, and that really is the key. It is the owner of the region and whoever owns the territory is the loser,” Alexander Motyl, a professor at Rutgers University-Newark and commentator on Ukrainian affairs, told me.

Ukrainian officials and pro-Russian rebels haven’t found a solution because there isn’t a solution.

Ukrainian officials and pro-Moscow separatists went through the motions in Minsk again this week, just as they have been doing for months since the ceasefire was signed in the Belarusian capital in February. They pretended to negotiate about the future status of the so-called Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics and how they would be reintegrated into Ukraine. And they didn’t reach a solution, but they did agree to continue the farce via Skype. They didn’t find a solution because there isn’t a solution. The problem is irremediable.

The government in Kiev wants the region reintegrated only after separatist fighters disarm, after Russia withdraws its troops and weapons, after the border is returned to Ukraine’s control, and after free, fair, and internationally supervised elections are held. The Kremlin and its Donbas proxies want the territories reintegrated into Ukraine with autonomy so broad it would make the region a de facto Russian protectorate. They want the current separatist leaders legitimized as the region’s rulers and the separatist fighters instituted as its police force.

There is no compromise here that could satisfy both sides. It’s a deadlock—and a deadlock essentially favors Ukraine.

“Freezing the conflict is one of the better solutions for Ukraine and is actually bad for the Russians,” Motyl said. “The reason is that the Donbas enclave that is occupied by Russian and separatist troops is an economic mess. … It is [to] Ukraine’s advantage to keep that out of its control for as long as possible and for as much as possible, and it is to Russia’s disadvantage to be responsible for it.”

So if a deadlock favors Ukraine, then Russia understands that it has to break the deadlock. If Russia decided to issue passports to residents of the rebel-held territories in eastern Ukraine, it would change the nature of the conflict overnight.

If Russia doesn’t get what it wants from the Minsk peace process, it may be prepared to take some drastic steps.

And last week, Ihor Plotnitskiy, leader of the self-styled Luhansk People’s Republic, said separatist leaders were in talks with Moscow to do just that. And the announcement got a fair amount of traction in the Russian press, suggesting that it was being taken seriously. In a lengthy article on the news site Lenta.ru, Gevorg Mirzayan of the Institute for U.S. and Canadian Studies noted that the move would mark a significant shift in Kremlin policy.

“This would amount to Russia’s abandonment of the Minsk agreement and the reintegration of the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics back into Ukraine. It would mark a transition to Plan B, a frozen conflict and the establishment of a space of the Novorossia project,” Mirzayan wrote.

In addition to effectively burying the Minsk agreement, issuing passports to residents of the separatist-held territories would also mark a significant escalation of the conflict. Suddenly, it would not just be ethnic Russians that Moscow was claiming to defend in the Donbas, but Russian citizens—which would make it easier for Moscow to intervene openly and directly.

The announcement also dovetails with other proposals making the rounds in the Russian media. In an article in the influential military journal Voyennoye Obozreniya, analyst Valery Afanasyev argues that Moscow should aim to turn the separatist-held territories in eastern Ukraine into a second Belarus—an independent autocratic state completely dependent on Moscow.

And in the staunchly pro-Kremlin daily Izvestia, political commentator Aleksandr Chalenko called on Moscow to annex the territories outright. These moves would, of course, be extremely costly for Russia. They would almost certainly spark another round of sanctions, and Moscow would be saddled with the cost of rebuilding a war-torn and economically devastated region, losing any leverage it has over Kiev. And Ukraine would probably move quickly to integrate with the West.

Likewise, it is highly unlikely that the deeply unpopular Azarov will be able to spearhead regime change in Kiev. Instead, both initiatives smack of desperation. They also appear to be messages from Moscow to Kiev that if Russia doesn’t get what it wants from the Minsk peace process, it may be prepared to take some drastic steps.

Many especially the Russians and to a degree Hollande and Merkel all viewed the Ukraine as the "loser" when the Minsk 1 and 2 Agreements were signed.

It appears that through some very astute maneuvering based on the Ukrainians fully understanding the Putin mind set and a very resilient military that has been basically rebuilt from a 6K man army to well over 64K that has all but boxed in the Russian army and her mercenaries and unless they now resort to a full fledged expansion offensive is basically checkmated with Putin now being viewed the "loser" who has virtually nothing but bad choices he will have to make in the next few months.

While the UA is still taking KIAs/WIAs from the constant intense and heavy shellings and ground attacks--they have as well even boxed in the Russian Spetsnaz that was being used as the lead attack elements.

Actually when one thinks about it---with a determined army and volunteers they have "won" a military victory of sorts forcing the Russian military and Putin into a series of choices that have not good outcome for Russia----"won" with far less new technology and the latest weapons systems.

Appears the entire West was wrong when they kept repeating that the conflict "could not be won militarily"--their problem was they never defined what a "military win looks like".

Boxing in the Russian military inside an area the size of a shoebox, losing no new territory, and having Putin left holding the entire economic cost bag is a "win".

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Russia's Artic claim could expand its territory by 1.2 mn sqkm & give the country ~600 additional oil fields. http://barentsobserver.com/en/arctic/2015/08/russia-submits-claim-north-pole-04-08 …


Russia's 2001 submission was rejected by Continental Shelf Commission. Now trying to claim even more of the #Arctic! pic.twitter.com/aLsftiL0zw

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New Russian shelling tactics as of yesterday night—deep strikes in the rear—means Russian heavy artillery must be within 10kms of the front lines in total violation of Minsk 2—YET not a single complaint by any Western leader—total silence on their part.

Russia-backed militia shelled #Makiivka (deep in the rear!) : 8 buildings destroyed, 1 resident wounded.
@ostro_v pic.twitter.com/jqEC1kjpge

Deep strikes are also used to prep and shape the battlefield in Russian attack doctrine for follow on combined arms units.

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http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/08/russia-ukraine-conflict-minsk-ceasefire-passports/400505/?utm_source=SFTwitter

Is This the End of Ukraine’s Peace Process?

Having failed to achieve its objectives in Ukraine through negotiations, Russia is turning to other means.

Brian Whitmore
7:28 AM ET

Many especially the Russians and to a degree Hollande and Merkel all viewed the Ukraine as the "loser" when the Minsk 1 and 2 Agreements were signed.

It appears that through some very astute maneuvering based on the Ukrainians fully understanding the Putin mind set and a very resilient military that has been basically rebuilt from a 6K man army to well over 64K that has all but boxed in the Russian army and her mercenaries and unless they now resort to a full fledged expansion offensive is basically checkmated with Putin now being viewed the "loser" who has virtually nothing but bad choices he will have to make in the next few months.

While the UA is still taking KIAs/WIAs from the constant intense and heavy shellings and ground attacks--they have as well even boxed in the Russian Spetsnaz that was being used as the lead attack elements.

Actually when one thinks about it---with a determined army and volunteers they have "won" a military victory of sorts forcing the Russian military and Putin into a series of choices that have not good outcome for Russia----"won" with far less new technology and the latest weapons systems.

Appears the entire West was wrong when they kept repeating that the conflict "could not be won militarily"--their problem was they never defined what a "military win looks like".

Boxing in the Russian military inside an area the size of a shoebox, losing no new territory, and having Putin left holding the entire economic cost bag is a "win".

Notice how the Ukrainian President elegantly weaves the Russians back into Minsk 2 and at the same time positions them to be blamed if the Minsk 2 fails.

Putin had wanted to "freeze the eastern Ukraine" as leverage against the Ukrainian government but in the process they themselves have been "frozen".

http://www.unian.info/politics/1108487-poroshenko-dialogue-possible-with-donbas-after-legitimate-election.html

Poroshenko: dialogue possible with Donbas after legitimate election

05.08.2015 | 18:52


Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has told German weekly news magazine Stern that he is ready to hold a dialogue with representatives of the occupied territories of Luhansk and Donetsk regions if they are elected in keeping with Ukrainian laws, DW's Ukrainian-language service reported.

If local elections in the districts in Donetsk and Luhansk regions that are not controlled by Kyiv are held in October under Ukrainian laws, Poroshenko is ready to hold a dialogue with their representatives, DW said.

If separatists hold their own local elections, as they plan now, this will only escalate the situation, the Ukrainian president said.

"I hate the idea of talking about the future of my country with representatives of another country who are not my countrymen," Poroshenko said.

In his words, these are "Russian puppets" who have taken control of occupied territories.

However, the president stressed that making a lasting peace requires the withdrawal of Russia's weapons from Donbas. What is more, the border between Ukraine and Russia needs to be sealed in order to prevent further arms supplies from Russia.

"Once weapons, ammunition and soldiers stop flowing into the country, peace will be restored immediately," Poroshenko added.

As was earlier reported, leader of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic (LPR) Igor Plotnitsky scheduled the so-called local elections in LPR-controlled territory for November 1, 2015.

At the same time, Russian-backed militants form the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic, which controls several districts in Donetsk region, announced their "local" elections will be held on October 18, 2015.

Russia totally slipped up and allowed the passage "elections in accordance with Ukrainian elections laws" to slide into the Minsk 2 agreement and a number of pundits have been all along saying Russia was looking for a way to not hold those elections.

Under Ukrainian election law means they must be Ukrainian citizens, have been registered as residing n the Donbas prior to the election and be on the electoral voting rolls --which means most of the Russian mercenaries cannot vote.

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More from the Russian altered state of reality.

MFA Russia ✔ @mfa_russia
#Lavrov: The U.S. is building missile defense in cooperation with Japan and South Korea, which is not helpful at all @RusEmb_Korea

Notice Lavrov says nothing about NK missiles systems coming online.

MFA Russia ✔ @mfa_russia
#Lavrov: Barack Obama said if Iran issue is resolved,missile defense in Europe would be no need.It seems that he was not telling the truth

Obama never said that exactly as the Iranian missile development was not throttled by the new deal.

MFA Russia ✔ @mfa_russia
#Lavrov: The fact that U.S. dropped from the ABM Treaty some time ago was a destabilizing factor of global importance

When Bush 2 dropped out of the ABM the Russians did not complain with a single word when he informed them of his decision.

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Maxim Tucker @MaxRTucker
.@Newsweek has now uploaded #Ukraine's 'DPR dirty bomb' documents here: http://www.scribd.com/doc/273410562/Donetsk-Radioactive-Waste-Documentshey … Given to OSCE, US, UK before publication.

OSCE still cannot get into the nuclear waster storage site---Russian mercenaries refused to allow them to enter the bunker area.

Reference the chemical plant and the nuclear waste storage site--THIS tonight!!!!

19:27 Massive explosion was felt in #Donetsk (strong air blast)
brkng images pic.twitter.com/fF6Y1YBAfg

Massive explosion in #Donetsk: https://twitter.com/666_mancer/status/628968703028273152 …

more Donetsk pix https://twitter.com/Ykraino4_ka/status/628969110018359297 …

Said to be chemical plant again

19:28 #Donetsk @ADivinorum "What was it? It opened windows a bit, curtains danced. I was in and didn't get direction"

19:31 #Donetsk @zzzwefzzz 5 min ago house was once shaked. No explosion was heard just strong vibration

19:28 #Donetsk @OldHistoric Again chemical plant blown up?How many storages are left there?
@Ukr_Che 4th since autumn? 3 more

two more, yes, it's DZKHI pic.twitter.com/KlgCDRKRce

Another picture from #Donetsk explosion:
pic.twitter.com/kIh6DKboqH

19:34 #Donetsk @OldHistoric The wave shows that it was an underground blast, no sound was heard, just house shaked once

19:59 #Donetsk @sex_Dombas "Let me remind, there is about 240 tonnes of exlosives at #Donetsk chemical plant, 60 are already blown up"
VIDEO: Footage of explosion in Donetsk this evening
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ew8AsAHOsZI … pic.twitter.com/Wh28vlwqHF

Donetsk: 1/2 hr ago, 'mashroom cloud' of the blast at chemical plant pic.twitter.com/ngHXFeECDM

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19:14 #Donetsk Kyivsky @UrriKara4en From the north one can hear active shooting, mostly SA & MG, but also heavy one happens

19:16 #Donetsk @Buzzing_Rook What was it just now? Something exploded as if MLRS load flew over, or not?

Donetsk, huge explosion shocks the city, 19:27

19:00 #Maryinka @hyeva_maryinka [vk] Excepting sporadicmachine gun bursts in mine shaft area, it is quiet here

19:27 Massive explosion was felt in #Donetsk (strong air blast)
brkng images pic.twitter.com/fF6Y1YBAfg

Massive explosion in #Donetsk: https://twitter.com/666_mancer/status/628968703028273152 …

more Donetsk pix https://twitter.com/Ykraino4_ka/status/628969110018359297 …

Said to be chemical plant again

19:28 #Donetsk @ADivinorum "What was it? It opened windows a bit, curtains danced. I was in and didn't get direction"

19:27 #Donetsk Semashko @kaktusjara Something boomed
19:30 Kalininsky @DoneckiiPatriot Distant volleys were heard

19:31 #Donetsk @zzzwefzzz 5 min ago house was once shaked. No explosion was heard just strong vibration

19:28 #Donetsk @OldHistoric Again chemical plant blown up?How many storages are left there?
@Ukr_Che 4th since autumn? 3 more

two more, yes, it's DZKHI pic.twitter.com/KlgCDRKRce

Another picture from #Donetsk explosion:
pic.twitter.com/kIh6DKboqH

19:34 #Donetsk @OldHistoric The wave shows that it was an underground blast, no sound was heard, just house shaked once

Tracking Down A Scout From The 136th Brigade: https://en.informnapalm.org/tracking-down-a-scout-from-the-136th-brigade/ … pic.twitter.com/tISgWhSJS6

Horror Stories from Russian Fighters in Ukraine’s War Zone: Shot, Buried Alive,… http://euromaidanpress.com/2015/08/05/horror-stories-from-russian-fighters-in-ukraine/ … pic.twitter.com/ngjd7XdLmV

Donetsk Biryuzova, more photos of the same 'mashroom' @hyeva_maryinka pic.twitter.com/EAbn21Pssi
19:59 #Donetsk @sex_Dombas "Let me remind, there is about 240 tonnes of exlosives at #Donetsk chemical plant, 60 are already blown up"

VIDEO: Footage of explosion in Donetsk this evening
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ew8AsAHOsZI … pic.twitter.com/Wh28vlwqHF

Donetsk: 1/2 hr ago, 'mashroom cloud' of the blast at chemical plant pic.twitter.com/ngHXFeECDM

Russian army equipment shipped towards #Ukrainian border Video http://empr.media/video/conflict-zone/russian-army-equipment-shipped-towards-ukrainian-border …

20:00 #Maryinka @hyeva_maryinka [vk] Quiet here. They reported from Petrovsky ds, about 20min ago a blast wave went through, windows shaked

19:29 #Donetsk DK_Kuybysheva @Serzzze [fb] "Affirm, almost soundless vibration"

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http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/moscow-s-veto-of-mh17-tribunal-a-blunder-of-potentially-huge-proportions

August 5, 2015

Moscow’s Veto of MH17 Tribunal: A Blunder of Potentially Huge Proportions

By Ariel Cohen


On July 29, Russia vetoed a draft UN resolution seeking to set up a tribunal to prosecute those responsible for shooting down a Malaysia Airlines jumbo jet more than a year ago.

By exercising its Security Council veto against the resolution, Moscow has lost control of the process, committing a possible error that may ultimately lead to convictions of rebel leaders and Russian officials—and a new round of sanctions against the Kremlin. This appears to be a massive strategic misstep, which the West may exploit.

The jet, a Boeing 777 en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, fell out of the sky July 14, 2014, while flying over separatist-controlled territory in eastern Ukraine. The West as well as Kyiv blames the tragedy—which killed all 298 passengers and crew on board—on Russian-backed rebels using a Russian-supplied BUK M1 (SA-11 Gadfly) missile.

Yet Moscow continues to deny the obvious. In opposing last week's UN resolution, the Kremlin argued that no precedent exists for such a tribunal, citing at least three cases in which civilian aircraft were brought down by Soviet, Israeli and US troops in the 1970s and 1980s. However, in all three instances, the countries involved admitted responsibility, and Israel and the US paid reparations. If Russia had quickly admitted fault, it's unlikely the matter would have escalated to the Security Council. But its initial response was to deny involvement while stonewalling repeated attempts to gather more information. Under continued pressure, Russia claims it would agree to an international probe, but it persists in obfuscating the facts.

The world needs a thorough, unimpeded investigation to establish exactly what happened, and a tribunal to apportion blame, impose sanctions, and possibly award compensation, though this last may require additional civil courts. Five countries—Australia, Belgium, Malaysia, Netherlands and Ukraine—have asked the UN to appoint a tribunal under Article 7 of the UN Charter. The Security Council vote shows how isolated Moscow has become one year after the MH17 disaster. Of the council's fifteen members, eleven voted in favor, while the three countries that abstained—Angola, China and Venezuela—usually stand behind Russia on international matters.

"No veto will stand in the way of this heinous crime being investigated and prosecuted," Samantha Power, US Ambassador to the UN, told the Security Council. But in the wake of Russia's veto, the issue will now likely be remanded to the UN General Assembly—and this is where Moscow may have blundered. The General Assembly is not the Russia-friendly forum it once was. Russia has lost the support of a number of developing countries, including the Sunni Muslim emirates of the Persian Gulf, which have not forgiven the Kremlin for supporting either the Assad regime in Syria, or the Shi'ite theocracy that rules Iran.

Why, then, did Russia cast its veto? Certainly it wasn't just about defending separatist Ukrainian rebels. A reluctance to give up sovereign rights and jurisdiction to an international body such as the UN may have driven the decision. But the Kremlin may also worry that the tribunal's work could point to higher-ups in the Russian military or even in Russia's political structure. In addition, Moscow fears that the tribunal's work could drag conclusive proof of close ties between Russia and Ukrainian separatist groups into the public sphere. And finally, the threat of economic or transport sanctions continually hangs over Russia. Hence, the nyet.

If in fact the General Assembly can't muster the two-thirds vote it needs to override the Russian veto, the five aggrieved nations that sought the tribunal in the first place may attempt to carry on through their own domestic, national courts. Alternatively, the UN might let those five countries form a joint tribunal. Procedural machinations aside, the Russian veto begs a further question: It appears Moscow exercised its veto purely for its own interests, in order to block the investigation and impede justice. Even if this veto was legal, was it moral? Should a country not recognize that it has a larger moral duty in an international tribunal, even when it goes against the country's narrow national interest?

At any rate, the UN does have the legal ability to continue its investigation without Russia's permission. One thing is certain: If the UN invokes Article 7, all member states will be obligated to fully cooperate, leading to the possible imposition of sanctions.

The Dutch Safety Board will issue its final report on MH17 in October, increasing the chances that the General Assembly will move to establish a tribunal. But whatever path the UN chooses, it is clear that Russia has lost its ability to influence events. Last week's veto marks a watershed in how Russia views the UN. The double standard is obvious: after two decades of blasting Washington for bypassing that world body—on Iraq and other issues—it seems Moscow has now lost faith in the UN's ability to remain impartial.

Since MH17's downing, Russia has blamed everyone but itself for the tragedy. Thanks to the Kremlin's extensive propaganda blitz, a Levada Center poll found last month that 44 percent of Russians hold the Ukrainians responsible, while 17 percent say that the US is to blame, and a mere 2 percent consider Russia the culprit. However, last week's Security Council vote strongly suggests that the rest of the world views the shootdown very differently, and by rejecting the formation of a tribunal, Russia may have set the stage for an even more embarrassing, and potentially damaging, General Assembly vote—as well as other legal steps it might later regret.

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Reference the chemical plant and the nuclear waste storage site--THIS tonight!!!!

19:27 Massive explosion was felt in #Donetsk (strong air blast)
brkng images pic.twitter.com/fF6Y1YBAfg

Massive explosion in #Donetsk: https://twitter.com/666_mancer/status/628968703028273152 …

more Donetsk pix https://twitter.com/Ykraino4_ka/status/628969110018359297 …

Said to be chemical plant again

19:28 #Donetsk @ADivinorum "What was it? It opened windows a bit, curtains danced. I was in and didn't get direction"

19:31 #Donetsk @zzzwefzzz 5 min ago house was once shaked. No explosion was heard just strong vibration

19:28 #Donetsk @OldHistoric Again chemical plant blown up?How many storages are left there?
@Ukr_Che 4th since autumn? 3 more

two more, yes, it's DZKHI pic.twitter.com/KlgCDRKRce

Another picture from #Donetsk explosion:
pic.twitter.com/kIh6DKboqH

19:34 #Donetsk @OldHistoric The wave shows that it was an underground blast, no sound was heard, just house shaked once

19:59 #Donetsk @sex_Dombas "Let me remind, there is about 240 tonnes of exlosives at #Donetsk chemical plant, 60 are already blown up"
VIDEO: Footage of explosion in Donetsk this evening
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ew8AsAHOsZI … pic.twitter.com/Wh28vlwqHF

Donetsk: 1/2 hr ago, 'mashroom cloud' of the blast at chemical plant pic.twitter.com/ngHXFeECDM

Again explosions at the Donetsk Chemical Plant (suspect of dirty bomb being created there). https://twitter.com/loogunda/status/628969152255008768 …

More footage of Donetsk explosion this evening
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SKLcVKACdN4 … pic.twitter.com/9OhWvppJ2v

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Originally there were three EU FMs who worked out the initial Maidan Agreement--Poland, France and Germany.

During the Normandy Four arrangement it then was only France and Germany with the French and Germans actually pushing Poland to the side out of fear they would be to aggressive with the Russians--actually think Putin pushed Germany and Germany pushed then Poland out of the Minsk agreements as there has been inherent tension between the two as Poland has taken a strong position on defense spending, NATO and Putin. AND their strong support for the Ukraine and the Baltics.

President-elect says #Poland should be part of #Ukraine peace talks
Bhttp://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN0QA1CE20150805?irpc=932

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AND we are off running on the shelling front again tonight---late start.

Dzerzhynsk and #Horlivka: distant booms heard, not very intense. Warm-up?

21:18 #Dzerzhynsk @blessmaster A bit noisy. Many singles sounding like a carpet is beaten, sometimes bombs and various automatic weapons.

21:31 #Horlivka Kalinovka @UA_Gorlivka Profound silence here

21:31 #Horlivka @tgorlovka Single outgoing. In Komsomolets one can hear 2sec volley-blast interval

21:40 #Horlivka @77bot1 Inflammation at KSM and in #Mykytivka direction

21:51 #Horlivka @77bot1 Update: 6-7mine, not KSM https://twitter.com/loogunda/status/629002866649382913 …

21:40 #Krasnohorivka @hyeva_maryinka Quiet in the town. Around 19:30-19:40 there was strong boom and blast wave [came from Donetsk?]

21:59 #Donetsk @vladicvp "Small arms a-go-go slightly mixed with machine guns" [=intense shooting]

22:02 #Dzerzhynsk @blessmaster It rumbles mostly in #Mayorsk direction

22:02 #Horlivka @adochek Salvos are clearly heard, close explosions. 3-4 sec betw/them. Moreover there are explosions not after each volley

22:01 #Dzerzhynsk @blessmaster New series of salvos, we're shaking.Various sound volume, sound quality, incoming&outgoing,various sites.

22:03 #Horlivka @andreyboss77 Impacts on 5th block

22:06 #Horlivka @062_Region 5th block: rumble, close hits

22:11 #Horlivka @UA_Gorlivka Lights are blinking and silence

22:12 #Horlivka @kapralukr Flashes in Rumyantsevo settlement direction

This report is highly unusual----has been a serious hotspot for over two weeks and then silence?????
22:12 #Starohnativka @Staroignatievca It has been quiet all day

22:05#Donetsk @10mregoist Hardware column w/switched off lights moved thru Azotny tow/Kuybyshevska mine

Russian Army motor rifle infantryman, occupied Donbas, Ukraine, May 2015 https://vk.com/warsonline_military_observer?w=wall-62474637_164319 … pic.twitter.com/qUw27ZgjVO

22:23 #Dzerzhynsk @blessmaster Heavy weapons ceased, something lighter started to hit #Shumy area

22:24 #Horlivka @062_Region At 6-7 heavy weapons calmed down, now skirmish, AGL sometimes

Dzerzhynsk 22:02
Noisy mainly towards #Mayorsk https://twitter.com/blessmaster/status/629004657663299584 …

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Today, Militants released 20 Ukrainian prisoners from pre-trial detention facility
http://uatoday.tv/society/militants-release-20-ukrainian-prisoners-from-pre-trial-detention-facility-469630.html … pic.twitter.com/LQlHKacHjz

Mark Galeotti @MarkGaleotti
#Russia paratroop cdr says ready to help #Syria vs 'terrorists' if govt orders. A meaningless reassurance or portent?
http://tass.ru/en/russia/812480 …


DUBROVICHI RANGE /Ryazan region/, August 4. /TASS/. The Russian Airborne Troops are ready to assist Syria in countering terrorists, if such a task is set by Russia’s leaders, commander of the Airborne Troops Colonel-General Vladimir Shamanov told reporters on Tuesday.

"Of course we will execute the decisions set forth by the country’s leadership, if there is a task at hand," Shamanov said, in response to a Syrian reporter’s question about the readiness of the Russian Airborne Troops to render assistance to Syria’s government in its battle against terrorism.

Shamanov noted that Russia and Syria have "long-term good relations." "Many Syrian experts, including military, received education in the Soviet Union and in Russia," Shamanov added.

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Let’s see three Russian trolls argue the article is rubbish, then the Russia mercenaries deny today that the nuclear waste storage site has not been breached BUT offer no video proof.

But the OSCE cannot confirm nor deny as the Russian mercenaries do not allow them access to the site.

Tend to think with OSCE not being allowed to check ie confirm and or deny------the UK Times might in fact be correct----

Reference---Maxim Tucker @MaxRTucker
Interview with BBC Radio about investigating #Ukraine's claim separatists are developing a dirty radioactive weapon https://soundcloud.com/max-tucker-1/...shour-1-august …

Once you pop, the fun don't stop. SBU detained batch of U-238 in Ivano-Frankivsk http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/5-august-sbu-detained-chips-package-with--uranium238-in-ivanofrankivsk … pic.twitter.com/K8p3YvZXzY via @tweetsNV

Uranium-238 In Pringles cans https://twitter.com/Liveuamap/status/629011627497660416 …

Thats just nasty, question is if it's for foreign sale or domestic use==good SBU was aware and arrested

English translation of relevant parts of article pic.twitter.com/w8zpVM8uwf

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AND we are off running on the shelling front again tonight---late start.

Dzerzhynsk and #Horlivka: distant booms heard, not very intense. Warm-up?

21:18 #Dzerzhynsk @blessmaster A bit noisy. Many singles sounding like a carpet is beaten, sometimes bombs and various automatic weapons.

21:31 #Horlivka Kalinovka @UA_Gorlivka Profound silence here

21:31 #Horlivka @tgorlovka Single outgoing. In Komsomolets one can hear 2sec volley-blast interval

21:40 #Horlivka @77bot1 Inflammation at KSM and in #Mykytivka direction

21:51 #Horlivka @77bot1 Update: 6-7mine, not KSM https://twitter.com/loogunda/status/629002866649382913 …

21:40 #Krasnohorivka @hyeva_maryinka Quiet in the town. Around 19:30-19:40 there was strong boom and blast wave [came from Donetsk?]

21:59 #Donetsk @vladicvp "Small arms a-go-go slightly mixed with machine guns" [=intense shooting]

22:02 #Dzerzhynsk @blessmaster It rumbles mostly in #Mayorsk direction

22:02 #Horlivka @adochek Salvos are clearly heard, close explosions. 3-4 sec betw/them. Moreover there are explosions not after each volley

22:01 #Dzerzhynsk @blessmaster New series of salvos, we're shaking.Various sound volume, sound quality, incoming&outgoing,various sites.

22:03 #Horlivka @andreyboss77 Impacts on 5th block

22:06 #Horlivka @062_Region 5th block: rumble, close hits

22:11 #Horlivka @UA_Gorlivka Lights are blinking and silence

22:12 #Horlivka @kapralukr Flashes in Rumyantsevo settlement direction

This report is highly unusual----has been a serious hotspot for over two weeks and then silence?????
22:12 #Starohnativka @Staroignatievca It has been quiet all day

22:05#Donetsk @10mregoist Hardware column w/switched off lights moved thru Azotny tow/Kuybyshevska mine

Russian Army motor rifle infantryman, occupied Donbas, Ukraine, May 2015 https://vk.com/warsonline_military_observer?w=wall-62474637_164319 … pic.twitter.com/qUw27ZgjVO

22:23 #Dzerzhynsk @blessmaster Heavy weapons ceased, something lighter started to hit #Shumy area

22:24 #Horlivka @062_Region At 6-7 heavy weapons calmed down, now skirmish, AGL sometimes

Dzerzhynsk 22:02
Noisy mainly towards #Mayorsk https://twitter.com/blessmaster/status/629004657663299584 …

Volnovakha 22:41 It's quiet here.
But it was loud approx. between 20:00-21:30. https://twitter.com/solomazheka/status/629014323772395520 …

10:41 #Donetsk center @papandopoolo It rumbles remotely in the north direction

22:31 #Horlivka 245th block @sau152mm [Rumble heard from the west]

22:47 #Horlivka Central city area @DobryShubin Again small arms fire in the center

22:49 #Dzerzhynsk @blessmaster In the south something explodes softly and frequent as if chinese squibs, non-stop
[AA-gun?]

22:35 #Lutuhyne @LutuginskyRayon [MLRS] volley was heard from #Oleksandrivsk range direction

22:49 #Horlivka Stroitel @ahab7822 One can see tracers in the sky in Stroitel from 245th block & knitting factory

#Horlivka 22:50
Shooting at UAV. Tracers in the sky towards Aleksandrovska park https://twitter.com/DobryShubin/status/629016539526774784 …

22:53 #Dzerzhynsk @blessmaster Relatively quiet, sporadic short bursts

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AND we are off running on the shelling front again tonight---late start.

Dzerzhynsk and #Horlivka: distant booms heard, not very intense. Warm-up?

21:18 #Dzerzhynsk @blessmaster A bit noisy. Many singles sounding like a carpet is beaten, sometimes bombs and various automatic weapons.

21:31 #Horlivka Kalinovka @UA_Gorlivka Profound silence here

21:31 #Horlivka @tgorlovka Single outgoing. In Komsomolets one can hear 2sec volley-blast interval

21:40 #Horlivka @77bot1 Inflammation at KSM and in #Mykytivka direction

21:51 #Horlivka @77bot1 Update: 6-7mine, not KSM https://twitter.com/loogunda/status/629002866649382913 …

21:40 #Krasnohorivka @hyeva_maryinka Quiet in the town. Around 19:30-19:40 there was strong boom and blast wave [came from Donetsk?]

21:59 #Donetsk @vladicvp "Small arms a-go-go slightly mixed with machine guns" [=intense shooting]

22:02 #Dzerzhynsk @blessmaster It rumbles mostly in #Mayorsk direction

22:02 #Horlivka @adochek Salvos are clearly heard, close explosions. 3-4 sec betw/them. Moreover there are explosions not after each volley

22:01 #Dzerzhynsk @blessmaster New series of salvos, we're shaking.Various sound volume, sound quality, incoming&outgoing,various sites.

22:03 #Horlivka @andreyboss77 Impacts on 5th block

22:06 #Horlivka @062_Region 5th block: rumble, close hits

22:11 #Horlivka @UA_Gorlivka Lights are blinking and silence

22:12 #Horlivka @kapralukr Flashes in Rumyantsevo settlement direction

This report is highly unusual----has been a serious hotspot for over two weeks and then silence?????
22:12 #Starohnativka @Staroignatievca It has been quiet all day

22:05#Donetsk @10mregoist Hardware column w/switched off lights moved thru Azotny tow/Kuybyshevska mine

Russian Army motor rifle infantryman, occupied Donbas, Ukraine, May 2015 https://vk.com/warsonline_military_observer?w=wall-62474637_164319 … pic.twitter.com/qUw27ZgjVO

22:23 #Dzerzhynsk @blessmaster Heavy weapons ceased, something lighter started to hit #Shumy area

22:24 #Horlivka @062_Region At 6-7 heavy weapons calmed down, now skirmish, AGL sometimes

Dzerzhynsk 22:02
Noisy mainly towards #Mayorsk https://twitter.com/blessmaster/status/629004657663299584 …

Let's see--DoS Kerry and the Russians say the UNSC should investigate the possible use of chemical weapons in Syria--BUT social media open source analysis has provided the evidence for now roughly eight months BUT the US said nothing.

THEN Obama states yesterday it is either war with Iran and or a deal

BUT when there is an actual war ongoing in Central Europe created out of an invasion by Russia NEITHER say a single word.

THAT is the state of the current US Foreign Policy---actually there is no FP.

65 times Russian forces broke ceasefire yesterday(-16) http://liveuamap.com pic.twitter.com/x1pO5tvMod

#Maryinka 7:40AM
VK: "Distant, muffled, but audible series volleys. #Krasnohorivka, must be in your area, how r u?" https://twitter.com/hyeva_maryinka/status/629155567454527488 …

Maryinka 6:25AM
Fire exchange can be heard tow. #Krasnohorivka, and one shot at us in Novomarinka or hospital area https://twitter.com/hyeva_maryinka/status/629136548085297152 …

6:40AM "... but it seems that it is much closer, maybe Lozovskyi".

Donetsk 6:30AM
In the North, from the #Pisky, hear active shooting with machine guns and small arms. https://twitter.com/UrriKara4en/status/629136136066174976 …

Avdiivka
4:32AM LOUD!
4:54AM Calmed down since 10 mins. https://twitter.com/JuZolyshkaLia/status/629102788467924992 …

23:35 #Makiiva @NeilRem 3 outgoing D-30 prohectiles from Gvardeysky

After midninght russians shelled #Leninske and #Mayorsk with 120-mm mortars. #Optyne was under tanks fire between 1AM-3AM.

Does not appear that the Russians are even attempting to comply with any point of Minsk 2----

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AT the beginning now a year ago the US media and the US government constantly talked about informational warfare, hybrid warfare and Russian propaganda---one year later utter silence.

Finally a study on the use of the Russian trolling system as part and parcel of their "weaponization of information".

Canada at NATO ✔ @CanadaNATO
Look forward to September release of study on internet trolling as weapon of hybrid warfare: http://www.stratcomcoe.org/lv/NewsandEvents/News/2015/7/30.aspx … pic.twitter.com/zjfvlncK2U

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Ukraine puts Chief of General Staff Russian Armed Forces Valery Gerasimov on ‘wanted’ list

http://www.euronews.com/2015/08/05/ukraine-puts-top-russian-general-gerasimov-on-most-wanted-list/ … pic.twitter.com/EcwBd2vhBS

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Reference---Maxim Tucker @MaxRTucker
Interview with BBC Radio about investigating #Ukraine's claim separatists are developing a dirty radioactive weapon https://soundcloud.com/max-tucker-1/...shour-1-august …

Once you pop, the fun don't stop. SBU detained batch of U-238 in Ivano-Frankivsk http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/5-august-sbu-detained-chips-package-with--uranium238-in-ivanofrankivsk … pic.twitter.com/K8p3YvZXzY via @tweetsNV

Uranium-238 In Pringles cans https://twitter.com/Liveuamap/status/629011627497660416 …

Thats just nasty, question is if it's for foreign sale or domestic use==good SBU was aware and arrested

English translation of relevant parts of article pic.twitter.com/w8zpVM8uwf


And here is the video. Seems they keep experimenting...
https://twitter.com/loogunda/status/628976812543094786 …


NOTICE--virtually no western mass media news outlet has picked up on Max Tuckers article other than his own newspaper.

The interesting question is WHY is that when the US always talks about WMD?????

RIGHT NOW the entire Russian occupied eastern Ukraine is literally AWASH with MANPADs a form of WMD against civilian aircraft that the US "claimed" for years they were trying to keep out of the hands of terrorists regardless of political colors.

NOW utter silence about MANPADs and nuclear waste materials.

WHY is it that it is the social media open source analysis that keeps tracking this particular issue??

Appears if your are IS you are in some serious trouble--everyone else it is OK especially "state actors".

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Reference---Maxim Tucker @MaxRTucker
Interview with BBC Radio about investigating #Ukraine's claim separatists are developing a dirty radioactive weapon https://soundcloud.com/max-tucker-1/...shour-1-august …

Once you pop, the fun don't stop. SBU detained batch of U-238 in Ivano-Frankivsk http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/5-august-sbu-detained-chips-package-with--uranium238-in-ivanofrankivsk … pic.twitter.com/K8p3YvZXzY via @tweetsNV

Uranium-238 In Pringles cans https://twitter.com/Liveuamap/status/629011627497660416 …

Thats just nasty, question is if it's for foreign sale or domestic use==good SBU was aware and arrested

English translation of relevant parts of article pic.twitter.com/w8zpVM8uwf

BREAKING SBU captured 4 gang-members in West Ukraine region smuggling nuclear material.http://www.sbu.gov.ua/sbu/control/uk/publish/article;jsessionid=D6E210765F2A7B036B528D9DFF4FBD1 B.app1?art_id=153794&cat_id=39574 …
pic.twitter.com/lpYJLQk57r

Video source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhpsc6jB5Sk …
Also see: http://lugansk-news.com/pro-russian-terrorists-in-donetsk-shelled-residential-building-by-a-tank-video/ …

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Russian propaganda video says Ukrainians shot Donetsk with tank like this. But the tracers show different
@AbraxasSpa pic.twitter.com/tALzAx9ITn

In Donetsk direction yesterday, militants more than 40 times attacked UKR positions & civilian areas - Sector B spox
http://112.ua/ato/na-doneckom-napravlenii-za-sutki-boeviki-sovershili-bolee-40-obstrelov-silkin-250178.html …

Two soldiers of the 92nd Brigade were wounded last night during militant shelling of Shchastya - Luhansk RSA
https://m.facebook.com/odalug/posts/455880854594220 …

14 russian attacks along the contact line in Luhansk region, 2 wounded Ukr soldiers taken to #Shchastya hospital. https://twitter.com/ATOspeaker/status/629179131511603200 …

Russia and Putin are appearing to have “lost the plot” as time goes by------

In which Russian officials accuse a jewish billionaire of using British historians to spread Nazi propaganda. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/11786024/Russian-region-bans-British-historians-books-on-Second-World-War.html?fb_ref=Default …

Dzerzhynsk
Yuzhnaya mine burned all night
Some shooting from, others at it. Both sides to blame fr city destruction https://twitter.com/dimetros7776/status/629177008984072192 …

Maryinka 9AM
"Finally quiet in the region. In the city is also calm."

08:20 #Donetsk @PVB40 [fb] Some rally near Park Inn hotel, where #OSCE observers dwell

Krasnohorivka 9:01AM
Shooting on the east side of the city https://twitter.com/hyeva_maryinka/status/629172041611087872 …

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Heads up Obama, Kerry, Nuland, Hollande and Merkel—this is the exact area of the “so called sign of good faith” unilateral appeasement move you demanded of the Ukraine.

NOTICE that “sign” appears to have not applied to the Russians—typical Russian Orwellian doublespeak—“you must show a sign of good faith—BUT it does not apply to me”.

Tymchuk: Two enemy mil equipm bases near #Mariupol: At #Sakhanka 23-25 pcs of equipm, 8 tanks; at #Bezimenne 30 pcs of equipm, 11-12 tanks.

Ukraine has pulled all tanks and heavy weapons out of the DMZ area and that was verified by OSCE AND the Russians???

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Russian left hand not knowing what Putin’s right hand is doing…….

Medvedev has asked Putin to consider counter-sanctions vs more countries, including Norway, but Norway has been on the list since Aug '14?!

He must be trying to score points with the Russian population after Putin signed the destroy the illegally imported sanctioned food at the border and document it—WHICH evidently most Russians were against when they were polled about it.

BTW--when Russian sanctioned and restricted Polish apples from the Russian market they assumed they would be hurting the Polish economy--Poland increased sales of apples and other agricultural products by over 8% since the sanctions went into effect --what a misfire of Russian sanctions.

pic.twitter.com/WZIqGKudpX

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Gerasimov - founder of Russian hybrid war doctrinehttp://aillarionov.livejournal.com/704238.html (РУС)
https://inmoscowsshadows.wordpress.com/2014/07/06/the-gerasimov-doctrine-and-russian-non-linear-war/ …

(ENG) https://twitter.com/GorseFires/status/629055480816660483 …

Maxim Tucker @MaxRTucker
Scarily prescient 2008 opinion piece on #Putin's Russia going after #Ukraine... https://twitter.com/Euan_MacDonald/status/629167488446656512 …

Over 2,800 Ukrainians released from militant captivity, 183 prisoners remain – Advisor to SBU Chief
http://en.interfax.com.ua/news/general/282303.html …

Putin plays de-escalation spectacle, while no real end of war anticipated - Butusov
https://m.facebook.com/butusov.yuriy/posts/1029521273754835?pnref=story …

Experts predict impending currency deficit in Russia
http://www.unian.info/economics/1108642-experts-predict-impending-currency-deficit-in-russia.html …

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Russia's Artic claim could expand its territory by 1.2 mn sqkm & give the country ~600 additional oil fields. http://barentsobserver.com/en/arctic/2015/08/russia-submits-claim-north-pole-04-08 …

Appears both Obama and his entire 400 plus NSC completely missed the Russian move to militarize virtually the entire Artic--or does anyone have an explanation for their utter silence on this????

US Admiral: Russia militarizing Arctic, making it "locked area"http://www.unian.info/world/1108633-us-admiral-russia-militarizing-arctic-making-it-locked-area.html … pic.twitter.com/Xa8o1lozvk

Obama should remember that the UN Commission on the Artic rejected a smaller claim by Russia in 2001 BUT this time Russia sent in troops, naval units, AF and built bases virtually annexing their claim AND then informed the UN--AND Obama's and his NSC's response---ZERO.

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In August 2015, #Ukraine lost 14 of it's soldiers, 57 wounded. And we are only on day 6 of this month.

5 Ukrainian Soldiers Killed, 6 Wounded, With Heavy Fighting Around Schastye, Gorlovka And Donetsk.

Near the village of Karlovka soldiers of the 74th Reconnaissance Battalion have stepped on a landmine. Three soldiers were killed.

In Mariupol sector, only one incident of enemy assault registered. Our positions near Hranitne shelled with mortars – #ATO Spokesperson

The 15th Brigade Contract Soldier Is Noticed in Krasnodon: https://en.informnapalm.org/the-15th-brigade-contract-soldier-is-noticed-in-krasnodon/ … pic.twitter.com/ksAp4KG8SC

Col. Motuzyanyk: 3 more UAVs were detected over the Crimea and on the RU-UA border in the north of UA http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/6-august-col-oleksandr-motuzyanyk-3-more-uavs-were-detected …

Col. Motuzyanyk: 13 flights of enemy UAVs were recorded within the military operation area.

Another Russian Spetsnaz attack pushed back by the UA—
Col. Motuzyanyk: Attempt of hostile sabotage-reconnaissance groups to take over UA positions near Maryinka was recorded. Attempt failed

ATO spox: 24/7 fighting in the western suburbs of Donetsk - residential areas of Avdiivka were under heavy shelling pic.twitter.com/s4QRDBvLv2

ATO spokesperson: To the north and west of Horlivka situation remains difficult – the worst is along the railroad Donetsk – Horlivka.

Col. Motuzyanyk: Donetsk sector: Few episodes with guns and grenade launchers against UA positions were recorded in Luhanske and Lozove.

ATO spox: 2-hour-long shelling of UA positions occurred near Zolote. Militants used artillery and ATGM against UA positions near Troitske.

ATO spox: Hostile armed provocation from the right high bank of the Siversky Donets river took place against UA Army near Stanytsia Luhanska

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Alexander Hug: There was an intensification in fighting in other areas, especially in and around #Horlivka.

It must be stressed that most of the violence we witnessed occurred in residential areas. Most of the victims were civilians –long as both sides continue to maintain firing positions in residential areas, this is set to continue.

Shyrokyne remained largely calm, SMM noted a limited number of civilians–included mayor– in the village this week– SMM Deputy Chief Monitor

OSCE_SMM continued to observe ceasefire violations, including by tanks & smaller caliber weapons

And 7 years ago, on 6th August 2008 Russia began provocations in South Osetia,shelling Georgian villages with mortars pic.twitter.com/ninzjU11ZA

Russia annexed Crimea with same script as USSR annexed Estonia https://twitter.com/AndriiOlefirov/status/629227626335457280 … pic.twitter.com/8jjOEpJNZz

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Latitude 67N SIGINT @uascan
RUAF VHF comms consistent with SU24 attack aircraft on marine mission in Baltic Sea

Russian militants firing range near Karlo-Marksove pic.twitter.com/OEnkA4L7Ny http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/6-august-russian-militants-firing-range-near-karlomarksove …

Krasnogorovka - small arms battle at the east http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/6-august-krasnogorovka--small-arms-battle-at-the-east …

Russian Spetsnaz still on the hunt for weak points in the UA defense lines—constantly being turned back by a very alert UA looking almost for these attacks to be coming their way as they seem to be a half step ahead of Spetsnaz in anticipating exactly where they will attack next---

In the areas of Troitske and Chermalyk at least 3 small infantry groups tried to breakthrough Ukrainian positions

LUGANSK_TODAY UPDATE! part of the video was geolocated, taken near #Donetsk. Read at http://lugansk-news.com/eleron-3sv-200k-russian-military-intelligence-drone-as-a-present-to-donetsk-terrorists/ … pic.twitter.com/H5zwSH2fZo

Russia calls Crimea its territory in December 2013
http://www.unian.info/politics/1108767-russia-calls-crimea-its-territory-in-december-2013.html … pic.twitter.com/5vPlZWuHXl

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http://maidantranslations.com/2015/08/06/dmitry-tymchuk-military-update-8-05-freesavchenko/

Dmitry Tymchuk: Military update 8.05

Posted on August 6, 2015 by chervonaruta

Translated and edited by Voices of Ukraine


Operational data from Information Resistance:

Russian-terrorist troops (RTT) in Donbas continue to carry out active shellings of the advanced positions, command posts, and bases of Ukrainian troops and civilian objects by using artillery (122 mm and 152 mm), 120 mm mortars, and armored vehicles.

Most of the terrorist attacks and armed provocations were recorded in the western and north-western outskirts of Donetsk, Horlivka, and west of Yasynuvata.

Thus, during the last 24 hours, militants have repeatedly carried out attacks on the positions of ATO forces north of Novhorodske and near the village itself, in the vicinity of Leninske and Artemove from 120 mm mortars and 122 mm artillery. Spotters of Russian-terrorist forces were observed within close range of the shellings.

The positions of Ukrainian troops in the area of Lozove, Vodyane, Opytne, and in the area north of Avdiivka were shelled from 122 mm artillery (in addition, residential areas in Avdiivka were also repeatedly shelled from 122 mm and 152 mm artillery.

In the area of Mar’inka, Opytne and Vodyane, the activities of several groups of enemy armored vehicles were recorded. In the area of Mar’inka, from the direction of Oleksandrivka, an armored group (two tanks and one BMP-2) was operating – shelling ATO positions from the “greenery,”advancing and leaving firing positions under cover of 82 mm mortars (tank guns made 5-6 shots each, and a BMP [infantry fighting vehicle] fired to provide cover).

In the area of Opytne, the enemy moved several armored vehicles (two T-64B tanks) to firing positions in the “greenery” in advance, after dark. Following additional reconnaissance, insurgents opened fire from their tank guns, after which the tanks retreated to their original line of defense in the depths of the RTT [Russian terrorist troops].

The positions of Ukrainian troops in the vicinity of Pervomaiske were shelled from 152 mm artillery. The enemy shelled the positions [of Ukrainian troops] near Vodyane, Pisky, and Opytne with 120 mm mortars (mainly aiming at shelters, blindages, and trenches).

In the area of Berezove and Hranitne, the enemy repeatedly opened fire from small arms, 82 mm mortars, AGS-17, and several times used ZU-23-2. The regrouping of RTT infantry groups was spotted along the front in this sector.

In the coastal area in the section between Sakhanka and Shyrokyne, several firefights with small arms were observed. To the north of this area, near Chermalyk and Mykolaivka, the enemy moved mortars to the front line (both 82 mm and 120 mm [calibers]) – at minimum, three firing positions of militant mortar units were observed (overall – up to six 82 mm mortars and about eight 120 mm mortars).

On the Svitlodarsk bridgehead, militants carry out attacks from small arms and AGS-17. On the bridgehead’s flank, from the direction of Luhansk, militants regrouped armored vehicles outside of Kalynove, south of Rozsadky, and in the area between Pervomaisk and Zolote (to the northwest of Kirovsk). The [exact] number of armored vehicles is currently being determined. Beyond the Popasna – Stakhanov highway in the area between Irmino and Kirovsk, the transfer of a tank group, in the northward direction – up to five vehicles – was observed.

In the area between Novhorodske and Leninske, an attempt by an enemy sabotage and reconnaissance group (10-12 people) to infiltrate ATO forces’ battle formations was observed. Discovered by a combat outpost of Ukrainian troops, the sabotage and reconnaissance group was forced to retreat to its original line after a firefight.

In the area of Novotoshkivka and Krymske, militants fired from 82 mm and 120 mm mortars, and carried out ‘harassing fire’ from small arms. In the wide area from Popasna to Stanytsia Luhanska, along both banks of the Seversky Donets [river], a “warfare of small groups” continues – a large number of terrorist sabotage and reconnaissance groups and raid teams was observed.

In Donetsk, the transfer of terrorist mortar units (three 120 mm and two 82 mm mortars) was spotted along the “frontline” on Shvedov Avenue towards the northeast.

In the area of Prymorske, terrorists deployed and disguised their artillery. Two batteries (a 6-weapon of 122 mm D-30 howitzers, and a four 152 mm 2A65 “MSTA-B” [battery]) were observed.

[B]Between Sverdlovsk and Rovenki, two tactical groups of Russian troops were observed. One [group] is staffed by the Russian Airborne Forces (composed of two 120 mm 2S9 “Nona-S” airborne self-propelled guns, four BTR-D and six BMD-2). The second [group] included two BMR-1K combat reconnaissance vehicles, two BMP-2, four army trucks, and two jeeps.

The transfer of agricultural vehicles and equipment is conducted from Russia to the areas controlled by the “DNR” and “LNR” [Donetsk- and Luhansk People’s Republics]. The transfer of agricultural vehicles was observed in Amvrosiivka, Krasnodon, and Rovenki. Harvesting is underway in the southern occupied areas of Luhansk region; the presence of Russian experts was observed.

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Obama has never had a single strategy concept for dealing with Russia other than he "needs Putin's support for his own legacy".

In 2014 Obama stated to the world press---"we judge Putin on his words, not his actions" and NOW five weeks into a massive shelling and ground attacks daily 24 X 7 by the Russian Army and her mercenaries----Obama says WHAT---absolutely nothing..........

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/08/06/pentagon-team-obama-is-too-timid-on-putin.html?via=desktop&source=twitter

08.06.151:00 AM ET

Pentagon: Team Obama Is ‘Too Timid’ on Putin


America’s military brass keeps calling Russia an ‘existential’ danger to the U.S.—and the White House isn’t exactly thrilled.

Every time a U.S. military commander calls Russia the biggest threat to the United States, the White House fumes.

In recent weeks, there’s been a dramatic, if little noticed, shift in how the Pentagon talks about the world. Russia—once dismissed as a military has-been—is now being regarded as an enemy with the potential to do “existential” damage to America. Everyone from the incoming chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on down is raising the alarm about a Russia that is revamping its nuclear arsenal, launching ultra-sophisticated cyberattacks, and, of course, stirring up trouble in Eastern Europe. And that talk is not sitting well with the staff at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

Russia is just one of myriad threats, White House officials say—calling it a top threat is a step down a slippery slope toward the risk of conflict. And the talk from the Pentagon about arming the Ukrainians, so they can resist Putin? The White House is having none of it. Putting more weapons in the hands of Russia's enemies would only create an excuse for more Russian violence, the White House worries, just as they are trying to secure a sustainable cease-fire.

The Ukrainians and America’s NATO allies in the Baltics “need to see us take action right away,” a senior defense official said. But the administration’s approach is to avoid “getting involved in any kind of conflict…They’re being a little too timid.”

Of course, nobody wants a wider war with the Russians; that’s a recipe for courting Armageddon. “But is giving lethal defensive weapons to the Ukrainians really going to do that?” the senior defense official asked. “Remember, the Russians don’t want to go to war with us, either.”

The questioning of the Russia threat has exposed an administration—and at times a Pentagon—divided about how to respond to threats to the United States. While the White House is seemingly focused on the nuclear deal with Iran—a deal forged with Moscow’s cooperation—the commanders are increasingly worried about the return of the Russian bear.

Top defense leaders believe that calling Russia a top threat paves the way to arm Ukrainians confronting Russian forces. Politically, they want the administration to recognize Russia as a top threat so they can devote the proper budget, sourcing, and troop resources to it. So far: no dice.

“The administration thinks the ranking of threats is not the most productive way to devise a strategy. But we are saying, ‘How else do we allocate increasingly limited resources?’” a second defense official explained.

“We have a nation that has used force to change internationally recognized boundaries,” Gen. Philip Breedlove, commander of U.S. and NATO troops in Europe, told PBS NewsHour last week, the latest example of a commander talking about the Russia threat. “Russia continues to occupy Crimea. Russian forces now are in the Donbass in eastern Ukraine. So this nation has used force to change international boundaries. And this is a nation that possesses a pretty vast nuclear inventory and talks about the use of that inventory very openly in the past.”

The military’s pleas are a public manifestation of a 16-month assessment that has been making its way around the world to top U.S. generals. The warnings grew more dire with each Russian provocation, bellicose statement, and violation of hard-fought cease-fire negotiations in the war with Ukraine.

“Most assumed that the means of Russian pressure on Ukraine would be economic and perhaps an energy cutoff,” not military action, Steven Pifer, a former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, told The Daily Beast.

That’s not what happened. Russia seized the Crimea region of Ukraine and then backed Russian-speaking rebels in eastern Ukraine with weapons, training, and elite Russian troops.

“They are seeking a Cold War sphere of influence,” explained a third defense official, referring to Russia.

Russia’s ascent, among top U.S. military generals, as the top threat to the U.S. began with a widely circulated classified briefing born out of Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea, the defense official told The Daily Beast. It was February 2014, and Russian forces had entered Crimea and installed a pro-Russian government. A month later, the Black Sea peninsula had seceded, and Russia successfully redrew the region’s map, all while dismissing international norms.

With each Russian move—its incursion into eastern Ukraine, its president’s bellicose rhetoric, its violations of cease-fire negotiations—the military updated its brief, each time raising its assessment of the Russian threat.

Like their counterparts in the Middle East caught off guard by ISIS’s capture of the Iraqi city of Mosul, U.S. European commanders hastily began preparing a brief about the Russian threat. Soon, the intelligence community, the Pentagon, and the State Department added their input. And one four-star after another got the brief that Russia was a growing threat.

With each Russian move—its incursion into eastern Ukraine, its president’s bellicose rhetoric, its violations of cease-fire negotiations—the military updated its brief, each time raising its assessment of the Russian threat.

In February 2014, the U.S. Air Force deployed 12 A-10 Thunderbolt II aircraft and approximately 300 airmen to train alongside their NATO counterparts. That spring, the Army deployed a company of troops to each of the Baltic states and Poland. Military equipment followed.

But it was the publication of Russia’s revised military doctrine at the end of 2014 that raised the threat from a regional matter to a global one. Not only did the document list NATO as the top threat to Russia, it also claimed for Moscow “the right to use nuclear weapons…in a case of an aggression against her with conventional weapons that would put in danger the very existence of the state.” In other words: a nuclear first strike.

The publicly pro-nuclear position—combined with Russia’s new investment in strategic weapons and advanced satellites, Moscow’s new willingness to deploy its nuclear-capable bombers, and the Kremlin leaders’ loose talk about using that nuclear arsenal—began to worry the Pentagon brass deeply.

“At DOD, we deal in worst-case scenarios,” the senior defense official said, using an acronym for the Department of Defense. “And now we’ve got this guy [Putin] deciding whether to launch? It’s a little bit scary.”

Compounding the concerns was a growing belief that Russia was the United States’ most sophisticated adversary online—even more so than ++China’s hackers, who recently made off with the personal information of tens of millions of government employees and their families. “I worry, frankly, more about the Russians, who are a lot more subtle and a lot more sophisticated about purloining our information,” Director of National Intelligence James Clapper told Congress.

Russia’s sophistication in the war of ideas—with a global machine in the RT networkand a small army of Twitter trolls—only added to the sense of a worldwide face-off.

At the same time, the Pentagon underwent an unusually high turnover period, replacing nearly every top general. Each one appeared before Capitol Hill to answer the same question: What is the biggest threat to the United States?

Gen. Joseph Dunford, slated to be the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, his soon to be vice, Gen. Paul Selva, and the Army’s next top general, Mark Milley, agreed with a longtime assessment by Gen. Breedlove that it was Russia. It is the only country in the world that could destroy the United States, given its vast nuclear weapons program and its president’s aim to break up the NATO alliance, they concluded.

“Russia presents the greatest threat to our national security,” Dunford asserted during his congressional confirmation hearing earlier this month.

Dunford received a quick rebuke from the White House immediately afterward.

“These kind of assessments are dynamic,” White House press secretary Josh Earnest said after Dunford’s statement. The general “has his own view, but I think he would the first to admit that that’s—reflects his own view, and not—and doesn’t necessarily reflect the view of—or the consensus analysis of the president’s national security team,” Earnest said.

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

In a particular way one can actually argue that in Obama being timid, and lacking any kind of resolute actions he is directly contributing to the continued killing and wounding in increasing numbers of Ukrainian military personnel and Ukrainian civilians.

AND remember it was Obama who stated---"we will judge Putin by his actions not his words" AND yet he again after stating that does what--nothing.

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Obama has never had a single strategy concept for dealing with Russia other than he "needs Putin's support for his own legacy".

In 2014 Obama stated to the world press---"we judge Putin on his words, not his actions" and NOW five weeks into a massive shelling and ground attacks daily 24 X 7 by the Russian Army and her mercenaries----Obama says WHAT---absolutely nothing..........

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/08/06/pentagon-team-obama-is-too-timid-on-putin.html?via=desktop&source=twitter

08.06.151:00 AM ET

Pentagon: Team Obama Is ‘Too Timid’ on Putin



In a particular way one can actually argue that in Obama being timid, and lacking any kind of resolute actions he is directly contributing to the continued killing and wounding in increasing numbers of Ukrainian military personnel and Ukrainian civilians.

AND remember it was Obama who stated---"we will judge Putin by his actions not his words" AND yet he again after stating that does what--nothing.

BTW--with a NSC staff of over 700 once would think they were capable of chewing gum, walking and talking at the same and be able to multi-task handling 10 or more situations at any one time around the clock.

DOES he need more personnel??? OR maybe he just needs a strategy which he has not had for over six years now.

This is one of the worst NSC's in over 50 years and it is the worst the relations have been between senior civilian and military leadership in over 100 years.

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DPR" terrorist posing with a corpse in Scherbakova Park (#Donetsk): http://novosti.dn.ua/details/256880/ pic.twitter.com/tTyWwmUrLV

.@MedvedevRussiaE spotted at the border personally destroying those gay Western European watermelons... pic.twitter.com/9H8JwsE4QA

SBU detained head of "Odessa CHP" for illegally cashing of money and sponsorship of terrorism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqQRtga7pDI … pic.twitter.com/7Uk9tL3sHS

Global cybercrime fraud boss ran secret pro-Moscow intel sorties
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/08/06/100m_business_gang_foxit_report/ … pic.twitter.com/c76QHg9YSS

Poroshenko: No local elections in annexed Crimea and occupied Donbas
http://www.unian.info/politics/1108798-poroshenko-no-local-elections-in-annexed-crimea-and-occupied-donbas.html … pic.twitter.com/fRTrFt4F1R

06.08.2015 | 15:44


Local elections will not be held place in Crimea and in the militant-occupied territories of Donbas, Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration Vitaliy Kovalchuk said at a briefing in Kyiv on Thursday, according to an UNIAN correspondent.

"The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted a resolution on local elections on July 17. It is clearly defined where local elections are to be held. At the moment, it is impossible to hold elections on the temporarily occupied territories of Crimea and Sevastopol. In addition, according to the law on special order of the local government, these elections will not be held in certain areas of Donetsk and Luhansk regions,until they are controlled by the Ukrainian authorities and the elections are held in accordance with the OSCE standards," Kovalchuk said.

He also said that the Central Electoral Commission (CEC) has the authority not to hold elections in certain areas of Ukraine.

"The resolution clearly defines that, if organization and holding of local elections in certain regions is impossible, in order to avoid the terrorist threat and to ensure the security of citizens, the CEC may decide to deny holding local elections in certain areas with the simultaneous submission of the decision to the Verkhovna Rada for final approval," Kovalchuk said.

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Appears that Putin has misjudged for the first time his own populations need for food.

http://news.yahoo.com/russian-food-crematoria-provoke-outrage-amid-crisis-famine-121512184.html

Russian 'food crematoria' provoke outrage amid crisis, famine memories

By Gabriela Baczynska


MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian government plans for mass destruction of banned Western food imports have provoked outrage in a country where poverty rates are soaring and memories remain of famine during Soviet times.

Even some Kremlin allies are expressing shock at the idea of "food crematoria" while one orthodox priest has denounced the campaign, which officially began on Thursday, as insane and sinful. However, the authorities are determined to press on with destroying illegal imports they consider "a security threat".

Russian TV showed a small mountain of illegally imported European cheese being bulldozed on Thursday while even before the official start, zealous workers threw boxes of European bacon into an incinerator.

Moscow banned many Western food imports last year in retaliation for sanctions imposed by the United States, European Union and other of their allies during the confrontation over Ukraine. But now many Russians say the government has lost sight of the everyday struggles faced by ordinary citizens.

More than 267,000 people have backed an online petition on Change.org, an international website that hosts campaigns, calling on President Vladimir Putin to revoke the decision and hand the food to people in need.

"Sanctions have led to a major growth in food prices on Russian shelves. Russian pensioners, veterans, large families, the disabled and other needy social groups were forced to greatly restrict their diets, right up to starvation," it says. "If you can just eat these products, why destroy it?"

With annual food price inflation running at over 20 percent, public indignation has been deepened by Russian media reports that the agriculture ministry was tendering to buy "mobile food crematoria" to speed up the destruction. Agriculture minister Alexander Tkachev declined to comment on Wednesday.

Putin's decree ordering the food to be destroyed entered into force on Thursday. It does not specify methods but says the process should be carried out "by any available means" and videotaped, apparently to prevent corrupt officials from simply helping themselves and holding a feast.

How much food has evaded the embargo is unclear, but considerable quantities appear to have slipped through the net by various routes, including via Belarus.

The ban, currently in place until Aug.5, 2016, covers a wide range of imports including pork, beef, poultry, fish and seafood, milk and dairy products, fruits, vegetables and nuts. It applies to food from the United States, EU, Canada, Australia and Norway.

Notwithstanding the petition, no one starves in modern Russia, unlike in the Soviet era when countless millions perished between the 1920s and 1940s from hunger and related disease in both peace time and World War Two.

After the fall of Communism, Russians developed a strong appetite in the 1990s for Western food imports from cheap U.S. chicken quarters to fine French cheeses for the newly wealthy.

Now the soaring food prices are hurting the poor at a time when the economy is in crisis due to the effects of the sanctions and a steep fall in the price of oil, Russia's main export. The rouble has lost more than 40 percent of its value against the dollar and overall inflation is above 15 percent.

The Rosstat statistics agency says the number of Russians living below the poverty line - defined as those earning less than 10,400 rubles ($160) a month - has jumped. In the first quarter this year, the total hit 23 million, or 16 percent of the population, up from more than 16 million people, or 11 percent of Russians last year.

Opposition figure and former prime minister Mikhail Kasyanov responded with bitter irony. "20 million Russian citizens are below poverty line. Their president ordered food products destruction from Aug.6. Some real triumph of humanism," Kasyanov said on Twitter.

But even some government allies are critical. "I don't understand how food can be destroyed in a country that lived through the horrible hunger during the war and tough years that followed," said a prominent pro-Kremlin TV anchor, Vladimir Solovyov.

"INSANE AND STUPID"

Authorities in several regions have already got to work on what they said were illegal imports.

"Any product without documents poses a security threat and should be destroyed," said Andrei Panchenko, the head of agricultural watchdog in the Belgorod region, as workers threw the boxes of bacon into a stove.

Officials say the embargo will encourage Russian producers to fill the gap. Now the authorities are also proposing to limit imports of X-ray machines and defibrillators for hospitals, which are already complaining of poor equipment. Even condoms could make it to the list of restricted imports.

One priest from the Russian Orthodox Church, which enjoys close ties with the Kremlin, expressed his anger.

"My grandmother always told me that throwing away food is a sin," the cleric, Alexey Uminsky, was quoted by the website 'Orthodoxy and the World' as saying. "This idea is insane, stupid and vile."

"Such an idea can only appear with a man who has been in no need for anything in recent decades and is ready to do something like that for populism and quasi-patriotism," he added.

Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov offered little hope of a change of heart, saying: "The presidential decree is taking effect and must be carried out."

Peskov said Putin was aware of the petition but cast doubt on the numbers, saying the website did not vet votes carefully enough. But the Kremlin has hit a raw nerve with many Russians.

"To destroy food with this standard of living is a crime against one's own nation!" wrote a backer of the petition who gave her name on the website as Natalya Afanasieva. "Come to your senses, Mr. President, finally take at least some pity on your people!"

[OUTLAW 09]

Appears that Putin has misjudged for the first time his own populations need for food.

http://news.yahoo.com/russian-food-crematoria-provoke-outrage-amid-crisis-famine-121512184.html

Russian 'food crematoria' provoke outrage amid crisis, famine memories

By Gabriela Baczynska

Maybe Obama, Kerry, Nuland, Hollande and Merkel should really give this social media comment some serious thought---goes to the heart of how they lack a clear, concise, and coherent strategy for dealing with Putin.

Public destruction of food over suspicion "it MIGHT be from the West". We are witnessing a major new moment in world history.

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Shellings are starting even earlier today—will be a long evening and early morning……

Donetsk 16:07
Somewheare at Putilovka mortars woke up, salvos https://twitter.com/AlfaNubovsky/status/629277686586806276 …

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Video from the August 2014 fighting where Russian invasion forces had surrounded a large Ukrainian military contingent and when allowing them “safe passage” they fired literally into the units killing hundreds (over 300) and wounding hundreds (over 400), with MIA as unknown number and taking over 200 POWs—AND Obama wants to truly “trust Putin. They are still recovering unmarked remains from this area for burial in western Ukraine as unknown soldiers.

Last video with heroes from #Ilovaysk. Most of them died while retreating from the cauldron. https://youtu.be/v7f48Kl97Zs

What many on the western mass media did not realize was that up to August 2014 the Ukrainian forces were on the verge of actually defeating the Russian mercenaries on their own without any assistance from the West--UNTIL the Russian army actually invaded eastern Ukraine with over 12,000 active duty troops, hundreds of tanks and heavy artillery and MLRSs.

Remember Obama calls this actual invasion "an incursion"--but he somehow forgot to check the definition of "invasion" in Websters'.

[OUTLAW 09]

Appears that Putin has misjudged for the first time his own populations need for food.

http://news.yahoo.com/russian-food-crematoria-provoke-outrage-amid-crisis-famine-121512184.html

Russian 'food crematoria' provoke outrage amid crisis, famine memories

By Gabriela Baczynska

The destruction of banned products in Russia is clearly an act of cheesocide

Driver who ran away across border with 1.5 tons of destruction-intended tomatoes, left his passport behind" http://russian.rt.com/article/107677

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Good video specially for Putin http://pressafoto.ru/putin-ne-vouut12# …
"THUS real men're not fighting ": hiding behind civilians, wearing unmarked uniforms..

Meet Lyokha Markulevich. Belarusian Armed Forces (11th Berlin Carpathian-mechanized brigade). He is in Ukraine. pic.twitter.com/F8wy1V3jDB

Macabre action: Residents of #Donetsk have dumped blood and doll body parts in front of the #OSCE headquarters. pic.twitter.com/HMjj6JGKAb

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Appears that the Ukrainian military is in fact inflicting an extremely high loss rate on the Russian troops and her mercenaries--far higher than could have been estimated.


The OSCE has recorded 21 trucks with "cargo 200"(KIA) on the border of Russia and Ukraine http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/6-august-the-osce-has-recorded-21-trucks-with-cargo-200kia …

AND that just since this latest Russian offense started four weeks ago.

20 bodies per truck minimum is a loss of over 400 troops --say an average of 50 as they do not load the trucks with caskets--that occurs in Rostov Russia-THEN a total of over 1000 and usual they use semi trailers for movements.

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We are headed again towards the combat operations level of over 80 attacks per day tonight might break 100 at this pace…….

Rumble of shelling. Good evening Donetsk!

19:45 #Donetsk @UrriKara4en 25-richya_RKKA - Postysheva intersection is cordoned off with RUS BTR & Ural

19:44 #Donetsk Kalinovka @AlfaNubovsky We're listening to the volleys and some explosions simultaneously, which's air blast hits windows

19:40 #Donetsk @PVB40 [fb] Pasta factory: 7 distant but yet strong booms like from the north

20:34 #Donetsk @hunab_ku04 In #Avdiivka direction such a ceasefire! [sarcasm] Even Smolyanka can hear. Now also Chemical plant has joined

Donetsk 20:22
Somewheare between #Avdiivka and #Yasynuvata both incoming and outgoing can be heard
https://twitter.com/hauzenmynh/status/629341881432993792 …

20:33 #Donetsk @PVB40 [fb] Near railway station: mortar, car alarms went off, a dog panics

20:34 #Donetsk @frosy1burlakova Now outgoing from Topaz

20:30 #Donetsk @PVB40 [fb] #Kurakhove: quiet, warning sirens
#Maryinka: quiet
#Krasnohorivka: restless

20:29 #Donetsk @AkaDON12 At 18:30 2 blasts in Rozy_Luksemburg dir'n, then 2 outgoing from Smolyanka, now some fireworks

20:28 #Donetsk Abakumova @hyeva_maryinka [vk] Not quiet, several landings behind the pond pic.twitter.com/23glnf8P0O

20:29 #Donetsk @AkaDON12 Sporadic salvos in airport-Putilovka direction - mortars + tank?

20:34 #Donetsk @PVB40 [fb] They've pounded from Shakhtarska, 4 volleys. Schorsa ot slagheap behind Mayak? Nearby

20:40 #Donetsk Shyrokiy @jackson_villi Rumble heard, unclear where it lands

20:35 #Donetsk Bakiny @GirkinGirkin Rumble

20:36 #Donetsk @relictDon Volleys in Durna_Balka-Smolyanka direction, gunnery in the north before

20:41 #Avdiivka @JuZolyshkaLia Rumble

20:42 #EDonetsk Petrovka @jackson_villi Strong salvos are audible

Right, this is "something signalling", in this case car alarms, there's no sense to use flares when it's not dark.

20:45
#Avdiivka loud. Incoming in the old part of the city. https://twitter.com/avdey777ka/status/629347545156874240 …

20:38 #Donetsk @papandopoolo Impact on office building opposite Atletik club at Chelyuskintsev St. Area cordoned off

20:43 #Donetsk @TaylerRid Very strong outgoing salvos from Mayak-railway station area

Shelling from #Donetsk/outskirts seems to be ceased for now.

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Appears that the Ukrainian military is in fact inflicting an extremely high loss rate on the Russian troops and her mercenaries--far higher than could have been estimated.

The OSCE has recorded 21 trucks with "cargo 200"(KIA) on the border of Russia and Ukraine http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/6-august-the-osce-has-recorded-21-trucks-with-cargo-200kia …

AND that just since this latest Russian offense started four weeks ago.

20 bodies per truck minimum is a loss of over 400 troops --say an average of 50 as they do not load the trucks with caskets--that occurs in Rostov Russia-THEN a total of over 1000 and usual they use semi trailers for movements.

Wow, that's a lot. Must be some hundreds of Russian KIA. https://twitter.com/AlexandruC4/status/629285443503157248 …

BTW--Russia is now attempting to completely discredit OSCE as their reporting is becoming quite pointed at showing Russia is the ongoing aggressor and reporting more an more on actual Russia troops and is reporting the above WHEN Putin wants to keep it silenced.

Protesters poured fake blood in front of OSCE hotel in Donetsk. Say people die because of them
http://m.ria.ru/tv_society/20150806/1167103325.html … pic.twitter.com/wlnDyuIUyH

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Russian artillery base at Krasny Luch : howitzers, MRLSs, R-142 radio station.
https://informnapalm.org/11314-krasnyj-luch-baza-rossyjskoj-artylleryy-na-terrytoryy-gp-donbassantratsyt … @DajeyPetros pic.twitter.com/h4btI4Ib2U

Slovak volunteers in the ranks of #Azov regiment. Together for the #Europe of the nations! pic.twitter.com/MJ9YQXYy5t

Russian army tanks (hybrid DPR unit "Diesel") Donetsk region Ukraine 6 Aug https://youtu.be/iTYve5lRlzo 1/3 pic.twitter.com/CknMgFKRYs

Russian army tank and armoured recovery vehicle (ARV) Possibly VT-55A? occupied Donetsk 6 Aug pic.twitter.com/VtlYJN0XVp

Russian army tank with rail tranpsort #H2200 marking sprayed over in green, occupied Donetsk 6 Aug pic.twitter.com/EZzmw5Od5J

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Reference the chemical plant and the nuclear waste storage site--THIS tonight!!!!

19:27 Massive explosion was felt in #Donetsk (strong air blast)
brkng images pic.twitter.com/fF6Y1YBAfg

Massive explosion in #Donetsk: https://twitter.com/666_mancer/status/628968703028273152 …

more Donetsk pix https://twitter.com/Ykraino4_ka/status/628969110018359297 …

Said to be chemical plant again

19:28 #Donetsk @ADivinorum "What was it? It opened windows a bit, curtains danced. I was in and didn't get direction"

19:31 #Donetsk @zzzwefzzz 5 min ago house was once shaked. No explosion was heard just strong vibration

19:28 #Donetsk @OldHistoric Again chemical plant blown up?How many storages are left there?
@Ukr_Che 4th since autumn? 3 more

two more, yes, it's DZKHI pic.twitter.com/KlgCDRKRce

Another picture from #Donetsk explosion:
pic.twitter.com/kIh6DKboqH

19:34 #Donetsk @OldHistoric The wave shows that it was an underground blast, no sound was heard, just house shaked once

19:59 #Donetsk @sex_Dombas "Let me remind, there is about 240 tonnes of exlosives at #Donetsk chemical plant, 60 are already blown up"
VIDEO: Footage of explosion in Donetsk this evening
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ew8AsAHOsZI … pic.twitter.com/Wh28vlwqHF

Donetsk: 1/2 hr ago, 'mashroom cloud' of the blast at chemical plant pic.twitter.com/ngHXFeECDM

RUS video from Aug05 massive explosion site in #Donetsk chemical plant @14720Maro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfrZbOUNuyE …

Russians attempting to blame the Ukrainians by having a single Ukrainian license plate laying around the site and the plate was in great shape for such a massive explosion and a single hand grenade without a single scratch mark on it.

21:20 #Makiivka @VasyaMakeevskiy #Rumours: pro-RUS tell, that yesternight an UKR Tochka-U flew in, but was shot down :)

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We are headed again towards the combat operations level of over 80 attacks per day tonight might break 100 at this pace…….

Rumble of shelling. Good evening Donetsk!

19:45 #Donetsk @UrriKara4en 25-richya_RKKA - Postysheva intersection is cordoned off with RUS BTR & Ural

19:44 #Donetsk Kalinovka @AlfaNubovsky We're listening to the volleys and some explosions simultaneously, which's air blast hits windows

19:40 #Donetsk @PVB40 [fb] Pasta factory: 7 distant but yet strong booms like from the north

20:34 #Donetsk @hunab_ku04 In #Avdiivka direction such a ceasefire! [sarcasm] Even Smolyanka can hear. Now also Chemical plant has joined

Donetsk 20:22
Somewheare between #Avdiivka and #Yasynuvata both incoming and outgoing can be heard
https://twitter.com/hauzenmynh/status/629341881432993792 …

20:33 #Donetsk @PVB40 [fb] Near railway station: mortar, car alarms went off, a dog panics

20:34 #Donetsk @frosy1burlakova Now outgoing from Topaz

20:30 #Donetsk @PVB40 [fb] #Kurakhove: quiet, warning sirens
#Maryinka: quiet
#Krasnohorivka: restless

20:29 #Donetsk @AkaDON12 At 18:30 2 blasts in Rozy_Luksemburg dir'n, then 2 outgoing from Smolyanka, now some fireworks

20:28 #Donetsk Abakumova @hyeva_maryinka [vk] Not quiet, several landings behind the pond pic.twitter.com/23glnf8P0O

20:29 #Donetsk @AkaDON12 Sporadic salvos in airport-Putilovka direction - mortars + tank?

20:34 #Donetsk @PVB40 [fb] They've pounded from Shakhtarska, 4 volleys. Schorsa ot slagheap behind Mayak? Nearby

20:40 #Donetsk Shyrokiy @jackson_villi Rumble heard, unclear where it lands

20:35 #Donetsk Bakiny @GirkinGirkin Rumble

20:36 #Donetsk @relictDon Volleys in Durna_Balka-Smolyanka direction, gunnery in the north before

20:41 #Avdiivka @JuZolyshkaLia Rumble

20:42 #EDonetsk Petrovka @jackson_villi Strong salvos are audible

Right, this is "something signalling", in this case car alarms, there's no sense to use flares when it's not dark.

20:45
#Avdiivka loud. Incoming in the old part of the city. https://twitter.com/avdey777ka/status/629347545156874240 …

20:38 #Donetsk @papandopoolo Impact on office building opposite Atletik club at Chelyuskintsev St. Area cordoned off

20:43 #Donetsk @TaylerRid Very strong outgoing salvos from Mayak-railway station area

Shelling from #Donetsk/outskirts seems to be ceased for now.


21:24 @Buzzing_Rook Projectiles hit #Avdiivka and no one would ask [Zakharchenko which is live on TV now] "What for?"

21:24 #Avdiivka @JuZolyshkaLia No, it hasn't ceased [=rumble started over]

21:25 #Donetsk @relictDon Again salvos from Durna_Balka-Smolyanka area
@hunab_ku04 From chemicals plant

21:26 #Donetsk @TaylerRid Again Mayak-railway station is deaf [of volleys]. Position unclear, all car alarms went off

21:34 #Donetsk @TaylerRid Volleys are from here [?], maybe from behind Topaz...

21:34 #Avdiivka @bamr69 Impacts on town started over, shelling from the within #Donetsk

21:36 #Donetsk @Newrashkineits Shots and ambulances [are heard]

BRKNG Luhansk region, Schastye - very big fire/smoke... https://twitter.com/Tkachov_TT/status/629355882984439808 …

21:38 #Donetsk @TaylerRid Car with sirens [or foghorns? which's correct?] sped along Artema St

21:38 #Donetsk Rozy_Luksemburg @0954771 Drowsy one, but still shelling [=ongoing shelling became less intense]

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Going to be a long night and early morning-- wonder if Western leaders even care any more??????

For all their words, and statements---absolutely no action on their parts results in increasing Putin's aggression as he senses all they want is business as usual and their legacies.

Seems that the Polish are the only true defenders of what NATO stands for--collective defense of Europe not just the French or Germans BUT all of Europe even the small countries.

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Maybe Obama and his NSC should start listening to the DoD Generals--


Now Putin starts to seriously threaten Finland and Sweden---------

Former Chief of Defense General Nikolai Makarov: "cooperation between Finland and NATO threatens Russia's security" http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/world-report/2015/08/06/russia-bullies-sweden-and-finland-away-from-joining-nato …

Senior Russian leaders have made several dangerous statements about relationships between Finland & Sweden with NATO

Will Russia Intervene to Keep Finland & Sweden Out of NATO? by @NATOSource director J. Benitez http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/world-report/2015/08/06/russia-bullies-sweden-and-finland-away-from-joining-nato … pic.twitter.com/MqAXzkCA8w

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Going to be a long night and early morning-- wonder if Western leaders even care any more??????

For all their words, and statements---absolutely no action on their parts results in increasing Putin's aggression as he senses all they want is business as usual and their legacies.

Seems that the Polish are the only true defenders of what NATO stands for--collective defense of Europe not just the French or Germans BUT all of Europe even the small countries.

Shelling reports are simply too many to post--massive shellings all long the eastern front--will post examples of the evening and early morning shellings tomorrow morning.

Wonder if Obama and his NSC will finally wake up and realize Russia is in their summer offensive and that there is an actual war in Central
Europe.

Wonder as well if they finally realize that forcing the Ukraine into unilateral appeasement moves to please Putin without a reciprocal move by Russia is just another word for failed Western diplomacy.

Appeasement never works out well for those that historically try it.

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Short list of shelling examples from last night especially the Russian shellings of Ukrainian critical infrastructure----power plants and water pipelines.

Seems they do not fully understand that the water pipelines and power plants also supply Russian mercenary and Russian troop controlled areas of Donbas.

Pictures
Substantial damage from Russian shelling of the #Shchastya power plant last night.
pic.twitter.com/QXCmrUdYTe

06:48 #Avdiivka @JuZolyshkaLia Small arms burst sounds so close

02:44 #Donetsk @relictDon From the same area in Smolyanka direction seldom heavy [projectiles] go north

02:40 #Donetsk @HeleneHelene5 I woke up to the volleys, noisy again

02:42 #Popasna @hu_popa [Looks like checkpoint at Melnitsa circle was hit - those circle is here 48.638859, 38.404405]

1.5 hour ground combat attack by Russian infantry—pushed back by Ukrainian troops and supporting mortar and artillery fire
There was a battle w russian infantry group near #Krasnohorivka from 19:25-21:00, attack repelled http://www.pravda.com.ua/rus/news/2015/08/7/7077036/?utm_medium=twitter&utm_term=%23%D0%A3%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B8%D0%BD%D 0%B0&utm_source=twitterfeed … via @ukrpravda_news

02:22 #Popasna @hu_popa #Pervomaysk woke up [=incoming from P direction]. Rumble
02:35 UKR fired in reply fr/Popasna

Donetsk 2:44AM
Volleys from the same area of Smolyanka. Rare but powerful. Flies towards north. https://twitter.com/relictDon/status/629437814711689216 …

Donetsk 2:40AM
Woke up by volleys. Noisy again. https://twitter.com/HeleneHelene5/status/629436895278288896 …

2:35AM
From #Popasna now return fire.
Very loud. https://twitter.com/hu_popa/status/629435624970428416 …

2:22AM
#Pervomaysk woke up. LOUD.
https://twitter.com/hu_popa/status/629432367518756864 …

Avdiivka
The night was noisy. https://twitter.com/JuZolyshkaLia/status/629497676246220800 …

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I had posted on the closed Ukrainian war thread a long study on just how Russia is totally dependent on a large number of Ukrainian products for their military reform and rebuild Plan 2020 PLUS a large number of various raw resources and semi finished products.

We see that in the simple fact they have completely taken apart five Ukrainian factories in their occupied zone and shipped them to Russia.

SO is in effect Putin really fighting the worlds first raw resources war???

One of the (big) reasons why Russia is not finished yet in Ukraine. https://twitter.com/RutheniaRus/status/629402172149489666 …

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Russia's information soldiers pose as journalists in war against Ukraine http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/russias-information-soldiers-pose-as-journalists-in-war-against-ukraine-395228.html …

[OUTLAW 09]

Short list of shelling examples from last night especially the Russian shellings of Ukrainian critical infrastructure----power plants and water pipelines.

Seems they do not fully understand that the water pipelines and power plants also supply Russian mercenary and Russian troop controlled areas of Donbas.

Pictures
Substantial damage from Russian shelling of the #Shchastya power plant last night.
pic.twitter.com/QXCmrUdYTe

06:48 #Avdiivka @JuZolyshkaLia Small arms burst sounds so close

02:44 #Donetsk @relictDon From the same area in Smolyanka direction seldom heavy [projectiles] go north

02:40 #Donetsk @HeleneHelene5 I woke up to the volleys, noisy again

02:42 #Popasna @hu_popa [Looks like checkpoint at Melnitsa circle was hit - those circle is here 48.638859, 38.404405]

1.5 hour ground combat attack by Russian infantry—pushed back by Ukrainian troops and supporting mortar and artillery fire
There was a battle w russian infantry group near #Krasnohorivka from 19:25-21:00, attack repelled http://www.pravda.com.ua/rus/news/2015/08/7/7077036/?utm_medium=twitter&utm_term=%23%D0%A3%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B8%D0%BD%D 0%B0&utm_source=twitterfeed … via @ukrpravda_news

02:22 #Popasna @hu_popa #Pervomaysk woke up [=incoming from P direction]. Rumble
02:35 UKR fired in reply fr/Popasna

Donetsk 2:44AM
Volleys from the same area of Smolyanka. Rare but powerful. Flies towards north. https://twitter.com/relictDon/status/629437814711689216 …

Donetsk 2:40AM
Woke up by volleys. Noisy again. https://twitter.com/HeleneHelene5/status/629436895278288896 …

2:35AM
From #Popasna now return fire.
Very loud. https://twitter.com/hu_popa/status/629435624970428416 …

2:22AM
#Pervomaysk woke up. LOUD.
https://twitter.com/hu_popa/status/629432367518756864 …

Avdiivka
The night was noisy. https://twitter.com/JuZolyshkaLia/status/629497676246220800 …

Yesterday militants 106 times violated ceasefire. 78 of these were in area of Donetsk - ATO press center
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1044693978874741&id=820651001279041&refid=17&_ft_=top_level_post_id.1044693978874741&__tn__=%2As …

I commented a number of posts ago over 25,000 or so to be more exact that we are now in the Russian summer offensive--and yes we are --every day Spetsnaz and Russian infantry ground attacks attempting to get a breakthrough of the UA defense lines and shellings using every single heavy weapons systems THAT were supposed to be have been withdrawn by Russia under Minsk 2.

If one understands the Russian term "masking" we have seen a slow and steady increase in both the ground attacks and the shellings in order to not attract much western news media attention which has been achieved as virtually all western mass media outside of the German Bild reports virtually nothing about the fighting or has anyone in the US seen any combat videos being shown by western media outside of Vice News and a few independents.

AND most western leaders and their FMs just keep saying--"the ceasefire is largely holding" which totally flies in the face of reality.

ALMOST as they think that by saying it over and over WAR in Central Europe will simply disappear.

War in Central Europe is now after the four week ramp up in full gear regardless of what Obama, Nuland, Kerry want to believe--AND if you notice they have not said a single word in the last week or so about the fighting.

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2 Ukr servicemen of 93rd brigade's assault unit Karpatska Sich were KIA near #Donetsk airport http://svoboda.org.ua/news/events/00014769/ … pic.twitter.com/phe8uO1QY7

As a result of last night GRAD MLRS attack on Troits'ke, 2 homes were destroyed - Luhansk RSAhttp://112.ua/ato/nochyu-boeviki-obstrelyali-troickoe-iz-gradov-razrusheny-dva-doma-lvga-250436.html …

Russian SC secretary #Patrushev informed on terrorist threat in #Crimea http://r.rbc.ru/78mgkusQEWk Will #FSB blow up houses there?@Poluostroff

News
Russian forces conducted a BM-21 Grad attack on #Troitske last night.
Rus infantry assault on #Krasnohorivka.
3 Ukr WIA in #Shchastya.

Tymchuk: 2 groups of Russian FSB agents arrived in Russian-occupied Ukraine to setup contraband smuggling routes from the rest of Ukraine.

More Russian “masking operations”—this time TV weather reports----
Ex-propagandist says Russian TV falsified weather forecasts to persuade Ukrainians they won't get through winter. http://m.colta.ru/articles/society/8163 …

The Russian government and central bank are spending billions trying save struggling companies http://bloom.bg/1gNgrg7 pic.twitter.com/hsdOVxXVWr

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Maybe Obama, Kerry, Nuland, Hollande and Merkel should listen to what the reality of their unilateral appeasement with no reciprocal Russian move demands by them sounds like.

#Donetsk Topaz district - the sound of russian #ceasefire, yesterday evening https://youtu.be/O6ZGkaY0FPY

That was just 56 seconds worth of over a four hour shelling attack yesterday night into this morning--and the German and French FMs state repeatedly in the last week or so "the ceasefire is largely holding"---in reality it seems to not be the case actually just the opposite.

AND the Us response has been exactly what--utter silence.......BUT they are sending a military field hospital I guess to handle all the current Ukrainian wounded trying to hold to a ceasefire that does not even in name exist.

Attacks have been averaging over 90 per day and that is full combat operations when compared to February 2015.

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Yesterday militants 4 times shelled UKR positions in sector "M". They fired on Novohryhorivka (1) & Chermalyk (3)
http://m.0629.com.ua/news/916897

Ukr 34th batt commander: RU-terrorist groups in #Horlivka are under a russian general's command http://inforesist.org/kombat-boevikami-pod-gorlovkoj-komanduet-krovozhadnyj-rossijskij-general/?_utl_t=tw …

This is the general who commanded the group of russian troops in #Debaltsevo"

Last night militants for 3 hours fired from tanks on Avdeevka. civilian wounded - sector "B" spox
http://www.5.ua/ato-na-shodi/Boiovyky-maizhe-try-hodyny-pospil-obstriliuvaly-Avdiivku-i-Opytne-z-tankiv--sektor-B-89629.html …

Russians fire almost non-stop on Ukr positions near #Shchastya, 3 Ukr soldiers wounded there yesterday http://ato.lisichansk.in.ua/na-luganshhini-najgaryachishe-u-shhasti-ta-troickomu-popasnyanskogo-rajonu-protivnik-zastosovuvav-ozbroyennya-tankiv-120-mm-minometi-122-mm-artsistemi.html?_utl_t=tw …

More failures of the OSCE to accurately report Russian shellings against Ukrainian critical infrastructure--
After Power Plant in Shchastya was shelled by terrorists OSCE was there. Will they report? No! http://lugansk-news.com/after-attack-on-shchastya-north-of-lugansk-region-lost-electricity-2-ukrainian-soldiers-wounded/ … pic.twitter.com/AiuZL34vYt

Apparently Russian mercenaries have truly not read Minsk 2 Agreement-----

Pushilin: The law on local election signed by @poroshenko has no relation to DNR and LNR, it's for internal use only http://www.donetskie.com/news/politics/podpisannyy-poroshenko-zakon-o-mestnykh-vyborakh-ne-imeet-otnosheniya-k-dnr-pushilin-/55172/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter …

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The #OSCE cannot get access to separatist-controlled areas of #Ukraine, particularly along the int'l border,to verify the impl. of ceasefire

Russia vetoed in OSCE any further monitoring points—and yet they were the ones calling for a OSCE-SMM.

.@OSCE has observers at two crossings on about 140 miles frontier btn Russia and separatist-held Ukraine. No mandate outside 2 border posts.

Painted over Russian rail shipping number—
pic.twitter.com/o5u3aaWzRi

Map. Situation in eastern #Ukraine, August 7, 00:00 EET pic.twitter.com/hRYH7a9TZU

Maxim Tucker @MaxRTucker
My story on sting operation and arrest of four would-be uranium smugglers in #Ukraine http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/world/europe/article4519567.ece … pic.twitter.com/xgYxeke9jM

Shoigu: Russian military planning to recommission four armoured trains! (RT_com 6 Aug) https://www.rt.com/news/311714-russian-military-armored-trains/ … pic.twitter.com/hFo52E84Nt

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ATO Press Center: 106 attacks on #Ukrainian Army positions in #Donetsk and #Lugansk Regions. http://lugansk-news.com/ato-press-center-106-attacks-on-ukrainian-army-positions-in-donetsk-and-lugansk-regions/ … pic.twitter.com/swDxls4idr

Col. Lysenko:In Avdiivka, as a result of hostile attacks a local resident was wounded. Maryinka region is partially left without electricity

Col. Lysenko: UA antiterrorist forces repelled 2-hour-long militants attack near Krasnohorivka.

ATO spox: Situation remains unchanged to the west of Donetsk: hostilities continued throughout the contact line from Avdiivka to Maryinka.

ATO spokesperson: Near Horlivka - quiter than usually: 3 armed provocations near Mayorsk took place at night.

12:37 #Severodonetsk @urban_sd Some distant din, incoming #Grad at #Bakhmutka [road area]?

ATO spox: Donetsk sector: Military situation near Svitlodarsk slightly calmed down: neither tank fire nor artillery. Militants snipers active

ATO spox: Difficult combat situation was yesterday near Troitske town: 120-mm shelling afternoons and fire from MLRS "Grad" at night

ATO spox: The enemy significantly increased attacks against UA positions near Shchastya: heavy shelling & tank fire took place yesterday.

ATO spokesperson: Near Stanytsia Luhanska, militants opened fire in the evening using grenade launchers and mortars.

Col. Andriy Lysenko: Luhansk: Hotzones: Stanytsia Luhanska, Shchastya, Troitske

Col.Lysenko: Military situation at the front line deteriorated again. For the first time in the past 2 weeks the enemy used rocket artillery

Large Russian military offensive in Ukraine possible within weeks according to a US analyst
http://www.unian.info/war/1109060-large-russian-military-offensive-in-ukraine-possible-within-weeks-us-analyst.html …

ATO spox: UA counteracts RU propaganda in the front-line areas: 500 satellite TV dishes will be mounted pic.twitter.com/0rXxH9qNKY

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Russian base in Krasnyi Luch. Howitzers, MRLS “Grad” and trucks geo-located in #Ukraine. http://lugansk-news.com/russian-military-base-in-krasnyi-luch-howitzers-mrls-grad-and-trucks-geo-located-in-ukraine/ … pic.twitter.com/vaCrlF4hnA

Is Mirko Mebius spying for #Russia in #Ukraine under guise of being a journalist? Another GWP?
http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/russias-information-soldiers-pose-as-journalists-in-war-against-ukraine-395228.html … pic.twitter.com/uGBykNL6Jk

Accounts used to contact Mebius for comment were hacked & Mebius blocked the Kiev Post reporter on his social media pages.

Ukrainian hackers hacked computer of Pushilin, one of DNR leaders pic.twitter.com/5HKx8cwhJS http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/7-august-ukrainian-hackers-hacked-computer-of-pushilin-one …

Russia|n forces shelled #Troitske with MLRS Grad - first time for two weeks
pic.twitter.com/klnhWZuT0L

Zakharchenko declared readiness of #DNR to the beginning of new hostilities
https://twitter.com/tohub/status/629602184070623232 …

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Russian shellings have started far earlier today than in the last week or so.

First reports seem to indicate they are just range finding and adjusting.

Will be if true--- a very long evening and early morning again with attack numbers probably in the 90-100 range again.

Anything over 55-60 per day constitutes full combat operations.

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http://www.unian.info/politics/1109102-groups-of-special-experts-arrive-in-luhansk-and-donetsk-from-russia-information-resistance.html

Groups of special "experts" arrive in Luhansk and Donetsk from Russia – Information Resistance

07.08.2015 | 12:46


Special groups have come to militant strongholds of Luhansk and Donetsk from Russia to organize smuggling of foodstuffs from government-controlled territories of Donbas, according to Dmytro Tymchuk, MP and coordinator of an “Information Resistance” online resource.

“A special group of “experts from Russia” has been spotted in Luhansk, who are dealing with setting up a smuggling channel of foodstuffs from the government-controlled territory,” said Tymchuk.

The MP claims that the group consists of 16 people, of whom there are three women. The major part of the group is comprised of the employees from the FSB [Russia’s Federal Security Service] and other Russian law enforcement agencies. This group has no permanent place of stay, tries not to draw unnecessary attention (the group members sport the same uniform as the “local militants”), and has two Volkswagen T4 minivans at their disposal, with tinted windows and no registration tags; two “Tigr” (GAZ-2330) armored combat vehicles and a civilian SUV.

It is noted that the group gathers data from local businessmen and “LPR authorities” involved in smuggling on corrupt Ukrainian military servicemen, (both from the staff and to the ordinary servicemen who serve at the roadblocks), who are part of smuggling conspiracy (it is not excluded that this preliminary gathering of information aims to be used for further blackmail and recruitment), Tymchuk added.

According to Tymchuk, local security services have been instructed to facilitate the group’s activities without interfering with their operations. The group’s leaders are in constatnt contact with the self-proclaimed leaders of the LPR militant organization, while part of the group regularly visits the frontline.

Similar group has been spotted in Donetsk.

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For those that believed the Russian myths about NATO humiliating Russia—appears Putin has done a far better job of it than NATO ever could……………

Russian citizens picking up the forbidden foreign Parmesan. You said NATO went too far and hurt Russia's pride? Ha! pic.twitter.com/5qAQVs2mPz

Russians are dragging home even crushed fruit, to turn it into homemade moonshine.
http://www.rabochy-put.ru/news/65926-smolyane-spasayut-ot-unichtozheniya-sanktsionnye-frukty-i-ovoshchi.html … pic.twitter.com/YWtXZq2tDK

No matter what RU done to my #Ukraine,I'm still sorry to share this picture showing what #Putin has done to his own ppl pic.twitter.com/qEiROv1wjL

More Russians picking through the crushed fruits and vegetables.
pic.twitter.com/9t7MQ4RNnc
pic.twitter.com/C8CYv0yTqZ

Smolensk @ryabtchuk_roman Locals bring from waste deposit kilos of fruits, which were to be destroyed pic.twitter.com/6C845er50T

Luhansk militants to arrange local election irrespective of Kyiv's position
http://www.unian.info/politics/1109283-luhansk-militants-to-arrange-local-election-irrespective-of-kyivs-position.html … pic.twitter.com/ChFPExBMgy

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Russian ground assaults now ongoing……

Krasnohorivka @hyeva_maryinka [vk]
17:45 Battle in Stalino road, Borysivka area, ok in the town

Maryinka @hyeva_maryinka [vk]
18:57 Combat is on, fire in horse stables area

18:45 ...black smoke wafts, the bullets whistl past Gorkogo, Pervomayska, Zelena...

Maryinka @hyeva_maryinka [vk]
18:40 Rumble
18:45 In hospital/boarding school area a minor action set in, rumble,..

17:58 #Donetsk @Serzzze [fb] "At 4pm #34(?), Marshaka St was hit. Car in the yard burnt out, half of the was ruined, people are alive"

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https://meduza.io/en/feature/2015/08/07/nowhere-to-run-to-baby

Nowhere to run to, baby 4 journalists explain how Russian television transformed into a ‘propaganda machine’


18:54, 7 August 2015


The website Colta.ru has published a new series detailing the emergence and transformation of Russia’s modern-day TV propaganda machine. The first text was by Liza Lerer, the former marketing chief editor at Rossiya-1 television station; the second was about Yulia Chamakova, the author of the infamous fake story about Ukrainians “crucifying” a young boy; and the third installment features conversations with four former television staff members, three of whom wished to remain anonymous. Meduza summarizes this third installment, written by Alexander Orlov and Dmitry Sidorov.
♦ ♦ ♦

Colta’s first subject, a former employee of the All-Russia State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company (VGTRK), says the staff was gathered together at a meeting in February 2014 and informed that a new Cold War had begun. “We were told a new era was underway that made the 1970s and 1980s look like child’s play,” the source told Colta. “So anyone who didn’t want to pitch in could find themselves another job outside the news industry.”

Only a handful left. Those who stayed did so for all the banal reasons you’d expect. “Their families. Their debt. Plus, everyone knew there was nowhere else to go.” According to the former employee, half the staff was “absolutely disgusted” by their own work, while roughly a quarter of the people, he says, simply didn’t care.

According to Colta’s source, VGTRK never once debated how to cover the events in Ukraine, and it never even considered reporting the viewpoints of people who opposed Crimea’s reunification with Russia. The station’s correspondents, the former employee says, started to be little more than microphone stands for this or that necessary speaker; they’d record the necessary stand-up and regurgitate the necessary information. With the beginning of the crisis in Ukraine, competition between the television stations came to a halt: “A collective propaganda organism emerged.”

Colta’s second source, a former employee of VGTRK’s news broadcasting unit, says meetings attended by the heads of the Russian mass media were held every Friday at the Kremlin. According to this former VGTRK employee, every TV station’s chief editor “received a printed plan where everything was written down about how, what, and whom to invite on the air as an expert.” Chief editors are not permitted to make independent decisions, claims Colta’s source, who says news channels were even instructed to forecast a colder winter, as part of the Kremlin’s overall information strategy. “There is a general tendency to escalate that they depend on us. ‘Now we won’t send you any gas, and you’ll all freeze!’" the source says of VGTRK’s approach. “They even told us this at meetings, saying, ‘Stir up more ####!’”

A third source, a producer at REN-TV who quit a year ago, says the image of [Russia’s] enemy changed with the crisis in Ukraine. “Before those infamous events, our main enemies were various Rothschilds, Morgans, and others identified by conspiracy theories about global capitalism—figures who [supposedly] hounded us with bad food and fluctuating oil prices. When everything started in Ukraine, the enemy ceased to be abstract; it became something concrete,” the man told Colta, comparing Russian journalists directly with prostitutes.

Colta’s only source willing to have his name printed is TVTs producer Stanislav Feofanov, who worked at REN-TV on the show “Nedelya” with Marianna Maximovskaya, when the Ukrainian crisis began. According to Feofanov, journalists working at “Nedelya” were always given the opportunity to cover both sides of the conflict, and he never encountered any direct censorship. “But it was clear that the show was hanging by a thread,” Feofanov says, “and so its cancellation was no surprise. When MH17 was shot down, it became impossible to do the news the way we did it. On every channel, there was only screaming about the junta in Kiev—the “punishers”—who shot down the plane.” At TVTs, where Feofanov works today, he focuses on more abstract, academic matters, he says.

“Everyone understands perfectly well who’s responsible for the real propaganda on Channel One and Rossiya-1. [Why do people work in this industry?] They’ve got mortgage payments, debt, family problems. But I still can’t answer why, exactly. I’m in roughly the same boat: I live in a rented apartment, and this fall I’m taking out a loan to buy a new home, but I still don’t understand how you can pour #### into people’s ears like that,” Feofanov says.

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Russian shellings have started far earlier today than in the last week or so.

First reports seem to indicate they are just range finding and adjusting.

Will be if true--- a very long evening and early morning again with attack numbers probably in the 90-100 range again.

Anything over 55-60 per day constitutes full combat operations.

20:55 #Maryinka @hyeva_maryinka [vk] Some few pretty strong incoming

21:19 #Luhansk south @esorrrose Assault rifle burst nearby

[B]VIDEO: Soldiers of Regiment Dnipro-1 on the front lines - Pisky
https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=_MTKgBJWsvk … pic.twitter.com/sXgUKTQ503

20:49 #Donetsk @donetsk_ukrop Smoke is closerto Oktyabr, or chemicals plant again [not chemical!]
pic.twitter.com/aUG8h6FMw6

20:45 #Donetsk @PVB40 [fb] Black smoke behind the railway (Artemivska and further), breaking windows [noise was heard], maybe air blast

20:30 #Maryinka @hyeva_maryinka [vk] Resumed again

20:35 #Donetsk @PVB40 [fb] Vetka ponds area: a very heavy salvo is heard

19:30 #Maryinka @BylByleva [vk] MG, mortars, instense AGL fire. SA is heard also from #Krasnohorivka
20:10 Almost ceased

Donetsk: Oktyabrsky shellings aftermath (video) http://www.radiosvoboda.org/media/video/27177578.html …

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Donetsk Chemical Plant recent imagery http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=48.041509&lon=37.685101&z=16&m=b … pic.twitter.com/UpvypMzFyK

Before and after of the June 17th huge explosion at Donetsk Chemical Factory. Everything in 150 meter range destroyed pic.twitter.com/ro4Lwa6NdH

And another satellie image of Donetsk Chemical Factory explosion I discussed in this blog http://ukraineatwar.blogspot.nl/2015/06/why-does-donetsk-chemical-factory.html … https://twitter.com/finriswolf/status/629739039382499328 …

Recent satellite images of the multiple Donetsk Chemical Plant explosions.
Suspected Dirty Bomb experiments. https://twitter.com/finriswolf/status/629734071485247488 …

Train @ #Donetsk Chemical Plant ripped to shreds http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=48.038618&lon=37.683181&z=17&m=b … pic.twitter.com/G0R84bGxU3

@finriswolf all these - warehouses/bunkers with explosives. Some already destroyed. pic.twitter.com/bnxFVi2sL3

@finriswolf also about 300 tonnes of radioactive waste. Stocked explosives detonates from time to time

Imagery August 5th indicates large explosion #Donetsk I can't determine source tho http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=48.032986&lon=37.673707&z=15&m=b … pic.twitter.com/Sufowz48dR

Destroyed ammo bunkers outside #Donetsk August 2015 http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=48.022797&lon=37.671604&z=15&m=b … pic.twitter.com/flzM61U0zQ

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20:55 #Maryinka @hyeva_maryinka [vk] Some few pretty strong incoming

21:19 #Luhansk south @esorrrose Assault rifle burst nearby

[B]VIDEO: Soldiers of Regiment Dnipro-1 on the front lines - Pisky
https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=_MTKgBJWsvk … pic.twitter.com/sXgUKTQ503

20:49 #Donetsk @donetsk_ukrop Smoke is closerto Oktyabr, or chemicals plant again [not chemical!]
pic.twitter.com/aUG8h6FMw6

20:45 #Donetsk @PVB40 [fb] Black smoke behind the railway (Artemivska and further), breaking windows [noise was heard], maybe air blast

20:30 #Maryinka @hyeva_maryinka [vk] Resumed again

20:35 #Donetsk @PVB40 [fb] Vetka ponds area: a very heavy salvo is heard

19:30 #Maryinka @BylByleva [vk] MG, mortars, instense AGL fire. SA is heard also from #Krasnohorivka
20:10 Almost ceased

Donetsk: Oktyabrsky shellings aftermath (video) http://www.radiosvoboda.org/media/video/27177578.html …

Mostly quiet in the frontline for now--maybe they are munitions resupplying.

22:52
Towards #Maryinka battle. https://twitter.com/arthurnkua/status/629741801008664576 …

22:43 #Artemivsk @LublyArtemovsk Several minutes ago there was shooting in Krasne direction...

22:44 #Luhansk @Renovatio_UA They were shooting at UAV from purification works

22:42 #Luhansk @LuhanskJunta Some volleys near eastern blocks, maybe behind woodlines at purification works https://twitter.com/loogunda/status/629739361559531520 …

"Carpathian Sich" also say situation in pisky was relatively calm today, with militants firing from small arms and snipers

22:42 #Donetsk @77bot1 #Oleksandrivka-#Maryinka & #Krasnohorivka-#Staromykhaykivka - skirmishes [heard]

Ukrainian border guards downed Russian "Zastava” drone, also known as Israeli "Bird Eye 400" http://en.censor.net.ua/photo_news/345410/ukrainian_border_guards_downed_russian_zastava_dro ne_also_known_as_israeli_bird_eye_400_worth_2_mill ion … pic.twitter.com/cSF6mBJij1

22:40 #Luhansk south @esorrrose Some distant [rumble is audible] for now

Today militants fired on positions of "Carpathian Sich" near Donetsk airport with small arms, machine guns & AGS
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1621103804773022&substory_index=0&id=1536808696535867&refid=17&_ft_=top_level_post_id.1621103804773022&__tn__=%2As …

22:38 #Luhansk Haevoho block @noyabriov Fly-overs were clearly heard https://twitter.com/loogunda/status/629735139547947009 …

22:38 #Horlivka Stroitel @ahab7822 Tracers in the sky

22:35 #Donetsk @PVB40 [fb] Durna_Balka is still quiet, only airport is barely audible

22:30 #Horlivka @kristy31415 Hardware moved towards Komsomolets (via Stroitel), noisy

22:26 #Luhansk @roroko1980 It rumbled and flew away, there was fly-over noise after the volley https://twitter.com/loogunda/status/629735139547947009 …

22:24 #Luhansk Chapaeva St @Athin2004 Very strong boom, very close one

News
2 Ukrainian soldiers killed, 7 injured on Thursday, making it 80 KIA/WIA in one full week.


A chilling reminder that Minsk 2 has completely failed and yet Western FMs keep on saying "the ceasefire is largely holding"--where I am not sure???

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When the dust settles in the future maybe someone in the Obama WH will ask themselves why did we allow ourselves to be convinced by an imperial expansionist to force unilateral appeasement moves on the Ukraine ALL in the hope Putin will help us in getting “our legacy”.

AND notice since the Obama unilateral moves—shellings and aground attacks are now averaging 100 a day and in Feb 2015 the day of Minsk 2 they were running 85—there is a war in Central Europe and Obama and his NSC are literally sleep walking by it—wonder why????

While Obama and his entire 700 person NSC dither the day away in the safe confines of DC—Ukrainian military and civilians are getting killed and wounded daily BECAUSE Obama has absolutely no strategic strategy for anything other than acquiring his “legacy”.


Nolan Peterson: A Toast In Memorium to Daniel Kasyanenko.

Posted on August 8, 2015 by chervonaruta

Video----fb.me/6DlkNgO7J

By Nolan Peterson, Foreign Correspondent at The Daily Signal and former USAF special ops pilot

08.07.2015

Reposted here with permissions of the author


A toast…

This morning I heard that Daniel Kasyanenko was killed in action during a mortar attack outside the Donetsk Airport. He was only 19, and he was a friend. He was a young man who was aware, more aware than most of us, of how the war was affecting him. He was afraid it would ruin his spirit, and that, at 19, he was already running out of time.

I wrote this about Daniel in one of my articles. And in the video below, you can hear Daniel in his own words. We should all listen to what he had to say.

“We were sitting around the table one night after dinner when Daniel came by for a visit. It was dark when he arrived, hours past when he was supposed to have left his post. He had been in a battle that evening, he said, a bad one.

There was sniper and machine-gun fire and artillery falling all around. He wasn’t even able to shoot back, he said, because it was so intense. He could only low-crawl through the trenches to find cover and wait it out. Yet, when describing the battle, he said: “It was really awesome. Really awesome.” He gave a thumbs up and smiled broadly.

He looked tired, though, and when he sat down he chugged several glasses of water and then juice. He filled his plate with food and ate well. He glided easily into the conversation as if he were a 19-year-old just getting home from afternoon sports practice rather than a day of combat.

Daniel had a soft, tanned face, small dark eyes, and patchy young man’s beard, which he had let grow around his neckline and upper lip like many other young Ukrainian soldiers. He wore a cross on his wrist.

He spoke English in a staccato, halting way, sometimes staring off when he was stuck on a word, either because of the translation or because he was explaining an idea that is hard to express in any language. Daniel was unique in his ability to put the toll of the war in context. Even at his age, he already understood the unalterable changes occurring in him. He recognized that he was spending the formative years of his manhood in a place where all that life owed him—years, love, family, career—all those things could disappear any second in a white flash and red heat and dark nothing.

Soldiers such as Daniel escape death by seconds and inches every day. Others get it. Yet, time after time, they survive. You are either one of the lucky ones, or a name that you make a toast to before dinner with a sad shake of the head.”


He an others are getting killed and or wounded daily defending a country they call the Ukraine and which we the US signed an agreement with in 1994 called the Budapest Memorandum where we the US stated we would help the Ukrainians defend their territorial integrity if attacked in the return for giving up 1420 nuclear weapons.

AND our first step was supplying blankets and MREs which one cannot use against 700 Russian tanks.

AND Obama and his NSC have been fighting everyday to not fulfill US signed agreements or do anything that endangers that "legacy" of doing nothing.

So what if Iran doubles back and restarts their nuclear game again--not a problem as Obama and his NSC will be long gone and the "legacy" in place.

NEVER would I have imagined in over 50 years of fighting for and defending in a multitude of other ways the US that the US would "sellout it's own values" it preaches to the world ALL FOR the want of a "legacy".

HOW shallow has US foreign policy become????

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101(-5) attacks yesterday. Tanks, MRLS, mortars, 122mm artillery http://liveuamap.com pic.twitter.com/uSUWAPs5qp

AND the response fro Obama and his 700 person NSC has been again what--absolutely nothing nor has there been any comments/actions from Hollande and or Merkel.

04:23 #Horlivka @DobryShubin Calmed down
04:24 @adochek yes, SPG. sometimes howitzers join

04:18 #Horlivka @The_Ukrop [outgoing are] from #Horlivka
04:21
@DobryShubin Few pairs of SPG worked
04:22 @adochek still working

04:17 #Dzerzhynsk @blessmaster It started to boom in #Shumy direction. And now near Mikroraion it is especially loud

04:15 #Dzerzhynsk @blessmaster Sound of flying by bombs is getting louder, from the east to the west, explosions w/loud crackle

04:13 #Dzerzhynsk @blessmaster It seems, it rumbles also or already in #Artemove direction

04:11 #Dzerzhynsk @blessmaster ...Somewhere smth booms with crackle, hard to get incoming or outgoing

04:11 #Dzerzhynsk @blessmaster Bomb fly-bys heard, like [UKR] reply has started.

04:08 #Dzerzhynsk @blessmaster ...but as the wave reaches us everything's rattling, floor vibrates perceptibly

Dzerzhynsk @blessmaster
04:08 As it lands, hiss is heard, almost soudless,..

04:05 #Dzerzhynsk @blessmaster [rumble] in #Mayorsk/#Shumy direction...

04:04 #Dzerzhynsk @blessmaster It's definitely not Grad, too heavy and seriaes are too short
@adochek 3-4 tubes at one go

04:03 #Dzerzhynsk @blessmaster Some heavy landings in series, everything's shaking. Sounds a bit like Grad. Voltage drops

02:33 #Kirovsk @thisnameerror That was like Grad there, and that flashes were 120mm mortar rounds from #Pervomaysk https://twitter.com/loogunda/status/629759613773201409 …

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Another perfect example of the sleep walking Obama and his NSC--social media starting pointing this out the second Russian troops, ships and aircraft started pouring into the Artic.

AND out of DC--not a single comment, interview, press conference question--absolutely nothing---talk about trying to defend that "legacy" by not rocking the boat??


This map shows #Russia|'s game-changing militarization of the #Arctic | BI http://read.bi/1ho4tcR pic.twitter.com/uL2sfQIwqe

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Hackers publish #Russian army emails (sent via public servers) disclosing missile locations http://goo.gl/mBxDmq pic.twitter.com/1UPBP0sWuQ

Russia Hacks the Military Again (Its Own) http://globalvoicesonline.org/2015/08/07/russia-hacks-the-military-again-its-own/ … via @AricToler

Must read, by @McFaul and @StonerWeiss
"Who Lost #Russia (This Time)? Vladimir Putin"
http://twq.elliott.gwu.edu/who-lost-russia-time-vladimir-putin … pic.twitter.com/6NItksRSmy

So can we finally bury this myth that it was NATO that "humiliated" Russia???

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When will Obama, Kerry and Nuland and the entire 700 person NSC wake up from their sleep walking and fully realize there is a very active war in Central Europe. It is not going to go away and disappear under some rug until the new President is elected.

07:10 #Maryinka @faina_ukr It has just ceased. At 4 there was hell

Pisky 6:50AM
LOUD https://twitter.com/UkraineSuper1/status/629863777593368580 …

06:27 #Horlivka @15SVET15 They shelled with heavy [weapons] from the very city center since 4am

06:05 #Stakhanov @DNSRRSTRTS One can hear distant arty sounds, direction still unclear [this? https://twitter.com/loogunda/status/629903043681722368 …]

06:09 #Novotoshkivske @pidpillia Battle, mortars/small arms

07:46 @mrtoxa5555 Not mortars, AGL,a bit of Partizan[Grad-P?]. It ceased already

04:31 #Novhorodske @LeeZernoganja My village ]has been shelled] strongly, covered with smoke, burnt odor, windows broke. About 20 hits


Overnight from 22.35-05:00 militants shelled the outskirts of Popasna with 120-mm mortars - ATO Spox
http://ato.lisichansk.in.ua/na-luganshhini-najgaryachishe-u-popasnyanskomu-rajoni-po-vsij-linii-rozmezhuvannya-na-artemivskomu-napryamku-protivnik-zastosovuvav-120-mm-minometi-ta-122-mm-artsistemi.html …

ATO presser reported 101 russian attacks yesterday along the contact line in #Donbas
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1045182312159241&id=820651001279041&refid=17&_ft_=top_level_post_id.1045182312159241&__tn__=%2As …

Terrorists dress as Ukrainian troops when committing #atrocities in #Donbas.
http://euromaidanpress.com/2015/08/05/terrorists-using-kgb-tactics-in-donbas-war/ … pic.twitter.com/Dt21NT7r3g

Also as a result of shelling of Dzerzhyns'k, 216 miners were stuck underground. 96 rescued so far - Abroskin

Overnight militants shelled Dzerzhyns'k with artillery. 3 civilians were wounded - Abroskin
http://euromaidanpress.com/2015/08/05/terrorists-using-kgb-tactics-in-donbas-war/ … pic.twitter.com/Dt21NT7r3g

Must-read by Kirk Bennett on "#Russians, #Ukrainians, and the Deficiencies of Western Analysis" http://www.europeanukraine.org/home/2015/08/russians-ukrainians-and-the-deficiencies-of-western-analysis/ …

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When will Obama, Kerry and Nuland and the entire 700 person NSC wake up from their sleep walking and fully realize there is a very active war in Central Europe. It is not going to go away and disappear under some rug until the new President is elected.

07:10 #Maryinka @faina_ukr It has just ceased. At 4 there was hell

Pisky 6:50AM
LOUD https://twitter.com/UkraineSuper1/status/629863777593368580 …

06:27 #Horlivka @15SVET15 They shelled with heavy [weapons] from the very city center since 4am

06:05 #Stakhanov @DNSRRSTRTS One can hear distant arty sounds, direction still unclear [this? https://twitter.com/loogunda/status/629903043681722368 …]

06:09 #Novotoshkivske @pidpillia Battle, mortars/small arms

07:46 @mrtoxa5555 Not mortars, AGL,a bit of Partizan[Grad-P?]. It ceased already

04:31 #Novhorodske @LeeZernoganja My village ]has been shelled] strongly, covered with smoke, burnt odor, windows broke. About 20 hits


Overnight from 22.35-05:00 militants shelled the outskirts of Popasna with 120-mm mortars - ATO Spox
http://ato.lisichansk.in.ua/na-luganshhini-najgaryachishe-u-popasnyanskomu-rajoni-po-vsij-linii-rozmezhuvannya-na-artemivskomu-napryamku-protivnik-zastosovuvav-120-mm-minometi-ta-122-mm-artsistemi.html …

ATO presser reported 101 russian attacks yesterday along the contact line in #Donbas
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1045182312159241&id=820651001279041&refid=17&_ft_=top_level_post_id.1045182312159241&__tn__=%2As …

Terrorists dress as Ukrainian troops when committing #atrocities in #Donbas.
http://euromaidanpress.com/2015/08/05/terrorists-using-kgb-tactics-in-donbas-war/ … pic.twitter.com/Dt21NT7r3g

Also as a result of shelling of Dzerzhyns'k, 216 miners were stuck underground. 96 rescued so far - Abroskin

Overnight militants shelled Dzerzhyns'k with artillery. 3 civilians were wounded - Abroskin
http://euromaidanpress.com/2015/08/05/terrorists-using-kgb-tactics-in-donbas-war/ … pic.twitter.com/Dt21NT7r3g

Must-read by Kirk Bennett on "#Russians, #Ukrainians, and the Deficiencies of Western Analysis" http://www.europeanukraine.org/home/2015/08/russians-ukrainians-and-the-deficiencies-of-western-analysis/ …

If I am able to pull this information just from the open source social media side in almost real time except for the battle and shelling reports that need
translations--JUST what is Obama and his entire NSC seeing from the IC on a daily basis???---nothing evidently.

I say nothing as they never seem to do anything not even critical comments any more on Russian violations of Minsk 2--Minsk 2 in their eyes seems all but forgotten in their drive to create a "legacy" just as the Budapest Memorandum has been totally forgotten.

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BBC News - Ukraine crisis: Why a lack of parts has hamstrung Russia's military http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-33822821 …

DNR" blame Ukraine in 30 violations of ceasefire yesterday http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/8-august-dnr-blame-ukraine-in-30-violations-of-ceasefire …

Actually when the Ukrainian positions were shelled and ground attacked--these 30 attacks towards Russian mercenaries are simply Ukrainian self defense attacks which they are allowed to conduct.


During the last day militants attacked checkpoints Mayorsk and Mariinka. 8 enemy drones recorded - Border guards
http://dpsu.gov.ua/ua/about/news/news_8141.htm …

Not from around these parts! Photos uploaded on DPR Republican Guard VK_com 6 Aug #PutinAtWar http://vk.com/club87734106?w=wall-87734106_2423%2Fall … pic.twitter.com/aiWB7qA2w1

In #Lugansk Region terrorists attacked all along the contact line. 2 #Ukrainian soldiers WIA.
http://lugansk-news.com/in-lugansk-region-terrorists-attacked-all-along-the-contact-line-2-ukrainian-soldiers-wounded/ … pic.twitter.com/xzXxeoavFL

Kids of Donetsk are like kids in your town. Except for they can tell an incoming howitzer from an outgoing Grad. pic.twitter.com/xW3Gvb1XdG

Appears Russian FM “forgot” that they annexed these areas-----
MFA Russia ✔ @mfa_russia
We strive for peace in Сaucasus, helping to build safe & secure life in Abkhazia & S.Ossetia http://goo.gl/f5aPOU pic.twitter.com/hgpUwG4qQE

Electronic Weapons: Sniffing Russian Secrets In #Ukraine #EW https://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htecm/articles/20150808.aspx …

A testimony of high-profile Ukrainian hostage in Russia goes viral.
Here, subtitled
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjx1z36dOZk&index=2&list=PLPnX89fQLdsnTsiDOpYtxvMJZobCjqBC …-
pic.twitter.com/eKlGIZT1F0

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At this rate the Ukrainian military will be having over 300 killed and wounded in just the month of August--AND still no comment at all from Obama, Hollande and Merkel.

News
(Mostly) Russian forces killed 1 Ukrainian soldier and injured 9 on Friday.
90 KIA/WIA over the last 8 days.

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Militants fire 50 mortar shells on Maryinka checkpoint
http://www.unian.info/war/1109412-militants-fire-50-mortar-shells-on-maryinka-checkpoint.html … pic.twitter.com/a3IpMv8maT

Drunk commander of the 7th battalion of the #DPR get lost and went to the #Ukrainian checkpoint, where was arrested https://informnapalm.org/11366-andrej-kozyrenko-kozyr-dnr …

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Militants continue to destroy residential areas. Aftermath of Aug 6 shelling of Avdiivka
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1045413275469478&id=820651001279041&refid=17&_ft_=top_level_post_id.1045413275469478&__tn__=%2As … pic.twitter.com/ASVJlUv6lE

More images of the destruction caused by militant shelling of Avdiivka. Aug 6 pic.twitter.com/yQSZIhjTHH

Dzerzhinsk residential quarters after the barbarian shelling by #Russia'n-separatist militants. https://twitter.com/24todaynetua/status/630047166199951360 …

[OUTLAW 09]

Putin's Russia: destroying fresh food at home & blocking UN food delivers to Syria's starving people... https://twitter.com/golub/status/629724718321541121 …

Not sure just how Obama thinks needs Putin's assistance on Syria when it has been Russian weapons, bombs and GRU that has kept Assad in power and they have blocked just about any UNSC attempts to end the Syrian conflict.

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NSVs in #Ukraine (and Polite People patch) pic.twitter.com/6HQ8aJBkc2

Fragments of Russian Buk- M1-2 missile body are identical to fragments from MH17 wreckage, -... https://lnkd.in/e5SBnhP

183K fatally ill #Russia patients are deprived of painkillers after 2014 #Putin crackdown on pharmaceutical import: https://twitter.com/openrussia_org/status/531756069173743616 …

RUSSIA’S TOP 160 LIES ABOUT UKRAINE
http://www.russialies.com/russias-top-160-lies-about-ukraine/ …
Debunked #propaganda
pic.twitter.com/Vl19PD8I55

Troits'ke - Consequences of Aug 6 terrorist shelling (with GRAD & SPGs)
http://112.ua/ato/opublikovany-foto-obstrela-troickogo-iz-gradov-i-tyazheloy-artillerii-250652.html … pic.twitter.com/fqJuDr5bQh

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Tonight while starting late the starting attack number of 60 is high to start with…will be again over 100 attacks AND Obama and his NSC say not a word.

Today (from 00:00-18:00) militants violated ceasefire more than 60 times. Donetsk area remains the hottest - ATO
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1045432355467570&id=820651001279041&refid=17&_ft_=top_level_post_id.1045432355467570&__tn__=%2As …

Shellings are on tonight—extremely late—maybe because of the mercenary soccer match that just ended 4-1 for DNR.

Donetsk 19:27 can hear from the railway station not far off. Heavy in the north. https://twitter.com/PVB40/status/630053232245669888 …

20:17 #Dokuchaevsk @Shrik_E 2 [incoming], like at old farm Oleksandrinka
20:18 @goky4_ykpauHa 2 more

20:21 #Donetsk @relictDon Salvos from yday's positions in Hornyak area [new ones or those about 19:30?]

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For those decision makers who sit in DC, Paris, and Berlin—maybe spending a single night under Russian shellings and ground attacks might wake them up to the simple fact—there is an ongoing third phase of the Russo Ukrainian war in Central Europe and it is being fought day and night for a width of 60kms over 400 miles of front lines.

Russian troops and her mercenaries have over 700 tanks, 1000 IFVs/APCs and hundreds of artillery tubes, mortars and MLRSs—MORE heavy arms that four major NATO armies and a standing force inside the Ukraine plus on her borders than the entire German Army has in available manpower YET no one believes there is a war—just how strange is that????


Dokuchaevsk expects shelling shortly: 4 Russian howitzers left a hangar, heading the town. https://twitter.com/shuttle1907/status/630069390428475392 …

20:40 #Dokuchaevsk @shuttle1907 2 SPG went tow eastern pit, 2 more towards the town https://twitter.com/loogunda/status/630070350911553537 …

20:35 #Donetsk @relictDon "Both new and previous" https://twitter.com/loogunda/status/630067288612409344 …

20:33 #Dokuchaevsk @shuttle1907 Maybe there will be shelling any time soon - 4 RUS SPG went out of garages eastwards

Ukraine's 28th Brigade say they recorded 34 attacks on their positions during the last day
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1131705793509979&substory_index=0&id=1060798357267390&refid=17&_ft_=top_level_post_id.1131705793509979&__tn__=%2As … pic.twitter.com/n6mnTyh0JP

Quiet Near Mariupol, Plenty of Fighting North of Donetsk http://bit.ly/1Mct0Nn pic.twitter.com/JQceIHCqc1

Donetsk 20:51
Armor on Petrovsky to west (tank, SPG) https://twitter.com/ADivinorum/status/630073899682791424 …

19:35
#Irmino
20 outgoing GRAD rockets then another 20. https://twitter.com/StakhanovUA/status/630057312368005120 …

Russia-backed militia stationed self-propelled artillery 152 mm and howitzers 120 mm at the "Stirol" concern territory in #Horlivka.

Donetsk 21:10
Red flares. They shoot from the left bank towards #Dzerzhynsk https://twitter.com/14720Maro/status/630078634540273665 …

21:12 #Donetsk @A_B_Brightside Strange shooting. In the center it is clearly seen, that something blinks and flies in different dir'ns.

21:12 #Donetsk @A_B_Brightside Like signal flares, it doesn't look like fireworks

JCCC Observers recorded results of GRAD-P and mortar attacks on Novotoshkivske
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1045402002137272&id=820651001279041&refid=17&_ft_=top_level_post_id.1045402002137272&__tn__=%2As … pic.twitter.com/PlcnALdzhi

21:10 #Stanytsia_Luhanska @100007182042214 Skirmishes

20:51 #Donetsk @sashakots Reinforcement, right in the center there are checkpoints with BTR. I didn't see such before. via @sterion75

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http://euromaidanpress.com/2015/08/08/truth-and-insanity-in-moscow/

Truth and insanity in Moscow

2015/08/08 •

Article by: Vitaliy Portnikov


The world is dealing with dangerous criminals in Moscow who maintain that truth is insanity.

Vladimir Markin, a spokesman for the Russian government’s Investigative Committee, has hastened to declare that the Ukrainian military prosecutor Anatoliy Matios is insane. Markin did not like the announcement made by Matios that the Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces Valery Gerasimov was directly involved in the war against Ukraine. And, naturally, any evidence against (Minister of Defense) Sergey Shoygu and Putin could only be collected by a madman, who else?

Thanks to Markin’s statement we can see how the world looks from the ward of the really insane. Markin, as well as the other crooks who are responsible for providing propaganda cover for the Kremlin, refuses to see how he appears from the outside. He genuinely does not understand how it could be possible to investigate the activities of Putin himself. After all, Markin, along with many of his compatriots, does not view Putin as an elected leader but rather as God and tsar. Markin does not want to see that no one believes Moscow’s stories about Russia’s innocence in the military actions against Ukraine. Simply put, he lives in his own reality. And everyone who does not want to sink into his illusory world is considered a fool.

This is why any dialogue with Russians is useless — with those who support Putin’s criminal regime. These people do not want discussions or investigations. They want black to be called white, dictatorship — democracy, popular uprising — fascism, aggressor nation — peacekeeper, inept government — height of competence, corruption — professionalism, and crime — an achievement. And any violation of these transposed concepts (substitution) is immediately declared insane.

And how could it be otherwise? If we tell Putin’s supporters that Babay (Alexander Mozhaev, notorious Russian operative in the Donbas war — Ed.) is a drug dealer and criminal and not a hero of the “Russian World,” we immediately are called insane. If we tell the Russians that the annexation of Crimea is contrary to international law and the obligations of Russia itself, we immediately are called insane. If we tell the Russians that Savchenko was kidnapped and had not crossed the border, we immediately are called insane. And so on and so forth. But it is a question of facts, not opinions, and Matios is dealing with facts and not opinions.

The problem of the Russian regime is precisely its rejection of facts. And it is this rejection that leads us to conclude that we are dealing with dangerous criminals who are ready to declare that the plain truth is insanity.

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There is some indications that the US is applying again unilateral appeasement pressure on the Ukraine to grant a general amnesty to all those fighting in eastern--ie a blanket coverage of all mercenaries who have committed war crimes and or crimes against humanity in order to "appease Putin".

Although such a general blanket coverage is not in Minsk 2.

Maybe the WH and the NSC should rethink their lateral moves as they seem to not understand ground reality in eastern Ukraine.

youtube.com/watch?v=VMBLD0VXq24 … #Russia's 'Motorola' unit (executed 15 Ukr POWs).Amnesty material? pic.twitter.com/pkj4HJl3YV

[OUTLAW 09]

Obama and his NSC still do not get that their unilateral moves got them nowhere.

NOW the Russia have resumed use of their MLRSs in complete violation of Minsk 2 and nothing is being said in DC, Paris, Berlin.

Basically there is no Minsk 2.

Mil source: in recent days, Russian forces have resumed the consistent bombardment of Ukrainian positions using Grad rocket artillery.

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U.S. adds Russian oil field to sanctions list
http://cnb.cx/1UvA22E
pic.twitter.com/I4qnTFYGWk
That is a big thing. US directly targets Russian oil business.

[OUTLAW 09]

For those decision makers who sit in DC, Paris, and Berlin—maybe spending a single night under Russian shellings and ground attacks might wake them up to the simple fact—there is an ongoing third phase of the Russo Ukrainian war in Central Europe and it is being fought day and night for a width of 60kms over 400 miles of front lines.

Russian troops and her mercenaries have over 700 tanks, 1000 IFVs/APCs and hundreds of artillery tubes, mortars and MLRSs—MORE heavy arms that four major NATO armies and a standing force inside the Ukraine plus on her borders than the entire German Army has in available manpower YET no one believes there is a war—just how strange is that????


Dokuchaevsk expects shelling shortly: 4 Russian howitzers left a hangar, heading the town. https://twitter.com/shuttle1907/status/630069390428475392 …

20:40 #Dokuchaevsk @shuttle1907 2 SPG went tow eastern pit, 2 more towards the town https://twitter.com/loogunda/status/630070350911553537 …

20:35 #Donetsk @relictDon "Both new and previous" https://twitter.com/loogunda/status/630067288612409344 …

20:33 #Dokuchaevsk @shuttle1907 Maybe there will be shelling any time soon - 4 RUS SPG went out of garages eastwards

Ukraine's 28th Brigade say they recorded 34 attacks on their positions during the last day
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1131705793509979&substory_index=0&id=1060798357267390&refid=17&_ft_=top_level_post_id.1131705793509979&__tn__=%2As … pic.twitter.com/n6mnTyh0JP

Quiet Near Mariupol, Plenty of Fighting North of Donetsk http://bit.ly/1Mct0Nn pic.twitter.com/JQceIHCqc1

Donetsk 20:51
Armor on Petrovsky to west (tank, SPG) https://twitter.com/ADivinorum/status/630073899682791424 …

19:35
#Irmino
20 outgoing GRAD rockets then another 20. https://twitter.com/StakhanovUA/status/630057312368005120 …

Russia-backed militia stationed self-propelled artillery 152 mm and howitzers 120 mm at the "Stirol" concern territory in #Horlivka.

Donetsk 21:10
Red flares. They shoot from the left bank towards #Dzerzhynsk https://twitter.com/14720Maro/status/630078634540273665 …

21:12 #Donetsk @A_B_Brightside Strange shooting. In the center it is clearly seen, that something blinks and flies in different dir'ns.

21:12 #Donetsk @A_B_Brightside Like signal flares, it doesn't look like fireworks

JCCC Observers recorded results of GRAD-P and mortar attacks on Novotoshkivske
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1045402002137272&id=820651001279041&refid=17&_ft_=top_level_post_id.1045402002137272&__tn__=%2As … pic.twitter.com/PlcnALdzhi

21:10 #Stanytsia_Luhanska @100007182042214 Skirmishes

20:51 #Donetsk @sashakots Reinforcement, right in the center there are checkpoints with BTR. I didn't see such before. via @sterion75

Something audible in #Mariupol but i can not translate the last word
fast-shooter", anti-air machine gun perhaps thx, okay then probably UAV in the sky

also near Donetsk same, - extra reconnaissance today

21:00 #Donetsk @Dusya60000018 Yes indeed, 2 BTR at Ilyicha-Naberezhna, all cars are inspected. Lots of automatic riflemen.

21:46 #Horlivka center @DobryShubin Shooting at an UAV

Russian militants tank shooting - "remembering 8/8/8" via @sashakots pic.twitter.com/c9sAWUI6tm

21:45 #Stanytsia_Luhanska @100007182042214 As a result of RUS attack at least one home is on fire

21:57 #Horlivka Kalinovka @ukrainaw777 an UAV was downed. Burst were from Skladska St

22:00 #Donetks @ukrainaw777 At Budennogo Sq police checks everyone and everything

21:20 #Krasnohorivka @hyeva_maryinka Single boom and quiet

22:00 @Donetskyi A bit of shooting but quiet in general

Donetsk -Reinforcement, in the center there are checkpoints with APCs http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/8-august-donetsk-reinforcement-in-the-center-there-are-checkpoints …

Very high activity of Russian UAVs near Donetsk, in short time - 8 units http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/8-august-very-high-activity-of-russian-uavs-near-donetsk …

Too quiet everywhere as for 22:00. Maybe some clown as Surkov is in #Donetsk again?

Russian-backed militants fire 50 mortar shells on Maryinka checkpoint - read on - http://uatoday.tv http://uatoday.tv/news/russian-backed-militants-fire-50-mortar-shells-on-maryinka-checkpoint-471469.html …

21:45 #Makiivka @VasyaMakeevskiy Some booms in #Spartak area, AA-gun?
22:09 Again bursts in the same place

22:00 #Maryinka @hyeva_maryinka [vk] No significant change, sometimes noisy a bit in hospital area

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Interior Ministry of #Ukraine summons for questioning 7 "DPR ministers". Can be sentenced in absentia as per Ukr law http://www.mvs.gov.ua/mvs/control/main/uk/publish/article/1593112;jsessionid=CC45E0FFF72DA5ED716A70A8419836C 7 …

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Literally and absolutely to quiet---something is up--Russia doing a total unilateral ceasefire-without telling the world-strange???

Too quiet everywhere as for 22:00. Maybe some clown as Surkov is in #Donetsk again?

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Disgust over #Putin burning food is spreading .. latest polling is indicating a majority of Russians are against it as well.

https://twitter.com/USATODAY/status/630097421427720192 …

In St. Petersburg were beaten activists against the destruction of food ...
How is it "symbolic" ... https://twitter.com/podrobnosti/status/630093889525956608 …

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Literally and absolutely to quiet---something is up--Russia doing a total unilateral ceasefire-without telling the world-strange???

Too quiet everywhere as for 22:00. Maybe some clown as Surkov is in #Donetsk again?

Well seems the Russians did not end their war--on again.....

22:35 #Donetsk @GirkinGirkin "Schetinina: I am flabbergasted"
22:38 @PaulVezko There was rustle and boom then

22:37 #Makeevka @VasyaMakeevskiy Artillery volleysagain from Lisniy-Batman, howitzers

22"36 #Donetsk @Shymanovski MRLS went loudly+single shot
@VasyaMakeevskiy AAmissile system?
@TombstoneDjack like that,fr/center w/aftersound

BREAKING: Outgoing MLRS shelling from Donetsk http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/8-august-outgoing-mlrs-shelling-from-donetsk …

22:40 #Donetsk @Shymanovski Strong singles from Butovska mine direction

22:36 #Makiivka @tatyana17112009 Very loud boom

22:37 #Horlivka Stroitel @ahab7822 Signal flare southward from Stroitel

22:37 #Makiivka @VasyaMakeevskiy Artillery volleys again from Lisniy-Batman, howitzers
22:46 It was a AA missile blast

Horlivka @ahab7822 Green https://twitter.com/loogunda/status/630103624622997505 …

Russia|n infilitrator from DNR spotted in #Kyiv police? pic.twitter.com/jOtUwO6zd1 @ServiceSsu https://twitter.com/Vlupidolin/status/630086186023952388 …
Kyiv resident recognized his Russian sister in the new Kyiv police.

22:04 #Dzerzhynsk @DrezdonNikas Shooting at UAV, the night promises hot

23:02 #Dzerzhynsk @dimetros7776 Lots of UAVs today indeed, especially in #Dyliivka direction, UKR were shooting w/AA-gun, not downed

22:35 #Makiivka @j1001r A signal flare towards Vostochny, a mortar round then, blast in 3 sec. Since 21:20 RUS shell from Lisniy w/pauses

RUssians are shelling #Stanytsia_Luhanska again.

23:16 #Luhansk @LUGANSK_TODAY Again shelling #Stanytsia_Luhanska w/heavy artillery started

22:36 #Donetsk @Dusya60000018 Something boomed. Noisy Saturday evening

23:20 #Khartsyzk @natroso Thru the center 4 #Uragan|s or #Smerch|es went towards #Zhdanivka

23:37 #Pervomaske, #Pisky Strong self-propelled gun, tank fire incoming.
We don't return the fire. https://twitter.com/AMykhailova/status/630115528548421632 …

Dzerzhynsk 22:48 Fire, from shelling https://twitter.com/DrezdonNikas/status/630103320707891200 …

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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/08/07/russia-slides-back-to-the-middle-ages.html?via=desktop&source=twitter

Out in the Cold

08.07.151:00 AM ET

Russia Slides Back to the Middle Ages


MOSCOW — After Russia vetoed a United Nations Security Council draft resolution last week, many Russians started to panic.

Their beloved country, famous for groundbreaking novels and poetry, for fabulous nature, perfect ballet—for sending the first man into space!—looked like the odd man out on the global scene.

The resolution in question would have set up a tribunal to investigate and try those responsible for shooting down a Malaysian airliner, MH17, over Ukraine last year. All 298 people aboard were killed, and Moscow-backed rebels are widely thought to have launched the missile that blew up the plane.

So when 11 of the 15 members of the Security Council voted for the resolution, three abstained, and only Russia voted no, the move met with near-universal condemnation.

In the aftermath, many in Moscow began to wonder how far backward Russia is going to slide.

“The veto at the UN is a bright, clear sign of wild, medieval times coming to a once-great country,” independent political observer Sergei Porkhomenko posted on Facebook. He invited Russians to comment on a page discussing the new “medieval morals”; hundreds did, and examples poured in:

The Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko, who had been on a hunger strike in a Russian prison for weeks, was denied a jury trial because she was a woman.

An Orthodox priest is being appointed director of a site of Greek ruins and a pagan temple in Crimea, and that’s just a minor symptom of a major phenomenon: The Russian Orthodox Church plays an increasingly important role in domestic politics, not only in various Russian regions but in rebel-occupied eastern Ukraine.

It is rare in modern Russia for a public or political event to place without the Church present. In the insurgent Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine, priests bless armed rebel soldiers going to war against Kiev. Some experts have compared the Russian president to Slobodan Milosevic, the former Serbian leader, who also surrounded himself with priests.

When did this Russian retrogression begin? Duma deputy Dmitry Gudkov, a critic of the government so bold and outspoken he’s sometimes called Russia’s “enfant terrible,” tells The Daily Beast that the major turning point was the Crimea annexation, which “let the genie out of the bottle.”

Gudkov says many parliamentary deputies are ashamed of the way Russian institutions are degrading, but that the decisions were not made in the Duma.

“The Church dominates,” says Gudkov. “The legitimate state is being destroyed by censorship and persecutions. Hardly anybody has the power to stop the country sinking into obscurantism and lawlessness. … The clans who really make decisions in Russia calculate their moves by reading Putin’s gestures, his moods. Nothing makes sense any longer.”

On the surface, life in Moscow looks civilized enough: lots of wonderful restaurants, even free WiFi in the subway, taxis ordered online arrive instantly, pedestrian streets are trimmed with flowers. In big Russian cities people live a much more comfortable life than 20 years ago, shopping in Western malls, driving Western cars, relaxing on the verandas of cafés.

“Hardly anybody has the power to stop the country sinking into obscurantism and lawlessness.”

But at what cost? Complacent public opinion is rapidly growing hostile to free speech. On Monday the pro-Kremlin polling center VTSIOM reported that nearly half—49 percent—of Russians welcomed Internet censorship.

The Kremlin’s officials seem satisfied as they look out of their vehicle windows and live in their own parallel world.

On Monday, Russian media discussed the $65,000 watch on the wrist of President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov. Why would a top official demonstratively mock his poor countrymen with such a bauble when millions live on less than $500 a month? And for good measure Peskov’s 17-year-old daughter, Yelizaveta, told the online publication gazeta.ru she plans to reside in France.

“No officials at the top of the power pyramid think of Russia’s future,” said Gudkov. “Their families live abroad, while they steal millions of state dollars from Russian society.”

By refusing to let an international tribunal investigate the MH17 tragedy, Russia chose self-isolation. Since last summer millions of law enforcement officials and bureaucrats had been banned from traveling abroad, and the country is losing its chances to integrate into the Western world. Indeed, in the quarter-century since the Iron Curtain came down, Russia has never opened fully to the West.

Domestic politics looked darker this year than in a long time. A Human Rights Watch researcher, Tatyana Lokshina, said that the Kremlin took a huge leap backward by intensifying its crackdown on civil society, media, and the Internet, as it sought to control the narrative about developments in Ukraine. “Russia's parliament adopted laws, and authorities engaged in practices, that increasingly isolated the country and inflamed anti-Western hysteria unseen since the Soviet era,” Lokshina told The Daily Beast.

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Obama and his 700 person NSC AND Merkel need to sit up and understand exactly what Putin is threatening….

Julian Röpcke @JulianRoepcke
++EIL++
Die russischen Streitkräfte im Ostseeraum trainieren Bombenangriffe
Auf den Bomben: "NACH BERLIN"
pic.twitter.com/Fa1eWksWpm

Link zur Seite der russischen Ostseeflotte mit dem Foto: http://flot.com/2015/%D0%9C%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%8F%D0%90%D 0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B0%D1%86%D0%B8%D1%8F21/ …

Some presents "for Berlin" from Russian forces in Baltic Sea pic.twitter.com/edRueTAtoP

In German—Russian military is practicing bombing runs—on one of the practice boimbs in Russian—“on to Berlin”.

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Well seems the Russians did not end their war--on again.....

22:35 #Donetsk @GirkinGirkin "Schetinina: I am flabbergasted"
22:38 @PaulVezko There was rustle and boom then

22:37 #Makeevka @VasyaMakeevskiy Artillery volleysagain from Lisniy-Batman, howitzers

22"36 #Donetsk @Shymanovski MRLS went loudly+single shot
@VasyaMakeevskiy AAmissile system?
@TombstoneDjack like that,fr/center w/aftersound

BREAKING: Outgoing MLRS shelling from Donetsk http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/8-august-outgoing-mlrs-shelling-from-donetsk …

22:40 #Donetsk @Shymanovski Strong singles from Butovska mine direction

22:36 #Makiivka @tatyana17112009 Very loud boom

22:37 #Horlivka Stroitel @ahab7822 Signal flare southward from Stroitel

22:37 #Makiivka @VasyaMakeevskiy Artillery volleys again from Lisniy-Batman, howitzers
22:46 It was a AA missile blast

Horlivka @ahab7822 Green https://twitter.com/loogunda/status/630103624622997505 …

Russia|n infilitrator from DNR spotted in #Kyiv police? pic.twitter.com/jOtUwO6zd1 @ServiceSsu https://twitter.com/Vlupidolin/status/630086186023952388 …
Kyiv resident recognized his Russian sister in the new Kyiv police.

22:04 #Dzerzhynsk @DrezdonNikas Shooting at UAV, the night promises hot

23:02 #Dzerzhynsk @dimetros7776 Lots of UAVs today indeed, especially in #Dyliivka direction, UKR were shooting w/AA-gun, not downed

This development is not good--never has occurred the past
year.....

Reports on UAVs both UKR and RUS in Horlivka, Donetsk, Makiivka, Dzerzhynsk, more of them than usually. Bad sign.

Really really strange events ongoing tonight across the entire front------

23:26 #Horlivka @ahab7822 "Curiouser and curiouser"! VAI [mil police] truck&4box carriers, like refrigerator entered the city

23:30 #Donetsk @Buzzing_Rook In comparison with the evening 2 days ago, today we have a peaceful Saturday night, quiet...

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More than 1120 graves added to #Rostov graveyard in 1 year time.

https://twitter.com/ASpinOfTheWheel/status/630099935363383296 …

[OUTLAW 09]

Is there not a single person out of the 700 individuals assigned to the NSC and that includes Susan Rice who could development a coherent clear and concise strategic strategy to handle Putin--not Russia but Putin and his FSB inner circle?

Surely someone is intelligent enough in the NSC to formulate aa strategy BECAUSE right now the US unilateral appeasement positions being forced on the Ukrainians is not getting anything in return which is what a good negotiator tried to achieve.

For now going on four weeks the Russians have been in an actual summer offensive masking it as a slow ramp up but in fact it is now at it's height and around the clock.

Last night hit 111 attacks up from 101 the night before--the NSC must realize that anything over 55 per day the height of attacks before Minsk 2 was signed--so now we are at double the number of attacks than before Minsk 2 AND yet not a single comment or utterance out of the WH, DoS or the NSC--nothing.

While there is no response from the US Ukrainian civilians and military personnel just keep on getting killed and or wounded.

Militants fired 111 times at Ukr forces on 8 Aug. Resumed use of Grad: 3 times in past day, intensified aerial recon https://www.facebook.com/ato.news/posts/1045695495441256 …

ATO presser: 111 russian attacks yesterday along the contact line in #Donbas, they used mortars, artillery, GRADs
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1045695495441256&id=820651001279041&refid=17&_ft_=top_level_post_id.1045695495441256&__tn__=%2As …

BreakingNews
Russian forces use Grad missiles vs. Sanzharovki, injure 3 civilians by tank fire in Nevelsk & burn 4 OSCE vehicles
In 1 night

04:51 #Dzerzhynsk @DrezdonNikas As of now entire southeastern part of the city is in volumns of smoke. Multiple hits and much gunnery.

05:29 #Dzerzhynsk @dimetros7776 There were hits mostly at #Dyliivka, plumes of smoke in that direction, nightly UAVs there were for a reason

05:15 #Horlivka @DobryShubin I counted 100 [gunshots]. They calmed down at 5am - curfew finished.

Mariupol residents heard rounds of gunfire, shells exploding - militants fired upon Ukr troops in Sartana, Hnutove http://www.0629.com.ua/news/918522

09:29 #Mariupol @ukrmarik left bank one can hear landings

09:38 #Mariupol @LollaChao What the cannonade is it?

09:42 #Mariupol 17th micro-ds @bohdan_ukr Distant booms are heard from the eastern direction

09:41 #Shyrokyne @AMykhailova 1 KIA, 1 WIA

09:10 #Dzerzhynsk @dimetros7776 Where is shelling? Direction?
09:18 #Horlivka @UA_Gorlivka We can hear from the northwest (#Mayorsk?)

09:15 #Horlivka @NoRUty78 First volleys [around 4am] heard half-asleep as like volley-blast, just volleys started then

08:18 #Horlivka @xy_gorlov4an At 4am there was rumble, power substation was on fire
#donbasreports

08:30 #Maryinka @hyeva_maryinka [vk] Still quiet, the were shooting a bit as in the night as in the evening. There also were few loud booms

04:50 #Pisky @AMykhailova [B]...[maybe already] 10th UAV flies around and UKR are trying to shoot it down with AA-gun
http://fb.me/6Ii0dwWZw

09:57 #Hrolivka @xy_gorlov4an Rumble heard
@Svet_inaya They wrote in #Artemivsk direction

10:37 @pidpillia Noisy in #Ktymske area [rumble or battle sounds]

10:22 @famar14 2 children were badly wounded in #Nevelske at Krasnoarmiysk road. Their home was hit w/tank projectile fr/ the east.

Russian command truck on the move---
Command truck in Donetsk pic.twitter.com/HdtKIDODX2 http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/8-august-command-truck-in-donetsk …


Aftermath of heavy overnight and early morning shelling attack on Dzerzhynsk-----
Smoke view from Dzerzhynsk pic.twitter.com/YvueIXyJKl http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/9-august-smoke-view-from-dzerzhynsk- …

View on smoke from Horlivka pic.twitter.com/ZCi1PwsfUF http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/9-august-view-on-smoke-from-horlivka-- …

Shirokine - 1 killed, 1 wounded last night http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/9-august-shirokine--1-killed-1-wounded-last-night …

More arson in the exclusion zone----sixth event in less than four weeks—timed to be at the beginning of this Russian attack phase----
Again fire in Chornobyl exclusion zone http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/9-august-again-fire-in-chornobyl-exclusion-zone …

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AND again a massive sign of failure of the WH, DoS and NSC forced unilateral appeasement moves forced on the Ukraine in order to "save Putin's face".

REMEMBER it was Putin demanding a "sign of good faith" and demanding the West force the Ukrainians to pull back and "declare a DMZ' in Shyrokyne.

The West only too gladly did in fact pressure the Ukrainians to pull back---AND what did it get them???? Another KIA and WIA and attacks in a supposedly "sign of good faith" in a "supposedly Russian proposed heavy weapons free DMZ".

When will the entire 700 members of the NSC wake up and realize there is a serious Russian summer offensive that has been underway for now four weeks.

Telephone call costs cannot be that expensive from the NSC to the DNI???

BUT silence is all we see and or hear from this WH, DoS and its NSC.

Combat just in the area of the so called "DMZ" and it was started by the Russian troops and her mercenaries.

Remember what Obama and Kerry stated a number of times in 2014--"we will judge Putin on his actions not his words--well we have the actions and from the US nothing.

09:29 #Mariupol @ukrmarik left bank one can hear landings

09:38 #Mariupol @LollaChao What the cannonade is it?

09:42 #Mariupol 17th micro-ds @bohdan_ukr Distant booms are heard from the eastern direction

[B]09:41 #Shyrokyne @AMykhailova 1 KIA, 1 WIA

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Obama and his entire NSC should fully understand that when they make unilateral appeasement moves—that reality gets people killed if there is not a reciprocal move made by Putin.

The continued dragging of feet by all Western leaders after one year in confronting and stopping Russian imperialistic expansion only increases that aggression especially when dealing with Putin.

Time for the WH and its NSC to fully understand why the incoming JCoS stated “Russia is an existential threat to the US”. When he tried to warn the National Command Authority as that is his job he was told in a rather blunt press conference comment made by the Obama spokesperson to basically “shut up”.

What Obama and his NSC need to understand—even Ukrainian combat medics are prime Russian mercenary targets—in full violation of the Geneva Convention.

Today was killed the girl medic Nastya Gorbachova -"Fox".
She met her love in the war, became pregnant and was killed ... pic.twitter.com/sYqo1TSC1w

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Heads up Obama and his NSC—Russia is attempting to fully undermine anything left of Minsk 2—why because it is Russia that has become frozen and it is the OSCE that is actually getting beter and better at calling the Russian spade a spade.

Third major attack by Russian paid mercenaries and supporters on the OSCE.


4 OSCE armoured vehicles destroyed overnight in apparent arson attack at SMM Donetsk residence. SMM deplores such actions. Details 2 follow

Wonder if the WH and its NSC will say anything or let this slide again in order to appease Putin??

The OSCE is in the Ukraine at the insistence of Russia and now when they report accurately Russian involvement Russia wants them out.

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Opinion: Russian propaganda compares Ukrainian nationalists to #ISIS jihadists. http://bit.ly/1OXKtIy

Crimea is virtually out of water as none is flowing whatsoever from the Ukraine and the crops this year were simply bad----

In Crimea have destroyed 4 tons of sanctioned Dutch corn
Go, Crimea, you have "a lot" of water to irrigate and food.. https://twitter.com/AlexDobrinin/status/630248348805656576 …

[OUTLAW 09]

This is something the WH and NSC should read at night before going to bed—Putin will never and I repeat never abide by any international law, agreement, treaties or just about anything that he feels keeps him from doing what he wants as an aggressive imperialistic expansionist in rebuilding what he views as “Russia’s rights” as a superpower.

Stalin stated to the central Committee of the SU communist Part long before Ribbentrop Molotov –“we will sign anything that benefits the SU and then ignore it later if it hinders the SU”—and so does Putin in 2015.

Russia desperately needs western development/money and this move will ensure that—not really?

http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/russia-pushes-ahead-with-law-to-confiscate-foreign-assets/527480.html

Russia Pushes Ahead With Law to Confiscate Foreign Assets

By Howard Amos

Aug. 06 2015 21:31


The Russian government has introduced a bill to parliament that allows the confiscation of property belonging to foreign states, sparking fears of a "###-for-tat" round of seizures if European countries implement court rulings against Russia won by the shareholders of former oil giant Yukos.

The new law, which is scheduled to come into force in January 2016, allows Russian courts to limit the legal immunity formerly enjoyed by foreign states on its soil.

President Vladimir Putin called for Russia to be ready to implement reciprocal measures in June after bailiffs in France and Belgium briefly arrested real estate and accounts belonging to the Russian state, citing European court rulings awarding substantial damages to the owners of Yukos.

European courts ruled that Yukos was broken up by the Kremlin in the 2000s and its billionaire owner Mikhail Khodorkovsky imprisoned on falsified charges — accusations rejected by Moscow.

Russian officials vigorously denounced the seizures in June, describing them as “illegal” and “unfriendly” and promising that Russia would not let them go unanswered.

'Principle of Reciprocity'

The legislation empowers Russian courts to seize the property of foreign states on “a principle of reciprocity,” according to a copy of the law posted Wednesday on the State Duma's website.

Officially titled “On the legal immunity of foreign states and the property of foreign states in the Russian Federation,” the law runs to some 28 pages. The government publicly approved a version of the law drafted by the Justice Ministry for the first time on July 21.

Officials characterized it as a warning to Western countries that might seek to continue the confiscations of Russian property that happened earlier this year.

“The idea of the legislation is of a preventative character,” said Konstantin Dobrynin, a senator in Russia's upper house of parliament and deputy head of the chamber's constitutional law committee.

“The [Russian] state wants to make a point and say: Please bear in mind that we will do the same with your property in response,” Dobrynin said in written comments to The Moscow Times.

Russia's Interests

Putin told reporters on June 19, the day after the French and Belgian seizures took place, that Russia would respond.

“There cannot not be a reaction, we will defend our interests,” said Putin. “We have encountered similar displays before, including from our European partners and companies.”

Putin mentioned the case of Swiss trading outfit Noga, which repeatedly tried to freeze Russian state assets during a decade-long legal battle that originated in a 1997 Stockholm arbitration court ruling in favor of the company.

Russia succeeded in blocking all Noga's attempts.

The text of the new law on the Duma's website notes that Russia has seen an upsurge in incidences of companies and individuals taking the country to international courts in recent years.

“The number of cases brought against the Russian Federation and its different branches in foreign courts is steadily increasing and the agreement of the Russian Federation for its participation in the cases is not asked for,” an appendix to the law reads.

Yukos Suits

Yukos shareholders brought a series of cases against the Russian government after Khodorkovsky was arrested at gunpoint on a Siberian runway in 2003 on charges of tax evasion. Most of the company's assets were subsequently nationalized and transferred to state-owned oil producer Rosneft.

Last July, the shareholders were awarded an unprecedented $50 billion in damages by an international arbitration court in The Hague. The court ruled that the Russian authorities had subjected Yukos — once Russia's biggest oil producer — to politically motivated attacks.

Russia has not paid the compensation, refusing to recognize the court's authority, and the shareholders have begun petitioning local courts in Europe and the United States to seize assets, mainly bank accounts and real estate, belonging to the Russian state.

"It will take a number of years, we always knew it would … but we've got the stamina and budget," Tim Osborne, director of the GML group of Yukos shareholders, told the Reuters news agency in July.

Targets

The main targets of French and Belgium bailiffs in June appeared to be the bank accounts of Russian diplomats as well as property owned by state-controlled media holdings, including the TASS news agency. Several dozen companies in Belgium and France were asked to provide information on whether they held any Russian state assets, local media reported at the time.

Similarly, the new Russian law appears to allow for property owned by foreign states, including cultural and media organizations, to be confiscated in a ###-for-tat battle, according to experts contacted by The Moscow Times.

However, companies, even those owned or part-owned by foreign governments, are unlikely to fall under the remit of the law, they said.

Diplomatic buildings and embassies will also be exempt from any seizures, according to Alexei Panich, a lawyer at Herbert Smith Freehills firm in Moscow.

“There are a series of international agreements protecting this type of property,” he said.

Senator Dobrynin said that investors should not be spooked by the new legislation.

“It won't stretch to the arrest of the property of private companies because this would work against Russia's national interests and then we'd have to forget about foreign investment [for good],” he said.



Does he really believe that as the Duma changes the law as often their hats western investors WOULD actually believe him??

He does not seem to believe it was the of law--business law that was used to acquire the Yukos court decision--AND Russia only put up a feeble defense of their position as they knew they were in violation of existing business laws.

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Russian propaganda claims Right Sector planning a bloody provocation in Odessa, on the size of last years tragedy. http://tvzvezda.ru/news/vstrane_i_mire/content/201508090948-4d9h.htm …

Pay attention! Odessa tragedy became the main battle cry for Russians. 2nd could be used as an excuse for open war. https://twitter.com/akihheikkinen/status/630286663994871808 …

REPORT: RUSSIAN HACK ON PENTAGON THE ‘MOST SOPHISTICATED’ IN MILITARY HISTORY... http://nato.trendolizer.com/2015/08/report-russian-hack-on-pentagon-the-most-sophisticated-in-military-history.html … pic.twitter.com/e2ZTssUfJq

[OUTLAW 09]

Obama and his entire NSC should fully understand that when they make unilateral appeasement moves—that reality gets people killed if there is not a reciprocal move made by Putin.

The continued dragging of feet by all Western leaders after one year in confronting and stopping Russian imperialistic expansion only increases that aggression especially when dealing with Putin.

Time for the WH and its NSC to fully understand why the incoming JCoS stated “Russia is an existential threat to the US”. When he tried to warn the National Command Authority as that is his job he was told in a rather blunt press conference comment made by the Obama spokesperson to basically “shut up”.

What Obama and his NSC need to understand—even Ukrainian combat medics are prime Russian mercenary targets—in full violation of the Geneva Convention.

Today was killed the girl medic Nastya Gorbachova -"Fox".
She met her love in the war, became pregnant and was killed ... pic.twitter.com/sYqo1TSC1w

Even normal Ukrainian social media is seeing the inaction of the WH and its NSC---

Every day Russia breaks Minsk accords - shells Ukraine 100 times and kills a handful of innocent Ukrainians. Every day.

Ukrainian military KIAs and WIAs the last nine days are over 100 and if this pace continues it will be well over 400 for the month of August alone. This does not include civilians--three more last night and they were children.

AND there is no Russia summer offensive....sure......

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The Russian summer offensive is now officially on---previously night time grounds attacks have shifted to day time ground attacks—meaning 24 x 7 attacks around the clock. Attacks per day have now been 100 for the last week-before Minsk 2 they were between 55-70.

AND that is not a Russian summer offensive in progress?—they are trying for a break through somewhere along the contact front lines as they desperately need a win to save face.

Burnt @OSCE_SMM cars in #Donetsk this morning.
https://twitter.com/novaya_gazeta/status/630296014717591553 …

10:40 #Horlivka @77bot1 Intense arty and infantry battle near Zaytseve and Holma [RUS source]

11:23 #Dzerzhynsk Mikroraion @hdzerz It sounds like metal gate banged with sledge-hammer. What's hit?

11:07 #Dzerzhynsk @dimetros7776 "Noisy again, again they poud [at us]! Don't even fear of the light!"

10:50 #Dzerzhynsk @TarasUkrop_ "Noisy in #Shumy/#Mayorsk direction. Battles suspociously start since morning, don't they fear of #OSCE?"

Russian artillery (including Grad rockets) hit Ukrainian positions north of Debaltseve & Mariupol. Reports of intense shelling elsewhere.

Krasniy_Luch @falconua "Militants base is located several metres away from the school #2" pic.twitter.com/nsARvAo64K

Militants are holding captive 37 Ukr servicemen in seized SBU building in #Donetsk - Advisor to Dep Defense Min Budik http://www.hromadske.tv/society/budik-v-kolishnii-budivli-sbu-u-donetsku-utrimuyut/ …

ALL POWs were to have been exchanged in Feb 2015----

[OUTLAW 09]

The Russian summer offensive is now officially on---previously night time grounds attacks have shifted to day time ground attacks—meaning 24 x 7 attacks around the clock. Attacks per day have now been 100 for the last week-before Minsk 2 they were between 55-70.

AND that is not a Russian summer offensive in progress?—they are trying for a break through somewhere along the contact front lines as they desperately need a win to save face.

Burnt @OSCE_SMM cars in #Donetsk this morning.
https://twitter.com/novaya_gazeta/status/630296014717591553 …

10:40 #Horlivka @77bot1 Intense arty and infantry battle near Zaytseve and Holma [RUS source]

11:23 #Dzerzhynsk Mikroraion @hdzerz It sounds like metal gate banged with sledge-hammer. What's hit?

11:07 #Dzerzhynsk @dimetros7776 "Noisy again, again they poud [at us]! Don't even fear of the light!"

10:50 #Dzerzhynsk @TarasUkrop_ "Noisy in #Shumy/#Mayorsk direction. Battles suspociously start since morning, don't they fear of #OSCE?"

Russian artillery (including Grad rockets) hit Ukrainian positions north of Debaltseve & Mariupol. Reports of intense shelling elsewhere.

Krasniy_Luch @falconua "Militants base is located several metres away from the school #2" pic.twitter.com/nsARvAo64K

Militants are holding captive 37 Ukr servicemen in seized SBU building in #Donetsk - Advisor to Dep Defense Min Budik http://www.hromadske.tv/society/budik-v-kolishnii-budivli-sbu-u-donetsku-utrimuyut/ …

ALL POWs were to have been exchanged in Feb 2015----

AND in most cases the UA is not returning fire with their heavy weapons YET--the question how long can they still refrain???

[OUTLAW 09]

AND again a massive sign of failure of the WH, DoS and NSC forced unilateral appeasement moves forced on the Ukraine in order to "save Putin's face".

REMEMBER it was Putin demanding a "sign of good faith" and demanding the West force the Ukrainians to pull back and "declare a DMZ' in Shyrokyne.

The West only too gladly did in fact pressure the Ukrainians to pull back---AND what did it get them???? Another KIA and WIA and attacks in a supposedly "sign of good faith" in a "supposedly Russian proposed heavy weapons free DMZ".

When will the entire 700 members of the NSC wake up and realize there is a serious Russian summer offensive that has been underway for now four weeks.

Telephone call costs cannot be that expensive from the NSC to the DNI???

BUT silence is all we see and or hear from this WH, DoS and its NSC.

Combat just in the area of the so called "DMZ" and it was started by the Russian troops and her mercenaries.

Remember what Obama and Kerry stated a number of times in 2014--"we will judge Putin on his actions not his words--well we have the actions and from the US nothing.

09:29 #Mariupol @ukrmarik left bank one can hear landings

09:38 #Mariupol @LollaChao What the cannonade is it?

09:42 #Mariupol 17th micro-ds @bohdan_ukr Distant booms are heard from the eastern direction

[B]09:41 #Shyrokyne @AMykhailova 1 KIA, 1 WIA

NOW we truly see the utter failure of Obama, Kerry, Nuland and as well as the NSC in their pressuring the Ukraine to commit to a unilateral appeasement based on the "demands of Putin for a sign of good faith".

Putin has used and abused Obama knowing Obama is driving on his legacy and is thus willing to throw the Ukraine under the bus for that legacy.

REMEMBER it was the Russian General in the JCCC that first proposed the DMZ and withdrawal of the UA heavy weapons in Mariupol.

THEN the WH via Nuland applied direct pressure on the Ukraine and it was a unilateral move with no reciprocal demands on Russia. NOTICE Nuland has been exceptionally quiet since the appeasement.

AND we call this US foreign policy---some call it rightly Munich 1938--even social media questioned the US moves---AND the NSC has a 700 member Staff -and cannot get out of a wet paper bag it seems.

Positions in #Shyrokyne abandonded by #Ukraine troops at @poroshenko's order occupied by #Russia|n snipers. https://twitter.com/SerhioAlexandro/status/630010582159245312 …

Heavy ongoing battle at #Shyrokyne since hours. The Ukrainian marines have 1 KIA, 3 WIA reported so far.

13.10 reports of cannonade coming from Shyrokyne. No Official comments on the situation there yet.
http://m.0629.com.ua/news/918522

"#Mariupol is shaking from the explosions and shots of the insurgents" https://twitter.com/robertayegahib/status/630323986031865856 …

SO now does one finally realize Obama has no strategy, and if there is one then it is appeasement nothing more nothing less.

Historically appeasement has never worked in face of pure aggression.

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Intensive shelling and ground attacks up and down the 600km front lines.

Russian summer offensive is in full swing now--AND from Washington we hear what again---nothing.

Avdiivka 13:31
Since 15 mins ongoing battle in the area of Tsarska Okhota -Butovka mine, w small and large caliber https://twitter.com/Marchcat_81/status/630325399889793025 …

Donetsk 13:20 Gvardeyka
"Heavy incoming towards #Avdiivka, possibly by #Yasynuvata" https://twitter.com/PVB40/status/630324102327365632 …

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European social media is now calling it what the rest of the Western leaders ie Obama, Hollande and Merkel are afraid to say........Russian summer offensive.

Russia|n terrorists moved into large-scale offensive"

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Valid question--does not Obama and his entire 700 NSC Staff not see this OR do they not want to see this?????

All the billions spent on the IC and social media is five steps ahead--come on.

Russian Kamensk-Shakhtinsky military base (6 new bunkers + 3 other foundations) http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=48.298234&lon=40.181680&z=16&m=b … pic.twitter.com/iqFs7n4sLC

Putin upgrading road/rail network @ Kamensk Ammo Dump http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=48.285535&lon=40.192580&z=15&m=b … pic.twitter.com/V8PC51bhDL

Russian Vehicle Depot used to supply 'Pro-Russians' in #Ukraine
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=48.273404&lon=40.262382&z=16&m=b … pic.twitter.com/SR8yUsqoJM

There you go. These satellite images show the origin of Russian armor in Ukraine. https://twitter.com/finriswolf/status/630324112263516160 …

Russia has declared war to NATO... Russia views NATO as it's enemy. https://twitter.com/ACScowcroft/status/630096910162857987 …

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Not a single voice of outrage by Obama, Kerry, Nuland and the entire NSC.

One would think even calling an emergency OSCE meeting would be in order--but again silence from the WH.

Destroying OSCE vehicles for $1m might be to prevent monitoring a new upcoming Russian offensive.

That's another way of preventing OSCE to monitor Russian armor in Ukraine. https://twitter.com/RobPulseNews/status/630318292062896129 …

Militants in social networks claims that attack on OSCE is "people angry" http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/9-august-militants-account-in-social-networks-claims-that … pic.twitter.com/9LMwzzOWnA via @vasilymaximov

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NOW we truly see the utter failure of Obama, Kerry, Nuland and as well as the NSC in their pressuring the Ukraine to commit to a unilateral appeasement based on the "demands of Putin for a sign of good faith".

Putin has used and abused Obama knowing Obama is driving on his legacy and is thus willing to throw the Ukraine under the bus for that legacy.

REMEMBER it was the Russian General in the JCCC that first proposed the DMZ and withdrawal of the UA heavy weapons in Mariupol.

THEN the WH via Nuland applied direct pressure on the Ukraine and it was a unilateral move with no reciprocal demands on Russia. NOTICE Nuland has been exceptionally quiet since the appeasement.

AND we call this US foreign policy---some call it rightly Munich 1938--even social media questioned the US moves---AND the NSC has a 700 member Staff -and cannot get out of a wet paper bag it seems.

Positions in #Shyrokyne abandonded by #Ukraine troops at @poroshenko's order occupied by #Russia|n snipers. https://twitter.com/SerhioAlexandro/status/630010582159245312 …

Heavy ongoing battle at #Shyrokyne since hours. The Ukrainian marines have 1 KIA, 3 WIA reported so far.

13.10 reports of cannonade coming from Shyrokyne. No Official comments on the situation there yet.
http://m.0629.com.ua/news/918522

"#Mariupol is shaking from the explosions and shots of the insurgents" https://twitter.com/robertayegahib/status/630323986031865856 …

SO now does one finally realize Obama has no strategy, and if there is one then it is appeasement nothing more nothing less.

Historically appeasement has never worked in face of pure aggression.

Putnin's recent "demands" on the Normandy Four were in fact carried out after unilateral pressure by the US, France and Germany.

He "demanded a sign of good faith" AND here is that "sign of good faith".


Sector M spox confirms that Ukr marines have losses in russian attack on #Shyrokyno http://gordonua.com/news/war/Press-oficer-sektora-M-V-SHirokino-bylo-boestolknovenie-Est-poteri-sredi-nashey-morskoy-pehoty-93350.html …

AND Obama's own words from 2014---"we will judge Putin on his actions not his words".

SO did the President of the US basically lie to the world??????

Obama's lack of action speaks volumes for his lack of an effective NSC and an even worse foreign policy.

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Not a single voice of outrage by Obama, Kerry, Nuland and the entire NSC.

One would think even calling an emergency OSCE meeting would be in order--but again silence from the WH.

Destroying OSCE vehicles for $1m might be to prevent monitoring a new upcoming Russian offensive.

That's another way of preventing OSCE to monitor Russian armor in Ukraine. https://twitter.com/RobPulseNews/status/630318292062896129 …

Militants in social networks claims that attack on OSCE is "people angry" http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/9-august-militants-account-in-social-networks-claims-that … pic.twitter.com/9LMwzzOWnA via @vasilymaximov

Putin does not want the OSC to "see" the ongoing Russian offensive as simple as that.

BreakingNews
After #Donetsk,now a mob also blocks the @OSCE_SMM headquarters in Luhansk. LPR "police" doing nothing. pic.twitter.com/R1kJQBTnn4

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Putnin's recent "demands" on the Normandy Four were in fact carried out after unilateral pressure by the US, France and Germany.

He "demanded a sign of good faith" AND here is that "sign of good faith".


Sector M spox confirms that Ukr marines have losses in russian attack on #Shyrokyno http://gordonua.com/news/war/Press-oficer-sektora-M-V-SHirokino-bylo-boestolknovenie-Est-poteri-sredi-nashey-morskoy-pehoty-93350.html …

AND Obama's own words from 2014---"we will judge Putin on his actions not his words".

SO did the President of the US basically lie to the world??????

Obama's lack of action speaks volumes for his lack of an effective NSC and an even worse foreign policy.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/rweb/ideas/putting-ukraine-in-an-untenable-position/2015/08/08/db76bba6-3c5a-11e5-9c2d-ed991d848c48_story.html?tid=kindle-app

Putting Ukraine In An untenable Position


Nearly six months after Russia agreed to an immediate cease-fire in eastern Ukraine, its forces continue to shell and rocket Ukrainian positions on a daily basis. Far from pulling back heavy weapons or withdrawing its troops as required by the agreement, it has built military bases and deployed 9,000 troops inside Ukraine and stationed another 50,000 just outside the border, according to Ukrainian and NATO officials. Ukraine’s national security council warned last month that Moscow had completed preparations for a new offensive in three different directions from the territory it currently controls.

How are Western governments responding to this aggression? Last month the Obama administration slightly tightened existing sanctions on Russia, and the Pentagon announced that training of Ukrainian special forces would be extended to regular army units. Mostly, however, the United States has joined with France and Germany in applying heavy political pressure — on the government of Ukraine.

Since a meeting in May between Secretary of State John F. Kerry and Russian President Vladi#mir Putin, U.S. officials have been leaning on the democratically elected and pro-Western administration of Petro Poroshenko to adopt constitutional changes and authorize elections that would legitimize the authorities Russia installed in eastern Ukraine and grant the areas they occupy a special legal status. Last month Ukraine’s parliament reluctantly gave preliminary approval to the changes after Mr. Poroshenko warned lawmakers Ukraine would have to face Russia without allies if it did not adopt them.

The political formula was imposed by Russia as part of what is known as the “Minsk 2” agreement in February. Germany, France and Ukraine agreed to the deal in a desperate effort to stop an escalating military conflict. The shooting diminished, but never stopped; Russia and its proxies have never respected the cease-fire. Yet now the German and French governments have enlisted the help of the Obama administration in seeking unilateral Ukrainian compliance with Minsk 2’s onerous political terms, which if fully implemented would implant a Russian-controlled entity inside Ukraine’s political system.

U.S. officials say Ukrainian steps toward compliance put pressure on Russia and deprive it of a pretext for launching another full-scale military offensive. But Moscow’s aggressive propaganda apparatus relentlessly portrays Ukraine as violating the deal; and Mr. Putin hasn’t needed a legitimate pretext for his previous aggressions. Even if Russia respected the cease-fire, the terms it seeks for reincorporating the areas it holds into Ukraine would cripple the country’s democracy and independence — which is Mr. Putin’s goal.

NOTE: how did that work out since the Russians are now on their offensive???? Appeasement in the face of aggression never works.

Rather than legitimize Russia’s puppet entity, Ukraine would be better off leaving it isolated and forcing Moscow to sustain it, as it does similar enclaves in Georgia and Moldova. The Obama administration, for its part, ought to be doing more to bolster Ukraine’s defenses, so that Russia will be deterred from the offensive it is threatening — and it should tell European allies that the political solution they are trying to force is unworkable as well as wrong.

The Editorial Board


The Obama foreign policy for the Ukraine ---unilateral appeasement Munich 1938 style.

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Russo-Ukrainian War. Accurate headline is "Russian Army Special Operations Forces lead mobilization of auxiliaries in occupied Donbas."

The LNR has put its army units in combat readiness. | Hmm, very impressive.

Horlivka, Zaytsevo direction. Large concentration of equipment and people. Like prepared for attack." https://twitter.com/oksi_art/status/630345246589722624 …

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finriswolf Any doubts anyone might have had about artefacts (reflections) now laid to rest: Proof that these are aerial ID markings. Thanks

@finriswolf They also used similar markings in training exercises of the "DNR 1st Brigade" in late July. pic.twitter.com/cIKlNOYWEg

Maryinka 13:45 Not quiet, shooing in the traffic police post area. And sounds like AGS fire incoming at Novomarinka https://twitter.com/hyeva_maryinka/status/630338636152745984 …

Russia|n forces fired 40 Grad rockets on #Ukraine positions near #Troitske
donetsk pic.twitter.com/FjCN4goAug

More of a Russian base in #Luhansk 06/2015 & 08/2015 http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=48.539341&lon=39.362190&z=16&m=b … pic.twitter.com/oMmd33B72S

Russian base #2 in #Luhansk #Ukraine Aug 2015 http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=48.521693&lon=39.376137&z=16&m=b … pic.twitter.com/MxrlNtXcsF

Russia|n forces started to fire on #Ukraine positions in #Lebedynske with D-30 howitzers
pic.twitter.com/5zjmy7fOH6

Horlivka: Power substation on fire this morning @tgorlovka https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bD2-bXSnze8&feature=youtu.be …


Zello 14:44 "just came from the quarry, there were 2 wounded and one missing. That's all ... No 50 wounded

Uploaded yesterday: "Military transport near Rostov" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEIOr8biuDw … - Some Kamaz lack a numbers plate. pic.twitter.com/e1s9adJRai

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Putnin's recent "demands" on the Normandy Four were in fact carried out after unilateral pressure by the US, France and Germany.

He "demanded a sign of good faith" AND here is that "sign of good faith".


Sector M spox confirms that Ukr marines have losses in russian attack on #Shyrokyno http://gordonua.com/news/war/Press-oficer-sektora-M-V-SHirokino-bylo-boestolknovenie-Est-poteri-sredi-nashey-morskoy-pehoty-93350.html …

AND Obama's own words from 2014---"we will judge Putin on his actions not his words".

SO did the President of the US basically lie to the world??????

Obama's lack of action speaks volumes for his lack of an effective NSC and an even worse foreign policy.

NOW Obama and his NSC can clearly see the "sign of good faith" at work.

The Ukr marines in #Shyrokyno beside the KIA and WIAs have also one MIA (they say he was captured bu RU). https://twitter.com/Bizon_tw/status/630374075991461888 …

AND when the evidence points clearly at Russian troops and her mercenaries ALL we hear is "provocation".

Basurin (Russian army GRU and DPR) calls statements about the fighting in #Shyrokyne a "provocation" https://news.yandex.ru/yandsearch?cl4url=www.gazeta.ru%2Fsocial%2Fnews%2F 2015%2F08%2F09%2Fn_7447261.shtml&lr=213&rpt=story&redircnt=1439129894.1 …

SO is Obama and his NSC going to ask "Putin" for "a sign of good faith" and demand the return of the Ukrainian Marine taken prisoner in a so called DMZ as demanded by Putin???????


The GRU machine is moving to smoother the truth: that Russian (hybrid DPR) forces are testing Mariupol's defences. http://www.rusdialog.ru/news/36637_1439128122 …

Kremlin-speak: Opposite is the truth. Basurin denies DPR offensive operations at #Shyrokyne http://tvzvezda.ru/news/vstrane_i_mire/content/201508091531-iw8y.htm … pic.twitter.com/30VxiekovL

News
Russian forces attacked Orlovsky, Vodyane, Lebedinsky and Shyrokyne east of Mariupol w/ 152-mm and 122-mm arty.
Report of 1 KIA, 1 WIA

Today's attacks by Russian (hybrid) forces on Ukrainian positions at #Shyrokyne not harrassing but probing attacks designed to ID weaknesses

wonder how that happened as there shouldn't be Russians in Shyrokyne. Probably small unit entered like this morning.

Marines are good fighters but…… you need to know the area better if to work good there, volunteers know the area like the back of their hand

They are not bad soldiers but they weren't ready for taking over the duty from Azov and other volunteers. Sad...

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Russian base #3 in #Luhansk #Ukraine 25+ AFVs http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=48.579613&lon=39.267787&z=17&m=b&tag=516 … pic.twitter.com/LVRPxpt0Ne

Rail transport of #Buk (of the #MH17 fame) in Krasnoyarsk (крск):
https://instagram.com/p/6J_edOQG6b/
Some unmarked.
pic.twitter.com/fqFKvJQ8rW

@el_roosevelt Backup: http://streamable.com/hvwl pic.twitter.com/mWdfkqW6qR

Santa Maria" battalion refused to leave their positions near #Mariupol. pic.twitter.com/9Q1i5AFyMd
Appears the Ukrainian volunteer BNs fully understood Russian intentions on the DMZ.

Loading update.
03.08: https://instagram.com/p/56-yrWj_IB/
08.08: https://vk.com/id282899772?w=wall282899772_122 …
Tanks still there, 2S3 almost gone. pic.twitter.com/bJw1aOQM8b

.@el_roosevelt
this geotag gives you something on June 3 pic.twitter.com/HmOCGLd3n6

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Merkel and her FM Steinmeier pushed hard to have the Ukraine accept what they knew was a very poorly crafted Minsk 2 --again after Putin "urged" the Germans/French to "urge" the Ukraine to accept it.

NOW literally there has been absolutely no action on the part of Merkel and her FM for weeks on end now--as if they want to forget what they forced the Ukraine to sign.

AND yet Germany pretends to want to lead Europe--lead it where????

No wonder the EU is dysfunctional.

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Hearing #rumint Russian forces are preventing civilians from leaving frontline areas in occupied eastern Ukraine. Conclusion: human shields.

Don't be surprised when Russian (hybrid DPR/LPR) forces announce a "massacre" that ends Minsk and justifies offensive. They will create one.

Russian military intel (GRU) prepares press releases, instructs its "DPR/LPR" units to open fire, calls LieNews TV, then blames Ukraine!

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Russian combat loses far higher than they would like to admit—does not include those hastily buried in eastern Ukraine --------only those shipped back via +200 trucks—and it does not count actual Russian troops/GRU whose bodies were shipped home for burial.

RostovGraves Jul 1 2014 - Jun 2 2015 All 4 Sites Total Added >2565 pic.twitter.com/kta9mJbmbG

RostovGraves 47°18'21.35"N 39°41'33.08"E Site 3: Jul 1 2014 - Jun 2 2015 >200 Added pic.twitter.com/rGDSaHjZhV

725 more Russian graves in Rostove in a year time. https://twitter.com/ASpinOfTheWheel/status/630114747216605184 …

More than 1120 graves added to #Rostov graveyard in 1 year time. #Russia https://twitter.com/ASpinOfTheWheel/status/630099935363383296 …

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UK journalist –former UK employee of RT UK is evidently also working for the FSB while a so called journalist on the mercenary side.

@GrahamWP_UK I saw your video where you had the DNR guy watching the feed while hovering over UA positions. Big no-no—makes you a legal military target and you have no protection as a “journalist”.

Urgent⇢"Independent journalist" Fib.lips uses his drone for reconnaissance for #Russia's army
https://youtu.be/A9MYNv5iRCg?t=4m7s …

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NOW Obama and his NSC can clearly see the "sign of good faith" at work.

The Ukr marines in #Shyrokyno beside the KIA and WIAs have also one MIA (they say he was captured bu RU). https://twitter.com/Bizon_tw/status/630374075991461888 …

AND when the evidence points clearly at Russian troops and her mercenaries ALL we hear is "provocation".

Basurin (Russian army GRU and DPR) calls statements about the fighting in #Shyrokyne a "provocation" https://news.yandex.ru/yandsearch?cl4url=www.gazeta.ru%2Fsocial%2Fnews%2F 2015%2F08%2F09%2Fn_7447261.shtml&lr=213&rpt=story&redircnt=1439129894.1 …

SO is Obama and his NSC going to ask "Putin" for "a sign of good faith" and demand the return of the Ukrainian Marine taken prisoner in a so called DMZ as demanded by Putin???????


The GRU machine is moving to smoother the truth: that Russian (hybrid DPR) forces are testing Mariupol's defences. http://www.rusdialog.ru/news/36637_1439128122 …

Kremlin-speak: Opposite is the truth. Basurin denies DPR offensive operations at #Shyrokyne http://tvzvezda.ru/news/vstrane_i_mire/content/201508091531-iw8y.htm … pic.twitter.com/30VxiekovL

News
Russian forces attacked Orlovsky, Vodyane, Lebedinsky and Shyrokyne east of Mariupol w/ 152-mm and 122-mm arty.
Report of 1 KIA, 1 WIA

Today's attacks by Russian (hybrid) forces on Ukrainian positions at #Shyrokyne not harrassing but probing attacks designed to ID weaknesses

wonder how that happened as there shouldn't be Russians in Shyrokyne. Probably small unit entered like this morning.

Marines are good fighters but…… you need to know the area better if to work good there, volunteers know the area like the back of their hand

They are not bad soldiers but they weren't ready for taking over the duty from Azov and other volunteers. Sad...

Rumble heard from Shyrokyne direction, that rumble sounds like gunshots.

@loogunda what do you say, ukr fire towards Shyrokyne or incoming in Shyrokyne can be heard in Mariupol?

15:31 #Mariupol @vladpug After 30 min pause again volleys started, [heard] in #Shyrokyne direction

Even in #Melekyne, south west of #Mariupol the explosions are audible
https://twitter.com/urbrothers/status/630357815593451520 …

Mariupol 15:31
After 30 minut lull, now salvos again towards #Shyrokyno https://twitter.com/vladpug/status/630355776708694016 …

Confirmed by an ATO source: One marine missing in #Shyrokyne.
Maybe kidnapped by #Russia|n DRG.
http://inforesist.org/istochnik-posle-boya-v-shirokino-bessledno-ischez-boec-%E2%80%8B%E2%80%8Bmorskoj-pexoty/ …

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Russian summer offensive is still ongoing.....heavy shellings and ground attacks ...........

16:43 #Horlivka Stroitel @ahab7822 I went for a walk to Zhukova. Something bad happens westward from Stroitel

15:51 #Donetsk Donskoy @newp0st "Party again" [=rumble heard]

15:53 #Makiivka Zeleniy @PVB40 [fb] We can hear volleys in #Kholodna_Balka dir'n, sounds like few projectiles flyout&pause,the same next min

Popasna https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTtXONK-kSo … pic.twitter.com/aaIntnzviL

Uploaded 20 mins ago in Pokrovskoye, RU. Less than 50km from #Ukraine
https://archive.is/QsP1c
pic.twitter.com/YecyQ2J0xk

Horlivka:Zheleznyanka quarry is here http://goo.gl/zD7DXY 1 of former cinnabarite pits, RUS lied abt great number of injured civilians at

Lot's of ambulances, sirens and helicopters active in #Dnipropetrovsk. Often a sign of casualties at the frontline. https://twitter.com/PetrovaTamara22/status/630398756186423296 …

15:43 #Horlivka @sau152mm As it landed in quarry, we were at the market. Mortar rounds went fr/central cemetery dir'n,bombs humming on start

18:22 #Donetsk @papandopoolo A BMP along Chelyuskintsev & 1 Ural w/troops towards Ilyicha

17:45 #Donetsk @relictDon 3 covered trucks w/siren passing Kirovets sports club towards Svobody Sq

18:23 #Donetsk @papandopoolo Fresh track traces were also there on #Mariupol road

18:42 #Horlivka @062_Region 6-7 mine: intense battle resumed - mortars, AGL,small arms


AND now we are into the standard evening shellings-----

18:05 #Maryinka @hyeva_maryinka [vk] They were shooting a bit, but not that serious, so it's quiet in principle

Black smoke over #Horlivka https://twitter.com/Scheleznianin/status/630405124448473088 …

18:47 #Novhorodske @Scheleznianin The smoke looks black on horizon, #Horlivka direction pic.twitter.com/pHAUqw4dDw

19:16 #Donetsk Rozy_Luksemburg @0954771 "Good evening, volleys"

Attack numbers will definitely be in the 100 range------

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Evidently the Russian attack in the so called DMZ that Putin demanded the UA withdraw from as a "sign of good faith" was a tank assault.

So can now the NSC and Obama finally admit that a unilateral appeasement move designed to save "Putin's face" was simply a failure????

[B][I][U]BreakingNews
The Russian troops and her mercenaries made a big deal of their withdrawing their tanks from the area---they did 1.4km and the UA with drew theirs 15km as agreed to.

So exactly where did the Russian tank assault come from then????

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Russian summer offensive is still ongoing.....heavy shellings and ground attacks ...........

16:43 #Horlivka Stroitel @ahab7822 I went for a walk to Zhukova. Something bad happens westward from Stroitel

15:51 #Donetsk Donskoy @newp0st "Party again" [=rumble heard]

15:53 #Makiivka Zeleniy @PVB40 [fb] We can hear volleys in #Kholodna_Balka dir'n, sounds like few projectiles flyout&pause,the same next min

Popasna https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTtXONK-kSo … pic.twitter.com/aaIntnzviL

Uploaded 20 mins ago in Pokrovskoye, RU. Less than 50km from #Ukraine
https://archive.is/QsP1c
pic.twitter.com/YecyQ2J0xk

Horlivka:Zheleznyanka quarry is here http://goo.gl/zD7DXY 1 of former cinnabarite pits, RUS lied abt great number of injured civilians at

Lot's of ambulances, sirens and helicopters active in #Dnipropetrovsk. Often a sign of casualties at the frontline. https://twitter.com/PetrovaTamara22/status/630398756186423296 …

15:43 #Horlivka @sau152mm As it landed in quarry, we were at the market. Mortar rounds went fr/central cemetery dir'n,bombs humming on start

18:22 #Donetsk @papandopoolo A BMP along Chelyuskintsev & 1 Ural w/troops towards Ilyicha

17:45 #Donetsk @relictDon 3 covered trucks w/siren passing Kirovets sports club towards Svobody Sq

18:23 #Donetsk @papandopoolo Fresh track traces were also there on #Mariupol road

18:42 #Horlivka @062_Region 6-7 mine: intense battle resumed - mortars, AGL,small arms


AND now we are into the standard evening shellings-----

18:05 #Maryinka @hyeva_maryinka [vk] They were shooting a bit, but not that serious, so it's quiet in principle

Black smoke over #Horlivka https://twitter.com/Scheleznianin/status/630405124448473088 …

18:47 #Novhorodske @Scheleznianin The smoke looks black on horizon, #Horlivka direction pic.twitter.com/pHAUqw4dDw

19:16 #Donetsk Rozy_Luksemburg @0954771 "Good evening, volleys"

Attack numbers will definitely be in the 100 range------

Shyrokyne @AMykhailova pic.twitter.com/1bAyaw7PKO

19:05 #Horlivka @zinkoviy Battle in #Shyroka_Balka resumed

19:17 #Donetsk @HeleneHelene5 They shelled 2 times in Azotny direction.
19:24 One more time just now

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Maxim Tucker @MaxRTucker
Intimidation of @OSCE_SMM monitors in #Donetsk intensifies. Their cars attacked and burnt. Photo @jdsprankle #Ukraine pic.twitter.com/epO464bibg

Footage
Brainwashed and organised flash #mob blocks @OSCE_SMM in #Luhansk.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNKCNUhBrBQ …
pic.twitter.com/fwxUmAolkQ

English language banners blame the @OSCE_SMM's vice Alexander Hug of lying in favour of Ukraine.
Well done Russian propaganda TV channels.

"Cover up" appeasement towards Russian forces by the OSCE,even after getting attacked by them
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMTEuk9Njzk … pic.twitter.com/eNJ6vydTlE

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Yesterday I read Lentsov inspected positions around Horlivka, and voil - today we have got a war there. https://twitter.com/hangopovka/status/630413603464724480

Biryukov: yesterday militants declared battle alert - now result of it pic.twitter.com/ZDycBSXBda http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/9-august-biryukov-yesterday-militants-declared-battle-alert

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Evidently the Russian attack in the so called DMZ that Putin demanded the UA withdraw from as a "sign of good faith" was a tank assault.

So can now the NSC and Obama finally admit that a unilateral appeasement move designed to save "Putin's face" was simply a failure????

[B][I][U]BreakingNews
The Russian troops and her mercenaries made a big deal of their withdrawing their tanks from the area---they did 1.4km and the UA with drew theirs 15km as agreed to.

So exactly where did the Russian tank assault come from then????

THIS is exactly what happens when Obama and his NSC decided to cave to Russian demands about a "sign of good faith" and forced the Ukrainians to pull back their heavy weapons and to demilitarize a specific small town near Mariupol.

SO the US expects the Ukrainians to listen to them in the future--would you after last night???

#Picture
Lebedyns'ke burning during the day as seen from #Mariupol.
Good that #Ukraine withdrew heavy arms !! ... pic.twitter.com/F9zzEzaMP6

News
Reports of exodus of civilians from Lebedyns'ke towards #Mariupol after all-day Russian artillery shelling. pic.twitter.com/2XzhQmTsZ8

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Yesterday I read Lentsov inspected positions around Horlivka, and voil - today we have got a war there. https://twitter.com/hangopovka/status/630413603464724480

Biryukov: yesterday militants declared battle alert - now result of it pic.twitter.com/ZDycBSXBda http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/9-august-biryukov-yesterday-militants-declared-battle-alert

19:12 #Donetsk @relictDon Here comes the first ritual volley

Krasnohorivka @hyeva_maryinka [vk]
19:15 heavy shots from #Staromykhaylivka direction, blast closer than Stalino road, Dubky
19:30 ceased

19:38 #Donetsk @ADivinorum A hardware column along Petrovskogo for about 40min ago, tanks+SPGs

19:40 #Avdeevka Yuvileyny @GirkinGirkin "obscenely loud"

20:50 #Donetsk pasta factory @Dusya60000018 UAV is being shot down
20:54 It flies fine, they've missed it
21:03 They were shooting from us

20:51 #Donetsk @CatBoobon AA-guns working?
20:56 @kolyapup 2 UAV over Donbas Arena in different directions
@CatBoobon Why with lights on?

20:49 #Avdiivka @fingerw80 Battle for about 1/2hr in #Yasynuvata checkpoint direction, mostly small arms

20:50 #Donetsk @UkraineSuper1 They started off at 19:09 with two tubes https://twitter.com/loogunda/status/630440384775225344 …

20:45 #Donetsk Gladkovka @PVB40 [vk] We have been heard tank volleys from Scheglovka-Putilovka direction

20:53 #Donetsk @14720Maro I can hear archies but cannot see where they shoot from, but see a light in the sky...

20:53 #Donetsk @14720Maro ...flying fr/Kalinovka over Kalmius, like over Ilyicha
20:54 Light is already over Kalinovka, over Amstor

20:53 #Donetsk Kalinovka @vladimi71543390 Either machine gun or assault rifle heard, yet another UAV?
21:01 @CatBoobon That was AA-gun

20:54 #Donetsk @kolyapup Again over Donbas_Arena, but 2 of them- fr/west eastward & fr/south northward, no tracers were seen but heard

20:53 #Makiivka @VasyaMakeevskiy Some fusillade, AA-guns again? in #Spartak-#Hryhorivka direction

20:48 #Donetsk @donchanin36 20min ago from #Donetsk to #Starobesheve a column of 11 tanks moved

21:03 #Debaltseve @Debaltsevo_UA Around 20:50 a UAV flew over, there was not much shooting

21:22 #Dzerzhynsk @hdzerz I visited #Dyliivka today. Many stunned fishes [on the pond's] bank... there are craters also on the bank

21:25 #Donetsk @14720Maro I can hear ambulances' sirens, but not sure if that they are, for today I saw DNR escorted minibus w/same sound

21:12 #Krasnohorivka @hyeva_maryinka [vk] Machine gun, assault rifle [heard from] Mayak area

21:48 @mrtoxa5555 #Grad volley from #Kirovsk towards #Zolote

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19:12 #Donetsk @relictDon Here comes the first ritual volley

Krasnohorivka @hyeva_maryinka [vk]
19:15 heavy shots from #Staromykhaylivka direction, blast closer than Stalino road, Dubky
19:30 ceased

19:38 #Donetsk @ADivinorum A hardware column along Petrovskogo for about 40min ago, tanks+SPGs

19:40 #Avdeevka Yuvileyny @GirkinGirkin "obscenely loud"

20:50 #Donetsk pasta factory @Dusya60000018 UAV is being shot down
20:54 It flies fine, they've missed it
21:03 They were shooting from us

20:51 #Donetsk @CatBoobon AA-guns working?
20:56 @kolyapup 2 UAV over Donbas Arena in different directions
@CatBoobon Why with lights on?

20:49 #Avdiivka @fingerw80 Battle for about 1/2hr in #Yasynuvata checkpoint direction, mostly small arms

20:50 #Donetsk @UkraineSuper1 They started off at 19:09 with two tubes https://twitter.com/loogunda/status/630440384775225344 …

20:45 #Donetsk Gladkovka @PVB40 [vk] We have been heard tank volleys from Scheglovka-Putilovka direction

20:53 #Donetsk @14720Maro I can hear archies but cannot see where they shoot from, but see a light in the sky...

20:53 #Donetsk @14720Maro ...flying fr/Kalinovka over Kalmius, like over Ilyicha
20:54 Light is already over Kalinovka, over Amstor

20:53 #Donetsk Kalinovka @vladimi71543390 Either machine gun or assault rifle heard, yet another UAV?
21:01 @CatBoobon That was AA-gun

20:54 #Donetsk @kolyapup Again over Donbas_Arena, but 2 of them- fr/west eastward & fr/south northward, no tracers were seen but heard

20:53 #Makiivka @VasyaMakeevskiy Some fusillade, AA-guns again? in #Spartak-#Hryhorivka direction

20:48 #Donetsk @donchanin36 20min ago from #Donetsk to #Starobesheve a column of 11 tanks moved

21:03 #Debaltseve @Debaltsevo_UA Around 20:50 a UAV flew over, there was not much shooting

21:22 #Dzerzhynsk @hdzerz I visited #Dyliivka today. Many stunned fishes [on the pond's] bank... there are craters also on the bank

21:25 #Donetsk @14720Maro I can hear ambulances' sirens, but not sure if that they are, for today I saw DNR escorted minibus w/same sound

21:12 #Krasnohorivka @hyeva_maryinka [vk] Machine gun, assault rifle [heard from] Mayak area

It is going to be a really rough night all along the eastern front lines.......results of the US unilateral appeasement moves without a reciprocal move.

ATO HQ: 70 attacks since midnight to 6 pm on 09 August #Ukraine -

On track to break 120 attacks if the pace stays at this rate

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http://euromaidanpress.com/2015/08/09/trojan-convoys-putins-hidden-invasion/

Trojan convoys: Putin’s hidden invasion

2015/08/09 •

Article by: Kirill Mikhailov


As 145 white trucks rolled into Ukraine through Russian-controlled Izvarine on 22 August 2014, all the eyes of the Western and local media was on Putin’s new “humanitarian aid convoy” motion. Journalists followed the huge column from Narofominsk near Moscow to the Ukrainian border, where it didn’t wait for full clearance by Ukrainian authorities and barged into the territories of the self-proclaimed “LNR” and “DNR”. Since then, a total of 34 convoys have entered Ukraine, all without clearance by Ukrainian border control. They are coming almost on a weekly basis, without yet left largely unnoticed by the larger world. This is troubling, to say the least, as this hybrid war tactic certainly deserves more attention. Here is what we know so far about the Russian convoys to Donbas.

1. None of the convoys have been properly inspected by Ukrainian border control

The initial convoys have sparked Ukrainian and international condemnation, officials asserting that cargo entering en masse without Ukrainian border control amounts to invasion. However, as the interest to the convoy campaign gradually subsided, this overt violation of Ukraine’s sovereignty is left unanswered, accepted as a new reality. Today, all of the Russian convoys enter Ukraine through the parts of the border which Ukraine has no control over; Ukrainian border guards at best can observe, but not inspect the cargo.

Trucks of a Russian convoy carrying humanitarian aid for Ukraine drive onto the territory of a Russia-Ukraine border crossing point "Donetsk", as a woman waits for her son who has fled from fighting in eastern regions of Ukraine and is expected to cross the border, in Russia's Rostov Region, August 22, 2014. Ukraine declared on Friday that Russia had launched a "direct invasion" of its territory after Moscow sent a convoy of aid trucks across the border into eastern Ukraine where pro-Russian rebels are fighting government forces. REUTERS/Alexander Demianchuk (RUSSIA - Tags: TRANSPORT POLITICS CONFLICT SOCIETY CIVIL UNREST)
Russian “aid convoy enters” Ukraine through a Russian-controlled crossing. Photo: Reuters

2. The food supplies often end up being sold, not distributed as aid

One might argue that relieving Donbas from the ravages of war is more important than any international formalities. This could be agreed, if the convoy’s bona fide humanitarian cargo really did find those in need. However, as Russian independent Novaya Gazeta wrote in November, most of the humanitarian aid never reaches ordinary citizens, instead ending up in local stores. News from the Luhansk “republic” suggest that humanitarian supplies are used as a means to control unruly local terrorist commanders. Disloyal Cossacks may see humanitarian cargo cut off altogether, which is just another means Luhansk “authorities” use to consolidate their power (others being outright murder of those unwilling to submit).

3. The convoys serve their role as positive PR for the internal Russian audience, but some are mostly empty

Despite that, the convoys do serve their PR role, with each of them covered by Russia’s state media. For Kremlin’s propaganda machine, this is also another way to undermine Ukraine by accusing Ukrainian troops of planning provocations against the convoys that never came to fruition.

Suspicions have arisen that the convoy spectacle indeed was just for show as the white trucks were found to be mostly empty. Russian emergency ministry authorities explained this away by technical requirements. However, trucks carrying humanitarian aid from other donors (such as the Ukrainian oligarch Rinat Akhmetov) were full almost to the brim, raising questions as to the veracity of those technical requirements. To date, the half-emptiness of the Russian trucks still remains a mystery.

Later, Ukrainian security council spokesman accused the convoy of moving valuable equipment from Donbas factories to Russia.

4. The convoys could be used to distract from brewing military action

The very first convoy may have served yet another purpose, namely that of distraction. The trucks rolled in mid-August, as the battle of Ilovaysk was raging between Ukrainian forces and terrorists, for the first time massively aided by Russian regular troops. With the attention focused on the convoy, the conventional invasion probably had a better chance of staying covert. However, this tactic did backfire: while waiting for the convoy to cross the border, Western journalists spotted a column of unmarked military vehicles entering Ukraine.

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Why did the GOP finally discover this serious Russian annexation attempt which was known seven days ago.

Obama and his NSC should have responded first---another failure.

Social media was on this from the very beginning because of the annexation of the Artic by Putin but silence from the WH.

Russia Strategic blunder: Republicans slam Obama administration as RF tries Arctic land grab http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/08/08/gop-lawmakers-blast-obama-administration-after-russia-attempts-massive-arctic/ … pic.twitter.com/erS4BtrAoE

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I'm getting A LOT of reports like this. different channels. DNR is all getting ready to attack. https://twitter.com/luhansklove/status/630375381112123392 …

Alarming info, in their rear ruscists are removing a lot of ammunition from warehouses" https://twitter.com/Irina16135931/status/630458646837764096 …

It is sometimes so frustrating to be just an observer and see the obvious things happen that we all warned for...

Reports of up to 3 thousands troops and high presence of military vehicles in #Bezimenne near #Mariupol http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/9-august-reports-of-up-to-3-thousands-troops-and-high-presence …

Battle and heavy artillery, MLRS shelling in area of #Troitske http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/9-august-battle-and-heavy-artillery-mlrs-shelling-in-area …

22:20 #Svirlodarsk @GirkinGirkin Flashes seen and blasts heard in #Troitske direction, ongoing battle there

MLRS Grad shelling from #Kirovsk http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/9-august-mlrs-grad-shelling-from-kirovsk …

22:17 #Svitodarsk @hu_svetlodarsk It has happened for around 1/2hr ago https://twitter.com/loogunda/status/630457661893517312 …

22:08 #Svitlodarsk @hu_svetlodarsk 2 times by half Grad loads landed near Skeleva [river](#Myronivsky area),but far in fields

Today on Starobeshevo road saw a lot of machinery with personnel, not local species (very well equipped)"
#Donetsk https://twitter.com/DedDonetskiy/status/630457318610739200 …

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Heavy attacks on the entire East Ukraine front throughout the entire day

Donbas escalates with hot spots near Donetsk, Artemivsk, Mariupol
http://www.unian.info/war/1109603-donbas-escalates-with-hot-spots-near-donetsk-artemivsk-mariupol.html … pic.twitter.com/WFnSp5f1H9

Speaker of Rus parliament Naryshkin "predicting" that something will happen in Aug: like WW1 or Nagasaki http://m.rg.ru/2015/08/09/naryshkin-site.html …

22:28 #Lysychansk @lisichanskiy #Toshkivka-#Nyzhne: tracers accross the sky -AA-guns, small arms. Allegedly UAV is being shot down

Krasnohorivka 22:00
Very tense situation. https://twitter.com/hyeva_maryinka/status/630458518735335424 …

21:46 #Lysychansk @lisichanskiy [Seen from Lysychansk] "Grad flew towards #Popasna"

22:25 #Lysychansk @lisichanskiy Impacts on #Zolote

22:28 #Donetsk center @papandopoolo it appears that they shoot at a UAV again

Horlivka 20:30
Russians shooting from ZU-23 (AA-gun) here too https://twitter.com/DobryShubin/status/630461109745635329 …

22:37 #Donetsk pasta factory @Dusya60000018 Again UAV? assault rifles and something heavier...

22:29 #Horlivka @levis_71 Evening "exchange-ringing": booms and small arms [heard] in Central city district

22:32 #Donetsk @ludmilka1906 Now closer both machine gun and signal flares [AA-gun archies?]

23:10 #Alchevsk @ua_ares An assaul rifle burst

22:25 #Krasnohorivka @hyeva_maryinka [vk] Heavy guns ceased, as of now machine gun can be heard, sometimes AGL...

Toshkovka, #Nyzhnee tracers across the sky, UAV
22:28 https://twitter.com/lisichanskiy/status/630461040564772864 …

22:45 #Novotoshkivske @lugansk_co_ua Novotoshkivske has been under AGL fire again

23:01 [#Luhansk rgn] @pidpillia 29th checkpoint: machine gun or AA-gun?

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Great expos w/ photos of #Russia's Nazis & involvement as Spetsnaz (SpetsNazi ?) in #Ukraine
http://uglich-jj.livejournal.com/92365.html pic.twitter.com/m7Sdwv2NHY

How Russian energy giant Gazprom lost $300bn http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/07/gazprom-oil-company-share-price-collapse?CMP=share_btn_fb pic.twitter.com/AL1yJD2uEv

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Aug.9 Kremlin's info-war is overwhelming its own propaganda with screams "Ukraine is fomenting war around Mariupol" & Kremlin-bots oblige

Germany, French, Obama seeking Ukraine to implant a Russian-controlled entity inside Ukraine’s political system - @washingtonpost editorial

Main news ignore the situation on the ground in #Ukraine since months like they do it with Syria and Iraq.

Russian journalists flooding into eastern Ukraine to celebrate great victory…..
He's in standard Kremlin propagandists' pool and arrives on the eve of 'great victories' planned. https://twitter.com/sterion75/status/630464286779940865 …

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PLAIN AND SIMPLE--PUTIN'S SUMMER OFFENSIVE IS UNDERWAY AS OF LAST NIGHT.

Major ground attacks all along the Ukrainian eastern front—AND YET still no responses from Obama, Hollande and Merkel—has silence now become the Western leaders responses to anything?????

ATO presser reported for yday the highest number of russian attacks in #Donbas since months. They've used GRAD's, artillery, mortars, tanks,


THIS new Russian offensive is a direct result of a total lack of a US foreign policy BUT really it has one—built on unilateral appeasement demanding no reciprocal moves by Putin.

WHAT happened to those “RED LINES” that the West would use should Putin undertake more serious military moves????????

WELL he has and the WEST –silence utter silence.

ATO presser: #Starohnativka ~4AM ca. 400 fighters, supp. by 122mm artillery ,tanks, armored vehicles tried to break through

ATO presser: "As a result of skillful ATO action, enemy fighters retreated."
According to latest info battle ongoing!

We have 3 KIAs, one from 72th brigade and 2 from DUK Right Sector. Several WIA's."

8AM "Enemy counter attacks with very large forces and armor accumulated, battle continues".

6AM "Soldiers from DUK RS pushed to the help 72th brigade. Battle continues." https://www.facebook.com/bilozerska?fref=ts …

"It is unclear whether this is a local fight or serious attack. We all are in full combat."

@Guderian_Xaba 4:30AM "#Starohnativka Volnovakha area. After arty duel ... superior enemy forces try to break through 72th brigade defense"

Aug.10 Early morning news coming in UAF liberated Ukrainian village Novolaspa pic.twitter.com/Acaey0SWFp

Aug.10 pray it's confirmed �� UAF cleared 'dnr' from Novolaspa via @PatriotoffUA @istoichieva pic.twitter.com/H6FDDuDCuC

Some more info about what happened few hrs before Ukr taking #Novolaspa: https://www.facebook.com/bilozerska?fref=ts …

Starohnativka #Staroignatievka 7:10AM
GRAD's, full package (40 rockets). https://twitter.com/Staroignatievca/status/630592075852070913 …

#Starohnativka #Staroignatievka 6:55AM
Very LOUD https://twitter.com/Staroignatievca/status/630588304757530624 …

#Starohnativka #Staroignatievka 6:37AM
Shooting continues, explosions, volleys, but not so loud like smwh far away.

Starohnativka #Staroignatievka 7:30AM
GRADs... https://twitter.com/Staroignatievca/status/630597055988269056 …

Starohnativka #Staroignatievka 6:11AM
Horror mixing, artillery persists https://twitter.com/Staroignatievca/status/630577205421207553 …

Starohnativka #Staroignatievka 5:57AM
"It's not funny anymore, GRADs..." https://twitter.com/Staroignatievca/status/630573543584043008 …

Starohnativka #Staroignatievka 5:48AM
Again artillery pounding, very loud https://twitter.com/Staroignatievca/status/630571509900288001 …

#Starohnativka #Staroignatievka 5:45AM
Again GRAD https://twitter.com/Staroignatievca/status/630570549190729728 …

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PLAIN AND SIMPLE--PUTIN'S SUMMER OFFENSIVE IS UNDERWAY AS OF LAST NIGHT.

Major ground attacks all along the Ukrainian eastern front—AND YET still no responses from Obama, Hollande and Merkel—has silence now become the Western leaders responses to anything?????

ATO presser reported for yday the highest number of russian attacks in #Donbas since months. They've used GRAD's, artillery, mortars, tanks,


THIS new Russian offensive is a direct result of a total lack of a US foreign policy BUT really it has one—built on unilateral appeasement demanding no reciprocal moves by Putin.

WHAT happened to those “RED LINES” that the West would use should Putin undertake more serious military moves????????

WELL he has and the WEST –silence utter silence.

ATO presser: #Starohnativka ~4AM ca. 400 fighters, supp. by 122mm artillery ,tanks, armored vehicles tried to break through

ATO presser: "As a result of skillful ATO action, enemy fighters retreated."
According to latest info battle ongoing!

We have 3 KIAs, one from 72th brigade and 2 from DUK Right Sector. Several WIA's."

8AM "Enemy counter attacks with very large forces and armor accumulated, battle continues".

6AM "Soldiers from DUK RS pushed to the help 72th brigade. Battle continues." https://www.facebook.com/bilozerska?fref=ts …

"It is unclear whether this is a local fight or serious attack. We all are in full combat."

@Guderian_Xaba 4:30AM "#Starohnativka Volnovakha area. After arty duel ... superior enemy forces try to break through 72th brigade defense"

Aug.10 Early morning news coming in UAF liberated Ukrainian village Novolaspa pic.twitter.com/Acaey0SWFp

Aug.10 pray it's confirmed �� UAF cleared 'dnr' from Novolaspa via @PatriotoffUA @istoichieva pic.twitter.com/H6FDDuDCuC

Some more info about what happened few hrs before Ukr taking #Novolaspa: https://www.facebook.com/bilozerska?fref=ts …

Starohnativka #Staroignatievka 7:10AM
GRAD's, full package (40 rockets). https://twitter.com/Staroignatievca/status/630592075852070913 …

#Starohnativka #Staroignatievka 6:55AM
Very LOUD https://twitter.com/Staroignatievca/status/630588304757530624 …

#Starohnativka #Staroignatievka 6:37AM
Shooting continues, explosions, volleys, but not so loud like smwh far away.

Starohnativka #Staroignatievka 7:30AM
GRADs... https://twitter.com/Staroignatievca/status/630597055988269056 …

Starohnativka #Staroignatievka 6:11AM
Horror mixing, artillery persists https://twitter.com/Staroignatievca/status/630577205421207553 …

Starohnativka #Staroignatievka 5:57AM
"It's not funny anymore, GRADs..." https://twitter.com/Staroignatievca/status/630573543584043008 …

Starohnativka #Staroignatievka 5:48AM
Again artillery pounding, very loud https://twitter.com/Staroignatievca/status/630571509900288001 …

#Starohnativka #Staroignatievka 5:45AM
Again GRAD https://twitter.com/Staroignatievca/status/630570549190729728 …

BTW--that US Congressman who added an amendment to the DoD budget concerning the Right Sector being white supremacists---

HE should notice the RIGHT SECTOR in the middle of the fighting DEFENDING the Ukraine.

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From the NYTs Editorial today should wake up the somewhat confused Obama and his NSC---
“Arm the Ukraine or Surrender”

This President has dallied and duck walked anything he could in order to not confront and or have to confront Putin as he wants his “legacy”.

He is sitting on a 300M USD arms bill which included defensive weapons that the Ukraine urgently needs and which in fact would negate anything Putin is playing with in his mind AND YET this President seems to have totally forgotten his own words.

From 2014---“we will judge Putin on his actions not his words”
From 2015—“if there is more serious fighting then we will make the pain even greater”.

Well the US President is at a cross roads—eat his own words as nothing more than rhetoric and lose whatever influence the US has for the next 20 years OR take action that might in fact jeopardize his “legacy” but in fact will be for the greater good of the US and it’s foreign policy.

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IF (acc'd to Seleznyov) Lentsov is back in command in eastern Ukraine, it is VERY dangerous. He has authority level to seize "landbridge".ATO HQ: 127(+16) attacks of RF forces on 08/10 http://liveuamap.com pic.twitter.com/ggyiinVHS5

Map. Situation in eastern #Ukraine, August 10, 00:00 EET pic.twitter.com/zwGB1Gsfgh

Ukrainian military spokesmen report 127 ceasefire violations within last 24 hours http://uatoday.tv/politics/ukrainian-military-spokesmen-report-127-ceasefire-violations-within-last-24-hours-472120.html … #Ukraine pic.twitter.com/ZPgFkcxabV

Seven Ukrainian soldiers wounded during seizure of enemy’s key high grounds near Starohnativka - Defense Ministry
http://www.mil.gov.ua/news/2015/08/10/ukrainski-vijskovosluzhbovczi-vidbili-ataku-ta-zahopili-klyuchovi-visoti-protivnika--/ …

Ukraine army: "We did not retake #Novolaspa because it would be against #Minsk"

News
The Ukr army: "We did not retake #Novolaspa because it would be against #Minsk"...
After Russians killed/wounded 18 Ukis from there.

Gunners of Ukraine's 28th Brigade destroy target with MT-12 "Rapira", Anti-tank gun
VIDEO >https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1133156753364883&id=1060798357267390&refid=17&_ft_=top_level_post_id.1133156753364883&__tn__=%2As … pic.twitter.com/NlrDopUD8A

4 #Ukrainian troops killed near #BilaKamianka/#Volnovakha. 'Demilitarization,' anyone? #Ukraine #PutinAtWar #Russia pic.twitter.com/XQaco4Qp80

There's been big increase in intensity of RU agitprop in last 72 hrs: bigger/bloodier lies, more hate, "save slavic brothers" etc

Unmatched sleuthing by @5urpher. Russian convoy of T-72 ended up in Ukraine. https://twitter.com/el_roosevelt/status/626075359411351553 …

Taking Novolaspa is dangerous move. Just 10 kms further there's tons of Russian armor waiting to attack. Mousetrap? https://twitter.com/EuromaidanPR/status/630641895966945280 …

Russian tactical attacks on Starohnativka (from positions at Bila Kamyanka & Novolaspa) indicate operational threat to Volnovakha/Mariupol.

Ukraine Forces did not take Novolaspa, they are in positions at Starohnativka - General Staff

http://112.ua/ato/sily-ato-ne-zanimali-novolaspu-oni-nahodyatsya-na-poziciyah-u-starognatovki-genshtab-250943.html …

THAT would be a breakthrough... And: of course he does! He is a Russian general for crying out loud. #Lentsov https://twitter.com/RutheniaRus/status/630639481473921024 …

Taking Novolaspa is dangerous move. Just 10 kms further there's tons of Russian armor waiting to attack. Mousetrap? https://twitter.com/EuromaidanPR/status/630641895966945280 …

BREAKING
6:15 am #Ukrainian 72nd Brigade took Novolapsa after DPR terrorists were trying to storm Ukrainian positions pic.twitter.com/1IzHoZLxyl

Footage
The front in #Krasnohorivka.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWAPNam4sMY …
View towards Donetsk and Marinka. #UkraineUnderAttack pic.twitter.com/whbOzkdqw7

News
Ukrainian journalist Andriy Tsaplienko claims, Ukr forces pushed "DPR" forces out of #Novolaspa this morning. pic.twitter.com/2vA5jxnD3J

IF UA forces had retaken occupied ground (RU front line positions at Novolaspa and Bila Kamyanka) it would = trigger for RU offensive

In counterattack after #Russia attack, #Ukraine took heights E of #Starohnativka, but not #Novolaspa. In RU http://112.ua/ato/sily-ato-ne-zanimali-novolaspu-oni-nahodyatsya-na-poziciyah-u-starognatovki-genshtab-250943.html …

Very clearly, RU forces are deliberately provoking - looking to create reason to blame UA for collapsing Minsk.

Here comes the inevitable Kremlin agitprop: Russian Army TV now reporting that Poroshenko is "panicking" which, of course, is NOT true.

Self-Propelled Artillery of the 9th Brigade Fires Towards Mariupol: https://en.informnapalm.org/self-propelled-artillery-of-the-9th-brigade-fires-towards-mariupol/ … via @en_informnapalm pic.twitter.com/uMwPvpQFIC

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From the NYTs Editorial today should wake up the somewhat confused Obama and his NSC---
“Arm the Ukraine or Surrender”

This President has dallied and duck walked anything he could in order to not confront and or have to confront Putin as he wants his “legacy”.

He is sitting on a 300M USD arms bill which included defensive weapons that the Ukraine urgently needs and which in fact would negate anything Putin is playing with in his mind AND YET this President seems to have totally forgotten his own words.

From 2014---“we will judge Putin on his actions not his words”
From 2015—“if there is more serious fighting then we will make the pain even greater”.

Well the US President is at a cross roads—eat his own words as nothing more than rhetoric and lose whatever influence the US has for the next 20 years OR take action that might in fact jeopardize his “legacy” but in fact will be for the greater good of the US and it’s foreign policy.


Ukrainian social media comment that sums up the NYTs Editorial---

Shyrokyne #Starohnativka #BilaKamianka... How much more does #Ukraine have to bleed to prove smth to #Merkel #Hollande #Obama?

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Dedicated to the US Congressman who had the Right Sector declared a “white supremacy” group in his amendment to the DoD funding bill.

Here is your so called “white supremacy group” involved in some of the heavy fighting today against Russian Federation troops—the same Russian Federation you seemingly portray as a great country.

Seems the Ukrainian civil society views them higher than your position in Congress.

The battle near Bila Kamianka village ended, More: https://www.facebook.com/ukrcrusade/photos/a.1600435570232389.1073741828.1600396280236318/1617456895196923/?type=1 … #RightSector #Ukraine #Donbass #War pic.twitter.com/OCDTAaiwY1

BTW--the Congressman should apologize to the RS as they paid a heavy price pushing back Russian Federation troops and her mercenaries today.

7 Ukrainian troops killed, 11 injured in heavy fighting near Bilo Kam`yanka pic.twitter.com/zFwxsfjOkW http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/10-august-7-ukrainian-troops-killed-11-injured-in-heavy-fighting …

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Strategic objective of Russian attacks directed from Bila_Kamyanka / Novolaspa towards Starohnativka is Volnovakha (Mariupol's north flank).

Map of where the heavy fighting occurred overnight.
Russian troops used 10 tanks, 10 apc & massive artillery support pic.twitter.com/04rQnHKMlx

11:17 #Starohnativka @Staroignatievca All #Bilokamyanka-#Novolaspa side is covered with smoke

Nothing but outright lies---shortly before and or right after and aid convoy arrives—then attacks start up again--refer to a post I posted yesterday concerning Russian "aid convoy's".

35th 'aid' convoy to #Ukraine is purely a humanitarian gesture claims #Moscow http://uatoday.tv/politics/35th-aid-convoy-to-ukraine-is-purely-a-humanitarian-gesture-claims-moscow-472057.html … pic.twitter.com/hO3qWUJTRU

11:19 @Ukr_Che "as locals reported, in #Starolaspa ammo storage was brought down, 10 RUS KIA..." From #Novolaspa UKR dropped back at 8:30

According to Commanding Officer Sergey Misura 72nd Brigade returned to positions in Starohnativka https://www.facebook.com/serega.misura/posts/878407292229713?pnref=story …

.@poroshenko "Near #Novolaspa ukrainian forces gave a Roland for an Oliver. Enemy suffered bad losses. Situation under control"

On order of @poroshenko MFA informs OSCE Chair, parties 2 Normandy Format, EU, NATO on escal of sit @ Donbas & threat 2 #MinskAgreements

Maxim Tucker @MaxRTucker
NOW: #Ukraine says it has seized strategic rebel positions at heights south of #Donetsk in 'counterattack'. Warns peace process collapsing.

newsnight 2 more Ukrainian civilians injrued by Russian gun fire in Novhorods'ke.
pic.twitter.com/FqgCzoUwh6

400 terrorists attacked #Ukrainian positions at #Starohnativka. 72nd Brigade counter-attacked http://lugansk-news.com/400-terrorists-tried-to-storm-ukrainian-positions-at-starohnativka-ato-press-center-reports-127-attacks/ … pic.twitter.com/ZsfnByidH6

11:11 #Starohnativka @Staroignatievca Artillery pounds
Fighting still continuing with heavy shellings of UA positions and positions they took overnight.

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FROM TODAY'S NYTs EDITORIAL


"But if we force the Ukraine to surrender, rather than sacrifice lives in a fight for which we have no stomach, then we must accept too that is a surrender, too, for NATO, and for liberal democracy, and for American global leadership. That is the choice before us."

REMEMBER I have stated here countless times here in this thread—Putin has three geo political goals out of the Ukraine adventure of his.

1. discredit and damage NATO
2. discredit and damage the EU
3. completely disconnect the US from Europe

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Ukrainian military reporting the highest number of separatist attacks since the end of the Battle of Debaltseve
https://twitter.com/uacrisis/status/630679372215795712 …

During the last day there was a significant increase in enemy drones, with 24 flights recorded - Border guard service
http://dpsu.gov.ua/ua/about/news/news_8156.htm …

Social media has been saying the same thing for literally weeks but no one paid any attention—
General Staff suspects RF Army deputy commander in renderring help to militants in Donbas http://novosti.dn.ua/details/257127/ pic.twitter.com/hSb5igw2zk

.@UaForces Today since 11:10 till 11:50 [RUS] shelled positions of 72th brigade near #Starohnativka w/MLRS BM-21 Grad

Gen Staff spox Seleznyov: 1 Ukrainian serviceman was KIA, 9 were WIA in combat near Starohnativka. Fighting is over http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2015/08/10/7077362/ …

Recent more frequent use of GRAD MLRS and enemy DRG down to arrival of Col-Gen Lentsov - ATO press center

NSDC of Ukraine ✔ @NSDC_ua
Oleksandr Turchynov: The enemy concentrates forces in order to breach our defense http://goo.gl/76ycW3

Photos after battle near Starognatovka-New Laspa
These lovely "angels of war" are saving lives to our soldiers)) https://twitter.com/GirkinGirkin/status/630689589280272384 …

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Ukraine reports heavy tank battle with #Russia-led separatists http://m.digitaljournal.com/news/world/ukraine-reports-heavy-tank-battle-with-pro-russians/article/440657 … pic.twitter.com/4Er9jRdg1V


Heavy #Russia|n attacks on #Novotroitske, #Novolaspa and #Bila #Kamyanka. Many #Ukraine soldiers killed wounded.
pic.twitter.com/ixgzYCuDdT

Finally---fighting has ceased for the moment-----
12:01 #Starohnativka @Staroignatievca Ceased for now

A. Tsaplienko: Many ruscists killed by their own artillery fire, while counter-attacking.
Ukr lost 1 tank too.

Well it has started again------
Staroignatievka #Starohnativka 14:45
LOUD, heavy pounding! https://twitter.com/Staroignatievca/status/630706464684945408 …

Russia peacekeeping unit –either the 14th or the 15th Mech infantry Brigade has to be in the Ukraine----
White dot and rail transport markings in #Ukraine pic.twitter.com/Yqw8xPTHs4

The great @5urpher has found a match for a Russian tank in #Ukraine from this video! #PutinAtWar pic.twitter.com/rqp15UsPw2

Here is a bitter complaint by Ukrainian social media towards western mass media journalists or pundits—

While Russian forces attack #Starohnativka from Novolaspa/Bila Kamyanka, western journalists remain "fixated" on burning of #OSCE_SMM jeeps!

Yesterday OSCE-cars were torched (to prevent monitoring). Today a tank battle occured at Novolaspa.
As expected... https://twitter.com/estNATO/status/630710190355054596 …

Turchynov: #Russia prepares bloody provocation in the East of #Ukraine
http://24today.net/open/496861

Donetsk-#Komsomolske road is closed.
"#Rumor is that they (RU) will transfer mil. equipment at night." https://twitter.com/RabindrantTagor/status/630713271172132865 …

Very good map depicting Russian Federation and Ukrainian positions prior to a large Russian attack last night across the Minsk 2 demarcation line.
Also includes the OSCE sightings of Russian troops and armor in the same area.
Ukraine Live: Heavy Fighting Breaks Out East Of Volnovakha. http://www.interpretermag.com/ukraine-live-day-539-heavy-fighting-breaks-out-east-of-volnovakha/#9424 …

Ukr General Fedorov no longer heads sector M (#Mariupol) http://www.0629.com.ua/news/919772

Interesting new mercenary strength figures IF accurate a large jump in less than two months from 32/34K to now over 5OK.
Ukrainian MP and defense expert #Tymchuk: 50,000 terrorists in #Donbas, of whom 30,000 Russians. https://twitter.com/from_diana1/status/630669684254351360 …

Massive manpower increase and it did not come from the local miners and truck drivers.

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As a result of battle near #Novolaspa, 7 KIA, 11 WIA - Medical chief of "Right Sector"
https://m.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1556367354583860&id=100006318316041&pnref=story … pic.twitter.com/wG9qccZRFI

First they claimed Ukrainian provocations and then THEN—and all lies—as the UA indicated only one tank was damaged but recovered.

Russian (hybrid) forces are claiming two tank, one IFV and one ATM-vehicle kills during Novolaspa/Bila Kamyanka fight http://tass.ru/en/world/813478
NOTICE how they doublespeak--they attacked becomes the Ukrainians attacked and on and on….


MOSCOW, August 10. /TASS/. Militia of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) repulsed an assault attempt from the Ukrainian military in the Telman district, representative of the republic’s defense ministry Eduard Basurin said on Monday.

"At 5:30 a.m. after an artillery preparation, the Ukrainian military undertook an attempt to break the front line near Belaya Kamenka," the Donetsk News Agency quoted him. "Having lost two tanks, one IFV (infantry fighting vehicle) and one vehicle with an installed ATM (anti-tank missile), the enemy retreated."

Earlier on Monday, head of the Telman district Sergey Ivanov disclaimed information published in some media about fighting near Novaya Laspa. "At night, the Ukrainian armed forces simply fired at the settlement," he said. "Novaya Laspa remains under control of the DPR."

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http://www.thepotomacfoundation.org/keep-it-real-the-last-words-of-a-ukrainian-volunteer-at-the-front/

August 9, 2015 | Research | TPF Staff

Keep It Real: The Last Words of a Ukrainian Volunteer at the Front


The Russo-Ukrainian War of the last 18 months is the most violent conflict Europe has seen since the end of the Cold War. And yet, most people around the world, and especially in the United States know very little about it. Even less about the people who fight in it.

Gregory Matiash was from the new generation of Ukrainians who wanted to be free, wanted to be part of the West, and live in a democracy. He left a comfortable life and promising job to defend his country and fight for a better future for Ukraine.

The Potomac Foundation interviewed Gregory at the front in May 2015. At the end of July, Gregory was killed.

>Watch the Interview (Video of the interview)

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Little wonder the German FM and Merkel have remained totally silent even though Minsk 2 is their doing.

How is it that despite Russia's war in Ukraine, Germany approves arms sales to Russia (over 100 mln Euro in H1-2015)? http://m.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/a-1047395.html#spRedirectedFrom=www&referrrer=http://t.co/mvA1bBsni0 …

Original report says these were icebreakers w 'military protection equipment'.
http://www.spiegel.de/media/media-37306.pdf …
via @NisatPrio pic.twitter.com/DgaHPawXhI

Germany delivered icebreakers with 'military protection equipment' for 118 mln to Russia in 2015 as 'special backlog' pic.twitter.com/MM296irSBy

To be used by Russia in it's annexation of a large part of the Artic----

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National Security Council: #Russia is preparing large-scale provocations in eastern #Ukraine to blame them on Ukraine http://www.rnbo.gov.ua/news/2226.html

National Security Council: Russia tasked militants to stage provocations in occupied areas so that number of victims reaches that of #MH17

200 sets of Ukr military uniforms are being produced in Sverdlovsk occupied by militants allegedly for provocations http://www.ostro.org/general/society/news/477812/ …

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Reference Russia and Georgia----

Russia What's behind Russia's actions in Georgia? http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-33675488 … pic.twitter.com/B3Ctq5p17a

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Ukraine reports heavy tank battle with #Russia-led separatists http://m.digitaljournal.com/news/world/ukraine-reports-heavy-tank-battle-with-pro-russians/article/440657 … pic.twitter.com/4Er9jRdg1V


Heavy #Russia|n attacks on #Novotroitske, #Novolaspa and #Bila #Kamyanka. Many #Ukraine soldiers killed wounded.
pic.twitter.com/ixgzYCuDdT

Finally---fighting has ceased for the moment-----
12:01 #Starohnativka @Staroignatievca Ceased for now

A. Tsaplienko: Many ruscists killed by their own artillery fire, while counter-attacking.
Ukr lost 1 tank too.

Well it has started again------
Staroignatievka #Starohnativka 14:45
LOUD, heavy pounding! https://twitter.com/Staroignatievca/status/630706464684945408 …

Russia peacekeeping unit –either the 14th or the 15th Mech infantry Brigade has to be in the Ukraine----
White dot and rail transport markings in #Ukraine pic.twitter.com/Yqw8xPTHs4

The great @5urpher has found a match for a Russian tank in #Ukraine from this video! #PutinAtWar pic.twitter.com/rqp15UsPw2

Here is a bitter complaint by Ukrainian social media towards western mass media journalists or pundits—

While Russian forces attack #Starohnativka from Novolaspa/Bila Kamyanka, western journalists remain "fixated" on burning of #OSCE_SMM jeeps!

Yesterday OSCE-cars were torched (to prevent monitoring). Today a tank battle occured at Novolaspa.
As expected... https://twitter.com/estNATO/status/630710190355054596 …

Turchynov: #Russia prepares bloody provocation in the East of #Ukraine
http://24today.net/open/496861

Donetsk-#Komsomolske road is closed.
"#Rumor is that they (RU) will transfer mil. equipment at night." https://twitter.com/RabindrantTagor/status/630713271172132865 …

Very good map depicting Russian Federation and Ukrainian positions prior to a large Russian attack last night across the Minsk 2 demarcation line.
Also includes the OSCE sightings of Russian troops and armor in the same area.
Ukraine Live: Heavy Fighting Breaks Out East Of Volnovakha. http://www.interpretermag.com/ukraine-live-day-539-heavy-fighting-breaks-out-east-of-volnovakha/#9424 …

Ukr General Fedorov no longer heads sector M (#Mariupol) http://www.0629.com.ua/news/919772

Interesting new mercenary strength figures IF accurate a large jump in less than two months from 32/34K to now over 5OK.
Ukrainian MP and defense expert #Tymchuk: 50,000 terrorists in #Donbas, of whom 30,000 Russians. https://twitter.com/from_diana1/status/630669684254351360 …

Massive manpower increase and it did not come from the local miners and truck drivers.

Russian Federation troops and her mercenaries getting ready for round two coming up probably tonight as they took heavy loses last night mostly rom their own artillery and UA ATMs.

Through #Vasylivka, #Rozdolne a lot of russian equipment on move.
(that's about 10km east from #Novolaspa) https://twitter.com/RabindrantTagor/status/630723134614818816 …

In a previous major assault four weeks ago the battle lasted a number of days before the Russians pulled back.

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As usual the Ukrainian General Staff tends to lie about the loss numbers---they always give lower numbers than reality on the ground dictates.

Right Sector: The General Staff lied about Novolaspa battle, losses https://twitter.com/newsdaily_ukr/status/630701130809495552 …

Russia #Millerovo Ammo Dump & Transports pre/post deployment to #Ukraine http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=48.933559&lon=40.283529&z=17&m=b … pic.twitter.com/iIoDL37jnp

Russia Air Base #Millerovo used to deploy units to #Ukraine part 2 http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=48.950676&lon=40.295320&z=15&m=b … pic.twitter.com/UKYAg8Lwnz

Russia Air Base #Millerovo used to deploy units to #Ukraine between Aug 2014 & Aug 2015 http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=48.950676&lon=40.295320&z=15&m=b … pic.twitter.com/3NgwadFHtJ

Russia #Taganrog Air Base assists murder of #Syrian women & children: Ammo for #Assad airlifted from here pic.twitter.com/DzXbT5b4O5

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Reference Putin's wish for a "new Yalta" that keeps spinning out of Moscow.

James Sherr of @ChathamHouse: Since the Cold War's end Russia always wanted to discuss a new world order
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QrOTAllPfA …

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http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/as-heavy-fighting-erupts-ukraine-claims-to-rebuff-separatist-offensive-395395.html

As heavy fighting erupts, Ukraine claims to rebuff separatist offensive

Aug. 10, 2015, 1:31 p.m. | Ukraine — by Euan MacDonald, Kyiv Post+


Fighting flared in Ukraine’s Donbas war zone early Aug. 10, with Ukrainian military sources claiming a big attack by combined Russian-separatist forces had been repelled.

Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense said that, following an artillery barrage and infantry attack by anti-government forces, Ukraine’s army had counterattacked and taken key positions near the village of Starohnativka in Volnovakha district, Donetsk region, which were formerly held by illegal armed groups, Interfax-Ukraine reported.

"The enemy was stopped and pushed back two or three kilometers. Our units took over key heights that were previously controlled by terrorist groups. The enemy suffered considerable losses both in terms of manpower and in equipment," the Ukrainian Defense Ministry said on its website.

“Unfortunately, seven Ukrainian soldiers were injured during the fighting,” the ministry said.

Other unconfirmed reports on social media put casualties on the Ukrainian side at four killed in action. One of those killed was from Ukraine’s 72nd Brigade, while the other three were from the fighting force of ultranationalist group Right Sector, according to pro-Ukrainian journalist Olena Bilozerska.

Serhiy Misura, a soldier fighting on the front who posts regularly on social media, said the 72nd Brigade had suffered one killed and four wounded in the battle.

Reports from journalists and soldiers of heavy fighting in the area of Starohnativka stared to spread overnight on social media.

According to, Yaroslav Chepurny, the press officer of the “M” sector of the front line (in the area of Mariupol and southern Donetsk region), during the counterattack Ukrainian forces managed to capture the village of Novolaspa, Ukrainian news website Novosti Mariupol reported.

Chepurny said that the combined Russian-separatists infantry went on the offensive in the area of Starohnativka at 0325 on Aug. 10 after first shelling Ukrainian positions. The attack was supported by tanks, he said.

Ukrainian forces responded with heavy artillery, and then launched a counterattack, the head of the Ukrainian General Staff’s press service, Vladislav Seleznev, told Ukrainian online news website Ukrainska Pravda.

"We know that the (separatist) attack involved 400 militants, who were backed by tanks, mortars and artillery. We have the situation under control," Seleznev.

According to the Defense Ministry, a combined Russian-separatist force of up to battalion tactical group, supported by 10 tanks, 10 infantry fighting vehicles and other equipment, launched an attack on a fortified position of Ukraine’s 72nd Separate Mechanized Brigade in the area of Starohnativka.

"The Minister of Defense of Ukraine and the Chief of General Staff and Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine immediately reported this to the President of Ukraine, and informed the OSCE representatives, after which it was decided to redeploy Ukrainian artillery," the ministry said.

Seleznev said that in the face of the Ukrainian counterattack, the combined Russian-separatist forces had retreated to the village Bilokamyanka, just south of Novolaspa.

There were conflicting reports over whether Ukrainian forces had managed to retake Novolaspa, with Ukrainian journalist Andriy Tsaplienko claiming in a post on his Facebook page that Ukrainian forces were now in control of the village.

“Our (forces) are in Novolaspa! For the first time since February (Ukrainian) forces are not on the defensive,” Tsaplienko wrote. “The 72nd Brigade have beaten the enemy out of a village that the ‘DNRists’ had counted as theirs.”

However, Anatoly Stelmach, a Ukraine military spokesperson, would not confirm to Ukrainska Pravda that Ukraine had indeed regained control of Novolaspa.

“We’re not commenting on this statement. I can say that there were military clashes, and we pushed the enemy back,” Stelmach told the news website.

“A positional battle continues,” he said.

But Misura, writing on Facebook mid-morning on Aug. 10, said Ukrainian commanders had given the order for Ukrainian troops to pull out of Novolaspa, and back to positions fixed by last February’s Minsk peace agreements. He said there had been heavy fighting all morning for the village, with a lot of street fighting.

“After the capture of the village of Novolaspa, to avoid misunderstandings and a rise in conflict, the command came to the conclusion that it was necessary (for Ukrainian forces) to move back to the positions agreed in Minsk. We have not broken (the agreement)!” Misura wrote.


Even in the face of a massive attack the Ukraine still attempts to hold to Minsk 2 even when Russian troops are in full violation of Minsk 2.

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Rus Col-Gen Lentsov, ex-Head of Rus side at JCCC coordinates militants, knows location of Ukr positions extensively

http://www.pravda.com.ua/rus/news/2015/08/10/7077331/ … pic.twitter.com/JjLFFp2EKG

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Ukrainian pushback on the pressure being applied by Obama, Nuland, Hollande and Merkel to cave via unilateral appeasement moves with absolutely no reciprocal moves demanded and OR placed upon Putin—why is that???

Find it interesting that they throw back at the Western leaders their commitment to democracy, and the rule of law—something the West especially the US and yes via Obama pushes.

http://khpg.org/index.php?id=1439210709

Kharkiv Human Rights Group Social Networking

The West must not try to legitimize illegitimate Kremlin-backed elections

10.08.15

Halya Coynash


Western leaders placing heavy pressure on Ukraine to allow elections in order to legitimize the so-called ‘Donetsk and Luhansk people’s republics’ would be well-advised to consider how much they wish to place their own commitment to democracy in question.

Militant leaders have refused to recognize Ukraine’s Law on Local Elections, and have now banned any Ukrainian media from covering the ‘elections’ they have scheduled in breach of Ukrainian law. They have also imposed restrictions enabling them to prevent any real electoral choice.

The ‘people’s council’ of the self-proclaimed and Kremlin-backed ‘Donetsk people’s republic’ [‘DPR’] adopted amendments to its ‘law’ on Aug 7 which claim to be in fulfilment of the Minsk agreements “envisaging the holding of local elections taking into account Donbas’s special status”.

One amendment directly prohibits the Ukrainian media from covering the ‘electoral process’. Such media are, allegedly, “implicated in stirring up civic enmity, circulating calls to violence or knowingly false information about the situation in ‘DPR’.” It should be noted that Ukrainian media, including websites run by former Donbas journalists, are banned on militant-controlled territory, meaning that the population is already receiving its information mainly from the pro-Kremlin Russian media and websites, etc. loyal to the militants.

Only “citizens of DPR” who have lived on this territory for a year or more will be allowed to stand for election. This restriction is explained as being fully in accordance with world practice. In the present situation, it means that electoral choice is confined to whether you want one Kalashnikov-bearing militant or another, and will prevent people from Donbas who fled because of the fighting or persecution for their pro-Ukrainian views trying to offer an alternative.

The amendments also mention the presence of “foreign observers” and state that these can include the OSCE’s Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR).

The OSCE has just faced a serious arson attack which followed clearly orchestrated ‘anti-OSCE demonstrations’ . This may indicate attempts to force the Special Monitoring Mission out of Donbas. Even if the OSCE remains, it is surely questionable whether the ODIHR should agree to observe ‘elections’ which are already illegal from Ukraine’s point of view, and in breach of democratic standards. Although not specifically mentioned, it seems likely that Ukraine’s election watchdogs – OPORA and the Committee of Voters of Ukraine – would be allowed to act as observers.

Judging by the militants’ last ‘elections’, there is every reason to expect that the events would have little in common with the exercising of electoral rights. The last ‘elections’ were held on Nov 2, 2014 in the presence of men with Kalashnikov rifles and amid sacks of potatoes, cabbages and carrots which ‘voters’ were able to buy for a pittance in exchange for their participation. The event was condemned by Ukraine, western countries, and was ultimately only “respected” and not “recognized” by Russia. The latter development was doubtless unexpected, since Russia’s friends from various far-right European countries, who came, observed and praised effusively had entered the militant-controlled territory from Russia after beginning their ‘observer mission’ in Moscow where they were put up in a five-star hotel.

Moscow’s role in the new stunt is scarcely in question. Vladimir Socor from the Jamestown Foundation is quite clear that Ukraine is being asked to provide legal cover for ‘elections’ which Moscow will be orchestrating.

“Separate elections, if staged, would further advance the process of “DPR-LPR’s” secession from Ukraine. Insofar as this threat can be taken seriously, it is because Moscow originated it, not because Donetsk-Luhansk voiced it.”

The Minsk implementation process, Sokor writes, would in fact entail the ‘DPR-LPR’ holding elections on Oct 25, “nominally as part of Ukraine’s local elections, but de facto to be controlled and won by pro-Russia forces in this territory.” If this were validated internationally, then “Ukraine would be saddled with a frozen conflict of a dual nature, military and constitutional; Russia’s aggression against Ukraine would conclusively be reduced to a problem between Kyiv and the “DPR-LPR”; while Brussels, Berlin and other European centres could soon initiate a rollback of economic sanctions and start rebuilding relations with Russia.”

It is Ukraine that is preventing this from happening, but with good – democratic – cause. It cannot hold elections on territory that is not under its control, nor where none of what Sokor refers to as the legal and democratic prerequisites to any valid elections are in place.

“Urging Kyiv to go along with elections in the “DPR-LPR” is tantamount to overriding Ukraine’s legislation—as well as sacrificing the usual principles to the expediency of relations with Russia. “

Sokor names three “indispensable formalities” for elections on the territory in question. Ukraine must give its consent; the local elections must be formally connected with Ukraine’s constitutional and legal framework, and the ODIHR needs to help prepare and then observe the elections.

The Kremlin’s proxies have refused to recognize Ukraine’s law on the local elections or to in any way comply with Ukrainian legal demands for fair and honest elections. They are insisting on holding their own events (‘DPR’ on Oct 18, ‘LPR’ on Nov 1) and have already adopted restrictions demonstrating that they are unwilling to even imitate democracy. Moscow has already shown who it trusts to ‘observe’ such stunts. Western structures and governments should beware.


Since Obama speaks often of the rule of law, good governance and transparency maybe he should heed what was written here and refrain fro unilateral moves that negate US values.

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National Security Council: #Russia is preparing large-scale provocations in eastern #Ukraine to blame them on Ukraine http://www.rnbo.gov.ua/news/2226.html

National Security Council: Russia tasked militants to stage provocations in occupied areas so that number of victims reaches that of #MH17

200 sets of Ukr military uniforms are being produced in Sverdlovsk occupied by militants allegedly for provocations http://www.ostro.org/general/society/news/477812/ …

Attack on crowded places, kindergartens, schools planned.
http://censor.net.ua/news/347178/turchinov_rossiya_gotovit_krovavye_provokatsii_na_ vostoke_ukrainy …
Ukr uniforms reproduced.
http://censor.net.ua/video_news/347195/boeviki_shyut_200_komplektov_formy_vsu_i_gotovyat_ masshtabnye_provokatsii_na_okkupirovannyh_territor iyah …

Yes.They have concentrated troops+hardware and need a formal cause to start offensive.

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MFA of Ukraine ✔ @MFA_Ukraine
Shelling,offensive of RU-terrorist forces,intimidtn of monitors−part of deliberate line aiming to stall Minsk Agreem. pic.twitter.com/fQEyIXlRab

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General #Kremenetskiy: terrorists used MRLS 135 times since March violating Minsk Agreements http://lugansk-news.com/general-kremenetskiy-reports-that-pro-russian-terrorists-used-mrls-135-times-since-march-violating-minsk-agreements/ … pic.twitter.com/8TV9xda4rA


17:19 #Makiivka @GirkinGirkin 'Somalia' gang artillery practise shelling between Makiivka and #Yasynuvata all day

17:16 #Stakhanov @elonline40 #Rumours: "war in 3 days, we have to get the crops in"

Reports of shelling in Tel'manove - with MLRS, there are killed, militants blame Ukraine, but looks like provocation.

16:46 #Telmanove now @Ukr_Che Incoming Grads. "They wrote in a local http://vk.com group, 2 incoming loads" pic.twitter.com/dsmkd3TlvJ

17:09 #Starohnativka @Staroignatievca All day artillery works, constant smoke in #Bilokamyanka direction

BreakingNews
Russian forces shell Ukrainian troops in #Starohnativka with #Grad missiles after losing the battle for the town.

Operational Environment in East Ukraine as of August 10, 2015, 00:00 EET http://ukraineunderattack.org/en/28833-28833.html … pic.twitter.com/QNVzGB8LLi

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Reference UK journalist former employee of UK RT who has ben working as a journalist for the Russian MoD and Life News aka Lie News

Did collaborator Graham Phillips got beaten up in Moscow? https://twitter.com/RobPulseNews/status/630740271957979136 …

@foreignoffice are you able to confirm or deny if this was Graham William Phillips? https://twitter.com/RobPulseNews/status/630740271957979136 …

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does this look like #Russia abiding by minsk ceasefire yet Congress Obama says does nothing! pic.twitter.com/jNl5RjcRJe

Russia whines about #sanctions and 1920' treaty. Do they remember more recent doc - the Budapest Memorandum?
https://twitter.com/mfa_russia/status/630741066728275968 …

Interfax today---
16:27
Norway's decision to restrict access to Spitsbergen contradicts intl law - Russian Foreign Ministry (Part 2)

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What a Russian propaganda farce-----Russian heavy weapons were never pulled back and never verified by OSCE.

From Interfax today----

08/10 17:45 DPR threatens to re-deploy heavy weaponry in case of Ukrainian offensive

So there have been secret Russian ghost artillery shelling UA positions every day for a solid four weeks.