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OUTLAW 09
02-11-2016, 12:28 PM
One Ukrainian serviceman killed, 3 wounded in mil. hostilities over last 24 hours – #ATO Spokesperson

For a so called "ceasefire" the UAF is constantly having KIA/WIAs...

OUTLAW 09
02-11-2016, 03:51 PM
DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE OF ILLEGAL ACTIVITIES BY RUSSIAN FEDERATION ACTIVE ARMED... by @ServiceSsu http://www.slideshare.net/ServiceSsu/documentary-evidence-of-illegal-activities-by-russian-federation-active-armed-forces-officers-assigned-to-the-joint-center-for-control-and-coordination-jccc?ref=http://www.slideshare.net/ServiceSsu/slideshelf … через @SlideShare

OUTLAW 09
02-11-2016, 05:56 PM
Searches at Crimean-tatar houses in Crimea. Helicopters over villages pic.twitter.com/39d5l1Ccq2
http://liveuamap.com/en/2016/11-february-searches-at-crimeantatar-houses-in-crimea-helicopters …

Critical European infrastructure increasingly likely to be targeted by #Russia|n #cyber groups in a 3 year outlook
http://www.janes.com/article/57951/critical-european-infrastructure-increasingly-likely-to-be-targeted-by-russian-cyber-groups-in-three-year-outlook#.VrzHdpzllNw.twitter …

OUTLAW 09
02-11-2016, 05:57 PM
Now: Full scale shelling of Ukraine positions near Airport with heavy 120 mm mortars. Russia escalates.
https://twitter.com/AkaDON12/status/697837066344914944 …

Using Tor M2E SA-15 Gauntlet. Could hit aerial targets up to 15 km
https://informnapalm.org/19736-21-j-omsbr-donbass/ …
pic.twitter.com/mxqEXOiXv3

OUTLAW 09
02-11-2016, 08:28 PM
HEAVY fighting is now underway all along the front line....


19:15 #Donetsk @olgarjpthju "#Pushkina Blvd can hear far short bursts" "#Bakiny hears quite a battle from the airport - SA and mortars"

21:49
"Apparently the artillery from #Donetsk pounds the outskirts of #Mariinka."
https://twitter.com/The_Ukrop/status/697870109780611072 …

21:30 #Marinka @hyeva_maryinka [vk] At least 2 conflagrations in the areas of #hospital/boarding school/#Zalenyi_Hay

Stream shows a large, ominous glow on the horizon. Heavy artillery is also occasionally heard. #Donetsk

22:00 #Donetsk @olgarjpthju [fb?] "#Smolyanka can hear west and north" "#DK21: another double [shot] far and strongly to the north...

Marinka, fire @hyeva_maryinka [vk] camera cannot catch entire picture, in fact, all sky's there illuminated w/fire
pic.twitter.com/wmYiBjdkbM

Live feed from #Donetsk, you can hear what sounds like outgoing or explosions far away:
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/clockwork24 …

OUTLAW 09
02-12-2016, 07:16 AM
In pictures: A Year After Minsk Accord, Shaky Truce Is The New Normal In #Donetsk
http://www.rferl.org/media/photogallery/ukraine-donetsk/27543557.html …
pic.twitter.com/NAXUyX0yqF

1 year ago, "#Minsk2" was signed
6 days later,#Putin's troops captured #Debaltseve

53 ceasefire violations by pro #Russia|ns yesterday

What do Minsk and Munich have in common? Russians unilaterally setting the cease-fire terms to a conflict they're fighting in

OUTLAW 09
02-12-2016, 07:38 AM
From GL's, heavy machine guns RU opened fire at Troitske, Verkhnotoretske, Mayorsk, Novhorodske, Luhanske, Butovka mine.

ATO reported 53 ceasefire violations y/day, Zaitsevo, Krasnohorivka, Pisky was under mortars fire. Krasnohorivka also under AA-guns fire.

Beside the daily RU attacks in the usual places a new trend is the shelling of villages on #Mariupol outskirts, y/day was Lebedinske.

OUTLAW 09
02-12-2016, 08:36 AM
Russia ‘Russian World’ in France
https://informnapalm.org/en/feb10-russian-france/ …
pic.twitter.com/EsqUKsGx7y

Lavrov:it's necessary to step on those who conquered your land.
He gives go-ahead for Ukr army offensive in Donbas?
https://twitter.com/rianru/status/697963453600796672 …

Another 'Hybrid Miner' from the Russian 17th Brigade:
https://informnapalm.org/en/feb10-hybrid-miner/ …
pic.twitter.com/4JOQllpDuw

OUTLAW 09
02-12-2016, 10:38 AM
U.S. Mission to OSCE ✔ @usosce
Helsinki Final Act specifically states that all pS should refrain from #propaganda for incitement to war. https://twitter.com/OSCE_RFoM/status/698057868403150848 …

Russia #Putin propaganda picks up ex-Pentagon contractors
http://aminewswire.com/stories/51066...on-contractors …
pic.twitter.com/vPLucq39DS

AND yet the US wonders why they are "losing" the Russian, Iranian and IS info wars.....the three are simply "hiring Americans for their work"...complete with US security clearances.

Putin propaganda picks up ex-Pentagon contractors

Feb. 11, 2016, 10:18am by J. Michael Waller


As Washington cuts back efforts to counter Russian propaganda, the Kremlin is hiring American communications talent straight from the Pentagon.

A year ago, multilingual editors and writers ran online news websites worldwide for the Trans Regional Web Initiative - a Pentagon effort to support U.S. military efforts against Islamic extremism, Iranian subversion, Russian and Chinese aggression and other threats.

Now, with their jobs eliminated in Congress's budget wars, some of them are working for President Vladimir Putin’s publicity machine as it ramps up its operations in the United States.

Zlatko Kovach is one of them. Just blocks from the White House, the 48-year-old editor runs the Washington office of Sputnik, which styles itself as a straight news service that aspires to compete with the Associated Press and Reuters. Three of Kovach’s fellow ex-Pentagon contract workers joined him. Two have moved on, but Sputnik is actively recruiting others.

Kovach, a naturalized American citizen, doesn't see his move as unpatriotic but rather as economically justified. “Despite the big superpower relations, the media has developed in such a way as that’s the nature of the market," he said. "It isn’t harming the U.S.”

Sputnik is part of a news and information outlet known in the United States as RT, the initials of its parent entity, Russia Today, which operates under the Ministry of Communications and Mass Media in Moscow. With State Department approval, RT opened the Washington office of Sputnik last year just as civilian contractors who shaped U.S. military messaging overseas were put out of work when Congress shut down most of a $22 million program.

They practiced what used to be called psychological operations, or PSYOP, a name that was changed to something more benign-sounding in the Pentagon's alphabet soup of acronyms: MISO, for "military information support operations."

Under either name, the purpose has been, as the Pentagon puts it, to influence foreign audiences' “emotions, motives, objectives reasoning and ultimately the behavior of foreign governments, groups, and individuals in a manner favorable to the originator’s objectives.”

The Web Initiative program, begun under the George W. Bush administration in 2008, drew criticism both from opponents of such information operations as a matter of policy and supporters who wanted them to work better. A classified Government Accountability Office report in 2013, leaked to USA Today, faulted the program for a lack of co-ordination with other U.S. efforts.

Senator Carl Levin (D-MI), then the powerful Armed Services Committee chairman, led a bipartisan group of lawmakers to eliminate funding after reform efforts failed. Some elements of the Initiative remain in operation at the Pentagon's Special Operations Command.

The move by Pentagon contractors such as Kovach to the employ of the Russians is a symptom of a larger problem with national defense strategy, some observers say.

"What seems to be clear is that the anti-status quo powers in the world today - Russia, China, Iran, and the Islamic State - know the value of information warfare and invest heavily in it,” said Robert W. Reilly, a former director of the Voice of America, the federal government’s civilian international broadcasting arm.

“This is illustrated by the fact that these people" - former Pentagon contractors - "have nowhere else to go and are being picked up by Putin,” said Reilly, who served as a senior adviser for information strategy at the Defense Department following the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. “I'm not trying to rationalize what they're doing, but it's a powerful illustration of who takes information warfare strategy seriously and who doesn't."

The Pentagon may have to restart some of its efforts from scratch. Citing U.S. ineffectiveness at stopping ISIS recruitment propaganda, and finding NATO allies clamoring to counter Moscow after its 2014 intervention in Ukraine, Congress authorized new Defense Department information efforts in the 2016 defense authorization bill. Leaders from Vice President Joseph Biden to Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.) have called for improved information campaigns to help keep Moscow in check
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That was too late for Kovach and others like him. A graduate of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, he speaks six languages. He worked for General Dynamics on the Pentagon contract to run the Southeast European Times, a multilingual website (setimes.com), aimed at the volatile Balkans region.

He arrived in the United States a refugee from Communist Yugoslavia and now lives in the Washington area, proud to be an American. Hawkish on defense issues, he notes that he was born on the Fourth of July.
Kovach is the only one of his colleagues who would speak on the record about why he went to work for RT/Sputnik. He said he views Sputnik as just another job in a new world of journalism. As editor for the Washington office, he said he receives no instructions about how to edit the roughly 40 articles a day his team produces.

“The nature of the game has changed,” he said. “You have media that’s shrinking. U.S. government communication efforts were being canceled. The media is evolving. There is a media space, and the question is, who’s going to fill that space? Then I had to ask, who’s offering jobs?”


UA mil intel: RU continues information propaganda: info about presence of ISIS militants & US servicemen in the ranks of UA Army is a fake

OUTLAW 09
02-12-2016, 10:44 AM
Vadym Skybytskyi : Enemy experiences shortages of militants: military departments at colleges & conscription in "LPR", "DPR" will resume

Vadym Skybytskyi: Militants keep MLRS Smerch, Tornado-S, Uragan within 70 km to the frontline, despite agreements
pic.twitter.com/4XLyOG6EGx

In Sevastopol (occupied Crimea) found accumulation of Russian S-300
http://linkis.com/politolog.net/ukrnew/GYKWq …
pic.twitter.com/RXT7PddZRA

Vadym Skybytskyi, mil intel: Enemy continues keeping tanks, heavy mortars, artillery systems, MLRS "Grad" close to the frontline

UA mil intel: During the last week, UA intelligence recorded 33 facts of heavy weapons presence on the temporarily occupied areas

Vadym Skybytskyi, mil intel: During the week, militants shelled UA positions for 385 times: enemy shelling intensity remains high

Vadym Skybytskyi: Enemy continues military trainings, UAVs deployment, militants` supplement, preparations for pseudo elections in LPR & DPR

OUTLAW 09
02-12-2016, 02:47 PM
Sweeping raids in Crimea Tatar neighborhoods yesterday, Russians looking for "terrorists"
http://qha.com.ua/ru/obschestvo/poyavilos-video-s-zaderjaniem-alieva-muslima-v-krimu-video/154982/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook …
pic.twitter.com/z35euHcALg

Internet Trolling as a hybrid warfare tool: the case of Latvia | StratCom
http://www.stratcomcoe.org/internet-trolling-hybrid-warfare-tool-case-latvia-0 …

How the Russian Maintainers Unmasked the Russian 21st Brigade in Donbas:
https://informnapalm.org/en/feb11-donbas-antiair/ … via @en_informnapalm
pic.twitter.com/IkESflxPpC

OUTLAW 09
02-12-2016, 04:35 PM
Kremlin repeats Soviet repressions, genocide of Crimean Tatars in Crimea – MFA Ukraine
http://www.unian.info/politics/1263590-kremlin-repeats-soviet-repressions-genocide-of-crimean-tatars-in-crimea-mfa-ukraine.html …

U.S. official blames Russia for power grid attack in Ukraine
http://edition.cnn.com/2016/02/11/politics/ukraine-power-grid-attack-russia-us/ …
pic.twitter.com/yGnxvm2Egy

Military And Civilian Casualties After Night Of Heavy Shelling
http://www.interpretermag.com/day-725/#12456
pic.twitter.com/oXPBgdTl3K

Chief Intelligence Dept of the @DefenceUA: Information on preparation to offensive action at ATO troops obtained http://liveuamap.com/en/2016/12-february-chief-intelligence-dept-of-the-defenceua-information …

OUTLAW 09
02-12-2016, 05:50 PM
Not often you get a look into a tank base. Summer 2015, Rus/Separ base.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqO6sT5t5uA&feature=youtu.be …
pic.twitter.com/2tq1WUICCC

Russia: Money for bombs but not for salaries in the occupied territories...
https://twitter.com/SabraAyres/status/698199353421340674 …

OUTLAW 09
02-12-2016, 06:23 PM
Russian heavy shellings and ground attacks are ongoing now......

19:15 #Horlivka @_John__Carter_ Militants started firing at UA positions in #Mayorsk area, [also] one can hear salvos coming fr/#Zaytseve

Maryinka
19:36 - Occasional machineguns.
19:40 - Fire became more intense.
20:10 - Calmed down.
20:14 - Not really, hearing BOOMs.

19:15 #Makiivka-#Donetsk @666_mancer [unconfirmed, vk?] "along #Makiivka route 9 tanks passed towards #Donetsk"

19:19 [#Horlivka] @Coyote_Moon_04 3 incoming [series?] of 120mm mortar shells

OUTLAW 09
02-13-2016, 12:23 PM
Medvedev: US/European leaders make horrible threats against #Russia

Here's what Russia does to #Ukraine
1,5m IDP
1 m refugees
9.000 dead

NOTICE Lavrov never discusses anywhere in the world EXACTLY what points of Minsk 2 Russian mercenaries and her troops have implemented in Minsk 2....
Basically not a single point has been implemented by Russia YET it is always Ukraine that must implement ALL points.....

Lavrov clearly implies to hold up military pressure in #Donbass until #Kiev imposes #Minsk2. #MSC2016
pic.twitter.com/l3DD7gjjZ7

The school in #Zaitsevo w ammo storage and militant's trenches.
https://twitter.com/sprotyv_rss/status/698450088012611584 …

Russian jets in occupied #Crimea, #Belbek
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQ1hpH9cisI&feature=youtu.be …

OUTLAW 09
02-13-2016, 12:31 PM
Government of Russia ✔ @GovernmentRF

We’ll have to keep sending humanitarian aid to southeast Ukraine, thousands are on the verge of a humanitarian catastrophe there #Medvedev

BUT WAIT most of their 50 plus aid convoys were for resupplying of their mercenaries with food, munitions and weapons......

PLUS they kicked out all the western NGOs what were providing aid and medical support to their own ethnic Russians in the Donbas.....

THIS does not help at all on the aid front as well......constant Russian shellings of the crossing point targeting civilians as well...a la Syria.....

Mariinka checkpoint - closed. Due to the frequent shelling and a high level of danger to people." https://twitter.com/PhoenixxxCzar28/status/698470754443255808 …

OUTLAW 09
02-13-2016, 12:35 PM
Government of Russia ✔ @GovernmentRF

We’ll have to keep sending humanitarian aid to southeast Ukraine, thousands are on the verge of a humanitarian catastrophe there #Medvedev

BUT WAIT most of their 50 plus aid convoys were for resupplying of their mercenaries with food, munitions and weapons......

PLUS they kicked out all the western NGOs what were providing aid and medical support to their own ethnic Russians in the Donbas.....

THIS does not help at all on the aid front as well......constant Russian shellings of the crossing point targeting civilians as well...a la Syria.....

Mariinka checkpoint - closed. Due to the frequent shelling and a high level of danger to people." https://twitter.com/PhoenixxxCzar28/status/698470754443255808 …
Eastern Ukraine is definitely "not a frozen war" by any means.......actually rather a "hot one".....

Maryinka
13:36 - Heavy salvo.

13:35 #Marinka @allex1984 A landing towards boarding school
13:37 #Marinka @faina_ukr wow, how it boomed

.@JohnKerry : " #Russia has a simple choice: fully implement #Minsk or continue to face sanctions" #MSC2016
pic.twitter.com/db3toqRbs7

OUTLAW 09
02-14-2016, 07:38 AM
Simple comment concerning the strong ongoing Russian shellings and round attacks this morning....

The sound of war - #Maryinka, #Ukarine - 13.02.2016
https://youtu.be/zlAnKP7BXKk

OUTLAW 09
02-14-2016, 10:22 AM
Simple comment concerning the strong ongoing Russian shellings and round attacks this morning....

The sound of war - #Maryinka, #Ukarine - 13.02.2016
https://youtu.be/zlAnKP7BXKk

Fighting continues in eastern #Ukraine with the separatists violating #ceasefire in many locations:
pic.twitter.com/XnmGJHSsAF

69 ceasefire violations by pro #Russia|ns yesterday

Russian militants in Horlivka yesterday.
Bottle of vodka, 2 of beer
http://liveuamap.com/en/2016/14-february-russian-militants-in-horlivka …
pic.twitter.com/Xwo9bo9z60 via @GirkinGirkin

09:28 #Dokuchaevsk @whicard5 Mortars & automatic arms are heard just fr/outside the town limits, #Novotroitske dir'n, loudly,rounds-landings

10:04 #Dokuchaevsk @GadPosledniy "Mortars, happy St Valentine's Day, dear citizens of the 'republic'"

OUTLAW 09
02-14-2016, 10:46 AM
http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2016-02-13/don-t-model-russian-rapprochement-on-iran-deal

Don't Model Russian Rapprochement on Iran Deal

Feb 13, 2016 3:43 PM EST
By Marc Champion


What if the nuclear deal with Iran led not, as some have hoped, to the resolution of other conflicts in the region, but to the destruction of the trans-Atlantic unity that until now has existed on Ukraine?

That possibility was in the air at this year's Munich Security Conference, where diplomats such as the European Union's foreign policy coordinator, Federica Mogherini, were pushing the idea that the deal she helped to negotiate with Iran shows that "win-win" approaches work, and should be applied to "other fields."

Mogherini didn't specify that she was talking about Ukraine and the EU's strained relationship with Russia, but her position is well-established: For at least a year, she has been gently pushing for a different approach to Russia that might lead to lifting sanctions: a more-carrot, less-stick approach to getting President Vladimir Putin to pull his tanks and troops out of Ukraine. Her first effort was embarrassed by a Russian military offensive that undermined her case. But her position hasn't changed, and EU sanctions will expire in July, unless the bloc's 28 members vote to renew them. With the U.S. and German Chancellor Angela Merkel still firmly behind the sanctions, it remains likely that they'll remain unless something changes in Ukraine -- but the game is on.

You could hear the same yearning in comments from German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, who is more sympathetic toward Russia than Merkel. Steinmeier volunteered that Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev didn't really mean it when he said, just minutes before, "We are rapidly rolling into a period of a new Cold War."

"This differentiation between black and white, between good and evil, doesn't really help us," Steinmeier went on to say of the relationship between Russia and the West. "We can make an effort to start over." That's what Medvedev had been suggesting.

You can understand how the Iran deal might make Russia's big European trading partners want to repeat that experience with Russia. Billions of dollars worth of trade and investment deals were announced between European companies and Iran within weeks of the deal's implementation. Governments rolled out the red carpet for President Hassan Rouhani's European lap of honor, and a damaged relationship with an important company was restored. Medvedev clearly understands this. After his warning about a return to the Cold War, the prospect of which he knows Germans find especially disturbing, he went on to attack the sanctions regime:

How many joint initiatives have been suspended because of sanctions! I have just met with German businessmen and we discussed this issue. Have we properly calculated not only the direct but also the indirect costs for European and Russian business? Are our differences really so deep, or are they not worth it? All of you here in this audience -- do you really need this?

On Syria, Russia is offering itself as a white knight to rescue the European Union from its refugee crisis, always with an eye to breaking support for the Ukraine sanctions. Here Medvedev appealed to anti-immigrant fears, even prejudices, in Europe:

Hundreds and thousands of extremists enter Europe under the guise of being refugees. Other migrants are people of an absolutely different culture who only want to receive monetary benefits without doing anything to earn them. This poses a very real danger to the common economic space. The next targets will be the cultural space and even the European identity. We watch with regret how invaluable mechanisms, which Russia also needs, are being destroyed. I am referring to the actual collapse of the Schengen zone.

For our part, we are willing to do our best to help address the migration issue, including by contributing to efforts to normalize the situation in the conflict regions from which the majority of refugees come, Syria among them.

This is all surreal, along with Medvedev's portrayal of Ukraine's "civil war" as a common challenge caused by the EU's efforts to create a stable neighborhood through friendship agreements. It's as if none of it had to do with Russian actions, such as invading a neighbor, imposing trade embargoes, annexing territory or creating tens of thousands of new refugees through a nonprecision bombing campaign in Syria. No wonder a worried Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko felt the need to push back hard:

This is not a civil war in Ukraine; this is your soldiers, who occupied my country. And this is not a civil war in Syria; this is your planes bombing the civilian population. And this is just a demonstration that we are living in a completely different universe with Russia!

He went on:

Yet there are opinions that the sanctions do not work, that sanctions are hurting Europe more than Russia. No, sanctions are not a punishment; sanctions are an instrument for Russia to remain at the negotiating table. There is no other instrument.

Svitlana Zalishchuk, a member of Kiev's parliament in Munich with Poroshenko, said she spent the day grabbing European foreign ministers and officials in the corridors, trying to find out if there was truth to rumors of a plan for a half-lifting the Russia sanctions in return for a half-completion of the Minsk accords. By evening, she remained unsure.

The Russian attempt to test the waters in Munich for a new "dialogue" also seemed inconclusive. Sergey Karaganov, the doyen of Russian foreign policy analysts, said that last year the NATO-heavy audience in Munich knew they were against Russia, This year, by contrast, "they don't know where to go, or what to do, or how to react. There's this big divide," he said. "The Americans and some others want to contain Russia, but that wouldn't solve any problems. The others understand that, but … it's crazy. They don't know what to do."

Ukraine doesn't help its case by failing to follow through with its part of the Minsk II agreement. But Ukraine also doesn't have troops in Russia; the sanctions weren't designed to bring it to the negotiating table. And Poroshenko is right that rewarding Russia in Ukraine, in the hope it might stop bombing Syrian civilians and turning them into refugees, would be wrong on multiple levels.

This is the danger in treating the flawed if necessary Iran deal as a model for anything. Sanctions brought Iran to the table and are being lifted in return for dismantling much of its nuclear fuel program, alleviating concerns that it might develop nuclear weapons at least for now. What would the equivalent be in the Russia-Ukraine case, which isn't about a potential invasion but one that already took place? Only to pull its troops out and restore the border to Ukrainian control. To lift sanctions with those conditions unmet would not be "win-win." It would be weakness. And it would tear Europe apart.

OUTLAW 09
02-14-2016, 12:08 PM
http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2016-02-13/don-t-model-russian-rapprochement-on-iran-deal

Don't Model Russian Rapprochement on Iran Deal

Feb 13, 2016 3:43 PM EST
By Marc Champion


THIS is the much "celebrated Minsk 2 ceasefire" that is per western MSM and western leaders ie Kerry comments..."largely holding"...whatever that means.....

News
42 Ukrainian soldiers got killed or wounded by #Russia and its proxies during the first 13 days of Feb.
7 (WIA) on Saturday alone.

OUTLAW 09
02-14-2016, 01:28 PM
Militants storm Ukrainian positions twice near Mariupol http://www.unian.info/war/1264482-militants-storm-ukrainian-positions-twice-near-mariupol.html …

OUTLAW 09
02-14-2016, 05:31 PM
Putin tells Obama he hopes Ukraine to pardon militants

Notice Putin has not implemented a single point of the entire 12 points in Minsk 2 yet he wants a pardon for basically war crimes and crimes committed against humanity SO why is he attempting to apply pressure to Ukraine via Obama.....????

http://www.unian.info/politics/1264626-putin-tells-obama-he-hopes-ukraine-to-pardon-militants.html …
pic.twitter.com/I0kKuCiE1i

The text of the protocol consists of twelve points
1.To ensure an immediate bilateral ceasefire.
2.To ensure the monitoring and verification of the ceasefire by the OSCE .
3.Decentralisation of power, including through the adoption of the Ukrainian law "On temporary Order of Local Self-Governance in Particular Districts of Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts".
4.To ensure the permanent monitoring of the Ukrainian-Russian border and verification by the OSCE with the creation of security zones in the border regions of Ukraine and the Russian Federation.
5.Immediate release of all hostages and illegally detained persons.
6.A law preventing the prosecution and punishment of persons in connection with the events that have taken place in some areas of Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts.
7.To continue the inclusive national dialogue.
8.To take measures to improve the humanitarian situation in Donbass.
9.To ensure early local elections in accordance with the Ukrainian law "On temporary Order of Local Self-Governance in Particular Districts of Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts".
10.To withdraw illegal armed groups and military equipment as well as fighters and mercenaries from Ukraine.
11.To adopt a program of economic recovery and reconstruction for the Donbass region.
12.To provide personal security for participants in the consultations

Follow-up memorandum

In the two weeks after the Minsk Protocol was signed, there were frequent violations of the ceasefire by both parties to the conflict.[7][8] Talks continued in Minsk, and a follow-up to the Minsk Protocol was agreed to on 19 September 2014. This memorandum clarified the implementation of the Protocol. Amongst some of the peacemaking measures agreed to were:[7][9][10]
To pull heavy weaponry 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) back on each side of the line of contact, creating a 30-kilometre (19 mi) buffer zone
To ban offensive operations
To ban flights by combat aircraft over the security zone
To withdraw all foreign mercenaries from the conflict zone
To set up an OSCE mission to monitor implementation of Minsk Protocol

Putin still has not even implemented the additional memorandum SO why is he so intent on the pardoning of war criminals under Ukrainian laws......

NOTICE Putin has not even implemented the points 7, 9, 10 WHICH were determined by Minsk 2 to be peacemaking measures....Heck he has no even exchange the POWs they hold and who the Ukraine feels they have been killed by the mercenaries although known to have been taken as POWs....

AND those heavy weapons being pulled back...were never fully pulled back AND the allowing of OSCE to inspect all mercenary held areas....Russian has stated NO.....

OUTLAW 09
02-14-2016, 05:40 PM
Putin tells Obama he hopes Ukraine to pardon militants

Notice Putin has not implemented a single point of the entire 12 points in Minsk 2 yet he wants a pardon for basically war crimes and crimes committed against humanity SO why is he attempting to apply pressure to Ukraine via Obama.....????

http://www.unian.info/politics/1264626-putin-tells-obama-he-hopes-ukraine-to-pardon-militants.html …
pic.twitter.com/I0kKuCiE1i

The text of the protocol consists of twelve points
1.To ensure an immediate bilateral ceasefire.
2.To ensure the monitoring and verification of the ceasefire by the OSCE .
3.Decentralisation of power, including through the adoption of the Ukrainian law "On temporary Order of Local Self-Governance in Particular Districts of Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts".
4.To ensure the permanent monitoring of the Ukrainian-Russian border and verification by the OSCE with the creation of security zones in the border regions of Ukraine and the Russian Federation.
5.Immediate release of all hostages and illegally detained persons.
6.A law preventing the prosecution and punishment of persons in connection with the events that have taken place in some areas of Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts.
7.To continue the inclusive national dialogue.
8.To take measures to improve the humanitarian situation in Donbass.
9.To ensure early local elections in accordance with the Ukrainian law "On temporary Order of Local Self-Governance in Particular Districts of Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts".
10.To withdraw illegal armed groups and military equipment as well as fighters and mercenaries from Ukraine.
11.To adopt a program of economic recovery and reconstruction for the Donbass region.
12.To provide personal security for participants in the consultations

Follow-up memorandum

In the two weeks after the Minsk Protocol was signed, there were frequent violations of the ceasefire by both parties to the conflict.[7][8] Talks continued in Minsk, and a follow-up to the Minsk Protocol was agreed to on 19 September 2014. This memorandum clarified the implementation of the Protocol. Amongst some of the peacemaking measures agreed to were:[7][9][10]
To pull heavy weaponry 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) back on each side of the line of contact, creating a 30-kilometre (19 mi) buffer zone
To ban offensive operations
To ban flights by combat aircraft over the security zone
To withdraw all foreign mercenaries from the conflict zone
To set up an OSCE mission to monitor implementation of Minsk Protocol

Putin still has not even implemented the additional memorandum SO why is he so intent on the pardoning of war criminals under Ukrainian laws......

NOTICE Putin has not even implemented the points 7, 9, 10 WHICH were determined by Minsk 2 to be peacemaking measures....Heck he has no even exchange the POWs they hold and who the Ukraine feels they have been killed by the mercenaries although known to have been taken as POWs....

AND those heavy weapons being pulled back...were never fully pulled back AND the allowing of OSCE to inspect all mercenary held areas....Russian has stated NO.....

So much for Putin fully implementing Minsk 2 BUT yet he wants a pardon for his criminal mercenaries.....

15:00 #Donetsk @olgarjpthju [fb] "#Mariupol fork can hear rumbling ka-booms f/SW" "#Tekstilschik: listening, fr/S of #Staromykhaylivka"

DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE OF ILLEGAL ACTIVITIES BY RUSSIAN FEDERATION ACTIVE ARMED... From the JCCC http://www.slideshare.net/ServiceSsu/documentary-evidence-of-illegal-activities-by-russian-federation-active-armed-forces-officers-assigned-to-the-joint-center-for-control-and-coordination-jccc …

OUTLAW 09
02-14-2016, 06:02 PM
In munich, @OSCE chief tells us situation in east #ukraine worst since sept. "systematic violations" of ceasefire
http://www.wsj.com/articles/situation-in-eastern-ukraine-at-worst-point-in-months-1455464333 …

YET Putin tells Obama he wants pardons for his mercenaries and their war crimes under Ukrainian laws.

Last prisoner released by #Russia'n-separatist militants says he was kept in hell.
http://www.kyivpost.com/article/content/ukraine-politics/last-prisoner-released-by-donbas-armed-groups-says-he-was-kept-in-hell-407981.html?utm_content=bufferd61be&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer …pic.twitter.com/KAihZzjepI

OUTLAW 09
02-14-2016, 06:45 PM
VIDEO: Fighting early yesterday morning around #Marinka #Ukraine. - @SvobodaRadio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8hXhb0JkRQ …

In the last hours intense battles reported from #Donetsk #Pisky #Horlivka #Zaitseve. A usual Sunday evening in eastern #Ukraine.

Donetsk 20:30
Oktyabsky settl. - intense battle.
https://twitter.com/GirkinGirkin/status/698937335652732929 …

DPR" doesn't hide the fact of #Kominternove occupation any more.
http://novosti.dn.ua/details/269481/
pic.twitter.com/faKAwAEKx5

OUTLAW 09
02-14-2016, 08:01 PM
VIDEO: Fighting early yesterday morning around #Marinka #Ukraine. - @SvobodaRadio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8hXhb0JkRQ …

In the last hours intense battles reported from #Donetsk #Pisky #Horlivka #Zaitseve. A usual Sunday evening in eastern #Ukraine.

Donetsk 20:30
Oktyabsky settl. - intense battle.
https://twitter.com/GirkinGirkin/status/698937335652732929 …

DPR" doesn't hide the fact of #Kominternove occupation any more.
http://novosti.dn.ua/details/269481/
pic.twitter.com/faKAwAEKx5

Pisky this evening, heavy battle can be heard:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=L08w_dDQIQM&feature=youtu.be …

OUTLAW 09
02-15-2016, 05:35 AM
The UAF is now being generally attacked at the war levels reached before Minsk 2 and YET Obama and Kerry seem to be totally sleeping walking...and talk and met Putin as if there is not a single problem with Russian implementation of Minsk 2 which is non existent.

ATO: 71 attacks in #Donbas y/day, RU forces shelled #Krasnohorivka, #Pisky, #Talakivka, #Mayorsk and #Zaitsevo from mortars.#Ukraine

OUTLAW 09
02-15-2016, 08:18 AM
MFA Russia ✔ @mfa_russia
Our vision of European security allows all countries to be engaged in a common endeavor
http://blogs.wsj.com/brussels/2016/02/14/qa-with-russian-nato-ambassador/ … pic.twitter.com/0Zwg8eNGLa

The core geo political goal of their new non linear war against the West....namely Europe under the Russian sphere of influence in a "new Yalta" running from Portugal to the Russian Far East.....stated a number of times since 2009....

Russia has three geo political goals in their non linear war...against the West IE the US

1. damage and discredit NATO
2. damage and discredit EU
3. completely disconnect the US from Europe and the ME

AND they are not doing badly in attaining these goals right now....Obama's actions or better yet non actions are greatly helping that "war"...

OUTLAW 09
02-15-2016, 08:35 AM
FYI #Russian tanks heading in the direction of #Ukraine
pic.twitter.com/MnPrunGaQm

Ukraine SBU: #Russia creating 3rd army corpses in #Rostov region for war with Ukraine
http://liveuamap.com/en/2016/15-february-head-of-sbu-russia-creating-3rd-army-corpses …

71 ceasefire violations by pro #Russia|n forces yesterday. Number slowly increasing, for a Sunday frontline was very active.

OUTLAW 09
02-15-2016, 01:51 PM
Direct violation by Russia of the Minsk 2 exchange of POWs two weeks after a ceasefire went into effect...literally months ago and still no exchange......

'LNR/DNR' militants announce that they introduce the death penalty for #Ukrainian #POWs and internat. org. reacts https://twitter.com/interfaxua/status/699204767340503040 …

Turkey and Ukraine edging ever closer together.....common enemy...Russia.

Turkish PM on visit to Kiev says Crimea is an "inalienable part of Ukraine"; Russia is aggressive, expansionist:
http://interfax.com.ua/news/political

Germany & #Russia: Berlin’s Deadly Self-delusions by @dustindehez
http://warontherocks.com/2016/02/germany-and-russia-berlins-deadly-self-delusions/ …
pic.twitter.com/8sefnmis69

OUTLAW 09
02-15-2016, 02:07 PM
NOTICE the entire set of western leaders especially Obama and Kerry are utterly silent on this serious threat by Russia to their utter non compliance of Minsk 2 especially in their failure to exchange UAF POWs....

Gerashchenko: World has not responded to the threat of militants to execute Ukrainian POWs
http://liveuamap.com/en/2016/15-february-gerashchenko-the-world-has-not-responded-to-the … via @InfoResist

OUTLAW 09
02-15-2016, 07:13 PM
Ukraine: 50 Russian tanks and 40 missile systems rolled into the country while Putin talked peace
http://www.businessinsider.com/ukraine-50-russian-tanks-and-40-missile-systems-rolled-into-the-country-while-putin-talked-peace-2015-2 …

Head Of OSCE Says There’s “Circumstantial Evidence” Russia Is Again Arming Militants In Ukraine
http://www.interpretermag.com/day-727-head-of-osce-says-theres-circumstantial-evidence-russia-is-again-arming-militants-in-ukraine/ …

OUTLAW 09
02-15-2016, 07:25 PM
Extremely intense and heavy Russian shellings and ground attacks are full in swing tonight....

20:17 #Donetsk @hyeva_maryinka [vk] "#Staromykhaylivka, #Abakumova, #Biryuzova listened nearly 3-hour battle tow/#Marinka-#Trudovski"

21:10 #Horlivka @062_Region as usually, battle towards #Zaytseve: 120,, mortars, AA-gun, smal arms

21:22 #Yenakiieve @ZloyEnakievec UAF started to reply, now explosions, before that there were salvos for about 30min
https://twitter.com/ZloyEnakievec/status/699312970740985856 …

21:21 #Horlivka @_John__Carter_ From the N/NW militants are shelling UA positions w/122mm-152mm artillery
https://twitter.com/loogunda/status/699312690032992256 …

Heavy artillery being used in #Horlivka. #Ukraine forces returning fire now.

21:14 #Horlivka east @UA_Horlivka_ Strong firing - mortars, tank?
21:17 Strongly, non-stop, constant cannonade

20:55 #Horlivka @parazit90f [from] #Holmivskyi somehting heavy is shelling, wall are shaking

21:19 #Yenakiieve @ZloyEnakievec By sounds, bad in #Horlivka
21:20 Very heavy ones started 10 min ago

Horlivka 21:38
One can hear heavy salvos, the ground is shaking from the reply fire.
https://twitter.com/ZloyEnakievec/status/699316820348702720 …

21:25 #Dokuchaevsk @BylByleva [vk] again salvos

21:26 #Horlivka @serg4er One can see damn powerful flashes in the sky towards #Zaytseve and sounds of landings

One WIA among UAF servicemen at #Maryinka after tonight's battle.
https://twitter.com/missi8111/status/699319111067791361 …

Mariupol 21:35
Vostochnyi ds - hearing canonade from #Shyrokyne area.
https://twitter.com/tov_sobakin/status/699318117604986880 …

21:45
Battle can be heard from #Sakhanka-#Sopyne area.#Mariupol
https://twitter.com/GirkinGirkin/status/699318915659382784 …

21:37 #Horlivka @thunderbolt1488 It's prob at #Holmivskyi which I'm not able to hear,#Zhovanka:middle intensity&mortars, #Toretsk:seldom

21:30 @Helgi__UA #Horlivka: booms non stop, ground shudders, RU SPGs shell so far...

OUTLAW 09
02-15-2016, 07:57 PM
Extremely intense and heavy Russian shellings and ground attacks are full in swing tonight....

20:17 #Donetsk @hyeva_maryinka [vk] "#Staromykhaylivka, #Abakumova, #Biryuzova listened nearly 3-hour battle tow/#Marinka-#Trudovski"

21:10 #Horlivka @062_Region as usually, battle towards #Zaytseve: 120,, mortars, AA-gun, smal arms

21:22 #Yenakiieve @ZloyEnakievec UAF started to reply, now explosions, before that there were salvos for about 30min
https://twitter.com/ZloyEnakievec/status/699312970740985856 …

21:21 #Horlivka @_John__Carter_ From the N/NW militants are shelling UA positions w/122mm-152mm artillery
https://twitter.com/loogunda/status/699312690032992256 …

Heavy artillery being used in #Horlivka. #Ukraine forces returning fire now.

21:14 #Horlivka east @UA_Horlivka_ Strong firing - mortars, tank?
21:17 Strongly, non-stop, constant cannonade

20:55 #Horlivka @parazit90f [from] #Holmivskyi somehting heavy is shelling, wall are shaking

21:19 #Yenakiieve @ZloyEnakievec By sounds, bad in #Horlivka
21:20 Very heavy ones started 10 min ago

Horlivka 21:38
One can hear heavy salvos, the ground is shaking from the reply fire.
https://twitter.com/ZloyEnakievec/status/699316820348702720 …

21:25 #Dokuchaevsk @BylByleva [vk] again salvos

21:26 #Horlivka @serg4er One can see damn powerful flashes in the sky towards #Zaytseve and sounds of landings

One WIA among UAF servicemen at #Maryinka after tonight's battle.
https://twitter.com/missi8111/status/699319111067791361 …

Mariupol 21:35
Vostochnyi ds - hearing canonade from #Shyrokyne area.
https://twitter.com/tov_sobakin/status/699318117604986880 …

21:45
Battle can be heard from #Sakhanka-#Sopyne area.#Mariupol
https://twitter.com/GirkinGirkin/status/699318915659382784 …

21:37 #Horlivka @thunderbolt1488 It's prob at #Holmivskyi which I'm not able to hear,#Zhovanka:middle intensity&mortars, #Toretsk:seldom

21:38 #Yenakiieve @ZloyEnakievec Pretty strong landings

21:30 @Helgi__UA #Horlivka: booms non stop, ground shudders, RU SPGs shell so far...

MASSIVE Russian shelling offensive tonight prelude to ground offensive or not????

Reports: #Russia "rebels" mount fierce artillery attack on #Ukraine defenses W. of occupied #Horlivka City right now. #АТО

I can hear uninterrupted cannonade, all merges
21:43 very intensive and heavily, so is from my side

[U]GROUND ATTACKS are in full swing now......

21:44 #Yenakiieve @ZloyEnakievec another one, I say what I hear
21:46 #Toretsk @serg4er salvos were each 10-15sec in Toretsk, 6min quiet

21:55
Heavy battle towards #Shyrokyne, #Sakhanka, can be heard in Bezimenne.
https://twitter.com/GirkinGirkin/status/699321721082486785 …

21:45 @GirkinGirkin "battle is heard. #Sakhanka-#Sopine

21:50
Starobesheve - hearing deaf volleys towards #Styla-#Dokuchajevsk.
https://twitter.com/olgarjpthju/status/699322268086898691

22:11 #Yenakiieve @ZloyEnakievec #Horlivka: war goes on, incoming and outgoing ones

22:11 #Horlivka @PhoenixxxCzar28 After a short lull northwestern battle resumed...

22:09 #Yenakiieve #Vatutina @ZloyEnakievec Now landing again, #Horlivka
22:09 2 salvos

OUTLAW 09
02-16-2016, 09:27 AM
Brilliant analysis of why #Germany is in denial over failure of its #Russia policy
http://warontherocks.com/2016/02/germany-and-russia-berlins-deadly-self-delusions/ …

OUTLAW 09
02-16-2016, 10:46 AM
ATO spox: At the administration borderline with Crimea, flights of 3 RU jets, 2 helicopters & 2 UAVs were recorded

Col. Oleksandr Motuzyanyk: Yesterday, 3 Ukrainian servicemen KIA, 6 were wounded in action

In 1/3 of its attacks enemy used Minsk-prohibited mortarsIn Donetsk sector self-propelled artillery used – #ATO Spokesperson

In Luhansk sector, enemy breached ceasefire twice N. of Bahmut road. In one incident #ATO forces fired back – #ATO Spokesperson

In Donetsk sector, enemy shelled UA positions 4 times near Svitlodarsk, incl. once with IFV – #ATO Spokesperson

Most tense in area Zaytseve-Mayorsk with over 10 incidents of shelling with mortars. Enemy also used 122mm GVOZDIKA self-propelled artillery

15 incidents of shelling registered near Novhorodske – #ATO Spokesperson

Armed engagement in area between Mykolayivka and Dokuchaevsk. Enemy subversive group attacked UA fortification.

OUTLAW 09
02-16-2016, 07:32 PM
Heavy heavy shellings and ground attacks on the entire front line tonight..to many to list.....but heavy and intensive....attack numbers will bein the 60-80 range if this keeps up...REMEMBER full scale war is when 50 or more attacks are occurring.....

Reports Of Fighting This Evening Near Donetsk And Gorlovka
http://www.interpretermag.com/day-729/#12520

19:06 #Donetsk @peace_Donetsk #Tekstilschik listens to powerful heavy endless gunnery from different directions

Reports Of Fighting This Evening Near Donetsk And Gorlovka
http://www.interpretermag.com/day-729/#12520

Enemy increasingly employs mortars. Strikes impact Krasnohorivka, Chermalyk, and Krymske
http://en.censor.net.ua/n374655

OUTLAW 09
02-16-2016, 07:45 PM
Heavy heavy shellings and ground attacks on the entire front line tonight..to many to list.....but heavy and intensive....attack numbers will bein the 60-80 range if this keeps up...REMEMBER full scale war is when 50 or more attacks are occurring.....

Reports Of Fighting This Evening Near Donetsk And Gorlovka
http://www.interpretermag.com/day-729/#12520

19:06 #Donetsk @peace_Donetsk #Tekstilschik listens to powerful heavy endless gunnery from different directions

Reports Of Fighting This Evening Near Donetsk And Gorlovka
http://www.interpretermag.com/day-729/#12520

Enemy increasingly employs mortars. Strikes impact Krasnohorivka, Chermalyk, and Krymske
http://en.censor.net.ua/n374655

BREAKING! #Russian troops used 2 "TOR" SAM aka SA-15 "Gauntlet" in #Lugansk today! Both rockets exploded in the air! pic.twitter.com/Hp8vshDk1T

Some good "news"(actually fake).
LNR: Ukrainian army push 30 German howitzers pzh2000 to Luhansk
http://liveuamap.com/en/2016/16-february-lnr-ukrainian-army-push-30-german-howitzers-pzh2000 …

SBU found cache with 3kg of TNT at Starobil'sk cemetry
pic.twitter.com/L23AgodcwW
http://liveuamap.com/en/2016/16-february-sbu-found-cache-with-3kg-of-tnt-at-starobilsk …

OUTLAW 09
02-16-2016, 07:57 PM
Heavy heavy shellings and ground attacks on the entire front line tonight..to many to list.....but heavy and intensive....attack numbers will bein the 60-80 range if this keeps up...REMEMBER full scale war is when 50 or more attacks are occurring.....

Reports Of Fighting This Evening Near Donetsk And Gorlovka
http://www.interpretermag.com/day-729/#12520

19:06 #Donetsk @peace_Donetsk #Tekstilschik listens to powerful heavy endless gunnery from different directions

Reports Of Fighting This Evening Near Donetsk And Gorlovka
http://www.interpretermag.com/day-729/#12520

Enemy increasingly employs mortars. Strikes impact Krasnohorivka, Chermalyk, and Krymske
http://en.censor.net.ua/n374655

Ukrainian army is on battle alert to counter militants offensive - Head of Donetsk region
pic.twitter.com/qDwFbz0OQZ
http://liveuamap.com/en/2016/16-february-ukrainian-army-is-on-battle-alert-to-counter …

OUTLAW 09
02-17-2016, 08:54 AM
Militants Move Heavy Weapons From Place Of Permanent Storage
http://ukraineunderattack.org/en/56852-militants-move-heavy-weapons-from-place-of-permanent-storage.html …

In whole January, 36 Ukrainian soldiers got killed or wounded in E #Ukraine.
For the first half of February, the toll stands at 52.

BreakingReports
(Pro-)#Russian forces in #Donetsk city use heavy artillery & possibly even MLRS to shell Ukrainian-held suburbs last night.

OUTLAW 09
02-17-2016, 12:59 PM
Can western leaders ie Obama now handle a non linear war on two fronts at the very same time.....not so sure as it appears they have largely "forgotten" Donbas.......

BREAKING: Reports of Several Grad rocket salvos in Petrovka district in #Donetsk, eastern #Ukraine.

OUTLAW 09
02-17-2016, 04:57 PM
60 ceasefire violations by pro #Russia|ns yesterday. GRAD missiles launched from #Staromykhailivka towards Pervomaisk and Nevelske

Local activists say #Russia|n GRAD MRLS located only 8 km from #Mariupol in #Kominternove

MLRS hits between #Mariinka & #Pisky
http://liveuamap.com/en/2016/16-february-mlrs-hits-between-marinkapisky

Visible confirmation of the Russian self propelled artillery on the move in #Donetsk yesterday

Mariupol: Sound of occasional shelling coming from #Talakivka

Russian 1st Tank Army (HQ: Odintsovo) incl 4th Kantemir Tank Div & 2nd Taman Motor Rifle Div
http://vestivrn.ru/novosti/avstriytsyi-schitali-tanki-pod-voronezhem_2016-2-12_15-35 …

Russian Army doctors/paramedics train for casualties @ Kantemirovka nr Ukraine border 15 Feb
http://vestivrn.ru/novosti/v-kantemirovke-voennyie-mediki-prodemonstrirovali-super-sovremennuyu-tehniku_2016-2-15_20-45 …

OUTLAW 09
02-17-2016, 05:32 PM
60 ceasefire violations by pro #Russia|ns yesterday. GRAD missiles launched from #Staromykhailivka towards Pervomaisk and Nevelske

Local activists say #Russia|n GRAD MRLS located only 8 km from #Mariupol in #Kominternove

MLRS hits between #Mariinka & #Pisky
http://liveuamap.com/en/2016/16-february-mlrs-hits-between-marinkapisky

Visible confirmation of the Russian self propelled artillery on the move in #Donetsk yesterday

Mariupol: Sound of occasional shelling coming from #Talakivka

Russian 1st Tank Army (HQ: Odintsovo) incl 4th Kantemir Tank Div & 2nd Taman Motor Rifle Div
http://vestivrn.ru/novosti/avstriytsyi-schitali-tanki-pod-voronezhem_2016-2-12_15-35 …

Russian Army doctors/paramedics train for casualties @ Kantemirovka nr Ukraine border 15 Feb
http://vestivrn.ru/novosti/v-kantemirovke-voennyie-mediki-prodemonstrirovali-super-sovremennuyu-tehniku_2016-2-15_20-45 …

Escalation in #Ukraine. EU/US must urgently refocus on #Putin's hybrid war. #Russia still lying. People still dying. https://twitter.com/JulianRoepcke/status/699721566817538048 …

OUTLAW 09
02-17-2016, 06:40 PM
Going to be a long hard heavy shelling night at this pace if it keeps up..

Ukrainian troops already attacked by 24 times by Wednesday evening
http://www.unian.info/war/1268300-ukrainian-troops-already-attacked-by-24-times-by-wednesday-evening.html …
pic.twitter.com/yGF8ILEpzJ

Battle at #Staromykhailivka now, small arms, AA-guns, AGL, BMP firing.

OUTLAW 09
02-17-2016, 07:00 PM
WILL U.S.-UKRAINE RELATIONS SURVIVE THE OBAMA YEARS? BY OLEXIY HARAN & PETRO BURKOVSKYI
http://wilsonquarterly.com/quarterly/the-post-obama-world/will-u-s-ukraine-relations-survive-the-obama-years/ …

OUTLAW 09
02-18-2016, 09:05 AM
More Russian artillery is being used in their night time shelling attacks on UAF positions instead of the usual heavy mortars.....

Pro-)#Russian troops used 122 mm D-30 artillery vs. the Ukrainian army in #Mayorsk.
2 WIA on Tuesday.

Russian proxies attack Ukrainian troops 47 times in last day
http://uatoday.tv/news/russian-proxies-attack-ato-troops-47-times-in-last-day-593715.html …

WAS about time from the EU.......
EU breaks taboo on 'Russian forces in Ukraine'
https://euobserver.com/foreign/127667

Outside village of Pisky servicemen blown up by landmine: one dead and two injured.
http://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-defense/1967695-outside-village-pisky-servicemen-blown-up-by-landmine-one-dead-and-two-injured.html#.VsWS-CCSOuE.twitter …

Russia proxies shelled #Ukraine positions using "GRAD" missiles last night(PHOTOS)
http://en.censor.net.ua/p374793
pic.twitter.com/Ds5Ij3eNnp

OUTLAW 09
02-18-2016, 12:58 PM
Separatist calling himself " Igor Girkin's deputy" detained in #Slovyansk.
http://novosti.dn.ua/details/269712/

After and or during each Russian attack series comes a Russian humanitarian aid convoy usually though just a munitions and fuel run for the Russian military and her mercenaries....unusual though as they come usually just before an attack series so they must have shot through a lot of munitions....

Russia's 49th 'humanitarian convoy' invades Donbas
http://www.unian.info/society/1268751-russias-49th-humanitarian-convoy-invades-donbas.html …
pic.twitter.com/eeodQfZ0nv

Russia never allows these convoys to be controlled either by the IRCC or the OSCE...

OUTLAW 09
02-18-2016, 01:05 PM
Kadyrov – leading indicator of where Putin is taking Russia, Sokolov says
http://euromaidanpress.com/2016/02/18/kadyrov-leading-indicator-of-where-putin-is-taking-russia-sokolov-says/ …
pic.twitter.com/6fNO14zBOO

OUTLAW 09
02-18-2016, 05:20 PM
Battle ongoing in #Mariinka. RPGs, heavy machine guns, GL. A house is reportedly on fire.

Statement after statement @OSCE Perm C'l draws grim picture of Donbas 'ceasefire': heavy weapons concentration at hot spots; RF military/kit

OUTLAW 09
02-18-2016, 06:59 PM
Battle ongoing in #Mariinka. RPGs, heavy machine guns, GL. A house is reportedly on fire.

Statement after statement @OSCE Perm C'l draws grim picture of Donbas 'ceasefire': heavy weapons concentration at hot spots; RF military/kit

Six of 20 militant attacks on Thursday aimed at Maryinka, incursion expected in 24 hours
http://www.unian.info/war/1269627-six-of-20-militant-attacks-on-thursday-aim-maryinka-incursion-expected-in-24-hours.html …
pic.twitter.com/r6PiwbT4XR

Wonder why the OSCE did not report the Russian mercenary firing of a Tor SA15........?????
Question to @OSCE_SMM! Where is the report on incident in Lugansk on Feb 16. You were there!
http://lugansk-news.com/russian-troops-used-tor-sam-aka-sa-15-gauntlet-in-lugansk-the-rocket-exploded-in-the-air/ … pic.twitter.com/j4Tw1qYBu7

Maryinka 20:45
The BOOMs stopped, the machine guns doesn't cease, bullets whistling.

20:23 #Marinka @hyeva_maryinka [vk] Doesn't cease, very strong booms occasionally

OUTLAW 09
02-18-2016, 07:25 PM
Freie Mitarbeiter” der russischen Kontaktgruppe aus der 33. Brigade
https://informnapalm.org/de/33-brigade/
pic.twitter.com/jciToomtZd

#KremlinTrolls accuse real UA supporters of being a false flag FSB project for exposing pro-Russia @IntersectionPro
pic.twitter.com/gaI7tkXF08

OUTLAW 09
02-18-2016, 08:07 PM
Six of 20 militant attacks on Thursday aimed at Maryinka, incursion expected in 24 hours
http://www.unian.info/war/1269627-six-of-20-militant-attacks-on-thursday-aim-maryinka-incursion-expected-in-24-hours.html …
pic.twitter.com/r6PiwbT4XR

Wonder why the OSCE did not report the Russian mercenary firing of a Tor SA15........?????
Question to @OSCE_SMM! Where is the report on incident in Lugansk on Feb 16. You were there!
http://lugansk-news.com/russian-troops-used-tor-sam-aka-sa-15-gauntlet-in-lugansk-the-rocket-exploded-in-the-air/ … pic.twitter.com/j4Tw1qYBu7

Maryinka 20:45
The BOOMs stopped, the machine guns doesn't cease, bullets whistling.

20:23 #Marinka @hyeva_maryinka [vk] Doesn't cease, very strong booms occasionally

BreakingReport
"Militants plan to seize #Marinka overnight,accumulated several #Grad systems & more than 10 tanks."
http://112.ua/ato/boeviki-planiruyut-za-sutki-zahvatit-marinku-i-narashhivayut-sily-press-centr-ato-292881.html …

As for #Marinka: everything began much earlier than usually today. It came under denser fire than usually. Mostly RPG and AGL...

The most dangerous place along the front as I was told yesterday.
72 meters to the next terrorists' position.

OUTLAW 09
02-18-2016, 08:36 PM
BreakingReport
"Militants plan to seize #Marinka overnight,accumulated several #Grad systems & more than 10 tanks."
http://112.ua/ato/boeviki-planiruyut-za-sutki-zahvatit-marinku-i-narashhivayut-sily-press-centr-ato-292881.html …

As for #Marinka: everything began much earlier than usually today. It came under denser fire than usually. Mostly RPG and AGL...

The most dangerous place along the front as I was told yesterday.
72 meters to the next terrorists' position.

Maryinka 22:26
Heavy incoming.
https://twitter.com/hyeva_maryinka/status/700417626481291265 …

Battle in #Mariinka continues, but no signs of any offensive movement by pro #Russia|ns tonight.

OUTLAW 09
02-19-2016, 06:43 AM
Interesting article........

The West Is Repeating the Mistakes of the 1930s
http://natl.re/IM07r7
pic.twitter.com/YHzEXCCXn0

So the term Munich 1938 concerning the somewhat totally failed Syrian talks that was coupled with a massive Russian bombing campaign might not be so wrong.....or the so called "ceasefire which has not ceased firing" Minsk 2 agreement.

OUTLAW 09
02-19-2016, 06:59 AM
Top Russian Cossack commander says 2,000 Cossacks died fighting in Ukraine battles. 220 in Debaltsevo alone
http://www.ng.ru/regions/2016-02-19/6_kazaki.html …

OUTLAW 09
02-19-2016, 07:39 AM
Reference Russian info warfare.....

STRATCOMCOE @STRATCOMCOE

Journal "Defence Strategic Communications" has been published, featuring articles by @arcre_uk and @ChrisMacN1:
http://bit.ly/1RQ4NjB

OUTLAW 09
02-19-2016, 11:36 AM
ATO spokesperson: In Kramatorsk, SBU detained a militant who had been patrolling at the hostile checkpoints of so-called “DPR”

Col. Lysenko: As reported by UA intelligence, a commander of one of so-called “DPR” regiments committed suicide

Col. Andriy Lysenko: Yesterday, 4 flights of enemy UAVs were recorded in the Mariupol sector

Col. Lysenko: Mariupol sector: frontline near Maryinka was the epicenter of hostilities yesterday: skirmishes lasted for more than 7 hours

ATO spox: Donetsk sector: hostile activity somehow decreased, heavy weapons were rarely used; hotspots – Luhanske, Zaitseve, Pisky

Col. Lysenko: Luhansk sector: militants fired 1 mine with a mortar & shelled UA positions with rocket launchers at UA positions near Popasna

OUTLAW 09
02-19-2016, 11:40 AM
This will finally kill the six different Russian "myths" about their not shooting down MH17....

Eliot Higgins @EliotHiggins

MH17: Investigators to establish spot from where missile was fired
http://fw.to/m5f5trb

OUTLAW 09
02-19-2016, 11:51 AM
Vadym Skybytskyi, mil intel: In Donetsk by a demand of Oleksandr Zakharchenko, head of so-called “DPR”, Gmail & Yahoo ceased operating

OUTLAW 09
02-19-2016, 02:21 PM
CММ ОБСЄ в Україні @OSCE_SMM

Hug: In the past couple of weeks, there has been a massive increase in the use of mortars - #Ukraine

СММ ОБСЄ в Україні @OSCE_SMM

Hug: We have seen another week of intense fighting, with much of the violence occurring in and around Donetsk city #Ukraine


For those SWJ cold warriors still out there....

Priyom.org
‏@priyom_org
Plenty of (testing? exercise?) XPA2 this morning around 9-10 MHz. Freqs heard: 8184, 9283, 10256, 10427.

This was an "old SU/FSB SVR station" seems to be super active again....

OUTLAW 09
02-19-2016, 08:02 PM
Postimees: Russian helicopter violates Estonia's airspace
http://www.unian.info/world/1270847-postimees-russian-helicopter-violates-estonias-airspace.html …
pic.twitter.com/TY5pxbZQBq

OUTLAW 09
02-19-2016, 08:16 PM
Extensive and heavy Russian shelling and round attacks along the entire front line again this evening......

OUTLAW 09
02-19-2016, 08:49 PM
The Times: France's National Front party has asked Russia for a 27-million-euro loan for its 2017 election campaign. http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/news/article/marine-le-pens-party-asks-russia-for-27-million-loan/560066.html …

OUTLAW 09
02-19-2016, 09:41 PM
Extensive and heavy Russian shelling and round attacks along the entire front line again this evening......

Fiercest Russian militant’s attacks recorded near #Krasnohorivka, #Pisky, and #Opytne today.
http://en.censor.net.ua/news/375303/fiercest_militants_attacks_recorded_near_krasnohor ivka_pisky_and_opytne_today_ato_press_center …

Residents of #Zaitseve lose their homes as Russian militants continue attacks on village.
http://en.censor.net.ua/video_news/375242/residents_of_zaitseve_lose_their_homes_as_russian_ militants_continue_attacks_on_village_video …

#Marinka
21:10 battle towards #Sovkhoz
22:26 booms periodically
#Krasnohorivka
21:41 quiet
22:19 a distant boom

22:01 #Avdiivka @rechnikato Not quiet in Avdiivka. Something outside city limits

OUTLAW 09
02-20-2016, 12:16 PM
Fiercest Russian militant’s attacks recorded near #Krasnohorivka, #Pisky, and #Opytne today.
http://en.censor.net.ua/news/375303/fiercest_militants_attacks_recorded_near_krasnohor ivka_pisky_and_opytne_today_ato_press_center …

Residents of #Zaitseve lose their homes as Russian militants continue attacks on village.
http://en.censor.net.ua/video_news/375242/residents_of_zaitseve_lose_their_homes_as_russian_ militants_continue_attacks_on_village_video …

#Marinka
21:10 battle towards #Sovkhoz
22:26 booms periodically
#Krasnohorivka
21:41 quiet
22:19 a distant boom

22:01 #Avdiivka @rechnikato Not quiet in Avdiivka. Something outside city limits

Russian-separatist forces attack Ukrainian positions 54 times last night
http://uatoday.tv/news/russian-separatist-forces-attack-ukrainian-positions-54-times-last-night-595347.html …

4 Ukrainian soldiers wounded during past 24 hours
https://twitter.com/newsdaily_ukr/status/701004168132227072 …

OUTLAW 09
02-20-2016, 12:31 PM
Zakharchenko shifts "local election"to 2017. http://novosti.dn.ua/details/269857/
pic.twitter.com/pEWkilmbCe

He had threatened them in the next few months.......got reined by the Russians it appears..as it was a clear and direct violation of Minsk 2..??

OUTLAW 09
02-20-2016, 04:48 PM
Great read on how the rise of the neo right populist political groups are being driven by the Russian info war.......especially with the immigrant issues now coming into play........

prospectmagazine.co.uk/features/rolling-back-freedom …

The new nationalism: Eastern Europe turns right

The young democracies of central Europe are threatened by their leaders
by Anton Shekhovtsov , Peter Pomerantsev / February 18, 2016 / Published in March 2016

OUTLAW 09
02-20-2016, 05:04 PM
http://www.aspeninstitute.cz/en/article/4-2015-four-types-of-russian-propaganda/

Four Types of Russian Propaganda

Andrew Wilson


There are at least four types of Russian propaganda, each with different modus operandi in a strategically diverse environment.

Russia’s propaganda operation is now so vast that it is diversifying. Its institutional channels have spread from RT TV to Sputnik multi-media, to multi-lingual YouTube channels, and through the capillaries of social media. Propaganda is carefully differentiated by national (UK, US) and language (Arabic, Francophone) audiences; the message and the tone seem infinitely variable. This essay, however, argues that there are at least four types of Russian propaganda, each with different modus operandi in a strategically diverse environment.

1. The West’s Attention Deficit Disorder: Propaganda as Confusion

There are many ways of measuring Russia’s propaganda effort. There is no doubt that it is well-funded. RT claimed its 2014 budget was 13.85 billion rubles or 225 million dollars; total official Kremlin spending on mass media was 72.1 billion rubles or 1.1 billion dollars. The true amount spent will likely be in the billions.

There is less agreement on the size of the audience. Publicly-cited data is no doubt inflated by the Soviet tendency to over-claim in order to increase said levels of funding, plus the tendency to cite availability rather than actual audience, and because social media data tends to be only “likes” and “followers.” According to Maria Snegova, “RT’s official Twitter account has 815,000 followers, compared to 8 million followers of BBC World News and the 14.9 million CNN’s followers… RT has around 2.2 million fans on Facebook, compared to the 8.7 million and 16 million fans of BBC World News and CNN.”

TV figures roam widely, from RT’s claim to reach a potential audience of between 600 million and 700 million to the assertion that it only has 0.1% of the European audience.

The picture on YouTube is also mixed. According to Orttung et al., as of early 2015 “the RT flagship channel has a total of 1,471,491 subscribers,” and in one month “garnered 10,492,598 views,” but it was unclear how many “viewers [we]re coming for the helicopter golf,” rather than “staying for the Ukraine message.”

Judging the overall effect of Russian propaganda is even more difficult. The well-known analysis of Peter Pomerantsev and Michael Weiss concentrates on short-term effects. They claim that Russian propaganda is self-consciously post-modern: its purpose is not to convince or convert, but to confuse—to spread enough versions of reality to leave the target audience flailing in moral and even factual relativity, resigned to the unknowability of the world, and unable to find the cognitive basis for policy action.

Maria Snegova places contemporary Russian propaganda within the older Soviet tradition of the ‘4D’ approach: dismiss, distort, distract, and dismay. Moreover, she argues that obfuscation only works in the short-term, and undermines credibility in the long-term. The scatter-gun approach prevents coalescence around an alternative narrative. Snegova even argues that “the most successful period of RT has likely passed.

Continued......

Both points of view are right, of course. But one might add that the key effect is in the medium term, although the medium term is very short indeed. The West’s first point of vulnerability is indeed its immediate judgment (or lack of judgment) of events. Its second point of vulnerability is Attention Deficit Disorder. In modern news cycles there is little time to actually think before the cycle moves on. For the mass audience at least, Russian propaganda only has to work until then.

2. Nudge Propaganda

Russian propaganda can still have a long- term effect, if it can affect and strengthen opinions which already exist. The second type of Russian propaganda is less about creating confusion and is more about “nudge effects.” It works by finding parties, politicians, and points-of-view that are already sure of their world-view rather than confused, and giving them a nudge—so long as these views are usefully anti-systemic.

For this type of Russian propaganda there is no such thing as strange bedfellows. Left or right, nationalist or separatist, jihadist or Islamophobic— all have featured on RT. The breadth of RT’s claimed audience is partly due to this superficial Catholicism—all are welcome, and all are welcome to talk about themselves and their pet causes. Therefore by definition there is no central narrative. Russian propaganda concentrates on supporting tropes, taking advantage of the world Raphaël Glucksmann describes in his 2015 book Génération gueule de bois [Generation Hangover]: a West that grew used to a world without existential opponents after 1989, where people protest under old slogans without new thinking, and make strange alliances and metamorphoses. Though, anti-Americanism writ large is a guiding theme for many of the other tropes: the decline of Europe, the rise of other powers, the crisis of global capitalism, and the re-definition of liberal interventionism and misguided democracy-promotion as the Empire of Chaos, to quote the 2014 book by the RT favorite Pepe Escobar.

3. Propaganda at Home: Mobilizing the Putin Majority

Russia’s propaganda is Janus-faced; though a metaphor closer to home might be the double-headed Russian eagle. If the point of pluralistic propaganda abroad is to nudge or confuse, domestic propaganda is monopolistic. Its point is to create and maintain the super-majorities of Putin support that are the lodestone of the current Russian political system. A system without real ideology in a country as large as Russia can easily fall victim to bureaucratic and local interests. The famed “administrative vertical” is a myth. Thus Putin’s 89% rating is not just a sign of him heading a popularity contest; it is a tool to ensure that the actions of the otherwise disparate parts of the political system are scripted by that virtual unanimity. And it also means that 89% are signaling their loyalty to the system by formally acquiescing in its narrative (like Václav Havel’s greengrocer placing a Communist slogan in his window).

The Levada Centre has some quite extraordinary data showing the Russian equivalent of Orwell’s Two Minutes’ Hate—the rise and fall of negative attitudes towards Ukraine, Georgia, and the USA. In all cases, with a time-lag, they closely track the efforts of the Russian mass media. Negative attitudes towards “fraternal” Ukraine, for example, barely existed before being inflamed during various crises that predated the EuroMaidan—the Orange Revolution, the gas disputes of 2006 and 2009—before really taking off in 2014. Now they have bottomed out, with the Russian mass media switching its attention to Syria. Negative attitudes towards Russia in Ukraine, on the other hand, seemed to have grown for the long-term.

The way the data changes so predictably suggests that such attitudinal changes are in large part ritualistic and may not go deep. As in 1984, venom can be easily targeted and turned. However, Russia is not a totalitarian state. There are corrective mechanisms. Sergey Aleksashenko describes one as “the opportunity to ‘prove harmony by algebra’” (to borrow a line from Pushkin’s “Mozart and Salieri”). Once Russians “compare the stream of official information to surrounding realities and their own life experience, then it turns out that the effectiveness of state propaganda sharply drops.”

There is a much more radical corrective mechanism—the Emperor’s Clothes moment for the Bolotnaya protestors in 2011, when they mocked the naked Putin, the man behind the message, the man suddenly without a message, as just “a thief.” This sudden éclaircissement could also be called the Mourinho Effect, after one of Europe’s most successful football managers, currently with Chelsea, ironically owned by Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich. José Mourinho has copied an old trick: building a sense of team spirit, of us-against-the-world, by picking fights with everybody—other clubs, other managers, referees, the football authorities. This might work for a year or two; but most of Mourinho’s enemies are imaginary. His natural life-span at any given club is two to three years; once the effect wears off and the trick becomes obvious, even his own players may get embarrassed by higher and higher doses of artificial drama.

The political equivalent for Russia would be the moment when the domestic audience gets tired by, alienated by, or even sees through, the simplicities of this year’s propaganda show. This is where the EU and USA should concentrate their anti-propaganda efforts—correcting the Russian propaganda view of the West is fine in theory, but risks feeding the idea that this is all about hostile external powers. The aim should be to talk to the Russian audience in its own language about its own interests, and tell them their leaders are selling them short.

But the danger of some sudden éclaircissement is also the main reason for fearing that the Kremlin needs not just new stories and repeat doses of propaganda, but higher and higher doses to overcome the potential alienation effect. Particularly because the other obvious danger is that reality will bite back; and nothing could illustrate this better than the venture into Syria. Unless the strategy is to invite reality to bite back, and heighten the sense of Russia- under-siege.

4. Alternative Realities

In the world between Russia and the West, not surprisingly perhaps, there is a fourth, hybrid type of propaganda.

Continued......

So the purpose of Russian propaganda in the “near abroad” is to create parallel alternative realities.

Continued......

OUTLAW 09
02-20-2016, 05:09 PM
Putin's #Russia #Propaganda:"The Weaponization of #Information:
http://www.voanews.com/content/russian-propaganda-weaponization-information/3036087.html …
pic.twitter.com/1Voc3Gd2Kk

OUTLAW 09
02-20-2016, 05:50 PM
RussiaLies
RIA Novosti decided to scare Russians with bonfires on #Maidan!
2016 or 2014 - what's the difference? 🔥
pic.twitter.com/s9gzCfICWp

OUTLAW 09
02-20-2016, 05:54 PM
Russian shellings and ground assaults starting again tonight.......

OUTLAW 09
02-21-2016, 09:59 AM
From an Ukrainian translation this morning....

In Ilovaysk came two echelons of Russian military equipment

In Ilovaysk controlled by militants, came two trains military equipment.

This was announced by the speaker of the Presidential Administration Alexander ATO on Motuzyanyk.

"Recently, the railway station Ilovaysk came two trains with military equipment, 180 tons of diesel fuel and 10 wagons of ammunition and logistical means," - said the speaker.

He also noted that the area of ​​the side-Platov, near anthracite, Russian mercenaries arrived.

It was reported earlier that the militants continue to fire Ukrainian position in the area ATO.

OUTLAW 09
02-21-2016, 10:42 AM
Petraeus and Herbst: Putin Hasn’t Given Up His Designs on Ukraine
http://on.wsj.com/1OhjgON
via @WSJ
pic.twitter.com/y9H8YTFZDu

#Russia must pay some $20 billion in war reparations for the #Donbas alone- @anders_aslund
http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/who-should-pay-for-the-restoration-of-the-donbas …

60B USD is being batted around for the loses in infrastructure Crimea that Russia will have to pay for....

#Russia and #Saudi Arabia's deal to freeze oil production is 'a bunch of bull'
http://read.bi/1oNrxp4
via @bi_contributors

Russian info war hard at work

Russia'n media spread Lenta.RU story about 67 people killed in 'clashes' in #Kyiv Feb.20, 2016. Story removed since https://twitter.com/otvalitetrolli/status/701337189439959040 …

Russia'n troll-factory #Olgino proclaimed 'the revolutionary situation' in #Kyiv, #Ukraine.
https://twitter.com/OlegPanfilov7/status/701319717894672384 …

OUTLAW 09
02-21-2016, 11:00 AM
Russian shellings and ground assaults starting again tonight.......

20.02 Four #Ukrainian soldiers wounded in #Donbas in last day
http://www.unian.info/war/1271283-four-ukrainian-soldiers-wounded-in-donbas-in-last-day.html …

OSCE monitors recorded 88 tanks close to #Donbas front-line in the areas controlled by pro-#Kremlin militants
http://en.censor.net.ua/n375264

19.02 #Russian drones dropped phosphorus bombs at ammunition depot of #Ukrainian 93rd Brigade in #Donetsk region http://en.censor.net.ua/n375293

20.02 #Ukraine held town of #Marinka, in #Donetsk outskirts, was heavily shelled by pro-#Kremlin militants
http://en.censor.net.ua/n375340

OUTLAW 09
02-21-2016, 11:16 AM
InformNapalm Deutsch @de_informnapalm

#OSZE #Donbass Zwischenlager fr #Panzer Т-64, Т-72 и Т-72S1 bei #Luhansk:
https://informnapalm.org/de/15230-2/
pic.twitter.com/UwxDo67dqR

The Russian Connection Between #Syria and #Ukraine | @Joe_Nye in the National Interest
http://hvrd.me/YuXkx
pic.twitter.com/sClsvGv0Nw

OUTLAW 09
02-21-2016, 11:20 AM
Russia's recession is finally catching up with President Putin
http://bloom.bg/1oqcjGb
pic.twitter.com/TXT1mJ2IdY

Russian defense spending to be lowered 5-7%.....a heavy hit from the early proclaimed super funding Putin talked about a year ago...."guns or butter"

OUTLAW 09
02-21-2016, 11:48 AM
16.02.15 Bodies of #Ukrainian soldiers with their hands tied executed by pro #Kremlin militants at #Donetsk airport
https://goo.gl/T1F6BR

Putin is funding opposition in #Europe through his friend #Timchenko, who also makes money from dealing with #ISIS
https://goo.gl/vfIDFy

OUTLAW 09
02-21-2016, 11:53 AM
Reference shot down of MH17....nightmare for Putin continues.........

Eliot Higgins @EliotHiggins
Should be an interesting few weeks for #MH17, upcoming press conference, few reports from us at Bellingcat and a major new documentary

OUTLAW 09
02-21-2016, 11:55 AM
20.02 Four #Ukrainian soldiers wounded in #Donbas in last day
http://www.unian.info/war/1271283-four-ukrainian-soldiers-wounded-in-donbas-in-last-day.html …

OSCE monitors recorded 88 tanks close to #Donbas front-line in the areas controlled by pro-#Kremlin militants
http://en.censor.net.ua/n375264

19.02 #Russian drones dropped phosphorus bombs at ammunition depot of #Ukrainian 93rd Brigade in #Donetsk region http://en.censor.net.ua/n375293

20.02 #Ukraine held town of #Marinka, in #Donetsk outskirts, was heavily shelled by pro-#Kremlin militants
http://en.censor.net.ua/n375340

1 Ukrainian soldier KIA during past 24 hours https://twitter.com/rbc_ukraine/status/701357460309803008 …

1KIA...4WIA in 48 hours and this is a "ceasefire"......

OUTLAW 09
02-21-2016, 05:07 PM
RU Army Colonel and ex Duma Vice Chairman Zhirinovsky just screamed, "we need to occupy #Ukraine as we did Crimea"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSBcSDhdhm0 …

No comment ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RMot-m8dr0 …
pic.twitter.com/nC8qsjuNfP

OUTLAW 09
02-21-2016, 05:18 PM
Ukraine intel reports #Russia|n army is preparing for amphibious landing near #Mariupol
http://www.unian.info/war/1271669-ukraine-intel-reports-russian-armys-preparation-for-amphibious-lending-near-mariupol.html …

OUTLAW 09
02-21-2016, 05:22 PM
Now does everyone fully understand the Russian non linear warfare hard at work.......using the core cornerstone..."weaponization of information"....

Breaking story and it concerns a serious Russian info war attempt against Germany....using Syrian refugees....

Merkel probes claims of #Putin plot to weaken her by exploiting #migrationcrisis. My story:
http://thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news....ece#pq=bDocjk …
pic.twitter.com/z8gMzFhGJA

Now it is easy to see the Russian intertwining of a two front non linear war...directly aimed at the US.......

OUTLAW 09
02-21-2016, 06:15 PM
17 ceasefire violations today before 6pm at Donbass
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8V8d1WNbsw …

Russian shellings and ground attacks are on again tonight.......

19:29 #Avdiivka @LuftGanza Avdiivka can hear AGL and small arms
19:32 Avdiivka hears AGL & SA, direction: airfield-#Opytne

20:02 #Avdiivka @LuftGanza Yes, artillery battery works, dunno what, maybe SPG, maybe MSTA

20:22 #Horlivka @062_Region A train passed and a salvo at once, #Shyroka_Balka direction

20:22 #Donetsk @jackson_villi #Kalinisnky ds can also hear heavies

20:22 #Donetsk @jackson_villi #Kalinisnky ds can also hear heavies

20:07 #Donetsk #Kyivsky ds @Shymanovski Damn strong gunnery

20:17 #Makiivka @zusamelena Now assault rifles' bursts are heard for about 15 minutes, #Donetsk direction

OUTLAW 09
02-21-2016, 06:19 PM
Now does everyone fully understand the Russian non linear warfare hard at work.......using the core cornerstone..."weaponization of information"....

Breaking story and it concerns a serious Russian info war attempt against Germany....using Syrian refugees....

Merkel probes claims of #Putin plot to weaken her by exploiting #migrationcrisis. My story:
http://thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news....ece#pq=bDocjk …
pic.twitter.com/z8gMzFhGJA

Now it is easy to see the Russian intertwining of a two front non linear war...directly aimed at the US.......

In #Brandenburg, pamphlets call for "total resistance" against "invasion of foreigners" w/bomb building instructions
http://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/aufruf-zum-widerstand-gegen-fluechtlin... …

Berlin convinced RU wants to damage/topple Merkel as key to common European sanctions against RU
via @Javed_Kayani pic.twitter.com/sgVRvITmp7

OUTLAW 09
02-21-2016, 06:40 PM
Russian Gazeta.Ru on "Transnistrization" of Occupied Donbass territories
http://www.gazeta.ru/politics/2016/02/20_a_8085743.shtml …

DPR's Basurin: 'Situation on the contact line has dramatically escalated.'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXaG9pzVf3Y …

Appears Russians are attempting to create a new Maidan situation this weekend...Putin just never gives up....

Many representatives of "Revolutionary Right Forces" speaks Russian and refuse to tell full name. Sergey Kharkovskiy

Russian info warriors searching for free lancers...
Russian website searches for "meme specialist." Must know memes & own Photoshop. Other skills/education not required
https://tjournal.ru/23516-dirty-predlozhil-rabotu-specialista-po-memam-za-150-tisyach-rublei-v-mesyac …

OUTLAW 09
02-21-2016, 06:50 PM
17 ceasefire violations today before 6pm at Donbass
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8V8d1WNbsw …

Russian shellings and ground attacks are on again tonight.......

19:29 #Avdiivka @LuftGanza Avdiivka can hear AGL and small arms
19:32 Avdiivka hears AGL & SA, direction: airfield-#Opytne

20:02 #Avdiivka @LuftGanza Yes, artillery battery works, dunno what, maybe SPG, maybe MSTA

20:22 #Horlivka @062_Region A train passed and a salvo at once, #Shyroka_Balka direction

20:22 #Donetsk @jackson_villi #Kalinisnky ds can also hear heavies

20:22 #Donetsk @jackson_villi #Kalinisnky ds can also hear heavies

20:07 #Donetsk #Kyivsky ds @Shymanovski Damn strong gunnery

20:17 #Makiivka @zusamelena Now assault rifles' bursts are heard for about 15 minutes, #Donetsk direction

2017 #Avdiivka @LuftGanza Powerful incoming ones, sounds closer heavy incoming now

Strong battle in #Yasynuvata
https://twitter.com/swetlaha1706/status/701468640135217152 …

20:29 #Avdiivka @owl_ok [vk] #Yama: intense ongoing battle

20:25 #Donetsk @kotbarboss 10min ago smth like Grad. airport direction [AA-gun?]
20:26 @jackson_villi It was so

20:08 #Makiivka @VasyaMakeevskiy sounds loudly, one can hear shooting and salvos tow/ #Yakovlivka. Series fire, like an AA-gun or heavy MG

20:15 #Makiivka #Gvardeyka @tov_sobakin Wow, very loudly, heavy one

.@TSgdalinka 3 [of 10 injured by blast in #Marinka] are in #Dnipropetrovsk in #Mechnikova hospital, delivered w/aircraft, one lost his eye
@LifeInDonetsk no Grad yet

21:00 #Donetsk #Avtomagazin @PVB40 Grad, full load


Kirovsky district #Donetsk - Sofas are jumping together with the residents on it. #Donbas
https://twitter.com/vladicvp/status/701483286728728578 …

21:15 #Donetsk #Kuybyshevsky ds @huyoviynovoros All in panic, hear Grads, yet I cannot hear anything. Quiet towards #Pisky, #Krasnohorivka

Avdiivka 21:20
Battle in vineyards area.
https://twitter.com/tov_sobakin/status/701487391127773185 …

21:15 #Donetsk @olgarjpthju [fb] #Leninskyi: strong salvos, panes vibrate
"From #Gvardeyka direction small arms are heard and smth heavier"

Volnovakha 21:27
"Now 1.5 km from the city in the forest explosions, rockets, tracers ... very loud !!!"
https://twitter.com/fhntv29/status/701488489402122241 …



Also confirming SBU's information on Surkov visit to Donetsk few days ago. "from own Kremlin sources"
pic.twitter.com/aV8KmnEKHL

[U]Fighting in eastern #Ukraine slowly restarting this evening. Maybe they realized that there will be no new #Maidan in #Kiev.

OUTLAW 09
02-21-2016, 07:00 PM
Ukrainian military trying to shot down UAV over Volnovakha
http://liveuamap.com/en/2016/21-february-ukrainian-military-trying-to-shot-down-uav-over …
pic.twitter.com/H4D9FRemjC via @IVolnovakha

Volnovakha: UAVs in the sky + tracers of AA fire to bring them down
https://twitter.com/IVolnovakha/status/701477638813122560 …

Quite outrageous for #Russia to refer to #Ukraine— a sovereign country— as "former USSR" instead of its proper name. pic.twitter.com/gELEFXUc8w

OUTLAW 09
02-21-2016, 07:22 PM
Russian info war hard at work........

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YWjh4M_nZw …
Revolutionary Right Forces: Real deal or smbdy's
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Trust … ?
pic.twitter.com/3zZexI2TGE

OUTLAW 09
02-21-2016, 07:40 PM
Also confirming SBU's information on Surkov visit to Donetsk few days ago. "from own Kremlin sources"
pic.twitter.com/aV8KmnEKHL

Fighting in eastern #Ukraine slowly restarting this evening. Maybe they realized that there will be no new #Maidan in #Kiev.


at 21:30 and 21:32 ruscist resources report on "tank battle"
http://archive.is/6OpsI

Tank battle was an artillery exchange

OUTLAW 09
02-21-2016, 08:24 PM
Surkov and Gryzlov: #Russia’s New Negotiators on Ukraine (Part One) | By Vladimir Socor
http://www.jamestown.org/programs/edm/single/?tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=45114&cHash=6d7cc9c180d1c8a74f4dcdfab1847909#.VsoSRvl96c 1 …
pic.twitter.com/5kAHbxloEt

OUTLAW 09
02-22-2016, 08:31 AM
Militants attack ATO troops 44 times in last day, hot spots in Donetsk sector
http://www.unian.info/war/1271934-militants-attack-ato-troops-44-times-in-last-day-hot-spots-in-donetsk-sector.html …
pic.twitter.com/He2HxDztwN

Geoffrey Pyatt ✔ @GeoffPyatt

Truce Unravels as Fighting Picks Up in Ukraine
@OSCE_SMM "observers last week saw 88 tanks on the pro-Russian side"
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/22/world/europe/fighting-in-ukraine-picks-up-sharply.html?smid=nytcore-ipad-share&smprod=nytcore-ipad …

Ukrainian "Antonov" & Saudi Arabia signed final contact on co-production of AN-148 & AN-172✌
https://youtu.be/2n_4nvQ3lg8 pic.twitter.com/ebLiwTRJ2V

Why Ukraine's Reforms Are Not Going Ahead: The Subversive Function of Russia's War in the Donbass
http://www.kyivpost.com/article/opinion/op-ed/andreas-umland-forget-ukraine-fatigue-408512.html …

Comprehensive survey of int'l law on enforced disappearances from @ICJ_org: denial of right to existence & identity
http://icj.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Universal-Enforced-Disappearance-and-Extrajudicial-Execution-PGNo9-Publications-Practitioners-guide-series-2015-ENG.pdf …

OUTLAW 09
02-22-2016, 05:55 PM
Russia trying, West assisting - to force sickly #Ukraine to swallow the deadly poisonous Donbas.
pic.twitter.com/jlNG47kuqc

In Feb 2014 Muzhenko ordered to down Russian planes flying to Crimea. The order was ignored!
https://www.facebook.com/yuri.biriukov/posts/1701901593411984 …
pic.twitter.com/bRkRYRo9KV

Self-propelled artillery of Russian militants on 19 Feb in Olenivka http://liveuamap.com/en/2016/22-february-selfpropelled-artillery-of-russian-militants …
pic.twitter.com/jb3D6QQ43j via @GirkinGirkin

OUTLAW 09
02-22-2016, 06:27 PM
Russian shellings and assualts are on again tonight.........

Evening battles in eastern #Ukraine started while ago, some heavy salvos, machine gun fire, RPG's, GL's..#Donetsk #Horlivka

Also battle again in #Yasynuvata

Yasynuvata 17:30
Battle in road police post area.

#Horlivka listens to heavy artillery, 122 or even 152 mm as per local sources

17:55 #Makiivka #Vostochnyi @zusamelena Shooting, blasts. #Gvardeyka direction. Airport?

18:28 #Horlivka @062_Region #Mykhauylivka, #Ozeryanivka, #Shyroka_Balka: battle, tank or SPG fire, mortar, small arms

OUTLAW 09
02-22-2016, 06:30 PM
The song that will represent #Ukraine at #Eurovision. Dedicated to victims of Stalins crime - #CrimeanTatars.
https://soundcloud.com/jamala/1944a?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_campaign=wtshare&utm_medium=Twitter&utm_content=https://soundcloud.com/jamala/1944a …

Worth listening to as it is about the Russian crimes against the Crimea Tartars...even going on today...

OUTLAW 09
02-22-2016, 06:43 PM
VICE News ✔ @vicenews

In exclusive interviews, we reveal the extrajudicial killings that have subsumed the rebel-held areas in Ukraine:
http://bit.ly/23WDGbm

OUTLAW 09
02-22-2016, 06:50 PM
Russian shellings and assualts are on again tonight.........

Evening battles in eastern #Ukraine started while ago, some heavy salvos, machine gun fire, RPG's, GL's..#Donetsk #Horlivka

Also battle again in #Yasynuvata

Yasynuvata 17:30
Battle in road police post area.

#Horlivka listens to heavy artillery, 122 or even 152 mm as per local sources

17:55 #Makiivka #Vostochnyi @zusamelena Shooting, blasts. #Gvardeyka direction. Airport?

18:28 #Horlivka @062_Region #Mykhauylivka, #Ozeryanivka, #Shyroka_Balka: battle, tank or SPG fire, mortar, small arms

Sounds of heavy weapons audible in #Donetsk and surroundings. #Makeevka e.g. fires heavy salvos.

20:03 #Makiivka @tov_sobakin [fb] We're listening to #Yasynuvata for few hours almost without pauses. Loudly. Very much

Horlivka 20:41
Battle in mine 6/7 area: small arms, big caliber. Close combat!
https://twitter.com/062_Region/status/701839317048631296 …

19:48 #Donetsk #Marabushta @serzzzE One can hear heavy weapons, frequently, but pretty far

19:51 #Donetsk [pro-RU source] @Little_Owl_A "Variety of artillery sounds in Donetsk tonight, resonant evening messages for uninvited guests

19:40 #Donetsk @666_mancer [zello] At #Yasynuvata pretty serious combat starts. MGs started and single shots and heavy weapons Pound

19:28 #Krasnohorivka @hyeva_maryinka [vk] it has once boomed far off

19:43 #Donetsk @PVB40 [fb] #Avtomagazin: "I am shocked with those salvos coming from #Makiivka"

19:42 #Avdiivka @VadyXaXa Avdiivka can hear 'ceasefire'

19:34 #Donetsk @666_mancer [fb] Seems, war started in #Putilovka grove - non-stop machine guns, sometimes it rumbles, like explosions

20:53 #Horlivka @_John__Carter_ As of now militants apply fire at UAF in #Mayorsk area. Heavy machine guns &mortars 100-122mm

20:41 #Horlivka @062_Region mine 6-7: battle - Utyos MG, small arms, large calibre. Dense combat

Fighting in eastern #Ukraine has intensified in recent weeks. Why do so many still buy Putin/Lavrov ceasefire lie?
http://nyti.ms/1UgFyru

Skibitsky: Russia’s 49th Humanitarian Convoy Brought Weapons And Ammunition
http://ukraineunderattack.org/en/57474-skibitsky-russia-s-49th-humanitarian-convoy-brought-weapon-and-ammunition.html …

OUTLAW 09
02-22-2016, 06:51 PM
The song that will represent #Ukraine at #Eurovision. Dedicated to victims of Stalins crime - #CrimeanTatars.
https://soundcloud.com/jamala/1944a?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_campaign=wtshare&utm_medium=Twitter&utm_content=https://soundcloud.com/jamala/1944a …

Worth listening to as it is about the Russian crimes against the Crimea Tartars...even going on today...

Check out RU trolls "commenting" under story on Ukraine Eurosong
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/646329/Ukraine-Putin-ultra-political-Eurovision-song-Russian-oppression-Crimea-Tartar …
<< clearly that's RU's main problem du jour.

Russia annexed Crimea. But Ukraine has selected a Crimean Tatar singer for Eurovision 2016.
pic.twitter.com/iYQ1ma2een

Appears the Ukraine has hit a Russian nerve on their current treatment of Crimea Tartars after their annexation of the Tartar homeland Crimea.....

Russia's State Duma asks #Eurovision organisers to bar Ukrainian contestant
http://uatoday.tv/society/russia-s-state-duma-asks-eurovision-organisers-to-bar-ukrainian-contestant-596722.html …
pic.twitter.com/i9G0Jd9e0r

A very interesting form of Ukrainian info war against Russia that evidengtly hits hard.......

Ukrainians have chosen singer Jamala to represent their country with a song about mass deportation of Crimean Tatars in 1944



Russia's State Duma have asked the organisers of the Eurovision song contest to bar Ukrainian singer Jamala from performing her song about Joseph Stalin's mass deportation of Crimean Tatars in 1944.

Vadim Dengin, the deputy head of Duma's Committee on Information Policy, said the Ukrainian choice is aimed ‘to sting' Russia:

"Most Ukrainian citizens, who do not get neither salaries nor pensions, cannot afford to watch Eurovision. Firstly, because they have no money to pay for the electricity, and secondly because they do not care at all about this Eurovision," the official was quoted in the media.

Dengin added that the contest should not be politicised.

Jamala's song titled ‘1944' takes the audience back to the horrific chapter of the Soviet history, which was recognized by the Ukrainian parliament as a genocide of the Crimean Tatar people.

"The main message is to remember and to know this story," the singer said commenting on her lyrics.

Not sure what the Russian Duma has against the lyrics.......

1944

When strangers are coming...
They come to your house,
They kill you all
and say,
We’re not guilty
not guilty.

Where is your mind?
Humanity cries.
You think you are gods.
But everyone dies.
Don't swallow my soul.
Our souls

Yaşlığıma toyalmadım
Men bu yerde yaşalmadım
Yaşlığıma toyalmadım
Men bu yerde yaşalmadım

We could build a future
Where people are free
to live and love.
The happiest time.

Where is your heart?
Humanity rise.
You think you are gods
But everyone dies.
Don't swallow my soul.
Our souls

Yaşlığıma toyalmadım
Men bu yerde yaşalmadım(I couldn’t spend my youth there because you took away my peace)
Yaşlığıma toyalmadım
Men bu yerde yaşalmadım

vatanima toyalmadim

OUTLAW 09
02-22-2016, 06:58 PM
Skibitsky: Putin Did Not Give Up His Plans On Disintegration Of Ukraine
http://ukraineunderattack.org/en/57525-skibitsky-putin-did-not-give-up-his-plans-on-disintegration-of-ukraine.html …


Skibitsky: Russia Engaged Almost 70 Thousand Servicemen To Annex Crimea
http://ukraineunderattack.org/en/57533-skibitsky-russia-engaged-almost-70-thousand-servicemen-to-annex-crimea.html …

OUTLAW 09
02-22-2016, 07:08 PM
Kremlin Trolls @KremlinTrolls

@AndriiOlefirov Perry's colleagues & friends r employed by propaganda org @Gorchakov_Fund (@mfa_russia)
@NatallkaUKRhttps://twitter.com/KremlinTrolls/status/698946301787041794 …

OUTLAW 09
02-22-2016, 07:36 PM
Sounds of heavy weapons audible in #Donetsk and surroundings. #Makeevka e.g. fires heavy salvos.

20:03 #Makiivka @tov_sobakin [fb] We're listening to #Yasynuvata for few hours almost without pauses. Loudly. Very much

Horlivka 20:41
Battle in mine 6/7 area: small arms, big caliber. Close combat!
https://twitter.com/062_Region/status/701839317048631296 …

19:48 #Donetsk #Marabushta @serzzzE One can hear heavy weapons, frequently, but pretty far

19:51 #Donetsk [pro-RU source] @Little_Owl_A "Variety of artillery sounds in Donetsk tonight, resonant evening messages for uninvited guests

19:40 #Donetsk @666_mancer [zello] At #Yasynuvata pretty serious combat starts. MGs started and single shots and heavy weapons Pound

19:28 #Krasnohorivka @hyeva_maryinka [vk] it has once boomed far off

19:43 #Donetsk @PVB40 [fb] #Avtomagazin: "I am shocked with those salvos coming from #Makiivka"

19:42 #Avdiivka @VadyXaXa Avdiivka can hear 'ceasefire'

19:34 #Donetsk @666_mancer [fb] Seems, war started in #Putilovka grove - non-stop machine guns, sometimes it rumbles, like explosions

20:53 #Horlivka @_John__Carter_ As of now militants apply fire at UAF in #Mayorsk area. Heavy machine guns &mortars 100-122mm

20:41 #Horlivka @062_Region mine 6-7: battle - Utyos MG, small arms, large calibre. Dense combat

Fighting in eastern #Ukraine has intensified in recent weeks. Why do so many still buy Putin/Lavrov ceasefire lie?
http://nyti.ms/1UgFyru

Skibitsky: Russia’s 49th Humanitarian Convoy Brought Weapons And Ammunition
http://ukraineunderattack.org/en/57474-skibitsky-russia-s-49th-humanitarian-convoy-brought-weapon-and-ammunition.html …

ATO: Enemy Russian forces continue to strike #Ukraine's army positions, disregarding any accords.
http://en.censor.net.ua/news/375656/terrorists_focused_attacks_at_donetsk_direction_to day_ato_press_center …

OUTLAW 09
02-22-2016, 07:41 PM
Russian militants in Nyznhne Lozove - positions with view on Vuhlehirs'ka power station
pic.twitter.com/Na7mZjLOK3 http://liveuamap.com/en/2016/21-february-russian-militants-in-nyznhne-lozove--positions …

"LPR" announces captives' exchange in #Schastya vicinity. http://novosti.dn.ua/details/269967/
pic.twitter.com/6f50rjq7MD

OUTLAW 09
02-23-2016, 11:22 AM
Financial aid suspended for more than 25K IDPs in #Kramatorsk as those people continue living on occupied territory. http://novosti.dn.ua/details/270025/

MFA Russia ✔ @mfa_russia
#Grushko: Europe’s entire state of security fully depends on the quality of NATO-Russia relations @natomission_ru
http://on.rt.com/756m

Two Ukr servicemen were wounded in action near Avdiivka, no casualties. 55 militant attacks registered over last day http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2016/02/23/7100010/ …

Russian tanks in Bugaevka
pic.twitter.com/vDZbYc4pHJ
http://liveuamap.com/en/2016/23-february-russian-tanks-in-bugaevka …

OUTLAW 09
02-23-2016, 01:08 PM
"Russia is constantly funding the anti-Ukraine activity throughout the Europe" - @PavloKlimkin
Zero EU reaction.
https://twitter.com/Dialog_UA/status/701820254226407424 …

OUTLAW 09
02-23-2016, 01:15 PM
Just 1 figure to those saying "Sanctions agnst Russia don't work": Rus corporate foreign credit portfolio shrunk by $200 bn in just 18 mnths

3 men jailed for establishing & maintaining links with #Russian special services in #Estonia
http://news.err.ee/v/politics/7d324521-b24d-4531-82f8-88ef4f7a88a2/men-working-for-russian-special-services-against-estonia-imprisoned …
pic.twitter.com/KCFMbFC5m4

OUTLAW 09
02-23-2016, 01:39 PM
Russian strong shellings and ground attacks are kicking in earlier than normal today.......

OUTLAW 09
02-23-2016, 02:46 PM
Russian strong shellings and ground attacks are kicking in earlier than normal today.......

Russian Spetsnaz killed in fighting with UAF today......
Col.Lysenko: Group of Russian troops neutralized in Mariupol sector. Names and titles of three dead Russians known
http://uacrisis.org/en/40438-andrij-lisenko-173 …

OUTLAW 09
02-23-2016, 06:08 PM
Michael Weiss ‏@michaeldweiss
US appears to have given YPG Javelin anti-tank missiles (which it didn't give Ukraine):
https://mobile.twitter.com/michaelh992/status/702146838267355136 …

OUTLAW 09
02-23-2016, 06:39 PM
Russian strong shellings and ground attacks are kicking in earlier than normal today.......

Heavy fighting and shelling from the Russians this evening up and down the front line....if this pace keeps up the attack numbers will be in the 60 or so range..

There is heavy fighting with heavy artillery 152 all afternoon and this evening in #Donetsk and surroundings

OUTLAW 09
02-24-2016, 06:33 AM
Heavy fighting and shelling from the Russians this evening up and down the front line....if this pace keeps up the attack numbers will be in the 60 or so range..

There is heavy fighting with heavy artillery 152 all afternoon and this evening in #Donetsk and surroundings

84 ceasefire violations by pro #Russia|n forces yesterday

OUTLAW 09
02-24-2016, 09:58 AM
Reference the Russian shot down of MH17....further shot down open source analysis from bellingcat is being released today.....

Eliot Higgins @EliotHiggins
#MH17 – Potential Suspects and Witnesses from the 53rd Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade via @bellingcat
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2016/02/23/53rd-report-en/ …

.@apostrophe_ua flow chart of how Putin linked to officers @bellingcat suspects deployed missile that downed #MH17
pic.twitter.com/TgosDsVTrP

LT MFA STRATCOM @LT_MFA_Stratcom
Very interesting conclusion from @bellingcat report on Russia's aggression in E.Ukraine and #MH17
pic.twitter.com/9f3lELAvdJ

OUTLAW 09
02-24-2016, 10:00 AM
4 grenades found at Mariupol railway station
http://liveuamap.com/en/2016/24-february-4-grenades-found-at-mariupol-railway-station …
pic.twitter.com/IyN0f0LVw3

Amnesty International: Pro-Russian paramilitaries involved in repression against Crimean Tatars
http://www.unian.info/society/1274017-amnesty-international-pro-russian-paramilitaries-involved-in-repression-against-crimean-tatars.html …

Footage
#Rovenki in occupied #Donbas after 2 years of total militarization & brainwashing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOQ13hGexDw …

OUTLAW 09
02-24-2016, 10:21 AM
Reference the Russian shot down of MH17....further shot down open source analysis from bellingcat is being released today.....

Eliot Higgins @EliotHiggins
#MH17 – Potential Suspects and Witnesses from the 53rd Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade via @bellingcat
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2016/02/23/53rd-report-en/ …

.@apostrophe_ua flow chart of how Putin linked to officers @bellingcat suspects deployed missile that downed #MH17
pic.twitter.com/TgosDsVTrP

LT MFA STRATCOM @LT_MFA_Stratcom
Very interesting conclusion from @bellingcat report on Russia's aggression in E.Ukraine and #MH17
pic.twitter.com/9f3lELAvdJ

Russian cyber warriors strike back at social media ......

bellingcat ‏@bellingcat · 3h3 hours ago

It appears the the Bellingcat website is being targeted by a DDoS attack after the release of our new report.

OUTLAW 09
02-24-2016, 11:51 AM
SBU found large arsenal of weapons, explosives in Kyiv region
http://liveuamap.com/en/2016/24-february-sbu-found-large-arsenal-of-weapons-explosives …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgFpBl5eeWA … via @ServiceSsu

There're some rumors that Ukrainian troops entered Dokuchaevsk.
Not confirmed officially...
UAF seized an industrial area in gray zone, SE fr/#Avdiivka "for town was shelled fr/there"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFCSD_ukNtg&feature=youtu.be …
pic.twitter.com/D12daXLaqw

Ukraine Pres - "Full-scale fighting in Donbas may resume"(As a result of #Russia actions)
https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&hl=en&prev=search&rurl=translate.google.co.uk&sl=ru&u=http://www.segodnya.ua/regions/donetsk/polnomasshtabnye-boevye-deystviya-na-donbasse-mogut-vozobnovitsya-poroshenko-694362.html&usg=ALkJrhjgXhuYqdj3dyGnOCF3YnLL7Cju5A …
pic.twitter.com/9XS4u21jLp

Russian General Staff came to #Donetsk to liquidate militiamen
https://twitter.com/HromadskeTV/status/702449950332944384 …

1 civilian man killed, child wounded in Russian attack on Zaitseve
http://liveuamap.com/en/2016/24-february-1-civilian-man-killed-child-wounded-in-russian …

Russia reinforces Black See Fleet in #Crimea with patrol boats and submarines
http://uatoday.tv/politics/russia-reinforces-black-see-fleet-in-crimea-with-patrol-boats-and-submarines-597800.html … pic.twitter.com/DoFeWYmLdB

OUTLAW 09
02-24-2016, 12:10 PM
More RUS air provocations. First UK, now French jets intercepted RUS strategic bombers.
pic.twitter.com/d5iDXyFHGF

12:44 #Starohnativka @Staroignatievca #Hranitne, #Hryhorivka, half #Starohnativka are without electricity after the night shelling

Two servicemen were wounded in action over last day near Putylivska mine and Krasnohorivka
http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2016/02/24/7100133/ …
pic.twitter.com/cOp5gfEV41

OUTLAW 09
02-24-2016, 12:38 PM
Russian shellings and ground attacks starting early today...indicator of a another long day and night of attacks....

AND Obama, Hollande, Merkel say not a single word......and the attacks have reached the level of outright war again...but the EU and NATO say nothing as everyone is totally focused on Syria and that is exactly what Putin wants......

14:21 #Donetsk.
Mortar shells landing in the airport area.
https://twitter.com/idinmor/status/702468451839963137 …

OUTLAW 09
02-24-2016, 12:43 PM
Putin v. Poroshenko: European Court Claims Near $100 Billion, Bloomberg
http://stfi.re/ewogkk
pic.twitter.com/5x0XmTOtEU

Let's see....50B for Yukos
100plus B for Crimea and Donbas
25B for illegal Gazprom billings
3B loan made to the former Ukrainian President as a bribe...

178B and counting........no wonder they changed their laws to not recognize the EUC decisions......BUT fail to realize that the EUC could rule that everything Russian outside of Russia can be taken by the creditors....

Does Russian have any money left after this with the price of oil falling again????

OUTLAW 09
02-24-2016, 01:36 PM
James Miller @Millermena

Remember me explaining how Russia has defeated NATO without firing a shot?
https://twitter.com/Mwforhr/status/702484465445158913 …

It is about more than restoring the Franco-German tandem. It's a different #Europe: The European Dream: A Requiem http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/22/op...e-iphone-share …

Three core Russian geo political goals in the Russian non linear warfare used in support of the Russian political warfare with the US which Russia views as "an enemy"........

1. discredit and damage NATO
2. discredit and damage EU
3. completely disconnect the US from Europe and ME

Allows then the Russian establishment of a sphere of influence in regions they determine to make up what they can "the new Yalta"......

OUTLAW 09
02-24-2016, 01:40 PM
I would fully agree with this assumption and have been posting the war actually for the last four weeks.....

James Miller @Millermena
Full. Scale. War. And Ukraine might be UNDERREPORTING the number of attacks
https://twitter.com/Interpreter_Mag/status/702466063339032580 …

OUTLAW 09
02-24-2016, 02:25 PM
Russian Terrorist Putilin Sets Up His Employers from Kremlin:
https://informnapalm.org/en/feb20-donbas-putilin/ …
pic.twitter.com/1HHw9bsheK

BRK #Analysis #Map
Russian D-30 artillery pieces in the centre of #Donetsk city.
via @evergreen_dn

OUTLAW 09
02-24-2016, 03:22 PM
Ukr mil 58th takes out position Ru forces assisted by @ARMY_SOS drone
https://youtu.be/9NAG3tAEHD4
pic.twitter.com/0JziUaGAfj

OUTLAW 09
02-24-2016, 03:39 PM
HybridWar Theory: The Unfolding and Limits of Gerasimov Doctrine
http://empr.media/opinion/analytics/hybrid-war-theory-unfolding-limits-gerasimov-doctrine …
pic.twitter.com/9k9nYCNJaZ

OUTLAW 09
02-24-2016, 03:45 PM
MH17 humor.......

Illuminati expert: Videos and photos from July 17th 2014 are fake, '#MH17 hoax is a #CIA #MindControl operation'
pic.twitter.com/FRWCCT7v5A

OUTLAW 09
02-24-2016, 04:06 PM
Eliot Higgins @EliotHiggins

BBC Russia (and others) have contacted the Russian MoD and 53rd Brigade for comments on our new #MH17 report. None have been forthcoming.

OUTLAW 09
02-24-2016, 05:44 PM
Eliot Higgins @EliotHiggins

BBC Russia (and others) have contacted the Russian MoD and 53rd Brigade for comments on our new #MH17 report. None have been forthcoming.




bellingcat @bellingcat

Our new report #MH17 report is availble now, read it here
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2016/02/23/53rd-report-en/ …

OUTLAW 09
02-25-2016, 09:59 AM
Photos of war devastation from liberated #Shyrokyne coming in
https://www.facebook.com/euromaidanpress.en/posts/487467494770391 … pic.twitter.com/731X5JD6VI

ATO forces retook a high ground near #Zaytseve, cache w/Russian-made anti-tank missiles and RPO-A Shmel found
pic.twitter.com/kmmA0Y58pY

Russian proxies attack ATO troops 56 times in last day
http://www.unian.info/war/1275103-russian-proxies-attack-ato-troops-56-times-in-last-day.html …
pic.twitter.com/Jtuf4gxv8O

Still at full scale war levels......

OUTLAW 09
02-25-2016, 10:09 AM
British artist recorded cover of Eurovision song by @jamala_official about deportation of Crimean Tatars
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pb3boTc3hwI&feature=youtu.be …

Russian VDV/SOF quad bikes in occupied-Donetsk is nothing new: goes back to at least Dec 2014 (via @lennutrajektoor) https://twitter.com/lennutrajektoor/status/540642149444775936 …

Russia total hybrid war on Europe:
- generate refugees from Syria
- Brexit
- Nord Stream 2
- Dutch referendum to hit Ukraine

OUTLAW 09
02-25-2016, 10:54 AM
Ukraine forces seized #Shyrokyne, 2 industrial area near #Yasynuvata fork, 3 high grounds near #Zaytseve & 4 high ground near #Dokuchaevsk Should be clarified that these areas were "no man's land" before.
"Seizure" is not the result of fighting, but of no LNR/DNR there.

Full video of shelling of Ukrainian positions by terrorists near Avdiivka with Ukrainian answer.......
https://youtu.be/IAxGUr89bxw

Militants of #DPR run and left a lot of modern #Russian weapon in #Shyrokyne. Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtVWKKNSeYY … pic.twitter.com/t78UdjbsZj

SBU has caught saboteur who planed to blow up the railway track Pavlograd-Lozova,Kharkiv reg
http://www.sbu.gov.ua/sbu/control/uk/publish/article?art_id=175998&cat_id=39574 …
pic.twitter.com/HGgEYZ09Uk

Change of French tones over Ukraine it appears.....now evidently prorussian......
French FM wouldn't even say #Russia-backed forces launched more attacks than #Ukraine did. i.e. France accuses Kyiv of ceasefire violations

[B]Ukraine says fighting in Zaytseve, on the edge of separatist-held territory, went on all night.
http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2016/02/25/7100230/ …

2 Ukrainian soldiers were wounded during past 24 hours
https://twitter.com/newsdaily_ukr/status/702809136489172992 …

@cranovschik "some pro-RU friends fr/Donetsk suddenly changed pro-DNR userpics in their social profiles to neutral ones..."

Noticed that too w/mine. And one DNR border guard, former UA one, removed userpic in DNR uniform & set himself in UA one
What's going on?

OUTLAW 09
02-25-2016, 12:13 PM
Appears Gazprom is back to it's old tricks again and is getting caught again this time by the Greens Party in the EP.......went over like a lead balloon and verifies what the Ukraine has been saying about the new Russian pipeline and WHAT Germany has not been honest about ......

5 Western companies co-investing in Nord Stream 2 were told by Gazprom to stop sending gas through Ukraine
http://www.euractiv.com/section/energy/news/green-mep-denounces-gazproms-bullying-tactics-over-nord-stream-2/ …

This will probably kill Gazproms chances of ever getting it through the EP approval process....

OUTLAW 09
02-25-2016, 12:15 PM
Russians still fighting/dying in Donbass. @OSCE_SMM spots Cargo 200 (code for Russian KIA casualties) van xing in/out of Russia.
http://www.osce.org/om/224056

Krasnohorivka
12:53 Heavy explosion
13:32 Shooting

OUTLAW 09
02-25-2016, 02:54 PM
Now Russia even tells the Dutch how to conduct Dutch elections......


MFA Russia ✔ @mfa_russia
#Zakharova: We have some questions about the Dutch Government's “Action Strategy” aimed at influencing the outcome of #EU-Ukraine referendum

Reference the Russian shot down of MH17....

Eliot Higgins @EliotHiggins
The Dutch Safety Board confirms yet again that the @mod_russia lied when it said a military jet was close to #MH17
pic.twitter.com/NHz3CVFxNW

OUTLAW 09
02-25-2016, 02:59 PM
Peskov lost for words about WSJ report, which suggests that US banks and companies should not buy Russian debt.
http://ren.tv/novosti/2016-02-25/sovety-amerikanskim-bankam-ne-pokupat-rossiyskie-obligacii-v-kremle-schitayut …

U.S. Said to Discourage Banks From Helping Russia Sell Debt
http://bloom.bg/1XOfJPc

The German MSM BILD strike fears into the hearts of the Russian FM...countering Russian info warfare n their front page has become a specialty of theirs lately.

MFA Russia ✔ @mfa_russia
#Zakharova: Strangely, but our German colleagues do not regard the leading German media anti-Russian rhetoric as biased

MFA Russia ✔ @mfa_russia
#Zakharova:We're perplexed by German officials saying that activities of Channel One Russia are allegedly “biased”
pic.twitter.com/joOETabTIS

OUTLAW 09
02-25-2016, 03:50 PM
Putin’s plan to federalize Ukraine
http://euromaidanpress.com/2016/02/25/putins-plan-to-federalize-ukraine/ …
pic.twitter.com/WkyQW5HWjC

OUTLAW 09
02-25-2016, 05:13 PM
Ukraine Claims Win In Zaytsevo Battle While Russian-Backed Forces Pull Back From Shirokino
http://www.interpretermag.com/day-738/#12676 pic.twitter.com/pW0IbzPTqv

OUTLAW 09
02-25-2016, 05:37 PM
Heavy Russian shellings and ground fighting have started again this evening along the front line....

18:37 #Novhorodske @subwayriwer I didn't see an UAV long time. Now it has flown from #Skorovata to #Fenolna

18:46 #Horlivka [pro-RU source] @phoenix_dnr Landings in the north. More active for now. War, in short

OUTLAW 09
02-25-2016, 05:39 PM
In the Absence of American Leadership, #Germany Steps in to Engage with #Russia—at the EU’s Peril
http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/in-the-absence-of-american-leadership-germany-steps-in-to-engage-with-russia-at-the-eu-s-peril#.Vs84F5Mqg1E.twitter …

OUTLAW 09
02-26-2016, 07:31 AM
Reference the Russian shot down of MH17.....

Eliot Higgins @EliotHiggins

The @mod_russia still refuses to confirm which blogs it claims debunks the work of @Bellingcat on #MH17, why so shy?

OUTLAW 09
02-26-2016, 07:33 AM
Heavy Russian shellings and ground fighting have started again this evening along the front line....

18:37 #Novhorodske @subwayriwer I didn't see an UAV long time. Now it has flown from #Skorovata to #Fenolna

18:46 #Horlivka [pro-RU source] @phoenix_dnr Landings in the north. More active for now. War, in short

UAF this morning...Russians massing for a general offensive across the entire front line.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDjsdshGN-Y …

Rus proxies fired upon Ukr troops 10 times btwn 6pm / this am. Used an IFV nr Krasnohorivka, decreased intensity after midnight - ATO Staff

OUTLAW 09
02-26-2016, 07:35 AM
NATO Supreme Allied Commander: "Russia 'Existential Threat' To West. Via @RFERL
http://www.rferl.org/content/nato-breedlove-russia-existential-threat/27574037.html …
pic.twitter.com/pdzBtKlMs0

OUTLAW 09
02-26-2016, 07:38 AM
Vadym Krypychenko was sure he was going to die. @nolanwpeterson tells the incredible story of freed Ukrainian POW
http://dailysign.al/21uLXRS

OUTLAW 09
02-26-2016, 10:31 AM
Why #Ukraine is reluctant to re-integrate #separatist-controlled areas of #Donbass?
http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/blog/alexander-j-motyl/why-reintegrating-donbas-suicide-ukraine …

In Lisichansk SBU detained 2 saboteurs who blew up the bridge over Siversky Donets in 2014 ��✌ https://twitter.com/ServiceSsu/status/703148385386147840 …

OUTLAW 09
02-26-2016, 11:05 AM
One UAF killed in combat yesterday even though the Russian attacks were low...26 for the days.....due to a heavy shelling attack.

GPU confiscates record ammo&weapon arsenal, preventing its bringing in Kyiv
http://www.gp.gov.ua/ua/news.html?_m=publications&_c=view&_t=rec&id=169912 …
pic.twitter.com/5Z2MPL5xmV

ATO spokesperson: In Kharkiv region, SBU detained a saboteur who mined a railway bridge at the railroad section Pavlohrad – Lozova

IMPORTANT.......Russian info war hard at work.....
Look how #Russia is modifying history of #Ukraine: Compare Left in red (Russian fake) and Right (true history).
pic.twitter.com/XJUWK3Ezby

Col. Andriy Lysenko: Mariupol sector: Maryinka remains an epicenter of hostilities; enemy shelled UA positions near Shyrokyne

ATO spox: In the western outskirts of Donetsk, enemy fired at UA positions with BMP armaments & mortars near Krasnohorivka

Col. Andriy Lysenko: enemy snipers were active near Novhorodske

Col. Lysenko: Militants were rather active in the Horlivka outskirts: mortars were used near Zaitseve & Mayorsk

ATO spokesperson: Donetsk sector: near Luhanske village, militants shelled UA positions with mortars for an hour

Col. Andriy Lysenko: Luhansk sector: militants remain calm and inactive

OUTLAW 09
02-26-2016, 11:28 AM
UAF checkpoint #29 is under massive RU shelling now.
https://twitter.com/Guderian_Xaba/status/703174289604812800 …

Russia continues supplying forces in #Ukraine with military equipment.
http://en.censor.net.ua/n375593 @newsburko PHOTOS
pic.twitter.com/uqFUzKg5Hy

Russian shellings and ground attacks are starting now along key front line positions....
VK
#Maryinka 13:13 - BOOMs.
#Krasnohorivka 13:05 - Shooting.
https://twitter.com/666_mancer/status/703177160673128448 …

OUTLAW 09
02-26-2016, 01:11 PM
Why #Ukraine is reluctant to re-integrate #separatist-controlled areas of #Donbass? [/B]
http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/blog/alexander-j-motyl/why-reintegrating-donbas-suicide-ukraine …



Zakharchenko says on video: double pensions from 'DNR' & #Ukraine help #Putin's proxies to weaken, defeat Ukraine http://m.ostro.org/general/society/news/493727/ …

Austrian Meinl Bank (and other 3 European banks) siphoning fr Ukraine at least 200 mln EUR to offshore companies.
pic.twitter.com/zhgsCTtxvb

Russia's propaganda machine (state media) working overtime to subvert EU, push for #Brexit
http://mashable.com/2016/02/26/russia-europe-brexit/#t5_IqB9hHgqD … pic.twitter.com/5QBZ2TVn3J

EU Mythbusters ✔ @EUvsDisinfo
"Honestly, this story changed something inside me": Emotion in RU public diplomacy. Read on:
http://eepurl.com/bRUdub
pic.twitter.com/u5dWVFQCrH

OUTLAW 09
02-26-2016, 02:02 PM
The Daily Beast: Remember that war in Ukraine? They're still fighting it
http://www.unian.info/war/1276706-the-daily-beast-remember-that-war-in-ukraine-theyre-still-fighting-it.html …
pic.twitter.com/VAKhUZZnIP


Kremlin Trolls @KremlinTrolls

#TrollTactics: Provocation
Challenge intel expert
Get rebuffed
Claim expert is deceitful to try & discredit
Play victim as diversion tactic

OUTLAW 09
02-26-2016, 06:28 PM
Leader of the Russian occupied LNR claims the following.........

Plotnitsky: "We are the territory of the Russian Federation".
https://twitter.com/IANovorossia/status/703255766183100416 …

"Debaltseve" film about fearless Ukrainian heroes now with the English subtitles
http://youtu.be/SIzED67nk-E
Really worth watching

Saboteurs who blew up the bridge over Siversky Donets in 2014 detained by SSU.
http://novosti.dn.ua/details/270252/
pic.twitter.com/kePrbA4564

OUTLAW 09
02-27-2016, 08:49 AM
After a relative...emphasis on "relative" quiet night...shellings and ground attacks resumed at around 10am this morning.......

Rus proxies fired upon Ukr troops in Donetsk, Mariupol sectors over night. Lowered attacks intensity after midnight https://www.facebook.com/ato.news/posts/1150479004962904 …

Donetsk 10:25
"Mirnyi - periodically booms powerfully"
"Budionnovsky also hears"
"DK 21 Per. hearing heavy salvos"
https://twitter.com/olgarjpthju/status/703498862678437888 …

#Makiivka 10:35
"Center - periodically hearing single heavy (salvos)"
https://twitter.com/olgarjpthju/status/703499152890707968 …

Makiivka 10:26AM
Sometimes hear heavy BOOMs far away, south-western direction.
https://twitter.com/VasyaMakeevskiy/status/703496450110525440 …

If this steady drumbeat keeps up...will be a rather long day and night....

OUTLAW 09
02-27-2016, 09:58 AM
Updated East of #Mariupol #map after #Ukraine takes control of #Shyrokyne. pic.twitter.com/Xe012MUOUm

OUTLAW 09
02-27-2016, 11:15 AM
After a relative...emphasis on "relative" quiet night...shellings and ground attacks resumed at around 10am this morning.......

Rus proxies fired upon Ukr troops in Donetsk, Mariupol sectors over night. Lowered attacks intensity after midnight https://www.facebook.com/ato.news/posts/1150479004962904 …

Donetsk 10:25
"Mirnyi - periodically booms powerfully"
"Budionnovsky also hears"
"DK 21 Per. hearing heavy salvos"
https://twitter.com/olgarjpthju/status/703498862678437888 …

#Makiivka 10:35
"Center - periodically hearing single heavy (salvos)"
https://twitter.com/olgarjpthju/status/703499152890707968 …

Makiivka 10:26AM
Sometimes hear heavy BOOMs far away, south-western direction.
https://twitter.com/VasyaMakeevskiy/status/703496450110525440 …

If this steady drumbeat keeps up...will be a rather long day and night....

10:23 #Donetsk @666_mancer [zello] "At #Mitnyi
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=47.958828&lon=37.770127&z=17&m=b&show=/18000149/ …] sound is so powerful, that hous jumps" "#Bosse is shuddering to"

11:26 #Donetsk @huyoviynovoros "it booms now in the airport area, then tow/ #Pisky, then #Krasnohorivka, orcs are having fun"

11:40 #Donetsk @huyoviynovoros Something blew up, car alarms jarred

11:40 #Makiivka @AlexDobrov666 Powerful explosion wave

11:40 #Avdiivka @owl_ok What has it been? Apparently no sound, but explosion wave has been powerful

OUTLAW 09
02-27-2016, 02:29 PM
Latitude 67N SIGINT @Sigint67n
RUAF VHF traffic in baltic sea. Transport plane (IL76/AN26) in/out Kaliningrad?

SBU found cache with RPG grenades in Severodonetsk
http://liveuamap.com/en/2016/27-february-sbu-found-cache-with-rpg-grenades-in-severodonetsk …
pic.twitter.com/yf4TaU798a via @ServiceSsu

Nato warned of vulnerability to Moscow in eastern Europe -
http://FT.com
http://on.ft.com/1paeWMT

OUTLAW 09
02-27-2016, 07:03 PM
Russian info war hard at work......

Russia 24:Persecuted in #Ukraine for speaking Russian, Jewish family flees to #Israel;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUiTJl-JyrM …
pic.twitter.com/jtLik8ehFh


Reality: Russian-speaking Israeli/#IDF vet fighting for #Ukraine since May '14.
pic.twitter.com/gJreoJRSFw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYVRxBn-9bA …

OUTLAW 09
02-28-2016, 06:29 PM
Ukrainian-held Krasnohorivka survives 40 enemy attacks overnight - read on -
http://uatoday.tv http://uatoday.tv/politics/ukrainian-held-krasnohorivka-survives-40-enemy-attacks-overnight-600529.html …

Russia strengthens its units in Donbas – Defense Ministry
http://en.censor.net.ua/n376644

Terrorists shelled Ukrainian checkpoint at Zolote with mortars - State Border Guard Service
http://en.censor.net.ua/n376650

OUTLAW 09
02-29-2016, 08:16 AM
Anyone in the Obama WH including Kerry honestly think....the Ukrainian ceasefire "is largely holding"...if so maybe a doctors visit might be in order.....


BUT WAIT...that is the same term they use to describe the constant Assad/Russian total violation of the Russian/US CoH agreement....

Russian proxies attack ATO troops 71 times in last day
http://www.unian.info/war/1277976-russian-proxies-attack-ato-troops-71-times-in-last-day.html …
pic.twitter.com/v8rBGgpntt

ATO: 71 RU attacks yday icl. w 82-mm and 120-mm mortars at Avdiivka, Zaitsevo, Mayorsk, Krasnohorivka, Luhanske, Boguslavska, Novozvanivka.

OUTLAW 09
02-29-2016, 08:33 AM
Anyone in the Obama WH including Kerry honestly think....the Ukrainian ceasefire "is largely holding"...if so maybe a doctors visit might be in order.....


BUT WAIT...that is the same term they use to describe the constant Assad/Russian total violation of the Russian/US CoH agreement....

Russian proxies attack ATO troops 71 times in last day
http://www.unian.info/war/1277976-russian-proxies-attack-ato-troops-71-times-in-last-day.html …
pic.twitter.com/v8rBGgpntt

ATO: 71 RU attacks yday icl. w 82-mm and 120-mm mortars at Avdiivka, Zaitsevo, Mayorsk, Krasnohorivka, Luhanske, Boguslavska, Novozvanivka.

Does not quite match the Russian reality in Donbas or Syria does it.....

Kremlin propaganda now has reverted to an old Soviet slogan. "We are in favor of peace". Aren't we all...
pic.twitter.com/Oqx9t1Qk21

OUTLAW 09
02-29-2016, 09:37 AM
Russian shellings and ground attacks have started early today far earlier than normal.......if this pace keeps up we will be in the 60-80 attack ranges again as was yesterday which was a strange attack pattern...71 attacks and after midnight silence.....

Map. Situation in eastern #Ukraine, February 29, 2016, 00:00 EET
pic.twitter.com/izcYeuytgp

OUTLAW 09
02-29-2016, 10:03 AM
What can I say ..........?

Russia's Prosecutor General asked to investigate US website TripAdvisor for calling Crimea part of Ukraine
http://www.kommersant.ru/doc/2925799

OUTLAW 09
02-29-2016, 02:26 PM
SBU: Krasnov has to carry out attacks in Kherson region in order to provoke the attack of Russians
http://liveuamap.com/en/2016/29-february-sbu-krasnov-on-the-instructions-of-the-fsb-was … via @ServiceSsu

SBU on detention of Krasnov and Shelest - they were detained after set up a cache of C4
http://liveuamap.com/en/2016/29-february-sbu-on-the-detention-of-krasnov-and-shelest- …
pic.twitter.com/vNIJmfhMUW

One Ukrainian Soldier Killed, Another Captured On Saturday After Truck Struck Landmine
http://www.interpretermag.com/day-742/#12713

OUTLAW 09
02-29-2016, 05:39 PM
http://ukraineunderattack.org/en/58217-intelligence-gave-names-of-russian-servicemen-killed-in-donbas-yesterday.html

Intelligence Gave Names Of Russian Servicemen Killed In Donbas Yesterday

29.02 13:25



Yesterday, on February 28, two Russian soldiers were killed and three wounded near Krasnohorivka.

This was reported by the Main directorate of intelligence of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine.

On February 28, two Russian soldiers serving as a part of the 1st Army Corps were killed near Krasnohorivka. Three more Russian servicemen were wounded.
The name of one of the killed soldiers was established. This is senior lieutenant Andriy Krasnoschokov. Another soldier’s name is Dedash Serhiy Yuriyovych. He was killed as a result of lack of responsible handling of explosive devices near Sosnivske where he was engaged in mining of a field as a part of the 9th special motorized infantry regiment. One more Russian serviceman, Honcharev Dmytro Oleksandrovych, was heavily wounded as a result of pro-Russian militants’ attack.

Also, the intelligence reports new cases of transferring of Ukrainian property to the Russian Federation.

As previously reported, Russian General ordered to strengthen militants’ fortifications in Mariupol sector.

OUTLAW 09
02-29-2016, 05:47 PM
Since the beginning of the aggression over 2600 Ukrainian servicemen have been killed and more than 9000 wounded.

In the 2 months of 2016 Ukrainian positions have been shelled over 2500 times leaving 12 Ukrainian servicemen killed & more than 150 wounded

Russia not in complaince with the release of POWs as part of Minsk 2......
Russia & proxies obstruct releasing 130 + Ua hostages, subject them to inhuman treatment & tortures & threaten them with capital punishment.

OUTLAW 09
02-29-2016, 06:35 PM
'Creeping Occupation': Militants plan village takeover in eastern Ukraine - Luhansk Gov
http://24today.net/open/635573

"Russia and [#Assad] consider the truce as a military tactic, not as a preparatory measure for a political solution" http://wpo.st/a1rG1

EXACTLY as they did with the Minsk 2 Agreement AND yet Obama and Kerry never seem to learn..........

OUTLAW 09
02-29-2016, 08:04 PM
Russian citizens who fought in Ukraine complain of being abandoned by Putin but admit getting Kremlin weapons
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/29/ukraine-russia-fighters-donbass …

OUTLAW 09
03-01-2016, 08:26 AM
This comes from a Russia that itself has not complied with a single point of the 11 points of the Minsk 2 agreement.....maybe Russia should start there first before critiquing Ukraine.......Russia has not even exchanged the POWs as they were required to within two weeks after signing Minsk 2..and we are a year later and there still are over 130plus POWs not exchanged....

MFA Russia ✔ @mfa_russia
Churkin:Since Complex of Measures was signed,it's important to demand that Kiev implement it
http://tass.ru/en/politics/859808 …
pic.twitter.com/9pTNl9p31W

OUTLAW 09
03-01-2016, 08:33 AM
This comes from a Russia that itself has not complied with a single point of the 11 points of the Minsk 2 agreement.....maybe Russia should start there first before critiquing Ukraine.......Russia has not even exchanged the POWs as they were required to within two weeks after signing Minsk 2..and we are a year later and there still are over 130plus POWs not exchanged....

MFA Russia ✔ @mfa_russia
Churkin:Since Complex of Measures was signed,it's important to demand that Kiev implement it
http://tass.ru/en/politics/859808 …
pic.twitter.com/9pTNl9p31W

BUT WAIT..two points of Minsk 2 is the pulling out of Russian and her mercenary troops out of Ukraine.....AND complying with a true ceasefire....

ATO reported 54 ceasefire violations yesterday in #Donbas, RU forces shelled with 82-mm mortars #Krasnohorivka and 120-mm mortars #Nevelske.

OUTLAW 09
03-01-2016, 08:36 AM
Russian military studies ways use 'soft power' to combat 'color revolutions'
http://kommersant.ru/doc/2927168

OUTLAW 09
03-01-2016, 08:58 AM
The power of the Russian info warfare vs The Daily Beast......need to read this....

Kremlin tried to silence the center that produced this must read report. #OperationBrotherlyPeoples
http://thebea.st/1HEdCU2

OUTLAW 09
03-01-2016, 09:08 AM
Reference Russian shot down of MH17......

bellingcat @bellingcat

Sat imagery shows the area where the Russian MoD said Ukrainian Buks were parked on July 17
https://www.facebook.com/bellingcat/videos/vb.223038601217932/497380220450434/?type=2&theater …


bellingcat @bellingcat

New video shows the low-loader that transported the #MH17 Buk, filmed after July in Snizhne
https://www.facebook.com/bellingcat/videos/vb.223038601217932/497141670474289/?type=2&theater …

OUTLAW 09
03-01-2016, 01:37 PM
News
88 Ukr. soldiers were killed and injured in ongoing (pro-)#Russian attacks in eastern #Ukraine in February.

BreakingNews
(Pro-)#Russian mine attack on Ukrainian army vehicle near Novotoshkovskoe kills 3 soldiers, wounds 2 more.

OUTLAW 09
03-01-2016, 02:35 PM
The Russians have not complied with a single and I mean single point of the Minsk 2 agreement and yet the West wants Ukraine to conduct elections in the Russian occupied zone....JUST as Assad claims he is going to hold elections in the his controlled regions on 13 April....

Very similar Russian actions in these two wars.....

http://www.rferl.org/content/daily-vertical-gun-to-ukraines-head-transcript/27582383.html

The Daily Vertical: The Gun To Ukraine's Head (Transcript)

March 01, 2016


So, don't look now, but while we were all watching Syria, Moscow has stepped up its aggression in Ukraine.

Pro-Moscow separatists have increased their attacks this week near Luhansk and have intensified their shelling of four villages near the front lines in the Donetsk region.

The separatists have also reportedly moved 88 tanks up to the cease-fire line near Debaltseve.

It's all part of Moscow's classic bait-and-switch tactics and they appear to be working.

Instead of focusing on the renewed Russian aggression, the French and German foreign ministers last week chose to lecture Ukraine about its failure to pass an electoral law for the separatist-held territories.

And some Western officials have indicated that sanctions against Moscow will not be automatically extended this summer.

A little bit of perspective here.

In the year since the Minsk cease-fire, nearly 400 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed, 1,500 have been wounded, and Kyiv has lost several hundred square kilometers of territory.

So, basically, Ukraine is essentially being asked to prepare for an election in the separatist-held areas of Donbas with a gun to its head.

And Kyiv's reluctance to do so is repeatedly being equated with Moscow's repeated violations of the Minsk cease-fire on the battlefield.

This is just the kind of false equivalence that Moscow has been counting on from distracted Western leaders.

OUTLAW 09
03-01-2016, 03:02 PM
The Russians have not complied with a single and I mean single point of the Minsk 2 agreement and yet the West wants Ukraine to conduct elections in the Russian occupied zone....JUST as Assad claims he is going to hold elections in the his controlled regions on 13 April....

Very similar Russian actions in these two wars.....

http://www.rferl.org/content/daily-vertical-gun-to-ukraines-head-transcript/27582383.html

The Daily Vertical: The Gun To Ukraine's Head (Transcript)

March 01, 2016

And this is Russian fulfilling the Minsk 2 agreement..think again.......

From Russia through the border crossing point "Novoazovsk" came a column of military equipment http://www.mariupol.tv/news/war/mariupol/9372/iz_rossii_cherez_punkt_propuska_novoazovsk_zashla_ kolonna_voennoj_tehniki.html …

OUTLAW 09
03-01-2016, 03:15 PM
Constant Russian shellings and ground attacks all day long.....recent reports came in of a very large explosion in one area of fighting and felt in multiple towns......

OUTLAW 09
03-01-2016, 05:06 PM
Constant Russian shellings and ground attacks all day long.....recent reports came in of a very large explosion in one area of fighting and felt in multiple towns......

Colonel Motuzyanyk: Militants attack 35 times in the Donetsk sector and 19 times in Mariupol sector yesterday
http://uacrisis.org/40751-oleksandr-motuzyanik-71 …

18:01 #Novhorodske @subwayriwer #Troitske-#Novoselivka area is under heavy shelling [http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=48.291760&lon=37.897682&z=13&m=b …]
pic.twitter.com/scG0r2JzaS

[as for recent massive explosion] @winslow75 #Novohrodivka has also heard it
[I've marked where it was heard:]
pic.twitter.com/i0Ucs323gi

More explosions near #Pesky, #Donetsk.
https://twitter.com/amdh2012/status/704679442212376577 …

Heavy Fighting Reported In Donetsk Area This Afternoon
http://bit.ly/216J8Er
pic.twitter.com/rtTyWCZIqq

OUTLAW 09
03-01-2016, 06:43 PM
U.S European Command ✔ @US_EUCOM

.@PMBreedlove: Russia uses “snap” exercises to mask real deployments, and to desensitize us to that possibility.

OUTLAW 09
03-01-2016, 07:10 PM
Stop Fake @StopFakingNews

Putin allying with Europe's far right not just to change European policies but to change Europe
http://www.stopfake.org/en/putin-allying-with-europe-s-far-right-not-just-to-change-european-policies-but-to-change-europe-eidman-says/ …

OUTLAW 09
03-02-2016, 06:40 AM
Instead of focusing on renewed #Russia'n aggression, #France's & #Germany's #MFAs lecture #Ukraine: @PowerVertical.
http://www.rferl.mobi/a/daily-vertical-gun-to-ukraines-head-transcript/27582383.html …

OUTLAW 09
03-02-2016, 02:51 PM
BreakingNews
17 Ukrainian soldiers got killed or wounded on the first day of March 2016 in (pro)-#Russian attacks
3 KIA
14 WIA

OUTLAW 09
03-02-2016, 04:17 PM
BreakingNews
17 Ukrainian soldiers got killed or wounded on the first day of March 2016 in (pro)-#Russian attacks
3 KIA
14 WIA

16:03 #Marinka UA positions @missi8111 There has been a bettle for more than 1hr - AGL, RPG etc... ceased as of now

15:49 #Donetsk @olendzski
#Petrovka: listening to #Trudovski direction

15:49 #Makiivka @olendzski
#Makiivka #Zapadna[=http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=48.025754&lon=37.929053&z=15&m=b&show=/6395295 …] listening periodically
#Gladkovka: 5min ago panes clinked

15:13 #Donetsk @666_mancer [zello] It rumbles pretty strongly, smwh in the airport area, maybe #Oktyabrsky. Smth lands, not light ones

OUTLAW 09
03-02-2016, 04:19 PM
NATO Summits ✔ @NATOsummits

Russian A2/AD systems not only present in the Kaliningrad Oblast, Crimea & Syria. Pay attention to the High North.
pic.twitter.com/NrtLLtbRdq

OUTLAW 09
03-02-2016, 04:50 PM
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-ukraine-crisis-challenges-idUSKCN0W41YS

Wed Mar 2, 2016 10:28am EST

Gloom deepens over Ukraine peace deal before Paris meeting


For months, as progress in implementing the Minsk peace deal for eastern Ukraine stalled, its architects, Germany and France, held out hope that with time and carefully calibrated pressure on Kiev and Moscow, the agreement could be pushed back on track.

But since a joint visit by the German and French foreign ministers to Ukraine's capital last week, a gloomier view has taken hold: that political dysfunction in Kiev has all but doomed the chances of it delivering on its own commitments under the peace agreement.

Against that backdrop and a rise in ceasefire violations in the east, where Ukrainian government forces are faced off against pro-Russian rebels, ministers from Germany, France, Russia and Ukraine meet in Paris on Thursday to discuss Minsk.

One of the meeting's main goals is to tackle what is now seen in many European capitals as the biggest hurdle to the peace deal -- Kiev's failure to push through an election law for the Donbass region of eastern Ukraine that would set the stage for a vote there by mid-year.

After barely surviving a no-confidence motion last month, Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk is seen as too weak to deliver. And yet there are few viable alternatives to Yatseniuk.

"At some point you have to ask yourself, how can it go on like this?" a senior German official said of Minsk, which was hammered out a year ago in marathon talks in the Belarus capital between Germany's Angela Merkel, France's Francois Hollande, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and Russian President Vladmir Putin.

The election law was always going to be a tough sell domestically. There is little appetite in Ukraine to give Donbass more autonomy and hold elections there while its soldiers are being killed every week.

"It's all extremely fragile," a senior French official added, stressing the importance of the Paris meeting on Thursday.

For now, officials say, the goal is to keep Minsk on life support even if it looks dead.

Were they to openly admit failure, a second German official said, violence could spiral, with pro-Russian separatists running amok and renewing their push for Mariupol, a strategic port city in the east that, if captured by the rebels, could help them carve out a land corridor to Russia-annexed Crimea.

"It's a chaotic picture," the second German official acknowledged. "From a sequencing point of view you can't get around the fact that the election law needs to be passed. Kiev points to the security situation in the east as an excuse but we have told them it can't be. They need to deliver."


SANCTIONS

The other big concern is a breakdown of the European Union's consensus on sanctions imposed on Russia over the Ukraine crisis amid an increasingly poisonous atmosphere in the bloc, aggravated by divisions over the refugee crisis.

The commander of U.S. troops in Europe, Air-Force General Philip Breedlove, pointed a finger at Russia when he said on Tuesday violence in eastern Ukraine had increased significantly, with 71 attacks in 24 hours and 450 attacks over the past week.

"I believe that Russia will dial up and down the pressure along the line of contact to keep Kiev under pressure to meet their parts of the (Minsk) agreements first," he said.

Russia says it is not backing the rebels militarily while the rebels themselves blame Kiev for the violations. The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe says neither side has pulled heavy weapons back as required.

Putin can make the case to sympathetic countries in central Europe that Russia has broadly delivered on its side of the Minsk bargain and therefore sanctions should be eased when they expire in July.

Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban, seen as close to Putin, fired a first shot in the looming fight this week, saying the EU must have a "serious debate" about Russia sanctions in the months ahead. He rejected the idea of an automatic extension.

Italy, which has significant economic ties to Russia and pushed back against a rollover of the sanctions in January, is also expected to put up a fight.

Even in Germany, senior politicians like Economy Minister Sigmar Gabriel and Bavarian Premier Horst Seehofer have called for an easing of the sanctions, arguing that this may be the best way to win Russian cooperation in Syria.

Officials in the chancellery and foreign ministry reject the idea of a quid pro quo, saying the two conflicts must be dealt with in isolation.

But Ukrainian officials are clearly nervous.

"Europe is playing chess, but Russia is playing poker," Yehor Bozhok, Ukraine's acting ambassador to NATO, told Reuters. "Russia has no genuine will to conduct negotiations on Minsk. Any deal will only be achieved under pressure of sanctions."


Interesting is the simple fact that the West first the US and now the Germans are attempting to pressure Ukraine back into the Russian sphere of influence by forcing unilateral appeasement moves by Ukraine in exchange for not a single point in Minsk 2 being implemented by Russia........

With Russian attacks averaging 40-80 per day...not sure when the Ukrainians say if is impossible to hold free and fair elections due to mercenary violence the Germans say that is an "excuse"........

OUTLAW 09
03-02-2016, 06:09 PM
Dispatch From #Horlivka: Heavy gunfire, reports of Russian servicemen joining combat
http://uatoday.tv/politics/dispatch-from-horlivka-heavy-gunfire-reports-of-russian-servicemen-joining-combat-602446.html …

Donetsk front lines active now at: #Spartak, airport, #Pisky, #Optyne, #Maryinka, Trudovska

17:43 #Donetsk @tov_sobakin [ok] "#Lidiivka: heard loudly, very alarmingly" "#Abakumova: sounds very loudly" "#Azotnyi can hear"

17:39 #Donetsk @902Albi Salvos all day... now like hitting #Pisky dir'n
18:58 Pounding doesn't stop - MGs, mortars, smtms smth heavy joins

Donetsk-#Makiivka right now and last hour: mil hardware on move, more than usually

18:56 #Donetsk @old_dn Arty sounds are heard from all hotspots - W and NW. What's happening there? Offensive or artillery ping-pong?

#Marinka @hyeva_maryinka [vk]
18:37 Not intensively, but they fire, like AGL and shoot a bit
18:45 mortar joined, skirmish intensifies

[vk ]@hyeva_maryinka
18:52 #Krasnohorivka: like ongoing battle tow/#Marinka, pretty loud there

18:53 #Novhorodske @subwayriwer Firing in #Verknyotoretske area, more or less intense, lasts since I mentioned it last time. Smtms rollingly

Horlivka - sounds of shelling, loud
https://twitter.com/ahab9889/status/705078223185580032 …

OUTLAW 09
03-02-2016, 06:10 PM
Russia uses agents to block church transfers to #Kyiv #Patriarchate and undermine Ukrainian statehood.
http://euromaidanpress.com/2016/03/02/ukraine-and-the-orthodox-taliban/ …

OUTLAW 09
03-02-2016, 06:33 PM
Dispatch From #Horlivka: Heavy gunfire, reports of Russian servicemen joining combat
http://uatoday.tv/politics/dispatch-from-horlivka-heavy-gunfire-reports-of-russian-servicemen-joining-combat-602446.html …

Donetsk front lines active now at: #Spartak, airport, #Pisky, #Optyne, #Maryinka, Trudovska

17:43 #Donetsk @tov_sobakin [ok] "#Lidiivka: heard loudly, very alarmingly" "#Abakumova: sounds very loudly" "#Azotnyi can hear"

17:39 #Donetsk @902Albi Salvos all day... now like hitting #Pisky dir'n
18:58 Pounding doesn't stop - MGs, mortars, smtms smth heavy joins

Donetsk-#Makiivka right now and last hour: mil hardware on move, more than usually

18:56 #Donetsk @old_dn Arty sounds are heard from all hotspots - W and NW. What's happening there? Offensive or artillery ping-pong?

#Marinka @hyeva_maryinka [vk]
18:37 Not intensively, but they fire, like AGL and shoot a bit
18:45 mortar joined, skirmish intensifies

[vk ]@hyeva_maryinka
18:52 #Krasnohorivka: like ongoing battle tow/#Marinka, pretty loud there

18:53 #Novhorodske @subwayriwer Firing in #Verknyotoretske area, more or less intense, lasts since I mentioned it last time. Smtms rollingly

Horlivka - sounds of shelling, loud
https://twitter.com/ahab9889/status/705078223185580032 …

Russia deploys military equipment and special forces to #Donbas - Ukraine intel
http://stfi.re/bayerb pic.twitter.com/SpxKAXVpaU

New units of #Russian special forces have arrived in #Donbass - #Ukrainian intelligence ...
http://ukrainiancrusade.blogspot.com/2016/03/new-units-of-russian-special-forces.html …
pic.twitter.com/PC9nASf7pW

18:50 #Donetsk @Red_Pinguin_ Hardware roar along bypass, #Obyednanyi area, not less than 10-15 items
19:05 ...moves like tow/#Shyrokyne

18:42 #Krasnohorivka @hyeva_maryinka [vk] a boom and small arms

[vk ]@hyeva_maryinka
18:52 #Krasnohorivka: like ongoing battle tow/#Marinka, pretty loud there

19:12 #Horlivka @ahab9889 #Rtutnyi-#Besarabka sound loudly

19:10 #Donetsk @UKara4en Flashes and periodic infrequent noise comes from #Trudovski direction

18:57 #Donetsk @666_mancer [fb] non-stop fr/DW, various calibres, #Oleksandrivka direction sounds powerfully

18:39 #Makiivka @666_mancer [fb] Strong roar heard fr/#Makiivka route, tracked ones tow/#Donetsk, will be there soon, by sound, long column

18:55 #Donetsk @olgarjpthju
#Smolyanka: Serious battle smwh. Can hear lots of heavies, MGs sounds
#Bakiny: rumble
#Shakhtarska Sq: N's loud

OUTLAW 09
03-02-2016, 07:11 PM
19:24 #Donetsk @huyoviynovoros I returned home, and fxxxxxxed-up here. #Pisky,#Krasnohorivka,#Marinka - all rumble&explode, feels like armageddon

19:22 #Debaltseve @vkusniyapelsin Noisy outside, it rumbles again. If I'm not mistaken, again #Luhvynove and #Myronivka directions

19:21 #Horlivka @ahab9889 It has boomed, dunno what

19:19 #Marinka UA positions @missi8111 at 18:38 bedlam resumed, still ongoing

19:19 #Stakhanov @vovksamotniy Artillery rumbles towards #Svitlodarsk

19:16 #Donetsk @AkaDON12 Serious battle goes on smwh at #Lidiivka - PKT, KPVT and about 120mm, by sound. For about 30 min so far

19:16 #Donetsk @TaylerRid Front #airport-#Spartak-#Pisky sprang to life. Fighting all day with pauses

19:31 #Stakhanov @vovksamotniy noisy in Stakhanov, small arms and artillery smwh nearby

OUTLAW 09
03-02-2016, 07:12 PM
19:24 #Donetsk @huyoviynovoros I returned home, and fxxxxxxed-up here. #Pisky,#Krasnohorivka,#Marinka - all rumble&explode, feels like armageddon

19:22 #Debaltseve @vkusniyapelsin Noisy outside, it rumbles again. If I'm not mistaken, again #Luhvynove and #Myronivka directions

19:21 #Horlivka @ahab9889 It has boomed, dunno what

19:19 #Marinka UA positions @missi8111 at 18:38 bedlam resumed, still ongoing

19:19 #Stakhanov @vovksamotniy Artillery rumbles towards #Svitlodarsk

19:16 #Donetsk @AkaDON12 Serious battle goes on smwh at #Lidiivka - PKT, KPVT and about 120mm, by sound. For about 30 min so far

19:16 #Donetsk @TaylerRid Front #airport-#Spartak-#Pisky sprang to life. Fighting all day with pauses

19:31 #Stakhanov @vovksamotniy noisy in Stakhanov, small arms and artillery smwh nearby

19:41 #Avdiivka @VadyXaXa In south #Donetsk they are firing with everything they have

OUTLAW 09
03-02-2016, 07:17 PM
Serious and extremely heavy Russian shellings and even heavier ground attacks all along the front line tonight...at this pace the attack numbers will be between 80-100.

In some areas it appears to be a serious ground offensive in progress.....

OUTLAW 09
03-02-2016, 07:37 PM
Serious and extremely heavy Russian shellings and even heavier ground attacks all along the front line tonight...at this pace the attack numbers will be between 80-100.

In some areas it appears to be a serious ground offensive in progress.....


19:44 #Donetsk @AlfaNubovsky The strongest [most intense?] rumble is behind #Putilovka, probably at #Spartak, everything they have

Mariupol 21:23
BOOMs very loudly - #Lebedinske-#Vodyane area.
https://twitter.com/sviritat/status/705111225445851138 …

@nektonh @nektonh yes, they conducted fire fr/#Olenivka tow/#Slavne-#Novomykhaylivka
20:26 #Stepne @Darren_Aro fired there afternoon too

3 #ATO soldiers were taken to #Dnipropetrovsk hospital pic.twitter.com/wHdtHMrthJ
http://liveuamap.com/en/2016/2-march-3-ato-soldiers-were-taken-to-dnipropetrovsk-hospital …

Fighting near Yasinuvata
http://liveuamap.com/en/2016/2-march-fighting-near-yasinuvata …

OSCE recorded heavy artillery/mortar shelling near Zaichenko
pic.twitter.com/zuWftRUxrt
http://liveuamap.com/en/2016/2-march-osce-recorded-heavy-artillerymortar-shelling-near …

20:00 @vladicvp
#Donetsk listens to #Pisky, #Spartak, #airport for half day
#Makiivka, #Debaltseve listening
#Krasnyi_Pakhar: very close

OUTLAW 09
03-03-2016, 05:18 AM
ATO press center reported 62 RU attacks on UAF positions in #Donbas y/day. There was a clash with enemy DRG near Novotroitske, repelled.

Militants shelled Talakivka and Hnutove with 120mm mortars
http://liveuamap.com/en/2016/3-march-militants-shelled-talakivka-and-hnutove-with-120mm …

OUTLAW 09
03-03-2016, 05:36 AM
Russia withdraw fighters from some gray zones near Mariupol, though intensifying actions btw Hranitne-Kominternove
pic.twitter.com/VT5qmQoOxc

A warning to the U.S. and the world"
Why #US should worry about #hackers taking out a #powerplant in #Ukraine
http://mashable.com/2016/03/02/why-america-should-worry-about-hackers-taking-out-a-power-plant-in-ukraine/#bGH9G9Ad55qX …

The Ukr army informed the @OSCE_SMM on new Russian Army equipment entering and heavy arms close to the contact line.
http://www.uawire.org/news/column-of-russian-military-vehicles-entered-eastern-ukraine …

Many reports from #Donetsk about GRAD salvo outgoing around 5:15AM, landing somewhere towards south-west from the city.

Donetsk 6:02AM
Putilovka heard GRADs to west, now heavy single shots small arms bursts at the airport/#Pisky.
https://twitter.com/olgarjpthju/status/705257157659398144 …

OUTLAW 09
03-03-2016, 05:37 AM
Reports that a full load of GRAD rockets landed somewheare near #Maryinka around 5AM.

#Donetsk reg. 02.03.2016
Russian spetsnaz unit... correction, just some "local" guys.
https://twitter.com/GirkinGirkin/status/705251720490848256 …

#Horlivka 6AM
Salvos heard to west, landings not audible.
https://twitter.com/UA_Horlivka_/status/705253628047654912 …

OUTLAW 09
03-03-2016, 10:36 AM
ATO press center reported 62 RU attacks on UAF positions in #Donbas y/day. There was a clash with enemy DRG near Novotroitske, repelled.


Militants' sabotage-reconnaissance group attacked Ukrainian stronghold near #Novotroitske.
http://novosti.dn.ua/details/270598/
pic.twitter.com/wzQsqSq7yu

DRG is the UAF term for Spetsnaz......

OUTLAW 09
03-03-2016, 10:44 AM
Militants shelled #Krasnohorivka and #Nivelske from "Grads". - Bryhynets.
http://novosti.dn.ua/details/270610/
pic.twitter.com/bVx8tCVqnM

Map. Situation in eastern #Ukraine, March 3, 2016, 00:00 EET pic.twitter.com/35JEN9hTAz

Video of shelling if Ukrainian position in Nevelske and Krasnogorivka, today morning...
https://www.youtu.be/dH9SpfHxcWA

UKRAINE: More than 400 Ukrainian soldiers killed since Minsk II ceasefire came into effect.
http://www.voanews.com/content/pentagon-ukraine-russia-minsk/3217502.html …

OUTLAW 09
03-03-2016, 11:15 AM
Hackers reveal the story of a Russian Spetsnaz soldier....in German......
Hacker lften Geheimnisse eines russischen Speznas-Soldaten. #Video Graphic (18+)
https://informnapalm.org/de/hacker-lueften-geheimnisse-eines-russischen-speznas-soldaten-video-18/
pic.twitter.com/0CcVnxQcs4

Also in English.........
Informnapalm published new report based on hacked data from phone of Russian officer
http://liveuamap.com/en/2016/3-march-informnapalm-present-new-report-based-on-hacked-data
pic.twitter.com/YwhW3cvrJz

Col. Motuzyanyk: More than 200 ammo, 3 mines for RPG & 2 kg of gunpowder were seized from a resident of Toretsk pic.twitter.com/JbfUZz0oUy

11:49
#Staromykhailivka is LOUD again.
https://twitter.com/tov_sobakin/status/705338200697540608

News
1 Ukrainian soldier sniped (killed) in #StanytsiaLuhanska and 1 injured in enemy gun fire in #Pisky yesterday.

OUTLAW 09
03-03-2016, 11:27 AM
Russia paratrooper battalion CO killed by Ukrainian sniper: The Russian troops in Donbas have lost another off...
http://bit.ly/1RrRtgM

OUTLAW 09
03-03-2016, 02:32 PM
Russian-Backed Fighters Fire Grads From Donetsk
http://www.interpretermag.com/day-745/
pic.twitter.com/k1u7p1BTA2

Deputy commander of 1st Army Corps("DNR")-colonel Rus Armed Forces Chirkov- UA Main Intellig
http://gur.mil.gov.ua/content/situation-in-ato-area-and-around-syria.html …
pic.twitter.com/WQzgHuHXQy

WIRED ✔ @WIRED
Inside the cunning, unprecedented hack of Ukraine’s power grid
http://wrd.cm/1p1iXDH

Assassination of detained GRU officers plotted: prosecutors
http://www.unian.info/society/1281743-assassination-of-detained-gru-officers-plotted-prosecutors.html …
pic.twitter.com/OTxZs6PDYJ

OUTLAW 09
03-03-2016, 05:29 PM
Russian shellings and ground attacks still ongoing....


12:13 #Novhorodske @subwayriwer "Almost 2-day firing towards #Skotovata-#Krasnohorivka goes on and on. Normandy fusillade? Don't think so"

OSCE
✔ ‎@OSCE OSCE monitors in Ukraine saw a # of weapons outside storage sites – some in violation of respective withdrawal lines
http://bit.ly/1UBOKGT

OUTLAW 09
03-03-2016, 06:06 PM
Russian shellings and ground attacks still ongoing....


12:13 #Novhorodske @subwayriwer "Almost 2-day firing towards #Skotovata-#Krasnohorivka goes on and on. Normandy fusillade? Don't think so"

OSCE
✔ ‎@OSCE OSCE monitors in Ukraine saw a # of weapons outside storage sites – some in violation of respective withdrawal lines
http://bit.ly/1UBOKGT

Observed ceasefire violations in Ukraine is at the highest level since August 2015 exceeding 3,800 in the last week

OUTLAW 09
03-04-2016, 05:52 AM
Another dream "vision" of the Russian FM..........

Lavrov: new EU & NATO mbrs "issue was not about going from subjugation 2 freedom...but a change of leadership" ?!
http://www.rusemb.org.uk/fnapr/5466

OUTLAW 09
03-04-2016, 10:15 AM
Observed ceasefire violations in Ukraine is at the highest level since August 2015 exceeding 3,800 in the last week

Militants attack ATO troops 57 times in last day
http://uatoday.tv/politics/militants-attack-ato-troops-57-times-in-last-day-603929.html …

Any number above 40 attacks is now being considered full scale warfare....the so called Minsk 2 ceasefire simply does no longer exist and the constant western comments "it is largely holding" is a smokescreen for covering it up...as neither the EU, NATO or Obama are willing to confront Russian on their direct violations and total non compliance with Minsk 2....

OUTLAW 09
03-04-2016, 01:12 PM
Ukraine new realities: as #Donbas is neither war nor peace, #MinskAgreements will neither implemented nor abandoned http://carnegieeurope.eu/strategiceurope/?fa=62939 …

Russia deploys Grad-K systems near Horlivka – Ukraine intel
http://www.unian.info/war/1283066-russia-deploys-grad-k-systems-near-horlivka-ukraine-intel.html …

Militants deployed banned tanks, self-propelled guns, and Grads near Monakhove and Donetsk, - Defense Intellig...
http://bit.ly/1TY3D5I

Russia continues to steal just about anything from the eastern Ukraine.....many of these factories were important in the area of defense manufacturing....
Militants dismantled 20 plants in Donbas, took to Russia.
13 more plants just robbed.

Hug: One of the SMM’s unmanned aerial vehicles spotted 11 MBTs in residential area of Donetsk city
http://liveuamap.com/en/2016/4-march-hug-one-of-the-smms-unmanned-aerial-vehicles-spotted …

TASS: ‘Normandy Format’ was unable to reach consensus on the issue of elections in the Donbass in eastern Ukraine http://liveuamap.com/en/2016/4-march-tass-normandy-format-was-unable-to-reach-consensus …
https://twitter.com/newsdailycomua/status/705738992994684929 …

OUTLAW 09
03-04-2016, 01:51 PM
How NATO Can Disrupt Russia's New Way of War via @DefenseOne http://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2016/03/nato-russia-sof-ew-hybrid-war/126401/ …

Russian MP Pushkov: rights of Russians in Ukraine and Baltic countries should be protected
http://liveuamap.com/en/2016/4-march-russian-mp-pushkov-rights-of-russians-in-ukraine …

New documentary reveals covert Russian influence in Baltics http://www.lsm.lv/en/article/culture/updated-new-documentary-reveals-covert-russian-influence-in-baltics.a171865/ …

A Russian Spetsnaz officer's cell got hacked and the data released by social media....now YouTube claims "privacy violation" BUT he was fighting and killing UAF inside eastern Ukraine......

Youtube now ordered InformNapalm to delete or modify video on Russian, cause complaints on "Privacy violation" https://twitter.com/newsburko/status/705654070971772929 …

Ukraine military intel: #DPR continues creating its “Azov fleet”: Along with vessels from #Russia, gangs highjack boats from locals

OUTLAW 09
03-04-2016, 02:14 PM
Skybytskyi: confirmed that “DNR forces” are led by active duty RU Major general Valerii Asapov
http://liveuamap.com/en/2016/4-march-vadym-skybytskyi-it-was-confirmed-that-armed-gangs …
pic.twitter.com/bCkB5gxpF7

UA mil intel: RU command continues neutralizing “unreliable” commanders of armed gangs; instead of them, RU officers are appointed

Reference the Russian shot down of MH17........
Separatist Convoy Linked to MH17 Buk Transport via @bellingcat
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2016/03/04/8110/ …

UA mil intel: For lodging RU servicemen in the occupied territories, premises of kindergartens & schools are often used

Vadym Skybytskyi, mil intel: During previous week, RU provided 18 tanks, 36 armored vehicles, 200 tons of fuel to armed gangs in eastern UA

UA mil intel: During Jan-Feb hostile armed gangs of so-called “LPR” & “DPR” were actively training with and under command of RU officers

Vadym Skybytskyi, mil intel: Final stage of hostile mil trainings – brigade tactical exercises – is planned for March

Vadym Skybytskyi, mil intel: Enemy MLRS Grad are still present in Horlivka, Donetsk, Krasnyi Luch, Torez

UA mil intel: During previous 7 days, militants shelled UA positions for 368 times: heavy cannons, mortars, BMP were used in particular

OUTLAW 09
03-04-2016, 02:15 PM
Exact same order Russian order of battle used in their 2014 Ukrainian invasion....again proof that the Russian military has been for over three years exercising various European attack operations during their unannounced snap exercises.....

Russia's "hybrid" Donbas operation was elaborated in the course of Zakhid-2013 exercises.

Zakhid-2013 strategic exercises by Russia and Belarus, 2013.
Concept included creation of illegal armed groups.

OUTLAW 09
03-04-2016, 02:20 PM
If Russia continues to allow this.....this virtually freezes Russian sanctions in place as it would be a complete breach of Minsk 2 and a complete non compliance by Russia in Minsk 2....and it would be extremely difficult for even Hungary to back away from sanctions.....

DNR" prepares for "local election" (according to its "legislation") on April 20.
http://novosti.dn.ua/details/270682/

OUTLAW 09
03-04-2016, 02:28 PM
Extremely well done presentation by the UAF Defense Intelligence concerning Russian military involvement in eastern Ukraine and complete with Russian losses both KIAs and WIAs......

Russia's territorial claims to Ukraine 1992 - 2014.
http://gur.mil.gov.ua/en/content/russia-armed-aggression-against-ukraine.html …

OUTLAW 09
03-04-2016, 02:38 PM
ATO spokesperson: At the checkpoint in Donetsk region, UA police confiscated TNT charges, grenade fuses & ammo

Col. Andriy Lysenko: SBU found a cache with 2 rocket launchers, hand grenades & ammo

No lethal casualties reported in the #warzone in E #Ukraine over the last 24h. 3 UA servicemen WIA.

OUTLAW 09
03-04-2016, 08:00 PM
Militants deployed banned tanks, self-propelled guns, and Grads near Monakhove and Donetsk
http://en.censor.net.ua/n377633

Militants proceed with drills along demarcation line in defiance of Minsk decisions, - OSCE
http://en.censor.net.ua/n377659

Ukraine intel says Russia may resort to amphibious assault on Azov coast - read on -
http://uatoday.tv http://uatoday.tv/news/ukraine-intel-says-russia-may-resort-to-amphibious-assault-on-azov-coast-604268.html …

Terrorists employ banned large-caliber mortars and anti-aircraft guns, sniper activity recorded
http://en.censor.net.ua/n377680

Russia formed two 34-35,000 men strong army corps and up to 8,000 reserve in Donbas, - Turchynov
http://en.censor.net.ua/n377611

OUTLAW 09
03-04-2016, 08:32 PM
Heavy Russian shellings and ground attacks tonight......

Donetsk @Switttttter That noise towards the #airport is like by default, non-stop one
https://twitter.com/loogunda/status/705847099427037184 …

21:53 #Donetsk @LifeInDonetsk Acc to Minsk2 no drills allowed,but actual firing is acceptable. Just now heavy gunnery along all Donetsk's NW

21:50 #Donetsk @olgarjpthju [fb] "#Bakiny[=http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=48.012065&lon=37.768003&z=18&m=b&show=/street/15686818 …&]: hears dull heavy salvos" "#OblGAI can hear frequent salvos"

21:49 #Donetsk @Stepan_Semenov Northwards it booms resonantly again. In Minsk they prohibited drills, but forgot to prohibit war

21:54 #Novhorodske @subwayriwer It rumbles closer to #Zalizne[=http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=48.301952&lon=37.838867&z=16&m=b&show=/26159029/ru/ …] sometimes too... https://twitter.com/loogunda/status/705847099427037184 …

21:30 #Donetsk @olgarjpthju "Being at #City one can hear battle, very close, by sound like #Putilovka bridge area. Small arms& full package"

21:40 #Donetsk @huyoviynovoros Large weapons started, like a tank

Russia deploys Grad-K systems near Horlivka – Ukraine intel
http://www.unian.info/war/1283066-russia-deploys-grad-k-systems-near-horlivka-ukraine-intel.html …

OUTLAW 09
03-04-2016, 08:33 PM
France's pressure on UA to hold local elections in Russia-occupied East Ukraine,without control of border, is absurd
https://euobserver.com/foreign/132555

OUTLAW 09
03-04-2016, 09:19 PM
Heavy Russian shellings and ground attacks tonight......

Donetsk @Switttttter That noise towards the #airport is like by default, non-stop one
https://twitter.com/loogunda/status/705847099427037184 …

21:53 #Donetsk @LifeInDonetsk Acc to Minsk2 no drills allowed,but actual firing is acceptable. Just now heavy gunnery along all Donetsk's NW

21:50 #Donetsk @olgarjpthju [fb] "#Bakiny[=http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=48.012065&lon=37.768003&z=18&m=b&show=/street/15686818 …&]: hears dull heavy salvos" "#OblGAI can hear frequent salvos"

21:49 #Donetsk @Stepan_Semenov Northwards it booms resonantly again. In Minsk they prohibited drills, but forgot to prohibit war

21:54 #Novhorodske @subwayriwer It rumbles closer to #Zalizne[=http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=48.301952&lon=37.838867&z=16&m=b&show=/26159029/ru/ …] sometimes too... https://twitter.com/loogunda/status/705847099427037184 …

21:30 #Donetsk @olgarjpthju "Being at #City one can hear battle, very close, by sound like #Putilovka bridge area. Small arms& full package"

21:40 #Donetsk @huyoviynovoros Large weapons started, like a tank

Russia deploys Grad-K systems near Horlivka – Ukraine intel
http://www.unian.info/war/1283066-russia-deploys-grad-k-systems-near-horlivka-ukraine-intel.html …

22:07 #Toretsk @gg_artem Just now something has flown over #Mikrorayon[=http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=48.408921&lon=37.841463&z=14&m=b&show=/22159405 …], by sound like helicopter [but too slow]

23:07 #Avdiivka @LuftGanza #Opytne, #Butovka shaft, #Avdiivka: quiet as of now

OUTLAW 09
03-04-2016, 09:24 PM
http://maidantranslations.com/2016/03/04/dmitry-tymchuk-military-update-03-03-freesavchenko/

Dmitry Tymchuk: Military update 03.03

Posted on March 4, 2016


Operational data from Information Resistance:

In addition to the active shelling, Russian-terrorist troops in Donbas continue scouting out the ATO forces’ combat lines in their tactical and operational-tactical rear. To this end, in addition to other means of reconnaissance, militants are increasingly often sending civilians across the demarcation line, interrogating them after their return to the occupied territory. Interrogations are particularly large-scale among the residents of Horlivka, Yasynuvata, and the Petrovskiy district of Donetsk – de facto, the personnel and equipment composition of Ukrainian troops and their defense systems have been revealed [to the enemy] through local residents.

During the past 24 hours, the most intense terrorist shellings and armed clashes were observed near the Yasynuvata junction. Militants transferred reinforcements to this area from the southern direction of operations and from the direction of Kruta Balka (up to one motorized rifle company and one tank platoon). Following this reinforcement, militants persist in their attempts to push Ukrainian troops further east, towards Avdiivka, by carrying out heavy fire raids (82 mm and 120 mm mortars) and operating with small infantry groups supported by fire from armored vehicles. Namely, enemy infantry groups operated from the direction of the Yasunuvata junction, the 251.2 m high ground, and the terrorist stronghold north of that high ground. As a result of a violent clash, the ATO forces held their ground.

Another clash was recorded in the vicinity of Pisky and the DAP-Spartak area. In both cases, militants actively deployed 120 mm mortars and operated in small infantry groups. In the Petrovskyi district of Donetsk, several residential blocks were cut off from power due to terrorists’ armed provocations.

Terrorists deployed artillery in the area of Zaitseve, firing 122 mm guns at the ATO forces’ positions west and northwest of the town. Militant artillery positions were located near the Mayorskiy automobile market.

In the Donetsk area (near the Donetsk Bypass north of the Kalmius station), according to our preliminary data, BM-21 “Grad” MLRS ammunition detonated while being transported aboard vehicles. Militant personnel deaths are reported.

Militant advanced units in the vicinity of Yasynuvata are receiving reinforcements: during the past 48 hours, several small infantry groups with armored vehicles were transferred here. In total, up to 20 various ACVs and at least 7 tanks are concentrated in this area. A militant artillery unit with six 2S1 “Gvozdika” 122 mm self-propelled guns was again identified beyond Panteleimonivka.

In Horlivka, militants are rotating the units in their “garrison” – several terrorist groups arrived here, up to a battalion in total strength. The bulk of these reinforcements arrived from the southern direction of operations, mainly aboard motor vehicles. Some of the personnel is arriving from the direction of Donetsk.

In Donetsk, the “DNR” military command held a meeting to sum up the results of the inspection carried out by the “commission of the DNR MoD” in the 9th separate motorized infantry regiment of the “1st DNR Army Corps,” stationed in the coastal regions, near Novoazovsk (see IR group’s yesterday comment). The state of equipment of the regiment’s advanced position was declared “unsatisfactory;” the state of militant defense lines in the vicinity of Sakhanka received particularly harsh criticism. The “commission” also noted a “very low discipline level among the personnel” in the units.

In Makiivka and the Kyivskyi district of Donetsk, incidence rates are high for “criminal acts” against “military servicemen of the DNR army.” These are mainly cases of robbery and assault, and the victims are militants with income levels considered high by local standards. The “DNR law enforcement officials” note that such crimes against militants involve the use of force and are often “excessively violent.”

The “DNR Ministry of Internal Affairs” is conducting large-scale searches in the units of the “Vostok” armed gang (controlled by Alexander Khodakovsky), looking for “illegal” weapons, vehicles, hostages, and any assets noted as missing. Representatives of the “DNR MIA” have been instructed that if “Vostok” militants are detained for various offences, they are to be actively involved in “correctional labor” on the territory of the destroyed Donetsk airport (clearing out rubble, etc.)

“LNR” militants are actively reequipping the artillery brigade of the “LNR 2nd Army Corps” and strengthening motorized rifle infantry brigades from the same unit. The artillery brigade is holding “specialist exercises” (including for artillery spotters and forward observers) and actively training in the use of new weapons and equipment received from Russia, including artillery reconnaissance equipment.


EU and USA has an inadequate perception of what has happened in Ukraine over past 2 years.
http://www.unian.info/politics/1283301-ukrainian-question-at-yale.html …

OUTLAW 09
03-05-2016, 07:25 AM
Russian command prepares for invasion on the coast near Mariupol – #Ukraine Intelligence
http://uaposition.com/latest-news/russian-command-actively-prepare-military-action-coast-mariupol-ukraine-intelligence/ …

50 attacks of Russian militants on Ukrainian army positions yesterday

76 mortar mines hit Ukrainian positions near Chermalyk
http://liveuamap.com/en/2016/5-march-50-attacks-of-russian-militants-on-ukrainian-army …

Kremlin propaganda outlet #Zvezda never ceases 2 surprise, claims a burial of 2,000 victims of UAF torture found.
https://twitter.com/deynychenko/status/706009832797696000 …
This is part of the new Russian narrative that ethnic Russians must be protected and the Ukraine is massively abusing human rights in eastern Ukraine.

"There never actually was any Maidan!" Fmr Ukrainian prime minister Azarov has spent too much time on forums https://twitter.com/novaya_gazeta/status/705859375802556418 …

OUTLAW 09
03-05-2016, 05:48 PM
2 UA servicemen KIA, 5 WIA in the warzone in East #Ukraine over the last 24 h
http://liveuamap.com/en/2016/5-march-2-ua-servicemen-kia-5-wia-in-the-warzone-in-e-ukraine …

3 Russian helicopters flied over administrative border of Crimean region
http://liveuamap.com/en/2016/5-march-3-russian-helicopters-flied-over-administrative-border …

INTERMARIUM = Eastern Flank of EU+EaP
Izborsky Club Says RU Must Block Alliance of Baltic–Black Sea Countries > BBC
http://www.jamestown.org/single/?tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=7&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=45130#.VtrejPB4WrX …

OUTLAW 09
03-05-2016, 06:13 PM
Russian shellings and ground attacks started way earlier than normal today.....

12:52 #Avdiivka @fingerw80 For 30 min booms once each 10-30sec, #Butovka shaft direction...

12:58 #Avdiivka @rechnikato non-stop salvos and explosions for about 10min, not far away, periodicity: about 10 sec

12:56 #Avdiivka @tiamat007 Nonstop battle for few min, approximately towards #Butovka shaft

13:00 #Avdiivka @GirkinGirkin [vk?] "Booms, heard too much, landings in triangle #Butovka shaft - mil unit - #Pisky"

13:05 #Avdiivka @GirkinGirkin [vk?] "Damn, walls vibrate at #Komunalna"
@tiamat007 [nothing like shaking walls].

13:04 #Avdiivka @owl_ok "Goat faced ones have started to make much noise"
13:05 And again

Ukrainian town of #Avdyivka in the #warzone is under #Russian armed forces shelling over the last 6 hours

2.30 pm - DNR launched an artillery attack on #Avdiyivka from Donetsk.
One Ukraine soldier KIA.
No response from OSCE.

vk ]@hyeva_maryinka
17:25 #Donetsk #Abakumova: 2 landings or outgoing ones
17:25 #Krasnohorivka: powerful booms

.@hyeva_maryinka [vk] probably, at #Staromykhaylivka
https://twitter.com/loogunda/status/706185247277391877 …

OUTLAW 09
03-05-2016, 06:18 PM
More fatalities among enemy Russian military servicemen in #Donbas. Attempts made by their commanders to hide. http://en.interfax.com.ua/news/general/329267.html …

Up to 30 enemy Russian militants eliminated in clash in #Mariupol sector. #ATO #Ukraine
http://en.censor.net.ua/n377766

Ukrainian intelligence named Russian soldiers KIA within a last day
http://gur.mil.gov.ua/en/content/situation-in-ato-area-and-around-syria.html …

Russia uses every method to cover significant loses. Media blackouts and "Cargo 200" to transport dead soldiers.

OUTLAW 09
03-05-2016, 06:33 PM
Reference the Russian shot down of MH17.....Russian today trying hard to discredit the analysis work just released by bellingcat on more information concerning the Russian involvement in the shot down o MH17....

RT writes yet another hit piece on @bellingcat, citing @JournalNEO. They've published this hard-hitting journalism:https://www.rt.com/op-edge/334649-mh17-conspiracy-theories-putin/

OUTLAW 09
03-05-2016, 06:36 PM
Russian shellings and ground attacks started way earlier than normal today.....

12:52 #Avdiivka @fingerw80 For 30 min booms once each 10-30sec, #Butovka shaft direction...

12:58 #Avdiivka @rechnikato non-stop salvos and explosions for about 10min, not far away, periodicity: about 10 sec

12:56 #Avdiivka @tiamat007 Nonstop battle for few min, approximately towards #Butovka shaft

13:00 #Avdiivka @GirkinGirkin [vk?] "Booms, heard too much, landings in triangle #Butovka shaft - mil unit - #Pisky"

13:05 #Avdiivka @GirkinGirkin [vk?] "Damn, walls vibrate at #Komunalna"
@tiamat007 [nothing like shaking walls].

13:04 #Avdiivka @owl_ok "Goat faced ones have started to make much noise"
13:05 And again

Ukrainian town of #Avdyivka in the #warzone is under #Russian armed forces shelling over the last 6 hours

2.30 pm - DNR launched an artillery attack on #Avdiyivka from Donetsk.
One Ukraine soldier KIA.
No response from OSCE.

vk ]@hyeva_maryinka
17:25 #Donetsk #Abakumova: 2 landings or outgoing ones
17:25 #Krasnohorivka: powerful booms

.@hyeva_maryinka [vk] probably, at #Staromykhaylivka
https://twitter.com/loogunda/status/706185247277391877 …

50 attacks of Russian militants on Ukrainian army positions yesterday
pic.twitter.com/XNriJVII48
http://liveuamap.com/en/2016/5-march-50-attacks-of-russian-militants-on-ukrainian-army …

2 marines killed near Mariupol yesterday in battle, some wounded
pic.twitter.com/YvRchgEfgM
http://liveuamap.com/en/2016/5-marc

17:18 #Horlivka @Vika7Victoria [vk] It's still noisy in #Shyroka_Balka direction

18:37 #Popasna @hu_popa Recently, it's became noisy near Popasna. Especially today

OUTLAW 09
03-05-2016, 06:38 PM
Turkey arrests a fishing boat from Kerch, Crimea, returns it to Ukraine, not Russia.
http://liveuamap.com/en/2016/5-march-turkey-arrests-a-fishing-boat-from-kerch-crimea-returns …

OUTLAW 09
03-06-2016, 07:53 AM
EU Mythbusters
✔ ‎@EUvsDisinfo Which is the most unbelievable story in this week's #DisinfoReview ? Read here:
http://eepurl.com/bSqSe5

Kremlin-backed TV channels are jammed into the airspace, NGOs, funded by Russian money, offer up talking heads on every issue under the sun.

BREAKING: Openly Anti-#EU #extremist neo-#Nazi Slovakian party wins 8.1%/14 seats.

Russia plans mass release of prisoners to be sent to war in Eastern #Ukraine—SBU
http://uatoday.tv/crime/russia-plans-mass-release-of-prisoners-to-be-sent-to-war-in-donbas-say-ukrainian-security-officals-406717.html …

Ukrainian Soldier Killed; OSCE Protests Russian-Backed Militants Ongoing Training
http://www.interpretermag.com/day-747-1-ukrainian-soldier-killed-osce-protests-separatists-violation-of-agreement-to-stop-training/#12827 …

OUTLAW 09
03-06-2016, 07:56 AM
By Rus volunteers"Cargo 200" >list of Rus soldiers/mercenaries(killed in Donbas) 2081 ppl
https://word-view.officeapps.live.com/wv/mWord.aspx?

Read how Russia’s brutality against the #CrimeanTatars has escalated recently:
https://goo.gl/Q4PZ4D

OUTLAW 09
03-06-2016, 08:10 AM
Rus proxies fired 52 times upon Ukr troops over last day. 37 attacks in Donetsk sector, most tense sit/ nr Avdiivka https://www.facebook.com/ato.news/posts/1155413911136080 …

OUTLAW 09
03-06-2016, 11:09 AM
CIT (en) ‎@CITeam_en
Nadiya Savchenko is innocent, and here's the proof:
https://citeam.org/nadiya-savchenko-innocent/ …

Enough: NATO should stop feeding the Russian troll
http://www.politico.eu/article/nato-stop-feeding-russia-troll-defense-alliance-syria-war-baltics/ …

10:15 #Avdiivka @rechnikato "The most strained situation in ATO is near Avdiivka, yesterday an officer was killed in action. Now quiet here"

12:45 #Novoazovsk @GirkinGirkin No #MTS mobile communication for few hours. Jammed? via [vk]

Map. Situation in eastern #Ukraine, March 6, 2016, 00:00 EET

OUTLAW 09
03-06-2016, 11:50 AM
Reference Russian shot down of MH17........

AP Journalists & Locals Saw Rebels With Buk Missiles Hours Before #MH17 Crashed
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/25/ukraine-buk-missiles-ap-journalists_n_5622111.html …

OUTLAW 09
03-06-2016, 03:15 PM
News
31 Ukr soldiers got killed or wounded by #Russia and its proxies in #Donbas over the last 5 days.
"Democratic election" = #delusional

Twitter Reports Massive Increase in Russian Government’s Content Removal Requests
https://globalvoices.org/2016/03/06/twitter-reports-massive-increase-in-russian-governments-content-removal-requests/ …

ATO: Mar06 ~09:15 RU shelled w/122mm #Avdiivka vicinity, raider group closed after to fire civil vehicles & ascribe it to UAF

Google Earth shows yet another Russian invasion camp near Ukrainian border
pic.twitter.com/x7f0pRBTby
http://liveuamap.com/en/2016/6-march-google-earth-shows-yet-another-russian-invasion-camp …

OUTLAW 09
03-06-2016, 03:25 PM
Russian shellings and round attacks have started early today........

13:10 #Donetsk @olgarjpthju [fb] "#Shakhtarska: far salvos"
"#Bitovka: it began"
"#Putilovka: listening to SA bursts & single heavy salvos"

OUTLAW 09
03-06-2016, 03:28 PM
Don’t Fall for #Putin|’s Game Warn Europ. Officials-Kremlin strategy distracts the West w/#propaganda
http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/don-t-fall-for-putin-s-game-warn-european-officials …

OUTLAW 09
03-06-2016, 04:34 PM
Article features interview & photos by @Drjft, back from the frontline in E. Ukraine.
http://www.conflict-news.com/articles/the-grey-zone-two-years-later-the-war-in-eastern-ukraine-rages-on …

Russian Marine Infantry in eastern Ukraine...in German...
InformNapalm Deutsch ‎@de_informnapalm
#Marineinfanterie der #Nordflotte Russlands in den Steppen von #Donbass:
https://informnapalm.org/de/marineinfanterie-der-nordflotte-russlands-den-steppen-von-donbass/ …

Interesting new Russian disposable AT-weapon (prototype). Externally looks very much like Saab AT4 (M136). #РПГ

Falcons Flame: Hacked accounts of 147 Russian militants
http://liveuamap.com/en/2016/5-march-falcons-flame-hacked-accounts-147-russian-militants …

OUTLAW 09
03-06-2016, 06:05 PM
Russian shellings and round attacks have started early today........

13:10 #Donetsk @olgarjpthju [fb] "#Shakhtarska: far salvos"
"#Bitovka: it began"
"#Putilovka: listening to SA bursts & single heavy salvos"

19:20 #Donetsk @olgarjpthju [fb] #Leninskyi #RIK: outdoors one can hear dull heavy sounds of war
[no other reports about]

19:17 #Horlivka @_John__Carter_ a strong shot from #Gagarina - #Shyroka_Balka area

OUTLAW 09
03-06-2016, 06:09 PM
Article features interview & photos by @Drjft, back from the frontline in E. Ukraine.
http://www.conflict-news.com/articles/the-grey-zone-two-years-later-the-war-in-eastern-ukraine-rages-on …

Russian Marine Infantry in eastern Ukraine...in German...
InformNapalm Deutsch ‎@de_informnapalm
#Marineinfanterie der #Nordflotte Russlands in den Steppen von #Donbass:
https://informnapalm.org/de/marineinfanterie-der-nordflotte-russlands-den-steppen-von-donbass/ …

Interesting new Russian disposable AT-weapon (prototype). Externally looks very much like Saab AT4 (M136). #РПГ

Falcons Flame: Hacked accounts of 147 Russian militants
http://liveuamap.com/en/2016/5-march-falcons-flame-hacked-accounts-147-russian-militants …

Russia continues to supply heavy weaponry to temp occupied territ of Donbas in violation of int law and Minsk https://twitter.com/ukrinform/status/706516552313655297 …

OUTLAW 09
03-06-2016, 09:00 PM
During a demonstration today in Kyiv in front of the Russian Embassy demanding the release of the kidnapped UAF pilot eggs were thrown at the Embassy AND this is then the Russian response......

Zhirinovsky: we need to recall our ambassador and send SOF to protect our Embassy in Kyiv
http://liveuamap.com/en/2016/6-march-zhirinovsky-we-need-to-recall-our-ambassador-and …

BUT THEN this has been happening all day and YET the Russians say nothing...

21:28 #Donetsk @666_mancer [forum] "#Yasynuvata #GAI_post, #Hospodar: doesn't cease. Sometimes seriuos salvos, plus shooting..."

21:41 #Avdiivka @owl_ok it's not small arms working anymore, serious booms started

OUTLAW 09
03-06-2016, 09:02 PM
During a demonstration today in Kyiv in front of the Russian Embassy demanding the release of the kidnapped UAF pilot eggs were thrown at the Embassy AND this is then the Russian response......

Zhirinovsky: we need to recall our ambassador and send SOF to protect our Embassy in Kyiv
http://liveuamap.com/en/2016/6-march-zhirinovsky-we-need-to-recall-our-ambassador-and …

BUT THEN this has been happening all day and YET the Russians say nothing...

21:28 #Donetsk @666_mancer [forum] "#Yasynuvata #GAI_post, #Hospodar: doesn't cease. Sometimes seriuos salvos, plus shooting..."

21:41 #Avdiivka @owl_ok it's not small arms working anymore, serious booms started


2 echelons of ammunition arrived to Harzyz'k and #Illovaysk + 5 tanks, 5 BMPs, 6 D-30, 2 Self-propelled artillery

21:10 #Makiivka @GirkinGirkin [vk] #MTS communication down, electronic warfare jamming?

OUTLAW 09
03-06-2016, 09:07 PM
http://maidantranslations.com/2016/03/06/dmitry-tymchuk-military-update-03-04-freesavchenko/

Dmitry Tymchuk: Military update 03.04
Posted on March 6, 2016


Operational data from Information Resistance:

In addition to the “traditional” weapons like small arms, grenade launchers, 82 mm and 120 mm mortars, Russian-terrorist troops in Donbas once again began using rocket artillery for fire attacks on the ATO forces’ positions and civilian objects (MLRS BM-21 “Grad” systems were used to fire at strongholds in the area of Krasnohorivka and Nevelske) and 152 mm artillery (“Msta-B” howitzers were used in the area of Zaitseve).

The intensity of the shelling is growing, not only in the “traditionally hot” sections, but also in several other areas. In the coastal regions, terrorist shelling began in the areas of Pavlopil and Chermalyk. Militant activity intensified in the area of the Svitlodarsk ridge (the area of Rozsadky and Skeleve). Attacks by fire from small arms are observed in the area of Zolote.

In the area south of Donetsk, another armed confrontation was recorded. Namely, Ukrainian troop strongholds south of Novotroitsk were attacked by an enemy infantry group (about 50 personnel in total, divided into three subgroups). This group moved forward from the vicinity of Tsentralnyy Karyer [Central Quarry] (Dokuchajevsk): one subgroup bypassed the ATO forces’ advanced position along its flank (moving through the greenery), and tried to fire at another ATO forces’ stronghold using RPG’s and automatic small arms and machine guns, while a second subgroup blocked the neighboring stronghold. After a brief confrontation, militants retreated in the direction of the Central Quarry and the old colony.

Terrorist units switched to a heightened state of readiness in several areas (Petrovskiy district of Donetsk, Putylivka–Spartak–DAP, Yasynuvata, “Horlivka garrison,” Olenivka–Dokuchajevsk stretch, the Sakhanka–Zaichenko group and the Stakhanov group). Militants are actively delivering material and technical supplies to these groups, and resupplying them with personnel and equipment. Regular meetings with the “command staff” are held at the headquarters of the militant 1st and 2nd “Army Corps” (at the “1st Army Corps,” the “DNR” ringleader Alexander Zakharchenko held a secret meeting with gang commanders). A large number of battalion-level units of the “1st AC” (mainly from the second echelon) are undergoing combat coordination exercises in so-called “training centers.”

A number of first-line militant units are considerably understaffed. In the meantime, their commanders report that their units are fully staffed, for reasons of personal gain – in order to receive financial and material supplies for full staff numbers. This pattern is typical for units in a number of areas south of Donetsk, north of Luhansk, and in the areas along the border of the “DNR” and “LNR”‘s respective responsibility zones.

The “DNR” command organized mandatory lectures for medical staff in the health facilities of Kirovske, Komsomolsk, Telmanove, and Novoazovsk (Donetsk Oblast). The main subject matter [of these lectures] are the types of combat injuries and their treatment. All medical staff, regardless of their specialization, must attend the lectures. Currently, about 30% of beds in inpatient departments of medical institutions in the above towns are kept vacant, in order to provide immediate medical assistance to militants, if necessary. The lectures are conducted under the pretext of the anticipated large-scale offensive by Ukrainian troops.

Discontent is on the rise among the militants of the “1st Army Corps of the DNR,” aimed at officers of the Russian Armed Forces appointed as commanding officers among this unit. The strongest causes of this discontent are drill training and the rigorous demands to strengthen military discipline. Another cause for irritation is the requirement to prepare “emergency suitcases” (containing a compass, a map-marking stencil, pencils, etc.) at the militants’ own expense.

In the course of investigating the “Vostok” gang command, representatives of the “DNR MIA” and the “DNR prosecutor’s office” established that militant commanders are actively seeking ways to sell the coal mined in the occupied areas (in particular, [the coal mined from] “dugouts” in the area of Torez). In addition, gang commanders instructed militants to seek out various profitable manufacturing facilities, which the gang aims to take control of (most recently, a poultry farm near Krasnyi Partyzan came “under the patronage” of militants in this manner). In its defense, the “Vostok” command proclaim that they are seeking such facilities in order to “officially execute a lease,” with the alleged intention to conclude contracts and subsequently make payments under them.

The “Ministry of State Security of the LNR” launched investigations of several commanders of the “2nd AC of the LNR” in connection with their participation in “contraband schemes.” The Russian FSB representatives in the “LNR” demand that these cases are handed over to their jurisdiction, because names of Russian servicemen keep cropping up in the course of investigation. Spy scares are on the rise in the “Republic” – intensive “search operations” to identify “Ukrainian spies” are currently underway in several towns (Rovenky, Antratsyt, Krasnyi Luch, Krasnodon).

OUTLAW 09
03-06-2016, 09:53 PM
BREAKING: Red signal flares were seen over Mariupol at 10pm
pic.twitter.com/sQFNXLG1mm
http://liveuamap.com/en/2016/6-march-red-signal-flares-were-seen-over-mariupol-at-10pm …

21:51 #Donetsk #Kyivskyi ds @funkermanjke They started 30 min ago with shooting... then mortars & a tank were put into action

22:45 #Horlivka #Stroitel @ahab9889 small arms southwards and like BMP cannon - 3 min of active fire and they ceased
22:48 started over - MG

23:02 #Horlivka @tgorlovka_news They keep firing with machine guns in #Shyroka_Balka area

22:55 #Yasynuvata @GirkinGirkin [vk?] #Zamlianky
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=48.120038&lon=37.919998&z=13&m=b&show=/10587490/ …
loud single salvos

OUTLAW 09
03-07-2016, 08:48 AM
Russian shellings and ground attacks started earlier than normal today........

ATO HQ: 38 attacks on Ukrainian troops in last day
http://www.unian.info/war/1284301-ato-hq-38-attacks-on-ukrainian-troops-in-last-day.html …

Rus proxies fired 38 times upon Ukr troops ov last day. 7 hostile mortar attacks registered nr Avdiivka 6pm-midnight https://www.facebook.com/ato.news/posts/1156093757734762 …

10:29 #Donetsk @LifeInDonetsk one can hear periodical shooting towards #Avdiivka. Sometimes pretty loudly

OUTLAW 09
03-07-2016, 08:50 AM
Russian mercenaries post all the time to the social media....FB, VK, youTube and Twitter.....BUT then when identified who are they are and where they have been and or what unit they are in...THEN they get a tad angry?????

Open Letter to YouTube: Russian Terrorist Filed a Complaint for 'Breach of Confidentiality':
https://informnapalm.org/en/mar04-youtube-open-letter/ …

OUTLAW 09
03-07-2016, 09:24 AM
Read Zubov on Rooting Out #Stalin's Destructive Soviet Legacy to Build a New #Russia (translated)
http://paulachertok.com/2016/03/06/rooting-out-stalin-destructive-soviet-legacy-to-build-a-new-russia/ … cc @openrussia_org

Russian general identified in #Horlivka. - Intel.
http://novosti.dn.ua/details/270809/

Mar06 #Pervomaysk @GirkinGirkin snipers of "LNR" 6th separate motor rifle regiment
https://pp.vk.me/c629519/v629519049/47744/3X-zPYAkoYo.jpg …

Fighting in eastern Ukraine continues on a medium level while there are some signs of preparations for new hostilities or limited offensive signs are fresh ammo delivery via train, new equipment sent to Ukraine, jamming of mobile signals, high level visitors

11:38 #Khartsyzk @nata00rabin Today they are actively shelling in the direction of #Ilovaysk. Misc sounds volume.

Map. Situation in eastern #Ukraine, March 7, 2016, 00:00 EET

OUTLAW 09
03-07-2016, 11:39 AM
Avdiivka, 7 am - militants fired on the residential area. DNR militia positions are only 500 m far from the houses.

Reference the Russian shot down of MH17...they are constantly attacking all reports from bellingcat BUT not a single mention of their own falsification of sat images....used in a number of their own MH17 investigations as well has providing that fake satellite image to the Dutch.

Russian defense ministry comments investigation by @bellingcat on MH17, says it "distorts objective facts"
http://lenta.ru/news/2016/03/07/bellngcat/ …

Russia|n soldiers 'dying in large numbers' in #Ukraine - Nato
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-31747754 …

How #russia internet trolls make any normal public debate impossible
http://kioski.yle.fi/omat/this-is-what-pro-russia-internet-propaganda-feels-like …

OUTLAW 09
03-07-2016, 12:16 PM
Fighting in eastern Ukraine continues on a medium level while there are some signs of preparations for new hostilities or limited offensive signs are fresh ammo delivery via train, new equipment sent to Ukraine, jamming of mobile signals, high level visitors[/B]


Multiple mobile connection disruption reported today since earlier morning, last one - in Makiivka about an hour ago

OUTLAW 09
03-07-2016, 12:37 PM
2,300 in direct danger if #Russia prohibits #CrimeanTatar #Mejlis
http://khpg.org/en/index.php?id=1457191283 …

Google Earth shows Russian battlegroup just crossed Ukraine border 5-9-2014 at Marinovka.
https://informnapalm.org/20837-google-earth-raskryvaet-sekrety-trofejnoj-tehniki-terroristov/ …

14:10
#Avdiivka is under AGL shelling from #Yasynuvata.

12:55 #Avdiivka @tiamat007 since noon we have combat activity towards #Yasynuvata - machine gun, sporadic grenade launcher& like 30mm cannon

If you've ever wondered how RPG-22 self destruct function is removed to allow for longer range and indirect fire
https://youtube.com/watch?v=h0fke0wd6aA …

OUTLAW 09
03-07-2016, 05:19 PM
Picture Ukrainian soldiers with the modern Ukrainian-made SKIF ATGM.
http://www.luch.kiev.ua/index.php/en/production/antitank-weapons-systems-and-simulators/skif-man-portable-antitank-missile-system …

Ukraine: Equipment from 20 major Ukrainian enterprises in occupied Donbas has been taken to Russia
http://www.unian.info/society/1283437-russia-takes-equipment-from-major-industrial-giants-in-donbas-intelligence-data.html …

@anders_aslund Russian mass looting of enterprises in Donbas suggests Russia wants to leave Donbas.

OUTLAW 09
03-07-2016, 05:20 PM
Do you suffer from Russophobia? The Kremlin thinks you might.
http://reut.rs/1QBmGSm


If Russian officials are to be believed, the reason people worry about what Russia might do next is because they suffer from Russophobia, an irrational fear of all things Russian.

In February, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov assailed the “fashion of Russophobia in certain capitals” during a visit to Germany. Then Russia’s defense ministry accused General Philip Breedlove of Russophobia. The commander of U.S. forces in Europe had testified that the United States and its allies were “deterring Russia now and preparing to fight and win if necessary” following the Kremlin’s military adventures in Ukraine and Syria.

“Russophobe” has become a convenient label for anyone who disagrees with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s aggressive behavior at home and abroad. You are not criticizing an authoritarian leader and his erratic policies; you are instead attacking the Russian nation.

Russia’s state media churns out reports on how enemies are tirelessly seeking to isolate the country — when in fact it is Putin’s own actions that are closing off Russia.

When I first visited Moscow as a college student 25 years ago, the Soviet Union was in its last year of existence. Kremlin reformer Mikhail Gorbachev was opening up the country after more than seven decades of communism, and Russians were hungry to rejoin the world. Goodwill, curiosity and hope were the overriding feelings among Russians and Americans alike. My host parents in Moscow even displayed a picture of then-President George H.W. Bush in their living room.

The Cold War was finally over. I was fascinated by the parallel world that had existed behind the Iron Curtain and shocked by the deprivations that people endured. Later, as a journalist based in Moscow, I would encounter dozens of Russians who welcomed me into their homes and hearts. It helped, of course, that I tried my damnedest to speak Russian. But it never hurt to be American. Often it was an advantage.

My initial interest in Russia led me to explore other countries that had belonged to the Soviet empire: Ukraine, Poland, the Baltic states, the Central Asian republics. Although anti-Russian rhetoric has cheapened the political discourse in those places, the Russian language is still widely understood, if not actively used. Given their difficult history with Russia, eastern European countries viewed membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization as a prudent defensive measure. Putin’s surprise attack on Ukraine proved them right.

To me, the folly of Russophobia became most obvious in Ukraine. Most of my Ukrainian friends speak Russian as their first language, and many have parents or grandparents from Russia. They aren’t afraid of Russia but of its revanchist, autocratic government.

The crux of the problem between Russia and its former satellites is that nationalism was the driving force behind the independence movements that split apart the Soviet Union. Estonians, Lithuanians and Georgians knew who they were and what they wanted: their own countries.

But from Russians’ perspective, it looked like their neighbors were abandoning them. Russians never had to liberate themselves from the Soviet Union: They just woke up one day in its ideological ruins. Not surprisingly, Russian nationalism today ties together a jumble of monarchist, Orthodox Christian and communist strands.

The appeal of Russophobia isn’t just based on resentment about the breakup of an empire. It’s also rooted in the frustration that the Western model of governance proved a more attractive way of running a country.

Putin, now in his 17th year of ruling Russia, is preoccupied with regime survival. That’s one reason the Kremlin is working so hard to discredit liberal democracy as a system of government. Telling Russians to fear the West because the West hates Russia is a way of distracting the population from the deficiencies of one-man rule.

Ever since my first visit to Russia in 1991, Russians have asked me why I decided to learn their language and travel to their country. People were incredulous that an American without any Russian roots could be so interested in their country.

My answer was simple: the mellifluous Russian language, the richness of Russian literature, the vastness of the country’s geography and the diversity of its peoples. It was all about what Russians themselves call the “Russian soul” — a generosity of spirit and a knack for improvisation amid adversity.

In their bluster about a brave new Russky Mir (“Russian world”) to redeem the perceived humiliations of the past, Russia’s current rulers are putting their own insecurities on full display. In the process, they have squandered the country’s greatest resource, which isn’t oil and gas but Russia’s enormous soft power.

Ironically, the biggest Russophobes inhabit Russia’s highest political offices. They are the people who believe the essentialist argument that the Russian people are too immature for real democracy and can only be ruled by a strong leader.

Russophobia isn’t an international problem. It’s a domestic one.

OUTLAW 09
03-07-2016, 06:15 PM
Major Russian ground fighting underway this evening.......

Donetsk area: ongoing battles between #Avdiivka and #Yasynuvata, #Marinka #Trudovski

Informnapalm: Russian Northern Fleet marines identified as "Donbass rebels"
http://liveuamap.com/en/2016/5-march-informnapalm-russian-northern-fleet-marines-identified …

OUTLAW 09
03-07-2016, 06:16 PM
Russia Declares War on Crimean Tatars
http://khpg.org/en/index.php?id=1457372801 …
It is unclear whether Western...
http://fb.me/5kBJTDQPz

OUTLAW 09
03-07-2016, 07:27 PM
Russian shellings and round attacks have started early today........

13:10 #Donetsk @olgarjpthju [fb] "#Shakhtarska: far salvos"
"#Bitovka: it began"
"#Putilovka: listening to SA bursts & single heavy salvos"

19:28 #Krasnohorivka @hyeva_maryinka [vk] booms reach us from #Marinka direction

19:25 #Donetsk @olgarjpthju [fb] "Western direction: combat" "#Zaperevalna: audible too"

19:24 #Donetsk @relictDon W/SW: salvos, now louder, then softer

19:23 #Donetsk #Tekstilschik @tekstilevskia Allegedly, firing from various locations, since sounds have misc volume

19:15 #Donetsk @olgarjpthju [fb] Battle to the SW from #Staromykhaylivka, one can hear heavy MG, assault rifles, mortars

19:00 #Marinka @allex1984 it booms towards boarding school 19:25 Dense fire at UA positions

18:53 #Avdiivka @LuftGanza "I don't just write about, I think it's clear for so far"

18:05 #Makiivka #Daki[=http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=48.098002&lon=37.965124&z=16&m=b&show=/14156005 …] @n_vanilka
Heard well with closed windows

18:45 #Avdiivka @GirkinGirkin #Levanrskoho
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=48.134304&lon=37.779150&z=14&m=b&show=/street/16364270 …]:
well heard how it lands and explosions

17:45 #Avdiivka @tiamat007 Battle towards #Yasynuvata and vineyards
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=48.125768&lon=37.797260&z=13&m=b&show=/16888317/ …]
directions. Full set

17:26 @LuftGanza Here you are, Central-City ds of #Makiivka [hears] salvos fr/#Yakovlivka or #Donetsk #Kirovskyi ds

17:04 #Horlivka @ahab9889 All day battle was heard from #Ozeryanivka

OUTLAW 09
03-07-2016, 07:28 PM
Russian 15th Peacekeeping Brigade identified in eastern Ukraine......in German..

Kriegsverbrecher aus der russischen 15. "Friedensstifter"-Brigade im #Donbass:
https://informnapalm.org/de/15-friedensstifter-brigade-ineditum/ …

#Kyiv Says #Moscow Creating New #Army Corps Manned by Exclusively by Ukrainian Citizens

OUTLAW 09
03-07-2016, 08:23 PM
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty: Ukrainian journalist details her 419 days in captivity
http://bit.ly/1pbnX8K

Torture, political persecution, and police terror. This is eastern Ukraine’s new “peace.” Report by @pavlikmail.
https://meduza.io/en/feature/2016/03/07/locked-up-in-the-donbas …

OUTLAW 09
03-08-2016, 07:54 AM
A new study looks at Russia internet trolling directed against Latvia. A serious issue.
http://www.stratcomcoe.org/download/file/fid/3353 …

54 attacks of Russian militants on Ukrainian positions yesterday, near Avdiivka used tank

Russia'n-separatist troops use tanks in shelling of #Ukraine-controlled #Avdiivka.
https://twitter.com/24todaynetua/status/707117544562429952 …

OUTLAW 09
03-08-2016, 08:52 AM
Something interesting from Google Earth 2014.....that was not reported nor seen before.........

Google Earth seems to show Russian S300 missile launchers next to Ukrainian border 5-9-2014.
@47.8496686 38.8439463

Reference Russian shot down of NH17.....
You remember that July 16, 2014 video footage of the Ukrainian Buk? We (finally!) found it.
https://www.facebook.com/bellingcat/videos/vb.223038601217932/499462110242245/?type=2&theater …

Anna News message from 14-7-2014 says they locked BUK-M1 4 times on Ukraine airplanes.
http://web.archive.org/web/20150217193739/http://vk.com/wall-35276355_301081 …

Of course the Russian soldier who's phone was hacked, tries to take down the video about it.
https://twitter.com/newsburko/status/706807907766177793 …

OUTLAW 09
03-08-2016, 11:12 AM
A new study looks at Russia internet trolling directed against Latvia. A serious issue.
http://www.stratcomcoe.org/download/file/fid/3353 …

54 attacks of Russian militants on Ukrainian positions yesterday, near Avdiivka used tank

Russia'n-separatist troops use tanks in shelling of #Ukraine-controlled #Avdiivka.
https://twitter.com/24todaynetua/status/707117544562429952 …

20 Russian tanks took part in yesterday's battle near Yasynuvata. #EastUkraine

March 6 - Allegedly, Russian general Rustam Muradov came under fire near Yasynuvata.
#Russia|n #SOF sabotage&intelligence group...not rebels

OUTLAW 09
03-08-2016, 11:18 AM
Russian Army TV claims - falsely - that Ukraine has no hope of joining #NATO. Signal for more Russian aggression? https://twitter.com/zvezdanews/status/707158855285940225 …

Mar05 #Novoazovsk ds @GirkinGirkin "Purin's orcs fr/9th sep. motor rifle regiment have fun"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0A9sxW6yuCs …

OUTLAW 09
03-08-2016, 08:35 PM
Russian 'Former Fascist' Who Fought With Separatists Says Moscow Unleashed, Orchestrated Ukraine War
http://www.rferl.org/content/ukraine-russia-neo-nazi-fought-with-separatists-says-kremlin-behind-war/27598825.html …

GoogleEarth history pics of 05.09.2014 - Russia's military equipment crossed into Ukraine.
https://informnapalm.org/20837-google-earth-raskryvaet-sekrety-trofejnoj-tehniki-terroristov/


Terrorists leader told about the involvement of #Ukrainian oligarch to the puppet #Donbass republic
http://ukrainiancrusade.blogspot.com/2016/03/a-terr

Russia's military supplies arrived to occupied East Ukraine on March 7 - MoD Intelligence Directorate

Yasynuvata, "UAF attacking CP" #propaganda video, note *outgoing* fire :) @666_mancer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsenAeFzl04 …

Militants fail on cease-fire as Donetsk and Mariupol directions remain hottest, - ATO HQ
http://en.censor.net.ua/n378002

Militants attacked Ukrainian army positions near Avdiivka, Opytne, Luhanske, and Shyrokyne
http://en.censor.net.ua/n378050

6pm ATO HQ update: Militants used 120mm mortars at Opytne
pic.twitter.com/rlzFxEWiaE
http://liveuamap.com/en/2016/8-march-6pm-ato-hq-update-militants-used-120mm-mortars-at …

Horlivka: Ukrainian UAV flying over city
http://liveuamap.com/en/2016/8-march-horlivka-ukrainian-uav-flying-over-city …

Russian militants gained some land in Avdiivka Industrial zone
pic.twitter.com/MXpQpwsOs3
http://liveuamap.com/en/2016/8-march-russian-militants-gained-some-land-in-avdiivka-industrial …

Fighting reported near Yasinuvata by Russian joirnalists on the site
http://liveuamap.com/en/2016/8-march-fighting-reported-near-yasinuvata-by-russian-joirnalists …

Russia deployed Crimean Marines on the Mariupol direction, - intel
http://liveuamap.com/en/2016/8-march-russia-deployed-crimean-marines-on-the-mariupol-direction …

Militants non stop shelling Maryinka
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQAnGY6zwYA …
http://liveuamap.com/en/2016/8-march-militants-non-stop-shelling-maryinka …

OUTLAW 09
03-08-2016, 08:41 PM
3 day long Avdiivka battle 05/03 - 07/03 was directed personally by Zakharchenko, RU Special Rapid Response Unit http://liveuamap.com/en/2016/7-march-3-day-long-avdiivka-battle-0503--0703-was-directed …

As a result of fight in Avdiivka killed 9 Russian military, another 13 were injured
http://liveuamap.com/en/2016/8-march...lled-9-russian …

Russian militants yesterday
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdS5XLGSeXc …
pic.twitter.com/G9WLw6dPF3
http://liveuamap.com/en/2016/8-march-russian-militants-yesterday …