Russian (hybrid) "Vostok" army tank crews combat training (aka "tank biathlon") occupied-Donbas 22 Sep https://youtu.be/ubElh6SviJs?t=8s …
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Russian (hybrid) "Vostok" army tank crews combat training (aka "tank biathlon") occupied-Donbas 22 Sep https://youtu.be/ubElh6SviJs?t=8s …
Occupation: Tank crews and officers at Torez training ground wear Russian Federation badges not DPR/LPR pic.twitter.com/m4iG20Pjql
Russian armoured recovery vehicles (ARV) at Torez training ground, Donetsk 22 Sep https://youtu.be/d0Gi-XrYcLQ?t=593 … pic.twitter.com/142lWT37IM
Russian Tanks Appear In 'DNR Tank Biathlon' http://bit.ly/1LKORrz pic.twitter.com/rN4VSFc3mT
Conclusive evidence:
The 6th Armored Brigade of the RF defeated Ukr armed forces in #Ilovaisk
http://censor.net.ua/photo_news/3529...orassledovanie … pic.twitter.com/bOOcB3OukV
One of the best satellite-based analysis of the Russian army invasion & battle for #Ilovaisk.
http://ukraineatwar.blogspot.fi/search/label/Ilovaisk … pic.twitter.com/lwgAB6WPvj
Russian trolls just keep on stating it was the artillery that defeated the Ukrainians not Russian troops----
UkrCyborgs 93rd Brigade post video clips of battle for #DonetskAirport https://inforesist.org/bojcy-93-j-br...ckij-aeroport/ … pic.twitter.com/JdEmyT3kQo
VIDEO #Ukraine SBU arrest a #Putin "DNR" artillery spotter passing info to #Russia(n) gunners https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=3&v=b0mZkutFdBY … pic.twitter.com/0cJPELjDSq
Appears Russia needs to reread the treaty----
MFA Russia ✔ @mfa_russia
#US plans to modernize nukes in #Germany infringe Nuclear Weapons Non-Proliferation Treaty http://sputniknews.com/europe/20150922/1027333999.html … pic.twitter.com/8RuOw85ls0
Appears that Russia is now starting a slow step up in attacks again--from zero to four daily to now nine--slow but steady increases.
For a number of reasons;
1. Russian buildup resistance by US and ME Sunni players is higher than Russia anticipated--Russian opinion polling shows an unusually high Russian resistance to it as well
2. Tartar blockade of Crimea is now actually smoothly going forward thus Russia will be forced to feed Crimea themselves and there is a blockade starting yesterday on the Transistrian border that will force Russia to also feed them
Kind of a reverse non linear warfare via food blockades----
Acc. to ATO press office there were 9 ceasefire-violations yday in #Donbas. UAF pos. at #Mayorsk were under small arms, RPG fire fr 6PM-7PM.
All trucks at Chonhar returned back to mainland, 25 stand at Kalanchak, 49 at Chaplynka, neither let into #Crimea https://www.facebook.com/kivailya/posts/522183917939763 …
Not a single food delivery truck is getting into Crimea now—AND Russian Crimea leader claimed Russia could replace the average 7-8K tons of food daily within two weeks BUT not a single 18 wheeler has been seen on the Kerch ferry runs---reverse non linear warfare?
Mobile checkpoints for Kherson battalion installed at admin border as #Crimeablockade goes on https://www.facebook.com/kivailya/posts/522183917939763 … pic.twitter.com/izAoerdtHB
Press Officer: Situation in sector C worsened. Whole evening militants fired on positions near Luhanske & Svitlodarsk
http://112.ua/ato/boeviki-vchera-poc...in-260139.html …
Rus proxies fired 9 times upon Ukr troops on 22 Sep, used grenade launchers, small arms in Artemivsk, Luhansk sector https://www.facebook.com/ato.news/po...71777849499687 …
Rus proxies fired 9 times upon Ukr troops on 22 Sep, used grenade launchers, small arms in Artemivsk, Luhansk sector https://www.facebook.com/ato.news/po...71777849499687 …
More paranoid apocalyptic fictions from Russian "media":
REN TV: "US prepares for #nuclear conflict in #Donbass."
https://twitter.com/rentvchannel/sta...60398334914560 …
Greece got over 450 billion € from #EU, but still blocks 2 key EU projects:
1) #Macedonia Naming Dispute
2) #Ukraine Association Agreement
Ukrainian Military Reports Attacks Throughout Almost All Of Last Night Near Gorlovka http://www.interpretermag.com/ukrain...orlovka/#10111 … pic.twitter.com/eQujSSF4tg
Col. Andriy Lysenko: Ukrainian deminers continue disarming mine traps lodged by militants pic.twitter.com/znFidorbbR
Col. Lysenko: 16 trucks transported 275 tons of food products donated by @ICRC to residents of the occupied territories
Massive Deployment of Russian Troops & Equipment from Occupied Abkhazia: https://en.informnapalm.org/massive-...is-registered/ … via @en_informnapalm pic.twitter.com/OqFWUtZH73
ATO spokesperson: UA police blocked a channel of illegal coal supply from temporary occupied territories pic.twitter.com/sxfx58KQCG
Col. Lysenko: SBU @ServiceSsu detained an official from Luhansk region who is accused in collaboration with militants of so-called “LPR”
Col. Andriy Lysenko: One flight of enemy UAV was recorded near Talakivka village
Col. Lysenko: Donetsk sector: Militants used grenade launchers & small arms firing at UA positions near Svitlodarsk water reservoir
ATO spox: Luhansk sector: 1 hostile armed provocation was recorded near Sokilnyky village: militants attacked with grenade launchers
Col. Andriy Lysenko: Ukrainian Armed Forces did not incur any casualties; no single Ukrainian serviceman was wounded in action
ServiceSsu detained the administrator of the anti-Ukrainian groups in social networks http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/23-sept...-antiukrainian … pic.twitter.com/ngGqCbl2yZ
7FBTK @7FBTK
#russiannavy SSC-1B Sepal + SSC-3 Styx coastal defense cruise missiles launched http://militarynews.ru/story.asp?rid=1&nid=389902 … pic.twitter.com/Vn6YO4jQNO
Just in case Russian Embassy UK later deletes this tweet (as the Ambassador did) pic.twitter.com/nMwoMdfxV3
Oh look..#Russia's Ambassador is mimicking Peskov's veiled threat to Germany earlier today.
https://twitter.com/rianru/status/646601967540830208 …
Reference the BUK used to shot down MH17----
VIDEO 2nd of 3 additional videos on #MH17 crash after being shot down https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFaUbrdZlMg … pic.twitter.com/KPDnzK6O6S
Deploying Iskander-M systems to Kaliningrad is a perennial Russian threat eg http://sputniknews.com/military/20140507/189649212.html … & http://sputniknews.com/us/20150528/1022658842.html …
#Ukraine 's trade blockade against Russia spreads to Transnistria border http://flip.it/7TVBV
http://www.interpretermag.com/moscow...y-experts-say/
Moscow Pushing Mensk Around on Air Base, Belarusian Security Experts Say
September 23, 2015
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Quote:
Staunton, September 22 The Mensk Center for Strategic and Foreign Policy Research says that Moscow has not succeeded in gaining the agreement of the Belarusian side to the establishment of a Russian airbase in Belarus but is going ahead anyway, confident that it can push Mensk around given Alyaksandr Lukashenka’s lack of allies elsewhere.
In a report released September 22, the Center points out that even the language the Russians used when they announced that Vladimir Putin had been presented with an accord on the issue on September 2 shows that there was no agreement to the base from the Belarusian side.
The Russian side described the accord as one that had been “worked up with the Belarusian side” rather than the traditional terminology, “agreed to” by both. This means, the report continues, that over the last three months, “consensus on the issue of creating a Russian air base” in Belarus “had not been achieved.”
It also means that the Moscow announcement “is a unilateral initiative” by the Russian side and intended to “accelerate the process” toward an agreement “by the Belarusian side.” And that is the case, the report continues, even though Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev declared that an agreement “should be signed at a comfortable time” for Mensk.
That formulation too is important, the Belarusian Center report continues, because the current moment is “extremely unfavorable” from the point of view of the Belarusian side. First of all, “almost half of the population of the country – more than 45 percent – are against” an agreement. Lukashenka would not want to offend voters just before the presidential election.
Second, the report continues, “the creation of a Russian military base in Belarus instantly crosses out the diplomatic efforts of Mensk, undertaken in 2014-2015 in support of the peace process in Ukraine.” A base would cost Mensk its “neutral status” and undermine Ukraine’s trust in Mensk.
Third, the establishment of such a base would “complicate [Belarusian] relations with Western partners and in fact stop the process of normalization which has been going on for several years.” That in turn would reduce the chances that Belarus could get loans from the IMF or other international bodies.
And fourth, “the establishment of a Russian military base would mean the drawing in of Mensk into the logic of confrontation in Eastern Europe, something which would have negative consequences for Belarus’ cooperation with China” and especially with the possibility that Belarus would be part of a new China-sponsored Silk Road to Europe.
In addition to the issue of timing, there are serious questions arising from the draft agreement. The agreement as written opens the way for further Russian expansion of its forces in Belarus and seeks to force Mensk to agree to any of them in advance, something that a sovereign government inevitably will resist.
The draft accord also includes a “no less strange” provision calling for the base to be used to repel” acts of armed aggression by international terrorist formations,” a proposition that given Moscow’s tendency to refer to Ukrainian resistance as terrorist opens the door for the use of this base against Belarusians as well.
The accord also gives the base commander a unilateral right to make use of Belarusian airspace, a provision that could be used to introduce forces into Belarus against its will that could threaten Ukraine, Poland and the Baltic countries and at the very least raise tensions across the entire region.
And perhaps most worrisome of all, the accord says that Russian military personnel based there can be used “outside the boundaries of the base” if the Belarusian side is kept informed. How that could be used is obvious given how Moscow made use of Russian military personnel in Crimea.
In short, this accord would drag Belarus into a new cold war with the West, “a development of events which for Belarus would be a catastrophe,” the report concludes. But it points out that this would have negative consequences for Russia as well because it would further isolate Russia and keep it from going beyond its raw materials-based economy.
“War, the escalation of tensions in Eastern Europe, Central Asia and the entire post-Soviet space destroys the chance for development” in Russia, the report says. “This is obvious including from the publicly recognized failure of the import substitution policy in Russia over the last years.”
One of the authors of this report, Yury Tsarik, repeated its arguments to Kseniya Kirillova, adding importantly that at his September 18 meeting with Vladimir Putin, Lukashenka continued to resist signing the base accord despite Russian pressure for him to do so and an indications Moscow will go ahead regardless.
"DNR" will break Minsk agreement and declare war if #Kyiv will hold referendum on accession to NATO http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/23-sept...nt-and-declare …
Zakharchenko playing his role perfectly: If Ukraine moves toward NATO rebels will restart war http://www.pravda.com.ua/rus/news/2015/09/23/7082382/ … pic.twitter.com/Q4fgf6riqe
BUT is not eastern Ukraine Ukrainian so how can a Ukraine declare war on a Ukraine??????
At least even the Russian FM says eastern Ukraine is in fact Ukrainian-----
More Russian lies----they based the SS20 in 1976 in theory as the “response to the Pershing 2 based in 1983—anyone see a problem here????
NOW---
Russia may put missiles in Kaliningrad if U.S. upgrades nuclear arms in Germany - Interfax
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/...0RN12920150923 …
Russia has had the SS21 in and out of Kaliningrad over the last year so what is new there????? AND just how to we know it is not there—Russia stated they had withdrawn it the last time but there was no verification at all—so is it still there?????
Russian building a second large military base next to the Ukrainian border----
"The guys from Nizhny Novgorod are already here [at Boguchar]" http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/...0RN1P120150923 … VK site of one of the units: https://vk.com/army54046
AND we heard about the base development at Boguchar HERE first. Full credit to @russiandefpolic :)
Original source (in Russian) http://4725.ru/news/sobutiya/08/2015/1360752793.html …
More details on new Russian 20th Combined Arms Army garrison for 5,200 soldiers at Boguchar, Voronezh region. 26 Aug https://translate.google.ie/translat...tml&edit-text= …
And you thought World of Tanks was only a virtual game.
(DNR organizes first-ever "Tank Divisions Competition" pic.twitter.com/eRe97TXngb
Coincidentally Russia is investigating World of Tanks for possible revealing of secret information.
RFE/RL gives @askai707 some well-deserved praise in new article on his work on Russia's 6th Tank Brigade in Ilovaysk: http://www.rferl.mobi/a/27265175.html
Russian TV recently: destroying imported food vital for Russia’s security
Today: Ukraine’s blockade of Crimea unacceptable, food will spoil.
Russia Update: Kremlin Does Not Confirm Claim that Putin and Obama Will Meet at UNGA http://bit.ly/1WiL8ZH pic.twitter.com/uPTSE2edey
Putin said that Islam is one of #Russia's State religions? News to me... https://twitter.com/dimsmirnov175/st...14459939733504 …
Sounds like Kremlin messaging to folks in Syria/Iraq: "Please don't hurt our troops, pretty please!"
Old Russian Cold War TTP----------
AN-26 (!), SU-25, MIG-29 Belorussian AF drilled landing on road near Minsk today via BELTA pic.twitter.com/1zbQ8gLhfw
This matter-of-fact statement, from an internal DNR report from 27 Aug'15, hacked today by Anonymous International.
pic.twitter.com/iPywQLwc5l
DIVIDE & CONQUER or DELUSIONAL RUSSIA?
TASS: "UKRAINE PREPARES A SPECIAL ARMY UNIT TO PROTECT ITSELF FROM ROMANIA"
http://www.b1.ro/stiri/externe/rusia...ra-125602.html …
Huh, REN TV has deleted their tweet. Guess it was a little too embarrassing, even by Russian propaganda standards.
https://twitter.com/ystriya/status/646580894778683392 …
Russia outraged by blockade of #Crimea intending to wage grievance to international organizations. http://en.censor.net.ua/n353111