Avdiivka "Unreal battle overnight, in the morning there was incoming fire and artillery working"
http://liveuamap.com/en/2016/20-apri...in-the-morning …
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Avdiivka "Unreal battle overnight, in the morning there was incoming fire and artillery working"
http://liveuamap.com/en/2016/20-apri...in-the-morning …
Russian govt is like “a car on a slippery road; accelerate or suddenly stop, in both cases a crash is inevitable."
http://bit.ly/1XJ1QS8
Reuters Opinion
✔ @ReutersOpinion When it comes to aerial and maritime confrontations, Russia is taking too many risks:
http://reut.rs/1r0oOda
Russia’s Surging Electronic Warfare Capabilities
http://bit.ly/1rhYfjU
EU sanctions against Russia to remain in place until full implementation of Minsk deal:...
http://www.unian.info/politics/13254...l-juncker.html …
Former Soviet Fighter Pilot: Russian Jets ‘More Aggressive’ Than During Cold War
http://dailysign.al/1SaQhD3
via @nolanwpeterson
Michael Weiss
✔ @michaeldweiss Actually, the CIA plans (50 of them, in fact) were to overthrow Assad:
http://us11.campaign-archive2.com/?u...7&e=bfd9a9c43c …
Former U.S. Secretary of State @Madeleine Albright & Russia’s “useful idiots”
http://euromaidanpress.com/2016/04/2...useful-idiots/ …
22:34 #Avdiivka @tiamat007 Battle towards #Butovka shaft. Small arms after heavies
22:38 Again incomings
22:34 #Avdiivka @VadyXaXa Artillery (or tank, but not one pc), plus, small arms - #Promka
22:39 #Avdiivka @LuftGanza Something big lands, flashes, rain
NATO Rebukes Russia Over #Ukraine, `Dangerous' Armed Behavior
http://bloom.bg/1SZlpBR
US Official says Russian TOS-1 are in Donbas, Ukraine.
https://twitter.com/PaulSonne/status/722897265870778368 …
Let's see.....a SU24 flying at X miles per hour doing a fly by of the tower at 30 feet in complete violation of the 1972 Seas Agreement is WHAT.......?????
Russia accuses US of intimidation in Baltic Sea incident
http://ift.tt/26fY1cR
51st Russian army supply convoy entered Ukraine
http://liveuamap.com/en/2016/21-apri...ntered-ukraine …
pic.twitter.com/6PiXgNyZje
1200 tons of whatever as they are never controlled BUT amazingly they show up either just before a major offensive or right after an offensive...just a routine Russian military resupply...has nothing to do with their claim of humanitarian aid.....
They ran out of munitions and fuel thus the low level of attacks yesterday.....33.....and then the sudden Russian "aid" deliveries......
Donetsk 7:52AM
"In the airport area - mortar and something similar to BMP. Round the clock already, it seems."[
https://twitter.com/idinmor/status/723011438068011008 …
NOTICE not a single comment by Kerry, Nuland, Obama, Hollande or Merkel about the latest round of extremely heavy Russian fighting and shelling's.....not a single comment....nor for that matter virtually nothing from western MSM.....
'Putin is smart, but truly an evil man' - Ex U.S. Secretary of State
http://24today.net/open/655417
Reference Russian info warfare against Europe....and social media....
Yesterday Russian media tried to discredit @eu_eeas & @EUvsDisinfo. Today they're going after @edwardlucas & @cepa. http://ria.ru/accents/20160420/1415677615.html …
Appears the info war pushback from social media and EU anti info war orgs are starting to grate on the Russians........
AND THIS will not help them much in their info war efforts....
Inspired by @EliotHiggins, Google’s New YouTube App Crowdsources War Reporting with the help of @Storyful
http://www.wired.com/2016/04/googles...war-reporting/ … via WIRED
Social media open source analysis has now gone mainstream.....will be interesting to see if western MSM keeps up.....
Eliot Higgins @EliotHiggins
Details about Montage, the new conflict video analysis platform
https://medium.com/jigsaw/montage-th...aff#.nqpk2btk5 …
Access it here http://montage.storyful.com
New type of export from #Ukraine to #Russia under war conditions, read:
http://goo.gl/ZiQAUD
Quote:
38 boxes with "cargo 200" (Cargo 200 is a code word, refers to bodies contained in zinc-lined coffins) were transported from the conflict zone in Donbass to the territory of Russia in the night on April 16 according to report of the Ukrainian intelligence service. The trucks with the bodies crossed the state border in the former checkpoint "Donetsk - Donetsk."
We assume, that among those 38 bodies was nine of those Russian soldiers of a separate assault battalion, who previously were taken to the morgue of Yasynuvata town after battles in Avdyivka.
By occupying Crimea, Putin overturned assumptions on which the post–Cold War Euro order had rested. -@ForeignAffairs
https://goo.gl/bLqi5Z
BUT remember Obama called the Russian armored invasion of eastern an "incursion" and since then has not had much interest in settling the issue outside is issuing just words and more words as he is retrenching in Europe as he already has retrenched in the ME.....the next US President will be digging themselves out of one deep deep cave.....as we are long past the "deep hole stage".
Remember two years ago when the Russian Army invaded eastern Ukraine all the UAF had initially was a bunch of "volunteer" BNs fighting a well trained Russian army with whatever weapons and radios they could find and or purchase.....example..in the Donetsk Airport they fought a 242 day battle being virtually surrounded and gained the UAF time to rebuild before ebing over run by Russian Spetsnaz. Breaking along the way the Stalingrad record.
Since then the UAF has built an impressive 250,000 man army similar to building a sailing ship in the middle of a hurricane all the while fighting a well armed and supplied Russian Army and has basically fought them to a stand still ground offensive after ground offensive inflicting this round a high number of Russian regular troop loses in killed and wounded.
Chairman of NATO Mil. Committee: Ukrainian army achieved impressive results of work considering ongoing hostilities.
http://24today.net/open/655653
Zaharchenko in interview to Komsomolska Pravda's Steshin & Kots: U.S. UAVs from Italy flying over our cities ......
Also usual songs about "If we were allowed - captured Kyiv in few days", "Ukrainians are brothers" and back to USSR http://www.kp.ru/daily/26517.4/3536279/ …
Unbelievable Russian hypocrisy.
#Grushkos: There can be no improvement in ties until the US-led alliance withdraws from Russia's borders.
'We will respond with all necessary measures': #Russia warns America after buzzing US Navy warship.
http://dailym.ai/1pk0kdj
BUT WAIT the US naval ship was in the middle of the Baltic international water lanes and nowhere close to Russian borders.....????
So, NATO and Russia had their first big chat in two years. It didn't go very well. Latest from me and @peterhobson15 https://twitter.com/moscowtimes/stat...45107905552384 …
Col. Oleksandr Motuzyanyk: As reported by UA mil intel, during previous 3 days, 10 militants were killed & 13 more wounded in ATO area
ATO spox: Yesterday, Ukrainian Armed Forces did not incur any casualties, 4 UA soldiers were wounded near Avdiyivka
Col. Motuzyanyk: Mariupol sector: Maryinka – epicenter of hostilities; enemy snipers were active
Col. Oleksandr Motuzyanyk: Luhansk sector: Militants violated cease-fire regime in Shchastya & near Popasna
ATO spokesperson: Donetsk sector: militants were most active near Avdiyivka; other hotspots: Zaytseve & near Donetsk airport
Benefits for militants?
19 Russian-backed separatist "officials" receive regular payments as internally displaced persons
The SBU also discovered a scheme by which over 600,000 were claiming IDP status and receiving payments and that 10% was actually long dead.....Quote:
So-called officials from the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic, which is considered a terrorist organisation, received social benefits from Ukrainian authorities as internally displaced persons.
The scheme was uncovered by Ukraine's Security Service (SBU). 19 Russian-backed separatist self-appointed representatives registered on the government-controlled territories as the persons, who were forced to flee their homes, and then sent couriers to get their money.
At the moment, all payments have been stopped.
Soviet....ah now Russian style corruption dies hard in Ukraine these days....
Ukraine is making preparations to cut off #freshwater supply to #Russia|n-annexed #Crimea:
http://rus.newsru.ua/ukraine/21apr20...vaetdambu.html …
Madeleine Albright: Putin is an "evil man". In the short-term, I think his goal is to undermine and split the EU.
http://www.newsweek.com/putin-smart-
@AlRFORCEFREAK Update: RUS M-55 crossed FIN territory cruising at 57000 feet, also on radar. Strange, very strange
Extreme rare visitor RUS Myasishchev M-55 noted in Swedish Lapland.
https://www.flightradar24.com/AZAZ909/97ac8d3
NATO Says 1,000 Pieces Of Military Equipment Crossed From Russia Into Ukraine In One Year
http://bit.ly/1VmPOQL
Intelligence named Russian servicemen responsible for drug and weapon smuggling in #Donbas.
http://novosti.dn.ua/details/273244/
Hundreds of unmarked graves and flags of ‘Novorosia’ - one of militants unveils ‘Donets
http://24today.net/open/655811
Hi-tech kit for Russian military aggression...
https://twitter.com/RostecRussia/sta...58363282894849 …
Ukrainian border guards recorded large-scale deliveries of "special vehicles" from Russia to occupied territories http://qha.com.ua/en/society/russia-...donbas/136906/ …
Quote:
Oleh Slobodian, Spokesman for the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine, said that the vehicle shipment (100 units) has been delivered through a closed checkpoint "Dolzhansky."
“On April 18, Russia started unauthorized deliveries of large-scale shipment (over 100 units) of special vehicles allegedly for the needs of the so-called "Ministry of Emergency Situations of the separatist quasi-public unit" through a closed checkpoint Dolzhansky," said the Spokesman at a briefing in Kyiv, as reported by UNIAN.
According to Slobodian, special vehicles are supposed to be fire trucks, tank trucks and rescue vehicles.
He also added that Russia plans to complete the deliveries of specialized vehicles until 28 April.
Can any SWJ commenter explain this action on the part of the Obama WH????
Obama fails to mention #Russian jets buzzing Navy ship during talk with Putin
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/...-buzzing-navy/ …
NATO chief rejects Russian claims of civil war in Ukraine
http://europe.newsweek.com/nato-dism...ukraine-450617 …
Expecting sharp increase in ceasefire violations this night, despite April's trend
The Ukrainian scenario – a pro-#Russia'n military alliance calls for a war against #Bulgaria
https://informnapalm.org/en/ukrainia...-war-bulgaria/ …
Russian shelling's and ground attacks are picking up now......
16:50 #Khanzhonkove @666_mancer started to shell, like #Yakovlivka
16:59 [#Yasynuvata] @GirkinGirkin [vk?] batle started, #Yasynuvata #GAI_post - #Promka
17:03 #Donetsk #Scheglovka @Dniproazotec Sounds of battle just intensify...
Violence in East Ukraine grows, as both sides of the conflict moved close to the contact line - OSCE SMM
http://uacrisis.org/42353-osce-smm-6 …
17:06 NE #Donetsk @Shymanovski Smoke can be seen towards #Yakovlivka and firing for about 15 min
17:10 #Makiivka @VasyaMakeevskiy frequent booms westwards
17:12 #Makiivka @PriestEtlau pretty loud ones
17:33 #Makiivka #Gvardeyka @Palchakkk Strong explosions in the area of #Yasynuvata #GAI_post - #Mineralne, "descent" combat
17:34 #Donetsk @rjpthjuljytwr [fb] From #Krasnyi_Pakhar one can hear heavies, the west
#Gvardeyka: northwest rumbles loudly
17:42 #Donetsk @rjpthjuljytwr [fb] #Zaperevalna can hear very heavy salvos
18:00 #Donetsk #Abakumova @rjpthjuljytwr Shells land in vicinity, like at fields, medium arms' pats are heard... probably W, cannot hear N
18:42 [#Avdiivka area] @AMykhailova A mortar is working at #Butovka shaft, route and bridge. A bit of incoming AGLs
18:45 #Yasynuvata #GAI_post -#Promka @GirkinGirkin [vk?] again light artillery and small arms
18:45 #Makiivka @Bogolyb7 One can hear heavy machine gun fire towards #Yasynuvata and smth heavier periodically
18:48 #Makiivka #Gvardeyka @Palchakkk #Mineralne-#Yakovlivka - intense battle - heavy small arms and arty