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Yasinuvata 30.03.2016: Russian military equipment on the street. Presumably new MLRS Uragan
pic.twitter.com/tuEJ20QzGU
http://liveuamap.com/en/2016/31-marc...y-equipment-on …
Ukraine: Sep's have brought 4 Giatsint nr Yasnyvaty 8 km from front line banned by Minsk
http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2016/03/31/7104034/ …
Russian ground attacks and heavy shelling's kept up the entire night and into the early morning today.....
06:22 #Donetsk #Proletarskyi @DoneckiiPatriot very far salvos are audible
77 hostile attacks upon Ukr troops over last day. Avdiivka remains hottest spot. Intense attacks in Mariupol sector - ATO press center
Mariupol is becoming a critical point ...if taken then it lends itself to the Russian military pushing all the way to Odessa and linking Crimea to their Moldavian enclave....and giving their "New Russia" a major harbor and cutting the Ukraine from the sea.
06:25 #Donetsk #Schetinina @DoneckiiPatriot Now closer single salvos. 06:26 and again sounds like starts
A serious battle has been under here for over 14 hours on and off.....now strong Russian attacks again....
Yasynuvata 6:42AM
"Ongoing battle! Shooting with everything they got!"
https://twitter.com/swetlaha1706/sta...46009008246784 …
Yasynuvata 6:40AM
Sounds like battle at Promka, periodically tank firing.
https://twitter.com/GirkinGirkin/sta...46521615048705 …
The entire front line was under attack for most of yesterday and into this morning.....this Russian slow stepped ground offensive is picking up in both intensity and attacks numbers...STILL not a single comment by any western leader...ie Obama, Merkel or Hollande.
Makiivka 6:50AM
"Very loud, sounds like at Butovka mine."
https://twitter.com/GirkinGirkin/sta...48935554441217 …
Makiivka 6:20AM
Artillery working.
https://twitter.com/AlexDobrov666/st...42403928461312 …
Donetsk 6:30AM
Northwest, heavy canonade.
https://twitter.com/BylByleva/status/715747363655131138 …
Russia has been demanding that the US pressure the Ukrainians to hold elections in their occupied zones under Minsk 2 and from all the major Russian attacks and heavy artillery next to the forward line Russia itself is in FULL violation of Minsk 2 and has never implemented a single point in Minsk 2 YET literally demands elections to give their occupied zone a "semi legal status".....
Poroshenko: Current situation in Donbas makes holding local elections there impossible
http://en.interfax.com.ua/news/general/334635.html …
06:32 #Yenakiieve @ZloyEnakievec Tracked hardware clattered along #Yenakiieve-#Donetsk route
06:45 #Donetsk @rjpthjuljytwr [fb]
#Kalininskyi #DOB: heavy salvos, north
#Naberezhna can hear far salvos to the north, not a good morning
Russian info war paranoia hard at work........
A presenter on Vesti FM just called opposition activists traitors & said West is plotting regime change in RUS. Does he really believe that?
Putin does.......
UAF is indicating that this battle area is now quiet....confirmation coming via locals as well.......Russian loses are said to be high.......
09:10 #Yasynuvata @GirkinGirkin [vk?] #Melnytsia: sunny and windy. Quiet
BUT not so in other locations along the front line......
10:00 #Makiivka @tov_sobakin [ok.ru]
#Gvardeyka, mil comissariat: noisy
#Vostochnyi2:rumbles strongly
#Pastukhivka: hearing it loud&powerful
Russia just keeps on holding onto the Russia NATO Accord which they themselves killed by annexing Crimea and invading eastern Ukraine.
NOTICE Russia is never ever at fault for anything.....it's always NATO, US or Europeans that are at fault........BUT again today is "April Fools Day"
More:
http://tass.ru/en/politics/866497
Diplomat: Deployment of US forces in Europe on rotation basis against Russia-NATO accords
Russian Politics & Diplomacy
April 01, 4:21
NOTE: A large majority of the Russian snap military exercises from 2014 to 2016 were never as required registered in advance and have to a degree always exceeded the numbers of participants covered in the agreement....OVER that Russia says nothing....Quote:
MOSCOW, April 1. /TASS/. Russia does not accept the attempts to justify the deployment of more NATO forces in Europe by the claims troops are being deployed on the basis of rotation, as this rotation is indefinite, the Russian ambassador to NATO, Alexander Grushko said in an interview with the Izvestia daily.
"A surplus armored brigade, which is said to consolidate NATO's eastern flank, runs counter to the letter and spirit of the Russia-NATO Founding Act on Mutual Relations, Cooperation and Security," he said. "NATO took a pledge to refrain from an additional deployment of considerable combat forces permamently under its provisions and we've said more than once that an indefinite rotation is in no way different from permanent deployment."
Along with it, Grushko said NATO's actions in Europe stood at variance with the provisions of the Founding Act even from a formal angle of view.
"Construction of two bases of the European segment of the global antiballistic missile system is underway," he said. "The base in Romania has reached the phase of operation readiness and its transfer to NATO's command has been scheduled for May.'
"Construction of a facility in Poland continues, too," Grushko said. "These bases already meet the criteria of strategic significance and are permanent."
Arms control regime in Europe is dead
According to the diplomat, the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) has no links with reality because NATO countries are not ready to support its adaptation to new conditions. For that reason, the arms control regime is practically non-existent.
"Since the CFE [Treaty - TASS] has lost all links with reality, it can be said that today the arms control regime in Europe is dead. That makes the security situation even more complicated. But it is the NATO countries’ choice," Grushko told Izvestia.
He explained that the CFE regime had initially implied full exchange of information and a reliable inspection regime.
"Early in the 1990s it became clear the treaty was no longer complying with new political realities. Negotiations on its adaptation got under way. Those efforts ended with the signing an Agreement on Adaptation of the CFE Treaty," Grushko went on to say.
"That regime was more adapted to the new realities. For example, it envisaged concrete mechanisms for using political instruments in case the forces deployed exceed certain limits," he added.
Grushko also said that Russia had ratified the Agreement on Adaptation of the CFE Treaty in 2004.
"However, the NATO countries kept delaying its ratification under far-fetched pretexts. As a result, the agreement has never come into force and the arms control regime has been eroded," the Russian diplomat said.
HAS anyone told the Russians that it is 2016 not the 1990s????
BTW:
Today's Nezav.Gaz warns that "the latest spiral in the arms race" between Russia & West "may soon overtake cold war levels by speed/scale"
Actually this time driven by the Russians not the US that is now playing catch up.....
Yesterday, situation in E. Ukraine furtherly escalated. Enemy used 122mm, 152mm artillery to shell UA positions – #ATO Spokesperson
Pro-Russian attacks are on a 7-months high.
Mounting casualties among Ukrainian troops.
Germany demands election ... https://twitter.com/uaunderattacken/...35552768081921 …
In Luhansk sector, militants breached ceasefire 4 times in Popasna district. Mortars, anti-aircraft guns, other weapons used – #ATO Spox
Hostilities along entire contact line in Donetsk sector with hotspots in Zaytseve, Avdiyivka – #ATO Spokesperson
In Luhanske enemy shelled ATO forces by IFV with 73mm artillery – #ATO Spokesperson
In Mariupol sector, enemy opened fire at UA positions in Maryinka, Novotroitske, area Hnutove-Shyrokyne – #ATO Spokesperson
Overall, 26 enemy attacks with half of them with heavy weapons registered in Mariupol sector over day – #ATO Spokesperson
1 serviceman KIA among Ukrainian troops in the #warzone in E #Ukraine during the last 24h, and 8 WIA.Details on
http://empr.media soon
Interesting that Russsia has not pushed back on the BILD report of their total Russian governmental agency control of their occupied zone
No official denial of @BILD's #RussiaRulesDonbass report.
Just desperate attempts by its media tools.
https://twitter.com/MuradoRT/status/715825030047916032 …
A solid indirect statement on their part that the leaked documents are accurate.
Russian shelling's and ground attacks are now ongoing for over 72 plus hours non stop....Russian slow stepped ground offensive is getting stronger.
UAF is only returning fire when they have clear shots.....Russians are firing using the local civilians as human shields to prevent the UAF from returning fire on them.
11:35 #Stepne @Darren_Aro Since 9am it is not calm in vicinity, but the wind distorts the direction of booms
12:06 #Makiivka @PVB40 [fb] #Makiivka listens to heavy salvos
12:07 #Horlivka [pro-RU source] @phoenix_dnr Just now there are not bad landings at #Zaytseve
Horse-trading is under way. Russian Investigative Comm Spox V Markin says #Savchenko swap possible if it's for 'good & honest' Russians.
"Good and honest" might be if Russia finally fulfills a key portion of the Minsk 2 agreement...immediate return of all Ukrainian POWs and she was captured inside Ukraine and then taken to Russia which Russia has repeatedly stated did not happen.....
March 2016....
Combat losses of Ukrainian Army ...
Total: 19 KIA, 125 WIA
https://twitter.com/Liveuamap/status/715838207145979905 …
Ukrainian Armed Forces has gone to full combat alert tonight on the Mariupol front line.......
UAF near #Mariupol put on full combat alert due to militants' attacks yesterday.
http://novosti.dn.ua/details/272254/
Another day, another video of heavy fighting around Avdiivka
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tS1BIpAlnl0 …
23:20 #Donetsk @rjpthjuljytwr [fb] #Motodrome: The north is heard heavily since 22:50 till now, in both directions
23:30 #Makiivka @VasyaMakeevskiy Seldom salvos towards #Mineralne
Not that intense as yday in Donetsk. Unusual things: #Pervomaysk heard gunnery, #Luhansk prob AA missile
23:00 #Donetsk @LifeInDonetsk Firing
23:03 #Avdiivka @tiamat007 #Opytne dir'n is heard or further to the east, grenade launchers
Luhansk @l_vinchenso [vk] "Bright flying up line, then ike fireworks in silence, then blast
22:40 #Luhansk @l_vinchenso [vk] the explosion was heard at #Mirnyi,#center,#Kambrod, #Hayovoho. #Lisotorhovyi- 'jet engine & boom then'
AA missile fired??????
@GeoVit72 It was ground-to-air [missile], probably AAS Osa or Strela
22:05 #Donetsk #Kirovskyi ds @UKara4en #Trudovski direction still booms sporadically
23:03 #Makiivka @VasyaMakeevskiy something strong 2 times towards #Mineralne-#Yasynuvata
21:12 #Horlivka #Stroitel @ahab9889 Firing towards #Shyroka_Balka.
21:46 Vasilek?
21:48 a signal flare, like yellow
20:56 #Marinka @666_mancer [vk] booms and small arms towards #Novomarinka
The "DNR" rebel army says 28 of its troops were killed in fighting the Ukrainian army during the last 4 weeks.
- DAN News
Russian tactic is that the loss figure is more accurate when it is 10X the reported numbers.......thus 280 is closer to the actual truth.
NewsMap
Heavy fighting as Ukrainian troops defend the frontline in #Avdeevka.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tS1BIpAlnl0 …
WHY has Obama in almost eight years not seriously called out the clear Russian INF violations and still does not nor clearly stated that the Russians have developed their first strike use of tactical nuclear weapons and have exercised that doctrine repeatedly in the last two years....
Obama blames Putin for slowing the progress of nuclear arms reduction — via @RFERL
http://read.bi/22X9XkL
slon.ru/posts/66002
@Stanovaya argues Putin is suffering Khorodkovsky’s fate, “caught” in corruption ubiquitous among Russia’s powerful.
Will Ukraine and the West acknowledge the real occupation of the Donbas?: Quite a few discoveries that are pro...
http://bit.ly/1PLMrui
Russians plan provocations against Ukrainian forces, civilians in #Donbas on Apr 4-9: #Ukraine intel
http://www.unian.info/war/1306803-ru...ine-intel.html …
This week the Germany MSM outlet BILD released tightly held Russian documents depicting the extent of the Russian takeover of eastern Ukraine which now appears to be a full scale Russian annexation which flies in the face of Minsk 2 and the constant Russian statements they are fulfilling Minsk 2.
Evidence that the article was highly accurate was and still is the complete Russian no response to the article and just a tad of counter Russian troll activity as they seemed to not understand just how to respond.
Over the last day or two there has been indirect but direct confirmation of the article by some who are involved in the various Russian "Commissions".....
DTEK employee A. Smirnov confirms commission existence, meeting time & place and dealing with coal exports.
http://biz.nv.ua/publications/kogda-...sa-107388.html …
GAME OVER.
Ukrainian DTEK employee A. Smirnov confirms presence in the Russian commission, governing #Donbass.
Normally Russian info war would be all over this BILD article BUT it is strangely silent this time around......
Nothing like getting called out by western media AND not a single comment from any western leader specifically Obama...why is that?????
Latitude 67N SIGINT @Sigint67n
RUAF VHF traffic in Baltic Sea. Consistent with transport (IL76/AN26) in/out Kaliningrad
Rus-backed militants fired 65 times upon Ukr troops over last day (12 times less than the day b4), 6 attacks on Avdiivka - ATO press center
Russia's new visa regime for #occupied #Donbas territories demonstrates irrelevance of #Minsk-2.
http://euromaidanpress.com/2016/04/02/91176/ …
Militants Shelled #Avdiivka With 120-mm And 82-mm Mortars and carried out 65 attacks in the ATO area.
http://ukraineunderattack.org/en/620...m-mortars.html … …
No KIAs, 4 Ukrainian Servicemen Wounded In Military Hostilities Over Past 24 Hours
http://ukraineunderattack.org/en/620...spokesman.html …
Russian shelling's and ground attacks are on again as usual.......
21:11 #Horlivka @thunderbolt1488 the west: 2 salvos
20:50 #Donetsk @rjpthjuljytwr [fb] #Roofed market - #Naberezhna: serious single salvos to the NW
20:45 #Donetsk @rjpthjuljytwr [fb] #Kalininskyi #DOB: I can distinctly hear heavy vehicles moving
20:20 #Donetsk @rjpthjuljytwr [fb] #Kalinina mine: even with windows closed, one can hear periodic heavy salvos to the N/NW
20:05 #Donetsk @rjpthjuljytwr [fb]
#Bakiny: it has boomed 2 times
#Mariupol fork: booms again
20:13 #Donetsk @Occupied_Rook heavy salvos for about 2hr to the north, various heavy calibres
20:09 #Donetsk @relictDon we can hear northward salvos in spite of the rain and wind
Russian soldier from Tolyatti in Yasinovka, #Ukraine
http://liveuamap.com/en/2016/2-april...i-in-yasinovka …
Russian soldier from Sochi near #Yasinuvata, #Ukraine
http://liveuamap.com/en/2016/2-april...ear-yasinuvata …
19:45 #Marinka @hyeva_maryinka [vk] recently there were few dull booms, quiet at this moment
19:01 #Donetsk [pro-RU source] @idinmor Shells land somewhere in #Spartak area, and, by sound, few explosions were there towards the route..
18:46 #Donetsk #Topaz @cranovschik smth rumbled tangibly, about 5 salvos within 3 min
@nyka1968 they were audible in the #center...
18:46 #Donetsk @Stepan_Semenov Powerful salvos to the north again
18:46 #Donetsk @LifeInDonetsk "Ka-boom! Ba-baang!" - Donetsk not boring evening begins
18:45 #Donetsk @rjpthjuljytwr [fb]
#Kalinina hospital: not quiet at all to the north, single powerful ones
18:45 #Donetsk @rjpthjuljytwr [fb] #Gladkovka: singles. With pauses. Heavy ones
#Makiivka, #Vostochnyi: few heavy salvos to the west
18:45 #Donetsk @rjpthjuljytwr [fb] #Spartak: small arms combat
18:45 #Donetsk @kotbarboss Something very heavy shells. For the 3rd time. The #center shakes
18:40 #Donetsk/#Makiivka @Shymanovski Salvos started
17:54 #Donetsk #Kirovskyi ds @UKara4en #Abakumova-#Staromykhaylivka: again booom, bzzshsh [=shot, fly-by]
Defence Intelligence of Ukraine: Situation in #ATO area as of April 2, 2016. @DefenceU
http://gur.mil.gov.ua/en/content/sit...und-syria.html …
How #Russia invaded #Ukraine & occupied #Crimea.Video Chronicles on
http://empr.media http://empr.media/news/empr-video-ch...march-15-2014/ …
Russian radio electronic warfare complex RB-341V Leer-3 spotted in Donetsk pic.twitter.com/SfEtV7NZNd
https://informnapalm.org/21802-reb-rb-341v-leer-3/ …
Relatively quiet night on the eastern Ukraine front line yesterday......
On April 2, combined Russian-terrorist forces fired at #Ukraine's army in #Donbas 25 times, incl. 7 by banned arms. http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2016/04/3/7104240/ …
Heavy Fighting; 4 Ukrainian Soldiers Injured; Separatist Commander ‘Batka’ Killed
http://www.interpretermag.com/day-775/#13141
At least 179 #Ukrainians moved to #Russian jails since beginning of occupation of #Crimea
http://uatoday.tv/crime/at-least-179...ea-622644.html …
Duma Chairman Narishkin says: #Russia's mission is justice in the world
http://lenta.ru/news/2016/04/0 …
Poroshenko Cites Three Conditions for Elections to Take Place in Donbass
Andrew Monaghan about The ‘War’ in Russia’s ‘Hybrid Warfare’
https://twitter.com/NATOAssure/statu...16466304442369 …
http://www.interpretermag.com/day-775/#13142
Appears even the UAF is able to play the mine IED game after the Russians started it.......
Truck with 7 Russian terrorists exploded on a mine (including 2 women -snipers) #ATO
http://gur.mil.gov.ua/content/situat...und-syria.html …
16 Russian invaders eliminated in Donbas, - Ukrainian Defense Ministry
http://en.censor.net.ua/n382458
Surge in fighting near #Maryinka
Ua Reconnaissance team working in area report seeing a unit of enemy snipers.
http://uatoday.tv/politics/surge-in-...ka-623577.html … …
15 #tanks, 7 #trucks with ammunition delivered to Russian #militants in #Luhansk
http://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-defe...n-luhansk.html … …
No Casualties In #ATO Zone Over Past 24 Hours, - Staff
http://ukraineunderattack.org/en/620...uzyanyk-2.html … …
@StateDept DepSec @ABlinken - Russian movement of heavy weaponry back to front line & Separatist violations of Minsk an increasing concern
Night clashes at Donbass
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jPce0Q1wnc …
http://liveuamap.com/en/2016/3-april...hes-at-donbass …
Nearly 700 Russian servicemen perished in #Donbas identified by volunteers.
http://novosti.dn.ua/details/272352/
Obama Ukraine strategy: ratify lethal aid bill for Ukraine, don't actually implement, & instruct DoD to be useless. https://twitter.com/steveworks4you/s...46062055854081 …
A beautiful evening to be outdoors- if not for the crackle of machinegun fire and thudding artillery #Pisky #Ukraine
Why this sudden de-escalation in #Donbas? It's good that it's quiet, but Russian attention is somewhere else it appears.......
Avdiivka, 1 hour ago
"Five WIAs overnight, and one now".
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php...336621&fref=nf …
RU forces from occupied Mineralne shelled from 14:10-15:30 with 82-mm and 120-mm mortars UAF positions in #Avdiivka https://www.facebook.com/ato.news/po...79196995424438 …
17:31 #Horlivka @_GivNeyt_ ~80-100mm mortar fires from #Gagarina area, city's west, probably towards #Yuzhna mine, #Toretsk
Russia's state-sponsored Vesti is accusing #Poland of "provokatsiya" for removing Soviet monuments.
Inevitable disinfo attack will follow.
The mayor of Ukraine's 3rd biggest city is Russian citizen, #Hromadske reveals
#panamapapers
http://www.kyivpost.com/article/cont...ov-411264.html …
Horlivka @062_Region Yesterday evening in #Central-City ds they observed a UAV, it was shot down by AA-guns crossfire from 3 positions
I started using the term "altered state of reality" here at SWJ when referring to statements made often by Putin and his FM during Crimea and now eastern Ukraine and Syria....I also indicated a number of times that it is extremely dangerous when the leader of a nuclear country starts to truly believe and "drink his own cool aid".............WHICH is where we are right now with Putin.....he now believes he can do whatever he pleases and the West will not stop him because basically he is right...the West has not truly pulled out the "Stop sign"....with an Abrams tank parked behind it.....
If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it, and you will even come to believe it yourself.
- Goebbels
This has been the price paid by the US for the Obama WH retrenchment in eastern Ukraine and Syria.....
It even gets worse.
Odessa council has 29!!!! Russian citizens.
https://twitter.com/TarasKuzio/statu...25450182856704 …
29 Odesa city council deputies break law against dual citizenship and commit treason by being Russian citizens http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2016/04/4/7104345/
AND......
The mayor of Odessa has a Trukhaniv Russian citizenship and owns 20 offshore companies - investigation
http://tinyurl.com/OdessaMayor
Russian non linear warfare is reactivating old GDR "Stasi informers".......
Pegida-Strippenzieher im Hintergrund: Ex-Stasi-Mann.
https://correctiv.org/blog/2016/04/0...pegida-verein/ …
One of the key German reunification moves was not to charge all Stasi officers or their informers with treason...only blocked them from government positions, military and security service positions......or charged them is they were involved in the killing of illegal border crossers.....but that did not atop them from taking over lucrative former GDR owned businesses and land.
A large number of Stasi informers have never been fully discovered as research on former Stasi documents still is dragging.....and the German government wants to "retire" them to the German National Archives which will restrict further research all together....
400 Russian paratroopers (VDV) deployed to Crimea
http://www.ukrinform.ua/rubric-regio...santnikiv.html …
pic.twitter.com/gcoSRrPsUt
2 Ukrainian soldiers were captured by (pro-)Russian terrorists near Horlivka in Donetsk Region https://twitter.com/UaUnderAttack/st...23785245548544 …
No KIAs, 3 Ukrainian servicemen wounded in mil. hostilities over past 24 hours – #ATO Spokesperson
In Donetsk sector, Avdiyivka remains hotspot with 6 incidents of mortar shelling over day. – #ATO Spokesperson
In Luhansk sector, enemy breached ceasefire in Stanitsa Luhanska, Tryokhizbenka – #ATO Spokesperson
Overall, 16 enemy attacks registered in Donetsk sector over past 24 hours – #ATO Spokesperson
Several provocations near Horlivka, Donetsk airport. – #ATO Spokesperson
Enemy drone spotted near Opytne – #ATO Spokesperson
In Mariupol sector, enemy violated ceasefire 5 times over day – #ATO Spokesperson
Under the rubric of "what the heck is this"........
Russian Army TV headline: "Medvedev about Ukraine: the State does not exist"
https://twitter.com/zvezdanews/statu...24091316498433 …
Medvedev on #Ukraine: there is no industry, the state does not exist
http://ria.ru/world/20160404/1402080...#ixzz44quXRegp …
Even stranger as there can only be elections held under Ukrainian law as per Minsk 2......
Surkov sure that "#DPR" #Zakharchenko and "#LPR" #Carpenter received mandate "in elections" till 2018. #Ukraine https://twitter.com/rianru/status/716918962655723521 …
.@bellingcat proves #Russia stands behind Dutch terror threads ahead #EU-#Ukraine referendum
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-a...03/azov-video/ …
Ukraine doesn't confirm report on mass grave of ATO soldiers near Debaltseve
http://www.unian.info/war/1308578-uk...ebaltseve.html …
Russian submarine again spotted near Latvia
http://www.unian.info/world/1308629-...ar-latvia.html …
Air Force Freak @AlRFORCEFREAK
#RUAF Il-76 78815 Gvardeyskoye, Crimea -Pskov
Russian-supervised saboteurs plotted bombings in three Ukrainian regions, - Donetsk Pol
http://24today.net/open/649235
#US Says #Russia Increased Number of Deployed Warheads, Despite Treaty
http://ow.ly/10gHTE
OSCE SMM observed on 3 April in Russian-occupied Donbas, civilian buildings used as shields
http://www.osce.org/ukraine-smm/231341 …
RIA runs op-ed claiming a “new world war” is underway, where you need “advanced cognitive tech,” not just nukes.
http://ria.ru/analytics/20160404/1402284827.html …
It is intereasting that this US Congressman shows up again on the russian radar....he was a really big Russian supporter of the Crimea takeover and the Russian invasion into eastern Ukraine and attempted to get any aid to ukraine cut.......
Stridently pro-Moscow, anti-NATO comments from visiting @DanaRohrabacher welcomed by Russian govt media. Sigh ...
http://sputniknews.com/politics/2016...-tensions.html …
Putin intoxicated by his war cult presses for "referendum" in S.OssetiaQuote:
US Congressman Dana Rohrabacher has accused US politicians of incompetence that led to the deterioration of US-Russian ties, and thanked Russia for its operation in Syria.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Relations between Washington and Moscow have been strained since the start of the Ukrainian crisis and Crimea’s referendum to secede from Ukraine and reunite with Russia in 2014.
The US government took a hard line on Russia, accusing it of interfering with Ukrainian affairs, and imposed several rounds of economic sanctions on Moscow. The Russian authorities have repeatedly refuted all allegations and called the imposition of sanctions counterproductive.
"Literally a large percentage of decision makers" are incompetent about Russia today, Rohrabacher was quoted by RT as saying at an inter-parliamentary meeting in Moscow, adding "they do not give you credit for the good things you are doing. When there are disagreements, it’s been portrayed as: ‘Russia is evil because you disagree with us.’"
Rohrabacher also thanked Russia for its positive role in world affairs, particularly for the contribution to the settlement of the Syrian crisis.
"Thank you for what you are doing in Syria. From me! "I’ve been talking to ordinary Americans and I say: It’s great they have Russia down there killing the terrorists that want to kill us. And they thank you too," he said.
https://twitter.com/ukrainik/status/701268368012083200 …
& war in #Karabakh
https://twitter.com/GorseFires/statu...14821020033024 …
Forget #panamapapers. @InformNapalm made 1st dispatch on #Russia issuing visas to terrorists
https://informnapalm.org/en/russia-o...ating-ukraine/ …
After a low Russian attack day yesterday..attacks are picking up as the Ukrainian fields are drying out enough to take armored vehicle movements.....
20:10 #Donetsk @Donetsk_Ukraine Booms are heard towards #Mariupol fork
20:48 @062_Region The fields are drying. More and more UAVs
20:46 #Horlivka @062_Region It is long since we have had such... it's very loud
20:45 #Horlivka @ahab9889 Shooting down the ISS [=AA-gun fire]
20:38 #Horlivka @062_Region As usually, booms on the outskirts, bursts
20:32 #Yenakiieve @ZloyEnakievec "Idiots fancy UAV again" [=AA-gun fire]
20:45 Again as last year, they try to shoot down ISS w/AA-guns
20:01 #Horlivka [pro-RU source] @Julia__JM Landings on #Holmivskyi outskirts
@Maxi_Good: ВК: #Петровка #Трудовские начали стрелять #Донецк #война2016"
19:57 #Donetsk Petrovka, Trudovska - shooting started.
UA mil intel: "Another trainload of fuel for terrorists arrived from Russia to #Ilovaysk" via @BorisBorisenko5
Russia`s #Putin’s mysterious moving border
http://www.politico.stfi.re/article/...der/?sf=lknzbg
35 attacks of RU militants on Ukrainian positions in Donbass before 6PM (total 24 yesterday)
pic.twitter.com/eTgffrj3uB
http://liveuamap.com/en/2016/4-april...nian-positions …
Donetsk 22:09 Mortar shells falling one after the other at the airport, explosions.
https://twitter.com/idinmor
Donetsk 21:48 Petrovka - heard a couple of loud ones + assault rifles.
21:12 #Stanytsia_Luhanska @stanicainua UA checkpoints came under fire, sounds like BMP
21:03 #Marinka @666_mancer [vk] small arms sometimes, quiet in general
Ongoing cannonade is heard in Donetsk as usually in the evening.
Turchynov: Medvedev’s statement on absence of Ukr state proves Russians fear our very existence
http://en.censor.net.ua/n382617
Craters from banned mortars discovered by OSCE in occupied #Kominternove.
http://novosti.dn.ua/details/272407/
Four Russian career soldiers fighting in Ukraine named by Ukraine’s Intelligence Service. PHOTO
http://en.censor.net.ua/n382231
Terrorists stepped up attacks. Avdiivka, Novhorodske, and Novozvanivka shelled with mortars
http://en.censor.net.ua/n382630
Should have subjected them to "lustration"...