I think though we underestimate Ukraine's capacity to hit back. I go into that here:
http://europeans101.blogspot.co.uk/2...power.html?m=1
"Cheremskyy describes the militants as "clearly being trained for an offensive" to capture more Ukrainian territory."
http://goo.gl/2vGQ6o
#Russia|ns regroup their forces, mainly concentrated at #Mariupol direction, South of #Donetsk, in Alchevsk-Stakhanov Tymchuk
Overnight, Russian invasion forces attacked Pisky, Vojdah, Donetsk airport and Barrow Tomb w/ mortars,artillery and Grad missiles.
A Russian Soldier Vanishes in Ukraine - http://NYTimes.com http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/11/ma...aine.html?_r=0
@DajeyPetros Photo shows 32 soldiers can sleep in one tent. Thus Golovinka Camp can shelter 6.000 to 12.000 soldiers.
pic.twitter.com/FDaWSGI4OT
Ukraine Says Russia Paid for Cyber Berkut's Attack on German Gov:
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/article/514121.html …
The Attack:
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/article/514120.html
Recent footage of Russian invaders firing vs. the #Donetsk #airport tower.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MPH4cu38gQ …
pic.twitter.com/tXDEv2S44C
Russian invasion of Ukraine - one more proof http://vk.com/v.georgievich?z=photo2...hotos227199578 … pic.twitter.com/h0CooLXcCp
Group of muslim terrorists from Russia attacks Ukraine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPhzXXLZS2M
Allahu akbar. Chechen mercenaries in Ukraine (Ilovajsk)
http://youtu.be/fltKF7NIkek
Allahu akbar! This is war," say Islamists in Ukraine war what the West totally ignores
http://youtu.be/xijfwQBqnV8
Tymchuk: Russia dramatically increased shipment of anti-tank weapons to RU forces who are forward deploying artillery/shelling UA positions
Last video shows Chechens with Russian made BTR-82.
http://std3.ru/aa/57/1408219962-aa57...32a087984.jpeg
Any connection with this story?
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/11/ma...aine.html?_r=0The video, posted by the S.B.U., Ukraine’s internal security service, showed what seemed to be an interrogation. It began with Petr introducing himself as a “citizen of the Russian Federation.” A green curtain hung behind him, the only visible detail in an otherwise featureless tableau. Under questioning, Petr described his involvement in an act of outright aid to Russian-#speaking rebels, who by then were three months into a grinding war with the government in Kiev. His brigade, he said, was stationed in Rostov, a region of Russia that borders Ukraine. After a month of living in tents, the soldiers received an order from the company commander. They were told to strip 14 armored vehicles of all identifying markings, everything from the license plates to the serial numbers on the gun turrets, and then drive them toward the border. There, Petr told his interrogators in a rushed monotone, “we were told that the vehicles were handed off to some Chechens, and they were to be passed to the rebels.
Russian blogger found this connection already in August
http://evilmilker.livejournal.com/9385.html
This video is for mirhond, my good friend in Moscow!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNC0iXxHiQ8
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kaur==believe it was in fact this group of Chechens--there are currently three Chechen groups (two larger and one small one) fighting in two locations.Originally Posted by kaur
There is also a Chechen group fighting with the Ukrainian Army.
Outlaw, I miss old heroes Strelkov/Girkin, cossacks leader Kozitsyn and that guy with beard (you remember the GRU story). I miss also Borodai. They have left to Russia with Novorossiya dream. Long live Русский мир
Actually they were the more "saner" than those there now:Outlaw, I miss old heroes Strelkov/Girkin, cossacks leader Kozitsyn and that guy with beard (you remember the GRU story
More Chechen comments:
Chechen leader threatens Khodorkovsky, says 1000s will "call this... criminal to account" & it "will be brutal"
http://www.interpretermag.com/russia...in-paris/#6104
kaur--this is the story to watch and I think the Cossacks are so angry at both the "separatists" and Russia ie Putin--might be final proof of the MH17 story or the Russian military involvement inside the Ukraine---they are that angry.
Video is from 30 Dec 2014
Worth watching: Cossack fighters of #Luhansk Republic are mildly displeased
http://youtu.be/mrwC1bTqxj8 #Ukraine #separatists #LNR
...notably #LNR Cossack fighters threaten 'Mr Tambov' with releasing 'flashka' (mem stick) containing 'gamechanging' material...
...'Tambov' was rumoured callsign of Russian general directing #separatists, so gamechanger cld be proof of Rus mil in Ukraine, or MH17
Remember the Cossacks were in the exact area of the MH17 shot down.
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Kremlin Seeks to Use Cossacks, but Prevent Them From Becoming Too Powerful
Publication: Eurasia Daily Monitor Volume: 12 Issue: 3January 7, 2015 04:42 PM Age: 20 hrs
By: Valery Dzutsev
http://www.jamestown.org/programs/ed...3#.VK7TsoGkqrU
kaur--he seems to be a cat with seven lives---he has spoken more truth to power about the beginning events in eastern Ukraine and now this statement--raises the question why he is still alive?
Breaking: #Strelkov states that #Russia is at war with #Ukraine in an interview on Russian tv
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvQA09yKPLk#t=25
Meanwhile, far away from planet 'Western news', loud shelling can be heard at #Donetsk airport
Some 100 photos of the biggest Russian basecamp I discovered at Ukraine border near Golovinka
NOTE: all photos taken from Russian VK and have been cached as the FSB tends to remove what is being reported by western bloggers when they take VK data.
http://ukraineatwar.blogspot.co.uk/2...e-russian.html pic.twitter.com/GxRp2SwAon
Latest from OSCE Monitors in Ukraine, 07.01: Continued ceasefire violations recorded by JCCC in Donetsk
http://www.osce.org/ukraine-smm/133636
Russian stealth black hole submarine prepares for 4,000km trip, deep water trials http://on.rt.com/fgyin4
pic.twitter.com/OYr1XDbjlt
#Horlivka has been shelled for over 5 hours overnight by DNR.
http://korrespondent.net/ukraine/eve...trela-horlovky pic.twitter.com/hh3wZWWDA0
Update on the Crimean Military Group of the Russian Army:
http://nplm.in/4ib
pic.twitter.com/FOBhXZoC6I
New website publishes names of 9,000 #Russians and pro-Russians fighting in the #Donbas
http://euromaidanpress.com/2015/01/0...ts-in-ukraine/
3 militants were killed today in the battle
http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/8-janua...-in-the-battle pic.twitter.com/vf6lzLe8Sd
Donetsk. Civil blocks. MLRS.
http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/8-janua...l-blocks-mlrs-
pic.twitter.com/C0Ilr9zh9K
COMPLETE GRAD VOLLEY WENT DOWN IN #DONETSK SOME MINUTES AGO, BURNING SMELL IN CITY CENTER
Russian invasion forces BM-21 column moves on the M04 around #Alchevsk.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgWsehx9ups
pic.twitter.com/ffMSnL5T7d
#Hranitne was shelled again with MLRS Grad. #Ukraine returned fire. pic.twitter.com/37owNNjaoC http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/8-janua...d-uaf-returned
Battle in #Pisky and airport now. Mortars and machine guns. There are wounded among Ukrainians
pic.twitter.com/eg1WE9xRyn
http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/8-janua...rtars--machine
One Russian radar identified at 19 kms distance of #MH17 launch site http://ukraineatwar.blogspot.co.uk/2...at-19-kms.html
pic.twitter.com/4zISPjIMvL
Russian invasion forces T-64 column on the move in occupied Donbas.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMORBI7O4e4
pic.twitter.com/uaiPBo579r"
EXPLOSIONS AT #DONETSK AIRPORT LASTED ~20 SECONDS, BRIGHT FLASHES IN THE SKY, REPORTEDLY STARTED IN CITY CENTER
3T-72B tank in Zhdanivka (Donetsk region)
http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/8-janua...onetsk-region-
pic.twitter.com/ka4CMy30We
News Analysis: Russian terrorist Bombing Campaign Opens New Front In Battle For Ukraine
http://www.rferl.org/content/ukraine.../26783218.html ...
NEW REVEALING ARTICLE:
One base to rule them all - five facts you should know about Russia's main invasion hub
http://conflictreport.info/2015/01/0...-invasion-hub/ …
How Russia used Red Cross signs and "humanitarian convoys" to infiltrate fighters by James Rupert
http://www.newsweek.com/how-russians...ukraine-296937 …
Good old times ...
... when Ukraine replied to Russian attacks by sending a #Hurricane back.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWi2QzxjPIU …
pic.twitter.com/hX400Tp2Gq
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#BREAKINGNEWS
RUSSIAN INVASION FORCES ATTACKS IN #UKRAINE ARE BACK AT 100% OF PRE-#MINSK LEVEL.50 ATTACKS DURING THE LAST 24 HOURS
Y'day #Russia's illegal convoy invaded #Donbas. As firing increased #ATO news center assumes it was not food that the convoy brought
#Russia|n BUK in #Donetsk #Ukraine. Trendy"tourist equipment"from #Putin's market &"visitors"in winter caps.
pic.twitter.com/NOKQ1sBRs9
More open-source intelligence work documenting how #Russia supports its operations in #Ukraine
http://wp.me/p5sx0x-2p
pic.twitter.com/uI2kELfiBr
"Cossack National Guard" in #Perevalsk, "being nice" to locals ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKjBlAqmzeo
#Ukraine pic.twitter.com/HzOD8JNCGq
Day in #Donetsk starting with artillery fire, GRAD rockets launched from #Makeevka towards #Avdeevka. Outgoing and impacts on the live feed.
#BreakingFootage
Russian invasion forces with 2S1 self-propellered howitzers ignore "truce".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZ7gavnQJBE
pic.twitter.com/PLH14uSceT
While the US cannot seem to call the Russian troops inside eastern Ukraine an invading force under UN/International law the Russian FSB officer that started the whole thing does in fact call it a war between Russia and the Ukraine being fourth in the Ukraine.
#Russia should admit being at war with #Ukraine - terrorist #Strelkov-Girkin
http://belsat.eu/en/articles/terrori...g-war-ukraine/
pic.twitter.com/h3vgacH700
Ukraine says separatists intensifying rocket attacks
http://dlvr.it/83NY5k
Russian forces build artillery control centers for the northern sector in #Metalist and #Stakhanov.
pic.twitter.com/OW48PiGqPD
Post-modernist film shot in Cossack-occupied Stakhanov: "How I Went Out for a Bit of Bread" (Stakhanov)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUvmXUE9-aA
Terrorists continue to bombard UKR positions in Luhansk region. Most tense in Stanytsia Luhanska + Shchastya - Moskal
http://www.moskal.in.ua/index.php?ca...s&news_id=1357
Yet more documentation of #Russian soldiers operating inside #Ukraine: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-30739110
pic.twitter.com/WI2Gpv7Pri
In the current Ukraine and Iraq situations we notice that it seems that there is virtually no policy strategies--an interesting open source discussion that indicates that policy makers are extremely slow in uptake of the sheer amount of social media info available on both issues.
http://blogs.kcl.ac.uk/policywonkers...-policymaking/
Social media and conflict zones: the new evidence base for policymaking
Posted on 9 January 2015
Post by Eliot Higgins, citizen journalist and founder of the website Bellingcat
In recent years, content shared via social media from conflict war zones has allowed us to gain a far deeper understanding of the on-the-ground realities of specific conflicts than previously possible. This presents a real opportunity for providing robust evidence which can underpin foreign and security policymaking about emerging, or rapidly escalating, conflict zones. Despite this opportunity, however, policymakers have generally been slow to adapt to the volume of information disseminated on social media from various armed groups in Syria and slower still to use this as an evidence base for policy generation.
In the case of the Syrian conflict, for example, far more information in the public domain comes not from journalists on the ground (who, it goes without saying face extreme danger in attempting to report from many parts of Syria) but from social media and user generated content online.
In 2012, the video streaming site Bambuser was adopted by groups opposing the Syrian government to livestream videos of protests and violence from across Syria. The situation changed as violence escalated and internet access in opposition-controlled areas became increasingly limited. Today, this means that the vast majority of social media accounts being used by the Syrian opposition are associated with specific locations, media centres, or armed groups. This provides researchers with a real opportunity to understand the actors and events taking place on the ground.
This approach has its advantages: because comparatively few people in opposition areas are using social media, and they tend to be associated with specific groups, it is possible to collect and organise the majority of the social media accounts that are being used in opposition controlled areas. These accounts can be monitored for activity, and cover the majority of information coming from opposition controlled areas through social media. This can provide a detailed and dynamic picture of the conflict as well as a detailed understanding of the various armed groups.
There are challenges in this approach, however. The most obvious, in the Syrian context, is that researchers are limited to what those groups post online – and perhaps more importantly, that this often represents a narrow perspective on the conflict in opposition areas. A second problem is neatly illustrated by the Bellingcat research on the current conflict in Ukraine. Here, the opposite is true: because internet access is not limited, anyone can post anything they like online and they can post to a wider variety of social media sites. Granted, this vast amount of information posted from a huge variety of sources provides a richer picture, but it is also one that is harder to access through the ‘noise’ of other material.
Open source intelligence analysis has the potential not only to inform us about various actors and events on the ground, but also to allow us to piece together disparate pieces of information into a wider, more investigative, piece of research. In Bellingcat’s MH17 investigation, the research team compiled information from dozens of different sources, discovered by searching through thousands of social media accounts from Ukraine and Russia, on a wide variety of social media sites. Using this information it was possible to track the movements of a Buk missile launcher on July 17th through separatist-controlled territory to the likely launch site of the missile that downed MH17. The team was also able to find videos from multiple sources of exactly the same missile launcher travelling as part of a convoy through Russia towards the Ukrainian border a few weeks before MH17 was downed. The evidence was sufficiently robust to allow us to conclude that the Buk seen in Ukraine on July 17th originated from the Russian military.
Our research on the Buk missile launcher demonstrates that not only is there a wealth of largely untapped information available online and especially on social media, but also that a relatively small team of analysts is able to derive a rich picture of a conflict zone. Clearly, research of this kind must be underpinned by an understanding of the way in which content is being produced, who is sharing it, and, crucially, how to verify it – and these are methodological challenges which need to be addressed systematically. Nonetheless, the overarching point is that there is a real opportunity for open source intelligence analysis to provide the kind of evidence base that can underpin effective and successful foreign and security policymaking. It is an opportunity that policymakers should seize.
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Tymchuk: Russian military launch fast-track training for militants in Donbas
http://www.unian.info/society/103007...in-donbas.html …
pic.twitter.com/dj8Yc7HFGc
BBC gained access to training camps inside Russia where Russians talk openly about taking on the Ukrainian army. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-30739110 …
#BreakingNews
Artillery fire hit #Donetsk's Kiev,Kirov,Kuibyshev and Petrovsky districts yesterday.
2 civilians killed, 8 injured.
Last edited by OUTLAW 09; 01-09-2015 at 11:56 AM.
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