Su-33 & Su-25 jets (#Russia|n Navy, 279 naval fighter regiment) at NITKA training area, Crimea on 9/11
MT @KURYERSAT
https://youtu.be/MmnmX5nTrd8?t=6m28s …
Humanitarian cargoes are blocked from entering "DNLR" since mid-July, in defiance of Minsk
https://www.facebook.com/euromaidanp...e=3&permPage=1 … pic.twitter.com/2ZHHTJ25IT
Footage
Inside the "Battalion Sparta" base in #Donetsk.
Russian army equipment all around.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTCUnQgCOLw …
Humor----
Amusement park in #Moscow unveils new attraction called "The Economy of #Russia"
pic.twitter.com/wYpnq7w4Fs
Russia flips out when the US announces normal nuclear weapons upgrades allowed under the treaties Russia signed--then Russian threatens to base SS21s even in Syria.
In other news: "Russia Developing Invisible 'Death Trains' With Nukes" http://sputniknews.com/military/2015...ear-train.html … So that WON'T disturb the balance?
Nalobin's #KremlinTrolls network is an eye-opener ..
http://kremlintrolls.com/t/20150810-...in_reflux.html … pic.twitter.com/Mmg24qBnuq
Reference Moldavia---
MOLDOVA: Anti-gov't protests continue, 20,000 demonstrating in #Chisinau - ABC @raminmazur
http://abcnews.go.com/International/...nment-34077851 … pic.twitter.com/1AFFG8zFOb
Mark Galeotti @MarkGaleotti
Relative quiet in #Donbas; #Kohver swapped. Why, it's almost as if #Russia is trying to minimize embarrassments before #Putin-#Obama meet!
youtube.com/watch?v=VUPRVwtj0kY …
Hellhole. #Ukrainian Smerch MLRS battery hit by #Russian fire 6/30/15, video claims.
pic.twitter.com/ThbKgzNVkC
Alternative math of #Russia24 TV channel "The satellites of Russia will increase *sevenfold*, up to *48*" @davidmsk pic.twitter.com/QXmUm6W2Fk
Apparently, Russian delegation walked out during President @poroshenko speech at the UN http://www.president.gov.ua/en/news/...ilej-sta-36032 … pic.twitter.com/sQ05XFmjvP
Russian delegation left UN General Assembly during Poroshenko's speech out of protest. https://twitter.com/tvrain/status/648242478273961984 …
Of course, Putin reserves the right to define legitimate, govt, actions, overthrowing, take part, & never.. #Russia https://twitter.com/rt_com/status/648281392602836992 …
'Sporadic' fighting in #Mariinka continues despite truce which mainly holds. 4 #Ukraine soldiers wounded there yesterday.
News
4 Ukrainian soldiers were injured in (pro-)Russian attacks in Eastern #Ukraine yesterday.
All in #Marinka between 21:17 and 22:17.
Not a joke--actually stated--
How can I be a gangster if I worked for the KGB?" -- Vladimir Putin, not joking.
Putin in his 60Minutes interview fully blames the US for the Ukrainian color revolution----
If Putin has evidence of CIA role in ouster of Yanukovich, why have we never seen it? Wouldn't Russia have incentive to publish?
Putin description of US role in ouster of Yanukovich on @60Minutes is complete fiction. Was his intel out of Ukraine then flawed?
Typical Russian info war comments--make them but provide no evidence---
Russian soldiers to be send from Donbas to Syria in October https://twitter.com/zn_ua/status/648406546691571712 …
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Russian ambassador summoned to Polish foreign ministry today for making excuses for the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...World-War.html …
Situation in sector "S" tense. militants try to provoke UKR forces wuth RPGs and heavy machine guns - Press Officer
http://112.ua/ato/situaciya-v-sektor...in-261122.html …
Pervomaisk. Multistorey Buildings As Shields for Russian Militants: https://en.informnapalm.org/pervomai...ian-militants/ … via @en_informnapalm pic.twitter.com/2uqDNfLfk8
http://khpg.org/index.php?id=1443397640
Why are the Kremlin’s Proxies in Donbas provoking a Humanitarian Catastrophe?
28.09.15
Halya Coynash
It remains unclear why the so-called ‘Luhansk people’s republic’ [‘LNR’] have ordered all but one western aid organization to leave the Luhansk oblast, or why one of the militant leaders has yet again announced plans for “integration with Russia”. The militants’ current anti-Western line and their decision to drive international organizations out of militant-controlled areas will certainly reduce interference in the pseudo-elections that both so-called ‘people’s republics’ have announced. Such behaviour must, however, make it even less likely that western countries would accept ‘elections’ which are so flagrantly in breach of the Minsk Accord.
UN officials reported on Sept 24 that the LNR ‘de facto authorities’ had ordered all UN agencies in Luhansk to get out by the following day. This followed the rejection of applications from all UN agencies and international NGOs, except the Red Cross, to work in the area. The Red Cross was untouched by the bans, yet its humanitarian convoy was forced to return on Sept 25 without being allowed to enter militant-controlled areas.
Stephen O’Brien, the Under-Secretary-General for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and UN Emergency Relief Coordinator, called the failure to allow humanitarian access “a blatant violation of international humanitarian law”, which will have “a serious impact on some 3 million people as winter approaches”. People in the militant-controlled area will be deprived of food, shelter and non-food supplies, including vital medication.
O’Brien called on “everyone with influence over the de facto authorities” to ensure resumption of the aid. Moscow is widely understood to be where those “with influence” are to be found, but they have made no comment.
Ukrainian billionnaire Renat Akhmetov’s humanitarian aid is also not affected by the ban. Jock Mendoza-Wilson from Akhmetov’s Foundation is reported to have suggested that the militants are hoping to receive humanitarian aid from Western countries via Russia. His idea is that the aid would be presented as though from Russia. It seems difficult to believe that western agencies would agree to this, especially given that they would be in breach of Ukraine’s law on temporarily occupied territory if they entered such territory from Russia, without Ukraine’s permission.
Akhmetov is widely considered to be hedging his bets and has never come out as strongly as other oligarchs in opposition to the events in Donbas. His Foundation’s presence in militant-controlled areas has generally been non-problematical, unlike that of international bodies.
One of the NGOs banned is Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). The organization stressed that they provide critical medical and humanitarian assistance in Luhansk and that the ban will deprive vulnerable people of essential healthcare and medicines. ‘LNR’ leaders have, however, targeted this renowned NGO for a particular smear campaign, claiming that it has used medication beyond its sell-by date, etc.
A very obviously orchestrated protest by young people to “see MSF out” of the area was highly reminiscent of the staged protests in early July against the OSCE Monitoring Mission. Those earlier protests coincided with a serious arson attack against the Mission and other disturbing incidents. There was concern then that the militants were seeking to drive out the Monitoring Mission, and the same fears seem warranted now. Nobody has presented any proof for allegations against MSF, and the accusations seem especially dubious given that almost all NGOs have been thrown out, not just MSF.
The less independent organizations, the better if you have something to hide. The de facto leaders of the so-called ‘Donetsk and Luhansk people’s republics’ are insisting on holding ‘elections’ in October and early November in direct breach of the Minsk Accords. There is no way that they can comply with the agreement reached in Minsk since this requires free and fair elections held in accordance with Ukrainian legislation. As well as the fact that these pseudo-elections have not been agreed with Ukraine, they will also be held without free media, without real opposition and almost certainly with armed gunmen in close proximity to so-called polling stations.
Over recent weeks, in the run-up to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s trip to the UN, there have been all kinds of conciliatory noises from the militants and from Russian Foreign Minster Sergei Lavrov. The militants, we are told, are now willing to accept integration into Ukraine. and there was even a rather theatrical ‘coup’ on Sept. 4 in which pragmatist Denis Pushilin is supposed to have ousted ideologue Andrei Purgin.
Pushilin and his cronies have yet again changed their tune. Interfax.ru reports that Pushilin stated on Friday, Sept 25, that “It is clear that Ukraine will do everything it can to push us away, and we must be ready to integrate into the Russian Federation.” His comments came after a forum in Luhansk which discussed integration with Russia, and were accompanied by comments about the ‘elections’ they are planning. He claims that these will be attended by “several international observers”. It seems likely that he meant the same far-right or neo-Stalinist politicians who have proven so helpful in ‘observing and approving’ the previous ‘elections’ one year ago; the pseudo-referendum in Crimea and plenty of others.
Well-known Ukrainian journalist Denis Kazansky called Pushilin totally without principles and willing to do whatever he’s told. Why the above-described developments have taken place now remains to be seen, but it is most unlikely that Pushilin and his cronies were acting without prompts from Moscow.
Activists blocked railroad to Crimea near Chervonyi Chaban http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/28-sept...near-chervonyi … #Ukraine pic.twitter.com/lDi9Se9U0c via @ryabtchuk_roman
Tartars have effectively cut all Ukrainian tuck transports to Crimea--now rail is being cut--Russia has undertaken absolutely no attempt to feed the Crimea after the trucks were stopped even though they trumpeted they could within two weeks replace the 7-8K tons of food daily.
Russia's squadron entered Ukraine's territorial waters, facing #Mariupol. https://twitter.com/LastnewsUA/statu...46301163958273 …
We have rumint (credible src) 9th Inde' Motor Rifle Brigade have been tasked to "prepare for Kharkov" pic.twitter.com/hGOtLzk7ik
Betting a Starbucks of choice here in Berlin if Putin's speech does not have at it's core this speech from him in 2008.
pic.twitter.com/pNhH0eHBHC
Will be interesting if it does and what Obama's response will be in the face of it----
Remember Putin is driving on three core geo political goals and Obama has to yet to have defined a single top geo political goal in years.
Humor-----
AvtoVaz CEO: '#VolkswagenScandal can't happen with our cars, only software in them is in the driver's mobile phone'
pic.twitter.com/mVudhA2vHC
Russian hand grenades in #Ukraine showing F1, RG42, RGD-5, RGN and RGO pic.twitter.com/oGmZuj3alE
Russian nuclear sable rattling before UNGA speech--
Live-firing of Iskander-M tactical missile successfully completed in southern Russia
September 28, 15:19 UTC+3
The missile was fired to a distance of 300 kilometers at a target simulating a command centre of a maneuver enemy
© Dmitry Rogulin/TASS
MOSCOW, September 28. /TASS/. Service launch of an Iskander-M missile was successfully performed by personnel from a missile unit of the Eastern Military District at a firing range in Russia’s southern Astrakhan region, spokesman for the military district Alexander Gordeyev said on Monday.
"The missile was fired to a distance of 300 kilometers at a target simulating a command centre of a maneuver enemy. The launch was successful," he said, adding that following the drills the army unit and the Iskander-M missile system would return to the base of their permanent deployment in the Siberian republic of Buryatia.
Iskander tactical ballistic missile systems are capable of hitting both small-size and large-area targets at a distance of up to 500 km to destroy missile and multiple launch rocket systems, long-range artillery guns, aircraft and helicopters at aerodromes, command posts and communications centers.
The Iskander tactical ballistic missile complex includes a launcher, a loader-transporter, a routine maintenance vehicle, a command post vehicle, an information post, an ammunition equipment set and training aids.
Latitude 67N SIGINT @Sigint67n
RUAF strategic air force sw net up with voice traffic. Backfires?
The history of the Ilovaysk battle flag showed to Putin at #UNGA today.
pic.twitter.com/UWUNospcQl
Putin stated to the Ukrainian forces they would have a green corridor to withdraw from Ilovaysk encirclement and then the Russian army units massacred the withdrawing forces.
And one can trust Putin????
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