More than just another ceasefire (Minsk) violation: #Volnovakha is a key strategic objective (#Mariupol north flank) https://twitter.com/EuromaidanPR/sta...61649476972544 …Originally Posted by OUTLAW 09
http://www.politico.eu/article/europ...europe-attack/
Europe’s Russia denial
The likelihood of further moves in the Baltics and Central Europe is uncomfortably high.
By Andrew A. Michta
25/7/15, 5:18 AM CET
Though it still seems counterintuitive to many, the risk of war in Europe has not been this high since the end of the Cold War. Nor have the leaders of Europe’s largest powers been in this much denial about Vladimir Putin’s political objective — the restoration of Russia’s sphere of influence — or how quickly the war in Ukraine could morph into a larger conflict along the continent’s northeastern flank.
Despite tough rhetoric and repeated warnings to Putin from NATO’s leadership, most of Europe’s capitals and Washington about what would happen should he try to stir trouble beyond NATO’s red line, the overall level of military readiness in Europe to respond to a rapidly escalating crisis remains inadequate. After years of defense cuts, the European allies are now in a situation where they provide barely a quarter of NATO’s military capabilities, with a number of countries unable to operate outside their national territories — a sine qua non of allied response in a contingency.
There can be no denying that Europe’s overall military weakness has played a role in Russia’s calculus, not only during the annexation of Crimea and the escalation in Donbas but already in its 2008 war against Georgia, Putin’s first direct challenge to the normative security order, albeit not yet in Europe itself. Simply put: Weakness invites further aggression.
Putin has been successful in moving forward with his project to reestablish a sphere of Russia’s privileged interest in Eastern Europe in large part because the Western response has been weak and contradictory. With the United States distracted by the unraveling of the Middle East and the growing geostrategic competition with China, dealing with Russia’s aggression in Ukraine has become a European, or rather a German, project, with the United States offering support. Only recently has the U.S. begun to move beyond exercises, offering to move equipment to Poland and the Baltic States.
The overall level of military readiness in Europe to respond to a rapidly escalating crisis remains inadequate.
For the most part, the high-sounding rhetoric condemning Russia’s aggression has been accompanied by half-measures, in terms of economic sanctions, and quarter-measures or less when it comes to a military response. The so-called “reassurance” of NATO allies along the northeastern flank has so far resulted in limited military exercises, U.S. troop “drive-throughs” through the region back to Germany, and most recently in the decision to pre-position tanks and equipment for 5,000 troops.
While the West disarms
Since Berlin has declared from the start that “there is no military solution” in Ukraine, Kiev has been left in a strategic no-man’s land, where it is a matter of time before the combined economic and military factors bring about state failure and further partition. But without significant military assistance to Ukraine to arm its military, Russia can contemplate its next steps at leisure, whether that’s another move in Ukraine or stirring up ethnic tensions in the Baltics, either keeping current semi-frozen conditions in place or choosing to escalate. If the latter happens, this incursion into NATO territory would test the Alliance’s credibility at a time when consensus on allied solidarity is in doubt.
The risk of war in Europe has increased in parallel with the progressive demilitarization of the continent , both in terms of troops and equipment and the overall public outlook. Defense spending across the board has shrunk in Europe to 1.5 percent and continues to drop. Europe’s contribution to NATO’s military capability, which a decade ago was still at approximately half of its forces, today is at less than 25 percent and that figure too is dropping. Several countries in Europe, including some of the largest, have decimated their armor and seriously put into question their readiness to field more than a few thousand troops. The situation is even more dire when it comes to the high end of the spectrum , as well as logistics and transport. Today, the United States provides 70 percent of all NATO defense spending.
The process of Europe’s demilitarization over the last decade has coincided with Russia’s ambitious military modernization to the tune of $700 billion over 10 years, with targeted programs to introduce the next generation of armor, aircraft, and missiles and to modernize the nuclear forces. Although Russia’s expenditures cannot compare to the U.S. defense budget, they show an important paradigm shift when taken in the context of regional power balances in the Nordic-Baltic-Central European region.
More than just another ceasefire (Minsk) violation: #Volnovakha is a key strategic objective (#Mariupol north flank) https://twitter.com/EuromaidanPR/sta...61649476972544 …
Stakhanov @kusseivv2014 There is no Stakhanov checkpoint anymore pic.twitter.com/Hf0K70GPO4
@ObichniyChell No passport control in #Pervomaysk
#Bryanka @kusseivv2014 No stop sign near commandant's office pic.twitter.com/fttqdaeJw8
@thisnameerror No militants near #Stakhanov military commissariat
@kusseivv2014 3-4 trucks w/troops depart daily fr/#Pervomaysk
Stanitsa Luhanska shelled, gas pipe line damaged, two wounded inc one female resident.
Via @5channel
Appears Russia is seeing ghosts where there are no ghosts--or maybe what they have been smoking is giving them paranoia.
A Kremlin's official claims Romania and Ukraine have a deal to start a military conflict in Transnistria
http://stirileprotv.ro/special/ofici...spiratiei.html …
VP Biden welcomed the originally from Putin proposed 30km buffer….really…?
DON'T believe Russian "withdrawal" promises: Tanks withdrawn to 30km can return to front line in LESS THAN 1 HOUR.
pic.twitter.com/24iTmvYFLt
dispute the so called withdrawal by the Russian mercenaries OSCE could not confirm a single verified pull back by anything controlled by the Russia Army AND the heavy shellings just keep on happening from those "so called withdrawn heavy weapons.
So Biden and Obama really do believe Putin.........????
Ground reality just from today--seems that even Biden and Obama are in an "altered state of believe".
ATO Press Center reports that pro-Russian terrorists attacked Ukrainian village in Donetsk Region.
July 25, 2015 Donetsk
This village had no troop positions in and or around it--so really a direct war crime in attacking civilians with heavy artillery especially with incendiary rounds BUT does Biden/Obama really care when one is attempting to appease Putin is the core question??On July 24 pro-Russian terrorist groups of so-called Donetsk People’s Republic shelled Ukrainian village Novgorodske located in Donetsk Region using high caliber incendiary rounds.
The weather was dry and hot and houses of local people started to burn after shelling. Ukrainian military of ATO forces arrived to help to stop fire, but terrorists attacked them and didn’t let to save burning houses.
Russian-terrorist forces continue to violate Minsk Agreements and shell residential areas and positions of ATO forces.
Thought that Russian heavy artillery had already been withdrawn as required under Minsk 2--so then Russia is not in compliance with Minsk 2--but does Biden even care???
Border Service: "20 UAV recorded in Donetsk and Luhansk regions"
Not a good sign. https://twitter.com/DPSU_ua/status/624901047174172672 …
More ground reality for Biden to think about---
Ukrainian troops come under major shelling near Volnovakha - journalist
25.07.2015 | 13:12
Combained Russian-terrorist forces engage 122mm artillery against positions of the 72nd motorized brigade near Volnovakha overnight, Yuriy Butusov, a Ukrainian journalist, wrote on Facebook.
As UNIAN earlier reported, Russian proxies attacked Ukrainian troops more than 70 times overnight on July 24."The shelling comes from 122 mm artillery division. The fire is precisely aimed, drones are being used for adjustment. This is Russian artillery – the shelling is closely grouped, well-coordinated and quickly adjusted. Our people do not sleep, maneuvering to get out from under fire. The shelling continues. Of course, there is no OSCE anywhere around. It's probably the way they prepare for the demilitarization of Shyrokyno. This is probably to show "Normandy Four" Russia's willingness to comply with the terms of the ceasefire, and to speed up the withdrawal of weapons of an under 100mm caliber. Be safe, guys," says Butusov.
So Biden feels that Putin is in full compliance with implementing Minsk2 and he is not behind this constant shellings from heavy weapons that were to have been long ago withdrawn as Russia keeps saying they were withdrawn.
http://www.unian.info/politics/11048...ournalist.html
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Russian supplied ground radar, satcom, or drone controller being setup in the Ukraine by Russian operators???????
pic.twitter.com/l4SdpXHosJ
Anyone know what it is????
SBU exposes sponsors of Russian-backed terrorists in Donbas
http://www.unian.info/economics/1104...in-donbas.html … pic.twitter.com/2QeZniKwzK
Air Force Freak @AirForceFreak74
RUAF bomber voice net 8909 USB noted active 0700Z.
Staroignatievka #Starohnativka was under heavy russian shelling at night, by tanks, SPG's and heavy artillery. http://www.0629.com.ua/news/902205
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Russian mercenary reality hitting the Russian "altered state of reality"---interesting to watch the cognitive dissonance.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/article...t-ukraine.html
Marko Djurica/Reuters
07.25.1512:01 AM ET
Can Putin Afford to Keep East Ukraine?
The Russian-backed blitz that seemed imminent hasn’t materialized. One reason: confusion about what Moscow and the rebels really want.
DONETSK, Ukraine — The military commandant in this embattled city, Andrei Shpigel, was having an emotional discussion with officers and soldiers of his “DPR Army” on the veranda of a local restaurant. They were talking about the future of their self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic. Would it eventually become a peaceful region of Ukraine, or be annexed by Russia, or stay an independent but unrecognized separatist territory?
For Shpigel and perhaps 15,000 other rebel soldiers controlling this part of eastern Ukraine, a return of Kiev’s legal and military authority over their “republic” would mean potential prison terms and even worse: “mass physical elimination,” they agreed, nodding at each other. The commandant told The Daily Beast that DPR forces would never allow their self-proclaimed republic to reunite with Ukraine.
And yet, the struggle for quasi-independence appears to have lost momentum. “Whatever happened to the Russian ‘blitz’ that everybody was predicting a month ago?” I asked the soldiers. Then, Kremlin-backed rebel forces launched a violent offensive on Ukrainian positions in Maryinka, a village outside Donetsk city. It seemed that the clashes were going to escalate through the summer, much as they had done last year.
As the soldiers tell the story, there was a bureaucratic and administrative problem. “That blitz has never happened because our DPR Army did not support the idea of the Maryinka operation, the attack was conducted by the DPR interior ministry,” Shpigel explained to The Daily Beast. Reaching out for a piece of paper and a pen, the commandant drew a simple optical illusion of cylinders that could be curved or square depending on the angle: “There are at least three truths,” he said: “One in Russia, one in Ukraine and one in the DPR— but there is only one reality.”
In their ideal reality, the Donetsk separatists would keep all their weapons and power, receive financial support from Russia and do business with the Ukraine. But in the real reality people living in rebel-controlled territories are suffering for lack of medicine, waiting months expecting Moscow to pay their pensions and salaries and even to deliver groceries and consumer goods. A commander named Mamai chimes in: “Putin’s man, administrator Vladislav Surkov, is here right now cleaning up the upper circles around Zakharchenko,” he says, referring to the supposed leader of the DPR, Alexander Zakharchenko.
“Today two of our guys with guns can enter any minister’s office and decide politics in our people’s republic.”
But the rebel commanders insisted it’s not just a matter of Moscow making decisions for DPR. Shpigel suggested, “The Kremlin’s power has at least three heads, liberals from Yeltsin’s family, Putin’s men and Putin himself.”
A 24-year-old soldier named Vladimir put in a word: “What politicians are you talking about? Today two of our guys with guns can enter any minister’s office and decide politics in our people’s republic,” he said.
In spite of the divided opinions and controversial tensions among rebels, Russia has supplied food, gas, clothes and other goods to Donbas residents. On July 16, a caravan of over 30 trucks with “Humanitarian Help from Russian Federation” written on their sides arrived in Donetsk; on Thursday, 100 more trucks loaded with over one thousand tons of goods reached the border with the rebel controlled territories.
A special investigative report by the Russian RBK agency described the complicated subterfuge by which Russian money flowed the Eastern Ukraine through South Ossetia, a breakaway Georgian republic that, unlike DPR, had accounts in Russian banks.
Was Russian president Vladimir Putin’s strategy to back the breakaway republics, while expecting Ukraine to pay the pensions and other bills? If so, he miscalculated. Ukraine stopped paying salaries and pensions to the breakaway republics last summer and today the economy, political scandals and internal conflicts have become the Kremlin’s headache. To provide pensions for over one million retired people in the breakaway territory, Russia had to take a part of the money from its own budget.
In interviews with the Daily Beast, residents of Horlivka, Snizhnoye, Rassypnoye, Grabovo complained about tiny pensions of about $25 to $30 a month.
There is also a dramatic shortage of medicine and speculators bringing medicine from Russia or Ukraine sell it at prices local pensioners can’t afford.
Enrique Menendez, a participant in the Responsible Citizens volunteer movement, , told The Daily Beast that many babies born in Donetsk are premature and neede special medicines, but “at the moment there are only four boxes of medicine for premature babies left in all of Donetsk, while we need at least ten boxes.” Patients with diabetes cannot buy insulin inside DPR. A recent United Nations report noted that 8,000 HIV patients have been left without medicine.
Russian officials, including Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, have pointed out again and again that Russia does not have the money to feed Donbas and that the breakaway territories were Ukraine’s responsibility.
So, who would supply medicine to millions of people in rebel republics of Luhansk and Donetsk? Donbas should not expect much from Russia on that front, either. Its pharmaceutical market depends on for foreign producers who demand payment from dwindingly supplies of foreign currency.
In fact, Russia does not have money left to feed itself: on Wednesday, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, admitted that there was no money left in Russia’s budget to support 94 so-called crisis cities dependent on single industries; about 19 million Russians live in these one-factory towns, now, without support programs.
Maybe the Kremlin should have thought a year ago whether Russia was prosperous enough for a foreign policy that leaves neighboring areas expecting support from Moscow.
“Very soon crowds of angry Russians will blame the Kremlin for annexing Crimea and backing Donbas while Russia itself is desperate and hungry,” Timur Olevsky of Rain TV told The Daily Beast. “Under new regulations, Russian law enforcement will have a right to shoot at protesters,” he suggested.
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Carl Bildt ✔ @carlbildt
OSCE vehicles vandalised in Donetsk. OSCE drone jammed and crashes. Russia is hampering monitoring efforts in Eastern Ukraine.
I'm not sure why, but "DNR" published a list of their activists, it's long.
http://dan-news.info/obshhestvennoe-...aya-respublika …
@ServiceSsu should really check this!
Morning battle of 5th Regiment of Dnipro-1 battalion. VIDEO http://ln.is/en.censor.net.ua/vid/nn4ZE … via @censor_net
Sputnik’s (#Russia government) #MH17 Reporting Spins Out of Control via @bellingcat https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-a...ut-of-control/ …
http://www.chathamhouse.org//node/18....HvTOchqp.dpuf
To Support Ukraine, West Must Go Beyond Sanctions
23 July 2015
James Sherr
Providing critical military assistance to Ukraine would devalue Russia’s advantage in negotiations.
From the outset of the Ukraine crisis, the West has acted on the premise that economic sanctions would induce Russia to modify its actions. But while sanctions do constrain capacity, they do not constrain behaviour. Their immediate impact is bearable. Moreover, they do nothing to diminish Russia’s most usable and effective form of power: military force. Given the stakes, the case for strengthening Ukraine’s defences is compelling.
The Russian military offensive of August 2014 secured diplomatic concessions in Minsk that would not have been granted otherwise. An even more devastating offensive of January-February 2015, in blatant violation of the first Minsk agreement, produced a second Minsk accord even more flawed than the first. According to its terms, future election conditions, constitutional reform and the restoration of border control are subject to the agreement of the separatists, who have licence to withhold their consent indefinitely.
It is blindingly obvious to the Kremlin that the separatist enclaves are neither absorbable by Russia nor sustainable in the long term. They are useful solely as a bridgehead for securing Russia’s wider objectives in Ukraine: its ‘federalization’ (loss of sovereignty), ‘non-bloc status’ (enforced neutrality) and the abandonment of its European course. So far, military force has been the arbiter of this process.
But if Russia’s military card is devalued, so is the bridgehead. And there are good reasons to believe strengthening Kyiv’s military muscle would be effective.
Russia has underestimated Ukraine’s resilience. Ukrainian national sentiment and civil society have been strengthened by the war, especially in the east. It also has underestimated the capacity of Ukraine’s fighting forces. Despite 16 months of armed insurgency and two military offensives backed by regular Russian troops, Russia’s separatist allies control less than five percent of Ukraine’s mainland territory.
Russia’s military system is potent but under strain. Its battle groups are not occupation forces. They strike hard and withdraw. The maintenance of 40-50,000 troops in theatre have placed demands on ground forces units as far away as Kazakhstan and Vladivostok. There is reluctance to risk prolonged exposure of ethnic Russian servicemen to hostile Russian-speaking populations in eastern Ukraine.
Nevertheless, Ukraine’s armed forces lack the means to prevail in high-intensity combat against well-armed Russian troops. They are burdened by the hangover of a largely unreformed defence system, by distrust between volunteer units and higher command echelons, and by a deficit of competent command and staff officers above unit level. Yet they are also dangerously outmatched in hard capability. In the Debaltseve offensive, Russia brought into the field advanced weapons systems against which Ukraine had no countermeasures.
Kyiv needs capabilities that will protect its forces and slow down the battlefield. If opposition forces are likely to face effective resistance and protracted combat, they will be less likely to attack. And the equipment needed to achieve this — secure communications, electronic counter-measures and long-range passive counter-battery radar — are neither ‘lethal’ weapons nor politically high-profile. Yet, in their absence, even a well-trained and highly motivated force risks evisceration in battle.
Much has changed since President Obama first declined Ukraine’s request for non-lethal assistance, and NATO allies are now contributing to Ukraine’s defence in a variety of ways. The problem is that the contribution is unsystematic, uncoordinated and unevenly matched to Ukraine’s needs.
In many quarters, it is now axiomatic that a refocusing and enhancement of Western assistance will ‘provoke’ Putin into a dramatic escalation of the conflict. The risk exists. Yet there is nothing in Putin’s record to support this assumption. What has repeatedly provoked him however is weakness and bluff.
In a contest with high-risk players, there is no such thing as a risk-free policy. Failure to modify an ineffective policy invites at least as much danger as a more robust course. Today’s dangers are created by Russia’s political aims, its military actions and its increasingly febrile and conspiratorial view of the world. So far, within these ominous parameters, the Kremlin has behaved according to a rational calculus. In this calculus, no respect is shown to opponents who are stronger, but unwilling to use their strength.
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Cyber warfare and cyber crime are not far apart in the Russian non linear warfare.
Concerning the large scale hack of the Italian software firm “The Hacking Team”.
hackingteam sold directly to the Russian secret Service FSB in 2012 https://www.wikileaks.org/hackingtea...emailid/454323 … pic.twitter.com/oQs0flGaad
hackingteam FSB was already testing their product from the very beginning in 2010 https://www.wikileaks.org/hackingtea...emailid/454318 … pic.twitter.com/fvBkzD3OA3
hackingteam the FSB was using their technology until surely march 2015 https://www.wikileaks.org/hackingtea...mailid/1002044 … pic.twitter.com/HVMUpZo3Ld
hackingteam Russian Kvant FSB license http://69.60.98.14/jdkw3fjiiAAwe341 in Miami https://www.wikileaks.org/hackingtea...emailid/644554 … pic.twitter.com/5WyLxrSGaV
hackingteam https://www.wikileaks.org/hackingtea...emailid/508803 … two Russian attackservers - look licencenumber pic.twitter.com/xyfVQP5znc
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So Germany can ban Nazism but Ukraine can't ban communism. https://twitter.com/halyapuff/status/624966713449283584 …
Satellite Imagery and Other Online Unclassified Resources Available for Geolocation of Targets - July 25,... http://tmblr.co/ZC3D0x1qQsqVd
Situation in ATO tense: Non-stop shelling toward Donetsk
http://www.unian.info/war/1104863-si...d-donetsk.html … pic.twitter.com/BCYx2IzFmP
Today (up to 18:00) militants shelled positions of Ukrainian troops 35 times - ATO press center https://m.facebook.com/story.php?sto...90&__tn__=%2As …
19:34 #Avdeevka @fingerw80 Some battle in #Opytne direction, maybe closer. High-caliber automatic weapons, pretty intense
19:38 #Avdeevka @fingerw80 Again high-calibre automatic weapons, further not that intense w/long pauses. However as usually
Casualties are rising as Russian forces continue around-the-clock shelling. Ukrainian officials say 3 UA soldiers were KIA/5 WIA in last 24h
hackingteam on one russian attackserver was also the old nokiapcsuite malware with its own domainname
looks like hackingteam was attempting to spoof @google's ssl private key
rcs-dev\share\HOME\Naga\ssl\google.key|.crt
hackingteam this server was even used for demo https://wikileaks.org/hackingteam/emails/emailid/508622 … pic.twitter.com/qhjY6MkIAH
Ukraine’s Dnipro Battalion Combines Drone Footage with Open Source Intelligence https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-a...-intelligence/ … pic.twitter.com/6FNzNStAnL
Russians (Kadyrov Chechens) abuse a Ukrainian POW: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIuWRczew8Q … pic.twitter.com/tc4EKr8Nw2
From yesterday: Msta-S delivery to Pokrovskoye? Painted over & ready to be sent to #Ukraine https://archive.is/kpVjI pic.twitter.com/zwddIzjva3
Latest from SMM (24/07): SMM observed weapons movements in “Lugansk People’s Republic”- & government-controlled areas http://eepurl.com/bue_L1
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It is going to be a very long night—wonder if Obama, Nuland and Biden fully understand just what the ground reality is on the eastern front?
23:02 #Horlivka @062_Region Started over
23:03 #Horlivka @tgorlovka It was quiet, but just now they started firing again
Horlivka 22:46
Hear volleys far away. https://twitter.com/ahab7822/status/625029397570023424 …
22:50 #Horlivka @77bot1 It has been reported on impacts on the field westward from Stroitel
22:53 #Horlivka @NovaGorlivka Zhovanka-Holma - mortar rounds heard; 6-7 mine - Gagarina mine - Shumy – battle
22:38 #Horlivka @tgorlovka Outgoing again?
22:27 #Horlivka @tgorlovka Electricity's up
@77bot1 they started to give electricity , then shelling peak is over for today
22:23 #Horlivka @tgorlovka A battle in #Shumy settlement direction heard fr/#Dzerzhynsk
22:19 #Dzerzhynsk @blessmaster I wanted to write 'it ceased', but again very distant blasts started
22:14 @sv_inaya They say there was Grad fr/Artemivsk
22:18 #Horlivka 5th block @cacab06 [No] singles both outgoing&incoming
DNR is reportedly mortaring Gorlovka at this moment... so they fire at Dzerzhinsk AND at town they supposedly protect..
22:10 #Horlivka @NovaGorlivka Mortars are working at the city
22:02 #Horlivka @123Brunhilda About 10 outgoing from the 5th block
22:11 #Dzerzhynsk @blessmaster AGL
22:04 #Horlivka @tgorlovka Electricity down in half city, impacts on #Mykytsky ds [#Mykytivka area]
21:55 #Horlivka @77bot1 5th block is getting reply. Electricity down at Gagarina, Rtutny [cinnabarite pit], Stroitel, Kalinovka, Bessarabka
Terrorists renewed attacks in Mariupol sector – ATO speaker http://en.censor.net.ua/n345272
SBU detained militants who fought near Debaltseve and Donetsk airport http://en.censor.net.ua/n345271
22:01 #Horlivka @andreyboss77 Now landings at 5th block
16:35 #Horlivka Stroitel @ahab7822 2 BMP from the city through Stroitel
21:57 #Horlivka 5th block @cacab06 About 5 more booms. Outgoing
21:58 Incoming started
21:44 #Horlivka 5th block @cacab06 2 more times [=gunshots]. Much closer the last one
21:38 #Horlivka @NovaGorlivka Just now RUS howitzers are shelling at Dzerzhynsk direction from Rumyantseve cemetery area
21:43 #Dzerzhynsk @dimetros7776 "No reply fire at all, we have Minsk here"
21:39 #Dzerzhynsk @dimetros7776 Impacts became closer
21:41 #Dzerzhynsk @dimetros7776 One incoming after another
21:40 #Dzerzhynsk @blessmaster "I didn't hear outgoing, at least nearby. Incoming for now - curtains are shaking"
21:35 #Horlivka @kristy31415 Shot-blast interval = 10 sec
21:32 #Dzerzhynsk @dimetros7776 Incoming heard
21:33 #Dzerzhynsk @hdzerz It started to boom here
21:32 #Horlivka @Julia_Twinkle Battle in #Zaytseve direction started]
21:08 #Avdeevka @rechnikato [as for #rumour UKR CPs were dismounted:] At coking plant there is a checkpoint but with no troops for now
21:02 #Krasnohorivka @Serzzze [fb] About 20min ago there were half score of incoming
Zaitsevo 23:11
Very heavy shelling, it wasn't like this since a long time. https://twitter.com/oksi_art/status/625035593077100544 …
23:13 #Horlivka
something heavier falls towards #Zaitsevo https://twitter.com/062_Region/statu...36114949238784 …
22:58 #Dzerzhynsk - sounds like it calmed down.
23:02 - Not anymore. Volley is heard and incoming. https://twitter.com/blessmaster/stat...32346337693696 …
In #Avdiivka 2 Ukr Army blockposts were abandoned. Volunteers from Sich Battalion doesn't know what's happening. https://twitter.com/rechnikato/statu...32303291572224 …
23:11 #Krasnohorivka @hyeva_maryinka [vk] Small arms skirmish in Mayak area
22:57
On #Horlivka distr. 6/7, #Mayorsk periodically fires: something heavy, mortars, tank. https://twitter.com/062_Region/statu...32149406777344 …
23:06 #Dzerzhynsk @blessmaster [started over] too, however not that intense and loudly as before, mostly reaches us from afar
Horlivka 23:50
Again heavy volleys https://twitter.com/062_Region/statu...45597926637568 …
23:50 #Horlivka @123Brunhilda They've reloaded and started over
23:51 @tgorlovka Again firing
23:52 @cacab06 Again outgoing
Horlivka 23:52
Again 3 outgoing. https://twitter.com/cacab06/status/625045892425515008 …
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TALK about the rule of "unintended consequences"--NOW the Russian MoD has a serious problem on their hands and Putin as well.
A full fledged MAJ in the Russian Army in active service and in full combat uniform and carrying Russian military ID documents was captured yesterday by the UA at a checkpoint after taking a wrong road turn.
So just how fast with the Russian MoD "declare him retired or out of the service". That is going to be extremely hard.
Pros&cons of Ukrainian roads: (-) no signs (+) invaders easily lost http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/26-july...0000009&zoom=8 … pic.twitter.com/DUzXS56yV5
2 ruscists unexpectedly arrived at UA checkpoint in Berezove at night, on a truck full of grenades and bullets. https://twitter.com/666_mancer/statu...73683645095936 …
Russia|n armed forces Major among two detained in #Ukraine w/ a "KAMAZ" truck full of ammo:
https://translate.google.com/transla...Fnews_7985.htm …
pic.twitter.com/KIvbhLyyeP
Russian army officer missed the turn and brought truck full of ammo to #Ukrainian checkpoint http://lugansk-news.com/russian-army...-full-of-ammo/ … pic.twitter.com/1iNMglUFrj
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The US active Army no longer as GRS units in the active line units--only in the Reserves--maybe time to bring them back to where they should have been in the first place.
Should actually refer to is as SBR-3, the 'Fara' designations seem a bit ambiguous. More pics: http://vitalykuzmin.net/?q=node/409 pic.twitter.com/RuA3SnCr2d
Fara-1 ground surveillance radar seeing battlefield use in Ukraine. pic.twitter.com/Fzx9vKnZ0z
Major ground combat ops are on again by Russian troops and her mercenaries-
Maybe someone should tell Obama, Nuland and Biden that the Russians have no intentions in a ceasefire of any kind and by pressuring the Ukrainians to give in and do unilateral appeasement moves to implement their side of Minsk 2 WHEN the Russians are absolutely doing nothing to implement their side leads only to failure and blowback.
There is a growing feeling in some circles in Europe that Obama only cares about his "legacy" and has no intentions on "confronting his new found friend-Putin" as he needs him for other "legacy victories".
Militants fired with small arms, mortars, howitzers & tanks. Battles raged on the the outskirts of Krasnohorivka and Mariinka - 28th Brigade
Near Berezove enemy infantry under cover of tanks & BMPS attacked. Fighting lasted almost 3 hrs. attack successfully repelled - 28th Brigade
08:55 #Maryinka @hyeva_maryinka [vk]
Mortars and howitzers or SPG were used. Quiet for now
08:55 #Maryinka @hyeva_maryinka [vk]
There was rumble in Sovkhoz, GAI CP, boarding school, #Kransohorivka direction.
Maryinka [vk] @hyeva_maryinka
08:55 The night passed over w/restless periods, first around 1am, then at half 4am, half 5am then.
Ukraine's 28th Brigade say during the last day their positions came under fire 22 times
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?sto...10&__tn__=%2As … pic.twitter.com/XXhKZuI0p6
Major Russian shelling damage to an 8 story apartment building—
Krasnohorivka [vk] @hyeva_maryinka
#8, Solnechna Str, 1st entrance:
pic.twitter.com/bqAiRNPUw2
Krasnohorivka [vk] @hyeva_maryinka
04:44 There were hits near 9-storey house on Sovetska St near the petrol station
Krasnohorivka [vk]
05:10 Started over
05:20 Ceased
05:40 [Donetsk side] Few SA shots&hum of a flying over projectile, distant landing
Krasnohorivka [vk] @hyeva_maryinka
04:40 Abt 10 blasts more, first one near the front line, latter like in town limits
05:00 Ceased
Staromykhaylivka @hyeva_maryinka [vk]
09:12 Incoming [impactson Chkalova and Bakinskikh_Komissarov St]
Ukraine : Russians shelled #Hranitne so villagers 'closed' the bridge to Putin's "liberation" http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=47...9&z=16&m=b&v=1 … pic.twitter.com/4gm6OqmgfM
@vpkivimaki this is the one that can be used as fire direction for PKM/Kord/AGS... few pictures of them pic.twitter.com/ztcX2J5pVN
Expert says Russia's threat to conquer Ukraine in 3-5 days aimed to frighten West http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukra...st-394290.html …
Donetsk region, police seized grenade launcher and ammunition in the house of a local resident
http://www.mvs.gov.ua/mvs/control/ma...rticle/1573656 … pic.twitter.com/8DGbxv7RYz
Ukrainian rebel" Babay returned from Donbass to Russia and has no work and money now pic.twitter.com/LZ5qgQoxKY http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/26-july...bass-to-russia …
NOTE--this individual was first seen in the Crimea during the takeover there and then in the early days of the Russian takeover of the Donbass.
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