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    Quote Originally Posted by OUTLAW 09 View Post
    Appears that the Ukrainian military is in fact inflicting an extremely high loss rate on the Russian troops and her mercenaries--far higher than could have been estimated.

    The OSCE has recorded 21 trucks with "cargo 200"(KIA) on the border of Russia and Ukraine http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/6-augus...h-cargo-200kia

    AND that just since this latest Russian offense started four weeks ago.

    20 bodies per truck minimum is a loss of over 400 troops --say an average of 50 as they do not load the trucks with caskets--that occurs in Rostov Russia-THEN a total of over 1000 and usual they use semi trailers for movements.
    Wow, that's a lot. Must be some hundreds of Russian KIA. https://twitter.com/AlexandruC4/stat...85443503157248

    BTW--Russia is now attempting to completely discredit OSCE as their reporting is becoming quite pointed at showing Russia is the ongoing aggressor and reporting more an more on actual Russia troops and is reporting the above WHEN Putin wants to keep it silenced.

    Protesters poured fake blood in front of OSCE hotel in Donetsk. Say people die because of them
    http://m.ria.ru/tv_society/20150806/1167103325.html … pic.twitter.com/wlnDyuIUyH

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    Russian artillery base at Krasny Luch : howitzers, MRLSs, R-142 radio station.
    https://informnapalm.org/11314-krasn...nbassantratsyt … @DajeyPetros pic.twitter.com/h4btI4Ib2U

    Slovak volunteers in the ranks of #Azov regiment. Together for the #Europe of the nations! pic.twitter.com/MJ9YQXYy5t

    Russian army tanks (hybrid DPR unit "Diesel") Donetsk region Ukraine 6 Aug https://youtu.be/iTYve5lRlzo 1/3 pic.twitter.com/CknMgFKRYs

    Russian army tank and armoured recovery vehicle (ARV) Possibly VT-55A? occupied Donetsk 6 Aug pic.twitter.com/VtlYJN0XVp

    Russian army tank with rail tranpsort #H2200 marking sprayed over in green, occupied Donetsk 6 Aug pic.twitter.com/EZzmw5Od5J

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    Quote Originally Posted by OUTLAW 09 View Post
    Reference the chemical plant and the nuclear waste storage site--THIS tonight!!!!

    19:27 Massive explosion was felt in #Donetsk (strong air blast)
    brkng images
    pic.twitter.com/fF6Y1YBAfg

    Massive explosion in #Donetsk: https://twitter.com/666_mancer/statu...68703028273152

    more Donetsk pix https://twitter.com/Ykraino4_ka/stat...69110018359297

    Said to be chemical plant again

    19:28 #Donetsk @ADivinorum "What was it? It opened windows a bit, curtains danced. I was in and didn't get direction"

    19:31 #Donetsk @zzzwefzzz 5 min ago house was once shaked. No explosion was heard just strong vibration

    19:28 #Donetsk @OldHistoric Again chemical plant blown up?How many storages are left there?
    @Ukr_Che 4th since autumn? 3 more

    two more, yes, it's DZKHI
    pic.twitter.com/KlgCDRKRce

    Another picture from #Donetsk explosion:
    pic.twitter.com/kIh6DKboqH

    19:34 #Donetsk @OldHistoric The wave shows that it was an underground blast, no sound was heard, just house shaked once

    19:59 #Donetsk @sex_Dombas "Let me remind, there is about 240 tonnes of exlosives at #Donetsk chemical plant, 60 are already blown up"
    VIDEO: Footage of explosion in Donetsk this evening
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ew8AsAHOsZI … pic.twitter.com/Wh28vlwqHF

    Donetsk: 1/2 hr ago, 'mashroom cloud' of the blast at chemical plant pic.twitter.com/ngHXFeECDM
    RUS video from Aug05 massive explosion site in #Donetsk chemical plant @14720Maro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfrZbOUNuyE

    Russians attempting to blame the Ukrainians by having a single Ukrainian license plate laying around the site and the plate was in great shape for such a massive explosion and a single hand grenade without a single scratch mark on it.

    21:20 #Makiivka @VasyaMakeevskiy #Rumours: pro-RUS tell, that yesternight an UKR Tochka-U flew in, but was shot down
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    Quote Originally Posted by OUTLAW 09 View Post
    We are headed again towards the combat operations level of over 80 attacks per day tonight might break 100 at this pace…….

    Rumble of shelling. Good evening Donetsk!


    19:45 #Donetsk @UrriKara4en 25-richya_RKKA - Postysheva intersection is cordoned off with RUS BTR & Ural

    19:44 #Donetsk Kalinovka @AlfaNubovsky We're listening to the volleys and some explosions simultaneously, which's air blast hits windows

    19:40 #Donetsk @PVB40 [fb] Pasta factory: 7 distant but yet strong booms like from the north

    20:34 #Donetsk @hunab_ku04 In #Avdiivka direction such a ceasefire! [sarcasm] Even Smolyanka can hear. Now also Chemical plant has joined

    Donetsk 20:22
    Somewheare between #Avdiivka and #Yasynuvata both incoming and outgoing can be heard
    https://twitter.com/hauzenmynh/statu...41881432993792

    20:33 #Donetsk @PVB40 [fb] Near railway station: mortar, car alarms went off, a dog panics

    20:34 #Donetsk @frosy1burlakova Now outgoing from Topaz

    20:30 #Donetsk @PVB40 [fb] #Kurakhove: quiet, warning sirens
    #Maryinka: quiet
    #Krasnohorivka: restless

    20:29 #Donetsk @AkaDON12 At 18:30 2 blasts in Rozy_Luksemburg dir'n, then 2 outgoing from Smolyanka, now some fireworks

    20:28 #Donetsk Abakumova @hyeva_maryinka [vk] Not quiet, several landings behind the pond pic.twitter.com/23glnf8P0O

    20:29 #Donetsk @AkaDON12 Sporadic salvos in airport-Putilovka direction - mortars + tank?

    20:34 #Donetsk @PVB40 [fb] They've pounded from Shakhtarska, 4 volleys. Schorsa ot slagheap behind Mayak? Nearby

    20:40 #Donetsk Shyrokiy @jackson_villi Rumble heard, unclear where it lands

    20:35 #Donetsk Bakiny @GirkinGirkin Rumble

    20:36 #Donetsk @relictDon Volleys in Durna_Balka-Smolyanka direction, gunnery in the north before

    20:41 #Avdiivka @JuZolyshkaLia Rumble

    20:42 #EDonetsk Petrovka @jackson_villi Strong salvos are audible

    Right, this is "something signalling", in this case car alarms, there's no sense to use flares when it's not dark.

    20:45
    #Avdiivka loud. Incoming in the old part of the city. https://twitter.com/avdey777ka/statu...47545156874240

    20:38 #Donetsk @papandopoolo Impact on office building opposite Atletik club at Chelyuskintsev St. Area cordoned off

    20:43 #Donetsk @TaylerRid Very strong outgoing salvos from Mayak-railway station area

    Shelling from #Donetsk/outskirts seems to be ceased for now.

    21:24 @Buzzing_Rook Projectiles hit #Avdiivka and no one would ask [Zakharchenko which is live on TV now] "What for?"

    21:24 #Avdiivka @JuZolyshkaLia No, it hasn't ceased [=rumble started over]

    21:25 #Donetsk @relictDon Again salvos from Durna_Balka-Smolyanka area
    @hunab_ku04 From chemicals plant

    21:26 #Donetsk @TaylerRid Again Mayak-railway station is deaf [of volleys]. Position unclear, all car alarms went off

    21:34 #Donetsk @TaylerRid Volleys are from here [?], maybe from behind Topaz...

    21:34 #Avdiivka @bamr69 Impacts on town started over, shelling from the within #Donetsk

    21:36 #Donetsk @Newrashkineits Shots and ambulances [are heard]

    BRKNG Luhansk region, Schastye - very big fire/smoke... https://twitter.com/Tkachov_TT/statu...55882984439808

    21:38 #Donetsk @TaylerRid Car with sirens [or foghorns? which's correct?] sped along Artema St

    21:38 #Donetsk Rozy_Luksemburg @0954771 Drowsy one, but still shelling [=ongoing shelling became less intense]
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    Going to be a long night and early morning-- wonder if Western leaders even care any more??????

    For all their words, and statements---absolutely no action on their parts results in increasing Putin's aggression as he senses all they want is business as usual and their legacies.

    Seems that the Polish are the only true defenders of what NATO stands for--collective defense of Europe not just the French or Germans BUT all of Europe even the small countries.

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    Maybe Obama and his NSC should start listening to the DoD Generals--


    Now Putin starts to seriously threaten Finland and Sweden---------

    Former Chief of Defense General Nikolai Makarov: "cooperation between Finland and NATO threatens Russia's security" http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/...m-joining-nato

    Senior Russian leaders have made several dangerous statements about relationships between Finland & Sweden with NATO

    Will Russia Intervene to Keep Finland & Sweden Out of NATO? by @NATOSource director J. Benitez http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/...m-joining-nato … pic.twitter.com/MqAXzkCA8w

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    Quote Originally Posted by OUTLAW 09 View Post
    Going to be a long night and early morning-- wonder if Western leaders even care any more??????

    For all their words, and statements---absolutely no action on their parts results in increasing Putin's aggression as he senses all they want is business as usual and their legacies.

    Seems that the Polish are the only true defenders of what NATO stands for--collective defense of Europe not just the French or Germans BUT all of Europe even the small countries.
    Shelling reports are simply too many to post--massive shellings all long the eastern front--will post examples of the evening and early morning shellings tomorrow morning.

    Wonder if Obama and his NSC will finally wake up and realize Russia is in their summer offensive and that there is an actual war in Central
    Europe.

    Wonder as well if they finally realize that forcing the Ukraine into unilateral appeasement moves to please Putin without a reciprocal move by Russia is just another word for failed Western diplomacy.

    Appeasement never works out well for those that historically try it.
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    Short list of shelling examples from last night especially the Russian shellings of Ukrainian critical infrastructure----power plants and water pipelines.

    Seems they do not fully understand that the water pipelines and power plants also supply Russian mercenary and Russian troop controlled areas of Donbas.


    Pictures
    Substantial damage from Russian shelling of the #Shchastya power plant last night.

    pic.twitter.com/QXCmrUdYTe

    06:48 #Avdiivka @JuZolyshkaLia Small arms burst sounds so close

    02:44 #Donetsk @relictDon From the same area in Smolyanka direction seldom heavy [projectiles] go north

    02:40 #Donetsk @HeleneHelene5 I woke up to the volleys, noisy again

    02:42 #Popasna @hu_popa [Looks like checkpoint at Melnitsa circle was hit - those circle is here 48.638859, 38.404405]

    1.5 hour ground combat attack by Russian infantry—pushed back by Ukrainian troops and supporting mortar and artillery fire
    There was a battle w russian infantry group near #Krasnohorivka from 19:25-21:00, attack repelled
    http://www.pravda.com.ua/rus/news/20...ce=twitterfeed … via @ukrpravda_news

    02:22 #Popasna @hu_popa #Pervomaysk woke up [=incoming from P direction]. Rumble
    02:35 UKR fired in reply fr/Popasna

    Donetsk 2:44AM
    Volleys from the same area of Smolyanka. Rare but powerful. Flies towards north. https://twitter.com/relictDon/status/629437814711689216

    Donetsk 2:40AM
    Woke up by volleys. Noisy again. https://twitter.com/HeleneHelene5/st...36895278288896

    2:35AM
    From #Popasna now return fire.
    Very loud. https://twitter.com/hu_popa/status/629435624970428416

    2:22AM
    #Pervomaysk woke up. LOUD.
    https://twitter.com/hu_popa/status/629432367518756864

    Avdiivka
    The night was noisy. https://twitter.com/JuZolyshkaLia/st...97676246220800
    Last edited by OUTLAW 09; 08-07-2015 at 05:59 AM.

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    I had posted on the closed Ukrainian war thread a long study on just how Russia is totally dependent on a large number of Ukrainian products for their military reform and rebuild Plan 2020 PLUS a large number of various raw resources and semi finished products.

    We see that in the simple fact they have completely taken apart five Ukrainian factories in their occupied zone and shipped them to Russia.

    SO is in effect Putin really fighting the worlds first raw resources war???

    One of the (big) reasons why Russia is not finished yet in Ukraine. https://twitter.com/RutheniaRus/stat...02172149489666

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    Russia's information soldiers pose as journalists in war against Ukraine http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukra...ne-395228.html

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    Quote Originally Posted by OUTLAW 09 View Post
    Short list of shelling examples from last night especially the Russian shellings of Ukrainian critical infrastructure----power plants and water pipelines.

    Seems they do not fully understand that the water pipelines and power plants also supply Russian mercenary and Russian troop controlled areas of Donbas.


    Pictures
    Substantial damage from Russian shelling of the #Shchastya power plant last night.

    pic.twitter.com/QXCmrUdYTe

    06:48 #Avdiivka @JuZolyshkaLia Small arms burst sounds so close

    02:44 #Donetsk @relictDon From the same area in Smolyanka direction seldom heavy [projectiles] go north

    02:40 #Donetsk @HeleneHelene5 I woke up to the volleys, noisy again

    02:42 #Popasna @hu_popa [Looks like checkpoint at Melnitsa circle was hit - those circle is here 48.638859, 38.404405]

    1.5 hour ground combat attack by Russian infantry—pushed back by Ukrainian troops and supporting mortar and artillery fire
    There was a battle w russian infantry group near #Krasnohorivka from 19:25-21:00, attack repelled
    http://www.pravda.com.ua/rus/news/20...ce=twitterfeed … via @ukrpravda_news

    02:22 #Popasna @hu_popa #Pervomaysk woke up [=incoming from P direction]. Rumble
    02:35 UKR fired in reply fr/Popasna

    Donetsk 2:44AM
    Volleys from the same area of Smolyanka. Rare but powerful. Flies towards north. https://twitter.com/relictDon/status/629437814711689216

    Donetsk 2:40AM
    Woke up by volleys. Noisy again. https://twitter.com/HeleneHelene5/st...36895278288896

    2:35AM
    From #Popasna now return fire.
    Very loud. https://twitter.com/hu_popa/status/629435624970428416

    2:22AM
    #Pervomaysk woke up. LOUD.
    https://twitter.com/hu_popa/status/629432367518756864

    Avdiivka
    The night was noisy. https://twitter.com/JuZolyshkaLia/st...97676246220800
    Yesterday militants 106 times violated ceasefire. 78 of these were in area of Donetsk - ATO press center
    https://m.facebook.com/story.php?sto...41&__tn__=%2As

    I commented a number of posts ago over 25,000 or so to be more exact that we are now in the Russian summer offensive--and yes we are --every day Spetsnaz and Russian infantry ground attacks attempting to get a breakthrough of the UA defense lines and shellings using every single heavy weapons systems THAT were supposed to be have been withdrawn by Russia under Minsk 2.

    If one understands the Russian term "masking" we have seen a slow and steady increase in both the ground attacks and the shellings in order to not attract much western news media attention which has been achieved as virtually all western mass media outside of the German Bild reports virtually nothing about the fighting or has anyone in the US seen any combat videos being shown by western media outside of Vice News and a few independents.

    AND most western leaders and their FMs just keep saying--"the ceasefire is largely holding" which totally flies in the face of reality.

    ALMOST as they think that by saying it over and over WAR in Central Europe will simply disappear.

    War in Central Europe is now after the four week ramp up in full gear regardless of what Obama, Nuland, Kerry want to believe--AND if you notice they have not said a single word in the last week or so about the fighting.
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    2 Ukr servicemen of 93rd brigade's assault unit Karpatska Sich were KIA near #Donetsk airport http://svoboda.org.ua/news/events/00014769/ … pic.twitter.com/phe8uO1QY7

    As a result of last night GRAD MLRS attack on Troits'ke, 2 homes were destroyed - Luhansk RSAhttp://112.ua/ato/nochyu-boeviki-obs...ga-250436.html

    Russian SC secretary #Patrushev informed on terrorist threat in #Crimea http://r.rbc.ru/78mgkusQEWk Will #FSB blow up houses there?@Poluostroff

    News
    Russian forces conducted a BM-21 Grad attack on #Troitske last night.
    Rus infantry assault on #Krasnohorivka.
    3 Ukr WIA in #Shchastya.

    Tymchuk: 2 groups of Russian FSB agents arrived in Russian-occupied Ukraine to setup contraband smuggling routes from the rest of Ukraine.

    More Russian “masking operations”—this time TV weather reports----
    Ex-propagandist says Russian TV falsified weather forecasts to persuade Ukrainians they won't get through winter. http://m.colta.ru/articles/society/8163

    The Russian government and central bank are spending billions trying save struggling companies http://bloom.bg/1gNgrg7 pic.twitter.com/hsdOVxXVWr

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    Maybe Obama, Kerry, Nuland, Hollande and Merkel should listen to what the reality of their unilateral appeasement with no reciprocal Russian move demands by them sounds like.

    #Donetsk Topaz district - the sound of russian #ceasefire, yesterday evening https://youtu.be/O6ZGkaY0FPY

    That was just 56 seconds worth of over a four hour shelling attack yesterday night into this morning--and the German and French FMs state repeatedly in the last week or so "the ceasefire is largely holding"---in reality it seems to not be the case actually just the opposite.

    AND the Us response has been exactly what--utter silence.......BUT they are sending a military field hospital I guess to handle all the current Ukrainian wounded trying to hold to a ceasefire that does not even in name exist.

    Attacks have been averaging over 90 per day and that is full combat operations when compared to February 2015.
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    Yesterday militants 4 times shelled UKR positions in sector "M". They fired on Novohryhorivka (1) & Chermalyk (3)
    http://m.0629.com.ua/news/916897

    Ukr 34th batt commander: RU-terrorist groups in #Horlivka are under a russian general's command http://inforesist.org/kombat-boevika...ral/?_utl_t=tw

    This is the general who commanded the group of russian troops in #Debaltsevo"


    Last night militants for 3 hours fired from tanks on Avdeevka. civilian wounded - sector "B" spox
    http://www.5.ua/ato-na-shodi/Boiovyk...r-B-89629.html

    Russians fire almost non-stop on Ukr positions near #Shchastya, 3 Ukr soldiers wounded there yesterday http://ato.lisichansk.in.ua/na-lugan...html?_utl_t=tw

    More failures of the OSCE to accurately report Russian shellings against Ukrainian critical infrastructure--
    After Power Plant in Shchastya was shelled by terrorists OSCE was there. Will they report? No! http://lugansk-news.com/after-attack...diers-wounded/ … pic.twitter.com/AiuZL34vYt

    Apparently Russian mercenaries have truly not read Minsk 2 Agreement-----

    Pushilin: The law on local election signed by @poroshenko has no relation to DNR and LNR, it's for internal use only http://www.donetskie.com/news/politi...medium=twitter

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    The #OSCE cannot get access to separatist-controlled areas of #Ukraine, particularly along the int'l border,to verify the impl. of ceasefire

    Russia vetoed in OSCE any further monitoring points—and yet they were the ones calling for a OSCE-SMM.

    .@OSCE has observers at two crossings on about 140 miles frontier btn Russia and separatist-held Ukraine. No mandate outside 2 border posts.

    Painted over Russian rail shipping number—
    pic.twitter.com/o5u3aaWzRi

    Map. Situation in eastern #Ukraine, August 7, 00:00 EET pic.twitter.com/hRYH7a9TZU

    Maxim Tucker @MaxRTucker
    My story on sting operation and arrest of four would-be uranium smugglers in #Ukraine http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/w...cle4519567.ece … pic.twitter.com/xgYxeke9jM

    Shoigu: Russian military planning to recommission four armoured trains! (RT_com 6 Aug) https://www.rt.com/news/311714-russi...rmored-trains/ … pic.twitter.com/hFo52E84Nt

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    ATO Press Center: 106 attacks on #Ukrainian Army positions in #Donetsk and #Lugansk Regions. http://lugansk-news.com/ato-press-ce...gansk-regions/ … pic.twitter.com/swDxls4idr

    Col. Lysenko:In Avdiivka, as a result of hostile attacks a local resident was wounded. Maryinka region is partially left without electricity

    Col. Lysenko: UA antiterrorist forces repelled 2-hour-long militants attack near Krasnohorivka.

    ATO spox: Situation remains unchanged to the west of Donetsk: hostilities continued throughout the contact line from Avdiivka to Maryinka.

    ATO spokesperson: Near Horlivka - quiter than usually: 3 armed provocations near Mayorsk took place at night.

    12:37 #Severodonetsk @urban_sd Some distant din, incoming #Grad at #Bakhmutka [road area]?

    ATO spox: Donetsk sector: Military situation near Svitlodarsk slightly calmed down: neither tank fire nor artillery. Militants snipers active

    ATO spox: Difficult combat situation was yesterday near Troitske town: 120-mm shelling afternoons and fire from MLRS "Grad" at night

    ATO spox: The enemy significantly increased attacks against UA positions near Shchastya: heavy shelling & tank fire took place yesterday.

    ATO spokesperson: Near Stanytsia Luhanska, militants opened fire in the evening using grenade launchers and mortars.

    Col. Andriy Lysenko: Luhansk: Hotzones: Stanytsia Luhanska, Shchastya, Troitske

    Col.Lysenko: Military situation at the front line deteriorated again. For the first time in the past 2 weeks the enemy used rocket artillery

    Large Russian military offensive in Ukraine possible within weeks according to a US analyst
    http://www.unian.info/war/1109060-la...s-analyst.html

    ATO spox: UA counteracts RU propaganda in the front-line areas: 500 satellite TV dishes will be mounted pic.twitter.com/0rXxH9qNKY

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    Russian base in Krasnyi Luch. Howitzers, MRLS “Grad” and trucks geo-located in #Ukraine. http://lugansk-news.com/russian-mili...ed-in-ukraine/ … pic.twitter.com/vaCrlF4hnA

    Is Mirko Mebius spying for #Russia in #Ukraine under guise of being a journalist? Another GWP?
    http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukra...ne-395228.html … pic.twitter.com/uGBykNL6Jk

    Accounts used to contact Mebius for comment were hacked & Mebius blocked the Kiev Post reporter on his social media pages.

    Ukrainian hackers hacked computer of Pushilin, one of DNR leaders pic.twitter.com/5HKx8cwhJS http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/7-augus...f-pushilin-one

    Russia|n forces shelled #Troitske with MLRS Grad - first time for two weeks
    pic.twitter.com/klnhWZuT0L

    Zakharchenko declared readiness of #DNR to the beginning of new hostilities
    https://twitter.com/tohub/status/629602184070623232

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    Russian shellings have started far earlier today than in the last week or so.

    First reports seem to indicate they are just range finding and adjusting.

    Will be if true--- a very long evening and early morning again with attack numbers probably in the 90-100 range again.

    Anything over 55-60 per day constitutes full combat operations.

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    http://www.unian.info/politics/11091...esistance.html

    Groups of special "experts" arrive in Luhansk and Donetsk from Russia – Information Resistance

    07.08.2015 | 12:46

    Special groups have come to militant strongholds of Luhansk and Donetsk from Russia to organize smuggling of foodstuffs from government-controlled territories of Donbas, according to Dmytro Tymchuk, MP and coordinator of an “Information Resistance” online resource.

    “A special group of “experts from Russia” has been spotted in Luhansk, who are dealing with setting up a smuggling channel of foodstuffs from the government-controlled territory,” said Tymchuk.

    The MP claims that the group consists of 16 people, of whom there are three women. The major part of the group is comprised of the employees from the FSB [Russia’s Federal Security Service] and other Russian law enforcement agencies. This group has no permanent place of stay, tries not to draw unnecessary attention (the group members sport the same uniform as the “local militants”), and has two Volkswagen T4 minivans at their disposal, with tinted windows and no registration tags; two “Tigr” (GAZ-2330) armored combat vehicles and a civilian SUV.

    It is noted that the group gathers data from local businessmen and “LPR authorities” involved in smuggling on corrupt Ukrainian military servicemen, (both from the staff and to the ordinary servicemen who serve at the roadblocks), who are part of smuggling conspiracy (it is not excluded that this preliminary gathering of information aims to be used for further blackmail and recruitment), Tymchuk added.

    According to Tymchuk, local security services have been instructed to facilitate the group’s activities without interfering with their operations. The group’s leaders are in constatnt contact with the self-proclaimed leaders of the LPR militant organization, while part of the group regularly visits the frontline.

    Similar group has been spotted in Donetsk.

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    For those that believed the Russian myths about NATO humiliating Russia—appears Putin has done a far better job of it than NATO ever could……………

    Russian citizens picking up the forbidden foreign Parmesan. You said NATO went too far and hurt Russia's pride? Ha
    ! pic.twitter.com/5qAQVs2mPz

    Russians are dragging home even crushed fruit, to turn it into homemade moonshine.
    http://www.rabochy-put.ru/news/65926...-ovoshchi.html … pic.twitter.com/YWtXZq2tDK

    No matter what RU done to my #Ukraine,I'm still sorry to share this picture showing what #Putin has done to his own ppl pic.twitter.com/qEiROv1wjL

    More Russians picking through the crushed fruits and vegetables.
    pic.twitter.com/9t7MQ4RNnc
    pic.twitter.com/C8CYv0yTqZ

    Smolensk @ryabtchuk_roman Locals bring from waste deposit kilos of fruits, which were to be destroyed pic.twitter.com/6C845er50T

    Luhansk militants to arrange local election irrespective of Kyiv's position
    http://www.unian.info/politics/11092...-position.html … pic.twitter.com/ChFPExBMgy

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