A Russian war ship is in a close call with a U.S. Navy ship — again
http://cnn.it/29hjD4z
A Russian war ship is in a close call with a U.S. Navy ship — again
http://cnn.it/29hjD4z
Occasionally Ukrainian politics gets in their own way......Ukraine giving in to a Russian mercenary demand feels like they are accepting Russian occupation or is it internal politics at work.....interesting to see how this one goes.....
Aidar Commander Jailed for Looting, Kidnapping on LNR Complaint; Fighters Block Courtroom
http://www.interpretermag.com/day-866/#14424
Do not exactly understand how he could have been looting and kidnapping as they were under virtual attack by Russian troops and her mercenaries for over 1.4 years in this front line area....that would have required him physically being behind the combat lines of the LNR in order to loot and kidnap.....as virtually everything along the front LNR line had been destroyed in Russian/mercenary shelling attacks...
Ukraine managed to save, relocate 50% of its vessels from Crimea during peninsula's annexation - Minister Poltorak http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2016/06/28/7113041/ …
NOTE: the Ukrainian Crimean Admiral who defected to Russia when they invaded Crimea is now the Russian Naval Commander for the Baltic Fleet....now convince me he has not be working for the Russians for years......he was the one who initially gave the command for all Ukrainian naval vessels to remain in Crimea instead of immediately leaving in the first days of the takeover.
Russian Separatists in Occup. Parts of Eastern #Ukraine Trick #Journalists & Mothers Into The Line Of Fire http://www.forbes.com/sites/paulrode.../#3387f1325860 …
No KIA, but 6 UA servicemen WIA by #Russian occupiers in the #warzone in E #Ukraine over the last 24h - official
RUS's 'DPR' handed an "Ukr soldier's" body,killed June 29 near #Lohvynove,to RedCross/OSCE.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Emc4sAQbGlg …
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Russian semistrategic drone spotted in eastern #Ukraine
http://uatoday.tv/politics/russian-s...ne-685814.html …
Got my hands on the personel list of the separatists working as Berkut in #LNR, guess it needs to find its way to proper guys
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B]Annexation of Crimea was not an accidental operation. It started w 2003 Tuzla conflict - Voronchenko's interview ENG [/B]http://krymsos.com/en/news/generalle...ikta-na-tuzle/ …
NYT: #Russia fires dozens of officers in #Baltic region
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/01/wo...gion.html?_r=0 …
Predetermined Trials of #CrimeanMuslims as terror "to show who's boss”
http://khpg.org/en/index.php?id=1467160325 …
Kremlin's main propaganda centre in Western Europe #Berlin
http://www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/d.../13816272.html …
In German....
"Behind the bullying & disruption of pro-Western governments bordering #Russia lies a clash of ideas"
http://europe.newsweek.com/why-nato-...s-476258?rm=eu …
Last edited by OUTLAW 09; 07-03-2016 at 03:08 PM.
Russian party is starting again......
14:30 Skirmish with mortars in #Shyrokyne area still ongoing.
From one of the Russian party's yesterday.....
Artillery attack near Lohvynove yesterday
http://liveuamap.com/en/2016/3-july-...nove-yesterday …
pic.twitter.com/NysbevEWT9
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.@InformNapalm posted video of hacked email of #Rus journo Zenin how separatists shelled #Nikishino village Jan 2015 https://informnapalm.org/23857-vzlom...rel-nikishino/ …
Russia's Def Min Shoigu orders Rus military planes to start using transponders over Baltic. Who ordered opposite? https://twitter.com/AnnalenaLauren/s...17365495717888 …
Apparently Putin decided to order to turn transponders on at the prompting of Finnish President Sauli Niinisto.
Article in #Italian about mercenaries from #Italy #ITA, who fight in occup. #Donbas against #Ukraine for Kremlin
http://www.stopfake.org/it/foreign-fighter-italiani/ …
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Battle at #Shyrokyne is still ongoing, can be heard in #Mariupol.Originally Posted by OUTLAW 09
19:50
From Donbas to Belarus?
I've long argued that Putin is far more likely to attack Belarus or Kazakhstan than the Baltics, as the former two are:
- Not protected by any major and/or nuclear-armed powers
- Hold more "resources" for Russia than the Baltics (i.e. human and commodity)
- Regarded as much part of Russia historic "buffer zone", "privileged sphere of interest" or "near abroad" as Ukraine
- Exhibiting tensions towards the "Russian World" i.e. distancing themselves from Moscow and Russian language and culture
Here is the latest from Jamestown: Minsk Fears Moscow May Organize Hybrid War and Color Revolution in Belarus
"Many governments in the post-Soviet space fear they may be threatened by a color revolution; others are worried that they will become victims of a hybrid war. But Belarus is worried about both at the same time, something that makes it difficult for Minsk to cope because the challenges posed by the one and those posed by the other are quite different. Moreover, the policies that might be most useful to block one could, in some circumstances, have the effect of making the latter more likely. This is especially true because one outside power—Vladimir Putin’s Russia—is interested in making use of both in pursuit of Moscow’s ends..."
Russia has no need to further "threaten" Belarus as they have all they need to do that already stationed inside Belarus ........and as Crimea has shown they can beef up those bases and Belarus cannot really say anything especially since Belarus is a member of CIS as well......
Based on the Russian statements that they perceived the NATO actions in the Baltics to be militarily provocative they are following their Cold War Warsaw Pact strategy of building a second line of defense.
Just as the Soviet Army was forward based inside the GDR it had far fewer troops in Czechoslovakia but built a second line of defense by basing more troops in say Poland and next to the Czechoslovakian border in order to stop a "perceived NATO ground attack"
Yes Belarus can feel a "perceived" Russian military threat by these new troop basing's....IMHO it is a second line of defense against a "perceived NATO military threat coming from the Baltics'.
So Putin wins twice...he "threatens Belarus" and defends against NATO in one single move.
BUT.......
This is Why @NATO Needs to be Worried About Russia
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articl...putin-and-nato …
BUT........
Putin is rapidly reaching his decision point of "guns or butter" as he cannot afford any further "both"........I had said back after Crimea and shortly after the Russian invasion of eastern Ukraine he would soon reach that point and it is now literally in front of his nose....that is why he is suddenly "playing nice" before the NATO Warsaw Summit by "lowering tensions in the Baltics" by turning on his "transponders"......begs the question if he turned them on...WHO turned them off?????
Russia Is Very Quickly Running Out Of Cash
https://lnkd.in/e5XaKxN
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