Russo-Ukraine War 2017 (January-April)

[OUTLAW 09]

Easter is over BACK to the war-------

17:15 #Donetsk: [forum] It has begun, capital out's from #airport direction, and one incoming. Now AA-guns are rattling

17:22 #Krynychna, #Makiivka: One can hear heavy [guns], heavy machine-gun burst, windows glasses vibrate

17:28 #Donetsk: assault rifles, machine guns [are heard] at #Oktyabrskyi, sometimes heavies, incoming or outgoing

17:31 #Novhorodske: You can even use the word 'battle' to describe the events behind #Skotuvata, incl. lots of small arms fire

17:40 #Donetsk: Orcs are shelling artillery in the North

17:47 #Donetsk #railway staton: It has boomed [servel times] closer, like hammering posts. Now sirens went along #Artema

17:50 #Donetsk #railway station: Artillery continues the active work. Singles. At 2-5 sec intervals

17:50 #Donetsk #Putilovka: Orcs escalated after Easter, shelling towards #Avdiivka

Lot's of battle reports coming in from #Donetsk, #Makeevka and #Avdeevka this evening

Pisky is still under fire.

[OUTLAW 09]

Why Russia's Massive Zapad Military Exercises Scare the World
http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the...e-world-20199#

Russians are happy with the annexation of Crimea, but not with Crimea getting more money from state budget
https://www.vedomosti.ru/politics/ar...3490/normal/1#

[OUTLAW 09]

Large Russian Land-Air-Sea Exercises in Crimea Highlight Vulnerabilities in Ukrainian Navy and Coastal Defense
https://jamestown.org/program/large-...stal-defense/#

Strange that UAF and social media has been pointing to this since 2014 and that the recent Russian exercises conducted just such joint land/sea/air landing exercises in Crimea...

[OUTLAW 09]

FSB says it quashed plot to smuggle vast amount of weapons from Europe/Ukraine into Russia
http://www.fsb.ru/fsb/press/message/...bMessage.html#

AND as always with FSB accusations of this type...they NEVER publish a single photo or evidence..all just words as if the world is suppose to believe the FSB????

Another disinformation attempt being used to set the stage to something else...

BUT THEN the ground reality of Russian military actions.....

Ukraine reports 1 WIA amid 32 enemy attacks in last day

[OUTLAW 09]

Most #Ukrainians want peace in Donbas, but not at any cost and consider elections in #Donbas ”unacceptable” – poll
http://uaposition.com/latest-news/uk...eptable-poll/#

.@Twitter bots in action - #Russian #informationwarfare methods designed for "easy exploitation - high impact"
http://bit.ly/2p3b30p

Ukraine twitter accounts complain of sudden drop in Russian trolls attack. Worried that their budget is cut.

Possibly true as the US government has recently taken down a series of Russian botnet servers with the arrest of a top Russian hacker in Barcelona....

[OUTLAW 09]

Russia would need oil price at $72 to balance '17 budget (30% above EIA's '17 forecast).
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...il-break-even#

Ukraine and Syria are burning through Russian budgets....

[OUTLAW 09]

Mariupol area 7.20 pm - a battle began with armour, mortars, firearms.