42 Ukrainian soldiers got killed or injured in (pro-)#Russian attacks over the first 10 days of April 2017.
4 KIA
38 WIA
42 Ukrainian soldiers got killed or injured in (pro-)#Russian attacks over the first 10 days of April 2017.
4 KIA
38 WIA
RussianOccupants seize land from Crimeans
http://qha.com.ua/en/society/occupan...means/140476/#
Video: Ukrainian aerial reconnaissance at front-line
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bJcCABJ7EM#
UAF UAV abilities have greatly improved over the last year....
Another ceasefire inside a ceasefire inside at least ten other ceasefires...
Ceasefires really mean time for the Russians to refuel and do munitions resupply runs...
'Complete ceasefire'; agreed in Minsk since 10am of 13 April
pic.twitter.com/6YWOfJgCqI
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Ukraine lost $1 billion worth of weapons in arms depot fire in Kharkiv Oblast
One Ukrainian soldier was killed in battle yesterday after ten days with no fatalities.
61 attacks on the Ukrainian positions yesterday. 1 soldier KIA, 2 - died of careless handling w/weapons
10:23AM #Maryinka - hearing battle towards the hospital (with 82-mm and 120-mm mortars).
Last edited by OUTLAW 09; 04-13-2017 at 09:06 AM.
Paul Goble: Putin offers updated version of Brezhnev doctrine for post-Soviet states
http://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.de/...ersion-of.html
Staunton, April 12 – In 1968, Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev said that Moscow would not allow any challenges to communist regimes to succeed. Now, 49 years later, his Russian successor, Vladimir Putin, says that he will not allow any “color revolutions” to occur not only in Russia but also in Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.
Those are the members of the Organization of the Collective Security Agreement, and the Kremlin leader said yesterday that Moscow will not allow any destabilization in any of these countries but instead will “in every possible way support our partners” in that grouping (mir24.tv/news/politics/15955608).
And just as was the case with communist leaders in Eastern Europe half a century ago, some of the leaders of these countries said they too would do everything they could to prevent such “color revolutions” on their territory, implicitly welcoming Putin’s offer of Russian support in this effort.
Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev called such revolutions “foreign interference” and noted that the best methods of countering them had been discussed at joint exercises of the security forces of the Organization in the past.
Belarusian leader Alyaksandr Lukashenka said that he was responding to Western criticism of his regime’s human rights record by pointing to shortcomings in the West, and Kyrgyzstan President Almazbek Atambayev said that the West was trying to impose its way of doing things on people “without taking account the mentality of the people involved.”
This approach, Atambayev suggested, “is leading to the situation which we see today in Iraq, Syria and Libya.”
Number of Ukrainian hostages in Donbas rises to 126 - Ukraine’s humanitarian envoy
Russian spetsnaz raiding Crimean Tatars in Bahchisarai. There are arrested and wounded.
I always found the concept of the "Brezhnev Doctrine" troublesome. Was it a departure from Stalin or Khrushchev? Indeed, Andropov was involved in both Hungary in '56 and Czechoslovakia in '68. As for Stalin, his Red Army put down the East Germans, Poles, Romanians and the peoples of the Baltics, as well as the Ukrainians, from 1944 to his death.Originally Posted by OUTLAW 09
Moreover, there is a difference between say a "New Course of Socialism" or "Socialism with a Human Face", non-aligned independence and defection to adversarial/rival trading bloc and military alliance.
Putin is no reincarnation of Woodrow Wilson; neither is he of the Soviet leaders who preceded him. Also note that Yeltsin was not the pushover that he is imagined today, and he laid the foundations of or began all of the conflicts that Putin is immersed in today.
42 attacks on Ukrainian positions today before 6pm. 122mm artillery used near Mariupol
DNR commander Khodakovski says his troops loose 50 people a day.
http://newkozak.co.ua/index.php/ukra...azhdyj-den-po#
Estonia intelligence report intensifying Russia spy activity in Europe
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.bus...europe-2017-4#
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