Here is a great example of Russian information warfare at work.
Human Rights Watches accused the Ukrainian Army of firing Grads (122mm rockets) into Donetsk against the civilian population.
there have been repeated examples of though the Russian mercenaries fighting the same weapons into the villages, towns and cities then immediately showing up with Russian camera teams to film the Ukrainian Army atrocities.
Have learned over the years of working around HRW that they tend to reliy on second and thir hand reporting when thye have no official representative in the area of the event.
Then today via RIA the Russians claimed the ukranians were firing phosphorus shell into the Dontesk.
http://en.ria.ru/world/20140725/1912...--Russian.html
Trouble is Russia when they claimed it the first, second and third times used as the evidence photos of Israeli phosphorus shells fired in the previous Gaza attacks and were discredited in their comments.
They just never seem to stop trying to get something to stick to the wall when they throw it.
But---at the same time the as the Russian mercenaries are losing the tone out of Putin, Moscow and the Russian military is getting shriller and shriller. thus the cross border artillery and BM21/27 rocket attacks trying to keep the UA preoccupied with the Russian attacks and slack off their mercenary attacks--that is not working as well.
Actually unusually shriller as the mercenaries are being pushed back when many in Russian "assumed" they would be winning.
Some say in Europe that the Russians are looking for an excuse to move peacekeeper troops into the Ukraine---thus the reason I think that is what is behind the Ukrainian third troop mobilization.
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