Blissfull---for Russian info a really good blog site to start with.Originally Posted by Blissful
https://inmoscowsshadows.wordpress.com/
After both the Russian FM and Putin threw a tantrum in their press conferences yesterday about Russia assets being frozen due to the Yukos court decision we get this today.
Our position is clear: Russia does not recognize the authority of this court"
- Putin on the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague
BUT then they forgot the following it seems:
Russia is a signatory to a pair of international agreements underpinning Yukos arbitration.
https://twitter.com/ArianaGicPerry/s...97970419818496 …
Ah... the rule of law is a beautiful thing when it works--it did more to shock Russia than anything Obama, Hollande and Merkel have done in the last year.
BUT did a single journalist call out the hypocrisy of Putin and his FM especially after the statement above--NO.
Russia doesn't recognize Permanent Court of Arbitration - established at the initiative of Czar Nicolas II of Russia pic.twitter.com/L6FPxBcJES
Russia, member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration for over 100 years.
http://www.pca-cpa.org/showpage.asp?pag_id=1038 … pic.twitter.com/c8xv2pvCmD
Putin's cronies from Gazprom will be charmed, I'm sure.
http://www.pcacases.com/web/search/ pic.twitter.com/nIcVf7M5Ql
Gazprom has a court challenge filed against them by one of the Baltic states-----
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Blissfull---for Russian info a really good blog site to start with.
https://inmoscowsshadows.wordpress.com/
And the shellings and ground attacks just keep on........
Appears the Russian mercenaries and Russian troops are not getting along....
Donetsk showdown
"Rosa Luxembourg str 2, went on to assault, blasted doors" https://twitter.com/666_mancer/statu...78711442927616 …
#Donetsk - sounds like some showdown in barracks (3 dormitories) @ the intersection of Komsomolske and Luxembourg st https://twitter.com/666_mancer/statu...65940315701249 …
17:20 #Donetsk @PVB40 [fb] Another infighting - barracks in Rozy_Luksemburg St are being carried
As a result of shelling in Mariinka this morning 2 civilians killed and 1 wounded. 3 Ukr soldiers wounded also
http://112.ua/ato/vsledstvie-utrenni...ya-238854.html …
17:00 #Donetsk @AlfaNubovsky At 15:30 as thunderstorm finished, outgoing volleys fr/storages area in Ekonomichna started
6:53PM
Shooting in #Pisky and periodically in #Marinka https://twitter.com/arthurnkua/statu...87212567285760 …
Donetsk 17:57
Shchetinina ds - hearing single volleys, far away https://twitter.com/DoneckiiPatriot/...73451521470468 …
Starobeshevo 6:11PM
Ruscists shooting with something heavy, the whole area hears volleys https://twitter.com/hubeshevo/status/612276651737673728 …
Donetsk 19:15
Kalininskyi ds - powerful volleys https://twitter.com/hu_ukrop/status/612293503566090240 …
Donetsk 18:00
Kalininskyi - hearing heavy singles far away https://twitter.com/DoneckiiPatriot/...74042607792128 …
Lots of shelling in and around #Donetsk reported. 2 civilians killed in #Mariinka due to shelling.
Today, militants 37 times attacked UKR positions. Used 120-mm mortars and 152-mm howitzers - ATO press center
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?sto...90&__tn__=%2As …
DPR" "doctor" with AK. Next separatists are going to say Ukr Army shot their doctors dead. pic.twitter.com/x2OXlF3d73
PHOTOS: Border guards detained DPR subversive group near Berezove
http://dpsu.gov.ua/ua/about/news/news_7555.htm … pic.twitter.com/H25LzRfyAn
19.06: Russian hybrid army BMPs in #Luhansk at this location: https://maps.yandex.com/222/luhansk/...00%2C52.386905 … pic.twitter.com/PDYwJgVUaE
Russian hybrid army BMP (with 9th May parade sticker) hidings in civilian area in #Donetsk pic.twitter.com/OApoooO8Lc
RU hybrid army tank in Brianka https://instagram.com/p/4ICPj5HPzq/ Business in the background = geo loc: http://wikimapia.org/29733891/uk/%D0...96%D0%BA%C2%BB … pic.twitter.com/HomuHx1iYK
APC with Russian Army marks in Russia-2013 and Donbas-2014 v. @askai707 @BuTaJIu4eK
01.06.2015: RU hybrid army column in #Luhansk
Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTihumDLZE8 … (+ geo info by uploader) pic.twitter.com/OBq09o7vtN
01.06.2015: Russian hybrid army column in #Luhansk at around 48.565497, 39.210927: http://streamable.com/p9id
A perfect example of just how badly this Administration blew the Ukrainian issue.
Initially Obama was in the first Normandy meeting and then for some strange reason the US no longer cared and was not involved deferring to the EU ie Merkel.
Now they are back in but at the bilateral level not directing involved with the negotiations where some in Europe have from the very beginning stated they should have been.
Notice though that the Russians elegantly keep the US out of the Normandy group even though they were at the first meeting.
Initially the US announced this bilateral level in a short press release.
NOW read the Russian version and then ask the question after reading it--do they see the US coming to them a "victory"--yes they do just as they viewed DoS Kerry coming to them at Sochi a "victory"..
Then using the Russian propaganda 4Ds --dismiss, distract, distort, dismay designed to create the 2Ds --distrust and doubt--- reread the press release and see if you can spot the propaganda.
http://www.unian.info/politics/10918...o-jointly-coor...
Kremlin: U.S., Russia to jointly coordinate Ukraine crisis settlement
20.06.2015 | 19:55
The Kremlin has announced that the United States and Russia have agreed to coordinate efforts on a bilateral basis to regulate the situation in Ukraine, without engaging Washington in the Normandy format.
"And, so as not to break everything up, we have agreed together that we will be coordinating our activities on Ukraine on a bilateral basis for the time being," Russian presidential chief of staff Sergei Ivanov said in an interview shown in a Saturday analytical program hosted by Sergei Brilyov on the Rossiya-1 TV Channel.
According to him, there was an agreement to set up a special U.S.-Russian bilateral format with the participation of U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland and Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin, who had to coordinate U.S. and Russian efforts in settling the Ukraine crisis.
"In principle, we could do this – expand the Normandy format by including one more country, engaging the U.S. But the Normandy format is so fragile now that this step would simply be risky," Ivanov said.
In his words, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry's visit has "demonstrated that the Americans are also starting to worry" that the situation in Ukraine might go out of control.
"As for the situation that is going out of control, as they often like to say. No matter how ironically this might sound, they should be quite accustomed to this. Hasn't it gone out of control in Iraq? Hasn't it gone out of control in Libya? Or hasn't it gone out of control in Syria? Now it's also gone out of control in Ukraine. Excuse me my language, but wherever they meddle, the situation goes out of control," Ivanov said.
"And most likely, they have started wishing to really settle that crisis," he added.
Ivanov stressed that Russia supports the existing Ukrainian borders, which include the Donbas territory seized by Russian-backed militants now.
"I believe we have exerted very serious influence, because the rebels have made a fundamental step – they've changed their position. They already voted for their independence last year, but now they say: 'We are ready to remain part of Ukraine if the Minsk agreements are implemented,'" he said.
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For those that after reading this Russian FM press release feel that the Russians truly want a settlement based on Minsk 2.
This is a video covering just eight days on the last 14 days of intense Russian shellings and ground attacks in full violation of Minsk 2 and what was the US response to this--working in a bilateral fashion????
New documentary by @nolanwpeterson provides a great look at the ukrainan front lines around Pisky Ukraine.
This Is What the Ukraine War Looks Like: 8 Days on the Eastern Front Line
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIe5N51I_RU&app=desktop
Russia will take steps to protect its assets abroad - head of Kremlin administration
Russia
June 20, 18:08 UTC+3
Russia is a signatory to a pair of international agreements underpinning Yukos arbitration.VLADIVOSTOK, June 20. /TASS/. Russia will timely take steps in response to the attempts to claim its assets abroad, head of the Kremlin administration Sergey Ivanov said in a TV interview on Saturday.
"That there will be counter measures I don’t doubt at all, - he said. - We can and should act by using counter measures ".
"Obviously, counter steps will be taken inevitably and quite quickly," - Ivanov said.
In July 2014, The Hague Arbitral Tribunal ruled that Russia should pay almost $50 billion to the companies affiliated with the former Yukos shareholders - Hulley Enterprises Limited (Cyprus), Veteran Petroleum (Cyprus) and Yukos Universal Limited (Isle of Man).
Moscow repeatedly expressed disagreement with the court’s ruling.
Earlier this month it was reported that Belgian bailiffs were trying to use Russian property to satisfy the claims of Yukos Universal Limited as part of the court’s decision.
In particular, the bailiffs obliged a number of Russian companies operating in Belgium and their banks to provide lists of the assets they manage in the country within 15 days. According to the Belgian authorities that was necessary for the implementation of the court’s decision.
Russia’s Foreign Ministry also reported that the accounts of the Russian embassy have been frozen as well as the accounts of Russia’s permanent missions in the EU and NATO in Brussels. Actions to freeze Russian assets were also taken in France.
https://twitter.com/ArianaGicPerry/s...97970419818496 …
Russia doesn't recognize Permanent Court of Arbitration - established at the initiative of Czar Nicolas II of Russia pic.twitter.com/L6FPxBcJES
Russia, member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration for over 100 years.
http://www.pca-cpa.org/showpage.asp?pag_id=1038 … pic.twitter.com/c8xv2pvCmD
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https://csis.org/publication/ukraine-and-weary-hegemon
The first time I have seen a coherent discussion of this administration and what it needs as a strategy.
Well worth the reading of the article.
Continued……………
Toward More Robust Engagement?
Struggling to contain IS and curtail Iran’s nuclear ambitions, not to mention follow through on its commitment to reorient U.S. global strategy to the Asia Pacific, the Obama administration has been slow to recognize the seriousness of the Russian revisionist challenge currently playing out in Ukraine. That is, Russia’s actions aim not just at carving up Ukraine, but at upending the post-1991 settlement in Europe, while checking the expansion of European norms, values, and institutions.
What happens in Ukraine has a larger significance for the United States than the administration likes to acknowledge, because at the end of the day, Russian intervention is less about Ukraine per se than about establishing new parameters for relations between Russia and the West. Moscow is unhappy with what it perceives to be its exclusion from Europe’s post–Cold War security system and is at once seeking to prevent the expansion of that system closer to its borders (through intervention in Ukraine) and to weaken it from within (through a range of financial, energy, media, and other tools deployed within the European Union). Underlying this entire offensive is a growing conviction among the Russian elite that Russia, along with the rest of the former Soviet world, is inherently incompatible with the liberal democratic West and that these two cultural-civilizational blocs are locked in a long-term struggle for influence across Europe and Eurasia.
Though Ukraine is not a NATO member and the United States has no explicit obligation to protect it from its larger neighbor, Washington’s hopes for both a secure Europe and a productive relationship with Russia turn on what happens in and around Ukraine. If Russia succeeds in keeping Ukraine weak and the West divided, its revisionist ambitions are likely to expand. Conversely, frustrating Russian ambitions in Ukraine is the first step toward reengaging Moscow from a position of strength, which is critical to establishing a new equilibrium in Europe. Given the stakes, Washington has a clear interest in finding a settlement in Ukraine that not only ends the fighting, but that also reinforces the secure, liberal Europe that has been a touchstone of U.S. global engagement since the end of the Cold War.
Given the scope of Russian ambitions, not to mention Moscow’s success in compromising elements of the European political and economic establishment, no effective strategy for countering Russia’s revisionist ambitions is conceivable without much more robust U.S. engagement. Washington is the only actor capable of getting the West to speak with one voice and the only one with the realistic ability to offer a hard power response to Russian military activities.
While administration officials recognize the scope of Russian actions, the need for at least limited cooperation at a time when the United States is wary of renewed overstretch has made Washington cautious about confronting Moscow directly. Outside pressure, including from Congress, as well as growing frustration with Russian intransigence is pushing the White House in a more assertive direction, even as it remains wedded to the Minsk-II agreement—of which it is not even a signatory—as the basis for a lasting solution.
Continued…………
From Kyiv to Moscow, via Washington
At least in Europe, Russia has become a revisionist power. To the extent that the United States and its allies value the post–Cold War settlement, with its embrace of liberal values and the vision of a Europe whole and free, they need to prioritize the defeat of Moscow’s revisionist aims much more so than they have done so far, starting in Ukraine. The United States in particular needs to view itself as a central player in the drama. A more prominent U.S. role would go some way toward meeting Moscow’s demand for recognition as a great power, since it is only the United States that, as a great power itself, can confer that recognition by sitting at the table to discuss a resolution to the crisis. At the same time, the United States has a far larger arsenal of tools available, not to mention the capacity to escalate the economic, political, and even (indirectly) military pressure on Moscow in a way that the Europeans are unlikely to do.
Under its least Euro-centric administration in a century, Washington has been slow to appreciate the significance of what is happening on Europe’s doorstep. In Ukraine specifically, Washington can do more through both energetic diplomacy and additional pressure (military and nonmilitary) against Russia, buying the Europeans time to address the other aspects of the Russian challenge.
Rebuffing Russia’s ambitions in Ukraine is the first, and most important, step in renewing the U.S. commitment to a Europe that is whole, free, and at peace. It is not a task that Washington can afford to offload onto the Europeans.
RU Spetsnaz are being defeated by Ukrainian teachers and car mechanics
Marinka 19:30
First started w assault rifles, then something heavy. Sound of party towards Novomarinka. https://twitter.com/666_mancer/statu...97759811600384 …
Mariinka being shelled with 82 mm mortar, grenade launchers and light arms https://twitter.com/radiobabay/statu...14451610611712 …
Donetsk 21:07
Kirovskyi ds - from Abakumov mine area hear battle, small arms and heavy. https://twitter.com/UrriKara4en/stat...21293497724928 …
More armor with same tactical sign of Russian 11th Dep. Engineering Brigade from Kamensk-Shakhtinsky seen in Donbas.
pic.twitter.com/p1iewlnnc8
Russian BTR-80 with same tactical signs. #1 Kamensk-shakhtinsky, 2013. #2 Donbass, 2014.pic.twitter.com/AYUIYHMkS1
Azov servicemen detained ruscist fighter at #Shyrokyno http://inforesist.org/u-shirokino-bo...dnr/?_utl_t=tw …
Ukrainian sniper in #Pisky #Ukraine pic.twitter.com/huqieQrhe0
9:53PM
Since over 1 hour russians are shelling #Marinka https://twitter.com/100007182042214/...32478867636224 …
Donetsk 21:20
Petrovka - Heard explosions, assault rifles shooting. https://twitter.com/Serzzze/status/612324570113155072 …
Donetsk 21:34
Proletarsky ds - couple of volleys, west direction https://twitter.com/DoneckiiPatriot/...27999501914112 …
Donetsk 10:06PM
Hum heard in Donbas Arena area, military equipment on move? https://twitter.com/CatBoobon/status/612335649925017602 …
Donetsk 10:11PM
Mashzavod - hearing monotonous volleys far to the southwest https://twitter.com/666_mancer/statu...36950746476544 …
Donetsk 22:22
Volleys intensity again increased, Petrovka rumbles. More powerful and closer. https://twitter.com/PVB40/status/612339957043200000 …
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VIDEO Sort of security/webcam captures nightly battle at #Marinka
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1f_crt91mA …
VIDEO Russia's Hybrid Infantry in 'action' in Ukraine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MvDSZqNQEw …
This Russian fighter took a video selfie in #Ukraine to tell friends back home in Chelyabinsk he didn't find fascists pic.twitter.com/lNrxImftyk
Here comes the next multi hundreds of millions of USDs lawsuit against this time Putin himself.
MH17: families of victims prepare class action against #Putin: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...H17-crash.html …
The Russian economy has ended... even without any sanctions: http://euromaidanpress.com/2015/06/1...ssias-economy/ …
pic.twitter.com/yH3PYQe0yX
Russia is pouring troops and weapons into its European enclave — via @RFERL http://read.bi/1QG9L3g via @bi_contributors
Russia forces fired white phosphorus rounds @#Ukraine mil. @#Pisky
https://twitter.com/RobPulseNews/sta...51751824506880 …
News
2 civilians were killed and 1 civilian & 3 Ukrainian soldiers injured in Russian shelling of #Marinka on Saturday.
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We are seeing shellings and ground attack numbers that are the same as what we saw in the two months before the so called signing of a ceasefire
in Minsk 2.
Attack numbers ranging from 65 to 110 per day.
AND absolutely not a single comment out of Obama, Hollande and Merkel--appeasement through silence is the mantra.
If we appease Putin just maybe he will go away.
Yesterday Militants 83 times violated ceasefire. This morning already more than 15 times shelled Ukr positions - ATOhttps://m.facebook.com/story.php?sto...31&__tn__=%2As …
Russia really wants a Minsk 3 in order to cement on the ground advances that have been made since Minsk 2 and to cement in no electoral process under Ukrainian law and a general amnesty for all fighters AND to not have to withdraw ALL foreign fighters that means all Russians and her merceanries.
Balance this article with this article from the Russian General who some say developed the Russian UW strategy non linear warfare--really well worth the read. I had posted this a while ago but now with the Russian MoD chief's article--it is good to review the two together.
https://inmoscowsshadows.wordpress.c...war/#more-2291
Military-Industrial Kurier, February 27, 2013
(My comments are indented and italicised and in red, and the bold emphases are also mine)
THE VALUE OF SCIENCE IN PREDICTION
General Valery Gerasimov, Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Federation
In the 21st century we have seen a tendency toward blurring the lines between the states of war and peace. Wars are no longer declared and, having begun, proceed according to an unfamiliar template.
The experience of military conflicts — including those connected with the so-called coloured revolutions in north Africa and the Middle East — confirm that a perfectly thriving state can, in a matter of months and even days, be transformed into an arena of fierce armed conflict, become a victim of foreign intervention, and sink into a web of chaos, humanitarian catastrophe, and civil war.
There is an old Soviet-era rhetorical device that a ‘warning’ or a ‘lesson’ from some other situation is used to outline intent and plan. The way that what purports to be an after-action take on the Arab Spring so closely maps across to what was done in Ukraine is striking. Presenting the Arab Spring–wrongly–as the results of covert Western operations allows Gerasimov the freedom to talk about what he wants to talk about: how Russia can subvert and destroy states without direct, overt and large-scale military intervention.
The Lessons of the ‘Arab Spring’
Of course, it would be easiest of all to say that the events of the “Arab Spring” are not war and so there are no lessons for us — military men — to learn. But maybe the opposite is true — that precisely these events are typical of warfare in the 21st century.
In terms of the scale of the casualties and destruction, the catastrophic social, economic, and political consequences, such new-type conflicts are comparable with the consequences of any real war.
The very “rules of war” have changed. The role of nonmilitary means of achieving political and strategic goals has grown, and, in many cases, they have exceeded the power of force of weapons in their effectiveness.
For me, this is probably the most important line in the whole piece, so allow me to repeat it: The role of nonmilitary means of achieving political and strategic goals has grown, and, in many cases, they have exceeded the power of force of weapons in their effectiveness. In other words, this is an explicit recognition not only that all conflicts are actually means to political ends–the actual forces used are irrelevant–but that in the modern realities, Russia must look to non-military instruments increasingly.
The focus of applied methods of conflict has altered in the direction of the broad use of political, economic, informational, humanitarian, and other nonmilitary measures — applied in coordination with the protest potential of the population.
All this is supplemented by military means of a concealed character, including carrying out actions of informational conflict and the actions of special-operations forces. The open use of forces — often under the guise of peacekeeping and crisis regulation — is resorted to only at a certain stage, primarily for the achievement of final success in the conflict.
This is, after all, exactly what happened in Crimea, when the insignia-less “little green men” were duly unmasked as–surprise, surprise–Russian special forces and Naval Infantry only once the annexation was actually done.
From this proceed logical questions: What is modern war? What should the army be prepared for? How should it be armed? Only after answering these questions can we determine the directions of the construction and development of the armed forces over the long term. To do this, it is essential to have a clear understanding of the forms and methods of the use of the application of force.
What Gerasimov is signalling here, and it may prove an important point, is that the Russian military needs to be tooled appropriately. This may mean a re-opening of the traditional hostilities with the politically more powerful defence industries (that want to pump out more tanks and the other things they produce) over quite what kind of kit the military gets. When former defence minister Serdyukov announced a moratorium on buying new tanks, Putin slapped him down and restated the order. Shoigu and Gerasimov will have to be more savvy if they want to make progress on this one.
These days, together with traditional devices, nonstandard ones are being developed. The role of mobile, mixed-type groups of forces, acting in a single intelligence-information space because of the use of the new possibilities of command-and-control systems has been strengthened. Military actions are becoming more dynamic, active, and fruitful. Tactical and operational pauses that the enemy could exploit are disappearing. New information technologies have enabled significant reductions in the spatial, temporal, and informational gaps between forces and control organs. Frontal engagements of large formations of forces at the strategic and operational level are gradually becoming a thing of the past. Long-distance, contactless actions against the enemy are becoming the main means of achieving combat and operational goals. The defeat of the enemy’s objects is conducted throughout the entire depth of his territory. The differences between strategic, operational, and tactical levels, as well as between offensive and defensive operations, are being erased. The application of high-precision weaponry is taking on a mass character. Weapons based on new physical principals and automatized systems are being actively incorporated into military activity.
All worthy enough, but in fairness nothing we haven’t heard before.
Asymmetrical actions have come into widespread use, enabling the nullification of an enemy’s advantages in armed conflict. Among such actions are the use of special-operations forces and internal opposition to create a permanently operating front through the entire territory of the enemy state, as well as informational actions, devices, and means that are constantly being perfected.
This, on the other hand, does show something of a different nuance, with the renewed emphasis on “internal opposition”, something which harkens back to Soviet-era playbooks rather than post-Soviet military doctrine, which was largely cleared of such language except in some specific contexts such as counter-insurgency.
CONTINUED..........
Russian terrorists blasted a bridge for vehicles near Troitske https://twitter.com/fhntv29/status/612545945633443840 …
Russian artillery bombarded #Marinka till about 1AM, but they did not storm
'Psuedo-ceasefire' broken repeatedly in combat zone
http://uatoday.tv/politics/psuedo-ce...ne-442890.html … pic.twitter.com/NkjEOzHvhE
Belgium to unblock frozen Russian diplomatic accounts: FM http://f24.my/1IVKATk pic.twitter.com/rWvBdCbF4f
Donetsk last night. Heavy sound of ceasefire in the city:https://m.youtube.com/watch?t=30&v=5BRJX2A4lAE …
Russian active duty soldiers identified in the Ukraine via their social media accounts----
youtube.com/watch?v=rfkuLlKkmy8 …
pic.twitter.com/Ucb78C5oW2
Russian officers in Ukraine logging 4 times more violations by rebels than by Ukraine army, according to @OSCE http://www.osce.org/ukraine-smm/165476 …
Militants shelled Gnutovo, Mariinka, Mayorske http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/21-june...iinka-mayorske …
During the last day militants 7 times fired on positions of border guard units. 1 wounded - Border guard service
http://dpsu.gov.ua/ua/about/news/news_7558.htm …
Canada at NATO ✔ @CanadaNATO
How #Russia is reinforcing its Baltic fortress-city http://www.businessinsider.com/russi...ve-2015-6?IR=T … pic.twitter.com/MTHJ3J6RgR
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OSCE observers recorded movement of militant tanks, armored vehicles and SPGs in Donetsk region - Lysenko
http://m.censor.net.ua/news/340904/n..._na_donetchine …
VIDEO #Russia(n) REGULAR ARMY units fighting in #Shyrokyne with #Putin created "DNR Militia" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MvDSZqNQEw … pic.twitter.com/zCw06qE1uC
OSCE monitors confirm militants in Donbas use heavy weaponry
http://www.unian.info/war/1091907-os...-weaponry.html … pic.twitter.com/L8bI28Qm0u
Multiple reports suggest that #Putin #Russia(n) forces #Pisky using banned White Phosphorous on #Ukraine troops pic.twitter.com/f0O9E2pPVm
Militants use prohibited weapons: 2-meter craters left in the ground. Armor or concrete slabs cannot withhold it. VIDEO
http://en.censor.net.ua/video_news/3...annot_withhold
A soldier of the 93rd brigade showed a hole in the ground left by an unknown caliber ammunition, much more than the 'allowed' 100-mm caliber weapons, which obviously also had an incendiary effect.
The characteristic damage was shown by fighter of the 93rd brigade Vasyl in the town of Pisky, Censor.NET reports citing Ukraine's Military Channel.Source: http://en.censor.net.ua/v340348Source: http://en.censor.net.ua/v340348
VIDEO: Fighters of Right Sector holding their positions in Shyrokyne
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nSqrnrsQwA&sns=tw … pic.twitter.com/judMRA3tKK
Ukraine, Pesky.
Night hunters for Russian drones
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=34&v=RRhpxTqs8_k … pic.twitter.com/wVxx8T8pPQ
Footage
Russian invaders near #CP31,#Luhansk region, give interview.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFzDyY-F6PM …
pic.twitter.com/BeH860dACL
Video---
Said that shelling was serious:tanks had shot and left. They're not happy.Their sniper started to work after Ukr sniper.
They think:Ukr violate Minsk-2 and provoke response.
OSCE-rear rats and do nothing.They complain that they have no fuel
VIDEO #Russia(n) Army sniper firing on #Ukraine troops #Shyrokyne near #Mariupol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SygsrGXIZco … pic.twitter.com/wENILnRBgr
Eye-witness: the #Russia|n's wiped out TWO full #Ukraine battalions in 3-mins using thermobaric weapons:pic.twitter.com/iuOQp6jR3V
Historian Timothy Snyder: 'History Is Always Plural' http://www.rferl.org/content/russia-.../27082683.html …
Russian 'volunteers' use mobile devices which give away their positions. UKRAINIAN TROOPS DO NOT use your mobiles! pic.twitter.com/CsEANJAgLT
Lithuania's ambassador to #Ukraine says Vilnius is ready to start shipping defensive weapons to help stop Russia seizing more territory
The electrical unit of a water station, that supplies water to Lugansk, was destroyed. The unit cannot be recovered. pic.twitter.com/DybO7xi5gu
Anatomy of an info-war: How #Russia’s propaganda machine works, & how to counter Ithttp://www.stopfake.org/en/anatomy-o...to-counter-it/ …
pic.twitter.com/C4SKsSXzba
Russia|n propaganda largely relies on 4 Ds:
Dismiss the critic
Distort the facts
Distract from the main issue
Dismay the audience
Depicted in chart form:
pic.twitter.com/tIU05NJ40o
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How Russian Sergeant ‘Volunteered’ During Occupation of Crimea and Donbas: https://en.informnapalm.org/the-case...war-in-donbas/ … @en_informnapalm pic.twitter.com/Wr1Bn3uMMw
Humanitarian supply from Russia. Militias in Donetsk with a KAFP sniper rifle. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1YyTdVIw7o … ������ pic.twitter.com/DiJQ5OGizc
Translated: a #Russia|n GRU soldier firing a KAPF sniper rifle in #Ukraine at Ukrainians. https://twitter.com/OnlineMagazin/st...08276367298560 …
On the outskirts of #Donetsk, always looks like in #Russia. pic.twitter.com/gu704Nl9PH
Russia's drugged up "zombie's" didn't flee the battlefield when #Ukraine fired on them-expendables in Russia's "M&M" troop strategy(25:00)
Russia sent "zombie's' into battle after forcing 1k #Luhansk prison inmates to drink vodka & take a pill of lithium, dexedrine & demirol.
Reference video----
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2Vx...utu.be&t=25m6s
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Eye-witness: the #Russia|n's wiped out TWO full #Ukraine battalions in 3-mins using thermobaric weaponsic.twitter.com/iuOQp6jR3V
Russian Spetsnaz teams on the attack today and during daylight hours--a change in tactics.
Lithuanian mil intel chief: Ru 2 further increase its military activities, 2 use hybrid means 4 testing NATO resolve pic.twitter.com/XWqPm1WU0j
At #Lebedinske and #Pavlopol (near #Mariupol) Ukr military repelled two russian DRG groups attack. https://twitter.com/WFieryHorse/stat...45278445895680 …
Ukraine forces also repelled attack of enemy DRG near Krymske - ATO press center
Donetsk 6:59PM
In the north double salvos and immediately hits, but further away https://twitter.com/Buzzing_Rook/sta...51180553031680
Militants fired 565 times at Ukr positions and towns. Compared to May is a visible escalation - #ATO news center https://www.facebook.com/ato.news/po...19839038026902 …
Militants increased attacks on Mariinka today. Other hotspots - Avdiivka, Opytne, Pisky, Vodyane, Berezove, Karlivka & Butovka mine
ATO spox insists on withdrawal of Russian forces' heavy weaponry from contact line http://www.unian.info/war/1091968-at...tact-line.html …
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