Now true paranoia has set in with the Russian troops and her mercenaries as to explain why the Ukrainians are shelling civilians and getting away with it-----AND to explain their own shellings as a
“preventive measure”…….
New RUS #schizo: "UKR have noiseless mortars" (video in Russian) @SobiNews_com https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jW94Dgpgtg …
USA combat veteran Nolan Peterson (@nolanwpeterson) embedded with the Ukraine army. http://bunews.com.ua/interviews/item...ukrainian-army … pic.twitter.com/fgQBUPSaHq
Reference the Russian UNSC veto concerning MH17-----
Eliot Higgins @EliotHiggins
Churkin is proud of Russia's cooperation with the #MH17 investigation, can he confirm the MoD's July 21st evidence was given to the JIT?
From bellingcat----
Just emailed @RussianEmbassy to ask if the Russian MoD's July 21st 2014 evidence was supplied to the JIT, let's see if they reply.
While no Russian tanks and infantry have crossed the eastern front lines yet we are well into the third phase of the Ukraine Russo war AND yet Obama, Hollande and Merkel appear to not have noticed it--wonder why???
Maxim Tucker @MaxRTucker
My scoop on the intelligence claiming separatists in #Ukraine are building radioactive weapon http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/w...cle4514313.ece … pic.twitter.com/DOOngpdKg0
Militants fired on Zolote with mortars. As a result, 2 soldiers of the 54th Brigade were wounded - Luhansk RSA
http://www.loga.gov.ua/oda/press/new...ews_67136.html …
MIA: a civilian in #Maryinka was wounded under shelling
via @HromadskeTV
Ukrainian side to the JCCC also reports 2 civilians were wounded in Dzerzhyns'k and Toshkivka.
Map. Situation in eastern #Ukraine, August 1, 00:00 EET pic.twitter.com/ThvGZXFfL8
Serious mercenary troop problem in eastern Ukraine---
Footage
Militants are p*xxxxxd: More tanks than crews...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgNbR8Dvqlk …
pic.twitter.com/lYKHA8YXMl
News
The 28th mechanised brigade of the Ukrainian army fought a 5-hour battle w/ sep.-backed Russian forces near #Krasnohorivka & #Marinka.
Russian spetsnaz was involved in this ground attack---
Also, an attack by enemy subversive-intelligence group was repelled near Berezove - 28th Brigade
#News
Russian forces are steadily escalating their attacks on the Ukrainian line of defence.
109 attacks yesterday.
Fighting all night long.
Overnight (from 21:00-03.28) militants conducted massive attacks across almost the whole line of demarcation - JCCC
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?sto...46&__tn__=%2As …
Location. Russian forces' previous forward position is at Bila Kamyanka (west of Komsomolske-Telmanove base complex) https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Sta...caefec39e495c0 …
1 Aug: Russian (hybrid) forces attack strategic settlement of Starohnativka (east of Volnovakha, north of Mariupol) pic.twitter.com/eynQXkeJhL
youtube.com/watch?v=aQkmNugVA3A … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRGTxqO4Lu8 … #Russian infantry drill/IMTs in #Ukraine.Sophisticated stuff. #Russia pic.twitter.com/LTF0tDV3Cq
JCCC: Last night Russian (hybrid) forces massed along entire front line; heavy shelling to disrupt Minsk talks 3 Aug http://m.inforesist.org/sckk-boeviki...gon/?_utl_t=tw …
Media Take Note: Martens Center report shows Russian military presence in Ukraine is a matter of fact, not opinion. http://www.martenscentre.eu/publicat...ention-ukraine …
First reports of shellings across Donbas. 6pm - fire time
The war is on big time--just that DC, Paris and Berlin have not figured it out yet.
This is HOW western mass media in this case the BBC sees the current fighting in eastern Ukraine—ONE wonders just what they have been smoking as they claimed in the article the information is coming from Kyiv office of the BBC….one wonders if they actually are working directly for Putin and or just fail to fact check their own articles.
From 31 July 2015
QUOTE:
On the ground, sporadic clashes continue in the east. The West says there is clear evidence of Russian regular troops helping the rebels and arming them with heavy weapons - something Moscow denies.
UNQUOTE:
OVER 100 attacks a day does not qualify as "sporadic clashes continue......"
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Notice just how it really does appears Russians are smoking something stronger than a normal cigarette.
This Russian diplomat in quoting the Helsinki Accords for their military annexation of Crimea seems to have forgotten that Helsinki also ensured the territorial borders and sovereignty of countries was ensured—seems they forgot that point in their invasion of eastern Ukraine.
http://tass.ru/en/russia/812050
Diplomat: all Moscow moves in Crimea’s accession were in line with Helsinki principles
August 01, 10:39 UTC+3
"It is incorrect to say that the return of Crimea within Russia was a violation of any of the stated principles first of all from the legal point of view", Ivan Soltanovsky said
MOSCOW, August 1. /TASS/. All Moscow’s moves during Crimea’s reunification with Russia were strictly in line with the principles of the Helsinki Final Act, the director of the Russian Foreign Ministry’s Department for European Cooperation, Ivan Soltanovsky, told Tass.
"Attempts by some Western countries to accuse Russia of violating the principles of the UN Charter and Helsinki principles of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe are absolutely baseless," Soltanovsky said in an interview timed to the day when the Helsinki Final Act was signed 40 years ago.
"It is incorrect to say that the return of Crimea within Russia was a violation of any of the stated principles first of all from the legal point of view. It is obvious that such statements are purely politically motivated," he added.
He reminded the interlocutor that the Final Act of 1975 fixed the principles of territorial integrity of states and inviolability of borders, "and with that, this document as well as the Declaration of Principles [of International Law] of 1970 fix the principle of equality and people’s right to decide their own destiny".
"Thus, self-determination is one of the generally recognized principles of international law,m" the diplomat continued. "In case of Crimea, its declaration of independence and accession to Russia became the only possible option after the country had seen a coup with the use of force and its population faced violence of radical nationalists and saw their legitimate interests ignored," he said.
As for the UN Charter, the diplomat said the right to create a sovereign and independent state, freely join an independent state or unite with it was envisaged in the ‘Declaration on Principles of International Law concerning Friendly Relations and Co-operation among States in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations’.
As a result, by exercising their right to self-determination through holding a referendum, the Crimean residents protected their vitally important interests. "Accordingly, all Russia’s activity within that context was in strict compliance with the Helsinki principles," he added.
Crimean Tatar leader Dzhemilev stated----
"A Muslim Battalion will serve for Defence Ministry and locate in Kherson region on the border to Crimea" Chechens,Ingushets,Crimean Tatars,Azeris & Uzbeks already agreed to join this Battalion. Fighters from other nationalities will follow.
While this was an interesting theoretical discussion--facts on the ground in Russia occupied eastern Ukraine has fully supported this discussion as the Russian ground forces have completed just this "theoretical" reorganization and have moved into formal attacks positions all along the eastern front lines.
Good info to match with intercepted comms. before certain attacks
Pickar, C.K. (1991) Tactical Deep Battle: The Missing Link http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc...f&AD=ADA258092 …
Just had a very interesting discussion on topic: Is Russia reviving the Soviet "Deep Battle" concept?
Military experts tend to poopoo the idea of Russian "Deep Battle", but facts on the ground indicate the concept is being revived.
It appears that the Russian military (Ground, Airborne and Air Forces) are developing a modern "lite" version of "Tactical Deep Battle"
Deep Battle" was Soviet/Warsaw Pact era methodology: mechanised assault by combined arms armies. See Pickar 1991 http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?verb=get...fier=ADA258092 …
Deep Battle has both defensive and offensive phases ...
Offensive phases: assault (breach front line/penetration of rear), deep operation (advance/envelopment of rear), consolidation/pursuit.
Deep Battle relies on mechanised/motorised infantry, tanks, (self-propelled) artillery, AT/AA cover, assault aviation and deep logistics.
Russian forces currently building motor rifle (mechanised infantry), tank, deep air assault and assault engineer capacity in east of Ukraine
Rapid reorganisation (by Southern Military Dist) of Russian (hybrid DPR/LPR) motor rifle and tank units "lodgement" in eastern Ukraine...Recent reorganisation and deployments of Russian 1st Tank Div and 20th Combined Arms Army in Western Military District together with......support the notion that the Russian military is preparing a "lite" Tactical Deep Battle operation in (eastern/southern) Ukraine
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REMEMBER just this week the OSCE SMM reported that on the border to Russia from Sept 2014 to June 2015 --the only portion they could monitor over 20,000 uniformed Russian soldiers crossed back and forth into eastern Ukraine--AND that was only what they could monitorOriginally Posted by OUTLAW 09
A steady stream of death continues: Ukrainian military confirms that Russian forces killed 2 of its soldiers & wounded 14 in the last 24h
AND the fighting has reached now major levels and intensity ----
Peski: strong combat, tanks, mortars, machineguns https://twitter.com/062_Region/statu...22427342430208 …
Horlivka - massive loads of ammo were delivered to DNR positions today! prepare for the worst!!! https://twitter.com/NovaGorlivka/sta...18986993934336 …
JCCC says that terrorists increase military confrontation to sabotage #Minsk Agreements. http://lugansk-news.com/jccc-says-th...sk-agreements/ … pic.twitter.com/MBSXuySkDT
AND yet still not a single comment from Obama, Biden, Nuland, Kerry OR any European leader for that matter.
Today (from 00:00-18:00) militants more than 40 times violated the ceasefire - ATO press center
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?sto...10&__tn__=%2As …
19:40 #Makeevka @VasyaMakeevskiy Distant frequent booms in #Donetsk direction
19"32 #Donetsk @666_mancer [vk] "rumble" "where is it landing?" "Mrtallurg: we can hear" "audible in Leninsky" "not outgoing by sound"
Yasynuvata shells Avdeevka 17:50 https://twitter.com/GirkinGirkin/sta...92552468496384 …
Donetsk, North-West, Airport direction - howitzer sounds
Starohnativka: UA positions are targeted, shelled
Horlivka, Zaitseve - just as always, things are starting up.... https://twitter.com/_John__Carter_/s...32059670650880 …
#Luhansk rgn @100007182042214 Rail track was blown up at #Sentyanivka-#Shypilove section.
Fire on Mirgorodska street in Donetsk after shelling http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/1-augus...after-shelling … pic.twitter.com/nEJfHnwACE via @666_mancer
19:49 #Donetsk @Serzzze Oktyabrska was shelled, a house on fire
Donetsk Oktyabrski d-t reportedly shelled... brkng image pic.twitter.com/lk0l0kESdY
the smoke pillar at 19.40 was a house in Donetsk, Mirgorodska St. https://twitter.com/666_mancer/statu...43005763895296 …
20:45 #Maryinka @666_mancer [vk] Quiet here, booms are reaching us from afar
Alchevsk, Aug 1st https://twitter.com/GirkinGirkin/sta...38848906629120 …
Horlivka, mortars are warming up... https://twitter.com/xy_gorlov4an/sta...36303316451329 …
20:52 #Lysychansk @lisichanskiy 2 ambulance cars sped towards #Bakhmutka w/siren lights
Horlivka, outgoing howitzers https://twitter.com/_John__Carter_/s...22968344727553 …
21:37 #Luhansk @Tkachov_TT AA-guns worked apart from #Kambrod, now distant shots, it sounds like mortars
21:36 #Horlivka Kalinovka @UA_Gorlivka "ka-boom"
21:20 #Krasnohorivka @hyeva_maryinka [vk] Impacts on woodlines from the side facing #Staromykhaylivka
21:27 #Maryinka @666_mancer [vk] Quiet, shooting and massive booms in #Krasnohorivka direction
21:30 #Dzerzhynsk @blessmaster For now also we can hear distant still non frequent booms
21:45 #Dzerzhynsk @blessmaster Blast and intense small arms fire in #Mayorsk direction
Krasnohorivka @hyeva_maryinka [vk]
21:22 It begins in Mayak dir'n, traditionally small arms start, 2 min ago there 2 starange rumbles
22:41 #Krasnohorivka @hyeva_maryinka [vk] Small arms don't go silent, several blasts in #Borysivka,Solnechna direction
Donetsk Petrovski d-t - loud
VIDEO: Shelling of Oktyabrsky district, Donetsk. August 1 2015. Via @xuilolala
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=f4ACLfTekHk … pic.twitter.com/QZ0pXmU6lQ
22:37 #Donetsk Rozy_Luksemburg @0954771 Distant volleys started
Horlivka was shelled tonight Aug 1, by the mobile mortars - reports. pic.twitter.com/FNd67bY7Wj
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SINCE 2014 W/ THE RUSSIAN ARMY,
SINCE 2015 W/ "PRO-RUSSIAN SEPARATISTS" IN UKRAINE:
THE AILERON-3-SV
pic.twitter.com/NC9fOf9Taj
Russian company ENICS http://www.enics.ru/main manufactures the Eleron-3SV UAV http://www.enics.ru/product?product_id=62 … pic.twitter.com/NMQpkJIAUe
Russian Eleron-3SV unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) Full-size photo http://77rus.smugmug.com/Military/In...texPart608.jpg … (c) Vitaly V. Kuzmin pic.twitter.com/A7z2KoYcYS
Russian ground forces starting receiving shipments of Eleron-3SV UAVs in early 2014 http://sputniknews.com/voiceofrussia...ian-Army-0448/ … pic.twitter.com/lx4rrHyFAQ
Next time we see one of these UAVs in occupied-Donbas, Ukraine, it is an "Eleron-3SV" made in Russia by ENICS.ru pic.twitter.com/58xNvDJIpx
Source video (uploaded 29 July 2015) https://youtu.be/Grk7mC3vS_I
Russian armed forces have their drone. But Russian UAVs do not meet expectations http://in.rbth.com/economics/2015/06...one_43951.html … via @rireport (@RBTH Kremlin) 30 Jun
Note how the "Eleron-3SV" military recon UAV made in Russia by ENICS.ru is filled with foreign electronic components pic.twitter.com/4YrxAR05Yw
What's inside a Russian-made (ENICS.ru) "Eleron-3SV" UAV? Here's one shot down in Syria recently pic.twitter.com/VVpAaVa893
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Maxim Tucker @MaxRTucker
Good test of #Ukraine's dirty bomb intelligence will be DPR's response to any @OSCE_SMM request to visit radioactive waste burial site.
'Spetsnaz GRU Brigades (in Ukraine) continue to use social networks and open sources of communication.' http://charter97.org/ru/news/2015/8/1/162592/ …
Russian Airborne (VDV) will grow from 45,000 to 60,000 troops, becoming approx the same size as the entire German Army (60,707 troops).
Allegedly an unnamed cemetery of killed #Luhansk residents found near the city. https://twitter.com/24todaynetua/sta...48189286105088 …
.@OSCE Scretary General @lamzannier on #Helsinki40. Our take:Russia violated its commitments. pic.twitter.com/YFurNHizBY
The West has accepted a new definition of "ceasefire." Fighting can continue as long as Russia temporarily fails to seize new territory.
A very good overview of the Russian/Ukrainian issues---well worth the reading ------long though----
http://newleftreview.org/II/94/perry...nsurate-russia
perry anderson
INCOMMENSURATE RUSSIA
It will soon be a quarter of a century since Russia left communism behind. Its present ruler has been in power for fifteen years, and by the end of his current term in office will have all but equalled the tenure of Brezhnev. From early on, Western opinion of his regime divided sharply. That under Putin—after a period of widespread misery and dislocation, culminating in near state bankruptcy—the country had returned to economic growth and political stability, was evident by the end of his first term; so too the popularity he enjoyed because of these. But beyond such bare data, there was no consensus. For one camp, increasingly vocal as time went on, the pivots of Putin’s system of power were corruption and repression: a neo-authoritarian state fundamentally inimical to the West, with a wrapping of legal proprieties around a ramshackle pyramid of kleptocracy and thuggery.
This view prevailed principally among reporters, though it was not confined to them: a representative sample could be found in Economist editor Edward Lucas’s The New Cold War (2009), Guardian journalist Luke Harding’s Mafia State (2012), Standpoint contributor Ben Judah’s Fragile Empire (2013), but expressed no less pungently by a jurist like Stephen Holmes. For Lucas, Putin, having seized power with a ‘cynical putsch’, and maintained it with the ‘methods of terrorists and gangsters’, had ‘cast a dark shadow over the eastern half of the continent’. For Harding, under Putin’s tutelage, ‘Russia has become bullying, violent, cruel and—above all—inhuman’. For Judah, Russia was ‘an anguished, broken society’ that is one of ‘history’s great failures’, in the grip of an apocalyptic system in which, since ‘Putin cannot leave power without fear of arrest’, the West ‘should ask itself whether it will offer him exile to avert blood’. For Holmes, ‘behind the mask of an authoritarian restoration’ there was no more than the ‘lawless feeding frenzy’ of ‘an internally warring, socially detached and rapacious oligarchy’, whose ‘various groups fight to grab their portion of massive cash flows’. [1]
The opposite camp had greater weight in the academy, where works by the two leading authorities on the politics of post-communist Russia delivered—without failing to note its darker sides—substantially favourable verdicts on Putin’s record in office. Daniel Treisman’s study of the country in the first two decades since the fall of the Soviet Union, The Return (2011), expanded on his earlier claim that Russia had become a normal middle-income country, with all the typical shortcomings of these—crony capitalism, corruption, income inequality, media bias, electoral manipulation—but one that was incomparably freer than the petro-states of the Gulf with which it was often compared; less violent than such a respectable member of the oecd as Mexico; less statist in its control of energy than Brazil. Most Russians felt their freedom had increased since 1997, and their happiness too. ‘Does it really serve the West’s long-run interests’, he asked, ‘to assume some unproven imperial agenda, to exaggerate the authoritarian features of the current regime, to demonize those in the Kremlin and romanticize its liberal opponents?’ [2]
For his part, Richard Sakwa—the most prolific scholar writing on Russia in the new century: four major works, and a plethora of articles—argued that while Putin had taken advantage of the powers afforded him by the constitution he inherited, he has always acted within its framework, whose liberal norms have never been repudiated. What had emerged under his rule was neither a modern autocracy—there was no state of emergency, no mass imprisonment, no literary or visual censorship—nor a softer version of the Soviet regime, but a ‘dual state’, composed of a legal-constitutional order and a discretionary-administrative system, held in tension with each other by Putin’s centrism. ‘The essence of the Putin system’, Sakwa wrote in The Crisis of Russian Democracy (2011), ‘was to keep the two pillars in parity’. The rough balance between them allowed for a hopeful evolution towards full arrival at what he called ‘the “standard package” of constitutionalism, liberal democracy and free markets’ in the West, as ‘the powerful latent potential in the formal institutions of post-communist Russian democracy’ was activated: ‘At that point, the mimetic institutions of the standard package will gradually gain an autonomous life of their own, and the constitutional state will overcome the arbitrariness of the administrative regime.
Continued......................................... .......
Donetsk this evening, #63 & #59 Myrhorodska St @Ykraino4_ka pic.twitter.com/Psuo3IITOj
23:05 #Krasnohorivka @hyeva_maryinka Borysivka: one heavy shot and quiet again
00:10 #Avdeevka @fingerw80 Incoming in town old part, strong, 5 of them already
00:14 #Avdeevka @fingerw80 Distant volleys, 12 for now, hiss and air blast heard at #Khimik...
00:27 #Avdeevka @fingerw80 Quiet for 5 min
00:34 #Donetsk @0954771 They've just started over after a short pause
Avdiivka shelling, seems from two guns https://twitter.com/fingerw80/status/627588968524161024 …
00:31 #Avdeevka @fingerw80 Again [incoming], 4 for now
00:38 #Avdeevka @fingerw80 It looks like it's 'cigarette break' again [=quiet]
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June 2015, RUS are shelling UKR positions (RUS UAV video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3mxGGb9ghk …
Russian UAV video depicts its use as a forward artillery observer for 152mm SPGs and then for BDA after the shelling to confirm target destruction.
June 2015, RUS are shelling UKR positions (RUS UAV video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3mxGGb9ghk …
RU UVA operator is extremely quick in the use of the camera which shows a solid ability with the use of the UAV.
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