The Russian summer offensive is now officially on---previously night time grounds attacks have shifted to day time ground attacks—meaning 24 x 7 attacks around the clock. Attacks per day have now been 100 for the last week-before Minsk 2 they were between 55-70.
AND that is not a Russian summer offensive in progress?—they are trying for a break through somewhere along the contact front lines as they desperately need a win to save face.
Burnt @OSCE_SMM cars in #Donetsk this morning.
https://twitter.com/novaya_gazeta/st...96014717591553 …
10:40 #Horlivka @77bot1 Intense arty and infantry battle near Zaytseve and Holma [RUS source]
11:23 #Dzerzhynsk Mikroraion @hdzerz It sounds like metal gate banged with sledge-hammer. What's hit?
11:07 #Dzerzhynsk @dimetros7776 "Noisy again, again they poud [at us]! Don't even fear of the light!"
10:50 #Dzerzhynsk @TarasUkrop_ "Noisy in #Shumy/#Mayorsk direction. Battles suspociously start since morning, don't they fear of #OSCE?"
Russian artillery (including Grad rockets) hit Ukrainian positions north of Debaltseve & Mariupol. Reports of intense shelling elsewhere.
Krasniy_Luch @falconua "Militants base is located several metres away from the school #2" pic.twitter.com/nsARvAo64K
Militants are holding captive 37 Ukr servicemen in seized SBU building in #Donetsk - Advisor to Dep Defense Min Budik http://www.hromadske.tv/society/budi...sku-utrimuyut/ …
ALL POWs were to have been exchanged in Feb 2015----
NOW we truly see the utter failure of Obama, Kerry, Nuland and as well as the NSC in their pressuring the Ukraine to commit to a unilateral appeasement based on the "demands of Putin for a sign of good faith".
Putin has used and abused Obama knowing Obama is driving on his legacy and is thus willing to throw the Ukraine under the bus for that legacy.
REMEMBER it was the Russian General in the JCCC that first proposed the DMZ and withdrawal of the UA heavy weapons in Mariupol.
THEN the WH via Nuland applied direct pressure on the Ukraine and it was a unilateral move with no reciprocal demands on Russia. NOTICE Nuland has been exceptionally quiet since the appeasement.
AND we call this US foreign policy---some call it rightly Munich 1938--even social media questioned the US moves---AND the NSC has a 700 member Staff -and cannot get out of a wet paper bag it seems.
Positions in #Shyrokyne abandonded by #Ukraine troops at @poroshenko's order occupied by #Russia|n snipers. https://twitter.com/SerhioAlexandro/...10582159245312 …
Heavy ongoing battle at #Shyrokyne since hours. The Ukrainian marines have 1 KIA, 3 WIA reported so far.
13.10 reports of cannonade coming from Shyrokyne. No Official comments on the situation there yet.
http://m.0629.com.ua/news/918522
"#Mariupol is shaking from the explosions and shots of the insurgents" https://twitter.com/robertayegahib/s...23986031865856 …
SO now does one finally realize Obama has no strategy, and if there is one then it is appeasement nothing more nothing less.
Historically appeasement has never worked in face of pure aggression.
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Intensive shelling and ground attacks up and down the 600km front lines.
Russian summer offensive is in full swing now--AND from Washington we hear what again---nothing.
Avdiivka 13:31
Since 15 mins ongoing battle in the area of Tsarska Okhota -Butovka mine, w small and large caliber https://twitter.com/Marchcat_81/stat...25399889793025 …
Donetsk 13:20 Gvardeyka
"Heavy incoming towards #Avdiivka, possibly by #Yasynuvata" https://twitter.com/PVB40/status/630324102327365632 …
European social media is now calling it what the rest of the Western leaders ie Obama, Hollande and Merkel are afraid to say........Russian summer offensive.
Russia|n terrorists moved into large-scale offensive"
Valid question--does not Obama and his entire 700 NSC Staff not see this OR do they not want to see this?????
All the billions spent on the IC and social media is five steps ahead--come on.
Russian Kamensk-Shakhtinsky military base (6 new bunkers + 3 other foundations) http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=48...81680&z=16&m=b … pic.twitter.com/iqFs7n4sLC
Putin upgrading road/rail network @ Kamensk Ammo Dump http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=48...92580&z=15&m=b … pic.twitter.com/V8PC51bhDL
Russian Vehicle Depot used to supply 'Pro-Russians' in #Ukraine
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=48...62382&z=16&m=b … pic.twitter.com/SR8yUsqoJM
There you go. These satellite images show the origin of Russian armor in Ukraine. https://twitter.com/finriswolf/statu...24112263516160 …
Russia has declared war to NATO... Russia views NATO as it's enemy. https://twitter.com/ACScowcroft/stat...96910162857987 …
Not a single voice of outrage by Obama, Kerry, Nuland and the entire NSC.
One would think even calling an emergency OSCE meeting would be in order--but again silence from the WH.
Destroying OSCE vehicles for $1m might be to prevent monitoring a new upcoming Russian offensive.
That's another way of preventing OSCE to monitor Russian armor in Ukraine. https://twitter.com/RobPulseNews/sta...18292062896129 …
Militants in social networks claims that attack on OSCE is "people angry" http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/9-augus...ks-claims-that … pic.twitter.com/9LMwzzOWnA via @vasilymaximov
Putnin's recent "demands" on the Normandy Four were in fact carried out after unilateral pressure by the US, France and Germany.
He "demanded a sign of good faith" AND here is that "sign of good faith".
Sector M spox confirms that Ukr marines have losses in russian attack on #Shyrokyno http://gordonua.com/news/war/Press-o...oty-93350.html …
AND Obama's own words from 2014---"we will judge Putin on his actions not his words".
SO did the President of the US basically lie to the world??????
Obama's lack of action speaks volumes for his lack of an effective NSC and an even worse foreign policy.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/rweb/i...tid=kindle-app
Putting Ukraine In An untenable Position
The Obama foreign policy for the Ukraine ---unilateral appeasement Munich 1938 style.Nearly six months after Russia agreed to an immediate cease-fire in eastern Ukraine, its forces continue to shell and rocket Ukrainian positions on a daily basis. Far from pulling back heavy weapons or withdrawing its troops as required by the agreement, it has built military bases and deployed 9,000 troops inside Ukraine and stationed another 50,000 just outside the border, according to Ukrainian and NATO officials. Ukraine’s national security council warned last month that Moscow had completed preparations for a new offensive in three different directions from the territory it currently controls.
How are Western governments responding to this aggression? Last month the Obama administration slightly tightened existing sanctions on Russia, and the Pentagon announced that training of Ukrainian special forces would be extended to regular army units. Mostly, however, the United States has joined with France and Germany in applying heavy political pressure — on the government of Ukraine.
Since a meeting in May between Secretary of State John F. Kerry and Russian President Vladi#mir Putin, U.S. officials have been leaning on the democratically elected and pro-Western administration of Petro Poroshenko to adopt constitutional changes and authorize elections that would legitimize the authorities Russia installed in eastern Ukraine and grant the areas they occupy a special legal status. Last month Ukraine’s parliament reluctantly gave preliminary approval to the changes after Mr. Poroshenko warned lawmakers Ukraine would have to face Russia without allies if it did not adopt them.
The political formula was imposed by Russia as part of what is known as the “Minsk 2” agreement in February. Germany, France and Ukraine agreed to the deal in a desperate effort to stop an escalating military conflict. The shooting diminished, but never stopped; Russia and its proxies have never respected the cease-fire. Yet now the German and French governments have enlisted the help of the Obama administration in seeking unilateral Ukrainian compliance with Minsk 2’s onerous political terms, which if fully implemented would implant a Russian-controlled entity inside Ukraine’s political system.
U.S. officials say Ukrainian steps toward compliance put pressure on Russia and deprive it of a pretext for launching another full-scale military offensive. But Moscow’s aggressive propaganda apparatus relentlessly portrays Ukraine as violating the deal; and Mr. Putin hasn’t needed a legitimate pretext for his previous aggressions. Even if Russia respected the cease-fire, the terms it seeks for reincorporating the areas it holds into Ukraine would cripple the country’s democracy and independence — which is Mr. Putin’s goal.
NOTE: how did that work out since the Russians are now on their offensive???? Appeasement in the face of aggression never works.
Rather than legitimize Russia’s puppet entity, Ukraine would be better off leaving it isolated and forcing Moscow to sustain it, as it does similar enclaves in Georgia and Moldova. The Obama administration, for its part, ought to be doing more to bolster Ukraine’s defenses, so that Russia will be deterred from the offensive it is threatening — and it should tell European allies that the political solution they are trying to force is unworkable as well as wrong.
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Russo-Ukrainian War. Accurate headline is "Russian Army Special Operations Forces lead mobilization of auxiliaries in occupied Donbas."
The LNR has put its army units in combat readiness. | Hmm, very impressive.
Horlivka, Zaytsevo direction. Large concentration of equipment and people. Like prepared for attack." https://twitter.com/oksi_art/status/630345246589722624 …
finriswolf Any doubts anyone might have had about artefacts (reflections) now laid to rest: Proof that these are aerial ID markings. Thanks
@finriswolf They also used similar markings in training exercises of the "DNR 1st Brigade" in late July. pic.twitter.com/cIKlNOYWEg
Maryinka 13:45 Not quiet, shooing in the traffic police post area. And sounds like AGS fire incoming at Novomarinka https://twitter.com/hyeva_maryinka/s...38636152745984 …
Russia|n forces fired 40 Grad rockets on #Ukraine positions near #Troitske
donetsk pic.twitter.com/FjCN4goAug
More of a Russian base in #Luhansk 06/2015 & 08/2015 http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=48...62190&z=16&m=b … pic.twitter.com/oMmd33B72S
Russian base #2 in #Luhansk #Ukraine Aug 2015 http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=48...76137&z=16&m=b … pic.twitter.com/MxrlNtXcsF
Russia|n forces started to fire on #Ukraine positions in #Lebedynske with D-30 howitzers
pic.twitter.com/5zjmy7fOH6
Horlivka: Power substation on fire this morning @tgorlovka https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bD2-...ature=youtu.be …
Zello 14:44 "just came from the quarry, there were 2 wounded and one missing. That's all ... No 50 wounded
Uploaded yesterday: "Military transport near Rostov" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEIOr8biuDw … - Some Kamaz lack a numbers plate. pic.twitter.com/e1s9adJRai
NOW Obama and his NSC can clearly see the "sign of good faith" at work.
The Ukr marines in #Shyrokyno beside the KIA and WIAs have also one MIA (they say he was captured bu RU). https://twitter.com/Bizon_tw/status/630374075991461888 …
AND when the evidence points clearly at Russian troops and her mercenaries ALL we hear is "provocation".
Basurin (Russian army GRU and DPR) calls statements about the fighting in #Shyrokyne a "provocation" https://news.yandex.ru/yandsearch?cl...t=1439129894.1 …
SO is Obama and his NSC going to ask "Putin" for "a sign of good faith" and demand the return of the Ukrainian Marine taken prisoner in a so called DMZ as demanded by Putin???????
The GRU machine is moving to smoother the truth: that Russian (hybrid DPR) forces are testing Mariupol's defences. http://www.rusdialog.ru/news/36637_1439128122 …
Kremlin-speak: Opposite is the truth. Basurin denies DPR offensive operations at #Shyrokyne http://tvzvezda.ru/news/vstrane_i_mi...91531-iw8y.htm … pic.twitter.com/30VxiekovL
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Russian forces attacked Orlovsky, Vodyane, Lebedinsky and Shyrokyne east of Mariupol w/ 152-mm and 122-mm arty.
Report of 1 KIA, 1 WIA
Today's attacks by Russian (hybrid) forces on Ukrainian positions at #Shyrokyne not harrassing but probing attacks designed to ID weaknesses
wonder how that happened as there shouldn't be Russians in Shyrokyne. Probably small unit entered like this morning.
Marines are good fighters but…… you need to know the area better if to work good there, volunteers know the area like the back of their hand
They are not bad soldiers but they weren't ready for taking over the duty from Azov and other volunteers. Sad...
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Russian base #3 in #Luhansk #Ukraine 25+ AFVs http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=48...17&m=b&tag=516 … pic.twitter.com/LVRPxpt0Ne
Rail transport of #Buk (of the #MH17 fame) in Krasnoyarsk (крск):
https://instagram.com/p/6J_edOQG6b/
Some unmarked.
pic.twitter.com/fqFKvJQ8rW
@el_roosevelt Backup: http://streamable.com/hvwl pic.twitter.com/mWdfkqW6qR
Santa Maria" battalion refused to leave their positions near #Mariupol. pic.twitter.com/9Q1i5AFyMd
Appears the Ukrainian volunteer BNs fully understood Russian intentions on the DMZ.
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03.08: https://instagram.com/p/56-yrWj_IB/
08.08: https://vk.com/id282899772?w=wall282899772_122 …
Tanks still there, 2S3 almost gone. pic.twitter.com/bJw1aOQM8b
.@el_roosevelt
this geotag gives you something on June 3 pic.twitter.com/HmOCGLd3n6
Merkel and her FM Steinmeier pushed hard to have the Ukraine accept what they knew was a very poorly crafted Minsk 2 --again after Putin "urged" the Germans/French to "urge" the Ukraine to accept it.
NOW literally there has been absolutely no action on the part of Merkel and her FM for weeks on end now--as if they want to forget what they forced the Ukraine to sign.
AND yet Germany pretends to want to lead Europe--lead it where????
No wonder the EU is dysfunctional.
Hearing #rumint Russian forces are preventing civilians from leaving frontline areas in occupied eastern Ukraine. Conclusion: human shields.
Don't be surprised when Russian (hybrid DPR/LPR) forces announce a "massacre" that ends Minsk and justifies offensive. They will create one.
Russian military intel (GRU) prepares press releases, instructs its "DPR/LPR" units to open fire, calls LieNews TV, then blames Ukraine!
Russian combat loses far higher than they would like to admit—does not include those hastily buried in eastern Ukraine --------only those shipped back via +200 trucks—and it does not count actual Russian troops/GRU whose bodies were shipped home for burial.
RostovGraves Jul 1 2014 - Jun 2 2015 All 4 Sites Total Added >2565 pic.twitter.com/kta9mJbmbG
RostovGraves 47°18'21.35"N 39°41'33.08"E Site 3: Jul 1 2014 - Jun 2 2015 >200 Added pic.twitter.com/rGDSaHjZhV
725 more Russian graves in Rostove in a year time. https://twitter.com/ASpinOfTheWheel/...14747216605184 …
More than 1120 graves added to #Rostov graveyard in 1 year time. #Russia https://twitter.com/ASpinOfTheWheel/...99935363383296 …
UK journalist –former UK employee of RT UK is evidently also working for the FSB while a so called journalist on the mercenary side.
@GrahamWP_UK I saw your video where you had the DNR guy watching the feed while hovering over UA positions. Big no-no—makes you a legal military target and you have no protection as a “journalist”.
Urgent⇢"Independent journalist" Fib.lips uses his drone for reconnaissance for #Russia's army
https://youtu.be/A9MYNv5iRCg?t=4m7s …
Rumble heard from Shyrokyne direction, that rumble sounds like gunshots.
@loogunda what do you say, ukr fire towards Shyrokyne or incoming in Shyrokyne can be heard in Mariupol?
15:31 #Mariupol @vladpug After 30 min pause again volleys started, [heard] in #Shyrokyne direction
Even in #Melekyne, south west of #Mariupol the explosions are audible
https://twitter.com/urbrothers/statu...57815593451520 …
Mariupol 15:31
After 30 minut lull, now salvos again towards #Shyrokyno https://twitter.com/vladpug/status/630355776708694016 …
Confirmed by an ATO source: One marine missing in #Shyrokyne.
Maybe kidnapped by #Russia|n DRG.
http://inforesist.org/istochnik-posl...orskoj-pexoty/ …
Russian summer offensive is still ongoing.....heavy shellings and ground attacks ...........
16:43 #Horlivka Stroitel @ahab7822 I went for a walk to Zhukova. Something bad happens westward from Stroitel
15:51 #Donetsk Donskoy @newp0st "Party again" [=rumble heard]
15:53 #Makiivka Zeleniy @PVB40 [fb] We can hear volleys in #Kholodna_Balka dir'n, sounds like few projectiles flyout&pause,the same next min
Popasna https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTtXONK-kSo … pic.twitter.com/aaIntnzviL
Uploaded 20 mins ago in Pokrovskoye, RU. Less than 50km from #Ukraine
https://archive.is/QsP1c
pic.twitter.com/YecyQ2J0xk
Horlivka:Zheleznyanka quarry is here http://goo.gl/zD7DXY 1 of former cinnabarite pits, RUS lied abt great number of injured civilians at
Lot's of ambulances, sirens and helicopters active in #Dnipropetrovsk. Often a sign of casualties at the frontline. https://twitter.com/PetrovaTamara22/...98756186423296 …
15:43 #Horlivka @sau152mm As it landed in quarry, we were at the market. Mortar rounds went fr/central cemetery dir'n,bombs humming on start
18:22 #Donetsk @papandopoolo A BMP along Chelyuskintsev & 1 Ural w/troops towards Ilyicha
17:45 #Donetsk @relictDon 3 covered trucks w/siren passing Kirovets sports club towards Svobody Sq
18:23 #Donetsk @papandopoolo Fresh track traces were also there on #Mariupol road
18:42 #Horlivka @062_Region 6-7 mine: intense battle resumed - mortars, AGL,small arms
AND now we are into the standard evening shellings-----
18:05 #Maryinka @hyeva_maryinka [vk] They were shooting a bit, but not that serious, so it's quiet in principle
Black smoke over #Horlivka https://twitter.com/Scheleznianin/st...05124448473088 …
18:47 #Novhorodske @Scheleznianin The smoke looks black on horizon, #Horlivka direction pic.twitter.com/pHAUqw4dDw
19:16 #Donetsk Rozy_Luksemburg @0954771 "Good evening, volleys"
Attack numbers will definitely be in the 100 range------
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