The United States is riding Europe’s superpower coattails
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...b88_story.html …
From the Russian "altered states of reality" and Orwellian "doublespeak'.......
Russian Mission OSCE @RF_OSCE
#Lukashevich: US cannot persuade the people of Donbass even with a basketful of cookies that Kiev’s authorities are victims of the conflict
Russian Mission OSCE @RF_OSCE
#Lukashevich: by shielding Kiev’s authorities the West slows down the negotiations and provokes further escalation http://www.mid.ru/foreign_policy/new...nguageId=en_GB …
BUT WAIT.....Moscow has yet to fulfill a single point of Minsk 2...and holds over 27 Ukrainian hostages and YET talks about Ukraine not fulfilling Minsk 2...
The United States is riding Europe’s superpower coattails
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...b88_story.html …
Germany's Defence Min. says if they'd supported Ukraine with weapons there'd have been a bloody war. So what does she call 7,000+ deaths?
00:32 #Luhansk @LUGANSKA_JUNTA "Darn well, echos reach the center, I just freaked out with closed windows"
00:19 #Luhansk @ukrainebang mortars so far, not AGL
@VovaKonoplyanka I can hear it too, pretty intense firing there...
00:15 #Luhansk @ukrainebang Just now I am listening to the explosions towards #Stanytsia_Luhanska, heavy small arms before
23:31 #Luhansk @VovaKonoplyanka ...it seems, a howitzer shelled twice at #Stanytsia_Luhanska from the eastern blocks...
23:22 #Avdiivka @tiamat007 There have been several flashes and obtuse soundstowards #Avdiivka forest to the north fr/#Promka
23:39 #Luhansk @VovaKonoplyanka And now I can hear some explosions towards #Stanystsia_Luhanska every minute
23:15 #Avdiivka @LuftGanza The area near #Pisky is under fire, it's already heard
22:35 #Donetsk #Azotnyi @rjpthjuljytwr [fb] Very strongly. No such since long ago. Cannot get like from #Pisky direction
22:08 #Donetsk @manirtal after around 21:40 heavies ceased northward fr/#railway station, but intense small arms fire at #Pisky, then rarer
21:46 #Marinka @hyeva_maryinka [vk] pretty serious booms
21:34 #Donetsk @rjpthjuljytwr [fb]
#Vyshnevskoho: single salvos westwards
#Putilovka: listening to strong single salvos
21:37 #Donetsk [pro-RU source] @idinmor One can hear explosions, 122mm but there were some 152mm, far to the north
21:39 #Horlivka @_GivNeyt_ Serious landings. Windows vibrate at #Kurganka, #Bessarabka, #Komsomolets
21:34 #Donetsk @666_mancer [fb] #Putilovka: For few hours one can hear heavy salvos towards #Avdiivka, now far then closer, MGs smtms
20:00 @ua_ridna_vilna
#Makiivka - #Cheryomushki, #Zelenyi: heavies are distinctly heard
#Donetsk: #Zaperevalna hears far echos fr/the north
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Footage
#Putin's henchmen prepare for war that they proudly announce.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJVpxcG5KnA …
"We are sleepwalking through the end of our era of peace.
It is time to wake up."
http://www.politico.eu/article/vladi...rimea-ukraine/ …
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Russian info war efforts just keep on growing and not much is being done to counter it...as if many do not believe the effectiveness of disinformation and or propaganda in changing the perceptions of a civil society.
Pro-Russian propaganda sites (now we have 74) infiltrated the Hungarian internet,study shows
http://vs.hu/kozelet/osszes/bivalyba...gjai-0407#!s10 …
ATO Staff: 50 attacks on Apr16, 11 less than a day earlier, 8 times UAF replied
http://liveuamap.com/en/2016/17-apri...11-less-than-a …
ATO Staff: #Avdiivka came under fire 15 times, #Pisky 3, #Mayorsk and #Zaytseve by 2, #Berezove and #Marinka by 1.
Fighting Reduced Around Avdeyevka in Ukraine After Week of Intense Battles - No Casualties
http://www.interpretermag.com/day-789/#13367
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MORE Russian regular troops WIA from yesterdays fighting......
Intelligence: On Apr 16, 13 Russian regulars wounded on occupied #Donbas while attacking #Ukraine #army positions. http://gur.mil.gov.ua/content/situat...und-syria.html …
Intelligence: Russia sent the train to occup #Debaltseve with 2 tanks, 2 MLRS Grad, 2 trucks, 160 tons of diesel fuel
http://gur.mil.gov.ua/content/situat...und-syria.html …
Intel: Rebels of #Donetsk bat-n attacked comrades of 9 regim-t to take beach hostel in occup. Bezimenne on #Azov Sea http://gur.mil.gov.ua/content/situat...und-syria.html …
Intelligence Summary (INTSUM) 16 April 2016 from the UAF Department of Intelligence
Situation in the ATO area as of April 16, 2016
During twenty-four hours, the adversary has continued the fire influence on the units of ATO forces. The enemy shelled 61 times from small arms, grenade launchers, antiaircraft mounts ZU-32-2, infantry fighting vehicles, anti-tank missile system, 82 and 120-mm mortars. The attacks were, as follows: 4 attacks - Stanytsia Luhanska, Shchastia (Novoaidar direction); 3 attacks - Sokilnyky, Krymske, Stepne (Sieverodonetsk direction); 11 attacks - Popasna, Luhanske, Mayorsk, Leninske, Novhrodske (Slovyansk direction); 31 attacks - Verkhniotoretske, Avdiyivka, Opytne, Butovka mine, Pisky, Nevelske, Maryinka (Donetsk direction); 5 attacks - Berezove, Novotroitske, Hranitne (Volnovakha direction); 7 attacks - Pavlopil, Vodiane, Shyrokyne (Mariupol direction).
The adversary preserves the greatest activity in Donetsk direction.
In the area of Avdiyivka, the situation is, as follows:
preservation of high intensity of attacks of the ATO forces positions, using, among all others, 82 mm mortars;
intentions to carry out rotation of the mortar battery of the 2nd motorized rifle battalion of the 11th separate motorized rifle regiment (Makiyivka) of the 1st AC (Donetsk) of the Russian Armed Forces, deployed in the area of Yasynuvata;
the 1st AC Commission checked the readiness of the units of the 11th sep MR regt to act in case of drastic changes in the operational environment. Mortar batteries were transferred to the higher levels of readiness; all kinds of intelligence were enhanced.
Other casualties of the personnel of the reconnaissance units of the 1st AC (Donetsk) of the Russian Armed Forces, engaged in sabotage and reconnaissance actions in the area of Avdiyivka, were established.
On April 14, 2016, nine service men of the 11th separate motorized rifle regiment (Makiyivka) were wounded.
On April 15, 2016, nine dead and eleven wounded service men of the separate assault battalion (Donetsk), 3rd (Horlivka) and 100th (Donetsk) separate motorized rifle brigades were delivered to the Central City Clinical Hospital No.9 and City Clinical Hospital No.5 from the areas of Yasynuvata and Novotroyitske.
On the night of April 15 to 16, 2016, 38 bodies of dead Russian service men were transported through the former checkpoint "Donetsk" (Russia) to Russia.
In the view of considerable military casualties, cases of mass desertion from the advanced positions and increase of the number of those who want to retire from military service, the command of the 1st AC of the Russian Armed Forces is trying to man up the formations and units with the personnel by early amnesty for prisoners serving sentences in penitentiaries of Donetsk oblast. To this end, agitation events in penitentiaries of Horlivka, Torez and Snizhne, where the inmates are offered full amnesty with cancellation of convictions and "relocation allowance" of 10 thousand Russian Rubles, are held. It is expected to select about 300 people for their further training and sending to the advanced units to the area of Maryinka.
The Ukrainian side informed the representatives of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine about the presence of self-propelled artillery and tanks in the areas of Luhansk, Donetsk and Horlivka.
Other facts of dismantling the equipment of the Ukrainian mobile operators located in the temporarily occupied territories of Donetsk oblast in the interests of domination of the so-called mobile operator of the DNR - "Phoenix" and Russian propaganda, were established.
On April 15, 2016, the service men of the Information Warfare Center (Novocherkassk) and the 9th separate assault motorized rifle regiment of the Marine Corps (Novoazovsk) of the 1st AC (Donetsk) of the Center of the Territorial Troops (Novocherkassk) of the Southern Military District (Rostov-on-Don) of the Russian Armed Forces dismantled equipment of the Ukrainian mobile operator "MTS", located on loan in the premises of "Novoazovsk feed mil" (Huselshchykovo). In response to public protest of factory employees who were left without a reliable and also international communications, the Russian military men threatened to use weapons and destroy the equipment of the Ukrainian communications provider along with the enterprise itself.
As for the provocative actions of the Russian Federation in the temporarily occupied territory of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and near the borders of Ukraine
Provocative actions of combat training of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation near the borders of Ukraine and in the temporarily occupied territory of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea continue.
Since April 15, 2016, exercises on control of missile strikes and artillery fire with live fire of artillery units of the units and formations of the coastal troops of the Russian Armed Forces Black Sea Fleet are conducted at the training range of the Opuk Cape (65 km to the east of Feodosiya). More than 800 servicemen and 200 units of military equipment of the 810th separate brigade of the Marines (Sebastopol), 8th artillery regiment (Simferopol), 126th separate brigade of the coastal defense (Perevalne), 15th separate coastal missile and artillery brigade (Sebastopol) of the Coastal troops of the Russian Black Sea Fleet participate in the training. Control over the exercises is executed by the Commander of the Black Sea Fleet, Admiral O.Vitko.
On April 11-15, 2016, a tactical exercise with live fire of the armed formations of the self-proclaimed Transnistrian Moldovan Republic was held at the military training ground in the area of Afanasiyivka (Dubossar rayon, 10 km from the state border of Ukraine). About 400 service men from the 1st (Tiraspol), 2nd (Bendery), 3rd (Rybnitsa) and 4th (Dubossary) separate motorized rifle brigades, 1st separate antiaircraft artillery brigade (Tyraspol) and 1st separate tank battalion (Volodymyrivka) attended the training.
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The military situation in the eastern regions of Ukraine as of Apr 17, 2016 [infographics]
Full size:
http://goo.gl/boe7JG
2 UA volunteers came under #Russian fire near #Pisky in the #warzone in E #Ukraine. Both wounded. Alive. Transported to the hospital
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Flightglobal: Israel steps back from fresh UAV deals with Russia
http://www.unian.info/economics/1321...th-russia.html …
Maybe just to many of them got shot down.......
#Yasynuvata #GAI_post #footage, oh, that faces
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0z6Nav73X4 …
Scene of heavy fighting over the last two weeks.....
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Statement
#Givi says #DNR "ready to ... advance without violating the #Minsk agreement" ?!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1fNCXyqR4Q …
We are off and running with the Russian shelling's and ground attacks...after a rather quiet day today and...Russians must have been resupplying munitions/fuel and taking a long lunch break.......
21:23 #Donetsk #Kyivskyi @AlfaNubovsky one can see flashes in the sky tow/#Spartak, #Opytne, #Pisky.
21:21 #Donetsk #Kyivskyi @AlfaNubovsky #Oktyabrskyi-#airport-#Putilovka&further N - arty working fr/#Oktyabrskyi&#Tochmash at #Pisky-#Opytne
21:21 #Donetsk #Tekstilschik @disturbed4545 Very noisy. No such since long ago. Smth heavy
21:20 #Avdiivka @LuftGanza #Donetsk direction is very noisy
Donetsk 21:17
"Railway station area hearing heavy battle, around the airport. At least 2 ruscist SPGs & mortars.." https://twitter.com/sukerberg1/statu...64567139938305 …
21:13 #Donetsk @relictDon Battle sounds towards NW intensify. Besides other ones, some booms sound like salvos from #Hrabari area
21:12 #Donetsk #Trudovski @Maxi_Good [vk] since 20:45 small arms combat
21:11 #Donetsk #Proletarskyi ds @DoneckiiPatriot one can hear multiple not strong salvos and single strong ones, again MG
21:11 #Horlivka @tgorlovka_news Firing goes on to the north, plus, from the south loud shots or landings come from aside of the city
21:10 #Donetsk @manirtal since 21:03 heavy ones each 5-20 sec, singles, till 21:07. Since 21:09 resumed, I think, the same intense as yday
21:00 #DOnetsk @ropogckou south Donetsk listens to salvos of DNR artillery, very active ones, from city's NW
20:54 #Horlivka @tgorlovka_news Ongoing battle to the city's N/NW, one can hear loud shots
20:45 #Donetsk @666_mancer [fb] "Tow/#Yasynuvata, battle is heard for 30 min" "#Shakhtarska Sq listens to strong salvos" "#Putilovka too"
20:44 #Donetsk @Donetsk_Ukraine N/NW - single salvos
20:45 #Andriivka, #Dolya @tov_sobakin [ok.ru] southwest/west are periodically heard
20:52 #Yenakiieve @ZloyEnakievec #Horlivka: one can hear salvos of smth large
20:52 #Donetsk @jackson_villi Now it has been loudly
20:51 #Donetsk #Proletarskyi ds @DoneckiiPatriot periodic far strong salvos
20:48 #Donetsk @Donetsk_Ukraine wow, salvos so far
20:35 #Donetsk @war_explorer "They started to shell. #Avdiivka direction. #OSCE cams are off, aren't they?"
20:30 #Makiivka @VasyaMakeevskiy active battle aside from #Yakovlivka-#Mineralne - non-stop bursts of large calibre [automatic arms] & booms
20:11 #Donetsk @rjpthjuljytwr from the #mine12/18[=http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=47.947138&lon=37.962570&z=16&m=b&show =/6958093 …] one can hear salvos coming fr/#Makiivka direction
20:20 [?] @GirkinGirkin [vk?] "A green signal flare towards
#Khartsyzk"
20:15 #Horlivka @ua_ridna_vilna In the south, incendiaries - blasts in the ski [wrong, probaby AA-gun as usually]
20:00 @ua_ridna_vilna
#Makiivka #Cheryomushki, #Donetsk #Kirovskyi: battle echoes are heard
#Horlivka #Zaytseve: not intense shooting...
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Russian ground attacks are intensive tonight.....
Very intense fighting in #Donetsk, #Horlivka and many other areas. Heavy outgoing artillery is shaking windows and the ground.
Russia sends more tanks and rocket launchers to Donbas – intel
http://uatoday.tv/politics/russia-se...el-632625.html …
Heavy shelling and close quarter combat reported from #Avdeevka and #Donetsk
https://twitter.com/MarQs__/status/721676287291559936 …
21:50 #Donetsk @rjpthjuljytwr [fb] #Oktyabrskyi ds: N and NW make noise. SA avidly. Many tubes, and like tank supports it
Reports of heavy fighting/shelling #Avdiivka #Marinka #Spartak, #Opytne, #Pisky #Yasynuvata #Zaytseve
21:51 #Donetsk @Li0111111 122mm are landing in the airport
21:57 #Yenakiieve @ZloyEnakievec They're firing from #Yenakiieve
21:56 #Horlivka @andreyboss77 Outgoing one from #block5
21:56 #Donetsk @Occupied_Rook pretty intense battle to the north, #OSCE will be tired counting the violations
21:56 #Donetsk @old_dn What a battle tow/#Pisky, small arms are already not heard behind the explosions. As it lands, ground shudders...
21:56 #Donetsk @old_dn btw, it has sounded like a series of MLRS
21:54 [#Novomykhaylivka area] @manbad2017 #Taramchuk-#Berezove under shelling, 120mm shells come fr/#Yasne, plus illuminating
flares
21:56 #Donetks @rjpthjuljytwr [fb]
#Vetka: a UAV flew over, far north rumbles
#AVK: loudly, N/NW
#Shakhtarska Sq: series of freq salvos
21:55 #Yasynuvata&@Zemlyanki @GirkinGirkin [vk?] first a red signal flare, then in 5-7min 3 red ones
21:59 #Horlivka @_GivNeyt_ NW - SPG salvos started. Probably again #Hluboka's arty in action
22:02 #Donetsk @patriot_petya [vk]
#Kuybyshevskyi loud
#Semashko: house shakes for abt 1hr
#MirnyiL heard very loud
#Kyivskyi very loud
22:03 #Horlivka @UA_Horlivka_ "damn, projectiles fly over my head:
22:03 #Horlivka @ua_ridna_vilna explosions at #Mayorsk
22:04 #Yenakiieve @ZloyEnakievec UAF, reply fire started
22:11 #Horlivka @YbiliBilli #Finski (#Rumyantseve) ppl can distinctly hear it, they say tanks...
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23:04 #Mayorsk @_GivNeyt_ Flashes. One can hear landings and salvos. Cannonade is heard all over the city. Heavy arty works fr/both sides
Some people especially Obama, Hollande and Merkel call it the "Minsk ceasefire" which is "largely holding".......
Residents call it war.
MAJOR shift today in the Russian military ground attack strategy....fighting is still ongoing in the daytime...had been mainly a night time fight for the last four weeks.....Russian military and her mercenaries have largely been stymied in all of their attacks with Russian regulars suffering ever increasing loses in killed and wounded in the last two weeks especially their Spetsnaz units......
In eastern #Ukraine heavy fighting now rages also at day time after months of mainly night battles.
Bellingcat proves that "Grads" were shelling east of #Ukraine from Russian territory.
http://novosti.dn.ua/details/273068/
Russia shelled #Ukraine hundreds of times in summer 2014 - Bellingcat
http://uatoday.tv/politics/russian-b...ms-592932.html …
bellingcat @bellingcat
And the artillery attack analysis methodology we used was also used by the prosecution in the Savchenko trail https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-a...vchenko-trial/ …
THIS was before the Russian "incursion"......word used by the US....instead of the word..."invasion"....
NOTICE the US uses no word two years later.........and never seems to comment on the latest heavy Russian military attacks...utter silence out of this Obama WH and NSC.....
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Stanytisia_Luhanska @stanicainua 3 border guards wounded during the recent attack, not one as it was reported earlier
Militants Again Shelled ATO Forces' Positions With Prohibited Mortars.
79 militant attacks on ATO
http://ukraineunderattack.org/en/636...d-mortars.html …
Russian shelling's and ground attacks are still continuing instead of slacking off as was usual......
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YES even the Russians are now seeing what I initially wrote here in SWJ two full years ago at the start of Crimea......
The way to reign in Putin is via the price of oil....as it was a collapse in the oil prices in the 90s that led to the end of the Soviet Union and now we are on the verge of seeing almost the same thing in 2016.....the Russian economy is slowing collapsing the banking sector is a major disaster.
BUT in theory the Russians have it wrong....it is not the US practicing "hybrid or non linear warfare against Russia".....it is KSA this time....BUT WAIT it was KSA the first time around....
AM News: No Agreement in Doha, Ruble Falls; Bastrykin Claims US Wages 'Hybrid War' on Russia
http://www.interpretermag.com/russia...18-2016/#13383 …
Really worth reading this article....
Crackdown on Crimean-Tatar continues, 2 detained in Krasnokam'yanka pic.twitter.com/P9yPJ404lo
http://liveuamap.com/en/2016/18-apri...-2-detained-in …
Russian theft of eastern Ukrainian assets is still ongoing....
Profit from war: illegal export of coal from #Ukrainian territory occupied by #Russia
http://uaposition.com/analysis-opini...cupied-russia/ …
Russian MoD published video of launch of cruise missile (Iskander-M)
https://youtu.be/qTqTG6Na1xM
http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2016/04/18/7105886/ …
11.30 am - MRLS GRAD shelling from Makiivka (DNR) is heard at Proletarka (DNR)
https://twitter.com/tov_sobakin/stat...76341067927553 …
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