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    Quote Originally Posted by OUTLAW 09 View Post
    Demonstration now has grown to over 10K plus--government trying desparately to defuse the tension --has released all demonstrators taken prisoner yesterday.

    This is just after the massive tension when a Russian soldier killed an entire Armenian family recently and Russia refused to release him to armenian authorities.

    And the not explained killing of a Russia soldier who was out late one evening recently.

    Crowds are now massive in size and they are holding on well into the evening now--many make comments such as --use water cannons on us and the crowds will get even larger.

    Russian State TV is now accussing the US of funding local NGOs to provoke the government and led to a "coup".

    Man is Russia afraid of the "colored revolts".
    Seems the Armenian President has learned from the "Maidan"--he is now going to met with 10 reps from the demonstrators and journalists and live stream the meeting.

    BUT at the same time the Russian propaganda Corp. "News Media" is putting out that the demonstrators will run and hide when the first shots are fired--there has been a rumor floating that the police will clear the demonstration with force this evening.
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    Well the shellings are back to normal--appears to be though no ground attacks probably because they have taken beatings on all of the attacks.

    Luhansk. Towards Stanitsya Luhanska sound of battle, muffled explosions http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/23-june...ound-of-battle

    Luhansk 23:35
    Towards #Stanitsya_Luhanska you can hear the sound of battle, muffled explosions, etc https://twitter.com/LUGANSKA_JUNTA/s...47118955618304

    SBU posts new evidence of militants' possessing Russian weaponry http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukra...ry-391805.html

    Militants keep violating the truce. Artemivsk direction shelled from large-caliber artillery, - ATO press center http://en.censor.net.ua/n341233

    Donetsk 23:27
    Kyivskyi ds, Putilovka - Night stops being languid. LOUD (now) https://twitter.com/Shymanovski/stat...43494707888128

    #Makeevka 23:40
    Hear heavy singles far away, towards #Donetsk-#Optyne https://twitter.com/VasyaMakeevskiy/...48204391088128

    Horlivka 11:24PM
    You can hear something heavy https://twitter.com/062_Region/statu...42552126132226

    Horlivka 11:13PM
    It become louder, and incoming closer https://twitter.com/062_Region/statu...39796673966080

    Shelling from heavy armors in Svitlodarsk http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/23-june...in-svitlodarsk

    GRADs in Zholobok and checkpoint 29 area. http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/23-june...oint-29-area--

    10:34PM
    #Novotoshkovska, (checkpoint) 29, shooting, AGS, mortars https://twitter.com/pidpillia/status/613429956341800960

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    The usual #Russia controlled bot-network used to flood popular hastags with nonsense to drive readers away. @safety https://twitter.com/Kateryna_Kruk/st...49043759509504

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    Panzer auf einem Zug in Russlands Kirow Oblast.
    Passanten spekulieren: "In die #Ukraine."

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wkIP0OfKOs … pic.twitter.com/04jHcQ7OhI
    Older T72Bs without reactive armor

    Footage
    Troops from Regiment #Azov take Russian sniper positions in #Shyrokyne under fire.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Vf0vGyhEKs

    Footage
    People (probably Ukrainians) join the #LPR army + propaganda
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=528Y_uiamRY
    pic.twitter.com/YUYOuXU8A6

    And to be fair:
    Poroshenko-loyal Chechens in the ruins of Ukr-held #Shyrokyne,
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oagwq1ZiwU
    pic.twitter.com/glguSqmrpX

    Footage
    Putin-loyal Chechens on the road in occupied #Saur_Mohyla.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOeCW4U_uWY
    pic.twitter.com/AXIqLDMpax

    Ukraine appeals to EU over 'illegal' Gazprom-Slovak pipeline contract http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/23-june...-gazpromslovak

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    Russia now completely violates Minsk 2 at the same time openly and often stating they are for fulfilling Minsk 2.

    VIDEO Brand new Russian 2S1 Gvozdika heavy artillery & GRAD in Donetsk today
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZdfWyQuFh0 … pic.twitter.com/l0rgHlz8Cf

    Another verified EPA photo of the brand new 2S1 Gvozdika heavy artillery Russia send to Donetsk yesterday. pic.twitter.com/LR8Jwn8cTQ

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    Quote Originally Posted by OUTLAW 09 View Post
    Russia now completely violates Minsk 2 at the same time openly and often stating they are for fulfilling Minsk 2.

    VIDEO Brand new Russian 2S1 Gvozdika heavy artillery & GRAD in Donetsk today
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZdfWyQuFh0 … pic.twitter.com/l0rgHlz8Cf

    Another verified EPA photo of the brand new 2S1 Gvozdika heavy artillery Russia send to Donetsk yesterday. pic.twitter.com/LR8Jwn8cTQ
    So when will Obama, Hollande and Merkel finally declare that Russia is in full violation of Minsk 2 and has no interest in ever fulfilling it.

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    Shelling continued into the early morning hours---the mercenaries where though around 0200 distracted by heavy rain and one of their ammo supply trucks overturned with ammunition and kept exploding for a number of hours—strange that the ammunition exploded as it should have been separated ie shells in one case charges in another.

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    Quote Originally Posted by OUTLAW 09 View Post
    Seems the Armenian President has learned from the "Maidan"--he is now going to met with 10 reps from the demonstrators and journalists and live stream the meeting.

    BUT at the same time the Russian propaganda Corp. "News Media" is putting out that the demonstrators will run and hide when the first shots are fired--there has been a rumor floating that the police will clear the demonstration with force this evening.
    Russia's Federation Council thinks events in Armenia are completely repeating first phase of coup in Ukraine.

    Russia: 'Events in #Armenia repeat 1st phase of #Ukraine coup.' Ditto Budapest '56, Prague '68
    ? #ElectricYerevan pic.twitter.com/yTuxF8Di4V

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    Even Russian media that lies is having a problem now with their own journalists saying something totally different than the “party line”.
    youtube.com/watch?v=4HlezCYC1QY … #Russia's LieNews #fail. Anchor: #Ukrainians did it! Reporter: 'militias' did it! pic.twitter.com/Ec8MDCn7ED

    Ukr border guards beat off 5 RU attacks at #Marinka yesterday, 1 soldier WIA http://inforesist.org/pogranichniki-...kov/?_utl_t=tw

    Militants attacked a checkpoint in Maryinka, wounded one soldier of Ukrainian army pic.twitter.com/vW6pjugMoV http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/24-june...arinka-wounded

    Yle Kioski Investigated: This is How Pro-Russia Trolls Manipulate Finns Online – http://kioski.yle.fi/omat/troll-piece-2-english

    So... according to russian logic bulletproof vests are lethal weapons. https://twitter.com/AlexandruC4/stat...32401118343168

    Police force seized weapons in Luhansk region: 4 AK assault rifles, pistol,grenade launchers pic.twitter.com/Tlcy1nKcQC http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/24-june...sk-region-4-ak

    SBU detained two cars with meat, which combat of Ukrainian army tried to take in LNR pic.twitter.com/3RObggmcJX http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/24-june...t-of-ukrainian

    Analysis #Map
    Spent half an hour w/ that extremely interesting Russian video from #CP31.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7qltdSVDK4 … pic.twitter.com/TfP1NvDGoH
    Conclus:
    1.Ukis don't shoot first. Snipers would've no problem if they wanted
    2.Ukis control 15km^2 more than I thought
    3."Scattered" front

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    The coming storm.
    Baltic Sea security report"
    by @edwardlucas
    @cepa http://www.cepa.org/sites/default/fi...compressed.pdf

    Pskov in #Russia LOVED the #Nazis as shown by the mass of #Russian #Nazi supporters in this videohttps://youtu.be/4XuIRBcD-Bk?t=52s

    Great article by @pavelsheremet on life in Transnistria where illegal trade is taking a serious hit http://kommersant.ru/doc/2747241

    Russian-backed militants ‘know about’ OSCE mission movements
    http://www.unian.info/war/1093188-in...movements.html … pic.twitter.com/B76myIDcZ7ers
    REMEMBER 23 members of the current OSCE SMM are Russians.

    Dep Sec of Russian Security Council: If Baltic States "like to be targets" because of NATO anti-missile shield, "it is their choice".

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    Almost 1,200 people are missing in Donbas http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukra...as-391879.html

    Captured Russian AF sniper who fought in Ukraine received so-called "humanitarian aid" from OSCE in Dec 2014
    Verified in his video interview with the Ukrainian Security Service.

    Russia not backing down from "mythology" created to explain away Ukraine crisis http://bit.ly/1LgpJwu

    People involved in crimes will be arrested when crossing checkpoints-Turchynov on new pass control system in ATO area http://en.censor.net.ua/n341306

    Anti-Americanism Now Russia’s Official Ideology, ‘Nezavisimaya Gazeta’ Says | The Interpreter http://www.interpretermag.com/anti-a...a-gazeta-says/ … via @Interpreter_Mag

    In #Crimea, in the village of Voloshino on the border with Kherson region, russian invaders placed howitzers. https://twitter.com/Dbnmjr/status/613463854564163584

    Russia’s OSCE representative warns of new escalation of conflict in Donbas
    http://www.unian.info/politics/10932...in-donbas.html … pic.twitter.com/wu1MCxFLHv

    Last day, Militants attacked Mariinka checkpoint 4 times & Zolote checkpoint once. 1 wounded - Border guard servicehttp://dpsu.gov.ua/ru/about/news/news_7595.htm

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    Below is interesting as it is probably true as the report has been verified from several Ukrainian sources.

    Interesting in that after Minsk 1 and then 2 it was often stated and especially by Russia that the Agreement was to the determent of the Ukraine and in initial reading it appears that way.

    BUT the Ukraine has elegantly fulfilled the basis of the Agreement and literally thrown it back at the Russians meaning the Russians must pull back all foreign fighters, mercenaries, volunteers, vacationers as part of the disarming process and they must submit to open and fair elections conducted using Ukrainian law ---THIS has been mentioned something Russia would never allow thus it trys continually to change Minsk 2 and or modifiy the Minsk 2 which Hahn is trying here to do.

    What the EU rep seems to have forgotten is that once the eastern region has the so called "federalization" that Putin wants WILL they continue to implement Minsk 2--IMHO NO.

    So the question begs to be asked WHO inside the EU is pushing this concept--it just does not appear out of "heaven" one day and then is carried forth--it would though fit what Germany and France have been trying to do--circumvent their own Agreement to appease Russia and give Putin a "victory" in the hopes he will then pull out.

    Talk about Munich 1938 and driven by Germany and France who should actually know better.

    http://euromaidanpress.com/2015/06/2...mlins-demands/

    Europe pressuring Ukraine to meet Kremlin’s demands

    2015/06/24 • News

    Article by: Serhiy Sydorenko, European Pravda, June 23, 2015

    Despite the European Union’s apparent support of Ukraine, Brussels sometimes comes up with ideas that evoke amazement among Ukrainians who wonder how it is possible to have such a wrong perception of reality.

    The only consolation (for Ukrainians) lies in the hope that a public airing of the inappropriateness of the proposals of the EU representatives will convince them to abandon what they have started. Therefore, we hope that our publication will help stop the new initiative of the European Commission, which, to put it mildly, is rather hostile to Ukraine.

    European Pravda has learned that Johannes Hahn, the commissioner for European Neighborhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations, during his visit to Kyiv last week, tried to convince Ukrainian authorities that Kyiv needs to carry out the “last” points of the Minsk agreement and not wait for Russia and the Russian-controlled militants to carry out their portion of the agreement.

    What are they asking of Ukraine?

    The new proposal so far does not yet have the status of an “official EU requirement.” It is more likely that the EU is currently “testing” the reaction of the Ukrainian side regarding the idea of a “mild renegotiation” of the requirements of the Minsk agreement.

    But even Kyiv’s unconditionally firm response during the first round of the negotiations did not prevent the members of the European Commission from raising the issue again.

    European Pravda’s correspondent was present during a closed session where one of the highest officials of the European Commission responsible for Ukraine (we agreed not to disclose his name) suddenly announced that there were problems in Kyiv’s implementation of the Minsk Agreement.

    “Yes, we are talking about Russia’s violations of the Minsk Agreement,” he said. “But is Ukraine doing everything to comply with the Minsk requirements? Why don’t you move ahead with providing special status to the Donbas? After all, you can do that immediately and demonstrate Kyiv’s good will toward carrying out Minsk,” the official explained.

    The arguments of the Ukrainian politicians who were at the meeting that the Minsk Agreement deliberately consists of separate stages and that there is no point in carrying out the last point when Moscow is not even complying with the first one had no effect on the EU representative. He continued to insist that Ukraine needs to fulfill the Minsk agreement “in advance.”

    The Verkhovna Rada is already aware of the new EU requirement.

    “Rumors emerged last week and were later confirmed,” Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze, first deputy head of the Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs, told European Pravda.

    “The Europeans are demanding that we propose a strategy for the special status of Donbas. And they want this status not to be limited to three years (as in the law about the status of certain territories) but to be made permanent,” she said.

    According to Klympush-Tsintsadze, somehow the complex approach to carrying out the Minsk-2 Agreements is being negated suddenly. “Despite the fact that the first steps have not even been carried out — the ceasefire is not respected, the heavy weaponry has not been withdrawn, our hostages have not been returned — but the EU is telling Kyiv to carry out the fifth or seventh step,” she said.

    Kyiv’s Reaction

    Multiple government sources confirmed that this idea first appeared during Hahn’s visit to Kyiv. And one of his meetings turned out to be almost completely dedicated to this idea.

    The official participants in the negotiations with Hahn refuse to comment officially, explaining that the situation is “too sensitive.”

    However, as a result of discussions “not on record” European Pravda was able to put together a scenario of the negotiations.

    “The negotiations that were held in the Verkhovna Rada were incredibly complex and emotional. Voices were raised. The Ukrainian participants considered this idea practically a betrayal on Hahn’s part. Europeans, on the other hand, tried to make the case the Ukraine itself must demonstrate greater flexibility and progress on the Minsk issue in order to remove any claims on the part of Russia,” one of the negotiators told European Pravda

    “At one point the Ukrainian representative even told the commissioner that he is advocating the same position as the Moscow representatives,” another source said. After emotional and fruitless negotiations in the Rada, Commissioner Hahn went to meet the president.

    “There the negotiations were not as emotional. The commissioner was more constructive with President Poroshenko and paid more attention to reports on the violations of the Minsk agreement by Russia,” one of the Verkhovna Rada participants reported. However, another source insisted that during Hahn’s negotiations with Poroshenko the Europeans again — perhaps in milder terms — raised the question of Ukraine “going ahead” in carrying out the Minsk requirements.

    Meanwhile, our source at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs says the situation should not be overly dramatized and that there are no “demands” on the part of the EU.

    According to the diplomat, so far Kyiv is not being asked to grant special status to the Donbas but to “discuss” the possibility of such a provision.

    “The EU wants for all the Minsk questions to be discussed in the subgroups of the Interim Contact Group in order to avoid taboos on certain topics, including this one. But this is an informal discussion, an exchange of ideas. The official dialogue will begin only after the elections with the legitimately elected representatives (of several regions of the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts)” the Foreign Ministry source said.

    Instead of an epilogue

    At present it is difficult to say if this unexpected proposal by the European Commission, which was made twice in just a few days (first in Kyiv during the visit of the European commissioner and then at a closed session at the EU), will advance further.

    Much depends on how categorically this option was refused by the Ukrainian side. For now, all sources without exception say they are against any revision of the Minsk agreements even a “modest revision.”

    “My conversations indicate that at the EU they sometimes act as though they want to achieve elections in the Donbas without thinking too much about how to conduct them at present,” said one of our sources who is involved in the “Minsk dialogue” on the Ukrainian side.

    “They want the imitation of success in the settlement. However, they do not have any answers to our questions about why they’re not reacting to the destruction of Shyrokino, Debaltsevo, Uhlehorsk. This is very frightening because it means we are being left to face Russia alone. But our position is firm: the Minsk agreements are a composite and currently no point of the Minsk agreement is being fulfilled,” he concluded

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    What is interesting about this article is the simple fact that right after Crimea Putin is recorded on Russian TV stating that he had given orders to his Border Security Commander to “secure the border so fighters and weapons could not cross"—NOTICE he says nothing about this nor does the Russain interviewer bring up the Russian TV interview with Putin.


    http://www.interpretermag.com/ukrain...-traffic/#8888

    Russian Security Chief Says Flow of Volunteer Russian Fighters to Ukraine 'Cannot be Stopped'

    00:24 (GMT)

    Nikolai Patrushev, secretary of Russia's Security Council, said that Russian authorities cannot hinder the flow of Russian volunteers to Ukraine to fight with the so-called "militia" in the self-proclaimed "Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics," Kommersant.ru and RBC.ru reported.

    He claimed the US had initiated the conflict in southeastern Ukraine, and repeated a well-worn trope of Russian disinformation. The Interpreter has translated excerpts from the Interview:

    Kommersant: And once again, the US is behind this?

    Patrushev: You have to look objectively at the events. The USA is trying to prove that Russia is a side in the conflict in Ukraine. But that's no so. In fact, the USA itself is the initiator of the conflict in Ukraine.

    Kommersant: How is that?

    Patrushev: You haven't caught my drift...They have initiated all these events. In one of his recent interviews, Barack Obama acknowledged this.

    Kommersant: But he only said that the US was a "facilitator" during the change in government in Kiev...

    Patrushev: The change in government in fact became the impulse for these events which had occurred there. Kerry has an aide [Victoria] Nuland, who published the sum of $5 billion spent on the USA in order to organize these events.

    Kommersant: She said that they had spent $5 billion in support of democratic institutes and civil society.



    Fact Check: The $5 billion is actually all aid given to Ukraine for 20 years, of which some component is for democracy promotion. That means aid given to the Yanukovich regime. Politfact.com, a site that analyzes such claims explained how misleading the Russian claim is that the US "spent $5 billion on anti-government riots" and awarded the claim its "pants on fire" designation which means it is an egregious lie.

    Patrushev: There was a lawfully-elected president, whether you like him or not, it's a question of appraisal, he was legally elected, and no one denies this. But he didn't suit the USA. And although his term as president was coming to an end, and the people of Ukraine would not have re-elected him, they decided to overthrow him forcibly.

    This was their political mistake. If they had waited, then they could have brought in the people they needed lawfully. But they initiated a coup d'etat. If there hadn't been a coup, there wouldn't have been the events in the Crimea and the east of Ukraine.

    Kommersant: But didn't the unrest in Kiev begin after Viktor Yanukovich, under pressure from Moscow, rejected the association with the European Union?

    Patrushev: He postponed the signing of this agreement -- and not under Moscow's pressure. He simply realized that he hadn't sufficiently comprehended the essence of this document and didn't understand what its implementation might lead to. Ukraine is in the free-trade zone of the CIS, and the consequences of this step were simply explained to Yanukovich. He had not taken them into account before and decided to take a pause in order to figure out these issues.

    To accuse Russia of how the events in Ukraine developed is to have cause and effect change places. "The wind blows because the tree is rocking." The initiators of the events in Ukraine are the USA. Through a coup, they brought to power people they control. Meanwhile, the socio-economic situation in Ukraine was worsening, so they had to think up a reason for why that was happening. In their logic, it is explained that Russia is to blame for everything. In fact, they don't care what will happen in Ukraine. They simply have to put pressure on Russia, which the USA is doing.

    Kommersant: You've expressed concern about the presence of Russian volunteers in the ranks of the Islamic State [ISIS]. Why isn't the Russian government concerned about the fact that thousands of Russians head off to fight in the Donbass?

    Patrushev: The Islamic State is a terrorist group, everyone acknowledges that. There are no terrorist groups on the territory of Lugansk and Donetsk regions. Everything could in fact be resolved without a civil war, if the Minsk agreements are followed. But they aren't fulfilled.

    In Ukraine now, even in one family, relatives often take diametrically opposed possitions and argue. This is a civil conflict. We have been providing and continue to provide support to Ukrainian refugees who, in fact, are not accepted either in the EU or in the USR -- but to get involved in a civil conflict is not prudent.

    Kommersant: But the Russian authorities are not hindering Russian Federation citizens from going to fight in the Donbass...

    Patrushev: We don't draft anyone and don't encourage it. But it is impossible really to hinder this. After all, 2 million refugees from Ukraine didn't come to Russia just like that -- they have relatives and friends here. They tell them about the brutalities happening there. And emotions already kicks in -- people go there and take part [in battles--Kommersant.]

    Patrushev said Russia was doing all it could to encourage the Minsk agreements but when asked why they didn't close the border through which armaments and personnel are flowing, Patrushev said:

    We cannot close the border. What can we do, organized a blockade as it was in Leningrad? For the entire population of the Donbass? We're essentially feeding them now, their living conditions are extremely difficult. Although it is said in the Minsk agreements that the Ukrainians themselves must foster the normalization of the social and economic situation both in Lugansk and in Donetsk. But they aren't doing that!

    Here Patrushev dodges the fact that essentially, Russia and the LNR control the border, and do not allow Ukrainian border authorities or the OSCE monitors to inspect the cargo coming in as "humanitarian convoys". OSCE can only monitor, not intercept arms, and it reports regularly of men in camouflage and armor crossing to and from Russia.

    There is no objective reason why Russia couldn't stop the flow of tanks and troops and submit to border inspection; it battled to force Ukrainian border guards away from certain crossings so they could freely cross. Yet a key condition of the Minsk agreement is returning the border back to Ukrainian control, and Patrushev does not comment on this.

    -- Catherine A. Fitzpatrick

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    Quote Originally Posted by OUTLAW 09 View Post
    Below is interesting as it is probably true as the report has been verified from several Ukrainian sources.

    Interesting in that after Minsk 1 and then 2 it was often stated and especially by Russia that the Agreement was to the determent of the Ukraine and in initial reading it appears that way.

    BUT the Ukraine has elegantly fulfilled the basis of the Agreement and literally thrown it back at the Russians meaning the Russians must pull back all foreign fighters, mercenaries, volunteers, vacationers as part of the disarming process and they must submit to open and fair elections conducted using Ukrainian law ---THIS has been mentioned something Russia would never allow thus it trys continually to change Minsk 2 and or modifiy the Minsk 2 which Hahn is trying here to do.

    What the EU rep seems to have forgotten is that once the eastern region has the so called "federalization" that Putin wants WILL they continue to implement Minsk 2--IMHO NO.

    So the question begs to be asked WHO inside the EU is pushing this concept--it just does not appear out of "heaven" one day and then is carried forth--it would though fit what Germany and France have been trying to do--circumvent their own Agreement to appease Russia and give Putin a "victory" in the hopes he will then pull out.

    Talk about Munich 1938 and driven by Germany and France who should actually know better.

    http://euromaidanpress.com/2015/06/2...mlins-demands/

    Europe pressuring Ukraine to meet Kremlin’s demands

    2015/06/24 • News

    Article by: Serhiy Sydorenko, European Pravda, June 23, 2015
    Interesting trial balloon by the EU it seems-----

    EU denies it asked special status for Donbas prior to ceasefire
    http://www.unian.info/politics/10934...ceasefire.html … pic.twitter.com/8hcdK2JjM3

    Shocked they didn't ask ukr to raise white flag. EU want this conflict to end at almost any cost to ukr.

    Ukraine to have no Illusions about #Europe - by excellent Gemma Porzgen.
    http://iwp.org.ua/eng/public/1572.html … pic.twitter.com/mGdTQFueHZ

    What many EU reps seem not to understand is that the Ukraine is attempting to hold to Minsk 2 at all costs WHILE Russia implements absolutely nothing.

    Russians fire from artillery and mortars, Ukrainians respond with only small arms fire.

    And in another constant ground fight they are returning fire with 82mm mortars against 122mm and 152mm artillery fire.


    AND in the process constantly having loses and wounded--BUT YET Merkel, Hollande and Obama say absolutely nothing.
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    Quote Originally Posted by OUTLAW 09 View Post
    Russia's Federation Council thinks events in Armenia are completely repeating first phase of coup in Ukraine.

    Russia: 'Events in #Armenia repeat 1st phase of #Ukraine coup.' Ditto Budapest '56, Prague '68
    ? #ElectricYerevan pic.twitter.com/yTuxF8Di4V
    The Kremlin fears a Ukraine-style revolt in Armenia http://www.bloombergview.com/article...ion-in-armenia

    youtube.com/watch?v=Jml_U9NRkpk … #ElectricYerevan LIVE. Could that yellow-blue guy be a CIA agent fr #Ukraine?pic.twitter.com/EfaOFrazl4

    If Moscow Fails to Understand that Yerevan is Not a Maidan, That Alone Could Make It One, Markedonov Says http://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com...tand-that.html

    Russia practically controls the entire #Armenia's energy sector: http://neweasterneurope.eu/articles-...enian-protests

    We will Win crowds chant at #ElectricYerevan protest @artakjournalist reporting 4 @CivilNetTV http://civilnet.am/live pic.twitter.com/2tnUNEdDqu
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    Ukrainian troops from the 37th Brigade and soldiers from Regiment Azov hoisted the Zaporozhye flag in #Shyrokyne. pic.twitter.com/Jco1lfvTrP

    Flag is in 17 meters altitude and can be seen from all over the village.

    Sympathetic, human, tragic, beautiful bit of film making. Both sides of the lines in Ukraine. Watch it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiYTp3sv2tw

    youtube.com/watch?v=2hhLSh_NEgM … #Donetsk connection! Western 'information soldiers' fighting for #Russia in #Ukraine meet up. pic.twitter.com/atCvZsHtAu

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    Reference the shot down of MH17----

    In new #MH17 video, Ukrainian separatist minister misspeaks, saying "the rocket att... eh, the catastrophe". http://nos.nl/l/2043247 via @NOS

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    The shellings and ground attacks are intense tonight--maybe due to failure of talks in Paris.


    Shyrokyno
    22:00 -battle continues, our fighters opened fire w the permitted weapons, enemy artillery attacks ceased https://twitter.com/UaForces/status/613785370342359040

    Donetsk NW, different caliber booms and bangs https://twitter.com/relictDon/status/613785769266794497

    Dzerzhynsk 22:06
    Explosions in the distance https://twitter.com/dimetros7776/sta...85268219453440

    Donetsk 22:08
    In the north various types of volleys/explosions https://twitter.com/relictDon/status/613785769266794497

    Peski was shelled with Grad MLRS [by russians], Donetsk 22:12 https://twitter.com/PVB40/status/613786842471755776

    Combat is on in #Shyrokyne. Militants shell Ukr forces w heavy weapons after 2quiet days. Salvos audible in #Mariupol http://www.0629.com.ua/news/868760

    #Donetsk
    22:08 Proletarskyi ds - individual volleys, quieter, then louder
    22:10 small series and frequent volleys https://twitter.com/DoneckiiPatriot/...86331110617088

    22:05
    "Now again something like GRADs, but closer, #Donetsk, Rosa" https://twitter.com/0954771/status/613784951939563520

    Horlivka 22:31
    From Stroitel could be seen several flashes towards Nikitovka, #Mayorsk https://twitter.com/062_Region/statu...91628243922944

    Horlivka 22:07
    Heavy rumble started tow. mine 6/7, ongoing battle with tanks https://twitter.com/062_Region/statu...85592963461121

    Heavy fighting in #Shyrokyne again. Some #Azov fighters injured by #Russia|n mortar fire.
    pic.twitter.com/LqxrrVHqaT

    BREAKING: Battle is underway in Shyrokyne, Mariupol residents hear gunfire http://en.censor.net.ua/n341386

    Video said to show Russian-backed militants firing mortars on Donetsk. https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=...&v=7wwJWws34yU

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    VIDEO Two towers: Russian sniper and lookout positions at #Pisky
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ibnohdo0Flw
    https://www.google.com/maps/@48.0540.../data=!3m1!1e3

    Just look how much ammo #Russia's forces have piled up behind GWP next to this #Donbas residential block!
    pic.twitter.com/ibCFyKshyv

    The US mercenary says,"I joined the info war" & GWP approves,"A guy like u comes on board".."an information soldier"https://youtu.be/2hhLSh_NEgM?t=2m42s

    VIDEO Lugansk Airport shows what the Russian strategy is: give us what we want or we will TOTALLY destroy it/you.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGtfeD5QyoY

    Two #Russia|n tanks & a large cache of ammo next to a Donbas residential block behind GWP & a US mercenary
    pic.twitter.com/t4KeiSsV7H

    VIDEO Some T-72Б of a Russian 'DPR' tank brigade occupying Donbas.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHVsB0HSS5g … pic.twitter.com/iStPyfEVgO

    VIDEO Russia Hybrid Army plowing #Shyrokine beach and sea with artillery.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rs7Tf7sgemY

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    Quote Originally Posted by OUTLAW 09 View Post
    The Kremlin fears a Ukraine-style revolt in Armenia http://www.bloombergview.com/article...ion-in-armenia

    youtube.com/watch?v=Jml_U9NRkpk … #ElectricYerevan LIVE. Could that yellow-blue guy be a CIA agent fr #Ukraine?pic.twitter.com/EfaOFrazl4

    If Moscow Fails to Understand that Yerevan is Not a Maidan, That Alone Could Make It One, Markedonov Says http://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com...tand-that.html

    Russia practically controls the entire #Armenia's energy sector: http://neweasterneurope.eu/articles-...enian-protests

    We will Win crowds chant at #ElectricYerevan protest @artakjournalist reporting 4 @CivilNetTV http://civilnet.am/live pic.twitter.com/2tnUNEdDqu
    Commentary intermittent English - Crowd has grown - human shield before police - priests intermediating - riot police have 3 water cannons

    Armenian riot police now telling protestors/press/human chain to move away from barrier http://civilnet.am/live/#.VYraz1KZjTo … #ElectricYerevan #ոչթալանին

    ElectricYerevan #ElectricArmenia protests spread to 4 more cities in #Armenia, including #Guymri. https://twitter.com/24todaynetua/sta...85018708684800

    ElectricYerevan Night 3. Crowds growing bigger! pic.twitter.com/4fV16xkm9u

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