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Another example from yesterday. Car in Lugansk didn't stop at a separatist roadblock and was shot at. The driver was killed, the passenger -- in coma, two passerby women were injured. NTV and Russian press reported that they were soldiers from the Right Sector, who tried to break through the roadblock, killed two women running over them, and only then were shot by "people's militia". People checked that story -- turns out the killed guy actually supported separatists, and didn't stop at the roadblock just because he was drunk. NTV is not a news source, it's just pure propaganda.

Really? Putin thought he could have Debaltseve easily before the ceasefire, didn't happen.

Ukraine is stronger than people think, but more importantly, Russia is weaker than people think.

> Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.

― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

Recently I read this article on a current russian history exhibition that is quite telling. The article 'Iwan the not so terrible' is in german, but the Bing Translator does an okayish job in conveying the message. (No direct link to translation available.)

Basically the exhibition tells the russians how great their country once was and that the reason for its demise was the disunity of the people, their faithlessness, the love for the western lifestyle and the lack of a strong leader.

This points to how russians should live today, to make Russia strong again: By staying united, cherish christian beliefs, refuse what comes from the west and follow their leader. To top it off, there is a graph with the size of Russia over time: the graph went down over the last years and just now it is finally going up again with the annexation of Crimea - making people feel that Russia is finally back on track again, after the lackluster years in the past.

Quite a frightening mindset...

I'm trying to find who uploaded this video and found this: "Cyber-Berkut" refers to the fact that he received this video by e-mail from the Ukrainian security services.

source: http://lifenews.ru/news/153049

So there are at least 4 options:

• Video is faked by bat. azov
• Video is real
• Video is faked by rebels
• Video is made by rebels using hostage ukrainian (hence the tape over his mouth)

EDIT: Original video was posted here https://vk.com/wall251480481_87

Yeah, Pavel Gubarev Donetsk people's governor was a fascist from Russian National Unity. He left RNU for a while, but never denounced his past.

~~Aksyonov, the "leader" of Crimea, recently joked in twitter that in case of annexation USA to Russia, Obama will be sent to Moscow zoo, to be kept among monkeys.~~ (EDIT: possible fake, thanks to /u/jenya_ -- it was widely supported by his thousands of followers anyway) Agitation in Donetsk Rada seized by the separatist uses the same topic: https://imgur.com/8Bb29mh

Pogroms and discrimination against Russians still exist only in fantasy of Russian propagandists, while when separatists and Russian military took over Sloviansk they immediately started pogroms of Roma people, and repressions against Ukrainian-speaking. When Russians took over Crimea, they immediately started discriminating Tatars and Ukrainians.

Seriously, Russian propaganda narrative against "fascist" Ukrainians and "antifascist" Russians is ridiculous. It's other way around.

At least the US government knew what was at stake when they "glued this thing".

Ambassador William J. Burns in February 2008:

>Following a muted first reaction to Ukraine's intent to seek a NATO Membership Action Plan (MAP) at the Bucharest summit (ref A), Foreign Minister Lavrov and other senior officials have reiterated strong opposition, stressing that Russia would view further eastward expansion as a potential military threat. NATO enlargement, particularly to Ukraine, remains "an emotional and neuralgic" issue for Russia, but strategic policy considerations also underlie strong opposition to NATO membership for Ukraine and Georgia. In Ukraine, these include fears that the issue could potentially split the country in two, leading to violence or even, some claim, civil war, which would force Russia to decide whether to intervene. Additionally, the GOR and experts continue to claim that Ukrainian NATO membership would have a major impact on Russia's defense industry, Russian-Ukrainian family connections, and bilateral relations generally.

https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/08MOSCOW265_a.html

>Britain? Britain does not equal one foreign secretary's statement. What a bizarre title.

It's called metonymy.

>Title should read "British Foreign Secretary accuses blah blah blah."

The Foreign Secretary isn't any random person, they represent a country's foreign policy and relations.

If the location is correct, looking north, morning time, the rockets were launched towards the west. I'm using Stellarium to determine the appox. time from the shadow angles: It would have been about 7 to 8 am.

Edit: Looks like they were launched towards Dobropillya, or the Road (T0515) leading away from the town.

Edit 2: I was correct, here is a video titled "Terrorists Burned And Left BM Grad In Dobropillya" uploaded yesterday... The guy talks about Dobropillya receiving a Grad rocket attack yesterday from the separatists.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KUUdM6C2cM

Seems like the separatists retreated from Dobropillya, left behind one of their Grad launchers, and use another Grad to launch rockets from Dorozhnje train depot yesterday.

"But the second one withdrew, we can see it on the traces and local confirmed."

In related news, Kadyrov is reportedly very unhappy about Chechnya budget cuts. That's gonna be interesting.

e: or maybe won't - Putin requested an increase of North Caucasus financing following his compaints.

Pretty close to airport. Wouldn't be wise for insurgents to keep their ammo there.

P.S. Have you seen who'd been there in 2005?

Proof

The Russian Navy Is on the Verge of Collapse

Out of 270 ships only 45 are working, ocean going combat ships and they are spread between 4 fleets, the Baltic sea, Northern sea, Black sea and Pacific fleets.

What you mentioned in the second edit is called an exif tag, just google "ways to remove exif data from a photo." Here's a random link I found on the topic. http://www.howtogeek.com/203592/what-is-exif-data-and-how-to-remove-it/

Hope that helps

The location appears to be in the parking lot of the old Shaktar stadium, which is here

The video is supposedly taken on February 23rd and shows a battery of 4 artillery guns firing in a North North-Easterly direction.

Edit: Looking through twitter feeds I found this tweet made on february 24th in which photos of a 4 gun battery is posted. Pictures taken in daylight confirms it's most likely the same battery as shown in the video.

It is. Person is in jail. There are other examples. Lots of them.

Talking shit Kremlin doesn't like is punishable.

I would disagree but here isn't really the place to debate it. The numbers lost during WW1 were huge so there was a general wish to avoid conflict. To hope that Hitler was not as extreme as he seemed and it was really just a way to get Germany's economy back on its feet. Frankly before 1939, most of the rest of Europe had their own problems and we're doing what they could for economic recovery and were in no position to contain Germany. The time after the Munich agreement was vital in rearmament. Whatever was said in Munich, the British used the time to modernize the RAF.

Now back to Putin. He is no Hitler but he is a populist and nationalist. In fact his regime seems to tick most of the boxes set by Umberto Eco to describe fascism but perhaps not to the same degree. His problem is that he and his clique in the Kremlin still have the zero sum mentality of the cold war.

To keep his nationalist supporters happy, he must support those that want to rewrite the more inconvenient parts of Soviet history. This is a problem because those who do not understand their mistakes may unwittingly repeat them.

Here's the guardian blog about experts being blocked at the site by rebels on monday. Here's an article and links pointing out that rebels were firing warning shots at the OSCE observers on friday. Borodai is lying through his teeth.

His Russian is quite horrible to be honest (I shouldn't be judging though as I'm not a native speaker, just grew up playing with Russian kids and half-assedly studied it as a third language at school). But to me personally his accent is quite alien, you can understand the words but in general it sounds like he's trying to pronounce Russian language sounds as if they were written in English letters. For example in this video he says "Zdravstvuite" (hello) to the soldiers and you can compare how it's properly pronounced here and how different it sounds coming from his mouth.

One interesting thing is how in his reaction to the firecracker he uses a oy (ой) in a very slavic manner (I am aware that Oy! or Oi! is used in UK but in Russia saying ой is the equivalent to "oh shit" or in the case of this video "ohshitohshitohshit")

Was going to comment on how there is no way to know who they are and if it is Avdeevka.

But I found this guy's Vkontkte account.

https://vk.com/id56356294

His name is Vitaliy Stefaniv from Ternopol, he is a member of the Right Sector and they are stationed in Avdeevka.

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‘We fight for justice’ Russian mogul bankrolls action movie about his mercenary troops in Africa amid allegations of war crimes

First, we have the video where one POW is brought to the scene and gets verbally and physically abused. After that they brought more POWs to the scene.

Christopher Miller's report from the scene:
> Outraged over the attack they said was perpetrated by "Kiev fascists," rebel fighters paraded about a dozen Ukrainian troops captured during battle at the nearby Donetsk Airport through the streets of Donetsk to the bus stop. > There, encouraged by pro-Russian gunmen, the government troops were subjected to verbal and physical abuse. A woman was seen spitting on one sunken-faced soldier while a man dealt a punch to the back of the head of another, causing him to fall to his face on the wet pavement. > Several of the other battered and bruised Ukrainian prisoners, including one who appeared to be missing part of his right hand, were similarly mistreated. > Observed woman shouting Ukrainian POWs at scene of shelling. As she walked away, rebel grabbed her, pulled her back, insisted keep shouting.

http://mashable.com/2015/01/22/donetsk-bus-shelling/

Debaltseve,Mius blockpost. Hit by mortar fire while advancing

Group was from the 'Imperial Legion' battalion. They took pretty heavy losses during the Debaltseve operation and especially at this BP.

Location of the BRDM 2 is somewhere in these fields,there's a BMP-1 nearby too. This group hasn't been fully geolocated yet. http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=48.290246&lon=38.531756&z=15&m=b

Oh? Do you have a relevant article saying Erofeev and Alexandrov were out of service? Upon capture, they insisted as to being part of military, on active duty.

Your advice back to yourself. Don't believe all that Russian media says.

Can someone find out if they crossed. They are right at the border. Thanks to @MiddleEast_BRK for finding this. He says it could be here: http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=48.293162&lon=39.911544&z=19&m=b Does anyone have any more info? If true, official invasion has started.

lol... Keep living in your imaginary land...

> a scarecrow for most of the westerns.

We are having a discussion in a thread about an even, when US people rejected this notion, so did British people in brexit. Both campaigns tried to go "Evil-Russia" route, and the voters saw right through it.

>Emigration rates are rising every year

Both emigration and immigration is growing, and it is growing pretty much everywhere. It's called globalization.

>best people moving out

How do you define best people? Do you have migration statistics based on "goodness" of people?

> Overall demography not looking good either

False, natural population growth is stable/positive in Russia. And it's most certainly better then in most European countries.

>GDP and oil prices.

GDP stabilized and projected (By WorldBank, IMF, OECD) to start to grow next year. Oil prices stabilized.

>Budget deficit and military spending.

Budget deficit is way below the norm in western countries. And what about military spending?

>The constant declining of reserve fund

Here's a graph of total Russian International Reserves, overall this year, they are growing, and quite significantly.

And tipping point of what? Too much reserves?

You base your opinions on narratives, not information. Just check what's really happening instead of paddling same old bullshit...

What about journalists visiting Russia to learn about state of human rights? https://meduza.io/en/news/2016/03/09/masked-men-attack-journalists-and-human-rights-workers-en-route-to-grozny-set-fire-to-their-car , and translate http://www.aftenposten.no/vaer/verden/Norsk-journalist-overfalt-i-Kaukasus---Det-var-helt-forferdelig-Jeg-trodde-jeg-skulle-do-8388309.html

You are better off reading The Shock Doctrine as it has more background and much better sources from several credible people.

Or of you are just literally challenged you could always watch the film of the book, but that is the lite version.

The IMF are gangsters and every where they go they leave a trail of debt and exploitation. Ukraine will be no exception.

> From the video posted before it was the opposite. After few people from the crowd tried to hit POWs they were hurriedly removed.

First they brought one POW unrelated to the event to the scene, and the mob attacked him as seen on that video.

Then they proceeded to bring MORE POWs unrelated to the event to the scene and they got beaten too.

EDIT: Report from the scene: http://mashable.com/2015/01/22/donetsk-bus-shelling/ > There, encouraged by pro-Russian gunmen, the government troops were subjected to verbal and physical abuse. A woman was seen spitting on one sunken-faced soldier while a man dealt a punch to the back of the head of another, causing him to fall to his face on the wet pavement. > Several of the other battered and bruised Ukrainian prisoners, including one who appeared to be missing part of his right hand, were similarly mistreated. > Observed woman shouting Ukrainian POWs at scene of shelling. As she walked away, rebel grabbed her, pulled her back, insisted keep shouting.

Meanwhile, on Kadyrov's Instagram feed:

>Я подчёркиваю, что всю жизнь обязан Владимиру Путину, предан ему как человеку. И это не зависит от того при должности он или нет!

Which means, if I understand correctly, that he is loyal to Putin as a person "regardless of whether he is in office or not". Is that an odd bit of phrasing?

> Why would they stay in Ukraine and make pennies when they can make 100 times more in Europe.

Because purchasing power for these people is the best in the world in Ukraine, for example.

The more i look into this guy, the more weird shit i seem to be finding.

In april 2013 Nayem sets up a new a new tv web project with fellow journalists (Including Roman Skrypin from Radio Free Europe) called Hromadske.TV In july of 2013 the project receives funding from George Soros related NGO called IRF. In august 2013 the project receives funding from the US embassy in kiev. In december 2013 it receives circa $100.000 from the dutch embassy in kiev.

2013 financial statement Hromadske.TV http://issuu.com/andriibashtovyi/docs/interim_fin_report_-_eng/3?e=10130715/5899200

The first day that Hromadske.TV started airing was the same day that the Yanukovych government decreed that is was suspending preperations for signing the EU association agreement. The same day of the famous Nayem tweet to Get ready.

A year later he shares the stage in Washington with Victoria Nuland and receives a prestigious award from the Wilson Center, a highly recognised US think tank.

Since the last election he sits in the rada as a member of Poroshenko's party.

Anyone has any further ideas on this ?

That all just screams false flag. As people noticed, email on the bussiness card was instead of correct pravyysektor. That would be correct transliteration would be "Правий сектор" written in Russian. Clumsy work.

This article links to another, even scarier. That article mentions death-sentence orders signed by Strelkov. Especially outrageous is one, where guy was executed for stealing pants and two t shirts.

I've heard that as well, and African nations have recently started to increase military spending so it makes sense that they are selling to that region.

https://medium.com/war-is-boring/africa-is-arming-faster-than-any-other-continent-82fcd8576966

Russia’s censorship agency threatens to block YouTube for deleting two RT channels
 

> Situation in which big business owners are using their wealth to get political power and gain unfair benefits from it

This is corruption, not oligarchy.

The difference between oligarchy and a rule by rich people is that oligarchic government is run by a small group of people who are not in competition with each other, a 'closed circle' of rich people friendly to each other pursuing their own personal interests. This why oligarchic businesses are usually monopolic - such 'closed circle' of people who own businesses and control the country can and will easily drive out competition.

> Poroshenko political career was build on positive image created by media he owns (5th channel, one of the biggest networks in the Ukraine).

While the fifth channel was in fact heavily promoting Poroshenko during the campaign it is important to remember that the fifth channel is major but far less popular than former pro-Yanukovich channels like 1+1 or Inter.

> Its impossible to know what benefits he reaps from being a president.

These are usually well seen, take a look at a typical oligarchy which is russian government. Things to watch are removal of his business competitors, acquisition of opposing TV channels, friends on top positions.

I would suggest you to use Britannica for a better definition: http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/427558/oligarchy

> oligarchy, government by the few, especially despotic power exercised by a small and privileged group for corrupt or selfish purposes.

So Lysenko says they retreated from the airport, and he's blaming the Russian Army as always, but that's not the interesting part. The interesting part is that he says the LNR has crossed the Severskiy Donets river and they are on the outskirts of the city of Schastye.

http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=48.735503&lon=39.240589&z=14&m=b

This means Metallist has been surrounded and the LNR is besieging it and has advanced 15 kms from Metallist to Schastye. Lugansk was being shelled mainly from the Lugansk Airport, and from Metallist, so this means that the artillery threat to Lugansk is going to be eliminated in the near future. In Metallist alone, UA forces have quite a few artillery batteries, so when the LNR captures it, there will be a lot of new trophies and looooads of artillery and mortar munitions.

Interview looks interesting from what Google Translate could convey. Proper translation would be greatly appreciated.

As far as I could understand (please correct me if wrong): They are confirming that they were still actively employed by the Russian army at the time of capture. One of them says he feels abandoned by the Russian government for subsequently disowning them. One of them again also maintains that their mission was purely reconnaissance.

EDIT: Not sure if better, but here's the Yandex translation.

«With real peace in Ukraine still seemingly far away, the men have prepared themselves for what could be an extended stay in limbo. Kiev and the rebels once did prisoner exchanges but the swaps have recently slowed because Kiev has traded most of the rebels it once held. In more than one case, in fact, the Ukrainian government have been found releasing common criminals rather than bona fide fighters.

«“It’s simple," Oksana Bylozir, a Ukrainian official told Mashable last month: The separatists have "a lot more prisoners than we do.”»

quote from an article by an obviously proUkrainian journo, Christopher Miller (he used to write on the «Kiyv Post»). it has been published today, and you can find it here http://mashable.com/2014/11/05/ukrainian-prisoners-of-war/

No, it really doesn't.

http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/group

>A number of people or things that are located, gathered, or classed together:

http://www.merriam-webster.com/medical/group

>1: a number of individuals assembled together or having some unifying relationship

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Lithuania launches terrorism investigation into the plane diversion
 
Belarusian law enforcement carry out detentions at Belsat studio in Minsk

This factory has been around this the 19th century. It's not a secret.

http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=48.584159&lon=39.313030&z=13&m=h&show=/3003340/Luhansk-cartridge-manufacturing-plant

It's surrounded by tens of thousands of civilians, schools, and hospitals.

Right.

Your statement: >With Q1 out of the way, Russia passed a significant milestone in terms of 2015 external debt redemptions.

"With Q1 out of the way, Russia passed a significant milestone in terms of 2015 external debt redemptions."

EDIT: My apologies, now that you've added the additional source, I see you were directly quoting that blog instead of directly quoting SeeSeeking Alpha.

He died during the siege. Although the final diagnosis may be a disease, everything I've ever read on the topic links his illnesses and weaknesses to the fact that he was starving. Illnesses are a very common cause of death during times of starvation so that makes sense. In an interview Putin himself said that his mother couldn't get enough food for her son, and so his brother was in a children's home set up during the siege to be a place where children could get a bit more during the starvation, and he died there (he says diphtheria). In the same interview he said that his mother also starved, and even collapsed from hunger and was taken for dead. She woke up surrounded by bodies.

https://www.nytimes.com/books/first/p/putin-first.html

This appears to a be a follow-up on last week appeals made by Donetsk city council and Lugansk regional council.

Translation:

Deputies intend to deliver an ultimatum to Verkhovna Rada with demand to immediately accept changes to the Constitution regarding federal structure and state status of Russian language. If Parliament does not satisfy these requirements that our regional council deputies believe are the steps that can defuse the conflict, the regional council will demand Verkhovna Rada to assume full responsibility for the situation in the region and dissolve the regional council. Because they do not see any sense to work in a situation where official Kiev deliberately ignores demands of regional council and whole Luhansk region, and deputies are unable to influence any processes.

Holy shit. It is right next to this thing:

http://wikimapia.org/#lang=ru&lat=51.312911&lon=29.930534&z=12&m=b&permpoly=20316211

(That is a waste processing\storage facility. Supposed to be operational)

Hope the do not have anything what can be picked up by an updraft lying around.

There's been more proof than that. Tell me exactly what sort of 'proof' you'd like to see?

BTW have you read this report from yesterday? It's by the fascist Zio-Nazi Illuminati Reuters though, so I'm not sure if it's reliable...

The new bits of the story are:

The body was recently modified with cuts into the sides of the body in order to mount support beams to got a tent cover to disguise the launcher as an ordinary truck.

This truck cover caught fire during the rocket launches and in turn set fire to the tires. The fire damaged the vehicles after which the operators abandoned it.

The camera man also claims that this is a BM-21-1 that only the Russians have. I'm not too sure about the last claim though.

Edit: yeah the last bit is false, Ukraine has BM21-1s. Here are several pictures of them in stock with Ukrainian forced over the last few years: http://www.ipernity.com/tag/594807/keyword/2335745

I interested where they will store spent fuel. I doubt Russia will accept nuclear waste from Westington fuel. And sending nuclear waste half world away, probably wouldn't be cheap.

Although. Let store spent fuel under clear sky and then ask Europe to finance it's utilization works too. I just wonder how much it takes to Europe to force Ukraine to shutdown its nuclear program.

Edit: Title is misleading. They are now just adding some fuel to one of the reactors. And will try to run one reactor completely with Westington fule in 2018 ( two years down the line). If everything goes well ( and there can be some unusual effects due to the different fuel being used, although quite unlikely), then they will claim they want to buy all fuel from Westinghouse. I.e. for near future Ukraine will still be buying nuclear fuel from Russia.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/may/06/nuclear-waste-stored-in-shocking-way-120-miles-from-ukraine-front-line

http://mashable.com/2014/07/10/evidence-of-execution-trial-discovered-in-the-rubble-of-rebel-headquarters-in-ukraine/

Even RT admits to the existence of the mass grave in Slavyansk, containing amongst other things four people executed for their religion:

http://rt.com/news/175804-slavyansk-mass-grave-accusations/

They try to muddle the issue saying that the mass grave was made because the morgue had no power, but that's pretty damn irrelevant. The issue here is that the pro-Russian militants executed a lot of civilians, for reasons like stealing, not having the correct religion, and in one case because a guy got into a fight with his neighbor.

Preliminary results, a preliminary forecast United Russia wins another majority, the Duma gets (pro-Kremlin) New People, and falsification déjà vu

3 other Russia elections:

https://meduza.io/en/feature/2021/08/25/back-with-a-vengeance

>In the aforementioned constituencies No. 201 and No. 210, each KPRF candidate on the ballot will have a “double”: Anna Udalova will run against Anastasia Udaltsova, while Leonid Tarashchansky will run against Mikhail Tarantsov. Both “doubles” are from the party Communists of Russia, which analysts consider a “spoiler” party, or a party created solely to dilute the KPRF electoral base.

> Even the less-promising KPRF candidates are getting this treatment. In constituency No. 203, KPRF candidate Vitaly Petrov is running against Vasily Petrov. In constituency No. 207, KPRF candidate Ivan Ulyanchenko will have not one but two doppelganger opponents: Ivan Ulyanov from the Communists of Russia and Sergey Ulyanov from the Party of Pensioners.

> In constituency No. 199, where former secretary of the Moscow city committee and popular KPRF candidate Valery Rashkin ran for the Duma in 2016, the Communists of Russia nominated a candidate with the exact same name: Valery Rashkin. This year, however, KPRF’s Rashkin is running in constituency No. 196 instead.

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On the morning of June 24, Russian officials announced that the country had recorded 20,182 new coronavirus infections in the past day, marking the highest daily increase since late January.

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No, it's quite intentional, we are talking about a man who says shit like this:

>In the technotronic society the trend would seem to be towards the aggregation of the individual support of millions of uncoordinated citizens, easily within the reach of magnetic and attractive personalities exploiting the latest communications techniques to manipulate emotions and control reason.

>― Zbigniew Brzezinski, Between Two Ages: America's Role in the Technetronic Era

Hell, check out good reads quotes by him, it's a very telling look into this guys mind and how he feels about the populace.

You can buy whatever type of camouflage you like in whatever quantity you like on the internet shipped by air-mail straight from China. So what exactly are their clothes proving?

Edit: Latest "Multicam" camuflage used by US forces 14$-18$ per set, 80000 sets per month

I don't understand what he is saying. Credible response? What?

EDIT: I looked him up and he is a war monger who believes only the United States should have nuclear missiles and it should attack and kill anyone who tries to obtain them. He completely ignores that MAD is a purely defensive weapon that ensures large wars can't be fought and is the biggest leap for world peace ever made. https://www.linkedin.com/pub/matthew-kroenig/4/843/b71

Ukraine’s 2 Russian POWs back Kiev’s claims, say they’re still Russian soldiers on active duty

Reports coming that Russia's senate speaker may convene an emergency session (this was the same meeting that authorized the right to deploy Russian troops into Ukraine)

People will still deny it. The paratroopers who were captured earlier didn't walk across the boarder, they were riding in some sort of armored column. In addition, to multiple reports of an Russian armored column destroyed near snizhnye with 100 dead and 300 wounded.

This is one of the first conflicts that social media is actually playing a major role. The rebels have been using Hamas type media tactics. Don't report on your own losses, get international media to homes that have been shelled. Another thing working in their favor is the fact that both sides use the same weapons and vehicles. The Russian column that was destroyed could easily be portrayed as Ukrainian. Think about it, rebels can wander up to destroyed vehicles and take pictures and post them on the internet and literally have no idea they were on their side

Mm, interesting:

>Согласно приказу правительства ЛНР трансляция веб-камер временно приостановлена

http://lc.lds.ua/cams/live/levitskogo-chernomorskaya

>According to the order of the Government of the LNR broadcast webcams temporarily suspended - http://www.bing.com/translator/

I know that Colonel Cassad is not very popular in /r/UkrainianConflict, and probably this article will get downvoted to oblivion in no time. Still, I was searching for a sort of summary of the internal strifes in LNR and this is the most complete review I've found. I think it's interesting for whoever is curious about the dynamics and the evolution of the self-defined «Young Republics».

For those who can't understand Russian, I suggest https://translate.yandex.com/translate which do a better job than Google with Slavic languages.

As reported here, the VK account belongs to 'Novorossiya First Operational.'

One could dream... I remember playing an old PC-game called "US Navy Fighters". The war theater was Ukraine/Crimea/Krasnodon... Only in the game US/NATO stood with Ukraine. I bombed Sevastopol many times...

http://www.mobygames.com/game/windows/janes-combat-simulations-us-navy-fighters-97/screenshots/gameShotId,612814/

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Germany, UK, France, and Sweden reply to Russia’s questions about Navalny’s poisoning
 
And from TASS...
..Russia also "noted that the Western states provided their responses simultaneously." "This looks like a coordinated action," the envoy noted. "Apparently, they consulted with each other, advised on what to say. All this proves that there is a conspiracy between them in order to prevent the discovery of the truth."
 

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I don't believe you can definitely say these Ukrainians are guilty of the crimes they were charged with. The Russian justice system has a 99% conviction rate; either Russian police & prosecutors are the world's most competent or there are plenty of people found guilty of crimes they are innocent of. I suspect it's the latter.

The same two that were released to Russia would have been sent to jail had they advocated separatism from the Russian Federation.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/24/russia-toughens-punishment-separatist-ideas

Article. There wasn't really "talk" about it. Putin mentioned that if Russia were to be treated as equals, he would consider membership

Here you go

Pretty close to where the video with the tanks was taken, looks like they entered a 1-2 blocks into the town from the north, but that was probably it. That other shooting video was from inside the school on the northern outskirts as well.

That's a new one.

Also, those tanks were such beasts in their time.

Edit: Just saw that I have a users manual for B on my Desktop. If anybody is interested, in Russian of course:

http://www.filedropper.com/tank-t-80-texnicheskoe-opisanie-i-instrukciya-po-yekspluatacii-kniga-1armymaninfo

Looks like the rebels are firing illumination at the outskirts - there's been fighting in the Khutor Shirokiy district (I think that's the place that's burning) at the very south of Donetsk city close to a major road intersection at the Donetsk bypass.

Video showing launch from Donetsk and the odd illumination(?) rounds.

>And his conclusion more/less is: "The shooting of protesters were somewhat okay, but the violent takeover and throwing out of yanukovitch was the most terrible thing that has happened ever"

You need to improve your comprehension skills.

>The evidence indicates that an alliance of elements of the Maidan opposition and the far right was involved in the mass killing of both protesters and the police, while the involvement of the special police units in killings of some of the protesters cannot be entirely ruled out based on publicly available evidence. The new government that came to power largely as a result of the massacre falsified its investigation, while the Ukrainian media helped to misrepresent the mass killing of the protesters and the police. The evidence indicates that the far right played a key role in the violent overthrow of the government in Ukraine. This academic investigation also brings new important questions that need to be addressed.

Also, indeed he is a pro-'Russian', but he is Ukrainian:

>Katchanovski, Ivan 1967- >PERSONAL: >Born September 11, 1967, in Lutsk, Ukraine; son of Sophia Katchanovski. Ethnicity: "Ukrainian." Education: National University of Economics, diploma, 1990; Central European University, diploma (with merit), 1993; George Mason University, M.A., 1996, Ph.D., 2002. Hobbies and other interests: Dancing, traveling.

http://www.encyclopedia.com/article-1G2-3072300142/katchanovski-ivan-1967.html

> you will se him use words like "Ukrainian Nazi-Junta" and alike..

He never did.

> Latest presidential elections in Afghanistan managed to happen

Somehow I don't classify that as a great example of democracy in action.

Allegedly Kozitsin was arrested and Kazak commandant in Antratsit Pinezhanin was killed. Seems like LNR/Russia decided to rein in.

No English sources for now (?), here's Antratsit VK page; one Ukrainian source

Or an aircraft carrier.

Whatever You Do, Don’t Buy Your Aircraft Carrier From Russia - India learned the hard way with INS ‘Vikramaditya’

> As for Sevmash? After the Vikramaditya fiasco, the yard is strangely upbeat about building more carriers … and has identified Brazil as a possible buyer. “Sevmash wants to build aircraft carriers,” said Sergey Novoselov, the yard’s deputy general director. > That almost sounds like a threat.

Haha wow! I had no idea! Probably should have clarified it's from this article. Depressing yet reminds us of all that has been lost/disrupted in the last year.

I've read Elon Musk interview about this rocket:

One of our competitors, Orbital Sciences, has a contract to resupply the International Space Station, and their rocket honestly sounds like the punch line to a joke. It uses Russian rocket engines that were made in the ’60s. I don’t mean their design is from the ’60s—I mean they start with engines that were literally made in the ’60s and, like, packed away in Siberia somewhere

http://mashable.com/2014/10/28/elon-musk-orbital-sciences-rocket/

The funny thing is that Russian press used to call this "USA-Russian project" before the failure.

edit: added a bit

Yeah, the fact of the matter is, the whole area is a bottleneck for civilian air traffic: Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Chechnya... Commercial airlines have been traversing war zones or partial war zones/zones of conflict for decades.

This is what his claim was:

> To a solider [sic] the idea of civilian flying over a battlefield is abnormal

....Which is clearly false.

He then embarked on a mission to move the goalposts toward Mathias Rust instead.

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If you have family in Crimea that would actually make it easier to get Ukrainian permission, I think.

According to the Crimea page on wikitravel:

"Unless you are not a Ukrainian citizen, entering Crimea from mainland Ukraine will also require you to get a special permission from the national migration service. There is a limited number of reasons to get the permission which includes having close relatives or property there, being a human rights activist or being a member of some international organisations."

I am guessing you are not a Russian speaker, there is nothing in your link that claims it is a Ukrainian controlled checkpoint.

Here is the map of the location: http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=48.112696&lon=37.800758&z=17&m=b&search=donetsk

Its on the road between Donetsk and Yasinovatya. This area is under separatist control. This is close to the front line, Governmnet forces control Avdeevka a couple km away.

Source :https://instagram.com/p/z-dKqICRua/?modal=true (kadirov's instagram)

1) He knew Dadaev as a courageous man and a true Russian patriot, uncertain of the motives and will appoint a counselor to find out more information

2) Dadaev was ASSISTANT to the commander of the north battalion, left sometime ago for reasons related to his mothers sickness.

3)"Sever" is not a police force, its Special Forces of the Interior Forces and serves to eliminate terrorist thread inside of Chechen Republik. part of 46th defence brigade. Wiki

4) He also knew Беслан Шаванов who killed himself in Grosniy, said he was a "true warrior"

http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=49.800173&lon=22.946534&z=16&m=b&show=/6127519/pl/Piesze-przejście-graniczne-polsko-ukraińskie-Medyka(PL)-Shegyni(UA

More from there.

> Are you suggesting the previous government was purposefully weakening the Ukrainian army in order to make it easier for Russia to invade Ukraine...

Suggesting ? Yanukovich is a high traitor and putin bootlicker.

> I know a lot of people here like to make fun of people for asking for proof in relation to Russias role in the conflict

I don't exactly want to drop documents here but basically he redirected a big chunck of the army funding to a new "internal security police" (basically his brand new personnal KGB).

Then they got the russians to "integrate" with the "old" "public" security apparatus (SBU) and army with russian chains of command and give all the orders there : https://wikileaks.org/gifiles/docs/54/5417759_insight-ukraine-assessment-since-election-part-iv-fsb-sbu.html

Stuff like : "Finally, on June 18, Yanukovich appointed a new director at the SVR. Grigory Ilyashov is a deputy of the Regions party whose wife, Yelena Lukash is one of the top figures in the presidential administration. He holds the rank of major general and, in 1990, took a training course at the KGB institute in Novisobirsk, which suggests that he was considered by the KGB a promising prospect and loyal to Moscow."

Ensuring that Russia could paralize it a whim and figuratively behead the UA security forces within days (that nearly DID happened, and avoided by the skin of their teeth).

Oh and also he was the one to call them in, by Russia's own Putin's admission : http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/03/russia-ukraine-yanukovych_n_4892417.html

Then he ran straight to russia.

Well, you are going to have to narrow down that topic a bit. Perhaps it would be best to focus on the annexation of Crimea, as annexations like that happen very rarely and should be interesting from an international law point of view.

As for articles, you should try to use academic papers and not newspaper articles, so do your searches on Google Scholar. Here's a starting point: "The Annexation of Crimea and the Boundaries of the Will of the People"

> The secession of Crimea and — more broadly — the conflict in Ukraine reopened questions concerning the limits of a democratic expression of the will of the people and the use of force in order to procure annexation of a territory belonging to another State. This article seeks to clarify the law governing the change of the legal status of a territory through secession and merger with another state. It argues not only that the right of self-determination does not grant an entitlement to alter the legal status of a territory, but also that general international law does not prohibit such an alteration. The rules of international law favor the stability of the existing international borders and thus the territorial status quo, but this does not mean that a unilateral attempt at altering an existing territorial arrangement automatically constitutes an internationally wrongful act. Any change of the legal status of a territory becomes illegal, however, upon an outside use of force. Such an illegality cannot be "cured" by a democratically expressed will of the people.

Are you taking the time difference into account? Technically "tomorrow morning" in Ukrainian time is right now. It's 5:25am in Kyiv (world clock). This "full-scale anti-terrorist operation" is set to begin around half an hour from now.

With a slip of the lip, a Russian senior lieutenant supplies more evidence of Moscow's military intervention in Ukraine

Meduza

07:04, 6 july 2018

On trial for the death of a soldier under his command, Senior Lieutenant Oleg Leontyev asked a court on Friday to tailor his sentence so that he is able to continue his military service with Russian troops now in Syria. His final plea to the judge included an unsubtle wink at Moscow’s unofficial armed intervention in eastern Ukraine.

Explaining his wish to fight in Syria, Leontyev said, “I’ve already participated in one of these operations, but the only thing is that it was on the territory of a neighboring country where we were absent, as it were.”

https://meduza.io/en/news/2018/07/06/with-a-slip-of-the-lip-a-russian-senior-lieutenant-supplies-more-evidence-of-moscow-s-military-intervention-in-ukraine

this is the better English language resume of Mukachevo events that I've found: https://meduza.io/en/feature/2015/07/14/no-one-s-planning-to-disarm

It also details about the presumed Praviy Sektor «Robin Hoods»:

> It is widely known that the leader of the Right Sector in Zakarpattya, Roman Stoiko, is a former member of the police who had already been arrested for smuggling. His father is an acquaintance of Baloha’s and a former member of Ukraine’s security service, the SBU. The head of the local SBU is the brother of former defense minister and current head of the State Security Guard Service, Viktor Heletey, who is godfather to Baloha’s son, Andrei. Andrei, for his part, is married to Heletey’s niece, Edita. In light of this, our source tells us, the recent events are the result of a conflict between the local police and the security services; members of the Right Sector knew in advance that the police were planning to make arrests at their meeting.

> “It’s a simple bandits’ brawl,” Mustafa Nayyem, a member of the Verkhovna Rada, told Meduza. “A situation where the country cannot rid itself of smuggling emerged back in the 1990s, but Pravy Sektor has played the role of a racketeer. They saw illegal activity and decided that they could control it by force. But a conflict broke out which no one has bothered to hide. Why had we never heard about this contraband issue before? The Right Sector never made a single statement about it before.”

In the meantime Jobbik - Magyar far-right party, which sided with Russia from the beginning of the Ukrainian crisis - took the opportunity to «call the attention» on the situation of Transcarpathia, where lives an Hungarian minority http://www.jobbik.com/wake_up_europe_civil_war_has_reached_transcarpathia

They've been manhunting since day 1. An excerpt form an October interview on meduza:

> In Slavyanks most people are wary of openly speaking out in support of the rebels or against Ukraine. When the Ukrainian army entered Slavyanks in the wake of Strelkov’s hasty retreat, they actively looked for separatist collaborators. Even four months after liberation, arrests still take place. On October 4th, two men were arrested on suspicion of treason.

>“Ukrainian soldiers first snuffed out the houses where the rebel fighters were staying. Mostly around the checkpoints,” recollects Peter. “There wasn’t any niceties. They’d shoot and break down the doors first, then ask whether anyone was inside. Once they were done there, they narrowed their search and went from flat to flat. One of my friends in the police told me that as soon as Strelkov left, he had piles of anonymous snitch letters on his desk. We have some special people living in our town.”

>Peter was a rebel fighter for a time, manning a checkpoint in Slavyansk. When I was looking for pro-rebels to interview, his friends gave me his contact info, and told me that he is a “raging vatnik.”

https://meduza.io/news/2014/10/27/rashizm-ne-proydet

This guy has a Ukrainian People's Republic flag hidden under his scope!

They temporally cut the power because of the power issue, like they would in any region in Ukraine. Crimea isn't regulating their power how they should but you were partially right

http://reuters.com/article/idUSL6N0U80T420141224?irpc=932

All information about Ukrainian forces retaking the airport or rebels still holding it are not confirmed, all we know is what we see and all I saw today is this clip on the rebel side getting into airport garage, just behind new terminal, at: 1:40 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FySoY0jQHM

Location:

http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=48.066768&lon=37.741358&z=19&m=b

i think its here: http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=48.566782&lon=39.388819&z=14&m=b

Солнечный квартал (Луганск)

the title of an other video:

Луганск 24. Обстрел кв. Солнечный (+18) 18 июля 2014 г.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQ-FF85jlzw

And they got this Grad how exactly? Before you say that they got it from the Russians, the distance from the border to Dobropillia is over 150km (actually that's the distance from Luhansk, but the border is not far away from there.) Moreover, explanation that the rebels suddenly got a whole Grad, managed to deliver it whooping 40km South-West from Sloviansk (a presumably surrounded city) and shell a small target is no more plausible than Ukrainian army screwing up and lying about it.

Here's a map for anyone who's interested, it's centered on Dobropillia.

> 2014.03.11 Somewhere in Crimea http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iu1Eb0srCuI[2]

I believe this to be the location (column heading from Feodosia towards Bilohirsk): http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=45.011855&lon=34.971050&z=19&m=b

Sorry, I can't offer proof that he was installed, but I can offer proof that he was in communication with the US authorities as an informant as far back as 2006:

https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/06KIEV1706_a.html

At the very least, he used to work for them. It doesn't help that Biden's son is involved in the Ukrainian national gas company, either.

for Slavic languages, I think that https://translate.yandex.com/ is much better. This article, for example:

> Volunteer battalion "Aidar" going to disband.

> About this "Ukrainska Pravda" reported the press Secretary of "Aydar" Julia Evdokimova.

> "Be eliminated, because it is unprofitable to be at the forefront of volunteer battalions. All volunteer battalions was reformatted in any other organization: or attached to brigades, or other parts. And thoroughly clean, " she said.

> Evdokimova confirmed that the military Prosecutor's office had indeed discovered a number of cases against "IDRC", but many of them were closed on the fact of insufficient evidence.

> Before the trial, according to the press acted as Secretary "Aydar", it's got only one thing: two members of the battalion was arrested for transportation of separatist from the zone of the atoms in the SBU after the statement of his wife. The court chose to fighters measure - exit bail in the amount of 24 thousand UAH for each. The investigation is ongoing.

> According to Evdokimova, on Friday at 10 am will begin picketing under the Ministry of defense with a request not to disband the battalion.

> As you know, "Aidar" involves a lot of scandals. In particular, in December in the Internet appeared the video, which people in camouflage, similar to fighters "Aydar", organized lawlessness on the road Boryspil-Kyiv and beat the driver of one of the cars.

> In addition, the soldiers of the battalion helped to escape ex-Director of "Ukrspirt" Michael Lubuto, who is suspected of embezzlement of funds of the company in the amount of 172.5 million and the evasion of value added tax in the amount of 28.2 million.

> Ukrainska Pravda

There was horrific hunger during the thirties in Soviet Union because of terrible collectivization policies, droughts and famines. However that wasn't unique to Ukraine, millions died across vast territories of Soviet Union.

"The result of Stalin’s policies was the Great Famine (Holodomor) of 1932–33—a man-made demographic catastrophe unprecedented in peacetime. Of the estimated six to eight million people who died in the Soviet Union, about four to five million were Ukrainians." Source

Ukraine certainly has had it the worst. However you can't disregard 2 million people outside of it who also died during that time elsewhere. It wasn't targeted specifically at Ukrainians it was just terrible mismanagement.

We already know from Zello (http://zello.com/shared/kaeT http://zello.com/shared/oaeT) and intercepted by SBU call that at least some separatists were ready for major vote rigging on the referendum. The course of the referendum is not going to even remotely resemble the correct process (unlike e.g. referendum in Crimea). So there is nothing unusual or unexpected in this particular incident.