Graham Philips rebukes US Today slanderous article that portrayed Donetsk as a lawless city in Eastern Ukraine [Source]
Calling out the Western Media #1 – USA Today Attempts to Do Over Donetsk
Here is article that enraged many people, not just Graham Philips, “Donetsk has become eastern Ukraine’s lawless city” [Source]
Here is yet another rebuttal of the same article, A Resident of Donetsk responds to bias USA Today Article about her city [Source]
USA TODAY article claims that people in Donetsk are just like ISIS, killing each other, burning people on the streets, stealing, and looting the last kilos of baloney from stores.
The article based on an interview with Khaled Sijer, an alleged restaurant owner in the center of Donetsk who told USA Today that “he would never consider calling the police for help if he needed it, even if the problem was unrelated to the militias. At this point, he said, everyone has some connection to a militia that could cause a much larger problem.”
“The militias run this city now,” Sijer said. “There is no law here. The police are powerless. Everyone knows that.”
An online search didn’t yield a restaurant, owned by Khaled Sijer. Not one listing of the Donesk restaurants named “Khaled Sijer.” The following is the list of the best restaurants of Donetsk Рестораны Донецка
Another person interviewed for this article was Olexandra Matviichuk. During the unholy Maidan days she was a Soros funded EuroMaidanSOS Coordinator cooperating with over 400 lawyers throughout Ukraine. They flooded the Ukrainian criminal court systems with approximately 5000 complaints, crippling it at a time when the foreign organized violent coup against the democratically elected government of Ukraine was underway.
Nowadays, Olexandra Matviichukacts as a head of the Center for Civil Liberties in Ukraine, a subsidiary of the Soros Open Society Foundation. Hacked Emails Expose George Soros As Ukraine Puppet-Master [Source]
The slanderous article de-humanizing Donetsk’s citizens was published by USA Today on May 18th and authorized by a bizarre double personage, Sheren Khalel and Matthew Vickery.
According to some online sources, Sheren Khalel is a freelance multimedia journalist who works out of Israel, Palestine, Iraq, and Jordan. She is 26, she is a Webster University graduate and also a former officer of the SPJ student chapter in St. Louis, part of DePauw University.
According to her personal twitter account, Sheren Khalel is a freelance journalist covering conflict. Currently in Iraq. Her twitter account
In addition to the USA Today, Sheren Khalel is also a journalist for Aljazeera, which is the Washington and Tel-Aviv financed western shill. Here is the link to Khalel’s profile on the Aljazeera website [Source]
Matthew Vickery is also a Aljazeera and USA Today freelancer. [Source]
Vickery is an independent multimedia journalist based in the Middle East with a focus on the Levant and Iraq. He is also curiously identified as “Scottish photojournalist Matthew Vickery, who is part of Khalel’s freelancing entourage.”
Just recently, on April 15th, Aljazeera proudly displayed another pro-war article of these two freelancers, ‘Christian Taliban’s’ crusade on Ukraine’s front lines [Source]
“As officials work on peace deals with separatists, a rogue religious battalion vows to fight its way to Moscow.” Sheren Khalel claims that “Christians” are fighting against Russians in Ukraine. Just as we thought that the Western information war on Russia had reached the bottom , somebody came knocking from beneath.
It’s proven to be impossible to try to establish a timeframe for Sheren Khalel and Matthew Vickery’s travel to Ukraine On her twitter, she claims to be in Donetsk recently, or how she puts it “last time I was in Donetsk.”
Here she claim on March 31, that “#Ukraine is giving exit stamps when leaving their territory to enter #DNR and entry stamps upon return, acknowledging the de facto country.” However, she doesn’t provide any images for this alleged stamp. [Source]
March 30, she posts a picture of a bridge that was destroyed last Sept. It’s clearly a winter picture of a bridge. There are no colorful September foliage, nether this picture is taken in March or April, when trees are getting green. [Source]
Sheren Khalel has not provided any images of her being in Ukraine and in Donetsk.
Along with the article in USA Today that describe people of DPR as “lawless,” and the article in Aljazeera that labels the Ukraine’s Civil War as “the Christian was on Russians,” Sheren Khalel and Matthew Vickery authored article for Haaretz
On February 3rd, these two published material titled, Ukraine led by ‘miserable Jews,’ says rebel leader [source]
“Head of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic says the country’s traditional nationalists would ‘turn in their grave’ if they could see who was leading the country today.” Thus Sheren Khalel and Matthew Vickery marked people of Donetsk as anti-Semites.
Sheren Khalel and Matthew Vickery, have not stopped calling people in the Eastern Ukraine “lawless anti-Semites in war with Christens.” On May 4, 2015, a duo published an article in Foreign Policy, the division of the Washington Post Company, titled: “In Eastern Ukraine, Doctors Are ‘Terrorists’ and Antibiotics Are Herbs
The article is based on a interview with a doctor “Alexander Petrovich Stanitskly, the head of the traumatology department.” Needles to say that this doctor who treats people with herbs and kind words doesn’t exist, and even the last name “Stanitskly” is a made-up name.
Sheren Khalel and Matthew Vickery author articles that are completely false and designed to de-humanize people of the Eastern Ukraine and to cause hatred towards Russian Ukrainians as an ethnic group.
If the people in Donesk, a restaurant owner, a doctor, some militia members are not real, what about the journalists that invented them? Sheren Khalel might own a phone number from Saint Louis, MO, US. However the same phone number is listed for God’s Little Footprints, a child care center, and also listed as phone number for Maurice Worthy who also lives in Saint Louis, MO. Allegedly on Jan 28, 2015 – Maurice Worthy, of St. Louis County, was charged with assault on a law enforcement officer by allegedly dragging an officer during a traffic stop.
Perhaps, they are all friends and share phone numbers and underwear. Why does it look like Sheren Khalel didn’t exist prior to 2014? There is no records of her graduating from high school. There are no school awards. She never participated in any extracurricular activities. There is no records of her parents, or relatives. She just appeared from thin air in 2014. She made herself known using a Kickstarter, raising funds to “Please, help to keep me safe.”
A brilliant move, I must say. Right upon graduation, her articles appeared in USA Today, Haaretz, Aljazeera, and Foreign Policy. You, hundred thousands of holders of BA in Journalism who can’t get published, eat your heart out.
If these look bizarre, it is. If you make a timeline for Sheren Khalel and Matthew Vickery’s published articles, looks like they magically travel though Middle East countries, Israel, Ukraine and Donetsk, being in several parts of the globe at the same time. You never see their pictures at some geographically identifiable place. It looks like Sheren Khalel and Matthew Vickery, if these people are indeed real, work from the US and never put a foot in any of those countries, they claim to traverse.
This is a link to SPJ Code of Ethics that Khalel is violating by spreading disinformation, de-humanizing innocent civilian population of the eastern Ukraine and facilitating terroristic attacks on the civilians and on Russia and the Russian people. Complaints can to be filed with SPJ and with the Webster University.
We know the West de-humanizing certain ethnic groups before and during the war on these people. It’s clear now that the West is de-humanizing Russians living in the Eastern Ukraine while conducting the war against them The West is de-humanizing and demonizing Russians in general because it’s a pretext to the war on Russia. Europe’s problem is with Russia, not Putin, writes Thomas Graham [Source]
Maybe, to repel these attacks, Russia should hire an army of attorneys and flood the US court system with lawsuits against every single journalist and every single newspaper that authorized and published de-humanizing article about the Russian people. And make this all public information. Of course, it’s all cost money, but it would be cheaper than the war.
Today, June 3rd, sure enough, we have yet another article about Donetsk of the authors, Sheren Khalel and Matthew Vickery, Chased by war: Syrian refugees caught in Ukraine warzone [Source]
“There are about a dozen Syrian refugees stranded in Donetsk who fled Syria only to end up on an unlikely European battlefield.” The article talks about two Syrian refugees: Abdelsattar Nassar, the owner of the Shisha House Cafe, and Khaled Sijer, that we have already met.
Shisha is a Russian chain of oriental café houses and kalian smoking rooms. Here is the Donetsk Shisha’s website: You can see that they have young customers, that have standup comedians’ performances, and serve alcohol and pork.
My question to our readers from Donetsk, is it possible to talk to these Syrian refugees to see if they need any help. I would also ask them, why do they claim to the Western media that Donetsk is a lawless city with everybody being afraid of the “militias.” Who are those “militias”? Is this the Militia, a law enforcement police force? Are those some kind of military people? I would also ask the authorities of Donetsk about Sheren Khalel and Matthew Vickery. When did these people visit Donetsk? What mandate did they have?
Ukraine
1. Ukraine: it’s time to run, but no Ukrainian is welcome anywhere [Source]
The New York Time reports that Ukrainian Migrants Fleeing Conflict Get a Cool Reception in Europe [Source] may 30, 2015 – Warsaw
2. Research on foreign militants engaged in ATO against Donbass [Source] [Source] О наемниках в зоне АТО In Russian, but lots of pictures
3. Further meetings of Minsk Contact Group and subgroups are planned for 16th and 23rd of June [Source]
2nd June 2015. Novorossiya. – Further meetings of Contact Group and subgroups are planned for 16th and 23rd of June – Deynego.
Further meetings of members of Contact Group to regulate situation in Donbass and also subgroups are planned for 16th and 23rd of June. It was announced today to Lugansk Information Center by official representative of LPR at Minsk discussions Vladislav Deynego.
4. Pregnant 22 year old is recovering in Lugansk Hospital [Source]
June 3, 2015 – Lugansk region – For 3 days Kiev militants had been preventing a pregnant woman to cross the border and to seek medical help on the territory of the Lugansk People Republic. As a result, when a woman was delivered to the hospital she needed 2 brain surgeries.
5. “I’m hungry. Am I a separatist?” [Source]
June 2, 2015 – 2nd June 2015, city Lviv, fascist state Ukraine
Members of fascist organization protested against social and economical politic of Kiev junta.
Yesterday, June 1 in the city Lviv was held “March of Dissents with the new tariffs”. People, mostly young, gathered near the monument of Franco [Malorussian/Ukrainian novelist of 19th century] and marched through the center of the city to the building of the regional council.
Protesters held red and black flags and scream slogans: “Indifference – a step to treason”, “Rise up, oppressed and hungry,” “I want to eat – I’m a separatist?” “Indexation of salaries!”. Lviv residents walked through the streets, chanting: “oligarchs parasites do not give the people live!”, “The new tariffs is genocide!”.
The public movement “Autonomous resistance” organized this action. Video in Russian and from Russian TV. Ukrainian journalist Elena Boyko comments with great sarcasm.
The “Autonomous resistance” is fascist organization in Ukraine, as many others. Their members sure that Ukraine is above all and they scream this and other fascist slogans during their marshes. They using red – black flag of UIA (UPA) and they sure that Kiev junta army fighting against Russian army in former East of Ukraine.
Maybe because all socialistic organizations are banned or oppressed in the fascist Ukraine; fascist organization as “Autonomous resistance” took functions of defending of social rights.
6. 1 year anniversary of the Kiev Junta air strike on Lugansk square [Source]
June, 2, 2015, Lugansk, LPR – A year ago by the air strike on the square and the building of the Lugansk Regional Administration in the center of the city Kiev regime had demonstrably and convincingly shown its attitude to noncombatant people in Donbass, reminded head of the Council of Ministers of the LPR Gennadiy Tsypkalov.
This was the day when the dwellers of Lugansk realized that Ukrainian Army is able to mercilessly open fire on the unarmed population, the politician said. “By its air strike the junta, which had seized power in Kiev, had demonstrably shown its attitude to the inhabitants of Donbass, whose lives mean nothing to it”, — Tsypkalov added.
War on Donbass Novorossia
1. Breaking! Armed Forces of the DPR claim that the units of the 28th mobile brigade retreated from the locality of Maryinka to the south-west of Donetsk.
12:00, June 3, 2015, Donetsk, DPR
According to this information the flag of the DPR was already hoisted over the center of Maryinka. The settlement is under full control of the militia forces, which are ready to rebuff the attacks of governmental troops. The Ukrainian side disproves the information about the loss of Maryinka and claims that the situation there is under control.
According to several reports, fighting is going on in the area of the Donetsk airport as well.
Both sides are actively using cannonry and the MRLS, particularly, locality Krasnogorovka (under control of governmental troops), as well as settlement Oktyabrskiy withing Donetsk city limits. There are KIA and WIA on both sides, the numbers are being specified.
Be reminded that in the night from June 2 to June 3 several localities of thre DPR (Donetsk, Gorlovka, Staromikhailovka, Yenakiyevo) had been subjected to massive Ukrainian shelling, and on June 3 at about 4:00 AM the DPR Army resorted to an assault on the position of Kiev forces in the area of settlement Maryinka.
2. Donetsk, June 3, the DNA.
As a result of shelling by Ukrainian forces 60 civilian inhabitants of Donetsk got wounded, told Director of the Republican Traumatological Center of Donetsk Aleksandr Oprishchenko the correspondent of the Donetsk News Agency. “About 60 persons were hospitalized with injuries, and these are only those brought to our Center”, — he said.
Oprishchenko stated that five people are in the extremely severe condition: “The wounds are of different severity; several people lost their limbs. Some of them are being operated on right now”, — the Director said.
According to him, the hospital has everything necessary for the provision of the first aid. “Blood bank has not failed us as yet”, — he concluded.
3. Military units under Kiev control opened fire from MRLS “Grad” on locality Staromikhailovka in the Donetsk Peoples’ Republic on Wednesday, reported head of the local administration Petr Lisnyak.
June, 3, the DPR, Novorossiya
“The situation is tense: since about 3.30 AM we are being fired at from firearms, large-caliber machine guns and MRLS “Grad”; the outskirts of the locality had been subjected to artillery strikes,” – Lisnyak told the correspondent of RIA Novosti, having remarked that all the inhabitants had been hiding in the bomb shelters, and at the moment volunteers are distributing food and water among them. The shelling is going.
The MoD of the DPR informed that “in the course of the last 24 hours 43 instances of the ceasefire regime violation were registered, 32 of them with the use of mortar-guns, four – of tanks and six – of APCs”.
Towns Gorlovka, Yenakiyevo, Debaltsevo and the area of the Donetsk airport were subjected to Ukrainian shelling. Besides, localities Shirokino, Sakhanka, Spartak, Zhabichevo and Kalinovka were shelled .
The representative of the MoD of the DPR reported that a civilian died as a result of shelling of the town of Yenakiyevo by Ukrainian forces.
“The shelling was carried out from Markov Yar (a suburb); it started at about 4.30 PM. Ammunition exploded in the area of the filtering station of Yenakiyevo, as a result of it one woman died. Also a pipe of the central gas supply system was damaged”, – said he.
beginning with February 15 the sides of the conflict in Donbass declared ceasefire determined by the Agreement signed in Minsk after an almost 16-hour-long talks. Nevertheless, in spite of the ceasefire regime, lately the hostilities in the East of Ukraine resumed.
4. Fights In Donbass June 03, 2015 [Source]
5. Shells strike home in Donetsk’s Kirovskiy District [Source]
6. June 1, 2015 – Gorlovka [Source]
Ukraine: Drone footage captures shell damage in Gorlovka
Russia and Beyond…
1. Islamic banking in Russia may ease effect of sanctions – head of Sberbank [Source]
May 30, 2015 – The head of Russia’s Sberbank, welcomed the introduction of Islamic banking in the country’s traditionally Muslim regions, saying it would help attract capital from Arab countries.
“In circumstances where we have problems with raising funds on the international markets, it is a very important thing,” he said, adding that he had recently held a series of meetings in the Republic of Tatarstan with Arab investors.
2. Here is just one example of pure perfection the Russian-Tatar unity produces [Source]
3. A day in court for Estonian Internal Security Service Agent [Source]
June 2, 2015 – Eston Kohver, an Estonian national is accused of espionage (Article 276 of Russia’s Criminal Code), smuggling weapons (Part 1, Article 226), illegal border crossing (Part 1 Article 322, nine crimes) and the illegal bearing of arms (Part 1 Article 222).
4. Ex-president of American Chamber of Commerce to be expelled from Russia [Source]
June2, 2015 NIZHNY NOVGOROD – Scott Blacklin will be expelled from Russia on June 5 over entry rules violation.
Blacklin came to Russia with a business visa, which allows its holder engage in business activities or enhance his or her professional skills. But, as a matter of fact, he worked as a lecturer at the Nizhny Novgorod University.
5. Son of Ukraine’s Crimean Tatar activist found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in Russia [Source]
6. Sergei Chemezov, head of Rosteh: Russia has a chance to create her own modern industry [Source] Что нас ждёт? Мы получили возможность создать всё своё
Chemezov says that the business is growing with Boeing, Renault-Nissan, Daimler, and General Electric. On the other hand they stopped all the contacts with their former partners from Ukraine. Now, they are producing parts and engines that they used to buy from Ukraine. Rosteh own products are better than Ukrainian used to be. The Ukrainian defense industry has almost completely folded. That’s why Rosteh doesn’t plan to sue its former Ukrainian partners for the breach of contracts. Ukrainian companies closed down, people left. Ukraine doesn’t understand the civilized way to handle the complex business relationships.
Contrary to rumors, Rosoboronexport has never had problems operating. Now, facing the Western sanctions, the company asks its customers to pay in rubles and yuan.
The Western companies that left the Russian market due to the sanctions will never be able to come back.
It’s an important interview with lots of information on the Russian economy.
4. International Conference on Life With Sanctions: International Experience [Source]
June 2, 2015 – Moscow – The conference is organized by countries of the Custom Union in the Moscow Lomonosov university and the Institute of Countries of the Eurasian Custom Union and also those countries experiencing economic sanctions from the US and its allies. [Source]
Materials of the conference along with speeches and research papers will be published on materik.ru
5. Zamir Kabulov, We expect problems on Afghan’s border [Source]
Замир Кабулов: “Я бы не исключал прорыва на афганской границе”
June 2, 2015 – Interview with Zamir Kabulov, Russia’s special envoy for Afghanistan. Kabulov thinks that the US heavy weaponry and troops will be move to Ukraine to enforce Kiev militants.
6. In Germany NATO tank ran over a car [Source]
Last, But Not Least…
Instant Karma
Excellent job, Scott, in deconstructing the lies of those non-existent western journalists. It takes a lot of work to write that kind of piece – I appreciate your effort.
If you can find a copy of the book “The Chain Gang” by Richard McCord, you will learn upon reading it that the Gannett corporation, publisher of USA Today, has been found by the courts, on more than one occasion, to be a criminal enterprise.
McCord’s own research shows them to be thoroughly and utterly dishonest in all their dealings.
Thanks Scott! lots to look at.
It seems to me, that only a catastrophy of vast proportions, can bring this geo-political monstrosity to a close.
Bring it on!
may be we should just bombard the email address of USA Today with link to this article to debunk their piece?
heavy fighting near Donetsk:
http://fortruss.blogspot.ca/2015/06/heavy-fighting-resumes-around-donetsk.html
I hope the UkroNazis get surrounded again…
Military correspondents report:
“Should there be a breakthrough, UAF positions in Peski, Karlovka, and Avdeevka will be encircled. The Right Sector is talking about the possibility of an encirclement around Peski and Avdeyevka if the front is broken at Maryinka. This was reported by the Right Sector deputy corps commander Valentin Manko.”
Thanks for the sit-rep Scott, well done.
I realize that the resumed heavy fighting in Maryinka is still a breaking story, but I’m a little perplexed about the lack of reporting on Russian media (English language versions). Fortruss has a couple brief pieces, but nothing from RT, Sputnik, etc. You’d think such a development would warrant some copy. Maybe I’m too impatient.
Does anyone have any links?
Don Wiscacho,
TASS has 1 story but not as much info as sites you’ve already seen.
Also, here’s a little blurb:
“The resumption of hostilities in the Donbas has provoked a sharp weakening of the Russian currency.
The dollar rose to 54.29 rubles, and the euro rose above 61 rubles. Investors, worried about the escalation of the situation in the South-East of Ukraine began to actively “shifts” in the euro and the dollar, and the purchase volume reached record levels.”
Search “Reuters Ukraine” . Bunch of stuf there if you don’t mind the lies
My understanding is that whenever the ruble sinks re the dollar, Putin takes the dollars he’s gotten for gas and oil sales and buys rubles for government use.
Always one step ahead . . .
Could it be that the article in USA Today is what the Hegemon plans to have soon happen in Donetsk?
Another self-fulfilling prophecy from the dark side?
“Stanitskly”? Okely-Dokely…
Quick search of the auhors of that DOnetsk piece in USA Today:
http://mondoweiss.net/author/sheren-khalel-and-matthew-vickery
about Sheren Khalel and Matthew Vickery
Sheren Khalel is a freelance multimedia journalist who works out of Israel, Palestine and Jordan. You can follow her on Twitter at @Sherenk. Matthew Vickery is an independent multimedia journalist based in the Middle East with a focus on the Levant and Iraq. Follow Matthew on Twitter: @MMVickery
I’m not surprised those 2 propagandists are also featured at mondoweiss. Mondoweiss also promoted the Israeli war against Syria and posted smear propaganda about the Syrian government.
Are you sure they are not pixel personas or, if Carbon based rather than Silicon, just fronts for propaganda fiction stories? The word Israel and Sheren sets off a red flag to me.
About Donetsk: I know someone from there, who left and returned briefly last month, we speak to each other every day, and she has family still living there – this report sounds like BS to me. Also, Graham I believe is based in Donetsk.
P.S. USAToday is MSM, therefore expect BS from it.
Kremlin is deeply concerned with the situation in Donetsk, Peskov
http://www.kp.ru/online/news/2073512/
Official account of colonel cassad
https://twitter.com/colonelcassad
Lavrov: Civilians are being killed only on the DPR and LPR territories by the Ukraine military
http://rusvesna.su/news/1433352067
Lugansk region is left without water
http://lug-info.com/news/one/voda-v-lugansk-ne-podaetsya-ni-po-odnomu-iz-vodozaborov-snabzhenie-vsego-regiona-narusheno-3679
Unfortunately Don’t speak read write Russian posting links is nice but not helpful. The translations apps are also very poor.
Could you clarify in one of the next SITREPs recent sitaution in Syria ? I have noticed outrageous statments like, quote: Russia have sold Syria, becase Assad army is loosing against ISIS, which are spreading because US media have started talking about ISIS victories. But when i have checked some iranians, syrian sites – those informations about fall of Syria looks false.
Thanks again for great job of You and Your Team.
Anonim, re Syria situation:
1. Russia abandoned is a lie put out by the Israelis.
2. Syrians face more weapons & mercenary jihadists cuz Saudis, Qataris are giving more money.
3. Hezbollah are sending 5,000 fighters to reinforce Syrians
4. Iranians are making $1 B credit line available to Syria
5. Assad is putting together a counter-offensive infantry force of 35,000 men; he already has got 10,000 of them.
The fall of Palmyria is serious. It means that the main road which connects Iran to the Mediterranean is under ISIS control. This road is vital to the Shiite crescent by which Iran supplies Hezbollah.
Thanks Penelope. Sorry for grammar mistakes, but i was very tired :(
Excellent site rep penelope.
Now I’m caught up on the Syrian situation.
So far I have not seen too much hay being made of the Anthrax fiasco, including sending live anthrax to Canada, S. Korea, and now, the Pentagon itself:
http://rt.com/usa/264469-pentagon-ships-anthrax-to-self/
While all the reporting seems to make the “mistake” relatively “innocent looking”, fact is if this had happened with say, any of the BRICS countries, all hell would break loose.
The West will for example:
1. spewing hysterical claims of exposing world wide population to danger of death of millions!
2. there will beat least half a dozen of “hearings” scheduled by US Congress and Senate, all bringing in “experts” to explain how this could easily kill millions, including infants, women, children, etc etc, and at the same time implying all sorts of nefarious motives to the “mistake”.
3. There will be cries, no, demands, for sending in UN WMD Inspection Teams!
4. There will be immediate emergency meetings of the UNSC, spewing out “moral outrage” and at the same time sanctimoniously castigating the offending country.
… and so on…
But if the US is the one…er, non of the above!
oh well, they are “exceptional”…
1. Ukrainian General Staff orders to use artillery in Maryinka — media
http://tass.ru/en/world/798539
Earlier, DPR Defense Minister Vladimir Kononov said the Ukrainian Armed Forces opened fire on the positions of DPR militia Wednesday morning along the entire contact line
2. Security situation in Donbas deteriorating, says senior diplomat
http://tass.ru/en/world/798621
June 03, 20:43 UTC+3
“This puts brake to a certain degree on the operations of monitors since peaceful civilians are suffering from the falling shells,” Russia’s envoy to OSCE said
3. DPR defense spokesman says east Ukraine shelled by Kiev troops, not by militia forces
http://tass.ru/en/world/798466
June 03, 15:20 UTC+3
The spokesman of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic’s defense ministry said the militia are taking “adequate measures against strengthening the genocide”
He noted that the Ukrainian army’s actions had been “planned in advance”. “They are aimed at disrupting Minsk-2, this is an attempt to show that the situation has gone out of control,” he said.
“Our positions came under fire along the whole frontline: in Shirokino, Yelenovka and Maryinka. Shells of three calibers (120 mm, 122 mm and 152 mm) were used. We have conducted defensive operations for seven hours,” the Donetsk news agency quotes Vladimir Kononov as saying.
“To date, around 15 people have been killed, these are DPR losses since the first provocation at 03:45,” Kononov said, adding that this number included both militia fighters and civilians.
It takes two to make a war — but not a genocide. I’m glad to see NAF fighting back.
This may also help with the situation in Transnistria, not only in terms of demonstrating an unwillingness to lay back while being attacked, but also stressing Ukraine aggressive resources.
Keen for news on the fighting in Donetsk mentioned on fortruss.
Would appreciate a breakdown of how this happened was it a surprise attack.
Was NAF prepared hear there are a lot of casualties.
The militia went on an offensive or counter-offensive, and that is like Debaltsevo. You expose your best troops to artillery, mortar, snipers, ambushes.
One of Motorola’s recon units was ambushed (probably American PMCs or NATO special ops). Significant casualties, dead and wounded with 2 captured.
If Col. Cassad says it is heavy losses in the last 24 hours, you can be sure this is going to be big before it is over. He had predicted that the offensive from the Ukies would come at Donetsk from the West. It has.
The militia are fighting for their homes and family. Donetsk hospital packed with civilian and militia wounded and dying. Electricity out. Desperate cries for blood donors.
This could be another week or two of very heavy fighting and losses.
Pray, if you are prayerful.
Brave men and women are fighting for their land and freedom.
Col Cassad’s update on “Rayazan” recon unit ambushed:
Not as bad as first reported. But the commander, Edward Glazova, reports less deaths and wounded, but very fierce fighting, street to street, troops shell-shocked from Ukie artillery.
Here’s the message:
http://achtungpartisanen.ru/soobshhenie-ot-komandira-drg-ryazan/
A message from the commander DRG “Ryazan”, Edward Glazova.
Briefly about Marinka: “This grinder have not seen, so many victims and the truce. I don’t understand something, we have 1 fighter 300th. Shell-shocked many, the operation is started too smooth, and then the slaughter began. “Tag” made his way to the hospital and kept the defense without BK and water, then we made it to the “Tag”. Ukry adjusted so that 3 times I said goodbye to my life. But in General, I’m shocked, but we’ll fix this and beat stolen from Marinka.”
Commander DRG “Ryazan”
Recall that earlier in social networks were the stuffing and spread the message that 80% of DRG Ryazan were surrounded and destroyed. It was reported about 6 — 200S, 12 — 300-x and two captured soldiers.
Thanks Scott..
These “fake” journalists from the MSM is not surprising. Dehumanise people and then kill them – the US Gov way. The lawlessness is found outside the Donbass.
Cat Karma :)
Rgds,
Veritas
It is crushingly tragic to find that the United States has made of itself a new Nazi war force and is carefully inciting as much hatred globally as it is able to do. The country will never ever recover from this.
According to the Natives the Americans were pretty Nazi from the very beginning.
That nation is build on murder and theft.
From the Hegemon’s British Bloviator Corp (BBC):
Ukraine crisis: Heavy fighting rages near Donetsk, despite truce
“It said more than 10 tanks and up to 1,000 rebel fighters were attacking Ukrainian positions in Maryinka. Ukrainian troops, it added, had been forced to use artillery to repel the offensive”
If the BBC told the truth their front teeth would fall out.
Look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marinka,_Ukraine
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Starting in mid-April 2014 pro-Russian rebels captured several towns in Donetsk Oblast;[3][4] including Marinka.[5] On August 5, 2014, Ukrainian forces recaptured control of Marinka from pro-Russian militants.[6] Ukrainian forces involved in the recapture included the Azov Battalion, whose flag flew in the city in early August.[7] From then pro-Russian rebels accused Ukrainian troops of using their positions in Marinka to shell (rebel controlled) Donetsk – a claim denied by the Ukrainian military.[8]
In early June 2015 fresh violence returned to the area as pro-Russian rebels launched an offensive on the city involving 1000 fighters, tanks and heavy artillery.[8][9] The rebels stated they only engaged in defence measures after an assault by the Ukrainian army.[10] Video footage showed outgoing artillery fire originating in residential areas in Donetsk held by the rebels, directed at Ukrainian government positions, a violation of both the Minsk II agreement and Geneva Conventions. The attacking rebel forces included a number of Russian soldiers sent by the Kremlin.[11][1] By then the town had already been devastated by months of heavy fighting.[8] According to the BBC the early June 2015 fighting was the heaviest of the War in Donbass since the so called Minsk II ceasefire was signed on 11 February 2015.[8][12]
And if anyone believes those russophobic MSM references e.g. NYT, BBC, Guardian, Irish Times, Kyiv Post et al, then they may be interested in a very nice line of bridges I have to sell.
I have some beach front property in green land I am trying to sell to a special select few. You have to be worthy to own it as I wont just sell it to anyone. Do you like dogs? Pets? birds? big mammalian fish like whales? Since no pets are allowed you cant apply.. My neighbor is also selling some real estate on the moon and mars he got a good deal on. We are upgrading and need to sell. If you are very into green and think solar power is the way of the future, we also have some contacts that want to sell real estate in Syria.. Your nearest neighbor would be beyond seeing distance so no one to complain about unsightly solar panels and wind farms.. Just make sure the animals roaming around don’t damage the stuff..
What do you mean this is the saker community? What makes them better? All people are gullible. Just look at my alligator slippers.
It no longer says anything about breach of Minsk or Geneva Convention, nor about Kremlin-sent fighters.
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At the moment BBC has a “dead queen” to consider ;)
Opolchenie say (eg here http://rusvesna.su/news/1433089641 ) that when they capture Ukrainian maps, their positions are accurately mapped, but Ukrainian fire, as a matter of routine, does not go there, for them to respond in kind, it goes into residential areas instead. Such practice appear to be caused by intentional policy aimed at civilians, not accidents or provocations, and this understandably cannot go on forever.
Cyberberkut recently published photos of Ukrainian violations earlier in Spring, March-April. According to this information, details of those violations were well known to Ukraine and USA. (There is no reason to do any of that if the real intention is to make Minsk happen).
HA! Media like the BBC was used to maintain their empire. I have no idea why people would think someone broadcasting to you is telling the truth. But people have it in them that the brits are the good guys. As we saw in places like Tibet and india, the brits had no qualms about shooting unarmed civilians or prisoners or even breaking the truce and killing the other side. The brits started bombing german cities before hitler got mad and ordered his air force to bomb British cities yet the brits talk about how the evil hitler bombed British cities. By now anyone with any sense should consider anything found in the media with a grain of salt no matter from where it comes from. The truth is in the eye of the beholder and nothing should be taken at face value. After all, if they made a fool of you a couple of times and you still don’t get it, you are a fool. At least an idiot gets it.. Maybe why I don’t even bother to read media any longer. I only look at events and time lines and sort of come to a conclusion, I don’t know the details and I don’t know what is real, but at least I can see the trend and see where things are going.
Well said mmirww!
There is a silver lining to the BBC: it gets amusing to see how they twist, squirm, fume and glower when events don’t go according to their demonic script: As will increasingly happen as the global power equation leaves Britain increasingly irrelevant in Media as it already is irrelevant in reality.
Sorry to be one of those hotheads who thinks Putin should start WWIII if necessary, but where is the wisdom in tolerating endless violations of Minsk 2? Is there any limit to the violations he will tolerate? I can see showing some patience to underscore who is violating the agreement, or violating it most egregiously, but where is the wisdom in letting Kiev get away with these attacks?
Or have I been completely fooled about Putin? (I’m sure I have been at least partially fooled, since I still know very little about Russian politics.) Does he want to see the militias in Eastern Ukraine wiped out, followed by some very watered down “autonomy” agreement (which maybe can’t be reached as long as there are still fighters around)?
Everyone has been fooled at some point. To be a cynic is perhaps a sign of maturity or even the beginnings of wisdom.
There are games being played behind the scenes, this is not a sports game. Be patient and pray.
Most important: find your core beliefs that will carry you through life. The rest is not important. Clue: nobody leaves this place alive.
@RudyM
Having the militia wiped out does not make any sense to me because to do so would mean he’d (Putin) have to trust the Kiev Kriminal Klown Parasch-chenko to not fully over run and control DNR/LNR. What leverage would Putin have after that?
Now we all can see that signing treaties with certain countries or parties (or making back room deals with them) is worthless, because they’ll just take any concession you make but violate any agreement they’ve made in return.
I’ve not seen any sign of betrayal from Russia. The recent changes to the law of state secrets where military deaths even “outside” of war is to considered a state secret seems to indicate that Russia might be planning to really turn the screws hard on those murdering b*stards in Kiev.
It makes us sick to see Nazis get away with murder again and again, but time is not on their side.
“Serediuk didn’t leave the Azov because of the neo-Nazi connections, however – extreme-right ideology doesn’t bother him. What does irk him, however, is being around fighters who are not zealous in their (Christian) religious convictions.
“I left the Azov because it was full of pagans.”
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I must say that I am deeply ashamed of the fact that Ukrainian pagans are fighting inside such a group as “Azov”. Ridiculous. Morons. A Slavic pagan fighting in order to murder other Slavs, how stupid one can be to do that?!
The only comforting thing from the article is that Christian extremists are also fighting for “European Ukraine”. So the war is not between “pagans” and “Christians” at all.
From another article posted in the text:
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” In a press conference on Monday that was carried live by Russian news channel Rossiya-24, Alexander Zakharchenko, leader of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic, described the country’s Kiev-based, pro-Western leaders as “miserable representatives of the great Jewish people”
He added that the prominent nationalists in the country’s past “would turn in their graves if they could see who is running Ukraine.”
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Zakharchenko is right, imagine what would Bogdan Khmelnitsky say about the people who currently run Ukraine ? :-))))
» He added that the prominent nationalists in the country’s past “would turn in their graves if they could see who is running Ukraine.” «
Nice try to wake up the Ukrainian nationalists. I doubt it will help. Neither with them, nor with their counterparts relentlessly producing silly and free-wheeling “nazi alerts” on this blog and other similar sites.
@Wend
I couldn’t agree with you more about the idea of Slav killing Slav due to an alien propaganda its sickening beyond words. You’d think that being believers in the original religion of the Slavs/Eurasia would unify those Slavs in Azov battalion. My suspicion is that they are not really being taught the true original Dharma but rather some invented syncretic crap that blends Thule-society, Nazi fabrications of invented racial purity with distorted caricatures of the scandinavian or Slavic Indo-European pantheon.
That being the case you have nothing to feel ashamed about. Their beliefs are an artificial construct of demonic greed and hate infested geopolitics, whereas yours are founded on genuine theology (or deep Dharma, since theology does not encompass Vedic Dharma).
As for so called pagans, I’ve learned more about God and Christ from my Hindu brothers, learned Shia and Sufi masters than any priest from the West. And I might add I learned more about guidance thru patience and love thru reader Mohammed (a Shia adherent), than I have from my so-called fellow Christians (whose behavior is anything Christ-like or monastic).
Which reminds me, do you still have your books in publication? If not, where can I get material (that you recommend) on the Vedic connection to the Slavs (such as the Sorbs/Wend people and their direct references to Brahma)?
Best regards,
Thanks, Scott, great job.
As an honorary member of the Cat Club, I love Cat Karma and the revenge for disrespect of Fur: ‘All your vases are belong to us’.
blue, have you seen this adorable Russian kleptocat? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-OgLLZC4j0
And next on the list is the kitten who hate getting out of a warm bath.
Cats taking stuff — ever try to go to bed and find a screwdriver in it that a cat has dragged up from the basement?
There’s now a mama and 4 kittens (about 5 weeks old) staying in the garage. Mama, as she saw her duty, brought them a bird, and the kittens ignored it for the boned pressure cooked chicken I bring them. Mama takes their point and eats the chicken too. (Even cats understand something of the economics of consumer preference and demand — they specialize in demand.)
Shouldn’t large-scale new Kiev violations of Minsk 2, with U.S. “advisers” on the ground, be met with increased Russian military support for Novorossiya (if it is not too old fashioned to still use that name in June of 2015), and a greenlight for serious counter-attacks? To what extent can Novorossiyan forces hold out against a Ukraine forces getting lots of US/NATO help?
Any updates on the fighting? has it stopped?
Here is a map showing directions of the NAF counter-attacks at Marinka and Gorlovka
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CGl8yGhXIAA7ytq.jpg
There are two further possibilities:
1 Encirclement of UAF positions at Peski-Avdeevka, which will remove ability of UAF to shell civilians at Donetsk.
2 More ambitious plan of cutting UAF supply lines around Volnovaha and later on posing threat to Mariuple without storming it directly.
The talking head from US SD Marie Harf is in full psaki mode already promoting new anti Russian sanctions just before g7 meeting.
http://dnr-news.com/dnr/21166-gosdep-ssha-nazval-rossiyu-otvetstvennoy-za-rost-napryazhennosti-v-donbasse.html
@ Scott,
Thanks, bro.
Where would we be without MSM’s
Cristolcrystal balls?We’d believe…
Russia’s fancy new stealth fighter is in serious trouble
and
The secret money behind Vladimir Putin’s war machine
Goodness me…
An interesting rumours caused by suggestion from Valentina Matvienko to immediately call Russian Federation Council.
http://jpgazeta.ru/istochnik-v-kieve-sovfed-sobiraetsya-priznat-pridnestrove-chastyu-rossii-poroshenko-v-rasteryannosti/
Version 1. To give Putin power to order the army to invade Ukraine. He had that power last year but it was revoked.
Version 2. Official recognition of Transnistria.
Both rumours originated from Kiev.
How many people do you have to kill before you’re allowed to yell ‘Genocide!”?
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According to the UN, only 1, if your dealing with acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group,”.
Yes, ‘laws’ can be very funny indeed.
And the ‘Daily Beast‘ [a bit of a giveaway] comes to our ‘rescue’ [otherwise we’d all be clueless idiots, haplessly bobbing away on never ending waves of Russian ‘propaganda’] Can Anyone Stop Putin’s New Blitz?.
Yes, there’s the German [Blitz] angle [again].
Although Brits started the bombing campaign, but who cares [winner takes all]?
http://fortruss.blogspot.com/2015/06/video-dpr-militias-expelled-ukrainian.html
Video: DPR – Militias expelled Ukrainian soldiers from Maryinka
June 3rd, 2015 –
– Life News, English Subtitles by VPE
Fort Russ Team
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TtSPjtcAC0
DPR – Militias expelled Ukrainian soldiers from Marinka, June 3rd | Eng Subs
transcript:
0:00
The commander of Pyatnashka interbrigade on-line: – After a slight breather, an attack began at 4-30 a.m.
0:04
There was no second pause.
0:07
Under cover of artillery, their infantry tried to storm Donetsk.
0:13
But our guys cast away the infantry.
0:16
There’s no artillery attack at this moment: either guns are overheated or they ran out of ammunition.
0:22
The Minsk agreements are a piece of paper for them.
0:27
They are using tanks, Grad rockets, and something even heavier.
0:34
It’s not clear so far what comes flying on us.
0:36
It won’t be surprise if this is foreign make.
0:40
– At this moment, have you managed to force back Ukr. militaries?
0:46
May they obtain reinforcement?
0:50
Is it an one-time attack or a planned offensive?
0:58
– It lasted since 4-30 a.m.
1:01
If it were one-time attack, it would take us 5 min to stop them.
1:04
This is a full-scale offensive operation, wave after wave.
1:09
The reinforcements are arriving constantly to maintain them.
1:13
Only the spirit helps us to withstand.
1:16
We are trying to follow all the agreements.
1:20
But we’re running out of the nerves and patience.
1:24
– Do the OSCE observers know about the situation?
1:29
Have they been informed?
1:31
– Yes, we asked them to come and to witness all this.
1:35
They said they didn’t want to imperil their lives, turned back and left.
1:40
They even didn’t examine those regions.
1:45
They didn’t enter the region of city under shelling.
1:48
Not only our positions are shelled but also the city.
1:53
– Geographically, how far is the center of Donetsk from the combat?
2:01
Is there a threat of breakthrough from the side of Kiev forces?
2:06
– This occurs in the Petrovskii district, suburb of Donetsk.
2:09
Actually, the combat is inside the city.
2:15
– How far is the danger area from the houses of civilians?
2:23
How high is the risk that shells come flying to hit the houses and to hurt people?
2:34
The houses are within reach of small arms.
2:38
Can you imagine what artillery can do?
2:40
The people in the buffer zone got used to silence and began to come back, but now they suffer.
2:47
Militiamen try to take them away and to locate in more secure places.
2:55
The minister of Emergency Situations is involved.
2:58
We try to make the corridor to fast take away the people.
3:05
– Thank you very much for the information.
3:07
Hold on there!
3:08
The commander of Pyatnashka interbrigade was with us on-line.
3:12
Today, at 4-30 a.m., Kiev forces violated the Minsk agreements and attacked the militia positions…
3:17
…near the village of Marinka, close to the western suburb of Donetsk.
3:20
We follow the events.
According to NAF spokesman Basurin the Maryinka attack by UAF has been a provocation and diversion to justify and cover preparation of larger scale offensive against Lugansk. Ukrainian minister of defence Muzhenko was personally overseeing the Mariynka from Kramatorsk.
http://vk.com/strelkov_info?w=wall-57424472_61686
Of course things didn’t go according to UAF plan so now they are somewhat off the balance and on the back foot.
You should make an article or webpage dedicated to finding out all the information you can about Sheren Khalel and Matthew Vickery. So we can have documented proof of their non-existence for easy dissemination. And other people can maybe add to it.
A lying journalist is a bad thing. But a lying journalist that isn’t even a real person would be worse.
The name of the Ukrainian pilot who attacked MH 17 is finally published by Colonel Cassad.
The pilot was named long ago. Russia has not released the name of the witness who first named the pilot.
http://rt.com/news/264545-mh17-investigators-key-witness/
There is no new addition to the story. They just released his name. Why??? to remind the world they KNOW what happened.
The parallel story, from the BUK manufacturer, proving it was not one of their BUKs, is not primarily concerned with proving who shot MH17. It is concerned with proving it was not them, in order to remove sanctions placed on their business because of the allegation.
http://rt.com/news/263953-almaz-antey-buk-mh17/
new interview with witness on the ground
This man first gave this evidence, more briefly, on July 18 or 19 in a BBC TV interview which has since been disappeared.
http://7mei.nl/2015/05/30/lev/
STUCKWITHBUK if it wants a password.
to me, what cinches the authenticity of this — he’s not just describing a plane crash from seeing them in movies — the genuine evidence here is, the “heartbreaking” loud roar of the turbines…. the engine breaking up internally from sucking in broken fan blades WHICH WE KNOW HAPPENED FROM THE WRECKAGE. Broken bits of blade were found in this man’s village, the FIRST of the 3 the wreckage fell into.
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also read between the lines, people……
he’s in a village closest to Ukrainian territory
there are regular bombing runs deeper into NAF territory over his head
he is too old/unhealthy to be a fighter
he spends all day with monoculars watching for planes (what? just for a hobby??)
remember “there’s a birdie coming to you” ??
Donbass Truce Violation Linked to EU Decision on Sanctions – Lawmaker
The Head of the foreign affairs committee of the lower house of Russia’s parliament has pointed to an interdependence between shelling in Donbass and the EU’s anti-Russia sanctions prolongation.
Head of the foreign affairs committee of the lower house of Russia’s parliament Alexei Pushkov has pointed to an interdependence between shelling in southeastern Ukraine (Donbass) and the European Union’s anti-Russia sanctions introduced over Western allegations of Moscow’s involvement in the Ukrainian crisis.
“The closer the day when the EU will decide whether to prolong sanctions against Russia, the stronger the shelling of Donbass from the Kiev side,” Pushkov wrote on his Twitter page on Thursday, adding that this is a “consistent pattern.”
This is interesting:
US servicemen banned from Germany’s G7 zones for fear of attacks
US forces personnel are forbidden from traveling to Germany’s Munich and Garmisch-Patenkirchen, the zones of the upcoming G7 summit, US European Command said, fearing that service people may be attacked by anti-G7 protestors.
Travel restrictions have been issued for US Department of Defense (DOD) personnel in Munich, Germany on June 4 and Garmisch-Partenkirchen from June 7-8. The US European Command said the measures are introduced “due to the size of these [anti-G7] protests and the possibility of violence.”
The occupier fears the “natives” could be hostile. :D
Scott, thank you for the sitrep– especially the debunking of the two phoney journos.
The Novorossiyan parliament has never really bloomed as all the decisions seem to be taken by either DPR & LPR.
Niqnaq is an odd site that scrounges the web, esp the Russian web, looking for interesting stuff. He doesn’t necessarily agree w all the stuff he posts. At any rate he has posted one account of why the N parliament has more or less stepped down. It’s complete w photos & accounts of a meeting.
https://niqnaq.wordpress.com/2015/06/04/perhaps-they-should-adopt-a-more-rigidly-paranoiac-stance-everything-that-is-not-of-immediate-use-is-a-red-herring/
What a racket. US continues pretending to believe Russia is black w sin in complete security that Russia will continue pretending the US is Snow White. It’s “diplomatic” to lie and tell the world that US & allies are fighting the very terrorists that they created.
No wonder they can’t win the information war; they’re fighting on the other side.
Re: “[Russian media] are fighting on the other side”
thats exactly right Penelope,
Including stupid RT that uses and reinforces Western propaganda terminology in its broadcasts like:
– using the perjorative term Syrian “Regime” instead of Syrian Government.
– characterizing the al-Sissy govt of Egypt as a coup or Junta govt in lock step with the MSM. Despite the Sissi govt striking good relations with Russia and ordering Russian military hardware.
-ridiculing the Iraqi govts efforts to fight the so called ISIL when Iraq has shown a preference for Russian weapons over the held-back US weapons systems (including the stalled F-16 order).
– reporting ISIL “victories” with the same enthusiasm as the Western MSM, instead they should be minimizing this Death Squad orgs accomplishments and not help ISIL with the PR it wants to create fear hysteria.
– parroting the MSM line regarding ISIL being a “real” genuine terror group when, in fact, it’s a Frankenstein creation of various Western Intelligence agencies and Turkey.
-Identical Gun Control rhetoric in RT as in the US MSM.
-The non-firing of Oksana Boyko, an airheaded witting or unwitting, Putin resenting, 5th columnist.
-poor or nonexistent vetting of staff to verify that they are not members of foreign intelligence agencies. Some of their British origin news anchors run subtle interference during interviews. How many more Liz Wahls and Abby Martin type saboteurs do they still have on staff.
-Hiring 3rd rater presenters (like Liz Wahl) that are clearly rough around the edges.
Latest fighting reports on niqnaq, altho machine translated.
funny about the cat…except that that guy does not love his cat…and I’m a bit worried about the cat. I’ve seen it all when I comes to pets…and a disrespectul-to-the-pet owner does worse things off film.
thanks Scott for the sitrep…that NATO tank on top of that girl’s car is scary…and will not be punished…I’m sure.
Videos from Mariyanka
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZlJqAdGVP0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0J4QCHUV-ts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZfR8KZAgCg
OT…but very important interview of Ron Paul with George McAdam…about CIA…fantastic….
https://youtu.be/YS4SuojTvPM
http://novorossia.today/emergent-statement-of-executive-commander-of-corps-of-the-mod-dpr-eduard-basurin/
as it says
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“This was an outright provocation aimed at discrediting of our forces in the eyes of the global community. Recently Poroshenko talked about his readiness to declare martial law. Perhaps, this provocation was carried out in order to get us involved in hostilities with the ensuing accusation of our failure to abide by the Minsk Agreement. They needed a pretext in order to introduce martial law. The Ukrainian side did everything in order to provoke us.” Konovov Minister of Defence DPR.
“The number of skirmishes have increased in the past few days, this dangerous trend may develop further,” the Russian diplomat stressed….‘’It is necessary to give an account of the fact that if fighting resumes and shots will be fired, the whole thing will fall apart,” Russia’s Permanent Representative to the OSCE said
MOSCOW, June 4 /TASS/. Andrei Kelin, Russia’s Permanent Representative to the OSCE, noted the worsening security situation in Ukraine’s Donbas region.”
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http://fortruss.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/anticipation-of-lost-war.html
good analysis -opinion here extract eg
“The war between Banderist captured Ukraine and the rebels of the Russian Donbass today is this – “pre-war.” I have no doubt that the conflict will continue anyway. In addition, the most important factor is that the so-called “ATO”, in addition to fighting the militias, pursues another major goal – to provoke Russia. Provoke a sharp use of force, or the toothless neutrality. Both are acceptable to the main customer of this drama. Collectively, I call him Uncle Sam. This is consolidated against the Russian political elite in the US. Do not just say, Obama, McCain or Biden . All of the Washington machine, reinforced by NATO, the UN, the Brussels unit, etc.”
an opinion that is reinforced /backed up by
“British political think tank Chatham House released a report saying the West should change its strategy when dealing with Russia.
According to Russian lawmakers, the report by the Chatham House reveals the true West’s plans in regard to Russia.
“This is a revelation of true plans which the West is making in regard to Russia. Nobody is going to lift any sanctions. They [Western countries] instigated a war for a reason, an undeclared war, but a sluggish, information-coercive, the military part has not fully begun yet,” Russian parliamentarian Franz Klintsevich noted…..Chatham House advise for the preparation of further worsening of relations with Russia and an eventual change of guard in the Kremlin.
The authors underscore the need to strengthen NATO as a key instrument of “containing” Russia, to counter the “Kremlin propaganda” and recommend maintaining the anti-Russian sanctions until the complete settlement of the crisis in eastern Ukraine takes place.
The experts urge “to find better ways to communicate to the Russian people that it is in its long-term national interest to be a part of a rules-based Europe, not an isolated regional hegemon…..“It is self-defeating to link the lifting of sanctions to implementation of the poorly crafted and inherently fragile Minsk accords,” they insisted.
Read more: http://sputniknews.com/politics/20150604/1022925847.html#ixzz3c50NIS82
rules-based europe I ask myself? Cookies anyone? Merkel still claims annexation of Crimea, restricted access for the country’s EU envoy Vladimir Chizhov to the European Parliament, Rus attendance at G7…..etc etc
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KIEV (Sputnik) – There are currently more than 50,000 Ukrainian soldiers deployed in the conflict zone in the country’s east, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said during his annual address to the country’s parliament on Thursday.
Read more: http://sputniknews.com/europe/20150604/1022927750.html#ixzz3c51Ur8yD
“As to DPR army casualties, the current count stands at 14 killed and 86 wounded, including 18 in serious condition,” Eduard Basurin said at a daily news briefing in Donetsk.
Read more: http://sputniknews.com/europe/20150603/1022912131.html#ixzz3c579WCse
sustainable?
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“At 15:00hrs [on Wednesday] the SMM received a letter from the Ukrainian Ministry of Defence, saying Ukrainian Armed Forces heavy weapons would be placed on the contact line in order to deal with the ‘real threat’ posed by the fighting in [the government-controlled town of] Marinka, which they said had started at 06:00hrs that morning,” OSCE observers said in a Thursday spot report.
The SMM observed the movement of heavy weapons and fighting around Marinka, as well as other areas in the Donetsk region on Wednesday morning.”
NOTE
“Ukrainian officials later publicly acknowledged that the weapons had been used,”
…” saying their use was necessary in thwarting a ‘DPR’ [self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic] attack,” the SMM report said.
Read more: http://sputniknews.com/europe/20150604/1022922950.html#ixzz3c51wjTb4
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re Trans. situation:
Currently in Transnistria are about fifteen hundred Russian military. Of these, one battalion – 495 people – have the official status of an international peacekeeping. The other two battalions – Operational Group of Russian Forces – although as it does not recognize the Republic of Moldova and nevertheless are there as part of the OSCE mission and engaged in “safety of warehouses of the former 14th Field Army Armed Forces of the USSR.” A notable warehouses there. The largest military arsenal in Europe. Alone artillery and tank shells had there in the amount of three thousand railway wagons. A dozen divisional ammo! More tanks, guns, other property. Only light infantry weapons – more than ten thousand units. However, all this – the case of bygone days, as almost all heavy weaponry from there either been exported to Russia, or disposed of at the site. In addition, over the years in the Russian Federation was sent 31 trucks with conditioned ammunition. Most of the remaining no-to-use, no longer suitable for transport. They gradually disposed of at the site. But in this case it is important that for each transport and for each ton of waste OSCE pays official Russian money. This is a very serious moment in terms of the reasonableness of the status of Russian troops stationed there. So what we did is completely legal in his own right.
Plus, and peacekeepers and OGRF mostly staffed by Russians living again in the TMR. Officially living. Only a small part of the contract come directly from Russia. And with the government of Transnistria neither they nor Moscow, no friction or disagreement there. Thus, the Russian troops in Transnistria in fact has certainly not absolute, but sufficient autonomy to survive without any problems under the blockade at least a year…..Of course, geographically Transnistria – a piece of land in the long and four wide, sometimes less than twenty-five kilometers. It is eleven times less than the Moscow region and just a little more than South Ossetia. Theoretically, almost the entire area of the Republic of artillery to sweep through the neighboring territory of Ukraine (the length of the common border is about 240 km.) And Moldova (the border is almost the same length). But any such attempts automatically mean a declaration of war of the PMR. Thus, adding us 5 thousand. Bayonets Transdniestrian armed forces. They are certainly much less effective than the Russian side, but certainly not inferior to the troops in Moldova and Ukraine. Plus, mobilization potential of the TMR is estimated at 50 – 70 thousand. Man. While last year, scientists have shown that there are serious may call only 2/3 of the amount that still allows the army to deploy up to 30 thousand. Bayonets. Here it is necessary to add the number of the Russian diaspora in Transnistria of 150 – 160 thousand. People, many of whom have served in the Russian army. This can give even up to 15 thousand. Sustainer replenishment. This gives a total group somewhere in the floor, hundreds of thousands of soldiers and officers. In the complete absence have any problems with weapons and ammunition.”
extract http://www.anna-news.info/node/35761 google translate
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USA claims bilateral contact USA-Rus still open.
http://tass.ru/en/world/798688
…..”Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in an interview with the International Review program on the Rossiya-24 TV channel last week that Moscow was ready to resume military and information exchange contacts with the United States if the US was ready for that.
“When Americans are telling us, like, for example, US Secretary of State John Kerry at a recent meeting in Sochi, that it would be not bad to resume contacts between the militaries, exchange information to prevent unintended dangerous situations, we answer: ‘For God’s sake! If you are ready, ask us and we will respond’,” Lavrov said.
“It was not us who shut down the Presidential Commission, which comprised 21 working groups on all thinkable areas of interstate communication. It worked very effectively and presented annual reports to the presidents. It was not us who severed contacts in other spheres either,” Lavrov said.”
Bilateral military contacts between Russia and the US were frozen amid the Ukrainian crisis in March last year.
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Great detective work Scott!
The MSM isn’t just making up ‘news’, it’s using fictitious ‘journalists’ too !
I don’t think even Evelyn Waugh (‘Scoop!’) predicted this..
Have I missed something? Who uses fictious juornalists and when?
that’s the upshot of the top main item in this sitrep – authors of the nasty article don’t exist
Ha! More ‘factoids’ from USA Today? When it first came out in the 80’s, my father used to refer to it as ‘McPaper’. He was right.
Almaz Antey (Buk Missile manufacturer) Press Conference (English) regarding MH17 shootdown by Buk Missile:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsohFzbJ-vs
Almaz Antey brief video (English subtitles) on technical results of MH17 shootdown analysis:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvxbrdm0wz0
To those who have read my posts here since last summer on this topic, you will only find amazingly more detail from the engineers and technical analysts of the manufacturer of the BUK missile of what I and several others have been saying for the past 11 months regarding the location and flight path of the BUK which shot down MH17 – conclusions that I drew from the known MH17 flight path, debris field, missile interception range, TELAR radar detection range, basic physics of motion, and other simple facts long before most pictures of the debris were posted to the internet or the inner workings of the BUK had been fully explained to the world.
Now we know why Elliot Higgins of Bellingcat and the rest of the Rebel Snizhne BUK crowd has been so furiously posting against the Zaroschenkoe Russian MOD sattelite picture of Ukrainian BUK’s the past few days. Must have gotten marching orders ahead of the release of this report, which is also the obvious source of the Novaya Gazeta article leaked last month.
Thanks, ladies and gents
I enjoy your liking my investigative work.
In my private affairs, including researching Ukraine SITREPs, I follow one tried-and-true Antiques Collector’s rule: always assume that it’s fake. Act and price accordingly.
I assume that everything I read is fake. I have a list of several points that I always check. If each point comes back as negative, I discard information as fake. In this particular case, I got really intrigued and started to dig deeper.
I think it is absolutely hilarious that you think Sheren is fake when I have in fact known here for many years. She’s an intelligent, down to earth person and YES, she has been traveling through those countries doing articles because that’s her passion. I can only assume that her partner isn’t “fake” either, especially when she do post pictures on social media to let everyone at home (St. Louis) know she okay. You’re informing people of your misunderstanding as knowledge. Maybe you should do a little more research..
Perhaps you would be so kind as to give us some links, seeing you are no doubt in possession of some. Would love to see some of her earlier work. Much appreciated.
“The slanderous article de-humanizing Donetsk’s citizens was published by USA Today on May 18th ” –
After the nazis proved what they are waging war against civilians, the issue is NOT to point out how “the West” (alias the few illuminati who control ALL the media and governments) de-humanizes and demonizes Russians in general.
The reason why the nazis were able to continue to bomb civilians for now 14 months or in other words the issue is:
. not pointing out how “Putin” and the russian government (ALL treasonous illuminazi agents) humanize the “West” agents who have been murdering and ethnically cleansing the Ukraine, despite having been militarily defeated twice by a militia that is obviously only NOT supported by traitor “Putin” but also has seen its leaders who refused to follow the treasonous orders of Zhakarchencko and Plonitsky murdered.
BASICS
Feb 2015: Minsk ceasefire theater …
http://illuminati-theater.blogspot.com/2014/09/lukashenko-putint-all-illuminati-minsk.html
… must be repeated:
http://armageddon-now.blogspot.com/2015/01/ukraine-vs-novorussia-full-story-only.html
Nazi agent Lukashenko, Belarus PM, is assigned the role of openly telling to the audience the symbolism of its location, on VestiTV:
“Before Merkel the last German leader who was in Belarus was Hitler, and before Hollande – Napoleon.”
Explanation:
Napoleon and Hitler failed. But this time the basic fact is unprecedented:
Russia under “point of no return” military attack and not lead by patriots but by traitors.
http://end-times-history.blogspot.com/2014/06/russia-unprecedented-attack-traitors.html