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Ukrainian president: Russian troops have crossed border

Wednesday, June 3, 2015 18:40
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Ukrainian president: Russian troops have crossed border

Petro Poroshenko cancels planned trip to Turkey as he effectively accuses Russia of invasion

Ukraine’s president has effectively accused Russia of invading his country, saying troops have been moved across the border to support separatists now fighting on two fronts in the east.

“Recent Russian actions clearly demonstrate that Moscow is bluntly drawingUkraine and the entire world into a full-scale war,” Ukraine’s foreign ministry said in a statement.

Petro Poroshenko, the president, cancelled a planned trip to Turkey and demanded an urgent meeting of the UN security council after the six-month crisis deepened with reports of fresh Russian incursions along Ukraine’s south-eastern coast.

“Russian forces have actually entered Ukraine,” he said in a statement. The accusation comes just two days after the Ukrainian leader met Vladimir Putin in Minsk, since when the situation in the east has deteriorated.

Poroshenko stopped short of calling the movements an outright invasion, but convened an urgent meeting of the country’s national security council to discuss the Russian moves. “I have made a decision to cancel my working visit to the republic of Turkey due to sharp aggravation of the situation in Donetsk region, particularly in Amvrosiivka and Starobeshevo, as Russian troops were actually brought into Ukraine,” he said. “The president must stay in Kiev today.”

In Brussels, a Nato military officer told Reuters that the alliance believes there are now more than 1,000 Russian soldiers fighting in Ukraine. Russia has repeatedly denied it is fighting in Ukraine, and speaking after the Minsk negotiations, Putin said that a solution to the crisis in east Ukraine is “not our business; it is a domestic matter for Ukraine itself”. He said all Russia could do was “support the creation of an environment of trust”.

Putin’s words, however, jar sharply with events on the ground. Fighters and weapons have long been able to move freely along the unguarded sections of Russia’s border with Ukraine, and reporters in Novoazovsk near the border with Russia say what appears to be hastily repainted Russian military hardware has appeared in the town in recent days. Ukrainian officials have described the town as under control of the Russian military.

Russia’s denials appear increasingly flimsy. When the Guardian saw a Russian armoured column cross the border two weeks ago, the foreign ministry and local security services denied any incursion had taken place, saying it was a border patrol that had not strayed into Ukrainian territory.

Earlier this week, when 10 Russian paratroopers were captured well inside Ukraine, sources in the defence ministry also said they had been part of a border patrol that had got lost and entered Ukraine “by accident”.

The head of the self-declared Donetsk People’s Republic, Alexander Zakharchenko, admitted on Thursday that there are serving Russian soldiers among his fighters, but claimed they were volunteers who were taking a holiday in the region.

“Among the Russian volunteers there are many former soldiers, who are fighting alongside us and understand that it’s their duty,” said Zakharchenko in an interview with Russian television. “And moreover, I’ll say it openly, we also have current soldiers, who decided to take their holidays not on the beach, but among us.”

Black smoke billows over fire after shelling in Novoazovsk Black smoke billows over fire after shelling in Novoazovsk. Photograph: Alexander Khudoteply/AFP/Getty Images

Although Putin’s actions in Ukraine have been supported by the vast majority of Russians, there is increasing dissent inside the country about the growing evidence of a stealth war. Mikhail Khodorkovsky, formerly Russia’s richest man – who was released from jail late last year – said Russians should not be silent about the country’s soldiers being killed in Ukraine and secretly buried.

“We are fighting in Ukraine, fighting for real,” the former oligarch wrote. “Our authorities are always lying about this, in the ’80s about Afghanistan, in the ’90s about Chechnya and now about Ukraine. Why are we remaining silent? Have we become cowards? Are we scared of even thinking now?”

There have also been appeals from relatives of the soldiers captured in Ukraine, calling on Putin and the defence ministry to help bring the men home alive.

Kiev on Thursday called on its western allies for more support. The foreign ministry said in a statement: “Under the current circumstances, Ukraine counts on serious support from its international partners and believes that strengthening EU sanctions against Russia as well as providing Ukraine with military and technical support will help deter Russian aggression.”

Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/28/ukraine-accuses-russia-invading-south-east-help-rebels

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  • theawakezone

    Mikhail Khodorkovsky is a liar and a parasite. A part of the Illuminati plans as all the oligarchs`s

  • In 2014?

  • This is BIN (Before its News) not LYL – Last years Lies.

    here’s an update:-

    Posted by babeuf79 ⋅ May 26, 2015

    Laurent Brayard: I was in Donetsk and I Accuse the French Government
     
    I was incredibly lucky to visit for a few days Donbass and Donetsk itself. Thus, I have fulfilled the duty which essentially our government should be obliged to fulfill. Being very limited in my means, with the great support of the people of Donetsk (and not only them), I was able to see firsthand what is happening in this part of Europe which everybody is talking about but which no Frenchman is able to find on a map. I travelled thousands of kilometres to get there, and now I can accuse the French government with greater strength and more right. To remain silent would be criminal—it would be to disgrace my name as a Frenchman. The French Government, I accuse you that you are indirectly responsible for the deaths of thousands of people in the Donbass, that you contribute to the hardship and terrible living conditions of its people; I accuse you of involvement in the promotion of deceitful, unjust, dirty and outrageous propaganda, whose victims were millions of people. I accuse you of betraying our French traditions—derived not only from the French Revolution but also from the Ancien Régime—the purpose of which are to support and protect the weak and free them from oppression. Exactly how thousands of national volunteers in year II of the Republican calendar marched across all the Europe to win their own and other peoples’ freedom.

    I accuse you, the Government of France, of renouncing independence by throwing her into the gutter called the European Union; I accuse you of no longer using the rights and responsibilities of “the voice of France”, the voice which charges our authorities to use diplomacy and our influence in the world for good purposes, independently and outside foreign spheres of influence which are contrary to the interests of the Nation. I accuse you, the French Government, of lying to the French people through criminal mass propaganda, which for many months in every possible manner undermines and slings mud at the reputation of Russia. This dangerous Russophobic policy, bordering on racial hatred and nationalism, is so terrible for our country that we refused to participate alongside our Russian brothers in the Moscow parade on the occasion of Great Victory Day of May 9, 1945, the victory over Nazism. Meanwhile, we support the Kiev regime, based on neo-Nazis and have already paid it, via the European Union, billions of euros at the expense of French taxpayers. Those funds have gone towards arming and equipping battalions of murderers and rapists, like Azov and Aidar.

    I accuse you, the French Government together with all, or almost all, journalists in our country, of participating in a monstrous lie, from which people are dying in the Donbass: this—the myth of Russian Army aggression in Ukraine. I was in Donbass, I drove in there through two checkpoints Novoshakhtinsk and Matveyev Kurgan. If there were 50,000 Russian soldiers over there, as alleged by pro-Ukrainian activists such as the immoral Nathalie Pasternak, whose hands are now stained with blood; if there really were entire divisions, I would certainly have seen hundreds of tanks, trucks, service and supply units. Yet I did not notice any accumulation of Russian troops on the border, hiding whom would be extremely difficult in a region where the landscape consists mainly of Cossack steppe. During the trip, I saw neither soldiers nor regiments nor brigades nor divisions nor the army of the Russian Federation. Everywhere I went, in the cities through which I passed, such as the Cossack city of Antrasit with 54,000 residents, south of Lugansk, I did not encounter any Russian troops. I was able to interview the locals I encountered, and all of them, including those who do not support Novorossiya (and I did come across such people), said that there is no Russian Army in the Donbass. I myself was able personally to confirm this, as throughout the trip I met only republican army soldiers, dressed and armed very diversely.
    Later, I will talk about what exactly I saw and heard in the Donbass. For the French Government it would be enough to send a single diplomat, only as an observer, so that they could ascertain the facts, present an objective report to our Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and, through it, to the President of the Republic. But our government did not do this, on the contrary, it persists in accusing Russia. In the Donbass I met ordinary people, young and not so young, men and women, the elderly and children. Yes, this is a Russophone people, which wants only one thing: to gain its freedom. It has already made its choice in the referendum in favour of independence. It has already hoisted the banner of freedom over Donetsk and Lugansk. This population is to some extent supported by Russia, which hosts, without any external support, 1.7 million refugees while France—the country of Human Rights—has spent not a centime to help these people suffering disaster. On the contrary, it is pointing fingers at Russia and subjecting her to undeserved sanctions. While people in the Donbass suffer and die. Without the tremendous solidarity of the people in the Donbass, thousands of them would have already died; many of them, soldiers and civilians, will die yet. They will die simply because they want to be free, to shape their own destiny, to live.

    Therefore, I call, exclusively in their own name—what I also would do at any cost: persecution or prison—on all the French, regardless of origin, skin colour, or political beliefs, to sanction the French government by expressing their resistance in the elections, and not just passive resistance, and finally to rise from their knees. The people of Donbass have shown us an example. In exactly the same way we can get rid of a presidential regime in which we are ruled by well-fed and complacent oligarchs. We can push them out of the country peacefully because, in the words of Danton, the people’s strength is boundless. Only one spark will suffice for France to return power to its people, to again put Democracy back in its hands, because lies and the rewriting of history have never receive any support in France, especially when people are dying under bombardment and even from lack of medicines and food.
    I have made up my mind. Just as the French Ambassador in 1939 in Prague, asked for Czech citizenship as German divisions were crossing the borders of the country, I ask for citizenship of the Donbass. I prefer to share the fate of these brave men, rather than to remain silent and, with this silence, to support politicians who daily disgrace not only themselves, but even France herself.
    —Laurent Brayard, journalist, French citizen

  • Is that the 8th time he has said the russians are coming or the 9th time ?

    People that go against the US invasion plans in the Ukraine have all been removed from AboveTopSecret.com just about and the trolls are running wild as if they have won the war.

    The Ukraine has admited breaking the minsk II agrement and is now fireing 120mm shell towards the east which those in the know knew anyway.

    Russia should invade and take over the whole of the Ukraine and kill any american troops they find who should not be their.

  • “Earlier this week, when 10 Russian paratroopers were captured well inside Ukraine,… ” this was in 2014!

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