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Novorussia/Ukraine update 8\18\2015..There will be a full scale war very soon along the entire frontline
Another Ceasefire Minsk Deal? Ukrainian president set to visit Brussels to discuss peace deal
“There will be a full scale war very soon along the entire frontline
Kiev is preparing for the offensive against the Donbass
Surge in Fighting in Eastern Ukraine
Death toll from latest east Ukraine fighting rises to 10
Kirby (Kerry): Sharp increase separatist attacks Ukraine. 13 Aug 2015
Kirby: Ukraine talk ‘ad nauseam’. 17 Aug 2015
US Drones in Ukrainian Skies: Pentagon to expand drone coverage in hotspots
Gorlovka 16.08.2015
Ukraine reinforces army in Donbass. 08/16/2015
Airmobile Infantry Ukrainian Donbass 2014 – 2015
OSCE: A fish rots from the head down
Putin: Kiev, not militias is to blame for escalating violence in Ukraine
SEVASTOPOL, August 18./TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin has said he hopes that the situation in the Donbas region will not amount to open large-scale clashes between the militias and the Ukrainian army and that he believes there is no alternative to Minsk-2. “I hope that it will not come to direct large-scale clashes,” he told reporters.
“As for the Minsk-2 agreement, I believe there is no other alternative for resolving the situation and that peace will prevail in the long run. Our task is to minimize the losses, with which we will come to this peace,” he added. The Russian leader also noted that the blame for the current escalation of violence in Ukraine rested with Kiev rather than the militias. “Unfortunately, today we see the escalation, and the blame for this rests not with the militias, it rests with the opposite side,” he told reporters. Meanwhile, the Russian side has evidence that the Ukrainian army is amassing troops and military equipment in Donbas. “It was the Donbas militias that suggested withdrawing all military equipment with caliber under 100 mm. Unfortunately, the opposite side didn’t do that. On the contrary, according to the available data, it is concentrating its units there, including those reinforced with military hardware,” Putin said. However, he declined to comment on remarks by Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko regarding the Russian president’s trip to Crimea. In response to a request to comment on these statements, Putin recalled that Crimeans had closed the chapter on the issue of the future of the peninsula during the referendum.
US Military Afraid It Can’t Fight Russia | The Vineyard of the Saker
…….Something about the war that we are pondering should be made clear at the outset. We are talking only about a conventional war fought at Russia’s borders. No one expects a Russian expeditionary force to successfully fight the USA from a base in Mexico. No one is betting on Russia winning a naval battle in the south Pacific. No one thinks Russia could gain and hold air superiority over southern Africa. No one is suggesting that Russia could conquer France. Indeed I do not think Russia could conquer Ukraine – “Getting to the Dnepr, Kiev or Lviv would have been easy, but once there, the Russians would have found themselves surrounded by people who didn’t want them to be there. And that, as the Americans found out in Iraq, is quite a different thing.” No. We are talking about the chances of NATO forces, on the edge of Russia, attacking it. Or reacting to a limited Russian attack to, say, finally put a stop to the continual shelling of civilians in Donetsk and Lugansk. That they would lose. Tough talk about stopping a Russian attack on NATO countries is alarmist nonsense: Russia is not interested in grabbing the Baltics or Poland let alone Finland or Sweden. Those who think that it is, must first explain why the Russia that they claim is hell-bent on recreating the USSR didn’t grab Georgia in 2008. Is not as if the USA/NATO was in a position to stop it then, was it?
It appears that some in the US military are starting to realize what has been started.
The piece is worth reading, despite the claptrap (“Putin’s erratic leadership “) and tough talk (note it’s the civilian who boasts: “We’d clean their clocks”), because it shows that reality is slowly seeping through the carapace of delusion.
The USA/NATO have been more or less continually at war with somebody since the fall of the USSR. But that somebody has been small, incompetent, poorly equipped, with very limited military reach. The principal concern of their armies for the last ten years have been roadside bombs; of their air forces, finding things to bomb; of their navies, firing cruise missiles. Nobody has been shooting back at the ships or aircraft. But where the enemy has been shooting back, in the ground wars, one has rudely to ask who won? In Somalia? Afghanistan? Iraq? Not the mighty NATO armies.
The USA spent months and months moving weapons, soldiers, spare parts, fuel, ammunition and materiel to the Middle East before the two Iraq wars. “The span of that bridge was literally a ship every 72 miles from the US to Kuwait”; “From January 2003 through the end of April 2003, MSC delivered more than 21 million square [sic – cubic surely] feet of war-fighting equipment and supplies, 260 million gallons of fuel and 95,000 tons of ammunition to the Persian Gulf “. Does anyone seriously think that Russia would wait quietly while hundreds of ships placidly crossed the oceans, arrived in ports, dumped their cargoes, assembled the bits and moved to the front? Saddam Hussein had nothing with which to hinder this ponderous buildup, but Russia does. Plenty of capable submarines to sink the convoys, hundreds of formidable Iskander rockets to shatter the ports and airfields and a large and competent air force to hinder free movement. To say nothing of a gigantic airborne force to get there first….
3 houses destroyed in Dokuchaevsk after the shelling of Kiev neo-Nazi forces
August 18, 2015 No comments
3 inhabited houses in Dokuchaevsk were partially destroyed as a result of shelling by Ukrainian fighters; utility lines were broken near Gorlovka. Loc… Read more
One wounded person in Donetsk by Ukrainain fighters, 17 August
August 18, 2015 No comments
Donetsk dweller has been injured in shelling by Ukrainian forces, head of local administration Ivan Prikhodko said on Tuesday. “One man aged of… Read more
DPR Defense Ministry disproves US reports of militia attack on Mariupol
August 18, 2015 No comments
The Defense Ministry of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) has denied statements of the US State Department that the militia allegedly attacked the n… Read more
11,000 civilians of the DPR live close to the frontline
August 18, 2015 No comments
11,000 residents of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) living on the disengagement line between militiamen and Ukrainian troops daily risk their live… Read more
Donetsk republic says no plans for direct contacts with Kiev so far
August 17, 2015 No comments
The Donetsk People’s Republic currently has no plans to hold direct talks with the Kiev authorities, a senior official from the eastern republic said… Read more
Novorossia news with Zak Novak, 19 August (radio)
August 17, 2015 No comments
Novorossia news with Zak Novak 19 August. 1. Shelling of the DPR by Kiev forces. 2. Batallion Azov teaches children, new Nazi generation. 3. Humanitar… Read more
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