Posted on 05/15/2016 9:28:32 AM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
Further attacks against Ukrainian forces near Avdiivka, Maryinka, Luhanske
Russian-backed militants continue intensive shelling of Ukrainian army positions near the town of Avdiivka in Donetsk regions, reports the press centre of Anti-Terrorist Operation.
"The illegal military groups do not stop their shelling of Ukrainian troops in the combat zone. Today we recorded eight cases of enemy's violating the ceasefire," the press centre said.
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The most aggressive militant attacks were observed in the direction of Donetsk, including the city suburbs. The Russian-backed militants used small arms, grenade launchers, heavy-calibre machine guns, and 82mm-calibre mortars.
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The Ukrainian positions also came under attack near the villages of Maryinka and Luhanske.
Otherwise the whole effort would have fizzled long ago.
What are their complaints? What drives them to revolution?
Split all entities according to ethnic makeups. the future must be a nationalist one.
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Looks like God is rooting for the Rooskies.
They can instill themselves as the de facto government, with Russia happy to support them in staying there?
Putin took Crimea with “little green men” or soldiers with all Russian insignia removed.
Crimea History
50 Ukrainian military in Belbek come UNARMED to the airport from the requirement to put them in position, the Russians met their shots in the air, but then began negotiations.
This was announced by Polish Radio journalist Taras Shumeyko phone.
About 50 soldiers with weapons around 8:40 the column moved to the airfield occupied by the military without opiznavalnyh signs, according to UP.
“When the convoy approached the entrance to the airport, along with the press, there is a lot of press from around the world - Russian soldiers began firing into the air. Then came their commander and held talks with George Mamchur. .
He noted that Colonel Yuri Mamchur demanded that Ukrainian military allowed to take their job positions and offered jointly carry health military warehouses on the airfield.
“The Russians have agreed to part - make it possible to position the technical outfit, about 10 people.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gda5vWBu8bQ
Today, The Ukrainian people are begging for prayer.
Could every Christian reading please ask God to intereded and give protection to the people and soldiers of Western Ukraine.
UKRAINE HISTORY OF RUSSIAN INVASION:
VICE NEWS did a tremendous job.
These were the first reports... now up to “RUSSIAN ROULETTE 112” or something. They started out trying to show both sides... not really possible now!
VICE NEWS REPORTER: Simon Ostrovsky [He was captured at one point]
Russia has invaded the Crimean peninsula of Ukraine and taken over its civilian and military infrastructure. Not a shot has been fired so far, but Russia is using its superior force to intimidate Ukrainian troops in an attempt to get them to surrender.
Russia claims it wants to “stabilize” the situation on the peninsula, but Ukraine’s new government regards the move as an occupation of its sovereign territory.
** you may have to adjust closed caption [c]c to English. The last time I visited some links they were in Japanese!]
RUSSIAN ROULETTE 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNKsLlK52ss
RUSSIAN ROULETTE 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y57vy4vWb-E&list=PLw613M86o5o7DfgzuUCd_PVwbOCDO472B
RUSSIAN ROULETTE 3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnpXASPd1h4&feature=youtu.be
RUSSIAN ROULETTE 4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGSrcYLsOMI
RUSSINA ROULETTE 5 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFlLN9E2kcY&list=UUZaT_X_mc0BI-djXOlfhqWQ&feature=share
RUSSIAN ROULETTE 6 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTiSOUfKxjk
RUSSIAN ROULETTE 7 http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=V9Dk2emDU0o
RUSSIAN ROULETTE 8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffYW3nlBwZk
RUSSIAN ROULETTE 9 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKxRJ6Zqzdc
RUSSIAN ROULETTE 10 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GH3HGvZlhhk
RUSSIAN ROULETTE 11 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLw1WdS8F1c
RUSSIAN ROULETTE 12 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dqp8ay87Tzc
RUSSIAN ROULETTE 13 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1v_lu6qcyk
RUSSIAN ROULETTE 14 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqHeZUS9_EY
RUSSIAN ROULETTE 15 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoZwWzYBBkc
RUSSIAN ROULETTE 16 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_fzoZww-9g
RUSSIAN ROULETTE 17 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBLs_AsBtjg
RUSSIAN ROULETTE 18 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fur0PJKvOg
RUSSIAN ROULETTE 19 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bgtKoYBZVg&list=UUZaT_X_mc0BI-djXOlfhqWQ
RUSSIAN ROULETTE 20 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhbbKoSH88c
RUSSIAN ROULETTE 21 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbT469xaqmA
RUSSIAN ROULETTE 22 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wetleAB1XmY
RUSSIAN ROULETTE 23 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpdCvuf-ZOk
RUSSIAN ROULETTE 24 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUNVwbp_JSA
RUSSIAN ROULETTE 25 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wxEIWu9c94
RUSSIAN ROULETTE 26 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTdkY8tl2b0
RUSSIAN ROULETTE 27 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mywTyAhlJM
RUSSIAN ROULETTE 28 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNig07RtWxA
I UNDERSTAND CONFUSION, OUR MSM DOES NOT COVER UKRAINE therefore not much info to understand issues.
HISTORY of U.S. involvement:
Ukraine had inherited physical, if not operational, control over the world’s third-largest stockpile of nukes—roughly 1800 warheads and an arsenal bigger than China, Britain and France combined. While Russia retained possession of most of the necessary infrastructure to make use of these nuclear armaments, the threat of nuclear proliferation had grown dramatically overnight. In a sweeping effort to consolidate and secure the former Soviet Union’s nuclear stockpiles, Russia, the UK, the US, and Ukraine concluded two years of negotiations with what came to be known as the Budapest Memorandum. All four governments signed it on December 5th, 1994.
Among other things the Memorandum—the full text of which can be found here—promised signatories would:
• “respect the Independence and Sovereignty and the existing borders of Ukraine”
• “refrain from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of Ukraine”
• “refrain from economic coercion designed to subordinate to their own interest the exercise by Ukraine of the rights inherent in its sovereignty and thus to secure advantages of any kind”
BUDAPEST MEMORANDUM
First: emphasized and reinforced obligations that ALL of the signatories had already agreed to via the UN Charter.
Secondly: strongly stressed the importance of Ukraine’s territorial viability, and directly referenced the danger of one state using “economic coercion” to flex its muscles against Kiev. It also recognized the importance of a few stakeholders in Ukraine’s future and speedily resolved a pressing proliferation dilemma.
All this helped to REAFFIRM, if only politically, something already LEGALLY PROTECTED pursuant to the UN Charter: Ukraine’s sovereignty.
UKRAINE’S SOVEREIGNTY was surely compromised, despite security assurances from Memorandum signatories, and despite Kiev’s forsaking of its nuclear stockpiles.
In that regard the Memorandum has shown some serious cracks. And these could have dramatic and systemic ramifications, as the French Foreign Minister, Laurent Fabius, explained recently:
It could mean that countries that have nuclear weapons won’t want to give them up, while countries that don’t have them may want to acquire them because that will be the only way to protect their territorial integrity.
http://www.lawfareblog.com/2014/11/throwback-thursday-the-1994-budapest-memorandum/
MORE CURRENT SUMMARY:
http://www.cipe.org/blog/2016/01/06/will-there-ever-be-a-resolution-in-eastern-ukraine/#.Vzi40iEYHWQ
Thank you for the info.
The Crimea was a willing partner in the Russian take over.
Ukraine is an artificial state, nearly half of which was Austrian for a thousand years, and the other half of which has always been Russian.
The Western half, understandably and reasonably, wants to integrate with the EU. The Eastern half does not.
Unarmed Ukrainian soldiers.
In 1783, Empress Catherine II annexed Crimea; the annexation was confirmed by the Treaty of Jassy (1792). Many Tatars, with their Muslim religion and Turkic language, emigrated to Turkey, while Russians, Ukrainians, Bulgarians, Germans, Armenians, and Greeks settled in the Crimea. During the Crimean War (1853–56), parts of the remaining Tatar population were resettled in the interior of Russia.
After the Bolshevik Revolution (1917) an independent Crimean republic was proclaimed; but the region was soon occupied by German forces and then became a refuge for the White Army.
In 1921 a Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic was created; Tatars then constituted about 25% of the population. During World War II, German invaders took the Crimea after an eight-month siege. Accused by the Soviet government of collaborating with the Germans, the Crimean Tatars were forcibly removed from their homeland after the war and resettled in distant parts of the Asian USSR. The republic itself was dissolved (1945) and made into a region of the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic.
However, in 1954 it was transferred to Ukraine. In 1989, Tatars began to return from their exile in Siberia and Central Asia.
Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russia and Ukraine engaged in negotiations over the possession of Crimea and the disposition of the former Soviet fleet based in the Black Sea.
In 1992 there was an abortive attempt by the Russian-dominated Crimean government to declare independence. Elected Crimea’s first president in 1994, Yuri Meshkov called for the rejoining of the Crimea with Russia. In 1995, Crimea’s government was placed under national control and Meshkov was ousted, but its assembly was retained.
An accord the same year between Ukraine and Russia called for the division of the Black Sea fleet, and in 1997 it was agreed that Russia would be allowed to base its portion of the fleet there for 20 YEARS [2017].
In 2014, following the collapse of Ukrainian president Yanukovych’s government, pro-Russian forces seized government buildings in Crimea, and in closed-door (and INVALID ELECTION) Crimea’s prime minister was replaced and a referendum on joining Russia scheduled.
Thinly disguised Russian military forces with some locals seized key facilities and surrounded Ukrainian bases in Crimea.
A historically Russian region which was never part of the historic Ukraine was not willing to return to its motherland. No one believes that - not even Ukrainians.
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