Posted on 08/28/2014 7:36:36 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
KIEV, Ukraine — Russian forces in two armored columns captured a key southeastern coastal town near the Russian border Thursday after Ukrainian forces retreated in the face of superior firepower, a Ukrainian military spokesman said.
The two Russian columns, including tanks and armored fighting vehicles, entered the town of Novoazovsk on the Sea of Azov after a battle in which Ukrainian army positions came under fire from Grad rockets launched from Russian territory, according to the spokesman, Col. Andriy Lysenko.
“Our border servicemen and guardsmen retreated as they did not have heavy equipment,” Lysenko said in a statement.
Ukrainian authorities have denounced the latest fighting as a Russian invasion of their territory, intended to prop up pro-Moscow separatists who have been losing ground to Ukrainian forces and to open a “second front” in the southeastern corner of Ukraine.
Ukrainian officials said earlier that Ukrainian troops were battling combined Russian and separatist forces on a new southern front around Novoazovsk, about eight miles west of the Russian border. The Ukrainian military also said Russian troops were increasing surveillance from northern Crimea, the autonomous Ukrainian peninsula annexed by Moscow in March.
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We are entering into an unstable period.
who finds that plausible??
“with winter fast approaching, the real fun is just beginning.”
That is the real key to all of this, isn’t it?
The Kiev government is already shutting off the power in the rural areas for some hours everyday to save gas. They are just weeks away from the cold weather beginning, and the rainy season.
They HAVE to make sizable gains now, or face another Maidan, this time with guns, as the people start starving and freezing this winter.
“We are entering into an unstable period”
Entering?
We’ve been in one since about 18 months after Obama was elected.
Russian Army tank captured
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUQZN26jgSo
I guess the tank was a “volunteer” too?
The coup that ousted the president is what weakened them and invited trouble in the first place. The coup was done in the name of making the country more pro-Western or pro-EU.... I wonder if Obama's community organizers were behind that one too.
Obama is not “pro-western” himself
“invited trouble”? They invited a Russian invasion by ousting a corrupt dictator who sent goons to kill peaceful demonstrators....
LOL—do you remember not too long ago, when our resident commie-symps were assuring us that “Russia has no designs on the rest of Ukraine,” “there is no need for Russia to send troops,” and “the concerns of the Ukrainians are unfounded?”
Lwow had been part of Poland for centuries.
You notice the exact same posters who said this was a civil war and Russia isn’t involved in it are now admitting Russia has invaded but it’s not our fight, stay out of it, and Ukraine needs to surrender?
Yep. Now we have entire battalions with their equipment “volunteering” as ordered apparently.
Well, there is a confluence between Ron Paul supporters, conservatives in the Buchanan mold, and actual Kremlin tools who take advantage of both by pushing their buttons.
Its not our fight.
Obama doesn’t care so why should I?
As a conservative, I see no reason to give him my support where he deserves none.
And he has don’t forget - no “red lines.” Any American who supports the man is a born fool.
The Ukraine disarmed after the US promised to protect them.
You other nations listening? :)
Otherwise they would be moving from the North.
In other words, you agree with Obama and have the same exact position as him.
Second.
All in favor say "Aye!"
Like your mettle especially in these days of cowards on the right and liars on the left.
“They could slit the throat of any Ukranian citizen that cooperates with the invasion”
How Islamic,,
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