Posted on 07/19/2016 7:39:17 AM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
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Seven Ukrainian soldiers were killed and another 14 were injured in the Donbas conflict zone over the past 24 hours, according to the Presidential Administration's spokesman for ATO.
"Over the past day, seven Ukrainian soldiers were killed and 14 were injured in the fighting," Andriy Lysenko, ATO spokesman for the president's staff, said at a briefing in Kyiv Tuesday. Lysenko expressed condolences to the families and friends of the victims.
ATO REPORT: 78 militant attacks in last 24 hrs Over the past day, Russian occupation forces opened fire, including from the weapons BANNED by the Minsk agreements, 78 times on positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Donbas conflict zone, according to the Headquarters of the Anti-Terrorist Operation.
43 attacks have been recorded in the Donetsk direction, another 22 – in the Mariupol direction, and 13 – in the Luhansk direction, the ATO HQ wrote on Facebook.
The enemy used 122mm artillery near Myronivske and Pisky in Donetsk region. In addition, the militants used 120 mm mortars near Maiorsk, Nyzhnye, Lozove, Zaitseve, Avdiyivka, and Luhanske. The adversary fired from 82mm mortars at Kamenka, Avdiyivka, Pisky, Zaitseve, Troitske, Opytne, and Nevelske.
The Ukrainian positions in Novhorodske were fired upon from grenade launchers, heavy machine guns, an anti-aircraft gun and weapons mounted on an infantry fighting vehicle.
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In the Mariupol direction, the situation was tense in Maryinka, Krasnohorivka, and Starohnativka, where the enemy hit the Ukrainian defenders from 120mm mortars. Also, 82mm mortars, rocket-propelled grenades, and small arms were used by the enemy in Vodiane, while Maryinka was fired at from grenade launchers, heavy machine guns, and weapons mounted on armored vehicles.
In Luhansk region, the enemy fired 120mm mortar shells at our fortified positions in Krymske, Novooleksandrivk, and Troitske. 82mm mortars, grenade launchers and heavy machine guns were fired in the village of Luhanske.
http://www.unian.info/war/1425047-ato-report-78-militant-attacks-in-last-24-hrs.html
Yawn. Ukraine is being invaded by Russia and won’t fight back. They took the cash bribes from the west under the condition they internalize the conflict. Now why should be care about Russian invasion when Ukraine government does not?
7 KIA & 14 WIA in 24 hours sounds like Chicago on a quite night.
If there was ever a “Russian invasion” of Ukraine, everyone would know. It would be swift, overwhelming and brutal and the Ukrainian Army would be annihilated. As long as Kiev tries to hold on to the Donbas, the separatists will resist.
“...If there was ever a “Russian invasion” of Ukraine...”
There is a Russian invasion of the Ukraine via somewhat covert tactics.
jeez...still using BMP1s with AT3 sagger?
“while Maryinka was fired at from grenade launchers”
So are the lines in a cease fire THAT close? That’s idiotic. OR, was somebody moving and attacking?
Uke stories are always a hoot. Like they have read too much WWII heroic soviet propaganda.
The invasion was from the Ukes. When you have a coup, you don’t simply inherit the old country. You only obtain sieze you can physically grab. And in the manner YOU grab the government, others have the right to grab what they want.
IE...if a violent coup seized DC, Texas would have a right to grab their region.
The maidan and Svoboda militias moved in to grab the east, and that’s when the people in the east fought back and got help from Russia where their trade was very heavy.
This war wouldn’t be happening unless Svoboda wouldn’t have invaded east. They don’t have any natural right to own eastern Ukraine.
If there was ever a “Russian invasion” of Ukraine, everyone would know. It would be swift, overwhelming and brutal and the Ukrainian Army would be annihilated. As long as Kiev tries to hold on to the Donbas, the separatists will resist.
You bootlicking Putinists said the same about Crimea. Then Putin handed out the medals. Russia destroyed over 100 miles of Ukraine-Russia border. Then invaded Ukraine with its army. That is beyond dispute except for dissembling supporters of the tin pot czar.
By that reasoning would you also claim that the United States "invaded" Syria, or did we actually arm and finance ISIS and other insurgents against Assad? The latter is clearly true. There is no doubt that Russia supports the Donbas separatists against the Ukrainian Army, but there has been no invasion. If there was, Ukraine would have no army.
Disagreement really bothers you, doesn't it? Russia clearly did take over Crimea with the forces that it already (and always had) stationed there. However, it also did so with the overwhelming consent of Crimea's citizenry.
Not that it would have mattered if the Crimeans had objected. There was no way that Russia was going to sit idly by and allow its sole warm water port and naval base fall to NATO after we instigated the overthrow of Ukraine's elected government. We were fools to even dream they would! Since the Monroe Doctrine began in 1823, we have asserted control of our entire hemisphere and crushed all outside challenges to our realm. It is lunacy to think that Moscow will not aggressively resist further US/NATO expansion against Russia's strategic Black Sea underbelly. Wars are started this way.
So since Stalin killed so many in the Eastern Ukraine in the 1930s and imported Russians it is “natural” for it to gravitate to Russia? There are many in the Lugansk area that are horrified by the separation. My wife’s family from Alchevsk is among them.
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