[Jimmy Valentine]

Spoke with friends in Ukraine today. These are all lies. Untrained boys with no boots no food no real training are being thrown against Spetsnaz controlled Chechin mercenaries and are being killed wholesale. The damned government in Kiev whines about no money while the Verkovna Rada makes huge money every month

Poroshenko will deserve a hanging for what he is let go on in Donetz

[Rashputin]

Through friends of mine with family still in Ukraine I hear the same but without independent verification how do you decide it's not more rumors?

Western Ukraine is neck deep in rumors from what I hear.