Posted on 05/07/2015 2:45:10 AM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
Russia is waging a hybrid war for which the West is not prepared.
All warning lights are red. All cross-checked information, all sources show that Russian Federation forces have massed troops on each foreseen penetration axis from Kursk to Kharkiv, Rostov to southeast Ukraine and from Crimea to the coastal area.
The estimation ranges from 65,000 to 95,000 soldiers.
The Russian supplied armor in the Donbas alone is estimated to 700 main battle tanks (with an increasing number of T-72 V3 only used by Russia) and 1,100 infantry fighting vehicles, BTR and BMP (with an increasing number of BTR 82). Photos brought back by drones sent by volunteers groups over the border with Russia show kilometers of Grad rockets crates prepositioned for feeding a huge number of rocket launchers during a high intensity artillery shelling of the positions of defenders inside Ukraine.
Russia is now sending the latest of the available military hardware to its proxies along with 40 identified regular units belonging to its forces as amply demonstrated by the open sources information collcted on social networks like VK, Russia’s Facebook where Russians show themselves shelling Ukrainians, bragging about it and geolocalisation indicate their position when posting.
Many Russian military identification cards and passports have been recovered on corpses.
The Russian Mothers Association has collected the names of thousands of Russian soldiers killed in Ukraine.
Parts of Grad rockets, anti-tank rockets and unexploded missiles, mortar rounds or artillery shells are recovered and show markings clearly pointing to Russia with lot numbers as recent as 2009. During combat, crates of small arms ammunition have been captured as well as anti-tank missiles in their crates with the slip indicating their latest storage location in Russian Federation units.
It is time for Western powers to abandon the politically correct stance and face the threat. Every day without action will make the conflict more costly for the whole of Europe.
Standing up against Vladimir Putin is the only way the war stops before the whole of Europe is set ablaze.
Ukraine is not a beggar. Ukraine fights!
From only 6,000 men with combat readiness one year ago that were not able to oppose the invaders without being quickly annihilated in case of major conflict, the armed forces of Ukraine have grown to a combat ready force that repulsed the so-called separatists in Donbas during June and July 2014, obliging Moscow to engage openly its best forces in August.
Every day that President Petro Poroshenko did not declare a state of war, volunteers and donors forged a battle-ready instrument that resisted the Russian invaders to the point that even Russian officers admit that they underestimated the capacity of Ukraine to defend itself.
Many small companies have produced what the fighters needed in various fields. volunteers have repaired vehicles, companies have offered gasoline, donors from the whole world sent money or equipment. But Ukraine has fallen victim twice of some ideology that without arms, the world will become peaceful.
It was deprived of the world’s third largest nuclear arsenal in exchange for a security guaranteed by those who signed the 1994 Budapest Memorandum, one of them being the aggressor and the others standing on the sideline because they are not willing to stand up to Russia and its imperialistic aggressive stance. Russia did not respect the Minsk agreement it signed and will never do. Arm Ukraine, now! Before it is too late !na_Kiev-550-550x330 This Op-ed was published by Kyiv Post on April, 29, 2015
Engineer by trade, with a career as executive export sales and armament expert often invited by French and Swiss medias, Edmond Huet helped identify units and armaments used by the government against Maidaners and later the invading Russians in Crimea. He lives in Kyiv.
Then you should be worried about Texas's border invasion not Ukraine's.
Well they have their hands full getting their troops into Ukraine let alone out. Besides it’s a health safety issue for Ukraine to remove them as well as Russia....both are removing bodies.
Really?....Well, how about you be informed before making comments which are false...here ya go:
The idea of dividing Ukraine is hardly new...it has been a challenge for Ukraine since it won independence in 1991...clear through til today...Ukraine was conquered and divided for centuries by neighboring powers: the Polish, the Austrians etc. Today is no different...
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/02/is-it-time-for-ukraine-to-split-up/283967/
http://www.smh.com.au/comment/time-for-ukraine-to-divide-20140721-zv19c.html
I can see this happening....especially if the current regime in Kiev is overthrown and/or Western Ukraine secedes.
Hey Russkie, maybe you should worry more about how you're likely the first to be liquidated following a Russian takeover of the world despite how much you cheer for them.
UPDATE INFO: http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/06/europe/ukraine-violence/
Inregards to suppling weapons.. shouldn’t liberals listen to FDR’s 1941 State of the Union! [excerpt]
“... New circumstances are constantly begetting new needs for our safety. I shall ask this Congress for greatly increased new appropriations and authorizations to carry on what we have begun.
I also ask this Congress for authority and for funds sufficient to manufacture additional munitions and war supplies of many kinds, to be turned over to those nations which are now in actual war with aggressor nations.
Our most useful and immediate role is to act as an arsenal for them as well as for ourselves. They do not need man power, but they do need billions of dollars worth of the weapons of defense. The time is near when they will not be able to pay for them all in ready cash. We cannot, and we will not, tell them that they must surrender, merely because of present inability to pay for the weapons which we know they must have.
I do not recommend that we make them a loan of dollars with which to pay for these weapons—a loan to be repaid in dollars.
I recommend that we make it possible for those nations to continue to obtain war materials in the United States, fitting their orders into our own program. Nearly all their materiel would, if the time ever came, be useful for our own defense.
Taking counsel of expert military and naval authorities, considering what is best for our own security, we are free to decide how much should be kept here and how much should be sent abroad to our friends who by their determined and heroic resistance are giving us time in which to make ready our own defense.
For what we send abroad, we shall be repaid within a reasonable time following the close of hostilities, in similar materials, or, at our option, in other goods of many kinds, which they can produce and which we need.
Let us say to the democracies: “We Americans are vitally concerned in your defense of freedom. We are putting forth our energies, our resources and our organizing powers to give you the strength to regain and maintain a free world. We shall send you, in ever-increasing numbers, ships, planes, tanks, guns. This is our purpose and our pledge.”
In fulfillment of this purpose we will not be intimidated by the threats of dictators that they will regard as a breach of international law or as an act of war our aid to the democracies which dare to resist their aggression. Such aid is not an act of war, even if a dictator should unilaterally proclaim it so to be.
When the dictators, if the dictators, are ready to make war upon us, they will not wait for an act of war on our part. They did not wait for Norway or Belgium or the Netherlands to commit an act of war.
Their only interest is in a new one-way international law, which lacks mutuality in its observance, and, therefore, becomes an instrument of oppression.
The happiness of future generations of Americans may well depend upon how effective and how immediate we can make our aid felt. No one can tell the exact character of the emergency situations that we may be called upon to meet. The Nation’s hands must not be tied when the Nation’s life is in danger.
We must all prepare to make the sacrifices that the emergency-almost as serious as war itself—demands. Whatever stands in the way of speed and efficiency in defense preparations must give way to the national need.”
Going to be a long haul no matter what....but it’s either divide the country, let it happen, or there will simply be more of the same. I think Kiev’s going to have to yield or face further land loss. And since the press has stepped back as well as nation leaders from the hype diplomacy is ongoing though few report of such.
That link says nothing of the post....maybe wrong link...want to try again so instead of exert we can read the right article.
You commies make me laugh.
Indeed, as Zakharchenko said late last year...’we will teach you to live in peace’.
Neither this link nor the one you sent in Freep Mail are what’s written in the update Info. written... so who’s writing ? I’d like the link which actually states the words written in the post.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/06/europe/ukraine-violence/
I don’t know what you are referencing. The obove link will take you to original article. The link I found interesting as wellas I shared with you later is: http://nv.ua/publications/moskovskie-tayny-general-leytenant-aleksandr-skipalskiy-rasskazal-o-rabote-rossiyskih-specsluzhb-v-ukraine-38071.html
I cannot help you further.
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