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A must read...

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Business owner says sales are up on flak jackets and Balaclavas since start of unrest this Ukraine Military Supply... Balaclavas and flak jackets amongst best sellers..which does support Putin's point about gear being widely available in Ukraine

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This photo was actually taken in n Slavyansk, Ukraine, The picture was among others Kiev gave the OSCE mission to Ukraine to ‘prove’ Russian involvement in the massive unrest gripping the Donetsk region....Freelance photographer Maxim Dondyuk , who told NYT... “Nobody asked my permission to use it.”

State Dept’s Psaki admitting... “the assertion that the photograph in the American briefing materials had been taken in Russia was incorrect”