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To: tcrlaf
The seizure of the airport suggested a new, perhaps desperate, escalation by the militants who in recent days have appeared to lose the political support of the Kremlin,

21 posted on 05/26/2014 12:30:11 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (You can't be passive and moral.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

“who in recent days have appeared to lose the political support of the Kremlin”

That may, or may not, be true, but that something was going to happen at Donetsk Airport soon was telegraphed a day and half ago, when Ukraine banned all flights to Donetsk Airport.

They had been operating daily flights right up to that point.

The rebels didn’t move to take control of the airport until last night, which, IMO, tells me they had gotten a head’s up that something might happen.


23 posted on 05/26/2014 12:34:55 PM PDT by tcrlaf (Q)
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