Posted on 04/22/2021 10:02:13 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
After weeks of tension over a build-up of Russian troops close to Ukraine's border, Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu has ordered a number of units in the area back to their bases.
The EU estimated that more than 100,000 Russian soldiers had amassed near the border as well as in Crimea, which was seized and annexed by Russia in 2014.
Speaking in Crimea, Mr Shoigu said units on exercise would return to base.
The aims of the "snap checks" had been achieved, he added.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
Nope. Pulling back some for show except for those regular Red Army soldiers now wearing Ukrainian peasant garb still on the border or who slipped inside Ukraine to pro-Russian/Communist held territory.
Since the advent of laser guided artillery and fire and forget anti-tank rockets, tanks have lost much of their value on the most modern battlefields.
Let’s hope Kharkov, Rostov and Sevastopol don’t become battlegrounds again.
The old trick is deploy, pull back.
Deploy, pull back.
Deploy, pull back.
When the world yawns, go in on a later deployment.
Jeff Nyquist thinks it’s a temporary removal and that any assault will come in June when the weather will be more favorable. They’ve already moved in the equipment. Doesn’t take more than a day or two to bring back troops.
Absolutely agree. That is how the communists/Soviets/Russian have operated in the past and will in the future, and who is going to stop them, Pres. Biden and his son Hunter (I wonder if the pro-Soviet Ukrainian traitors/crooks paid secretly paid them in Rubles)?
It was reported that Russian snipers were the ones responsible for killing scores, if not hundreds of Ukrainian protestors who demonstrated against the corrupt pro-Russian regime a number of years ago (Maiden affair?).
Ye Olde Head Fake.
With Biden at the helm, faking withdrawal
will probably work like a charm.
It will be like giving Candy to a Baby, then quietly taking it back as Baby soundly sleeps.
My view is anything is a feint until: the Nordstream pipeline is complete; it is supplying gas; it is winter.
Nordstream 2 is Russia’s ace in the hole to blow up NATO. Why wouldn’t they wait ?
He looked at the likely consequences and ordered them back.
In fact it was never reported. ‘Berkut’ SWAT was initially blamed but it fell apart.
It is now universally recognized that the snipers belonged to the opposition - the people took power in a coup.
First, the shooting took place from the hotel, controlled by the protestors.
People has been filmed coming to the hotel with the protest leaders, carrying the rifle cases.
The weapons used to kill the protestors and ‘Berkut’ are the same.
The talks of protest leaders are known, saying 100 victims are needed for the West to intervene.
The phone call between Estonian foreign minister Paet and the EU Foreign policy chief Ashton wiretapped, Paet saying he knows the shooting is by the opposition and the EU needs to distance itself.
After the coup took power, the case and the material evidence has been destroyed by the new authorities, they even ordered to remove the trees between the hotel in question and the scene, to destroy the evidence of the direction of the shooting.
A video leaked from the shooters’ perspective, making it clear that they are on the side of the opposition.
One of the killers turned himself in Belarus, claiming there are attempts on his life.
The killer is Georgian, came to Ukraine with the former Georgian dictator Saakashvili who took a position in a Ukrainian coup government.
The version you are telling has nothing behind it, except being repeated perpetually by the Ukrainian government trolls on social media.
There is an Oliver Stone’s documentary described all the above, and a BBC program.
Its 2021, not 1981. And, it's George Soros and the far left that bankrolled the Ukrainian revolution in 2014, Alexi Navalny and an ongoing attempt to overthrow Putin.
https://ellacruz.org/2020/05/07/navalny-soros-tool-overthrow-putin-methadone-needle/
It was just a test to see how tough or soft Biden is.
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