Posted on 04/08/2014 4:06:49 PM PDT by markomalley
Russia claimed Tuesday that 150 specialists from an American private military group are in eastern Ukraine, the region where pro-Russia protesters are clashing with government forces.
A woman who identified herself as an employee of the group, the security contracting company Greystone, declined comment. She also declined to provide her name.
Greystone, on its website, identifies itself as a “provider of aviation and protective support services and training” formerly part of Xe Services, the security contracting company once known as Blackwater.
A statement from the Russian Foreign Ministry said that the Americans were wearing the uniforms of Sokol, a Ukrainian police force, and were “of particular concern.”
A State Department official referred questions to the company and said: “As for the United States, we do not have any U.S. military units in Ukraine.”
Russia also said that militants from Right Sector, a hard-line Ukrainian nationalist organization, were trying to use force to stop protesters opposed to the new Ukrainian government in Kiev.
Pro-Russian activists have holed up in Ukrainian government buildings this week in the country’s east and have called for a referendum on breaking from Ukraine, similar to a vote last month in which the Crimean peninsula voters to leave Ukraine and join Russia.
Russia has said it has no designs on invading eastern Ukraine. The White House on Monday warned Russia against moving “overtly or covertly” into that region and said there was evidence that the pro-Russian demonstrators are being paid.
Secretary of State John Kerry said Tuesday that Russian agents are to blame for unrest this week in Ukraine, and he warned that Russia may be laying the groundwork for a military intervention, just as it did before seizing the Crimean peninsula.
What is the jobless rate for recent discharged?
Someone pays double, just saying..
They probably are. Ugh
Greystone LTD., a division of Blackwater USA.
Many pics and twitter reports of these guys on the ground in the last few days.
Your State Department Tax Dollars at work.
probably true - the marxists want to start a war so they can destroy the u.s. trouble is the marxists are US!!! Siding with russia on this one.
What’s their point?
I don’t have any way to believe that George Soros or Bork Obunga could ever be on the right side of anything.
Weren't these guys evil when the leftists thought Bush was using 'em everywhere?
“Greystone LTD., a division of Blackwater USA.
Weren’t these guys evil when the leftists thought Bush was using ‘em everywhere?”
Only when the TV tells them they are bad. If it doesn’t, they have no idea.
I wonder if they have the same rules of engagement as our guys in Afghanistan?
Oh for heavens sake, I have to agree. Sad that our own government treats us so bad and lies so much we can no longer believe them on anything, including this. They have meddled and created such chaos all over the place, much more than Russia has lately.
“What is the jobless rate for recent discharged?”
Just guessing; I doubt that there’s very many special op’s guys out and about who are unemployed. Run of the mill dudes and dudettes, different story. Just saying :)
“Provider of aviation and protective support services and training”. Highly specialized group bet most are techs upgrading the degraded aircraft and armament Ukraine has which includes helicopters. Might even be pilots.
It would be a good plan for the Ukrainians to hire mercs.
It would be a good plan for the Ukrainians to hire mercs.
There were rumors of this in Georgia also
Really, I’d like yout to help me get a job then.
You are correct. I believe at least one US passport was found amid the abandoned T-65 tanks and other brand new equipment left behind by the fleeing Georgian army.
I have always opposed the employment of mercenaries in place of US military units — regardless of which president is in office. If a mission is the right thing to do and worth committing American lives to accomplish, then it should be assigned to the military. If we aren’t willing to send the military, then the mission is probably not a good thing to begin with. Employment of mercenaries merely illustrates that we are skirting laws or conventions that are applicable to our armed forces.
Getting a full scale aircraft repair and overhaul operation over there is just a phone call and a bank transfer away. Very easy to find these services worldwide.
I would guess it is the “advisors” they can’t see that have the Russians concerned.
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