Posted on 07/27/2014 1:28:39 PM PDT by Uncle Chip
The United States on Sunday released satellite images to bolster its claim that Russian artillery has fired across the border into Ukraine, targeting government forces in support of separatist rebels.
The four images, prepared by the office of the Director of National Intelligence and forwarded to reporters by the State Department, show sections of the Russia-Ukraine frontier.
Two show what the US government alleges are Russian batteries on its own territory -- one group of multiple rocket launchers and another of self-propelled howitzers.
Pictures also show impact craters near military positions on the Ukrainian side of the frontier.
A third picture shows what Washington alleges is Russian-supplied heavy weaponry being fired by separatists from within Ukraine.
"The wide area of impacts near the Ukrainian military units indicates fire from multiple rocket launchers. The bottom impact crater inset shows impacts within a local village," the caption said.
Moscow denies directly intervening in the Ukraine conflict and has accused Washington of mounting a smear campaign against it.
Washington turned up the pressure Thursday, alleging Russia had fired across the border and planned to deliver "heavier and more powerful multiple rocket launchers" to its rebel allies.
Then, the State Department cited only "intelligence information" to back up its claim before releasing the photographs on Sunday to strengthen its case.
Ukraine also claims two of its fighter jets were downed by missiles fired from Russian territory, but its US ally has yet to confirm this.
Fears of the damage that Russian arms could do in the hands of Ukraine's separatists increased sharply after a civilian Malaysian airliner was shot down over rebel territory with the loss of 298 lives.
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Nice try, Vlad — your interrogators need more training.
So who shot down MH17???
Thanks mac....I knew it had changed/ceased under it’s former name. The heavy hitter once among them gone...appears different faces and mission altogether.... Going to check your link now...Thanks again.
Well, regarding Kirchick’s “ obnoxious intrusion” into an otherwise topic being discussed..... Appears RT hosts let him carry on long enough, (as the gay activist flamer he is), to make a fool of himself several times over...Took seconds to reveal that...what a jerked up clown! His emotional instability was evident immediately.
Guys like him are a dime a dozen in media anymore.....they title themselves as journalists only to time and again show their lack of professionalism, because they’re too busy trying to get their agenda in under the net.
The Russkies have not debunked anything, though they do lie alot. Not only is it confirmed that Strelkov made those postings, but even Russian media was reporting on it as a fact prior to the realization it was an airline.
You are just saying things are "debunked" or that there is only "one" photo or things like that without actually showing how anything you say is true.
You and your buddies aren't actually conservative though, so it is not right for you to try imagining things from the perspective of people you do not understand.
You guys are Paulbots, Alex Jones freaks, at least one Catholic who thinks Muslims should be forcibly converted or at least rounded up and imprisoned, three bozos who have no problem sourcing to things from anti-semitic websites, and one of those three perfectly happy to embrace 9/11 Trutherism and NWO nutcase theories, and, probably, the rest of you believe that stuff too but haven't been loose lipped about your beliefs enough yet.
You are reading stuff verbatim from Russian propaganda networks and then complaining that we lack discernment.
Surprising that it’s still there —
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