Ukraine
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Anti-Russian sanctions aimed at eliminating economic competitors — view
Political rhetoric on the part of US leadership conceals a very practical willingness to eliminate real and hypothetical economic competitors. Such a conclusion can be drawn from the fact the new US sanctions target the defense manufacturing industry, mineral resource production and the financial sector of Russian economy, Vladimir Gutenev, First Deputy Chairman of the… Continue reading
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Ukraine News Links 16-17 July 2014
17 July 2014 11:16:21 — williambowles.info Ukraine’s military retreats from Luhansk, leaves settlements near Donetsk (SCF) Ukraine: Nils Muižnieks wants action on internally displaced people (Human Rights Europe) Ukraine harvest update (Agronomy Ukraine) Continue reading
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Igor Strelkov on the Field of Battles: Giving Orders and Interviews
[I don’t know how accurate these situation reports from the Eastern Ukraine are, but they make interesting reading. I wonder also, how much is down to the translation as they come across more like prose than journalism? But most surprising of all is the fact that the ‘rebels’, ‘separatists’, or ‘federalists’, take your pick, might… Continue reading
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Igor Strelkov and Militia Briefings, July 14-16, 2014 By Gleb Bazov
Over the past two weeks (starting with the 1st of July) LPR [Lugansk People’s Republic] militiamen inflicted substantial losses on the enemy, eliminating over 800 men, with 4 militiamen killed. In addition, over 50 armoured vehicles were destroyed (just over the last twenty-four hour period, 3 tanks and 1 APC were destroyed in the area… Continue reading
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Igor Strelkov and Militia Briefings, July 15-16, 2014 By Gleb BazovIgor Strelkov and Militia Briefings, July 15-16, 2014 By Gleb Bazov
Enormous columns of retreating Ukie forces are retreating across the dam in the area of Kozhevnya (south of Dmitrievka). They are attempting to escape the “cauldron.” There are tanks, SAU-Nonas, refueling trucks, transport columns – all mixed-up. This is bad. But, I hope, not all of them will have the chance to escape.?? Note: Kozhevnya… Continue reading
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Ukraine News Links 15-16 July 2014
16 July 2014 10:54:55 — williambowles.info Ukraine to Carry out Reforms to Adapt to EU Legislation – Poroshenko (SCF) Foreign Contractors Fight Against Militia in Eastern Ukraine – Self-Defense Forces Leader (SCF) Faced with the US-led Western Freeze-Out, BRICS Bank Is a Coup for Russia (4th Media) Continue reading
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Ukraine News Links 14-15 July 2014
15 July 2014 15:04:21 — williambowles.info Military Aviation in Eastern Ukraine Halted Over An-26 Plane Crash (SCF) OSCE attaches examine Russian city hit by Ukrainian artillery strike (Voice of Russia) Ukraine’s intent to ban Russian journalists from entering EU violates international rules (ITAR-TASS) Continue reading
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Moscow threatens response after Ukraine forces shell Russian border town By Alex Lantier
Tensions flared over the weekend as Russian officials vowed to respond to the Ukrainian shelling of a Russian border town, amid the offensive by troops of the Western-backed Ukrainian regime in Kiev against pro-Russian militias defending the eastern Ukrainian cities of Donetsk and Luhansk. Continue reading
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Ukraine News Links 13-14 July 2014
14 July 2014 18:06:38 — williambowles.info Russia Considering ‘Surgical Strike’ on Ukraine – Report (SCF) Staying alive under fire: RT reporter joins Lugansk ambulance as city gets shelled (RT) Ukraine’s Sloviansk ex-mayor arrested for 2 months (ITAR-TASS) Continue reading
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Igor Strelkov Speaks – Two Interviews, July 12 and 13, 2014 By Gleb Bazov
14 July 2014— No Limit to Our Anger (c) V. M. Molotov Preamble: The following two interviews were given by Igor Strelkov on July 12 and 13, 2014, respectively. The first interview (July 12, 2014) is currently being translated and will be made available as soon as possible. The second interview (July 13, 2014) is… Continue reading
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Video: An Afghan Freedom Fighter in Donbass: a Poem of Love and Courage, July 13, 2014
Video: Interview with an Afghan Militiamen of the Donetsk People’s Republic, July 13, 2014 Continue reading
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Ukraine’s Démarche Against Refugees – To Be Interned, Split and Forcibly Utilized as Soldiers By Gleb Bazov
This newest pearl of the Ukrainian national-fascist, Nazi government flies directly in the face of the very foundations of the 1951 Refugee Convention and its 1967 Protocol, as well as the applicable customary international law. Instead, I may ask Barbara Harrell-Bond, the recipient of the Order of the British Empire and a world-renowned expert in… Continue reading
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Strelkov and Militia Briefings, July 13, 2014 – Lugansk Situation Report Strelkov and Militia Briefings, July 13, 2014 – Lugansk Situation Report By Gleb Bazov
13 July 2014 — No Limit to Our Anger (c) V. M. Molotov Translated from Russian by Gleb Bazov Note: This Is a Partial Briefing; Additions to Follow July 13, 2014 – LPR Militia Briefing for Second Half of July 13, 2014 Continue reading
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Ukraine News Links 12-13 July 2014
13 July 2014 22:27:47 — williambowles.info Ukraine Turf Wars, Kolomoisky vs. Poroshenko (SCF) 90-Day War: Ukrainian Junta Launches Armored Assault On Cities (Stop NATO) Ukraine Shells Russia, Kills Civilian (Stop NATO) Continue reading
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Ukraine News Links 11-12 July 2014
12 July 2014 20:47:08 — williambowles.info On Israel, Ukraine and Truth (SCF) Ukraine, Georgia integration into NATO can be interpreted as hostility to RF – Le Drian (ITAR-TASS) Donetsk People’s Republic evacuating civilians from outskirts of city amid Ukrainian army’s fire Voice of Russia Continue reading
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Who Profits from Ukraine’s War – an investigative report By Eric Zuesse
This civil war was produced as the direct result of the 2014 coup in Ukraine that was carried out by the Obama Administration in much the same general way that the Eisenhower Administration had carried out the 1953 coup in Iran that installed the Shah there, but the impact of Obama’s Ukrainian coup will be… Continue reading
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Part II – Press-Conference of Igor Strelkov and Alexander Borodai, Donetsk, July 10, 2014 By Gleb Bazov
10 July 2014 — No Limit to Our Anger (c) V. M. Molotov Translated from Russian by Gleb Bazov (Note: Rough Translations; Subject to Change) Video: Part II of Press-Conference of I. Strelkov and A. Borodai, Donetsk, July 10, 2014 Continue reading
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Ukraine: Kiev’s Ticking Time Bomb By Tony Cartalucci
11 July 2014 — Land Destroyer A DISPATCH FROM NSNBCTony Cartalucci (LD)After a brief ceasefire, Kiev has resumed the bombardment of populated centers in the eastern breakaway provinces of Donetsk and Lugansk, both bordering with neighboring Russia. Continue reading
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Pushing Ukraine to the Brink By Mike Whitney
What does a pipeline in Afghanistan have to do with the crisis in Ukraine? Everything. It reveals the commercial interests that drive US policy. Just as the War in Afghanistan was largely fought to facilitate the transfer of natural gas from Turkmenistan to the Arabian Sea, so too, Washington engineered the bloody coup in Kiev… Continue reading
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Ukraine News LInks 10-11 July 2014
11 July 2014 15:45:31 — williambowles.info Over 15 suspects in civilians’ murders in eastern Ukraine — Investigative Committee (ITAR-TASS) New military hospital to open in Donetsk People’s Republic (ITAR-TASS) Look far right, and look right again (Open Democracy) Continue reading
The New Dark Age 