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Wednesday, September 3, 2014

Video - Ukraine's full NATO membership idea 'akin to lunacy'

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Saturday, August 30, 2014

'Russian' Winter is coming: Ukrainians educated in energy saving, alternative heating


'Russian' Winter is coming: Ukrainians educated in energy saving, alternative heating. (RT).
Recognizing that it is extremely hard to keep a city flat warm with no central heating, Kiev authorities, for example, launched a campaign aimed at informing citizens on tricks and methods they could use to save energy and heat – at temperatures of -10 degrees Celsius and lower.
Firstly, the heat insulation of windows and doors is strongly advised, as well as the purchase of a personal boiler or energy-saving heating installation. In fact, people are already starting to buy the boilers: shop owners in Kiev told TCH TV channel that demand for such devices has increased at least threefold since the beginning of the crisis.

Also, it is suggested in the brochures that city residents should buy warm clothes made of natural fabric, valenki, and headwear to protect themselves from freezing temperatures.

Where there is heating in flats, the authorities advise to paint the radiators red or brown instead of traditional white, in order to increase their heat output – or wrap them in foil.

With so many heating devices power consumption will increase and may overload the grid, authorities are also giving advice on electricity savings: from switching to lower wattage light bulbs, to giving up on devices’ stand-by functions and instead unplugging them completely.


Among the more extreme advice, the authors of the brochure suggest that the Kiev residents should use their balconies as fridges, and turn on the lights only in one room, preferably pointing the source of light only on one spot – for example, a table.


There are some kitchen suggestions too: people are advised not to wash dishes in running water, and to eat only the types of food that take a few minutes to prepare.

 Meanwhile, the Ukrainian government started an aggressive propaganda campaign called “Energy independence”, the aim of which is to inform Ukrainians about the necessity to save energy and natural gas – in order to become independent from Russian supplies. It is noted that the funds for this campaign aren’t allocated from the federal budget, but from donor programs from the EU and the US.

 The vice premier of the country Vladimir Groysman has suggested the population remember how to heat their homes with wood waste, turf, and straw – and this is seriously being considered by experts. The whole campaign sounds like a revolutionary step, but not all are convinced.

“Nowadays, the authorities say we need to switch gas for something, to reduce the gas consumption by 10-30 percent. It’s true, but they don’t tell the most important thing: we consume much more than our European neighbors. For instance, Poland consumes only 14-15 billion cubic meters of gas, while Ukraine consumes almost 50.5 billion cubic meters,” Oleg Kozalchuk, the president of Ukrainian Association of energy efficiency and energy saving, told Pravda.ru media outlet.


Warning the residents of Kiev to prepare for winter, Mayor Vitaly Klitschko said he hopes they will “understand the temporary difficulties, taking into account the situation in Kiev and in the country.”

 Since currently there are no natural gas supplies from Russia, all the gas extracted domestically “goes to the storages,” he told 112.ua agency explaining the decision to switch off hot running water in summer. “It’s the Cabinet of ministers’ demand, and respect it.”

Despite the mayor’s pledges that the heating is to be expected in households in October, experts aren’t so sure.
“Klitschko can promise whatever he wants, but he can’t guarantee anything. Does he have gas in storages? “Kievenergo” got the limits of gas usage of 1.2 billion of cubic meters, while last year, they used 1.8 billion over the same period, from August until March. And if the temperatures are low in autumn and winter, then they’ll surely heat the radiators, and will turn off the hot water,” the co-chairman of Fund of energy strategies Dmitry Marunich told 112.ua agency.

And while the temperatures go down, the tariffs increase – the utility rates have already grown 1.5-2 times this year.

The consumption of natural gas in Ukraine reduced in July by 30.3 per cent compared to July 2013, according to the country’s State Statistical Committee. The consumption of oil has fallen by 23.3 per cent compared with last year – and so has the consumption of coal, with figures showing a reduction by 25.9 per cent.

Nevertheless, the cabinet of ministers declared an emergency situation in the Ukrainian energy sector in June, urging the population to stock up on firewood to try their best to save energy. Hmmm.......I've said it before the only way Ukraine can keep warm this Winter is siphoning European gas. And Russia won't let this pass.

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Gorbachev's take on Kiev’s military op: 'It must be stopped immediately'


Gorbachev's take on Kiev’s military op: 'It must be stopped immediately' (RT).

“It must be stopped immediately,” Gorbachev told RSN Radio, referring to Kiev’s “anti-terrorist” operation, launched in April this year in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions. Gorbachev cited UN figures on the conflict: as of August 13, over 2,000 people were killed there.

“They must do everything possible to stop murdering each other; it is one nation,” Gorbachev said. However, he warned that this should remain Ukraine’s own business.
“If [other] states get involved, the scope may widen and everyone would want a hand there – we may end up with a terrible slaughter in Europe,” he said. “We can’t afford it.”
Gorbachev also praised Russia’s policy of staying away from direct engagement, commenting on the accusations coming from the West that Moscow has started a “military intervention.”

“If our country intervenes, such a fire could break out that the whole world wouldn’t be able to put it out. And it is right that the politicians are upholding their position,” Gorbachev said.

Gorbachev also called on the UN, EU and the parties involved in the conflict to take concrete steps to resolve the crisis in Ukraine.

“Our proposal was to open corridors, to take people away from all those mousetraps. But no, no. Some prefer staying in warm offices and commenting from there. And what is happening to the people [in Ukraine] in the meantime – to kids, women? Maternity hospitals are being shelled, and schools and hospitals are being destroyed.”


Earlier this year, Gorbachev supported the results of the referendum, when Crimea decided to join Russia following a coup in Kiev that toppled President Viktor Yanukovich. “People want it, it means we have to meet their needs,” Gorbachev told Itar-Tass in March, referring to the referendum.

In January, Gorbachev, 83, also appealed to Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart Barack Obama to resolve the conflict in Ukraine.


“It cannot be tolerated that Ukrainians fight with Ukrainians. It is an awful absurdity,” he wrote in a letter to both presidents, where he drew upon the example of his own family – both his mother and wife were of Ukrainian origin. 
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Friday, August 29, 2014

'Да, мы можем' - Russia-led military bloc ready to send peacekeepers to Ukraine


'Да, мы можем' - Russia-led military bloc ready to send peacekeepers to Ukraine. (RT).
"Deployment of the CSTO peacekeeping force can be ordered only by the Collective Security Council – the supreme body formed with heads of state of the member countries. By a joint decision these leaders can order the use of peacekeepers both on the territory of the member-states and also outside their borders,” General-Secretary of the Collective Security Treaty Organization Nikolay Bordyuzha, stated on Friday.
“The CSTO peacekeeping force was formed several years ago and its units have already completed the training in combat cooperation. The servicemen in these units are well trained and equipped with all necessary weapons and hardware,” Bordyuzha noted.

He added that the forces’ readiness to take part in operations of all levels had been checked and proven in a recent joint exercise in Kyrgyzstan.

The CSTO is a military bloc uniting six ex-Soviet nations - Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Russia. Currently Russia holds the rotating presidency of the organization.

The fighting in eastern Ukraine has intensified over the past week, claiming more casualties among combatants and civilians. On Thursday, President Putin called on self-defense militias in Ukraine to create a safe humanitarian corridor so that encircled servicemen of the Ukrainian National Guard and other pro-Kiev units can leave the combat area and "reunite with their families."

Commanders of the unified pro-federalist force have supported Putin's initiative, provided that the pro-Kiev troops leave behind their weapons.

“We support the initiative of Russian President Vladimir Putin to create a humanitarian corridor to create a safe passage for the surrounded armed forces of Ukraine. We are ready to ensure the safety of the Ukrainian troops out of the encirclement under one condition – they have to go through the established corridor without weapons,” the anti-Kiev militia press service said in a statement.


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Preparing for a Russian 'Winter Offensive?' US military to send tanks to E. Europe for drills.


Preparing for a Russian 'Winter Offensive?' US military to send tanks to E. Europe for drills.(Spacewar).

US Army troops equipped with tanks will head to Eastern Europe soon to reassure NATO allies anxious over Russia's intervention in Ukraine, Pentagon officials said Thursday.

About 600 troops from the 1st Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division are due to deploy in October to Poland and the Baltic states for training exercises with alliance members, replacing paratroopers from the 173rd Airborne Brigade, said spokeswoman Lieutenant Colonel Vanessa Hillman.

"It's a three month rotation," Hillman said. The drills are "focused on small unit and leader training."

Unlike the outgoing unit, the troops from the "Iron Horse brigade," based in Fort Hood, Texas, will deploy with M-1 Abrams tanks and infantry fighting vehicles, she said.

US commanders have organized an array of exercises and training efforts on NATO's eastern border to reassure allies dismayed over Russia's support of separatists in Ukraine. Washington also has sent F-16 fighter jets to Poland and joined air policing missions over the Baltic states.Hmmm.....Russia always wages offensives in Winter. Read the full story here.




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"Novorossiya" - The heavily loaded word in Putin's new statement on the Ukraine crisis.


"Novorossiya" - The heavily loaded word in Putin's new statement on the Ukraine crisis.(VOX).

Russian President Vladimir Putin just dropped the biggest, scariest dogwhistle of the Ukraine crisis: "Novorossiya."

The word literally means "new Russia" — it was an old, imperial-era term for southern Ukraine, when it was part of the Russian Empire, and is now a term used by Russia ultra-nationalists who want to re-conquer the area.

Putin has used the word twice during the crisis. First, he used it in April, about a month after Russia had invaded and annexed the Ukrainian region of Crimea, subtly suggesting that the annexation was justified because Crimea was in Novorossiya and thus inherently part of Russia.

He used it again on Thursday, in an official presidential statement addressed to the eastern Ukrainian rebels that have seized parts of the country — and whom he addressed as "the militia of Novorossiya."

The statement itself was otherwise banal, but in giving the rebels this name, he is seemingly not just referring to them as an extension of Russia (everybody already knew this) and not just adopting the heavily loaded imperial terminology, but endorsing that the rebels and the land they stand on are, in a sense, part of Russia.

In other words, Putin's choice of phrasing — and picking such a hotly political phrase is no accident — sounds an awful lot like a rhetorical step toward annexing all or part of the rebel-held territory. 

Significantly, earlier this week Russian forces invaded a part of Ukraine where there had been no previous fighting, along the southeastern-most coast with the Black Sea. That is not a rebel-held area, but it is prime Novorossiya territory.

Still, it is just rhetoric, however loaded, and Putin appears to have left himself an out: while the title of the statement refers to the militia of Novorossiya, the body of it does not — rather, it refers to the rebels by the less politically charged phrase, "representatives of Donbas" (Donbas is another name for eastern Ukraine).

So he is not yet fully committing himself to the idea of Novorossiya, but this statement is enough of a step in that direction to be legitimately alarming.
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Thursday, August 28, 2014

President of Ukraine Poroshenko accuses Russia of invasion - Live updates


President of Ukraine Poroshenko accuses Russia of invasion.(BBC Live updates)

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko says Russia has sent troops to eastern Ukraine.

Mr Poroshenko cancelled a trip to Turkey and called urgent meetings of officials to consider Ukraine's response.

The accusation came as pro-Russian rebels seized control of Novoazovsk in the south-east, threatening to take the port of Mariupol next.

Alexander Zakharchenko, a pro-Russian rebel leader in eastern Ukraine, said 3-4,000 Russian citizens were fighting with the rebels.

The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe is holding urgent talks on the crisis.












































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Tuesday, August 26, 2014

Elite Russian paratroopers captured in Ukraine can't read maps or GPS, 'accidentally crossed border'


Elite Russian paratroopers captured in Ukraine can't read maps or GPS, 'accidentally crossed border' (Telegraph).

On August 25, joint task force of the Ukrainian armed forces and the Security Service of Ukraine detained near the settlement Zerkalny of the Donetsk region ten soldiers of the regiment 331 of Svir Airborne Division 98 of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (military unit 71211).
Ten Russian paratroopers who were captured in Ukraine on Monday crossed the border "accidentally" during a routine frontier patrol, Russia's Ministry of Defence said on Tuesday.
Ukraine's Security Service, the SBU, said on Monday that the men were captured near the village of Dzerkalne, about 25 miles southeast of the rebels' besieged stronghold, the city of Donetsk.

The village is 13 miles north of the nearest section of the Russian border. In its first public admission that regular Russian forces had crossed into Ukraine, a defence ministry official said the troops had made a "mistake" because of the poorly marked border.

"These servicemen really did take part in a patrol of a section of the Russian-Ukrainian border, crossing it likely by mistake at an unequipped and unmarked point, as far as we are aware they offered no resistance to the Ukrainian armed forces when arrested," a Ministry of Defence source told Russia's state-owned RIA Novosti news agency.

Russia has previously vigorously denied that its troops have crossed into Ukraine, despite repeated accusations from the Ukrainian and Western governments that it is providing men and material to the pro-Russian rebels fighting in the area.

The admission comes a day after the Ukrainian military said it repelled a cross-border attack involving ten tanks, two infantry fighting vehicles and two military trucks near the Sea of Azov. Ukraine described the attack, which Moscow denied knowledge of, as an attempt to open a "second front" in a southern part of Donetsk region previously relatively undisturbed by fighting.

Meanwhile, Russian media published photographs of the fresh graves of two young men in Pskov, Russia, who were widely reported to have been paratroopers who died fighting in Ukraine. The names of the dead men and some of those who were captured match social networking pages of young soldiers with the same names. Read the full story here.
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Tuesday, June 24, 2014

Putin asks Russian Federation council to repeal decision to use military force in Ukraine.


Putin asks Russian Federation council to repeal decision to use military force in Ukraine.(RT).

President Vladimir Putin has proposed the upper house to call off the March 1 resolution allowing the head of state to use the armed forces on the territory of Ukraine, said presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov.

The Federation Council is preparing to consider the cancelation proposal on Wednesday, June 25.

“Because of the beginning of the three-party talks to settle down the situation in the eastern parts of Ukraine, the head of state has addressed to the Federation Council to repeal the resolution on the use of Russian armed forces on the territory of Ukraine,” ITAR-TASS cited Peskov as saying.

The president sent an address to Federation Council Valentina Matvienko today morning, ahead of leaving on official visit to Vienna.

The Federation Council’s resolution of March 1 agreed on the president‘s right to use military force on the territory of the neighboring Ukraine “until the normalization of the social and political situation in that country.”

The resolution was adopted following a presidential address demanding security be maintained “for citizens of the Russian Federation, our compatriots and personnel of the Russian contingent deployed in accordance with international agreements on the territory of the Autonomous Crimea Republic of Ukraine.”

The resolution was adopted in accordance of the first part of the Article 102 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation.
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Sunday, June 22, 2014

Ukrainian Pres. Poroshenko does not exclude the third world war, Russian troops marching towards Ukr border.

In Crimea Russians to pull artillery positions Ukrainian border[GoogleTranslate].

 Ukrainian Pres. Poroshenko does not exclude the third world war.

Ukrainian military shelled a village near the border with Russia [Googletranslate]


From the city Kamensk-Shahtinsk, located at a distance of 30 km. from the Ukrainian border, went convoy of Russian troops. They move in the direction of Ukraine

This is reported by sources Espreso.TV .

The column consists of a huge number of tanks, KAMAZ and other military equipment. It stretches over 2 km.

Note that the DNR continues to seek volunteers Panzer Division, which is composed of 250 tanks.

Interestingly, Russian President Vladimir Putin believes that Ukrainian troops continue ATO despite truce and does not notice the actions of terrorists. Also, Russians pidtyahnuly artillery positions in the Crimea to Ukrainian border. Earlier it was reported that the Russians in the Crimea to pull artillery positions Ukrainian border.

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Ukrainian Pres. Poroshenko warns of ‘detailed Plan B’ if Ukraine ceasefire fails.


Ukrainian Pres. Poroshenko warns of ‘detailed Plan B’ if Ukraine ceasefire fails. (RT).
“Peaceful scenario – it is our plan A,” Poroshenko said in a statement on his website. “But those who expect to use the peace talks only to gain time to regroup, should know that we have a detailed plan B. I am not going to talk about it now, because I believe that our peace plan will work.”
The ceasefire in eastern Ukraine took effect on June 20 and will last until June 27, the day Kiev plans to sign the EU Association agreement.

However, “the military will be given the right to return fire if Ukrainian army units or peaceful civilians are attacked,” Poroshenko said in his decree. Since then, the tensions have slightly eased in some areas, but the Ukrainian army is still using artillery and the air force in sporadic clashes with anti-Kiev militias.
 
Poroshenko claims the ceasefire is designed to enable local self-defence militias to lay down their arms and flee the country, or be destroyed. He also, while drafting the plan with Kiev-appointed governors of the defiant regions, rejected any possibility of negotiations with representatives of anti-Kiev forces.

While welcoming Kiev’s ceasefire efforts, the Russian president said the current peace plan on the table “should not take the form of an ultimatum to militia groups,” according to the Kremlin statement. It’s not enough to just put hostilities on pause, but vital to immediately start “constructive negotiations” to reach a viable compromise between the parties to the conflict.

“Russia notes that the proposed plan will not be viable or realistic if no practical steps are taken to commence the negotiation process,” the statement reads, shedding doubt that it would work as “the confrontation continues and shells from the Ukrainian side land and explode on the Russian territory.”

Meanwhile, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said that most clauses of President Poroshenko's peace plan look more like an ultimatum to the militias in Donetsk and Lugansk regions rather than an invitation to dialogue.

“The plan lacks the key thing – a proposal to start dialogue. This is a drastic departure from the Geneva statement of April 17 which is still supported by all of our Western partners, the United States, the European Union and the Ukrainian authorities or at least they say so,” Lavrov said, reports Itar-Tass.

OPINION: Ukraine peace plan is ‘Poroshenko’s PR move in a form of ultimatum’

Lavrov once again highlighted that Moscow is alarmed that Kiev continues the shelling, which now impact Russian border crossings with Ukraine.

“We are very much alarmed and worried by the fact that simultaneously with the announcement of the peace plan, a military operation was stepped up, which resulted in people wounded on the Russian side,” he said. 
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Saturday, June 21, 2014

Russian Pres Putin orders surprise drills to check combat readiness of central Russia forces.


Russian Pres Putin orders surprise drills to check combat readiness of central Russia forces. (RT).

 Russia’s troops in the Central Military District have been put on alert to verify troops’ combat-readiness during massive war games of all branches of the armed forces. The exercises involve the relocation of military personnel and hardware, firing training and complex inspections.
“In accordance with president’s order, today starting from 11:00 Moscow time [07:00 GMT] all troops of the Central Military District have been placed in a state of full combat readiness," Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu said at staff meeting.
The drills will last for a week, from June 21 through 28, Shoigu said.


During the first 24 hours, the troops’ readiness for immediate deployment on a combat mission will be checked.

After that, military units will switch to tactical training, marching in battle formation to firing ranges for practice, Shoigu said.

Air Force units in the district will relocate planes to operational airfields to check their readiness for action in new locations. In particular, the 98th Airborne Division will be relocated from the Ivanovo Region of the Volga Federal District to the Urals for paratrooper jump exercises at the Chebarkul firing range.

The minister specifically ordered units to avoid any possible damage to civilian installations and infrastructure during the military drills, and to ensure the safety of military personnel, arms and hardware.

The June 21-28 drill is the second stage of general exercises in the Central Military District, Shoigu said. A special commission has already verified the general situation in the district and now the war games will give the picture of combat readiness of the troops stationed on a swathe of huge territory from the Volga River through the Urals Mountains to Siberia, and from the Kara Sea in the Arctic to the steppe on Russia’s southern border with Kazakhstan.


Shoigu said that the 28th and 35th Motorized Brigades began the training June 20, when both units were put on alert ahead of the rest of the military forces in the region.
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Friday, June 20, 2014

Russia Continues Military Exercise near EU Border, 'Eliminates' Militant Group


Russia Continues Military Exercise near EU Border, 'Eliminates' Militant Group. (RN).
Paratroopers and coastal troops taking part in a large scale exercise in Russia’s Baltic enclave of Kaliningrad successfully “eliminated” a group of militants, according to the Russian Baltic Fleet’s press office.
“In the exercise’s scenario, intelligence was received about an illegal military group’s presence in one of the districts of Kaliningrad Region. A motorized infantry regiment was alerted,” said the statement. The motorized infantry regiment had to move 60 kilometers with artillery support to force the surrender of and eliminate the “potential enemy” forces.

During the first stage of the drills, Sukhoi Su-34 and Su-34 bombers engaged land targets, while the Friday exercise involved about 1,000 military personnel and more than 100 pieces of military hardware, including aviation.

The joint exercise of Russia’s Baltic Fleet, Air Force and paratroopers is taking place at the same time as the NATO’s Saber Strike 2014 and Baltops 2014 exercises. The Russian Defense Ministry earlier said the number of troops deployed by Russia for the Kaliningrad military exercises is comparable to the ongoing NATO drills in terms of personnel and military hardware.

Following the reunification of Crimea with Russia, NATO has been flexing its military muscle near the Russian border. Moscow has repeatedly expressed concern over the West’s aggressive pressure on Russia.
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Thursday, June 19, 2014

Breaking - Ukraine building up forces Near Crimea border.



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Russia has send a fleet of brand new fighter jets to the border with Ukraine. [GoogleTranslate] .The new jets can perform precise attacks in any weather, day or night. In eastern Ukraine, on the border with Russia, tensions have been running for weeks in fighting between the army and pro-Russian Ukrainian rebels. Officially, Russia keeps aloof, but in practice, Russia close eye on the situation. The new aircraft should help.




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