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Huge AA assets seized in E. Ukraine. (very bad sign)

Another sign that a big invasion might be starting. Need lustration of the willful incompetence in the officer corps.

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In Donetsk, the terrorists seized the garrison of missile troops, anti-aircraft missile AIR DEFENCE Regiment No. 1402, a correspondent of RBK-Ukraine.
The parts are powerful long range air defense system detection and destruction of air targets.

In the press-service of the MIA of Ukraine in the Donetsk region, confirmed this information: “in Donetsk, representatives of the” DNI “captured the military part No. a-1402.”

Donetsk rocket Regiment performs tasks to protect the eastern borders of the State and protection of important industrial centers of Donbass with air.

Is the big war about to start?

@RutheniaRus · 1h

#Russia pulled to the border with #Kherson region #GRAD systems and C-300 surface-to-air missile units – State Border Guard Service #Ukraine

@MiddleEast_BRK · 2h

@AuswaertigesAmt The Russian invasion continues at the highest speed ever and Ukrainian army casualties are at the highest DAILY rate ever.

@MiddleEast_BRK · 2h

Ukr. border guards fired at a drone that flew over from #Russia into Stanichno-Lugansk yesterday eve. The drone withdrew. (they didn’t hit)

@MiddleEast_BRK

#BreakingNews #Russia creates #casus_belli,sends “humanitarian aid” convoy to enter #Ukraine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXPXrix4vw4

@MiddleEast_BRK · 2h

#BreakingNews #Land_mine, small arms ambush on Ukr. National Guard convoy in #Pryvillya destroys #BMP2, injures 5 Ukrainian troops. #Luhansk

@MiddleEast_BRK · 3h

#BREAKINGNEWS Saboteurs blow up railway bridge in #KHARKIV oblast!! Remember my words form last week This means a Rus invasion is planned.

(honest) Russian journalist writes about recent tank attack vs Ukr blockpost

In the past, this journalist lamented Russia’s stupidity for ending the “brotherhood” with Ukraine. There was also a story about him being assaulted in Moscow and speculating that he was targeted for his coverage of Ukraine. He has experience in Chechnya.

His points:

– A Ukrainian block post was attacked by a tank on June 26-27.
– The story is being ignored by Ukrainian media and Kyiv’s government.
– Ukrainian authorities say 4 Ukrainian soldiers were killed. Russian authorities claim 20-30.
– Everything about the block post, from its location to the disposition of troops was unprofessional.
– The tank was destroyed.

His post: https://www.facebook.com/babchenkoa/posts/508513705915534

Auto translation:

Kiev silence about the checkpoint is destroyed, so to speak – some bewilderment. Main news Ukrainian Yandex today – “three-meter wave washed beach near Odessa.” And only in the section “The situation in the East” in third place goes sheepishly news that “forces destroyed ATU tank separatists.” Says nothing about the fact that this tank just before he destroyed the checkpoint.

A feeling that Ukraine somehow do not care for this checkpoint. Well, killed and destroyed. Well, what can you do. It happens. On it and the war.

My friends. Completely destroyed the checkpoint – it p-q.
Checkpoint, which stood in one place for two months, and then was completely destroyed – this p-n squared.
Blockhouse, destroyed enemy tank attack – this p-n triple.

This suggests that the Ukrainian army to fight and has not learned that she does not understand how and what to do with their roadblocks that she does not understand what roadblocks are, what their strengths and weaknesses, what are their objectives and that at least tactics setup roadblocks should be reconsidered.
This is an occasion to the journalistic community in Ukraine exploded and ask one question – how come?
Roadblock on the fish farm – very shitty checkpoint. Perhaps the most worthless. With the location of the worst of all. I was there a couple of times. Very unfortunate place. On the one hand – the water, on the other – the slope of the hill, between the road. In these fifty meters roadside checkpoint and stood. As in the pipe.

Yes, and in the lowland. Because on the hill had already begun some barns where permanently fired.
And further down the road, the village is peaceful, Sloviansk area controlled by the adversary. Until less than a kilometer high-rise buildings. Actually, the roadblock was almost in town.

Because of space technology there was all focused on one patch, on the roadside, and could not use the fact that its benefits – range and caliber – but in general could only fire in one direction along the road. At the same time at a distance of a direct shot from a grenade launcher from the green stuff.
When the enemy was outnumbered, armed only with small arms and mortars, hollows may give more advantages than disadvantages – closes from direct fire, road protstrelivaetsya appliances.

But if the enemy decided davanut truly, there is nowhere to go.

And all knew it. And at the checkpoint is especially understood.

But for some reason nothing can be done.

In the end, all that happened.

The fact that the Ukrainian army checkpoints posing completely stupid and it will necessarily lead to losses, I wrote two months ago. Even in its very first reporting.
You can not just here to scatter on zhopny places so ill-equipped and poorly covered point away from each other. Yes, and these smaller ones. The mind, there should generally be two to cover each other checkpoint – on one side and on the other. Surely there must be absolutely gorgeous water barrier – why it cornered roadblock from the rear, and not blocked opponent approaches from the front? Why not at least trenches dug?

One of the most important techniques in the war – it excavator.

Well, of course, first at the Ukrainian army did not have the energy and time, and she threw that scraped together.
First, from this checkpoint was still some sense – to check the car’s trunk to catch a lone enemy with grenade launcher. But now? When the enemy tanks have already appeared?

How can you miss the bus was a tank?

His night heard for ten miles.

In general, the main task of the checkpoint in the changed situation – control space – there has not been performed and could not be performed initially.

Space there is absolutely impossible to control. And two months in any imzeneny takike use roadblocks correspondingly changed environment and Ukraine did not.

In terms of design and planning of operations Army DNR in this guerrilla war looks certainly more convincing. Operation to destroy the roadblock developed and implemented perfectly – with all the disadvantages of the enemy. Which he closed his eyes.

Two months if you really have the Ukrainian army there were no people to strengthen its weakest checkpoint and generals are able to understand that there is something wrong, then at least the concrete could be found? With this Khrenovoe location and such a small garrison there reinforced fortress had to stand.

Instead, there stood one man – one pyatdesyat. In tents.

Beter burned on the asphalt – it even had nowhere to dig caponier.

Breastworks built of tires, barricades – from logs.

The result is known.

According Tymchuk killed four, according Girkin – twenty or thirty. And completely demolished post.
And until now will be messing with the fish farm, the enemy will carry some other unit, where he sits in a half platoon tents, and to which there is also no one pays attention.

Tactics use roadblocks Chechnya studied snake to such an extent that any longer. Tons of books have been written about it.

But Ukraine stubbornly wants to walk along the same old rake.

Apparent video of the aftermath with destroyed Ukrainian armored vehicle:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqUOD2EIQR0

Russian gulag museum says facing closure

Russian gulag museum says facing closure as Kremlin clamps down on exposure to Russia’s shameful past.

The rights group running Russia’s only museum in a preserved former Soviet labour camp warns that the facility is facing closure as authorities grow increasingly hostile to probing the country’s totalitarian past.

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The Perm-36 museum — named after the notorious prison camp where it is housed — has seen operations grind to a halt after local authorities cut off key funding “without explanation”, the non-governmental organisation Memorial said.

“Visits are not taking place, electricity to the museum is cut and all the employees have been put on unpaid leave for an undetermined period,” said Robert Latypov, head of the local branch of Memorial, one of Russia’s most prominent human rights organisations.

“If the museum closes then it will be a harbinger of the arrival of an ideological dictatorship,” Latypov told AFP on Tuesday.

Under President Vladimir Putin, Russia has increasingly taken on the mantle of the Soviet Union and prides itself on its victories while downplaying the millions of deaths under Stalin’s forced industrialisation, collectivisation and prison camps.

Perm-36, the penal colony located about 70 kilometres (44 miles) from the Urals city of Perm, in particular housed many political prisoners convicted for “anti-Soviet” views as recently as the 1980s.

Putin, himself a proud former agent of the dreaded KGB security services, has voiced opposition to debate on history and is overseeing the creation of a single school history textbook to be used by the education system.

– Totalitarian legacy –

The potential shuttering of the museum has sparked widespread outrage with some 40,000 people signing an online petition in support of the institution.

“Perm-36 (museum) became famous throughout the entire globe,” the petition says. “Its very existence was proof that Russia is moving forward and abandoning its totalitarian legacy forever.”

http://nr.news-republic.com/Web/ArticleWeb.aspx?regionid=4&articleid=25131741&m=m

Economist: The West should impose fresh sanctions to deter more Russian meddling in eastern Ukraine

ALMOST three months have passed since Russia annexed Crimea and began stirring up rebellion in eastern Ukraine. For most of that period the hope of Western leaders has been that tensions there will gradually dissipate and that the crisis will just go away. That hope now looks deluded.

The argument was that Vladimir Putin, Russia’s president, had got most of what he wanted in Crimea and eastern Ukraine, not least a big boost in popularity at home. Partly thanks to two rounds of sanctions against individuals close to him, he had blinked: hence his decision to pull troops back from the border and more or less to accept Petro Poroshenko as Ukraine’s legitimate president after his election on May 25th. Thus there is no need for further sanctions that could wreak damage on Europe’s shaky economies as well as on Russia.

http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21604561-west-should-impose-fresh-sanctions-deter-more-russian-meddling-eastern?fsrc=scn/fb/wl/pe/unblinkingputin

President Poroshenko decided to extend the ceasefire plan for 72 hours.

Love, love, love having a leader who is intelligent. I think signing the economic agreement with the EU during the ceasefire re-frames any future Russian aggression, should it come.

It will be hard to see it as anything other than anti-EU aggression.

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President Poroshenko decided to extend the ceasefire plan for 72 hours. He has made this decision after consulting with the western diplomats. Prior to that Poroshenko had a discussion with the government security services.

http://lb.ua/news/2014/06/27/271316_poroshenko_reshil_prodlit_peremirie.html

Russian Propaganda Actress is Back – Odesa again.

See my earlier post here.

SHE IS BAAAAACK!

Long time no see!

Now she is a victim of Odessa threatened by the “Kyiv junta” trying to silence her because she knows the truth behind the deaths.

Russian television has been using her to pose as at least five different women opposed to the revolution in Ukraine then she appeared in occupied Crimea in two different roles before appearing in Moscow at the entrance of the embassy of Ukraine posing as a refugee fleeing the nazis practicing ethnic cleansing.

http://euromaidanpress.com/2014/05/12/political-actress-spotted-again-during-luhansk-referendum/#more-8973

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2574131/How-Russian-television-used-actress-pretend-five-different-people-opposed-revolution-reported-normal-Ukrainians-backed-Kremlin.html#ixzz35g0sMqP6

http://www.stopfake.org/izvestnaya-gastrolersha-tsipko-vystupila-v-roli-postradavshej-v-odesskoj-tragedii/

Wife of Ukrainian Officer Killed in Crimea Refuses Bribe, Joins Ukr Military herself

The wife of the Ukrainian marine officer who was shot dead by Russian troops while unarmed, he asked them to leave a Ukrainian marine barracks, is joining the military herself.
The Russians offered her $135,000 and a free apartment in Sevastopol to keep quiet. She told the Russians to get lost.

http://censor.net.ua/video_news/291458/ne_po_sovesti_eto_i_stas_byl_by_protiv_rossiyiskie_okkupanty_pytalis_podkupit_jenu_ubitogo_v_krymu_ukrainskogo