UKRAINE/RUSSIA NEWS: Russian military drills begin near Ukraine day after militants announce 100k strong mobalisation!!!p.7387

@StateOfUkraine: Goal of #Donetsk operation appears to be to hold ground for 2-3 days so that #Russia can invade mainland #Ukraine

Has anyone followed this Ukraine reporter for some time? I know biased, but wondering if info in past has been legit?

Last Edited by < DL > on 04/06/2014 03:18 PM

Yeah, armchair pundit cowards really love to egg on others to a fight, don't they now?

@EuromaidanPR: In #Kharkiv "Ukraina" TV channel journos forced to leave as pro-#Russian separatists threaten to beat them, crash equipment. espreso.tv |PR

Russian Activists storm local SBU headquarters at Lugansk. Note Russian Airborne Troops flag -

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flag of Russian airborne forces-

[link to en.wikipedia.org]

@StateOfUkraine: #Russian coordinator/agent: 100% that #Ukrainian special forces are coming to #Donetsk within few hours

@StateOfUkraine: #Russian coordinator: Flight time between #Kiev and #Donetsk is 50 minutes

@RamiAlLolah: The bells are ringing. Remember? @jenanmoussa Wait for the big news in east #Ukraine VERY soon.. #Russia @US_EUCOM @DeptofDefense

i remember many of his tweets posted here. some are truth, some very biased, the last one posted is based on what? imagination? of course it has potential, but who says so? SBU?

Living in the US, that would not be a good idea. A national emergency has been declared and I could be sanctioned without due process of law. A Moscow account in rubles wouldn't do me much good. If Russia attacks the US I am a patriot. US never cared about any of this when there was a real cold war.

Well we will see if the Ukrainian Government has loyal

Army troops to the Ukraine and if they are willing to fight

this is debatable.

They've had a bunch of those meetings already. US never listens so it is waste of time. Doesn't US have satellites? What do we spend $1 trillion / year for on war/spying if they can't even figure out on their own if there are 100,000 troops on Russian border or not? LMAO.

I thought the goal was to hold a referendum. I don't think it was prelude to military invasion. We'll quickly know.

It's all political - if they do what US wants, they are "good"; if they go against what US wants, they are "evil". But this is of course with some variance - in February Right Sector was good, because they were fighting against someone who believed the Russian relationship was better than the EU one for Ukraine; but as soon as this group seized power, they start to crack down on them. US is really quite opportunistic - same with the liver-eating Salafists in Syria for example.

there was never a REAL cold war. But they are glad you think otherwise.

The prospect of a new gas war between Russia and Ukraine drew closer at the weekend as the government in Kiev said it would refuse to pay for gas at a new, inflated price set by Gazprom last week.

In Kiev, interim prime minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk told the cabinet over the weekend that the new price for gas was unfair and Ukraine would not pay it.

Last week, Russia announced two successive price hikes in gas for Ukraine, taking it up to $485.50. It is unclear what Russia will do if Ukraine refuses to pay the new price, but in the past it has shut off the supply.

Diplomatic relations between Russia and Ukraine remain strained, with each country in effect accusing the other of state-sponsored terrorism.

Russia, meanwhile, said a group of Ukrainians supported by the country's security services had been detained for planning terrorist attacks.

[link to www.theguardian.com]

BULL SHIT

No one of euromaidan was paid. NO ONE. The Kremlin tried their damndest and they could not even create false evidence to that effect. It was a legitimate protest unlike what Yanukovych, Putin, and Ahmetov are doing.

If this whole ukraine thing is the spark of ww3... history has been made with this post lol.

I think you mentioned that you've lived there. I'm horribly jeolous of that. I've been there twice and it's a beautiful country with beautiful people. I hate to see this happening to them.

you have a fair point. not one of the peaceful protesters was paid. but someone attempted assassination of yanukovych. that is hardly peaceful or legitimate.

not to mention wounded 86 police officers with gunfire and killed 14.

As an American this is what I fear most. This is disgraceful like the way the US egged on the Hungarians in 1954. At least there was a real cold war. It will be much more damaging to American international interests this time if this does not settle. The uselessness of America as an ally will reverberate everywhere and poison NATO.

They may think they can use a backlash against Russia to move elsewhere like Syria but the cynicism will be obvious and that could easily fail too. That is a dangerous route for America to take.

Americans won't support war to back up those we have actual treaties with. Let alone this foolishness in Ukraine. The American leadership has gotten lazy with its puppet press and has lost touch with its own country.

pro-#Kremlin convoys are leaving #Crimea for #Donetsk with people and supplies

Turchynov cancels trip to Lithuania to combat pro-Russian separatists in Donetsk, Luhansk

[link to www.kyivpost.com]

armchair pundit? You really are too much. I mean it's nice to have a little objectivity. The guy is a pro. He may be a "US pro", but he's still a pro.

#Russian coordinator: Ukrainian An-24 plane has left #Kiev #Ukraine with special forces

They may park some trucks or people on the runway. Just like the Maidan people blocked train tracks when Berkut re-inforcements were headed for Ukraine. [link to news.dneprcity.net] ; [link to www.bbc.com] ("About 50 opposition activists are blocking the tracks in front of a train carrying paratroopers from Dnepropetrovsk to Kiev").

Kiev is the birthplace of Russia, around 800 - 900AD .....
that's being downplayed but it was the location of the beginning of the line of Russian princes which continued right up to the 20th century. The Mongol hords, of which Tartars are remnants, controled the area for centuries, which is what really destroyed the continuity of the Russian
Kiev relationship. Lithiuanian and later Polish princes controlled the area for a while, basically using the Ukraine as a slave labor resource.

When it comes to war it is real when it is real in the minds of those fighting it. The cold war qualifies. I am not sure you remember. As for the rest, my thoughts are my own. By contrast, this dog will never hunt.

This is excatly what Russia want and wait for