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

No idea

Andrew S. Weiss ‏@andrewsweiss 5m
Key relevation by Strelkov: armed separatists in #Slaviansk orig came from Crimea. Awkward cohabitation betw local thugs/cops, RUS mil/intel

Russia has a significant naval presence in the Baltic at the moment, at sea. It may be some sort of comms relay linked to that

Image of water channel to Crimea: [link to images.scribblelive.com]

Naton Aika ‏@NatonAika 31m
#Finland: 66% of officers support #NATO membership | [link to yle.fi] | #Nordic & #Baltic #defence & #security | ping #LennartMeri

Dead on :)

Kiev security service is saying the OSCE hostages to be used as human shields by separatists who are in contact with Russia

Only thing on that Island is a church ....wierd..

Only border nearby is Finland , and Finland aint in Nato....


"Finland participates in nearly all sub-areas of the Partnership for Peace programme, and has provided peacekeeping forces to both the Afghanistan and Kosovo missions. However, a 2005 poll indicated that the public was strongly against NATO membership.[79] The possibility of Finland's membership in NATO was one of the most important issues debated in relation to the Finnish presidential election of 2006."

NATO has nothing to build up with! Literally nothing at all. The Germans, Brits and Poles are the only ones close to being able to muster a force able to stand against Russia for about 12 hours before shattering. Then the nukes could fly.

Without the US military, which effectively no longer exists, all of Europe could fall. Can Putin really pass this up?

Look Mr. or Miss SIMPLE TRUTH!
It's no problem that you have posted your view that the present Mr. Putin in power is an imposter and the former person in power was the real Mr. Putin who was murdered or some such. It's fine that you posted that.
It's not fine that you have posted essentially the same thing hundreds of times when the vast majority here think that it is incorrect, irrelevant and a distraction.
You have made your point and no-one is taking up a debate with you.
So please pipe down. Once a month posting on this Putin imposter theory would be plenty enough, folks are sick of the repetition and redundancy. Perhaps you are right and we are all wrong. Please allow us to be wrong and give us some quiet, there are more than enough distractions already in this very tense situation.

Thank you.

Last Edited by FormerlyBritish on 04/26/2014 07:48 AM

I am really starting to loath these dimwits in Kiev. Ok, so they turn off the water to Crimea, I guess that all good. Now, will Russia turn off their gas? And is THAT all good? The idiots I kiev are such small immature children, thrashing around, trying to avoid their inevitable fate.

Us military no longer exists?

We saw that in Lybia. France and UK started the bombing, then USA had to give some help...

Russian overflights in to UKR are continuing today

Ur too polite formerly British, but would make a great diplomat :)

there were 7 intrusions overnight. (on the news wires now)

I'll give you a pound to a penny that there is a military radio installation on that island! And I've never even seen a photo of the island.

Janey, will you marry me?

Yatsenyuk is shortening his visit to Italy/Vatican and is returning immediately after meeting the Pope.

if only I was single... :)

Love is in the GLP air

They needed a loan? :D

Well, if it doesn't work out. Then there's a nice Commonwealth Canadian man here ready for courtship. :)

just to confirm, they have continued during the day today too. I dont have a number for you though.

Hm...related to the unknown "buzzer" signal? For some odd reason that was the first thing coming to mind after reading your comment.
[link to en.m.wikipedia.org]

Under "Format"
UVB-76 buzzing - A short clip of UVB-76's transmission as heard in Southern Finland, 860 km (530 mi) away from the station in 2002"

Last Edited by eV3y on 04/26/2014 08:03 AM

Jackson Diehl ‏@JacksonDiehl 6m
Estonian Gen. Riho Terras: If the first little green man appears in Narva our govt knows exactly how to respond #LennartMeri