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Gazprom Cuts Russia’s Natural Gas Supply to Ukraine
By NEIL MacFARQUHARJUNE 16, 2014
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MOSCOW — Further aggravating already tense relations between Russia and Ukraine, the Russian energy giant Gazprom cut off natural gas supplies to its neighbor on Monday, warning that the reduction could diminish the amount of gas flowing to Europe.

The cutoff came after Ukraine missed a Russian-imposed deadline Monday to pay a nearly $2 billion installment for past gas deliveries, with senior officials on both sides exchanging heated remarks blaming the other.

It also coincided with a statement by the Ukrainian president, Petro O. Poroshenko, saying he would present a detailed cease-fire plan this week to end the fighting in eastern Ukraine. But it remained unclear how such a pact would be negotiated, in that Kiev has repeatedly said it would not talk with any separatists who had taken part in the uprising against the central government. For their part, the separatist leaders say Kiev has long ignored their concerns.

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The gas flowing into Ukraine as of Monday was meant only to transit the country to Europe. “Gazprom supplies to Ukraine only the amount that has been paid for, and the amount that has been paid for is zero,” Gazprom’s spokesman, Sergei Kupriyanov, told reporters.

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The Ukrainian leadership accused Russia of fomenting a gas war on top of the violence for which it blames Moscow, while the Russian prime minister, Dmitri A. Medvedev, dismissed the entire Ukrainian leadership as “inadequate” in remarks on his Facebook page.

On the surface, the dispute was about a large unpaid bill, nearly $4.5 billion in total, that Gazprom said Ukraine owed. The company, 50.01 percent owned by the Russian state, demanded that Kiev both settle its debt and pay in advance for future delivery before supplies resume.

But Ukraine is disputing the size of the existing tab, and there is no agreement over future pricing nor whether an entirely new contract is warranted. Russia wants Ukraine to pay $385 per thousand cubic meters, like the rest of Europe, while Kiev is insisting on the favorable price of $268 per thousand cubic meters that it used to get as a former Soviet republic.

But the gas showdown is rooted in two larger disputes.

First and foremost, the violence in eastern Ukraine between separatists devoted to Russia and the Ukrainian military is escalating, with 49 soldiers killed on Saturday when the separatists shot down a transport plane and demonstrators in Kiev marauded around the Russian Embassy in response.

In a statement, the Ukrainian prime minister, Arseniy P. Yatsenyuk, said that Russia’s move was part of a larger pattern of Kremlin aggression.

“This is not about gas,” Mr. Yatsenyuk said. “This is a general plan for the destruction of Ukraine.” He said the decision was the latest in a series of steps that “began with the annexation of Crimea, the Donbass terrorists, supplying Russian weapons and sending Russian bandits to the territory of Ukraine.”

Second, Gazprom has provoked economic ire in Europe over its plans to build an alternative gas route under the Black Sea for the company’s exclusive use, contradicting Europe’s open access laws. That has put the future of what is known as the South Stream pipeline in doubt.

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Günther Oettinger, the European energy commissioner who has brokered the gas negotiations, said in Vienna that he would try to convene more talks this month. But he warned European Union members to maintain significant gas storage.

Gazprom, which has sought for the past decade to convince the Europeans that it is a reliable supplier and not an arm of Russian foreign policy, painted the dispute as strictly commercial.

“They must pay their debts,” Alexei Miller, the chief executive of Gazprom, told a news conference repeatedly, turning red in the face as he castigated Ukrainian efforts to link the dispute to the broader conflict.

At his side, Russia’s energy minister, Alexander Novak, criticized those calling the gas shutdown an “escalation” of the overall tensions. “We are talking about fully legitimate demands from the Russian side and Gazprom,” he said, stressing that the two sides had sat down seven times this spring trying to forge a compromise.

Russia has cut off gas supplies to Ukraine twice before, in 2006 and 2009, both times during the winter months. Analysts noted that if you had to pick a month for a dispute over gas deliveries, June would be it. Demand is low, and given the mild winter in Europe, most countries have significant storage capacity.

Mr. Miller said Ukraine probably had enough gas stored to see it through the early fall — remarks echoed by Ukrainian officials. More important, Ukraine is contractually obligated to continue shipping the gas that transits its territory via Europe; Russia said it was only reducing that portion of the gas that Ukraine uses.

About a fifth of the European Union’s supply of natural gas flows through Ukraine. Ukraine itself imported from Russia 63 percent of the natural gas it consumed in 2012, producing the remaining 37 percent domestically, according to the United States Energy Information Agency.

Crunch time will come at the end of July, when both Ukraine and the rest of Europe will start topping off storage tanks in anticipation of winter.

Should Ukraine start siphoning off European supplies, Mr. Miller said Russia could increase the flow through the North Stream pipeline that runs under the Baltic Sea to Germany. But at least one-third of the supplies will still have to flow through Ukraine, said Laszlo Varro, who leads the gas, coal and power markets division of the Paris-based International Energy Agency. “Ukraine currently is essential to get Russian gas exports to Europe,” he said.

Both Ukraine and Russia have an interest in keeping supplies flowing. Ukraine is trying to become a European economic ally, due to sign an association agreement on June 27, while Russia does not need another source of tension after annexing Crimea, provoking Western sanctions.

“Both will want to avoid any disruption of gas flows to Europe,” said Chris Weafer, a senior partner at Macro-Advisory, a consulting company for foreign firms doing business in the former Soviet Union.

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Svoboda ­ Front For Fascist
Zionist Jew US State Department & CIA
By Karl W. B. Schwarz
7-4-14

I have been watching something very closely since the 2012 elections in Ukraine. It is an anomaly political party named Svoboda that emerged on the scene with an ‘anti-Jew’ platform. They won three states and even some seats in Kiev in the 2012 elections that put Viktor Yanukovych into office as President of Ukraine.
President Yanukovych was born near Donetsk, the place being bombed and shelled right now. He refused to sign the EU agreement that would have put NATO into Ukraine as well as a large additional tax base and work force for EU to plunder. Of course they are hoping for the ancillary benefit of NATO to the border of Russia on the South.
Part of the Svoboda platform was purportedly a protest about the lack of job creation in Ukraine. I knew that was suspect when they did not want to discuss a project in Ukraine with me that would have created 13,200 new high tech jobs in nanotechnology and had a 2x to 3x effect for other new jobs. Another nation is getting those jobs and their ‘pro-job’ part of their platform was exposed as a sham. As you read on, their ‘anti-Jew’ platform was a sham, too.
I have scientific, business interests and many personal friends in Ukraine, so have had to pay very close attention to these shifts that have been in progress for the past 3 to 4 years.
The ‘anti-Jew Svoboda’ now appears to be nothing but a canard for the much bigger EU, NATO and USA agenda in Ukraine.
Where they have not fared well at all is the Black Sea frontage areas from Odessa all the way across to Crimea (1.04%), Donetsk (1.2%) and Lugansk (1.29%) shown on the map below. The three states in brown are where Svoboda is in control in the western part of Ukraine bordering Poland.

Of course, it is the areas of Donetsk and Lugansk that are under heavy bombardment and shelling right now and the death toll climbs daily even for innocent citizens, children and journalists. One can always tell when someone is trying to suppress the truth when even journalists are targeted for elimination.
Information has been released that the Maidan snipers were trained somewhere in Poland.
Something did not smell right about that because the typical Zionist Jew outrage and casting accusations in every direction was very muted about this new development over in Ukraine between the 2012 election and what is now clearly a US­led regime change in 2014 in Kiev. That agenda is now pushing for war against Russia. Also, the EU and even ‘suck up to the Jews’ Germany had little or nothing to say on the Svoboda matter and this purported growing in strength of an anti-Jew party in Ukraine.
There has been a lot of commentary about the Far Right Anti-Jew party in Hungary named Jobbik, but virtually nothing about Svoboda right next door in the western part of Ukraine. I am pointing this out because Jobbik is even growing outside of Hungary in Poland. As most people with at least three functioning brain cells knows, when the anti-Jew subject rears its head the Jews are very shrill about that.
But… have not been about Svoboda.
The Hungarian group Jobbik has also established a strong foothold with other Far Right anti-Jew groups into Bulgaria, Croatia, Slovakia, Czech Republic and even over to the UK. The Zionist Jews are also now up in arms and wailing about the emergence of Front National Party and Marine Le Pen in France, because her party and its founder, her father Jean-Marie Le Pen, are not pro-Zionist Jew.
There has been plenty of Jewish hyperventilating about Jobbik and the reality that their strength is growing, but hardly even a peep about Svoboda over in Ukraine. There has been plenty of Zionist Jew hyperventilating about Marine Le Pen and Front National Party in France, too, but not about Svoboda.
Then when the John Kerry ­ Victoria Nuland show got their regime change and put Zionist Jew Arseniy Yatsenyuk in as interim leader they install into the interim government at very high level and key positions the anti-Jew Svoboda leaders in what is definitely an engineered Zionist Jew Neocon operation?
Think about what is wrong with that picture for a moment.
The US has tried to convince the world that there were no neo-Nazis (aka: anti-Jew Fascists) in the interim government. Global Research in Canada ran an excellent write up that disproves that US position.
“”Because the issue of the role of Svoboda in Ukraine’s government is so fundamentally important, let’s take a look at the cabinet membership.
Oleksandr Sych­ Deputy Prime Minister, a Svoboda parliamentarian, the party’s chief ideologist, and a virulent anti-abortion activist
Ihor Tenyukh ­ Minister of Defence, member of Svoboda’s political council, and formerly commander of Ukraine’s navy but was dismissed from his post when he tried to help Georgia following its military attack on South Ossetia which Russia quickly rebuffed.
Andriy Parubiy­ Secretary of the National Security and National Defense Committee (RNBOU), co-founder of the Social-National Party of Ukraine (Svoboda). This is a key position which oversees the Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces, Law Enforcement, National Security and Intelligence. The RNBOU is central decision-making body. While it is formally headed by the president, it is run by the Secretariat with a staff of 180 people including defense, intelligence and national security experts. Parubiy was the head “kommandant” of the Maidan Right Sector forces and directed the masked armed men who battled the police.
Oleh Makhnitsky ­ Prosecutor-general, Svoboda member of parliament. With this appointment Svoboda will control the judicial process.
Ihor Shvaika ­ Minister of Agriculture, an agro-oligarch and a member of Svoboda. As one of the richest men in the country, his massive investments in agriculture would seem to indicate a slight conflict of interest.
Andriy Moknyk ­ Minister of Ecology, Deputy Chairman of the Svoboda party and a member of their Political Council, and has been Svoboda’s envoy to other European fascist parties.
Serhiy Kvit ­Minister of Education, a leading member of Svoboda, noted for his efforts to glorify those who inspired the Bandera fascists in World War II.
Dmytro Yarosh ­ Deputy Head of the National Security Council, to be in charge of the police. Yarosh is the founder-leader of the paramilitary “Right Sector,” and together with Parubiy they directed the demonstrations at Maiden. Years back, Yorash fought alongside Chechen Islamists, and proudly claims that he personally killed a large number of Russian soldiers.””
Note the name immediately above… Dmytro Yarosh. The Chechen War was classic USA promoted, financed and armed Al Qaeda Islamic fundamentalism civil war against Russia exactly as designed by the hate-Russia dinosaur nutcase Zbigniew Brzezinski, author of ‘The Grand Chessboard’. It is his lunatic game plan that this entire PNAC ­ USA Global War of Terror and fascism is based on that has as a key objective putting NATO in the face of Russia (and China) on every border.
This was the same Al Qaeda move against all of the Islamic regions of the USSR so the USA could get control of the vast oil and natural gas reserves in Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, etc. They have tried the same stunt in Dagestan so they could bring a pipeline from Kazakhstan across the Caspian Sea, through tiny Georgia to the Black Sea. The August 2008 attack by Georgia against South Ossetia, armed by Germany and the USA, was about the pipelines across Georgia and Russia being only 25km from them.
If you missed my August 2008 article on Operation Dagestan, click here. If you missed my recent article about the South Stream pipeline and how Crimea figures into this current mess, click here.
If you take the time to look into the fiascos going on right now in Libya, Syria and the spillover of ISIS into Iraq, same agenda, same ‘Al Qaeda’ modus operandi. Create the problem, intentionally destabilize and then deliver the solution, old trick otherwise known as ‘Problem, Reaction, Solution’.
That revelation about Yarosh’s background has both flashing red warning lights and USA fingerprints all over this chaos in Ukraine. The bloodshed is now approaching sheer genocide against the citizens of the eastern part of Ukraine in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions.
So, what is an anti-Jew uprising that is of no concern whatsoever to the Zionist Jews? No concern whatsoever even to those Zionist Jews and Fascist Zionist Jew Neocons that infest the US State Department? What is an anti-Jew Svoboda doing immersed into the new Zionist Jew governments of Arseniy Yatsenyuk and now newly elected President Petro Poroshenko?
There is only one possible explanation for that. The $5 billion invested according to Fascist Zionist Jew Neocon Victoria Nuland by the USA for this regime change had to be in large part to Svoboda. They have been all for this outbreak of hostilities towards Russia and the Russian speaking citizens in the eastern part of Ukraine, many of which are in fact Russians and hold that passport rather than Ukraine.
Most Ukrainians have no ill-will towards Russia whatsoever. Most are fluent in Russian and in many parts of Ukraine as high as 35% are in fact Russian and do in fact hold Russian passports. Who has a vendetta towards Russia are the Fascist Zionist Jew Neocons. This apparently anti-Jew Svoboda has now revealed themselves as Fascist Zionist Neocons and on the same agenda as the Fascist Zionist Jew Neocons.
That same problem exists in America and why it is no longer possible to easily tell the difference between the Republican Right and the Democrat Left.
Additionally, it has come out that the snipers that were used to create the uprising in Kiev that led to the overthrow of President Viktor Yanukovych were apparently hired by the newly created US backed government and shooting both the protestors and the police. Said another way, what appeared to be two clashing groups had one group gunning them both down. That also has the fingerprints of the USA on it, specifically the CIA and State Department that have been behind this ‘Grand Chessboard move’.
And, as was discovered by the Estonian Foreign Affairs minister that was investigating what happened in Kiev, it was apparent to him that the new coalition government post-overthrow of Yanukovych were shooting both sides; the police and the protestors to stir up this entire fiasco.
The Svoboda thugs are the leaders of the Maidan and have been behind both the uprising that caused the regime change in Kiev of a duly elected president, and the hostilities towards eastern Ukraine and Russia. That is classic “Grand Chessboard SOP”, and classic USA deceit.
The Svoboda players have the appearance, color and smell of CIA paid operatives.
There was also the planned terrorist attack in Odessa that left many people dead and injured. The total death toll was 47, many burned alive in a building when the pro-Zionist regime thugs set fire to the Odessa House of Trade Unions and then tried to blame it on Russia. That was also coming out of this not so wonderful new Fascist Zionist Jew Neocon government the USA and EU just installed in Kiev. About 25% of the people living in the Odessa area are also Russian citizens and hold Russian passports.
That also has CIA and State Department fingerprints all over it.
I was sent a link the night before I drafted this of a video titled “Red and Black”. It shows the Donbass region before the election of Petro Poroshenko and the bloodshed had already started when these Fascist Zionist Jews and Svoboda were in office as the interim government. Note 23 minutes into this video the despicable ploy this new Zionist Jew Ukraine government and the USA tried to pull to label the residents of the Donbass region as anti-Jews and part of their ‘blame Russia’ strategy.
The ‘Auschwitz Concentration Camp clone ploy’ would be laughable if it was not so utterly pathetic, underhanded and despicable. People are in fact dying in the eastern states where these bloodthirsty cretins are conducting a wholesale slaughter against the people for daring to opt out as a statement of self-determination that they want nothing to do with these Fascist Zionists thugs in Kiev.
So, when is an anti-Jew not an anti-Jew? When financed and backed by the USA and the agenda and target was Russia and regime change in Ukraine. The correct terminology is ‘anti-Russia’.
The EU players have figured out their black op has gone too far and are trying to defuse the situation peacefully. The USA is of course pushing for war. The recent meeting in Berlin made it clear that the USA wants no solution that is not bloody and 100% of what they are after. It is a good thing the EU parties are starting to wake up and backing up before Russia proves what a Superpower they are.

It is called in Zionist Jew terms a coup d’état against the Ukraine people and the USA people have been victimized by it, too. Right now people are being murdered in the eastern part of Ukraine, Libya, Syria, and Iraq.
When, America, are you going to stand up and do something about it?

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Brzezinski calls to isolate Russia, urges US to arm Ukrainian military

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Zbigniew Brzezinski
Russia has neither the right to protect its national interests nor the right to be different. A regional power, enclosed in its rigid bounds, Russia is unable to establish viable alliances with leading global players. It should give up its vain hopes of some mythical Eurasian Union development. Its only alternative is to take the role of the Western civilization humble satellite. So thinks an old US hawk Zbigniew Brzezinski, a former National Security Adviser and a prominent geostrategist.

On June 16 professor Brzezinski gave a speech at the Woodrow Wilson Center, dedicated to the ongoing turmoil in Ukraine and US-NATO political agenda regarding the issue. Referring to a mysterious specter of non-existent "Russian chauvinism", Zbigniew Brzezinski spoke about the mechanics of deterrence and revitalization of containment strategy directed against Russia. The geostrategist is convinced that "deterrence" is the most effective foreign policy tool.
It should be noted that some of Brzezinski's assertions surprisingly resemble those of the notorious US State Department's spokeswoman Jen Psaki. He claimed, for instance, that "Russia has generated in Ukraine widespread hostility towards Russia on the part of some 40 million people," while the recent survey conducted on April 25-29, 2014 by the influential Razumkov Centre in Kiev indicated that despite of the aggravation of Russia-Ukrainian relations more than a half of respondents consider Russians a friendly and fraternal nation. According to the other controversial statement made by the geostrategist Russia can't be considered a unique and self sufficient civilization. Dr. Brzezinski has probably forgotten about the 1000-year Russian history, the kind the US being a very "young" state can't boast yet. His notions regarding the "Russian chauvinism" seem utterly ridiculous: in a multi-national country with about 200 ethnic groups, living side-by-side for hundreds of years and enjoying equal rights and opportunities, the "chauvinism" – a form of radical nationalism and belligerent belief in national superiority – is impossible. Interestingly enough, the term "Russian chauvinism" was invented and used by the Russian Bolsheviks party and its prominent leader Vladimir Lenin in the beginning of the 20 century. It seems rather symbolic that the expression popular among communists has been lately inherited by the western liberals and particularly Zbigniew Brzezinski. As for Dr. Brzezinski's belief that Russia should be a part of Europe, we should point out that more than three-quarters of Russia's territory lies in Asia. That is why historians and ethnographers qualify Russia's identity as the Eurasian state-civilization.
Zbigniew Brzezinski is widely known for his russophobic stance. Stuck irretrievably in a Cold War reality the former National Security Adviser is most likely unable to evaluate correctly and impartially the current situation in the world. Behind the high flown phrases of Dr.Brzezinski about the US global leadership and Russia's weakness his growing irritation is hidden. What does exasperate an old American hawk?
Sino-Russian alliance and Eurasian Union
"Russia has to understand that Ukraine will not be a member of some mythical Eurasian Union that President Putin is trying to promote on the basis of this new doctrine of a special position for Russia in the world," claims Dr. Brzezinski. He addresses Russia's middle class, saying: "the real place for Russia is as an important country in Europe <…> What does China mean for the future of Russia?"
Referring to Russia's elites and the middle class the geostrategist should remember that it was the US who launched an unprecedented sanctions war against Russia, pushing it straight into the arms of China. If the US wants to win over the Russian middle class it should suggest some tangible preferences and a clear prospective of business profits instead of amorphous American "values," used as a sort of glass necklace for a savage tribe. Right now, however, the US has lost its positions to China, a more trusted and reliable partner.
It should be noted that the rapid development of Sino-Russian alliance as well as ratification of the Eurasian Economic Union Treaty this year deal a serious blow to the US geopolitical interests and economic plans on the Eurasian continent. Russia's initiative to create a harmonious economic community stretching from Lisbon to Vladivostok is doubtlessly far more favorable than a New Silk Road project developed by the US, which includes some highly volatile regions of Central Asia living under a permanent terrorist threat. Due to its geographical position, Russia a priori has a competitive advantage as a convenient and secure logistic hub, a reliable natural bridge between the West and the East, Europe and the developing Asia, according to experts. We can hardly call the Eurasian Union a "mythical one": its economic mechanisms are working and have already born tangible fruits. Needless to say that a population of 170 million people makes the Eurasian Economic Union one of the biggest consumer markets on the planet with a quarter of all the world’s proven mineral resources valued of up to $40 trillion. Being an open economic community the EEU seamlessly integrates into the global market structure. Speaking disparagingly of the EEU's prospective Brzezinski, however, can't deny the fact that the US is unable to provide its European partners with similar market shares in Eurasia.
There is a serious dilemma: how to maintain control over the EU allies and prevent their integration into apparently profitable Eurasian economic community? Zbigniew Brzezinski's universal solution is deterrence and threatening.
New Cold War containment strategy
"In the most immediate sense, the stakes involve, of course, the issue that the use of force in Crimea and the ongoing and sustained effort to destabilize parts of Ukraine pose a threat to the post-World War II notions of international arrangements, and particularly the exclusion of the use of force in resolving territorial issues. That has been a cardinal assumption of the European order after World War II. And Russia has been part of it, including through the treaties that it has signed. But it now is challenging that," Dr. Brzezinski says.
The US politicians and pro-American mass media are inclined to portray Russia's actions towards Ukraine as an unjustified "outrage". The conflict, however, has not been created by Russia and it is not Russia who is responsible for the bloodshed in the East of Ukraine, authoritative political analysts admit. Although Dr. Brzezinski does not have any evidence to back his claims, he insists that Russia is supplying weapons to the militant groups in Eastern Ukraine.
Zbigniew Brzezinski's statement about the US's dedication to the inviolability of post-WWII European borders and "the exclusion of the use of force in resolving territorial issues" looks illogical and may cause a surprise. It seems like the former National Adviser is suffering from a strange form of amnesia that has totally erased the facts of US-NATO violation of the European order from his memory. Let us name a few: a gradual splitting of Yugoslavia supported by the US and its European allies in 1990-2008 that drastically changed the map of Europe, the NATO military aggression against Yugoslavia in 1999 and the occupation of Kosovo. The collapse of the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Treaty Organization led to the total political and geographical rearrangement of the post-WWII order in Europe unanimously hailed by the West. Dr. Brzezinski is blatantly demonstrating a double-standards approach: international laws breach is fully justified in the eyes of the US if it serves the American interests.
Predictably enough after a preamble devoted to the prominent threat posed by Russia to the Eastern European countries, Dr. Brzezinski calls to increase of NATO's military presence in Europe and to start weapon deliveries to Ukraine.
Revision of NATO's membership concept
Dr. Brzezinski proposes a new interesting provision to the Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty:
"I have in mind, particularly, a review of the historical paradox involved in the very important Article 5. Article 5 provides for the procedure in undertaking a military response to an aggression directed at it in general or at one or two or more of its members. You doubtless recall that Article 5 has a provision that decisions to engage in hostilities by the alliance have to be unanimous. This, in other words, means that every country has a veto," the geostrategist says. "One possible solution might be simply the adoption of the provision that there will be no veto right in the alliance for sustained, enduring under-performers of jointly agreed commitments. Why should a member that doesn’t meet NATO commitments practically in total then have the right to veto the other members’ right to engage in collective self-defense?"
In other words, the former National Security Adviser suggests to abandon NATO members' equality principle, increasing the decision-making role of the United States and its key partners, and maintain greater control over the other participants of the Treaty.
Recognizing that "Ukraine will not be a member of NATO," Brzezinski, however, hints at the fact that NATO may support the country without joining it: "It doesn’t follow that a country whose security NATO has an interest in has to be a NATO member. NATO can have an interest in its security, but without having it in NATO." This very thesis as well as the key points of Brzezinski's speech is strikingly similar to the provisions of S.2277 bill "Russian Agression prevention act" designed and sponsored by the US neocons in order to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on military needs and promote the US fracking firms in post-Soviet states of Ukraine, Moldova, and Georgia. It should be noted that authors of the bill propose to grant Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova, a status of "major non-NATO ally" which typically hosts US military bases and receive military suppliers from the US. It is obvious that Dr. Brzezinski and the law-makers Senator John McCain and Bob Corker, which developed the bill, are serving the interests of the same US political and financial group.
Bolstering civil strife in Ukraine
"I feel that we should make it clear to the Ukrainians that if they are determined to resist, as they say they are and seemingly they are trying to do so (albeit not very effectively), we will provide them with anti-tank weapons, hand-held anti-tank weapons, hand-held rockets—weapons capable for use in urban short range fighting," noted Zbigniew Brzezinski during his speech.
The former National Adviser insists that the US must provide urban warfare equipment to the Kiev government in order to protect the regime against Russian invasion. Since there are no signs of invasive military preparations conducted by Russia, for what purposes these weaponry supplies will be used by Kiev?
Daniel McAdams, the Executive Director of the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity, thinks that "ethnic cleansing of ethnic Russians and Russian speakers may be exactly what Brzezinski has in mind."
"The country's post-coup president, Petro Poroshenko, was very clear, ending the ceasefire (that wasn't much of a ceasefire) by stating that "We will attack and we will liberate our land!" Does that mean liberating it from the "others" who do not accept rule by the post-coup government? Those who Kiev's prime minister Arseniy "Yats" Yatsenyuk has already called "subhumans"?" writes Daniel McAdams.
Continuous urban warfare will doubtlessly plunge Ukraine into a lingering civil conflict and lead to a humanitarian catastrophe. However, the old American hawk does not care much about it. Through the Ukrainian turmoil, the main task described by Dr. Brzezinski's in "The Grand Chessboard" is being accomplished: "Without Ukraine, Russia ceases to be a Eurasian empire."
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Ukraine and Russia
War by any other name

Russia has, in effect, already invaded eastern Ukraine. The question is how the West will respond
Jul 5th 2014 | MOSCOW | From the print edition
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A “NON-LINEAR” war, explains Natan Dubovitsky, a writer, is how states are likely to fight each other in future—if they do not already. Individual regions or cities will form temporary coalitions, only to split apart in mid-fighting and find new allies. Each force has its own aims, and these too can be fluid. The war has many components, of which battle is only one element. “Most understood the war to be part of a process,” writes Mr Dubovitsky, and “not necessarily its most important part.”

Mr Dubovitsky’s idea was featured in a short story published in March, as Russian forces were seizing control of Crimea. Its most telling detail is the author’s real identity: Vladislav Surkov, a long-standing ideological adviser to Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin. Mr Surkov’s tale is a fanciful exercise, but it is also as good a blueprint as any for the Kremlin’s efforts to direct the war in eastern Ukraine.

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After a ten-day ceasefire that was widely ignored, fierce fighting resumed in eastern Ukraine on July 1st. Both sides have suffered heavy losses. Pro-Kiev forces have resumed shelling with heavy artillery, including of civilian areas. The Ukrainian army claims to have recaptured a border post with Russia—a necessary step if it is to encircle and gradually wear down the pro-Russian rebels.

In recent days Ukraine’s president, Petro Poroshenko, has come under intense pressure not to extend the temporary ceasefire that Mr Putin persistently and disingenuously calls for. A growing nationalist lobby in Kiev is pushing to continue the fight instead. With anti-government militias observing the ceasefire either fitfully or not at all, Mr Poroshenko may have reasoned that only the rebels were benefiting from breaks in the conflict.

For his part, Mr Putin appears, at least for now, to have ruled out a full-frontal invasion. On June 24th he theatrically instructed the ever-loyal upper house of parliament to cancel the authorisation for military force in Ukraine that he had ordered up in early March. The move was largely an empty fob to Mr Poroshenko and another way to ward off more Western sanctions. Yet even if a tanks-and-soldiers invasion seems unlikely, a Russian invasion of another sort began long ago: one that resembles the slippery, post-modern war described by Mr Surkov.

The nature of the incursion speaks volumes for the reach of the Russian state under Mr Putin. Today’s Russia thinks of itself as a mobilisation state, ready to deploy a full array of instruments in a crisis. In Ukraine this means a policy that combines covert arms transfers, volunteer fighters called up by patriotic organisations, oligarchs and others, propaganda produced by state-run media, punitive arm-twisting over gas prices and a worsening of political repression at home. Officials in Moscow, who have taken to praising non-linear war even if they do not use the precise term, say they are wielding the same tools the Americans use all the time: first engineer protests, and if that doesn’t work, back them up by force.

The advantage of such an approach is “plausible deniability,” explains Dmitry Gorenburg of CNA Corporation, a policy and security think-tank. Above all, it helps Russia to avoid a new round of American and European sanctions, which would aim not just at individuals but at entire industries. Existing sanctions and the fears of more to come have already had a “chilling effect” on investment, according to the IMF, which now says that Russian GDP growth will be zero this year. The murkiness and obfuscation of Mr Putin’s non-linear war in Ukraine also complicate Western diplomacy, dividing opinion and making it harder to find consensus.

What Mr Putin would really like is a conflict of just the right size: big enough to force Mr Poroshenko into concessions but not so large it drags Russia in directly or forces it to subsidise Ukraine’s eastern regions. As Mr Gorenburg explains, Mr Putin will facilitate the transfer of Russian arms, fighters and money so as to ensure that “the insurgency isn’t defeated, but while doing the minimum possible”.

Mr Putin’s apparent interest in an on-again, off-again cycle of ceasefires and negotiations suggests that he would like to lock the conflict in place, legitimising the so-called people’s republics in Donetsk and Luhansk and raising the profile of these rebel commanders ready to take orders from Moscow. Such a war—oscillating between open fighting and political talks, but without ever being completely resolved—would resemble other frozen conflicts around the former Soviet Union. In Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Transdniestria, unsettled but largely bloodless conflicts serve to constrain the Georgian and Moldovan governments as well as providing a built-in lever for Russian meddling.

Mr Putin may welcome something similar in eastern Ukraine. But those earlier conflicts differ in one important aspect: they are based on genuine, deeply felt ethnic and religious cleavages. Although plenty of Russian-speakers in Donetsk and Luhansk resent Kiev and would like more autonomy, such Balkan-like divisions do not really exist in Ukraine.

A more likely outcome is warlordism, or the rise of authorities who rely for their position not on ideology but on “force and patronage,” explains Kimberly Marten at Columbia university. Warlords, Ms Marten says, use violence and bribery to exert control over territory and money flows—the sort of informal politics that Moscow knows well. In conflict zones like eastern Ukraine, those who enjoy access to resources naturally see their influence rise. The Kremlin’s preferred intermediaries—men like Alexander Borodai, a Russian public-relations manager and political consultant who is now prime minister of Donetsk’s “people’s republic”—have become ever more prominent.

The question for Mr Putin is how far he is willing to go if Ukrainian forces seem to be gaining the upper hand over the rebels. In a pure military contest Kiev is likely to prevail, given enough time. “Even just standing still will require Russia to put in more resources,” says Mark Galeotti of New York University. Mr Putin may not be able to avoid this. Igor Korotchenko, a military analyst and editor who is close to the defence ministry, argues that Russia should step up its support to anti-Kiev forces following the precedent of America’s support to Syria’s rebels.

The question for the West is how much of an appetite it has for thougher measures. The recent cycle of threats of more sanctions, followed by meek postponements, does not bode well.

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Ukraine's new defence minister pledges to retake Crimea promising a 'victory parade' in the key city of Sevastopol
Former policeman Valeriy Heletey, 46, has been brought in to revitalise army
Kiev parliament erupts with applause as he promises to retake peninsula
Government troops continue offensive against pro-Russian rebels
Around 250 civilians, 200 soldiers and 800 rebels have been killed since April
Ukrainian astronomers name star 'Putin is a D***head'
By DANIEL MILLER
PUBLISHED: 14:08, 4 July 2014 | UPDATED: 15:27, 4 July 2014
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New Ukrainian Defense Minister Valeriy Heletey has pledged to retake Crimea from Russian control
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New Ukrainian Defense Minister Valeriy Heletey has pledged to retake Crimea from Russian control
Ukraine's newly-appointed defence minster has pledged to to retake Crimea from Russian control promising a victory parade in the key city of Sevastopol.
The parliament in Kiev erupted with cheers following the remark made by Colonel General Valeriy Heletey, 46, a former policeman who previously headed the state's VIP bodyguard service.
Heletey was recommended for the position by President Petro Poroshenko as someone who would work day and night to revitalise Ukraine's armed forces.
In his address, Heletey, who replaces Mikhailo Koval, said: 'Believe me, there will be a victory parade -- there will be for sure -- in Ukraine's Sevastopol.'
Russian troops annexed Crimea, home to a Russian-speaking majority, in March following a widely-disputed referendum in which 96.7 per cent reportedly voted to become part of Russia.
It comes as government troops continue their bloody offensive against pro-Russian rebels in Eastern Ukraine who have declared independence and occupied government buildings.
Ukraine and the West say Russia is helping arm the rebels and letting its citizens cross the border to fight, while key allies France and Germany are pushing Poroshenko to pursue talks over attacks.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin in a conference call yesterday during which they appealed to him to put pressure on the rebels in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions.

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Three Ukrainian traffic police officers shot dead by gunmen wearing camouflage
Out of control truck sends pedestrians flying after smashing into them on Russian zebra crossing… but, miraculously, nobody is killed
President Poroshenko said he was prepared to order a ceasefire providing it was observed by both sides, all hostages were freed and borders secured by government forces.
Poroshenko also appointed Lieutenant General Viktor Muzhenko as chief of the military's general staff and Yury Kosyuk, an agriculture magnate and one of Ukraine's richest men, to oversee defense issues in the presidential administration.
Heletey was recommended for the position by President Petro Poroshenko, right, as someone who would work day and night to revitalise Ukraine's armed forces
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Heletey was recommended for the position by President Petro Poroshenko, right, as someone who would work day and night to revitalise Ukraine's armed forces
He told the parliament: 'Today the revival of the army is starting from the scratch, the army which is capable of fighting and winning.
'I have witnessed that during meetings with soldiers and officers while visiting the zone of anti-terrorist operations - the army which knows how to and is able to defend its people and country,' he added.
UKRAINIAN ASTRONOMERS NAME STAR 'PUTIN IS A D***HEAD'
Ukrainian astronomers have named a star 'Putin is a D**khead' in a jibe aimed at the hated Russian president.
The star was adopted and named through the Pale Blue Dot Project, which allows anyone to adopt and name a star for just $10, with the money going to fund the hunt for Earth-like planets.
The co-ordinates of star which is officially named 'Putin Huilo' are: Celestial Star: right Ascension: 18 h 59 m 47.09 s Slope: 46 * 26 '44', 'magnitude: 11.
The term Putin Huilo is belived to have been coined by football fans and was widely chanted at matches, before being picked up by rock bands and becoming a popular internet meme.
It was widely shouted during the Maidan protest in Kiev which resulted in the ousting of President Yanukovych and his government.
Kiev has struggled to re-assert control over the country's industrial east, where fighting between government troops and pro-Russia separatists has claimed more than 400 lives since April.
The army has been unable to prevent rebels from occasionally cruising the countryside in armored vehicles or to dislodge them from the occupied town of Slovyansk.
Yesterday three Ukrainian traffic police officers were shot dead after unknown gunmen wearing camouflage uniforms opened fire.
The incident took place near the main railway station in Donetsk - the largest city in eastern Ukraine, where clashes between government troops and pro-Russia separatists are ongoing.
At least 250 civilians, almost 200 soldiers and at least 800 rebels have been killed in eastern Ukraine since April.
According to figures released by the UN at least 110,000 people have left Ukraine for Russia this year, the majority from eastern regions.
The insurrection started after pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych was driven from office by a protest movement among people wanting closer ties with the European Union instead of Russia.
Russia called Yanukovych's ouster a coup by radical nationalists and seized Ukraine's Russian-speaking Crimea region. Ukraine says Russia is now backing the insurgency.
Poroshenko was elected in a special election May 25 to replace Yanukovych.


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LNR press service: 130 soldiers of Ukrainian army killed in Lugansk

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Militia’s headquarters moves from Slavyansk to Kramatorsk

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KIEV/DONETSK/LUGANSK, July 05, 20:52 /ITAR-TASS/. Militiamen have left Slavyansk besieged by the Ukrainian army, fighting their way to Kramatorsk and Artyomovsk.
The troops of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DNR) have taken positions along reserve defence lines. Militiamen from other cities of the Donetsk Region are moving toward the regional capital. The Ukrainian army is sustaining heavy losses in Lugansk: about 130 of them have died there over the past 24 hours. Militia’s headquarters moves from Slavyansk to Kramatorsk
Militiamen left Slavyansk last night, moving their headquarters to Kramatorsk. Slavyansk is almost completely deserted. It was bombed again during the night, forcing people to flee en masse. Two ambulances that were transporting injured people also came under attack even though the Ukrainian authorities had promised to open a humanitarian corridor for those wishing to leave the city.
The local military hospital has been moved to Donetsk. Its chief physician in Donetsk said there was a shortage of personnel and all those available were busy placing the wounded, whose number has doubled.
The towns of Semyonovka and Niklolayevka, which for a long time remained the only link to Donetsk, have been taken by the Ukrainian army.
DNR troops take positions on reserve defence lines
DNR Prime Minister Alexander Borodai told ITAR-TASS that the self-proclaimed republic’s troops had to surrender their previous positions to the outnumbering Ukrainian army and move to the reserve ones. “Our troops have taken up positions on the reserve defence lines, doing so in an organised manner and preserving the personnel and hardware. We were prepared for this as we had to fight a group of several dozen thousand people and hundreds of armoured hardware; in other words, practically the entire defence capability of the Ukrainian army,” Borodai said.
“Our troops are continuing to fight, their morale is high and we are confident of our strength. But considering the scorched earth tactics used by the punitive squadrons and the overall Ukrainian strategy of genocide against the people in Donbas, we say that every hour of fighting claims the lives of peaceful people,” he said. “We are urging the international community to influence the Ukrainian authorities and stop the extermination of the peaceful population,” Borodai said.
Ukrainian army reports results of special operation to President Poroshenko
The chief of the Ukrainian Army General Staff, Viktor Muzhenko, briefed President Pyotr Poroshenko on the situation in Slavyansk. “Militants made an attempt to break out of Slavyansk last night but came under mortar fire from the Ukrainian army,” the presidential press service quoted Muzhenko as saying. “As a result, one tank, two armoured personnel carriers and two airborne combat vehicles of the militants were destroyed. Reconnaissance units of the armed forces and the National Guard of Ukraine are now working in Slavyansk.”
Muzhenko and Defence Minister Valery Geletei then told the president that a Ukrainian flag had been raised on the Slavyansk City Council building.
“The commanders of the armed forces also briefed the supreme commander-in-chief on the progress of the anti-terrorism operation. A reconnaissance company is now in Kramatorsk to study the possibility of planting mines in the city for further combat operation,” the press service said.
Ukrainian army aviation continues air raids in Donetsk
Personnel were evacuated from the building of the Donetsk city administration in connection with an air raid by the Ukrainian army. DNR chief administrative officer Boris Litvinov said air raids had become commonplace. “It has become customary that several planes would scoop down on the city and its administration building. The military asked us to leave the building for an hour or two in order to avoid possible casualties” he said.
At the same time, Litvinov said “the cabinet of ministers is working as usual, each doing his job. No meetings were scheduled for today”.
About 130 Ukrainian security force members die in fighting in Lugansk
About 130 members of the Ukrainian security forces died in fighting in the eastern Ukrainian city of Lugansk over the past 24 hours, the press service of the self-proclaimed Lugansk People’s Republic (LNR) said.
It said an Ilyushin-76 plane, seven armoured personnel carriers, two howitzers, two mortars, an air defence system and five vehicles of the Ukrainian army were also destroyed.
“The Ukrainian army tried to attack the city from three directions… all attacks were successfully repelled by the LNR army. The enemy lost two howitzers, a mortar crew and about 30 personnel,” the press service said.
“The LNR fighters carried out a successful operation in the area of the Lugansk airport held by the enemy’s aeromobile troops. The enemy was shelled from heavy mortars and lost an Il-76 plane, seven armoured personnel carriers, a mortar crew, one air defence system, five vehicles and about 100 troops,” the press service said.
At the same time, the Ukrainian army killed one person and wounded 13, including one child, in Lugansk.
New attack on journalists in Kiev
Attacks on journalists are continuing in Kiev. Saturday’s attack on the editorial offices of the Kiev-based newspaper Vesti was the latest of them.
One of its employees, Grigory Grin, said the attack had happened at about 11:00 local time (12:00 Moscow time). “At first I heard several gunshots, fired most likely from automatic weapons. Then rocks and Molotov cocktails came crashing through the windowpanes of the first and second floors. After that tear gas was poured into the building, spreading quickly around, and it’s still hard to breath there. One of the security personnel who tried to stop the bandits was beaten up,” Grin said.
Vesti owner Igor Guzhva said police had arrived at the scene of the attack and expressed hope that “the perpetrators and the masterminds will be identified”.
On Friday, July 4, the issue of journalists’ security was raised at a meeting between media representatives and Kiev Mayor Vitaly Klitschko, following the July 2 incident in the centre of the city not far from Independence Square. When a TV crew was filming a report on the barricades several unidentified persons tried to stop them, demanding that they erase the tape. When the reporters refused to do so, the unidentified person used force against them. After that local media wrote an open letter to Klitschko, asking him to ensure the security of journalists in the city.

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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. Kiev and its Western backers face a confounding dilemma – continue military operations in eastern Ukraine and create a heavily militarized opposition while racking up a troubling human rights record, or commit to a ceasefire and for all intents and purposes forfeit Donetsk and Lugansk just as Kiev has done regarding Crimea.

Ceasefire Over, Kiev’s Savagery Resumes

While the United Nations has in recent weeks reported disturbing figures regarding the civilian toll fighting in Ukraine’s east is taking, it has failed to report on or condemn Kiev’s use of military aircraft, artillery, and heavy armor that are being used on cities and towns across the region. Pictures and video emanating from eastern Ukraine depict the devastation of air raids and artillery barrages, yet the West and its various “international institutions” have categorically failed to issue the same warnings and declarations made against other governments using military force within their borders such as Libya in 2011, and Syria from 2011 onward.


While Russia’s RT is accused of “propaganda” by the West, it appears to be the only news outlet with international reach covering the fighting in eastern Ukraine. In its article, “‘Thanks, Ukraine Air Force’: Bombarded villagers accuse Kiev of killing civilians,” the savagery of Kiev’s renewed offensive is portrayed in horrifying detail. The West’s decision to ignore altogether the fighting, only to issue vague, spun narratives blaming all violence on Russia does little to counter or discredit RT’s reportage – in many ways, the West’s silence vindicates RT’s coverage.

As the fighting continues, Kiev will continue tallying up a reputation as a grotesque human rights offender, both within Ukraine, and beyond.

Kiev is Fighting a Battle it Will Never Win

But even as Kiev brutalizes and belittles the people of eastern Ukraine, it is ultimately fighting a battle it cannot win. The fighters opposing Kiev’s military incursions east appear to have established sustainable defenses. The downing of Kiev’s military aircraft and the overwhelming of armored columns indicates a military prowess that will be difficult for Ukrainian troops to overcome – troops already suffering from disorganization and low morale – both of which are only increasing.

The longer Kiev fights on, the more exhausted its troops will become and the more battle hardened their opponents will be. Additionally, Kiev suffers from multiple strategic disadvantages, including a lack of public support beyond the howling but small ranks of Ukraine’s ultra-right Neo-Nazis. This lack of support will become increasingly acute when economic hardship begins digging in after multiple setbacks regarding Russian natural gas, and advances made by the European Union to draw in what little is left of Ukraine after the so-called “Euromaidan” began a process of sociopolitical and economic implosion.

Separatists to the East, The Dissatisfied to the West

While Kiev battles eastern Ukrainians today, the prospect of those in the west rising up against an increasingly feeble government squandering state resources in pursuit of Western dictates is on the rise. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko’s pursuit of an unwinnable war in the east coupled with merely rubber-stamping US-EU mandates regarding the Ukrainian economy is a recipe for growing domestic dissent that could appear in the streets of Kiev itself. With Kiev augmenting its floundering military with irregular, mercenary factions of questionable loyalty, those fighting for Kiev in the east today, could end up toppling the regime back in Kiev tomorrow.

For those in the east, digging in and standing their ground is a literal matter of survival. The extremists that put the current regime in Kiev into power will make life untenable for the people of eastern Ukraine should they submit to the current Poroshenko government. This ensures protracted hostilities that will last long enough to overlap growing dissatisfaction in the west regarding Poroshenko’s poor management of Ukraine in all other areas. In other words, Kiev faces a ticking time bomb created of its own incompetence and encouraged by those in the West that have propped up the current government in the first place.

NATO’s desire for a “Europe Whole and Free,” or in other words, hegemonic expansion up to and beyond Russia’s borders, ensures that its client regime in Kiev continues pursuing an agenda not in the best interest of the Ukrainian people, but ultimately on behalf of the special interests that devise and direct NATO’s agenda. For NATO, its inability to incorporate Georgia and Ukraine into its supranational military conglomerate obstructs the perpetual expansion it needs to continue its survival. With its greater survival at stake, their is no risk it is not willing to take with Ukrainian lives and the greater stability of the Eastern European nation. The inevitability of this agenda – pursued at the cost of the Ukrainian people – provoking a backlash in western Ukraine, is guaranteed.

Kiev’s Collapse Will End NATO Expansion


The eventual fall of Kiev will spell the end of EU-NATO expansion. The inability of NATO to prop up one of its client states will destroy confidence across all other prospective members tempted by NATO’s assurances. Both its methods of overthrowing the Ukrainian government during the “Euromaidan” protests, and its attempts to consolidate power afterward are well documented and being judged by an increasingly astute global public. The ability for NATO to perpetuate itself through these methods, driven by its current hegemonic agenda is as tenuous as ever.
Should the expansionist momentum NATO established after the fall of the Soviet Union be ground to a halt altogether, decline and regression are sure to follow.With NATO’s brand of hegemonic expansion swept aside, the world will be tasked with describing a new order with which to replace it. The multipolar world preferred by nations like Russia, China, and other BRICS members is already poised to serve this role. With the devastation of the West’s unipolar model on full display in eastern Ukraine, the cause of establishing a multipolar world gives added impetus to those resisting Western advances both within Ukraine, and beyond.
Tony Cartalucci, Bangkok-based geopolitical researcher and writer, especially for the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook”.

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Kiev Promises War against Russia?

Ukraine is now being run by traitors, criminal oligarchs, billionaires and CIA assets and the people, who oppose them, are being eradicated and terrorized into submission

The dangerous bellicose rhetoric and saber rattling declarations by the Kiev authorities continue to reach newer and higher levels with the new minister of defense wasting no time to issue yet another wild and dangerous statement. During his confirmation hearing to the post of defense minister in front of the Ukrainian post-coup parliament Valeriy Heletey boldly declared that there would be “… a victory parade in Ukraine’s Sevastopol.” Such a statement for all intents and purposes might be seen as being tantamount to a declaration of war against Russia.

Given that Crimea is part of Russia, as is Sevastopol, which has a special federal status, such a statement by the leader of the armed forces of Ukraine can in no way be taken lightly. The implication that somehow the Ukrainian army will in the future be in a position to hold a victory day parade on Russian soil, something that could only take place after the military defeat of Russia, is a direct promise of war against Russia.

Kiev promises war against Russia?

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Official Moscow has for the most part ignored the ridiculous delusional statement. However, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin did state on social media that: “In connection with the futile idea of conducting a victory parade in ‘Ukraine’s’ Crimea, Kiev decided to limit the holding of a gay-parade in their capital.”

The response from official Sevastopol was a bit harsher. “The intentions of the Ukrainian defense minister do not coincide with the plans of the federal city of Russia for the next one thousand years. We are not planning to hold Ukrainian parades here, only parades of Russian ships and military units and free Russian citizens of Sevastopol”, Itar-Tass quoted Deputy Governor of Sevastopol Yevgeny Dubovnik as saying.

Kiev continues to aggressively provoke Russia

Counting on the full support of their masters in the United States and NATO, Kiev continues to carry out actions that in any other context would bring about an open state of warfare between states.

Since the armed coup in December we have seen Dmitry Yarosh, the leader of the Right Sector, seizing Russian assets and properties in Ukraine, killing and kidnapping Russian journalists and citizens, hundreds of verbal attacks by “officials” on Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and top Russian leaders, death threats against officials of all levels, sanctions applied against Russian officials and even journalists by the Kiev, ethnic Russians killed and bombed on a daily basis, attacks on an embassy with the participation of the foreign minister, military incursions into Russian territory, the bombing of Russian border checkpoints, the stealing of Russian resources including 4.5 billion dollars in gas, false flag operations staged to blame Russia, continuous wild claims against Russia by top officials… and the list goes on.

Russia continues to attempt being patient and pursue a path of peace, diplomacy and negotiation, always taking the threat to civilians’ lives into account as a matter of the highest import, but there may soon come a time when the delusional Kiev will eventually force Russia to respond with force.

Kiev channeling Washington

Apparently, having been mentored by their US sponsors, Kiev is using the exact same tactics that have been used by Washington in the invasions of Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and the attempt on Syria. The junta does not openly declare war on Russia because they know they would be squashed like ants, yet they attempt to provoke Russia into military action.

From the egregious media manipulation to transferring the blame for their own crimes onto the victims, Ukrainian government has shown that it has almost mastered US tactics used to demonize and dehumanize an “enemy”. These tactics are being used while the junta continues to wage a war against Russia that the US is not going to do by itself. Like using Islamic terrorists as proxy armies against its Middle East enemies, their junta in Kiev has become nothing more than another proxy engaged in an operation for Washington.

Something in the Water?

If people were not dying and the country was not being torn apart, one might find the complete absurdity and delusional architecture of the junta a cause for hours of laughs. Just the fact that Kiev, like a mouse rattling a toothpick at an elephant, continues to make bellicose statements. But this is not a theater of the absurd but a real “power” that is engaged in punitive military operations against its own people.

The parallels between the attack on South Ossetia, taking place on the eve of the Olympics and the coup in Kiev are breathtaking. And like the tie eating Saakashvili, the absurdity of Washington’s puppets in Kiev is almost the same. Like Saakashvili, who was promised full support by NATO, Kiev believes Washington’s promises and behaves with such impunity that one has to believe they have been told they will be protected by NATO, should Russia decide to use force to defend its own security.

The junta should study what happened to Saakashvili and previous US puppets and the real “support” given by Washington to Georgia and Saakashvili who believed he was on a fast track to NATO. Kiev would have been advised to study how the nazis were defeated in WWII as well but in reality it is too late for that.

From Prison to Government Post

Like Yulia Timoshenko and a host of others, the latest additions to Kiev’s “government” seem to have been chosen from the rosters of the previously disgraced and the country’s top oligarchs.

Although Valeriy Heletey has no significant military experience to speak of, which makes him eminently incompetent to act as a Defense Minister, this does not bother Poroshenko, who now has the right to make such appointments with a rubber stamp from the Verkhovna Rada. Poroshenko believes it is good not have a military officer in the post as the military is attempting to consolidate too much power.

Lieutenant General Viktor Muzhenko was confirmed as the new head of “the joint chiefs of staff”. He was until recently a top “official” overseeing Kiev’s “anti-terrorist operation” against those opposed to the junta.

The oligarchs are doing well in Ukraine, Kolomoisky was given a governorship, Poroshenko himself is the president, Timoshenko was released from prison, and now Yuriy Kosyuk will be responsible for defense issues in the presidential administration.

Then there is Alexander Turchinov, who was investigated in February 2006 along with his SBU deputy Andrei Kozhemyakin, regarding destroying FBI files. He was also investigated for destroying documents implicating Yulia Tymoshenko in crimes.

Then there are known traitors to Ukraine like the head of the SBU Valentin Nalyvaichenko, who was recruited by the CIA and even provided the CIA with their own room in the SBU headquarters to browse files.

Vitaly Klitschko and Arseny Yatsenyuk, who were revealed to be nothing more than puppets for Victoria Nuland and the West, Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandr Sych from Svoboda, as well as many other Svoboda members, such as Andrey Parubiy, Andrei Mokhnyk, Igor Shvaika and Oleg Makhnitsky – all, who were rewarded with top posts, although none of them were qualified.

Then there is the leader of the Right Sector Dmitry Yarosh, who was appointed Deputy Secretary of National Security. Dmitry Bulatov from the Ukrainian Union of Nationalists (UNA-UNSO) and his cohort Tatyana Chernovol.

So, Ukraine is now being run by traitors, criminal oligarchs, billionaires and CIA assets and the people, who oppose them, are being eradicated and terrorized into submission.

But then who else would sell their own country down the river and kill their own citizens? Who else would sign agreements, giving away the country’s resources and industries? Who else would provoke Russia, stealing billions of dollars’ worth Russian gas, destroying entire towns and regions? Who else would agree to place NATO elements on their land and completely give up their sovereignty for a few bucks? Who else would send all of the country’s gold to be kept in the US? Well, the current line-up, of course.

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KIEV, Ukraine — Separatist rebels retreated Monday from positions in eastern Ukraine, apparently blowing up bridges, and began building barricades in the two largest cities, Donetsk and Luhansk, in anticipation of a final stand against advancing government troops.

While separatist leaders have complained bitterly about being sold out by their allies in Moscow, Ukrainian officials said Monday that they had succeeded in sealing the previously porous border with Russia, stopping the influx of new weapons and fighters.

The action on Monday came after a series of surprising successes by Ukraine’s underequipped and underfunded military, which in recent days has driven the rebels from some strongholds that were seized early in the three-month rebellion. It has accomplished this without encountering strong resistance or a reaction from Moscow.

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“A quick end to the bloodshed is in our common interest,” Mr. Lavrov said at a news conference in Sofia, Bulgaria. “We believe that there can be no excuses, pretexts for postponing the immediate end of the shooting, as a result of which more peaceful civilians suffer, the outflow of refugees multiplies and civilian infrastructure is destroyed.”

In an apparent bid to slow the oncoming troops, the pro-Russian insurgents blew up two bridges on the road to Donetsk from Slovyansk and Kramatorsk, two long-occupied provincial cities where rebels were ousted over the weekend after a fierce bombardment.

At the same time, Ukrainian officials said their troops were setting up blockades to isolate separatists in the cities. “The points of access to these cities are being blocked so that militants are not delivered weapons or manpower or other resources,” Andriy Lysenko, a spokesman for Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council, said at a briefing in Kiev.

Although the military has made substantial gains in recent days, analysts warned that battles in the big cities could represent an entirely different and awful chapter, involving dangerous urban warfare and potentially high numbers of civilian casualties. Rebel forces have appeared to make a strategic calculation to abandon other positions and fall back into the urban centers, said Oleksiy Melnyk, a security analyst at the Razumkov Center, a policy research institute in Kiev.

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“It’s in their advantage to get into the big cities, because the options of the government forces will be even more limited,” Mr. Melnyk said. “They can’t use artillery, aircraft.”

Donetsk is a city of one million, Luhansk of more than 400,000, although large numbers of civilians have been fleeing, terrified of being caught in the hostilities.

Late Sunday, Rinat Akhmetov, Ukraine’s richest man, issued a plea that his home city be spared destruction. “Donetsk must not be bombed,” Mr. Akhmetov said. “Cities, towns and infrastructure must not be destroyed.”

Such destruction, however, was already underway. In addition to the road bridges, in the villages of Zakitne and Seleznevka, rebels destroyed a railroad bridge in the village of Novobakhmutivka, leaving a freight train dangling. In all, seven bridges were destroyed, Ukrainian officials said.

Calling the situation in eastern Ukraine worse than in Belgrade ahead of the civil war that broke apart Yugoslavia, Mr. Lavrov urged the resumption of peace talks with the inclusion of representatives of the militants from the east.

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Negotiations have faltered since Mr. Poroshenko called off the cease-fire, saying it was playing into the rebels’ hands. An abridged session in Kiev on Sunday involved representatives of Ukraine, Russia and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, but Mr. Lavrov described it as pointless without the participation of militants, who he noted could not travel to the capital “for obvious reasons.”

Echoing Mr. Lavrov, the German government on Monday issued an urgent plea, calling for a rapid, unconditional and mutual cessation of hostilities, and said it was urgent to organize talks that included the separatists. However, in a television interview, the deputy chief of staff of Mr. Poroshenko’s administration, Valeriy Chaly, said Ukraine would follow its own course.

“How to solve the situation in the country — it is our sovereign right,” Mr. Chaly said.

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As all sides braced for fighting in the main cities, in Slovyansk it was clear that even if government forces prevail, the city faces a long recovery from the physical and emotional damage of what has effectively become a vicious civil war.

On Monday afternoon in Slovyansk, Ukraine’s interior minister, Arsen Avakov, stood under a statue of Lenin, promising to bring the “terrorists” to justice and restore basic services to the city by the end of the day.

Residents greeted him with questions about reconstruction and compensation for damage as a light mist coated the central square. Some shed tears at the mere mention of running water.

“What kind of future is there for Ukraine?” one elderly woman in a blue plastic poncho asked the minister.

“A beautiful one,” Mr. Avakov said, flashing a smile.

But beauty was nowhere to be found in Slovyansk, where broken glass, severed electrical cables and a wasteland of unexploded mortar shells define the landscape. Control came at the expense of untold destruction.

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Outside a gold-domed church on the northern edge of the square, Ukrainian soldiers distributed water from the back of a truck. While thirsty residents accepted the aid, their attitudes toward the new armed arrivals were decidedly mixed.

Sveta Zinovyeva, 17, spent the end of her school year holed up in a basement with her family. She said she had read romance novels to distract from the “horrible fear.”

“We can’t forget this,” she said. “What did we do to them? What did we do?”

Correction: July 8, 2014
An earlier version of this article contained an incorrect word in a statement by Sergey V. Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister. He said, “A quick end to the bloodshed is in our common interest,” not “comment interest.”

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n the minds of many following along with the Western narrative regarding the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, the Russians have already “invaded.” Despite paradoxical claims of nuclear-armed Russia “invading” eastern Ukraine but with Kiev’s battered, disorganized troops in mismatching uniforms and without daily rations overwhelming these forces, many have chosen to believe that indeed Kiev’s inability to assert control in Ukraine’s easternmost provinces is solely because of Russian “intervention.”
The “Re-Invasion” of Ukraine? Even with the West claiming Russia has already “invaded” Ukraine, at each juncture of the ongoing conflict, an “impending Russian invasion of Ukraine” is held up to once again terrify and incense Western audiences – as if “another invasion” is about to take place – a “re-invasion” perhaps.The Business Insider in a July 6, 2014 article titled, “Russia Has Effectively Invaded Eastern Ukraine — The Question Is How The West Will Respond,” claimed (emphasis added):

For his part, Mr Putin appears, at least for now, to have ruled out a full-frontal invasion. On June 24th he theatrically instructed the ever-loyal upper house of parliament to cancel the authorisation for military force in Ukraine that he had ordered up in early March. The move was largely an empty fob to Mr Poroshenko and another way to ward off more Western sanctions. Yet even if a tanks-and-soldiers invasion seems unlikely, a Russian invasion of another sort began long ago: one that resembles the slippery, post-modern war …

With Kiev’s military campaign against fellow Ukrainians to the east faring poorly, an actual Russian invasion of Ukraine would only benefit them and their backers in both the European Union and collaborating states within NATO. Despite attempts to portray local defense fighters withdrawing from the Donetsk city of Slavyansk as a “retreat” and a “turning point” in the conflict in favor of Kiev, Kiev’s forces have continued to suffer heavy losses, most recently in Lugansk where apparently an entire tank column of between 40-70 vehicles was destroyed.

The BBC reported in its article, “Ukraine conflict: Fighting flares near city of Luhansk,” that:

Fighting has flared outside the rebel-held east Ukrainian city of Luhansk, with rebels saying government forces tried to storm the city with tanks.

Rebel military leader Igor Strelkov was quoted as saying his forces had beaten off columns of government armour attacking from the south and west.

The same article would also report:

A Ukrainian presidential source told Ukrayinska Pravda newspaper that an armoured unit was trying to relieve troops who had been blockaded for weeks at Luhansk airport.

Strelkov (the nom-de-guerre of Igor Girkin) said the rebels had beaten off two government armoured columns numbering between 40 and 70 tanks.


With Kiev forces encircled in Lugansk and the forces sent to relieve them apparently destroyed – a miniature Stalingrad – it would seem like Russia has little reason to “invade” Ukraine. Still the West is intent on salvaging what appears to be an increasingly ineffective Ukrainian army racking up as many civilian casualties as it is defeats on the field of battle.

The Washington Post, in the wake of Kiev’s most recent setback in Lugansk, would declare in its article, “Russia warns Ukraine of ‘irreversible consequences’ after cross-border shelling,” that:

Russia on Sunday accused Ukraine of lobbing a shell over the border and killing a Russian civilian and warned of “irreversible consequences,” in a sharp escalation of rhetoric that raised fears of a Russian invasion in Ukraine’s east.

The accusation, which Ukrainian officials denied, set off furious denunciations in Russia, with one senior legislator calling for pinpoint airstrikes on Ukrainian soil of the sort he said Israel was making in the Gaza Strip.

The use of hyperbole allegedly spoken by a single Russian legislator to stoke fears of an impending Russian invasion has been a frequently used ploy by the Western media to manipulate public perception. Quoting obscure former “officials” in Iran has been used to disingenuously portray the whole of Iranian foreign policy in a particularly unflattering light more than once. The Washington Post would also claim of the Ukrainian conflict:

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said last week that his nation was prepared to take all necessary steps to defend its territory — a declaration that appeared to keep open the option of outright intervention in Ukraine.

The desire by the West to portray Russia as “invading Ukraine” is rooted in the belief that it will undermine Russia’s political leverage and open the doors to more aggressive NATO support for the faltering regime in Kiev. Perceived Russian aggression might make it easier to convince NATO and EU members who have not followed suit in exacting sanctions and condemnation against Russia to begin taking a more anti-Russian stance.

Why Russia Doesn’t Need to Invade Ukraine

Whether or not Russia is already covertly supporting fighters inside of Ukraine has little impact on its unnecessary need to directly invade Ukrainian territory. If Russia is not supporting fighters inside of Ukraine, it appears then that these fighters are more than capable of miring Kiev’s forces and picking them apart through classical guerrilla warfare on their own. If Russia is already covertly supporting fighters inside of Ukraine, all it needs to do is send more covert aid. The West is already accusing Russia of allowing armored vehicles to move over Russia’s border with Ukraine – what else could Russia do then that would constitute an outright “invasion?”

At any point of the conflict, if Ukraine’s provocations are not obvious enough, Russia will not benefit from crossing the border into Ukraine. Russia’s restraint thus far has exposed the West’s “responsibility to protect” (R2P) doctrine as dressed-up imperialism. Surely if ever a conflict warranted “humanitarian intervention,” it would be Kiev’s assault on eastern Ukrainians with warplanes, tanks, and artillery – indiscriminately shelling populated centers to compensate for the lack of capable grounds troops necessary to more precisely and safely engage with anti-Kiev fighters. That the West is not only failing to condemn this, but encouraging it, lays R2P to rest as cover for unilateral, global military aggression.

For Russia to likewise cite R2P would be to legitimize this otherwise dubious policy, and even normalize its use elsewhere around the world.

For many reasons Russia will not benefit from invading Ukraine, and for many more reason, NATO and the EU would benefit from it – at least rhetorically. The Russians are therefore likely to resist provocations by Ukraine to cross the border and give NATO further excuses to meddle in Eastern Europe. Instead, Russia will allow Kiev to continue displaying its brutality and incompetence on the battlefield while eastern Ukrainians continue picking apart their forces. Meanwhile, economic pressure will continue undermining the regime in Kiev even amongst its supporters in western Ukraine.

The clock is ticking and an outright military victory over Kiev’s forces is not necessary for eastern Ukrainians to achieve their goals. Conducting a confounding guerrilla campaign against Kiev will time out the clock until either mutiny or economic pressure gets the better of the regime and attempts to push eastward to consolidate its power will become an impossibility.

Tony Cartalucci, Bangkok-based geopolitical researcher and writer, especially for the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook”.

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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.

On Sunday, shells hit the Russian town of Donetsk, which has the same name as the nearby Ukrainian city of Donetsk that is a center of opposition to the Kiev regime. The shells killed a 46-year-old father of four and wounded four, including two elderly women.

The shelling came after repeated attacks across the Russian border by Kiev regime forces. On Saturday, Ukrainian forces fired several shells at Russia’s neighboring Kuibyshev district and started a gunfight with Russian border guards there. On Sunday, Ukrainian warplanes violated Russian air space and overflew Donetsk, Russia shortly after the shelling had taken place, before launching missiles at targets inside Ukraine.

The Russian Foreign Ministry summoned the Ukrainian chargé d’affaires in Moscow to formally protest what it considered to be an act of aggression against sovereign Russian territory. Its statement warned Kiev of possible Russian retaliation: “This incident is evidence of the very dangerous escalation of tension in the Russian-Ukraine border area, and could have irreversible consequences, the responsibility for which lies with the Ukrainian side.”

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin said there would be a “rigorous and concrete answer” to the Ukrainian shelling: “Naturally, this action will not be left without a corresponding reaction. The talk with the Ukrainian side on this issue is going to be serious and tough.”

The Kiev regime’s security officials denied responsibility for the shelling, blaming it on pro-Russian opposition militias. “Ukrainian troops are definitely not shelling the territory of the Russian Federation. We did not shoot,” said National Security Council of Ukraine (NSCU) spokesman Andrey Lysenko.

Officials of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) blamed the shelling on Kiev regime forces, however. “We are accustomed to being blamed for all Ukrainian shellings,” DPR Vice-Prime Minister Andrey Purgin told Russia’s Moscow Speaks radio station.

In recent weeks, Kiev regime forces have repeatedly attacked Russian positions, including three key border posts through which Ukrainian refugees fleeing the fighting in Donetsk and Luhansk are trying to cross into Russia. In addition to this weekend’s shelling of Donetsk, Russia, mortar fire hit the Novoshakhtinsk checkpoint on June 20 and the Gukovo checkpoint on June 28. The Novoshakhtinsk checkpoint was again shelled on July 3 and July 5. Until this weekend, however, there had been no fatalities from Ukrainian fire in Russia.

After the latest shelling, Russian officials announced they would move camps built to house the influx of Ukrainians refugees further into Russia, away from the Ukrainian border. At least 22,000 Ukrainian refugees are currently living in temporary shelters in Russia, and DPR officials warned last week that “hundreds of thousands” of east Ukrainians could ultimately flee the battle zone.

Ukrainian attacks on Russian soil expose the utterly reckless character of the far-right regime that emerged from the Western-backed, fascist-led putsch this February in Kiev, and the lies promoted by Western governments and media that Russia is the aggressor in the conflict. Ukrainian forces, working closely with Washington and European Union officials to crush opposition in east Ukraine, are threatening to provoke a war with Russia.

As they mobilize tanks, fighter jets, and attack helicopters to assault east Ukrainian cities and bomb Russia, Kiev regime officials are threatening a bloodbath. Last week, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko vowed disproportionate retaliation for his forces’ losses: “For every soldier’s life, the militants will pay with dozens and hundreds of their own.”

As part of its efforts to maintain good relations with the Western imperialist powers, Russia has repeatedly indicated that its current policy is not to intervene militarily to attack the Ukrainian army and crush its offensive in eastern Ukraine. However, an anonymous source close to the Kremlin told the Guardian that a Russian military intervention to defend ethnic Russians in east Ukraine is still possible. “I think all it would take would be one day where, say, 300 people are killed in the east and Putin will be simply obliged to act. I don’t think you can rule it out yet, not at all,” the source said.

Such an intervention would threaten to unleash an all-out war between Russia and Ukraine, in which NATO could intervene to prevent an overwhelming Ukrainian defeat—directly posing the risk of war between nuclear-armed powers.

The bloodbath threatened by the Kiev regime is an indictment of the far-right forces and affluent middle class pseudo-left groups that Washington, Berlin, and their allies mobilized in the pro-European Union (EU) protests on Kiev’s Independence Square (Maidan), leading to the February putsch that toppled pro-Russian Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych.

While Ukrainian army units initially refused to attack the east Ukraine opposition forces, the imperialist powers have worked closely with the Kiev regime to reshape the Ukrainian army into a force capable of waging war against its own people. Over past months, fascist militias like Right Sector that led the Maidan protests and private armies funded by Ukrainian billionaire oligarchs have been merged with the Kiev regime’s National Guard.

“They have overcome that psychological barrier in which the military were afraid to shoot living people…not simply to shoot living people, but their own people. After the forces were restructured a bit, and it became clear who were our people, who were foes, the operations became more effective,”

Mykola Sungurovskyi of Kiev’s Razumkov Center think tank told the New York Timeslast week.

The Times also spoke with Kiev regime security official Andriy Parubiy, a founding member of the fascist Social-National Party of Ukraine, who made clear that Kiev sees this offensive as a model for other former republics of the Soviet Union.

“There are many other countries which are not ready—properly speaking, their armed forces are not ready, are unprepared, for this type of war. We, of course, studied the experience of both Croatia and Israel, but here a lot of new features are added. And, if Russia sees this experience is successful, this experience can very easily be used in any Baltic countries, and even in Belarus and Kazakhstan,”

Parubiy told the Times .

The Kiev regime is working closely with US and EU officials as they seek to undermine Russian influence in Ukraine and throughout the region. Last month, US State Department official Gregory Kausner traveled to Ukraine to discuss financial and operational assistance to the National Guard, according to the Ukrainian Interior Ministry’s web site.

German officials have also given their support to the actions, while issuing a few cynical statements in an attempt to distance themselves from the worst of the bloodshed. German government spokesman Steffen Seibert reported that in a phone call last Thursday with Poroshenko, German Chancellor Angela Merkel “urged President Poroshenko to maintain a sense of proportion in his legitimate actions against the separatists and to protect the civilian population.”

The result of this reactionary offensive, which has no support in the working class in either the Western imperialist powers or the former Soviet republics, is a disaster for the Ukrainian people. Train and bus tickets out of Donetsk and Luhansk are all booked, as hundreds of thousands of residents take public transport or their own vehicles to flee the cities, fearing a long-term siege by Kiev regime forces.

DPR officials began an official evacuation of residents of the industrial Donetsk suburb of Maryinka on Saturday, as Ukrainian forces’ shelling of the suburb killed thirty people.

They also reported that they were recruiting large numbers of volunteers to fight the Kiev regime’s forces. “We are not holding a forced mobilization. We are counting on volunteers,” DPR mobilization department chief Pavel Gubarev told Russia’s ITAR-TASS news agency. “Over the past week, over a thousand volunteers have enlisted in our army.”

Moscow Threatens Response After Ukraine Forces Shell Russian Border Town

By Alex Lantier
Global Research, July 14, 2014
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