Footnotes from the Ukrainian "Crisis"; New High-Points in Cynicism Part IV

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Post by blindpig » Mon Nov 26, 2018 12:30 pm

Russia Blocks Ukrainian Navy From Militarizing The Sea of Azov - Updated
Originally posted Nov 25: 18:00 utc - Updated below on Nov. 26, 6:00 utc
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The Ukrainian government under the oligarch Petro Poroshenko is in election campaign mode. That is one reason why it is launching new provocations against Russia. Yesterday Ukrainian forces reportedly occupied a town within the neutral zone between the government controlled part and the rebel held Donetsk area. Today the Ukrainian navy sent a tug and two small gun boats, recently acquired from the U.S. Coast Guard, Ukrainian build Gurza-M class types, to pass through the Kerch Strait into the Sea of Azov.

When the ships entered Russian waters without announcing their intent, a Russian coast guard ship rammed (vid) and damaged the tug. The two gun boats escaped but did not pass the strait. The pictures show the melee at sea.


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With Crimea back in Russian hands, the Kerch Strait is solely Russian territorial water. The Treaty on the Legal Status of the Sea of Azov and the Kerch Strait, signed in 2003 by Russia and the Ukraine, provides that military ship entry into the sea is only allowed with mutual consent. Ukraine disputes the status of the sea in an arbitration court. (For a legal discussion of the case see 1, 2, 3.)

The Ukrainian government, urged on by the U.S., wants to establish a new military harbor in the Sea of Azov. Two of its navy ships, a rescue vessel and a tug, passed through the street on September 23. In October the Russian government warned that it will not allow any further militarization of the sea. Some U.S. hawks even want NATO ships to enter the Sea of Azov. The Sea of Azov has a maximum depth of 7 meters. Typical U.S. frigates have a draft of 10+ meters. What NATO or U.S. ship could even go there? As Russia firmly controls the sole entry point into the sea and can easily attack any ship in the Sea of Azov from within its borders the idea is incredibly stupid.

The Kerch Strait is now blocked by a large cargo ship the Russians anchored under the new Kerch bridge.

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The passage is closed and a number of ships are bunched up on both sides.

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Pic via MarineTraffic of traffic at 15:45 utc

The Ukrainian provocation may well be aimed to sour the meeting between President Trump and Putin that is planned for November 30 during the G20 summit in Argentina. It should be more careful. It is quite possible that Russia will block commercial traffic to the Ukrainian port of Mariupol over any further incident. The big loser of this useless provocation would then again be the Ukraine.


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Update - Nov. 26, 6:00 utc

The Russian coast guard detained the three Ukrainian ships and their crews in Russian waters. They again illegally attempted to cross from the Black Sea through the Kerch Strait into the Sea of Azov. The Ukrainian side says the two of its seaman were injured.

Since Crimea voted to again become a part of Russia the Kerch Strait is Russian territorial water. Ships can pass the strait but are required to take on a pilot and to undergo inspections if the Russian coast guard demand such. The Ukrainian side understands that these are legal measures. In a report by the U.S. government outlet RFL/RE published in August the Ukrainian side admitted as much:

[The Ukrainian Sea Guard and the squadron's spokesman] Poliakov said that, while Russia's actions are "provocative," because of a controversial 2003 agreement on cooperation and shared use of the Sea of Azov and Kerch Strait, "everything Russia is doing here is technically legal."
The three Ukrainian ships tried to pass Russian waters without informing Russian authorities and without taking on pilots. Since Russia build the $3.7 billion Kerch bridge which connects Crimea with Russia, U.S. commentators and Ukrainian politicians threatened to blow up the bridge. The Russian are understandably carefully about any traffic near to it.

Following yesterday's incident the president of the Ukraine Pedro Poroshenko proposed to declare martial law. The parliament will have to decide on that. This is a very convenient move for Poroshenko as it will allow him to move the March 2019 general election date. Poroshenko trails in the polls with some 8% of the total vote.

Russia called for a UN Security Council emergency meeting which will be held at today at 11:00am EST. The passage through the Kerch Strait is again open for civil vessels.

The usual anti-Russian subject in "western" political circles use the incident to demand more measures against Russia. Fronting the effort is the weapon industry lobbying group Atlantic Council:

Anders Åslund, a resident senior fellow in the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center, said: “NATO and the United States should send in naval ships in the Sea of Azov to guarantee that it stays open to international shipping.”
Such action, Åslund said, “would be in full compliance with the UN Law of the Sea Convention of 1982 and the Montreux Convention Regarding the Regime of the Straits of 1936.”

Anders Aslund is listed as member of the "U.S. & Canadian Cluster" of the secret influence operation by the British Foreign Office describe here two days ago. He is obviously unable to read a map, sea chart, or UN convention. The Ukrainian attempt to pass through the Kerch Strait without Russian consent is a breach of Article 7, 19 and 21 of the UN Law of the Sea Convention (pdf):

Article 7: "Subject to this Convention, ships of all States, whether coastal or land-locked, enjoy the right of innocent passage through the territorial sea."
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Article 19-1: "Passage is innocent so long as it is not prejudicial to the peace, good order or security of the coastal State. Such passage shall take place in conformity with this Convention and with other rules of international law."
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Article 21-4: "Foreign ships exercising the right of innocent passage through the territorial sea shall comply with all such [coastal state] laws and regulations and all generally accepted international regulations relating to the prevention of collisions at sea."
There will now be again a lot of noise in the media about the 'nefarious Russians' and new demands for even more useless sanctions. But the legal case is clear. It was the Ukrainian navy that willfully attempted to pass from the Black Sea into the Sea of Azov through Russian territorial waters without regard to the laws and regulations of the coastal state. Russia was within its full rights to prevent the passage and to seize the Ukrainian boats.

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Re: Footnotes from the Ukrainian "Crisis"; New High-Points in Cynicism Part IV

Post by blindpig » Mon Nov 26, 2018 2:23 pm

Martial law in Ukraine is introduced until January 25, 2019.
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Poroshenko signed a decree on the introduction of martial law in Ukraine until January 25, 2019. A little later, it will be approved by the Verkhovna Rada.
Below, the text of the decision.

Enacted by Decree of the President of Ukraine of November 26, 2018 No. 390/2018.

DECISION
of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine of November 26, 2018

Concerning emergency measures to ensure state sovereignty and independence of Ukraine and the imposition of martial law in Ukraine

In connection with another act of armed aggression by the Russian Federation, held on November 25, 2018 in the Kerch Strait area against ships of the Naval Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which had grave consequences, by other aggressive actions of the Russian Federation in the Azov and Black Seas, threatened by large-scale invasion armed forces of the Russian Federation to Ukraine, against the background of the Russian Federation’s occupation of the territory of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and parts of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions, with the aim of adequately responding to the escalation of the armed aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine, given the absence of other opportunities provided by the Constitution and the laws of Ukraine for repulsing armed aggression, ensuring national security, preventing the spread of the terrorist threat,
1. To ascertain that the actions of the Russian Federation against the ships of the Naval Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which had grave consequences, constitute the crime of armed aggression and fall under clauses “c” and “d” of Article 3 of Resolution 3314 December 1974.
2. To recognize as necessary the introduction in Ukraine of a special legal regime for creating conditions with a rebuff of armed aggression and ensuring national security, eliminating threats to state independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity Ukraine.
3. Offer the President of Ukraine to introduce a martial law in Ukraine from 2 pm on November 26, 2018 for a period of 60 days to 2 pm on January 25, 2019.
4. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine:
appeal to the states that signed the Memorandum on security assurances in connection with Ukraine’s accession to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons of December 5, 1994, with a proposal to immediately organize consultations on the act of armed aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine;
urgently initiate the convening of meetings of the UN Security Council, the Permanent Council of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe;
organize consultations of the President of Ukraine, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine with the leaders of the allied and partner states, the European Union, the leadership of the UN, the OSCE, other international organizations.
5. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, the Ministry of Information Policy of Ukraine urgently organizes an information campaign to bring to the leadership of foreign states, influential international political, economic, and public circles objective information about the latest act of armed aggression by the Russian Federation against Ukraine.
6. To the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to promptly clarify in a prescribed manner the Mobilization Plan of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, in particular, the call-up volume of the first-order operational reserve reservists.
7. To the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine without delay:
1) submit to the President of Ukraine proposals for the implementation of documents on the use of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and other military formations;
2) to organize the air defense of Ukraine in order to cover important state facilities, industrial regions, administrative centers of the state and groups of troops (forces) from air strikes;
3) to submit for the consideration of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine proposals on the involvement of other military formations and law enforcement agencies in the implementation of measures of the legal regime of martial law;
4) provide for partial mobilization measures, organize and conduct training camps with operational reserve reservists in the required volumes.
8. The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, the Security Service of Ukraine should take urgent measures to ensure public order, protect and defend critical infrastructure facilities, protect foreign diplomatic missions.
9. The Security Service of Ukraine to take immediate measures to enhance the counter-intelligence, anti-terrorism and counter-sabotage regime, information security.
10. The Security Service of Ukraine, the Administration of the State Service for Special Communications and Information Protection of Ukraine, and other cybersecurity actors take measures to ensure cybersecurity.
11. The administration of the State Border Service of Ukraine to strengthen the protection of the state border with the Russian Federation and the administrative border with the Autonomous Republic of Crimea.
12. Secretly.

Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Turchinov

1. As noted by the military of the DPR and the LPR, on the front line of the Ukrainian armed forces they raised the level of readiness in the first and second echelons.
2. Work has begun on the organization of the collection of reservists of the first stage. In essence, this is an element of partial mobilization.
3. An order was issued to strengthen the air defense of key military and civilian objects.
4. The powers of the SBU under paragraph 8 now allow everyone to be silenced on the basis of the wording to ensure "information security."
5. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, represented by Klimkin, said that despite the introduction of martial law, they would not sever diplomatic relations with Russia.

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Re: Footnotes from the Ukrainian "Crisis"; New High-Points in Cynicism Part IV

Post by blindpig » Wed Nov 28, 2018 5:10 pm

Ukraine - Poroshenko Launched Clash With Russia To Gain Dictatorial Powers - He Failed
The Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko's attempted to shore up his approval rate for the upcoming election by provoking a military incident. It was a gamble and it failed.

Three Ukrainian boats, a tug and two gun boats, attempted to sail from the Black Sea through the Kerch Strait into the Sea of Azov. The Kerch Strait is territorial Russian water since Crimea voted to join Russia. "Innocent passage" is allowed but necessitates following the laws and regulations of the territorial country.

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Depth chart - Sea of Azov
Dark blue - less than 5 meters, light blue - less than 10 meters, white - less than 13.5 meters
shipping channels not shown

The Ukraine does not accept the decision the people of Crimea and insists that the peninsula is still part of its territory. The Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko sent the boats with the order not to coordinate their passage with Russian authorities. The captured sailors confirm that. He obviously wanted to provoke a violent Russian reaction.

The government of Ukraine practically admitted that the mission had nefarious intent:

Ukraine’s state security service says that its intelligence officers were among the crew on Ukrainian naval ships seized by Russia in a standoff near Crimea.
The SBU agency said in a statement Tuesday that the officers were fulfilling counterintelligence operations for the Ukrainian navy, in response to “psychological and physical pressure” by Russian spy services. It didn’t elaborate, but demanded that Russia stop such activity.

Russia’s FSB intelligence agency said late Monday that that there were SBU officers on board the Ukrainian ships, calling that proof of a “provocation” staged by Ukraine.

The SBU is the incompetent spy service that faked the murder of the Arkady Babchenko as part of a corporate raid.

What is the real reason that its agents were on board of the Ukrainian gun boats?

And why was the crew of the tug armed with heavy machine guns?

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A few of the Ukrainian seaman were lightly wounded when the Russian coast guard took a shot at one of the boats.

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The gun boats of the Gurza-M class were built on a shipyard that Poroshenko owned at that time. He profited from ordering them. They may be useful for river policing but do not belong at sea.

The Russian coast guard had no problem to disable the ships and to capture their crews. A Crimean court ordered that the sailors will be held for two more month while they face charges over border violations.

In 1988 the U.S. tried to pull up a similar stunt in the Black Sea. Two U.S. Navy ships with spying equipment crossed into Soviet territorial water near Crimea. They got rammed (vid) by Soviet ships and were smart enough to move out before the situation escalated further.

Poroshenko's intent was to provoke an incident that would allow him to present himself as a war-president. Elections are coming up and all polls show him below 10% and far behind two other candidates. He attempted to use the incident to introduce martial law over all the Ukraine.

Martial law would give Poroshenko full control over the country. He would be able to remove any regional or local government, to shut down the political opposition and to censor the media. He would be able to postpone the upcoming elections indefinitely.

Back in July Yulia Tymoshenko, who is leading the polls for the next elections, warned that Poroshenko would take this step (machine translation):

The leader of Batkivshchyna, Yulia Tymoshenko, claims that one of her main competitors in the upcoming presidential election, the incumbent head of state, Petro Poroshenko, is allegedly nurturing a “extremely dangerous plan” to disrupt voting by escalating the war in Donbass and imposing martial law in Ukraine. The politician made such a statement on the TV channel UA: First.
Tymoshenko stated that Poroshenko "does not want" to hold presidential elections in order to "save power", ...

Yesterday Poroshenko tried to scare the parliament into accepting his plans:

“Intelligence data speak of an extremely serious threat,” Poroshenko declared in a televised address on Monday, brandishing a pile of paper, which, he said, was an intelligence report detailing the Russian forces massed close to the border. At a session of the United Nations Security Council called at Ukraine’s request late on Monday, the country’s representative, Volodymyr Yelchenko, claimed the Azov Sea ports of Mariupol and Berdyansk faced invasion.
That is of course utter nonsense. Russia has no interest in launching a war with the Ukraine. There is nothing to gain from it.

The parliament must vote on the introduction of martial law and the opposition parties recognized Poroshenko's stunt for what it was. His plans were rejected. Poroshenko pulled back. Instead of the 60 day long, renewable period of martial law he wanted, he had to settle for 30 days. And that was still not enough:

Rival political parties - former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko’s Fatherland, Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovyi’s Self-Help and populist Oleh Lyashko’s Radical Party – demanded further concessions. They wanted immediate confirmation, rather than just a promise, that the election will go ahead on March 31. They sought to limit martial law to a number of regions rather the whole country, and they objected to any plans to limit Ukrainians’ constitutional freedoms. Their fear wasn’t just that campaigning would be limited, but that Poroshenko would get near-dictatorial powers.
There will now be a limited martial law but only in those regions that border Russia or the Black Sea. These are the Russian speaking regions which did not vote for Poroshenko in the 2014 elections. The opposition and its foreign backers will hopefully take care that the martial law use will not get out of hand. There will be a limited call-up of reserve troops, but most of the reservists are to likely ignore it.

With the election date set to March 31 by the parliament Poroshenko has no legal tool to postpone it.

Unless of course he manages to provoke a real war, either with the rebels who are holding the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts, or with Russia itself. The lunatic warmongers at the Atlantic Council urge him to do exactly that:

Even though Ukraine is outgunned, it does have options. It can undertake operations to break the blockade, though they would likely be fruitless given the forces Moscow has sent there.
Nevertheless, it cannot accept this attack on its sovereignty and integrity passively. Ukraine should give careful consideration to a special operation that might disrupt the bridge that Moscow built over the Kerch Strait that joins Crimea to Russia.

But that’s not all. Ukraine should invite the United States and NATO to send a fleet of armed ships to visit Mariupol, the main city on the Sea of Azov coast and defy Russia to fire on or block NATO from exercising the right to visit Ukraine’s ports. Those ships should be armed and have air cover but be instructed not to fire unless fired upon.

Even Poroshenko is not dumb enough to repeat his failed provocation in the Kerch Strait. The Kerch bridge is guarded. Its pillars are massive because it was build near a fault and has be able to withstand earthquakes. A saboteur unit would have to bring several tons of high explosives to even damage one. To reach Mariupol in the Sea of Azov ships have to cross through the the Kerch Strait. The passage is a very narrow artificial channel with only 8 meter depth. Outside of the channel the water is as shallow as a think tankers thought. Any ship with more than 2-3 meters draft has zero room to navigate there. Russia does not even need boats or airplanes to protect it. A few guns along the coast can easily control the passage. No sane naval commander will try to pass the Strait by force.

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Russia already warned warned against further 'reckless' moves and deployed an anti-ship missile system (vid) to the Kerch Strait to make sure that any further provocations there will have deadly consequences.

Poroshenko could start a provocation elsewhere. He could attempt to reconquer the Donetzk airport. But while he might itch for losing more fights, a full blown war is out of question. Kiev's army is low on morale and would be defeated within days.

Poroshenko's rule was catastrophic for the Ukraine. In several cities the central heating and warm water supply is broken. Ten-thousands will have to freeze during the winter, some of them to death. Since Poroshenko came to power millions of able Ukrainian workers have fled or work abroad, most of them to Russia. The most industrialized regions are in firmly in rebel hands. Most of the population is poor, the bureaucracy is utterly corrupt and the country is practically bankrupt.

There will likely be dozens of corruption cases brought up against Poroshenko himself as soon as he loses power. If he is smart he will flee the Ukraine the very day his term ends.

The international reactions showed that Poroshenko is no longer of value. While the russo-phobe Poland and the Baltic countries called for more sanction against Russia the European heavyweights Germany and France urged deescalation and direct negotiations between Russia and Ukraine. (Sources in Berlin say that Merkel firmly told him to stand down.) The U.S. reaction was delayed and mild. Trump punted the problem to the Europeans.

Pedro Poroshenko will leave the political stage as a despised man. But will also be much richer after he pilfered the Ukrainian state wherever he could. The people of the Ukraine should take their money back before dumping him abroad.

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Re: Footnotes from the Ukrainian "Crisis"; New High-Points in Cynicism Part IV

Post by blindpig » Thu Dec 06, 2018 2:04 pm

Putin loses Ukraine for the second time and for the last
November 26, 2018
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I understand how far the Russians are from the rat fuss that has now unfolded in Ukraine on the eve of the election of its president. I even guess how Ukraine itself, together with the citizens inhabiting it, even those who do not claim this post, have fed the Russians over these 5 years. Therefore, the conversation on the topic of the upcoming elections in Ukraine will be held concisely from the angle of the Kremlin’s goal-setting in this process in the context of its possible and lost benefits if one of the parties wins.








For a long time, in general, it seemed that Putin had withdrawn from the processes going on inside the furious territory, especially since he had very little leverage on him. In addition to the Donbass and the gas pipe, Putin couldn’t have any influence on the frustrated driver, who was driving his train down the slope with all the passengers on board, and these levers have not acted lately. Therefore, the recently adopted package of sanctions of the Russian Federation against certain legal entities and individuals was considered irresponsible as the first step in this direction. At the same time, Putin’s statement that Moscow is ready to accept any choice of Ukrainians in their presidential election campaign, everyone reacted with a certain degree of mistrust and accepted it as a declaration of intent nothing more than. And in vain!

I would, in general, not be in a hurry to accuse Putin of inaction or taking a passive position on the Ukrainian question, on the spot of his couch critics. The trouble is that the presidential elections in Ukraine will start only a month later, but now the disposition of possible candidates and their chances for success is such that Moscow has nothing in them, especially considering that it has leverage on the situation once again. - two and miscalculated. Of course, I would prefer Oleg Tsarev to become the future president of Ukraine, but you yourself understand that this is possible only when Russian tanks fit 200 km to Kiev, and that’s not a fact, but for now Oleg Tsarev is just the first candidate for shooting (I hope he knows this and has already taken all the necessary security measures for this).

And among the other presidential candidates, even those that have not yet been announced, such clarity reigns that even the elections could not be held, because if they pass without excesses, their result is already known and predetermined in advance (and this fact explains a certain passivity of Moscow), which, however, does not cancel some force majeure plot development options, which neither Moscow nor Washington wants. Immediately close the question of external curators, Moscow, as I have already said, does not have any levers of influence on the election process, from the word “absolutely”, and Washington took the position of non-interference, since he absolutely does not care who as a result wins, all possible candidates otherwise they walk under him, the main thing for him is that everything should go smoothly, without violence and within the framework of the Constitution. In the latter, however, Moscow is also interested. But whether the Director of the Chocolate Factory will hand over his powers without violence will depend on the guarantees that the winning party will provide him. And in the case of Tymoshenko’s victory to Konderra, no one can promise. Therefore, any options are possible. Including power. That is what Moscow and Washington are trying to avoid.

It's time to consider the disposition on the board. And it is, and all the polls and ratings confirm that Tymoshenko goes to the finals in any case, where anyone who doesn’t get there with her wins. Such is the hopeless situation in which Ukraine is at the moment, when it comes to choosing between bad and very bad. Therefore, now Poroshenko’s all efforts are aimed only at first to get into the 2nd round, and there he will already think what to do next. And then he has all the options range between bad, but tolerable, and bad and impossible. In the latter case, just, and possible excesses on his part. For those who do not understand, I will explain in other words - either bargaining between the Confectioner and Julia about the solemn surrender of powers with the right to head the opposition (or at least enter it) is possible, or, if the parties do not agree, (and they will not agree, because for Julia there are not quite ordinary people who have their own accounts with Poroshenko, I mean Benya Kolomoisky, Levochkin and Firtash), then a rat cornered can go to extreme measures. And then it will be the turn of the Americans to stop the arisen problem, influencing not the hunted rat itself, which they will betray according to their custom (I don’t get used to something like that, they did it with all their former puppets), in mind com. Avakov, who already, without a doubt, had conducted his separate negotiations with Julia about the options for his political future. He, too, like the Confectioner, is smeared with blood, but Yul is far from being an angel in the flesh and, in the absence of his own power resource, he will be glad to use the resource Comrade. Avakian to ensure a bloodless transfer of power. See how everything is not easy? Now you understand that Putin doesn’t have a wide choice of options, especially if he, like the Americans, is not interested in creating chaos in the surrounding area, at least until bypass pipelines are completed.

It cannot be said that Vova sat on the priest exactly and waited for him to be given the keys to hail Kiyev on a saucer. Within the limits of his limited abilities, he tried to get into the electoral process. This became clear after his cum Medvedchuk joined the For Life party of Rabinovich and Murayev, and after conducting separate negotiations with the Oppoblock gas lobby (the Firtash and Levochkin group), he tried to push him and the Opposition bloc of the consolidated candidate for elections ( they became Yuriy Boyko). Two of the most influential in Ukraine news channel “News One” and the 112th, bought for this through nominees, only reinforced the seriousness of the Kremlin’s intentions. A timid little ray of hope dawned on me in connection with this, but it was immediately rudely broken by the cunning Confectioner, when through the hand of Murayev, who for the time being portrayed himself as his main critic, (I should have probably guessed it before, realizing that such courage under the conditions of totalitarian control over the media could not allow everyone, but Murayev sang too sweetly, and I almost believed him, now I see that in vain!), actually broke up the failed union, when Muraev with the scandal left the party of Rabinovich under the pretext that Rabinovich went under Poroshenko (the cap burns on a thief!) and loudest shouts: “Hold the thief!” As a rule, the thief himself!), immediately creating his own pocket party "Our", thus burying all the hopes of the opposition to pass to the 2nd round, delaying a part of their common electorate. that such courage under the conditions of totalitarian control over the media can not allow everyone, but Murayev sang too sweet, and I almost believed him, now I see that it was in vain!), he actually broke up the failed union when Muraev with the scandal left Rabinovich’s party under the pretext that Rabinovich lay down under Poroshenko (truly the cap burns on the thief! and loudly shouts: “Hold the thief!”, as a rule, the thief himself!), immediately creating his own pocket game “Nashi”, thereby burying all hopes of the oppositionists for passing in the 2nd round, delaying part of them about present voters. that such courage under the conditions of totalitarian control over the media can not allow everyone, but Murayev sang too sweet, and I almost believed him, now I see that it was in vain!), he actually broke up the failed union when Muraev with the scandal left Rabinovich’s party under the pretext that Rabinovich lay down under Poroshenko (truly the cap burns on the thief! and loudly shouts: “Hold the thief!”, as a rule, the thief himself!), immediately creating his own pocket game “Nashi”, thereby burying all hopes of the oppositionists for passing in the 2nd round, delaying part of them about present voters.

Who dictates the conditions of the game here was finally clear when Petya did not calm down on this and actually drove the last nail into the coffin of the newly formed opposition platform For Life, where the failed head of the Administration Levochkin and his accomplice Firtash entered by beating “onizhedetey” on camera with an online broadcast on “Inter” - their handiwork, just completely different people with a dark chocolate past took advantage of the results of their righteous works) and Medvedchuk with Rabi novice (already without Murayev) on the other hand. Promoted from this group in the future presidents became Yuriy Boyko, who is trying to consolidate on his candidacy the entire protest Peter left electorate. And I must say that if Medvedchuk succeeded, then this candidate could easily bypass the mischievous Conder in the 1st round, not letting him into the second, where Boyko would have already discussed with Yulia Tymoshenko options for the future reorganization of the political landscape with benefits for himself, and Pec would pack his bags and look for a country of refuge, realizing with horror that there was none. This was the plan of the Kremlin. But he was not destined to come true, since Petya showed the wonders of a cover-up game, burying this idea in the bud, disintegrating the Oppoblock through his man in it.

This man turned out to be Rinat Akhmetov, who over the past period, thanks to his collaboration with the bloody pastry chef, managed to increase his capital by 5 billion dollars, while retaining the first place on the Ukrainian Forbes list. It must be said that this was achieved (to increase his income over the past 5 years), considered by the Ukrainian oligarchs, including Pets, so the fight in the 2nd round will be fierce for him, because the injured party is eager for his death, and, believe this is not a figure of speech at all, Benya Kolomoisky alone is worth something. As a result, Oppoblock’s industrial lobby (Akhmetov, Kolesnikov, Novinsky) defeated gas (Boyko, Levochkin, Firtash), expelling the latter from the party and preferring to go to the polls on their own. Having thus solved the technical problem of the Confectioner about passing to the 2nd round, due to the erosion of the Oppoblock electorate between its various candidates, who are now compelled to go to the polls independently (Boyko, Vilkul, Muraev, Novinsky, Dobkin, Shufrich, and I have not yet named all possible candidates). That once again proves the anti-popular nature of the former regionals, who blinded Oppoblok on the fragments of their party, pursuing only personal selfish goals, completely distant from the needs of the country and its people making up. So, in fact, it was always, and their opponents from the opposite camp are the same, if not worse, but this is not easier for us. pursuing only personal mercenary goals, completely far from the needs of the country and its people. So, in fact, it was always, and their opponents from the opposite camp are the same, if not worse, but this is not easier for us. pursuing only personal mercenary goals, completely far from the needs of the country and its people. So, in fact, it was always, and their opponents from the opposite camp are the same, if not worse, but this is not easier for us.

Why Putin could not oppose Poroshenko to a more subtle game on the left flank, I don’t know (he didn’t shine at all on the right flank), thereby putting himself in a situation where he is again forced to play number two, raking inevitable Kiev Why he did not interest Akhmetov, did not corner him with sanctions, did not outbid him, in the end? Why did not make offers more profitable already available from Poroshenko? After all, Akhmetov is not a fool, and he understands perfectly well that Poroshenko is not a passing one, which means that he is deliberately bargaining with Tymoshenko. What can she promise him that which Putin cannot promise? I dont know! And I will never know. The game is done. The situation is finally played in favor of Poroshenko. We fix the next and obvious failure of the Kremlin.

Other clowns going to the polls, I do not consider. They perform purely technical functions, serve as spoilers for real candidates and delay the voices of each other. These include the clown of Zelensky, the protégé of Beni Kolomoisky, and the singer Vakarchuk, a protégé of Kuchma’s son-in-law Viktor Pinchuk, and a man with reduced social responsibility, the leader of the Radical Party of Ukraine Oleg Lyashko, supported by Akhmetov, and a protégé of the American Democrats “iron colonel” party chairman "Civic stand" Anatoly Gritsenko, recruited by American intelligence back in 1994 during his studies at the US Air Force Academy. All of them have chances to get into the 2nd round “zero”, this is extras, which serve to divert attention and bargain, those who stand behind them, with real candidates to win for certain bonuses and preferences in the future. It's all,

In real life, all the Karabasy-Barabasy behind these personalities (with the exception of Gritsenko - behind him are the international Karabasy-Barabasy), spread their eggs in different baskets, putting on Tymoshenko, Poroshenko and , using its technical candidates only for bargaining with real for future preferences. It is noteworthy that all of them at the same time own some very influential Ukrainian mass media. And we, who own an information resource, are known to own the world. That is why in Ukraine nothing shone.

Akhmetov, who owns the TRC "Ukraine", smashed his eggs in three baskets at once, putting on Poroshenko and outright gay, or, as Putin tolerantly calls such people, per person with reduced social responsibility, leader of the Radical Party of Ukraine Oleg Lyashko, and on someone else in Oppoblok, presumably on Alexander Vilkul. The owner of ICTV, Novy Channel and STB Viktor Pinchuk is torn between Tymoshenko and Poroshenko, exposing Svyatoslav Vakarchuk as a gasket for bargaining. Benya Kolomoisky, who owns channel 1 + 1, was deprived of such doubts for obvious reasons (his relations with the current president are known to everyone), so he put on Julia, sending the Zelensky clown along to her, sweeping down the slope of another technical candidate Vakarchuk, for whom put Pinchuk, trying to take away with his voice from Oppobloka. The two washed-off cranks with the letter “m”, muddied this whole farce with Maidan, in which the Americans then beautifully squeezed out the results of their righteous works, Levochkin and Firtash, who own the most influential media resource on the channels Inter, NTN, K1, K2, TET, put on Tymoshenko and Yuriy Boyko, like a ram against Poroshenko. The plan was correct and I could even support him if it were not for the ears of his sponsors who arranged this entire farce with “on the life of the children” November 30, 2013 only because Levochkin, at that time the head of the Presidential Administration Yanukovych, considered that he deserves more. Amer on this account had their opinion that we are now reaping! As a result, just like 5 years ago, there is no one to vote for! Levochkin and Firtash, who own the most influential media resource on the channels Inter, NTN, K1, K2, TET, put on Tymoshenko and Yuriy Boyko as a ram against Poroshenko. The plan was correct and I could even support him if it were not for the ears of his sponsors who arranged this entire farce with “on the life of the children” November 30, 2013 only because Levochkin, at that time the head of the Presidential Administration Yanukovych, considered that he deserves more. Amer on this account had their opinion that we are now reaping! As a result, just like 5 years ago, there is no one to vote for! Levochkin and Firtash, who own the most influential media resource on the channels Inter, NTN, K1, K2, TET, put on Tymoshenko and Yuriy Boyko as a ram against Poroshenko. The plan was correct and I could even support him if it were not for the ears of his sponsors who arranged this entire farce with “on the life of the children” November 30, 2013 only because Levochkin, at that time the head of the Presidential Administration Yanukovych, considered that he deserves more. Amer on this account had their opinion that we are now reaping! As a result, just like 5 years ago, there is no one to vote for! On November 30, 2013, this whole farce with “visits from one of the inhabitants” was organized only because Levochkin, then head of the Presidential Administration of Yanukovych, believed that he deserved more. Amer on this account had their opinion that we are now reaping! As a result, just like 5 years ago, there is no one to vote for! On November 30, 2013, this whole farce with “visits from one of the inhabitants” was organized only because Levochkin, then head of the Presidential Administration of Yanukovych, believed that he deserved more. Amer on this account had their opinion that we are now reaping! As a result, just like 5 years ago, there is no one to vote for!

Poroshenko in this race also does not feed back, in addition to his own admin resource, he can also put on the table such an argument as “First”, “Direct” and Channel 5, which “drown” from morning to evening for the guarantor. Putin tried to enter this race through Viktor Medvedchuk, who bought News One and the 112th, and tried to consolidate Oppoblock's separate links, but you already know how it ended. Selling elites confirmed their corruption.

As a result, we are all waiting for another 5 years of stagnation. A peculiar Georgian scenario, when Saakashvili replaced Margvelashvili, who is at risk of being replaced again by Saakashvili’s protege. The circulation of Russophobia in nature. I consider this to be another failure of the Kremlin and Putin personally, whose term of office expires earlier than the term of office of the newly elected President of Ukraine in 2019. Will Tymoshenko better Poroshenko I have a big question? Will it become an even more ardent successor of the business of its predecessor just because it will pay for it, an even bigger question? And Ukraine, in the grip of debt, has no other options. For the years 2019-2021 there are peak debt payments. And what about the debts pay off with sponsors? Only Russophobia! For another, alas, do not pay.

Under the previous president, only the one who hates Muscovites could be considered a real Ukrainian, because otherwise he is no longer a Ukrainian, he is simply Russian. But the Ukrainian differs from the Russian only Russophobia, there are no other differences. This is what has been planted in Ukraine for the last 5 years by all available and not accessible methods, artificially growing the nation, the only purpose of which is to be thrown into the furnace of war with Russia in the interests of the Customer. Who we had was the customer, you know. And he has not changed.

For local hereditary traitors, who came on the bones of Maidan in 2014 and headed this process, this was the only opportunity to justify their existence and receive funding from the curators, because there was nothing to trade more. Everything that was stolen. Russophobia - it was the only thing for sale, and the last thing they pay for. So, they artificially grew genetic hatred for everything Russian in test tubes, using all available methods for this, from mass propaganda in the media, to rewriting history and enforcing the Ukrainian language as the only possible one in all spheres of activity service. Because the only way of self-identification, the meaning of life and the source of feeding for them was the motto: “Ukraine is not Russia. Away from Moscow! ”

Now this trend will continue for at least 5 years. As a result, there will be some kind of mold grow here, I even dread to think. I don't blame Putin for this. In 2014, it was necessary to drink Borzhomi, now it is late, by a sharp turn in the direction of the Russian Federation, this rotten ship called “Ukraine” can be split. Nobody knows what to do and where to put the fooled team. We should not drive to the filtration camps, we are not barbarians. Here is the GDP and it is trying to accurately deploy it in such a way through the replacement of the power unit manufactured in the USA by a GPS power unit manufactured by LDNR (I didn't put it very figuratively? The GSU is the main power plant). If, as a result, the ship sinks, it means that he has such a fate. Remember the famous Putin: "What happened to your submarine? She drowned! I hope in 5 years they won't say that about us.

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URGENTLY: All military units of the DPR are on full alert
December 14, 2018 2:45 pm

Subdivisions of the People’s Militia of the DPR are brought to full combat readiness to repel the offensive of the Ukrainian troops. This was announced today by the deputy head of the People’s Militia of the DPR, Eduard Basurin.

“All military units are on full alert. Since we received information about the preparation of a large-scale offensive from the side of Ukraine, our units have been fully equipped with 100% personnel, provided with the necessary armament, equipment and ammunition, ”said Basurin.

According to him, engineering work was carried out on the positions, anti-tank barriers were installed in tank-dangerous areas, the units were provided with the necessary number of anti-tank systems, which could contain up to two tank brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Key objects enhanced by air defense.

Recall that for the attack on the Donbass Kiev formed three divisions "Gradov", "Hurricanes" and "Tornadoes" .

Earlier today, it became known from the DPR intelligence that Kiev had formed the first offensive tank echelon in the Donbass . Tank units of these formations are dispersed in groups of up to two platoons along the 50-kilometer zone on the contact line from Grape to Starognatovka.

On the morning of December 14, it became known that the Armed Forces of Ukraine sharply increased the intensity of shelling along the entire front line in the DPR .

On the eve it was reported that the defenders of the DPR are expecting an attack by the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Mariupol sector and are preparing a new boiler for the Ukrainian militants . This was the fighter of the People’s Militia of the DPR who told US military officer Patrick Lancaster

In addition, the DPR command recommended that residents of Mariupol leave the chemical zone before provoking the Ukrainian Armed Forces . The warning came after the DPR intelligence said that the APU had delivered ammonia tanks to the plant in Mariupol .

Recall that on the eve of the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine held a closed meeting in Mariupol .

Also yesterday, the Foreign Ministry of the Russian Federation confirmed the possibility of an early onset of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Donbas .

On December 12, it was reported that the Ukrainian Armed Forces mined the roads south of Donetsk in order to cut off Mariupol from transport links .

On December 11, it became known that the Ukrainian Armed Forces pulled 150 Marines and armored vehicles to Mariupol .

On the same day, it was reported that the Armed Forces of Ukraine are creating detachments in the Gorlovka and Mariupol directions in the Donbas .

Recall that on December 10, the deputy head of the DPR People’s Police Department Edward Basurin said that a large group of 12,000 people in the Ukrainian Armed Forces would launch an offensive in the Donbas on Mariupol on December 14

Also on December 10 it became known that the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine prepared a reserve of 200 thousand people in case of a full-scale war with Russia .

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Well, we've heard this a few times over the years, but given Porky's recent hijinks at the Straits of Kerch it is more possible and should be happening about now.
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Re: Footnotes from the Ukrainian "Crisis"; New High-Points in Cynicism Part IV

Post by blindpig » Sat Dec 15, 2018 11:39 am

In Vinnitsa, unknown seized the Holy Transfiguration Cathedral
December 15, 2018 12:45

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Today, immediately after the morning divine service, unknown people captured the Vinnitsa Holy Transfiguration Cathedral of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. This was announced by the Union of Orthodox Journalists (ALE).

It is reported that about 20 young people of a sporty build approached the Cathedral of Vinnitsa and took away the keys from all the premises of the complex from the guard.

“Take your things and leave,” they said to representatives of the UOC.

Yesterday the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill appealed to the world community because of the persecution of the UOC .

The patriarch mentioned that the hierarchs of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church were summoned to “conversations” and interrogations by the Security Service of Ukraine, detained under various pretexts, including when crossing the state border of Ukraine, and subjected to humiliating searches. In particular, on December 9, the Security Service of Ukraine banned a citizen of Ukraine from entering the territory of the country, Metropolitan Hilarion of Donetsk , referring to "a special order from Kiev."

Recall that on December 10, the clergy of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church initiated a flashmob on Facebook in support of the canonical church and the priests called in for questioning by the SBU . On the pages of the clergymen, similar messages began to appear in which they call themselves and express words of support and loyalty to the UOC-MP and its head Onufry.

On December 5, the SBU accused Orthodox priests of treason and inciting religious war .

On the same day, the Security Service of Ukraine called in for questioning 14 priests of the Rivne and Sarny eparchy of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.

Earlier, the head of the cathedral of the Ovruch diocese of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate spoke about the searches conducted by the SBU and the police in the cathedral and the diocesan administration. According to the father, Ukrainian policemen read out the decision of the closed court session during the service .

On December 3, it was reported that in the Zhytomyr region, the police and the SBU searched Orthodox churches on charges of "inciting ethnic hatred."

On the same day in Zhytomyr, the police conducted searches in the Cathedral of the UOC and at its abbot.

Recall, on November 30, the vicar of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, Metropolitan Paul, said that things were open to him. According to him, he is charged with “on the basis of religious misunderstandings” that he incorrectly refers to Patriarch Bartholomew.

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URGENTLY: APU subjected villages in the south of the DPR to massive shelling
December 15, 2018 13:03

In the morning, the Ukrainian armed forces in just an hour fired almost 40 ammunition in villages in the south of the Donetsk People's Republic. This was reported in the representation of the DPR at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire Regime.

“This morning, from 8:50 to 9:40, the armed forces of Ukraine (UFU) fired 29 AGS grenades in the village of Sakhanka, eight mines with a caliber of 120 mm in the village of Leninskoe. In addition, large-caliber machine guns and small arms were used, ”the message says.

Yesterday, it became known from the DPR intelligence that Kiev had formed the first offensive tank echelon in the Donbass . Tank units of these formations are dispersed in groups of up to two platoons along the 50-kilometer zone on the contact line from Grape to Starognatovka.

On the morning of December 14, the Armed Forces of Ukraine sharply increased the intensity of shelling all along the front line in the DPR .

Recall that the defenders of the DPR expect an attack by the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the Mariupol direction and prepare the next boiler for the Ukrainian militants . This was the fighter of the People’s Militia of the DPR who told US military officer Patrick Lancaster

In addition, the DPR command recommended that residents of Mariupol leave the chemical zone before provoking the Ukrainian Armed Forces . The warning came after the DPR intelligence said that the APU had delivered ammonia tanks to the plant in Mariupol .

Recall that on the eve of the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine held a closed meeting in Mariupol .

Also the day before yesterday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation confirmed the possibility of an early onset of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Donbas .

On December 12, it was reported that the Ukrainian Armed Forces mined the roads south of Donetsk in order to cut off Mariupol from transport links .

On December 11, it became known that the Ukrainian Armed Forces pulled 150 Marines and armored vehicles to Mariupol .

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Post by blindpig » Mon Dec 17, 2018 12:07 pm

Lavrov ruled out the possibility of war between Russia and Ukraine
December 17, 2018 11:28

The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Sergey Lavrov, said that there would be no war between Russia and Ukraine.

“We will not fight with Ukraine, I promise you,” Lavrov told reporters.

In addition, in an interview with Komsomolskaya Pravda radio, he stated that if Russia wants to preserve Ukraine as a neutral country, it is necessary to ensure that everyone living in Ukraine is in a comfortable state.

At the same time, Lavrov added that the recognition of the independence of the republics of Donbass will be "a manifestation of a nervous breakdown and weakness."

Recall that on November 27, Lavrov urged Germany to influence Kiev in order to prevent further provocations .

Earlier, the Russian Foreign Ministry said that the incident in the Kerch Strait has been exhausted from a military point of view.

We also note that on December 5, Russian President Vladimir Putin stated that he did not respond to the attempts of the Ukrainian President Poroshenko to talk on the phone, since he did not want to participate in his “simple combinations” .

Despite the unequivocal statements of the Russian leaders, Ukrainian politicians and military continue to escalate propaganda hysteria after the Kerch provocation. On December 10, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine stated that it had prepared a reserve of 200 thousand people in case of a full-scale war with Russia.

Earlier, on December 7, the Minister of Defense of Ukraine Poltorak spoke about a full-scale war with Russia .

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Kiev brought to combat the complexes "Buk" in the Donbass
December 17, 2018 11:50

In the Donbas, on the orders of the commander of the so-called “United Force Operation” Naev, an inspection of the combat readiness of the air defense forces was conducted. The calculations of anti-aircraft missile systems "Buk-M1" worked fighting, said the press center of the headquarters "OOS" on Facebook.



“The calculations on the signal went to combat positions to test the conditional combat mission. Having occupied them, the anti-aircraft missile batteries carried out a search for an air target, putting it on automatic tracking and conditional destruction, ”the message says.

As the punisher of the Supreme Soviet of Ukraine on behalf of Vladimir assured, “the state air border is at the castle”, and therefore the residents of the free territory of Ukraine “can sleep peacefully”.

Recall that on the eve, December 16, Ukraine transferred combat aircraft to the borders of Donbass . DPR intelligence recorded the transfer from the Melitopol airfield to the Berdyansk airfield of four Su-25 airplanes.

Earlier it was reported that Ukraine transferred two echelons of equipment to the Gorlovka direction of the front.

Recall, on December 13, the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine held a closed meeting in Mariupol with the leaders of the formations involved in the operation of the occupying forces (“EP”).

On December 10, Eduard Basurin, deputy head of the DPR people's militia department, said that a large group of 12,000 people in the Ukrainian Armed Forces would launch an offensive in the Donbas on Mariupol on December 14

Also on December 10, it became known that the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine prepared a reserve of 200 thousand people in case of a full-scale war with Russia .

Note that today, December 17, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov promised that Russia will not fight with Ukraine .

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Lavrov Poroshenko accused of preparing a military provocation in the Crimea
December 17, 2018 12:28

Moscow is ready to give a decisive response in the case of provocations by Ukraine on the border with the Crimea, said Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.

“Poroshenko said that he would not extend martial law unless there was a provocation on the contact line in the Donbas or on the administrative border with Crimea. We have information ... that the Ukrainian military concentrated about 19 thousand military men, a large number of equipment on the contact line, they are helped by British and American instructors, ”the foreign minister told Komsomolskaya Pravda radio.

“Additional information that we have and which we tend to believe that Poroshenko is planning a provocation on the border with the Russian Federation, on the border with the Crimea, for the last decade of December. He will receive the answer - it will not seem a bit, our country is our borders, ”Lavrov said.

“According to our data, they are discussing the provocation on the border with the Crimea together with their Western curators,” the minister said.

Earlier today, Lavrov ruled out the possibility of war between Russia and Ukraine .

Recall that on November 27, Lavrov urged Germany to influence Kiev in order to prevent further provocations .

Earlier, the Russian Foreign Ministry said that the incident in the Kerch Strait has been exhausted from a military point of view.

We also note that on December 5, Russian President Vladimir Putin stated that he did not respond to the attempts of the Ukrainian President Poroshenko to talk on the phone, since he did not want to participate in his “simple combinations” .

Despite the unequivocal statements of the Russian leaders, Ukrainian politicians and military continue to escalate propaganda hysteria after the Kerch provocation. On December 10, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine stated that it had prepared a reserve of 200 thousand people in case of a full-scale war with Russia.

Earlier, on December 7, the Minister of Defense of Ukraine Poltorak spoke about a full-scale war with Russia .

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Re: Footnotes from the Ukrainian "Crisis"; New High-Points in Cynicism Part IV

Post by blindpig » Wed Dec 19, 2018 12:24 pm

Ukraine recognized Bandera's birthday as a public holiday
December 19, 2018 8:29

Ukraine will officially celebrate the birthday of Bandera. On December 18, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted Resolution No. 9234 on the celebration of anniversaries and anniversaries in 2019, including the birthday of the leader and organizer of the Ukrainian nationalist movement in Western Ukraine.

The text of the document, which was supported by the Ukrainian parliament, states that "Bandera was an outstanding figure and theorist of the Ukrainian national liberation movement."

The 110th anniversary of the birth of Bandera, which falls on January 1, 2019, will be declared an official holiday in Ukraine.

Note that the rampant Nazism in Ukraine is gaining a national scale. On the eve, the President of Ukraine Poroshenko awarded the punishers of Nazi Yarosh for murders in the Donbass .

Also yesterday, Kiev equated Ukrainian punitive "ATO" to the veterans of the Great Patriotic War .

It became known earlier that the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine equated the militants of the OUN * and UPA * with the veterans of the Great Patriotic War .

We add that the Parliament also registered a draft resolution on the appeal to the President of Ukraine regarding the assignment of the title “Hero of Ukraine” to the leader of the Ukrainian Nazis (posthumously).

Note that the legalization of the Nazi ideology is a direct achievement of the Ukrainian authorities. July 26, the authorities of Zhytomyr region announced the 2019th year of Bandera .

On July 5, in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, an exhibition of Ukrainian Nazi newspapers glorifying Adolf Hitler, the leader of the Third Reich, solemnly opened.

On May 12, the director of the Ukrainian institute of national memory Vyatrovich stated that the Ukrainian militants of the SS division “Galicia” were just “deceived guys” who believed that they were fighting for the independence of Ukraine. These "guys" thought that "SS" means "Sich Riflemen".

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Ukraine ranked second in the list of IMF debtors
December 19, 2018 13:23

After the approval of the new program with the IMF, Ukraine has risen to second place in the world in terms of debts to the fund, overtaking Greece and almost equaling the leader of the ranking - Argentina. These conclusions came the Ukrainian media, having studied the data on the IMF website.

Taking into account the allocation of the promised $ 3.9 billion, Kiev’s debts to the IMF will be $ 14.1 billion. Greece, which is now in third place, has a current debt of $ 11.6 billion, and Argentina has $ 14.6.

Earlier today, MP, a representative of the “Opposition Platform - For Life,” Boyko called the IMF loan the fruit of the disastrous policy of Kiev .

Recall that the IMF has once again worsened the economic outlook for Ukraine.

We also note that on the eve of the IMF approved another loan for Ukraine .

Earlier, economic expert Viktor Skarshevsky on his Facebook page provided statistics on cooperation between Ukraine and the International Monetary Fund. On the eve of the payment of the next debt obligation by Ukraine , it turned out that Ukraine had paid twice as much as it had received from an international organization .

In October, the IMF recognized Ukraine as the poorest country in Europe .

In September, the Accounting Chamber of Ukraine reported that, in regards to the results of 2017, the level of poverty in Ukraine increased to 27%.

Earlier it was reported that according to the World Bank, 25% of Ukraine’s population lives below the poverty line.

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Post by blindpig » Wed Dec 26, 2018 2:11 pm

Martial law abolished in Ukraine

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December 26, 15:52

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In Ukraine, the martial law officially ended.
Poroshenko was forced once again to officially assure everyone that the elections will be held on March 31, 2019, because despite the adopted resolution of the Verkhovna Rada, Poroshenko does not trust in this matter at all.
Thus, the mountain of martial law gave birth to a mouse - from a practical point of view, nothing has changed since November, the front in the Donbass remains quite stable, Russian troops at the borders with Ukraine have not gone anywhere, sailors have not been let go of the wolf pack, ships have not been delivered, provocations being prepared , which, including claimed Turchinov or Basurin, did not occur or were thwarted.

Actually, even at the start of this whole story, the initial mechanism of provocation in the Kerch Strait meant imposing martial law for 2 months in order to hook the start of the presidential campaign and disrupt the elections. After pressure from the EU and NATO (Merkel spoke out against disrupting the elections), Poroshenko was forced to reduce the term of martial law by a month and guarantee the holding of elections on March 31 in order to pass a decision through the Rada. In view of this, the original meaning of martial law was lost, since it was introduced with an eye to disrupting the elections, and not a real war.

Everything Poroshenko did over the past month from squeezing churches from priests to the glorification of Bandera (in Poland, it burned so badly from this), he could do well without martial law. Justify his introduction could only power escalation, which would give a formal reason to extend martial law and still hook the beginning of the election campaign, even despite the formal promises of Poroshenko to hold elections on March 31.

There was an alternative scenario with provocations in LDNR, on Perekop or in the Kerch Strait. But for a number of reasons, Poroshenko did not dare to do this, or rather the Americans did not give the go-ahead.
In the end, it turned out loud zilch, which of course does not negate the possibility of attempts before the elections to re-organize a provocation in the Kerch Strait (or in other directions) and under the sauce of "Russian aggression" to raise the question of transferring the elections to the practical plane, "they said you see Russia is doing it. "

Ps. The characters detained in the Kerch Strait have become the cannon fodder of this story and they are still very lucky to have survived, since Poroshenko would be more satisfied if the FSB-Schnick sunk the Ukrainian boats and then he would have turned.
Well, and so, the elections failed to break, cannon fodder is spoiled in the Russian detention center, the ships defend in Kerch, and Poroshenko leads a confident fight with the comedian Zelensky for the opportunity to go to the second round of elections significantly lagging behind Tymoshenko.

All this so badly crushed new Russian sanctions that finally hit the "Akhmeta" and other "how-to pro-Russian" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtkHD5w-zFA measures fairly late, so at 3 years but better late than never.

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Post by blindpig » Mon Dec 31, 2018 12:32 pm

FROM DONETSK THE FLAME WILL BE GROWN ...
Official information resource of the Supreme Council of the DPR
Donbass has become the center of world geopolitical processes in recent years. The people of Donbass passed the test of rebellion, war, promises and betrayal. Now Donbass has the full right to its word. The goal of the group is to return Donbass to the principles proclaimed in April 2014, destroy the oligarchic reaction and spread the dictatorship of the proletariat to the entire territory of the occupied USSR.

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AMNESTY FOR VETERANS OF DOL ENABLING The

Criminal Code of the DPR was approved by the Resolution of the Supreme Council of the DPR No. WC 28-1 of August 19, 2014. Contrary to him, the mass arrests of the militias began in September 2014. Moreover, the militias were deprived of their freedom by judges and prosecutors who, contrary to the laws “On the Prosecutor’s Office” and “On the Status of Judges” of the DPR, are not citizens of the DPR. The investigative commission of the Supreme Council of the DPR has evidence that persons who call themselves prosecutors and judges of the DPR have crossed various state borders not as citizens of the DPR, but as citizens of Ukraine.

Thousands of militias were illegally arrested, who shed their blood in order to protect the people's power from American fascism for export. Not a single militia was released in 4 years from illegal imprisonment, where they were subjected to torture and humiliation under an amnesty.

According to Article 85 of the Criminal Code of the DPR, only the Supreme Council of the DPR, acting on the basis of the main law - the Declaration on the sovereignty of the DPR, has the authority to conduct an amnesty in the Republic. Abolishing the powers of the Supreme Council of the DPR Decree No. 16 of November 14, 2014, signed by Litvinov, who was at that time acting as the chairman of the Supreme Council, is illegal. The Investigation Commission of the Supreme Council of the DPR conducted a legal examination of this document with the involvement of well-known lawyers and scholars. All experts agreed on the conclusions according to which, Order No. 16 was illegally issued by Litvinov, is evidence of abuse of authority and an anti-state grave crime. Inquiries were also sent to the Prosecutor’s Office, the Ministry of State Security and the Ministry of Justice of the DPR to ensure the legality of Order No. 16.

Taking into account the illegality of arrests and deprivation of liberty decisions, the DPR Supreme Council announces an amnesty to all who defended and helped establish the Donetsk People's Republic. The decree is mandatory for execution by all state bodies of the DPR. For each refusal in the amnesty, make a message to our information resource: https://vk.com/donetsk_revolution_ussr , to create lists for the future tribunal.

Anyone who is not indifferent to the fate of the Republic, who is fighting against fascism as an open terrorist dictatorship of American finance capital, who realized that class struggle is being waged against us, urges not to expect miracles from the loyal oath of the deputies of the Supreme Council and the surviving ideological militias. Without reliance on a broad labor movement, we will be as vulnerable as after the spring of 2014. Break through is possible only all together. Begin to organize, start strike struggle for salary increases. These completely legal actions will organize you, create the basis for the appearance of Soviets on the ground, which will make our resistance universal and invincible. All the conditions for such a struggle have already been created: beggarly wages and the lack of specialists in the Donbass, which can be replaced by strikers. For all questions please contact:https://vk.com/donetsk_revolution_ussr

Separately we draw the attention of our Russian comrades, whose relatives and friends came to us as volunteers, and now they are in dungeons. The resolution of the Supreme Council of the DPR on amnesty applies to everyone, including volunteers from other countries. The text of the resolution was sent to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. If the MFA officials ignore your requests, you can safely accuse the Russian Foreign Ministry of complicity with imprisonment, torture and the creation of illegal prisons.

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"There is great chaos under heaven; the situation is excellent."

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