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Donetsk authorities claim NATO ammunition found in Ukraine

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From Sputnik News, February 3, 2015

The Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) forces has found ammunition used exclusively in NATO countries that the Ukrainian Army is not usually equipped with, Deputy Donetsk Militia Commander Eduard Basurin said Tuesday.

“These types of ammunition are designed for NATO countries. One of them [devices] is equipped with a base fuse. For instance, when this type of ammunition hits the wall, it blasts and destroys it [wall]. The Ukrainian forces do not have this type of ammunition,” Basurin said, demonstrating the ammunition to journalists.

DPR authorities have repeatedly claimed finding US-made weapons in the Donetsk Airport, previously occupied by the Ukrainian military. On January 19, Basurin said that DPR forces had found large quantities of US-made weapons, including M16-A5 assault rifles, grenades and communication devices. Prior to Basurin’s remarks, DPR leader Alexander Zakharchenko said that US-made weapons had found in the airport.

On January 21, 2015 Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov harshly criticized the deliveries of weapons by a number of NATO members and European Union countries, saying this move went against EU and Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) norms.

On Thursday, Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said that no lethal weapons had been delivered to Kiev by the West, despite an announcement made by Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in September that a number of NATO countries had agreed to supply the country with modern weapons. Presidential adviser Yuri Lutsenko later claimed that an agreement on the supply of weapons from the United States, France, Poland, Norway and Italy had been reached at the NATO summit in Wales. However these countries denied the statement.

http://sputniknews.com/europe/20150203/1017703053.html

Donetsk Authorities Claim NATO Ammunition Found in Ukraine

On the brink of Doomsday

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From Fort Russ, 2-5-2015

What doomsday looks like on the financial markets–the course of Hryvnya today.

2/5/2015

Merkel and Hollande are coming with new proposals
By Yurasumy
Translated from Russian by J.Hawk

Interesting things are happening on the diplomatic front.

No. 1. Kerry has been talking about something with Poroshenko. Seemingly no big deal. As expected. But the initial expectation was that their talk was supposed to have happened tomorrow, and then Kerry and Poroshenko would have gone to visit Angela in Munich.

No. 2. What is more, Merkel and Hollande are coming to Kiev already tonight. They want to present Poroshenko with new apartment swap options (just kidding, of regulating the Kiev crisis).

No. 3. And tomorrow the sweet Euro decisionmaking pair is flying to Moscow. To convince Putin to adopt their variant.

All of that is happening against the background of Strategic Rocket Forces drills and Russian Ground Forces maneuvers along Ukraine’s borders.

A reminder: even a few days ago the weekend was planned differently. Kerry was supposed to meet with Poroshenko on Friday, and on Saturday everyone was to fly to Bavaria for shish-kebabs. There they’d put together a new Munich agreement aimed at Russia.

But something had changed their plans. Considering that they are working over Poroshenko first, it means that the EU proposals are not going to be on the basis of the Minsk Protocol. Considering that the Kremlin doing everything (balalaika, vodka, Budenovka, and PPSh) to show that it is not about to retreat and in view of yesterday’s discussions in Washington concerning federalization, I can assume that has already been decided. Now Putin only has to believe them. But after all that’s happened a “gentleman’s word” is not going to be enough. Apparently they are bringing “cookies” to Moscow.

What can this mean for the Donbass. Well, maybe nothing. They may fail to reach an agreement. Secondly, as long as the bombardment of cities continues, Putin will not order the destruction of the UAF to stop. The main issue is the line of demarcation. It was already raised, but it is not yet known in any detail (it was announced earlier that it would be wherever the front line is at the moment of a new ceasefire). Therefore it is not in the West’s interests to prolong the process, because the line will change with every day. On the other hand, I can’t imagine (or, rather, can imagine) what they will do to Poroshenko in Kiev after that.

In any event, the weekend will not be boring.

J.Hawk’s Comment: As noted just yesterday, Ukraine is facing the options of peace, victory, or doomsday. Victory is out of the question for obvious enough reasons. Continued fighting can only lead Ukraine into a nation-wide disaster. But for that to be averted the “parties of peace” at some point have to neutralize the “parties of war” and reach a solution. Kerry, Merkel, and Hollande are in the “peace” camp, so their meetings with Poroshenko and then Putin suggest it will be a meeting of like-minded (on the question that the fighting ought to stop, rather than escalate) individuals.

What Yurasumy’s analysis leaves out (though hints at) is the problem of the war parties. What if Biden makes one of his “trips” to Kiev again? What if the “volunteer battalions” raise the cry of “treason” against Poroshenko? Might Turchinov and Yatsenyuk not be tempted to oust Poroshenko using yet another “wave of popular anger”? 

On the other hand, it is clear that Ukraine is on the brink of its doomsday. The Ukrainian currency is plummeting, the country’s currency reserves appear to be completely exhausted, and there is zero possibility than IMF assistance will suddenly provide Ukraine with new financial means to continue the war. 

http://yurasumy.livejournal.com/375027.html

http://fortruss.blogspot.com/2015/02/on-brink-of-doomsday.html

 

Will Ukraine be able to feed itself?

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And this discussion doesn’t include the impact of over 70,000 landmines ordered from the United States and being “sown” into fields. What a bloody harvest.

From Fort Russ

By Yurasumy, 2/5/2015
Translated from Russian by J.Hawk

Due to the hryvnya devaluation the price of a loaf of bread may increase to 9-10 hryvnya. This was announced by the First Deputy Minister of Agriculture Yaroslav Krasnopolskiy.

“Krasnopolskiy reminded, that in May of last year the price of wheat was 2500 hryvnya/ton. After factoring in the halving of the value of the national currency, we are estimating that in May 2015 that price will be 4500-5000 hryvnya/ton, therefore the price of flour will reach 6-8 thousand hryvnya per ton. Which means that the final price of a loaf of bread will be 9-10 hryvnya.”

Judging by everything, there is no money left to even keep the price of basic necessities at an affordable level. Including BREAD. As long as there existed a central distribution of bread flour that was sold to bakeries at a “fixed” price (possibly by using up the flour from the state reserves), the price could be held in check. But now it has turned out that the government has “washed its hands” and that nobody will be controlling the price of flour starting with May. Moreover, even those calculations do not take into account what had happened on the currency markets over the last week. And one still has to stay alive until May.

J.Hawk’s Comments: To state the obvious first, Ukraine is not Russia. A devaluation for a country like Russia which is a net exporter that runs large surpluses, which has a relatively modern industry capable of manufacturing nearly all the necessities and which, last but not least, produces its own energy, is a blessing in disguise, as acknowledged even by Goldman Sachs. Ukraine has not one of these advantages. It has many disadvantages to boot, starting with its very own “leadership” “elite”. So the prices for everything, including even bread, will begin to rise, and for the regime this will be a death knell. Even the mobilization protests will pale in comparison with what will happen once that price of bread becomes a reality. Considering that, according to Yaresko’s own estimate, the military campaign has cost Ukraine $10 million a day, it’s becoming relatively obvious that the UAF will not be able to sustain even its current level of military effort for much longer. 

And to think that not too long ago Yatsenyuk was bragging before the Rada and the entire Ukrainian people that Ukraine can always feed itself…

Source:
http://yurasumy.livejournal.com/374522.html
Bread for 10 hryvnya a loaf. Not a fairy tale but today’s estimate by the Ministry of Agriculture.

http://fortruss.blogspot.com/2015/02/let-them-eat-cake-ukraine-edition.html

News from the war in Ukraine

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Here are links to some of the latest reports on the fighting in Ukraine:

http://vineyardsaker.blogspot.com/2015/02/ukraine-sitrep-debaltsevo-cauldron.html

http://vineyardsaker.blogspot.com/2015/02/05022015-ukrainian-crisis-news-latest.html

http://vineyardsaker.blogspot.com/2015/02/05022015-military-report-of-novorossia.html

http://vineyardsaker.blogspot.com/ has been closely covering the situation with frequent updates.

“Ukrainian army is close to annihilation”–Kulikov

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“They have created military groupings on Iraqi and Afghan model…”

From Fort Russ,  2/5/2015
Russian General: DPR and LPR will continue its offensive,the Ukrainian army is close to annihilation.
By Viktor Avin
Translated from Russian by J.Hawk

The Ukrainian army is in such a condition that the militia can freely advance until they reach the boundaries of Lugansk and Donetsk regions.

This opinion was expressed by Army General Anatoliy Kulikov, the former Minister of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, in an interview with the “Spetsialnyy Korrespondent” talk show.

“Ukraine has no prospects for an effective operation, from the perspective of either the political, moral, motivational, or technical point of view. They have created military groupings on Iraqi and Afghan model, namely company tactical teams. But over there it’s desert, while here it’s densely populated territory. So from the military-technical perspective it’s not a very appropriate decision.

Then there’s the question of weapons. The best was given to the territorial defense battalions, while the army stayed with the old weapons.

There is no repair base, no means of communications, loss of control.

Under such conditions DPR and LPR armed forces ought to continue their active offensive operations and reach their administrative borders. Only that will force Ukraine to start negotiating,” assured Kulikov.

J.Hawk’s Comment: Kulikov is entirely correct—DPR and LPR can do as they please, all they have to do is want to go on the offensive. The bulk of the UAF is already on the front line, with all the unpleasantness that it entails. The fact that the Rada had just passed a law that gives line commanders the authority to execute their own soldiers for insubordination is likewise suggestive that the level of discipline within the military is plumbing new depths. So there is a Plan B: if the Munich talks fail to accomplish anything, if Poroshenko continues to side with the party of war, then more war is what he will get. At this point, even large-scale NATO weapons supplies would do almost nothing to influence the conflict, except to antagonize Russia, which is why pretty much all EU member states have officially swore off such supplies. The US could still do it unilaterally, of course, but even the official White House position is against them—they know perfectly well that what Kulik describes above is true. Moreover, as detailed in earlier posts, Ukraine’s economic position is getting worse with every passing day.

Source:
http://fortruss.blogspot.com/2015/02/ukrainian-army-is-close-annihilation.html

 

Ukraine SITREP: EXTREMELY dangerous situation in Debaltsevo

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An urgent warning about the possibility of a false flag with the evacuation of civilians from Debaltsevo.

Posted on Vineyard of the Saker, February 6, 2015

Ukraine SITREP: *Extremely* dangerous situation in Debaltsevo

The Novorussian and the junta have agreed to a cease-fire to allow the civilian population to leave Debaltsevo.  In theory, each civilian will get to chose whether he/she wants to be evacuated to Novorussia or to the Nazi-occupied Ukraine.  The convoy of refugees will be escorted by senior OSCE officials.  Both sides to the conflict have pledged not to open fire during the time needed for this operation.  Now consider this:

1) The only thing protecting the junta forces are, precisely, these civilians.  If these civilians leave, then Debaltsevo will turn into Saur Mogila.  Until now, the Novorussians have advanced rather slowly precisely because they could not use the full power of their artillery to soften up the well dug-in junta forces.  But thanks to the Voentorg, the Novorussians now have plenty of firepower now and if they decide to really open up upon the junta forces the latter will suffer the same devastating consequences as their (now dead) colleagues in Saur Mogila.  Everybody understands that.

2) Tonight the junta has used white phosphorus again, and in the recent days they have used both ballistic missiles and cluster munitions.  Why this sudden concern with the Debaltsevo civilians (whom the Nazis consider as “bugs” anyway)?  Does anybody really believe that the Nazi freaks in Kiev care for Novorussian civilians?!

3) Kerry, Hollande and Merkel were in Kiev today.  The latter two will be in Moscow tomorrow.   In Germany, the Munich Security Conference is meeting.  NATO is still claiming that “hundreds and hundreds” of Russian Federation soldiers are operating in Novorussia.  While some US officials speak of sending “lethal aid” to the junta, others seem to oppose it.

What does that all tell you?

Me – it tells me that this is the PERFECT opportunity for the kind of false flag massacres NATO and the US are so good at.  That is how the “Empire of Kindness” justified bombing the Bosnian Serbs, that is how the “Empire of Kindness” justified bombing Kosovo and that is how the “Empire of Kindness” justified bombing Libya.

Tomorrow, such an attack will be very easy to organize.  Just send a group of men to post a Claymore mine anywhere along the convoy’s route, plant a 152mm shell with a remote under the road where the bus will collect the refugees, pay some patsy to hide in the ditch with an RPG, or use a regular Grad strike at any time – and, voilà, you will have exactly the kind of atrocity which was used to justify all the previous wars of the “Empire of Kindness”.

Except that this time around, the goal will not be to bomb or invade Novorussia (that is something the US/NATO simply cannot do), but to create the kind if hysteria which might make it possible to save the junta forces in the Debaltsevo cauldron.  That, at least, could be the plan.  Also, if a massacre happens at the evacuation of refugees, then this will “prove” that the Novorussians don’t care about civilians and create a “Sarajavo-like” situation in which the surrounded force gets to shoot as much as it wants while the surrounding force is crucified by the imperial propaganda for every shell fired.

I sure hope that I am wrong, but I won’t breathe normally again until tomorrow evening because if no false flag happens tomorrow this will be a real miracle.

The Saker

http://vineyardsaker.blogspot.com/2015/02/ukraine-sitrep-extremely-dangerous.html

Donetsk Republic Memorandum declares state continuity with Donetsk – Krivoy Rog Republic

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February 5, 2015
Novorossia-Novosti
Translated by Kristina Rus

MEMORANDUM of Donetsk People’s Republic on the principles of state-building, political and historical continuity

We, members of the People’s Council of Donetsk People’s Republic of the first convocation, elected by universal democratic and free elections on November 2, 2014, taking into account the principles of international law, embodied in the Charter of the United Nations, proclaim the Memorandum on the principles of state-building, political and historical continuity.

Based on the will of the people of Donbass, expressed in the referendum of May 11, 2014, in the Act of the proclamation of state independence of Donetsk People’s Republic, the Declaration of Sovereignty of the Donetsk People’s Republic from April 7, 2014, understanding of the need for the progressive development of law-making and state-building process, we affirm the historical connection of the state formations of the Donetsk-Krivoy Rog Republic and Donetsk People’s Republic.

On February 12, 1918 at the IV Congress of Soviets of the Donetsk-Krivoy Rog basin based on the idea of economic integration created the Donetsk-Krivoy Rog Republic (DKR). At the outset of building of the multinational people’s state was Fyodor Sergeyev (Artyom). The Republic comprised of the territories of Kharkov and Ekaterinoslav governorate [Dnepropetrovsk], Krivorozhye of Kherson governorate [Kherson governorate included Odessa, Nikolaev, Kherson], part of the counties of Taurida governorate [Crimea and parts of southern Kherson region] and industrial areas of the Don Host Oblast.

Donetsk-Krivoy Rog Republic did not formally cease to exist, despite the German occupation, war and other social disasters. Its ideas lived on in the hearts and souls of millions of people.

In the late 80’s “International Donbass Movement” was created under the leadership of Dmitry Kornilov, which in 1991 raised the black-blue-and-red flag of the DKR. In March 1994 the people of Donbass called for the federal structure of the state. Federal trends were expressed at the Severodonetsk Congress in 2004, where a decision was made to hold a referendum in Donetsk and Lugansk oblasts on the issue of gaining the status of autonomous republics. Such attempts to reorganize the state were declared as criminal by the Kiev authorities. Popular protest resulted in the creation of a political movement “Donetsk Republic”. The people of Donbass finally confirmed their choice at the referendum of 2014.

We, members of the People’s Council of Donetsk People’s Republic, recognizing our responsibility to the past and paving the way to the future:

– declare the continuation of the traditions of Donetsk-Krivoy Rog Republic and declare that the state of Donetsk People’s Republic is its successor;

– call for cooperation and uniting efforts to build a federal state on a voluntary contractual bases of all the territories and lands, that were part of Donetsk-Krivoy Rog Republic.

Source:
http://fortruss.blogspot.com/2015/02/donetsk-republic-memorandum-declares.html

John Kerry tells journalists to look in the social media for proof of Russian troops in Ukraine

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John Kerry

February 5, 2015
Russian RT 
Translated by Kristina Rus

West and Kiev continue to accuse Russia of having troops in the conflict zone in the East of Ukraine. However, so far no evidence has been provided. Today during the press conference, US Secretary of State John Kerry was also unable to answer the question about the evidence of participation of the Russian military in the conflict in Donbass, and suggested to look for it on social networks.

Today during a joint press conference with Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk in Kiev, the head of the U.S. Department of State, John Kerry, again failed to answer the question if there is strong evidence that Russian soldiers are involved in the conflict in the East of Ukraine. Instead, he invited the journalists to look for it online.

“Social networks are filled with reports and photos of Russian soldiers, who are brought back to Russia dead. And the parents of these soldiers in Russia are told that their sons were killed somewhere in an accident, ” – Kerry said. – There are also prisoners of war who have provided proof of their participation in the conflict (in the East of Ukraine. – RT). And that’s enough.”

Thus, at the moment, neither the West nor Kiev can provide convincing evidence of the presence of the Russian armed forces in the conflict zone. Moreover, not so long ago, the chief of the General Staff of Ukraine, Viktor Muzhenko, said during a briefing that Ukrainian army does not wage battles against the Russian military units and that Kiev knows only about some Russians fighting on the side of the militia.

“Currently, the Ukrainian army is not fighting with the regular army of Russia”, – said the general. However, Muzhenko stated that the General Staff of the UAF possessed information about the participation of individual citizens of the Russian Federation, including military, in the ranks of illegal armed formations”.

These words of the chief of the General Staff, who has access to the full volume of operational information from the front, clearly are contrary to the official position of Kiev, which from the beginning of the conflict repeatedly declared about an organized invasion of the regular units of the Russian army of the territory of Ukraine.

Recall that recently the President of Ukraine arrived at the economic forum in Davos with a fragment of the bus, exploded near Volnovakha. Petro Poroshenko made an emotional speech in which he accused the tragedy on Russia. In addition, during his speech, he stated that allegedly 9 thousand Russian soldiers are fighting on the territory of Ukraine . However, besides the loud proclamations, no evidence of Moscow’s involvement in the incident with the bus or participation in hostilities of regular units of the Russian army, was presented by the Ukrainian leader.

These words of the President were picked up by the permanent representative of Ukraine to the United Nations, Yuriy Sergeyev. During the last meeting of the Security Council on Ukraine, he not only repeated the words of Poroshenko about 9 thousand Russian soldiers, but added that the military contingent of the army of the Russian Federation in Ukraine continues to grow and has reached 12 thousand people.

Source: http://fortruss.blogspot.com/2015/02/john-kerry-tells-journalists-to-look-in.html

Ukrainian commanders abandon their soldiers

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Translated by Kristina Rus
February 5, 2015
From http://ext-1320878.livejournal.com/feed/

UKRAINIAN OFFICERS ABANDON THEIR OWN ON AND OFF THE BATTLEFIELD

Reports from Donbass often talk about how Ukrainian officers behave in critical situations. For example:

“UAF officers fled first. Soldiers without the ability to retreat took the fight almost without command. Thanks to intelligence and wide agent network, it is possible to destroy the fire positions of the enemy before them opening fire. To destroy their convoys at the stage of their formation…”

“Threw heavy equipment and reinforcements to the Debaltsevo front. The pot began to boil, UAF commanders are saving themselves…”

“POW’s can not hide the anger and contempt towards their commanders, who threw them into the hands of the militia, and shamelessly ran away…”

“Panic in Kramatorsk. UAF and the Right Sector headquarters are evacuating, as they say, to Krasny Lyman…”

“I think only recruits remain in Uglegorsk. And without the commander rats they will die under strict orders and threats of persecution. Pity for their mothers. Those from UAF who are left in Uglegorsk are cannon fodder. Poroshenko will not pay them 1000 UAH as participants of ATO. The funerals will be more expensive…”

Meanwhile the Ukrainian side said the same thing since the summer defeats the army. On the pages of the weekly “Kraina,” Denis Vorobyov, correspondent of Espresso.TV, who spent 38 days in captivity after Ilovaisk, wrote:

“The entire command got out of this cauldron. Two vans with General Homchak and Dnepr battalion commander Yuri Bereza turned onto a forest lane. No one fired at them. Soldiers do not respect many of the commanders. The guys, who were wounded along with Semen Semenchenko, said: he got into a helicopter and flew to the hospital, and left them behind with broken legs…”

Since then, according to observers, nothing has changed. Ukrainian generals and officers now behave the same; evidence abound.

P.S.:

“Sunday Night with Vladimir Solovyev” on Thursday (February 5, 2015)

Pavel Astakhov, the Children’s Rights Commissioner for the President of the Russian Federation:

“Interesting report which had shocked me last night: “The Council of Europe is offering a three day ceasefire in South-Eastern Ukraine. This was an apotheosis. For what? As representatives of DPR and LPR told me yesterday it is to take out the command staff from Debaltsevo cauldron. Not to take out the children, which I have a list of, not to create a humanitarian corridor – not once had they created a humanitarian corridor, but to help the Ukrainian security forces to evacuate their command staff, which got trapped in the cauldron.”

Source:
http://fortruss.blogspot.com/2015/02/ukrainian-commanders-always-flee-first.html
Ukrainian commanders always flee first