What had to happen did happen. One, or more, of the “Polite Armed Men in Green” (PAMG) did use his cellphone or GoPro to shoot footage of his unit’s operations in Crimea. According to the intro, this unit is called “detachment 0900” which could be nonsense or true, it does not matter. What is sure is that this denomination does not conform to the Russian official/public military unit classification which normally has four or five digits (as in m/u xxxxx). I have personally never heard of a detachment 0900 nor have I found anything about it on the Russian Internet. This proves nothing, of course, and chances are that this number was an operational once, used just for this one time.
Everything I see in this video personally points me to the Spetsnaz GRU (the “original” or “genuine” military Spetsnaz forces), primarily because I see reasons to exclude other candidates (Airborne, AirAssault, Naval Infantry, FSB, ODON, etc.).
In purely technical terms, I have to say that this operation is another masterpiece maybe not as flashy as the storming of the Tajbeg Palace in Afghanistan during “Operation Storm-333“, but in a way at least as remarkable. There were at least 30’000 fully armed Ukrainian troops in Crimea (a lot them from the western Ukraine) and an overall population of over 2’000’000 people, and yet not a single person was killed (a few shots were fired during the operation). I don’t think that there is anything like it in modern history (Turkish occupation of Cyprus, Grenada, Panama, French operations in Rwanda or Mali, etc.) From the footage you can also see two things: a) even the local “civilians” were armed to the teeth and b) there were Right Sector activists in Crimea. At the end of the video you see them being taken prisoner by the PAMG who then take a shoot at their computer with a screensaver which shows a Ukrainian flag and the caption “The Crimea will be Ukrainian or desolated/uninhabited“. Charming young men for sure…
Anyway, thanks to “anonymous” for calling my attention to this unique footage taken by the Spetsnaz themselves. Clearly they are happy to share a glimpse of their usually top secret work with the world. I even suspect that this “leak” was allowed, off the record of course, by the equally happy higher-ups.
Here is that footage, enjoy!
The Saker
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Greetings from Singapore:
Excelente video.!Y con Musica de Vivaldi !
Solo falta decir: Gloria a Rusia!
Saker:
“0900” may be a Russian joke, an analogy to the “0800” which is used to access a free telephone company (in Brazil is as well, you dial “0800” a few more numbers and knows that the call is not charged).
Perhaps “0900”, besides speaking, the “company” comes physically assist kkkkkkkkk.
Alexandre.
:-)
The opinion at the moment seems to be they are a mix – primarily Spetsnaz GRU, but possibly some FSB or such mixed in for coordination, communication, tech support etc. There are some people in the videos who are dressed in an odd mix of semi-civilian clothes – somebody who has seen a lot of counter-terrorist operations said that’s the trademark dress style of the FSB, who usually work in tandem with internal troops or Spetsnaz GRU. Cold be true, I suppose.
What is that music in background? Does it have anything to do with Catherine the Great or Bonapart’s invasion of russia?
(Those are my guesses. May be wildly wrong)
~31323
There is a lot going on in Donetsk right now. Oddly, when I go to RT News I don’t get it, but here is a link from a commenter at MoA, and it’s RT News (maybe I just don’t know how to use the site???). In any case:
http://rt.com/news/rally-donetsk-slavyansk-ukraine-160/
The film shows a historical event and historical heroes.
The same movie but with different music and song.
Do not understand the lyrics but it sounds good :-)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0vpu8VvWaw
/Erik
Crazy Ivan says…
The Saker, look to the website and pay attention to the info about German TV…
http://www.voicesevas.ru/
a report http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ru&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=ru&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kp.ru%2Fdaily%2F26216.7%2F3102535%2F&edit-text=
Первый немецкий телеканал опровергает “расследование” киевской хунты о снайперах на майдане (Видео)
2014-04-12 19:41:00
Первый немецкий телеканал опровергает “расследование” киевской хунты о снайперах на майдане (Видео)
Первый национальный канал немецкого ТВ в прайм-тайм 10 апреля 2014 показал собственное расследование «дела майданных снайперов». Выводы немецких журналистов: «Кровавая баня в центре крупного европейского города. — Киевская прокуратура в своих оценках уверена. Мы — нет!»
Расследование Das Erste убедительно доказывает, что за «кровавой баней в центре крупного европейского города» стоят снайперы из штаба евромайдана, откуда они работали по людям. Об этом в материале немецкого телеканал говорят и убедительные факты, и даже сами сторонники майдана.
Немецкие журналисты обвиняют хунту в нежелании доискаться до правды и профанации расследования этих преступлений. В конце репортажа журналисты делают вывод о том, что этот самый националистический генпрокурор препятствует проведению расследования, тем самым бросая тень на новое «временное правительство», а вместе с ними и на любое западное правительство, которое поддерживает хунту.
Das Erste – это Первый национальный канал немецкого ТВ. И это не единственный телеканал, выпускающий подобные сюжеты в эфир. Напомним, что недавно федеральный немецкий телеканал ZDF задавался вопросом «Неужели демонстранты стреляли сами?». Разворот пропаганды немецких СМИ все более очевиден и он не может не соотноситься с соответствующим разворотом внешней политики Германии.
http://www.voicesevas.ru/news/yugo-vostok/pervyi-nemeckii-telekanal-oprovergaet-ra.html
@12:30 “What is that music in background?”
Various violin classical pieces, could be by anyone. First name popped in the head is Vanessa Mae, but I doubt its her.
A very good article on Turkey’s involvement in Syria, please read if you get the time
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/has-recep-tayyip-erdogan-gone-from-model-middle-east-strongman-to-tinpot-dictator-9252366.html
Mindfriedo
Dear Saker,
Great footage. One of the most interesting aspects of recent events in Crimea, in my opinion, is the reported defection of a huge number of ukrainian military to the russian armed forces. What’s the real story about this? And why hasn’t more been made of this amazing fact, especially given the western media line about “annexation”? Warm greetings from Rio de Janeiro.
Music is Antonio Vivaldi’s Summer.
Enjoy!
Music is Antonio Vivaldi’s Summer.
Enjoy!
Excellent vídeo to document a correction of History. Crimea, since the time that i read Tolstoy Sebastobol Sketches, i identified it with Russia. And now one of the wrongdoings of the 90s is corrected.
It’s not just the USA and Israel training terrorists and “color revolutionaries”. This article describes how extensive the Euro NGO share of this subversion is.
European NGOs ‘train agents for intrastate conflicts’
http://rt.com/news/europe-trains-agents-conflicts-164/
“European NGOs train agents for participation in intrastate conflicts around the world, the CIS Antiterrorism Committee has revealed. There are over 2,000 schools across Europe preparing experts for conducting psychological and subversive operations.
Those institutions, affiliated with private military companies and security agencies, help enlist and train a broad range of saboteurs, according to the chief of CIS Antiterrorism Committee, Andrey Novikov. He was speaking at the conference of chiefs of security services and law enforcement agencies in Sochi attended by 79 delegations from 55 states and three international organizations.
“We noted the activity of NGOs ahead of well-known events in Kyrgyzstan and Ukraine,” Interfax reported Novikov as saying. Novikov referred to the Orange Revolution in Ukraine in 2004 and the “Tulip Revolution” which ousted Kyrgyz President Askar Akayev in 2005.
Most often, future information warfare agents are people enlisted by relevant structures and who received special training. Enlisting can be hidden in quite innocent contexts.
“We are seeing the departure of CIS citizens from home countries or Europe, where they reside as refugees, or their parents were refugees in the 1990s, to study in different educational centers – mostly under the declared purpose of religious education,” Novikov said.
Recently the committee has been marking an increase in “mercenary terrorism,” when international terrorist organizations eye changing management models in whole regions, defragmentation of states, and creation of new orders.
“In this regard, the threat to the constitutional order in several regions significantly increases; the order may be destabilized when domestic problems are solved through military means,” Novikov said.
The CIS is also concerned about militants who received hotspot training and now have returned home, but still continue “subversive activities,” he said.
Such international militant bases, which also recruit and train mercenaries, are operating in Syria, Libya, Egypt, and across Pakistan and Afghanistan.
The CIS’s concern has been also shared by some European states. Thus, the UK repeatedly expressed its worry after ministers were informed in February that around 250 British jihadists returned home after training and fighting in Syria. A total, it was said, of more than 400 Britons went to Syria to engage in militant activities.”
вот так
Saker best give some background of Shtrom-333 action..that Amin had murdered moderate Taraki and events out of control with Soviet finally take action…not so much “invasion” as media told America.
This video is sending very clear message about new Russian military doctrine. Putin has announced it several times in the past few years but this is the first time that we can see how it works.
Basically, the message is: We will not savagely bomb your people and destroy their infrastructure, but we might send these polite men in green to wake you up for your morning piss.
Hysterical screaming from Russia’s neighbors is quite understandable now.
Slogan on the screen 7:40 – Crimea will be ukranian or deserted.