Tonight the Russian TV showed a rather interesting live interview of Alexander Borodai, the Prime Minister of the self-declared “Donetsk People’s Republic”.
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| Alexander Borodai interviewed while protected by his anti-sniper team |
Here is a summary of his statements:
- There are no combats inside Donetsk proper.
- The DPR forces fully control all of the city.
- The Right Sector fully controls the airport.
- The junta’s air force make regular overflights of the city of Donetsk but they are not bombing or conducting air strikes.
- The Ukrainian military tries to avoid combat with the forces of the DPR, but they are forced to do so by the Right Sector death squads who threaten them and their families.
- The DPR forces are also trying to avoid engaging the Ukrainian military.
- There are no negotiations between the DPR and Kiev, only regular exchanges of prisoners.
- Kiev regularly sends negotiators to try to make a deal, but the DPR officials demand a full withdrawal of all Ukrainian forces from the DPR before any negotiations can take place.
- Donetsk is fully surrounded. Banks to not function any more. All roads are closed, and only a few vehicles can enter or leave the city.
- Many mines are on strike and miners are organizing a protest meeting.
An interesting development:
China calls for new security pact with Russia, Iran
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/china-calls-for-new-security-pact-with-russia-iran/
My best wishes to Mr.Borodai and his combat brothers.
They are doing splendid work for the emergence of new, better, more honest and more fair world.
Seems to me this state of affairs cannot last. Either the DNR resistance cracks (unlikely), the Ukrainian Army shrinks from beseiging Donetsk and Slavyiansk under threat of destruction by Russian forces, or Russia takes some action just short of no-fly-zone or invasion but nasty enough to cause panic in the Ukrainian Air Force and Army ranks. Perhaps launching a few dozen Iskander missiles that wipe out entire airbases and Nazi Guard targets forward spotted by spetsnaz.
While the junta achieved a small tactical victory in luring large numbers of DNR forces into the open at the airport where airpower and swarming forces could hit them, the Right Sector boys too are now in a readily identifiable location that can be attacked from multiple sides with anti-tank missiles and mortars, especially if DNR is really talking to Army units and we see a repeat of what happened with the ‘Donbass battalion’ that lost half its officers with its delusional commander howling on his Facebook page about how the UKR Army had hung him out to dry (it’s telling of the fanatical, delusional mentality of the @EuroMaidanPR crowd led by the loathsome Nazi Thomas Theiner that they refused to draw the obvious conclusion, that at least some in the Ukrainian Army don’t mind if these bastards in the Nazi Guard get offed sooner rather than later).
Without counter-battery fire or the Army acting as their shield, and if faced with rocket launchers or the DNR’s own arty the Nazi Guard will be broken. They simply don’t have sufficient training to accurately direct artillery fire if caught in an arty duel. Only the DNR’s lack of such weaponry and threats that Army units might be killed from the air if they fail to act as a shield for the Nazis has prevented a slaughter of Nazi Guard thus far.
But if the DNR spokesman is telling the truth, I expect more Ukrainian Army ‘oops our radios stopped working’ moments when Nazi Guard units get hit and hit hard in the next week. I also wonder for how long can the regime maintain grudging Army compliance through terror and threats to families. Surely not long enough if the truth starts leaking out about Pravy Sektor goons going to apartment blocs of troops and threatening their families if they ‘betray Ukraine’? Even if Western MSM refuses to report this like they’ve refused to report the evidence that Odessa was a premeditated massacre, the alternate/Internet media can get the truth out.
American Kulak
Where-Wolf,
I myself always said that Russia’s participation in sanctions against Iran is one of the stupidest things that Putin has ever done (on par with joining the WTO). Today it’s simply criminal.
Since all Putin’s efforts to befriend the West have blown so spectacularly into his face, it’s high time for Russia to embrace the Tehran. The resolve that Iranians displayed consistently for more than 30 years of non-stop persesecution deserves nothing but admiration.
China, of course, is far more dependent on America, and will only only do the right thing after all other options are foreclosed. But Russia should jump in and never look back. The benefits are enormous – from access to the Gulf to cooperating on gas trade.
Absolutely correct
We seem to be rapidly approaching the point where Putin can exercise options short of all-out invasion or NATO-style no-fly zone that would prove very nasty for Kiev — and still not give the neocons the opportunity to bleed Russian boots on the ground that they desperately crave.
1) Cut the gas. This seems unlikely as Putin is loathe to disrupt the flow to Germany from Ukrainian siphoning and the desperate EU has put $2 billion on the table in loans to Kiev to forestall a cutoff at least until late summer or autumn. A gas cutoff would also hurt Novorossiya as I’m not sure there’s any way to maintain pressure in the pipes for the Donbass while cutting it off further up, without damaging the pipeline infrastructure itself near the Dnieper.
2) Step up ‘Lend Lease’ style aid to DNR, not with an announcement, but covertly at first. Let the first surprise for Kiev be when the Su-25 and Mi-24 pilots hear the growl of death in their headsets and realize that dropping flares won’t matter and they’re painted by supersonic missiles.
Turkey after all has violated Syrian air space with impunity and shot Syrian jets down over Syrian soil. Perhaps it’s time to see what the S-400 can do hitting targets at long range flying over Donetsk particularly if these SAMs have a homing capability guided by Russian AWACS on Russia’s side of the border that can look ‘down’ on
low flying Hinds and Frogfoots.
Getting actual truck-mounted SAM systems into Ukraine is difficult as the border guards bribed to look the other way might be executed or have their families threatened, but this can be done under cover of Donbass rebel attack and UKR border guard retreat from a major road just as they ‘covered’ the bribing of border guards to let in the Chechens with a fake firefight.
3) Berlin airlift option — use Spetsnaz to help DNR retake Donbass air port and fly Antonov cargo flights in as humanitarian aid. If Ukrainian air force tries to interdict shoot the bastards down. Use low flying jets for the initial cargo runs. Clearly even more risky than options 1 and 2. Announce to the world that Russia has opened a humanitarian air corridor into Donetsk and also parachuted supplies into Lugansk, Mariupol and Slavyiansk.
And if Kiev tries to mount an all out CAP, mount ground assaults on their near air bases while hitting the ones that thought they were safe in the rear with Iskander missile strikes. Boom, not much of a UKR air force left but no Russian invasion, Novorossiya gets resupplied at will and fights its own war, while the Nazi Guards crap their pants and flee in panic after losing all air cover.
American Kulak
British Interests in Ukraine
The article illustrates the comparatively restrained and carefully hidden nature of British establishment involvement in overseas shenanigans compared to the generally more bombastic Americans. Most of all it demonstrates the essentially Machiavellian commercial nature of British interference – in this case one of the prime movers is a member of both the British Ukrainian and British Syrian Societies.
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Document:British_Interests_in_Ukraine
T1
@Crosswader:I myself always said that Russia’s participation in sanctions against Iran is one of the stupidest things that Putin has ever done
Yeah, except it was not Putin but Medvedev. But I do agree that joining the WTO and backstabbing Iran at the UNSC was not only stupid, but also immoral.
he resolve that Iranians displayed consistently for more than 30 years of non-stop persesecution deserves nothing but admiration.
I agree completely!
China, of course, is far more dependent on America, and will only only do the right thing after all other options are foreclosed.
Here I disagree completely. Besides, China is infinitely more important to Russia than Iran. But, of course, Russia should support both of these nations.
Cheers,
The Saker
Thank You
Saker,
I am not sure what you disagreed “completely” with…
There is no argument coming from me on the importance of China vs Iran for Russia. China is more important, that’s pretty obvious.
What I tried to say is that China will not enter any security alliance with Iran, until it’s the only option it has left. China is a mercantilist nation, and maintaining robust export machine is its priority number one. Thery will be loading Walmart cargoes until US aircraft carriers start cruising in Shanghai harbor.
Russia, on the other hand, can hook up with Iran any time it wishes, and whatever paltry western sanctions will ensue, they’ll count as nothing compared with the benefits that will accrue for Moscow.
The only question is – will Iranians actually want such an alliance? They are notoriously independent bunch, while Russia’s flirting will look forced and desperate.
American Kulak,
It is my understanding that the gas flow to Ukraine will be shut off by June 3rd, unless Ukrainians prepay. The only gas moving through the pipes will be the one for Europe.
So far Uks are playing good poker, but since they probably have no money anyway, gas stoppage seems preordained.
Saker, if you have the time, can you please adress the Abkhasia situation?
Crossvader – I concur Russia will turn off the gas. The DPR/DNR has had a bad few days but Kiev forces have shown zero willigness to storm cities — they seem to think if they make the humanitarian situation in Donetsk and Slavyiansk desperate enough the people will surrender. I think the UKR forces are headed for a major loss. I just watched a video of a UKR ZSU being taken out with an anti-tank missile. There will be more of that soon.
American Kulak
Crossvader,
“Robust” is the operative word. Why would China prefer to deal with nations who are paying in toilet paper and trying to woo its neighbors out of its sphere when there are other, more credible offers? China may be mercantilist, but self-identification is not a suicide pact — unless one wants it to be. From out here, they seem to know to (at least appear to) keep their oligarchs on a tighter leash so they don’t have room to chew through it.
Of course, the USA itself is good, enforceable collateral with vast quantities of arable land and millions of insatiable, hollow, easily-led people, and all that vim and vigor put to work under more professional sweatshop conditions than the locals care to provide would produce great value for someone. But reconstructing the USA to a reasonable standard for a work colony is a bigger infrastructure project than building an African nation for a few tens of millions of starving people, and there’s a lot more than just infrastructure needed to make the USA a eufunctional nation and people in a time most of us would likely see (that said, those are just the sorts of projects at which more settled elder cultures excel).
With the miners it’s about time. God save them and I hope somebody in Moscow has come up with a fund to at least keep their families fed after their criminal oligarch boss fires or threatens to fire them all. But if Ahkmetov’s personal ‘soldiers’ are bought off and he loses control over the mines and mills, what then?
Either the Ukrainian military destroys the facilities in which case they’re worthless and the Donbass is deindustrialized or Ahkmetov faces the option of being bought out partly and skulking away to enjoy his ill-gotten billions. I’d say option no. 2 is preferable.
If the junta starts losing in undeniable fashion (I’ve never seen 33 bodies paraded so gruesomely by Vice and other Western media outlets, the Maidan crowd seems obsessed with the idea that seeing dead Russians/Chechens/Ossetians will dissuade all resistance) watch out for them to throw Ahkmetov and his personal army under the bus by blowing up some of the mills before the miners can nationalize them for the DNR/DPR.
American Kulak
Greetings from Singapore:
Self Defence army combat song. Enjoy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QA82f3H7qIo
SAKER,
Do you or anyone else know the extent to which what is really going on in Donetsk, and the Donbass in general, is known by people elsewhere in the Ukraine? Not just Kiev or Galicia, but, say, the central oblasts. Is there any way to ascertain how much valid information people are getting?
And secondly, boy, I just wish there was a way to WISH the DPR the weaponry they need! (It’s really hard to ask God for guns, you know?) But if the right quantities of the right stuff could just miraculously appear, it seems like a whole lot of lives would be saved.
Nora,
While you ponder the beseeching of the heavenly Armorer General, I thought I would share Mark Twain’s view of the matter.
We have to keep our God placated with prayers, and even then we are never sure of him–how much higher and finer is the Indian’s God……Our illogical God is all-powerful in name, but impotent in fact; the Great Spirit is not all-powerful, but does the very best he can for his injun and does it free of charge.
– Marginalia written by Twain in copy of Richard Irving Dodge’s Our Wild Indians
Nora,
It looks like plenty of good quality weaponry keeps “miraculously” appearing in the hands of good guys, so the God must be listening to someone’s prayers… Apart from air support, pro-Russian paramilitaries (numbered around 5000) appear well matched against Ukrainian troops, and exceed them by far in terms of morale.
Ukraine will run out of IMF money earlier than pro-Russians will run out of bullets and grenades, and without money it’s as good as dead.
One of the potential shale gas fields for which development rights were given to Burisma Holdings is the Yuzivska shale field. Besides Slavyansk and part of neighboring Kramatorsk, with a population of 160,000 people, the tract given to Shell includes the cities of Krasny Luch and Svyatogorsk in the Donetsk region, as well as Balakeya and Izyum in the neighboring Kharkov region. And the shale gas extraction contract is written such that the Ukrainian government is obligated to forcibly take property away from its lawful owners if Shell states that it plans to drill on those lands. The vicinity of Slavyansk has been selected as the location for the drilling of the first gas wells…
http://www.globalresearch.ca/polish-death-squads-fighting-in-ukraine-cia-covert-operation/5384210
After having read DETAILED technical data (over the last 2 days) on the level of Ukrainian-Russian Military Industries integration, I’ve concluded that Russia is going to act and potentially very hard.
The integration between Ukraine and Russia on the Military Industrial Complex level is much deeper than a cursory analysis allows. The threat to Russian physical security is very serious if they lose access, in a sudden manner, to the the critical components, personnel, services and technologies provided by their suppliers in Eastern Ukraine. The latest analysis is that it will lead to delays of 4-5 years or more to critical systems of the Russian arsenal, not the rosy picture of 1-2 years some Kremlin officials stated earlier.
It is an act of war to threaten any Nuclear powers nuclear deterrent; an EU-Junta backed embargo/interference/sabotage will affect key components of Russia’s Nuclear ICBM fleet, in particular, the guidance systems, propulsion and counter measure. This is a serious threat. The idiot affirmative action appointees in the US State Dept have not done any reasonable projections as to how serious a threat the are exposing themselves to and the rest of us. This threatens well over 1/3 of the most deadly and effective nuclear weapons delivery platforms in the Russian ICBM fleet, this is not a joke; the new next generation Russian ICBMs are not scheduled for mass deployment for 3-4 years. Many Russian design bureaus were already operating passed their full capacity; strapped for personnel and time, working flat out and spread thin due to strong demand for their systems.
In additional key parts of the Russian naval fleet will be badly affected if they lose access to their turbines which are necessary for over 60 percent of Russian capital ships (excluding the nuclear ones). So too are affected electronic components, counter-measures and critical next-gen air-to-air offensive systems. We’re talking tens of thousands of components that need to audited, sorted, vetted and later substituted for: this is not a trivial task, it is massive and disruptions in these supplies or too rapid a cutover will degrade Russian military hardware for the next 4-5 years.
The Russian plans to modernize and expand their attack helicopter fleet is also seriously jeopardized: Russia needs to supply 1000 helicopters per year for their own security needs: they currently possess the capacity to produce only 60 beta versions (unreliable) of the engines per year required to build these helicopters, where are they going to get the remaining 940 engines they need per year? Losing the supply chain from Motor-Sich (Ukraine) is a serious blow, not something trivial.
So not only will a compromised Ukrainian military supply chain (or even one that is shutdown) threaten Russia’s military hardware and their rapid modernization and re-arming drive, but it will also threaten Russia’s $15Billion/year arms export market; many components for the finished systems Russia sells are only available from Ukraine. Threatening Russia’s ability to deliver defense systems to their strategic allies will weaken them geopolitical.
Now I’m starting to understand why Russia acquiesced to Yanukovich leaving power after 9 months; it would have given them sufficient time to start the orderly transfer of technology, tooling and key personnel to Russia.
Long and short of this is the following: If Putin has been informed of the real impacts to Russia from suddenly losing the Ukrainian end of his MiC,, I believe we may be witnessing a Crimea style calm be before the storm. What I mean by that is that he will act suddenly, quietly, and decisively just like he did in Crimea, however, I don’t believe they’ll be an overt invasion, but full scale, well-coordinated covert support for the self-defense groups of Eastern Ukraine.
Let’s see if the Ukies and the fools in Brussels are stupid enough to threaten these industries.
80 Ukrainian soldiers surrender to self-defense forces in Lugansk
Good to see some are smart give up when the time is right. Such as when your forced to commit acts of violence against your neighbor.
Let it be known throughout America, Russia and Novorossia: the Americans are cowards. They truly don’t deserve to live. The only honest Americans are those who are willing to break the law, i.e., Thomas Paine, Edward Snowden, Bob Dylan, The Black Panther Party, The Weather Underground . . . American has signed its own death warrant. – Written by an American
The Battle for Donetsk International Airport: Russian Roulette (Dispatch 44)
Only hours after Petro Poroshenko was announced the winner of Ukraine’s presidential elections, the worst violence of the two month long crisis in eastern Ukraine exploded at Donetsk’ Sergei Prokofiev airport.
Early Monday morning, gunmen of the Donetsk Peoples Republic arrived at the airport and took over the terminal building, prompting the Ukrainian military based there to issue an ultimatum to the rebels to lay down their weapons and leave. A massive firefight broke out which both fighter jets and attack helicopters were used by the Ukrainian military. The sound of gunfire and explosions filled the air as rebels and journalists ducked for cover along the access road to the airport terminal.
VICE News found a small unit of DPR gunmen among the trees along the access road who had pulled back from their earlier positions closer to the airport. Gunfire seemed to follow them as shots hit the wall on the other side of the road and one of their wounded fighters, who had been shot in the upper thigh was evacuated in a civilian car. The gunfire intensified and the unit was forced to withdraw.
The next morning gunfire could still be occasionally heard but the situation still remained unclear. Both sides claimed they controlled the airport, though it was clear that the Ukrainians had taken control and casualty figures were fluctuating, as more bodies were brought into the local morgues. At least 33 DPR gunmen had been killed in the assault, while the government was claiming 150 perished in the fight.
In Photos: The Deadly Aftermath of the Battle for Donetsk Airport: https://news.vice.com/article/in-pho…onetsk-airport
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XtdVVFhjdqA
Right Sector militants ask Kiev to arm them with heavy weapons
Read more: http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2014_05_28/Right-Sector-militants-ask-Kiev-to-arm-them-with-heavy-weapons-3099/
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@ Where-Wolf,
Would it be fair to assume that the 30 year Russian/Chinese gas deal tells us that both sides are committed to fully cooperate together for the duration of said period? My guess is that both countries now have their respective ‘backs’ covered and will be able, through trade, to circumvent the dominance of the US dollar and as a side-effect cripple the US globocop’s ‘outreach’.
If kill anyone let it be the oligarchs and Department of State. It’s spring and time to fish and grow our garden and put up food for winter. Fuck these crazies who would have our sons kill each other.
“While you ponder the beseeching of the heavenly Armorer General, I thought I would share Mark Twain’s view of the matter.”
Speaking of Twain’s views on religion, “The Mysterious Stranger” was the final novel he ever attempted.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqi5F5MqqTQ
Twain wrote multiple versions of the story; each is unfinished and involves the character of “Satan”. The second version of which was titled “The Chronicle of Young Satan” and the third version was “No. 44, the Mysterious Stranger.”
Note that Obama is the 44th President, and is also alleged to be a Mysterious Stranger, where was he born, to whom, when, etc.?
Obama talking about his genealogy, at around 46 secs into video, “all these famous names, Mark Twain…”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_oFMMp64-o
Some think Obama could be the Leopard in the Book of Revelation and/or last ruler of Mystery Babylon the Great that Russia will destroy only for Russia to be destroyed in turn before (or by) the Antichrist.
Italian press reports of use of Grad and air strikes in slaviansk
http://www.repubblica.it/esteri/2014/05/29/news/ucraina_ribelli_osservatori_osce_nelle_nostre_mani-87531179/?ref=HREC1-3
Commandos from 16 nations conducted an invasion exercise in Tampa Bay, Florida, with US Special Force. Look at the satellite image of Tampa Bay and compare it to the feature on the west of the tip of the Crimea.
Pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine have shot down a military helicopter near Sloviansk, killing 14 people, the country’s outgoing president says.
Olexander Turchynov says a general was among the dead and that the rebels used a Russian-made anti-aircraft system.
The town of Sloviansk has seen fierce fighting between separatists and government forces in recent weeks.
After his election on Sunday President-elect Petro Poroshenko vowed to step up operations against the rebels.
The helicopter was hit during heavy fighting between Sloviansk and Kramatorsk on Thursday after it had dropped off troops at a military base, reports said.
Mr Rurchynov said General Volodymyr Kulchitsky was among the dead.
Uploaded on 29 May 2014The helicopter was shot down by a Russian-made anti-aircraft system, Ukraine’s outgoing president said
Pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine have shot down a military helicopter near Sloviansk, killing 14 people, the country’s outgoing president says.
Olexander Turchynov says a general was among the dead and that the rebels used a Russian-made anti-aircraft system.
The town of Sloviansk has seen fierce fighting between separatists and government forces in recent weeks.
After his election on Sunday President-elect Petro Poroshenko vowed to step up operations against the rebels.
The helicopter was hit during heavy fighting between Sloviansk and Kramatorsk on Thursday after it had dropped off troops at a military base, reports said.
Mr Rurchynov said General Volodymyr Kulchitsky was among the dead.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKqPKL5Y_Uo
A tiny bit off-topic, Saker, but those who read your blog would love this. It’s a scathing indictment of AngloZionist hypocrisy written by Robert Fisk of The Independent. It starts with Northern Ireland, then zooms over to the middle east:
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/the-spread-of-british-hypocrisy-from-gerry-adams-and-northern-ireland-to-syria-9350822.html
Enjoy… if you can.
-Seamus Padraig
Anonymous 03:58,
Being a huge fan of Mark Twain and also proudly part-Indian, I agree with your statement. Westerners have been taught all sorts of inaccurate and derogatory things about both Native American and African religions, for pretty obvious reasons. Otoh, a while back I saw a truly hysterical “anthropological” account of the history and religion of White Americans written (sort-of-tongue-in-cheek) by a Native American. Bottom line, it doesn’t take much to make any religion look absurd, primitive and destructive, if that’s what you want to do. Belief is not necessarily rational, and can certainly be used to motivate horrible behavior as well as truly good — but that’s on the believer, isn’t it, not the belief itself? There are plenty of good folks and awful ones in every religion.
Anonymous 06:23
So you’re saying Mark Twain was prescient enough to foreshadow precisely which President would be Satan, in whom he didn’t believe?
“Some” people can “think” anything, especially about the Book of Revelations. Some people even think it was written to describe the past, not the future. No fan of Obama here, but he’s different from Bush the Lesser only in degree, and skin color. They’re all jerks, frankly; he’s just one among many.
@Where-wolf (China)
I note this from the link:
“The group is unlikely to produce a real security alliance, said Ross Babbage, chairman of Australia’s Kokoda Foundation, a security think tank.
“Alliances are not based on a piece of paper. They’re the result of real trust and interaction,” he said. “There may be some agreements ahead, but in reality, I don’t see an alliance emerging.” (end quote)
What would this Ross Babbage character know? …Obviously alliances are made by any form of agreeable contract — e.g. Germany and Japan in WW2.
Good example of the water on stone technique in propaganda.
Tone and register well pitched to target audience, syntax and vocabulary emotively juicy.
More or less the correct notes in the correct sequence to play the desired tune.
All brought to you from perfidious Albion.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-26822741
Kijevski scenarij uskoro i u Moskvi?
Američki senatori pripremili zakon o izdvajanju novca za “Ruski EuroMaidan” s planom “demokratizacije Rusije” najkasnije do 2018.
http://www.advance.hr/vijesti/kijevski-scenarij-uskoro-i-u-moskvi-americki-senatori-pripremili-zakon-o-izdvajanju-novca-za-ruski-euromaidan-s-planom-demokratizacije-rusije-najkasnije-do-2018/
Unintended consequences of US/EU’s dumber than dumb sanctions: Eurasian Economic Union is launched
Following the signing of Russia and China’s monumental gas contracts, Reuters had this front -page headline @ 6:00 a.m. EDT today which mirrored the Itar-Tass reporting:
Huge economic Trade bloc created but now quickly changed to
“ Putin creates ex-Soviet trade bloc denies new USSR” with text re-crafted to demonize. Must have been a phone call to the editors.
well, they can’t be out-of-step with the demonization. Yet, can’t deny reality:
(Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a treaty with Kazakhstan and Belarus on Thursday creating a vast trading bloc which he hopes will challenge the economic might of the United States, the European Union and China.
[.]“He does, however, intend the alliance, with a market of 170 million people, a combined annual GDP of $2.7 trillion and vast energy riches, to demonstrate that Western sanctions imposed over the crisis in Ukraine will not isolate Russia.”[.]
The Itar-Tass report here: http://www.en.itar-tass.com/economy/733853
Putin noted that this union accounted for one fifth of world gas reserves and about 15% of oil reserves in the world. The troika has a well-developed industrial base and a strong personnel, intellectual and cultural potential, the president added.
“The geographical position permits us to create transport, logistic routes of not only regional, but also global importance that permits to attract massive trade flows in Europe and Asia,” Putin stated.
Well, if Poroshenko wants to be a NATO stooge & continue attacking his own people, he’d better get used to having his helicopters & armour blown to bits. The only thing these Ukie fascists understand is force, and by jove I know Russians have a long history of never giving in to these sorts of vile creatures. I think more and more of the “local folk” in Novorossiya are getting angry and joining the resistance (in whatever form that may take).
Support for Russia from Ireland.
Downing this helicopter in Slavyansk means the federalists established no-fly-zone for the next couple of days :)
Mr Rurchynov said General Volodymyr Kulchitsky was among the dead.
Crocodile tears are flowing.
Didn’t they learn their lesson when they first lost 3 helicopters?
Losing a General is a pretty big blow to Ukraine and a hug coup to Novorossiya armed forces.
Where is Putin?
I’m not asking for a Russian military intervention, but how about some rhetoric or some diplomatic maneuvering?
It appears he sold out his own people.
Saker,
Do you have info on how 33 Russian national got killed there (out of 50 or 60 of KIA)? They are in different units and got careless? Miss communication? You do not have to talk about it now if it is not right time. RIP.
J
This is a must-read for anyone anywhere who thinks the Republicans, or their Tea Party affiliate, will take a different stance than Obama et. al. vis-a-vis Russia, Ukraine, or anywhere else. In short, no. Also too, Rand Paul has neither his father’s smarts nor principles; he’s already made his deal with the devil, so he’s no different than anyone else in D.C.
http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2014/05/26/the-corker-in-us-russian-relations.html
We The People have got to get past the divisions between us, and work together not just to throw the present bums out, but replace them with people who are in fact accountable to us. And that second part is going to be harder than the first. Maybe there are minimal qualifications — skills, values, priorities, whatever — that could be agreeable to both sides? We’d each have to give up some things, so maybe we could start agreeing on what is most urgent, and most important, for all of us?
Nora,
Corkers and McCains of the world are dinosaurs. All their rhetoric is nothing but hot air. The West has no capabilities to do what it wants anymore.
So called “Anglo Saxons” are dying off all over the world (White canadians have Japan-like demographics, US trending there).
In 2017 US budget deficit will start deteriorating indefinitely, or ‘forever”. Which means that Pentagon and US military might will be declining forever too, until little is left.
In 2024 US population will stop growing organically, as deaths will match births. Importing Guatemalans and Philippinos won’t help.
America is no threat to anyone anymore, but to itself.
Pay no attention to these bozos.
Crossvader,
We’re definitely on the way down but the problem is, we can still do a whole lot of damage everywhere, not just here. Ukraine, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Abkhazia, Syria, Libya, Sudan, everywhere else in Africa, Venezuela, Colombia, where else have I missed? A lot, probably. And we’re getting better and better at doing it on the cheap… So yeah, people’s lives here will get progressively (ha!) more miserable, but people’s lives elsewhere won’t get any better, if we can help it. And it’s generally a whole lot easier to tear something down than build it up. At least, it is for us; destroying people is one of the things we’ve always done best.
@Nora
It is interesting that the native Americans were the first to adopt Orthodoxy through the endeavours of St. Herman of Alaska and Innokentii of Irkutsk but also natives like Peter the Aleut.
Some people discovered how close Orthodox theology was with Native American spirituality. “The whole liturgical cycle- how every part of the day in Orthodoxy there’s a service or a ceremony that is designed to help you- it’s the same aspect of Native American Spirituality. Every part of what we do is tied to our spiritual beliefs. Whether it’s getting up in the morning or going to bed at night. And all of our ceremonies are very liturgical. There’s a reason for everything. And we have our own form of incense, which is the burning of sage or cedar”. (From an interview with a convert to “Alaskan” Orthodoxy).
WizOz,
Really? WOW! I’ve been trying to put my finger on what it is I find so incredibly whole, full, about Orthodox Christianity but I think I’ve been doing it the wrong way, Wiz — how it’s different from Western Christianity, instead of just taking it as a totally different, new-to-me faith, and on its own terms, not just a comparison. But yes, “Every part of what we do is tied to our spiritual beliefs” — it’s impossible, when you think about, for anything not to be. But for Native Americans everything is tied together — art, for example, is not just something you buy or go to a museum to see, it’s something you see all around you, have in your life, create with everything you do. And that tied-together-ness is in Orthodox Christianity too, I think. I’d just been going about it wrong, thinking about what was absent in Western Christianity, not present in Orthodox.
Thank you!
Also Wiz,
Tobacco.
@Daniel Rich
Russia and China are more than just committed to cooperation for the next 30 years, they are now firmly bound.
With China promising all sorts of additional investments in Crimea, they are barely hiding their lack of concern over any US response. They’re in the drivers seat more than ever.
This is the sign that we’ve turned the corner. Pro Anglo-Zionist Europeans are begining to realize they’ve lost out to those favouring closer Eurasian ties.
I’d say the shift is tectonic and it’s all happening as the Bilderbergers gather to lick their wounds.
The new multi-polar world order is born.
@Anonymous(from China)
What would this Ross Babbage character know?
Not much.
China has made its move and the Anglo-Zionist media have acknowledged it.
I’d expect to see the Western media continue to downplay this as much as possible but there is no more doubt concerning the direction all Eurasian nations are now headed.
If, as Mr Borodai states, “Donetsk is surrounded…All roads are closed, and only a few vehicles can leave or enter the city.”, then what are the inhabitants going to do for food and medical necessities? They’ll doubtless have some supplies stored in the city, but at some stage, if a Leningrad-style siege is to be avoided, Berlin-style airlifts or drops of food and humanitarian supplies may be needed. Of course Russian forces would be on hand to provide this…but in the meantime it might be wise for the authorities in Donetsk to take a lesson from the early stages of the Leningrad siege and disperse the supplies they have so as to prevent the regime in Kiev targeting stockpiles.
@Nora
Tobacco.
Alas, I had to give it up.
One thing about Orthodoxy is the preservation of the “sacred”, which indeed tha Western denominations (especially Protestantism) have lost completely.
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