1. There was and is no ‘cease fire’ in Novorossiya. Right sector/nats guard never stopped their attacks and bombardments nor have units of Ukraine Army. We know what West Media is saying, blaming all incidents on us. They are liars. We can not stand down while under attack from the enemy.
2. Bombardments of Slavyansk, Kramatorsk, Donetsk City, Lugansk City and outlying towns and villages continues day and night.
3. Smerch missile systems are now in the Lugansk and Donetsk City areas. Confirmed eyes on.
4. Ukraine is now deploying by artillery anti personnel mines. These mines have no ‘inert date’ in them. Confirmed, eyes on. We will be losing civilians for years after the fighting is over.
5. Reports of 400 soldiers of 25th Airborne Regiment leaving the combat area are not confirmed.
6. Large areas of the Novorossiya/Russia border are under Novorossiya control. There have been scattered attacks by Ukr Army on some of our border posts. Attacks were not successful. No known civilian casualties in these attacks.
7. Many thousands of Novorossiya civilians are crossing the border with Russia to escape the bombardments and attacks on them. At some crossing points traffic is backed up for more than 5 kilometers. Confirmed, eyes on.
8. Krasni Limahn is still not secure. Our troops are involved in scattered fighting in the area. Novorossiya has made an effort to remove the many civilian bodies in the streets and buildings of Krasni Limahn in areas that we control.
9. Neither Donetsk Airport nor Lugansk Airports are totally under control of Novorossiya. Scattered fighting is ongoing in both areas.
10. The Mi24 shoot down yesterday is confirmed. The helicopter was not full of ‘cease fire monitors’ as Kiev says. It is confirmed the now deceased occupants were all combat armed Ukr soldiers.
11. Slavyansk and outlying towns and villages are completely cut off from water, gas, electric and sewer systems. The only water available is from wells and streams. Food supplies are dwindling rapidly. Novorossiya Army is making efforts to get food in to the areas. These efforts are contested by the enemy even though clearly marked as to their purpose. Confirmed.
12. The systematic bombardments by Ukr Army of Novorossiya cities, towns and villages has several purposes. One is to terrorize and drive out as many civilians as possible, leading to the death and wounding of many innocent civilians. Second is to cut off water and electric to all civilian areas possible. Third is to destroy as much of the physical plant and industry including mines as possible.
13. Ukraine Army is laying minefields in civilian and uncontested areas. These fields are unmarked. Confirmed loses of civilians and livestock in the minefields.
14. Two carelessly driven Ukr Army trucks became mired in mud near one of our outposts. We are in possession of the contents and drivers of both. Drivers are now members of Novorossiya Army at their request. Contents of both trucks are a welcome addition to our supply train and were quite interesting.
15. 07:17 25 June fierce fighting ongoing in Slavyansk area near foot of Karachuk Mountain. Mountain is bombarding Slavyansk and under bombardment from our mortars. We do not have long range artillery to bombard all of Karachuk. Casualties are unknown at this time.
16. 24 June and 25 June, confirmed eyes on strong armor columns of Ukr Army including main battle tanks and light tanks are moving and deploying in the Donetsk City and Lugansk City areas.
17. Partisan activities in Kharkov area are ongoing. Confirmed a large column of fresh right sector/nats guard replacements was ambushed and suffered significant casualties and vehicle losses. No known casualties for the partisans.
18. без комментариев. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOHNVzXGOEE
19. My evaluation of your Watershed Moment analysis: Shows and tells pretty much everything in the overall view with most the players and actors mentioned. The only problem is the situation is so fluid what is true this morning may not be true at noon. As I said some time ago, you and a lot of the posters on blog are intellectually so far above this poor old grunt I’ve got to look up to see your feet. That being said, the post was pretty complete and well laid out in the analysis of the options and actions of both sides of this war. Easily understandable even for my poor tired brain. The moral of our boys is extremely high. Those I talked to Sunday were tired but very upbeat and that’s putting it mildly. There has indeed been a sea change in the last week or 10 days. A massive attack on Lugansk City and Donetsk City proper is expected by Friday at the latest. There are again rumblings of a concerted gas attack in the opening bombardment. Kiev is desperate to force VV to intervene. He won’t unless civilian casualties from a gas attack are huge. And they will be and will be blamed on our boys if the gas attack is done. Casualties will be bad enough from the preliminary bombardment. Kiev is massing everything they have for the bombardment right down to slingshots. I know the downed chopper is being ID’d as an Mi8. My sources are pretty adamant the one they saw go down was an Mi24, in the same general area and with roughly the same soldier load. If it’s an Mi24, why so few soldiers? Full of some kind of special cargo? Perhaps two birds got waxed?
Putin asks for an receives un-authorization for use of military force in Ukraine. A bizzare and misplaced gesture aimed at people who are determined to see Russian overthrown and subjected and Putin hanged. Time for the SDF to go asymmetrical,I think.. For all the liberal west with their pussy’s in an upheaval over land mines, we can be reasonably sure, none of the royal family is going to visit eastern Ukraine to protest. I suspect now the entire “landmine removal movement”, from the level of “charities” to the media to the UN was an American NGO operation.
On the business front a handful of related posts at Bloomberg all point to problems for empire:
Two top U.S. business lobbies are preparing to publicly break with President Barack Obama over the prospects of more sanctions against Russia after months of quietly raising their objections with the White House.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and National Association of Manufacturers plan to run newspaper advertisements June 26 in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post, warning that more Russia sanctions risk harming U.S. workers and businesses, said a person familiar with the plans, who asked not to be identified to discuss private deliberations.
…The business associations’ advertisements assert that “the only effect” of additional sanctions would be “to bar U.S. companies from foreign markets and cede business opportunities to firms from other countries,” according to a copy provided by the person familiar with the plans. …
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-06-24/business-at-odds-with-obama-over-russia-sanctions-threat.html
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Russian stocks are headed for the best performance among the world’s major equity markets for a second straight month as President Vladimir Putin pulls back from the confrontation in neighboring Ukraine.
The dollar-denominated RTS Index has rallied 9.7 percent to 1,421.07 in Moscow this month after adding 12 percent in May. The measure has gained 16 percent this quarter, making it the best performer among 93 equity gauges globally over that time after benchmarks in Argentina and Peru. The Bloomberg Index of the most-traded Russian shares in the U.S. has climbed 7.8 percent in June. …
“The time is right to invest in Russia,” Luis Saenz, head of equity sales and trading at BCS Financial Group in London, said by phone yesterday. “The worst in the Ukraine crisis is over. Putin’s request for lawmakers to cancel the permission gives more confidence the de-escalation of the crisis is fully on its way. These are words, and actions will follow.” …
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-06-24/world-s-best-stock-rally-in-russia-fed-by-putin-detente.html
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European stocks fell for a fourth day, the longest stretch in seven weeks, as violence in the Middle East escalated and a report showed the U.S. economy contracted in the first quarter by the most since the depths of the last recession. …
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-06-25/european-stock-index-futures-fall-on-middle-east-violence.html
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See also: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-06-25/putin-pals-dealing-with-u-s-firms-make-sanctions-useless.html
and this: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-06-25/economy-in-u-s-shrank-in-first-quarter-by-most-in-five-years.html
Brian
Juan,
OMG.
There really isn’t anything any of us can say — or do. Words, no matter how heartfelt (and that babushka will always stay with me, like so many other victims of Kiev), just aren’t enough no matter how well-chosen. And we can’t do anything about it — so much for our fabled “democracy” (which never was meant to be one, and has never in fact been one, certainly not for all our people).
Do know that you and all of Novorossiya have been and will remain in our hearts, minds and prayers. And, for what little it’s worth, also know that we’ll continue our efforts to lead our fellow citizens to the truth about what is happening, and do anything else we can possibly think of to stop these hideous, hideous atrocities. (And I’ll keep on crying in grief, horror and impotent rage.)
Do also know that, sooner rather than later, the Empire will turn on its own. It’s got to be small satisfaction, if any, but our turn will come. I’m grimly betting it’ll happen before that poor dear woman’s house is restored.
Glory to your men, glory to your people, they will ultimately prevail!
NATO Foreign Ministers agree on Readiness Plan, endorse support package for Ukraine
NATO Foreign Ministers on Wednesday (25 June 2014) agreed on plans to develop a robust Alliance Readiness Action Plan for the Alliance’s Summit in Wales this September and endorsed a package of support measure to strengthen Ukraine’s ability to defend itself. “The Summit comes at a time when security challenges are multiplying beyond our borders,” NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said. “Today we stressed the importance of our collective defence.”
http://www.nato.int/cps/en/natolive/news_111259.htm?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=smc&utm_campaign=140625+formin+ukraine?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=web
I would bet $100 that not one reader of this blog will contact Rand Paul’s office or contact Senator Heller about the alleged US support of indiscriminate land mine laying.
That’s how disorganized blog readers can be. Russia is hopelessly disorganized in terms of getting its point across in the US. Why have I never heard of PR companies and media companies refusing to handle the “Russia account”? Because Russia hasn’t even asked them to, that’s why. They just assume in Moscow that nobody will help them with PR professionally in the west (not even for money?).
There is no excuse why no major US politician (other than Ron Paul) has even been put on the spot about this issue. Anyone skilled in PR, who isn’t busy trying to earn a living with other things, could make this an issue in the US. Russia’s just not sending any money at all their way. Except for RT.
If Moscow were serious about Ukraine and had any sense, Saker’s company would have been bought with a premium paid for him and then he would be free to put millions into thwarting neocons in their senate races for November. But no, the naive people in the Kremlin just let western people who agree with them remain chained to their own daily grinds.
The Soviets were more clued in this way. The newfangled Russians are lost in the PR woods. Ukraine isn’t even a blip on the American political screen. Cochran and McDaniels could both agree about Russia being bad for instance. I’ll bet nobody in the Kremlin even knew there was a tight race there.
The main way the neocons destroy foreign leaders they don’t like is by exploiting how naive the target is about the opportunities for seriously defending themselves American-style, such as TV commercials or the publicity that a rejected TV commercial would get on Youtube.
And they are supposed to have trillions of dollars at their disposal?
Saddam and Khaddafi both had one thing in common. They didn’t know how to get their point across and it’s no excuse to say the American media didn’t let them.
In regard to the atrocities that Stelkov’s deputy spelled out so graphically, I believe these acts took place. In the eighties when Reagan illegally backed the “contras” in trying to turn back the clock by attacking the Sandinistas in Nicaragua, many such horrors were documented.
About the Mi-24 or Mi-8 helicopter shot down: according to Gleb Basov, if I am not mistaken, there were two CIA agents and a Ukrainian general aboard. Does anyone have more information on this?
“The Summit comes at a time when security challenges are multiplying beyond our borders,” NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said. “Today we stressed the importance of our collective defence.”
Let’s pretend Fogh Rasmussen knows the USA is going to go broke once the world loses confidence in the dollar, but that he is unable to say it in public.
Is it not then rational to use Russia to scare the Europeans to build up their defenses now, rater than wait until it happens, as it is going to hurt Europe a lot as well?
@ Anonymous 14:45
Sorry to say, but it seems you do not get the point, do you?
What I believe the enmity of Anglo Zions to Russia’s resources(and the landscape, in which it contains) may be 60 , 70 or a 100 years old, but the enmity of Old Europeans(the so called cradle of civilization) towards Russian peasants or say uncivilized barbarians is much more than a 100 years(say even before Amerigo Vespucci is in the history for what he discovered.) The question is, till when the cradle of civilization aka Europeans wake up from the hibernation they are in? And when they wake up good, its checkmate, my dear. I am naive, but if u have a better argument please do share.
Regards
Juan
Thanks for the summary.
think in order to create a proper PR company for Russia they would have to find somebody who is ahead of the game. The majority of propaganda companies in the west are still milking the ideas of Edward Bernays, Gustave Le Bon, Wilfred Trotter, Gabriel Tarde, Steve Reicher etc, etc
These are very effective but also very old ideas that were expressed between 1890 and 1960.
The American propaganda machine is massive but not super sophisticated and mostly based on those very old ideas. Russia has a very important message for the western public and in order to break through the noise of corporate media they would have to be much more inventive and imaginative then their Anglo-Zionist enemies. So far, the Ukrainian fake revolution is a very classic example of manipulation through the methods of “Crowd psychology” (Deindividuation theory, Convergence theory, Emergent norm theory, Social identity theory). Once you know all these tricks, you’d know how to disable them before they take root.
Before we get into all these complex propaganda systems, Russians should learn how not to be camera shy and document absolutely everything. We will help with the rest.
From the military movements in this chronicle one can see that the zionazis are continuing to prepare for a major attack. And not just on Novorossia.
“As I said some time ago, you and a lot of the posters on blog are intellectually so far above this poor old grunt I’ve got to look up to see your feet”
You must be kidding.
Your updates are so moving and vivid, so informative and so perceptive.
I’m no intellectual, but you are an inspiration. Thank you and please keep posting.
mindfriedo
Juan,
Arm-chair speculation and rants are useless to those who have to make decisions on the ground. I have been there, now I am here.
Juan, you are the guy we all look up to, and should look up to! let me re-emphasize what mindfriedo said…
“As I said some time ago, you and a lot of the posters on blog are intellectually so far above this poor old grunt I’ve got to look up to see your feet”
You must be kidding.
Your updates are so moving and vivid, so informative and so perceptive.
I’m no intellectual, but you are an inspiration. Thank you and please keep posting.
Anonymous @ 17.28 June 25th 2014.
You appear to have some experience in the field.
However perhaps your experience does not extend into the field of strategic intelligence and consequences flowing therefrom, since you do not appear to examine your own implicit premisses and thereby screen out various opportunities such as – what are the strategic benefits of appearing naive?
Anonymous @ 17.28 June 25th 2014
“ think in order to create a proper PR company for Russia they would have to find somebody who is ahead of the game. ……Russians should learn how not to be camera shy and document absolutely everything. We will help with the rest. “
Your contribution has resonances of exceptionalism – one of the ideological immersions which requires superceeding – , including the cake lady giving out alms- and appears to be based on limited understanding of Russian history and society.
It appears to mimic Brecht’s proposal –
The solution
After the uprising of the 17th June (1953)
The Secretary of the Writers Union
Had leaflets distributed in the Stalinallee
Stating that the people
Had forfeited the confidence of the government
And could win it back only
By redoubled efforts. Would it not be easier
In that case for the government
To dissolve the people
And elect another?
Bertolt Brecht
This has particular adverse resonance with the possible recipients of the “help” – many messiahs from the beacon on the hill gave “help” in Russia in the 1990’s and in Ukraine to date, but fortunately some were returned in wooden boxes.
I suggest that the solution lies in sharing without expectation, and allowing the audience to assess whether it is “help”. This is likely best achieved in present context by broadcasting without extensive metadata.
In effect you create a distributed intelligence service.
Some may criticise a high noise to signal ratio, but where music ends and noise begins is a function of perception.
The key in intelligence as well as PR/propaganda is utility.
….. fits in with my own eye witness experience that the terrorist militia separatists of luhansk and donestsk regions are raping and killing women and young boys as young as 8 years of age and burying their bodies in mass graves in the basements of destroyed buildings. War crimes tribunals sure to uncover the truth …..