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Dear The Saker,
If that man Turchinov calls himself a Christian – we all need serious help! Seriously, how does he sleep at night. It looks like Mariupol is still simmering away.
Rgds,
Veritas
While some American Baptists are reporting that Turchynov is a pastor or an elder at his
church, the Word of Life Center in Kiev, they are missing the point. The
Word of Life is a Zionist organization posing as a church. It was
established by a Swedish Jew named Ulf Ekman, who created a church
called “Livets Ord”, which established evangelical churches throughout
the former Soviet Union in the early 1990s with the express purpose of
finding and funding Jewish emigration to Israel.
– See more at: http://www.bollyn.com/#article_14573
Very many congratulations
Should attract more readers and income.First blog from me is same as last on old blog-ukr gas complains of gas supply shortage but does not supply Donbass-remember VP at russ.security council said gas contracts must be strictly adhered —to as Ukraine Freedom Support Act can come into force even if Obama even thinks any gas contracts are not being honoured by russ(but obviously that doesn’t seem to apply to ukraine)_exactly
the same,but much much worse……….
Dear The Saker,
A cople of interesting things today. Firstly the junta have come out and said they won’t pull back heavy weapons. Zakharchenko has stated Kiev will go to war again in March/April:
http://fortruss.blogspot.ca/2015/02/ukraine-will-go-to-war-in-late-march.html
co-ordinator of Odessa massacre was killed in Kharkov:
http://fortruss.blogspot.ca/2015/02/odessa-massacre-coordinator-killed-in.html
Semenchenko was allegedly discharged in November. Gives a different look to his Facebook outbursts:
http://fortruss.blogspot.ca/2015/02/semenchenko-discharged-from-national.html
Rgds,
Veritas
@Veritas:Zakharchenko has stated Kiev will go to war again in March/April
WOW!! With what? I just can’t imagine that. Their military is beat, badly. Most of their halfway modern gear is gone (burned or seized). 50% of their combat capable men are dead, what are they going to send?! Their death-squands? They can’t fight *at all*. If that is really so, then I wonder what in the world the junta expect form a new attack (which, on top of everything, would violate Minsk-2).
Cheers and hugs,
The Saker
Aaah… but the point of the US strategy, and I suppose Kiev’s as well now, is not to win wars but to fight them, and damn the torpedos (or casualties among the cannon fodder, or a failed state): full speed ahead.
If the US goal is create chaos, as well as a few shekels for the military industry, than losing is as good as winning, and perhaps more so for creating terrorists to harass Russia. Shock doctrine drives foreign policy now. And yes, the empire will fight the war to the last Ukrainian — gladly.
Zakharchenko is confirming what Saker and Blue commented on here.
Хроника военных событий в Новороссии за 23.02.2015 (Chronicle of military events in the New Russia for 23/02/2015)
http://voicesevas.ru/news/yugo-vostok/10284-hronika-voennyh-sobytiy-v-novorossii-za-23022015.html
“00:37 The head of the People’s Republic of Donetsk Alexander Zakharchenko said that Ukraine tightens military equipment to the conflict zone and, in his opinion, may resume hostilities in late March – early April.
“We are starting to take equipment and Ukraine pulls her out of Kharkov and Dnepropetrovsk. It seems to me to be a provocation. Ukraine will go in late March – early April. Ukraine needs a war,” – said Zakharchenko at a briefing on Monday.”
As for what will the orcs use for equipment:
“22:37 United States began large-scale transfers of ammunition and weapons Ukraine. On this, as reported by RIA Novosti, the head of DNR Alexander Zakharchenko.”
The oligarchs really are crazy b******s:
Britain to send military advisers to Ukraine, announces Cameron
The previous doesn’t work when I click it – I hope this revised one is ok:
Name of your link
here it is in full:
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/feb/24/britain-to-send-military-advisers-to-ukraine-cameron
Dear The Saker,
http://fortruss.blogspot.ca/2015/02/uafs-looming-artillery-shortage.html
Well it seems the UAF are scrapping the bottom of the barrel. I wonder if these old Soviet arms fall within the pull back zone and types of weapons mentioned etc……
Rgds,
Veritas
According to a comment on that story they were under the calibur in the agreement.So they are permitted to stay in the zone.
When 30,000 or so terrorists were sent to take Aleppo, they were pretty much wiped out. Yet they were able to split the city into sections and it has still not been captured. That was when Qatar dropped out of the race and Saudi Arabia took over. Seems Qatar just could not do a well enough job. So the Saudi’s sent in death row inmates and anyone else they could scrounge up. Who created just chaos and destruction. And these guys were far fewer in number. When they could not just capture the city, they just hid bombs everywhere and caused panic and chaos sending half the population as refugees. Maybe the US thinks that they can do almost the same thing here. Forcing ten million Ukrainians into Europe would devastate the state structure. In the shape Europe is in, that would just break them It is one the US goals.. They can work on the Russian factor later on once Russia is forced to deal with the chaos situation.
Dear The Saker,
You are going to luv the latest – Zakharchenko obviously knows something we don’t ;-)
http://rt.com/news/235043-normandy-quartet-weapons-withdrawal/
http://tass.ru/en/world/779338
http://rt.com/uk/235183-cameron-aid-ukraine-pledge/
Cameron is heading to the hate levels of Tony Blair. The UK was the one scrambling planes into international air space and all the media hype – you lost your dignity then. The US/UK just can’t help themselves. War is all they know. UAE better be prepared too……..not scared of WW3 my arse!
Rgds,
Veritas
Well we expected it. Anyone involved in this criminal enterprise will be dissapeard slowly but surely. Just like all he 911 suspects and their supporters all ended up suddenly missing. Only some patsy who was supposed to left behind got framed but no one else. No one who provided logistics, money, support. Or who take advantage of the advanced knowledge like the CIA office that placed those large bets on airlines. Seems it is very easy these days to open bank and brokerage accounts and move funds without a trace. Especially for CIA ops.. because we have seen they can find citizens who move funds abroad rather easily…
I posted an article about another person involved in the massacre about a week ago. Remember the guy filmed and photographed shooting at the people inside the trade union building. “Centurion Mykola” or something like that. He supposedly died recently, though the article speculated that he either was murdered to silence him, or that his death was faked to facilitate giving him a new ID.
The shrapnel attack on the Kharkov march occurred in the early afternoon at 1:20; the arrest of the ‘perpetrators’ was announced a couple of hours later and the footage shows the arrest at night.
Does this pass the smell test?
No.
It passes the fits-the-pattern test of many other false flags. If I were a life insurance company or defense lawyer I wouldn’t get within ten feet of those who were arrested.
Same old CIA story — boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy get arrested for terrorism. One could almost write a book of standard CIA/FBI plot lines now, and now used everywhere else in the empire too.
So a terrorist, an intelligence agent, and an MSM journalist walk into a bar… It’s an old metajoke by now. The bartender says ‘This isn’t funny without a dancing kangaroo’ — it’s just another tragedy.
I agree, this smells like US policy to me…9/11…they found the hijackers passports in the rubble on the sidewalk beside the dustified buildings.
right. Stranger than fiction.
And George Bush and Chaney have so far, gotten away with it.
by the way, the Snowden appearance was simultaneous with the 9/11 truth Org surge. The 9/11 truth org had just put a huge poster in Times Square about building 7 when Snowden showed up.
Hmmm.
Very nicely done Saker.
congratulaions!
with best wishes
from
a Russophile Indian (ar’nt we all !)
I hope Obama figures out that the leadership of the military in Kiev is catastrophically incompetent and that any knew weapons sent there may end up like they did in Iraq, in the hands of the opponents, just like all those tanks and artillery Kiev lost in Debaltsevo. Obama is sending in ‘trainers’, but I wouldn’t worry much about them. They are probably the same ones they used to train the Iraqi army. We saw how they did against ISIS. The Iraqi army outnumbered ISIS by 30 to one. They threw off their uniforms and ran, only to be hunted down and shot in ditches by ISIS.
I read where, in the last few days, the Ukrainian ambassador to Germany admitted that many of the troops they used were in fact neo-Nazi and that they needed them. No wonder the moral of Kiev’s army was so bad. I imagine many of the western Ukrainians didn’t like the ethnic Russian easterners. But they certainly didn’t feel like shooting them or fighting along side card carrying Nazis.
The incompetence of Americas generals rivals Ukraine’s. America, easily the most powerful military on earth, has just lost a long war in Afghanistan to a bunch of goat herders with AK’s. Their failure in Iraq is catastrophic and led to the rise of ISIS. They would be mad to pick a fight in the Ukraine. They would lose badly. The Ukraine is none of our fucking business.
Rainman……
I hope Obama figures out that the leadership of the military in Kiev is catastrophically incompetent
Well he already knows that and his military advisors have already told him many times but the aim is not to win but to create chaos and prove Russia into attacking Ukraine. Because he already forced Poroshenko to attack with a decrypt military right after he got elected. Who would do that? Most of the officers had defected and there was no one to even take charge of the higher commands. I think even Poroshenko knows what his units are capable of but is forced to do what he is told since his aim is to make as much money as possible before he has to run off. If he really cared about the Ukrainian people he would not be doing all the things he has. Any money coming to the Ukrainian government is wasted on the military offensive. Why not wait an year or two. It is not like the east is going anywhere. If Russians are really there it would then clearly show up. He does not even want to deal with the people but force his agenda on them. Nothing they do makes sense because they are not looking out for the people but for themselves. The nazi factor just wants to get into the EU. Thinking like some of their friends who left for the rest of Europe, all of them would also be able to move. But as the Romanians found out the hard way that even if you could get in, life is not as easy as it was made out. What trade and qualifications do these people have anyway? Thuggery is not going to make you any money in the EU. The easterners would have a far easier time finding work as shop workers. There already so many cheap laborers, that you cant even get a job as a street cleaner.
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iraq’s army has shot down two British planes as they were carrying weapons for the ISIL terrorists in Al-Anbar province, a senior lawmaker disclosed on Monday.
“The Iraqi Parliament’s National Security and Defense Committee has access to the photos of both planes that are British and have crashed while they were carrying weapons for the ISIL,” Head of the committee Hakem al-Zameli said, according to a Monday report of the Arabic-language information center of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq.
He said the Iraqi parliament has asked London for explanations in this regard.
The senior Iraqi legislator further unveiled that the government in Baghdad is receiving daily reports from people and security forces in al-Anbar province on numerous flights by the US-led coalition planes that airdrop weapons and supplies for ISIL in terrorist-held areas.
The Iraqi lawmaker further noted the cause of such western aids to the terrorist group, and explained that the US prefers a chaotic situation in Anbar Province which is near the cities of Karbala and Baghdad as it does not want the ISIL crisis to come to an end.
Earlier today, a senior Iraqi provincial official lashed out at the western countries and their regional allies for supporting Takfiri terrorists in Iraq, revealing that US and Israeli-made weapons have been discovered from the areas purged of ISIL terrorists.
“We have discovered weapons made in the US, European countries and Israel from the areas liberated from ISIL’s control in Al-Baqdadi region,” the Al-Ahad news website quoted Head of Al-Anbar Provincial Council Khalaf Tarmouz as saying.
He noted that the weapons made by the European countries and Israel were discovered from the terrorists in the Eastern parts of the city of Ramadi.
Al-Zameli had also disclosed in January that the anti-ISIL coalition’s planes have dropped weapons and foodstuff for the ISIL in Salahuddin, Al-Anbar and Diyala provinces.
Al-Zameli underlined that the coalition is the main cause of ISIL’s survival in Iraq.
“There are proofs and evidence for the US-led coalition’s military aid to ISIL terrorists through air(dropped cargoes),” he told FNA in January.
http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13931204001534
What Weapons Were Shipped to Ukraine When They Closed the Airports? And some were German– naughty, naughty. Videos & details. http://www.voltairenet.org/article186787.html
I just discovered The Saker about a week ago, but I find myself coming back to it every day for news of the crisis in Ukraine that is not slanted to the views of Western power brokers and war-mongers. Thank you for offering this valuable resource.
Long may The Shaker fly free!
http://tass.ru/en/opinions/778729
reasonable article why peacekeepers etc…..
, February 24. /TASS/. Latvian Prime Minister Laimdota Straujuma warned Western countries on Tuesday against military interference in Ukrainian conflict, saying this would escalate it.
“No one is ready to begin a third world war,” the prime minister told the Latvian television. “Germany is especially cautious looking back at history, that is why nothing is more important than to agree and come to general consensus,” she said.
Speaking about weapons supplies to Ukraine, Laimdota Straujuma said this would depend on whether the sides in the conflict would abide by the Minsk agreements.
“Weapons don’t ensure peace, weapons shoot and kill people. That is why I believe the most important thing is to continue negotiations and abide by the ceasefire terms,” she said.
http://russia-insider.com/en/ukraine/2015/02/23/3768
good article re hopelessness of AFU….
BEIRUT: The Lebanese Army has received a shipment of 30 tanks and 12 howitzers from Jordan, media reported Monday, as Interior Minister Nouhad announced that the country would soon receive the first batch of weapons financed through a $1 billion Saudi grant. – See more at: http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Lebanon-News/2015/Feb-23/288400-saudi-funded-arms-shipment-imminent-report.ashx#sthash.nlzwUbnU.dpuf
During the event, Army Deputy Chief of Staff Brig. Gen. Manuel Kirjian thanked Jordan for its donation and lauded the military cooperation between the two countries. – See more at: http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Lebanon-News/2015/Feb-23/288400-saudi-funded-arms-shipment-imminent-report.ashx#sthash.nlzwUbnU.dpuf
with ref to the long article by General Hazrallah-I did read it too-amazing.
February 24. /TASS/. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has described as useful the just-ended meeting of the Normandy Quartet’s foreign ministers in Paris.
“It was a useful meeting,” Lavrov said after the talks.
Russia hopes that after the withdrawal of heavy weapons from the east of Ukraine Kiev will have no more excuses for not fulfilling its political obligations, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.
February 24. /TASS/. Normandy Four countries – Russia, France, Germany and Ukraine – are set for taking joint steps toward the extension of the mandate of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) monitoring mission in Ukraine, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said on Tuesday.
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I live near the german town of Bamberg. I live here for about 20 years, 15 years in a relatively quite village. Since a couple of weeks / months I hear very often at night (between 11:00 pm til 3:00 am) unusal, because low flying prop, and very loud turbine engine driven aircrafts (therefore my guess is military aircrafts). The flightpath seems to me to be directed in an westerly/easterly direction. There is no local airport around, which could explain this air traffic.
Today I checked on the map that Bamberg lies really very close on a straight line between Ramstein and Kiew.
Could anybody investigate this further? IMHO here is something unusal going on.
P.S.: Keep up the good work. New Blog looks very good.
Besides Pindoland sending weapons directly, they are using UAE to do it:
Poroshenko Gets His Guns in UAE: Unlike Europe, Arabs Aren’t Afraid of WW3
Порошенко приобрел минометы через «заднюю дверь» (Poroshenko bought mortars through the “back door”)
During the visit, the international exhibition of arms of the United Arab Emirates Poroshenko allegedly arranged a large supply of arms and signed about 20 contracts. However, the UAE produces almost no weapons. Instead, it focuses on resale. And it may very well be that we are seeing now scam Ukrainian weapons from the United States through the “back door.”
I’m sure, given his owners, Porkshank prefers “backdoors”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBPU02yNhns&feature=youtu.be
v interesting interview with AFN tank commander and re his command, just “200”—they had frequent communication with regular AFU forces, agreements latter did as much as they could, some of them, to ‘spoil’ the battle, under/overshooting, they did want not to fight…plus evidence of shells from NATO? etc for seriously modified tanks by non Ukr military, its really the volunteer battalions who are the incessant freaks …..mercenaries etc
Offensive of militias on Mariupol will lead to the termination of Minsk arrangements. This was stated by the German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier in an interview with Bild newspaper, Deutsche Welle reports. Asked about the red line in the conflict in eastern Ukraine, German Foreign Minister, but is relying on AFU forces eg Mariupol Defence Forces are claiming t AFN attacking M. are breaking Minsk but OSCE cannot confirm……….United States began large-scale transfers of ammunition and weapons to Ukraine. The head of DPR Alexander Zakharchenko stated this, as reported by RIA Novosti.
Cassad has details of more AFU attacks/shelling eg Donetsk… and v intreseting internal conflict AFU -During these two months we were already reported of 5 cases of large-scale cases and about 30 minor clashes between Nazis and AFU. Punishers fired at AFU, and AFU started battles with them to get rid of these idiots. there were Large-scale clashes in the area of Schastye and in the area of Shirokino. In Schastye AFU surrounded and shelled the battalion Aidar – to which it reciprocated (it was a month ago), and there was tank battle at Shirokino between Azov and Nat. Guard “.
Report special correspondent Anna News Marat Khairullina the brutal torture by the Gestapo-Ukrainian Security Service in relation to the civilians. Evidence of acts of genocide against civilians.
Ukrainian Foreign Ministry accused Russia of organizing terrorist attacks on the Ukrainian territory outside the zone of military operations in the Donbass. It is reported by UNN.
President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko at a meeting with Deputy Supreme Commander of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Mohammed Al Nahyan agreed on arms Kiev.
“During the exhibition of arms IDEX-2015 Ukraine has signed about 20 contracts for the supply of arms,” - he said at a press conference for foreign journalists.Today Poroshenko said that the truce Kiev used for retrofitting the army, he said the combat capability of the Armed Forces of Ukraine restored. He said this during a handover ceremony in the army of new technology, held today in Zhytomyr region. Poroshenko also said that all new military equipment will be nominated to the area ATO.
BTW-also touched by that sincere poem by Pavel? the other day-try and get published please, do more, I encourage you-from an amateur poet too….eg
Colours of stone sky earth
their own eternity
own silence and speaking.
The edge of ourselves.
The sounds of something
just missed
just glimpsed
an absence re-assembling.
Another oops for the ZPC/NWO quislings. Remember the radar sets given the orcs by the Americans?
В Дебальцево была захвачена одна из американских РЛС LCMR (видео) – (In Debaltseve was captured by one of the American radar LCMR (video))
The Americans have probably already sent the remaining radars they had planned to, still, it’s a nice find. There are probably other valuable “goodies” left that have been found. The orc retreat seems to have been a very sudden affair, not a planned operation. One can see this by how much intact equipment was simply left that should have been destroyed by the retreating forces.
Very interesting piece with Michael Hudson at
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=13280
( https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=h6NGYZgKZ3A )
European Banks vs. Greek Labour
Michael Hudson says Greece’s Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis is proposing austerity on the banking class, rather than the working class, to balance the budget. – February 24, 2015
…
HUDSON: Because what’s at issue really is a class war. It’s not so much Germany versus Greece, as the papers say. It’s really the war of the banks against labor. And it’s a continuation of Thatcherism and neoliberalism.
The problem isn’t simply that the troika wants Greece to balance the budget; it wanted Greece to balance the budget by lowering wages and by imposing austerity on the labor force. But instead, the terms in which Varoufakis has suggested balancing the budget are to impose austerity on the financial class, on the tycoons, on the tax dodgers.
…
Well, this has infuriated the banks, because it turns out the finance ministers of Europe are not all in favor of balancing the budget if it has to be balanced by taxing the rich, because the banks know that whatever taxes the rich are able to avoid ends up being paid to the banks. So now the gloves are off and the class war is sort of back. Originally, Varoufakis thought he was negotiating with the troika, that is, with the IMF, the European Central Bank, and the Euro Council. But instead they said, no, no, you’re negotiating with the finance ministers. And the finance ministers in Europe are very much like Tim Geithner in the United States. They’re lobbyists for the big banks.
…
The troika and the finance ministers are all fighting among themselves over what exactly is to be done. And to really throw a monkey wrench in, the German finance minister, Schäuble, said, wait a minute, we’ve got to bring in the Spanish government and the Portuguese government and the Finnish government, and they’ve got to agree.
Well, all of a sudden the position of Spain, for instance, is, wait a minute, we’re in power, we’re a Thatcherite neoliberal party. If Greece ends up not going along with austerity and saving its workers, then Podemos Party in Greece, in Spain, is going to win the next election and we’ll be out of power. We have to make sure that Varoufakis and the SYRIZA Party is a failure, so that we ourselves can tell the working class, you see what happened to Greece? It got smashed, and we’re going to smash you if you try to do what they do; if you try to tax the rich, if you try to take over the banks and prevent the kleptocracy, there’s going to be a disaster.
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Thanks so much for posting this. I watched the video you linked to – it is very important. I emailed your comment to a Greek friend he replied:
“The article is more or less true.Politicians are supported by big-money
businessmen.In return they try (after they are elected) to protect them
and their money.
That means , less taxes for the rich , more taxes for the poor.The rich
getting richer and the poor poorer.
In this planet the global wealth is gathered by “few” people and the
system is designed so the big mass to work (and have to work all their
lives) to produce wealth for these few people.”
As the video points out – there is a better alternative. Thanks again.