True. The Gold price should be 500% higher or more.
But If the closing of the London Gold Fix will be enough to end Gold price suppression is very questionable. The international Banking Cartel is very inventive and the Gold price fixing is likely to continue through different channels. Gold has to be kept down at any cost, otherwise the whole fraudulent USD hegemony and financial structure might blow up over night.
Falklands – the Russian official did actually make a good and relevant point comparing the Falklands to Crimea – it is a shame this newscast got it wrong.
They are much more effective at delivering news than sarcasm
Q; They are much more effective at delivering news than sarcasm.
R; Yeah, it’s like watching Adam Sandler trying so damned hard to be funny.. and utterly fail.
Humor has its own rhythm and timing, but nevertheless, should always flow naturally. Force it, and you take away the wind from underneath the chariot of comedy and it crashes…
NATO expansion provoked Ukraine crisis – Kate Hudson, the GS of Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
NATO’s expansion has been the main factor in provoking the crisis in Ukraine – the General Secretary of Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, Kate Hudson, stated at the Stop the War Coalition meeting in the Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church in London, Thursday.
I think most people here realise that NATO, which by rights should have disappeared along with the Warsaw Pact, is mostly funded by the hegemon USA and its UK poodle and is merely the former’s outsourced muscle.
An interesting article from Dr. Paul Craig Roberts today in Information clearing house :
“The EU leadership has agreed to launch a propaganda war against Russia, broadcasting Washington’s lies inside Russia in an effort to undermine the Russian people’s support of their government.
All of this is being done in order to coerce Russia into handing over Crimea and its Black Sea naval base to Washington and accepting vassalage under Washington’s suzerainty.
If Saddam Hussein, Gaddafi, Assad, and the Taliban would not fold to Washington’s threats, why do the fools in Washington think Putin, who holds in his hands the largest nuclear arsenal in the world, will fold?
European governments, apparently, are incapable of any thought. Washington has set London and the capitals of every European country, as well as every American city, for destruction by Russian nuclear weapons. The stupid Europeans rush to destroy themselves in service to their Washington master.
Human intelligence has gone missing if after 14 years of US military aggression against eight countries the world does not understand that Washington is lost in arrogance and hubris and imagines itself the ruler of the universe who will tolerate no dissent from its will”.
nsnbc : A number of Georgians are serving as top bureaucrats in Ukraine; Most notably, former Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili who serves as Chairman for Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko’s International Advisory Council on Reforms. Georgian militants have been observed fighting against forces of the rebelling Donbass republics’ defense forces.
Saaakashvili left Georgia after the election of a new Georgian President in 2013. Saakashvili served as President of Georgia during the Georgian – South Ossetian war that involved Russian troops.
Remember he faces in April there some kind of runoff mayoral election.
BTW, this $298 MM is pissant compared to the unfunded/underfunded state of the gov employees pensions there, including all of Illinois.
figure I saw a week ago & posted was many many scores of billions.
http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/government/fraud/us_government/news.php?q=1427122320
P.S. We can now divulge that the city of Chicago faces a mounting debt of $298 million and an S&P Moody’s downgrade thanks to the corrupt financial dealings of current Chicago Mayor (head of the North American Israeli Mossad) Rahm Emanuel, along with 5th 3rd Bank of Chicago and Chicago Harris Bank.
Emanuel, along with CME Group President Terry Duffy (Chicago Mercantile Exchange), have allowed these banks to engage in illegal cross-collateralized foreign currency and interest rate electronic derivative-based algorithm trading that now puts both 5th 3rd Bank and Harris Bank in need of a federal ‘bail out’.
Note: Emanuel has also used the crooked Chicago bankruptcy courts to loot financial investors’ money, i.e. the PFG Wassendorf debacle.
NATO cannot fight a conventional war against Russia, period. That leaves the choice of a nuclear war which is utter insanity. I really cannot fathom what they hope to achieve with this proxy war in the Ukraine.
Last week, former Chairman of the Ukrainian State Financial Inspection Nikolai Gordienko, who was previously dismissed, issued a report in which he accused Yatsenyuk of concealing corruption schemes of the previous government.
MP Sergei Kaplin, a member of the largest faction in the Ukrainian parliament — “Petro Poroshenko Bloc” — suggested creating a special commission in Verkhovna Rada – Ukraine’s Parliament – to investigate the activities of the current Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, who was accused of concealing corruption schemes.
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Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said Tuesday.
“We have lost a quarter of the Ukrainian economy. Because of the war…hundreds of companies have been closed, but we were able to collect more taxes than last year,”
Read more: http://sputniknews.com/europe/20150324/1019922729.html#ixzz3VIWZJAr9
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On Tuesday, general director of Russian state-run arms exporter Rosoboronexport Anatoly Isaykin announced that Moscow will make a final decision on the non-delivery of Mistral ships by May. If the Mistral ships are not delivered, Paris is obliged to return money Moscow paid, Isaykin said.
Read more: http://sputniknews.com/military/20150317/1019595139.html#ixzz3VIX2fIN0
Note a russian company has offered to build similar vessels , in St Petersberg-I would not build there in case NATO increasingly norther polarisation of Canada, Uk , Lithuania etc etc seals off the Baltic.
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Russian Foreign Ministry statement on Kiev’s violation of February 12, 2015 Minsk agreements
504-21-03-2015
Russia has responded with concern to reports that Reuters journalists have filmed a video of Ukrainian heavy weapons near the demarcation line in the southeast of Ukraine. Judging by the footage, the so-called Azov Battalion is using 122-mm D-30 howitzers with a range of 22 kilometres. The video was filmed near the village of Shirokino, which should be watched most closely by the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission.
The Russian Foreign Ministry is forced to point out that this is yet another clear violation of the Minsk agreements that stipulate the withdrawal of heavy weapons from the demarcation line.
Thus, the Ukrainian authorities are apparently being less than honest when they say their heavy weapons have been withdrawn.
Russia is once again urging the Ukrainian side not to mislead international public opinion and to completely honour its obligations under the Minsk agreements.March 21, 2015
“The policy of unabashed meddling in the domestic affairs of sovereign states was implemented also in Ukraine where direct US and EU support led to the unconstitutional power change of February 2014 which, in turn, ignited a civil war in southeastern Ukraine,” the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement released on Tuesday.
“Unfortunately, numerous crimes committed against civilians by the Kiev military, the mass killings and the humanitarian catastrophe in Donetsk and Luhansk regions is something those who once bemoaned the human rights abuses in Kosovo just couldn’t care less about,” the statement said.
The Ministry urged all of Russia’s foreign partners to make the right choice between time-serving political gains and the strategic need for a reliable system of European security, based on the principle of indivisibility, equality and mutual respect.”
Read more: http://sputniknews.com/russia/20150324/1019923068.html#ixzz3VIYT72Ex
Sounds like moving to decision time with frustration, in the face of
“The US House of Representatives passed a resolution on Monday urging President Barack Obama to send lethal defensive assistance to Ukraine, according to a document published on the House website.”Read more: http://sputniknews.com/politics/20150324/1019916011.html#ixzz3VIYyBsnv
and
“On March 14, the UN office in Kiev hosted a briefing for diplomatic missions and international organisations, attended by Neal Walker, UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Ukraine, on the results of a recent trip to Dnepropetrovsk and Donetsk by representatives from the UN agencies and non-governmental organisations.
A member of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, as well as experts from various programmes, foundations and UN special agencies (UNDP, UNICEF, UNHCR, UNFPA, UNAIDS, ILO, UNODC, WFP, WHO and others) expressed deep concern over the catastrophic and deteriorating humanitarian conditions in eastern Ukraine.
The international experts were struck by the scale of the humanitarian problems in Donbass. They said Kiev’s inaction and passivity, a series of bureaucratic obstacles, and an unwillingness to help over 5 million Ukrainians get their lives back on track are aggravating the already distressing situation in Donbass.
Kiev’s ongoing humanitarian blockade of the region evoked deep concern by the UN organisations. The humanitarian convoys sent by the Russian Federation to the devastated region are, in fact, the only way to survive for the locals.
The UN expert mission has given, in our opinion, a realistic view of developments in Ukraine. We note the UN’s intention to influence Kiev and, ultimately, to encourage the Ukrainian authorities to face the people who desperately need humanitarian aid.
Russia continues to send humanitarian aid convoys; the next one will depart on March 26 and will deliver over 1,600 tonnes of cargo.”
fortruss off line at the moment can’t check it out
“NATO wants to build up presence in the Black Sea “in order to maintain stability in the region.” This is stated in a joint statement of defense ministers of Romania, Mircea Dusa, and the UK, Michael Fallon, Agerpres reports.
“During today’s talks, we discussed a number of important issues, one of which concerns the security and military-political situation in the Black Sea region as a result of the crisis in Ukraine and the annexation of Crimea by Russia. Our countries must take all measures to ensure the permanent presence of NATO forces in the Black Sea for the safety of the region”, – the statement reads.’
voice of sevastopol
Maxim Karpenko) – Ukrainian MP Anton Geraschenko, adviser to the Interior Minister, urged the U.S. to strike Donbass from the Black sea in an interview to the Ukrainian publication “Politics”.
According to him, in Ukraine the American army should act the same way as against ISIS.
“Last year the US Congress agreed to use aviation to destroy the militants of the Islamic state. They came close to Baghdad – and then the Americans began to destroy them from the air. That is, it is done there. In this case, how does this story differ from the story of the bandits engaged in Donbass? Do they kill people? Yes. Did they shot down the Boeing? Yes. Why not ask the aviation from American ships in the Black Sea to help us destroy the terrorists,” said Gerashchenko.”
fortruss
why doesn’t Rus kick out any USA people………now, do they need any more excuses, surely Minsk is deceased, this is a declaration of war by Ukraine?
March 24. /TASS/. The members of the Russian ruling party, the United Russia, have proposed setting up a tribunal to focus on the war crimes committed in Ukraine, saying that hopes for the Hague tribunal are fading.
MOSCOW, March 24. /TASS/. US must return its foreign deployed non-strategic nuclear weapons home, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said Tuesday
The spokesman said US Department of State spokesperson Jen Psaki “openly distorts facts, claiming that the US nuclear weapons in Europe are under US constant control and are never transferred to other countries.”
Lukashevich commented on Psaki’s recent statement that the deployment of US nuclear armaments on the territory of its European NATO allies and the joint measures with NATO non-nuclear member states to practise the skills of their use corresponded to the Treaty on the Nuclear Weapons Non-Proliferation.
Moscow demands that US return home its foreign deployed non-strategic nuclear weapons
Hotting up.
when is Russia really going to wake up and hit real hard the only persistent mortal enemy which is england and destroy that evil nation for good ?
otherwise russia is doomed.
============================================ http://fortruss.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/putin-broke-his-teeth-on-dnepropetrovsk.html
latest developments Poro-Kolo:
factions split, call for “Maidan” on Wednesday 11 am, bloc leaders upset Poro is actually implementing Minsk requirement to disband groups like Pravy sector etc, National Guard might? defect to Kolo or confront him in Dnepropetrovsk .
Increasing AFU attacks especially Shironoko near Mariupol, convoy of 40 tanks heading south from Kharkiv reported today………
colonelcassad
both sites report intensity increasing, more AFU being discovered by drone, embedded in than previously thought:
considering the reluctance ? inability of OSCE to fully report AFU violations and Rus says they are not doing enough , and Poro increasingly claims AFN break Minsk which indicates to me false flag potential, or even falsely justifying Minsk is broken by AFN, or Kiev wants to finally overcome Donbass, why isn’t Rus presenting more visual evidence of AFU’s ceasefire violations???, surely they are monitoring these?????
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“At the 28th session of the UN Council on Human Rights, held in Geneva, the Russian delegation criticized the manifestations of racism in the United States and the glorification of Nazi collaborators in the European Union and Ukraine. United Nations went for a relaxed attitude to such a situation.
As stated by Russian diplomats in the United States “minorities are increasingly becoming victims of police brutality.” This is evidenced, in particular, the report of the US Department of Justice, which confirmed the presence of signs of systemic racism in the actions of the police in Ferguson, as well as what happened in the beginning of March, the new police murder of an African American in Los Angeles.
In the EU, there are already over 20 years, “thousands of people are deprived of citizenship and, consequently, the basic civil rights only on the basis of ethnic origin.”
Moreover, every year in a number of EU countries held marches and rallies of SS legionaries. Latvia – a march of veterans Waffen-SS. In Lithuania – torchlight procession nationalists open using Nazi swastika. In addition to the Estonian nationalists march was held recently cynical exhibition on the Holocaust.
“Particular outrage – said the Russian delegation – is held on February 19 meeting of the Prime Minister of Estonia Taavi Rõivas with veterans of the 20th Grenadier Division of the SS.” Even the memory of those who gave their lives for the victory over Nazism, “subject to constant abuse”: in the past, and this year for EU countries swept “a wave of vandalism against monuments and graves of fighters against Nazism.”
anna-news google translate
colonel cassad, voice sevastopol, anna-news-recommended as usual
March 23 /TASS/. A Serbian non-governmental organization has demanded that NATO pay compensation for the damage it had inflicted on Serbia during 1999 bombardments of Yugoslavia.
The Belgrade Forum for the World of Equal and the Club of generals and admirals launched the initiative at their meeting held on Monday on the eve of the 16th anniversary of NATO bombing campaign against Yugoslavia that started on March 24, 1999.
Retired General Jovo Milanovic recalled that NATO’s aggression was “a violation of all norms of international law that caused enormous material damage to Yugoslavia and huge human casualties.
KIEV, March 24. /TASS/. The United States is already supplying weapons to the Ukrainian armed forces, the head of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic, Alexander Zakharchenko, has said.
“The United States is already supplying weapons there. For instance, in Debaltsevo we saw US ammunition. That’s a lethal weapon,” he told a news briefing. “NATO planes land at the airports of Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhia and Kharkiv every day.”
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Media: armed volunteer battalions heading for Kiev
Zakharchenko said that Ukraine was bringing back heavy weapons to the line of disengagement.
“Ukraine has not pulled back weapons. It is bringing them back. The pullout was a fake,” he said.
The militias are expecting more provocations by Ukraine’s volunteer battalions, “which have already said they are not obeying orders from Kiev,” he said.
In case the situation gets worse, Zakharchenko said, the Ukrainian forces may mount attacks in three directions – south, north-western and in the area of Debaltsevo to cut the Donetsk Republic away from the Luhansk Republic.
“The way I see the situation, I believe there will be three attacks,” Zakharchenko said. “The main group of the Ukrainian forces is concentrated in the areas of Volnovakha, Krasnogolovka, Artyomovsk, Kurakhovo and other communities.
At first sight the author has a very pro-Kiev point of view. Obvious is also that he doesn’t know very much about the Ukraine conflict and hasn’t read the Minsk-2 agreement.
However, what makes the article interesting is that its main source of information seems to be a conference in Brussels where Breedlove and Nuland were present. So the article gives a good impression of the message that these people are now trying to sell in Europe.
U.S. Air Force General Philip Breedlove told an audience here at the German Marshall Fund Brussels Forum that Moscow continues to ramp up military and economic support to separatists in Eastern Ukraine. That conclusion was based on evidence gathered by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s joint intelligence unit in the U.K.
Under the agreement reached last month in Minsk, Belarus, Russia is obligated to withdraw all troops and equipment from Ukraine and return control of the border to the Kiev government by the end of this year. The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe is supposed to monitor Russian compliance.
“What we see is diplomatic tools being used, informational tools being used, military tools being used, economic tools being used against Ukraine,” he said. “We in the West should consider using all of our tools in reply. Could it be destabilizing? The answer is yes. Also, inaction could be destabilizing.”
It looks like their story hasn’t much changed from before Minsk-2.
It would be interesting to have a complete text of what they told in Brussels. It would give us a better understanding what to expect from those people.
OT. A very interesting article here on fixing of gold prices. If this is right, gold prices should rise.
London Gold Fix Closed – Sign of Drastic Changes the World Financial System Is To Go Through
http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2015/03/23/london-gold-fix-closed-sign-drastic-changes-world-financial-system-through.html
Also a lot of other well written, well researched articles at this site.
@ Peter.
On a side note; major banks and financial institutions have paid $ billions in fines, yet nobody has been convicted… Thanks for the link.
True. The Gold price should be 500% higher or more.
But If the closing of the London Gold Fix will be enough to end Gold price suppression is very questionable. The international Banking Cartel is very inventive and the Gold price fixing is likely to continue through different channels. Gold has to be kept down at any cost, otherwise the whole fraudulent USD hegemony and financial structure might blow up over night.
OT – an example “Polish ingenuity”
UK Court Hears Case of Stolen Nuclear Submarine Documents – Reports
The Polish expat who stole the documents wanted to sell them to……..Poland. :D
There is madness. There is absurdity. And then there are Polacks!
Public radio is telling me that in the Ukraine a new ‘golden age’ is being ushered in for some of its people thanks to luminaries like Kolomoiski:
http://www.pri.org/stories/2015-03-18/its-golden-age-jews-ukraine-so-why-are-they-still-leaving-droves
Soon, it will be just like Silicon Valley!!!
Kiev fun fact [as per the above provided link]; ‘..a sort of reverse ATM that can only be used for donating to Jewish causes.’
Make that the “Ukrainian fun fact” or “the Dnipropetrovsk fun
factoryfact”Falklands – the Russian official did actually make a good and relevant point comparing the Falklands to Crimea – it is a shame this newscast got it wrong.
They are much more effective at delivering news than sarcasm
@ Micheal D,
Q; They are much more effective at delivering news than sarcasm.
R; Yeah, it’s like watching Adam Sandler trying so damned hard to be funny.. and utterly fail.
Humor has its own rhythm and timing, but nevertheless, should always flow naturally. Force it, and you take away the wind from underneath the chariot of comedy and it crashes…
Americani ite domum!
-and take Nuland, Pyatt and other assorted scum with you.
NATO expansion provoked Ukraine crisis – Kate Hudson, the GS of Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
NATO’s expansion has been the main factor in provoking the crisis in Ukraine – the General Secretary of Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, Kate Hudson, stated at the Stop the War Coalition meeting in the Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church in London, Thursday.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2raoc1-ej9A
I think most people here realise that NATO, which by rights should have disappeared along with the Warsaw Pact, is mostly funded by the hegemon USA and its UK poodle and is merely the former’s outsourced muscle.
“NATO expansion provoked Ukraine crisis – Kate Hudson”
No, it was American idiocy, desperation and hubris. But even more important: they underestimated Vladimir Vladimirovic.
An interesting article from Dr. Paul Craig Roberts today in Information clearing house :
“The EU leadership has agreed to launch a propaganda war against Russia, broadcasting Washington’s lies inside Russia in an effort to undermine the Russian people’s support of their government.
All of this is being done in order to coerce Russia into handing over Crimea and its Black Sea naval base to Washington and accepting vassalage under Washington’s suzerainty.
If Saddam Hussein, Gaddafi, Assad, and the Taliban would not fold to Washington’s threats, why do the fools in Washington think Putin, who holds in his hands the largest nuclear arsenal in the world, will fold?
European governments, apparently, are incapable of any thought. Washington has set London and the capitals of every European country, as well as every American city, for destruction by Russian nuclear weapons. The stupid Europeans rush to destroy themselves in service to their Washington master.
Human intelligence has gone missing if after 14 years of US military aggression against eight countries the world does not understand that Washington is lost in arrogance and hubris and imagines itself the ruler of the universe who will tolerate no dissent from its will”.
The full article can be read here :
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article41322.htm
More blowback for Putin for not taking out the trash when he had the chance in 2008.
http://nsnbc.me/2015/03/23/georgians-hold-top-posts-in-ukraine-georgian-fighters-observed-in-donbass/
nsnbc : A number of Georgians are serving as top bureaucrats in Ukraine; Most notably, former Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili who serves as Chairman for Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko’s International Advisory Council on Reforms. Georgian militants have been observed fighting against forces of the rebelling Donbass republics’ defense forces.
Saaakashvili left Georgia after the election of a new Georgian President in 2013. Saakashvili served as President of Georgia during the Georgian – South Ossetian war that involved Russian troops.
Blowback or spider strategy giving opportunities ?
The naive tend to hold that the ends justify the means, whereas the means condition the ends.
https://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/congress-demands-war-in-ukraine/
Rahmbo returns!
Remember he faces in April there some kind of runoff mayoral election.
BTW, this $298 MM is pissant compared to the unfunded/underfunded state of the gov employees pensions there, including all of Illinois.
figure I saw a week ago & posted was many many scores of billions.
http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/government/fraud/us_government/news.php?q=1427122320
P.S. We can now divulge that the city of Chicago faces a mounting debt of $298 million and an S&P Moody’s downgrade thanks to the corrupt financial dealings of current Chicago Mayor (head of the North American Israeli Mossad) Rahm Emanuel, along with 5th 3rd Bank of Chicago and Chicago Harris Bank.
Emanuel, along with CME Group President Terry Duffy (Chicago Mercantile Exchange), have allowed these banks to engage in illegal cross-collateralized foreign currency and interest rate electronic derivative-based algorithm trading that now puts both 5th 3rd Bank and Harris Bank in need of a federal ‘bail out’.
Note: Emanuel has also used the crooked Chicago bankruptcy courts to loot financial investors’ money, i.e. the PFG Wassendorf debacle.
Your comment.. http://www.sott.net/article/282898-NATO-MH17-Mossad-and-Kolomoisky-Beware-the-Chameleon
NATO cannot fight a conventional war against Russia, period. That leaves the choice of a nuclear war which is utter insanity. I really cannot fathom what they hope to achieve with this proxy war in the Ukraine.
Last week, former Chairman of the Ukrainian State Financial Inspection Nikolai Gordienko, who was previously dismissed, issued a report in which he accused Yatsenyuk of concealing corruption schemes of the previous government.
MP Sergei Kaplin, a member of the largest faction in the Ukrainian parliament — “Petro Poroshenko Bloc” — suggested creating a special commission in Verkhovna Rada – Ukraine’s Parliament – to investigate the activities of the current Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, who was accused of concealing corruption schemes.
The relevant draft resolution was registered on Monday. The official text of the document has not yet been released on the website of the Parliament.
Read more: http://sputniknews.com/europe/20150323/1019903382.html#ixzz3VIWDppyM
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Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said Tuesday.
“We have lost a quarter of the Ukrainian economy. Because of the war…hundreds of companies have been closed, but we were able to collect more taxes than last year,”
Read more: http://sputniknews.com/europe/20150324/1019922729.html#ixzz3VIWZJAr9
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On Tuesday, general director of Russian state-run arms exporter Rosoboronexport Anatoly Isaykin announced that Moscow will make a final decision on the non-delivery of Mistral ships by May. If the Mistral ships are not delivered, Paris is obliged to return money Moscow paid, Isaykin said.
Read more: http://sputniknews.com/military/20150317/1019595139.html#ixzz3VIX2fIN0
Note a russian company has offered to build similar vessels , in St Petersberg-I would not build there in case NATO increasingly norther polarisation of Canada, Uk , Lithuania etc etc seals off the Baltic.
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Russian Foreign Ministry statement on Kiev’s violation of February 12, 2015 Minsk agreements
504-21-03-2015
Russia has responded with concern to reports that Reuters journalists have filmed a video of Ukrainian heavy weapons near the demarcation line in the southeast of Ukraine. Judging by the footage, the so-called Azov Battalion is using 122-mm D-30 howitzers with a range of 22 kilometres. The video was filmed near the village of Shirokino, which should be watched most closely by the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission.
The Russian Foreign Ministry is forced to point out that this is yet another clear violation of the Minsk agreements that stipulate the withdrawal of heavy weapons from the demarcation line.
Thus, the Ukrainian authorities are apparently being less than honest when they say their heavy weapons have been withdrawn.
Russia is once again urging the Ukrainian side not to mislead international public opinion and to completely honour its obligations under the Minsk agreements.March 21, 2015
“The policy of unabashed meddling in the domestic affairs of sovereign states was implemented also in Ukraine where direct US and EU support led to the unconstitutional power change of February 2014 which, in turn, ignited a civil war in southeastern Ukraine,” the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement released on Tuesday.
“Unfortunately, numerous crimes committed against civilians by the Kiev military, the mass killings and the humanitarian catastrophe in Donetsk and Luhansk regions is something those who once bemoaned the human rights abuses in Kosovo just couldn’t care less about,” the statement said.
The Ministry urged all of Russia’s foreign partners to make the right choice between time-serving political gains and the strategic need for a reliable system of European security, based on the principle of indivisibility, equality and mutual respect.”
Read more: http://sputniknews.com/russia/20150324/1019923068.html#ixzz3VIYT72Ex
Sounds like moving to decision time with frustration, in the face of
“The US House of Representatives passed a resolution on Monday urging President Barack Obama to send lethal defensive assistance to Ukraine, according to a document published on the House website.”Read more: http://sputniknews.com/politics/20150324/1019916011.html#ixzz3VIYyBsnv
and
“On March 14, the UN office in Kiev hosted a briefing for diplomatic missions and international organisations, attended by Neal Walker, UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Ukraine, on the results of a recent trip to Dnepropetrovsk and Donetsk by representatives from the UN agencies and non-governmental organisations.
A member of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, as well as experts from various programmes, foundations and UN special agencies (UNDP, UNICEF, UNHCR, UNFPA, UNAIDS, ILO, UNODC, WFP, WHO and others) expressed deep concern over the catastrophic and deteriorating humanitarian conditions in eastern Ukraine.
The international experts were struck by the scale of the humanitarian problems in Donbass. They said Kiev’s inaction and passivity, a series of bureaucratic obstacles, and an unwillingness to help over 5 million Ukrainians get their lives back on track are aggravating the already distressing situation in Donbass.
Kiev’s ongoing humanitarian blockade of the region evoked deep concern by the UN organisations. The humanitarian convoys sent by the Russian Federation to the devastated region are, in fact, the only way to survive for the locals.
The UN expert mission has given, in our opinion, a realistic view of developments in Ukraine. We note the UN’s intention to influence Kiev and, ultimately, to encourage the Ukrainian authorities to face the people who desperately need humanitarian aid.
Russia continues to send humanitarian aid convoys; the next one will depart on March 26 and will deliver over 1,600 tonnes of cargo.”
fortruss off line at the moment can’t check it out
German passenger plane crashed in France just now.
Too soon to get paranoid..
http://en.voicesevas.ru/news/analytics/3680-silence-of-the-lambs.html
re uselessness? of OSCE reporting?
“NATO wants to build up presence in the Black Sea “in order to maintain stability in the region.” This is stated in a joint statement of defense ministers of Romania, Mircea Dusa, and the UK, Michael Fallon, Agerpres reports.
“During today’s talks, we discussed a number of important issues, one of which concerns the security and military-political situation in the Black Sea region as a result of the crisis in Ukraine and the annexation of Crimea by Russia. Our countries must take all measures to ensure the permanent presence of NATO forces in the Black Sea for the safety of the region”, – the statement reads.’
voice of sevastopol
Maxim Karpenko) – Ukrainian MP Anton Geraschenko, adviser to the Interior Minister, urged the U.S. to strike Donbass from the Black sea in an interview to the Ukrainian publication “Politics”.
According to him, in Ukraine the American army should act the same way as against ISIS.
“Last year the US Congress agreed to use aviation to destroy the militants of the Islamic state. They came close to Baghdad – and then the Americans began to destroy them from the air. That is, it is done there. In this case, how does this story differ from the story of the bandits engaged in Donbass? Do they kill people? Yes. Did they shot down the Boeing? Yes. Why not ask the aviation from American ships in the Black Sea to help us destroy the terrorists,” said Gerashchenko.”
fortruss
why doesn’t Rus kick out any USA people………now, do they need any more excuses, surely Minsk is deceased, this is a declaration of war by Ukraine?
March 24. /TASS/. The members of the Russian ruling party, the United Russia, have proposed setting up a tribunal to focus on the war crimes committed in Ukraine, saying that hopes for the Hague tribunal are fading.
MOSCOW, March 24. /TASS/. US must return its foreign deployed non-strategic nuclear weapons home, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said Tuesday
The spokesman said US Department of State spokesperson Jen Psaki “openly distorts facts, claiming that the US nuclear weapons in Europe are under US constant control and are never transferred to other countries.”
Lukashevich commented on Psaki’s recent statement that the deployment of US nuclear armaments on the territory of its European NATO allies and the joint measures with NATO non-nuclear member states to practise the skills of their use corresponded to the Treaty on the Nuclear Weapons Non-Proliferation.
Moscow demands that US return home its foreign deployed non-strategic nuclear weapons
Hotting up.
when is Russia really going to wake up and hit real hard the only persistent mortal enemy which is england and destroy that evil nation for good ?
otherwise russia is doomed.
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http://fortruss.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/putin-broke-his-teeth-on-dnepropetrovsk.html
latest developments Poro-Kolo:
factions split, call for “Maidan” on Wednesday 11 am, bloc leaders upset Poro is actually implementing Minsk requirement to disband groups like Pravy sector etc, National Guard might? defect to Kolo or confront him in Dnepropetrovsk .
http://fortruss.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/analyst-conflict-between-poroshenko-and.html
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Increasing AFU attacks especially Shironoko near Mariupol, convoy of 40 tanks heading south from Kharkiv reported today………
colonelcassad
both sites report intensity increasing, more AFU being discovered by drone, embedded in than previously thought:
considering the reluctance ? inability of OSCE to fully report AFU violations and Rus says they are not doing enough , and Poro increasingly claims AFN break Minsk which indicates to me false flag potential, or even falsely justifying Minsk is broken by AFN, or Kiev wants to finally overcome Donbass, why isn’t Rus presenting more visual evidence of AFU’s ceasefire violations???, surely they are monitoring these?????
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“At the 28th session of the UN Council on Human Rights, held in Geneva, the Russian delegation criticized the manifestations of racism in the United States and the glorification of Nazi collaborators in the European Union and Ukraine. United Nations went for a relaxed attitude to such a situation.
As stated by Russian diplomats in the United States “minorities are increasingly becoming victims of police brutality.” This is evidenced, in particular, the report of the US Department of Justice, which confirmed the presence of signs of systemic racism in the actions of the police in Ferguson, as well as what happened in the beginning of March, the new police murder of an African American in Los Angeles.
In the EU, there are already over 20 years, “thousands of people are deprived of citizenship and, consequently, the basic civil rights only on the basis of ethnic origin.”
Moreover, every year in a number of EU countries held marches and rallies of SS legionaries. Latvia – a march of veterans Waffen-SS. In Lithuania – torchlight procession nationalists open using Nazi swastika. In addition to the Estonian nationalists march was held recently cynical exhibition on the Holocaust.
“Particular outrage – said the Russian delegation – is held on February 19 meeting of the Prime Minister of Estonia Taavi Rõivas with veterans of the 20th Grenadier Division of the SS.” Even the memory of those who gave their lives for the victory over Nazism, “subject to constant abuse”: in the past, and this year for EU countries swept “a wave of vandalism against monuments and graves of fighters against Nazism.”
anna-news google translate
colonel cassad, voice sevastopol, anna-news-recommended as usual
March 23 /TASS/. A Serbian non-governmental organization has demanded that NATO pay compensation for the damage it had inflicted on Serbia during 1999 bombardments of Yugoslavia.
The Belgrade Forum for the World of Equal and the Club of generals and admirals launched the initiative at their meeting held on Monday on the eve of the 16th anniversary of NATO bombing campaign against Yugoslavia that started on March 24, 1999.
Retired General Jovo Milanovic recalled that NATO’s aggression was “a violation of all norms of international law that caused enormous material damage to Yugoslavia and huge human casualties.
KIEV, March 24. /TASS/. The United States is already supplying weapons to the Ukrainian armed forces, the head of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic, Alexander Zakharchenko, has said.
“The United States is already supplying weapons there. For instance, in Debaltsevo we saw US ammunition. That’s a lethal weapon,” he told a news briefing. “NATO planes land at the airports of Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhia and Kharkiv every day.”
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Media: armed volunteer battalions heading for Kiev
Zakharchenko said that Ukraine was bringing back heavy weapons to the line of disengagement.
“Ukraine has not pulled back weapons. It is bringing them back. The pullout was a fake,” he said.
The militias are expecting more provocations by Ukraine’s volunteer battalions, “which have already said they are not obeying orders from Kiev,” he said.
In case the situation gets worse, Zakharchenko said, the Ukrainian forces may mount attacks in three directions – south, north-western and in the area of Debaltsevo to cut the Donetsk Republic away from the Luhansk Republic.
“The way I see the situation, I believe there will be three attacks,” Zakharchenko said. “The main group of the Ukrainian forces is concentrated in the areas of Volnovakha, Krasnogolovka, Artyomovsk, Kurakhovo and other communities.
I want to draw the attention to this Bloomberg article
http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-03-22/nato-says-russia-s-cheating-in-ukraine
At first sight the author has a very pro-Kiev point of view. Obvious is also that he doesn’t know very much about the Ukraine conflict and hasn’t read the Minsk-2 agreement.
However, what makes the article interesting is that its main source of information seems to be a conference in Brussels where Breedlove and Nuland were present. So the article gives a good impression of the message that these people are now trying to sell in Europe.
U.S. Air Force General Philip Breedlove told an audience here at the German Marshall Fund Brussels Forum that Moscow continues to ramp up military and economic support to separatists in Eastern Ukraine. That conclusion was based on evidence gathered by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s joint intelligence unit in the U.K.
Under the agreement reached last month in Minsk, Belarus, Russia is obligated to withdraw all troops and equipment from Ukraine and return control of the border to the Kiev government by the end of this year. The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe is supposed to monitor Russian compliance.
“What we see is diplomatic tools being used, informational tools being used, military tools being used, economic tools being used against Ukraine,” he said. “We in the West should consider using all of our tools in reply. Could it be destabilizing? The answer is yes. Also, inaction could be destabilizing.”
It looks like their story hasn’t much changed from before Minsk-2.
It would be interesting to have a complete text of what they told in Brussels. It would give us a better understanding what to expect from those people.
the worst???
link fixed, thanks