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Listening to Lavrov in Munich

I have to say that I personally don’t recall anything quite like what happened today in Munich. For one thing, I detected a tone in Lavrov’s words which I had not felt so strongly before. Of course, Lavrov was calm, composed and polite. But this time I also felt an immense sense of disgust on his part for the audience he was addressing and for what these so-called ‘leaders’ had

Talks in Moscow – a two-part analysis

by Alexander Mercouris   Part one (On 6th February 2015) They have apparently continued for 5 hours and are still not finished though it seems some sort of document is being prepared for tomorrow.   Three comments: 1. If negotiations go on for 5 hours that does not suggest a smooth and conflict free discussion. 2. One of the most interesting things about the Moscow talks is that they mainly

Very important speech by Foreign Minister Lavrov

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Moscow talks over, results, if any, will be announced on Sunday

Russia media reports that after 5 hours of negotiations the talks are over, that they were “constructive” and that results will be finalized and announced on Sunday. So nothing concrete yet.   The Saker   [Note from webmaster: We are in the process of migrating the comments of the articles from blogspot to the new blog here. Due to technical reasons we’ll have to copy the remaining comments manually which

06.02.2015 Military Report of Novorossia. Latest news of Ukraine, DPR, LPR

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About US weapons deliveries and Novorussian mobilization plans

Still no news from Moscow, so I decided to quickly address a frequent misconception: US weapon deliveries and their effectiveness.   US weapons deliveries to the junta US political culture and propaganda has deeply ingrained in the minds of those exposed to the corporate media the notion that weapons or technologies win wars. This is not so. Or, not really so. Yes, when the difference in technologies is very big

Quick update on Debaltsevo

Couple of things: The evacuation of civilians basically failed. First, the buses got stuck and had to wait due to nearby mortar shelling, then only 3 buses (out of 20) were filled with refugees, nobody else wanted to leave and, considering the risks, I don’t blame them. This is a terrible thing to say, but not boarding these buses today was the prudent thing to do (today, the junta forces

06.02.2015 Ukrainian crisis news. War in Ukraine, Donbass, Kiev, USA, Russia

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History of Ukraine, part 4

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Ukraine SITREP: *Extremely* dangerous situation in Debaltsevo

The Novorussian and the junta have agreed to a cease-fire to allow the civilian population to leave Debaltsevo. In theory, each civilian will get to chose whether he/she wants to be evacuated to Novorussia or to the Nazi-occupied Ukraine. The convoy of refugees will be escorted by senior OSCE officials. Both sides to the conflict have pledged not to open fire during the time needed for this operation. Now consider

05.02.2015 Military Report of Novorossia. War in Ukraine, DPR, LPR

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Intermedia Ukraine mini-SITREP

So Kerry and Nuland are in Kiev, and tomorrow Merkel and Hollande will be in Moscow. This is probably the strongest evidence that the Debaltsevo cauldron is closed and the surrounded junta forces desperate and defeated (one Russian military analyst stated in an interview that he believes that about half of all the truly combat capable junta forces are in the Debaltsevo cauldron – in other words, the junta army

05.02.2015 Ukrainian crisis news. Latest news of Ukraine, Donbass, Kiev, Europe, Russia, China

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Ukraine SITREP: Debaltsevo cauldron finally closed?

This time this sure looks official: the Russian TV channel REN-TV has announced that the Debaltsevo cauldron has been finally closed, just north of the city of Debaltsevo itself and not further north up the highway where this had been expected. The same reports say that the DNR and LNR forces met, so we are not talking about holding the highway under direct artillery fire anymore, but about Novorussian forces

04.02.2015 Military Report of Novorossia. Latest news of Ukraine, DPR,LPR

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Next podcast hopefully in a week or so

Dear friends, I will try to record the next podcast early next week, God willing. So now is a good time to ask for your questions/comments/criticisms. And since due to my personal circumstances I have not had the time to answer a lot of comments and personal emails, please feel free to re-post them below (but please, do not email me). The deadline to post questions/comments/criticisms is this Friday, February

04.02.2015 Ukrainian crisis news. War in Ukraine, Donbass, DPR, Russia, USA, Europe

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Putin prefers a bad peace

By Israel Shamir   In February, it is a long way to the spring, lamented Joseph Brodsky, the poet. Indeed, snow still falls heavily in Moscow and Kiev as well as in the rolling steppes that form Russian-Ukrainian borderlands, but there it is tinted with red. Soldiers are loth to fight in the winter, when life is difficult anyway in these latitudes, but fighting already flared up in war-torn Donbass,

Interview with Dmitry Rogozin, Deputy PM of Russia

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War in the Ukraine

by Alexander Mercouris   Russia Insider has published my latest piece on the course of the Ukrainian war. It is a more refined and thought through version of the piece I previously wrote on this Page. The Ukrainian Army Is Bleeding to Death   1. My key point is that it is not minor tactical movements that are determining the course of this war. It is the level of casualties

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