Reports are pouring in of provocations. These are routinely reported to various monitoring organizations relatively without fanfare, but the Russian press (in English) is carrying this widely.
Peskov: “We can see that provocations are taking place. We have seen reports from the self-proclaimed republics about an exchange of strikes on the line of contact and the first strikes came from Ukraine. This is very alarming information,”
Donetsk, February 17. /TASS/: The forces of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) had to open retaliatory fire to suppress the Ukrainian army’s weapons and protect civilians, spokesman for the DPR people’s militia Oleg Nikitin said in a statement on Thursday.
“In order to protect civilians, our defenders had to open retaliatory fire to suppress the enemy’s weapons,” the spokesman said.
The data on civilians wounded and civil infrastructure facilities damaged in the bombardments is being specified. The ceasefire breaches were promptly brought to the notice of the Ukrainian side’s representatives in the Joint Ceasefire Control and Coordination Center “in order to take measures against the offenders and rule out the instances of falsifying the registered data on ceasefire violations by the Ukrainian military,” the spokesman said.
“We call on international observers and the leadership of the OSCE [Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe] to register yet another fact of the gross violation of the ceasefire by the Ukrainian side that is purposefully provoking the resumption of hostilities in Donbas,” Nikitin stressed.
Lugansk: February 17. /TASS/. The situation at the line of engagement in Donbass has significantly aggravated over the past 24 hours, Yan Leshchenko, head of the Lugansk People’s Republic’s (LPR) Militia said on Thursday.
“Over the past 24 hours, the situation at the line of combat engagement has significantly escalated. The adversary, following direct orders of Kiev’s military-political leadership, is undertaking attempts to aggravate the conflict. <…> We are urging international observers to record the facts of aggressive actions on the part of Kiev’s militants and undertake immediate measures to prevent bloodshed in Donbass,” his emergency statement published on the LPR’s People’s Militia’s Telegram channel said.
Earlier, the representatives of the LPR at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of ceasefire (JCCC) reported that Ukraine’s armed forces violated the ceasefire four times since midnight. The areas of the Zolotoye-5, Sokolniki, Veselenkoye, and Nizhneye Lozovoye communities were shelled. Additionally, the Donetsky settlement was shelled by mortars.
Kindly use this as an open thread and only for reporting of factual information or a link to factual information with a short description of your link. If you do not have factual information, then you should not respond here.
Expect accusations and counter-accusations and we will not know anything for fact for a while yet. Here is an example: A report from RT: https://www.rt.com/russia/549672-ukraine-donbass-leaders-accuse/
The information sources that I follow, say nothing stands as confirmed yet.
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Обстрел Новой Кондрашевки
Shelling of Novaya Kondrashevka
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXS46zaf7AQ
Orcs are shelling DNR again, several hours of heavy mortar fire. DNR says a kindergarten structure was hit, no casualties. Orcs say it was their kindergarten and two staff were injured.
According to Novorossiya, shelling is increasing:
And we begin with a sharp military escalation along the entire front line. Since the morning, the enemy has been conducting massive shelling of the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics. As for DUR: arrivals are recorded on the northern and western outskirts of Donetsk, Gorlovka, Yasinovataya, Debaltseve and in other localities. Under fire and the southern direction. According to the stories of local residents, such a cannonade has not been heard for a long time.
Our friends near Gorlovka have just contacted VCO and stated they are OK and have been evacuated to out of range of ‘small’ and ‘medium’ artillery. Arty fire could clearly be heard during the contact.
Auslander
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So the Mordor has started it’s assault?
Orcs couldn’t wait anymore, dumb as they are. So sad, I wonder how many Ents have fallen in that shelling.
They will have their revenge soon.
You were CLEARLY told to ONLY post facts.
Can you read?
The product life cycle of the khazar state in Palestine has reached the end. Torya & Co are working towards a back up state in the Ukraine (remember saakashvilli training as Odessa Mayor), both the dumb concentration camp guards and polish ethnics remain unaware. And the biggest dumb goy stoltenberg wants to add to the €12b the EU/IMF have given for the fruition of this khazar plan orchestrated by nudelman for the Russian emigre jew deep state that is in charge at State. Russia cannot allow 10m of its kin in Ukraine to be genocided and will intercede, in the push and pull a new khanate may arise with Odessa as capital. Saakashvilli already has experience running the city.
Some Intel from Donbass. The DAN agency is responsible reporting. Biggest problem is OSCE has evacuated the area so they can’t report the situation, although OSCE has become just a extension of NATO.
https://dan-news.info/en/defence/dpr-militia-returns-fire-following-massive-strikes-at-republic/
I saw a report this morning on RT that a Kindergarten in Donbass had been hit with shelling,but no further details or verification,but already in my Country its being reported as a Shelling by the DPR militia.
The BBC (Radio 4, 2pm news) has just reported a mortar attack by ‘russian backed militants’ on a kindergarten, injuring 3. Here’s a link to the earlier news at 1pm: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0014gn5
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Send out the drones and chase them down. Why are they fighting with WWII systems (artillery barrages)? Or perhaps Putin is testing the JCCC to see if they will do their jobs. But overall, not surprising.
You were CLEARLY told to ONLY post facts.
Can you read?
@EVERYBODY: Please read this before posting:
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@ Amarynth
Thanks for the thread.
One wonders what kind of hate motivates such entities in 404 to attack and kill people who could be their fathers, mothers, brothers. Where does this hate come from? These people embraced the same ideology that look at them and treated them as “untermensch,” and worked at exterminating them from the face of the earth in WWII. Now they aim to do the same to their own people. Mindboggling.
This is yet another creation of the west, bastard aberrations of the neo-cons, e.g. Vicky “F… the EU” Nuland, and her husband’s cabal, like the taqfiris in Syria/Iraq/ME. One of the many reasons they want to lessen the liberating role of Russia during WWII, is to awake the ugly head of Nazi-Fascism in Europe.
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https://dan-news.info/en/defence/ukraine-preparing-seaborne-assault-to-capture-dpr-positions-on-sea-of-azov/
Ukraine preparing seaborne assault to capture DPR positions on Sea of Azov shore – DPR intelligence
Donetsk, Feb 17 – DAN. The Ukrainian army is training a tactical amphibious landing party to seize Donetsk People’s Republic militia positions on the Sea of Azov shore, the DPR militia said.
“DPR militia intelligence agents have obtained new information on the Ukrainian army’s planned offensive in Donbass,” the militia said. “Commander of the Operations and Tactical Group “East” Yury Sodol is planning and preparing the landing of a tactical amphibious force to gain a foothold on the Azov shore of the DPR and attack our troops from the rear.”
Last week, the Ukrainian army Joint Forces Operations commander Alexander Pavlyuk visited Mariupol where Sodol reported to him on completing the training for the amphibious raid…”
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Provocations will continue unabated. And the western presstitutes don’t say a word about the attacks on the people of Donbass. In the western media, like the Houthis in Yemen, they are not people, but “separatists,” and by the Ukronazis design, “terrorists.”
Lone Wolf
The Russian Foreign Ministry might be under DDoS attack.
I cannot reach it (tried both ping and traceroute).
Can anybody confirm?
The URL is: http://www.mid.ru/
Thanks
Andrei
I confirm … a few hours now.
Not accessible from South Asia.
@ Saker
https://www.isitdownrightnow.com/mid.ru.html
MidWebsite Name: Mid
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Down For: ~41 mins
DOWN Mid.ru is DOWN for everyone.
It is not just you. The server is not responding…
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Lone Wolf
At least now there is a note, they got hold of it.
https://mid.ru/
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Works as of 1130 am in Florida, US. Thanks, Andrei.
9.34 am in Vancouver:
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation The page is not available Dear visitors! Your request could not be completed. We apologize for any inconvenience caused. ID is: 3063680526870689131 © Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation
As of 20:16 Moskau time, site is up.
Auslander
Interesting, still down from Florida
Foggy Bottom don’t love you no more. Time to sell out and come to us.
https://www.mid.ru/
A half hour ago indeed blocked from here (7 pm, France), now local time 7.30 pm: website back.
Its all OK. Used here from Germany.
According to the Colonel Cassad website Russia has just kicked out the US Deputy Ambassador.
Also confirmed here: https://www.rt.com/russia/549720-us-ambassador-deputy-expelled/
Various news also here, rumors of a Ukie drone intercepeted plus Western hysteria rampaging:
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/ukraine-and-donbass-rebels-accuse-each-other-violating-ceasefire-kremlin-denies-troop
Now in the press: Website of Russia’s Foreign Ministry knocked offline – cause unknown.
And a short list of Russia’s responses which is now posted on the blog, but machine translated:
Russia Security Docs Reiterate No Invasion in Ukraine – Gives Tough Response to US & NATO “Ignoring” Security Proposals
Key points outlined in response to Washington:
▪️Russia not responsible for escalation, West has been declaring “invasion” since autumn
▪️Ukraine asked to cut ties with NATO, including removing foreign military personnel from its territory
▪️Withdrawal of all US forces from Eastern Europe
▪️Russia vows to respond to US being “unprepared” to provide hard legal guarantees regarding regional security
▪️Moscow declines to enter in limited agreements, and will only consider to complex proposals
▪️No firm move towards negotiating on legally-binding guarantees will see Russia respond firmly, including measures of a military-technical nature.
We are in contact with friends of ours up north. We have fewer now, a few years back our closest friends were killed when an orc Grad missile went right in their kitchen window, killing the mother and father, grandmother and grandfather, four neighbors and four show quality kolies. We had known them for years, they were ‘dog people’ like us. The nearest NAF forces were four kilometers away, ergo the packet of Grad missiles fired in to their cluster of 7 story flats buildings was purely and simply a terror attack.
Those we still have reported, as stated earlier, that they have been evacuated to more safe areas whether they wanted to or not. They also reported that the fighting is intensifying, at times heavy artillery fire is heard along with small arms fire therefore the fighting is at times up close and personal. While the fighting along the lines of contact in Novorossiya is intensifying there will be no sudden influx of Russian troops (there never was), the South Wind is already beginning to blow and I have no doubts that the North Wind will also blow.
OK; no, Twitter is not down, just every tweet stream from every Russian professional site that I have. Geneva, Permanent Mission to UN, Vienna .. every single professional Russian site that I follow is just not loading.
I have a list on Twitter (private list) with all of these and my full list is not loading.
Two journalists that I follow (one in Donbas one currently in Brittian), they’re not loading.
This sitrep is becoming crucially important for information exchange. I ask you to continue every little bit of information and fact that you have and please don’t mess around.
The IT giants are isolating the Donbas and Russia. Let’s get to it and do the job of information exchange.
I don’t do twitter or any of that ‘social media’ stuff, but I will continue to report what I see and what I hear that is vetted in my opinion.
In essence, all hell is breaking loose in Novorossiya. I’ll try to keep blog up to date but at the moment what I last posted is the latest. It is within the realm of possibility that this latest flurry of death and destruction will die down by dawn tomorrow. Stranger things have happened.
Auslander
On Zerohedge:
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/blinken-lays-out-russian-false-flag-chemical-attack-claims-dramatic-un-security-council
But possibly the most sensational and dramatic part of Blinken’s speech, was his repeating the recent White House claims that Russia is planning a false flag attack as a pretext for invasion:
“Here’s what the world can expect to see unfold, in fact it’s unfolding right now, today… First, Russia plans to manufacture a pretext for its attack: this could be a violent event that Russia will blame on Ukraine, or an outrageous accusation that Russia will level against the Ukrainian government.”
He specified that this “Russia-manufactured” pretext could come in the form of a “fake or real attack using chemical weapons”.
Please tell me that he held up a small vial of washing powder.
With OSCE having run like the dogs they are, intensive fighting is extant along almost the entire Novorossiya lines albeit mainly in DNR areas. Eyes on says the artillery barrages from the orcs are continuous and intensifying. Replying fire is something I will not report, the orcs know exactly what is coming at them.
If this continues through the morning and begins to affect civilians more than it already is one would expect the leash to be removed from NAF and permission given to end this tragedy. One can only hope.
OSCE observers are still there. From Telegram:
https://t.me/intelslava/18855
🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡OSCE observers said they have recorded 500 explosions along the line of contact in Donbas since yesterday evening, while today their intensity has decreased
A later message from the same channel states:
🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡The shelling has resumed. After a brief lull under fire, the outskirts of Donetsk
https://t.me/intelslava/18863
I’m not sure if this is right thread to use but in any case, for what it is worth…
I tested the Russian site provided here (from Australia) and it appeared to work.
Google translate will not work (using bot tests that do not allow access).
However the Russian site “EN” works for English.
The latest news that I can see is:
“17 February 2022 12:30
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s opening remarks during talks with Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Luigi di Maio, Moscow, February 17, 2022.”
https://mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/themes/824670/
This is now 2:45am on the 18th local time (western Oz).
https://antibellum679354512.wordpress.com/2022/02/17/pentagon-chief-at-nato-hq-russian-troops-right-at-natos-doorstep-video/
Date: February 17, 2022Author: Rick Rozoff
“This brings Russian troops right up to NATO’s doorstep….America’s commitment to NATO and to Article 5 remains iron-clad.”
In which he retreads the blood supplies, false flag and other canards. He also accuses Russia of threats in Belarus, Crimea and the Black Sea and expresses “alarm over China’s tacit approval of Putin’s activities here in the region.”
Jefke,
Krimea and Sevastopol is and always will be Russia, ergo whatever ‘antibellum’ says is bovine scatology in that respect. What threats in Byelorus? Since when is the east and south borders of 404 ‘nato’s doorstep’. Perhaps someone should show this clown a map and show him a photo of Naxhimov Square in Sevastopol 23 February 2014.
Auslander, HOR Sevastopol, Severnya District, Federal City of Sevastopoleh.
It is Lloyd Austin the Pentagon Chief who is giving the blood-curdling lecture.
And it is Rick Perry (aka Antibellum) that writes “he (Lloyd Austin) retreads the blood supplies, false flag, and other canards.” Antibellum May repost garbage, but he generally labels it as such.