Ukraine SITREP August 16th, 2015 by Scott & BAAZ

Donbass Donetsk Novorossia

1. Today again non-stopping Ukrainian artillery strikes on civilians in Makeevka [source]

2. Full list of shellings in Makeevka [source]

3. Town Zhovanka, Donetsk, after Ukranian Arned Forces shelled it overnight August 13 – 14 2015 Images of horrible obliteration [source]
Жованка после обстрела со стороны ВСУ

4. Terrible tragedy in Gorlovka. Severe intentional shelling of Gorlovka by NATO and Kiev junta armed forces. Video
Последствия обстрела Горловки в ночь на 14 августа

5. Results of Ukrainian artillery strikes on Makeevka photos and videos August 14, 2015[source]
Последствия обстрела г. Макеевка, Червоногвардейский р-н

6. Results of Ukrainian artillery strikes on Makeevka. Images of firefiters by kp.com Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper [source]

7. Woman killed in Donetsk near her house on August 14, 2015 English subtitles video

8. Terrorists of NATO and Kiev junta armed forces continue to brutalize civilian population of Donetsk People Republic and Lugansk People Republic. Night on August 15th, 2015 Donetsk was under heavy shelling by NATO Ukrainian armed forces [source]
Reports that 10,000 houses and buildings are destroyed in Donbass by the continuing shelling and bombing by NATO and Kiev armed forces

9. Donetsk burning from NATO, European Union and Kiev junta shelling [source]
Донецк: ночь с 15 на 16 августа 2015

10. Here, more videos of the shelling of Donetsk by NATO and Kiev Junta forces August 15, 2015 [source]

11. Eduard Basurin: Kiev junta plans to conduct several terroristic acts to justify its attacks on Donetsk [source]
Хунта планирует провести серию терактов для оправдания своего наступления на Донбассе. – Эдуард Басурин.

12. Novorossia SITREP Updated news

13. Town Gorlovka under NATO shelling August 14 – 15, 2015 Video

14. Town Makeevka. Video DRP – Makiivka. Shelling aftermath Aug. 14th, 2015 | Eng Subs. We have no desire or energy to comment the ongoing war crines of Bandera Nazi fascist Kiev junta. The Kiev Junta is terrorizing the civilian population and destroying our infrastructure [source]

15. NATO conducting the war against the East and South eastern Ukraine. With boots on the ground and occupying Ukraine, NATO produces “polls” stating that Ukraine wants to join NATO.
Here is the NATO propaganda video on how Ukrainians wants to join NATO

NATO has occupying Ukraine for almost two years. Why does it matter what population wants at this point? NATO terrorizing Donbass to show what will happen if Ukrainians say anything against NATO and US occupation.

16. An American in Donetsk. Техас под обстрелом. “Texas” under fire. ТВ СВ-ДНР Выпуск 485. TV EOT-DPR Issue 485

17. Graham Phillips Special Report about people of Donetsk
(Eng subs) Гриша – Специальный Репортаж.(#7) “Пуст люди узнает – город Донецк – как нам жить”

18. Gruzian (Georgian) military specialists along with Israeli military specialists are training Ukrainians junta’s Nazi military battalions Donbas and Azov for war against Russia. Saakashvili and Poroshenko are forming a military first to hit Donbass [source]
Грузинские военспецы готовят хлопцев к новым боям: Элита армии
Саакашвили формируют в Донбассе ударный кулак п…
Ирина Иванова от 14.08.2015. by Irina Ivanova

This is an informative article with lots of names of candidates for the International tribunal of NATO Ukraine war crimes.

There are no doubts that Israel takes participation in all activities hostile to Russia in the world. In the Western war against Russia Israel takes leading role. Watching and recording Israel’s actions against Russia has become a part of the process of reporting about the NATO occupation and war in Ukraine.

19. All illegal migrants from Ukraine will be deported from the European Union. London police manhunt for the Ukranian migrant workers. [source]
В Лондоне устроили облаву на гастарбайтеров из Украины. More than 41% of working adult Ukrainians work abroad. The majority of course are in Russia.

20. Situation in eastern Ukraine explosive: Frank-Walter Steinmeier, German foreign minister [source]
“By Reuters | 16 Aug, 2015 – In a newspaper interview on Sunday, Frank-Walter Steinmeier said he had proposed in talks with his Ukrainian and Russian counterparts that Kiev and pro-Russian separatists sit down urgently with representatives from the OSCE (Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe) to try to reduce tensions. ”
What causes the fascists government of Germany to express “concern”?
The alleged attacks on Junta troops near Mariupol.

“Last Monday, Ukraine accused the separatists of carrying out the heaviest artillery attacks on government positions near the port city of Mariupol in half a year. The rebels have denied attacking government troops. ”

As we can see, German foreign minister has not even one word of concern about Junta and NATO shelling towns and villages of Novorossia.

The question is when NATO, the US, and European countries will start paying for their war crimes and crimes against humanity?

Russia and Beyond

1. NEWS AND VIEWS FROM THE NEFARIUM AUGUST 13 2015
Joseph P. Farrell on the far-reaching impliclations of the recent meeting between Putin and Elvira Nabiullina, President of the Central
Bank of Russia. Very, very interesting. (13min.)

2. Putin pitches Grand Alliance against Daesh/ ISIL, but Syria Rebels
want al-Assad Gone [source]

3. Russians value tolerance and civility more than freedom of speech — poll [source]
Russia August 13, 14:55 UTC+3 Some 67% of respondents believe that those working in the world of art should not insult religious sensitivities with their art works

4. Ukrainians are buying real estate in Crimea, to get residency of Russia [source]
Украинцы покупают недвижимость в Крыму, «чтобы проще получить
российский вид на жительство»

5. US Classified Docs: Army Not Capable of Sustained Fight with Russia
15 years of pointless and failed “counter terrorism” warfare has
depleted America’s capability to fight a serious war against a major
opponent [source]

6. US owes millions of dollars to Cuba as compensation for years of
embargo’ – Fidel Castro

7. Russia declassifies the report on the aftermath of the US nuclear
bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

8. CrossTalk : Remembering Victory
The War in Europe came to an end 70 years ago. The Soviet Union and its
Allies stood supreme over the vanquished Nazi enemy, with the
continent on its knees. What lessons have been learned since that vast
conflict? And what lessons have been unlearned? Was the loss of so
many millions in vain?
CrossTalking with Geoffrey Roberts, Jeffrey Tayler and Dmitry Babich.

JJ on August 17, 2015 · at 12:13 pm EST/EDT

Lavrov getting a bit stroppy with USA?
http://tass.ru/en/world/814765

re sanctions, illegal kidnappings etc

and “MOSCOW, August 17. /TASS/. Russia is concerned about the developments in Ukraine, which are reminiscent of Kiev’s preparation for hostilities, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Monday following talks with his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif.
“As for the situation with the implementation of the Minsk agreements of February 12, we are really very much concerned about the current state of affairs,” he noted. “I regularly discuss the issue with my colleagues. The other day I spoke with [US Secretary of State] John Kerry and [German Foreign Minister] Frank-Walter Steinmeier. We also conveyed the appropriate assessments to Paris as another country, which, along with Germany and Russia, is a guarantor of the Minsk agreements.”
“The situation at the frontlines is alarming,” the minister went on to say.”
and
“Ukraine’s army has pulled three army units, more than 430 tanks, 132 multiple launch rocket systems and up to 830 artillery pieces and mortars to the line of engagement in Donbass, Eduard Basurin, a spokesman for the defence ministry of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), said on Sunday.
“The Ukrainian group in sector C consists of up to 22 battalions, 130 tanks, 950 armoured personnel carriers, 290 artillery weapons and mortars, and up to 35 multiple launch rocket systems,” the Donetsk News Agency quoted him as saying.
Apart from that, he said, up to 26 battalions with 230 tanks and 75 multiple launch rocket systems have been concentrated in sector B. Up to 20 battalions, 75 tanks and 22 multiple launchers are deployed in sector M.”
and
“KIEV, August 16. /TASS/. Ukraine’s authorities reserve the right “in case of a threat” to return to the front line weapons of calibre over 100mm, speaker of the Ukrainian presidential administration on the force operation in Donbass Alexander Motuzyanik told a briefing on Sunday.”

and

“Violence has broken out in Ukraine with renewed force and both conflicting parties are accusing each other of the violation of the ceasefire.

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier is anxious about new outbreaks of violence in Ukraine and warns of further escalation of the conflict.

“The situation in the Eastern Ukraine is explosive,” Steinmeier told Bild am Sonntag. “If both parties do not start to build on the peace process soon, a new military escalation could be triggered.”

During talks with the Ukrainian and the Russian Foreign Minister, Steinmeier suggested that “the military of the warring parties and the OSCE should come together […] as soon as possible to discuss possible ways of the situation’s de-escalation and the withdrawal of weapons.”
Read more: http://sputniknews.com/europe/20150817/1025830412.html#ixzz3j4cesjxM

but Merkel and Hollande are silent we note………

and

“Donbass is at the threshold of renewal of full-scale warfare, as Kiev violates every single term of the Minsk ceasefire protocol on daily basis, bombing both residential and public areas on the east of Ukraine, says American journalist Stephen Lendman.
Special troops from the US and the UK are actively preparing Ukrainian forces for the escalation of conflict in the Donbass region, Lendman wrote in his column.
Read more: http://sputniknews.com/europe/20150816/1025798557.html#ixzz3j4d6U2im

“Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko’s statements on the possibility of Russian aggression in Europe are “delusional” and “inconceivable,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Monday.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) — According to the minister, the Ukrainian leader is diverting attention from his own failure to comply with the Minsk peace deals by supporting Russophobia.

“So far we see that Ukrainian authorities are trying to heat up the situation by making some inconceivable, delusional statements,” Lavrov told reporters, reacting to Poroshenko’s recent statement that Russian President Vladimir Putin “wants all of Europe.”

“It is clear that such a person is more concerned about maintaining Russophobia in the West, about artificially escalating tensions and thereby diverting attention from his own inability to fulfill what he signed up for,” Lavrov said.
Read more: http://sputniknews.com/politics/20150817/1025828735.html#ixzz3j4c8Acgv

February 12, we are really very much concerned about the current state of affairs,” he noted. “I regularly discuss the issue with my colleagues. The other day I spoke with [US Secretary of State] John Kerry and [German Foreign Minister] Frank-Walter Steinmeier. We also conveyed the appropriate assessments to Paris as another country, which, along with Germany and Russia, is a guarantor of the Minsk agreements.”
“The situation at the frontlines is alarming,” the minister went on to say.”

Note Steinmeier not concerned about Donbass but only this pwrhaps and
“Fresh recount data from The World Bank (July 1, 2015). It has shown that Russia overtook Germany last year, and despite sanctions, falling oil prices and the Ukrainian conflict, Russia’s economy keeps growing by 4% and it has been ranked fifth in the world in terms of GDP PPP.
”
http://fortruss.blogspot.co.uk/2015/08/august-15th-2015-sdelanounas.html

and

Yats to find more money for war?
Finance Minister Natalie Jaresko may lead the Ukrainian government if its current head agrees to run the country’s National Bank, Ukrainian media reported on Monday.

“The Cabinet reshuffle planned for this fall may not spare the Premier himself,” the Kiev-based newspaper Vesti wrote, adding that Arseniy Yatsenyuk had allegedly been offered to head the National Bank of Ukraine.
“If he agrees, his present job will go to Finance Minister Natalie Jaresko. The Prime Minister is still considering the offer,” the newspaper wrote, citing its own sources in the government.
Read more: http://sputniknews.com/europe/20150817/1025829329.html#ixzz3j4e8fF9C

36 Comments

Dennis Leary on August 16, 2015 · at 7:45 pm EST/EDT

Thanks for posting the News from the Nefarium. He talked about the recent meeting between Putin and Elvira N. His sources were RT and RI which he summarized. Seems like extremely important developments in the money world are afoot by the Russian bear. It might account for the virulent, desperate and I might say insane behavior of the West. The ante has been upped and the game is changing.
jomo on August 16, 2015 · at 9:02 pm EST/EDT

“Israeli military specialists are training Ukrainians junta’s Nazi military battalions Donbas and Azov”

Israel and Jews fine with Nazi attacks on Slavs – always were. Only when the Germans turned against them did they scream, but Jews were involved in Germany’s WWI atrocities against other countries/peoples.
anon on August 16, 2015 · at 9:28 pm EST/EDT

Re: Involvement of Israel

Israel’s support for the Ukrainian government can be linked to several factors:

1. Yukos. Leonid Nevzlin, a former Yukos executive and major shareholder, fled to Israel to escape murder charges in Russia, charges of which he was later convicted in absentia. If Russia pays, or is forced to pay, the $52 billion dollars in damages awarded to former Yukos shareholders by the Hague and the ECHR, Nevlin and other influential Israeli oligarchs will receive most of the money. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-07-28/yukos-owners-win-50-billion-damage-award-vs-russia-gml-says Israel, struggling with economic problems and and global revulsion, would benefit immensely from the resulting financial influx.

Since both the Russian people and the Duma oppose any settlement with Yukos shareholders, the Yukos crowd are pinning their hopes on the Ukraine conflict triggering “regime change” and a subsequent, Western-installed, “technocratic,” Russian government paying the money so as to “uphold the rule of law.” Worryingly, several people with ties to both Yukos and Mikhail Khodorkovsky, most notably Vladislav Surkov, continue to be entrusted with the (mis)management of both Donbass and the Caucuses.

2. Brezhnev Bonds During the early 1980s, Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev convinced Soviet citizens to buy large quantities of ruble-denominated bonds paying a low (3%) rate of interest and which entered purchasers in lotteries for cars and other consumer goods. Since the ruble could not be freely converted into other currencies, the bonds paid negative real interest rates, and were effectively redeemable only at the whim of the Communist Party, the risk to the Soviet economy was relatively low.

Since the Soviet Union collapsed, then-President Yeltsin, foreign investors, and the ECHR have colluded to turn the bonds into inflation-protected securities redeemable in Euros and structured so as to protect bondholders from the events of the 1990s. By 2012, the (upgraded) bonds had become worth $785 billion dollars, equal to twice Russia’s forex reserves and nearly half its economy. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2012-08-27/brezhnev-bonds-haunt-putin-as-investors-hunt-for-785-billion

When Putin hesitated to fully repay them, he was widely denounced by the West and Israel, with the latter using elderly ex-Soviet Jews residing in Israel as victims of Putin’s “lawlessness.” (Soviet Jews, over-represented among the Soviet intelligentsia and nomenklatura, would have purchased far more bonds than, say, ethnic Russian peasants in the Kazakh SSR.) Again, a Russian “regime change” would result in a massive influx of capital to Israeli citizens who purchased (or later acquired) the bonds.

3. To express gratitude and support for American neoconservatives who do Israel’s bidding in the United States. As Americans came to understand during the Iraq War, it was a small, interlinked group of Israel officials and pro-Israel Americans who were simultaneously responsible for America’s subservience to Israel, for the Iraq War, and for the conflict with Iran. http://www.haaretz.com/news/features/white-man-s-burden-1.14110 Now, the same web of family, religious, business, and other interests have expanded their web to include the fight against Russia. https://consortiumnews.com/2015/03/20/a-family-business-of-perpetual-war/ American neoconservatives scratch Israel’s back (at America’s expense), now Israel scratches theirs (at Russian expense).

4. To punish Russia for backing Assad against Israel and the US Israel lobby. Russia’s decision to protect Assad brought down the wrath of the most powerful Washington “clan” – Israel and the Israel lobby – on Russia, a clan with the ability to run a massive media hate campaign, end the “reset” with Russia, and impose sanctions (e.g., the Magnitsky Act) long before 2014 even began. By backing Assad against the US and Israel, Putin made conflict with the US inevitable.
- Scott on August 16, 2015 · at 9:53 pm EST/EDT
  
  @ anon
  
  Would you be interested to contribute to our SITREP efforts?
  Essentially, would you be interested to become thesake’s research assistant? You can contribute as little, or as much as you want.
  If, yes, please email to Saker at email thesaker: vineyardsaker@gmail.com for Scott.
  Thank you
alan on August 16, 2015 · at 10:15 pm EST/EDT

Just saw this post from Mish’s blog that says that major war about to start or is already starting in Donbass again: http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2015/08/major-war-resumption-in-ukraine.html

can anyone else confirm?
- LJ on August 17, 2015 · at 6:23 am EST/EDT
  
  Nobody knows. It’s speculation. Col. Cassad strongly suspects it will start soon. But he and others have strongly suspect the same thing several times since the February cease fire. It might be hours, days, weeks, months or years.
elsi on August 16, 2015 · at 10:39 pm EST/EDT

Thanks a lot Scott and BAAZ for the Sitrep, I´ll be reading along the week

“The question is when NATO, the US, and European countries will start paying for their war crimes and crimes against humanity?”

Good question, the same I am making to myself since long ago.

Meanwhile in China:

“Suspicious explosions in China caused dozens of casualties coinciding with increasing military tensions in the South China Sea and Africa and the currency war”

http://www.elespiadigital.com/index.php/noticias/historico-de-noticias/10386-sospechosas-explosiones-en-china-provocan-decenas-de-victimas-coincidiendo-con-el-aumento-de-las-tensiones-militares-en-el-mar-de-china-y-africa-y-la-guerra-de-divisas

“Intelligence is hard to believe in coincidences or random events when they coincide in time with others that indicate a more or less obvious trend(….)

(….) too much to not think that what happened in Tianjin could be due to an act of sabotage in an important and guarded industrial area, just two km from the data center where it operates one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world, which had to be off (….)

Includes:

“Off the Tianhe-1A supercomputer after the explosions in China”

“Stress ‘on the fence’: Sino-Japanese disputes are transferred to the East Sea”

“Chinese war drones involved in fighting against Boko Haram in Nigeria”
- Daniel Rich on August 16, 2015 · at 11:10 pm EST/EDT
  
  @ elsi,
  
  Q; …could be due to an act of sabotage in an important and guarded industrial area.
  
  R; My bet is on Chinese sloppiness and not hostile activities of anyone else.
  - elsi on August 16, 2015 · at 11:39 pm EST/EDT
    
    And what about the issue of the supercomputer? Curious, at least, in the middle of a currency war…..
    
    Have you read the article/articles linked? Try with a translator.
    
    Too many coincidences. IMHO.
    - Daniel Rich on August 17, 2015 · at 12:46 am EST/EDT
      
      @ elsi,
      
      Q; Too many coincidences. IMHO.
      
      R; That might be, but I’m a ‘hunch’ kinda guy.
      
      JFK, 9/11, flights MH 350 + 17 all get my gut going and I know I’m being lied to and have to listen to endless hours of ballyhoo, portrayed as ‘scientific’ precision by the intellectually backward bodyguards, sent in by the powers who see no need for the truth or justice to prevail anyway.
      
      However, wrt this explosion, I’m still convinced it was sloppiness on behalf of the Chinese side.
      
      When irrefutable evidence is provided over the coming days/weeks, proving me wrong, I’ll happily admit to it.
- Signalman on August 17, 2015 · at 3:51 am EST/EDT
  
  Here’s some info on the supercomputer sector in China
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercomputing_in_China
  
  The Tianjin computer is 24th fastest in the world. They have many of the very fastest. Obama wants the US to get the title back.
  
  The US will need it to calculate the debt he is leaving behind.
  - Anonymous on August 17, 2015 · at 4:40 pm EST/EDT
    
    If O. wanted to blow up a super computer, it surely would not be that one. The Cray across the hill from me was #1 for a while, then a new Chinese one came along — think Oak Ridge will top them soon. Trust me
elsi on August 16, 2015 · at 10:57 pm EST/EDT

Meanwhile in the KSA:

“Prince Saud bin Abdulaziz describes the king of Saudi Arabia, “a fool runs the country”.”

http://www.elespiadigital.com/index.php/noticias/historico-de-noticias/10421-el-principe-saud-bin-abdulaziz-describe-al-rey-de-arabia-saudita-un-tonto-dirige-el-pais-orientando-documental-sobre-la-casa-saud

“Saudi Prince Saud bin Saif al-Nasr bin Saud bin Abdulaziz launches harsh criticism against the second Crown Prince Salman bin Mohamad and claims that the administration of the country is in the hands of a “dumb”.

In messages published in his Twitter this Sunday, the Saudi prince mentioned the worsening situation in the Arab monarchy and said that “considering the details we know in the family, decisions and policies portend great danger” .

Includes:

“COUNSELING: Documentary about the Saud House”
Daniel Rich on August 16, 2015 · at 11:07 pm EST/EDT

@ Scott & Baaz,

Thank you guys, for yet another stellar sitrep. Gathering this info must be quite depressing at times, so I hope this simple ‘Thank you!’ note acts a bit as a counterweight to all that.

One of the utmost strategies to deploy in a fight or battle, is the element of surprise. The Kiev Killer Kommandos [KKK] have throw that element out of the window since the start of this conflict; are they seriously expecting a different [victorious] outcome this time around?

They’ll be stacking coffins 6′ high in no time.

I hope the senselessness of this bloodshed will inspire Palestinians to continue to fight for their freedom, because the collective western powers are nothing but betraying scammers, who back-stab and strangle anyone who looks in the wrong or opposite direction.
вот так on August 16, 2015 · at 11:40 pm EST/EDT

Just like with Syria and Venezuela, and any other ZPC/NWO fascist venture, the zionazis, that’s Israelis/zionist Jews, BTW, are in this war crime Ukrainian nazi fantasy fest up to their sodding ears, and loving it like no tomorrow. Those eevul Russian and Chinese are intending to upset the zionazi financial applecart and displace their ill gotten power with something they will not be able to control, the ultimate “anti-semetic evil”…
Martin from S.E.B. on August 17, 2015 · at 1:08 am EST/EDT

Thank you Scott & BAAZ for this work. It is not possible to find enough words of dignity and of thanks for it. There is only one thing I can find even fewer words for: For the 7 Billion persons worldwide that are for some reason not reading this blog and are not condemning WESTERN ZioNazi crimes against humanity!

My Western fellows out there (not on this site): I feel DISGUSTED by them.
And they shall die by their beloved Kiev’s own bullets that they pay for with their taxes (often without knowing, or rather: without wanting to know!!!) and that they often prefer to ridicule by claiming they don’t exist.

In the 1930ties folks had to believe MSM’s lies, now we have the Internet and everybody has the cheap easy nanoseconds option, possibility and DUTY to ask for real news. Only a few clicks on youtube would be sufficient. But they prefer watching smart shows like “Germany’s next TopModel”.

I HATE THE IGNORANT EGOISTIC MAINSTREAM ZOMBIES.
I wish them that they die the same death like those innocent civilians around the world, that they refuse to help and who they never took 10 seconds to care about.
Ann on August 17, 2015 · at 6:22 am EST/EDT

hi Scott and BAAZ…thanks for sitrep….always love them and send them on…by the way…OT but a wonderful wonderful man and the discrimination he’s facing…

http://www.democracynow.org/2015/5/12/exclusive_cia_whistleblower_jeffrey_sterling_speaks
JJ on August 17, 2015 · at 7:48 am EST/EDT

Thanks again folks
Russia has sent 6 MIG-31 to Syria
all-weather supersonic interceptor long range. It is designed to destroy air targets at different altitudes, at any time and under any weather conditions.

http://www.anna-news.info/node/40819
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On Friday, August 14 Strelet – Prime Minister of Moldova held a dialogue on the phone with Arseniy Yatsenyuk – the prime minister of Ukraine. On this news has informed the Office of the Government of the Republic of Moldova relations with the press.
During the meeting the sides discussed the current state and prospects of further development of relations between Moldova and Ukraine in areas of mutual interest of both countries. The Prime Minister also noted that cooperation between the two countries within international organizations today plays a very important role.

In addition, Yatsenyuk and Sagittarius taking the time to discussion on Enhancing economic and trade relations between the two countries. The two sides also exchanged views on regional security.

At the end of a telephone conversation Strelet invited Arseniy Yatsenyuk soon visit Moldova on the Prime Minister praised.
http://www.anna-news.info/node/40816

causing trouble to finish off Transnystria?
“Yesterday, August 13, in Tiraspol there was a meeting of political representatives from Moldova and Transdniestria, which resulted in Prime Minister PMR for International Cooperation, the Foreign Minister of the Republic Nina Shtanski he said that Transnistrian enterprises will suffer enormous economic damage from the unilateral actions of Moldova and Ukraine, as well as the movement their goods in these countries will be twice as expensive.
Transdniestrian diplomat said that the Government of the Republic became aware of the conduct of Moldova and Ukraine separate negotiations, to which side the TMR was not involved. These actions, she said, violated at least three provisions of the agreements reached between the three parties.”
http://www.anna-news.info/node/40795
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“Under the rules of the NATO member states are required to maintain defense spending at 2% of GDP, but a number of countries are planning further cuts in defense spending, despite the insistence of the Alliance. It Belgium, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Germany, Italy, Hungary and Canada.
According to diplomatic sources in Brussels to increase the amount of state funds allocated for financing of the armed forces to NATO pledged Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Poland and Romania. France allocates slightly less than the share of GDP required by the Alliance.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg previously expressed concern at the fact that in 2015 the total cost of the Alliance’s defense decreased by 1.5%. For its part, Stoltenberg expects that this year the budgetary requirements of NATO by the United Kingdom, Greece, Poland, the United States and Estonia.
The total military budget of NATO members, according to the latest estimates by Western experts, more than 1,023 billion dollars, of which the share of the United States – 735 billion.
The general costs of Russia’s defense, according to the permanent representative of Russia to NATO, almost 17 times less – about $ 60 billion. Russia is on the 40th place in the world in relation to the extent of defense spending limits noted in the mission.”
http://www.anna-news.info/node/40804
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“Anonymous interviewees in the Pentagon told the American edition of The Daily Beast on the weak preparedness for hypothetical military conflict with Russia. According to them, the resources were exhausted from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
The Pentagon is concerned about the secret teachings of the US military who questioned the readiness of the US to a long military conflict with Russia.
“Can we win Russian today? Yes, but it will take all our resources – said one of the interlocutors edition. – We say that we are ready not as we would like. ”
And also, from a story by another official, it became known that the war in Iraq and Afghanistan “have exhausted the possibility of [the United States] for self-reliance”

http://www.anna-news.info/node/40797
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- Daniel Rich on August 17, 2015 · at 10:36 am EST/EDT
  
  @ JJ,
  
  OT
  
  Yatsenyuk really sounds like a pre-Soviet era car, although, with Arseniy’s hairdo, that would now be a cabrio.
Martin from S.E.B. on August 17, 2015 · at 8:34 am EST/EDT

Exchange all occurences of “Ukraine” or “Kiev” or “West” with “DNR, LNR, Russia, Moskow” and vice versa. Then you read a western newspaper.

I almost fell from my stool during the past 30 minutes when I read in the German media that it is not Kiev shooting civilians, no, no: All 1000% the other way around.

It makes me speechless that Russia has no power to prevent the ZioWest from continuing with their lies. The time we are living in is a nightmare. I could never have imagined such levels of distortion when I was younger. The West invades country after country and invents lie after lie for deacdes, and yet: It’s all Russia’s fault?????

BTW: Not only westerners believe the West, but also it appears a majority of those traitors who quit Russia, Ukraine, Kasachstan to migrate to the golden west.

I have 50 thousand Russians in my direct neighborhood here in Berlin, and yet nobody wants to even talk about Donbass.

On MoiMir and Snakomstva they see my name (first CCCP, now DerWestenLuegt/TheWestIsLying) and nobody of those living here want to have anything to do with this topic. What a bunch of traitors.

The Saker is right: “Russianness” is not defined by blood, but by heart, mind, soul, spirit and character.
Many Russians (by blood) are no longer true Russians, they sold their identity for a few Burgers and bottles of French parfum! While many foreigners have become some through their good thoughts, intentions and actions. Unfortunately many of the wrong persons still have a Russian passport, while many of those who really deserve one don’t have it or even find it hard to get one.
The enemy is in all directions: Created and spread by the western MSM hatred outlets :(
As long as this doesn’t change, nothing will ever change for the better :(
- Uncle Bob 1 on August 17, 2015 · at 3:40 pm EST/EDT
  
  Sadly,there are some better “Russians” among us here, than among most of the 5th column traitors in Russia itself.
Veritas on August 17, 2015 · at 9:58 am EST/EDT

Thank you Scott and Baaz,

Lavrov in his and Zarif’s press interview today, was asked about Ukraine and he gave quite a long answer. RT doesn’t have it up yet but Russia is very concerned and he layed out all the issues.

http://tass.ru/en/world/814737

Rgds,

Veritas
- Veritas on August 17, 2015 · at 10:26 am EST/EDT
  
  Also wanted to add that it looks like Porkie is reshuffling/removing the competition:
  
  http://fortruss.blogspot.ca/2015/08/avakovs-vacation-poroshenko-will.html
  
  Glad if Avakov is gone but hope he isn’t going to run for top job in Karkov…..hope its true Yats and Turchinov will be next on the list along with others! Can’t stand any of these Nazi murderers.
JJ on August 17, 2015 · at 12:13 pm EST/EDT

Lavrov getting a bit stroppy with USA?
http://tass.ru/en/world/814765

re sanctions, illegal kidnappings etc

and “MOSCOW, August 17. /TASS/. Russia is concerned about the developments in Ukraine, which are reminiscent of Kiev’s preparation for hostilities, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Monday following talks with his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif.
“As for the situation with the implementation of the Minsk agreements of February 12, we are really very much concerned about the current state of affairs,” he noted. “I regularly discuss the issue with my colleagues. The other day I spoke with [US Secretary of State] John Kerry and [German Foreign Minister] Frank-Walter Steinmeier. We also conveyed the appropriate assessments to Paris as another country, which, along with Germany and Russia, is a guarantor of the Minsk agreements.”
“The situation at the frontlines is alarming,” the minister went on to say.”
and
“Ukraine’s army has pulled three army units, more than 430 tanks, 132 multiple launch rocket systems and up to 830 artillery pieces and mortars to the line of engagement in Donbass, Eduard Basurin, a spokesman for the defence ministry of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), said on Sunday.
“The Ukrainian group in sector C consists of up to 22 battalions, 130 tanks, 950 armoured personnel carriers, 290 artillery weapons and mortars, and up to 35 multiple launch rocket systems,” the Donetsk News Agency quoted him as saying.
Apart from that, he said, up to 26 battalions with 230 tanks and 75 multiple launch rocket systems have been concentrated in sector B. Up to 20 battalions, 75 tanks and 22 multiple launchers are deployed in sector M.”
and
“KIEV, August 16. /TASS/. Ukraine’s authorities reserve the right “in case of a threat” to return to the front line weapons of calibre over 100mm, speaker of the Ukrainian presidential administration on the force operation in Donbass Alexander Motuzyanik told a briefing on Sunday.”

and

“Violence has broken out in Ukraine with renewed force and both conflicting parties are accusing each other of the violation of the ceasefire.

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier is anxious about new outbreaks of violence in Ukraine and warns of further escalation of the conflict.

“The situation in the Eastern Ukraine is explosive,” Steinmeier told Bild am Sonntag. “If both parties do not start to build on the peace process soon, a new military escalation could be triggered.”

During talks with the Ukrainian and the Russian Foreign Minister, Steinmeier suggested that “the military of the warring parties and the OSCE should come together […] as soon as possible to discuss possible ways of the situation’s de-escalation and the withdrawal of weapons.”
Read more: http://sputniknews.com/europe/20150817/1025830412.html#ixzz3j4cesjxM

but Merkel and Hollande are silent we note………

and

“Donbass is at the threshold of renewal of full-scale warfare, as Kiev violates every single term of the Minsk ceasefire protocol on daily basis, bombing both residential and public areas on the east of Ukraine, says American journalist Stephen Lendman.
Special troops from the US and the UK are actively preparing Ukrainian forces for the escalation of conflict in the Donbass region, Lendman wrote in his column.
Read more: http://sputniknews.com/europe/20150816/1025798557.html#ixzz3j4d6U2im

“Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko’s statements on the possibility of Russian aggression in Europe are “delusional” and “inconceivable,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Monday.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) — According to the minister, the Ukrainian leader is diverting attention from his own failure to comply with the Minsk peace deals by supporting Russophobia.

“So far we see that Ukrainian authorities are trying to heat up the situation by making some inconceivable, delusional statements,” Lavrov told reporters, reacting to Poroshenko’s recent statement that Russian President Vladimir Putin “wants all of Europe.”

“It is clear that such a person is more concerned about maintaining Russophobia in the West, about artificially escalating tensions and thereby diverting attention from his own inability to fulfill what he signed up for,” Lavrov said.
Read more: http://sputniknews.com/politics/20150817/1025828735.html#ixzz3j4c8Acgv

February 12, we are really very much concerned about the current state of affairs,” he noted. “I regularly discuss the issue with my colleagues. The other day I spoke with [US Secretary of State] John Kerry and [German Foreign Minister] Frank-Walter Steinmeier. We also conveyed the appropriate assessments to Paris as another country, which, along with Germany and Russia, is a guarantor of the Minsk agreements.”
“The situation at the frontlines is alarming,” the minister went on to say.”

Note Steinmeier not concerned about Donbass but only this pwrhaps and
“Fresh recount data from The World Bank (July 1, 2015). It has shown that Russia overtook Germany last year, and despite sanctions, falling oil prices and the Ukrainian conflict, Russia’s economy keeps growing by 4% and it has been ranked fifth in the world in terms of GDP PPP.
”
http://fortruss.blogspot.co.uk/2015/08/august-15th-2015-sdelanounas.html

and

Yats to find more money for war?
Finance Minister Natalie Jaresko may lead the Ukrainian government if its current head agrees to run the country’s National Bank, Ukrainian media reported on Monday.

© AFP 2015/ PATRIK STOLLARZ

“The Cabinet reshuffle planned for this fall may not spare the Premier himself,” the Kiev-based newspaper Vesti wrote, adding that Arseniy Yatsenyuk had allegedly been offered to head the National Bank of Ukraine.
“If he agrees, his present job will go to Finance Minister Natalie Jaresko. The Prime Minister is still considering the offer,” the newspaper wrote, citing its own sources in the government.
Read more: http://sputniknews.com/europe/20150817/1025829329.html#ixzz3j4e8fF9C
Uncle Bob 1 on August 17, 2015 · at 1:53 pm EST/EDT

“This is an informative article with lots of names of candidates for the International tribunal of NATO Ukraine war crimes.”

There will never be an “International Tribunal” for these crimes.The best we can get is to execute them after trial in liberated Novorossian areas.And frankly,that is more than fine with me.

“The question is when NATO, the US, and European countries will start paying for their war crimes and crimes against humanity?”

The answer there is also simple.When Novorossian “retribution” squads are organized and send to bring them justice.Hopefully that will be done soon.Its ridiculous that criminals like that escape justice.Those squads should have been formed and sent long ago.
Uncle Bob 1 on August 17, 2015 · at 1:57 pm EST/EDT

” US owes millions of dollars to Cuba as compensation for years of
embargo”

That is a “huge” underestimate of the money owed.They will never receive it (and of course he knows that ).But that doesn’t take away from the fact it is owed.
Uncle Bob 1 on August 17, 2015 · at 2:08 pm EST/EDT

“CrossTalk : Remembering Victory
The War in Europe came to an end 70 years ago. The Soviet Union and its
Allies stood supreme over the vanquished Nazi enemy, with the
continent on its knees. What lessons have been learned since that vast
conflict? And what lessons have been unlearned? Was the loss of so
many millions in vain?”

While on the one hand it wasn’t “in vain”.A giant evil was destroyed.But on the other hand it didn’t solve the basic problems in the World.And has ended by trading one evil for another even larger evil today.Some would say (correctly) that at the time maybe that was all that could have been done.Yet,the bottom line is that the “job” wasn’t finished.And instead of Europe being neutralized and peace coming through the UN to the World.We have an “Empire” that has replaced Hitler’s Germany.And uses that power,not just to dominate Europe.But dreams of total World domination,outdoing even Hitler’s mad designs.
- Horrorgami on August 17, 2015 · at 10:52 pm EST/EDT
  
  If you read the “Red House Report,” you can see that Martin Bormann single-handedly won the war, and Prince Ha Ha, We Had a Lot of Fun Bernhard of the Netherlands wasn’t the worse for wear either.
Uncle Bob 1 on August 17, 2015 · at 2:26 pm EST/EDT

Ouch! An interesting article on Yatsenyuk “The patriotic Ukrainian nationalist” :

“Yatsenyuk: “Ukraine is not my homeland and I’m not going to live here”

“The Prime Minister of Ukraine, it seems, is preparing his departure from the country” – transfers controlled disgraced oligarch Igor Kolomoisky Ukrainian TV channel “1 + 1” .

“At the Cabinet meeting, Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said bluntly that after the abdication immediately leave the country, as Ukraine is not its historical homeland.

Yatsenyuk increasingly began to show signs of hysteria and, apparently, is going ahead of schedule resign. It is a failure Yatsenyuk activities as prime minister this helps: Only for the 1st half of this year, Ukraine’s GDP fell by 15%, while the IMF forecast only 9%. Thus, the Government of Ukraine, led by Arseny Yatsenyuk, nearly 2 times the IMF downgraded.

However, despite the fiery statements Yatsenyuk, a net outflow of investment into the country amounted to the 1st half of 2015 more than 2.9 billion. Dollars, and the total investment was made in the amount of slightly more than 1 billion. Dollars, which at times worse than ever before. That is, there were put antirecord. If you look at all the economic indicators, the positive dynamics is observed only in the growth of the informal economy, which accounted for almost half of the official GDP of volume, that is, in this economy, when money to the treasury do not enter. Everything else is not just bad, and very bad.

On the growth of the economy, even not speak – she does not grow, it dies. Only in the 1st quarter of this year, the economy contracted by 17.2%. With the growth in prices for everything and everyone, the real incomes of the population drastically reduced, people literally massively impoverished and actual disasters.

Less than half a year, inflation in Ukraine has increased by 10 times. If in November 2014 it was just under two per cent, in April, inflation was 11%, and up to six months, according to the State Statistics Service, inflation in the first six months of 2015 Ukraine was already 40.7%. And it naturally reflected in the consumer market. Food and non-alcoholic beverages went up by 15.5%. But most of all, prices rose on the sugar, sunflower oil and vegetables. At the end of the year, the IMF, seeing such “successes”, forecasts inflation of 46%, but the government is able to beat Yatsenyuk and this record.

Currently, Ukraine is actually remains on the brink of default. From the report of the International Monetary Fund shows that Ukrainian banks for the second risk of loan defaults after Nigeria.

Held by the Cabinet Yatsenyuk economic activity appears to be extremely successful, and in many cases, and sabotage. It is therefore not surprising that Yatsenyuk increasingly aktsentriruet the attention of officials and the press for his voluntary resignation and Departure from the country.

At a recent meeting of the Government, Yatsenyuk in response to a replica of one of the ministers that “we live in this country …” reacted very strangely:

“Ukraine is not my historical homeland, and I’m not going to live here”

Strange words of a man holding the highest office in the Ukraine, “- says a leading TV channel.

http://my-disain.ru/yacenyuk-ukraina-ne-yavlyaetsya-moejj-rodinojj-i-ya-ne-sobirayus-zdes-zhit/?_utl_t=fb
Uncle Bob 1 on August 17, 2015 · at 2:51 pm EST/EDT

A bomb went of in Bangkok a short while ago.Killing 27 and wounding others.Most of the foreigners killed and wounded were Chinese and Taiwanese (also Chinese) tourists.First Tianjin now dead Chinese in Thailand.If this is an Empire attack on China (too early to know) they might receive something similar back in retribution.

http://www.rt.com/news/312634-blast-bangkok-thailand-injured/

As an example of the way things used to be handled (correctly). I saw this article about the KGB retribution to the killing of Soviet soldier POW’s in Pakistan during the Afghan War.

http://rusnext.ru/recent_opinions/1438961333?utm_source=infox.sg
Uncle Bob 1 on August 17, 2015 · at 3:36 pm EST/EDT

An “extremely” interesting article on Avakov’s being kicked out of his junta position.But more importantly (at least to me) is a question I’ve thought of before.Do the Ukrainian nationals outside the pro-Russian Donbass,have any pride at all.Now I’m not being ironic here,I mean it.The nationalists whined for “years” about the supposed “Russian” influence in Ukraine.And now,they roll over and meekly accept total domination,not just from those they believed pro-Russian Ukrainians,but “actual” foreigners.The junta regime is staffed by foreign elements in almost all the top positions.And when its not,the others are taking orders from the US or NATO officials.Ministers are in many cases actual foreigners,and now Avakov is being replaced by another foreigner.Do the “Ukrainians” have not a bit of pride in them, outside the Southeast.I think that is a really valid question to ask.I can’t thing of another European country that the foreign control is that blatant.You’d think the so-called “nationalists” would be chewing nails in fury by now.

“Avakov’s vacation: Poroshenko will replace him with Eka Zguladze and achieve dictatorial power”

http://fortruss.blogspot.com/2015/08/avakovs-vacation-poroshenko-will.html
Doyen Spector on August 17, 2015 · at 4:41 pm EST/EDT

What is going on? Article after article tells of the shelling of eastern Ukraine..but nothing is done to stop it; neither by international observers, Russia or the separatists. This is very depressing and maddening. Is anybody doing anything to counter it or are we waiting for Nuland to move the artillery to another country???
- jomo on August 17, 2015 · at 7:03 pm EST/EDT
  
  There is reply shelling by the Novorossian forces, and Ukrainian soldiers are getting killed and injured. I read there are about 20-25 newly injured soldiers a day going to the Kiev hospital.
  Some of their weapons have been taken out and captured by NAF as well.
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