According to Obama, the Kerry, Samantha Power, Jen Psaki and the rest of the US 1%ers, most members of the UN Security Council and according to the EU clowns at the OSCE or PACE, what you are seeing in this video is: “Russian agents creating chaos were there was none and spreading hatred”.
According to the freaks of the neo-Nazi regime in Kiev, what you see are terrorists.
According to me, what you see is simple civilians willing to stand up in front of a tank with their car and their bodies to stop it. What I hear them say is “who the hell do you plan to shoot at? Stop the engine! Stop the engine! What are you pulling your assault rifle out for? Do you think that if we jump on your tank it will protect you?”. Judging by the copious amount of cursing the civilians are really very mad because they are suspecting that this tank is headed for the city of Slaviansk. I would add that the poor tank crew is clearly frightened and ashamed and the tank commander does the only right thing: he climbs out of the tank, begs to crowd not to touch it (he is personally responsible for it) and tries to convince the crowd that they did not plan to shoot anybody. The tank commander looks like a nice young guy placed in an impossible situation, and I hope that the civilians will understand that. They are angry because initially the tank crew tried to avoid them. The good news is that I clearly hear a voice saying “stop screaming! stop screaming!” to try to cool down the angry crowd. And no, I don’t see any Spetsnaz GRU in disguise or any sign of Russians at all.
Decide for yourself what you see:
One more thing. The tank sounds like it has some transmission problem (though not being an armor person I am not sure). It sure is an old tank. But what is absolutely certain, is that basic military tactic categorically forbids sending a lone tank cruising around the countryside. If these civilians had been military, even without anti-tank weapons, they could have easily set this tank on fire. In other words, what I see here is not anything remotely looking like a military assault on the city of Slaviansk, but complete total chaos.
The Saker
Saker Message:
A “barricade buster” (note the front end equipment) stopped in it’s tracks. Well done.
This is how wars are prevented.
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EU To Take New Action | 2014-04-14 19:08:14
The EU will pass new sanctions, and the EU’s Common Security and Defence Policy will send a mission to Ukraine:
http://www.interpretermag.com/ukraine-liveblog-day-56-will-kiev-lose-control-of-the-east/#2277
Blowback: Protesters In Kiev Demand Resignation Of Ukraine President
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-04-14/blowback-protesters-kiev-demand-resignation-ukraine-president
The western regimes have forgotten Tiannamen square !
The thing on the front is a plow for digging up mines.
That is a T-64, apparently it has a twin-diesel engine, so that sound is normal.
Greetings from Singapore:
It shows too the poor maintenance of Ukraine’s military equipment…
Brian, I was thinking the same thing. Had rolls been reversed, this would have been all over the media with a million stories about how brave civilians faced down a tank.
Which seems to be exactly what happened.
Update on Putin’s message to Obama:
Putin to Obama: Use your influence to prevent bloodshed in Ukraine
http://rt.com/news/putin-obama-ukraine-crisis-484/
The response from Rahm’s boitoi is the usual, though:
Obama blasts Russia, tells Putin U.S. wants diplomatic solution in Ukraine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWkZ_StRjU0
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http://rt.com/news/kiev-clashes-rioters-police-571/
“22:44 GMT: Ukrainian armed forces are preparing to implement orders outlined by the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC), acting Defence Minister Mikhail Koval said on local television.
22:09 GMT: Pro-federalization protesters set up roadblocks on all of the three main roads leading into the eastern Ukrainian town of Slovyansk, RIA Novosti reported. The move follows earlier reports that Ukrainian tanks and heavy military equipment were moving towards the town.
22:08 GMT: Armored Personnel Carriers belonging to the Ukrainian army have been spotted near the town of Kramatorsk in eastern Ukraine, RIA Novosti quoted witnesses as saying. Earlier, the city’s administration building was taken over by pro-federalization protesters.
21:47 GMT: The National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) of Ukraine approved the decision to involve the Ukrainian army in an “anti-terrorist operation” in the east of Ukraine, according to Deputy Secretary of NSDC Victoria Syumar’s Facebook post.
21:32 GMT: Ukrainian tanks and heavy military equipment are moving towards the eastern town of Slavyansk, ITAR-TASS reported quoting acting mayor Vyacheslav Ponomarev as saying. On Monday, protesters ignored the ultimatum to leave by 9 am, and a Russian flag continued to fly over the besieged police HQs in Slavyansk. Ponomarev added that they are getting ready and are monitoring the situation. “We don’t want bloodshed, we are committed to negotiations,” he said.”
The banderivtsy might have another go at the antimaydana people soon, maybe before sunrise.
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The US Department of State writes in its official message to the world: “…Pro-Russian demonstrations in eastern Ukraine have been modest in size, especially compared with Maidan protests in these same cities in December, and they have gotten smaller as time has progressed…”
I certainly agree with the US Department of State. It is a very small group of people, stopping the tank.
what unbelievable destruction of the soil that thing makes and what unbelievable rich black soil it’s ripping up; please God don’t let the hedge funds get their hands on Ukraine’s agricultural land.
As one who would really be upset with Putin if he wasn’t engaged in some kind of subterfuge, the reality is that the average person in the former East of Ukraine has a pragmatic reason for wanting to break away from Kiev, reasons that we have detailed ad nauseum.
The Evil Doers are playing into our hands with rhetoric like “terrorism” and calling everyday blokes Russian agents.
The controllers of the West are senile, and thus dangerous.
The US secret government (and the rest of it) is now desperate – they know the economic sanctions have been a disaster because it has backfired and is resulting in dumping of the US dollar. This is not being reported in the mainstream press.
This is now about the survival of the US financial system. All else is a smokescreen.
All readers (and the Russian Government) should read the analysis by Paul Craig Roberts (he knows how the psychopaths in the US elite cabal think) today that contains the following:
“Washington does not want the Ukraine matters settled in a diplomatic and reasonable way. It might be the case that Russia’s best move is immediately to occupy the Russian territories of Ukraine and re-absorb the territories into Russia from whence they came. This should be done before the US and its NATO puppets are prepared for war. It is more difficult for Washington to start a war when the objects of the war have already been lost. Russia will be demonized with endless propaganda from Washington whether or not Russia re-absorbs its traditional territories. If Russia allows these territories to be suppressed by Washington, the prestige and authority of the Russian government will collapse. Perhaps that is what Washington is counting on.”
The full article can be found here:
http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2014/04/14/washington-drives-world-war-paul-craig-roberts/
20:11 Yes. Coming in from our gardens, where we’ve worked so hard to improve our soil, and seeing that rich, deep earth just driven over like that – OOOOOOO. China has leased (?) some of it, and Chevron signed an agreement essentially guaranteeing more of it will ultimately be ruined. The Breadbasket of Europe, mostly fallow for years and now at serious risk of destruction. CRIMINAL!
Paul C. Roberts seems to think that Russia must take an immediate action with regards to the South-East region:
http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2014/04/14/washington-drives-world-war-paul-craig-roberts/
“In my opinion, Washington does not want the Ukraine matters settled in a diplomatic and reasonable way. It might be the case that Russia’s best move is immediately to occupy the Russian territories of Ukraine and re-absorb the territories into Russia from whence they came. This should be done before the US and its NATO puppets are prepared for war. It is more difficult for Washington to start a war when the objects of the war have already been lost. Russia will be demonized with endless propaganda from Washington whether or not Russia re-absorbs its traditional territories. If Russia allows these territories to be suppressed by Washington, the prestige and authority of the Russian government will collapse. Perhaps that is what Washington is counting on.”
Я
For anyone who doubts what Paul Craig Roberts has to say, try this exercise and then decide for yourself.
1. Go to his website – http://www.paulcraigroberts.org
2. Have a look at some of his comment pieces from a few years ago.
3. See if you can find ANY that have not ultimately been accurate given the passage of time.
The man is a US national hero. He is of course despised by those in power and the financial elite.
Yes Dr. Roberts is a true patriot and a source of wisdom. I agree more people should study his Constitutional based positions.
Lada Niva!
Ukraine clearly has problems with its armour. It may need help. The following vessels have entered the Black Sea for “exercises.”
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USS Truxtun DDG-103 Displacement 9,200 tons
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USS Donald Cook DDG-75 Displacement 8,900 tons
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FR Dupleix D-641 Displacement 4,500 tons
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FR Alize A-645 Displacement 1,600 tons (Supports combat divers)
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FR Dupuy de Lome A-759 Displacement 3,100 tons
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This represents a total tonnage of 27,300.
The Montreux Convention limit is 30,000 tons of non Black Sea state warships at any time. France and the US have reached that limit.
Saker: Is there any truth to this story:
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/anti-kremlin-protest-draws-thousands-moscow-23309260
Has there been a 10,000 person “March of Truth” in Moscow demanding that Putin “stop telling lies about Ukraine?” Or is this more false Western propaganda?
And here’s a sample of what those tanks can expect to meet if this whole thing goes hot:
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=77e_1389637750
WOW morons I guess they are under the impression that tanks don’t get stuck in the mud. It looks like they might have been given the tank scare the little people and it didn’t go well.
http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/04/11/ukraine-lies-and-realities/
He is there now so going by his own site might be worth while.
@ Я
— If Russia allows these territories to be suppressed by Washington, the prestige and authority of the Russian government will collapse. Perhaps that is what Washington is counting on.”
Sometimes the old guy has been saying clever things. But not this time.
This sentence is a provocation. Because that’s what Fashington wants – push Putin to invade Ukraine.
Best regards
shed
A very interesting comment from Bob In Portland over at MoA:
“Obama is not in control of the military or the State Department. No President has been in control since the coup of 1963. Considering that there has been a seventy-year alliance between US intelligence and Ukrainian fascists, the fascist coup in Ukraine was in the works long before Obama was elected. Maybe before he was born.
The important thing here is to consider why the US would move now. Anyone looking at Ukraine’s unraveling would know enough to stay out of this mess. The current crisis could eventually bifurcate the EU from the US because of differing interests.
I think that, at least in part, Ukraine, Libya and Syria have been ploys by the permanent government to weaken Obama domestically. Putin actually helped him and Kerry get out of the Syrian mess. The Republicans are still honking about Benghazi. Reactionaries in the US would like nothing better than Obama “losing” Ukraine like Carter “lost” Iran and Truman “lost” China. Unfortunately for Obama, the best for all concerned would be for the US to step back, allow the EU and Russia to sort out the current mess, and consider themselves lucky not to become any more involved. Obviously, big US-aligned energy companies would benefit by weakening Russia’s powerful position supplying natural gas to the West, but that won’t happen without an enormous economic disruption to Germany and its EU, and Merkel has certainly shown enough business sense that she will not go willingly with the “F…Y..” Nulands of the State Department.
Also, too much interference with the European energy market and you can expect Russia to tilt to the east and begin supplying China with a greater percentage of energy. Merkel has no desire to become any more dependent on US and its energy supplies.
Again, from the start America’s options in Ukraine weren’t particularly good. That’s why I expect at some level that this was done by the permanent government for domestic consumption to aid the Republicans in the 2014 mid-term elections. Some people will still clutch their pearls when McCain howls at the moon.”
Russian joke
On meeting of UN Security Council the man with a machine gun in hands rushes and shouts:
– Who here Churkin?
All joyfully point a finger at Churkin. Man:
– Vitaly, bend down!
:)
Lada Niva? Is that by any chance the little yellow car that could?
Holy shit, Saker, I’m seeing war has broken out and couldn’t kind your email addy so am posting this here:
Look at this video!!!
http://lunaticoutpost.com/Topic-BREAKING-Has-War-has-broken-out-in-Slavyansk-Ukraine?page=1
– Michigan
Saker, please disregard my war alert. It looks like Interfax with bad info, again. Who the hell is Interfax, anyway? This isn’t the first time I’ve seen bad info from there. Anyway, relieved no war at this time.
Sorry!
– Michigan
http://rt.com/news/kiev-clashes-rioters-police-571/
“01:16 GMT: A self-defence faction of the Ukrainian eastern city of Slavyansk is reporting fighting on the outskirts of the town, according to Interfax. There are reports of a building burning and shots being fired in the nearby village of Andrrevka.”
“01:59 GMT: The aide to the acting mayor of the eastern Ukrainian town of Slavyansk, Vyacheslav Ponomarev, and a representative of the self-defence units denied earlier media reports of fighting on the outskirts of the city, RIA Novosti quoted her as saying. “According to our information everything is calm in the vicinity of Slavyansk,” she said.”
01:20 GMT: Ukrainian presidential candidate Oleg Tsarev was brutally beaten by radicals and is now in critical condition, after being trapped inside the ICTV building after appearing on the Ukrainian talk show ‘Svoboda Slova’, Tsarev’s press office reported. Earlier, there were reports of the entire building being surrounded by unidentified gunmen.”
Bloody hell!
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Wow, check out this bugged phone call. Says some Russians shot the chief of Ukraine’s anti terrorism office:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2nGLiBzWZc
They need to be more careful with their communications (if this is legit). Names and phone numbers were even mentioned.
Euromaidanpr the owner of that channel has the most mysterious looking domain name registration I have ever seen. It claims to be located in Kirkland, Washington and that’s probably false. I’d say it has CIA painted all over it. Though I suppose it could be State.
Fortunately presidential candidate Oleg Tsarev, brutally beaten by radicals, is not in critical condition.
But beaten he was.
I just watched one of the videos, where he was interviewed being naked to the waist – the body and the face showing the beating’s marks.
shed
Nora, I agree that the ‘Secret Team’ took over after they topped JFK in Dallas, but Obama is their servant, not their enemy. It doesn’t matter if it is Demopublican Hilarious Clinton, or Republicrat (pick your favourite loony)running the show. They are just front-men for the real power, that of the plutocrats and the thanatocrats of the death-industrial complex. They are symbiotically joined to the Ziocrazies these days, but it is a fragile alliance of convenience between two groups who each suppose themselves ‘Chosen’ and who, in the end, hate one another as much as they hate the rest of Creation. If they ever achieved their dream-world of a global empire of Full Spectrum Dominance over all, forever, they’d soon be at each others’ throats.
family man, a few thousand Western controlled traitors who ought to be trucked to Kiev and delivered to the Western ‘paradise’ that they adore. Every country must fear Yankee subversion and the treachery of the low. Being a lackey of the Yankee Reich at this point in history, with the evidence of US infamy so overwhelming is a sign, in my opinion, of great moral and spiritual sickness, even wickedness.
family man, a few thousand Western controlled traitors who ought to be trucked to Kiev and delivered to the Western ‘paradise’ that they adore. Every country must fear Yankee subversion and the treachery of the low. Being a lackey of the Yankee Reich at this point in history, with the evidence of US infamy so overwhelming is a sign, in my opinion, of great moral and spiritual sickness, even wickedness.
brian
“The western regimes have forgotten Tiannamen square !”
No they haven’t, seeing as they were in a major way involved in it. But that was then, this is how they operate now:
http://www.everydayrebellion.net/
The zionists who co-opted the western left have taught their CIA junior partners well.
sykes.1
“The thing on the front is a plow for digging up mines.”
I know, but it works well on barricades, by grabbing and moving forward a section of barricade, so people can then pass through. Much like those WW2 hedge displacement devices added to tanks then that allowed tanks to physically move the hedges instead of just driving over them.
Anonymous said…14 April, 2014 21:52
I believe the 30k limit is for individual countries, not multi-country task forces. But I may be wrong on that. The Russians have lodged complaints specifically on the 21 day duration allowance, which the USN has broken twice recently now. USS Truxtun and another USN ship (forget the name, it “ran aground” and “needed repairs” so stayed beyond the limits) have both stayed in the Black Sea beyond 21 days.
family_man
The 10k figure is 10x what was reported in Russian media. Photos of the event confirm the Russian version. The protest looks to be about the size of the weekend protests in eastern Ukraine.
Anonymous said…14 April, 2014 22:02
“And here’s a sample of what those tanks can expect to meet if this whole thing goes hot”
First half of the video is some radio controlled model aircraft. They look like Eurofighter replicas. The kid in me, how decades ago, spent 6 months saving up for a R/C kit and model. Painstakingly built it, an promptly crashed it, is quite envious of these new toys. Back then, we couldn’t even come close to doing something like that with a R/C model.
The 2nd half is real and those Su 30 derivatives, as supplied to the Indian AF, are in large part responsible for the cancellation of the F-22 boondoggle after military maneuvers of a staged conflict between the two showed the USAF aircraft to a serious disadvantage. The F-35 is a panic derived place holder (and money maker) while replacements for the obsolete USAF can be developed.
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shed
“Fortunately presidential candidate Oleg Tsarev, brutally beaten by radicals, is not in critical condition.”
Круто! I’d hoped the reports were exaggerated.
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Яценюк по ошибке встретил президента Швейцарии датским флагом (Oops, wrong flag, supposed to be Swiss, not Danish)
http://lifenews.ru/news/131244
“Meeting of Swiss President Didier Burkhalter with the appointed by the Verkhovna Rada Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk began Monday with embarrassment host: Ukraine has displayed the Danish flag instead of the flag of Switzerland…”
Poor Yats the Yuk, apparently his American handlers doing the protocol for the coup regime are as flag-challenged as they are notoriously geography challenged. :D
Tel Aviv: Oi vey! Every time we delegate even the simplest thing to these Americans, they mess it up! I cant believe it.
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Радиопереговоры сепаратистов с юго-востока Украины.
http://85.198.160.149:8888/separatist_fm.mp3
Радиопереговоры сепаратистов с юго-востока Украины.
http://85.198.160.149:8888/separatist_fm.mp3
Dear The Saker,
What I found interesting about the attacks as per RT:
“Ukrainian presidential candidate Oleg Tsarev was brutally beaten by radicals and is now in critical condition, after being trapped inside the ICTV building after appearing on the Ukrainian talk show ‘Svoboda Slova’, Tsarev’s press office reported. Earlier, there were reports of the entire building being surrounded by unidentified gunmen.”
Dobkin was also attacked with flour and antiseptic. What is interesting is that Tymenshenko was supposed to be on the programme too and had the same day called for a people’s resistant movement…..hmm…where was she and why was she left alone….join the dots…
Rgds,
Veritas
By the way, did you see this: “Right Sector stormed the HQ of Ukraine’s Communist Party in the north-eastern city of Sumy and beat up the secretary of Sumy regional committee, Valery Siryachenko, reported the local TSN TV channel. Right Sector also stormed the Communist Party HQ in the western city of Rovno.”
http://rt.com/news/kiev-clashes-rioters-police-571/
Dear The Saker,
http://en.itar-tass.com/russia/727910
Well that’s told them! :)
No recognition for May 25th elections from Russia – others will follow…..it is not inclusive and not free and fair….the West will be fuming again….
Rgds,
Veritas
Dear The Saker,
http://www.presstv.com/detail/2014/04/15/358650/cia-caught-red-handed-in-ukraine/
Good article here by Jim W Dean. Sheds some light on the “armed forces” in the East (not including police, berkut and army defectors).
Rgds,
Veritas
Dear Saker – this might be of interest to you:
http://www.schweizmagazin.ch/nachrichten/ausland/19003-Ukraine-ARD-Video-mit-russischem-Soldaten-ein-Fake.html
Briefly, the video which showed a Russian LtCol giving orders to a group of ‘separatists’ is a fake, made by the UDAR, made by the Maidan ‘activist’ Alexei Krawzow, as acknowledged by the UDAR member Alexei Gontsharetshov, member of the Odessa City council …
Dear Saker – this might be of interest to you:
http://www.schweizmagazin.ch/nachrichten/ausland/19003-Ukraine-ARD-Video-mit-russischem-Soldaten-ein-Fake.html
Briefly, the video which showed a Russian LtCol giving orders to a group of ‘separatists’ is a fake, made by the UDAR, made by the Maidan ‘activist’ Alexei Krawzow, as acknowledged by the UDAR member Alexei Gontsharetshov, member of the Odessa City council …
Dear Saker – this might be of interest to you:
http://www.schweizmagazin.ch/nachrichten/ausland/19003-Ukraine-ARD-Video-mit-russischem-Soldaten-ein-Fake.html
Briefly, the video which showed a Russian LtCol giving orders to a group of ‘separatists’ is a fake, made by the UDAR, made by the Maidan ‘activist’ Alexei Krawzow, as acknowledged by the UDAR member Alexei Gontsharetshov, member of the Odessa City council …
@Anonymous: THANKS! I will include this info in the SITREP I am writing right now :-)
Cheers,
The Saker
No matter how much Rusdia holds up she willbe blsmed by evil anglo controlled west. Better is that Russia understand that might is right and act on it.