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| Ukraine helicopters land reinforcements in town near Slavyansk |
| 2014-04-16 |
| [Al Ahram] At least two Ukrainian military helicopters landed in an airfield near the flashpoint city of Slavyansk on Tuesday with reinforcements for an ongoing push into the separatist-held city, witness told AFP. The helicopters landed in a military airfield in the town of Kramatorsk, about 15 kilometres (nine miles) south of Slavyansk, where pro-Kremlin militias have occupied government buildings since Saturday. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Ukraine's mil push into its Eastern regions have been "iffy" ... * WAFF > [LiveJournaL] ENTIRE UKRAINIAN 25TH AIRBORNE BRIGADE DEFECTS TO RUSSIAN SIDE. * RELATED ... ... > ABC NEWS = UKRAINE OFFENSIVE FALTERS AS ELITE UNITS DEFECT TO PRO-RUSSIA SIDE. > TOPIX = UKRAINE CRISIS: KIEV PUSH FALTERS AS MILITANTSS EIZE ARMY VEHICLES. > BHARAT RAKSHAK FORUMS = [Russia Today] ANTI-GOVT. PROTESTERS SEIZE UKRAINIAN APCS, ARMY UNITS SIWTCH SIDES. * TOPIX, WORLD NEWS > DONETSK SEPARATISTS URGE RUSSIA TO SUPPORT INDEPENDENCE. IMO read, SEND IN ARMY TROOPS + TANKS. * GLOBAL POST > PRO-RUSSIAN SEPARATISTS DECLARE NEW REPUBLIC OF ODESSA. Another "red line" for the Bammer??? versus * RUSSIA TODAY > NATO TO DEPLOY SHIPS, INTENSIFY BALTIC + MEDITERRANEAN PATROLS DUE TO UKRAINE CRISIS. * DRUDGEREPORT > WORLD WAR III? | [Daily Mail.UK] EDWARD LUCAS: I HOPE I'M WRONG BUT HISTORIANS MAY LOOK BACK AND SAY THIS WAS THE START OF WW3. * SAME > OBAMA URGED TO RECONSIDER MISSLE SHIELD FOR EASTERN EUROPE | [Fox News Channel] PENCE HITS OBAMA ON MISSLE SHIELD IN BERLIN SPEECH. Again, as long as the US-NATO/EU + sovereign Ukraine recognize Russia's control + annexation of the Crimea, + no US-led BMD andor no US-NATO or Indigenous nukes in Ukraine save under joint control wid Russia, IMO Putin = Russia may accept a minor or benign NATO-EU conventional military presence in the rest of post-Crimea Ukraine. Iff NATO-EU can stay out post-Crimea Ukraine, Putin can do the same tit-for-tat - HE DOESN"T HAVE TO TAKEOVER OR ANNEX UKRAINE'S BREALWAY REGIONS. Think Federal CANTONIZATION as per Switzerland or the Lowlands, + prolly also the AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN EMPIRE = "HAPSBURG" MODEL. PUTIN DESIRES THE CRIMEA AS A FORTIFIED BASTION = QUASI-COMBINED/UNIFIED "CENTCOM" FOR BOTH WESTERN + EASTERN CHRISTIANITY AS HEDGE AGZ THE SOON-TO-BE-NUCLEAR ISLAMIC NATION-STATES, + GLOBAL-JIHAD HAPPY HARD BOYZ. E.g. POST-GENEVA OBAMA BFF, CALIPHATE-HAPPY, OWG CO-SUPERPOWER IRAN = RISING IRAN + IRAN'S SUNNI ISLAMIC RIVALS [KSA, Egypt, etal.]. Putin = Russia has expanded Russia's military presence in CENTRAL ASIA as hedge agz POST-2014 AFPAK, espec as per a post-2014 , possibly Taliban-controlled ALREADY NUCLEAR-ARMED PAKISTAN - NOW PUTIN WANTS TO DITTO PROTECT RUSSIA ON ITS EURO FLANK IN THE BLACK SEA VEE RUSSIA'S CRIMEA MILBASES. Lest we fergit, the US-NATO/EU are making similar [diplomatic, economic] moves in CENTRAL ASIA as a result of Putin's actions. The US uses GITMO [+ Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands] to protect the Panama Canal + international trade flowing through same, BY + FOR THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY = THE WORLD. PUTIN IS ROUGHLY DOING THE SAME THING IN THE CRIMEA NOT ONLY FOR RUSSIA'S + RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH'S INTERESTS BUT ALSO FOR THE LARGER OWG JUDEOCHRITIAN BLOC OF NATIONS + BOTH EASTERN, WESTERN EUROPE FROM NUCLEAR THE THREAT OF NUCLEAR ISLAM. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2014-04-16 23:32 |