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2015-03-20 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Zakharcheno on Konstantinovka: We'll adequately react to this

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Posted by badanov 2015-03-20 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11 views ] Top

#1 The Separatists claim these Ukrainian Soldats were drunk + irresponsible, + intentionally killed the girl out of sheer jealous rage + frustration.

Moscow = Vlad repor is concurring.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2015-03-20 00:48|| 2015-03-20 00:48|| Front Page Top

#2 There's a problem with the charge the accident was deliberate. If it was deliberate, then the crew of the MTLB would never have stopped.

They stopped and apparently dismounted the vehicle.

Not sure about the aftermath, but in my mind, the crew, drunk or not, with the intention of killing someone or not, won't stop to face the wrath of the crowd.

I will grant you that rebel media has been reporting rapes, robberies and general mayhem by Ukrainian troops in Artemovsk, but so far nothing in the way of news reports or videos of any of those incidents, and none of that was reported in Konstantinovka.

Posted by badanov 2015-03-20 22:31|| http://www.chriscovert.net 2015-03-20 22:31|| Front Page Top

#3 As an aside,. I watched a youtube.com video of a Ukrainian BMP-2 that was run off the road into a ditch basically because the driver was driving too fast. The vehicle commander was sputtering he was so angry, demanding repeatedly the driver dismount, presumably so the commander could beat the sh*t out of him, uttering every expletive known to man. My take (aside from I thought it was funny) is that vehicle commanders take their driving seriously, probably having been trained about how badly a 25 ton vehicle can hurt an innocent.

Posted by badanov 2015-03-20 22:41|| http://www.chriscovert.net 2015-03-20 22:41|| Front Page Top

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