Valin Posted March 13, 2014 Author Share Posted March 13, 2014 Larger Map Here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted March 13, 2014 Author Share Posted March 13, 2014 (edited) Christopher Miller ✔ @ChristopherJM Follow Video allegedly shows clashes b/t pro-Russian & pro-Ukrainian crowds in #Donetsk tonight. @Reuters reports 1 killed. 3:22 PM - 13 Mar 2014 . Addendum Edited March 13, 2014 by Valin Addendum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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WestVirginiaRebel Posted March 14, 2014 Share Posted March 14, 2014 NO DEAL: Kremlin rebuffs Kerry, won't budge on Crimea referendum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted March 14, 2014 Author Share Posted March 14, 2014 NO DEAL: Kremlin rebuffs Kerry, won't budge on Crimea referendum I'm Shocked! Don't they know he served in Vietnam? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draggingtree Posted March 15, 2014 Share Posted March 15, 2014 Look to Solidarity, Not Sudetenland What Poland's 1981 Solidarity movement can teach Ukraine—and what Reagan's response teaches us By James Carden • March 14, 2014 T-55A on the streets during martial law in Poland | Wikimedia Commons Among the less helpful historical analogies that have been rolled out by neoconservative publications such as National Review, the New Republic, and the Washington Post since the onset of the Crimean Crisis are comparisons between what is happening now in Ukraine and what occurred three quarters of a century ago during the Munich Crisis. While anyone possessed of even a modicum of education understands that analogies to Munich serve more to obscure rather than clarify, it should hardly need stating that Vladimir Putin, unlike Hitler, is not an unhinged geopolitical revisionist who harbors a desire to re-make Europe to fit some demonic plan. And yet the tenor of the American media’s coverage of the man actually demands that it be said. There are, thankfully, more apposite events than Munich which we can draw upon; namely the emergence of—and subsequent attempt to stifle—the Polish Solidarity movement in and around 1980-81. Most readers will recall that by the late 1970’s relations between the United States and the USSR were at their lowest point since the Cuban Crisis some twenty years prior. The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 signaled to many Americans—none more so than the 1980 Republican nominee for President—that Soviet Russia viewed the Carter administration as weak and indecisive and was taking full advantage of the fact. Three years before the emergence of the Solidarity movement in Poland http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/look-to-solidarity-not-sudetenland/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickydog Posted March 15, 2014 Share Posted March 15, 2014 NO DEAL: Kremlin rebuffs Kerry, won't budge on Crimea referendum I'm Shocked! Don't they know he served in Vietnam? Weren't they impressed with his new manly chin?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted March 15, 2014 Author Share Posted March 15, 2014 BBC: Moscow rally opposes Crimea interventionFormer deputy prime minister turned opposition leader Boris Nemtsov © walks together with protesters carrying Ukrainian and Russian flags in Moscow, on March 15, 2014, during a rally against recent Russia's move on Crimea. Around 50,000 people rallied today in central Moscow in protest at Russia's intervention in Ukraine, a day before the Crimean peninsula is expected to vote on switching to Kremlin rule, an AFP team estimated. Thousands of people are attending a rally in the Russian capital Moscow to oppose its intervention in Ukraine a day before the region of Crimea votes to secede in favour of joining Russia. Read more here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted March 15, 2014 Author Share Posted March 15, 2014 Threat Watch @ThreatWatch1 11m Following 3 Stories 1. Russian troops landing in Kherson Region, 2. Recent Explosions at Kharkiv, 3. Storming of SBU HQs in Donetsk. Damien McElroy @ddamned 9m Indeed: @ThreatWatch1: Following: 1. Russian troops landing in Kherson Region, 2. Explosions at Kharkiv, 3. Storming of HQs in Donetsk. Threat Watch @ThreatWatch1 56s With confirmed reports RF Troops attempts in Ukraine proper (Kherson), strong RU OB doctrine & history suggest multiple insertions probable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted March 15, 2014 Author Share Posted March 15, 2014 Meanwhile back here.... Ukrainian Oligarch Faces US Corruption Charge CHICAGO March 15, 2014 (AP) MICHAEL TARM One of Ukraine's most influential oligarchs and a major player in the sale of billions of dollars in Russian natural gas to Ukraine faces a corruption charge in the United States, the U.S. attorney's office announced on Friday. Dmytro Firtash, 48, who was arrested in Vienna earlier this week, has been charged in an "international corruption conspiracy" in Illinois, according to a brief statement from prosecutors. The U.S. government is seeking his extradition, it said. Prosecutors offered few details, but did say the legal action was not connected to the crisis in Firtash's homeland. Russia has sent forces into Ukraine's Crimea region, challenging a pro-European government in Kiev. "Firtash's arrest is not related to recent events in Ukraine," according to the statement, which spells Firtash's first name as Dmitry. (Snip) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted March 15, 2014 Author Share Posted March 15, 2014 Jim Roberts @nycjim 2h 50,000 #Ukraine supporters march in Moscow to protest Russia’s intervention in #Crimea. http://yhoo.it/Og7kWL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted March 15, 2014 Author Share Posted March 15, 2014 Mar 14, 2014 Subscribe to VICE News here: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-to-VICE-News With Crimea's referendum quickly approaching, tension has spread across Ukraine, especially in the east.Before Thursday's protests in Donetsk escalated into violence, VICE News correspondent Robert King interviewed pro-Russia and pro-Ukraine demonstrators about their opinions on the standoff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted March 15, 2014 Author Share Posted March 15, 2014 Kevin Bishop @bishopk Follow No way of verifying this but the poster says it's video of Russian helicopters today at #Kherson. 10:26 AM - 15 Mar 2014 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted March 15, 2014 Author Share Posted March 15, 2014 Ukraine Liveblog Day 26: Has the War Already Started? March 15 2014 Has the war already started? There are unconfirmed reports of two dead in Kharkiv, an explosion at Kharkiv University, and Russian paratroopers on the ground in mainland Ukraine. Well be tracking developments and sorting rumor from report as the day goes on. * Below, we will be making regular updates throughout the day: * Actually I believe that is not a Tank but a Self Propelled Artillery Piece. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted March 15, 2014 Author Share Posted March 15, 2014 Russia vetoes UN resolution on Crimea's future ASSOCIATED PRESS | 3/15/14 11:34 AM EDT UNITED NATIONS Russia has vetoed a U.N. resolution declaring Sunday's referendum on the future of Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula illegal, but close ally China abstained in a show of Moscow's isolation. Supporters of the U.S.-sponsored resolution knew that Russia would use its veto. But they put the resolution to a vote Saturday morning to show the strength of opposition to Moscow's takeover of Crimea. The other 13 nations voted "yes." (Snip) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted March 15, 2014 Author Share Posted March 15, 2014 From Earlier Today.... Russian troops seize gas depot outside Crimea Ukrainian official says 120 soldiers occupied Strelkova natural gas distribution station near border with peninsula By AP March 15, 2014, 5:49 pm A spokesman for Ukraines border guard service said Saturday that Russian forces have seized a natural gas distribution station near Crimea. Saturdays action appeared to be the first move outside Crimea, where Russian forces have been in effective control since late last month Border guard spokesman Oleg Slobodyan told The Associated Press that a contingent of about 120 troops occupied the station in Strelkova on Saturday (Snip) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted March 15, 2014 Author Share Posted March 15, 2014 Unknown assailants abduct Greek-Catholic priest in Sevastopol March 15, 2014 02:27 EST Michael J. Miller As just reported by Father Lyubomyr Yavorskyi, deputy head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Churchs Department for Pastoral Care to the Civil Authorities of Ukraine, today unidentified armed men seized Father Mykola Kvych, pastor of Dormition of the Blessed Virgin Mary parish in Sevastopol, right from the church building and drove him off to an unknown destination. This information was confirmed by several parishioners who were at the Divine Liturgy, and by a telephone conversation with Fr. Mykolas wife. (Snip) ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ Greek Catholic Priest abducted By pro-Russian armed forces in Crimea Edward Lucas The abduction occurred on Saturday March 15, between 10:00-11:00 AM, in Sevastopol on the Crimean peninsula in Ukraine. Pro-Russian armed forces abducted Fr. Mykola Kvych, a Ukrainian Greek Catholic priest, directly from the Ukrainian Greek Catholic parish of the Dormition of the Mother of God, located on Silska Street 5 (near kilometer 5 of the Balaklava highway). Fr. Kvych was seized by two men in uniform and four men in civilian clothing. The young chaplain for the Ukrainian Navy was taken to an undisclosed location where he is being held captive. A parishioner who called Fr. Kvychs cellular phone heard abusive language on the line directed at the priest before the call was cut short. Sources confirm that Fr. Kvych is alive. Earlier this week at the direction of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic hierarchy Fr. Kvych and other Greek Catholic priests in Crimea evacuated their wives and children to mainland Ukraine. The priests themselves returned to their parishes to be with their faithful in a time of crisis and moral and physical danger. The call of Pope Francis for pastors to have the smell of their sheep has guided Catholic clergy in Ukraine during the months of peaceful protest of millions of citizens that began November 21 after President Yanukovych refused to sign an agreement of Ukraines association with Europe. (Snip) H/T Interpreter .com Fr. Kvych and some of his flock Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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