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Officers Of 76th Russian Shock Troops Division Operating In Ukraine
Everyone is curious who those unmarked men in unforms that have been seen in youtube clips from the Crimea are. Courtesy of Russian blogger Lev Shlosberg who writes for the newspaper Pskovskaya Guberniya, we now have an answer: according to him they are the officers of the 76th Chernihov (Pskov) Storm Troops Division and have slowly dispersed across key choke points in Ukraine.
From his post, translated by Interpretermag.com
According to one of the participants in the operation, officers and contractors of the 76th Shock Troops Division have been re-locating to Ukrainian territory since last week. By early this week, there were already more than 100 soldiers. The last of the famous detachments was sent on Thursday, 27 February. They are fully armed, with 5,000 rounds of ammunition per person. There is one truck per 10 soldiers, and they are completely loaded with weapons including flame-throwers. Upon arrival on the territory of Ukraine, they did not report their geographical locations to people, and they were assigned local tasks. Most likely, this was Sevastopol and Simferopol. Emergency troops remain in Yysk, and did not take part in the operation. The barracks of the 76th Storm Troops Division on Margelova Street in Pskov is practically empty.
Some background on the 76th:
Originally established in 1939 as the 157th Rifle Brigade, division gained prominence during WWII as the 76th Guards Rifle Division fighting on the USSR's southern frontiers. From 1988-1992 the 76th Airborne Division, as it had become known, engaged in preventative security, averting the possible outbreak of war in former USSR territory. The division battled alongside Chechen paramilitary forces in the 1990s to wrest control of Chechen territories from Chechen separatists in the first and second Chechen wars. In 2006 the 76th Airborne Division became an Air Assault Division. During the 2008 Battle of Tskhinvali 76th Airborne Division assaults were instrumental in driving Georgian troops from South Ossetia in the Southern Caucasus.
The 76th Division comprises three regiments - the 104th, 234th and 237th, whose ranks are filled by full time professional servicemen, as opposed to conscripts. The division is equipped with the most sophisticated weaponry in modern warfare, such as the 'smart' precision guided munitions, guided missiles and 2S9 NONA self-propelled mortar vehicles.
Perhaps not surprising, it was the 76th that was also involved in Syria:
Given the worsening crisis in Syria, the Nezavisimaya Gazeta newspaper reported that the Russian army is apparently being prepared for a mission in Syria. Citing anonymous sources in the military leadership, the newspaper said that Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the general staff to work out a plan for military operations outside Russia, including in Syria.
The units being prepared for an intervention are the 76th Division of airborne forces (an especially experienced unit of the Russian army), the 15th Army Division, as well as special forces from a brigade of the Black Sea fleet, which has a base in the Syrian port of Tartus.
The details of the operational plan are being prepared by the working parties of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation, to which most of the post-Soviet states belong, as well as the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, to which China and Russia belong.
And the 76th appears to have been busy today: Ayder Muzhdabayev, deputy editor of Moskovsky Komsomolets, reported on Facebook 2 hours ago:
Urgent from Crimea
Armed divisions have seized the state television station (GTRK) of Crimea. All the staff have gathered together at the Crimean Tatar TV channel ATR, hundreds of others have come. They are waiting for the seizure. Several APCs have arrived. For now, they’ve passed by. They are also expected seizure of the building of the Crimean Tatar’s Medjlis [Assembly]. People are already going there. Everyone is afraid of what will happen tonight. There it is.
Friends, colleagues, take care of yourself! Don’t resist the military. God save Crimea!
It would appear Putin is not exactly deterred by Obama's harsh language.
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Oh yes is is all about the kleptocracy. It doesn't even need to make any actual economic or geopolitical sense. Putin probably heard something about an emboldened Ukraine with EU ties was going to hold Russia captive as the only way for oil and gas to get out of Russia and into European markets. The fuck you say? So he takes over the place, just in case anyone was unclear on how this shit actually works.
Sometimes people who look smart are just insane at a time when insanity is rampant.
Wrong about Putin, he is a Russian nationalist, and committed to retaining/regaining as much of the empire as possible.
I thought russian debt was only about 9% GDP ... if so, that leaves Vlad a looooong time available to squeeze the EU before he has any financial problems.
Gazprom also doesn't shiver and freeze if it doesn't get delivered.
Flak, why is it you seem to need everything explained to you? MeMongo even gets it!
I think MeMongo is suffering from a wee bit of Dunning-Kruger...
Well flacidmeister if that means I can't get it up let me tell you something! Wee ain't even in Mongo's dictionary!
. Quot Erat Demondstrandum...
Correct! And, at an even deeper and more primal level, it's about the Currencies that are being backed by Energy (since they are no longer backed by Gold): Petro-Currencies -- it's a Zero-Sum game, bitchez.
Using famine and disease to cull the herd.
You have a point but only a small one.
No one is going to throw nukes over a place that has no oil.
Simply that.
Don't worry. This one, of February 2014, is just a banter in EU and Russian suburbs.
Hey SB, its either going to be a Black Helicopter or the flouride that will get your ass....
re: Agenda 21 depopulation...
Already started...
Where are the snipers when you need them? Oh thats right they are unarmed.
Everything happens at the weekend. Ha ha. Phew so lucky the debt ceiling was suspended. Now the US can spend spend spend. Check stocks on Monday as profiteers get a heads up. Also we can now get rid of that silly notion that the us will reduce its army. of course we can't do that right now. we may need to increase our numbers. Just sayin.
"CIA shock agents operating in Ukraine"
Putin doesn't speak Obonics.
I wonder if Putin will ride into Crimea shirtless, on his horse. Crimea will be their warm up exercise before entering the hells gates of Syria.
Did you hear? Putin just signed a contract to be the Russian spokesman for Cenegenics...
No, he'll ride into Crimea shirtless, on the back of a semi-wild rabid bear, firing a PPSh.
I'm thinking it's going to be a bad 100 years for pissed off muslims.
Really, is there anyone here surprised at this? We have a weak Socialist at the helm of the US, and he isn't in any way comparable to Putin (excepting political orientation). I'm just wondering if this was a sop to pay off Russia in some backroom deal. "Yeah, yeah Puty-Poot...Syria didn't work out but how about this? Crimea, maybe all of the Ukraine. I promise, we'll wave our hands a bit but nothing else."
Political orientation? Huh? There's only one Bolshevik in that duo and his last name ain't Putin....
<--Shock Troops
<--Shocked President
There are thousands of German, Russian and Chinese troops operating in the USA right now.
Wake me up when they get to Main Street.
ring ring ring
There are thousands of US troops stationed in those countries too, spreading the love.
I wouldn't bet against the hillbillies versus the forementioned.
German, Russian and Chinese? You meant to say Israeli, Hebrew, and Jewish troops right?
Maybe. Maybe not.
Be careful with Interpretermag. It's sponsor is funded by Soros-types, and run by Khodorkovsky's son. Same types that supported the violent overthrow of Ukraine's government.
Wake me up when the 5th Guards Tank Army is in motion with the ghost of Rotmistrov in command...
Or when the pipelines pointing at the EU are shut, if that even happens...
You are wrong those piplines are not pointing westward to the EU. But eastward to Russia. Because they are pumping money, hard currency, to Russia. THe moment the EU decides to shut that pipline via an embargo, Russia is insolvent within a few days or weeks.
We are bacically saying the same thing...
Ironically gold could get bitchslapped hard if Russia has to dump/sell to meet domestic obligations....
Insolvency kills slower than no electric pumping of water into pipes in Europe cities. The electricity comes from nat gas.
Well, I guess it is up to Vlad to find out what gives first...
I presume Nordstream is also shut down?
Europe is not a third world country like the US. There are more than enough nuclear, coal, and other kinds of power plants beside natgas plants to produce electric power in Europe. And natgas is produced in Western Europe too. And all kinds of fuels, including natgas can be imported from everywhere else to Europe, it doesn´t matter if we buy the stuff in Russia or from other sources. I know a lot of peeps think Europe is dependent on Russian energy, but we are not. An enbargo on Russian energy imports will bring some inconvienences for Europe and higher prices world wide, but this is not a real problem for Europe. But Russia will be in turmoil within a few weeks.
I'm sorry. Did you just say Stop the Oil, from the largest producer in the world?
I am sorry, but you do know that the OECD had ~60 days of consumption in storage? Don't you?
A lot can happen in 60 days...
What is this some endless lie you chat about at the water cooler at The State Dept? Go to Gazprom's web site. Russia can bypass the pipelines going through the Ukraine. There are at least two and possibly three other routes.
Those Russkies don't stand a chance once the US unleashes it's ultimate instrument of "Shock and Awe", ie. the POTUS showing up for a press conference....ON TIME! Mwahahaha....
this is bullish for facefart
I wish the Queen was more like Putin. We have a pansy in the WH.
Maybe Queenie is waiting for orders from the CFR? Get BIS in Basel, Switerland on the phone.
Oh MY GOD! It's like a 1960's flash back?
I bet they've got their secret rail-gun tanks too! Those Rooskies have the best weapons because the goddamn liberal pansy pinkos won't give the Military the money it needs to defend this great-n-glorous country from the Godless Commies.
Oh YEAH, this is gonna be great. Tom Claney can write more novels about Lt Jack Ryan Jr (ace Drone Commander) taking out Commy Tanks. Finally we got a enemy that knows how to fight a war that we can proud to have novels written about, not some group of 10th century semi-psychotic religious fantatics, but people that know how to handly Armor, in the open battle-field.
Is there a Guard's there division yet?
those 10th century religious fanatics have done a pretty good job at killing and maiming a lot of American soldiers, who never should have been sent there in the first place.
Re: those 10th century religious fanatics have done a pretty good job at killing and maiming a lot of American soldiers
Of course they are good at it. It still doesn't make for cool Tom Clancy novels.
Nothing beat the clash of modern weapons to excite the males playing virtual reality games.
The hunt for Red October? The hunt for Al Kyda # 52?
You decide.
good point.
The are 7th C. fanatics, not 10th...
Where to start......Russians have good stuff, but poor maintenance, poor leadership, no spare parts, and extremely poor quality control means we beat their systems every time.
The reason we have the casulties we have in Iraq and Afghanistan are the rules of engagement. If I wanted to I could shut down any travel corridor with electroic denial weapons that would fry anything in its radius permanently, and I could simply lay area denial munitions with termination timers to keep any enemy from ambushing me, etc, etc. etc.. We have the tools, not the political will. I will tell you clearly, if it comes to survival, better hop on the U.S. bus cause its the only one coming home. Trust me. you havn't even seen most 2000 vintage toys, already 14 years old.
Keep masterbating.
We have more Hollywood action heroes than the Russians. Not to worry.
Tom Clancy's dead, show some respect. Bitch.
TOLD YA SO!
Imagine if Cuba tried to evict the USA from Guantanamo.
Wow, absolutely. They could actually do that now. What would Obama's response be?
to quief.
Then he'd deploy a bunch of navy ships, then the dollar would get knocked out by forces unknown, queue the hyperinflation and fedgov collapse.
All roads lead to that result. It's just a matter of time.
If they couldn't pass the veterans bill to pay for the aftermath they shouldn't even consider sticking their beak in.
They're not done paying for the FUEL and LEAD bills from VIETNAM yet, much less the last 30 years of vetrans expenses from that folly, future liabilities is asking a bit much from Washington.
compound interest can be a bitch
Don't worry Ukranian Freedom Fighters the Community Organizer is sending you 3000 Obamacare Vaginators to assist you
Wow I found this funny as hell!
When is Van Rompoy's statement scheduled for?
Van Rom what? The EU is a joke.
OT: Except the stormtrooper part.
The "enforcement arm" is now well aware of the potential task ahead of them.
The legislators are crying for security details.
http://www.thedailysheeple.com/patriot-activist-makes-his-own-list-the-h...
MOLON LABE.
Gooch
Interesting
Proper Prior Preparation Prevents Piss Poor Performance
(by Pussy Pontificating Paid Prostitute Politicians)
I find it disgusting that US vets have to beg for money on television via Wounded Warrior Project when the VA is supposed to take good care of our vets with our tax dollars. Unfortunately, all our tax dollars evaporate into FED bank accounts to service the national debt, never to be seen again, so there isn't any money for the vets and Congress won't borrow any for the vets! The vets are treated like scum by Congress.
What is even more disgusting are the conditions inside hospitals ar which vets are "cared"for.
http://abcnews.go.com/Primetime/story?id=132383
Re: borrow any for the vets!
Probably why they don't include the VA with Big-MIC. The VA is considered more like social-spending. And, we ALL know who gets the social-spending spent on them.... yup....
remember the story a couple years back, where the military got caught dumping soldiers' remains in a dump? that incident should have made it clear to every single American how the government will treat its citizens and used up soldiers.
Remember the story of the Iraq soldier killed in action who had his heart harvested in an Israeli hospital. They sent the body home to his mother. The mother complained and the military sent her another persons heart.
Yes, exactly. I find it highly illogical that the reps and senators are allowing this to happen. A bunch of terminally ill, pissed off Vietnam and gulf vets... That's about the last group of people that I would want to piss off and cut their life line. They have to be completely insane.
Those aren't the people you want to leave with nothing to lose.
The suicide rate has increased for these heroes over the last decade because they were denied proper care at the VA. A great country doesn't treat its soldiers like trash.
I'm well aware. I have a lot of messed up friends. I agree, but my point is, and I hate to quote Celente, but he's abolutely right on this:
"When people have nothing left to lose, they lose it."
.
The MIC wants them to commit suicide, or at the very least become homeless, destitute, and addicted to heroin, meth, alcohol, and other hard drugs. If a veteran dies young, the MIC saves a crapload of money on promised college tuition, promised medical care, and promised retirement benefits. That leaves more money to be spent on boondoggles like the F-35.
The bureaucratic runaround and denial of adequate care at the VA is intentional. Of course you can't really blame the staff at the VA, because the intentional underfunding and understaffing leaves them too exhausted and mentally drained at the end of the day to figure it out. Any of them which happen to stumble across the truth probably commit suicide as well.
Yet some people still cling to the naive belief that the US government is The Good Guys®.
I don't disagree with you but maybe people will get hip and tell their kids to stay the hell out of the military. The United States Corporation Inc. has been ***king over and destroying soldiers since at least The Civil War.
But the recruiting ads say the parents made them strong but the army will make them army strong. Besides there can be no higher privilege than having Barry as your commander in chief, unless it was Dick Cheney. Besides the ads say talk it over with mummy and daddy, why I think I'll just run down to the recruiting office and sign my little ones over to Barry and his tribal handlers.
War is always a convenient way to distract a population from impending economic collapse, and why worry about a 25 Trillion dollar deficit when you are not worried about a 17 trillion dollar deficit? And let's not forget how a war would help overwhelm the system.....
I think Obama should air-drop potty-mouth Vicky into Sevastapol where she could give each of those sweaty Russians a good tongue-lashing.
The US Propaganda machine is now beating a Boycott drum... to "cancel the G8 meeting in Sochi this June".
Suggest that Russia re-purpose date & place with a "G20 minus 8" meeting, to discuss "Relevance of the Debt-Dollar as continued GRC"**
** Global Reserve Currency
Topics to include: "Formula and mechanism for Asset-based Currencies, with mix of Gold and Energy backing currencies for universal acceptance as Real Money".
Dear Vlad,
"I'll still take you down to a nice sauna in Chicago when you come over, but I'm afraid that my visit to the G8 is off, definitely off. You've crossed too many of my red lines lately and I'm fed up moving them. And my minders are getting close to screaming "mummy, mummy"."
Yours truly
Barry Obwana.
owebomba needs this ukranium distraction every bit as much as vlad pootin does. domestic economies all over the world are in ruins. the kleptocrats, bankers, and globalists have won. the only thing left to do is kill half the poor people and make the other half watch.
kill the prisoners... eat the poor
Can you please use more buzz words. Shock, storm, seized, alert, afraid, all good. Can you please add Atomic Foot Soldier Gouls, decapitating igor subhuman destoyers, chimerical genetical man-beast blood gorgers, sub-human raping slaughtering protohuman murderers.
Dmitryi Olegovich Rogozin is a Russian Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Russia, Deputy Prime Minister of Russia in charge of defense industry.
One hour ago he tweeted (translation);
@Rogozin: The work of the Ukrainian-Russian high-level industrial group is suspended until the formation of a legitimate Government in Kiev.
Intention, motive, provocation.
shock troops schlock troops.
i was just speaking to tony blair as i was getting a little concerned about israeli ukraine pipeline contracts.
tony said tony lighten up russia are a failing state they have very little money and most of that is in london.
he says that are parachute regiment and us delta,mossad and french foreign legions can take the whole country in 12 days tops or sooner.
he also stated that he is being lined up for the un ukraine peace envoy job to go with his super sucessful middle east peace envoy gig.
Cameron and Carney would like to volunteer every English citizen to the cause. They stand behind each and every one of you. You have to admire that kind of courage.
Hmm...Love the blog, but,
It's not 76th VDD... some of parts of it in some places, possible... but "polite, well armed people", on pictures and videos we've seen, are not... 76th VDD
you are correct, Sir.
Even from photoes and videos posted Z.H. it's quite easy to understand who they are... Crimea's antifascists!;-)
Don't upset these polite people, you don't wan't to see them angry, they have capabilities to change shape of continents if odered. ;-)
Never fear......President Obama is on his way!!!
FREEDOM!!
oh well if Lev Shlosberg says it, it must be true. By the way, some people on his blog have said that his claim is bullshit, and he replies boil down to "nuh uh, bet you never made it out of grade school"
As I noted earlier, interpretermag.com is not exactly "fair and balanced".
The Interpreter is underwritten by two registered non-profit organizations: the London-based Herzen Foundation and the New York-based Institute of Modern Russia, of which the journal is a special project.
The institute of modern russia is headed by the son of notorious Jewish Russian oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Maybe a boyhood friend of Mr. Shlosberg? As for the director, a Ms. Dukhovich, first off she has terrible taste in music, she has to have tendered the most absurd retort to the most absurd antisemitic conspiracy theory no one has heard of .... in the history of the world...
https://plus.google.com/104636700729510640424/posts
the video, the only thing she has commented on or done on the interwebs, really, was produced by MEMRI. Memri is nothing but a right wing Zionist/Jewish hasbara group chock full of some of the same neocons who helped urge the US into a war against Iraq because they thought it would help Israel.
http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/Middle_East_Media_Research_Instit...
Cute, but not necessarily coming at you from a neutral perspective.
http://fusion.net/Leadership/video/political-prisoners-persist-russia-44...
Interestingly the editor in chief of The interpreter magazine is also Jewish...
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/michael-weiss/51/850/7b5
You know, like most of the oligarchs. like khodo. Is their use a "honey pot" of sorts? oh well..
Not sure if the Herzen Foundation in London actually exists. There was a Herzen Foundation in the Netherlands once. And Alexander Herzen, the 'father of Russian socialism' was a real guy...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Herzen
Apparently he both hated and needed the Rothschilds...
Alexander Herzen and James de Rothschildhistory rhymes, eh?
Just some trivia. The oligarchs in Russia were, facts being stubborn things, Jewish. 6 of 7 of thef first wave of thieves, not bad for a gorup that's under 2% of the Russian population, and, the Russian right is aware of this.
Similar ethnic...over-representation in Ukraine, as it happens... and their batshit crazy right wing knows this.
http://mycatbirdseat.com/2014/02/israel-shamir-the-brown-revolution-in-u...
As noted before, apart from NATO/Israel acting elsewhere while this goes on, NATO may soon have to deal with secondary protests/riots by nahtzees in the west, once they figure out how hard they just got fucked by the IMF and oligarchs.
Putin has managed to weaken the oligarchs all while preventing the Soros-funded NGO movement from destablizing the country, all while resisting rhe Russian far right that does, in fact, have a point about who the oligarchs were.
Khodorkovsky was one of them, and was not an innocent man... but was able to get lots of sympathetic coverage in the NYT and elsewhere. Articles about "political repression" rather than, you know, outright theft under Yeltsin, ties with the Russian mob, etc.
There are better sources, and not at all necessarily "pro-Russian" ones, so why would ZH use... 'some guy' who, I'm willing to bet, has ties to the Khodos crowd?
Survey says, Shlosberg is incorrect. Not just about the admittedly cool sounding name he gives the division, but about where they are now.
ole Lev may even know Soros. Or some of the more odious neocons who claim to be interested in "democracy" in Russia. Has worked for an NGO and all, in addition to his duties at his little opposition newspaper and his work for the Yabloko party... very pro eu, and tied in with the same oligarchs who will be raping ukraine forthwith...
Just... odd that he's getting picked up here and in a couple of right wing pro-israel type blogs...
The poor ukrainians, west and east.
they have no idea of the forces aligned against them.
they have gotten but a taste of oligarchical rape by the Global Banking Empire.
+100
Thanks for your on going analysis. The poor Ukrainians indeed. Sad.
Poor dumbass shock troops won't know what hit them when Obama lays the consequences on them!
what...bore them to death with his fake spontaenous BS teleprompting
It is a deadly super-power.
putin for president!
if the usa routed the oligarchs the way putin did usa .gov and industry would have to declare a holiday for a month to construct a semblance of a functioning .gov and market.
Don't worry lads. The US Navy Seals are on the ground:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DZP3fYurqU&list=UU-Y8tHCwNCHYzGL8iw5IOXA&feature=c4-overview
O will be handing out Chinook-ride tickets after their job well done...
Oh yeah US special forces, after they do a big PR job like fake Osama they all accidently die
If nobody has seen the latest interview of William Engdahl on the Corbett Report -well worth it on the current crisis in Ukraine between the U.S. and Russia.
Well worth it.
http://www.corbettreport.com/interview-830-william-engdahl-exposes-the-western-agenda-in-ukraine/
October 2012. A Rockefeller-quasiconnected someone singles out next Tuesday for economic mayhem. Im impressed with the timing of this escalation. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/oct/25/us-economy-on-schedule-t...
(Not really a fan of TheWashingtonTimes, given the fact that I think the founder is batshit crazy. Im simply impressed with the MIC ramping up within 78 hours of the stated date)
Let's hope that doesn't become "the new 9/11 date". I wouldn't put it past these imperialist fuckheads to try anything at this point.
They are ohhhh.... soooo.... fucking desperate!
You're the one who said it... not me.
They're desperate alright, desperate to avoid the inevitable rope, guillotine, and firing squad.
Time to update a certain online encyclopedia article on that Ukrainian territory formerly known as the Crimea:
Old name - Crimea
New moniker - West Russia.
That's a hoot! Yeah, right after they update 9/11 and every other bald-faced fantasy version of reality.
News Flash:
Russian shot troops are drinking all of the vodka they can find and fighting with each other at this time. Women are reported to be in hiding and rolling their eyes.
No suprises here that they are Russian soldiers.
You just have to look at the world map to see why Crimea is of some importance to them (as well as the rest of Ukraine).
Obama is destressinng hard at it bumming some guy, while snorting drugs. Its an old habit from colledge days
You forgot the part about him kicking back and watching drone porn. Every time a wedding party gets hit he says "I did that."
Shock and awe baby. Blast them all the way back to Tel Aviv.