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Ukraine Orders Full Military Mobilization, Acting PM Says Russian Actions "Declaration Of War"
With less than 6 hours left until FX trading opens, no resolution to the Ukraine crisis is in sight. Instead the situation has devolved even more and overnight Ukraine has ordered a full military mobilization in response to Russia's build-up of its forces in Crimea. Prime Minster Arseniy Yatsenyuk said the country was "on the brink of disaster." Several other measures were announced on Sunday by national security officials:
- The armed forces would be put on "full combat readiness".
- Reserves to be mobilised and trained
- Ukraine's foreign minister will seek the help of US and UK leaders in guaranteeing its security
- Emergency headquarters to be set up
- Increased security at key sites, including nuclear plants.
- Airspace closed to all non-civilian aircraft.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said Sunday that his country was "on the brink of disaster" and personally blamed Russian President Vladimir Putin for bringing the two nations to the verge of war. Speaking to reporters at the Ukrainian parliament, Mr. Yatsenyuk called on the international community to rein in Mr. Putin and pressure him to remove troops from the Crimean peninsula, where a majority of residents are ethnic Russians but have Ukrainian passports.
"If President Putin wants to be the president who starts the war between two friendly and neighboring countries, he has [almost] reached this target," Mr. Yatsenyuk said. "We are on the brink of disaster. There was no reason for the Russian Federation to invade Ukraine."
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Western diplomats doubt that the Ukrainian armed forces would be able to match up to the Russian forces already in control of the critical infrastructure and border points in the Crimea.
Ukrainian leaders say that Russia has already sent an additional 6,000 troops to Crimea since tensions arose in the peninsula last week. The two countries have a military agreement that allows Moscow to base forces in the region, but Ukrainian officials accuse Moscow of violating that treaty by not informing Kiev of additional troops, and by moving forces without prior notice. Moscow says that it is in compliance of the accord.
Earlier Sunday, Ukraine's interior minister said Russian officials had approached Ukrainian officers remaining in Crimea and offered them immediate Russian citizenship.
"Across the entire territory of Crimea, Russian emissaries and military officers have invited the remaining Ukrainian interior ministry troops to take Russian citizenship and immediately receive Russian passports," Arsen Avakov wrote on his Facebook page. "This appeal has been aimed at upper and middle officer corps troops."
Mr. Avakov denied that Ukrainian forces had threatened the Russian-speaking population on the largely pro-Russian peninsula, and blamed Russian forces for the sharp militarization of the region.
"In Crimea, there are no forces from the interior ministry or the regular army threatening citizens of the Russian Federation or the Russian-speaking population," he said. "And also no self-defense units from Maidan have arrived from Kiev. All destabilization in the Crimea has come from and been masterminded in Russia."
The BBC adds that it has seen what appear to be Russian troops digging trenches on the Crimean border. Furthermore, a standoff between Ukrainian troops who have fortified a base in the crimean city of Privolnoye, borth place of the late USSR president Mikhail Gorbachev, and Russians who have surrounded them, may be the match that set it all off. Fox reports that hundreds of unidentified gunmen surrounded a Ukraine's infantry base in Privolnoye in its Crimea region Sunday. The convoy included at least 13 troop vehicles each containing 30 soldiers and four armored vehicles with mounted machine guns. The vehicles -- which have Russian license plates -- have surrounded the base and are blocking Ukrainian soldiers from entering or leaving it.
This is the current state of the standoff:
Extraordinary standoff. #Ukraine soldiers defiant behind gates of Perevalne base. Won't surrender. #Crimea pic.twitter.com/uLfphYAXGB
— James Mates (@jamesmatesitv) March 2, 2014
#Privolnoye: 100s of #Russian guns surround #Ukraine #Crimean base, blocking these soldiers http://t.co/9nFII4FWhF pic.twitter.com/wl9Esxiat9
— Ottawa Stare™ (@OttawaStare) March 2, 2014
Squad of Russian reinforcements arrive at Perevalne base where #Ukraine troops surrounded. No sign of them moving in. pic.twitter.com/vFypJnw8dy
— James Mates (@jamesmatesitv) March 2, 2014
In response, acting Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said the move by Russian forces to surround military bases in Crimea was "a declaration of war."
His comments were echoed by acting president Oleksandr Turchynov, who said Ukraine had closed its airspace to non-civilian aircraft. Among the other statements by Yatsenyuk, as reported by the WSJ:
- Ukrainian PM: ‘If President Putin Wants to Be the President Who Starts the War Between Two Friendly and Neighboring Countries, He Has [Almost] Reached This Target’
- Ukrainian PM: ‘We are on the brink of disaster’
- Ukrainian PM: ‘There Was No Reason for the Russian Federation to Invade Ukraine
- Ukrainian PM: We Believe Western Partners and Entire Western Community Will Support Entire Territorial Integrity of Ukraine
- Ukrainian PM: We Believe They Will Do Everything They Can to Stop Russian Military Aggression in Ukraine
- Ukrainian Defense Ministry: All Ukraine’s Border Patrol Ships Moved Out of Crimean Ports to Odessa
- Ukraine PM: Every Half Hour There Are Provocations in Crimea and Ukraine Refuses to Respond to These Provocations
- Ukraine PM: Ukraine Hasn’t Given Permission to Russia to Deploy an Additional 6,000 troops to Crimea
All told, some 6,000 extra Russian troops and 30 additional armoured vehicles are now in Crimea, Ukrainian Defence Minister Ihor Tenyukh said on Saturday.
An interactive map of the key Ukraine battlefields is shown below:
Finallly, there was the traditional escalation in Western diplomacy with both France and Britain announcing they are putting on hold their plans for participation in the G-8 conference to be held in Sochi.
It gets better. From the WSJ:
France is not considering any military action in response to Russia’s decision to deploy troops inside Ukraine, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said Sunday, as Western countries instead sought to renew diplomatic pressure on Moscow.
In an interview with French TV, Mr. Fabius said Poland had requested a meeting of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, or NATO, military alliance “because it feels threatened by what’s going on in Ukraine.”
Asked if France would intervene militarily in Ukraine, Mr. Fabius responded: “Today, this is not the hypothesis. I’m telling you we want a de-escalation.”
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“France’s position is to call for the suspension of preparation ahead of the G-8 meeting in Sochi as long as the Russian partners have not returned to principles in agreement with the G-8 and G-7,” Mr. Fabius said.
Apparently unlike Mali and the Central African Republic, Russian can fight back.
And then there's this:
- Kerry Says U.S. Considering Sanctions on Russia for Ukraine Move
Well if nothing else stopped Putin, this surely will.
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BREAKING; Ukrainian soldiers in Crimea have taken Russian oath ...Supreme Council Crimea Autonomous Republic 6.30 GMT ....
Excuse me but I have a semi-hot 24year old texting me. Time to swipe my credit card in her ass crack lol have a nice day.
The single strongest argument for supporting Ukraine is the fact the Boy King Obama doesn't want to support the Ukraine.
Ukraine will get no help from the US or UK, no meaningful help at any rate. Unless they can ally with Poland and the other baltic and slavic states, including Sweden--all of whom have a vested interest in checking Russian bully-ism and power--they have no chance.
Even with all those micro and mini states allied and coordinated by a modern Napoleon, they have poor odds.
I hope the Ruskies don't follow the gas pipeline all the way into Slovakia. They are finally doing well as a country.
Hitler's Rant - Original Video with English Subtitles: Film = Downfall/Der Untergang - HD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7PmzdINGZk
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The U.S. has Installed a Neo-Nazi Government in Ukraine
By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
Global Research, March 02, 2014
http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-u-s-has-installed-a-neo-nazi-government...
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“The flowering of democracy” in Ukraine –to use the words of the New York Times– is endorsed by Republicans and Democrats. Its a bipartisan project. Lest we forget, Senator John McCain is a firm supporter and friend of Neo Nazi Svoboda leader Oleh Tyahnybok (Image right).
However, it goes without saying that “support” to the formation of a Neo-Nazi government does not in any way imply the development of “fascist tendencies” within the White House, the State Department and the US Congress." ..m.c.
I warn you that all these posts are getting too much for your NSA masters to read in one day. NAS employees want to spend Sunday with their children going out to dinner and shopping with all your tax money you so happily pay them for spying on us all. Remember, they protect us so we can enjoy the prospect of working early retirement packages. All these posts are keeping NSA folks at their computer terminals tracking your seditious posts. Like keeping track of how high on Washington's enemies list you are takes up their free time.
I suggest ZH shut down on weekends and allow the great free nation of America a chance for it's spy army to have a weekend off with friends and family. Get a chance to spend and enjoy their pay and their pensions, free health care and long vacations.
Give NSA a break, stop posting Anti American Rubbish till Monday.
i can't speak for the others but all my posts are sourced
from a deep seated patriotism and certainly are in no way
seditious. the framework of our system of government depends on
information and debate based on the full spectrum of various
experience/s. the notion that any of that is seditious is
flawed and reveals the treason in the heart of the accuser.
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"BY MALCOLM X
[T]he press is used to make the victim look like the criminal and make the criminal look like the victim… . This is imagery. And just as this imagery is practiced at the local level, you can understand it better by an international example. The best recent example at the international level to bear witness to what I’m saying is what happened in the Congo. Look at what happened. We had a situation where a plane was dropping bombs on African villages. An African village has no defense against the bombs. And an African village is not sufficient threat that it has to be bombed! But planes were dropping bombs on African villages. When these bombs strike, they don’t distinguish between enemy and friend. They don’t distinguish between male and female. When these bombs are dropped on African villages in the Congo, they are dropped on Black women, Black children, Black babies. These human beings were blown to bits. I heard no outcry, no voice of compassion for these thousands of Black people who were slaughtered by planes." ...m.x.
Malcolm X on U.S. bombings
in Congo in 1960s
http://www.themilitant.com/2011/7504/750449.html
if you were a real patriot you would have done three tours in Iraq. come home with PTSD, and died in a shootout with the SWAT team.
True, under the saying that 'the only good hero is a dead hero', and everyone in govt service thinks they are a hero these days. I can understand the young and dumb and badly uniformed thinking that by joining the imperial goon squads that they are 'serving their country', but shouldn't their fathers or grandfathers have taught them that if you get F'up, you are essentially on your own.... doesn't that go back at least to the WWI and the 'Bonus Army'? Same situation Roman troops had after every war they faught. Nothing ever changes.
the idea is to avoid dying for your country
while standing up for the truth, best i can figure.
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i don't expect anyone to honor me for my patriotism
if that is even the right word?
i reject violence as a means of conflict resolution
on grounds practical, ethical and principle.
that is the nut of it till the real thing comes along.
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You don't have to explain yourself to some turd sitting in a kibutz feeding off a welfare check paid for by the US taxpayer.
The NSA outsources much of the trolling to Israeli firms like Stratfor. The Queen doesn't want any American getting ideas like Mr. Snowden. LOL!
Do you really think the NSA would hire a returning vet from Iraq or Afghanistan a job trolling Zero Hedge? That would be dangerous.
Chuck = fundamentally sound
Looooool
This is becoming moar and more like Syria part deux now we got Insane in the Brain McCain and Fuck the EU Nuland associating with the liver eater equivalents trying to take control of the Ukrainian government aka the neo-nazi Svoboda party. With pictures!
http://www.globalresearch.ca/there-are-no-neo-nazis-in-the-ukraine-and-t...
Svoboda is a Neo-Nazi Party, Ukraine’s fourth biggest party holding 36 seats out of 450 in parliament.
They’re also part of the Alliance of European National Movements along with the BNP and Jobbik.
Svoboda is supported directly by Washington.
This is Svoboda and the “Right Sector”: the Neo-Nazi group which led the “protest movement” in Ukraine. These Neo-Nazis are armed gunmen.
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Speaker of the Parliament Oleksandr Turchynov who issued the arrest warrant directed against President Viktor Yanukovych stated “We must move towards a national government by Tuesday”. That government, were it to be formed, would be integrated by Svoboda.
That coalition government has now been formed with Neo-Nazis of the Svoboda and Right Sector parties in control of the Armed Forces, National security, Justice and Education.
While Obama is accusing Russia of interventionism, the US and the EU are supportive of both the terrorist Neo-Nazi militia as well as the Svoboda party. Meanwhile, the media is mum: discussion of EU-US support to Neo-Nazi political formation is a taboo.
The existence of a Neo-Nazi party working in tandem with Brown shirts militia is casually denied. Those who dare raise the issue are accused of propagandizing
Who is Lying? Who is Telling the Truth?
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Read the rest of the article for supporting evidence including photos.
Ukrainian grandmas have become politically active.
Translation from left to right:
"Sevastopol youth for union with Russia!"
"We don't want to join European pederasts! We want (to join our) Slavic brothers!"
Too bad the Ukraine does not have a 2cnd ammendment right to bear arms. I am thinking that alone would have solvedor kept many of the current problems from happening.
Obama is talking to his crack military advisors as we speak.....no problemo....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzLtF_PxbYw
Since the head of Ukraine has not received a single vote in a free fair and open election, from where is his power to rule drawn?
On the subject of the Ukrainian military. It is large, but badly underfunded and morale is in the shitter. Most are conscripts on a 2 year hitch. Their desire for battle is minimal at best.
Add to that, many are Orthodox Ethnic Russians who will never shoot at their fellow contry men in the East/South/Crimea. Nor will they willingly shoot at the Russian regular army forces.
The unelected rulers, commanded by Obama, is upping the game. Russia already has secured Crimea. As of this morning the Ukrainian army forces in Crimea have done one of two things. Number one, they have gone over to the pro Russian government of Crimea. Number two, they have dropped arms and are being allowed to go home or back to any place they want to. They are allowed freedom of movement. So, there is no Ukrainian army loyal to the Kiev revolution in Crimea.
Right now, Crimean forces are securing the entry point into Crimea. These are few and very, very narrow.
The Ukraina navy has mostly defected to the Russian Navy in Sevastopol.
I would say that war will ONLY happen if Kiev is crazed enough to send troops east and south into regions that refuse the Kiev government control. If they drive on any major city in the East/South/Crimea, then I suggest to you, that this will blow up in a flash.
The lead column of Ukrainian revolutionary forces will likley only know war has begun when they see a distant flash, the exhaust of a barrage of Iskander Missiles. You do not want to be the people on the wrong side of that.
I'll say it once more. West Ukraine should be happy. They should take west Ukraine into the EU and NATO. And rule Kiev however they see fit. This should be enough for them. If not, if they try to invade and take East/South/Crimea by force, they will be destroyed. It is their choice. They can stay in West Ukraine and rule in peace. This is now their choice. The Russians in Russian Ukraine have made clear, they will note accept the illegal revolutionary Kiev governments control or laws. It is that simple. Kiev, do you want war? If so, you will ge it? We all know the USA is in control, they are commanding the revolution, lets see if Obama is ready for real war.
True, and very telling to see who 'gets in line' waving the flag when their supervisors pull their strings. The Ukrainian govt??? There isn't one, just the coup de etat or putsch that we 'assisted' in our usual 'democratic' means, same methods we've used for over a century... History is so repetitive because most sheep remain asleep. Yes, I know that half don't count, but what's up with the other half? The Adamics? Guess someone broke their alarm clocks.
It's best to refer to the 'govt' in Kiev as the regime... as they won't be there long, though surely they will attempt to fill their pockets before departing from the scene. The Russians know this 'revolution' game of ours so well because they've lived it since the Bolsheviks took power in the same manner... remember how the Germans sent in Lenin and we sent in Troksky? See the pattern? Many Ukrainians trained in Israel are back in service, isn't that shocking as well? Remember the attempt we tried just last year or so with our desire to base in Crimea? Welcome to the NWO, same bs as usual. Interesting to see really supports who when the strings get pulled.... Ukrainian govt... that's funny, reminds me of so many other scams over the years, from AL Gore to the farce in Grenada, to the farce in Panama, Haiti, Yugoslavia, Venezuela, Syria, Lebanon, ah the list is endless until the empire ends... and Mother Nature will have to help with that rather soon.
Jack..wtf is Islander missiles? And gdepi yes the Bolshevik revolution was lead by fucking Zionist Jews.
An Islander missile is a shot from the point. Deflected in by Tavares. Is the other missile an Iskander?
I do not have any Ukranian Cold War surplus ammo in my extensive collection Jack. I wonder what that means?
i've got an idea, let the Russians take everything but the capital Kiev, and then divide it down the middle, and rename it Berlin. then wait forty years and we'll get it back
How does a NSA report about facebook and twitter activity looks like when their own citizens are rooting for Russia?
Sunday afternoon in Simferopol -
http://rt.com/news/ukraine-crimea-photos-tweets-434/
Time for some international Panic..." Panic German Government, Panic American Government..."
http://youtu.be/F8cXSqB5j0M
Meanwhile, at the White House, Bathhouse Barry can't comment because he has his mouth full again.....It's Reggie Love's 39th sleepover, since stepping down from his former full time position of potus Knob Polisher.....
Queue up a Fort Sumtervastopol event and the Russkies are there to stay.
Ukraine gave up their nukes in exchange for guarantees of territorial integrity by the US and UK. What a mistake that is turning out to be!
I look at the photos of both the Russian troops and the Ukrainian Troops facing each other (above) and I think one of the main reasons these fellows could potentially lose their lives in the next few weeks is because of a Patholgical Lying, Psychopathic Serial Killer, Mulatto in DC, who needs to be immediately removed from office, shamed in public, tried in court for treason, and then executed, for all to see what happens when one "crosses the line".
What a waste with another senseless war. I'm not at all a religious type, but living in America and seeing the countless wars our megalomanic politicians force us in to with these "Corporate Ventures", i.e. spreading "freedom and democracy" to sovereign countries, gives one reason to become one. Anyway, praying for some kind of "victory before war", i.e. a bloodless solution real quick, in this case.
Don't forget the Bush's and Clintons', they are just as corrupted. But they're all puppets, too, and they don't do anything without approval from "above".
Nah. I don't think it was instigated by "Putin". We should pin this on Victoria Nuland. This bitch, married to Neo-Con Kagan says it all. The Neo-Cons are still in power, they never left and their unrelenting goal to save the $$ and maintain hegemony over the entire region (They're the ones that bully Europe but need them at the same time...such Fools!!!). This is obviously a goal that cannot be reached and sustained. Obama is not the guy with the power in the U.S., they just keep him loaded.
Putin, whatever you think about him, is not dicking around and is showing full Leadership. He's smart. I'll bet Washington didn't think he'd mobilize so quickly. But ultimately, with Navy heads already moving over to the Russian side, it does not look good for the Ukrainian-Euro side.
Washington is going to lose this one AGAIN. And in so doing will seal the fate of our own nation. They are going to show the world how much power they DON'T have anymore. These pigs in washington burned our Constitution, depleted the people's financial coffers, blown away entire cities with unnecessary bombing, killed our own youth (although their kids didn't die), and have looted every pocket in America (although most Americans haven't figured that out yet).
Indeed! We need to realize that Neocon power is what used to be called the military industrial complex, neocons are the intellectual backers of this complex. Obama is a puppet of them, just as was Bush. There is no difference who wins elections here in the USA, the power structure stays the same. All this fighting over gay marriage and gun control is simply a show for the rabble, to make them feel powerful when they vote. In fact, both parties are war mongers and banker whores. The very worst of them all may very well be president in a few years. The Israeli Whore Ms. CLITON, former wife of blowjob Bill Clinton. Famous for globalization legislation and defeating Serbia in a long and heroic war of self defense.
The CLITON Whore is Israel's candidate.
On a related note: Don't get too distracted from Syria. This plays a major role in this I'm sure.
If the evemy is any people that would like to control their own government, then the people of the USA are truly an enemy of the current administration.
I would also say that any government seeks to control the free will of its people for the benefit of just a few of its own people, is also an enemy of the people.
President Obama has lied to the Americsn people more than three times by breaking pre-election promises. Wilful electoral fraud on three occasions should see him in the slammer.
Putin is a Russian Hegelian. The "Organic Theory of the State". He will preserve Russian sovereignty at all costs, or will be removed.....