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Ukraine's New Navy Head Denis Berezovsky Defects After Just One Day On The Post
Overnight, there had been numerous rumors that the newly appointed chief of the Ukraine navy, who was just made head of the navy on Saturday, had defected to the Crimean people explicitly, and to pro-Russian forced in the region implicitly. The sourcing of most were various Russian outlets so we discounted these until we got confirmation from a "western" source. The BBC did just that moments ago.
New head of Ukraine's navy 'defects' in Crimea
The newly appointed head of Ukraine's navy has sworn allegiance to the Crimea region, in the presence of its unrecognised pro-Russian leader.
Rear Admiral Denis Berezovsky was only made head of the navy on Saturday, as the government in Kiev reacted to the threat of Russian invasion.
Russia's troops have been consolidating their hold on Crimea, which is home to its Black Sea Fleet.
The moment of defection allegedly caught on digital media:
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— Kashin?Kashin?Kashin (@KSHN) March 2, 2014
The move is not entirely unexpected: while the US may not have many issues with facing the Russian navy head on as it did last summer in the Mediterranean over Syria, others are not quite as excited with being on the receiving end of the Russian military juggernaut.
So if this has been confirmed, the rest of the news reported earlier by RIA is also true. To wit:
Ukraine’s autonomous region of Crimea confirmed Sunday that the majority of Ukrainian military units stationed on the Crimean peninsula have expressed their support of legitimately elected Pro-Russian authorities.
Earlier reports by Russian media about peaceful takeover of the military units by forces loyal to the Crimean government were denied by the Ukrainian defense ministry.
However, Crimean authorities said that most of the Ukrainian units sided on Sunday with pro-Russian forces “without a single shot fired,” and warned the commanders of a few units that remain loyal to Kiev that they would face criminal action if refused to surrender.
“I would like to warn commanders who force their subordinates to commit illegal actions that they will be punished according to existing laws,” Crimea’s Prime Minister Sergei Aksenov said in a statement.
The Crimean government said earlier that some 10 warships from the Ukrainian navy left their naval base in Sevastopol apparently on orders from Kiev.
Crimea is now at the center of the ongoing crisis in the country as pro-Russia groups move to distance themselves from a reformed national parliament that ousted President Viktor Yanukovych a week ago.
The map below is said to summarize all the Ukraine cities where the Russian flag has already been hoisted.
If anything, these bloodless victories will only embolden Russia to press on: hardly the resolution the west would like. Perhaps that explains why early unofficial quotes of the Russian Ruble see the currency dropping as much as 10%.
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i suggest a new strategy, let the wookie win
Speaking of sources... a lot of people have made claims that this whole Ukraine situation is due to CIA/western bankers/NGOs etc trying to over throw the government. While I don't doubt that, I haven't seen much in the way of facts around that. Does any one have any good links to show some proof of these claims? Or is it all speculation?
Just watch the MSM or youtube videos of psychopath McCain with the protesters in Kiev from last December. Oh, and listen to the complete Vicky Nuland intercept, at least she got the EU part right.
Cannon, i wish you're true and not playing the dumb game here... anyhow here's some of the info
From observer007's given link about the leaked email, i represent it here as Klitschko's story is tightly knitted to Nuland's "Fuck the EU" saga!
Ukraine: Anonymous Publishes Klitschko Emails
http://homment.com/ukraine-klitschko
Read the email leak along with below information on Nuland's famous line "Fuck the EU", one should be able to understand how the Russian feels today...
US-EU Clash on How to Install a Puppet Regime in Ukraine. Victoria Nuland | Global Research
Yesterday’s leak of the flagrant telephone talk between the US Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland and the US Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey R. Pyatt has already hit the international media headlines. In short, it turned out that the US officials were coordinating their actions on how to install a puppet government in Ukraine. They agreed to nominate Bat’kyvshchina Party leader Arseniy Yatseniuk as Deputy Prime Minister, to bench Udar Party leader Vitaly Klitschko off the game for a while and to discredit neo-Nazi Svoboda party chief Oleh Tiahnybok as “Yanukovych’s project”. Then Mrs. Nuland informed the US Ambassador that the Washington’s hand by the UN Secretary General, Under-Secretary for Political Affairs Jeffrey Feltman had already instructed Ban Ki-moon to send his special envoy to Kyiv this week “to glue the things”. Touching the European role in managing Ukraine’s political crisis, she was matchlessly elegant: “Fuck the EU”.
In a short while, after nervious attempts to blame Russians in fabricating (!) the tape (State Department: “this is a new low in Russian tradecraft”), Mrs. Nuland brought her apologies to the EU officials. Does it mean that the Washington’s repeatedly leaked genuine attitude towards the “strategic Transatlantic partnership” is much worthy of apology than the direct and clear interference into the internal affairs of a sovereign state and violation of the US-Russia-UK agreement (1994 Budapest memorandum) on security assurances for Ukraine? Meanwhile this document inter alia reads as follows:
Back to the latest Mrs. Nuland’s diplomatic collapse made public, it is hardly an unwilling and regretful fault. Andrey Akulov from Strategic Culture Foundation has published a brilliant report (Bride at every wedding, Part I and Part II) a couple of days ago depicting a blatant lack of professionalism and personal intergity of Mrs. Nuland. He described in details her involvement in misinforming the US President and nation on the circumstances of the assasination of the US Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens in Benghazi in September 2012 and her support of the unlawful US funding of a number of the Russian “independent” NGOs seeking to bring a color revolution to Russia.
Her diplomatically unacceptable behavior on the Ukrainian track, which culminated on YouTube this week (video and full transcript are available below), suggests that Mrs. Nuland is perhaps a wrong person in a wrong position for protecting American interests in Eurasia.
[...]
http://www.globalresearch.ca/us-eu-clash-on-how-to-install-a-puppet-regime-in-ukraine-victoria-nuland/5367794
Christ that is the understatement of the decade.
Just read the rhetoric above.
A group of thugs took control if the parliament building in Kiev and was immediately supported by the West/EU/NATO/US. The thugs took over the government, kicked out the president, installed their own guy, banned use of Russian as a language, and pledged their intent to join the EU. Now the banking system is melting down and the military is saying they will only support the legitimately elected government, not the small group that took the parliament building in Kiev.
These are all facts. No one's going to write a definitive article connecting dots for you. That's why you act through agents: you have plausible deniability.
Thanks for the comments. My first posting that resulted in a lot of down votes. I'm not trying to play dumb - (maybe just am dumb) - just trying to understand the whole situation. I try to keep up on the posts here - just hadn't seen a lot in the way of evidence, so that is why I asked. But as pointed out - I guess it is about agents for plausible deniability.
I smell genocide in Crimea - fuck is this going to get ugly.
You have smell dysfunction
Stalin took care of a lot of that in the "Ukraine" back in his day.
nah, just vodka farts
Game over Obummer and Cameroon!!!
I thought he was from Nigeria?
Confusing, this....
Bravely ran away, away! When danger reared its ugly head, He bravely turned his tail and fled.
this is your force here, and those are their forces there, there, there, there, and there. uh, :looks at wrist:, i got a thing...
Half a league, half a league, into the valley of---How much, dmitry, DMITRY what other colors do we have.
The Russian navy base in Crimea has been operational since 1783. And Obama thinks Russia will sit back and watch the Ukraininans hand it over to the EU and IMF. LOL!
There is hardly such a thing as a ukranian, or anyway the concept is poorly defined and getting blurrier over time, thanks to the giant suck of the place. It's as poor as Egypt without the excuse of being Arab or infected with islam. That's deep suckitude.
Obama can't spell Crimea, let alone know where it is. And 1783 is an irrelevant date, like all time before Obama.
Looks like SS-Nazi regime in Kiev may be losing control.
The Ukrainian government has dismissed the administrative heads of 18 of the country’s 24 regions, RT reported March 2. Their newly appointed replacements include representatives from the Fatherland and Svoboda parties.
Never mind Crimea.
I don't think that the MTV-CIA can keep Odessa.
Pretty funny how these NED characters can take a strategic nation of 44 million people and transform it into a landlocked penniless corridor run by neo NAZI country fucks and shepherds.
Hey Larry D. How much was the Maidan "shock and awe" contract for again?
You only have one red attack dice. Russia has 100 white defense.
Roll and you don't have enough Risk cards to trade-in this turn.
Note to self: This is what happens when you don't own or control nuclear weapons.
Maybe that was the plan all along.
And to think I am not even on RT's payroll.
Agreed with everything except for your characterization of neo-nazis and country bumpkin sheep fuckers. How zionist of you to make such an accusation.
"And to think I am not even on RT's payroll."
Yet you just forgot to mention the legions under Soros/USG/NSA/CIA/Mossad payrolls here!
Even though in a case of coup d'état so obvious like in the Kiev, some are still striving very hard to tell the BANSKTERS' narrative lines here at the great ZH... lol
can one imagine their activities in those Corporate Mainstream? thought their megaphones are being very loud at the moment, just deafening my ears
Odessa has always been the Miami Beach of Ukraine. Good place for Nuland and hubby Kagan to retire --- but they better hurry or they will need to pass through Russian Customs for a very thorough and invasive body search.
Maybe the Queen should focus on what he does best, class, race, and gender destabilization in America.
Wait, does the Ukraine even have any money to launch counter military operations?
No, that is why they need an IMF/EU loan (bailout).
I am told many Ukrainian military have not received pay for months.
Tell you what. If VP and Russia can effectively "win" this war without any real conflict, fighting, deaths, etc., but rather by strategic positioning, control, and planning, then we may be witnessing the major event that shifts power (i.e., military, economic, political, social, etc.) from the West to the East. From reading numerous articles and watching the events unfold, it would appear that Russia has effective control over Crimea and Eastern Ukraine. And let's face it, this isn't something that just "happened" to happen over the past week or so. The planning and forward thinking that most likely went into this effort (by Russia) indicates that they have run through numerous scearios and options for months if not years leading up to this event. I suspect they knew it was coming all along and were well ahead of the West on the strategic thinking side as to how to manage the sitution with as little real damage as possible.
Right now, it appears Russia has thought this through at a strategic level and basically knew well in advance how the West would react. VP may have his issues but he also appears to be a very sharp and calculating individual that understands long-term thinking. This, I believe, underscores a major difference in thinking between the East and West. Whereby the East is focused on long-term goals and objectives (e.g., China positioning itself in Africa and other resource rich countries), the West is more focused on the "here and now" and the need for immediate satisfaction. No wonder why Europe and the US are buried in debt (at the soverign level) as when in doubt, borrow to keep the mirage alive.
What I find so hard to believe is the bungling by the western operatives. Leaked phone conversations on unsecured lines, emails to various parties with western interests. At some point the whole espionage system will have to be revamped a lot of people should be fired. By the posts on these boards it seems nobody sides with the western spin. It is all transparent. In the end the dolts in the CIA and state department must really believe in their infallibility. They have never been matched to their equal as they are know. The people see through the war and corptocracy thing, do not like it, do not support it as it has disenfranchised them.
Excellent post. It becomes clearer by the day the neo-con (neo-nazi, etc.) dirty tricks, assassinations, disinformation and downright lies that have dominated the western world for many decades are no longer working. Except, of course, on the sheeple who remain glued to CNN and Faux between sports events.
If someone wishes to learn about the (recent - since the 1930's) famines and massacres credited to Stalin which make up the historical (hysterical) base of much of the modern-day hatred some Ukrainians direct towards Moscow, download "Fraud, Famine & Fascism - The Ukraine Genocide Myth From Hitler to Harvard."
http://rationalrevolution.net/special/library/tottlefraud.pdf
The reason there is a power vacuum there is that there isn't any there, there. It's not a vacuum but it's close. A whole lotta fail that just gets more sucky. The bigger story about "Ukraine" and Russia is not their Potemkin ascendancy so much as their ongoing decline. No kids, no future.
"Another admiral, Serhiy Hayduk, was placed in charge of the navy."
So they are in controle of the navy again for the next twelve hours.
I still don't understand this. Crimea is part of Ukraine, it contains mostly Russians, and is an independant republic? What's the problem here? Let them be their own country that is allied to Russia and we can worry about some other bullshit.
I hope they don't just follow the Gas into Slovakia and take over that country as well.
2013
Obama's full speech at G20 closing press conference
Putin's speech at G20 closing press conference
Compare
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Others/Escobar.html
perhaps the greatest geo-political writer in the world today for his unorthodox and uncanny style. that being a cassandra and nostradamus symbiotic anomaly? penning global events as that of an archer blindfolded with only his innate instinct, guiding the thoughtlessness of an arrow by intelligent discourse... striking a death`blow to a moving point-of-view. indeed, a mystical palindrome of quiver'd perspicacious bias? yes, only by a unique roving`eye bounded by a passionate fulcrum, where leverage is just a well place adjective, thusly grounded with an undaunting altruistic mania for the truth!
what does this have to do with the Ukraine some may ask?
Mr. Pepe Escobar has been in front of the planets gyrations for the last two decades and his shining of a, bitter-truth-serum, spotlighted on the gross failings of an atrophic ussa foreign policy. so what? [it] means a lot to some of us, following ones countries gross mistakes. learning from Pepe's writings in order to mitigate the dire consequences america has dug itself into. Reading between the lines is a good start in rectifying our mistakes in the past twenty-years, in a global world that is really flatlined for corporatist/ democracy americana... teetering on total fascism!!!
"Carnival in Crimea" "The new US-Russia Cold War" etel
jmo
thankyou Tyler
New in: he got sacked
"OBAMA IS WORKING ON UKRAINE ISSUE TODAY, WILL SPEAK WITH ALLIES BY PHONE TODAY - WHITE HOUSE"
That will be a single very short call i supose.
The Queen will text a selfie of himself. That should work, right?
let's see. he goes down to the 'situation room', with the amoeba brigade... this mentally challenged grandfather'd-in de` 4th generation military trust?
reminds me of southpark where stan takes his oldman's tequilla mixer to the ust/frb and gets offer'd a trillion dollars as they spend the wheel of fortune
pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey.[dem]... cause the bushes[gop] have left the country for south america
http://www.capitalisminstitute.org/obama-skips-nat-sec-meeting/
Berezovsky - a traitor
this clown one day head of the navy.
it is true he is also anti semetic and hater of the gayman.
in the free ukraine we do not want such nazis.
we want analism for all cum join us.
soros and the cia are paying 30 euros per day
50 if you love the anus and are a fan of george clooney and elton john.
free white house towels at the local steam rooms.
forward boyz the mi6 and cia have your backs covered.
tony?
give it up on the jew bashing, for god's sake's, Man! there's good and bad in every race, ethnicity, religion etc.,
mossad snipers on rooftops in kiev
idf on the ground
jews
fighting with neo nazis
funny old world.
He calls his troops “the Blue Helmets of Maidan,” but brown is the color of the headgear worn by Delta — the nom de guerre of the commander of a Jewish-led militia force that participated in the revolution Under his helmet, he also wears a kippah.
http://www.haaretz.com/news/world/1.577114
http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2014/02/26/ukrainian-neo-nazis-declare-p...
Tony, Naziism is a philosophy or way of life, not a race or people. To call a Zionist a Nazi is not problematic. There are many breeds of this dog.
Nationalist Socialism you can find among any ethnic group.
Thank you for the link to Haaretz, tony wilson.
The Ukrainians leading their revolution are their own worst enemy. Their problem is hatred for what Stalin did in the 1920's, starving 15 million Ukrainians to death. But the Russia they hate no longer exists.
Their priority should be the independence of Ukraine. Instead, driven by their hatred, they will throw off one set of chains to put on another set of chains courtesy of the EU which is under the control of the marxists, socialists, and communists control freaks in Brussels.
They have set the trap that they are walking into.
stalin was from georgia. he himself was the blame for millions of georgians dying of starvation from the great restoration of ussr infrastructure for the wwii coming. the country needed food and the georgians and western ukraine supplied it and got nothing back but death. he took all!!!
the gulags were just prison camps for slave labor that provided the same function of producing foodstuff, and materials, etc, for the red army. they to had starved millions to death.
in all, it is said ,that stalin was responsible for a minimum of 15 million russian people.
note: at the same time mao of china was pulling the same shit killing millions as if they were just raising farm animals? orwell was soooo right a title
http://rationalrevolution.net/special/library/tottlefraud.pdf
I think you meant the genocide of Ukranians that occurred a decade later in 1932&1933 when the Russians forcibly staved over 10 million Ukranians in what was known as the. Holodomor.
Tyler, once again, if you are aiming to be the "Truth Teller" (which I strongly believe you are!), please, watch the language you are using... The Headline "Ukraine's New Navy Head Denis Berezovsky Defects After Just One Day On The Post" is something whores like CNN, FOX, or CNBC use, but such a Headline is not commendable on a Free Blog like ZH.
The factual problem with such a Headline is that (a) the nomination of Denis Berezovsky to the position of Navy Chief was legal -- it was not, it was done by a usurping Gang Leader in Kiev, hence Denis's "defecting the next day" is simply an act of acknowledging by an honest man that he did not want to represent the interests of the Kiev Junta and their US / Polish / German puppet-masters, and (b) "Defecting" implies defecting to an enemy -- are you suggesting that Denis's pledging his allegiance to the People of Crimea is the same as "defecting to an enemy"? Use your head, think about it, and try to come up with better, less reputation damaging, Headlines, will ya?!
BBC Bews is using the term.
He has already been replaced by rear admiral Sergiy Gaiduk.
So eager to "start a fight" MSNBC broke out the old map!
History is starting to rhyme.
Cue the Odessa Steps and all its attendant propaganda
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLEE2UL_N7Q
http://www.scribd.com/doc/48351487/Sutton-Wall-Street-and-the-Bolshevik-Revolution-1974
All of Sutton should be required reading! Great background.
(Same suspects funded the Nazis rise to power and the Soviets throughout the Cold War!)
H/T
So many trying to speculate and figure out what is going on here.
The truth is, NO ONE truly knows what's going on.
The only thing that is certain is that governments, politicians and bankers will NEVER stop robbing, raping and pilaging.
Admiral Kanaris of Krimea.
Criminal charges on the Kiev kebob side and Lenin medal on the Shashlik kharasho side.
He jumped for Lenin.
As far as the Putin Plan goes :
1° Crimean balaclava now sold in Moscow.
2° Kiev kebob burger only finds Kerry as buyer. Even the French say "we won't touch that". Lets eat russian goulash.
3° Kharkov consumers wondering which is better Shashlik or kebob; Boris probably knows the answer.
4° Kerry has ketchup on his face and Mutti smirks to Nuland doing push ups in Kiev : "I told u so. Now u phukk offee too."
5° Yulia Timo plays at Lady of Shalott, doing her tresses and keeping names of people to hang ;all the while she sighs "mirror mirror on the wall when is my turn coming?"
6° The Syrians are now waiting impatiently for the Putin crowd to tell the Al-Qaeda "You are next on our list". Even China does not like the purported knife play of UIgur cut and thrust for Allah.
7° The Oil Monarchies' Princes will start buying like mad moar property for their harems all over the world. "Moar, Moar Moar, we are now not safe in Riyadh!"
8° Roll the dice and see what Merkel will say once the Ukraine broth gets cold. There are so many cauldrons to take its place!
Old gas lamps for new ! In Putin Aladdin land!
PS : Latest news hot off the Press. PUTIN ACCEPtS POLItical dialogue with a Contact group headed by Merkel !
Enter Mutti ...
Ukraine : Vladimir Poutine accepterait un « dialogue politique »
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DBdh1HFgvg#t=73
There is no conflict in Cremea!