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Ukraine Accuses Russian Fighter Jets Of Violating Its Airspace
Infantry, navy, and now air force. At least according to the Ukraine, which reported that Russian fighter jets twice violated Ukraine's air space over the Black Sea during the night, Interfax news agency quoted the Defence Ministry as saying on Monday. It said Ukraine's air force had scrambled a Sukhoi SU-27 interceptor aircraft and prevented any "provocative actions" but gave no further details. That was just the cherry on top to what has already been an exhausting day for risk in Russia and the Ukraine, both of which saw their currencies tumble to all time lows.
In the meantime, Russian fortifications in the region continue. Reuters summarizes:
A Ukrainian border guard spokesman said on Monday that Russian ships had been moving in and around the Crimean port city of Sevastopol, where the Russian Black Sea Fleet has a base, and that Russian forces had blocked mobile telephone services in some parts of Crimea.
He said Moscow was building up its armor near a ferry port on Russia's side of the 4.5 km (three mile) wide Kerch straight, which separates Crimea from Russia.
"There are armoured vehicles on the other side of the strait. We can't predict whether or not they will put any vehicles on the ferry," the spokesman said by telephone.
There was no immediate comment from the Russian Defence Ministry.
Russian forces have already bloodlessly seized Crimea - an isolated Black Sea peninsula with an ethnic Russian majority, where Moscow has a naval base.
On Sunday they surrounded several small Ukrainian military outposts there and demanded the Ukrainian troops disarm. Some refused, leading to stand-offs, although no shots were fired.
All eyes are now on whether Russia makes a military move in predominantly Russian-speaking eastern Ukraine, where pro-Moscow demonstrators have marched and raised Russian flags over public buildings in several cities in the last two days.
Russia has staged war games with 150,000 troops along the land border, but so far they have not crossed. Kiev says Moscow is orchestrating the protests to justify a wider invasion.
Ukraine's security council ordered the general staff to immediately put all armed forces on highest alert. However, Kiev's small and underequipped military is seen as no match for Russia's superpower might.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry condemned Russia for what he called an "incredible act of aggression" and threatened "very serious repercussions".
G8 countries and other nations were prepared to "to go to the hilt to isolate Russia" if Moscow made the wrong choices in Ukraine, Kerry told CBS program Face the Nation.
"They are prepared to isolate Russia economically. The rouble is already going down. Russia has major economic challenges," he said. He mentioned visa bans, asset freezes and trade isolation as possible steps.
While the EU and NATO stepped up verbal pressure on Moscow, a German spokesman said Merkel believed it was not too late to resolve the Ukrainian crisis by political means despite differences of opinion between Putin and the West.
The German leader, who speaks fluent Russian, has had several long telephone calls with the German-speaking Putin since the crisis erupted with mass protests in Kiev.
"There is no doubt President Putin has a completely different view on the situation and events in Crimea from the German government and our Western partners," spokesman Steffen Seibert told reporters. But he added: "It is still not too late to resolve this crisis peacefully by political means."
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said he would ask Russia's foreign minister at a meeting in Geneva to refrain from acts or rhetoric that would further escalate the crisis. He was sending his deputy to convey the same message to the Ukrainian authorities in Kiev, he said.
So far, the Western response has been largely symbolic. Obama and others suspended preparations for a G8 summit in Sochi, where Putin has just finished staging his $50 billion winter Olympic games. Some countries recalled ambassadors. Britain said its ministers would stay away from the Paralympics due next in Sochi.
With the confrontation in Crimea having remained bloodless for days, a mood of imminent catastrophe has begun to ebb in Kiev, but many people are still on edge.
On Kiev's Independence Square, known as the Maidan, where protesters manned barricades for three months to bring down Yanukovich, the morning crowds were smaller than in the past few days as people returned to work.
"Crimea, we are with you!" read one placard. "Putin - Hitler of the 21st century," read another.
Sergei Lavreynenko, 44, a librarian from Kiev, said Ukrainians were ready to take up arms to defend the country, and were frustrated at mixed messages from the authorities.
"Of course we are all ready to go," he said next to a display of homemade mortar tubes and molotov cocktails used in the uprising against Yanukovich. "We have all served in the military. We have military specialisms. If we can build our own mortar tube like that, we can do even better.... But it needs to be organized. You can't just get a bunch of guys, grab sticks and clubs and race off to Crimea."
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Friday, March 18th, 2011 @ 00:00
"The other nations from the West will provoke a reaction from Russia and China. All will end in a World War."
http://www.thewarningsecondcoming.com/earthquake-in-europe-world-war/
And I just dumped everything into my spider ETF.
China agrees with Russia invading Ukraine:
http://news.sky.com/story/1219922/russia-and-china-in-agreement-over-ukr...
Way to go Barry you ass hat!
And fuck you WalMart for feeding China all these years while fucking US workers!
They're just begging Obama to fiercely bow in their direction.
The ferry terminal in Kerch is now officially controlled by Russian military:
http://world.time.com/2014/03/03/pro-russian-troops-take-over-crimea-terminal/
Ahead of schedule....we need those guys to fix our healthcare website.
It turns out, spring can be not only Arabic, but also Russian too. Most of the population of Ukraine welcomes Russian army as liberators.
Russian spring and there's nothing you can do.
Buy Costco stock if you feel that way.
LONG WMT
So, they scrambled 'a' SU-27...?
yes, but one with a whole set of engagement lights flaring bright red...
It's probably the only one that still can fly!
If the Ukraine military was smart they should have moved all their aircraft out of country to Turkey or Greece perhaps or hide them all over like Sweden does their Air Force.
Greece is UNDER OCCUPATION to TROICA.
"....or hide them all over like Sweden does their Air Force."
You mean like this ?
https://gs1.wac.edgecastcdn.net/8019B6/data.tumblr.com/35b6fff019394cb0b...
http://theaviationist.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Viggen-improvised-a...
http://img174.imageshack.us/img174/9676/ja37viggenhs2.jpg
For those of you who would like to see what an Su-27 looks like....
http://www.airforce-technology.com/projects/su27/images/su27_2.jpg
http://www.moddb.com/groups/aircraft-lovers-group/images/sukhoi-su-2713
....yeah...he's actually flying that low !
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MiG-29_Fulcrum_B_Luftwaffe.jpg
......Germany likes them too.
WHAT IS FUNNY IS THAT AFTER FOREIGN OBSERVERS GO IN THEY WILL PROBABLY SAY IT WAS A GOOD IDEA THAT RUSSIAN TROOPS ARE THERE TO ENSURE FAIR ELECTIONS AND PUBLIC SAFETY. CERTAINLY UN DOES NOT WANT TO SEND IN TROOPS.
PUTIN WINS AGAIN - WEST LOOKS IDIOTIC
karma bitches.
Next thing you hear is that Kerry accuses east Ukraine of chemical weapons cashe to be used against western Ukraine.
This is the best foreign policy response our EBT voters could come up with.
The good news is.....it's totally free.
And then he orders an attack on religious grounds.
You just wait until Obozo reads about this in this mornings nwespapers.
He might even only play nine holes today, to show he is serious.
It's a snow day for him. Kerry will issue some 'serious' words. Obvious by German statements they are sitting this one out as are most other EU countries. If the US wants to really irritate Putin... Put the missile defense shield in Poland....but I think we have been neutered by our own lack of foreign policy.
"If the US wants to really irritate Putin... Put the missile defense shield in Poland..."
Russian answer will be in the form of mobile missile systems Iskander. These highly accurate Russian missiles capable of destroying any missile defense system in Poland faster than you can spit.
Fighters, transports, even the big IL. Lotsa' violatin' goin' on. - Ned
Behold Russian exceptionalism.
Some's thinking might be more aligned with Manifest Destiny.
Better analogy IMO is Russia's new Cuban Missile Crisis. They see a strategic threat to their vital interests & long term survival that they cannot let stand. They are willing to do whatever is necessary to eliminate that threat.
"Behold Russian exceptionalism."
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It's just a Russian Spring.
The West does not understand nekotrye very important things about the Russian world. Just the fact, that the concept of "Russian" - is not a nationality or citizenship. This state of soul.
Catherine II - Russian Empress of German origin, one of the good examples of the Russian soul.
Who's ready for Obama's 4th, 5th, and 6th terms?
Right after we finish BushII's 4th
Stop using the fucking "the" next to Ukraine!!!!! It's Ukraine, NOT "the Ukraine"!!!! Stop showing your total ignorance
You're right, apparently. It was a good lesson for Kramer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzLtF_PxbYw
Stop crying about semantics. You've been on this rant for almost a week.
You must be one miserable fucker to live with.
That's why he deceptively calls himself "Married"geordie ... because everyone knows no one would put up with his psycho shit.
Ukraine means in Russian "border area" or "the Frontier" so 'the Ukraine' is correct. This campaign of removing 'the' started in 1992 on instigation of the new Ukrainian government to make the name more 'nation like'.
Does anyone know the name and hometown of the mandatory dating advice chick in the ad above?
I think she wants to be my future ex-wife.
Just wish that fag looking guy would get his nose off of her.
Wonder if the Israeli scum has fled the country yet.
They never left Foggy Bottom.
From RT
" A former ally of Yulia Tymoshenko, Kolomoysky reportedly had a falling out with her and refused to finance her election campaign in 2010, which the ex-prime minister subsequently lost to Yanukovich. Kolomoysky was reported to be a principal sponsor of the UDAR party, which is one of the three fueling the street campaign to oust Yanukovich. Kolomoysky has a dual Ukrainian-Israeli citizenship and controls his business empire from Switzerland."
Nope, they want to buy the Regions.
zero hegde has made russia..there was a pic going around here on other issues,someone in todays russian ruble changed a few things..can you guess what?
http://imgur.com/G89DoGV
@diging deep
Your link
http://i.imgur.com/G89DoGV.jpg?1
+1000! LOL
Does the blade of the sythe look like Israeli flag?
Long live Vodka.
The citizens of Western occupied Nations are behind you Mr. Putin.
I hear that his tanks run on that stuff, were in a world of hurt if they have a mini refinery inside those tanks.
It seems these smaller countries would have learned by now that when the U.S. says its going to help, its really going to make things much, much worse.
And the Gazans are like... welcome to our world
Hey Ukraine feel free to defend your airspace.. If you like your airspace, you can keep your airspace
In other news, Ukraine has an airspace. Some people are just delusional.
"Sergei Lavreynenko, 44, a librarian from Kiev, said Ukrainians were ready to take up arms to defend the country, and were frustrated at mixed messages from the authorities.
"Of course we are all ready to go," he said next to a display of homemade mortar tubes and molotov cocktails..."
Too bad he will be suicided. Sounded like a earnest chap