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Ukraine Update: Pro-Moscow Leader Arrested In Donetsk, Russians Block Border Cross Points
While the biggest strategic news of the day is that the Crimean parliament voted to join Russia with a done deal referendum to be held in a few days, as well as collapse of the anti-Russian sanction lobby with Germany and others getting cold feet against boycotting Russian goods, the tactical developments continue. Of note: earlier today the leader of the most persistent pro-Moscow protest movement in eastern Ukraine was arrested at his home in the city of Donetsk on Thursday, a Reuters journalist who was with police on the raid said. Around 10 members of the SBU security service arrested Pavel Gubarev at his apartment in a five-story Soviet-era block in the eastern city, on charges of "infringing the territorial integrity and independence of the state". He did not resist.
Gubarev, a Donetsk businessman, had led protesters who blockaded the regional administration building and flew the Russian flag until they were removed on Thursday. He had called himself the "people's governor" and demanded lawmakers sever ties with Kiev and put him in charge of the police force.
So if Russia needed yet another pretext to claim there is repression of pro-Russian individuals, Kiev gladly obliged.
Perhaps this explains why, as Bloomberg reports, the Russian military is restricting access of Ukrainian border troops to check-point buildings, border service says on its website. Bloomberg cites the Ukrainian statement as saying that Russian military use ultimatums to urge Ukrainian border troops to move and take side of self-proclaimed Crimean government. Blocked points include those near Massandra and Yevpatoria.
And some other re-escalation news: also according to Bloomberg, Russian military sank Ochakov ship in the Black Sea near Donuzlav on the eastern coast of the Crimean peninsula. Passage to Donuzlav lake is now blocked and Ukrainian navy ships are locked inside the lake. Bloomberg cited a defense ministry statement.
Still think Putin was de-escalating?
But here is the punchline:
- RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY, IN REACTION TO U.S. STATE DEPT "PRESIDENT PUTIN'S FICTION", SAYS WASHINGTON UNABLE TO ACCEPT THAT THINGS IN UKRAINE ARE NOT DEVELOPING AS THEY EXPECTED THEM TO
Which is why we fully expect John Kerry to make some more hollow threats and call it a day.
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is he wearing an Archduke Franz Ferdinand uniform?
Close enough for Govt. (wet) work.
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Off topic
Russian military sank Ochakov ship in the Black Sea near Donuzlav on the eastern coast of the Crimean peninsula
how is this not the lead story?
now the rest of the navy is like fish in proverbial barrel
three dimensional chess....bitchez
While Putin plays chess, Obama is playing 'my little brony'.
Ok so Putin blocks in Ukraine Navy, they basically have no boats, next step is Odessa, with control of the Black Sea and with a Russian majority there in that port city, which is the only other port of Ukraine, he is going to deny the sea to Ukraine and link up to Transniester, which already has Russian troops on the ground and is heavily armed and pro Russian. They can outflank any Ukraine response. I think things will move fast in the next few days. The west is pushing and is getting slapped each time by Putin.
Yep, I said days ago the coup plotters in Kiev thought they had won with their siege, but they really failed by only laying siege to one city. Now they are finding out that all the power centers are in the East & South.... military, financial, economic, industrial, energy, etc. Kiev is just an empty shell without those power centers. The coup plotters are now realizing they are on the receiving end of the siege going forward.
They never had that much support, especially after showed real face and their tactics and identity come to light...
Announcing pension cut and other future depradations should finish them.
"...Germany and others getting cold feet..."
It's not "getting cold feet" so much as the anticipation of getting cold feet...when their gas is turned off.
I'm sure this is just an old Russian ship that has unfortunately sunk due to a mechanical failure/human error blocking the channel, they'll remove it as soon as possible.
Boating accident...
Putin stored his gold on that boat.
Also old news.
What about self determination? Guess this new Uke PM is showing his fascist colors sooner than expected..
Washington brought to power in Ukraine their pocket fascists:
http://www.veooz.com/photos/GuBblb.html
http://i.imgur.com/G89DoGV.jpg?1
second link tells a huge story very concisely!
Ukraine doesn't support democracy?
banker cabal seems to be in a bit of panic... tuned into national propaganda radio here in the U.S. this morning to check on big brother's point of view... and was rather pleased to hear the desperation coming out of the talking heads' mouths... desperatly claiming that putin had to be stopped, punished... but zero idea how or what to do. what a great start to thursday morning.
"is he wearing an Archduke Franz Ferdinand uniform?"
Photoshop from faux news.
and why/how was a Reuters reporter "conveniently" with police at the time of the arrest?
Someone please tell alien-IQ who owns Reuters...
they own a bank in England i Believe.
And tell him that the new Ukrainian PM is one of the tribe, too.
Must indeed be alien IQ if you don't know who owns Reuters. Hint: The same people who plundered Ukraine and are now in power in Kiev.
Cool threads, checking my territory ahead catalog
Do they have the boots to go with it?
yes, on the ground in fact
Check mate.... Barry
REGGIE IS RIGHT THERE NEXT TO HIM.
I wonder who drummed up that provocation. You really think arresting him is going to make any difference?
he is in a marching band?
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Tyler you are letting you comments section get bombed with threadjacking blog pimpers.
I like real Spam - with eggs and rice.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anwy2MPT5RE
(can't believe nobody else posted this... or am I the only person who doesn't tire of it?)
Once is fine, but pimping this shit in every thread is full retard.
Thank god the sanctions on Russia have not been put in place. I ordered a mail order Russian bride last week, and I'd hate to have her held up in customs for a couple of years...
when they are done with her , you can have her
Not true. I'm sure the TSA will find her to be a person of interest after customs is done with her, and detain her in a closed interrogation room for 6 or 7 monts. Then ICE and DEA still get there shots at her too.
Too late Bud.
US Announces Visa Restrictions on Some Russians
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/us-announces-visa-restrictions-russians-22796425
Customs prefer little boys.
Keep us posted.
it is a mess there, people taking sides and fighting for power
many heads will roll
the tru challenge now is how to settle it all down with as little blood as possible and as fast as possible
Those arm pad thingies in your photo op look a little thread bare fella.
Only eight hours late on that story about the arrest .........
"Now youz can't leave!" - A Bronx Tale
It would, in the long run, be less embaressing ,if the U.S. Diplomatic corp got on thier knees and kissed putins naked ass at high noon in the middle of the street.
"Better to keep ones mouth shut, than to open it and remove all doubt"
YOU FOOLS! you gott he wrong guy! that's the bellhop!!!
Russia better leave the US/EU a way out.
I am sure they will take it, just to save face.
I'm sure between the bathhouse and the golf course Obama will find a way to ease Putin's boot out of his ass while saving face.
You'll know its bad when the libtards start scraping their Obama/Biden 2012 stickers off the bumbers of their Priuses.
I get you. It is basic international diplomacy. USA and Russia have done that numerous time in the past (latest exemple is Syria). Now I can't remember if they have done it in Ukraine or not. US could say they recognise Crimea right to independence and call it a day.
looks like the ukrainians dusted off the old soviet operations manual.
This has to be most stupid thing the US gov has ever done, they spent $5 billion to dethrone a sitting government in Ukraine, then half of the country wants to join Russia. And if the these Ukrainians vote to join Russia, What are we going to do? Fight with them? Support Ukraine to fight with them? It is hard to imagine the stupidity, these morons in the US State dept, do they have sense? Any fool who visited Ukraine would have known that that the Russian half would support Russia, What fvkcing morons.
Well with a national debt of $17.4t to sweep under the carpet, it's war or bust. Just hope Russia and China dump those US bonds soon, as in my experience a miss aimed intercontinental ballistic missile often offends.
ROTFL.
For me the quote of the day.
But jokes aside, this is - like the Iraq, Syria, Lybia, Iran destabilizations - NOT US politics. US politcians are only the executioneers of the politics of the masters.
They expected a full scale invasion and a defined provokation. Instead they got a series of seemingly "unrelated" military training exercies originating at a leased Russian naval port. The media went with pre-written press releases without checking whether they matched the situation.
Hired Maidan goons ended up killing a few dozen people on both sides, yet somehow failed to ignite an all out war. While the media crews were sent to Kiev in anticipation of scripted developments, the main action happened elsewhere, with hardly any shots getting fired.
Russia will benefit tremendously from this, as it will no longer have to rent facilities in Sevastopol.
I do not expect the Seretary of State to make hollow threats and I do not expect the lessons of history will be heeded as well.
Any formal intervention...let alone an outright invasion...of Ukraine would be a monumental miscalculation on the part of Russia and Russian authorities. in effect they would be "walling themselves of from the world" which shows no discernible purpose.
Let me make myself clear: when I say "diplomacy has failed" I do not mean there will not be continued talks and provocations...followed I might by something that appears to be rapidly becoming dirty and nasty.
What I mean is "diplomacy is about talking to your enemies"...not "hangin' with the homies" and talking AT them. I believe this situation has now moved well beyond any meaningful dialogue where positions now set...now become set in stone. In short "when the purpose of dialogue" (openness to new ideas, changes in the stays quo) "ceases to exist" then clearly there is no "diplomatic option."
One look at the comment section here shows how easy such a conditional reality can indeed be not only created...but last an ETERNITY. I would be interested to hear from the political classes on all sides how "it" has come to this. I obviously do not expect such a debate here...but I do expect more from elected officials on all sides (excepting the French and the English who really do love this stuff.)
"We're digging in" and not just literally here. We still have the option of opening a dialogue but this fact seems...quite strangely given the historical nature of US/Russian relations (competitors...but never in direct conflict with one another) BIPARTISAN ON BOTH SIDES.
This is not a conflict with any set "boundary" (a "Berlin Wall" for example.) It is in fact the exact opposite...a vast, open, "moving" thing.) The US and Russia could literally be sniping one another for decades here.
Certainly that is true of our immediate future.
What?
Is your disability a head wound??? Or do you really like the taste of J cok!!
Disabledvet sounds delusional, but go easy. Few can get through military "indoctrination", much less any real time in the service, without becoming brainwashed. The military exists in it's own world and is constantly exposed to statist propoganda. How else do you think the elite scum persuade these uneducated saps to do thier dirty work? Plus, if he is in fact disabled, he is living off the government gravy train. What else would you expect from a person in that position?
Shto?
Albert Pike 1871...
tptb..
Syria attempt foiled...
Now Ukraine attempt foiled..
Must be getting desperate...
In 1913 the general feeling was that a nation would never invade or provoke war d/t it then being "walled" off from world trade. The general consensus was wrong and it didn't work out so well that time either. This time is no different; only the time-line and certain players may change.
No, it is different this time... the US is in 17 Trillion worht of debt and has little gold. Thank the neo Bolsheviks.
As of now, France is still selling Russia a huge naval vessal that is designed for amphibious assaults. There is no unity among the EU/US.
The NATO has broken all treaties and promises since 1991. Russia was extremely defensive and cooperative.
In fact it was so defensive, that now it is already threatened in it's core vital life interests, they are trying to strangle it.
Even the most peaceful man can't live in peace, if his neighbour doesn't want that. And since Putin's Russia is NOT supporting the plundering of it's people, is NOT supporting the NWO genocide against his white Russian people with colored mass immigration, in fact is even trying to increase the birth rates of the native Russians, is NOT trying to destroy the education system for the lower and middle class to reduce the potential danger for the 1%, is not opening the resources for plundering by Soros and tribe, in short: is NOT supporting the NWO plans, therefore Russia has been encircled. Look how they wage war against Putin, only because he defends the values of the traditional family! One must understand what is REALLY going on, that's it a war of annihilation against all Aryan cultures. What they do with countries not supporting the Zionist NWO, could be observed in Serbia, Afghanistan, Lybia, Iraq, Syria and Iran - which in the last minute was able to destroy a CIA color coup.
The enemy of all nations will not rest until all people in the world are bowing their heads before the chosen ones, which tey believe they were. That's the core of their "religion", the prerequisite that devil - which they call god - comes to earth. Sounds stupid and sick, but nevertheless they believe in doing god's work by doing these things and much more, you know...
Once again fucking NSA troll, Russia did not create this mess, the asshole US Gov did.
I'm sure there is some idiot neocon website somewhere that would want you.
You want a solution? Here it is:
The US pulls all of its military out of the rest of the world.
Ditto for all other countries with military overseas.
Ron Paul Reports Ukraine Story the Mainstream Media is Suppressing
http://thenewsdoctors.com/?p=121477
THESE ARE NOT RUSSIANS WHO BLOCK THE BORDER CROSS POINTS. THESE ARE UKRANIANS! AND THEY REPRESENT MAJORITY OF UKRANIAN CITIZENS!
Really? Like that gang of Nazis who took huge amounts of American money, shot up both the police and the demonstrators in Kiev and then seized the government, ousted the elected president at gunpoint and won control of a rump parliament by beating and threatening legislators? How is that story playing with regular Ukrainians? Tell me, I'd like to know!
I MISUNDERSTOOD THE TITLE. THE UKRANIAN PEOPLE BLOCKED THE BUS WITH GUBAREV NOT TO ALLOW HIM TO BE TAKEN TO KIEV. i MEANT THE BLOCK AT THE DONETZK REGION BORDERS. EVERYTHING IN THE ARTICLE IS TRUE.