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Ukrainian Drone Captures Video Of Russian Troops Fortifying In The Crimea
The only thing that is unclear about the following clip released by the Ukraine's Border Guard supposedly capturing Russians "digging in" on a key route linking Crimea to the rest of the Ukraine, is what is funnier: that the Russian soldier is "painting" the drone with a laser flashlight, or that according to the Ukrainians said action was evidence the drone was being "shot at" by Russian soldiers.
As a follow up, here is another video made by a Ukrainian drone showing the distribution of Russian forces on the peninsula.
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Russians are digging in to Crimea....
I didn't need a drone to tell you that.
Definitely should be submitted to Ukraine's Funniest Home Videos. It could win something.
Due to a previous and legally binding agreement the Russians are allowed to station 25,000 troops in the Crimea.
The MSM shill media is having a hissy-fit and turning up the sheeple volume on the war drums because there are currently 16,000...
"Russia’s representative to the UN, Vitaly Churkin, reminded on Tuesday that the deal surrounding the Black Sea Fleet allows Russia to station a contingent of up to 25,000 troops in Ukraine. However, US and British media have mostly chosen to turn a deaf ear."
http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2014/03/russia-allowed-to-have-2500...
By my count so far they only have the Russians guilty on two charges;
Mischief for driving through a gate with a truck... and littering for sinking the ship...
Maybe the Ukrainians can buy some Windex with all those billions they are getting so we can get a clearer picture of whats going on?
Long SC Johnson
Short Ruble
They're apparently mining the frontier. What part of "We're staying" don't you understand?
Gold or Bitcoin?
I bet you this drone is weeping/crying hydraulic fluid like nothing else as it knows what it LOST. Here is a video of one of its flybys last year.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDCt03sFdvg
There are a lot of people in Ukraine crying at what was lost (especially the corrupt oligarchs with all the nice seaside mansions/villas). The word on the street in Moscow and all over Russia is that everybody can't wait for this summer's CRIMEAN HOLLIDAY !!!
Ukraine is flat broke they can't even afford drones, its most likely a carrier pigeon with a camera strapped to its chest LOL
I think that drone was defecting to Russia because it does not want to be on the losing (or already lost) side.
Article 5 of the NATO treaty is about to be tested.
Pretty soon the govt in Kiev will be without a country. Which way Crimea goes so will a lot of states in Ukraine. Crimea is such a valuable prize, not just militarily but beauty wise, it is the favorite place for Ukrainians to go for summer holiday. Russia does not need to fire a shot, there will be referendums all over Ukraine, and there really is no military to stop them and certainly the military will not go against the will of the people. Nobody wants to be stuck on the losing side of a deal and certainly many Ukrainian states even those without a majority Russian population, will grow disilluisioned with Kiev and will want to go back to Mother Slava. Once prices go up people will get the slap they need to wake them up. Hope they tar and feather those oligarchs.
I think Europe will only put enough money into Ukraine untill they see just how much gas there really is in the ground. Of course they will strip it bare of its farmland by pushing in foreign ownership of land, and Germany gets its Lebensraum. But the real play is to see how much gas there is. Losing Crimea is big though because there is possibility of gas and oil in the Black Sea, with Crimea goes a lot of coastal land and rights.
http://gorshenin.eu/news/118_shale_gas_market_opportunities_and.html
Yes, but we decide on the penalty. Which is - get out, we want the place.
Obama will get them for an illegal drop...
haha, after all the world is his golf course...FORE!Ward
I think you may have left out an important part:
They're allowed on their leased NAVAL BASE, not the entire Crimea.
BTW, how long have you been on Putin's payroll?
I'd rather be on Putin's payroll than Obama's payroll.
If I'm going to be led I'd prefer to be led by someone with some competency, of which Obama demonstrably lacks on just about every strata.
In fact, aside from ordering the killing of Osama (of which we were never given photos or youtube videos as proof) I would be pressed to find anything he has done right. If consistently embarrasing the US on the world stage is on the menu than Obama has succeeded beyond my wildest expectations.
All US presidents are basically the same. I suggest you recind your citizenship and become a Russian citizen.
Winters are too cold.
Sochi is too cold?
I'm more of a "A pox on everyone's house" kinda critter...
I am not cheering for a war on anyone's side here but believe that the decision of who the citizens of the Crimea should become the property of should be made by the Crimeans themselves!
Radical right?
US of A state department agrees. Only they have a different spelling for "a person from Crimea". They spell it "criminal".
So by this logic, once Hispanics become 50.1% of the U.S. population (by whatever means) they should be allowed to hold a refrendum to secede and bring the U.S. into Mexico?
They have to get control of the voting machines first.
After that, they won't need 50.1%.
Come to South Texas some time. It already is Mexico.
It was Mexico before the U.S.A stole it.
"So by this logic, once Hispanics become 50.1% of the U.S. population (by whatever means) they should be allowed to hold a refrendum to secede and bring the U.S. into Mexico?"
No, but a state/region with a Mexican immigrant majority would have that right.
Obama thought so too when he mentioned the people's right to self-determination ... but then he found out the Crimean peopl don't want to be his slaves and bitches, and so now dingleBarry has changed his tune.
Second rule of propaganda media (PM): What they ignore is as much, if not more, important than what they say.
See "Climategate" for reference. Completely ignored by PM until government "investigations" cleared everybody. Then it was "news." LOL
You just need to add the laughter here and there...
Here's some footage from some super secret covert US spies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weh4dFnZ2SM&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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Let me posit this to the down voters.
1. Say that a certain country likes to annex land existing in another country without that countries consent, is that a legal or moral issue based on the laws of the country being annexed and/or international law? I will add stealing their resources, water and dumping toxic waste. Winning their hearts and minds aren't they.
2. How about the drone activity where kids (yes, I said kids), are literally playing fucking video games and flying fully armed UAV's in areas they really shouldn't be in and making very big mistakes. Winning their hearts and minds aren't they.
3. Claiming that global warming is the root of all evil, (it was the weather). Winning their hearts and minds aren't they.
4. Playing golf at a private, well watered course in the california desert during a drought crisis while wifey and kids go skiing in Colorado. Winning their hearts and minds aren't they.
5. Sending all those jobs overseas under the auspices of shell and shelf LLC's for "other purposes". Winning their hearts and minds aren't they.
6. Excessively rising utility prices here. Winning their hearts and minds aren't they.
7. Giving a free pass to Jon Corzine et.al.. Winning their hearts and minds aren't they.
I will allow the readership to ponder the other 93+ reasons. Winning their hearts and minds aren't they.
8. exceptionally exceptional without even trying, it comes so naturally
I don't know about "hearts and minds," but guillotines...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWuBwf_KMYE
It was looking for a wedding party or a class of five year olds to blow up.... Oh wait that is US drones, panic over.
Ukraine have drones?
Now that is funny! Accusing Russians of invading their country while they are using technology that simply isn't used in Ukraine...
The Ukraine government sources the drone service from Amazon.
That sounds like Gazprom has send it's accountants to Crimea.
Amazon Drone Cloud
"Ukraine have drones?"
More like a surveillance UAV. You can build a decent one yourself for a few hundred bucks.
Update: MSM needs a guide for identifying drones like they have for assault rifles. Should include anything that flies including birds, paper planes and thrown rocks.
This should do the trick...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2528902/21st-century-bird...
Somewhat pointless. The US satellite recon can deliver images and video superior to the drones so this is just a show.
My thought too .. . And I`m in country sharing border with Ukraine.
Need to dig in before the ground gets hard.
All clear....nothing to see here...go back to your regularly scheduled lives....go to a sporting event, eat a hot dog and hamburger and was i down with a few beers
Funny.
Drone cameras and NATO observers are going to stop Russia. Good luck with that.
The collision of tangible action with intangible rhetoric and streaming images.
Not going to be pretty for the West.
Just remember that "The pen is mightier than the sword" ... the only question is what rhetoric is more powerful than a SV98
....I say f*** the pen, because you can die by the sword (Tom Araya, Slayer, Die By the Sword)
(start at 0:05)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgEPFt4kwos
The PENIS mightier than the sword.
Vlads is bigger, and he has balls too boot.
I, for one, will take your word for it. I have no first hand knowledge of either of the players you are assuming are directing this game.
I think that's the most bullish thing I've ever seen.
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It is time to listen and remind ourselves about the real value of Gold and what is coming next with all geopolitical games unfolding at the crucial levels for US Dollar and Gold markets. China is the major subject of conversation here again and Russia is already talking about the asymmetrical retaliation to the imposed by the West sanctions around the Ukraine situation. Gold manipulation can not go foreverwith China buying the record amount of Gold officially and who knows what are the real numbers in its state-level military plan to accumulate Gold for the De-Dollarisation reset?http://sufiy.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/peter-schiff-and-gatas-bill-murthy-r...
But the mighty only true leader Putin said yesterday that its not the Russian troops that are surrounding bases.
But Russia good...West bad, right? So confusing.
Nope, sociopath = bad
I would think it would be difficult to find a politician of any stripe that did not fall under the label of sociopath...
This is a manned Diamond DA42, not a drone.
He's not dug in very deep.
digging in is so 1945
GarlK--you have never been anywhere nor done anything. My reddie is the second on ya. u b a wasted round in a target rich environment.
- Ned
Hmm I remember digging hasty graves out of mountain sides in Afghanistan and boobying the perimeter with claymores so as to not get our throats cut and corpses looted. This was 09 so a while ago. Much more recent than 1945 though and still as effective now as it was then ;)
What is funny is that RT is reporting the Western installed Ukrainian banker government called up the reserves. Only 1.5% of them showed up. Meanwhile a lot of their active forces are defecting to Russia. Looks like Obama picked another loser team. AL Queda, Bankers, and now the Nazis.
Don't worry, that's why we have blackwater putting boots on the ground.
Now you're talkin' REAL nazis. Does blackwater wear the cool deathshead on their collars?
talk to China...they just hired them.
http://theden.tv/2014/01/21/chinese-government-firm-hires-blackwater-fou...
So.....
China hires
US hires
UK hires
Fance hires
Saudis hire
This could get really interesting.
That's NeoNazis son...
They're new and improved Nazis or something...
I saw like one soldier.... so anyway i got to thinking. So im ukrainian or atleast i was born in ukraine and so were my parents. However, we speak Russian and are orthodox. So does that means i'm uki thats ethnically russian? since i'm not catholic, greko catholic, and don't support Stepan Bandera. This whole thing is such bullshit. My great grandfather was an artillery officer for Czar Nicholas the II and died fighting the bolsheviks (soviet army in the 1917 revolution) just like the followers of stepan bandera but for a completely different cause (a more noble one may I add, since it wasnt fascist). So I'm completely against the Ukrainian nationalistic army of Stepan Bandera and the Red Soviet Army. So you see the bullshit here, like what am I ethinically Russian or Ukrainian? All the ukrainians that bitch about being a sovereign nation are the ones who are predominently Greko-catholic or catholic or protestant not orthodox and most are also in support of the Ukrainian nationalistic army and Stepan Bandera. Who is more nationalistic then... Me who wishes to see the Russian Empire reborn as it was under the Czars were we were all one big nation, with one orthodox religion or these guys who follow stepan bandera and try and tell me that ethnic Ukis are compeltely different from ethinic russians? I always told them i see no difference between being russian or ukrainian and that we are all slavic people, with one orthodox but as i found out most of western ukrain is catholic now. So who is the real patriot here?
"So who is the real patriot here?"
Not you, which clearly confounds religion and borders with history and a dose of bs to defend a view to enslave other people under the boots of a neo-czar.
Become a Cossack (preferably Kuban Cossack)
Best Cuban cos-sack.
I think the majority of Ukrainians actually want to be independant. Although
they got there independance in 1991 there is an undercurrent of Russian
influence both politically and financially that has never gone away. I watched a
Newsnight short (on another ZH post) on the Ultra right movement and a Ukrainian lad in the Right sector
organization was talking in a more Russified dialect and not from Western Ukraine.
Stepan Bandera in the second world war had the option of siding with the Germans or with the Soviets as his objectives
were for an Independant Ukraine ie free from Russia. Greco Catholics are predominantly from
the West of Ukraine but there are Orthodox churches everywhere. In Lviv there are so many beautiful
churches with different religions and have been there for centuries. I have travelled throughout Ukraine
on business and pleasure and been to Donetsk, Kyiv, Odessa, Lviv and Crimea amongst other places, the people
in Ukraine want a better life and are done with the bare-faced corruption, the bandits and the Russian influence.
Whether they will get it is another matter.
Well today I watched Greko-Catholic priests give a speech on Majdan against the Russian Empire and called for the Ukrainian army to fight against this empire and one of them made a reference to Yaroslav Mudrij, who was a Knyaz in Kievskaya Rus and built the Cathederal of St. Sofia in Kiev. (the biggest orthodox church there) Except they referenced to him as theirs which is a complete manipulation of history and facts... and as far as russian influence in ukraine how the fuck do u westerners define the difference between an ethnically ukrainian and russian and what right do u have to meddle in our affairs? I want to see Ukraine, Belarussia and Russia unified into one big country as it was under my great grandfathers and not seperate, weak, and part of nato. So please, tell your politicians to stay out of this, this is a civil conflict that should have nothing to do with the west except it does since the USA finances the right sector radicals and the scientologist piece of shit Yazenuk. Its already enough when the west conquered Western Ukraine and forced them to become Greko-Catholic or die and now due to that fact of history we have this whole nationalistic problem that the West keeps feeding and igniting....
There are no such things as civil conflicts (oxymoron) anymore. Welcome to global empire... erm I mean globalization...
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00HUZ2SLC/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i00?i...
What Putin has done has united the Ukrainians more than hindered them. What you would like to see is what Putin would.
Whether the Knyaz was Orthodox or Catholic doesnt matter, he was Ukrainian. Regarding ethnicity, if someone is of Ukrainian
or Russian descent and born in Ukraine they are Ukrainian. If they were forced to become Greco catholic, why did they not
become Roman catholic ? I suggest you go back and finish your vodka.
Are they Greko-Catholic or Catholic-Unitarian, as far as RELIGION goes the MAJORITY Greek Speakers are NOT Catholic, as they DO NOT USE GREEK in the Service, only Latin of old.
Orthodox on the other hand use Greek or Russian or mixed Greek and Russian
Anybody care to inform us properly???
What you are is a human being and as such have certain rights inherent to being human that transcend the limits and desires of Czars, Presidents, Priests, Soldiers, or Banksters. Anyone who says otherwise is your enemy.....
I empathise with your position and understand your questions. My grandparents were pro-Bandera Ukrainian Orthodox. Grandmother was taken by Nazis to Germany for slave labour, Grandfather was working for the Nazi's in Berlin and provided documents to Ukrainians legally working in Germany. Unbeknown to the Germans he also provided docs to Ukrainians who were workin illegally in Germany or in my grandmothers case, had escaped captivity. Gestapo eventually worked out what he was up to and tried to arrest him but it was days before the end of the war so... too late. My understanding is that they had already endured years of war, enforced famine and murder by the kosher NKVD prior to WW2 so they were in survival mode 100%. Were they fascists? They were for a free Ukraine for Ukrainians. What exactly is bad about that? Fast forward to today - Putin is definitely on a roll and the West are in deep shit. Problem is Putin has not fully acknowledged the crimes of the Bolsheviks. If he did there would not be a problem with pro-Bandera Ukrainians, or at least a lot less of a problem. I also would prefer to see a Russian Ukrainian empire cleansed of the toxins of the 20th Century. You know the Zionists don't want that, hence their support for the current Ukrainian opposition...
Its nice to be able to see the guys who are going to kill you. I guess.
Me, I don't want to see a thing. Just put the bullet in the back of my head.
Don't worry, the DHS got you covered on that one.
Are they Russian or pro-Russian? Big difference. Would the Russians use laser pens or would they just shoot the stupid thing out of the sky? I expect if the Russian army wanted to down a drone it would be a done deal.
Ukraine, you didn't build that drone.
drone made in is ra hell
Up next mercenaries. You'd think that there wouldn't be a need for mercenaries if the Ukrainain government was truely independent and this what the people actually wanted. That is what your military and police forces are there for. You only bring in the mercenaries at this point unless you plan to use them beat on the opposition to remove the possible problem of the police or military actually seeing those protesters as their brothers and refusing to follow an order.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2576490/Are-Blackwater-active-Uk...
Has Blackwater been deployed to Ukraine? Notorious U.S. mercenaries 'seen on the streets of flashpoint city' as Russia claims 300 hired guns have arrived in country...
Speculation was growing last night that American mercenaries had been deployed to Donetsk after videos emerged of unidentified armed men in the streets of the eastern Ukrainian city.
At least two videos published on YouTube earlier this week show burly, heavily armed soldiers with no insignia in the city, which has been gripped by pro-Moscow protests.
In one of the videos onlookers can be heard shouting 'Blackwater! Blackwater!' as the armed men, who wear no insignia, jog through the streets.
...
Since the videos emerged, Twitter has been alive with speculation that mercenaries linked to Blackwater, now known as Academi, are active in Ukraine, helping to prop up the embattled new pro-western government.
And a Russian diplomat in Kiev told the Interfax news agency on Wednesday that 300 employees of private security companies had arrived there.
'These are soldiers of fortune proficient in combat operations. Most of them had operated under private contracts in Iraq, Afghanistan and other states,' the source said. Interfax reported that the diplomat did not disclose the nationalities of the mercenaries but said, 'Most of them come from the United States'.
Asked whether the soldiers seen in the videos could be from Academi, Dr Nafeez Ahmed, a security expert with the Institute for Policy Research & Development, said: ‘Difficult to say really. It's certainly not beyond the realm of possibility - Academi have been deployed in all sorts of theatres.
'I think the question is whether the evidence available warrants at least reasonable speculation.
‘On the face of it, the uniforms of the people in the videos are consistent with US mercs - they don't look like Russian soldiers mercs. On the other hand, why run around in public making a show of it?’
He added: ‘Of course the other possibility is it's all Russian propaganda.’
...
And not to be outdone
...
Pro-Russian forces have already seized control of the southern Ukrainian province of Crimea, although the Kremlin denies that the thousands of heavily armed, well-equipped men that have appeared there are under its control.
Last month a report in the Daily Beast claimed that 'informed sources' in Moscow had said the troops belong to Vnevedomstvenaya Okhrana, a private security contracting bureau similar to Academi that is close to the Kremlin.
...
But due to a legal agreement between Ukraine and Russia, Russia is allowed by law to station up 25,000 troops at the base in Crimea those Russians mercenaries could easily be 'off duty' troops stationed at the base. Having 25,000 troops stationed by only 1000 on duty at any given time with 24,000 of them 'off duty' doesn't violate any laws, spirit of it maybe but not the letter.
And if it was just Russian propaganda it should be easy to debunk in the videos. The devil is always in the details.
Also to keep in mind anyone can hire this group of mercenaries. I think we can rule out Ukrainian government doing it since they are fucking broke so would Russia actually hire them since mercenaries have no loyality except to their paycheck... Would the US allow them to continue to operate as a corporation registered within the US if Russia did?
OT - but it's beautiful range weather here in flyover.
All weather is beautiful range weather.
How can you downvote me for being up on my hobby?
Anyone else see that Russian soldier shining the green laser at the drone? I'm surprised how ineffective it was at blinding the camera.
Maybe I'm wrong but the laser source was a weapon where it's used in combination with a zoom tube for better aiming, its purpose was not to blind the camera but to shoot it down.
Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dempsey Pushes Back Against War Fever
http://thenewsdoctors.com/?p=122807
Blackwater?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2576490/Are-Blackwater-active-Uk...
That moat/trench needs some crocodiles in it... (for effect)
Seriously, the resolution/zoom on those drones is incredible, but they still have image stabilization issues at high resolution, it seems.
Green Lasers mounted on the AK 12's, maybe.
Made by Russians, hopefully for "Russians".
Let's hope this guy doesn't work for Boeing.
What happens when "Charlene " who isn't exactly quiet, gets one of her rotors taken out by a 'bb-gun' from the guy hidden on the hillside?
Charlene get's "raped" for her valuable parts> fully automatic machine gun...
Choosy moms choose emp weapons.
Given Chernobyl, Ukraine may have a few Magnetos on either side.
Ironically the host of FPS Russia is just an American with a fake Russian accent.
@ stevegee58 His, " I've seen a lot of shit in my time" line was the 'tip off'. That clown is all of 30 years old?
Shooting down some drones:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WP33crds1tI
Looked like nice jogging terrain.
I'll bet they are drinking with each other right now and laughing about how the stupid Mericans gave them another billion dollars. That is what I would be doing. There won't be any major problems unless a catastrophe like this happens again.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stDWNam7RtE
People in uniform with seven trucks camping in two tents proves an invasion of a country, LOL. Sounds very Gleiwitzish.
Naaah, this is bullshit.
But what about that fascist coup in Ukraine, overthrow of elected government with illegiltimate viloence and killing, supported by all western governments?
This is an issue for me. Because if this can there, can happen anywhere (literally)
People, do not lose your focus.
After all current revelations, MSM must now spin this from Kiev coup to bad bad Putin Russian INVASION and TERROR in Crimea river ( cue the Red dawn Wolverines TM)
Too many layers of complexity (religion/ethnicity/political view/outside meddling/ treaties/history etc) to enable a real solution other than one imposed by might.
Time for Russia to allow Europe and the USA a face saving option.
PP: time for the NATO folks to get on their knees and take a facial?
Putin b ready, n'est ce pas?
- Ned
Those guys are very clearly digging a sandpit.
"Ceterum censeo Dollarum esse delendam"
"Dollarum delenda est"
sorta' OT: in the blessed Normandy Invasion that saved civilization, the aircraft were just going nutz, bombing anything that they thought was on their path. There was a situation called "creep-back" where the first bomber toggled and the rest let go; result was that the bombz landed earlier/shorter than "intended".
'course the zoomiez were happy that they had flown their mission ;-)
Now: the gruntz on both sides decided that any aircraft was a baddie, didn't matter what (and, of course, they were correct from their particular point of view)
Go Grunts!!!
- Ned
Straight leg
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Posted by RomanG on July 02, 2001 at 16:52:34:
In Reply to: Any Ukrainian Producers for Wind Energy posted by Orest on July 02, 2001 at 13:17:47:
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Wind power to serve Ukrainian power economy
Dr. Lev Dul'nev, Windenergo Ltd
It is well-known that Ukraine is currently facing a most acute energy crisis which makes the country heavily dependent on supplies of energy from Russia etc. The interest of the Government and the industrialists to alternative energy is therefore quite understandable. Wind power is in the focus now because wide areas near the Azov Sea, the Black Sea and the Carpathians have vast resources of that. No domestically made windmills of sufficient reliability were available to Ukraine, and the ambitious projects to develop, for example, 1,000 kW units failed both here and in Russia. The task turned out to be unexpectedly challenging while the funding was progressively cut since the collapse of the USSR. The idea to combine Western technologies and Ukrainian military industrial capacities eventually lead to setting up Windenergo Ltd., a joint venture between KENETEC Windpower Inc. of the US and Yuzhnyi Engineering Plant (YuMZ) in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine. Windenergo received from KENETEC a license, and capacities for making 400 USW 56-100 windmills - a total of 50 MW - annually are now in preparation at YuMZ.
The making of the initial wind turbines necessitated a revision of some deep-ingrained views. During the long years of failures to develop domestic turbines, many became skeptic about their usefulness. The new technology, however, includes an on-board computer system and connections to a power pool that is controlled similarly to any state-of-the-art power plant.
Initially, the US party constructed a pilot wind farm of 3 mills commissioned near Donuzlav Bay in the Crimea in May 1993. The farm was a tremendous success, and the turbines have displayed high reliability and efficiency. By now, 64 similar domestically made units have been added to the pool. The final capacity of Donuzlav Wind Farm is planned at 500 MW. The wind electric power cost here is 2.38 to 2.90 cents/kWh compared to 5 cents in the US and to 4 cents at steam power plants that burn gas and fuel oil in Ukraine.
The machines themselves used to be 1.5 to 2 times less expensive than their Western counterparts and until recently seemed to be highly competitive at the markets of NIS, like Russia and Kazakhstan. Yet gradually it turned out that the prices could not be contained, because the mastodon plants could not get enough military orders to keep them afloat. This lead to ever increasing overheads that burdened the wind power project. The only way out is to divide these enterprises to smaller units more capable of finding their own market niches. It is has been proved that restructuring will to a certain degree make the progress of the wind power project more stable.
The Cabinet of Ministers adopted a decision that the fledgling industry be funded by allocation of 0.75 % of the national utility proceeds for these purposes, an equivalent of about USD 26,000,000 per annum. This enabled transition to full-scale production and resulted in commissioning of 6 wind farms having a total of 98 units. Another 57 USW 56-100 windmills are now being assembled at YuMZ. The production facilities thus created will not only yield more machines of this type but also step up to a new generation of units having capacities of 400-600 kW.
The rise in wind power generation means a breakthrough to alternative energy and will help Ukraine cover part of the losses expected from the prospective shut-down of Chernobyl Nuclear Plant and raise international funding for global-scale energy projects involving this country.
The collaboration with KENETEC Windpower is a fine example of technology transfer in the context of economic reform in Ukraine. The US party invested USD 7,000,000, and the Ukrainian Government acts as another major investor. This offers good prospects for large-scale production of competitive windmills and for joint penetration to Ukrainian and other national markets.
"In Reply to: Any Ukrainian Producers for Wind Energy posted by Orest on July 02, 2001 at 13:17:47:"
http://www.environmentalleader.com/2009/11/17/mafia-tied-to-wind-fraud-i...
I'm not sure most of the "Russian" forces being presented in the MSM are in fact Russian. For the most part Russian Federation forces may well be, or mostly be, on their bases.
These guys could easily be ethnic Russian Ukrainians... probably coordinating with Russian Fed forces.
Point is, CNN et al are plainly calling troops "Russian" based on inference, and discounting the large role pro-Russia Ukrainians can play in paramilitary terms.
It's also less an "occupation" if the guys at the new 'border' are Crimeans... even if most of the MSM will simply refer to them as "Russian".
The MSM reporting on this is well over the line of bias and into dissembling agitprop. It reminds me, anyway, of the way the press cheerled the public into Iraq 11/12 years ago. For that matter, the coverage on Syria and Iran seems to be beyond merely sloppy and inaccurate.
I focus on the NYT. They may actually have CIA political officers on site and in editorial meetings. Some of the language and piling-on lacks all subtlety.
It all smells of the very neocons who should have been put on trial for treason 10 years ago. That they are still around tells me the U.S. probably is past saving, and past deserving to be saved.
Who is the aggressor?
It isn't the Western Ukraine that is mining a border, that's the Russian-puppeted eest.
But that's not provocative to the ZH commenters, no it's not.
If the Kyiv-led western Ukraine were mining the western bank of the Dnieper most here on ZH would be screaming 24-7.
Troubles is that facts point at Ukrainian Junta Citizenism as the root cause.
Double post.
Even if I concede that point, and I do not, IT"S THEIR COUNTRY NOT RUSSIA"S.
If Russia wants to be a rubber-stamp, junta, oligarchy settling personal scores...oh sorry.
Meant to post "If Ukraine...'
The Kiev govt. is anti-Russian.
That's up to the people of Crimea to decide.
The billion dollars has probably all been pissed away in Monte Carlo, on blow, hookers and gambling...That's what you do with free money, right?
Ukrainian drones? really? This looks more like models made by video game producers. It's fake propaganda! From my limited knowledge, I think the russians have the ability to blast a drone out of the sky. Why would a lone russian solder be shining a laser at a drone?
It Is Fake.
I wished I owned a Dominos Pizza franchise in Crimea.
"Sorry, we're out of anchovys right now."
End of an era for the West
The support of neo-nazis in Ukraine destroys the last pretexts and wakes up nightmares of the past
http://failedevolution.blogspot.gr/2014/03/end-of-era-for-west.html
'ticking time bomb'
anyday this standoff will go 'full retard'...
all that's needed is a flash point, and chances are the heat is on high enough already for a spontaneous human combustion... a tunisian immolation action to a crimean reaction
foreplay for dante's nuclear birth, a mere 66 years hence
a long overdue monentu(m)s conser(v)sation where two isolated idiologies(?) cannot remain in flux as static v. thermal collide when all the detente vectors repel logic
where a parallel trajectory meets a asymmetrical symbiotic linear mindset via an 'act of attrition'?
this act of contrition will be negated when divine intervention excuses oneself from the table of mankinds folly
anyday now,...
the hour nor the minute is irrelevant... for mankinds insatiable appetite for destruction is hardwired in his genome.-- must now deem morrows yesterday, just a prelude to another 'Noachian Event'!
jmo
sad times for the world in gereral
Is it just me?
Spin the dice bitchez....
One thing about mercenaries is that they work for pay, not loyalty. So, Putin doesn't have to get into a shooting match with them - he simply has to out-bid their paymaster. He can always offer them the "Plata o Plomo" option. My guess is that Blackwater would turn yellow right smartly. Creepy bunch of psychos.
it is a US drone.
everyone of em' a million dollars in their pockets bitchez
impenetrable fortification and mine field in one
http://www.backpackers-around.com/photo-india-varanasi/shit.jpg
That's no wedding but look like smart bomb targets. Putin better own the airspace or it will be a target rich environment for the CIA
One issue has been barely pointed out, and it's that not only the Crimea and other south-russian counties are arguably ukrainian but also many areas in that country may become subjects to territorial and ethnical arguments whith neighbour countries. Equally, nationalists in Ukraine who got into power do have territorial claims to all surrounding countries, that are Russia, Moldova, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, Poland, Belarus. The Ukrainian National Anthem says "We become the brothers in fight bloody from San to Don, In native territory forcible we shall not give anybody" which is now becoming not only a symbol but a real threat to regional peace.
More in Russian, maybe a webtranslator is needed http://www.vz.ru/world/2014/3/7/676070.html
Blackwater (Academi) in Dotetsk?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2576490/Are-Blackwater-active-Uk...
Russian vice-premier used the N word
not the dirty black one but the bright mashroomish one
namely that Russia does not rule out the use of Nookular weapons