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Tanks Flying Russian Flag Enter East Ukraine City

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Update: UKRAINE DEFENCE MINISTRY CONFIRMS THAT SIX ARMOURED PERSONEL CARRIERS SEIZED BY PRO-RUSSIAN FORCES ON WEDNESDAY... so, defected?

The latest development in the ongoing Ukraine escalation are reports that in the aftermath of yesterday's crackdown by Ukraine special forces against "separatists" in Krematorsk and other occupied eastern cities, in an operation which involved fighter jets and helicopters, that an armored column of military vehicles flying a Russian flag and carrying dozens of heavily armed fighters motored into the city of Slavyansk early Wednesday.

Clip summarizing the situation from AP:

The WSJ adds that "it wasn't immediately clear whether the men were Russian soldiers or local militants who had gotten their hands on military vehicles." Curiously a soldier on one said the unit was part of the 25th brigade of Ukraine's airborne forces that had switched sides and was joining the pro-Russian forces, but that couldn't be immediately confirmed."

Additional photos of the Russian-flag bearing tanks:

More from the WSJ:

All of the men appeared to be wearing military uniforms without insignia, similar to the heavily armed uniformed men who have seized government building around the region.

 

Six vehicles took up positions in the center of the city outside the city council building, and dozens of men in fatigues, balaclava masks and carrying automatic weapons milled around. A crowd of about 200 locals gathered around the vehicles and began cheering when one of them showed off by driving in tight circles.

While it is unknown if Russia troops are actually operating in Ukraine - something we doubt as it would give the west far greater ammo in the campaign to demonize the "Russian invasion" - it appears that the next standoff between Ukraine soldiers and separatists will be violent and quite bloody, and explains why earlier today Russia's foreign minister said:

  • LAVROV SAYS UKRAINE ESSENTIALLY NO LONGER UNITARY STATE
 

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Wed, 04/16/2014 - 13:19 | 4665698 Ifigenia
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BBC, hahahaha! Is all that i could express.

Wed, 04/16/2014 - 12:34 | 4665130 Son of Captain Nemo
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Turchynov to Director Brennan...

Hey John we need lots more "Blackwater" partner, Do you copy?

Director Brennan to Turchynov...

Roger that "request" T, the possee is on it's way!  Will another 150 be enough???...

http://rt.com/news/ukraine-troops-withdraw-slavyansk-940/

Wed, 04/16/2014 - 11:15 | 4665135 Iam Yue2
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Anti-Kiev, pro-Russia tanks entertain the crowd before leaving.

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bpabV3S4uA

Wed, 04/16/2014 - 11:15 | 4665136 Iam Yue2
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Anti-Kiev, pro-Russia tanks entertain the crowd before leaving.

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bpabV3S4uA

Wed, 04/16/2014 - 11:18 | 4665143 OldmanRick1
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Odds are the troops are Russian, and the Ukraine is history. It is soon to become another Russian puppet state like back in the good old days of the cold war while wimpy western Europe sits in a corner sucking it thumb.

Wed, 04/16/2014 - 11:24 | 4665166 vic and blood
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Hey, Rip Van Winkle, so you watch a lot of MSM television, eh?

Wed, 04/16/2014 - 11:38 | 4665222 A_Nejad
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what's your odds?? I take it for couple of Benjamins.  Always happy for some "fools" cash, even though they claim they are...ehmm...smart!

Wed, 04/16/2014 - 11:58 | 4665345 Dickweed Wang
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It is soon to become another Russian puppet state like back in the good old days of the cold war while wimpy western Europe sits in a corner sucking it thumb.

Totally brainwashed by TeeVee Nues . . . .

Wed, 04/16/2014 - 13:24 | 4665718 Ifigenia
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we in western Europe never change. we are still living in the good old days of the cold war as puppets states of USA.

Poland and baltics states, Romania, etc. had get rid of occupy forces. And we still have US bases and nukes, isnt it odd?

Wed, 04/16/2014 - 15:25 | 4666356 Volkodav
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useless talkings

Wed, 04/16/2014 - 11:38 | 4665223 GrinandBearit
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Stock market loves it and Joe-six-pack couldn't care a less about any of this.

Wed, 04/16/2014 - 11:56 | 4665298 tony wilson
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reports just coming in from time magazine

 

singer mylie serious just been rushed to hospital with a yeast inflection so far the microsoft  vaxines and the antibionics are having little affect.

her dad billy bob serious as been informed

this shit is getting real

Wed, 04/16/2014 - 11:55 | 4665314 Dickweed Wang
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Gee, I wonder how hard it is to get a bunch of "Russian flags" to give people the perception that the APVs are under the control of the Kremlin?  Give me a break, Russia has a lot more to lose than gain by invading Ukraine for the wrong reasons, or at the wrong time.  The whole thing stinks of CIAduh to me . . .

Real Eyes

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Real Lies

Wed, 04/16/2014 - 12:09 | 4665384 phat ho
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Just leave all the hot Ukrainian women alone...send them to me

Wed, 04/16/2014 - 12:28 | 4665419 phat ho
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I'd trade Miley Cyrus for them.  :-)

Wed, 04/16/2014 - 13:26 | 4665757 Ifigenia
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it would lead to a civil war in our streets.

Wed, 04/16/2014 - 12:22 | 4665418 q99x2
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When do we get to kick some globalist ass.

Wed, 04/16/2014 - 12:23 | 4665424 nah
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Tanks on Chernobyl Boulevard

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babys mommas

Wed, 04/16/2014 - 12:29 | 4665425 BOPOH
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You guys have no clue and are wasting your time here. I would strongly recommend start to learn Russian.

Wed, 04/16/2014 - 12:37 | 4665491 phat ho
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spaseba

Wed, 04/16/2014 - 13:28 | 4665764 Ifigenia
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or take a russian wife.

Wed, 04/16/2014 - 12:34 | 4665474 messystateofaffairs
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Any zio change agent crawling around inside there is going to get sniffed out, then snuffed out. The secret war begins. Not going to be easy to run false flags, that shit is getting old hat. Actually Putins KGB training makes him a uniquely qualified leader for this kind of defensive work.

Wed, 04/16/2014 - 12:54 | 4665580 MarsInScorpio
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Another email to the National Editor and foreign desk of the NYT:

 

Here’s a novel idea – why not start telling the truth about what’s happening in east Ukraine instead of being propaganda puppets for the illegal CIA-imposed neo-Nazi government in Kiev?

 

You can start with this clip:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1AM6uuj6IA

 

Caption content:

 

Subdivisions of "junta troops" were concentrated near Izium throughout the night, the leader said. "There are two tanks, 15 armored vehicles and around 700 personnel. They have nothing to eat, they walk around begging. This is how it is," the leader said.”

 

Yeah – I have to go to Voice of Russia to get the video documented truth, because, well, you aren’t telling it.

 

Here’s another clip for you to bury and hide away from America, to help you keep up Obama’s neo-Nazi allies:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGW_wXRdDMY#t=63

 

Do they look to you like they are an adversary force to the pro-democracy protestors (AKA anti-neo-Nazis)? Do the civilians strike you as “terrorists” as you have repeated the neo-Nazi description of them? Does this look like an area of civil upheaval as you have said?

 

Well, even soldiers have to have a little fun – how about this clip of one of what Kiev described as their special forces that took over in Sloviansk by flying Russian flags on their APC’s? Ever seen an APC do doughnuts in the road?

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bpabV3S4uA

 

Yeah – the special forces sure are imposing strict discipline on the east Ukrainians . . .

 

Has it dawned on you yet that you are being played for useful idiots? Do these – and other – video clips look to you like the description of the people in the east are anything at all like the labels placed on them by the CIA stooges in Kiev?

 

And I’m still waiting to read about the $5-billion the US dropped to overthrow the legitimately elected (overseen by observers from 43 nations) government of the Ukraine. Rationalizing their coup is like saying that because a high percentage of people disapproved of Obama, it’s OK for some foreign country to drop $5-billion organizing a coup to overthrow him.

 

Do you really ever stop to think how insane your backing of the junta in Kiev really is?

 

And to think the original mission of the NYT was to be a voice of America’s Jews – now you are supporting the re-establishment of the same political thinking that murdered over 6-million in the Holocaust.

 

Go ahead – let’s see you actually tell all the truth that’s fit to print.

 

 

Kenneth

 

 

 

Wed, 04/16/2014 - 14:20 | 4666033 RMolineaux
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Well done, Mars.  I had the pleasure (?) of riding in a Ukrainian armored personnel carrier in the 90's in the former Yugoslavia.  It is true that they can turn on a dime, by having separate transmissions for the tires on each side.  But they are awful to get in and out of, since the only hatch is on the lower right side.  You literally have to crawl on the ground to get in and out.

Wed, 04/16/2014 - 12:59 | 4665604 Son of Captain Nemo
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What a wonderful bit of news if you're Eastern European!!! Almost feels like the strange timing and coincidence of watching a Winter Olympics when the host Country's neighbor gets violated through a foreign backed coup!  Wonder if Chevron knew about this when Vicky Nuland gave that speech as the sponsor several months back?...
Sure hope the shale oil business in this Country can manage to keep pace with news like this?
http://rt.com/business/oil-field-astrakhan-discovery-948/
Wed, 04/16/2014 - 13:24 | 4665740 localstorm
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Some guy in a parliament of Ukraine in Kiev said these Russian flags on APCs were intentionally used by Ukrainian army to infiltrate in the city and confuse protestors on block posts.

I guess this is a sample of Ukraininan military improvisation.

Wed, 04/16/2014 - 14:41 | 4666119 no1wonder
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The Russian foreign ministry has posted a sharp statement on its web site warning Washington of the "catastrophic consequences" for its "reckless support" of Kiev. Translated by Alan Yuhas, The Guardian:

It's important to note that the US State Department is frantically gathering any speculation spread by the acting powers in Kiev in order to justify charges against Russia about inciting and even organizing disorder in south-east Ukraine. [...]

But the important thing is not the distortion of facts, but the stubborn unwillingness or inability to see reality as it actually is, and in striving to impose on the rest of the world a distorted view of what's happening in south-east Ukraine. From briefing to briefing to justify the riots of the "heroes of Maidan" but to describe the protests in Donetsk, Kharkiv, Luhansk, Slavyansk and other cities as actions guided from outside terrorists – It's not simply a double standard, but blatant hypocrisy.

Now, as the ruling regime in Kiev has made an attempt to use force, the official [rhetoric of] the White House and State Department that this is a "maintenance of law and order", indicates nothing less than an endorsement for [Kiev's] war against their own people. Washington must recognize the catastrophic consequences of such reckless support for its Kiev charges."

Wed, 04/16/2014 - 14:43 | 4666135 babarian gourd
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Im tired of all the foreplay.  lets either get on with the destruction of the modern world or lets enjoy another late 90s Bull Market.  Im sick of humanity riding the fence.  Will someone tell me when the shoe will drop and what will be the catalyst!

Wed, 04/16/2014 - 15:22 | 4666333 general ambivalent
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FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States

http://www.theonion.com/articles/fbi-uncovers-alqaeda-plot-to-just-sit-b...

Wed, 04/16/2014 - 16:33 | 4666675 Uncle Remus
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Is popcorn halal?

Wed, 04/16/2014 - 15:40 | 4666414 Flying Wombat
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"Ukraine, Through the US Looking Glass"

Exclusive: As the post-coup regime in Ukraine sends troops and paramilitaries to crack down on ethnic Russian protesters in the east, the U.S. news media continues to feed the American public a steady dose of anti-Russian propaganda, often wrapped in accusations of “Russian propaganda,” Robert Parry reports.

Click here:  http://thenewsdoctors.com/?p=140292

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