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Fighting Breaks Out As Ukraine Deploys Tanks, APCs, Troops In Slavyansk: Deaths Reported
A day after the acting government in Kiev announced the Geneva agreement is void and that it would once again send special forces to deal with "terrorists" in east Ukraine, it had made good on its promise and over the past few hours, Ukrainian tanks, APCs and other special forces troops took control of a checkpoint north of Slavyansk on Thursday, following what numerous reports confirm was an exchange of gunfire.
What happened next is not exactly clear. Reuters reports that "when the armoured unit approached along a road from Sviatogorsk, which Ukraine's government said it recaptured on Wednesday, militants set up a smokescreen of burning tyres. Within half an hour, the Ukrainian force was in control of the position near the village of Khrestyshche. No shots were heard."
Reuters continues:
Ukrainian forces appear to be closing in around Slaviansk, a city of 130,000 which has become a military stronghold for the pro-Russian movement and is entirely controlled by separatist fighters.
Reuters journalists saw Ukrainian troops digging in outside the city on the main road south to the regional capital Donetsk.
Earlier in the morning, a spokeswoman for the separatist authorities in Slaviansk, Stella Khorosheva, said on Facebook that two people were killed at a checkpoint overnight.
Local online news site slavgorod.com.ua quoted other separatist representatives saying one man was dead and another seriously wounded after a group of local militia fighters from a checkpoint went to engage a group of "armed men" between Slaviansk and Sviatogorsk and were then fired on from a wood.
The Ukrainian government said troops repelled an overnight raid on a base at Artemivsk, to the south of Slaviansk on the road to Donetsk. A soldier was wounded in the attack by about 70 people who Interior Minister Arsen Avakov said on Facebook were led by Russian soldiers.
This conflicts somewhat with reports from both AFP and RT of a far more serious escalation including shooting at the Slavyansk checkpoint, and that according to @GazetaRu at least six people have been killed so far. Just out from RT:
Fighting has erupted just outside Slavyansk, a town in east Ukraine where population voiced their protest against Kiev authorities. Ukrainian troops on tanks and armored vehicles are trying to break into the town.
According to Ukrainian Interior ministry, at least five self-defense guards have been killed and one policeman injured after the ‘antiterrorist operation’ launched by Kiev in the city. Three checkpoints erected by the anti-government protesters have also been destroyed.
“Around 40 minutes ago fighting started on the outskirts of Slavyansk,” one of the leaders of self-defense forces, Miroslav Rudenko , told Interfax. We are checking reports of one dead and one injured. There are shootings at a number of checkpoints at some of Slavyansk exit-roads.”
Rudenko said it was impossible to reach self-defense leaders in Slavyansk by phone, suspecting that mobile phone connection could have been switched off.
More from RT:
Police has announced the beginning of the crackdown via loudspeakers and a special vehicle is currently patrolling the streets warning local people about the crackdown.
The local citizens in the city are preparing for the Kiev crackdown. The majority of shops, kindergartens and schools have been closed in the city. Only the shops selling bread and water remain open. Rossiya 24 TV channel reported there was a slow offensive by Ukrainian troops on Slavyansk.
“Now armored vehicles and special forces are just 10km away from the town,” said Rossiya 24 correspondent currently on the ground.
According to locals, at least eight armored infantry vehicles passed the village of Hrestische, near Slavyansk, on Thursday morning, reports Gazeta.ru.
At least three snipers from Ukrainian army are now at the barricades, the residents also told Gazeta.ru, adding that when one of the journalists tried to approach the barricades, the snipers opened fire.
Meanwhile, two columns of armored vehicles are heading towards Slavyansk. The first column is now 6km from the city, while the second is 3 to 4km, Mayor of Slavyansk Vyacheslav Ponomarev told Rossiya 24 TV channel.
According to the latest reports, self-defense forces have repelled the attack of the Kiev gunmen at the key checkpoint in north of Slavyansk. At least three infantry vehicles had to retreat, reports Rossiya 24.
Meanwhile, the armored infantry vehicles are currently heading towards the town of Izyum in the Kharkov Region, not far from Slavyansk.
Anti-government protesters are still controlling the checkpoints on the outskirts of Slavyansk.
A video of the events:
And here is the latest reports on the ground:
Seems the Ukrainian anti-terror operation in Slavyansk is under way. Fights reported on outskirts of the town
— Olaf Koens (@obk) April 24, 2014
Locals report at least six dead, but no confirmation @GazetaRu writes. Fights occur at two road blocks around Slavyansk
— Olaf Koens (@obk) April 24, 2014
Ukrainian forces near the entrance of Slavyansk, single shots fired. Via Piotr Andrusieczko https://t.co/HKb6EHawd7 pic.twitter.com/MuvcabgGNF
— Olaf Koens (@obk) April 24, 2014
RT @mikewhills
Ukrainian troops pictured on the outskirts of Sloviansk (Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP) pic.twitter.com/D7Zdnr9Btt— Alexander Marquardt (@MarquardtA) April 24, 2014
????????? ???????? pic.twitter.com/xXXoEN92Gf
— ?????????? (@anti_maydan) April 24, 2014
PHOTO: Ukraine army chopper buzzes Artemovsk, 40km south of #Slavyansk "anti-terror" op scene http://t.co/DW9TMtgUDl pic.twitter.com/oa0w0lqPio
— RT (@RT_com) April 24, 2014
But perhaps most concerning is the so far unconfrimed report that Russian support is on its way:
#?????? #????.
????????? ????, ??????! pic.twitter.com/7QKSJwLD7P
— ??????????-LIVE (@NovorossiyaLive) April 24, 2014
We will update if the situation escalates furtger
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Of course, makes sense! Apple and FB are some of the most important indicators.
The more time the whole world spends on their iphone, ipod or iwhatever, gaming and posting useless nonsense on FB, the easier it is to make them forget even the most recent events and continue to steal their money and future. They will never hold anybody accountable. They will never protest in the streets. Just give them a device, broadband internet, games, social media ("let's get socia - on social medial!"), movies, porn etc.
Welcome to the matrix.
Hence: super-bullish news for the whole financial sector as well as politicians world-wide!
The CAC hits new 5y high...as the NF are poised for their biggest win in their history, and this weeks PMI's continue to fall
Democratic leader thrown out? wasn't the leader your choice? or an arms dealer wants to sell old stock? Mercinaries.....they should Die. What are we doing.....again.....Do The Elite want more money or a lower population....Divided we will fall.
Harper.....WTF....sending our nato forces into a Battle we don't want and no (small) premium for Danger Pay, yet what were the costs for the G20 in Vancouver ( double standard)? The PC/Reform party will fall hard next election, if we only had someone to vote for.
Bring home our troops.....NATO .............Is now an Aggressor. Rethink the Pacific trade Pact...........Canada is not a Corporation which you will allow the Population held at Ransom (IMF/Monsanto)......Are you being Blackmailed or just F'in Stupid. This Country is not yours to sell (OUT). You've done enough.....Go get your green card and what ever reward you bargined for....Traitor..............
Don't let Canada be the first country lost in peacetime thru a Court ruling.
Terrorists using locals as human shield, hiding in schools - some fine people worthy of ZH crowd support...
Methinks you are a ukrainian who had his gas turned off, or a pubtard
only a true idiot or a CIA plant would beleive that-
wow Gold and Silver just got smashed, this is fucking crazy
gold 1277
You have to give TPTB one thing, they have effectively shut pm's off as an inflationary hedge for now.
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?t=3m&s=DBA&l=on&z=l&q=l&c=gld%2C+slv&ql=1
i just dont get how something as powerful and independant as gold can stay slave to phony paper games for so fucking long
That index is up 20% since Jan but there's no inflation....I wish these fuckers would quit pussy footing around and really smash pm's. I've been keeping my powder dry but I'll be pissed if I go all in silver at 19 and see it at 10 sometime soon....
and falling fast
And gold smashed, silver cratered. I smell true desperation in the air.
They are sending us a message: "We control everything" When they feel the peoples wrath there will be no mercy.
Bastards! We will stack some physical before the rebound.
fuck yeah we will
Oh hell yes.
Get your freezer stocked up
Ahh, Americans and their love for food ;)
Hard to leave home if the loved ones arnt provided for
Yep. I love gold too but it doesn't have much calories to keep you active in the zombie apocalypse.
And keep you eyes focused on the Ukraine, ignore the rising grocery prices. There is no inflation.
Lets hope they dont shoot at anyone Putin might consider "Russian". Anyway it seems to me eastern Ukraine is lost for Ukraine and the West one way or another...
This weekend, there was this 2 hour documentary on televsion about Russia's best kept secret about how they killed 2 million Oekrainian preople after the war.
And why off course, Europe is so important for their defense.
It was a good edited docu. After the docu you really had that feeling like "We've gotta kill Russians!"
So it was a very well timed TV documentary, which of course was no accident.
Conniving bastards
Good News! For every European "Defense Force" member, there will be six boys from 'Merica to spill their blood.
Am still waiting for the documentary about how the jew bolsheviks killed 100million or so and stole the equivalent of one trillion out of Russia.
I'm still waiting for the WW II truth about "6,000,000 slaughtered in concentration camps" to be admitted.
It's out there for those brave enough to track it down.
But since such revelations & truths are instantly classified as "anti-semitic", we should not hold our breath.
Who knows what numbers the forger's hand may put down on a piece of paper. False flags, misinformation. When someone is trying to sell you a story that hard you gotta take a step back and think for yourself.
Also the number is so nice and perfect a 6 with six zeroes behind it. Symbolic for the 6 pointed star.
You think the Germans love having perfect numbers like that on their tally sheets? I guess they stopped just as they ticked that number. Must of required some pretty amazing logistics to make it all work out over an entire conflict zone with massive armies on the move and unstable front lines.
Where've u been smacker? They're tripping over skulls all over the german countryside. kids go spelunking and its like indiana jones under the library. They cant even play on the soccer field without tripping over a femur. [sarc] seriously, who has ever heard of 'no residue to speak of'? we need more evidence
I know one fairly brilliant guy who's spent years reading, researching at very great depths about a range of important matters. The numbers slaughtered in camps being just one of them. He is most certainly NOT anti-semitic and may even be Jewish himself, not sure. In debate he told me that the true number is most likely to be less than 3 million, not 6, and the 3 million includes all the other groups. He puts the 6 number down to the well known human trait of exaggeration and rounding up when passing on stories from one to another. This human trait of exaggeration has been proven many times by independent researchers.
He may be right about how the number 6 was arrived at, but it quickly became the figure used by historians. It's now written in stone and nobody is allowed to challenge it.
are you people too mentally frail to remember the lies about "Iraq has WMDs?" THis is just the same warmed over shit----The US is lying out of its ass
You are correct - but so is Putin
are you people too mentally frail to remember the lies about "Iraq has WMDs?"
I do remember Hillary.....and just about everyone else....saying that.
Ukraine has revolted, it now has a puppet fascist regime in Kiev, there is a state of civil war and chaos reigns. The death count is rising.
Major Western governments, EU and IMF:
"Everything is going according to plan". "Our next step is to involve NATO and face-off Putin."
novorossiya ?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:New_Russia_on_territory_of_Ukraine.png
Excuse me for talking out of turn but damn between the uniforms and guns, it looks like they bought their gear from Kmart and went straight into action.
Damn gear aint even broke in yet.
Copper up, Oil up, Gold & Silver crushed...yeah that makes sense!
........ Crushed
http://finviz.com/futures_charts.ashx?t=SI&p=w1
The current price of gold and silver is purely for propaganda purposes, so ignore what you see and do what your common sense tells you.
Your either BUY BUY BUY or you can say BYE BYE BYE to your wealth.
Draghi is talking up more money printing right now...
Mario Draghi says a weaker than expected inflation outlook could prompt the bank to launch asset purchasesWell obviously, the price of gold shous shit the bed.
Putin or Obama.
Red pill/blue pill
Don't buy into the BS. Down with both of them. Corruption and slavery under either is wrong.
Putin does not strong arm canada, mexico, el salvador, belize, the cayman islands, cuba and greenland into forming a treaty that includes nukes so the u.s. is surrounded by eyes of compulsion, to ensure the surrounding countries bend u.s. interests to their whim. No siree. Thats the stuff bush/cheney and obozo/biden do
Putin only does that to the peoples AROUND him and Russia because he is only a regional power or else he would. It is what oligarchs do, ours are no different than theirs.
While this is true, Putin does not yet have the power to do so. That does not mean that he would not do so, if he did have the power. I don't want to get into the what-ifs but...
You don't get to be the leader of a major... anything without being a psycho/sociopath.
Queue up the fear mongers who want you to believe the draft is coming back.
As if the younger generation is willing or able to give up their iCrap and cheeze balls to go get shot and gassed for Obama.
Meanwhile ... as Rome burns ... the Kenyan dines on $300 sushi.
But I did notice that Chimpanzee Michelle did not join him. Very odd. Now why did she blow $100m or so going to China with her entourage when weeks later Hopie was heading to Japan? Couldn't they have just organized the trips around the same period and save the taxpayer money? I did however see someone who looked like Reggie in the crowd at the Imperial Palace.....
Now why did she blow $100m or so going to China
Because she could.
No worries....it was paid for by the one hotdog school lunches. Our kids are now footing the bill for just about everything....I'm so proud of them.
Greystone (300) vs Spetznaz (5200) ..... ??
I'll take Greystone s/u
Krugman must going to pound town right about now.
What needs to happen is for these "separatists" to realize they have the numbers. When the military shows up, simply fade away, let them take whatever position and simply wait for things to flare up two towns over. Military withdraws to that town, they fade away and those in the first town simply retake what they abandonned.
Force Kiev to play whack-a-mole.
Shoudl be careful though. Making any power structure look like idiots will likely result in them lashing out sometime in the future. And since they already have sicced their army on the population, not much else they can really do to escalate aside from concentration camps and mass death.
Smart money is on IEDs to make them bleed each time they go to the next hot spot to whack the mole.
You need explosives for an IED. They aren't so common in Ukraine, I think.
tell that to the Oklahoma kid...
I am sure required chemicals can be found in such an industrial zone like East Ukraine.
The city in question above has factories that use chemicals. I'm just sayin'....
'Unconfrimed' report said: '????????? ????, ??????!'
I'm inclined to agree.
DAX just lost 90 points?
Mess started with US-algos on the wire, so it's above 200pts down due to the issue.
USSA: Whore Of Babylon?
Discuss.
The USSA is Babylon. There are many whores.
but, but...Babylon get fucked in the end..
I love Babylon (Long island)
Doubtful, whores are smart enough to avoid the Dollar.
Babylon the Great is the Financial whore Queen that sits on the backs of the vworld's governments (beasts. http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation+18&version=NKJV
Hence Babylon the Great is the Financial powers that be, the beast is currently in its 7th iteration- the seventh head of the beast out of the sea is the USA. http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation+13:1-4
Summary:
Babylon= Financial Powers that be
Beast= USA (7th head)
Rossiya 24 (Russian State Controlled Television News) isn't a reliable source for anything other than a bullshit. Those puppets have been lying on Putin's behalf since day 0.
Both sides lie. It's called propaganda. Which shit sandwich do you like?
CIA director and Biden recently stirring shit up.
More false flags probably underway.
Why do they call them terrorists.
Because they know their history of the last 200 years and they are once again defending their terra against the usual gangs of foreign-backed, Russian-hating, violent, anti-constitutional coup-makers, many of whom already publicly stated their intention to wipe all traces of Russian-ness from Ukraine and exterminate 8 million Ukrainians, or, at best, expel them from their own country.
Putin Pan
Slavs,
What a hopeless lot.
They should just go back to a tribal style gov. where each extended family has their own headman like the Gypsys.
They suffer from an overabundance of diversity, both real and imagined. They just don't forget and live and let live.
It would be the same in the UK if they burned down Italian restaurants and bakeries in retaliation for the Roman occupation or if the Dutch tried to retake Manhattan.
Nudging these people into war is not difficult and definitely not helpful. Things tend to get out of control in that neighborhood.
Which, I suppose, is the whole point of this exercise in 'Mo Better Democracy'.
Ill be sure to let the Slavs in space know that. They must have a heck of an imagination to be up there, what are they thinking circling the globe instead of circling their wagons. Listen chimp oh sorry shovelhead, be careful who you nudge if you dont have a nuclear bunker set up with food for the next few hundred years for your progeny, you may go back to stacking your water bottles.
neunundneunzig luftballons.
^This!
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Scorpions queued up for when real action starts.
Interfax newsline:
04/24 16:48 Russian battalion tactical combined-arms groups from southern, western military districts start drills in response to situation in southeast Ukraine - Shoigu
04/24 16:45 Shoigu: In framework of drills aviation to carry out flights to exercise actions near state border
P.S.
Sergey Kuzhugetovich Shoygu - the Minister of Defence of the Russian Federation (since Nov. 6, 2012)
Are they talking about Reid-like terrorists?
If the situation in Ukraine gets any worse it could lead to Chicago-style death rates. Whew.
Shoigu: 11,000 servicemen involved in operation against civilians in Ukraine’s southeast
April 24, 17:11 UTC+4 MOSCOW, April 24. /ITAR-TASS/. A group of Ukrainian troops numbering over 11,000 people is taking part in a military operation against civilians in Ukraine’s southeast, the Russian defense minister said Thursday.
The soldiers are armed with automatic weapons. The operation also involves some 160 tanks, over 230 infantry fighting vehicles and armored personnel carriers, at least 150 guns and mortars, and a great number of aircraft, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said before a board meeting of the Defense Ministry.
So I'll just assume here that their oligarchs and our oligarchs have come to an agreement not to nuke the wolrd over this.
KievPost: (April 24, 2014, 4:18 p.m.)
Senior security official: Anti-terror operation suspended as Russian troops amass on border
looks like this party has started!!!
freedom is what you make of it bitchez
you must die so the jews can live under saturn sun.
do you not see it yet
you can help save them
money for the power
blood and meat for the masonic saturnic table feast.
broken babies in aspic a speciality
bon appiti or however you spell it.
http://www.messynessychic.com/2013/08/27/a-surrealist-parisian-dinner-pa...
Interesting link.There is so much paganism and decadence within the ultra-rich jewish sphere tony boy, have you noticed that? I'd speculate that they choose to carry on in the exact way as they have millenia gone by. Ancient rites. They are not christians and historically, have had a propensity for polytheistic worship. Idolatry of all kinds, wilson. Why should they modify their behavior now?
If you believe the bible, god blessed abrahams line, chose the israelites above all others and ensured their successful livelihood. The gentiles didnt stand a chance. Eventually, god withdrew his favor, but it seems fair enough to say that the jews still retain the physical blessings bestowed by god. For example, note the superior intellect (on balance), their consistency of character, cultural cohesion, etc. That is not exactly fair for the rest of us, which is why i have difficulty in believing in the god portrayed in the bible, because impartiality is a key characteristic with being truly loving. Is it fair to have a family of ten kids and favor just one while neglecting and abusing the rest? Christ opening the way for the gentiles notwithstanding, the fact that god abandoned his philistine and babylonian children hurts my heart.
In any case, they have a single-minded purpose, which has become self evident from the turn of the last century. They sure have taught us a thing or two. All nations have had to contend with the powerful implications of their reemergence in world affairs, the jewish question, as it was known all over the world. We are influenced and beholden them so much more than people know. Will we all be dressing up like hepburn and others did someday, resembling pagan animal worshippers, like in that link you provided? Will the world ever experience lasting peace despite their seeming discontentment with it? I tell you what wilson, most religious people feel that satan is truly at work in these perilous times, that his influence is everywhere, that he loves war, death, suffering, materialism, decadence, lasciviousness, and subservience, but i can tell you quite honestly that we need not look beyond the mortal realm to see where and how these things are being promulgated.
Psycholgical war begins in Slovyansk:
https://twitter.com/BoothWilliam/status/459328052992819200/photo/1
Real bombs to follow
I see Putin Trolls working...
Warning, J-alert....Warning, J-alert!
MSN developing main story of how Ronald McDushbag is changing his iconic look
and how Apple rally is holding up the Nasdaq
Wheres Ukraine?
It'd be interesting if the Russians dropped in behind the Ukrainians/mercenaries ... then trapped them all, with no prospect of escape.
Propaganda coup.
Those Ukraineian troops look a lot like NATO troops. I wonder how the BLM will respond if Putin has troops restoring order in Mexico?
The Russians are gonna kill those mercs and string up the political leaders like Mussolini.
Ugly fast nukes are predicted.
Russia will not allow another Russian body donation.
Period amundo, this is not a game.