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Here We Go Again: Ukraine Claims It Destroyed Two Tanks That Entered From Russia

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It's Monday; which means its time to ramp up the war rhetoric once again as another weekend goes by without 'escalation'. Ukraine's military spokesman Lysenko, or as he is better known as Lie-senko for those who actually ask for some evidence of anything that he claims, says, suggests or otherwise talks about, is reporting,via Bloomberg, that:

  • UKRAINE SAYS TWO TANKS THAT ENTERED FROM RUSSIA WERE DESTROYED
  • LYSENKO SAYS UKRAINE CAPTURED CREW MEMBERS OF DESTROYED TANKS
  • UKRAINE SEIZED SOME VEHICLES THAT ENTERED FROM RUSSIA: LYSENKO
  • LYSENKO SAYS COLUMN OF REBEL VEHICLES DESTROYED IN KRASNODON
  • LYSENKO: UKRAINE INFLICTED SEVERE LOSSES ON REBELS IN KRASNODON

One wonders if the captured Russian crew had Langley, VA crew cuts? Unfortunately no one had their iPhone or camera-on-a-sticks to record the action as "proof." but we are sure that won't matter. Cure NATO's comments.  Now, how will the market react to this 'proven invasion'? Actually scratch that: more escalation is simply a catalyst for even more pent-up de-escalation in the future...

 

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Mon, 08/25/2014 - 11:54 | 5140754 Al Huxley
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Oh sorry - 'Go USA, Go USA.  Russian tanks are in the Ukraine!  I haven't seen any evidence, but no reason not to believe!  We must put boots on the ground ASAP! It's the only way to preserve democracy and prevent Russian aggression and expansionism!'  

How's that?

Mon, 08/25/2014 - 12:23 | 5140847 Lea
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"No really, many thanks go out to Putin and other communists like him that built all those gulags and murdered 50 million people."

Some people really are locked up in the past. It's distressing to behold...

Some recent history points: The USSR fell in 1991. A liberal, multi-party system was established. Despite his KGB past, Russian name and ethnicity, Putin is not a communist. Nor is nowadays Russia.

Check it all on Google or in any recent history book if you don't believe me.

And have a good day.

Mon, 08/25/2014 - 13:36 | 5141155 tony wilson
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orangegeek report us to aipac or the idf you could even try fog of war rassmussen of nato.

are you really disturbed.

did the fake foley head cut hd movie scare you did you go on forums and say how scarey and disturbing it was.

maybe if you had not had the gender change operation your hormones would not be making you so sensitive and so girly

Mon, 08/25/2014 - 13:38 | 5141162 where_is the_nuke
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communist? you konw what communism is?"too big to fail".well, not communism, maybe retarded communism or should i say "the  tribalism".

Mon, 08/25/2014 - 13:44 | 5141195 Freddie
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You must love Obama and must think Jonathan Pollard is innocent.  Are you Pollard's brother-in-law?

Mon, 08/25/2014 - 13:45 | 5141196 Wahooo
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Putin huggers, eh? What it means, from my read of ZH posts, is that we value honestry, transparency, natural law, Constitutional law, and a cautious and reserved use of violence.  What we don't seem to value is nationalistic patriotism as a sign of love for country.

Mon, 08/25/2014 - 14:30 | 5141358 Bankster Kibble
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Maybe you should put the comment "Putin is a communist" at the end of your rant and more people might read it.  As is, you sound like a CNN believer. 

BTW, the real Communist party in Russia cannot stand Putin.

Mon, 08/25/2014 - 11:38 | 5140705 Circle of DNA
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What happened to their photoshop skills? Didn't their get IMF loan for that!?...

Mon, 08/25/2014 - 11:47 | 5140740 robertocarlos
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Nine times out of ten when your tank is blown to smithereens you just open the hatch and walk out.

Mon, 08/25/2014 - 12:06 | 5140796 shovelhead
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Stupid NeoNazis are like Charlie Brown and the football.

Eastern Ukes need to keep short lines because of limited manpower, so they push in a town and wait for the enevitable Nazi response. They then fall back and let the Ukonazis rush in and get careless in their 'victory' as the rebels surround them and mash them up.

And the Nazodummies fall for it over and over again. The rebels have got some real military leadership now and are acting with a unity and tactical skill that the Western Ukes can't match. They're also picking up a massive amount of captured and abandoned material.

Sorry viedoklis, even if your nazi pals grabbed 2 tanks, they easily have lost 15x that number. Pack a couple of lunches but I don't think you'll need more than that.

If you make it home again.

 

Mon, 08/25/2014 - 12:12 | 5140817 Quantum Nucleonics
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Gee, another naive, conspiratorial Ukraine post.  Tyler, don't you tire of being a useful idiot for Vlad?

Mon, 08/25/2014 - 12:20 | 5140844 novictim
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Tired?  This is a big revenue stream. 

Kremlin payments keep the otherwise entertaining posts on this site coming, Quantum.  So don't sweat this particular propaganda bent here. No one takes them seriously anyways.

Mon, 08/25/2014 - 12:49 | 5140977 Gregor Samsa
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They are just reporting the obvious fake news reports coming out of Kiev, and applying a concept known as "critical thinking" to them.  I'm not going to bother explaining what critical thinking is to you, because it's likely beyond your mental capacity, but if you are so inclined, look it up.

Mon, 08/25/2014 - 12:20 | 5140852 alexcojones
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Lie-Senko:

Explorer, Sage, Dancer-around-of-the-Truth

Mon, 08/25/2014 - 12:35 | 5140923 king leon
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Why do the DPR need tanks from Russia ? They have captured shit-loads from the Ukraine military. In reality It's Blackwater-Al-Qaeda V Spetsnaz =NO CONTEST , " I am an American citizen" '''BANG'''.

Mon, 08/25/2014 - 12:41 | 5140938 esum
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UKRAINE thinks someone is listening to their CRY FOR HELP.....

better smell the cafe... cause NATO is not going to fight for ukraine

and Merkel is trying to negotiate with Putin so the germans dont revolt this winter.... 

 

Mon, 08/25/2014 - 13:36 | 5141158 Jack Burton
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The army of the Russian Federation must be seriously degraded at this point. The series of harsh defeats at the hands of the Kiev Junta Army is long and impressive. Like the large column of tanls and APC's which Kiev destroyed a week or so ago. Now another major defeat of Russian armored vehicles of Ukraine soil has further degraded Russian capabilites. The Generals in the Kremlin never learn their constant attempts to gain ground in battle are thwarted by the Ukraine Army. Another victory is now almost common place, hardly news.

sarc ON!

Mon, 08/25/2014 - 13:54 | 5141240 swmnguy
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"We are in control, they are in a state of hysteria. Losers, they think that by killing civilians and trying to distort the feelings of the people they will win. I think they will not win, those bastards."

"The United Nations is a place for prostitution under the feet of Americans."

"I can say, and I am responsible for what I am saying, that they have started to commit suicide under the walls of Baghdad. We will encourage them to commit more suicides quickly."

"We made them drink poison last night and Saddam Hussein's soldiers and his great forces gave the Americans a lesson which will not be forgotten by history. Truly."

- Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, perhaps better known as "Baghdad Bob" or "Comical Ali."

Mon, 08/25/2014 - 14:16 | 5141321 walküre
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Bob got it right this once:

"The United Nations is a place for prostitution under the feet of Americans."

UN HQ in NYC is a joke. Always has been.

 

Mon, 08/25/2014 - 13:42 | 5141184 walküre
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Ukraine is like the boy who cried wolf. The momentum is gone. Sorry, Ukies but not really sorry. You couldn't get the war started and now the world has lost interest. S&P is painted green and the Russia/Ukraine strife is getting annoying. Ukraine can't feed the people and well, bombing them all and killing them is not cool.

So, Russia have at it. Take it over. It's yours. Be nice to the people, give them food and shelter and prove that the new Russia is different. Frankly, if a few of the stupid fascist Ukies get missing... who cares?

JUST FUCKING DO IT ALREADY!

Mon, 08/25/2014 - 14:41 | 5141378 gcjohns1971
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The Ukrainian government will say anything.

Of course that is also true of the Russian government, the US Government, the UK government, the French Government, the German government... 

I could go on.  But do you really need me to list them all?

Governments are where pathalogical liars and ego maniacs go for self validation.

There is a fairly easy, though not fool-proof, way to determine whether the 'tanks' MIGHT be Russian rather than Ukrainian - If they are newer than T64's there is a good possibility they are really Russian.

Russia retired T64s, and keeps them in a bone yard or sells them.

But T64's are the backbone of the Ukrainian force.  They do have a small number of newer tanks.   But it is hard to imagine them giving away the crown jewels of their armed forces for ineffective propaganda.

So... If it is a T72, T80 or T90, then it MIGHT be Russian.

If they are T64's or T62s then it is just more bullshit.

Here are the main clues as to tank models:

1) number of road wells supporting the track.

2) Does it have skirts (armor that protects the top part of the track)?

3) Is there an IR spotlight?  And which side is it on?

4) Which side is the hatch on the turret on?

5) Which side is the driver's hatch (in front of the turret) on? (left, right, or center?)

Just look at the photos ( I haven't seen any and don't care to do the idenfitification).  Note the details.   And then go onto wikipedia and use the pictures to eliminate candidates.  The one that is left is likely the model.

Oh.... and if there is no cannon on the top of the 'tank' that is long enough to extend past the body of the 'tank' ... then it isn't a tank.  It is an armored personnel carrier, most likely either a BMP-1, BMP-2, or BMP-3.

 

Okay. That's enough on this subject.  I am bored with Governments' military lies.

I think I'll go read their economic lies instead.

Mon, 08/25/2014 - 14:53 | 5141421 JustTheTTIP
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Ukraine parliament dissolved - President Poroshenko's 

 

http://rt.com/news/182720-ukraine-parliament-dissove-twitter/

Mon, 08/25/2014 - 15:12 | 5141492 windcatcher
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View the real war crimes against the Ukrainian People.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NE18iPQ1Euk

 

Shelling and murdering your own civilian population by the fascist Washington puppet regime in Kiev is a criminal war crime that should, and will, be heard and prosecuted by the rules of the Geneva Convention at the Hague.

American military equipment, payed for by the American debt taxpayer, is targeting and killing innocent civilians in the Ukraine. The same in Iraq/Syria, all of the heavy killer machine equipment murdering innocent civilians is American made and paid for.

Obama is a bankster/ military complex/ big oil Empire war criminal along with Bush and Cheney and others. Russia and China should insist the criminals in Washington be brought before the War Crimes Commission at the Hague. Americans want to charge the criminals in Washington with Treason.

Make a list and scream: No more! Hang the criminals for Treason!

It's our only chance to bring the Washington Empire bankster criminals to Justice before they commit genocide against the American People as they have against the Ukraine People.

Mon, 08/25/2014 - 15:49 | 5141687 Jano
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Those kosher guys in Kiev and their kosher handlers in the State Department, could they pull also any other joke now?
This one goes the same since six months.

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