Forget Baghdad Bob. Meet Luhansk Lysenko, the spokesman of the Ukraine military, and the guy who every single day floods whatever wires still care with the daily report of fighting, military invasions, and Russian troops entering the country, aka the proverbial boy who cried wolf.
There was a time when the merest hint of Russia military activity at the Ukraine border would do the unthinkable: challenged central planners and send stocks lower. Who can forget the market drubbing when the Russian humanitarian convoy was going to enter east Ukraine and allegedly carry a DIY army?
Well, those days are long gone. Because with Ukraine repeating day after day after day, how many Russian soliders have entered the country, how many artilery shells have landed, and how Putin is just salivating to invade the economically devastated country, everyone completely tuned out.
Case in point, yet another report earlier today from Kiev, according to which "a column of 32 tanks, 16 howitzer artillery systems and trucks carrying ammunition and fighters has crossed into eastern Ukraine from Russia."
"The deployment continues of military equipment and Russian mercenaries to the front lines," spokesman Andriy Lysenko said in a televised briefing referring to Thursday's cross-border incursion.
The report of a new Russian movement of armor across the border follows a charge on Thursday by pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine that Kiev government forces had launched a new offensive - which Kiev immediately denied.
Sporadic violence has continued since a Sept. 5 truce in a conflict that has cost over 4,000 lives. But the ceasefire has looked particularly fragile this week, with separatists and the central government accusing each other of violations after separatist leaders held elections in self-proclaimed 'people's republics' last Sunday.
"Supplies of military equipment and enemy fighters from the Russian Federation are continuing," Lysenko said. He added that five Ukrainian soldiers had been killed and 16 wounded in the past 24 hours despite the ceasefire.
Market reaction: absolutely none.
Ironically, following half a year of false alarms and crying wolf, if Putin did want to invade Ukraine, he could do so in hours. But why bother, when he can get paid by US and European taxpayers for natural gas deliveries to the nation that appears set to mutiny against the US puppet government within months if not weeks?
Well it is friday you know. LOL.
We have 50K dead on the Mexican border.....we've got our own problems.
No......we don't plan on doing anything about it.
More news I didn’t hear on the evening news; riots in Brussels!
http://rt.com/news/202867-protest-brussels-clashes-cannon/
Perhaps our own Enraged Waffle will file an eye-witness report ?
Domokun is not a waffle, although he'd eat one if he saw it! :>D
And minutes later, news come out that the 32 tanks retreated back out of ukraine and the futures soar two percent...fuckers
Nuland-Kagan wants them to put a division of armor on the border, that they can use to invade then retreat, invade then retreat, as needed by the S&P.
These Puppet twats just murdered some kids playing football in Donetsk. Anything in the main news? Fuck all probably
No market reaction because it's all bullshit.
Is his undershirt part of the official military uniform?
Good eye...yes it is. The dude does sport that undershirt every time he gets coverage :)
My favorite holiday is August 2nd in that part of the world
https://www.google.com/search?q=August+2nd+VDV&biw=1829&bih=928&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=W8hcVNv8MdS4oQTKpoGoAg&ved=0CAkQ_AUoBA
I'm glad after looking at your photo collection to see that you, like every other American, suck on Geography and get Ukraine and Russia mixed up (or think they are the same). The striped shirt is a airborne sorta thing.
The reason why this man wearing this shirt is because in past Russian and Ukrainian forces were called Soviet...( closes eyes to reminisce on good old days for a few seconds)...where was I? Oh yes...Now uniforms are remnants of that era...is has not been changed. But since you dare to challenge my authori-tye, tovarisch...I will take you on little journey. Here is breakdown of how undershirts are associated with individual branch of miltary:
Dark blue Sea is for Navy
Light Blue Sky is for Airborne Troops (VDV seen on the pictures I sent) and GRU Speznas ( real badasses)
Black Briny Deep is for Submarine Sailors
Forest green is for the boarder guards.
Red is for OMON and other Units of the Ministerstvo Vnutrennih Del ( MVD)
never heard that tree fall, also orders are out to stop reports on ebola, can't get wee wee'd up about stuff if MSM has a gag ball in it's mouth. seems news blackouts work.
There is no reaction because it is better than expected. There could have been 33 tanks crossing from Russia.
There is no reaction because there is no MARKET.
There's a MARK-IT.
Who in his/her right mind will invade a failed state?
Well, America obviously. With a coalition of the willing (willing to loot rebuilding contracts).
We went in......got the gold.....and got the hell out.
We're done!
'Mission Accomplished"
I meant person with right mind not greedy half-crazed dumbfucks.
For that downwoter I talked about the elites.
Market bored with Ukraine.
Nobody wants Ukraine.
It was only used by US to try and start a war, that failed so US abandon them as per usual.
Soros pissed wants war, talks shit non stop.
Nobody except George Soros and the Zionists.
And even they are distracted and bored.
Yawn-kraine
Ukraine: The New Khazaria. "Khazaria for Khazarians."
Now that the charade called midterm elections is over in the land of the free, it is time to accelerate all our wars. Bombings in Syria/Iraq will intenisfy and Ukraine will heat up again. Demonization of Putin will intensify. As the European economy sinks deeper into depression, war will divert the populace.
That didn’t take long;
http://en.ria.ru/politics/20141105/195172463/Obama-to-Ask-Congress-to-Back-Use-of-Military-Force-Against.html
Brooklyn prosecutor emerges as a top candidate to lead U.S. Justice Department
| Reuters
Its good to see we are stacking the deck properly....Change you can believe in!
Well she has three holes so will be able to accomodate banksters, military and politicians simultaneously.
Best possible candidate for head of Justice Office.
budumpshh!!
Please tell me she's a muslim.
And a lesbian.
THANK YOU!!!
And something other than white.
Justice Office? Make that Justice Orifice and you're on to something.
Who is that raccoon in the picture behind them cocaine eyes?
Do NOT make eye contact.
[LordR] ...uh, try an Ebola outbreak.
[DRock] It didn't work.
[LordR] ok let's go with the Taiwan/China gambit
[DRock] Nah nobody's buying it.
[LordR] Alright, alright. Back with the Ukraine fiasco.
These dicks just started attacking the Eastern half again, after the US elections, and they get pissed about Russian supplies going to the defenders. Maybe they should stop murdering their neighbors.
http://rt.com/news/202879-ukraine-donetsk-shelling-tanks/
If they keep this Washington nonsense up, The Russians really are going to end the conflict.
Waiting for the word "quagmire" to come back into play. But the Russians do need to end this, complete with show trials for any members of Academi caught in the mop up.
Oh nos. That might inflame the Ukrainian Nationalism.
Right, and you believe that the Tooth-fairy is real and that she personally services Putin, because RT said so...
Look, neither side is telling the truth. That's the only fact. Making accusatory statements based on what TeeVee reports, against one side or the other, is frivolous commentary to say the least. My sons godfather is a colonel in the Ukrainian Police and was sent to the Donbas region at the start of this crappy war. We talk to him every few days by phone and skype and he paints a completely different picture.
One thing is for sure a fact: Propaganda is rampant on both sides.
Down arrows?
Oh, I get it!!! You are physically there, on the front lines, reading this blog through your cell phone browser at lightening speed connection through Kyivstar/MTS/Life cell service... REAL fact finders... bravo!
Bad Roman, get with the program, here at zh putin is a GOD!.
No gruel for you........
Repeat the following mantra 23 times per day
"Obama muslim commie fascist socialist racist stoner faggot jewish democrap nigga lesbo rand paul is not a repub stooge IMMIGANTS!!!!!"
Srysly tho, oil below 80 a barrel, the ruble at its lowest ever value, 76th Div failing miserably to take the airport, his elite guards tank regiment getting its ass kicked at maripol, all by a bunch of ukie reservists and volunteers with 25 year old kit, Putin replacing over half the FSB regional commanders in russia over night, etc etc
Obviously this is all part of putins cunning plan........
They forgot WW3 is already priced in, and actually better than expected.
Mars conjuncts Pluto next week in Capricorn; if this heats up---it'll be the real thing.
Tell us more bro.
Southern redneck traveler from the Age of Steam; awaiting the cosmic coming of the next economic paradigm (real soon now) as global secret-keepers are overwhelmed by their own perfidy.
He looks to be the real deal.....I wouldn't screw with him.