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Dramatic Drone Footage Showing The Devastation At The Donetsk Airport
Over the past few days there has been renewed, large-scale fighting over the airport in Donetsk. Now, after months of almost non-stop shelling there is almost nothing left of what was a previously a new, modern facility. As Conflict-News reports, this video shot by a Ukrainian activity group using a multicopter drone gives the viewer a birds-eye view of the ruins of what was once Donetsk International Airport.
It shows not just the damage to the buildings and planes housed there, but also the scars of months of battles, including ruined amoured vehicles.
And there are no signs of it easing tonight...
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That is not a Russian Army MLRS. The Russian Army is not in Donesk. It is not even in Ukraine. The West just can't tell the dam truth about anything. Even if that was Russian Army MLRS, how the Hell can you tell from 2 miles away who is operating it?
America ruins the world to rule it.
Look at all those broken windows at that destroyed airport. Now the Keysians can go in and build a newer one
At least the place is better kept up better than Heathrow.
But those poor Uke bastards should feel a little better when Porko sends the 60 year old vets to help out after their two week combat refresher course.
Ukrainian fighters: "We are just 'cannon fodder' for Donetsk airport"
Ukraine President Signs Mobilization Decree: 50,000 To Be Drafted
-aged 25 to 60.. Combat trainings for servicemen will take 10-15 day
(2nd time posting this, but I think worthwhile)
< Not all that different looking from Detroit.
< Damn, look at all those broken windows!
Both Detroit and Donetsk destroy by bankers.
Those rockets almost certainly came from a Grad launcher operated by the defenders of Donetsk (a city of about 1 million people so pretty big) and looked to be a complete 'package' of 20 rounds.
Not good to be in the Ukrainian Army on the receiving end of that lot, but then they have been randomly shelling the city for weeks.
The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.
-Orwell, 1984
Is there anything more dangerous than being Russia's neighbor?
It depends upon your perspective..
http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2014/10/isil-vs-mexican-drugcartelsunitedstatesislamophobia.html
“in 2013 drug cartels murdered more than 16,000 people in Mexico alone, and another 60,000 from 2006 to 2012 — a rate of more than one killing every half hour for the last seven years.”
What country did the (Wachovia, HSBC, CIA) funding come from?
Krugman's orgasm is probably gonna cause at least a seizure and possibly a hemorrhagic stroke
3 on the richter scale.
And we know why.
Caution.. cannot be unseen
Strong Krugman resemblance.
He who can destroy a thing can control a thing. OOPS!
Conflict News is run by a paid state department stooge, a proven shill. The only reason why I ever pay attention to it is to find out what lies the USSA state department wants me to believe.
All wars are chosenites wars.
I just clicked and ran right fucking in there, too.
Jeez.
Now you know why it's called the "dismal science". :-)
OT. Does anyone know that music and who the band is?
Bugger I got so excited listening to it that I spilled my wine on the keyboard, so if you don't get a thank you, you know I electrocuted myself.
Thanks in advance therefore.
http://eyebleach.com/
and how amny of those 60 K victims were from weapons from F&F ? we wll never know for sure now will we ? It was during the same time period and Holder is still a free man . my only question is why ?
Ask people of Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan and many others. All of them know the answer.
Afghanistan? Really?
Huh?
.
Yes - being an ally of Vichy DC.
http://nationalinterest.org/feature/america-australias-dangerous-ally-11858
Strategic choices are always ugly. Standing alone in a strategic conflict in Asia would be far far uglier for Australia, hence the choice made. Malcombe also ignores the fact that Australia has been actively diversifying its relations and strategic links.
What I pointed out recently:
There is already Strategic change, a tsunami of it, but there are limits and Australia will not be distancing itself from the US as it's a strategic choice which remains a no-brainer. I don't see it changing, the Pacific and Indian basins and Asian geography require this alliance. It will remain for the rest of the century in one form or another. Even more wealth, more arms, and the acquisition of an independently deliverable nuclear arsenal would not change the defense and strategic imperatives to remain committed to Alliance with the US.
Plus every time a Federal Labor socialist govt gets in they gut the defense budget (after promising they will increase it and absolutely not cut it) and grossly mis-manage all projects, ensuring Australia is never strong enough to stand apart from the US Alliance's reliance, or to have an independent foreign policy.
This is the often ignored aspect and by far the greatest impediment to implementing Frazer's argument, as we will never be able to trust the socialist lunatics and greens to not shit-can and derail the ADF defense capability development at every possible opportunity.
It's what they do.
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Another Russian troll.
Element - You seem intent on confirming a peculiar bias in favor of Pax Americana or something similar, but reality smells much more like Brzezinski's Eurasian re-alignment. Australia should not be construed as some American appendage: I can testify from conversation that many Australians do NOT see themselves that way. Same for India and much of the surrounding region, where the problems of the western establishment are well understood by the political class, and old postcolonial anger is renewed with each new boondoggle. The USA, or some part thereof, has achieved lasting political utility as a bogeyman, adding a tangible, undeniable geostrategic undercurrent and sense of urgency to expanding alternative trade alliances. How much will the process accelerate during a period of severe economic depression and disruption?
Is there anything more dangerous than being Russia's neighbor?
You are safer in Ukraine than you are attending a weeding party in Afghanistan.
Detroit was destroyed by unions and the ilk they attract
Soon to be
KIA....?
Krugman International Airport?
Union "Ilk"?
I'd personally be a bit more truthful and rude, but in the interests of civility, am restraining myself.
And it ain't got a lot to do with "unions"
Try 60,000 heroine addicts in Baltimore destroying anything and everything to score twice a day and see a city laid barren
No wonder the psychopaths were itching to "liberate" Afghanistan.
U.S. Occupation Leads to All-Time High Heroin Production
Heroin is cheap. Prohibition is expensive.
lol detroit is doing just fine, pick another city you know nothing of.
-aged 25 to 60.. Combat trainings for servicemen will take 10-15 day
NULAND!!!
Combat trainings for servicemen will take 10-15 days
"armies of raw and undisciplined troops are but multitudes of men dragged to the slaughter" Vegetius
We've been reading for weeks about the psychopaths shelling civilian areas in the East. Judging by the incredible number of impact craters in this video, a lot of the shelling has been concentrated within a limited area. It would be presumptuous to conclude that it suggests an incredible waste of ammunition, firing into burned-out buildings. Rather, another purpose seems self-evident: to maintain a steady barrage for the purpose of intimidation: non-stop racket to keep people in a perpetual state of terror.
So we can call this State Sponsored Terrorism. Who is supplying the Nazis with all this ammunition? Whoever is behind it needs to be stopped.
Another thing: I heard that the Nazis had their natural gas supply cut off a few days ago, pending new arrangements for unpaid bills (Troika scrip, Rubles, gold, etc.). This video gives us no indication as to the status of the local civilian population. Are they being fed and given the essentials of life, or are the psychopaths raping and pillaging and are we about to see unprecedented humanitarian crisis in the area? Inquiring minds want to know.
It looks bloody cold there. If I was a Ukrainian, I would get the hell out if I could. Maybe go to Greece! It's milder.
Also I believe the Greeks now have the gas or at least the new metered tap
The Nazi state is alive and well n Israel, and of course the U.S.
"Never before have I seen so many men wasted so badly."
-Clint Eastwood, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBn0Afu8mE8
Hunter Biden, to the rescue!
That's going to take a boatload of spackle.
Nah, it'll buff right out.
"Look at all those broken windows at that destroyed airport."
"Smells like... victory." -- Robert Duvall
"Look at all those broken windows at that destroyed airport. Now the Leftists can go in and build a newer one"
Fixed it for you
Moar jobs moar jobs looks like start ww3
Google street view stil shows the terminal under construction in 2011...
"America ruins the world to rule it. "
Actually those are the crimes of the Zionists' stooges, the DC US nation, not America.
The apropos word is not "ruins," though that is mostly correct, but "plunder."
In the end, the DC US nation will be more plundered than the nations destroyed by them.
The banksters need to repay us.
Zionism is like a maze that always enters at finance, and always exits from governmnet.
We shelled some folks...
Mmmmmmmmbecuz.....CNN said so!!!!
Ukrainian President got his ass chewed out by Sticky Vickey and has been told in no uncertain terms that if he and his family want to live he had better start Operation Rolling Blunder. The 60th Geriatric Division (The Fighting Wrinkles) are on the move. Standard Ukrainian MRE comes with no toilet paper but has 1 M2 Olive Drab disposable diaper.
"The Russian Army is not in Donesk. It is not even in Ukraine."
Why should we believe you? (Are you The West?)
Your post is stupid.
This is FCHE's first post in over 2 years. Wanna bet he is a ukie troll who hacked someone else's account? Good news is that he/it will be eventually drafted by the Kiev Kriminals, sent to fight and disappear somewhere on the novo rossiyan border.
But this 'hacked' account makes a point. Why should we believe anyone? One side pounds the table for Russia, the other side pounds the table for the west. Meanwhile, who's really winning and losing? I dare say Obama and Putin will both still be very wealthy at the end of the day, while many men will have lost their lives for the 'ideals' of whom?
Russia is under direct economic and political attack by the USSA. Putin, unlike Obama, is a nationalist who loves his country.
and here is pre devastation pics, curtsey of google maps
https://www.google.com.au/maps/place/Donetsk+International+Airport/@48.0...!3m1!1e3!4m2!3m1!1s0x40e084b5ea939fed:0x490282f2b67e87be
So, Ukraine is gonna be back in the news? I thought it would be on the back-burner now that the U.S. MIC was making money...
This is the most important unreported news (not) on US networks.
West's highest priority right now is the invasion of Syria which they consider to be an easier target.
Syria is gonna need to simmer a little longer. Gotta build some defensive walls (above some oil pipelines) to keep Isis out first. THEN Syria...
Winter.
Not much fighting.
Dunno if it'll be on CNN.
More here:
https://twitter.com/GrahamWP_UK/status/556344311152148482
and here:
https://twitter.com/PLnewstoday/status/555723263742345216
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I've been following the Donetsk airport fight for months on YouTube. What amazed me, is how long it took to bring the Control Tower down! They shot, at it, bombed It, shot bazooka at It, hit it with Artillery fire and probably thousands of,rifle rounds and it only just recently finally collapsed!
Compare that to the Twin Towers and WTC7....
Twin towers were made from papper
Nanothermite makes steel look like paper.
@ STP: Why did they keep pounding a burned-out husk? What strategic goal does that serve? Is it simply a matter of their being stupid lunkheads, with nobody in command telling them to stop? This does NOT seem like intelligent warfare. It just seems idiotic.
Kiev criminals and friends wants Ukrainians dead.
they don't care which side
life means nothing to death cult...enjoy killing
less Ukrainians means more for them....
otherwise, lesser reason...the Ukrops were spotting for artillery strikes from airport
that is why strategic
why seperatists needed control
We bazookaed some folks.
Russian Construction standards were set assuming NAZI invaders. So big, lots of concrete.
During WW2 Russians even tried building tanks out of concrete, pouring it over the T-34 chassis. Although cheap, tanks ended up being 3 times heavier and only as effective armor-wise as the steel ones, while having no mobility, reduced visibility and ventilation.
"Compare that to the Twin Towers and WTC7...."
They were helped by carefully placed explosive charges.
they got nothing on Detroit
"You gotta destroy it to get Detroyit".
Love the haunting, "horrors of war" soundtrack.
Hey man, we sure fixed Iraq.
Everything that the Nobel Prize Winner touches becomes a failed state. The seven Muslin countries he has bombed are all failed states - Libya, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria, Iraq, Yemen and Somalia.
Over $5 billion was spent destabilizing Ukraine and it will be a failed state for decades. Paul Craig Roberts explains America's confrontation with Russia:
Washington has been working against Russia for 22 years ever since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. In violation of the Reagan-Gorbachev agreement, Washington expanded NATO into Eastern Europe and the Baltic states and established military bases on Russia’s borders. Washington is also seeking to extend NATO into former constituent parts of Russia itself such as Georgia and Ukraine.
The only reason for Washington to establish military and missile bases on Russia’s frontiers is to negate Russia’s ability to resist Washington’s hegemony.
http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2013/12/14/washington-drives-world-towar...
But the bucks found their way in the richt pockets, mission completed. Move along.
Sure hope Victoria Nuland is proud...mission accomplished!
I'm reminded of professional wrestling, when you wonder whether both sides seem to benefit from the conflict, it's fake or both.
Then I think of "stiff" wrestlers like Stan Hansen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOYSnhhiU8M
Similarly, this new attack on Donetsk is beneficial to both sides yet completely deplorable.
Over the past few days there has been renewed, large-scale fighting over the airport in Donetsk. Now, after months of almost non-stop shelling there is almost nothing left of what was a previously a new, modern facility. As Conflict-News reports, this video shot by a Ukrainian activity group using a multicopter drone gives the viewer a birds-eye view of the ruins of what was once Donetsk International Airport.
Yes indeed plenty of terrible shit happening and not just in Ukraine!
Not a word on either of these stories but thank god RT America has enough of a conscience to report both as the "Je suis Charlie" dominates everything as more "cover"!
Could this in any way be a response to Russia's Petrodollar announcement, turning off gas to six of it's customers and the SNB's clobbering of the Euro?...
Expect many more blackouts of the carnage from the Western elite as our fair-weathered whores in the MSM continue to look the other way and betray there oaths to the public!
Could this in any way be a response to Russia's Petrodollar announcement, turning off gas to six of it's customers and the SNB's clobbering of the Euro?...
And last but not least... The looming conversion to a newly minted Chinese/Russian credit agency!
Perhaps the SNB will be the first longterm client to endorse it?
But, but, Krugman says broken windows are a good thing.
Not in harsh Russian winter, which Krugman never witnessed personally.
Putin forced the EUkraine forces to accept the cease fire just after the EUk forces had gained a decided advantage and were posed to destroy some of the trapped WUk divisions. The leader of the EUk forces called this a betrayal by Putin. Putin forced the EUk army to allow safe passage for the trapped WUk forces.
The cease fire allowed the WUk forces to regroup and to be rearmed with better weapons. Reports indicate heavy weapons have been pouring into WUk from the west in preparation for a new more overpowering offensive that could overrun the EUk forces. While there is a problem getting new recruits into the WUk army, if the firepower and support are sufficient the EUk army is in trouble.
This serves Putins purpose somehow.
The cease fire allowed the WUk forces to regroup and to be rearmed with better weapons.
Nobody could have seen that coming!
Yet a beautiful city square in Donetsk is destroyed, with bodies in the street and Canadian Javelins in the field a year ago and there's no accountability? This is NATO. This is the US. Fuck it, it's on.
As I watched, I thought about all the people that used to work there. Baggage handlers, refueling techs, ticket agents, etc., and all the flights into and out of Donetsk.
Truly staggering when you put a human face on the video.
It is starting here, during my Aikido work out this morning, one of my partners is a deputy in Orange County (Pine Hills/Orlando) relayed a story of being shot at 7 times in an undercover sting two weeks ago. Many of the unwindings that are happening are not making the news for some reason.
Look at the video and see how destroyed the airport is, the snow is undisturbed for the most part so this happened some time ago, at least before the last good snow.
America is not going to go unscathed, as things start to warm up into the spring, you will see more and more signs of the frayed fabric the banksters have created.
DaddyO
There are shell holes in the snow all over the place. It looks like there was an artillery barrage during a snow storm. Most of the blast is covered up while the hot center melted the falling snow. There is also some footage of more recent shelling that has discolored the snow after it fell.
Steady rain seems more like it.
Yea, they call it "crime hills"for a reason, other the fact that it was most likely blacks involved in the shoot out orlando needs that tourist money flowing and they can't have no crime. Also sheriff Demmings and his blue light lemmings need crime stats down. He must be looking at a congressional run.
It's a good thing the fragile cease fire is still holding.
The worst possible business model in the history of banking and why "it's changing"!...
We freed the shit out of some folks...
Sponsored by Chevron;
https://politicalfilm.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/victoria-nuland-chevro...
And it will get a whole lot worse. Spring is approaching so the spring offensives will start. Ukraine backed by the West vs. the rebels backed by Russia. It will get very nasty and very dangerous for Europe.
It already is very dangerous for Europe, exactly how the USSA likes it. Amerika always benefits from European wars.
Amerika is just puppet (the Muscle) of the banksters, therefore the banksters always benefit.
The Kiev line of thought is that the separatists are causing this war because they won’t join the country of Ukraine and that any airport or home destroyed or person killed is the fault of the separatists because they are just warmongers.
So Cruickshank of Conflict-News flies over with his drone and sees all the houses and the airport destroyed, and says, what do you expect from these separatists who are causing this war?
The truth is, Kiev seized the Donetsk airport and the fighting has demolished it.
There’s enough confusion about the war in Eastern Ukraine without using Kiev analysis as the only source of information. Cruickshank is obviously pro-Kiev as his writings on his blog make clear (recent headline “Are Pro-Russian Forces Beginning Another Offensive In Eastern Ukraine?”). Now, we have drone footage of the destruction but it is a report colored with Kiev sentiment.
When will we realize that the war is more than just military units against each other; it is a war of lies. And surely we have enough evidence already to show that the western assault creating and supporting this illegitimate government for Ukraine is the lie leader.
As for the Donetsk airport, I read this morning that rebels had made a new push to retake the airport from Kiev forces:
“Pro-Russian separatists continued to pound the Donetsk airport, creating an ‘epicenter of tension’ and forcing the Ukrainian military to rush in fresh troops to protect its tenuous hold on the strategically important site.” – Bloomberg 5 hours ago
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2015-01-17/pro-russian-rebels-pound-ukrainian-positions-at-donetsk-airport.html
Is it anti-Semitic suspicion that Michael Cruickshank is a Jew, and therefore has a special interest in Ukraine because of the current leadership, in that he blogs on the MyJewishLearning site:
http://www.myjewishlearning.com/texts/Bible/Weekly_Torah_Portion/vayeshev-ajws3.shtml
Nope kiev never ceased donetsk airport . Moreover Novorussiyan army have captured almost entire airport leaving few areas . ceasefire is over and intense battle is going now .
Breaking : NAF showed OSCE US made guns were found with Ukie soldiers .
I hope, Max, that you are right and Bloomberg is wrong. I know that the separatists claimed two days ago that they had seized the Donetsk International Airport, while the Kiev government and much of the western media claimed Ukrainian troops were still holding their position.
I see, according to PressTV two days ago (Jan. 15), that Donetsk People's Republic's Alexander Zakharchenko, said, “We will not just give up our land,” saying the separatists would continue operations until they recapture all the territory lost to the troops of Ukraine.
On the other hand, the statement by Alexander Hug, the deputy head of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), which claims efforts to broker peace talks between Kiev and pro-Russia forces in eastern Ukraine, claims, according to Press TV, that pro-Russian forces’ attacks “attract counter-fire from positions opposite and other directions, which leads unfortunately to repeated civilian casualties and damage for infrastructure.”
Hug’s statement, of course, supports the Kiev propaganda position that separatists, by countering invading Ukrainian forces, are causing “civilian casualties and damage for infrastructure.”
As PressTV blogger Luka wrote:
“Mr. Hug is a LAWYER, who turned to a Swiss Army soldier. He's been on the ground in Kosovo, Hebron and at one stage a commander in war-torn Bosnia. In the days since MH17 tragedy he was the first international servant on the scene. The problem for OSCE is, has any government the right to shell the civilian territory, and are the government forces attacking its own civilian population. The fact that civilians are defending themselves is a normal reaction to the prospect of being burned alive, like in Odessa, days before the civil war started.”
Novo Rossiya finally chose to rid the airport of the so called ukie cyborgs aka mindless idiot cannon fodder.
There are some rumors spreading around the 'net that in February, on the anniversary of Maydan Coup, "Party of War" with Turchinov and "Yats" as leaders, could overthrow Poroshenko, declaring him traitor, blaming him for the loss of Donbass and negotiating with "terrorists". There were some serious laws passed recently in Ukraine's parliament, that transfer much of the power to the so called "National Security and Defense Board" in case the president is incapacitated or absent. Coincidentally, Turchinov is the head of NSDB. Should that happen, expect escalation of the conflict to new levels, sponsored by the State Department. US is pleased as long as the conflict is ongoing, blaming Russia for it.
Here is what I wrote almost a year ago, here on ZH:
That region is strageically important for Ukraine...as Donetsk and Dnepropetrovsk basically feed Ukraine...between their mines and factories. Dnepropetrovsk is pretty much owned by an Oligarh named Ihor ( Igor) Kolomoyskiy...while Donetsk is mostly under a billionaire named Rinat Ahmetov. Kolomoyskiy was quick to get a private army and not only defend his region from potential takeover...but also finance various bands of armed men to fight for the Maidan cause. It is said that Kolomoyskiy helped finance the events in Odessa...and he owns some of the news channels which continue to tell Ukrainians what to think. Ahmetov was a bit more timid it seemed. He took a hands off approach.
The last statistics I saw was 50-60% of Ukraine's coal comes from Donbass...where the fighting is taking place. So you can see how no one would want to easily give that up. It would be equivalent to TX and LA saying they are no longer a part of the US and taking the oil industry with them. The other side of that token is Russia's influence. They don't want a Nato puppet that close on their border and having a buffer zone is very much in their interests.
Iit's not tough to understand why those people in Donbass don't want to be assocaited with the new Kiev ideology. The further east you go from Kiev, the more people speak Russian, listen to Russian music and identify with Russia in their core beliefs and values. They have different national heroes, different perceptions of historical events and they don't like the new anti russian nationalism sweeping through to the west of them. That doesn't always mean they love commies and everything associated with the Russia the west shows in movies. It's just they're more Russian than Ukrainian and these days...that's a difference you can really feel.
I see this being a pretty intense battle because both sides have an interest in the land and they are defending their idealogies.
They are fighting for their lives now. Thousands of people killed by shelling of cities and villages by the Ukraine "army". Ideology about surviving the next days is a good one to defend.
Zakharchenko requests Poroshenko to retrieve flag and bodies that Kiev abandoned Donetsk terminal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbFcTn4eu30
Porkyschenko is an oligarchic criminal, a mafia hood rather than an honorable man. He would leave the bodies to rot and pretend nothing happened. It is time that the Ukies turn east and rid themselves of the Kiev Kriminals.
Pure evil.
Importance of airport more than symbolic. Strategically vital for any offensive against East bacause Rebels can easily be supplied arms and munitions from just across the Russian border. Therefore Porky needs a staging area to bring in cargo planes with arms, munitions and recently conscripted ill trained soldiers in mass. Additionally, in modern warefare, where armour is used,which requires logistical support, air cover is essential because whomever controls the air controls the battlefield. Again, the Rebels can have easy access to nearby airports in Russia, wheras Porky needs an airport close to the battlfield. Without the airport in Donetsk, Porky has no chance to occupy and hold Eastern Ukraine which explains all his thwarted attempts. Lastly IMF has made it clear any more loans are predicated on Porky unifiying Ukraine which is not about to happen whithout the Donetsk airport. Checkmate
One of the first things you do to an opponent is take out their transport infrastructure. i.e you turn their runways into water filled craters.
Hence the UK Harrier and the Swedish Gripen.
The importance of the airport is limited to its usefulness as a vantage point for artillery spotters. Since the control tower has fallen, the remains of the seven-storey new terminal building are probably the airport's most useful feature.
The runway, which now resembles a lunar landscape, has less utility as a landing strip than a grass field. I don't see any repairs being effected anytime soon.
For air cargo transport of American arms, the Kiev Junta has been using the Dnepropetrovsk International Airport. The airports at Kharkov and Mariupol could also be used if needed.
Due to a combination of years of neglected maintenance on Ukrainian aircraft and availability to Novorossian forces of Man-Portable Air Defense Systems (MANPADS), Ukrainian air support of ground forces has ceased to be relevant.
+100
More simply, they could have shelled the thing relentlessly in order to enable them to report to their commanders that they have been "doing something." We have heard reports of mass desertion; in this cold weather, lacking any special motivation, holing up and throwing darts might be a preferred option for reluctant fighters. Such a scenario would not be realistic if eastern forces were mounting real, Russian-organized opposition. The more you think about it, the more nonsensical the reports of direct Russian involvement become.
Artillery is usually over the horizon, or else nearly so, certainly beyond visual range, unless you mean light mortars. Plus drones can operate at artillery ranges and geo-locate targets with precision, so who needs an exposed airport tower? The airport tower and buildings are relevant for snipers and some cover, that's about it.
You know what's coming, don't kid yourself.
Destroyed runways, destroyed facilities... Why are they still fighting over it, nothing is going to be taking off or landing there any time soon. Just find a flat field instead.
50,000 troops with two weeks training...Does that include Saturday and Sunday?... War is another name for insanity, it only stops when one side simply doesn't have the energy to continue much like an insane person who cannot begin the healing process until exhaustion sets in....
the purpose is death of as most Ukraine nationals as possible, especially in the more Russian south, east...
none of Kiev govt has shown otherwise...
Make no mistake, this airport looks a lot like the Denver, this was a sensitive basis, the track has more than 50 inches of concrete, amazing underground, the tower only after six months of intense bombings fell, was designed to endure attacks nuclear.
The capture of this airport has nothing to do with nationalism, is infrastructure and location (although the track is now only the leftovers).
hehe.
You can follow much about Ukraine here:
http://voenkor.info/
here:
http://vineyardsaker.blogspot.com/
There is another link but is in the notebook, I believe that "slaviangrad" look on Google by the way, now that page read a very interesting article about the plane crash in Ukraine, a Dutch relative describing what he received as late items in flight. Thing very interesting.
:-)
When will Amongst Nuland be flying in to hand out cookies?
The banksters need to repay us.
Awesome new Call of Duty level.
NWO bitchez.
I like the music. The airport, not so much.
We should all be thinking about how we would feel if this was done to our own cities. After all, it is being done in our name.
I have met some Ukrainians. They seemed to be nice and sensible people. This is beyond sick. They are allowing the ussa fascists to come in and destroy them. And they were worried about Russia? Good Grief!
They have lost Crimea, and are now destroying whats left of Ukraine. Even if the Western Ukie Nazis were to win all they'll get is a totally destroyed charred useless chunk of land.
Well,,, another destroyed nation notch on Washington DC's belt. By the time our Neo Cons (Nazis?) are done the u.s will most likely look like that.
Well done America!!!
The United States of America has lost its way and become a scourge to the planet. For Americans, this would be most embarrassing, if they only were aware.
Of course, Americans, being blue pill docile sheep, are cheering this violence on (for the thin veneer of saving democracy that's been the sound bite they gravitate toward) when they get the chance to tear themselves away from watching the Kardashians or buying food at Walmart with food stamps.
A sad country indeed. What's worse, is they have yet to hit rock bottom.
YET.
Latest from TASS. The Ukrainian Army have left the Airport and the DPR have taken control. Probably not much left to control.
http://itar-tass.com/en/world/771616
Doesn't it strike you as odd that the Ukrainian government would obliterate a brand new airport it paid for a not so long ago?
Rebuilding a country is a profitable as its destruction was (for Haliburton at least), -assuming NATO wins this. Since NATO will likely loose this one, they assume Russia will have to pay for the rebuild. Russia will up the price of gas to cover it.
My theory is that the Donetsk shelling is being done out of spite by Kiev and because their American bosses told them to.
Kiev knows that this mostly Russian speaking territory is lost to them for good. That they will never rejoin Ukraine is absolutely clear from the 1000s of videos and interviews with the local population.
The only remaining question is where the western boundary will be, hence the ongoing conflict at the airport. Russia will end up paying to rebuild it.
Does anyone seriously believe that new Ukrainian conscripts will fight to the death for the likes of this warmonger or the weasel Yatseniuk?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHWHqj8g7Bk
Not the same government
Humans at their finest! What a great species that can't get along and needs to constantly be fighting with one another because they are of a different culutre/religion or because they live in a different country.
Homosapiens- the only species that is going to make itself extinct by its own hand. Brilliant.
But, but, but, ... how come this is the first time we've seen this massive destruction, in a moderm European city, no less??? The mind reels. /sarcophagus off
The USless mainstream media are the declared the enemies of truth. If/when truth prevails, or even tries to assert itself, the msm will be flushed with the rest of the collected psychopathic fecal matter.
And in addition to that; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbFcTn4eu30&feature=player_embedded
So lets see how this plays out
- Ukraine tries to take back Donetsk
- Putin says fuck that, and smokes the Ukrainians
- West points finger at Putin as the evil agressor
- West sends lethal aid to Kiev
- Things go rapidly downhill from there
We are already at that point:
"Ukraine Freedom Support Act of 2014... imposes new sanctions on the Russian defense and energy industries, authorizes $350 million in lethal military assistance to the US-backed government in Kiev, urges that government to resume its deadly military operations against the Russian-speaking areas of east Ukraine seeking to break away from Kiev’s rule, and authorizes millions of dollars to fund increased US government propaganda broadcasts to the countries of the former Soviet Union. "
http://davidstockmanscontracorner.com/bombs-away-obama-signs-bill-for-le...
Lethal aid was already being delivered on US military aircraft to Dnipropetrovsk airport before the bill was signed on Dec 18th.
You can clearly tell by the angles, it's obviously an inside job.
All wars are Bankers (chosenites) wars.
Conflict Reporter, who magically turns pro-Russian forces into the Russian Army, is a "Social media analyst. Expert on conflicts and asymmetric warfare. Located in Germany."
You can always donate to their anti-Russian propaganda work here - because (in their own words) "If I manage to receive 3000$ or more PER MONTH, I will cancel my regular job and invest 100% of my work time into being a (conflict) reporter, reporting analyzing and valuing events from global conflicts."
What a fucking joke...
Yeah, why doesn't he apply for an NED grant http://www.ned.org/grantseekers - it is not as though they are about to run out of Soros and US taxpayer money.