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Pro-Separatist Rebels Launch Offensive On Ukraine City Of Mariupol, Where At Least 21 Die After Intense Shelling
Several days after a massive firefight for the Donetsk airport left the structure terminally ruined, and the Ukraine army, which until that moment had held on to its last remaining outpost in the east Ukraine city, promptly abandoned the premises, and two days after at least seven civilians died in a bus which was shelled in the same city by what the separatists claim were the Ukraine forces, the pro-Russian separatists yesterday announced they had launched "a new multipronged offensive against Ukrainian government troops."
As AP reported yesterday, the main separatist leader in the rebellious Donetsk region vowed to push Ukrainian soldiers out of the area and said insurgents would not take part in any more cease-fire talks. Another rebel went even further, saying they would not abide by a peace deal signed in September. Separatist leader Alexander Zakharchenko said rebel fighters went on the offensive to gain more territory and forestall a Ukrainian attack. He declared they would push government troops to the border of the Donetsk region and possibly beyond.
Which, according to the latest news, is precisely what they have done. As AP followed up, indiscriminate rocket fire slammed into a market, schools and homes Saturday in the eastern Ukrainian city of Mariupol, killing at least 21 people, authorities said. Ukraine's top rebel leader announced that an offensive had begun on the strategically important port.
The latest photos from Mariupol confirm the attack:
As a reminder, Mariupol is a critical town, and the last remaining major Ukraine outpost on the Azov Sea, between Russia and the Crimea which Russia took control over last spring.
The Russian RIA Novosti news agency cited eastern Ukrainian rebel leader Alexander Zakharchenko as saying an offensive has begun on Mariupol. He spoke Saturday as he laid a wreath at the site where at least eight civilians died when a bus stop was shelled in Donetsk, the largest rebel-held city in eastern Ukraine.
AP adds that tebel forces have positions within 10 kilometers (six miles) from Mariupol's eastern outskirts.
The Defense Ministry said in a statement there were three separate strikes from Grad multiple rocket launchers on Mariupol and surrounding areas.
"The area that came under attack was massive," Mariupol mayor Yuriy Khotlubei said in a video statement. "The shelling was carried out by militants. This is very clearly Russian aggression that has caused terrible losses for the residents of the eastern part of our city."
The Donetsk region prosecutor's office said in a mid-afternoon statement that 21 people had been killed.
Defense and police officials said rockets struck homes, a kindergarten, a market and shops. There was no immediate report of how many people died in various locations.
A Ukrainian military checkpoint on a road leading out of the city toward rebel-held areas was also hit and one serviceman was killed, the Defense Ministry said.
The Mariupol city council denied the report that a separatist incursion was imminent and urged residents not to panic and to ignore rumors that Ukrainian armed forces were planning to withdraw.
"On the contrary, all units are on fully battle-ready. Security measures in the city have been strengthened," the council said in a statement. No armed separatist units have been noted moving toward the city, the statement added.
The U.N. human rights agency on Friday raised its estimate of the conflict's overall death toll to nearly 5,100 since April.
On Thursday, mortars rained down on the center of the separatist stronghold of Donetsk, hitting a bus and killing several bystanders. Rebel officials said 13 were killed in that attack. Monitors from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe cited city morgue officials as saying they have received eight bodies.
The OSCE's special monitoring mission (SMM) in east Ukraine on Saturday expressed concern over the growing number of civilian casualties and called for restraint from all sides.
"The SMM strongly condemns the continuation of the fighting in residential areas. Using residential areas as firing positions attracts counter-firing to these areas, further endangering the lives of civilians," the mission said in a statement.
About an hour ago, the European Union was quick to condemn that separatist attack on Mariupol, having said nothing at all for months over the comparable shelling, and arbitrary slaughter of citizens in separatist-controlled Donetsk. The EU's kneejerk assessment: it's Russia's fault - "I call therefore openly upon Russia to use its considerable influence over separatist leaders and to stop any form of military, political or financial support." The full statement below:
Statement by High Representative/Vice-President Federica Mogherini on the attack on Mariupol
Residential areas of the city of Mariupol have been fired upon today from separatist held territory, which has cost the lives of at least fifteen civilians, wounding many others and terrorising the innocent population. This comes after a series of indiscriminate attacks in the Donbas in the past few days, accompanied by the announcements of further offensives by Russia-backed separatists, who bluntly refuse to observe the cease fire.
This further escalation of the open armed conflict has tragic consequences for a population greatly suffering already for far too long. It would inevitably lead to a further grave deterioration of relations between the EU and Russia.
I call therefore openly upon Russia to use its considerable influence over separatist leaders and to stop any form of military, political or financial support. This would prevent disastrous consequences for all. Those responsible for the escalation must stop their hostile actions and live up to their commitments.
Below is a clip of what residents in the Vostochniy district of Mariupol woke up to on Saturday morning after at least least three suspected Grad rockets struck the eastern part of the city. The shelling hit a residential area, with houses and a nearby market struck in the process.
And just like that the Ukraine civil war is right back front and center, and is sure to add a level of volatility to everything else that is already taking place.
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Another Ukranian false flag perhaps? DPR says they don't have weapons close enough to even reach Mariupol. http://rt.com/news/225891-mariupol-eastern-ukraine-shelling/
The missiles came from the north Ukraine controlled territory.
"Missile Attack on Mariupol Result of Kiev Blunder, Claim Donetsk Militia"
http://sputniknews.com/europe/20150124/1017310343.html
The USA should be able to provide satellite pictures - if they think the separatists did it.
I came across a report from a resident of Mariupol stating that firing was heard near the Ilyich steel works just before the grads hit east Mariupol. There is a Ukraine blockpost nearby and it is about 15 km north north west of the impact zone. That fits in nicely with the maximum range (20 km) of the older grads likely to be held by the Ukrainians.
http://en.voicesevas.ru/news/yugo-vostok/3410-donetsk-republic-disclaims...
At least they're Grads launch. Ours are still living in their parents basement.
http://instantrimshot.com/
Sure, one can trust RT on that. They can also tell all the truth about MH17.
4+ years on ZH and now you decide to post, only in the last week? While you are fighting twitter wars, the Novorossiyans are fighting land wars. No wonder you Ukies are getting your asses kicked.
Words of advice: don't bring a twitter to a gun fight.
You bet, I've been reading ZH sinse it was at the blogspot.
Just don't remember this many commenters here truying to make the point that Russian middleage state model is of any viable alternative to the mess this world is in.
Putting words in somebody else's mouth, strawsman. But are US citizens able to provide anything but strawsmen?
Probably incompetent Ukrainian artillary fire. Their rounds came up short of NAF positions and landed in civilian areas. But they were quick to blame NAF for their pathetic lack of military skill. http://vineyardsaker.blogspot.ca/2015/01/just-honest-mistake-this-time-m...
<--- The usual intentional shelling of civilian areas
<--- An honest targeting mistake
An American mercenary caught on tape in Mariupol Ukraine today after shelling:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=kiwIUsX63Hk&t=2m32s&app=...
Tells journalist as he walks by "... Out of my face, out of my face, please ..."
This is the last thing he will say when that 7.62 with his name on it finds him.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=kiwIUsX63Hk&t=2m32s&app=...
At 2:35 in this video the whole world can now see that Mariupol is being overrun by gunmen who have British accent. What the F is going on in Ukraine? What the F are the sick capitalists aiming at?
ilion - This did not sound like a British accent in the least to me. This sounded and was phrased very much like English as spoken by an American. Which means nothing - I'm just saying that it sounds like that to an English-speaking American's ear. My guess: an American Xe/Academi/Vehicle Services merc and not a Brit Greystone mercenary.
If he's American, it's flagrant violation of the Constitution of the U.S. and a clear war crime for every person in his chain of command and the U.S. government chain of command responsible for putting him there. This is getting out of control - we may finally have to fire up the Woodchipper of Truth®.
Sounds like a Nobel Peace prize representative...
The lethal aid and boots on the ground to train the Uk National Guard is on the way.
I just hope Berzerkski's hate for Russians doesn't result in eventual thermonuclear war.
Sounds midwestern USA to me.
"outta my face" I would say is from the Northeast.
That is an American accent. 100%.
Ironically, this "outta my face" denounces much more than his face would do.
NOT a British accent, and not a common British saying.
Canadian-Ukrainian perhaps? Some of those are real die hard Nazis.
May they find him & end him.
Royal Marines of Her Majesty Queen Victoria [Nuland]
Nice find!
The guy could be a merc. He could also be a ukrainian american volunteer whose loyalty is with the Kiev Nazis. After all, they gave citizenship to some US broad just prior to giving her a govt job.
Smoking gun: American mercenary Academi op spotted on the ground at Mariupol just a few days ago. At 0:26 he speaks with perfect western or midwestern American accent:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPa97gS0xHc
Hrm... First the Ukraine gov't "strategically withdraws" from a contested airport... now a new offensive by the rebels....
Looks to me like this won't end well for TPTB in the west.
The war instigated by the NWO is already lost, it's just that all the battles haven't been fought yet. Wait till Belarus troops take Kiev, the meltdown will be epic.
Now the question remains, would the West backed Nazis retire to a comfortable life in the West, or would the people hang them for crimes against humanity?
Belarus will split NATO down the middle, it will be do we defend Ukraine or turn a blind eye April will see this happen but September will see it End the ones that are left will have to make a new start
Time for a little PAYBACK!!
On to Odessa for what those NAZI fucks did.
Sure that's not Ferguson??
[VIDEO - 02:21] Donetsk Republic defense forces show captured Ukies another war crime
^ WARNING: sardonic humor begins at [00:35], including references to USA Today and The Wall Street Journal, and a video clip of the chief of the Army of Europe of the Empire of Chaos arriving in Ukraine.
Frontline Update: January 24 Morning
Fort Russ
by Cassad / translated from Russian by J.Hawk
…junta’s situation is growing more difficult, as Novorossia forces are gradually creating conditions for the largest encirclement since the beginning of the war, or when Strelkov trapped 5.5-6 thousand Ukrainians in the southern pocket. The Ilovaysk and Ambrosievka pocket that was created after the “northern wind” began to blow, trapped 5-5.5 thousand Ukrainians. The Debaltsevo pocket might trap 7-8 thousand which, while not a lethal blow for the junta, it would be a catastrophic defeat that would make its future offensive operations impossible for a long time...
Strelkov’s Novorossia movement held a conference in Moscow. Lots of people showed up, from nationalists to communists. One of the pleasing news was the announced level of financial support received so far: 100 million rubles…
[VIDEO - 02:22] Igor Strelkov commentary on strategic situation in Novorossia 23/01/15
The Vineyard of the Saker
Most of the Ukie army is looking for any opportunity to surrender and not have to fight for the Nudelmans anymore.
Can you blame them? Would you fight for Nudelmans, Porkyschenkos and Ratsyeniuk?
They are fighting to NOT become serfs of Putin.
They have seen the Putin system in action when they watched Putin's tin pot kleptocrat pillage the country and then run away to his master.
You are right. They would rather be serfs of NATO, Oligarchs and banksters. The only thing worse than being the USSA's enemy, is being their friend. When the USSA is finished with you, you will be destroyed.
Just ask Noriega,Saddam, Kadafi etc. Use an Ouija board.
Your story is a fine story still has little to do with reality.
someone should start a collection to help those poor Ukie boys hop a train to Russia!
Gots to get me some of them armored bears. Talk about home defense.
When they throw the armored robot bears into the battle you know it's gettin' serious.
FUCK YEAH! Fuck a shotgun, I want a Russian Armored Cyborg Attack Bear! I dont even care what fucking color it is! Just give me one now!
Did you see that "medal" the US general gave to the wounded Ukropchik? It looked like a fridge magnet LOL.
I vote crucifiction. I'd fly over there just to see it carried out.
I do not understand why the Americans want to poke the bear with a sharp stick. 85% of Americans do not even have a passport. The level of knowledge in the US also with people of a high education about Europe or Russia is appaling. They have no clue what they are doing not only in Europe but also in Afghanistan, Iraq, Vietnam, Korea. None of them are won only suffering. Stupidity reins supreme unless you have stocks in Boeing, Raytheon etc.
you answered your own question
54% of Americans don't have a valid passport according to most recent State Dept figures.
I also thought that the number would have been higher.
They should be shelling the airport in Davos instead. Target rich environment of 1700 private jets.
They will be in 2020.
Sure - no one of them are talking about West-backed Nazi in Kiev....
They created a political war but they aren't putting their butts on the line so it's no problem. It doesn't seem to occur to the EU and the USA that this could easily get out of hand and run away with them. The EU is tottering on thin supports and if this spreads for any reason it will be very bad and we'll get dragged into it because our promises require it. I'm so glad I'm too old and fucked up to be called back to active duty.
Of course they're aware of this. Too many people, even here, have this deluded notion that the morals are corrupted, the leaders are simply incompetent, that America has been robbed. Well, it's time to wake up. This is Manifest Destiny. This is just as much the foundation of America as the constitution: disease sends immigrants to a new territory to take away the people in paradise, wipe them out for a new paradise in God's image. America is diseased so they're trying to scratch out new territory somewhere else.
But there is nowhere else. All that is left is destruction. The people in charge are completely inhuman. They do not care for a thing outside of their own accumulation of power. Nothing matters but that. Manipulation of markets, oil wars, all just side stories of the larger accumulation and monopolisation of power. The myth of America, individualism/collectivism, capitalism, communism, etc. was just a trick to get as many people playing along as possible.
The game clearly risks a nuclear war, and they know it. They will risk billions of deaths because the prize of a monopoly of power is worth the price for them. All nations exist for one thing: progressive domination. And NATO, it seems, has figured out that a collapsing empire must not allow other nations to become the next dominant power.
Mozgov of Ghost Battallion or maybe Zakarchenko said this has been going on for hundreds of years multiple times with Russia and the Ukraine. The West often Christian Rome papally backed armies to fight to take over Ukraine and Russia aka Eastern Orthodox Church. So many have tried and they all fail. There is a religious component to this endless folly of war.
Some of the poor Ukraine soldiers of the lowest economic strata in that poor country had a hand held device with a recording when captured. It was from a USA baptists or evangelical preacher talking about accepting death. NLP brainwashing shit to try to get these poor bastards to accept their doomed fate. Sickening.
These poor men are dirt poor forcefully conscripted poorest of the poor and they are terrified.
I hope the Ukies keep surrendering enmasse. Sadly, American men should have opted out of the US bansksters Civil War. Hollywood and video games brainwash the masses into thinking endless war is cool.
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Here is a brief clip (2 min 23 sec) with Motorola demonstrating one of these devices and explaining how they are used to zombify the Ukrainian conscripts:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bg24tYE_BJM
(Rusian with English subtitles)
Right on general... it's the sociopath way. The sociopaths are starting to feed on themselves now. It's just going to get worse for everyone, exponentially worse from here on out.
NOT THE CAR!!
man... those people are beast...
The best defence, is a good offence.
Maybe Breedlove can make some more stupid remarks to really get the show going.
Bring DNR & LNR terrorist and those who support them to war tribunal! Starting with Putin.
You bring Zionists to their "war tribunal," scum! Start with the Rothchscild associates who regularly each year kill millions of people across the world!
What's needed it's a museum and a research center of the crimes against humanity conducted by Jews in Russia in 20th and 21th centuries.
Like murder of 1000s of Russian officers surrendered to the Jewish Bolshevik commissars http://news.rin.ru/eng/news/64027/
Also, a good documentary:" Donbass. Frontline. War Is War." Film 7. https://www.youtube.com/watch?x-yt-cl=84503534&v=pLTkNYGATXc&x-yt-ts=1421914688
Resident of Mariupol say that GRAD rockets came from DNR terrorist direction, many civilians where killed, he saw his own eyes:
http://youtu.be/bDE_J9fMnGI
People in Mariupol this summer:
http://youtu.be/PILstC9SfoY
DNR terrorist leader announces that will steal all that property like flats from those civilians who left war zone:
http://youtu.be/1iEbvuSJJL4
Kiev Junta terrorist cunt cock sucker has been blowing the shit out of Donetsk for months. WHERE THE FUCK HAVE YOU BEEN!?
Where were you when over dozens of people were locked in the Union building in Odessa and BURNED ALIVE -- those that tried to escape were executed?
WHERE WERE YOU YOU NAZI COLLABORATING COCK SUCKER!?
FUCK YOU! Your egregious side picking disgusits me.
My take; the DNR fucked up with this one shooting at a heavily populated area.
Ukraine has fucked up for over a year now.
My take on it -- both sides are full of egregious shit heads. Your take on it is one side is good and one is great.
FUCK KIEV! GO PUTIN GO!
your take is mistaked.
continued barrage into civilans is not DNR..it is still ongoing
it is same, Kiev target civilians and infrastructure, get rid of people.
calling all putin fluffers
Calling all Banderatard fappars*.
*fairies against President Putin and Russia
Are you Russian? Honest question.
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Nope, just another American that has grown sick of the lies of Americanism.
Ditto. +1000
Ditto. +1000x1000
One day with me Latina. It's a matter of time.
Just wondering. I was hoping you had some Russian descent like me. Now I look at you as a really gay wormbait. Why? because you're hoping another Nation fixes your own problem. As far as the latina lover, his mother smuggles latino cock and he loves watching. Carry on.
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This troubles me almost as much as the thought of putting my left sock on my right foot.
Putting words in one's mouth. More strawsman. Feeding propaganda. Fantasy.
Hey, funny.
More than going in yer mouf.
Are you a Kike? Honest question.
The Putin backed Dumbasses of east Ukraine are getting themselves killed so that they can become Russian serfs. Putin sends in some of the poor Russian conscripts to buck them up. Soon Putin will pull the plug on his support and the seperatists will be living in a destitution of their own creation.
It seems that the same ones who have that longing for Saddam are now throwing their support for Putin.
bs you know nothing about this subject
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjN0Ql8lKqs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkjdlPDzmdA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXcZJEZjoKI
People of Mariupol voted for independence of those Zionist cucksuckers in Kiev, scum! +90% of them voted for it! Those above are some videos of Zionist whores' occupation of their city, filth!
Compare that first vid with the supposedly shot-in-the-head cop on the charlie attack video.
This appears to be another false flag, like the MH17 and the Bus bombing.
Local reports say the shelling came from Ukr-controlled territory. Here in Russian:
1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xK_S8XKdCWo
A resident of Mariupol says the attack came from the direction of Stary Krym (Old Crimea), just West of Mariupol in Kiev-controlled territory.
2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEuGebwACk4
This resident says that initially the shelling seemed like a mistake but on reflection he thinks it was deliberately engineered to turn the residents against the Donetsk militia. Sound familiar?
3. http://gloxy.livejournal.com/99925.html
Blogger in Mariupol says most residents agree the shells were fired from the Ukrainian side.
Translate this you ruskie troll:
http://youtu.be/bDE_J9fMnGI
I do not even bother to downvote you as you are lower then whaleshit on the bottom of the ocean.
Hey Freedom123, shouldn't you be on the front lines defending your glorious Ukraine, instead of posting BS on ZH? Personally, I will bet the AK47 against your posts anytime.
No wonder you clowns are losing. Coward.
That pigstye you hide in will be where Putin dumps his porta-potty.
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You are confusing with viedoklis_lv, I mean freedom123, the Latvian honeydipper that is also paid one potato daily to troll for the Kiev Yatzis.
Video from the streets of Mariupol.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiwIUsX63Hk
American soldier says @2.34 "out of my face, please!" (!!)
One of the shells hit an electricity sub-station, knocking out Akhmetov's steel works. Cui bono?
That doesn't sound like american accent, but as ruskie troll accent who overwrites sound in studio trying to pretend american.
How do you make it through life on a daily basis being so ignorant? My guess is a combination of catheters and adult diapers.
freedom123, it is hard to talk logic to these russian loving trolls. Most are zealots who believe RT videos are always true but ukrainian videos are lies. They think russia could never lie yet USA/NATO/EU lies all the time. They think Jews are controlling the world and russia which is their beacon of hope.
If you do address them, they have limited IQ and can only understand small words. Their intelligence limits them to small words so try not to bring more than one fact into the discussion since it confusies them. If confused, they have to resort to their only known defense, name calling.
Good luck.
Must be orgasmic to get away with such a diarrhea of drivel.
He Said, "Outta my face, outta my face please." "Outta" is a decidedly American slang term combining the words "out of". Mostly commonly used in the phrase "We gotta get outta here."
His accent is that of an Americna soldier. Usually a combination of accents that they have picked up from years of globtrotting. and living in multiple countries or regions of Merikastan. That dude has a slight Virginia/East Coast accent, who is trying to disguise it as something else. Totally a Merikastan soldier.
dup
"Virgina/East Coast accent"...lmao, that dude was a hair lip from Canada.
Nice try. I travel to Canada at least 4 times a year to visit family. That accent is not Canadian, not Eastern Canadian or Western Cnadian. I have been to both Canadian coasts (nearly). Im friends with someone from Maine and it isnt North Eastern. Its an East Coast Virginia accent, sounds just like a buddy of mine. Which is kinda like a Great Lakes accent, but with a tiny drawl. Its an East Coast American accent. Kinda. But since he is a soldier, its just a muddied version of all the places he has visited. I picked up a Pacific Northwest accent and only lived there for 4 or 5 years.
Im sticking with my initial guess. East Coast Virginian, American.
sounds like a poor attempt by Russian propaganda to fool the retarded Putin supporters.
It had some success with a few of the idiots.
He is very likely north of Virginia. East Coast sounds right.
I grew up in Virginia. Lived in Pennsylvania. My brother lives in Maryland. I'd say Maryland, Philly, Delaware accent.
But definitely American.
what is operative from Virginia?
Dumb gentile mercenary for AIPAC
"...Resident of Mariupol say that GRAD rockets came from DNR terrorist direction, many civilians where killed, he saw his own eyes:..."
They may have come from the separatists, freedom123, but there is no way in hell anyone can hear or see a GRAD coming in on the receiving end. The motor burn is less than two seconds (three for longer-range models). The missile continues upwards for several seconds before hitting its apogee and then arcs back down silent and unpowered. No visible smoke or flame can be seen after the first two or three seconds, and the rocket does not impact for tens-of-seconds after launch. These are generally fired from several kilometers away (range is ~20km). You either couldn't hear them launch that far away, or the sound would be too diffuse to localize beyond a quadrant.
'Seeing' them is out of the question. The observer would have to be able to see a nine-foot long, four-inch diameter grey tube pointing generally head-on towards them and travelling 1200 mph until impact. They may have figured out the direction by some other means, but they sure didn't 'see' which direction the rocket came from unless the launchers were so close that they could be seen.
I wish your mother had believed in abortion.
His mother will be happy to see him fighting for US putsch regime in Ukraine east . Run freedom run quick they are conscripting pensioners already . A bullet in your temple and peace will prevail .
Your mother burried the abortion.
You are the afterbirth tossed in the trash.
I wish your mother had believed in abortion.
Despite this being a double post. I voted you green twice. God speed to you!
You spelled your handle incorrectly.
It should be freedumb123
Many think it, but one has to say it!
Tyler,
get rid of that paid disinformation shill please. Fuck him and his whore mother.
If you mother had made the donkey use a rubber,
You would not be here.
Wooooooooo, speaking of an original way of thinking.
And the best part of you ended up in your mothers shit stained panties. Too bad there was so much shit and cum lining the panties, now you will never know who your father is.
This report is provided for the media and general public. At approximately 09:15hrs on 24 January, the SMM in government-controlled Mariupol heard at its location incoming massed Multi-Launch Rocket System (MLRS) attacks from a north-east direction, consisting of an extremely heavy barrage lasting 35 seconds. Twenty minutes later the SMM received information from the Joint Centre for Control and Co-ordination (JCCC) in Mariupol and other sources, that shelling had occurred in the area of Olimpiiska Street, in Ordzhonikidzevskyi district, 8.5 km north-east of Mariupol city centre, approximately 400 metres from a Ukrainian Armed Forces checkpoint. At 10:20hrs the SMM went to Olimpiiska Street and saw seven adult civilians dead. The SMM observed in an area of 1.6 km by 1.1 km, including an open market, multiple impacts on buildings, retail shops, homes and a school. The SMM observed cars on fire and windows facing the north-eastern side of a nine-storey building shattered. The SMM was able to count 19 rocket strikes and is certain there are more. Four hospitals and the emergency service in the city informed the SMM that at least 20 people died and 75 people were injured and hospitalized. Ten of the wounded were in a critical condition, according to a hospital representative. The SMM conducted a crater analysis and its initial assessment showed that the impacts were caused by Grad and Uragan rockets. According to the impact analysis, the Grad rockets originated from a north-easterly direction, in the area of Oktyabr (19 km north-east of Olimpiiska Street), and the Uragan rockets from an easterly direction, in the area of Zaichenko (15 km east of Olimpiiska Street), both controlled by the “Donetsk People’s Republic” (“DPR”). At 13:02hrs and 13:21hrs the SMM heard again incoming MLRS salvos lasting for eight seconds, from an easterly direction. At a distance of 300 metres the SMM saw smoke above the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ checkpoint number 14 (8.9 km north-east of Mariupol city centre), just several hundred metres away from where the shelling had hit in Olimpiiska Street.
http://www.osce.org/ukraine-smm/136061
And that is the Banderatard way. Kievan Yatzis create a situation and later deny their doings in the creation of the situation.
Here is video of the carnage this morning. Warning if you are eating and dead bodies gross you out do not watch.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsfGH8JXprE
Love the SS runic logo. I guess if you want to be a nazi, be the most nazi you can be. Where are the deathshead insignia?
I always liked the german uniforms and insignia of that era. Hugo Boss helped design it. Even the USA eventually copied the helmet style.
Personnaly, if I'm going out to whack 30+ million, I want Armani.
The benjimen hanging from thier rearveiw mirror must be the first $100 earned for being a Nazi Merck for NATO.
That is strange that Russia Today reports atrocities of Red Army & "pro-Russian separatists" in Mariupol!
This CAN NOT be good for their real estate market...
thank god QE is also comming to Ukraine...
Its ALWAYS a good time to buy real estate according to my realtor(who just sold all hers).
Remain calm. We are US soldiers, Ukrainians!
Here are boxes of QE!
Crack 'em open and pass them out, Sarge.
Yessir!
Would appear the sanctions regime has failed. Que Surprise?
Hate to say it but we'll ignore this just like everything else.
No one is watching. No one is listening. Nobody Cates.
I am taking Mariupol off my vacation list right now!
go to Crimea . :D
Establishing ZH Troll filter. Engaged. Commence moving past slew of trolls trying to commandeer and obfuscate intelligent discourse so we may coherently discuss geo-politics devoid of any agenda.....
American Sniper say "honey I go home now. This game no fun and me sad."
POTUS go to Hawaii after House of Saud make death threat against all non believer.
Marines blow billions on ship no sail
Navy go one better.
American Sniper sad.
Go home now.
Amazing that the west is silent when the NAF blows up civilians in Donetsk but screams bloody murder and blames Russia when the DPR retaliates. The sooner the juanta in Kiev is deposed, the better.
http://vineyardsaker.blogspot.ca/2015/01/novorussian-sitrep-january-23.html
We are used to silent western press, or better to say - western cia press
But we are SO smart we can't see any Russians anywhere!
UAF are the genocidaires. NAF are the good guys resisting Ziofascism
Yes, of course Anunnaki. Thanks for the correction.
NOT amazing when the drones on ZH exhibit the opposite behavior and don't notiice they're doing the same thing!
Caught in the Troll Filter:
"the drones on ZH" "they"
Any user who refers to ZH members as "they" is admitting that (despite signing up as a member) they are not a member of the community.
Timely information. Thanks. But "Separatists"? "Rebels"? "Insurgents"? Really? What the fuck are those words supposed to tell us? Lies! These people are none of the above. These are soldiers of the people who want nothing to do with the subjugation coming out of Kiev! Nothing more! These labels are harmful to the truth, and the author should be ashamed of himself for perpetuating such labels.
I think the proper term is Resistance or Freedom Fighters.
Terrorists , Rebels for west . ain't that funny when us supports isil rebels in syria ?
Yes, just simple XRussianX farm boys with XtanksX tractors and XartilleryX potato guns.
try Donbass miners and farmers...
Kalash, not potatoe
started with guns their Grandfathers left for them
still using WW2 antitank rifle, etc.
a few old howitzer patched old armor
they now evolved...too fast for enemy
and more than your comprehension
Right, and the Tooth Fairy and Santa Clause deliver their ammo.
Drone.
Miners, farmers, tradesmen, etc of all...most of fighters at or very near their homes.
They know the gound and local people.
Unfortunate for invaders, most vets and multiples experienced vets and specialists, Afgantsy and other conflicts.
After watching video's of the Novorossiyan fighters, many are in their 30's, 40's and 50's. They are hard as coffin nails, real men fighting for their homeland. I remember one Novorossiyan vet saying that he knows his Kalashnikov better than his wife's body.
Zackarchenko was a mining electrician. I forget what Givi and Mozgovi did. All working class guys. Anyone who is a miner has balls of steel. I could never do it. I do not like parking garages. I would freak out in a mine. These men have no fear. They are also smart. maybe not book smart but very smart and tough.
Donestsk has the best mines and the Ukie powerplants require that specific coal.
These fighters are tough as nails, probably avg age is mid 30s to 40. They did not want this. The Ukie conscripts do not want it too. They are the poorest of the poor who could not buy their way out of conscription. Used like fodder. Hopefully they will keep surrendering to save themselves.
If I were a Ukie Conscript, I would surrender and take a holiday in Russia. Why get killed to make Porkyschenko and the rest of the criminal oligarchs rich?
Comment confirming the logic of a retard.
The subjugation is comming from the Russian and Putin. His little pillaging puppet was sent back to daddy to find something to suck. Putin must show his stupidity by invading the neighbor. He cannot let any serfs escape the plans he has for them.
That is a good fairy tale but far from reality.
The firing at civilian areas of Mariupol is probably the work of the Ukraine forces. The areas hit are on the east side of the river flowing through Mariupol, the side where Novorossian forces are based. I suppose Kiev Kev will say the Novorossians shelled themselves, as they did in response to Ukraine forces firing at civilian areas of Slavyansk. Here is a still from Ukraine TV showing how it is supposed to work. Strong winds caused shells fired by Novorossians to fall behind them destroying civilian areas.
http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/rigort/17193211/103471/103471_1000.jpg
Rockets landed with trajectory from DNR & LNR terrorist side & their leader already announced that it their attack on city.
http://youtu.be/Y-lbK0uKSD4