“The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.” -Marcus Aurelius
April 10 2014 Who where the Maidan Snipers?
CNN: Chaotic situation unfolds in Ukraine
Euronews: Russia offers to help free OSCE observers held by separatists in Ukraine
Raw: Military Helicopter Explodes in Ukraine
Published on Apr 26, 2014
Ukraine’s Defense Ministry says a grenade fired from a launcher caused an explosion in a helicopter at an airfield outside the eastern city of Kramatorsk, wounding a pilot. (April 26)
1. April 25 2014 Ukraine airport blast: Moment of massive explosion caught on tape in Kramatorsk
2. USA: Kerry’s five most eyebrow-raising statements
(Very funny)
3. State Dept’s Psaki sharply refuses RT reporter’s question on Ukraine
4. John Kerry attacks RT during Ukraine address
5. BBC NEWS – Ukraine – Has Mariupol building been ‘liberated’?
6. Kerry accuses Russia of deception, destabilization in Ukraine
7. Secretary Kerry’s Threats and Accusations Against Russia Over Ukraine
1. Ukraine government says truce is over.
2. Russia: In Ukraine “Americans are running the show” – Lavrov
(No embed code available for above video. But can be seen @YT)
3. Odd video on the 600 US servicemen headed to Poland. For some reason.
4. Russia: Rocketry forces hold wargames near Rostov
Russian forces conducted military exercises in the south-western Rostov region near the border with Ukraine on Wednesday.
More to come. Thanks M for all the links. Please post any new material for today on Ukraine below in the comments everyone.
H/T M
anyone else think this is odd behaviour from a fuel tanker? I mean, I might expect one explosion, or possibly two if the fuel tank explodes separately for some reason from the main cargo area but this is plain weird.
OK I have to take off my tin foil hat on this one. I had the suspicion that it was covert delivery of munitions to the Ukraine front by Russian forces but I have been well and truly corrected.
Leo advises:
OK, this is how it started.
It turns out that the vehicle was an Isuzu truck, carrying gas canisters…
Many other people in the comments have added experienced observation as well
H/T M
Meanwhile,
The main synagogue in the Ukrainian city of Nikolayev reportedly was firebombed. The synagogue was empty of worshippers when it was firebombed early Saturday morning, according to the Chabad-affiliated Shturem.org website.
Two Molotov cocktails were thrown at the door and window, the report said, citing Yisroel Gotlieb, son of the city’s chief rabbi, Sholom Gotlieb. A passer-by put out the fires with a fire extinguisher, according to the report.
Jews in Eastern Ukraine are being blamed for supporting the revolution that forced pro-Russian president Viktor Yanukovych to flee the country. Armed men handed out a leafleton Passover evetelling Jews to register or face confiscation of their property.
H/T M
1. Russian friendlies block Ukraine military vehicles
2. What can White House do in Ukraine?
3. CNN: White House Adopting More ‘Agressive’ Approach to Ukraine Crisis
4. Ukraine: Ukrainian military lay down arms in Kramatorsk
After watching the Danish video we just subtitled about an imam praising a convert-suicide bomber, I happened to watch today’s Vice news video on the most recent Russian incursions on Ukraine and couldn’t help but notice the Russian Orthodox priest making an appeal to the public based on his ethos.
So I just had to put them together. Both statements have been made within the last week or so to the best of my knowledge.
1. U.S. Military Official: Russian Fighter Jet Made Repeated, Close-Range Passes Near American Warship
In the first public account of the incident, the official said the Russian Fencer flew within 1,000 yards of the USS Donald Cook, a Navy destroyer, at about 500 feet above sea level. Ship commanders considered the actions provocative and inconsistent with international agreements, prompting the ship to issue several radio queries and warnings.
2. Another man’s opinion as to the nature of the dispute in Nevada, and federal land management.
3. CAR Muslims want to ‘Balkanize’ the nation and take a section as a new muslim area.
4. VICE NEWS – Pro-Russian protestors in Luhansk, the most Eastern city in Ukraine, took over the headquarters of the state security services on April 9. Armed with guns they found in the building, the demonstrators were determined not to leave. VICE News correspondent Simon Ostrovsky visited the occupied building, which despite the occupation, was surprisingly calm.
Thanks Bains, Richard, Fjordman, M
1. Biden announces Kiev visit as war of words continues over Ukraine
2.Russian Media Report CIA Director Held ‘Secret Consultations’ in Kiev
Russian news agencies reported Sunday that U.S. CIA director John Brennan had a secret meeting with Ukrainian officials in Kiev before they began operations against separatist forces that had taken over buildings in the country’s east.
3. Sunday April 13 2014 – UKRAINE Clashes between pro- and anti-govt activists in Kharkov
4. SUNDAY April 13 2014 – Ukraine: Mariupol activists prepare for battle for seized city hall
Pro-Russian activists seized the city hall building in the south-eastern Ukrainian city of Mariupol on Sunday.
Activists prepared Molotov cocktails other materials, while hundreds of locals stood outside the seized building late into the night.One of the activists at the scene said, “we are scared for our families, for our homes, because, for that little we have, we have paid with our own sweat and blood.”
5. SUNDAY April 13 2014 – Ukraine: City Council building seized in Mariupol
The building of the Mariupol City Council was seized in Ukraine’s Donetsk region on Sunday. Protesters barricaded themselves in with rubber tyres, chanting “Russia, Russia, Russia” and then unfurled former Soviet and Banner of Victory flags out on the landing.
Funny how, at least it seems, that when the Muslims rioted, murdered, raped and burned stuff to create an Islamic caliphate the Western press called it, ‘The Arab Spring’. And as far as I can see, and I do stand to be corrected, but this appears to be huge groups of actual free people who desperately want to be independent of a corrupt Ukraine and/or reunited with Russia proper of their own free will and nearly totally without violence. Yet this is not called an ‘East European’ spring. I wonder why. Again, I could be reading it way wrong.
I have to deal with other matters for a few hours.
Please feel free to post videos and reasonably respectable news articles to the comments of this post for all things Ukrainian and Russian and please everyone check the comments. We have some really excellent news-hunters here who regularly post updated materials from multiple sources on an event which may be too serious to just wait till I can triage the materials I have.
Later I will certainly create posts with what materials I can, and have time to determine their veracity. But meanwhile consider this post’s content to actually be in the comments.
Thank you all, readers and contributors.
Eeyore for Vlad.