Through a careful review of recent history, Russia and Soviet scholar Paul Robinson debunks the claim that Russian President Vladimir Putin is directing the rebels fighting in Ukraine’s eastern region.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article41367.htm

A few days ago I saw picture of Sweden and missed the snow and cold, and what do they get Ukraine today - SNOW!!

Five Indian aircrafts lost in the Ukraine

The last five of 40 AN-32 aircraft being upgraded in Ukraine have become untraceable.

"These five aircraft are almost lost as it is difficult to trace them and diplomatic efforts to find their whereabouts have failed," an Indian Air Force official said.

http://www.defensenews.com/story/defense/air-space/support/2015/03/28/india-ukraine-transport-fleet-upgrade-antonov-avro-air-force/70441446/

Latest Kremlin moves:
http://www.jamestown.org/single/?tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=43702&tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=7&cHash=13a89536cb0d9a271997507a914ef0c2

22 Russian army tanks crossed into Donbas via the occupied Gukovo border crossing yesterday.

Russian forces firing at Ukrainian positions along the front in Donbas.
During the "ceasefire" of course.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSdmulTDhCA

The definition of psychological sickness ...
Сепаратисты зажигают
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPAh42T3jHc

Five Indian aircrafts lost in the Ukraine

The last five of 40 AN-32 aircraft being upgraded in Ukraine have become "untraceable," the Indian official said.

"These five aircraft are almost lost as it is difficult to trace them and diplomatic efforts to find their whereabouts have failed," an Indian Air Force official said.

http://www.defensenews.com/story/defense/air-space/support/2015/03/28/india-ukraine-transport-fleet-upgrade-antonov-avro-air-force/70441446/

Whats your point Igor?
We all know the the Ukraian army sucks.
Russia has the best army in Europe.
Does that get Russia the rights to invade Ukraine?
Of course not!

btw. the Khazakstan army sucks as well!

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On 27 March, the SMM observed from an observation point in the vicinity of Berdianske (government-controlled, 18km east of Mariupol) escalating fighting in Shyrokyne (“Donetsk People’s Republic” (“DPR”)-controlled, 20km east of Mariupol, 102 km south of Donetsk) counting over 225 mortar shells from 14:40hrs to 17:15hrs. The shelling had started only a few hours following an SMM visit to the “DPR” “command” in Shyrokyne.

From its position the SMM estimated that the shells were fired from a position of the Ukrainian Armed Forces located in Berdianske. The SMM assessed that the majority of these outgoing shells impacted on the southern part of the Shyrokyne village, controlled by “DPR”.
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http://www.osce.org/ukraine-smm/148151

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On 27 March, the SMM observed from an observation point in the vicinity of Berdianske (government-controlled, 18km east of Mariupol) escalating fighting in Shyrokyne (“Donetsk People’s Republic” (“DPR”)-controlled, 20km east of Mariupol, 102 km south of Donetsk) counting over 225 mortar shells from 14:40hrs to 17:15hrs. The shelling had started only a few hours following an SMM visit to the “DPR” “command” in Shyrokyne.

From its position the SMM estimated that the shells were fired from a position of the Ukrainian Armed Forces located in Berdianske. The SMM assessed that the majority of these outgoing shells impacted on the southern part of the Shyrokyne village, controlled by “DPR”.
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http://www.osce.org/ukraine-smm/148151

So what Igor.
Both Minsk 1 and Minsk 2 "agreements" failed.
Both Putin and Belarus president laught when they where there in Minsk.
Disgusting
Doesnt Ukraine have the right to defend themself?
Has Russia right to both kill and invade a country because they have a stronger army?
Путин - хуйло
Don't trust a man who played and made experiments with rats when he was kid!

Special Forces squad leader of the breakaway Russian Dmitry Sapozhnikov DNR told BBC previously unknown details of the battle for Debaltseve. According to him, the operation was led by Russian officers and personnel, including generals.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/russian/international/2015/03/150325_donetsk_rebel_interview

BBC: Do we understand your point that the assistance of the Russian military during such operations was actually decided?
DS: Of course. Russian generals, colonels Russian. They all decided.
"I think there is a secret agreement"

BBC: But you do get direct orders from the Russian military?
DS: When large-scale operations, yes, but not at the usual time. Suppose during the battle for the Donetsk airport and collisions on "Spartacus" (village in the Donetsk region of Ukraine - ed.), We received orders from Zakharchenko.
Alexander Zakharchenko is a Ukrainian separatist leader, who is the current head of state and Prime Minister of the unrecognized state Donetsk People's Republic.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Zakharchenko

BBC appealed to the Russian Defense Ministry to comment on the statement of Dmitry Sapozhnikov. As soon as we get a response, it will be published.

English version of the Russian Dmitry Sapozhnikov interview.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-32114522

And Igor. At last some good news:)
http://joinfo.com/world/1001818_Kazakhstan-joins-Ukraine-and-rebels-against.html

Patriots and fighters for independence of Kazakhstan have created a group called Kazakh Horde on Facebook. It debunks Russian propaganda regarding both Kazakhstan and Ukraine. After all, due to the deep conviction of the group founders, Putin is conducting exactly the same aggressive policy towards Kazakhstan and Ukraine, Joinfo.ua reports.

It should be recalled that that in August last year, at the youth forum 'Seliger' Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Kazakhstan had never been a state. In particular, he noted that Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev "had made a unique thing – he had created a state in the territory, where there had never been a state before."

History lesson again:)

Kazakh Khanate was a Turkic Kazakh state that existed in 1456–1847, located roughly on the territory of present-day Republic of Kazakhstan. At its height the khanate ruled from eastern Cumania (modern-day West Kazakhstan) to most of Uzbekistan, Karakalpakstan and the Syr Darya river with military confrontation as far as Astrakhan and Khorasan Province, which is now in Iran. The Khanate was later weakened by a series of Kalmyk/Oirat invasions, devastating raids and warfare, and gradually lost control and autonomy to the Russian Empire.

From the sixteenth through the early nineteenth century, the most powerful nomadic people were the Khazaks and the Oirats.

Putin. Ouch:)
Maybe Kazakhstan also wants "historical justice"!

10 FACTS ABOUT CRIMEA

1 The Crimean Tatars were granted autonomy over Crimea in 1992.
2 Tatars made up 12% of the Crimean population in 2001, and 55% before WWII.
3 Ukraine’s government was bound to a 25-year lease on the port of Sevastopol.
4 An 18th-century treaty returns Crimea to Turkey in case of independence.
5 Only seven countries consider Crimea to be a part of Russia.
6 Crimea was administratively transferred to Ukraine from Russia in 1954.
7 Czech, Hungarian, and Belgian far-right parties observed the referendum.
8 There was no “status quo” option in the referendum.
9 Crimea is not self-sustaining.
10 Russia will spend billions of dollars on infrastructure to annex Crimea.

ECFR's programme on EU foreign policy towards Russia, Ukraine & EaP, Balkans & Turkey.
In Kiev with @ecfr @carlbildt: ministers say Germany, Sweden, Poland give Ukraine bilateral financial support - but not UK, shamefully.
https://twitter.com/ECFRWiderEurope

East or West. Sweden ex-FM Carl Bildt knows where Belarus wants to go .
http://belsat.eu/en/articles/east-or-west-carl-bildt-knows-now-where-belarus-wants-go/

And of course!!!!

Crimea's independent Tatar TV news channel silenced by 'red tape'
Crimea’s only independent TV news channel, ATR, has been forced to stop broadcasting after the new authorities rejected its attempts to register for a licence.

ATR is also the only channel that broadcasts in the language of the Crimean Tatars, an ethnic minority that opposed Russia’s annexation of the peninsula in March 2014. Sixty per cent of the channel’s content was in Russian, 35% in Crimean Tatar and 5% in Ukrainian

Law enforcement officials have searched the homes of Crimean Tatars, who make up 13% of the population, for “extremist” literature in recent months. Several Tatar activists have also been arrested on charges that the Crimean Field Mission on Human Rights has called unsubstantiated.

According to the mission’s report in February, nine people have gone missing since the annexation, including Crimean Tatar activists and ethnic Ukrainians. Several of them were reported to have been abducted.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-32145218

Volunteers (from two sides of conflict) exchange alive prisoners and search for remains of the perished soldiers in Donbass.

http://www.microsofttranslator.com/bv.aspx?from=ru&to=en&a=http%3A%2F%2Flenta.ru%2Farticles%2F2015%2F04%2F04%2Finterment%2F

Arseniy Pavlov, better known by his nom-de-guerre Motorola at large.
http://www.kyivpost.com/content/kyiv-post-plus/kremlin-backed-fighters-confession-of-killing-prisoners-might-become-evidence-of-war-crimes-audio-385532.html
A Russian fighter's confession that he killed 15 Ukrainian prisoners of war may be considered evidence of war crimes in court if the authenticity of the recording is confirmed, human rights and legal experts say.

But these alleged crimes are unlikely to be considered crimes against humanity, and it would also be difficult to send them to the International Criminal Court.

The statement was made by Arseniy Pavlov, better known by his nom-de-guerre Motorola, in a telephone conversation with the Kyiv Post on April 3. Motorola, head of the Kremlin-backed Sparta Battalion, said that he would not comment on presumed eyewitnesses’ testimony that he had murdered Ukrainian prisoner of war Ihor Branovytsky on Jan. 21.

“I don’t give a s**** about what I am accused of, believe it or not,” Motorola said. “I shot 15 prisoners dead. I don’t give a s****. No comment. I kill if I want to. I don’t if I don’t.”

Motorola is a crazy man. Once for fun he shooted grenades over his battalion heads. When he got a phone call from the commander who wanted him to stop he just giggled and continued.

The only Russian Duma deputy to vote against the annexation of Crimea, Ilya Ponomarev, was stripped of his parliamentary immunity today. 438 Duma deputies voted in favor of removing his immunity from criminal prosecution, with one vote against the measure and one vote in abstention.

https://meduza.io/en/news/2015/04/07/only-russian-mp-to-vote-against-annexing-crimea-now-faces-criminal-prosecution

Не стій осторонь!
Допоможи армії

Do not stand aside!
Help army,

'You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.'
Winston Churchill

The Russia has never made preparations indicating that she was preparing to militarily invade the Ukraine, contrary to US assertions in this regard, said general Christophe Gomart, Director of french military intelligence.

http://www.microsofttranslator.com/bv.aspx?from=fr&to=en&a=http%3A%2F%2Ffr.sputniknews.com%2Finternational%2F20150410%2F1015600534.html

General Christophe Gomart, Director of French military intelligence:
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The real difficulty with NATO is that US intelligence is dominant, while the French intelligence is more or less considered - hence the importance for us to supply sufficiently commanders of the NATO French origin information. NATO announced that the Russians would invade Ukraine while according to the information of the DRM, nothing came to support this hypothesis - we had indeed found that the Russians had not deployed command or logistics, including field hospitals, to consider a military invasion and the units of second level had made no movement. Subsequently showed that we were right, because if Russian soldiers were actually seen in Ukraine, it was more of a ploy to put pressure on Ukrainian President Poroshenko as an attempted invasion.
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https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=fr&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.assemblee-nationale.fr%2F14%2Fcr-cdef%2F14-15%2Fc1415049.asp&edit-text=

Care to explain that?

General Christophe Gomart, Director of French military intelligence

Politics, Francoise Hollande, Mistral and BIG Money.

French President François Hollande says that the circumstances are still not correct for the sale of two Mistral ships to Russia.
Hollande froze the billion deal last year under pressure from allies in the EU and NATO. The reason was the worsening crisis in Ukraine. The deal is worth 1.2 billion euros is considered to strengthen the Russian Navy's capabilities.
Russia and France signed the agreement on the purchase of two Mistral ships in 2011. One of the vessels, dubbed Vladivostok, is finished and the second being built at its best.
The decision to freeze the deal could lead to France are forced to pay large fines for breach of contract.
The ultra-modern Mistral ships can carry hundreds of soldiers and helicopters, tanks and landing craft.

A most glaring example is the planned sale by France of Mistral-class warships with amphibious assault capabilities to the Russian Navy. This contract, which includes the delivery of two amphibious ships of the Mistral class for purely offensive purposes to Russia (“Mistral” is otherwise referred to “invasion ship”), will bring the French shipbuilding industry Eur 1.2 bln in profits, with an option for two more ships to be constructed in Russia. It must be admitted that this deal came as a windfall for the French, as the naval shipbuilding crisis in Europe deepens with the European navies “drying out” without budgetary support, and the outlook for growth of naval fleets is negative. So in this situation the European shipbuilders cannot rely on anything but the export market.

The Russian Airborne Troops or VDV (from "Vozdushno-desantnye voyska", Russian: Воздушно-десантные войска, ВДВ; Air-landing Forces) is a military branch of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Airborne_Troops#Armament_and_equipment

These are invasion forces!

No offence Janne, but you could have edited the previous post to put that in.