Tires Ablaze on Kiev’s Central Maidan Square, New Clashes Possible

RIANovosti

7th August, 2014

KIEV, August 7 (RIA Novosti) – Tires have been set ablaze and sounds similar to an explosion have been heard in Kiev’s central Maidan Square, a RIA Novosti correspondent reported Thursday.

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Western Sanctions on Russia Aimed at Humiliating Moscow – Ex-French Minister

RIANovosti

4th August, 2014

MOSCOW, August 4 (RIA Novosti) — Western sanctions imposed on Russia over the civil war in Ukraine are “totally absurd” and aim at humiliating Moscow which is opposite to what the United States really needs, said Luc Ferry, the French political philosopher and former minister of education, in an exclusive interview with Radio VR.

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“A humanitarian corridor to Russia”. But I thought Russia was the enemy, the source of all the problems

Kiev Post 

4th August, 2014

Rostov-on-Don – Over 400 Ukrainian troops have asked Russian border guards to open a humanitarian corridor to Russia, Vasily Malayev, and an official with the Russian Federal Security Service Department for the Rostov region, told Interfax.

UN Conclusions Disprove Claims Against Russia Over Ukrainian Crisis – Moscow

RiaNovosti

1st August, 2014

MOSCOW, August 1 (RIA Novosti) – The Russian Foreign Ministry said Friday that recent remarks by the top UN human rights official shed doubt on claims of Russia’s direct involvement inescalation of the Ukrainian crisis.

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M.K.Bhadrakumar

Indian Punchline

1st August, 2014

Ignore the thug for the present and instead thrash his sidekick to send across the message first — that’s a moribund cold-war era method, which Russia may just have resuscitated by notifying that it is suspending the import of fruits and vegetables from Poland with effect from today, while similar measures are being contemplated against the European Union countries as a whole.

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Putin, Obama Welcome Results of Ukraine Contact Group Meeting in Minsk

RIANovosti

1st August, 2014

MOSCOW, August 1 (RIA Novosti) — Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart Barack Obama on Friday voiced satisfaction with the results of a recent Minsk meeting of international mediators on the Ukrainian crisis, the Kremlin said.

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Cailean Bochanan

2nd August, 2014

Fresh from their unanimous vote supporting Israel’s assault on Gaza, Congress are now gunning for war with Russia. This is the clear sense of resolution S.2277 :

“To prevent further Russian aggression toward Ukraine and other sovereign states in Europe and Eurasia, and for other purposes.”

Particularly ominous is the clause granting special non-NATO ally status to Ukraine, although it’s difficult to keep a straight face while reading it: conditions for bestowal of this status include respect for “the political and legal rights of its citizens, including maintaining the right of its citizens to democratically elect their government.”
Still, we must be clear that this act is not a laughing matter. Congressional members, basically the representatives of the lobbies, the US oligarchy, may be clowns but they deserve to be taken seriously in as far as they are beating the drums for war and more war. According to Paul Craig Roberts this legislation will be passed and I have no reason to doubt his judgement on that.
The methods employed by Israel and the Kiev regime are remarkably similar, being little more than terroristic assaults on defenseless civilians. Congress’ gleeful cheerleading of both campaigns confirms in a timely manner that the same forces are at play in both cases. Whilst Israel’s form on this front is only too familiar, most of us were unfamiliar with the Stepan Bandera’s World War Two terror exploits. which include Babi Yar, and his reincarnation in the midst of contemporary European civilization, such as it is, has been a bit of a surprise. It only goes to show that America’s wars teach us history as well as geography!
The good news is that there is an air of desperation about this particular move stemming from strong indications that all is not well on the Eastern front. Huge losses, mass desertions and now a burgeoning anti-war campaign in the West of Ukraine, as well as imminent bankruptcy, have put the regimes survival at risk. At the same time the propaganda war is a cascading disaster with the State Department continuing its hilarious briefings and, seemingly, counter-briefings from the Pentagon such as when they leaked that Ukraine had used ballistic missiles.
Can Congress, the Military Industrial Complex, the Neo-Cons and the Deep State, in short, the War Party, bounce the Commander-in-chief and the military into one final catastrophic war? Will the European vassals fall into line. The stakes could not be greater. The War Party fears peace. Do we want it enough to take our destiny in our own hands?

Antiwar protests spreading in Ukraine as gov’t wages all-out war in the southeast and NATO threatens Russia

Rogerannis.com

31st July, 2014

A rising wave of antiwar and anti-conscription protest is taking place in cities and towns across western Ukraine. The protests are prompted by the announcement of Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko ten days ago that a “third” military mobilization is now required for the war that his governing regime began waging against the population of eastern Ukraine three months ago. Kyiv calls the war an ‘anti-terrorist operation’.

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Ukrainian troops lost 125 armored vehicles in eastern Ukraine in one day — source

Itar/Tass

30th July, 2014

DONETSK, July 30. /ITAR-TASS/. Separatist militias in fighting with Ukrainian government troops near the city of Shakhtyorsk in the country’s east have put out of action 125 armored vehicles of the Ukrainian army, said Deputy Defense Minister of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) Fyodor Berezin.

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