Archive for the ‘Ukraine War’ Category
Posted by seumasach on July 2, 2014
Caught between massive European pressure and the wrath of the Ukrainian fascist cadre screaming for war in the Maidan, Poroshenko is between a rock and a hard-place. Something must give way and it can only be the SS nostalgics whose time has gone.
Anadolu Agency
2nd July, 2014
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and separatist leader Alexander Borodai have both said they are prepared to observe a ceasefire if conditions are agreed.
Poroshenko said on Tuesday that Kiev would hold a truce if the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) monitored security along a de facto border with eastern Ukraine, all hostages were released and both sides laid down their arms, according to a statement on his official website.
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Posted by seumasach on July 2, 2014
The European leadership is now desperate for Russia to help extract them from their own mess in Ukraine especially as their Frankenstein, the neo-fascist forces in Ukraine, is now threatening Poroshenko with a new revolution. The State Department continues to overplay its hand and has become a global laughing-stock. If their goal was to force a wedge between Europe and Russia then their strategy has badly backfired. As predicted, Sikorski will not be Ashton’s succesor: the Euro neo-cons are in disarray and retreat.
EUObserver
2nd July, 2014
BRUSSELS – Russia has accused the US of using bank fines to “blackmail” France on arms sales, amid Western division on Ukraine.
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Posted by seumasach on June 24, 2014
According to some sources, Sikorski was proactive in the overthrow of Yanukovitch. In any case, as one German source, cited below, put it:
“The Germans know how much Poland cares about completing the unfinished ‘Colour Revolutions’ in eastern Europe, and somehow they feel uncomfortable about this.”
In this context, the leaking of Sikorski phone call, expressing his sense of betrayal by Obama, is hardly likely to be accidental and we can safely predict that Sikorski will not succeed Ashton, thereby confirming Germany’s rejection of the New Cold War
EU Observer
23rd June, 2014
BRUSSELS – With leaders haggling over EU top jobs this week, Polish FM Radek Sikorski is the most talked-about candidate for the next foreign policy chief.
His reputation just took a blow in a Polish eavesdropping scandal.
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Posted by seumasach on June 18, 2014
Euronews
18th June, 2014
Ukraine’s Foreign Minister is set be replaced after becoming embroiled in controversy for derogatory remarks he made about Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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Posted by seumasach on June 18, 2014
Aljazeera
18th June, 2014
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has said that he will soon order a unilateral ceasefire in the separatist east as part of a broader plan to end the 10-week crisis, according to Russian news reports.
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Posted by seumasach on June 14, 2014
So this is how the Kiev government treats the neo-nazi militants who brought them to power!
RT
12th June, 2014
A scandal is surfacing in one of the Ukrainian units attempting to quash revolt in the eastern regions. Turning out to be non-existent on Kiev’s books, the fighters who were denied food and service pay now seek truth in the capital.
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Posted by seumasach on June 9, 2014
Leaving aside the routine denunciation of “the flint-eyed occupant of the Kremlin” this article reveals the West’s growing disenchantment with their own creation in Kiev.
Telegraph
8th June, 2014
The yellow and blue stripes of Ukraine’s national flag are designed to symbolise a happy union between golden fields and the summer sky. At the moment, the sweeping plains of Donetsk do indeed resemble this vision of idyllic harmony – until, that is, you run into a checkpoint manned by pro-Russian rebels or Ukrainian soldiers.
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Posted by seumasach on June 7, 2014
Since when did the West require proof for its various assertions and since the Americans already claim to have it couldn’t they just give it to Kiev? Or is this a subtle shift by the State Department?
RIAN
5th June, 2014
MOSCOW, June 5 (RIA Novosti) – US Secretary of State John Kerry has urged Ukrainian President-elect Petro Poroshenko prove that Russia is involved in the independence movement in the eastern regions of Ukraine, according to The New York Times.
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Posted by seumasach on June 5, 2014
RT
5th June, 20145
Two Eastern European nations, Slovakia and the Czech Republic, have refused to host foreign troops and military bases. The prime ministers of both countries have consecutively spoken against the proposal voiced by US President Barack Obama.
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Posted by seumasach on June 4, 2014
My, this sounds like a good deal for Ukraine: sign away your right to join the Eurasian Union in exchange a vague and unfulfillable notion that you might be able to join the EU!
EUObserver
4th June, 2014
BRUSSELS – Ukraine has asked to sign a landmark EU treaty next weekend, but large EU countries expect to do it at the end of the month.
The “deep and comprehensive free trade agreement” – a 5kg box of technical documents – is at the heart of the Ukraine crisis.
Its signature means Ukraine can have free trade with Russia but is legally bound to stay out of its Eurasian Union.
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Posted by seumasach on June 2, 2014
Valdai Club
30th June, 2014
Petro Poroshenko, for all the elusiveness of his nature, is the choice of the Ukrainian people. The Americans didn’t grow him in their political incubator; they just put a bet on the most likely winner and did so rather late – approximately in March 2014. The earlier favorites were people like Arseny Yatsenyuk and Vitaly Klichko. Statements made by US politicians did not have much influence on Ukrainian voters. More likely, the electorate was swayed by technologies invented by a Ukrainian spin doctor, Igor Gryniv (who was behind the electoral success of Viktor Yushchenko and still earlier planned the establishment of the Reforms and Order and Our Ukraine parties). First of all, he cleaned out the minds of Ukrainian voters and made them accept Poroshenko as a “new politician.” Next he began publishing his growing ratings and convinced the public that his client took the lead in the race. All that remained was to give voters a motivation for support and urge a first-round vote.
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