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it’s no wonder that people say that you should take a care with what you wish for… God hears it! Poroshenko wanted a military parade in Donetsk on “Ukrainian Independence Day”. He got what he wanted. A column of junta prisoners from the repression operation against the civilian population of Novorossiya marched in the centre of Donetsk. They held their heads down, trying not to look people in the eye… who spat at them and threw eggs at them, the failed “champions” walked past destroyed military equipment… tanks, artillery, rocket launchers… which they had used to shoot at the peaceful towns and villages of Novorossiya. Street-cleaning trucks followed the column of prisoners, washing down the street, just as it was after the parade of fascist POWs on Red Square in Moscow in July 1944.
Yesterday, the opolchenie encircled 5,000 junta troops, including the 8 Corps headquarters, two mechanised and one airmobile brigades, as well as the infamous “Aidar”, “Donbass”, and “Shakhtyorsk” terrorist battalions. Over the past two days, they destroyed 16 junta fortified positions, 17 tanks, and about 100 vehicles, and killed 150 junta militants. Russian media reported that the Donetsk People’s Republic (DNR) Minoborony announced that they’re forming three infantry brigades and a volunteer regiment, in a transition to a new strategy of military action by large formed units, not scattered small units. There’s enough captured junta equipment for the DNR to kit out two tank battalions, three MRL battalions, three artillery battalions, and eight mortar batteries, which became part of the newly-formed units. A DNR Minoborony statement said, “On the basis of the existing opolchenie, we formed three infantry brigades. Many Ukrainian servicemen voluntarily sided with the DNR, and Donbass miners additionally embodied a separate Volunteer Regiment”. If Poroshenko doesn’t end his war against the civilian population and sit down at the negotiating table, then, we might see another parade, this one on the Khreshchatik in Kiev.
25 August 2014
Denis Akhalashvili
Russian People’s Line
http://ruskline.ru/news_rl/2014/08/25/poroshenko_hotel_provesti_parad_v_donecke_on_ego_poluchil/
Editor:
Radio Liberty blubbered over the “mistreatment” of junta POWs by “separatists”. It’s time to make Victor Potapov put up or shut up. He works (or worked) for an evil organisation whose sole goal was subverting our ancestral Motherland and Faith. He did this for many years; he did it voluntarily (as it made him one of the most-well-off priests in the ROCOR)… he went grey in the service of the haters of the Rodina and Christ’s Church. As head of religious broadcasting at RL, he encouraged Galician Uniate pigs… he wasn’t a mere ranker, he wasn’t a newsreader or janitor… he was a responsible official, he had a decision-making position, that is, he DOES have answerability to the Church and to its believers for his treason and treachery.
Hilarion Kapral should make this bastard issue a public apology on the ROCOR official website. Potapov should issue a real apology on the model of the one given by the late great Joe Adamov of Radio Moscow/VOR. Potapov should say, “I’m sorry for having served evil and lied to you for many years. I did so because it gave me a comfortable life, better than that of many of my fellow priests. I resign from Radio Liberty immediately (or, “I’m sorry for having had any association at all with Radio Liberty”, if he’s retired) and condemn all its doings. I disassociate myself from it and all those who work for it. I ask you to forgive me for my gross sin in pushing Western Materialism instead of Russian Orthodoxy”. Radio Liberty is a well-known CIA front organisation. Therefore, that means that not only Potapov is on the Langley dole, it means that Paffhausen is on the CIA “Sweetheart List” and that the Centre should have nothing to do with him… he’s a dirty quisling, his father was a real estate developer, which means that Paffhausen would drag the Church in the mud with the Republican Party (as Potapov and Webster do, in their dalliance with District neocons and neoliberals), and go tell his rightwing pals everything that he learned in Russia (he’s done that already… didn’t you see how he kissed George Weigel’s ass and how he gave papers at Uniate symposia?). Don’t hold your breath waiting for Potapov to do the right thing. He won’t… if he did, he’d surprise everyone… it’d be a pleasant surprise, to be sure, but no one expects this snake to change his spots. He’s a known quantity… he sold out to the Langley spooks years ago and it’s no secret.
One last thing… as for the “mistreatment” of junta POWs, I’d add that the junta shoots opolchenie prisoners without a trial or they treat them as common criminals. The junta POWs got off easy… also, reflect on this… most of the junta soldiers taken by the opolchenie prefer to join the patriots and turn their weapons against the pro-American bumsuckers… fancy that…
BMD
Voices from Russia 
Poroshenko Fears a Coup… So, He Sends the Battalions of Kolomoisky and “Right Sector” to the Slaughter!
Tags: civil unrest, Kiev, political commentary, politics, Russia, Russian, Ukraine, Ukrainian Civil War, war and conflict
Lest we forget… THIS is what Poroshenko stands for… and what Anglo Americans applaud… do keep it in mind. These Galician fascists denounced people to the Habsburgs… they murdered for the Nazis at Babi Yar and Khatyn… they butchered the Polish population of Volyn… they brutalised Orthodox believers in the Nasty Nineties… so, today’s enormities are “business as usual” for them.
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KP asked Igor Korotchenko, the chief editor of National Defence, to share his impressions about the Independence Day parade in Kiev.
Igor Korotchenko
Some of the vehicles in the parade in Kiev came from Ukrainian plants. However, the Ukrainians have virtually no combat equipment left. The opolchenie has surrounded practically all of their heavy equipment. Moreover, to throw dust in the eyes of foreign military attaches in Kiev, the parade showed equipment of the SBU and the State Guard Service, which has the task of protecting the president and being a counter-coup force. Some of the equipment on parade came from the war zone, but they gave them a fresh coat of paint. Most of the equipment on show came from NATO countries. The contemporary Ukrainian armed forces are the weakest in all of Eastern Europe; they’re even inferior to the Albanians. It’s demoralised and is only capable of limited internal security operations.
KP
Is anybody preparing a coup d’état?
Korotchenko
The word out there is that it could happen in the winter. Timoshenko or Kolomoisky could do it, they’re the only ones who’re independent political leaders. Therefore, Poroshenko is sending the battalions of Kolomoisky and the Right Sector to Novorossiya… to kill them off.
KP
He promised to spend at least 3 billion USD (108.5 billion Roubles. 3.29 billion CAD. 3.23 billion AUD. 2.28 billion Euros. 1.8 billion UK Pounds) to re-equip the army…
Korotchenko
Bluff! That’s pure propaganda, designed for nationalist idiots. The Grivna is going to hell; it’ll collapse this winter. The Ukraine is a country without any pants on!
25 August 2014
Komsomolskaya Pravda
http://www.kp.ru/daily/26273.7/3150641/
Editor:
To put things in perspective, a modern Russian-style tank costs about 3 million USD (108.5 million Roubles. 3.29 million CAD. 3.23 million AUD. 2.28 million Euros. 1.8 million UK Pounds)… a modern Western tank costs about 6 million USD (217 million Roubles. 6.58 million CAD. 6.46 million AUD. 4.56 million Euros. 3.6 million UK Pounds). There are 2 Tank and 7 Mechanised Brigades in the Ukrainian Army. A Tank Brigade has 100 tanks and a Mechanised Brigade has 45 tanks. Therefore, the Ukrainian Army at full TO&E strength would require 515 tanks. If the Ukrainian Army replaced its tank park with Western equipment, it’d eat up all the 3 billion that Poroshenko boasted about… and still require a bit more. If it replaced its tank park with Russian-style vehicles (more likely), it’d still cost 1.545 billion USD (Roubles. 1.7 billion CAD. 1.66 billion AUD. 1.17 billion Euros. 932 million UK Pounds)… and that doesn’t count reserve vehicles, spares, maintenance facilities/equipment/tools, and POL for operations! If the tank park were to undergo a complete replacement, it’d eat up all the 3 billion, with nothing left for anything else.
In short, this is a ludicrous farce, as the above maths show. Yet, the Western media just beamed… what does that tell you about it (and about Sophia Kishkovsky, Serge Schmemann, Rod Dreher, and Victor Potapov… all willing servitors of the Western media machine)? Pass the jug… the world hasn’t changed has it? There’s NEVER going to be shortage of assholes in the world… and of ignorant asshats to listen to them…
BMD