haha haha! Russia will takeover whole Ukraine and MORE

More and more territory control going under Moscow. Soon would be SG. Hahaha!





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Pro-Russians storm Ukraine government buildings
By PETER LEONARD, Associated Press | April 6, 2014 | Updated: April 6, 2014 9:58am
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Photo By Osman Karimov/AP* In this photo taken on Saturday, April 5, 2014, Oleh Lyashko, center left, leader of Ukrainian Radical Party and presidential candidate who supported the protests that ousted Russian-leaning president Viktor Yanukovych, poses with Ukrainian soldiers and officers at their camp near Ukraine-Russian border outside Chernihiv, 140km (87 miles) northeast of Kiev, Ukraine. Ukraine's security service said Saturday it has detained a 15-strong armed gang planning to seize power in an eastern province on the border with Russia. 1 of 5

KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Crowds of pro-Russian demonstrators stormed government buildings Sunday in two major cities in eastern Ukraine, where secessionist sentiment has sparked frequent protests since Ukraine's Russia-friendly president was ousted in February.

In Luhansk, 30 kilometers (20 miles) west of the Russian border, hundreds of people surrounded the local headquarters of the security service and later scaled the facade to plant a Russian flag on the roof.

In Donetsk, to the southwest, a large group of people surged into the provincial government building and smashed windows. A gathering of several hundred, many of them waving Russian flags, then listened to speeches delivered from a balcony emblazoned with a banner reading "Donetsk Republic."

Eastern Ukraine was the heartland of support for Viktor Yanukovych, the president who fled to Russia in February after months of protests. About half of the region's residents are ethnic Russians, many of whom believe Ukraine's acting authorities are Ukrainian nationalists who will oppress Russians.

Ukraine's interim authorities deny they are infringing the rights of the ethnic Russian population and accuse Moscow of trying to sow instability. Russia has moved large contingents of troops to areas near the Ukrainian border, and speculation is strong that unrest in eastern Ukraine could be used as a pretext for a Russian incursion.

Since Crimea held a referendum to secede and then was annexed by Russia in March, calls for similar referenda in Ukraine's east have emerged.

On Saturday, Ukraine's security service said it had detained a 15-strong armed gang planning to seize power in Luhansk province.

The Security Service of Ukraine said it seized 300 machine guns, an antitank grenade launcher, a large number of grenades, five handguns and firebombs.

It said the group intended to mount a grab for power. No names or additional details were provided.

Also Sunday, authorities in Ukraine said they found the body of a kidnapped journalist who played an active role in protests that led to Yanukovych's ouster. The body was found in a forest about 150 kilometers (60 miles) outside the capital, Kiev.

Cherkassk province prosecutors said Vasily Sergiyenko was abducted in his home city of Korsun-Shevchenkivskyi on Friday evening and later murdered. The nationalist Svoboda party, of which Sergiyenko was a member, said the reporter was found with stab wounds and signs of beatings to his head and knees.

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DONETSK: Ukraine was threatened with disintegration Monday as pro-Kremlin militants seized government buildings in the eastern city of Donetsk, declared independence and vowed to vote on joining Russia.

The activists proclaimed the creation of a "people's republic" and appealed to Russian President Vladimir Putin to send a "peacekeeping contingent of the Russian army" to support them.

Ukraine accused Russia of fomenting the unrest and in Washington, the White House responded by calling on Moscow to stop efforts to "destabilise Ukraine" and threatened sanctions.

But Moscow brushed off the accusations and called the latest trouble a sign of Kiev's Western-backed leaders' ineptitude and illegitimacy.

The Cold War-style war of words came as Russian troops remained massed on the Ukrainian border.

Since Russia annexed Crimea, several mainly Russian-speaking eastern regions have seen calls for referendums on joining Russia when Ukraine holds snap presidential polls on May 25.

The political pressure on Kiev's embattled leaders reached boiling point on Sunday when thousands of activists chanting "Russia!" seized administration buildings in Kharkiv and Donetsk as well as the security service headquarters in the eastern region of Lugansk.

The Donetsk activists went one step further on Monday by proclaiming the creation of a sovereign "people's republic".

A video posted on YouTube showed one bearded Russian speaker telling the packed assembly: "Seeking to create a popular, legitimate, sovereign state, I proclaim the creation of the sovereign state of the People's Republic of Donetsk."

Ukraine's Channel 5 television showed an unidentified speaker asking Putin to send a "peacekeeping contingent of the Russian army" to Donetsk to help the region stand up to Kiev's rule.

Ukraine's acting president, Oleksandr Turchynov, accused Russian "special services" of being behind the uprising and ordered extra security personnel to the restless region.

"These actions are meant to destabilise the country, overthrow the Ukrainian government, torpedo the elections and tear our country to pieces," Turchynov said in a nationally televised address.

The Russian foreign ministry responded with a toughly worded statement telling Kiev to "stop pointing the finger at Russia, blaming it for all the problems in today's Ukraine."

But the White House put the onus back on Moscow by describing the latest developments "as the result of increasing Russian pressure on Ukraine."

"We call on President Putin and his government to cease efforts to destabilise Ukraine," White House spokesman Jay Carney said.

Washington's concern underscores the trouble Kiev may have in bringing order to Ukraine's eastern industrial heartland -- a region with ancient cultural and trade ties to Russia.

The Donetsk administration building on Monday remained surrounded by about 2,000 Russia supporters -- some of them armed.

Militants also seized the Donetsk security service headquarters while rival rallies gripped the heart of the nearby city of Kharkiv after its own administration building was occupied briefly overnight.

Nevertheless, Washington held open the door to diplomacy, with John Kerry calling his Russian counterpart to discuss talks between the United States, Russia, Ukraine and the European Union.

Much of the blame in Kiev was levelled directly at Putin -- a sign of how relations between the two neighbours have plunged in the past few months.

Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said Russia had helped orchestrate the occupations in order to find an excuse for a full invasion that would punish Kiev for its decision to seek a political and economic alliance with the West.

"This scenario is written by the Russian Federation and its only purpose is to dismember Ukraine," Yatsenyuk told a government meeting in Kiev.

Moscow is now lobbying for Ukraine to be transformed into a federation that allows eastern regions to adopt Russian as a second state language and overrule some decisions coming from Kiev.

But Washington and its EU allies fear Russia is using the federation idea as an excuse to further splinter Ukraine by granting the Kremlin veto powers over Kiev's regional policies.

The new Kiev government approved a draft reform plan last week that would grant more powers to the regions in line with Western wishes but stopped well short of creating the federation sought by Russia.

And Yatsenyuk on Monday called federalisation a dangerous idea aimed at ruining Ukraine.

"Any call toward federalisation is an attempt to destroy the Ukrainian state," he said.

- AFP/rw

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A Russian soldier has shot dead a Ukrainian naval officer in eastern Crimea, Ukraine’s Defence Ministry said on Monday, in one of few fatalities reported since Russia took control of the Black Sea peninsula.

The ministry gave few details of the death late on Sunday in the town of Novofyodorovka.

Russian forces took over Crimea in an almost bloodless operation before Moscow annexed the region last month.

Protests in eastern Ukraine in which pro-Russian activists seized public buildings in three cities are part of a plan to destabilise Ukraine and bring in Russian troops, Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk said on Monday.

Saying Russian troops were within a 30 km (19 mile) zone from the Ukrainian border, Yatseniuk told a government meeting: “An anti-Ukrainian plan is being put into operation … under which foreign troops will cross the border and seize the territory of the country.

“We will not allow this,” he said.

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Ukraine is struggling to keep control of key cities in its pro-Russian east as demonstrators seize government buildings and demand votes on joining Russia.

Authorities said shots were fired and at least 60 protesters arrested in Kharkiv Tuesday, while pro-Russian demonstrators held on to government offices captured Sunday in Donetsk.

In Luhansk, Ukrainian authorities said more than 50 people were allowed to leave state security headquarters early Wednesday, where the pro-Russians were allegedly holding 60 hostages. The officials said the protesters have wired the building with explosives.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry accused Russian agents and special forces of stoking separatist unrest in eastern Ukraine. He called the Russian actions "a contrived pretext for military intervention just as we saw in Crimea."

Kerry told a Senate committee Tuesday that Moscow's involvement in Ukraine was "clear and unmistakable." He said President Barack Obama is preparing more tough sanctions on Russia if it continues destabilizing Ukraine.

Also Tuesday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said southeastern Ukraine should be included in talks about the country's future. He said Russia wants to see the largely Russian-speaking region represented in multilateral talks.

Meanwhile, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden spoke with two European leaders on the crisis in Ukraine.

Biden met with Montenegrin Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic at the White House and telephoned Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico. Biden thanked Fico for helping Ukraine diversify its energy supplies so it is not so dependent on Russian natural gas.
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tiny weak countries must be conquered and consumed up by the stronger. SG included.

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tiny weak countries must be conquered and consumed up by the stronger. SG included.

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In next few years, the global power play will be between Russia and China vs USA and EU. :o

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In next few years, the global power play will be between Russia and China vs USA and EU. :o

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Then everyday can drink toddy. Shiok.

Hahaha! Think again who sanction who.


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Putin warns Russia may cut Ukraine gas, urges EU cooperation

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A man walks across pipes from an underground gas storage facility of the Chernomorneftegaz company in the village of Glebovka, in Crimea's Chernomorsky district, April 9, 2014.*Pressident Vladimir Putin on Thursday sent a letter to leaders of 18 European countries, warning them Russia could yet cut gas supplies to Ukraine, but suggesting that Moscow and Brussels work together to help restore the ex-Soviet country's battered economy. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
MOSCOW (AFP) - Pressident Vladimir Putin on Thursday sent a letter to leaders of 18 European countries, warning them Russia could yet cut gas supplies to Ukraine, but suggesting that Moscow and Brussels work together to help restore the ex-Soviet country's battered economy.

If Ukraine does not settle its US$2.2 billion (S$2.7 billion) energy bill, natural gas giant Gazprom would be "compelled to switch over to advance payment for gas deliveries, and in the event of further violation of the conditions of payment, will completely or partially cease gas deliveries," Mr Putin wrote in the letter.

The missive's text was released by the Kremlin, Mr Putin also said that "Russia is prepared to participate in the effort to stabilise and restore Ukraine's economy" but only on "equal terms" with the EU.

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MONS, Belgium, April 10 (Reuters) - NATO unveiled satellite photographs on Thursday it said showed Russian deployments of some 40,000 troops near the Ukrainian frontier, along with long lines of tanks, armored vehicles, artillery and aircraft ready for action.

"This is a force that is very capable, at high readiness, and, as we have illustrated through the imagery, is close to routes and lines of communication," British Brigadier Gary Deakin said at a briefing at NATO military headquarters at Mons in southern Belgium.

"It has the resources to be able to move quickly into Ukraine if it was ordered to do so," he said. If Russian political leaders took a decision to send forces into Ukraine, the first Russian forces could be on the move within 12 hours.

NATO has spotted Russian forces at more than 100 different sites close to the Ukraine border, he said.

The Western alliance displayed the commercial satellite images to reporters as evidence to back up its warnings of a Russian military buildup that could threaten Ukraine.

Russia denies massing forces near the border and accuses NATO of fomenting concern to rally support for the alliance.

Many of the sites in the images appeared to be fields rather than established military bases. The sites were located between about 40 kilometers (25 miles) and 150 kilometers of the Ukraine border, according to the images shown.

Russia's occupation and annexation of Ukraine's Crimea region has caused the biggest crisis in East-West relations since the Cold War and led to fears in Kiev that Moscow could send forces into other parts of Ukraine.

"They have all the capabilities: air, special forces, artillery. They have everything," Brigadier Deakin said.

The satellite pictures exhibited by NATO showed long lines of tanks, armored vehicles, artillery and aircraft parked and ready for action at a series of makeshift staging posts.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has accused Russian agents and special forces of stirring up separatist unrest and said Moscow could be trying to prepare for military action.

Russia denies the accusations and has dismissed concerns over a troop buildup.

In a buildup that began in early March, the satellite images showed that Russia has amassed not only infantry and artillery but electronic warfare units, helicopters and aircraft, said another NATO officer, speaking on condition of anonymity.

The pictures were taken between March 22 and April 2. NATO's assessment is that troop numbers have remained at about the same level since then. (Reporting by Adrian Croft; editing by Ralph Boulton)


This satellite image made by DigitalGlobe on March 22, 2014, and provided by Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) on Tuesday, April 9, 2014, shows what is purported to be a Russian military airborne or Spetznaz (Special Forces) brigade at Yeysk, near the Sea of Azov in southern Russia. (AP Photo/DigitalGlobe via SHAPE)



This satellite image made by DigitalGlobe on March 22, 2014, and provided by Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) on Tuesday, April 9, 2014, shows what are purported to be Russian military Su-27/30 "Flankers" aircraft at the Primorko-Akhtarsk Air Base in southern Russia. (AP Photo/DigitalGlobe via SHAPE)



This satellite image made by DigitalGlobe on March 26, 2014, and provided by Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) on Tuesday, April 9, 2014, shows what are purported to be Russian Mil Mi-8 "Hips" and Mil Mi-24 "Hinds" aircraft in Belgorod, southern Russia, about 50 km north of the Russian border with eastern Ukraine. (AP Photo/DigitalGlobe via SHAPE)



This satellite image made by DigitalGlobe on March 27, 2014, and provided by Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) on Tuesday, April 9, 2014, shows what is purported to be a Russian artillery battalion at a military base near Novocherkassk, east of the Sea of Azov in southern Russia. (AP Photo/DigitalGlobe via SHAPE)

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If Russia moved 40,000 or more combat-ready troops to the Chinese border, would Beijing consider that a threat? Wouldn't anybody?
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hmm that can be anywhere , it also could be standard troops and thats not alot ...
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remember the good old days of pre iraq war , saying this and that , in the end total lies !
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Can you blame them?

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putin saves us all from nazis in ukraine and terrorists in syria. lul. very hero!!!

Putin proved that USA is useless shit.

From now on whole world knows how to fuck USA up side down.

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What gave her away? Russian social worker who posed with grenade launcher in floral dress is captured by Ukraine and accused of being a Moscow spy

• Maria Koleda 'involved in a plot to capture power plant' near Crimea
  
• Photos show her in a floral dress clutching a grenade launcher
  
• US claims Russia is paying agents to stir unrest in the east so it can invade

By Will Stewart In Moscow and Dan Bloom
Published: 16:35 GMT, 9 April 2014 | Updated: 21:04 GMT, 9 April 2014

An 23-year-old 'Russian spy' has been detained in Ukraine amid claims Vladimir Putin is seeking to destabilise the country.

Ukrainian authorities say Maria Koleda was on her ninth mission to the ex-Soviet state, wounding three people with firearms and training two armed subversive groups.

The detention comes on the fourth day of a stand-off in two cities, as Ukraine's government warned it was prepared to use force against pro-Russian activists who barricaded themselves inside government buildings and begged Vladimir Putin for back-up.

'Spy': Ukraine has accused 23-year-old Russian social worker Maria Koleda of working for Moscow. Photos have emerged of her holding a rocket-propelled grenade launcher in a floral dress and stroking a kitten

Accusations: Koleda has been nicknamed Bagheera after the cunning panther in The Jungle Book

Authorities say Koleda, who was detained in the Kherson region bordering Crimea, was involved in a plot to 'capture sensitive facilities' including a hydropower plant.
Photos of emerged of her in camouflage clothes stroking a kitten and in a floral dress clutching a rocket-propelled grenade launcher.

Russia annexed Crimea last month and the U.S. has accused the Kremlin of trying to do the same thing in eastern Ukraine by funding 'provocateurs' to stir unrest so it can invade.

Moscow has been accused before of using young female agents - notably the glamorous Anna Chapman, formerly married to a British man before being unmasked by the FBI in New York - in frontline intelligence operations.

Koleda uses the nickname Bagheera online - thought to be based on the cunning black panther in Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book.

She used firearms during unrest outside Mykolaiv Regional State Administration in southern Ukraine, in which she admitted 'that she wounded three people', said the SBU (Ukraine's secret service) in a lengthy statement naming Koleda.

Kiev claimed she had orders from Russian intelligence to check places where Russian troops could penetrate from Crimea onto Ukraine's mainland, 'bypassing the checkpoints'.

Russia has been accused before of using glamorous female agents, notably Anna Chapman, pictured

Ukraine's secret service claimed Koleda, pictured, used firearms and wounded three people

Detained: Ukrainian authorities claimed Maria Koleda was on her ninth fact-finding mission to the country

When she was detained she carried 'a traumatic pistol' with live ammunition and 'guidelines for training subversive groups'.

'She said this was her ninth trip to Ukraine,' said an SBU statement which claimed to have evidence of her reporting to her spymaster in Russia about pro-Moscow activists equipped with 'unlimited supplies of explosives'.

The 23-year-old graduated as a social worker from a Moscow university.

'What we see from Russia is an illegal, illegitimate effort to destroy a sovereign state and create a contrived crisis with paid operatives'

- U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry

Like Katia Zatuliveter, suspected by MI5 of working for Russian intelligence after securing a job with MP Mike Hancock, she had lived in St Petersburg.

Russia's FSB - part of the former Soviet-era KGB - did not comment on Koleda's detention.

Ukraine presidential candidate Yulia Tymoshenko warned Moscow is deploying tightly-knit agent provocateur groups to control protests which have no popular legitimacy.

'The techniques are absolutely the same,' said the ex-premier. 'Out of 250 people, there are groups of three-to-four FSB representatives, then foremen, who obey them.

'They do not rely on support from the people at all'

The development came as masked pro-Russians who stormed Ukrainian state buildings and declared a new 'People's Republic' called on Vladimir Putin for help.

The U.S. has accused the Russian administration of funding the 'illegal' unrest which is ongoing in the cities of Donetsk and Luhansk.

'What we see from Russia is an illegal, illegitimate effort to destroy a sovereign state and create a contrived crisis with paid operatives', U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said yesterday.

And Ukraine's government warns it is prepared to use force against the activists, who reinforced barricades using sandbags, razor wire and car bumpers and declared a sovereign 'People's Republic'.

Reinforced: Pro-Russian activists in Donetsk (pictured) and Luhansk have build fresh barricades today as the Ukrainian government warns it is ready to use force to eject them from government-owned buildings

Homemade: The barricades in Donetsk have been strengthened - with a row of car bumpers covered in wire

Armed: U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has directly accused Russia of using 'provocateurs' in Ukraine

Anger: The activists stormed government buildings in Donetsk (pictured) and Luhansk on Sunday

Festive cheer: A woman dishes out food to pro-Russian protesters in front of the seized building in Donetsk

East v West: Unrest has flared in eastern Ukraine, whose residents have strong ethnic ties to Russia. Last month Russia annexed Crimea - and now separatists in Moldova say they want to join Russia too

'Of course we must ask Russia to take us in because I don't see an alternative,' said a man who claimed he was the 'commandant' of the seized ex-KGB building in Luhansk.
He shouted: 'Putin help us!'

Last night 56 'hostages' were allowed to leave the building amid claims they had been held against their will and the building had been rigged with explosives. There was later confusion as to whether there had been any hostages at all.

Today, some of the activists were in talks with the Ukrainian authorities on how to dispel the tension.

Serhiy Tyhipko, a figure with the previous Ukraine government, urged authorities not to storm the building in Luhansk but negotiate a peaceful solution instead.

Tyhipko said the protesters wanted to turn Ukraine into a federal state with broad regional autonomy, not join Russia.

'Putin help us!' This pro-Russian activist in Luhansk said his name was Vasily and he was the 'commandant'

Hostilities: In Luhansk it was claimed up to 60 hostages were taken and the building was rigged with explosives. Conflicting reports said the 'hostages' were released and that there had never been any at all

Prepare for battle: Molotov cocktails are lined up next to the barricades in Luhansk. Force could soon be used

'The people are not bringing up the issue of breaking off from Ukraine and are not calling for the help of foreign countries,' Tyhipko said.

Interior Minister Arsen Avakov said the standoffs must be resolved within the next two days.

'I want to repeat that there are two options: political settlement through negotiations and the use of force,' he said. 'We are ready for both options.'

Yesterday 70 activists were arrested in a third city, Kharkiv, after Ukrainian special forces stormed their barricades and cleared the building.

But the move led to a punch-up in the Ukrainian Parliament in Kiev after one politician accused the government of being too 'heavy-handed'.

The views by a communist leader infuriated two nationalists, who marched across the chamber and grabbed him mid-speech prompting several other politicians to trade blows.

Protest: In Kharkiv, 70 activists were arrested and demonstrators gathered near the court today (pictured)

Anger: Pro-Russians hold placards reading 'Freedom for detained heroes' near the court in Kharkiv

School run: Children look on as policemen with riot shields file through the streets in Kharkiv

Court appearance: One of the 70 detained in an 'anti-terrorist' operation is led into the court in Kharkiv

When Putin's tank division rolls in there's nothing on it's way capable of stopping it. Especially from NATO and USA.

Ukrainian forces proved incapable in Crimea already. Obama dare not even try.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Georgian_war


Putin did it before. Won hands down. USA used only mouth and asshole to support Georgia.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/satellite-images-show-russian-forces-3400270

Satellite images show Russian forces massing on Ukraine border says top Nato general
Apr 11, 2014 13:46 By Simon Keegan
Russian special forces lining up on Ukraine border as Nato warns US troops could be sent in as a counter-move*

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Russian warplanes, helicopters and artillery are lining up near the Ukraine border according to Europe's top general.

General Philip Breedlove, the top military commander of the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) said satellite images show Russia is poised and ready on the Ukraine border.

General Breedlove said a probable airborne or special forces brigade deployment could also be spotted on the pictures as Russian armed forces maintained their presence in the area's military bases.

British Brigadier Gary Deakin said: "This is a force that is very capable, at high readiness, and, as we have illustrated through the imagery, is close to routes and lines of communication.

"It has the resources to be able to move quickly into Ukraine if it was ordered to do so."

The pictures were released to news agency Reuters by SHAPE and were taken by commercial provider DigitalGlobe.

But the Russian media insist they are old pictures taken in August.

General Breedlove said US troops could be deployed to alliance nations in eastern Europe who felt at risk as a counter-move to the seemingly advancing Russians.