DEF-CON-1 Full Combat Alert in Ukraine now, Asshole Ripping Up Any Minute

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Russia Rock! Putin Rock! Bravo!

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Ukraine 'on full combat alert' against possible Russia invasion
Published on Apr 30, 2014 5:38 PM
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Ukrainian soldiers stand guard in front of armoured personnel carriers at a check point near the village of Malinivka, southeast of Slaviansk, in eastern Ukraine, on April 29, 2014. Ukraine's military is "on full combat alert" against a possible invasion by Russian troops massed on the border, acting President Oleksandr Turchynov said in a ministerial meeting in Kiev on Wednesday. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

KIEV (AFP) - Ukraine's military is "on full combat alert" against a possible invasion as pro-Russian insurgents tightened their grip on the increasingly chaotic east of the country.

Rebels stormed the regional police building and town hall in the eastern Ukrainian city of Gorlivka, local officials told AFP, bringing to more than a dozen the number of locations under their control.

The new seizure followed clashes in nearby Lugansk late on Tuesday, as hundreds of pro-Russia protesters spearheaded by a heavily armed mob took control of the police station after a fraught stand-off.

Ukraine's interim president Oleksandr Turchynov told his cabinet that the nation's armed forces were on "full combat alert" as fears grew in Kiev that Russia could mount an armed invasion of the ex-Soviet republic.

 

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乌克兰领导人宣布军队进入全面战备状态
2014年04月30日 21:14:15 来源：新华网
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新华网基辅４月３０日电（记者张志强）代行总统职责的乌克兰议长图尔奇诺夫４月３０日宣布，由于俄罗斯对乌克兰采取军事行动的危险越来越大，乌武装力量已经进入全面战备状态。

据当地媒体报道，图尔奇诺夫在首都基辅与乌克兰各州政府领导人开会时宣布了这一决定。他强调，乌克兰各地区都应该参与保卫国家和抵御侵略的行动。

图尔奇诺夫表示，政府已经下令在各州组建地区防御营。当前乌克兰应该拥有在危急时刻把这些部队迅速调往其他地区增援的能力。

图尔奇诺夫还说，乌克兰东部地区，特别是在顿涅茨克州和卢甘斯克州，强力机构没有能力履行其职责，甚至有部队同“恐怖分子”合作的情形出现。

 

[HongKanSeng]

History is in the making now, first shot for WW3 may be fired any minute now.

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/europ...tart-third-world-war-2014425131911324361.html

Kiev: Moscow wants to start third world war
Russia accused of trying to spark global conflict as Ukrainian forces push to regain control of eastern territory.
Last updated: 25 Apr 2014 15:06
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Pro-Russian groups have refused to give up occupied buildings in eastern Ukraine [Reuters]

Kiev has accused Moscow of seeking to trigger a "third world war" as military tensions soared in east Ukraine and US President Barack Obama led a diplomatic charge against Russia.

Ukraine's military on Friday mounted a second phase of an aggressive operation to regain control of the besieged city of Slovyansk even as one of its helicopters was blown up after being hit with rocket fire at a base outside the city.

Officials in Kiev said a rocket-propelled grenade blew up the military helicopter sitting on the tarmac at a base near the eastern town of Kramatorsk. The cause of the explosion has not yet been verified.

The incident came amid an offensive to drive pro-Kremlin gunmen out of eastern Ukraine.

Kiev announced its forces were seeking to "blockade" rebels inside the flashpoint town of Slovyansk to prevent more of what it calls "terrorists" arriving.

Al Jazeera's Hoda Abdel-Hamid, reporting from Donetsk said Slovyansk was still accessible despite claims it had been surrounded.

"We haven't seen any sign of that yet on the ground. Based on what we have seen over the past ten days it seems they have had some false starts it is difficult for them to apply on the ground," she said.

Moscow responded to the military action by saying Kiev's crackdown in the east is a bloody crime and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov warned Ukraine that it would face justice for waging a war against its own people.

Russian troops massed on the border with Ukraine have also relaunched military exercises in response to the crackdown.

The situation in Ukraine has become increasingly militaristic, despite an apparent deal being reached in Geneva whereby all sides agreed to an amnesty for protesters who gave up occupied buildings and a blanket disarming of unauthorised groups.

Global conflict

On Friday Latvia welcomed American troops on its soil, part of a US force of 600 sent to the region to reassure the Baltic states amid concern over Russia's actions in Ukraine.

Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk accused Russia of trying to spark a global conflict.

"The world hasn't forgotten the Second World War and Russia wants to start a third world war," he said.

"Russia's support for the terrorists in Ukraine constitutes an international crime and we call on the international community to unite against the Russian aggression."

US Secretary of State John Kerry said the Kremlin was making an "expensive mistake" by meddling in Ukraine, stressing that further Western sanctions on Moscow were poised to be unveiled.

Moscow, Kerry said, was trying to "actively sabotage the democratic process through gross external intimidation".

"Let me be clear: if Russia continues in this direction, it will not just be a grave mistake, it will be an expensive mistake," he said during a press conference on Thursday.

 

[frenchbriefs]

what if China is backing Russia?after all if China can bankroll 3 trillion of USA's debt,what is a little sanctions gonna do?

 

[emeritus CB]

what if China is backing Russia?after all if China can bankroll 3 trillion of USA's debt,what is a little sanctions gonna do?

http://sammyboy.com/showthread.php?...d-once-war-w-Russia-PRC&p=1860809#post1860809

 

[Jlokta]

I'd like to see Bargain Hen pulling a Defcon 1.

I hope that blanga who has my No4 better turn up at the mob centre.

 

[zhihau]

I'd like to see Bargain Hen pulling a Defcon 1.

so we can shove a RPG up his arse and fire away?

 

[Hitler_Bush]

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They are on their way. Lai Liao!

 

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Ukrainian helicopters shot down as Kiev launches offensive

By John Reed in Slavyansk and Roman Olearchyk in Kiev
Ukrainian soldiers stand near a tank at a checkpoint near the south eastern Ukrainain city of Slavyansk on May 1, 2014. AFP PHOTO / VASILY MAXIMOV (Photo credit should read VASILY MAXIMOV/AFP/Getty Images)©AFP

Two Ukrainian helicopters were shot down on Friday morning as government forces launched a military offensive in Slavyansk, the eastern separatist-held city where armed pro-Russia militia have taken several people hostage.

Ukrainian government officials, and pro-Kiev, and pro-separatist media and social media websites reported that the operation got under way early on Friday morning.

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Slavgorod.com.ua, a Russian-language Ukrainian news website based in Slavyansk, said that an “active phase” of Kiev’s “antiterrorist operation” had begun at 4:30am, when automatic gunfire was heard and alarms sounded in the city, north of the regional capital Donetsk.

Helicopters were seen circling over the town, and battles had broken out at several of the roadblocks pro-Russia militants have erected around the city since the outbreak of unrest last month, the news site reported.

Yuriy Povkh, an adviser to Ukraine’s defence minister, said on television that two Ukrainian helicopters were shot down early on Friday morning by what he called “terrorists”.

“Let’s not call them separatists any more,” he said.

The Novosti Donbassa local news website tweeted a picture that it said showed the pilot of one of the helicopters being taken away by masked men in uniforms.

Photographs showed gunmen digging into their entrenched positions within Slavyansk in preparation for a possible advance by Ukrainian security forces.

“There are real battles under way with professional mercenaries,” Aresen Avakov, interior minister, said in a Facebook posting. “The terrorists are hiding behind the peaceful people of Slavyansk . . . They are firing from residential buildings.”

In a statement, Ukraine’s “antiterrorist command centre”, led by the SBU state security service, said the choppers were shot down by “highly-trained foreign military personnel”.

Arsen Avakov, Ukraine’s interior minister, asked people in Slavyansk and Kramatorsk, a city to the south, to stay indoors.

On April 24, Ukrainian army and interior ministry troops launched an earlier “anti-terror” offensive against Slavyansk that killed at least seven people and injured several others.

The new operation raises the stakes in the Ukrainian government’s confrontation with rebels after a week that saw separatists seize control of administrative, police and judicial buildings in the east.

On Wednesday acting President Oleksandr Turchynov admitted that Kiev had effectively lost control of the eastern Donetsk and Lugansk regions, where about 7m people live.

Separatist rebels a week ago seized a bus travelling near the city carrying members of a German-led military mission, taking its eight west European members and five Ukrainian colleagues hostage. Vyacheslav Ponomarev, the city’s separatist “people’s mayor”, described the group as “prisoners of war” that he said would only be traded for prisoners for the pro-Russian cause being held in Ukrainian custody.

Many more Ukrainian pro-Kiev activists and journalists have gone missing in Slavyansk over the past two weeks.

Arseniy Yatseniuk, Ukraine’s interim prime minister, said in an interview with the Financial Times on Thursday that his country was entering “the most dangerous 10 days” since it gained independence since 1991 as it battled separatists in its eastern industrial heartland.

Ukraine on Thursday announced that it was reintroducing a military draft to help deal with the “deteriorating” situation in the country’s south and east, where separatist militants have seized control of a number of buildings over the past month. Kiev says that the separatists have explicit support from Moscow.

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meanwhile, in Russia,
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The Elite Spetsnaz....
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[laksaboy]

Calm the fuck down. Putin is the good guy in this conflict. Wish him all the best.

Those international Jew banksters have not forgiven Putin on how he had cleverly averted their war against Syria and Iran, so now they're stirring shit in Russia's backyard: Ukraine.

 

[Jlokta]

so we can shove a RPG up his arse and fire away?

Nope, it'd be priceless to see the idiots really reporting for mob.

保家卫国 my foot.