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Thursday 11 September 2014

Ukraine Town Bears Scars of Russian Offensive That Turned Tide in Conflict

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After Russian units bombarded Ukraine forces around Ilovaisk, a Ukrainian soldier’s helmet marked his grave.CreditMauricio Lima for The New York Times
ILOVAISK, Ukraine — Burned-out tanks, troop carriers and trucks still lie strewn on the roads and fields all around this town. The body of a Ukrainian soldier hangs doubled over an electric wire, flung up like a doll when his tank exploded. The charred corpse of another soldier lies inside the hull of the tank, a third putrifying torso is tangled in machinery on the road.
It is vivid, if horrifying, evidence of what was a devastating offensive mounted by Russian artillery units at the end of August that smashed the government forces, breaking what had been a relentless advance that had seemed on the verge of crushing the pro-Russian uprising in the country’s southeast. Days later, Ukraine agreed to a cease-fire cementing the rebels’ hold on the region.
In a matter of five days, beginning on Aug. 28, the previously ill-equipped and inept rebels, backed or led by regular Russian troops and artillery, obliterated almost every Ukrainian position in a 20-square-mile area around this town.
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200 MILES
RUSSIA
Kiev
Dnieper
River
Ilovaisk
UKRAINE
Donetsk
Sea of
Azov
Black Sea
Under withering and highly accurate artillery fire, entire Ukrainian units were virtually wiped out, hundreds of men were killed or wounded, and 250 were taken prisoner, according to rebel commanders. Scores of wounded have filled Ukrainian hospitals, and nearly 100 vehicles were destroyed, some in the fields and villages, others on the roads.
Signs of a panicked, haphazard retreat line the roads around the town. The twisted remnants of burned-out troop carriers and other armored vehicles appear every few miles.
South of Ilovaisk, a large military camp at a dairy farm shows evidence of similarly devastating artillery strikes. Assorted vehicles, trucks and armored personnel carriers, including a command vehicle with communications antenna, were destroyed. Craters from artillery fire pockmarked the fields.
It was a stunning turnaround, engineered in Moscow and carried out by regular Russian troops in what amounted to an invasion, NATO and the Ukrainian government have said.
After the attack, the rebel forces, who just days before had been facing defeat and complaining about a lack of support from Moscow, could be seen driving around the countryside in triumph. Rebel fighters, dressed in camouflage fatigues and carrying automatic rifles, operated checkpoints on the roads and once again control this town and its surroundings.

Ukrainian forces had made steady progress through the summer, pushing the rebels out of several areas and threatening their center of power, the regional capital of Donetsk. They attacked Ilovaisk on Aug. 7 and within a week or so had seized the western part of the town and set up a base in a school building, School No. 14, and in the residential streets around it.
As the soldiers occupied the neighborhood, Victoria and Alexei Babyi fled with their two small children, taping the word DETI, which means children, on the windshield of the car and tying a white sheet to the side mirror.
“We spent a week in the basement, and then we left,” said Mrs. Babyi, 28, who with her husband had returned to their trashed house to pick up clothes and other possessions. “There were many Ukrainian checkpoints and military equipment. Planes were flying, and they were bombing the Donetsk checkpoints, and Grad rockets were falling.”
As the end of August approached, the rebels still held half of the town, but they were almost surrounded and had a single supply route open to the northeast. But under a barrage of artillery, rebel and Ukrainian commanders say, the balance rapidly shifted. The rebel commander in the town, who goes by the nickname Givi — his real name is Mikhail Tolstykh — described three weeks of heavy fighting leading up to the counterattack.
It was a “massive offensive,” Commander Tolstykh said. Heavy artillery positioned about 12 miles away opened up on the Ukrainian forces in support, he said.
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Vasiliy Goncharov looked at his destroyed home. 
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Mauricio Lima for The New York Times
Ukrainian soldiers described wave after wave of artillery strikes across the region. Border guards in the south said they were hit even earlier, on the night of Aug. 23, and forced to abandon their positions.
“The Russian Army is very good,” said a soldier in one of Ukraine’s volunteer battalions farther south, who gave only his nickname, Panzer. “They don’t take risks. They see us and bomb in a square. They bomb everything in that square, our positions, a village, homes, everything. We can do nothing; we don’t have artillery.”
The Ukrainian Army does have some tanks and artillery, but the forces around Ilovaisk, a mixture of army units and lightly armed volunteer units, seem to have been poorly defended.
On Aug. 29, surrounded and under increasing pressure, the men of the Donbass battalion, who had set up headquarters in Ilovaisk’s School No. 14, tried to break out in a convoy.
Semyon Semyonchenko, the commander of the battalion, who had been wounded earlier, wrote a real-time chronicle of the fighting on his Facebook page from his hospital bed. He complained that his men had not received any reinforcements. Then, as they pulled out, the convoy was ambushed.
“Now they are fighting, we need help immediately,” he wrote. “I can only help and pray that the best sons of Ukraine will survive.”
In the village of Novo Ekaterinovo, where the corpses of Ukrainian soldiers lay amid the wreckage, residents said a cannon placed on a hilltop above their homes hit Ukrainian vehicles as they retreated along the road over a period of three days.
“I feel sorry for those men, they are also young lads,” a village woman said.
“They are our enemies,” replied a rebel soldier who gave only his first name, Yarik, and who accompanied journalists to the area.
But there was little doubt about the effectiveness of the Russian intervention. “It really changed the situation. It gives us more power and the belief that everything will be good for us,” said Commander Tolstykh in Ilovaisk. “It showed us that we are one, all the people of the Donetsk republic, and that we are united.”
Few people in Ilovaisk dared believe that the fighting was over, however. The town is still without electricity, gas and water.
“We cannot talk of security. We have no idea of who is going to come back. We don’t know if it is over,” Mrs. Babyi said.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

NY times is own by the jews who is pushing for war with russia and a lopsided newspaper, always reporting one side of the story the one approved by their owners... most of the journalists nowadays need to ask permission from the CIA before they could print anything for the public... i will post the link later... let's hear the BS from some uninformed posters first , just for fun.

Anonymous said...

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[(Ken Silverstein) A prominent national security reporter for the Los Angeles Times routinely submitted drafts and detailed summaries of his stories to CIA press handlers prior to publication, according to documents obtained by The Intercept...Dilanian’s emails were included in hundreds of pages of documents that the CIA turned over in response to two FOIA requests seeking records on the agency’s interactions with reporters. They include email exchanges with reporters for the Associated Press, Washington Post, New York Times,Wall Street Journal, and other outlets. In addition to Dilanian’s deferential relationship with the CIA’s press handlers, the documents show that the agency regularly invites journalists to its McLean, Va., headquarters for briefings and other events. Reporters who have addressed the CIA include the Washington Post‘s David Ignatius, the former ombudsmen for the New York Times, NPR, and Washington Post, and Fox News’ Brett Baier, Juan Williams, and Catherine Herridge.]

most news media are owned by a handfull of people, george Soros is one of the people who pushes for NWO [ new world order where there is only ONE government , no borders between countries and one central bank ]

[This Chart Shows The Bilderberg Group's Connection To Everything In The World
The Bilderberg Group is 120-140 powerful people who meet each year to discuss policy. The meetings are closed to the public.

This graph we found on Facebook shows the members' connections to a ton of corporations, charities, policy groups and media. Everyone from Eric Schmidt to George Soros is a member. There are tons of conspiracy theories about the group, including that they control the world economy.]

[We have known for quite some time now that the flow of information is tightly controlled within the mainstream media system, but one graphic really highlights just how tightly controlled the information we are delivered truly is — and how a total of only 6 corporations run the show.]

[ In a comical development, Agence France Presse reports that Ukrainian President Petro Portoshenko is now saying that Russia's army and its heavy weapons, which he and the US and its NATO puppets were claiming had flooded eastern Ukraine and were responsible for the stunning route of Ukrainian forces in recent weeks, have now been "withdrawn" from Ukrainian territory.

In other words, the Russian Army, whose existence was never documented by US satellite or ground photos, has now vanished from the scene as mysteriously as it arrived. How convenient. What appears to actually be happening is that Portoshenko, whose war against eastern Ukraine separatists was an abject failure, is trying to save his presidency in the face of what amounts to a complete surrender of the eastern part of the country to separatist rebels. ]

link
http://govtslaves.info/l-times-reporter-cleared-stories-cia-publication/
http://www.businessinsider.com/these-6-corporations-control-90-of-the-media-in-america-2012-6
http://www.businessinsider.com/this-chart-shows-the-bilderberg-groups-connection-to-everything-in-the-world-2012-6
http://www.storyleak.com/graphic-6-corporations-own-90-percent-of-media/

Anonymous said...

some more regarding ukraine

[he New York Times, in its ceaseless anti-Russian bias over the Ukraine crisis, now wants everyone to use the “I-word” – for “invasion” – when describing Russia’s interference in Ukraine despite the flimsy supporting evidence for the charge presented by Kiev and NATO.

The evidence, including commercial satellite photos lacking coordinates, was so unpersuasive that former U.S. intelligence analysts compared the case to the Iraq-WMD deception of last decade. Yet, while ignoring concerns about the quality of the proof, the Times ran a front-page story on Friday mocking Western political leaders, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Barack Obama, for not uttering the “I-word.”

The Times’ article by Andrew Higgins essentially baited Merkel and Obama to adopt the most hyperbolic phrasing on the crisis or risk being denounced as weak. The Times couched its criticism of their “circumspect” language – or what it called “terminological fudges” – as a victory for Russian President Vladimir Putin.]

They are using the militias which support nazi ideology , it does matter as long as the ukraine side could win-- once these militias have all the weapons they need they will turn against the jews in ukraine and other races -- these militias are white supremacists which believe that white people won this world others exist to serve them quite similar to orthodox jews ; so in the future the ukraine will have another problem in their hand just like the Obama giving guns to moderate rebels who later become the ISIS... now obama want to give more weapons to the moderate to get rid of the ISIS... very smart, isn't he ?

[German television aired images Monday night showing the helmets of Ukrainian soldiers emblazoned with Nazi insignia.

The video, shot last week and broadcasted on ZDF, shows a swastika on one soldier’s helmet and an SS logo on another.]

link to picture : https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/509320802211098624/photo/1

link to articles
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/09/09/the-very-disturbing-symbols-found-emblazoned-on-the-helmets-of-ukrainian-soldiers/
http://thenewsdoctors.com/sidestepping-ukraines-n-word-for-nazi/