Civil War in Ukraine: Western Empire vs Russia

[Ca.]

American filmmaker destroys pro-Kiev propagandist on Russian political talk show
Russia Insider
Published on Nov 27, 2015

Miguel Francis-Santiago, filmmaker of RT Documentary Channel, on National Channel Zvezda discussing Ukraine with Ukrainian political analyst Vyacheslav Kovtun and New York Post observer Mark Nuckols on November 11th 2015.

https://youtu.be/bO5dqtxeJb0

NATO Relations and the Alliance with Turkey
Published on Nov 27, 2015
Армія України - Ukraine Army
_https://youtu.be/2uMoUW6Ksjc
Specially thanks for the Turkish Air Force video which made by our Ukrainian friend.

Armed Forces of Ukraine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armed_Forces_of_Ukraine
Recent operations:

Ukraine has been playing an increasingly larger role in peacekeeping operations. Since 1992, over 30,000 soldiers have taken part in missions in the former Yugoslavia (IFOR in Bosnia and Herzegovina, UNPROFOR and UNTAES in Croatia, KFor in Kosovo), the Middle East (Southern Lebanon, Kuwait, Iraq), and Africa (Angola, Sierra Leone, Liberia).[64]

Since 1997, Ukraine has been working closely with NATO and especially with Poland. A Ukrainian unit was deployed as part of the multinational force in Iraq under Polish command. Ukrainian troops are also deployed as part of the Ukrainian-Polish Battalion (UKRPOLBAT) in Kosovo. The total Ukrainian military deployment around the world as of 1 August 2009 was 540 servicemen participating in 8 peacekeeping missions.[64]

The first battle of a regular formation of the Ukrainian Armed Forces happened on April 6, 2004 in Kut, Iraq, when the Ukrainian peacekeeping contingent was attacked by militants of the Mahdi Army. The Ukrainians took fire, and over several hours held the objectives they had been assigned to secure.[65]

Ukrainian troops as part of the former Soviet Armed Forces contingent participated in UNPROFOR in 1992, and in the summer of that year were involved into the civil war in Yugoslavia. On July 3, 1992 the Verkhovna Rada adopted a resolution committing the Ukrainian Armed Forces to UN peacekeeping missions. The Minister of Defense, Kostyantyn Morozov, ordered the creation of the 240th Separate Special Battalion (UKRBAT-1) which was based on the 93rd Guard Motor-Rifle Division (now the 93rd Mechanized Infantry Division). Soon after arrival in Sarajevo on July 31, 1992, the battalion's artillery complex ended up in the middle of a mutual mortar fight between the Bosnian Serbs and Bosnian Muslims. One of the Serbian shells hit the Ukrainian position, seriously wounding seven soldiers, one of whom died after hospitalization in Germany.

Since gaining independence Ukraine has deployed troops to Iraq, Afghanistan, Kosovo, as well as dedicating peacekeepers to UN missions to Africa. Ukrainian naval units also participated in anti piracy operations off the coast of Somalia prior to being recalled due to the 2014 Russian invasion of Ukraine.[66]

On 19 January 2015 Ukraine's 18th separate helicopter detachment along with other MONUSCO troops carried out a successful operation eliminating 2 camps belonging to illegal armed groups in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.[67]

NATO Propaganda
NATO
Mar 30, 2015
Blood Brothers - Why Lithuanians feel Ukraine's pain (NATO Review)
_https://youtu.be/yqfBkJNRyn0

Sputnik
US, NATO Aggression Contributes to Neo-Nazi Actions in Ukraine - Politician
16:04 01.10.2015
Aggressive policies by the United States and NATO have led to a growing threat of neo-Nazism in Ukraine, a political group ignored by European politicians, the head of Ukraine’s Communist Party Petro Symonenko said Thursday.
http://sputniknews.com/europe/20151001/1027849724/us-nato-nazi-ukraine.html


Caution Graphic Images and Subject Matter
UkraineWarInfo
Nazi NATO, but No War Crimes Tribunal? Why?
Published On: Mon, Nov 10th, 2014
_http://www.ukrainewar.info/nazi-nato-war-crimes-tribunal/

All of this — from the “false flag” coup, to the “false flag” airliner-shoot-down — were like Hitler’s burning of the Reichstag building and blaming of it upon “the communists.” Except, this time, it’s being blamed on “the Russians.” And, this time, it’s the U.S. that’s leading the nazi and the lesser fascist forces, rather than warring against them. This time, Washington created the nazi and fascist attacks. And Europe, the IMF, and NATO, have been following along and adding muscle to Obama’s crimes.

Russia Insider
Sat, Nov 21 2015
http://russia-insider.com/en/politics/moscow-bewildered-us-canadian-and-ukrainian-rejection-un-resolution-condemning-nazi
Moscow Bewildered as US, Canada, and Ukraine Reject UN Resolution Condemning Nazi Glorification
And people still wonder why the Ukrainian government continues to be dogged by its Nazi links

A UN General Assembly committee has passed a resolution “combating glorification of Nazism,” with 126 countries voicing their support. Meanwhile, the US, Ukraine and Canada voted “against,” raising eyebrows. Moscow has called the decision “regrettable.”

The resolution, which was initially proposed by Russia and co-authored by 52 states, including Brazil, China, India, and Kazakhstan, deals with measures to fight the glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism, and other practices that facilitate the escalation of modern forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and intolerance.


It condemns any denial of the Holocaust, as well as any form of glorification of the Nazi movement, including honoring former members of the Waffen SS organization. The document also expresses concern over the installation of memorials related to Nazism and “unending attempts to desecrate or destroy the monuments to those who fought against Nazism during World War II.”

The vote was held at the UN General Assembly’s so-called Third Committee on social, humanitarian and cultural issues. The full General Assembly is scheduled to vote on the resolution later, during the 70th session.

A total of 126 member-states supported the resolution, while four countries — the US, Canada, Palau, and Ukraine – voted against it. Another 53 countries, including the European Union nations and NATO members abstained from the vote.

The four votes against the resolution raised questions, with Russia stating that it finds the decision of those countries to reject the resolution “bewildering” and “regrettable.”

Last year, 115 countries voted in support of a similar resolution, with three countries voting against – the US, Canada, and Ukraine.

 

[angelburst29]

This is the first report, I have come across on the U.S. delivering old "junkie" military equipment to Ukraine.

US military delivers "recyclable junk" to Ukrainian military
http://fortruss.blogspot.ru/2015/12/us-military-delivers-recyclable-junk-to.html

Instead of weapons the American deliver military junk to Ukraine"

The US is supplying Ukraine on the front line not with military equipment, but military junk subject to recycling. The influential American newspaper The Washington Post came to this conclusion.

The publication reads: “The United States has delivered a sum of more than $260 million of non-lethal military equipment to aid the government of Ukraine in fighting against a pro-Russian rebellion, but some of the military equipment supplied by the US is little more than garbage.”

Thus, around 100 Hummer military jeeps delivered last summer were more capable of being recycled than anything else. The “newest” ones were 20 years old, and the oldest had been operating for around 30 years. “On three of the Hummers there were plastic windows and doors...the tires on one of the trucks exploded after a few hundred kilometers...” A significant part of the vehicles can’t guarantee and do not have sufficient armor protection. According to Ukrainian media, each jeep cleared customs at a cost of around 40,000 USD. The cost of a set of tires for a Hummer in Ukraine is no less than 1000 USD. The amount required for putting tires on a Hummer in poor condition is equal to the amount for which one could buy a second-hand SUV.

The Pentagon also delivered bullet-proof vests to Kiev’s military forces which have not been used by the Americans since the mid 2000’s.

“If the Americans are going to send us equipment, then let them send us unused things,” stated one Ukrainian commander who, like other soldiers, spoke on condition of anonymity.

Official spokesman for the Pentagon, Joe Sowers, refused to comment on the newspaper or the poor state of American equipment.

“The broken condition of American equipment delivered by the US to the front line in Ukraine,” the publication writes, “has created distrust and lowered morale among Ukrainian troops.”

On the condition of anonymity, an American official from the Pentagon commented on the publication of delivery data. He said that Ukraine was given “material which had been sitting somewhere and which is not in service.” “In some cases, the Hummers were used for...spare parts. They are not good enough to be driven, but you can disassemble them for parts.”

We recall that the recycling of military equipment on the territory of the US is a rather expensive affair.

That the US gave Ukraine non-working military hardware was confirmed by Ukrainian sources. This scandal, in particular, was the subject of a report on channel 112.

According to journalists, the Ukrainian military is using American military Hummers released in the ’80’s and ’90’s, two out of three of which do not work.

“They have plastic windows and doors which don’t offer any protection. On one of the SUV’s, the tires exploded after only the first hundred meters. Also, the Ukrainian military has been given body armor which the American army stopped using 10 years ago. Altogether, Washington has pledged non-lethal military aid in the amount of $250 million,” the report says.



Ukrainian radicals threaten to isolate Russia's Crimea completely
http://www.pravdareport.com/news/world/01-12-2015/132750-ukraine_russia_crimea-0/

Coordinators of the so-called "blockade" of the Crimean Peninsula intend to cut the territory from sea and network communication, Lenur Islyamov, the organizer of the criminal action, in which the Crimea was cut from electricity supplies said.

In one of his recent interviews, Islyamov threatened to isolate Russia's Crimea completely.

"We will work on a network blockade before we arrange the sea blockade, and the Crimea will find itself in complete isolation," Islyamov said.

He promised that Ukraine would block the Kerch ferry and other channels of communication with the peninsula.

"Let them not think that we can not do it," he added.

Russia has not commented on the threats from Ukrainian radicals yet.

On November 22, Ukrainian saboteurs blew up power lines in the south of Ukraine, thus cutting supplies of electricity to the Crimea.

By December 20, Crimea will fully switch to power supplies from Russia, when the authorities launch an energy bridge with the Kuban region of Russia.



Ukrainian MP accuses Saakashvili of extortion, racketeering in Odessa
http://tass.ru/en/world/840679

"And those who don’t want to pay are visited by a Georgian prosecutor and a Georgian police officer. People have nobody to complain to... Saakashvili has created a vicious circle," Dmitry Golubev said.

Deputy of the Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada (parliament) from the Petro Poroshenko Bloc Dmitry Golubev has accused the governor of the Odessa region, Mikhail Saakashvili, of racketeering and extortion.

"Saakashvili has started racketeering in Odessa. Large enterprises and businesspeople have been receiving letters from his adviser with a request, for example, to find a way to provide charitable contribution in the amount of 2.5 million hryvnia ($104,000) and thanks for the attention and understanding. And they pay the money," the lawmaker said on TV Channel 112 on Tuesday.

According to him, "almost all major Odessa businessmen pay Saakashvili."

"I have the materials that confirm my words. I will certainly publish them. And those who don’t want to pay are visited by a Georgian prosecutor and a Georgian police officer. People have nobody to complain to... Saakashvili has created a vicious circle," Golubev said.

Previously, Saakashvili has repeatedly accused the government and Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk of corruption.



Meanwhile In Kosovo's Parliament...
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-11-30/meanwhile-kosovos-parliament

As The Irish Times reports, three opposition lawmakers were arrested in Kosovo on Monday amid chaotic scenes in parliament, filled once more with tear gas in a fresh protest against an accord with former master Serbia.

Opposition MPs have been disrupting the work of parliament for two months by releasing tear gas in the chamber each time it tries to sit.

Government lawmakers met alone in the afternoon after the earlier disruptions, which, as AP reports, garnered the following response from the locked-out opposition...

"In a country with no opposition in the parliament, there is no parliament and it cannot be called a democracy," said main opposition Self-Determination Movement lawmaker Aida Derguti.

In a statement, the European Union called for a return to dialogue in Kosovo.

"This kind of violent obstruction is neither acceptable nor will it solve any problem for the citizens of Kosovo," it said.

* * *
Don't worry though - As US Secretary of State John Kerry is due to visit Kosovo on Wednesday in a gesture of support for its development as an independent state, 16 years after a U.S.-led Nato air war to halt the killing and expulsion of ethnic Albanians by Serbian forces. Parliament Speaker Kadri Veseli urged the opposition not to disrupt parliament this week, when he arrives.....

 

[arpaxad]

Not to get off the subject of Ukraine but the same tactics that were used in Yugoslavia are being used by the Ukrainian Military.

Well, yeah, there are testimonies that the Ukrainian army has been trained by CIA agents. That is not mentioning the hatred that was sown among the Ukrainians towards the Russians since the fall of the Soviet Union (starting from the 1990s), so that a whole generation has been raised on such ideas, and now these young people are entering paramilitary organizations, getting further brainwashed by nazi ideology, and opening fire on those who call themselves Russians.

 

[Yozilla]

Somebody really doesn't want Nord Stream II to happen:

A group of Eastern European countries has sent a letter to the European Commission calling to block the Nord Stream-2 gas pipeline from Russia to Germany bypassing Ukraine. They say it goes against the EU’s energy diversification and security policies.

The countries against Gazprom’s deal with Berlin are headed by Slovakia and Poland who are believed to have initiated the campaign. They are supported by the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Greece. Bulgaria was planning to sign the document, but walked away, according to the FT. The EU has confirmed receiving the letter.

...

The Nord Stream-2 pipeline project has become necessary for both Russia and the EU due to the continuing problem of reliability of gas transit though Ukraine. Russian Energy Minister Aleksandr Novak warned German and French colleagues that Kiev could face a gas shortage this winter.

From: https://www.rt.com/business/324224-nord-stream2-europe-gazprom/

I red somewhere that Poland even might sue Germany for this project...

 

[thorbiorn]

Joe Biden arrived in Ukraine Sunday

"KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — U.S. Vice President Joe Biden comes to Ukraine's capital on Sunday for a visit aimed at pushing the country toward making reforms and reassuring it that the crisis in Syria is not overshadowing Washington's concerns about Ukraine."

And then the UAF intensified their efforts in Donbass area

Donetsk, Dec 6 — DAN. Ukrainian security forces resumed today in the evening shelling of the frontline territories on the Western outskirts of Donetsk and in the Northern suburbs of the capital DND. About that DAN said a source in law enforcement bodies of the DPR.

"Around 18:00 Ukrainian security forces opened fire on the village Trudovskaya in the Petrovsky district of Donetsk, the village of Spartak, North of the capital and the territory of Donetsk airport", — said the Agency interlocutor.

He added that the enemy will fire from the positions in the Marinka and the area Experienced, by means of applying mortars of calibres of 120 mm, the armament of the BMP, LNG, grenade launchers and small arms.

In addition, according to the source, the shelling punitive undergone Sahanka village in the South of the DPR.

Earlier today the Ministry of defence DND reported that during the last day recorded 17 violations of the cease-fire with the APU.

 

[angelburst29]

Joe Biden arrived in Ukraine Sunday

"KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — U.S. Vice President Joe Biden comes to Ukraine's capital on Sunday for a visit aimed at pushing the country toward making reforms and reassuring it that the crisis in Syria is not overshadowing Washington's concerns about Ukraine."

Joe Biden might be in Ukraine because of this?

US, EU realise Ukraine nears default — source at Russia’s Finance Ministry
http://tass.ru/en/economy/841852

Western countries realise clearly that Ukraine is nearing bankruptcy, an official at Russia’s Finance Ministry told TASS on Saturday in comments on U.S. refusal to provide guarantees on Ukraine’s state debt.

"The European partners are likely to voice a similar position soon," he said. "What does that approach mean? Only one thing - both the United States and Europe realise clearly that Ukraine is nearing bankruptcy and so they are not eager to shoulder its liabilities."

Earlier in the day, the Finance Ministry said that it had received an official refusal from the U.S. government over loan guarantees to Ukraine. Along with this, the ministry said Russia was set to file a lawsuit against Ukraine if Kiev failed to repay the $3-billion debt on December 20.

"This week, we received an official refusal from the U.S. government to provide loan guarantees to Ukraine," the ministry said in a statement. "Therefore, we have nothing to do but to file a lawsuit against Ukraine if the borrower fails to fulfil its liabilities in full on December 20, 2015, which will mean Ukraine’s sovereign default."


Turkish Grey Wolves are participating in the blockade of Crimea
http://fortruss.blogspot.ru/2015/12/turkish-grey-wolves-are-participating.html

The coordinator of the blockade of Crimea, Lenur Islyamov, boasted on his Facebook page that "Turkish patriots", far right nationalists who call themselves "Grey wolves", profit on the Crimean-Ukrainian border.

Turkish patriots from the Bozkurtlar organization, Turk ulkuculeri, people call it ,"Grey wolves" , visited us at the blockade, writes Islyamov. - The blockade is working.

This message was illustrated with a photograph of Islyamov posing with young people, demonstrating the characteristic Turkish Nazi gesture.

Users of social networks have suggested that the "Grey Wolves" have become associates in the implementation of a naval blockade of the Crimea, which Islyamov implied recently. The reaction to the publication by Islyamov was appropriate to say the least.

You betrayed the people living in Crimea, indignant people. You have disgraced the flag and the nation. Don't spoil the holidays of Muslims, you are guilty before they are. You are a dirty terrorist to the people living in Crimea, who brings tears from your forced gatherings in the dark!


Energy blockade activists stop blocking restored electricity transmission line to Crimea
http://tass.ru/en/world/841888

Activists of the energy blockade of Crimea have decided to unblock the electricity transmission line that was repaired after the November 22 incident, Refat Chubarov, a member of Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada (parliament) and one of the organizers of the food and energy blockade of Crimea, said on Sunday.

"Activists of the blockade have arrived at a position that electricity supplies along the Kakhovka-Titan line can be resumed," he said.

He said the decision had been taken after consultations with the Ukrainian president and prime minister. "Yesterday, we had a long consultation with the president. Before that we had spoken with the prime minister. We, the blockade activists, can see the following compromise in this situation: only one line - Kakhovka-Titan - may be re-commissioned with our consent," he said.

 

[Aeneas]

Energy blockade activists stop blocking restored electricity transmission line to Crimea
http://tass.ru/en/world/841888

Activists of the energy blockade of Crimea have decided to unblock the electricity transmission line that was repaired after the November 22 incident, Refat Chubarov, a member of Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada (parliament) and one of the organizers of the food and energy blockade of Crimea, said on Sunday.

"Activists of the blockade have arrived at a position that electricity supplies along the Kakhovka-Titan line can be resumed," he said.

He said the decision had been taken after consultations with the Ukrainian president and prime minister. "Yesterday, we had a long consultation with the president. Before that we had spoken with the prime minister. We, the blockade activists, can see the following compromise in this situation: only one line - Kakhovka-Titan - may be re-commissioned with our consent," he said.

The fact that the activists only after long consultations with Poroshenko and Yatseniuk decided to lift the energy blockade exposes the absurdity of Yatseniuks recents statements that the sabotage of the powerline was done by Russian saboteurs. Not if much evidence was needed.

It looks like the Turks are repeating the same type of self-sabotage measures that Ukraine have been doing, which is not to benefits of the citizens of those countries. Both elites are goaded on by the empire of "don't do stupid sh**t".

 

[thorbiorn]

Kiev is building up forces near Lugansk: http://fortruss.blogspot.dk/2015/12/kiev-is-moving-tanks-rockets-and-self.html Will they try to do a last stunt before a default? Another question is what the consequences would be in case of a default and the UA refuses to pay, since a court case filed by Russia could drag out.

 

[Aeneas]

And Biden didn't come alone to Kiev. Nuland went too. And Geoffrey Pyatt.
http://fortruss.blogspot.fr/2015/12/nuland-arrives-in-kiev-spike-in-minsk.html

Nuland arrives in Kiev, spike in Minsk violations - Coincidence?

The U.S. assistant Secretary of state for Europe and Eurasian Affairs, Victoria Nuland, has arrived in Ukraine and traveled to the security Service of Ukraine, "Ukrinform" reported.

"Nuland, accompanied by U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt, at around 14:00 on Sunday went to the SBU building in Volodymyrska, - the website reported.


Before that, the American diplomats visited the sculpture named "The Victorious Cossack". As a reminder, the U.S. Vice-President Joseph Biden, on December 8th, will speak in the Verkhovna Rada during his visit to Ukraine .

Will hostilities soon flare up again? Will the US open up another front against Russia and unleash both Ukraine and Turkey. NATO has already shown that it will support anybody who is hostile to Russia. At least in words...

http://fortruss.blogspot.fr/2015/12/basurin-kiev-has-amassed-238-tanks-101.html
Basurin: Kiev has amassed 238 tanks, 101 ceasefire violations over the past week (Video)

With Joe Biden and Victoria Nuland visiting Ukraine this week, it would seem they have brought some gifts with them - death and destruction. Towns such as Gorlovka are a 24/7 hot spot of action, with Pisky, Spartak and the New airport Terminal also receiving a daily barrage. The concern is that the UAF has regrouped since the Minsk II ceasefire agreement and has many new recruits and new toys from Washington. The map below shows how the UAF are approaching the contact line:

 

[Mr.Cyan]

It seems like the Empire plans to open "all" fronts against Russia, and is playing a very dangerous game. Just itching for warfare and hoping to blame Russia for starting it with their global control of media. Russia will definitely not be dragged into open warfare under Putin; but the provocations are coming on a daily basis now. Putin is now seriously planning his next steps - and I think now is the time also for Russia to call on all their allies to help block the Empire's plans.

In Ukraine, im sure that while the UA has been re-arming - the DPR and LPR militia's too have been -rearming, training and are prepared for this. I still think that if Minsk 2 is violated the UA will not get very far, and the line of contact may still hold.

In Syria, with Turkey invading Iraq, and with now Germany, UK and France in the fold, things could get very messy. One possible option for Russia is to provide support for rapid advances across East of the country with the SAA, Iran, and Hezbollah (which they are doing now) - in order to secure as much Syrian territory as possible, obliterating all ISIS oil infrastructure and headchoppers in the process. This way if for some reason there is a bigger and escalated "conflict" between the Empire's minions trying to protect ISIS against the SAA (and 4+1) in the East of Syria - at the very least a new line of contact can be established in Syria where at least more than 50% of the country is in Syrian control. This is a worst case scenario, similar to the situation in Donbass, where at least the Empire can't win, and there is a safe haven from the marauding headchoppers.

 

[bjorb]

Keeping those Kiev gangsters afloat apparently puts a significant strain on the Empire’s resources considering the second rate military gear they can afford to send in. And for how much longer would their unlimited money printing ability continue to bail Kiev out? This is such a costly endeavor. Good to see it all crumbling down.

The Donbas + Luhansk militias know their enemy very well. Just like Putin they do not let themselves be provoked.


[quote author=Mr Cyan]and I think now is the time also for Russia to call on all their allies to help block the Empire's plans.[/quote]

Indeed, China is also way to silent if you ask me. But to deal with such tyrants timing and forbearance is essential. China on a financial level outsmarts the Empire and to strip away their soft-power projection of world currency dollar status and the printing ability of the FED that comes with it that would be a major game chancer. Reintroduction of the Gold Standard is something humanity cannot afford to wait for much longer I think. For how much longer can Russia continue on to let itself be provoked? As long as it needs be ? I suppose they have to endure, and while they do they might just win more hearts and minds of populations worldwide.

 

[angelburst29]

US to step up pressure over Russia 'aggression': Biden
http://presstv.com/Detail/2015/12/08/440864/US-pressure-Russia-Biden-

US Vice President Joe Biden has assured Ukrainian lawmakers that the United States will only step up pressure on Moscow if “Russian aggression” continues.

"If Russian aggression persists, the cost imposed on Moscow will continue to rise," Biden said Tuesday in a rare address to the Ukrainian Parliament on the second day of his visit to Kiev.

Biden’s address before the Ukrainian Parliament, the first of its kind by a high-ranking US official since 1991, flew in the face of Russia's assertion that it is the pro-Western government in Kiev that flouts the peace accord.


US VP says Moscow should return Crimea to Ukraine
http://presstv.com/Detail/2015/12/07/440748/Russia-should-give-Crimea-back

US Vice President Joe Biden says Russia should stick to a peace agreement on Ukraine and return the Black Sea Crimea peninsula to its western neighbor.

Crimea declared independence from Ukraine on March 17, 2014 and formally applied to become part of Russia following a referendum a day earlier, in which 96.8 percent of participants voted in favor of the secession. The voter turnout in the referendum stood at 83.1 percent.

 

[Ca.]

US to step up pressure over Russia 'aggression': Biden
http://presstv.com/Detail/2015/12/08/440864/US-pressure-Russia-Biden-

US Vice President Joe Biden has assured Ukrainian lawmakers that the United States will only step up pressure on Moscow if “Russian aggression” continues.

"If Russian aggression persists, the cost imposed on Moscow will continue to rise," Biden said Tuesday in a rare address to the Ukrainian Parliament on the second day of his visit to Kiev.

Biden’s address before the Ukrainian Parliament, the first of its kind by a high-ranking US official since 1991, flew in the face of Russia's assertion that it is the pro-Western government in Kiev that flouts the peace accord.


US VP says Moscow should return Crimea to Ukraine
http://presstv.com/Detail/2015/12/07/440748/Russia-should-give-Crimea-back

US Vice President Joe Biden says Russia should stick to a peace agreement on Ukraine and return the Black Sea Crimea peninsula to its western neighbor.

Crimea declared independence from Ukraine on March 17, 2014 and formally applied to become part of Russia following a referendum a day earlier, in which 96.8 percent of participants voted in favor of the secession. The voter turnout in the referendum stood at 83.1 percent.

So the US is greasing Poroshenko palms with another financial aid package of USD 190 million.
This obviously subverts Putin's effort to bring a lasting peace accord to the NATO controlled puppet country of Ukrainian Nazi regime.

So whom controls Biden
KOLOMOISKY, Israeli Oligarch's PRIVATE ARMY "SECRET WEAPON of UKRAINE
_https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DnQsyMBe4o
_https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMPL1yqeAFQ

Vice President Joe Biden remarks on the Russia-Ukraine conflict
Published on May 27, 2015
_https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m27vYukeyyY

Ukrainian Forces try to seize buffer zone and eliminate civilians | Eng Subs
Published on Dec 5, 2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lC23ocvH5No

Donetsk Residents 'Ukraine destroys everything here'
Published on Dec 7, 2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F06HSHWNm-o

US Vice President: World watches Ukraine's fight against Kremlin aggression
Published on Dec 8, 2015
_https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdfG0RM1KJM

Hmmmm, Poroshenko be looking puffy and Biden, as always the greedy psychotic
Meeting with U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden
07 December 2015 - 13:21
_http://www.president.gov.ua/en/photos/zustrich-prezidenta-z-vice-prezidentom-ssha-dzhbajdenom-387

NATO
Public's Blame Russia for Ukrainian Crisis, but Reluctant to Provide Military Aid
June 10, 2015
_http://www.pewglobal.org/2015/06/10/nato-publics-blame-russia-for-ukrainian-crisis-but-reluctant-to-provide-military-aid/

 

[Hesper]

Looks like Biden's visit has been effective in rearranging Ukraine's power structure:

_http://sputniknews.com/europe/20151210/1031539590/joe-biden-ukraine-corruption-war.html#ixzz3twBTFAqC

Ukraine 'On the Cusp' of an All-Out War - Biden

A new war is breaking out in Ukraine, and it has been triggered off by no other than the vice president of the United States. During his visit to Kiev last weekend, Joe Biden publicly warned President Poroshenko that "the country is on the cusp" of being completely ruined by rampant corruption.

Ukrainian media reports Joe Biden, US Vice President, demanded action, among other things, the removal of certain Ukrainian officials in the Ministry of Defense and the Prosecutor General's Office.

But instead of encouraging the war on corruption, Biden's intervention seems to have given a new impetus to a war between various oligarchic and political clans in Ukraine.

The first to throw the gauntlet was Mikheil Saakashvili, the former President of Georgia, who is now Governor of the Ukrainian region of Odessa. He immediately stepped up his campaign against Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, accusing him and his government of not only covering up corruption, but of also being directly involved in it.

In a number of TV interviews this week, Saakashvili claimed that Yatsenyuk has been putting pressure on deputy Prosecutor General and chief prosecutor of the Odessa Region, David Sakvarelidze, to stop investigating high-level embezzlement at the Port of Odessa.

Saakashvili claims the state budget lost US$93 million on a gas supply contract and assets worth US$170 million were unlawfully privatized.
Speaking at an anti-corruption forum in Odessa, Saakashvili said Ukraine was losing US$5 billion a year through graft. At this rate the US$3 billion of US help, promised by Biden during his visit, would only last for half a year.

Mr Sakvarelidze, who promises arrests of high officials "very soon", happens to be Mr Saakashvili's longtime associate. He was first deputy Prosecutor General of Georgia when Saakashvili was president. Their methods of fighting corruption in Georgia were likened to those of the KGB. Now the pair is trying to run the Odessa region just like they used to run Georgia.
Saakashvili has dismissed public protests against his actions as "paid for" by his political opponents.


The former Georgian president appears to have the support of President Poroshenko, but not of Prime Minister Yatsenyuk. His allies have already accused Mr Saakashvili of being corrupt himself. They claim Saakashvili and his officials have used the money earmarked for the support of soldiers fighting in East Ukraine to pay for banquets and other hospitality. Mr Saakashvili said he would complain to Ukraine's National Anti-Corruption Bureau about the allegations.

Meanwhile, the Prosecutor General's Office wants Saakashvili to present written evidence of his own allegations against the government. On the other hand, the government, and Mr Yatsenyuk personally, are under pressure to reply to Saakashvili's accusations in parliament, the Rada, this Friday. Some observers say this may seal Yatsenyuk's fate, as the Rada Speaker Vladimir Groisman, as well as Mikheil Saakashvili, are rumored to be vying for his position. Yatsenyuk's only hope appears to be the support of the United States. After all, his appointment to the post of Prime Minister was agreed by the Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland with the US Ambassador in Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt in the infamous telephone call made shortly before the coup of February 2014.

During Biden's visit last weekend Yatsenyuk tried to impress him with his program of reforms. Yet, in Biden's view "a lot of hard work remains" to be done and "what happens in the next year is likely to determine the fate of this country for generations."

Strong words from the US vice president, but the Ukrainian media was quick to quote from an article in The New York Times, saying:

"The credibility of the vice president's anticorruption message may have been undermined by the association of his son, Hunter Biden, with one of Ukraine's largest natural gas companies, Burisma Holdings, and with its owner, Mykola Zlochevsky, who was Ukraine's ecology minister under former President Viktor F Yanukovych before he was forced into exile."

The paper reported that Britain's Serious Fraud Office, specifically forbade Mr Zlochevsky, as well as Burisma Holdings, the company's chief legal officer and another company owned by Mr Zlochevsky, to have any access to their British accounts, which in US Ambassador Pyatt's words held "US$23 million in illicit assets that belonged to the Ukrainian people."

But after Ukrainian prosecutors refused to provide documents needed in the investigation, a British court ordered the Serious Fraud Office to unfreeze the assets, which were immediately transferred to Cyprus. The company's legal costs were recouped.

Ambassador Pyatt called for an investigation into "the misconduct" of the Ukrainian prosecutors who wrote the letters. However, he did not mention Hunter Biden's connection to Burisma.

It would be interesting to see what names Mr Saakashvili would disclose, if he abides by the demand made by the Prosecutor General's Office to present written factual evidence about top-level corruption in Ukraine.

 

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Ukraine is preparing for war! Through the streets of Odessa passed the "Grad" and "Uragan" (Video)
http://srbin.info/2015/12/10/%D1%83%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%98%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B0-%D1%81%D0%B5-%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%B0-%D0%B7%D0%B0-%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%82-%D1%83%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%86%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%B0-%D0%BE%D0%B4/

English translate:

According to the peace plan from Minsk heavy weapons must not be at the front line, and the violation of the agreement and warned representatives of the DNR and the OSCE.


Rada rumble: Ukraine parliament fights it out as MP attempts to drag PM Yatsenyuk away (VIDEO)
https://www.rt.com/news/325598-rada-fight-yatsenyuk-roses/

Ukraine’s Prime Minister Arseny Yatsenyuk branded some MPs “morons” as a mass brawl broke out during his speech at the Verkhovna Rada in Kiev.

The fight began between MPs from the president’s Petro Poroshenko Bloc (PPB) and Yatsenyuk’s People’s Front (PF).

It allegedly all started when Oleg Barna (PPB) went up to the tribune while Yatsenyuk was giving a speech, presented him a bouquet of roses and then tried to carry him off the stage.