Green little men-disguise outdated. Putin invents new 'KHAKI little men +white trucks' concept Russian reinforcements and supplies disguised as 'humanitarian aid' for Ukraine Video of so-called humanitarian aid for East-Ukraine uploaded on August 10th: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=X72AmOyFN-MThe police cars have 99 on their number plates. Since these are military plates (black with white characters instead of white and black characters), it does NOT mean they come from Moscow region:  The Russian Wikipedia shows what it means: just 'military police'. These trucks have 76, which means they come from the Urals Military District:  50 is Moscow Military District (see here): http://o001oo.ru/index.php?showtopic=9209 Some geographical features:  There is a rail-road behind the trucks:  Big electricity poles and industrial-like halls:  More poles and buildings:  This corresponds with this location:  Blue arrow = route driver Yellow line = railway Red boxes = obviously newly build halls Link to Google maps. https://www.google.com/maps/@55.5439525,36.9660947,1316m/data=!3m1!1e3 The apartment buildings can also be seen in Google Streetview:  So the location is confirmed. According to Wikimapia this entire area belongs to the 5th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade: Soldiers getting instructions:  In the video it can clearly be seen that there is military presence:  Soldiers getting instructions:  Here are cars painted with red crosses:  Radar for S-300 complex can be seen here:  But since this is a regular Russian military base it is not clear if this will be used for East-Ukraine of course. in this screenshot a white 'humanitarian truck' can be seen INSIDE the base:  This Panoramio photo shows all kinds of military equipment can regularly be seen st that location:  Interpretermag.com talks about 300 trucks. http://www.interpretermag.com/ukraine-liveblog-day-175-106-convicts-escape-donetsk-prison-during-shelling/#3739A video of the convoy starting to leave: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=R85iQmTJLdcSince by now the disguise of the 'green little men' is exposed and outdated, Putin invented something new: The khaki little men...!!!   Wow, they even have ONE truck with food:  Logos and number plates removed:  This is how you can do it: Cut-away view of inside of khaki-little-men+white-trucks #Russia sends 2Ukraine #humanitarianaid pic.twitter.com/0pk1dQhkAl RT @Review_News_Net — djp3tros (@djp3tros) August 12, 2014 August 12th tweet with photo sayse a convoy departed: Рано утром камазы с "гуманитарной помощью" выехали из Алабино. Едут колоннами примерно по 30 фур с большими разрывами pic.twitter.com/ESCXBStm3U — Vladislav (@unkn0wnerror) August 12, 2014 Auto translation of the text says: "Early in the morning KAMAZ with the "humanitarian aid" checked out Alabino. Go columns about 30 trucks with large gaps." The city Alabino is next to this military base. It means they just left... Another photo of the convoy: Гуманитарный конвой с #РФ pic.twitter.com/Mj7GHh3zUC — Новости Украины (@Dbnmjr) August 11, 2014  Red Cross in Kiev, which would coordinate aid distribution, tells me they weren't informed by Russia before the convoy departed. — Michael Birnbaum (@michaelbirnbaum) August 12, 2014 Conclusion From a MILITARY base near Moscow Russia prepared white trucks as 'humanitarian aid' for (East)Ukraine. This clearly is a disguise for equipment, supplies and reinforcements and probably some food as well of course. Since the eastern border with Ukraine is in complete control of Russia, nobody will be able to check the real contents of these trucks. Yet, when attacked by Ukraine, Russia will have a perfect Propaganda excuse to further escalate the conflict. If left unharmed, Russia can easily supply and reinforce their troops in Ukraine like this. Again: this is a military operation... Biut don't be fooled. There are 100+ REAL Russian army vehicles in Novoshahtinsk ready to enter Ukraine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=f_RZW-bCMEchttps://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=f_RZW-bCMEchttp://ukraineatwar.blogspot.nl/2014/08/russian-reinforcements-and-supplies.html
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ICRC @ICRC We've been told by Russian authorities that an aid convoy is heading to #Ukraine border. We're not in charge of this convoy at the moment.ICRC Andre Loersch, via Deutsche Welle & The Interpreter): [...] we tried to get a concrete list from the Russian authorities of what they are providing as humanitarian aid, be it medicine, food or other things. However, we have not received this list so far. This is why we are so surprised to learn that the humanitarian aid convoy has none-the-less set out from Russia. These reports have completely confused us: now we need to work out what is happening ourselves. So many different reports are coming in from the Russian media that it's hard for us to find a common denominator. Head of Russian Red Cross says that the Russian "humanitarian" convoy has left without any of his aid workers on @EchoMskRu. 
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Turns out ruSSia is nicely functioning on its own, not informing the Red Cross about what it is sending as "humanitarian aid" and as a result the Red Cross needs to run after them to find out what and how. The typical behaviour of an arrogant rogue state who uses international organisations and terminology just to cover up its double-standared activities. Nothing new, just like in soviet times. http://inforesist.org/putin-so-svoim-gumanitarnym-konvoem-okonchatelno-zaputal-krasnyj-krest/ |
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Russia Announces Military Exercises in Kuril Islands Claimed by Japan Russia began military exercises in the Kuril Islands in the Pacific Ocean, a Defense Ministry spokesman said on Tuesday, a move likely to anger Japan, which also lays claim to them. "Exercises began involving military units in the region, which have been deployed to the Kuril Islands," Colonel Alexander Gordeyev, a spokesman for Russia's Eastern Military District, told news agency Interfax. He said more than 1,000 troops, five Mi-8AMTSh attack helicopters and 100 other pieces of military hardware would be involved in the manoeuvres. The dispute has strained relations Japan and Russia since World War II, when Soviet forces occupied the four islands at the southern end of the Kuril chain. Japan says the islands are part of its territory and wants Moscow to hand them over. Russia is also at odds with Western powers over what NATO says is its massing of military forces along the border with Ukraine for a possible invasion to boost pro-Russian separatists in the country's east. Moscow denies any such intent. http://www.themoscowtimes.com/article/504954.html
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1968, Prag, ruSSians just had no time to paint this "humanitarian mission" tanks white
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This ruSSian "humanitarian mission" is a coverup operation to deliver military supplies and ammunition to terrorists in Donetsk and Lugansk. A similar operation under the Red Cross flags was carried out in 1992, when Shoygu led the Russian convoy to Abkhazia. After that, the Abkhasian separatists had practically no problems with ammunition including artillery shells. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X72AmOyFN-M&feature=youtu.be |
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We would see cyrillic everywhere and forced to learn it LOL  It's very unlikely. Even during the ages of Russian Empire nobody forced Poland or Finland, for example, to learn cyrillic and use it as the only language... Before the beginning of a period of political instability.  On the contrary, these parts of the empire have had their own constitutions, governments and parliaments. Finland even had its own currency, which was controlled by its own central bank. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Duchy_of_Finland
Russification periodTo oppose the ever-increasing demands of the right for self-determination voiced by the ethnic minorities in the Russian Empire, Russian nationalism in the second half of the 19th century became stronger, as did the leading elite’s wishes to create a modern unitary nation state. The systematic Russification of the empire’s western border territories started in Poland and Lithuania during the first half of the 19th century and intensified in the 1860s after another Polish uprising. The worst Russification period in Estonia and Latvia occurred between 1880 and 1890; Finnish autonomy was restricted in the late 19th century. http://www.estonica.org/en/History/1850-1914_National_awakening/Russification_period/ |
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Russia is conducting another large set of military exercises, this time a stone’s throw from the Estonian border. newsru.com/russia/11aug2014/vdv.html BALASHIKHA, August 11. /ITAR-TASS/. Russia’s air force is set to establish an operational airbase in western Belarus, Commander-in-Chief Viktor Bondarev said on Monday. “We will set up a base in Baranovichi. We are only waiting for an intergovernmental agreement to be signed,” he said. Su-27 fighter planes will be based there, he added. Белорусские десантники принимают участие в командно-штабном учении под Псковом http://t.co/IuvFGTiXGahttp://ria.ru/defense_safety/20140811/1019546442.html
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Stepanivka completely destroyed by Russian ‘Grad’ rockets 2014/08/11 • War in Donbas The village of Stepanivka was completely destroyed by rocket salvos originating from beyond the Russian border, reported the press center of the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO). Stepanivka, in Donetsk oblast, is located roughly 9km from the border. Grad rockets have a launching distance of up to 40km.  http://euromaidanpress.com/2014/08/11/stepanivka-completely-destroyed-by-russian-grad-rockets/ |
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Zapad 2009 featured a simulated tactical nuclear strike against Poland and thereby heralded the emergence of a military doctrine which legitimises the introduction of tactical nuclear weapons in a regional conflict against a non-nuclear power. Russian Ladoga 2013 Exercises: Target Finland Russian military exercises in the Republic of Karelia near the Finnish border are due to start next week. Since the Georgia conflict in 2008, relations between Finland and Russia have deteriorated, particularly over the issue of possible Finnish membership of NATO. In the immediate aftermath of the South Ossetian War, Finnish defence officials noted Russia's use of camouflage patterns which were strikingly similar to those fielded by Finnish forces. As a result, military spokesman, Captain Karhuvaara stated that 'If Russian Minstry of the Interior Troops were to invade Finland, we would encounter serious trouble'. More generally, the recognition that Russia's threshold for using military violence was lower than anticipated has led to greater defence cooperation with other western states. It will be instructive to see how this year's drills compare with the Zapad and Ladoga 2009 exercises which were largest ever Russian exercises since the defeat of the Soviet Union in the Cold War. The latter were formally separate but may be considered as part of an extended series of exercises which took place in August and September 2009. Zapad 2009 featured a simulated tactical nuclear strike against Poland and thereby heralded the emergence of a military doctrine which legitimises the introduction of tactical nuclear weapons in a regional conflict against a non-nuclear power. This year, Finland may receive more of Russia's attention. According to the Russian Federation, NATO expansion to the Russo-Finnish frontier would by itself constitute a military threat. This point was made most bluntly by General Makarov last year when he compared Finnish behaviour to the situation in the Caucasus before 8 August 2008; that is to say, casus belli. This point is made explicit in article 17 of the 2009 Russian National Security Strategy which reads: 'The defining factor in relations with the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation will remain the unacceptability for Russia of plans to bring the Alliance’s military infrastructure forward to Russia’s borders'.[1] In accordance with Russia's military doctrine, this would necessarily lead to a military response. However, by wielding threats toward Finland, Russia may be encouraging the opposite outcome of that which it desires. http://highnorthhightension.blogspot.com/2013/03/russian-ladoga-2013-exercises-target.html
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Russian colonel Zhirinovsky threatens “total annihilation” of Baltics & Poland Zhirinovsky, leader of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR), issued a series of threats towards the European Union’s easternmost states. On the show, Zhirinovsky, who is known for his controversial statements, threatened and suggested launching pre-emptive strikes against the Baltic states of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia, as well as Poland. He justified the remarks by suggesting that Russia “cannot allow” peripheral nations’ missile defenses and air forces to be within striking distance of Russia, and that Russia should seek to destroy them ‘a half hour before they launch.’ The language used in the broadcast was especially inciteful, not only calling for the carpet bombing of the four countries, but their entire annihilation. “What will remain of the Baltics? Nothing will remain…in Poland, the Baltics, they are doomed. They’ll be wiped out.” “Let the leaders of these dwarf states reconsider this. Eastern European states will place themselves under the threat of total annihilation, and only they will be to blame.” “…we’ll have to teach them the lessons of May 1945.” Recall that Zhirinovsky has personally aided Russian insurgent groups in Luhansk, and his party has openly set up terrorist training camps in the embattled Luhansk region. The Ukrainian Interior Ministry launched criminal charges against him in July for financing these groups. The LDPR is Russia’s fourth largest political party. video (RU) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8w1gwm7EzU&list=UU3icoue9w-9uqxewz_kK6Fghttp://euromaidanpress.com/2014/08/11/russian-colonel-zhirinovsky-threatens-total-annihilation-of-baltics-poland/
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Window on Eurasia: Putin Believes He can Win a War with NATO, Piontkovsky Says Paul Goble Staunton, August 9 – “No state or regime goes to war firmly convinced that it will lose it,” Andrey Piontkovsky says, and Vladimir Putin is no exception: if he goes to war with NATO and even if he escalates that conflict by using nuclear weapons, he will be acting on the basis of a belief that he can win it. That belief, the Russian commentator says, is based on Putin’s assumption that the logic of mutually assured destruction (MAD) which prevented a major war between Russia and the West has broken down because of divisions within the West about how to respond to Russian use of a limited nuclear strike (www1.kasparov.org/material.php?id=53E4C598A8B3F). Piontkovsky does not provide direct evidence for this, but his argument is both suggestive and disturbing because if he has read Putin correctly, the world is in a far more dangerous situation than most have thought and the risks to Russia’s neighbors, the West and Russia itself are far greater. According to the commentator, “even the most modest practical realization of [Putin’s] idea of ‘assembling the Russian lands’ requires changes of state borders at least of two NATO member countries, Latvia and Estonia.” Because of the Western alliance’s Article 5 in which an attack on one is an attack on all, that would seem impossible given MAD. But as many analysts have suggested before, “the MAD doctrine considered only a single most destructive scenario of a military conflict between nuclear powers, total war.” But there are other scenarios, including the limited use of nuclear weapons by one side under conditions when the other side does not respond lest that lead to “mutual suicide.” It is “theoretically clear,” Piontkovsky argues, “that in a more volatile geopolitical situation, a nuclear power focused on changing the existing status quo, enjoying the advantage of political will and indifferent to the values of human lives (its own and others), and affected by a certain adventurism, could achieve serious foreign policy results by the threat of the application or the limited application of nuclear weapons.” Clearly, he continues, Putin does not seek “the destruction of the hated United States,” a goal that he could achieve “only at the price of mutual suicide.” Instead, his goals are “significantly more modest: the maximum extension of the Russian World, the destruction of NATO, and the discrediting and humiliation of the US as the guarantor of the security of the West.” To put it in simplest terms, Piontkovsky continues, Putin’s actions would be “revenge for the defeat of the USSR in the third (cold) world war just as the second world war was for Germany an attempt at revenge for defeat in the first.” If the Russian speakers of Narva in Estonia were to conduct a referendum and Moscow sent in its forces overtly or covertly, how might NATO react? Piontkovsky asks. If NATO did not respond, “that would mean the end of NATO and the end of the US as a world power and the complete political dominance of Putin’s Russia not only in the area of the Russian World but in the entire European continent.” But whether it would respond “is hardly obvious,” he suggests. Despite Article 5, many NATO countries would be reluctant to respond lest they trigger a nuclear war. “Putin knows that they know that if they come to the assistance of Estonia, then Putin can respond with a very limited nuclear strike and destroy for example two European capitals. Not London and not Paris, of course.” Under those circumstances, Putin clearly assumes, many in the US would oppose responding. “All progressive and even all reactionary American society” would shout “’We do not want to die for f****** Narva, Mr. President!’” And 70 percent of Germans would insist on neutrality. Putin therefore is “convinced that he can outplay [Western countries and leaders] in potential military conflicts which will arise on the path to the realization of the great idea of the Russian World despite the fact that Russia” is much weaker in conventional arms than NATO and does not have an advantage over the US in nuclear ones. “By the spirit we will take them,” Putin calculates in Piontkovsky’s argument. “By the spirit and by boldness.” Thus, Putin’s plans are “paradoxically adventurist but have chances for success,” all the more so because “in the case of failure, Putin always retains” the option to respond in ways that the MAD doctrine suggests and destroy the world along with Russia. That will induce “a paralyzing influence on his ‘partners.’” Indeed, Piontkovsky says, there is evidence that it already has. It was no accident that the first response of US President Obama and NATO Secretary General Rasmussen to the Ukrainian crisis were “declarations that military intervention by the US and NATO were categorically excluded since Ukraine is not a member” of the Western alliance. http://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2014/08/window-on-eurasia-putin-believes-he-can.html?spref=fbfull article (RU) http://www1.kasparov.org/material.php?id=53E4C598A8B3F
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Vladimir Putin is a thug and liar, says top British envoyBritish ambassador to the United States Sir Peter Westmacott says West’s increasingly firm response to Russia over Ukraine and the downing of Flight MH17 is beginning to have an impact on the Kremlin  Vladimir Putin, Russia’s president, is a “thug” and a “liar”, one of Britain’s most senior ambassadors has said, as the EU prepares to approve tough new sanctions against Moscow. Sir Peter Westmacott said the West’s increasingly firm response to Russia was beginning to have an impact on the Kremlin. The British ambassador to the United States said Moscow’s aggression in Ukraine was starting to look like “the wrong call”. He spoke as the Ministry of Defence announced that a battle group of 1,350 troops and armoured vehicles, including Challenger tanks, would join Nato exercises in Poland. The Government said Exercise Black Eagle in south-west Poland would see Britain’s biggest deployment to Eastern Europe since 2008. The exercises were designed to reassure Nato’s eastern members that the alliance would shield them from Russian aggression. Sir Peter said Mr Putin’s behaviour in Ukraine had been “thuggish, dishonest and reckless” and he “thought he’d done pretty well after he stole Crimea”. “It doesn’t look so good now,” he said on the US cable channel MSNBC, part of the NBC group. “It’s starting to look like this was the wrong call. This is a defining moment for what is going on in Ukraine. “We’ve had some very bad behaviour from the Russian side for a long time now, and now we’ve had this terrible atrocity — the shooting down of the aircraft. We have to change the cost/benefit analysis for Putin, for the Russian people, for the government that they have elected there.” Nato has stepped up manoeuvres in Eastern Europe since the annexation of Crimea with generals believing the alliance needs to reset its stance towards a more aggressive Kremlin. Exercise Black Eagle is the latest Nato war game to be bolstered at short notice in the area. Military sources said the exercise at Poland’s Zagan training area had been long planned, but significantly beefed up in recent weeks. Polish forces and other Nato nations are expected to join the exercise. The bulk of the British forces are expected to come from the King’s Royal Hussars, though Army sources said a final decision had not yet been made. Michael Fallon, the Defence Secretary, said the exercise showed Britain’s “sustained and substantial support to Nato’s eastern border”. Britain was not ruling out “further enhancements”, he said. The confrontation over Ukraine is also likely to dominate a Nato summit in Wales in September. Mr Fallon said: “We have a strong opportunity at the Nato summit to discuss how we will continue our response to Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea and its destabilisation of eastern Ukraine.” The sending of an armoured battle group is by far Britain’s largest show of military backing to Eastern Europe since the crisis in Ukraine began. Four RAF Typhoon fighter jets were sent to Lithuania earlier in the year to reinforce Nato air patrols over the Baltic nations and British troops have also joined smaller military manoeuvres. Nato generals are calling for the alliance to pour military resources into Eastern Europe and build up a deterrent against Russia after years in which alliance members have cut spending and focused on conflicts elsewhere. Gen Philip Breedlove, Nato’s top commander in Europe, said last week he wanted to transform a military base in Eastern Europe into a staging post stocked with weapons, ammunition and ration packs in case Nato troops had to rush to the area in the event of a crisis. Western leaders are concerned that the Kremlin has chosen to escalate the conflict in Ukraine, even after the downing of MH17, by carrying out cross border artillery strikes and by sending more equipment to separatists. Tony Blinken, a national security adviser to Barak Obama, said existing sanctions did not appear to have forced Mr Putin to back off. He said: “We’ve seen convoys of tanks, multiple rocket launchers, artillery, and armoured vehicles. There’s evidence it’s preparing to deliver even more powerful multiple rocket launchers.” Dutch and Australian investigators were once again prevented from reaching the site of the Malaysia Airlines crash as fighting continued nearby. Ukraine forces advanced on Donetsk, the pro-Russian separatist capital, from the east and there was fighting close to the site near the town of Torez. Later on Monday, Igor Girkin, the rebels’ military chief, denied his troops had a Buk surface-to-air missile as he refused to be blamed for the downing of the jet. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/vladimir-putin/10996752/Vladimir-Putin-is-a-thug-and-liar-says-top-British-envoy.html
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