From Ukraine

Straight from the pig's mouth - the truth of the nature of ceasefires for the Junta in Kiev.

My guess, however, is that Petro Poroshenkпo is toast.

Poroshenko reveals true 

nature of the ceasefire for 

Ukraine

Rationalising an effective diktat

DPR & LPR prime ministers joint interview on new Minsk agreement

Minsk-2 is over before it began: 17 volunteer battalions refuse to obey Kiev

http://fortruss.blogspot.co.nz/2015/02/minsk-2-is-over-before-it-began-17.html

February 12, 2015
Translated by Kristina Rus
RIGA, 12 Feb - RIA Novosti. 

Defense Minister of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic Vladimir Kononov said that 17 territorial battalions involved in the fighting in the South-East of Ukraine pulled out of control of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and went under the control of the Right Sector.

"I have data that 17 territorial battalions withdrew from subordination to UAF and came under the jurisdiction of Yarosh. This is the "Right Sector". "Right Sector" never fulfilled any agreements and in fact they constantly provoked further clashes," - said Kononov on Thursday on Latvian TV show "Tonight" on channel LTV7.

"Right Sector" - is a Ukrainian union of radical nationalist organizations. In January and February 2014 the militants of the movement were engaged in clashes with the police and the seizure of administrative buildings, and since April - in the suppression of protests in the East of Ukraine. Moscow has repeatedly called on Kiev to disarm illegal armed groups, including the militants of the "Right Sector".

On Thursday in Minsk ended peace talks in "Normandy format" with the participation of Russia, Ukraine, France and Germany. Following the talks, it became known that an immediate and comprehensive ceasefire in some districts of Donetsk and Lugansk regions of Ukraine should start from 00: 00 (Kiev time) on 15 February 2015.

The withdrawal of heavy weapons must begin no later than the second day after the ceasefire and be completed within 14 days specified in the Minsk document. The security zone for the heavy artillery in Donbass should be from 50 to 140 kilometers.

Coincidentally, Kolomoisky also controls 17 battalions. 


Kristina Rus:

The Minsk-2 agreement was the end of Poroshenko, and the end has begun. Crimea and Donbass uprisings were a defensive response to the threat of armed ultra-nationalists, which originally formed the Right Sector, and later - the various volunteer battalions. The Russian South-East is fighting not against the Ukrainian people, but against the raging ultra-nationalists, for whom the latest agreement was a shameful capitulation, and they had just declared they are not obliged to follow it. For them Poroshenko is a traitor, Russian-Ukrainians are subhumans, who should be annihilated and/or chased from the Ukrainian lands. 

The union of ultra-nationalists and liberals which made Maidan of 2014 a success as opposed to the Maidan of 2004 stands upon the ultra-nationalist ideology, which is incompatible with any attempt to reconcile the divided Ukraine. The conflict between the East and the West is woven into the fabric of today's Ukraine, pumped with nationalist propaganda. The only chance for peace is a military victory of one of the parties. Or else, the Kiev regime needs to cleanse itself of the brown plague, of which it was born. This is what Minsk-2 attempted to achieve. 

If indeed these are the battalions controlled by Kolomoisky, then he is keeping his bet on the neo-nazis, who would help him get rid of Poroshenko and increase his clout. In a way he is out of options as they are his only fighting force. Where this all will lead is looking more and murkier by day.

The question is how will Europe and USA try to save face by enabling the "pro-US" neo-nazi forces who just wiped their bottoms with the latest agreement? Will they still be able to turn the tables and blame the "separatists" for everything? 

As for whether this was a success for Putin: the ultimate measure of victory in Ukraine is denazification and building of a state friendly to neighboring Russia. In order to do it, Ukraine needs to surgically remove the cancer that is eating at it from inside. That means entering the stage of open confrontation within itself.

Poroshenko throws 800 people and thee battalion groups into battle to deblock the Debaltsevo cauldron and save himself

http://fortruss.blogspot.co.nz/2015/02/poroshenko-throws-800-people-and-thee.html

 

February 12, 2015
Shurygin
Translated by Kristina Rus

Kristina Rus: Now it becomes clear what Poroshenko was talking about on the phone in those early morning hours from Minsk. He was preparing a last ditch massive surprise attack to deblock the Debaltsevo cauldron, which he maintains "does not exist". He had hoped that by the end of the day he will be able to pull off a victory and say, look - I was right, there is no cauldron! But all those Ukrainian lives were lost in vain...

My friends, in short, the situation is this: from the early morning until almost 17 o'clock there was intense fighting for Logvinovo. Ukry threw all of their reserves for a breakthrough - no less than three battalion tactical groups numbering up to eight hundred people, with the support of not less than forty tanks. According to the militia, fresh, well-armed and well-trained battalions went in the battle.

Despite the fact that they had to advance practically in the open, in full view of the heights held by the militia, under crossfire, they rushed forward with exceptional persistence, ignoring the losses, skillfully using terrain folds and maintaining tactical order. 

According to intelligence, these were shock battalions, which the Ukrainian command was saving for a decisive offensive. These battalions have completed a full course of study under the guidance of American and Polish instructors on Yavorovsky base and were recently covertly relocated to the area of the ATO. 

But despite the surprise attack, and its strength, the Ukrainian storm-troopers failed to break through the defense of the militia. Having suffered huge losses at the stage of advance and deployment, the attackers failed to break into Logvinovo and the attack chocked on the approaches to the village. The last two tanks were burned just a few hundred meters from the positions of the militia. 

But the defenders of the village also suffered heavy casualties from enemy artillery fire. The second attack was repulsed by militia counter tank attack, whose tanks, moving to the village, immediately joined the battle with the advancing enemy.

Advancing across open countryside, Ukrainian infantry suffered heavy losses and was forced to retreat, then the fight turned into an artillery duel. Simultaneously with the attack on Logvinovo, the Ukrainian divisions tried to attack the positions of the militia in the area of Donetsk airport under Chernukhino, Redkodub, and the key heights.

It is obvious that the high command of the armed forces of Ukraine received the strictest orders for the two days remaining until the ceasefire at all costs to turn the tide and to achieve significant tactical victories, recording a victorious termination of another stage of the armed conflict. 

In this case, the deblocking of surrounded at Debaltsevo UAF formation is a matter of honor for the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, who announced to the whole world that there is NO CAULDRON. Therefore, it is clear that, in the remaining two days, the Ukrainian command will, disregarding any losses, throw all its available forces for a breakthrough, to prove that Poroshenko is right, which will become a kind of "Verdun" for this campaign by level of severity and one-time losses, and for the Ukrainian command - a test for the future stay in office.

Simultaneously with information about deblocking advance near Debaltsevo information appeared on a number of Ukrainian forums, and was removed by administrators, about a "black night", which the Ukrainian command wants to throw as a final good bye for the rebellious population of Donbass. 

According to this information, in the last hours of the war the Ukrainian artillery should cause the most massive for this entire campaign strike on cities and towns of Donetsk and Lugansk Republics. As mentioned on one of the forums: "Leaving, loudly slamming the door, so that this bang will be remembered in each separatist family, in each of their homes!"

This cynical campaign of the Ukrainian Nazis could claim hundreds of lives...

Kristina Rus: Meanwhile all those deaths were not necessary, because the offer for safe passage through green corridors has already been on the table, and was again reiterated at Minsk, but saving the lives of Ukrainian soldiers is not "victory" for Poroshenko ...

Russian fifth column panics over Putin's triumph on the Minsk agreement

http://fortruss.blogspot.co.nz/2015/02/russian-fifth-column-panics-over-putins.html

February 12, 2015
Dima PiterskiTranslated from Russian by Kristina Rus

Hollande and Merkel's betrayal! "Minsk conspiracy" in the eyes of the enemy

It is interesting to see the commentary on the Minsk agreement by our enemies. Today appeared an article of staunch Russophobes Illarionov and Piontkovsky, the general point of which is "Hollande and Merkel's betrayal", "everything is lost, the client is leaving, the cast is removed" [as in a popular Russian comedy "The Diamond Arm"], and so on. Take a look:

A. Illarionov, A. Piontkovsky. Minsk protocols

• Their only positive result is possible ceasefire.
• As for the rest Putin got almost everything he wanted.
• Meanwhile he did not take on any commitments.
• All commitments were assumed by Ukraine.
• Moreover, these Ukrainian commitments are now supported by by the commitments of Germany and France.

The only significant positive result of the adopted document is the agreement on a ceasefire and separation of the warring parties. This gives a chance to end the bloodshed, the deaths of Russians and Ukrainians, civilians, volunteers, military personnel. However, the date of the armistice - February 15 - is alarming. Do not rule out that the remaining three days available to Putin can be used for provocations, including in the area of Debaltsevo. For example, same as the events during the exit of the Ukrainian military from the encirclement under Ilovaisk, through corridors proposed in August.

The main content of the adopted documents.

- Increasing since Brisbane G20 Summit, international isolation of the Kremlin regime is broken.

- Putin has again become equal participant in international meetings and now together with the leaders of democratic States can sign joint documents.

- Russia is not considered a party to the conflict.

- Russian aggression against Ukraine is not recognized.

- The presence of Russian troops on the territory of Ukraine is not condemned.

- Demand for the withdrawal of Russian troops from the territory of Ukraine is missing.

- Possible supplies of defensive weapons to Ukraine are disrupted.

- Occupied Crimea is not mentioned in the adopted documents.

- Possible imposition of new economic sanctions against the aggressor is cancelled.

- Demands for the investigation of terrorist acts (MH-17, Volnovakha, Mariupol, other) and punishment of terrorists is missing.

- Terrorists and bandits are guaranteed pardon and amnesty.

- There are no guarantees of conducting on the occupied territories of free elections in accordance with the Ukrainian legislation.

- Ukraine is obliged by the end of 2015 to implement constitutional reform with actual guarantees of preservation of terrorist regime of Lugandoniya [Russophobic term for LPR, DPR].

- Ukraine is obliged to reform the Constitution and to discuss issues of local elections with the current members of the terrorist regime of Lugandoniya.

- Ukraine is obliged to guarantee the powers of local council deputies and officers elected in early elections, these powers cannot be dismissed prematurely.

- Ukraine is obliged to recognize the vertical of power of Lugandoniya - "prosecutors and judges, people's militia units", being created by the terrorist regime of Lugandoniya.

- Control of internationally recognized Ukrainian-Russian border at present is not transferred to the Ukrainian side. Its transfer is postponed "to the end of 2015, subject to fulfillment of point 11, in consultation and in coordination with the representatives of different districts of Donetsk and Lugansk regions in the framework of the Tripartite Contact group", provided local elections and the constitutional reform in entire Ukraine. That is - either never or after the recognition of the political regime of Lugandoniya and the change of the constitutional system of Ukraine.

- Release of Savchenko and other prisoners/hostages, located on the territory of Russia, is not provided.

- Continued penetration into the territory of Ukraine of Russian humanitarian convoys guaranteed.

- Commitments for funding pensions and other payments to Lugandoniya is the responsibility of Ukraine and partly Western countries.

- Anti-Ukrainian Law of Ukraine "On the temporary procedure for local government in some areas of Donetsk and Lugansk regions" is reanimated.

- Established commitments of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine to define "areas subject to a special status" (i.e. the territory of Lugandoniya).

- Ukraine guarantees the exclusion of Lugandoniya from the national implementation of foreign economic relations.

- Ukraine and the West guarantee the start of negotiations between the EU, Ukraine and Russia on the practical issues of implementation of signed by Ukraine Agreement on free trade zone with the European Union (i.e. actually passing the key to the process of European integration of Ukraine to Putin).

Again, the main thing:

- Russia has not taken any commitments.

Second most important:

- Ukraine has taken on a huge number of commitments, primarily for the recognition of the terrorist regime of Lugandoniya.

Third thing:

- All obligations of Ukraine are now guaranteed by obligations of the leaders of Germany and France.
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P.S. As for my humble opinion, I do not really understand what the big deal is about. These documents were signed, let me remind you, with representatives of Ukraine - a failed state whose leaders are known for having never completed a single contract in their life. This is approximately the same as to sign a contract with Mavrodi stating you are a partner just for fun. Europeans, who were present there, previously had deceived Yanukovych, and their predecessors simply killed Qaddafi, to not have to pay back the debt. That is, their word is not worth much more then Poroshenko, Fox or Sonka the Golden hand. Putin and Zakharchenko with Plotnitsky, and any old grandma on a bench are well aware of this. Well, this is hilarious.

I believe that Putin hung around there for so long to once again try to improve relations with Hollande and Merkel on the eve of another round of war with the United States. People sat around, had long conversations, common hard work brings people closer. Putin can easily demonstrate his charm, especially against such a pig, as Poroshenko, and if there is a chance to somewhat increase the rift between the United States and Europe, then who cares about a sleepless night? Well, I think, that's how he thought about it. And to go to war against someone you like is more complicated than against those you hate - the fighting spirit is diminished.

 The duration of ceasefire (if it ever starts) will be determined by the general situation on the fronts and the readiness of the parties to continue fighting. We are talking not only about the Ukrainian front, but also the degree of readiness of our missile defense, for example, to repel missile attacks or readiness of the Navy to confront American forces; about the readiness of the financial system for another round of war; by the situation in other regions of global confrontation - Syria, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Yemen, Latin America and so on. That is, there are many nuances, which we do not know about, because  we are staring only at one point on the map, and the Commander In Chief sees the entire map. And he is addressing the issues, which don't even exist for us yet, because they are not yet released into the media space.

Regarding the remains of Ukraine, the time of their final burial will probably come when the Nazis will overthrow Poroshenko. Then it will be immediately announced, that Nazi criminals came to power, instituted terror, there are nuclear power plants, it is extremely dangerous, we cannot quietly watch this, and so on - after that the failed state, foolishly created by grandpa Lenin, will cease to exist and its territory will be divided between Russia and Poland. Perhaps Romania and Hungary will also be thrown a small piece or an independent Transcarpathian Republic will be recognized. And, as they say - no body, no case. Everyone is happy, everyone is gone. This is my channeling.

Of course, such a partition will happen if it will not be preceded by direct military confrontation between Russia and NATO. In this case, we, in the end, will take everything, and even Poland to top it off, and Putin will have to form a new, post-war world order and the new boundaries considering there is no need to share with anyone. But this option has its negative - there will be a lot of blood, millions of people can be killed, including each of us. So I'd rather peacefully divide this territory, quickly grab the Baltics and forget about all the contradictions.