The Pentagon has confirmed that a phone call today between Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu ended with a promise by Russia not to invade eastern Ukraine.
Ukraine has been playing up the idea that a Russian invasion is imminent, mobilizing its own troops for war and digging a trench along the eastern frontier with Russia.
Hagel pressed Shoigu about the ongoing Russian military exercises near the Ukraine border, and was assured that the exercises were simply that, and not a prelude to an invasion.
Pro-Russian protesters in some eastern cities, primarily Donetsk, have been pushing for accession back into Russia, along with the Crimean Peninsula. Russian officials have warned against violent crackdowns on those protesters, but seem to prefer not to get involved in this case.
I also hereby promise not to rip out my toenails…
Wouldn't it be hilarious if Russians acted like 'the west,' it's Let's-You-&-Him-Fight corner, or it's installees? Like if you started hearing Putin saying "It's 1937 again" and "the World Must stop the Ukrainian march to Armageddon," or declared a 'victory' upon a Ukrainian 'retreat.' Or talked about Cameron/Merkel's tolerance for Ukraine's coup as "a sign of weakness," especially their toothless condemnations (I'm dimly aware they don't condemn it at all, I'm saying that this parody would still be perfectly appropriate)… and empty threats, etc. I don't think there's been a question who the adults are.
Best of luck to East Ukraine's Russians. If 'the west' wants to provoke Russia into Ukraine –and they may –they'll probably start with mistreatment of those.
Now if THE US WARMONGERS COULD ONLY PROMISE TO NOT INVADE NORTH KOREA–OR ANY OTHER 'SOVERIGN' NATION..IN THE NEXT 90 DAYS–WANNA BET THEY DO? MY BETS ARE ON CLASHES IN THE Baltic nations where there are HUGE RUSSIAN NATIONAL NUMBERS–PERFECT FOR ANOTHER US FALSE FLAG–
I dunno. Any prediction made in all caps gets an immediate 50% believability reduction.
sorry about the caps–I as typing fast and didn't notice till finished..YOU BELIEVE WHAT YOU WANNA BELIEVE–WE SHALL SEE..mike..us army ret…NEAR THE VOLATILE KOREAN DMZZZ..
It not all Caps Can't you read the last sentence
The interim government of Ukraine has proven to be fairly aggressive so the Russians may not have a choice.
Russia is not attacking anyone. They don't need to. The east of the Ukraine will inevitably rejoin Russia, as will Odessa Oblast.
That leaves "west Ukraine" landlocked, minus the industrial and agricultural engine of the East – not to mention about 75% of the nuclear power generated electricity for all of the Ukraine. Western Ukraine is useless to the Soros's of the world, it is has practically no value or assets to strip as they did in Greece.
Eventually – and I don't think it will take very long at all – normal Ukrainians will probably rejoin the RF as well.
Unfortunately, with the fascists currently posing as the government of the Ukraine, there will be bloodshed. Once that happens Putin will step in and crush them…and the presstitute media in the west will characterize it as "annexation".
On a happier note, judging by the Russian Federation's quick and decisive responses, this will be over in six months.
On an even Happier note: this is will probably result in the long-awaited end of NATO – I mean seriously does anyone aside from the nutjobs in Poland and the UK want to be targeted with Russian tactical nukes?
well at least west ukrain will still have Chernobyl
Yes and the "west" will STILL be whitewashing Fukushima, which according to experts is somewhere around 100 to 1000 times WORSE.
At least USSR reacted quickly, Tepco is talking about "decades" to contain their disaster. |The overall cancer rate and related death toll will probably be in the tens of millions over the next 30+ years.
It is BY FAR the worst disaster in recorded history…but when is the last time the presstitute media even mentioned it?
According to my friend in Kharkov, the Russian-speaking ethnic Ukrainians of the east fear a Russian invasion and annexation. With the same energetic mentality as the Poles, the Ukrainians fear that the dreamy, lakadaisical would simply drag them down. And as this very crisis shows, there is nothing "inevitable" in politics!
Hopefully the Amerikan warmongers- McNutt & Loco Company won't 'provoke' North Korea any further and set off WW3.
What would Russia want with economic basket case rump state Western Ukraine? Let it be EU/US's headache.
thats why Putin didn't take east Ukraine because not only is the west useless, it ties the recalcitrant east to DC's puppets in Kiev.
The oligarchs are obviously getting Putin back under control. Good news if they pull it off.
Putin will not go after eastern Ukraine at least not right away. A restive Russian population in the east is just the tool Putin needs to keep the coup off balance while he consolidates in Crimea. Long term who knows.
What if Russia just bombed Ukraine for 70 80 days , Maybe Hit 50 hospital , some Schools, T.V stations . No invasion Just heavy bombing like NATO did to Yugoslavia .Until they decide to do like Russia wants