Residents of the rebel capital of Donetsk reported heavy shelling in several parts of the city today, as Ukraine’s military picked up the pace of attacks in anticipation of a collapse of the ceasefire.
The Ukrainian government has been predicting an imminent collapse of the ceasefire for weeks now, and says they believe the ethnic Russian rebels are preparing for a new offensive against them.
The prediction comes amid Ukrainian claims of a Russian invasion, though there is still no concrete evidence of the Russian military being present, and to the extent that fighting is testing the ceasefire, it’s still the same shelling in Donetsk that it’s been for weeks.
Western officials, for their part, didn’t provide any additional evidence to back up any of Ukraine’s predictions, but did use the G20 summit as a chance to rail at Russia for a putative invasion that seems to be largely made up.
I think the destruction on behalf of the US and its EU poodle has now gone far enough and maybe Russia should start looking into imposing a no-fire zone by force of arms. "Responsibility to Protect" and all that.
Putin gave his answer to the West at the G20. He will not let eastern Ukraine fall. Russia will likely deliver a response similar to the counter offensive they directed right before the cease fire. They will likely destroy the Ukraine offensive soon
Predicts Resumed Fighting? More like Instigates Resumed Fighting.
So Ukraine is admitting its breaking the ceasefire and the Western/US reaction is that it is all Russia's fault. Does this make any sense? It's long past time for the Russians and Chinese to conclude they are not dealing with rational people.
Time — The great arbitrator of truth
Time well tell, we hope as the facts give us not the slightest insight, as it makes no sense at all.
For surely Putin would be looked upon as an international hero if he sent in a peace keeping force to end the bloodshed. It would be the best for both the Russian and EU economy and the state of war serves no purpose but to advance the expansion of Empire USA.
Seriously?? You think Putin would be looked on as a hero if he sent in a peace keeping force??
In reality the US/Nato would call it an attack on the Ukraine and they would escalate it. Or- the US/Nato would be legitimized to do what they really wanted to do all along. Take the Ukrained into the fold and start further encroachment on Russia.
Mr Ditz's palpable fear of the Russian mercenaries being deemed a Russian military invasion tends to confirm a suspicion I have, namely, that the neocons are holding Obama back from military intervention in return for the neocon "assets" that are manipulating Putin (and probably financing the mercenaries) holding him back from sending his whole rickety conscript army into Ukraine. The Ukrainians probably have reached the same conscusion as me (or may actually have been informed of it by the US) and are trying to force Putin either to back off or invade. That's why they want to get as many civilians as possible out of the area. They can also see that Putin is increasingly out of control. He is increasingly goading Obama to attack him. The rumours of Russian bases in the Caribbean or the annexation of Abkhazia are clearly intended to humiliate Obama and when Obama doesn't react, Putin seems to just up the ante. Given the immense damage that all this is doing to Israel, sooner or later, the mainstream Israel Lobby is going to take matters out of the neocons' hands. As for the G20, part of the reason for Putin's huffy departure may well have been his failure to rally the other BRICS countries, particularly China, behind him. He may have hoped to create a confrontation between them and the the US but within BRICS, Russia is a fairly minor player (only South Africa has a smaller population) and I would guess that the heavyweights, China and India, both with populations over a billion, see no reason to get into a fight with the US for the sake of the neocons' Eurasian pipedreams, to say nothing of the fact that those pipedreams are a direct threat to China. In other words, yet another hairbrained Wile E. Coyote-style neocon scheme is blowing up in their faces!
Mr. Ditz's "fear" is only "palpable" in your imagination.
Was that spiel made up in one sitting? Sure Russia is a small player. The one with the largest nuclear deterrent to US/Nato aggression in the entire world.
I would love to see Russia, Iran and China enter into a mutual defense treaty that would eliminate threats from Israeli nuclear missiles and to counteract threats from NATO. I think that would stabilize the ME.
As for ISIS or Jihadist ,they could easily be eliminated by allowing and supporting Iran , Assad's Syria and the present Iraq government to do the actual fighting. However the war party and Zionist will never allow that.
Hydraulic law — Pressure is the result of resistance to flow
How about the possibility that Putin does not want to reward any type of organized resistance to the government’s monopoly on the use of force and violence? It being akin to terrorism in the opinion of government, to in anyway resist the deadly force of government.
For here we have a worse-case condition, with a pro-Russian democracy being destroyed by an anti-Russian fascist coup that would no doubt kill or imprison anyone who resist their will.
Washington, London, Kiev, the axe of evil.