Ukraine’s military appears to have entirely abandoned a promised plan to avoid fighting in the area surrounding the MH17 crash site, and is said to have attacked the town of Shakhtarsk, just 10 miles away.
Yesterday’s offensive centered primarily on the rebel capital of Donetsk, but today the attacks are north of that, inside the supposed ceasefire zone, with the military bragging it has surrounded Horlivka, another key rebel town, and plans to soon conquer it.
13 have been reported killed, mostly in Horlivka, and including at least two children, when the town was shelled by the military. The military accused the rebels of inexplicably shelling their own town to try to drum up sympathy.
The rebel movement in eastern Ukraine began in Donetsk in the wake of the Maidan protesters ousting the Party of Regions government. The party was overwhelmingly popular in the east, and its replacement by a west-centric government less friendly to the ethnic Russian minority is not sitting well with the locals in Donetsk and elsewhere.
Looks like the Ukrainian government is trying to cover up its shoot down of the airliner by impending access to the crash site. The lying sons of bitches in Washington are helping them do this because they want to make it look like Russia did it.
It's pretty clear that when Russia said that Ukraine was responsible for what went on in their air space, they gave Ukraine carte blanche to "clean up".
The Nazi putschist regime is in breach of the UNSC resolution:
Demands that all military activities, including by armed groups, be immediately ceased in the immediate area surrounding the crash site to allow for security and safety of the international investigation;
Are the United States and its poodles going to impose sanctions on Ukraine? I don't think I need to answer that question.
The point of a ceasefire was to facilitate a proper independent and international investigation of the crash. Systematic obstruction by the rebel colonists has made that unrealistic, so the logical thing to do is to try to gain control of the site.
What obstruction? Some Malaysian and Australian investigators independent of the putschists arrived at the site and nobody obstructed them. Before that the western media were able to access as much of the site as they wanted. If there has been any obstruction, it's been the putschists in Kiev who have done the obstructing by detaining the investigators there under the pretext that it wasn't safe to go to the crash site which was a load of boll***s. Look at what the OSCE observers at the crash site have said..And you prefer to believe a bunch of Nazis?
I think the military shot down it's own aircraft just to drum up sympathy. Even more likely: someone else's.
Wrong! MH17 plane exploded by massive bomb placed while in at Amsterdam Airport. http://www.veteranstoday.com/2014/07/25/white-hou…
I was just playing on the idea that Ukraine's 2nd gen junta will now tell you that their opponents shell their own for 'sympathy.' But I'll agree what happened to it aint a known.
Ukrainian official authorities complain that separatists are stealing thanks of ww2 in museum for fighting.State department says that separatist have modern weapons -even to destruct a civil plane.(by the way when NATO kill civilians is not so important,they even have a special wording for it : collateral damage). Where is the contradiction ?
The Ukraine regime didn't just violate the UN Resolution, it also scuttled a deal that had been struck between the rebels and the Malaysian government for access to the site (as reported today in NY Times).