US officials today revealed that the Ukrainian military has begun firing short-range ballistic missiles against rebels in the nation’s east, a new tactic employed over the past two days and a massive escalation of the war.
The missiles are much larger and more destructive than the rockets and artillery used in previous attacks, and are carrying 1,000 pound or larger warheads. The US refused to say what the missiles hit.
And they probably never will, meaning it will simply be a question of finding that out from the rebels. Officials say they don’t believe that the Pentagon will ever release their satellite imagery of the ballistic missiles “because these are the good guys.”
Ukraine is known to have an arsenal of 9K79 Tochka short-range tactical ballistic missiles. Such weapons were initially designed to support use of tactical, low-yield nuclear weapons, though Ukraine has no such warheads, and instead uses fragmentation payloads.
Note that there are Serbs on trial in the Hague for using ballistic missiles near populated areas during the Yugoslav wars.
Serbs bad, Ukrainians good (but only Ukrianian Ukrainians).
And…., in the beginning the Kiev government, the Neo fascism, thought that their Swedish and other European Neo fascist going to do the job and clearing the eastern Ukraine from Russian speaking Ukrainians fir shell and chevron fracking. That was and still is the plan by Berzinski, later they found out that they are losing the war, as they do even now, so they brought in their own mercenaries, added more of European Neo fascism and their army and now they are using ballistic missiles against civilians, as Israeli do in Gaza with F16.
RAND corporation new order, use everything in your arsenal keep on doing it until all and every Russians are out of Ukraine, now if that happens is yet to be seen but by bringing in the big gun it means that Kiev government is losing no matter what RAND corporation or Berzinski says.
The Russians will also have the imagery. They are withholding this evidence because it was done by the Good Guys (TM) and they are withholding the imagery of the launch that took out MH17 because … it was done by the Bad Guys (TM)? Yeah right. Brooklyn meet Bridge.
So its O.K. for the Nazi regieme to fire "ballistic missiles" at their own people ?
But its not O.K for Russia to try to protect Russian/Ukrainians in the East?
OBAMA is a forked tongue President and a disgrace to the Office Of President Of The USA.
The World should be ashamed of whats happening here and also in GAZA
Because these "Vergeltungswaffen" are fired at targets which are not known and whose inhabitants are not known, the use of these V3's is a war crime.
It would be more practical to use the heavy artillery over 150mm. Ten rounds would equal one ballistic missile pay load and be more accurate.
Escalation is inevitable. Public opinion in Ukraine, especially in eastern Ukraine, where people see themselves as the next targets, wants to see the rebellion crushed once and for all. Putin has painted himself into a corner. Either he capitulates or he starts WWIII. Either way, his political career is at an end.
As always, you talk rubbish to suit the Empire of Chaos modus operandi. "People" want to see rebellion crushed? "People" there are not stupid, as you presume. "People" there have heard — just as we all are in this era of media proliferation, that Kyev announced plan for their annihilation. Some like Yulia Timoshenko, and her errand boy, Yatzenyuk, wanted to have them nuked. Others, like Kolomyovski, to have them "fried" like "bugs" According to president Poroshenko, they are "parisites" — never mind that the east of Ukraine feeds the country. Other plans, equally violent, for all 8+ million ethnic Russians, are on internet by various parties, now congregated in Ukraine's National Security Council. So, it is time to show what the Empire of Chaos can do wordwide. From slaughter in Ukraine, to slaugheter in Gaza, to our darling ISIS that we finally managed to equip and train to mass murder, behead, stick heads on poles, quarter pregnant women, and such, just barely reported in very unemotional tones by corporate scribes in our media. Chaos engulfes Libya, Egypt is subdued by massive murder, South Sudan drenched in blood. Afganistan, Pakistan, Yemen — all pride and joy of empirial meddling. It all starts with meddling, it all ends in untold suffereing for people. These crimes cry to heaven, and no PALATIAL MOUTHS of neocons of both parties, and their current spokesperson in White House, can hide that. But they want MORE. They will not be happy until the crazies in Kyev lob a misile at Berlin, to punish Germany for not wanting war with Russia. They will come up with something, because the insane clique in Kyev, and the insane neocon crowd are apsolutely made for each other. They will sabotage nuclear power plant, destroy gas pipeline in winter — and who knows what else, as they can live on their vapire-like existance only by more and more blood.
Time for Putin to take the gloves off and finish off this murderous regime in Kiev and let the scum EU and Oligarchs in DC clean up the mess.
But remember, this is Obama's Ukrainian Afghan trap:
http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_669…
You really want to follow this site, with communiques from the NovoRussiyan side http://www.vineyardsaker.blogspot.ca/2014/07/july…
Pretty good analysis of the Tuchkov missiles fired by Ukraine, with reports from the separatist side that Russian Federation troops shot four of them already. Wow.