Fear that the unrest in the breakaway region of Luhansk might risk the stability of the eastern Ukraine ceasefire came to pass Friday, with an eight-hour battle reported near the village of Krymske, just northwest of Luhansk city, and five Ukrainian government soldiers confirmed killed.
It’s not clear how the fighting actually started, but Ukraine’s statement accused the rebels of using mortars int he fighting. They also claimed eight rebels were killed in the exchange of fire, though the rebels have made no statement on the exchange.
On Wednesday, the Luhansk People’s Republic underwent major turmoil, when President Igor Plotnitsky attempted to fire his interior minister for corruption. The interior minister’s forces took the streets quickly, and Plotnitsky fled to Moscow.
Friday, Plotnitsky confirmed he has resigned from office, and Security Minister Leonid Pasechnik is said to be taking over. Calm returned to Luhansk fairly quickly, but it still seems to have been enough to led to some conflict on the Luhansk/Ukraine border.
5 civillians has been killed and 10 houses has been totally destroyed this week alone by US supported Nazi death squads and their US “advisors” firing missiles over the border, deliberately targeting civilian areas. I don’t have the statistics for the entire year but it’s not hard to imagine what the figures must be like.
Those however never ever make it to western MSM headlines, let alone Antiwar’s and Ditz’s. Only when some Nazi death squad get shot in retaliation it does.
Eastern Ukraine returning to Russia is justice.
Overthrowing the coup regime and splitting the country into Free Ukraine and Fascist Banderastan is a better option.
How much longer before we begin to miss the Soviet Union?
It is simple and straighforward. Political turmoil in Lughansk = opportunity for Kuev. So, probe a little to see how soft defences are. Except we are talking here about knuckleheads in Kiev, so having found no weakness — instead iof quiting, they proceeded Rambo style — but with much less luck. It took them eight hours to get the point. But no worries, Kiev may think bigger to revenge soldiers.
There is just one problem. Should they start something bigger, this time there will be no Minsk III. First time, they were surrounded, and Ughansk and Donetsk had in front of them demoralized army in the run, with still tens of thousands of ethnic Russians in the Army, defecting. Merkel and Hollande rushed in — to save Kiev from a certain doom. Without European intervention — all majority Russian regions between Russian border and Dnyeper river would have been lost. And with dangers of majority Russian and other minorities in Odessa taking over. This is why they appointed Saaskavili — a fugitive from Georgia — to run Odessa. Then second time around — Ukrainian forces got surrounded at Debeltsevo, with anti-coup forces again in a position to bteak out. Here comes Merkel, hopping to the rescue of thick nazi knuckleheads — and here we have Minsk II. Now the sgreement us so simple, clear cut and gives Ukraine all it wants. Sovereignty, and control of borders. All they needed to do is to pass legislation granting the smnesty to two regions, granting limited authonomy and allowing them to run elections to elect leadership according to Ukrainian law. But Ukraine is still hoping for military solutions.
Only this time, it is facing anger in Hungary and Belarus because of the oppresion of minorities and language rights. And this time, Mutti Merkel has problems of her own. And Macron with no credibility and no ability to promise or guarantee anything — will not be acceptable to any party.
So, this time, in spiite of better McCain assistance, arms and advisors — Ukraine cannot meet recruitment goals — as young are fleeing out of the country. And if any large provocation is launched, this time will be routed to Dnyeper, with possible joint Hungarian-Belarus move into Hungarian, Transcarpathian, Rjmanian and Belarus areas, keeping Lvov — the epicenter of all problems — isolated. Kiev, without Nazi Lviv region would easily come to an understanding with Russia. But Ukraine would lose half of the counntry while Lviv region would have to find its own way. It cannot continue carrying on as before, antagonising Russia, Poland, Hungary, Belarus and Romania — and Kiev to boot. More Russian agression? Will it matter? Europe by now must be aware that politically it will be impossible for Ukraine being pulled apart by extremists from Galicia, demanding cultural rradication — to stay viable state. And who has the money to prop it up endlesly? US banking magic, of course. And who will repay it? Asking silly question, of course.
All this could have been avoided if Putin had sent two battalions of Spetsnaz into Kiev in Feb 2014, crushed Nuland’s Ukranazi coup junta, reinstated Yanukovych, and withdrawn with the clear warning that Russian troops would be back to stay if any further coups were attempted.
No, as it would have been used by the US as a propaganda coup, depicting Russia as a belligerant hegemon, no different to their Cold War caricature of the USSR.
This way is better and far cheaper. Prevent the regime from acheiving its goals in the East and keep Banderite Ukraine under pressure. Nazis will be Nazis, and the true nature of their regime will increasingly become obvious. Banderastan will collapse on its own, and future regime change can implement confining of the Ukropi cancer to the Western areas and thereby contained to fester impotently.
Instead of collapsing on its own, it will be occupied and turned into a Kosovo style puppet protectorate and a permanent threat to Russia. Did you miss the little fact that while the Western media was going on and on about Polish Nazis in Warsaw they never uttered a word about Ukranazis in Kiev?
As for “…depicting Russia as a belligerant hegemon, no different to their Cold War caricature of the USSR.” – how is that different from what is going on now, exactly? At least Russia would at least have gains from Ukraine instead of being accused of “invading” it. And if, or rather when, Poro is armed and funded enough (apart from being reinforced with American “advisors” and “trainers”) to feel able to launch a large scale attack of the Donbass republics, what will Putin do? Can he stand by and watch them go under without committing political suicide personally and making southern Russia virtually defenceless? Or will he have to actually send forces, and fight a much more difficult war he could have avoided at the outset?
I have been listening to optimistic prognostications of the imminent collapse of Banderastan since 2014. It has not yet happened and it is not going to happen. ANd the longer the current situation in Donbass lasts the more internal stresses will rise there, as they always do. Plotnitsky’s resignation was just part of it. A permanent war is not good for socioeconomic survival…on either side.
Ukropi orcs tried to take advantage of any disruption within LPR caused by the removal of that bloated traitor Plotnitsky (who was in cahoots with Kiev) but LPR defenders were thankfully up to the task and repelled the goblins.