By Yuriy Kasyanov
07.14.2014
Translated and edited by Voices of Ukraine

The Ukrainian army has ended the blockade of Luhansk airport. That’s good. But, columns with hundreds of pieces of military equipment have entered Ukrainian territory–that’s bad. The occupiers are increasing their strength, and taking men by force into the “militia,” and calling on their ranks of mercenaries from Russia. For these men, the trip to the front is a one way ticket. Russian border guards freely allow the armed men and military equipment into Ukraine, but they do not allow anyone back in. Putin gave the command to stand to the last. According to eyewitnesses hotels and hostels in Luhansk are clogged with armed men, it’s the same story in Donetsk.

We have learned how to fight. We will defeat the reptiles. The Kremlin runt [Yanukovych] is desperately trying to save the remnants of separatism in Eastern Ukraine. Regular units and the air force of the Russian Federation have been activated to cover the incursion of military columns across the border. The leaders of the bandits say they have an Su-25 aircraft, claiming that they took it after a forced landing, and that it is already “striking at Ukrainian positions.” The ministry of defense denies that the plane has been taken; the strikes against our troops were probably carried out by the Russian air force, and the fake story about the aircraft being seized was a propaganda cover up. The Grad rocket launchers and tanks which they are using against our forces are also from Russia. The border is not just open, it is controlled by Russian forces and militia men. A wide scale military operation along the whole border from Donetsk to Luhansk will be needed to change the situation. We do not seem to have the strength for that yet.

Russia and its puppets in the Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts are now waging a mass propaganda attack for the possibility of direct intervention by Russian forces in Ukraine. This is what it seems like from the terrorists’ side:

• “NEWSFLASH: Several Ukrainian bombs have exploded in the Rostov Oblast [region], there are dead and wounded”–that is, they try to make it look as if Ukrainian troops have allegedly attacked peaceful citizens of the Russian Federation, but it is a justification for an “suitable response.” In 1939 Hitler faked a Polish attack on a German radio station at Gliwice which was used as a formal excuse to declare war.
• “A Ukrainian air force plane violated Russian air space,” yet another excuse for military intervention.
• “Igor Strelkov: the enemy has sent about 70 tanks to attack Luhansk, 4 Apache antitank helicopters have been deployed in Novorossiya” –well, of course: dozens of Ukrainian tanks are hurting the unhappy inhabitants of Luhansk and the treacherous Americans have given them helicopters. The implication is that it is time for Russia to help its compatriots.
• “The militias declared their first attack with the captured Su-25.” Who actually checked whose plane this was? So now why not make a “completely legal” attack with dozens of Russian aircraft on the positions of the Ukrainian army under the guise of the “air force of the Donetsk republic”?
• “Reinforcements have arrived: large columns of insurgents’ military units have arrived in Luhansk: tanks, Grad rocket launchers, combat vehicles and trucks” –the article does not even hide where the “reinforcements” have come from. It is written unambiguously: “Russian tanks.” And of course, how could peaceful Russian tanks not go to Luhansk to help their brothers?

It’s a pity that Girkin made it out of Sloviansk alive. He has managed to unite under his command most of the gangs, and to enlist the full support of the Russian leadership. Putin has nowhere to retreat: the failure of the special operation in eastern Ukraine means his political death. Defeat in Ukraine for Putler would be much worse than vague Western sanctions.

We have a big fight on our hands: we can expect a counter offensive from the insurgents, and a direct intervention from Russia under the pretext of a “peaceful humanitarian intervention.” The war has gone into a new phase, which might need an effort from all our forces, especially as we cannot rely on concrete help from lifeless western democracies or from an America which is tired of so many constant wars…it cannot even count them.

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Source: Yuriy Kasyanov FB