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Pro-Russia Separatists Take Armored Vehicles, Humiliating Kiev Forces -- Reuters
KRAMATORSK/SLAVIANSK, Ukraine (Reuters) - Separatists flew the Russian flag on armored vehicles taken from the Ukrainian army on Wednesday, humiliating a Kiev government operation to recapture eastern towns controlled by pro-Moscow partisans.
Six armored personnel carriers were driven into the rebel-held town of Slaviansk to waves and shouts of "Russia! Russia!". It was not immediately clear whether they had been captured by rebels or handed over to them by Ukrainian deserters.
Another 15 armored troop carriers full of paratroops were surrounded and halted by a pro-Russian crowd at a town near an airbase. They were allowed to retreat only after the soldiers had handed over the firing pins from their rifles to a rebel commander.
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5 comments:
This is definitely a developing story that has not reached its conclusion with far reaching consequences...
I believe there will be many in this world not sleeping soundly tonight over this
Well that's that for the Ukrainian military. It looks like Brennan talked them into this, who knows what promises were made. Now more than likely the government will fall in a coup. Since I haven't seen many lefties around Kiev, watch for those Neo-Nazi guys to make a try.
Gotta give the Obama Administration quite a string of smart diplomacy successes, Libya, Egypt, Syria, Iran, Iraq, and Ukraine. To paraphrase Thatcher "soon they're going to run out of other peoples countries".
Thatcher, Reagan, Pope John Paul II .... damn .... they understood the East .... not the leaders that we have today.
Seems like the Obummer administration will do anything to avoid the dust up that is brewing...
I think he will be telling himself 'do whatever it takes so that it is not on my watch'...
Bingo Mattathias! But. they're running out of running room.
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