A Ukrainian serviceman uses a pair of binoculars as he guards a checkpoint near Debaltseve, Donetsk region August 6, 2014. Credit: Reuters/Valentyn Ogirenko
Residents Of Donetsk See No End To Raging Ukrainian Civil War -- Washington Times
DONETSK, Ukraine — When the streets of Donetsk are quiet, the supermarkets resound with the clatter of grocery carts and the rattling of cash drawers.
Elderly women approach the register with mountains of vegetable crates, bags of flour, toilet paper, and jugs of cooking oil. No one knows when they will be able to go to the store again, or if food will be there.
Residents of Donetsk have found themselves in the midst of an civil war that has split the eastern region into loyal Ukrainians and separatists, and has turned their city into the main stronghold for pro-Russia rebels. The Ukrainian army arrived in the city suburbs last week, and the two forces have exchanged artillery and mortar fire throughout neighborhoods.
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Ukraine Civil War News Updates -- August 11, 2014
Ukrainian forces prepare to recapture Donetsk -- The Guardian
Ukraine government loses 568 forces in rebel fighting: military -- Reuters
Donetsk Militia Plans Large-Scale Attack on ‘Demoralized’ Ukrainian Army -- RIA Novosti
Obama to Poroshenko: Any Russian intervention 'unacceptable' -- Reuters
US Senator: Standoff in Eastern Ukraine To Be Settled 'Within Another Week' -- Defense News
NATO chief sees ‘high probability’ of Russian intervention in Ukraine -- The Hill
EU's Barroso warns Putin against military action in Ukraine -- Reuters
Scared Ukraine convicts flee after prison damaged in shelling -- RT
Ukraine shelling sparks Donetsk jailbreak -- BBC
Kremlin Confirms Sending Non-Military Convoy with Aid to East Ukraine -- RIA Novosti
Red Cross Says Awaits Russia’s Data on Humanitarian Assistance for Ukraine -- RIA Novosti
Russia to send humanitarian convoy into Ukraine in spite of warnings -- The Guardian
Ukraine and Russia 'agree' to aid mission to Luhansk -- BBC
Ukraine OKs Red Cross-led aid mission to east -- AP
On the Brink of Survival: No electricity, water, communications in besieged Lugansk, E. Ukraine -- RT
Kiev Seeks to ‘Raze Southeast to the Ground,’ Expel Russian Speakers – Lavrov -- RIA Novosti
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While on about Ukraine note that..
The defenders of the American version of MH17, (probably their own spokespersons), keep repeating the same unsubsantiated conspiracy theory that the rebels shot it down with a BUK. As Goebbels said, “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it".
This conspiracy theory ignores the close-up photos of the side panel of the cockpit, taken immediately after the crash by Canadian/Ukrainian Michael Borchyrski, part of a special team there to negotiate access to the site for the OSCE. He was interviewed by CBC Canada, stating that the cockpit had holes in it made by what appeared to have been an air to air missile and heavy machine guns, (30mm)? with no signs of a ground missile.
On July 30th, retired Lufthansa pilot and published historian Peter Haisenko issued his analysis of the shootdown, in which an extremely close-in photo of the most important piece of physical evidence regarding this event is shown — that side panel.
There is a big gaping hole that had been shot through. It's incredibly precise targeting of a specific person. A ground-based missile-shot fired from 33,000 feet below cannot achieve that gaping hole precisely where the pilot sits. A fighter jet plane that’s escorting the airliner into the conflict-zone can. A Spanish air traffic controller in Ukraine stated that 2 Ukrainian jets were with MH17.
Further projectiles that could have come from 30mm cannon, pierced it. Many were inbound into the plane (bent inward), and many of them were coming out of the plane (bent outward). If there were two fighter jets escorting this plane into the conflict-zone, and if one of them was below the pilot and cockpit to the left, and the other was below them to the right, and if both of those fighter-planes then suddenly fired machine-gun magazines directly into the pilot, then the evidence would look exactly like this.
Retired anti-aircraft missile specialist Colonel Bernd Biedermann in an article for the New Germany newspaper says that had splinters from a surface to air missile hit the plane, it would have immediately caught fire.
The New Straits Times has published much of this. Time for Malaysia to demand the pilots bodies for autopsy, (too late, just announced they are being cremated in Holland)! And the Black Boxes for an honest appraisal.
Yes, there are a lot of questions about this event in my mind. As you say little if no proof has been produced to back up the official versions.
One the problems I have with the Uke jets shooting it down is why use ground attack planes to simulate a SAM attack? If you're going to create a scenario to pin it on a rebel SAM why didn't the planes use air to air instead of cannon?
Thank you Thomas T for your post. I have mulling for the past few days on posting the RT and The New Straits Times story on MH17. I have been swamped with other things, but I have also been waiting for more info and news to come out on this story. But .... an information black hole has now taken hold of this story. And the autopsy/black box/Ukraine traffic control/etc. .... these critical parts of the story are no longer being pursued. I find this strange .... and while I do know that other more dramatic news stories are now breaking out across the world, the crash of MH17 needs to followed also. Anyway .... I will be posting more on this story in the next day or two.
James.. If you look at that cockpit side, I think it's also on Global Research, you will notice the larger hole from an air to air and the smaller cannon holes. I guess they neecded to finish the kill, and were probably confident the Ukis would reach the site pronto, or there would be nothing left, or that nobody would photo just that. They didn't cover all the what ifs. This is guessing as I was civil not military, Airline Training Capt. and Airline Pilot Union's rep at all air accident investigations in the 4 countries that owned the airline.
WarNE. The Dutch are cremating the bodies with permission of the Malays. So.. there will be no autopies for bullet holes. The M are too dim to figure all this out. I live in Siam and visit there often.
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