The Battle of Ilovaisk: Details of a Massacre Inside Rebel-Held Eastern Ukraine -- Lucian Kim, Newsweek
Petro Poroshenko, the former chocolate king and recently-elected president of Ukraine, stood proudly on the podium in Kiev’s Independence Square as 1,500 goose-stepping servicemen, armoured vehicles and rocket launchers passed before him. Crowds of smiling families in traditional embroidered shirts turned out to wave tiny yellow and blue Ukrainian flags in the summer sunshine. It was August 24th 2014, the anniversary of the day the country won its independence from the Soviet Union in 1991.
This year Ukraine’s Independence Day carried particular symbolism, since pro-Russian separatists held eastern regions of the country. The celebrations were intended to shore up support for Poroshenko, who had won the presidency three months before as the country risked being torn further apart. Poroshenko promised the crowd imminent victory in his country’s proxy war against Russia. Crimea may have been lost without a fight, but eastern Ukraine would be different: “I am confident that the battle for Ukraine, for independence, will end in success,” he said.
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My Comment: The repercussions of this military disaster has still not hit home for many Ukrainians ... even with all of the news reports and eyewitness accounts. When I talk with my friends in Kiev .... I am surprised to see that many of them are still in denial on the extent of what had happened .... and what (in my opinion) is even worse is that many politicians .... newly elected from recent parliamentary elections .... are now egging Ukrainian President Poroshenko to resume the conflict. This is a disaster in the making. My take is that the Battle of Ilovaisk was Russia's "Red Line" to Kiev on what Russia now expects in eastern Ukraine. If there is a resumption of the civil war .... the Russians would do exactly what they did in August .... and they will pour in the army to blunt and stop any Ukrainian offensive. Unfortunately .... for the hundreds who were killed in this battle .... these lessons have not been learned in Kiev .... and I am now deeply worried that a resumption of a full blown civil war with an even greater Russian military footprint is becoming more and more real everyday.
kharkiv is next
ReplyDeleteThe Newsweek article is a wonderful piece of propaganda, and does a fine job of creating a "mythology" that absolves the Ukraine Military and the Punative Battalions from responsibility, but that is all it is.
ReplyDeleteYour propaganda is a joke. WHAT CIVIL WAR?
ReplyDeleteGo call your russians or cossacks friends and ask how many were killed in Ukraine. This is a battle between Ukraine vs Russia (terrorist state) and its a disgrace that you support the terrorist actions of the fking muppets of hitler putin. Shame on you!!
WNU Editor,
ReplyDeleteRemember the good old days of the Internet, when there was a better class of troll? : )
You know Jay .... in the old days the negative comments that I got were just priceless. Today ... sighhh .... they are so lame and unoriginal.
ReplyDeleteOf course is F..g propaganda Jay ,just ask the Blog dude he love the terorist from Ukraine how they where making they r teror on the people whith guns torture and making demand at a gun fire to the Ukrainian government ! The Blog dude mind just not understood that every country in the world has the right to be a sovereign country and independent, and not to be blackmail by terorist whith superpower aid like the situation in Ukraine.
ReplyDeleteWow, networked trolls, not even smart enough to read the articles, understand thevpurpose of the blog, or even the blog comments.
DeleteCongrats, Editor, a little while ago, you were jealous of the traffic the SHR site got, looks like you have made it onto the Banderista troll sites!
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