Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Ukraine Is Claiming That Its Forces Are Under Attack From Russian Troops



BBC: Ukraine accuses Russian troops of attacking its forces

WNU Editor: The situation in Ukraine is unraveling .... Ukrainian leader cuts short Davos visit as situation 'worsens' (AFP).

More News On The Ukraine Conflict

Ukraine Accuses Russia of Sending More Troops and Artillery to Aid Rebels -- New York Times
Ukraine Says Russian Troops Join Separatists in New Assaults -- Bloomberg
Ukraine says its forces come under attack from Russian troops -- Reuters
'Russian forces' attack Ukraine troops in separatist east -- AFP
Kyiv Says Russian Military Attacked Its Forces Inside Eastern Ukraine -- VOA
Ukraine military accuses Russia of direct attack on its forces -- Euronews
Ukraine Reports Attack By Russian Troops On Eve Of Talks -- Radio Free Europe
Ukraine accuses Russia of firing on troops near Donetsk -- Deutsche Welle
Russian forces, equipment enter Ukraine, PM says -- CNN
Ukraine Conflict: Kiev Claims It's Threatened By Rebel Air Power Backed By Russia -- IBTimes
Ukraine faces threat of Russian air power as conflict takes turn for the worse -- Kyiv Post
Claims that Russian forces entered Ukraine 'complete rubbish,' Russia says -- CNN
Russia denies new Ukraine troop incursion as civilian casualties mount -- Euronews
Hospital and university hit as Ukraine clashes flare -- AFP
Fighting Has Flared Up in Ukraine, Raising Fears of All-Out War Once Again -- Time
Ukraine calls up 50000 reservists after sharp escalation in hostilities -- The Telegraph
Ukraine conflict: Security in east deteriorating, say observers -- BBC
As fighting deepens in eastern Ukraine, death toll rises -- Washington Post
The Guardian View of war in Ukraine: maintain the pressure on Russia -- Guardian editorial

8 comments:

Jay Farquharson said...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=o7r6rbvLWF8
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UGTygMhbf-0

So far, it looks like the loss of the Airport and the defeat of the "cyborgs", created an internal political crisis in the Ukraine Government,

Which they attempted to solve, with some poorly planned and executed assaults,

But instead of regaining ground, they are losing it.

War News Updates Editor said...

Jay. A friend of mine who is in parliament told me that he believes that the Ukraine counter-attack this weekend turned into a rout, and that is why Poroshemko jumped in his plane from Davos and hurried back to Kiev. To say that the entire situation is a mess is an understatement. I am also reading numerous reports on social media (Russian and Ukrainian) on what happened in the town of Gorlovka on Sunday. Apparently an ambush happened a few days before that killed a number of Ukrainian soldiers, and in retaliation Ukrainian planes bombed the town. Numerous civilian casualties are being reported .... 30 - 50 killed, 100+ wounded.

People in Ukraine are becoming shell-shocked on what is happening .... the impression is that no one is in control.

War News Updates Editor said...

Jay. I am grateful that my father is not alive to see the video links that you posted. It would tear him apart to see the Ukraine that he fought for during World War II be self-destructing in such a fashion. He never liked or trusted the nationalists in western Ukraine, and his fear even during the conflict of the Second World War was that they would destroy the country. They did not then .... but they ignited the fuse that is destroying it today.

Seeing those videos makes me want to go back to Kiev .... to try and do something to stop the insanity.

Jay Farquharson said...

There was no ambush in Gorlovka/Horlivka/Posad, from what I can tell,

The outskirts of town was one of the highwater marks of the Summer Offensive, but the Ukrainian Army never managed to take the town, and the truce came to soon for the DPA to clear the surrounds and turn the Ukrainian spearhead into another cauldron.

The town is just being deliberatly "punished".

War News Updates Editor said...

My source for the ambush near Gorlovka is from social media .... but as I have said more than once .... social media cannot be relied on. As to .... "The town is just being deliberately "punished"" .... if that is the reason why the town was bombed .... it is even worse. Guernica happened 75 years ago .... but it seems that man's barbarity over time never changes ... the weapons are just more efficient.

Jay Farquharson said...

Virulent Nationalism has never been a healthy political strain, it relies too much on creating enemies to keep the herd together.

Jay Farquharson said...

WNU Editor,

NovaRussian social media has lit up, under the caption of "Givi catches a Big Fish",

I thought it was a little weird that the Colonel captured wasn't in uniform,

Turns out he's Colonel Oleg Mikhailovich Mikats, Commander of the 93rd Separate Mechanized Brigade, aka "The Cyborgs",

And the number #3 guy in Pravy Sector.

War News Updates Editor said...

Thankyou for the the info Jay. The links and information that you provide is greatly appreciated.