US and Ukrainian soldiers attend an opening ceremony of the joint Ukrainian-US military exercise 'Fearless Guardian' at the Yavoriv training ground in the western region of Lviv on April 20, 2015 (AFP Photo/Yuriy Dyachyshyn)
Samuel Bendett, The Compass: How Ukraine's Military Will Defeat Russia's Rebels
Tensions between Ukraine and Russia show no signs of abating, and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko was unsparing when he recently criticized Russia for destabilizing his country.
Speaking on March 25 at a government meeting marking the creation of the Ukrainian Security Service, or SBU, Poroshenko said that of the more than 200 terrorist attacks prevented by Ukraine in 2015, most were prepared in Russia. The president said such attacks were meant to to destabilize the political situation in the country and were planned for Kiev, Odessa, Nikolaev, Kherson, Zaporizhzhya, Kharkiv, and Lviv -- the nation's major cities and regions.
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WNU Editor: I am sure that with time the Ukraine Army will be a professional fighting force one day .... but not in the short to medium term. As I have said more than once in this blog, the Ukraine conflict begs for a political solution .... not a military one. Waging war against your own citizens only guarantees more bitterness and division. Unfortunately .... it is the military solution that Ukraine President Poroshenko is looking at.
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The Chocolate King needs to read the Armstong post down thread.
Man you are so one-sided on this. bizarre. Its all about how the Ukraine does this and Ukraine does that, never about Russia doing this and Russia doing that, you are strangely quiet about the rebels aka Russian proxies who actually started the violence and the Russians taking sovereign territoty from the Ukraine ie Crimea and parts of the Donbas.
You need to read the actual history, not the propaganda.
The EU Assention Agreement required that Ukraine swap $60 billion dollars of trade with, and aid from Russia, for a "promised" matching trade and aid package from the EU.
A week before Yanokovich was supposed to sign the agreement, the actual EU aid and trade numbers leaked out, $16 billion dollars a year were the "real" numbers.
That's a 74% pay cut for every Ukrainian.
Yanukovich balked, and at the last minute, the EU brokered The Compromise Agreement, then Maiden stormed the Rada, the Party of Regions members and many of their allies fled from Kiev in fear for their lives, ( many were beaten), and an highly unconstitutional process and vote was held by the remaining MP's, ( under the watch of armed and violent Maiden activists) to create a "new" appointed President, Prime Minister and Speaker.
The "new" Rada immediately introduced a series of laws criminalising the Russian language, (79% of Ukrainians), the Orthodox Church, (64% of Ukrainians) and Russian trade, ( 74% of the Ukrainian Economy), and membership in the Party of Regions.
In areas of the Ukraine politically dominated by the Party of Regions, anyi-Maiden protests arose, copying the Maiden tactics of low level violence, seizures and occupations of Government buildings, and public protests and barricades.
Receiving credible intel that there was a joint Turkish-Ukraine program in place to force Russia out of it's bases in Crimea, with the aid of 800 additional Spetnaz troops, Russian Forces based in Crimea, ( the Polite Men" seized and secured Crimea.
Porshenko launched the "AntiTerrorism Operation" , claiming the anti-Maiden protestors were terrorists and sent the Ukrainian Army to clear the protests.
Better than Pravda Jay, you can now work with Putin Trolls
"Receiving credible intel that there was a joint Turkish-Ukraine program in place to force Russia out of it's bases in Crimea, with the aid of 800 additional Spetnaz troops, Russian Forces based in Crimea, ( the Polite Men" seized and secured Crimea."
Are you serious? This is not 1 April...
http://turcopolier.typepad.com/sic_semper_tyrannis/2016/04/the-somewhat-phony-but-still-bloody-war-in-the-donbass-ttg.html#comment-6a00d8341c72e153ef01b8d1ba2fdd970c
http://www.moonofalabama.org/2014/03/the-crimean-anti-coup-move.html
Does the Wolfsangle tattoo on your face still itch?
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