News from Ukraine Conflict

[Mr. Bigglesworth]

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/10/us-russia-media-idUSKCN0IU1UO20141110

sounds like a front for KGB operations to me.

[LongBlade]

Yup.

[Mr. Bigglesworth]

BBC is reporting Breedlove thinks the russkies are putting nuke capable iskander missiles in Crimea. The wiki page makes them look like a very capable system. I think the end is near for eastern Ukraine. One stupid little man is going to set large swaths of the earth ablaze.

[BanzaiCat]

BBC is reporting Breedlove thinks the russkies are putting nuke capable iskander missiles in Crimea. The wiki page makes them look like a very capable system. I think the end is near for eastern Ukraine. One stupid little man is going to set large swaths of the earth ablaze.

That's all it takes...one stupid man, with millions of stupid sheep following him blindly.

[Mr. Bigglesworth]

To misquote Spock "The needs of the many, outweigh the desires of the one."

[LongBlade]

Doesn't that seem odd? Putin worked so hard to get US countermeasures out of Poland (et al).

Now he's inviting those + theater level missiles back in.

Maybe it's for domestic consumption.

[mirth]

The Ruskies have had Iskanders in the Western Military District for awhile now. So the Crimea move probably is meant for domestic propaganda.

Wonder which Aegis ships we currently have parked in the Black Sea. Would love to see a real world test of the ABM capability.

[bayonetbrant]

http://www.businessinsider.com/afp-nato-says-russian-military-equipment-entering-east-ukraine-2014-11

NATO has observed columns of Russian military equipment including tanks, artillery, and combat troops entering eastern Ukraine in the past two days, the military alliance's supreme allied commander said Wednesday.

"Across the last two days we have seen the same thing that OSCE is reporting. We have seen columns of Russian equipment, primarily Russian tanks, Russian artillery, Russian air defense systems, and Russian combat troops entering into Ukraine," he added.

He noted that NATO did "not have a good picture at this time of how many. We agree that there are multiple columns that we have seen."

Observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) reported on Tuesday seeing a convoy of 43 unmarked military trucks — five towing Howitzer heavy artillery pieces and another five multilaunch rocket systems — traveling into the rebel stronghold of Donetsk.

It was the latest in a string of recent sightings of unmarked trucks and heavy weapons heading toward the frontline in rebel-controlled areas.

Heavy artillery fire rocked Donetsk on Wednesday. Ukraine's military said one soldier had been killed and two wounded, including one at the airport, as its positions came under repeated shelling around the region.

"What worries me the most is that we have a situation now that the former international border between Ukraine and Russia is completely porous, it is completely wide open," NATO Commander Philip Breedlove said.

"Forces, money, support, supplies, weapons are flowing back and forth across this border completely at will and that is not a good situation," he said.

"We need to get back to a situation where this international border is respected and that will help us to contain the problem of re-supply into eastern Ukraine."

[Gusington]

Jesus tapdancing Christ.

[BanzaiCat]

Couple dozen MOABs would nip that sh!t in the bud.

[Gusington]

I'm putting my helmet on regardless and not taking it off for a while.

[GDS_Starfury]

its gonna turn purple and fall off man.

[Gusington]

It's not looking good anyway.

[JasonPratt]

And the picky part of my mind is meanwhile critiquing the infographic design: areas supposedly "liberated" are also listed as under terrorist control; and at least three icons on the right don't show up on the map at all. 

PRIORITIES, PEOPLE, PRIORITIES!

[mirth]

And the picky part of my mind is meanwhile critiquing the infographic design: areas supposedly "liberated" are also listed as under terrorist control; and at least three icons on the right don't show up on the map at all. 

PRIORITIES, PEOPLE, PRIORITIES!

Always use the USA Today part of your brain when viewing infographics.