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originally posted by: maghun
a reply to: OccamsRazor04
If you watched the video above, maybe you noticed serial numbers everywhere. Ask the ukrainian putschists if it was in their military equipment register.
Hope Russia has her list from 1991, but I doubt NATO will be interested.
originally posted by: OccamsRazor04
Good job at trying to create controversy where none exists.
Self-propelled artillery 2S3 Akatsiya captured by militia with prohibited ammunition:
A flechette /flɛˈʃɛt/ fleh-shet is a pointed steel projectile, with a vaned tail for stable flight.
After the deposing of the duly elected government in Kiev, and its replacement by an EU/US/ECB-centric puppet government, the people of Crimea, in what was adjudged to be a free and fair referendum, authenticated by outside observers, chose to rejoin the Russian Federation.
If you watched the video above, maybe you noticed serial numbers everywhere. Ask the ukrainian putschists if it was in their military equipment register.
originally posted by: 8675309jenny
Someone is deliberately capitalizing on people's misunderstanding of the word "BALLISTIC"
I think most people heard that word and think nuclear warhead missile, from the well known ICBM, or "Inter-continental, ballistic missile"
"Ballistic" means the missile has no guidance, it's trajectory is determined by gravity and wind. It is like a rock, it goes where you throw it, so the launch angle, thrust and engine run-time have to be calculated precisely.
Ukraine aren't using ICBM's with MIRV's or anything here.
originally posted by: Xcathdra
Its all they, pro russians / rebel,s have left - they lost. I would suspect crimes against civilian populations under rebel control will see a spike the closer the rebels come to defeat.
Resident Dmitry Andronov said: "We're afraid of the Ukrainian army, which is firing on the city, and of the rebels... who are robbing and killing civilians."
www.bbc.co.uk...
originally posted by: stumason
originally posted by maghun:
After the deposing of the duly elected government in Kiev, and its replacement by an EU/US/ECB-centric puppet government, the people of Crimea, in what was adjudged to be a free and fair referendum, authenticated by outside observers, chose to rejoin the Russian Federation.
Emphasis mine - to highlight the BS. It was judged "free and fair" by whom, exactly? Because the entire world condemned it.
As those "outside observers", every single one was tied to Moscow in some way - even the "Europeans" they had were all Russian ex-pats.
Tired, old, Soviet style propaganda. Might have worked 50 years ago when people couldn't verify facts for themselves, but in this day an age they have to up their game as this was a piss-poor example.
To make sure no one misses this:
Official Kremlin results: 97 percent of polled voters for annexation, turnout 83 percent, and 82 percent of total Crimean population voting in favor.
President’s Human Rights Council mid-point estimate: 55 percent of polled voters for annexation, turnout 40 percent, 22.5 percent of total Crimean population voting in favor.
A member of the Human Rights Council, Svetlana Gannushkina, talked about election fraud on Kanal 24 (as replayed on Ukrainian television), declaring that the Crimean vote “discredited Russia more than could be dreamed up by a foreign agent.”
We can debate the extent of fraud in the March 16 referendum, but only the Council’s highest estimate just yields the fifty percent turnout ratio normally required for major referendums. What counts is that the Putin regime solemnly announced to the world that 82 percent of the Crimean people voted to join Mother Russia, and many in the West swallowed this whopper. At best, according to Putin’s own council, only 30 percent did.
Putin plans to repeat the Crimean election farce in the May 11 referendum on the status of the so-called People’s Republic of Donetsk. He will use the same tricks to produce an overwhelming vote for “independence” and a high turnout. The few international election monitors will object, but Putin counts on repetition of his Big Lie to convince his own people and sympathetic politicians and press in the West that the people of east Ukraine actually want to separate from Ukraine.
Will the West let Putin get away with it again?
UPDATE: This article has been updated to include a screenshot of a report from the Russian Human Rights Council, and revised to reflect the turnout and voting ranges reflected in that report. The original version of this article only discussed the 15 percent figure cited in Ukrainian media.
Has emerged on social networks, correspondence from counsel for Yulia Tymoshenko, Sergei Vlassenko with the "German surgeon" Olga Wieber and the battalion commander "Donbass" Semione Sementchenko.
The correspondence of the two addresses called Sergui Vlassenko and Olga Wieber took place from February to June 2014. The key moment of the match, they are abbreviations. Cor for heart, kidney-per, hep - liver, pan - pancreas, pul - lungs.
originally posted by: maghun
a reply to: Xcathdra
Why don't you visit Crimea and ask the residents about the "invasion"?
Today, 99% sure don't want reunite with ukRUINe...