Sorry I did not read this one:
"Russian aid convoy, artillery units cross into Ukraine" by Andrew Higgins and Andrew Roth | New York Times August 23, 2014
KIEV — More than 200 trucks from a long-stalled Russian convoy said to be carrying humanitarian aid crossed the border into eastern Ukraine on Friday without Red Cross escorts, drawing angry accusations from Ukraine that Moscow had broken its word and mounted what a senior Ukrainian security official called a “direct invasion.”
Separately, NATO officials said Friday the Russian military has moved artillery units manned by Russian personnel inside Ukrainian territory in recent days and is using them to fire at Ukrainian forces.
Of course, the New York Times would never lie us into a war or anything so grain of salt all that, will you?
Readers, I'm putting this up for you because I have no idea what is going on over there. Too find out I need to go outside this propaganda pri$m in which I no longer believe.
The West has long accused Russia of supporting the separatist forces in eastern Ukraine, but this is the first time it has said it had evidence of the direct involvement.
HA-HA-HA-HA-HA!
At a news briefing in Washington, Rear Admiral John Kirby, a Pentagon spokesman, condemned the convoy as an “unauthorized entry into Ukraine” and called for the vehicles’ immediate withdrawal.
But Ukraine stepped back from earlier threats to use “all forces available” to halt any Russian vehicles that crossed the frontier without its full accord, and President Petro Poroshenko assured the visiting foreign minister of Lithuania that “we will do our best to ensure that this did not lead to more serious consequences.”
PetrolShenko blinked.
The comments by Poroshenko, however, who on Saturday hosts the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, suggested that Ukraine would limit its response to verbal protests and not use force against the Russian vehicles.
The arrival of the first Russian aid trucks in Ukrainian territory nonetheless sharply raised tensions between the two neighbors before talks next Tuesday between Poroshenko and his Russian counterpart, President Vladimir Putin. The leaders are scheduled to meet, along with officials from the European Union, in the Belarus capital of Minsk.
Btw, I heard those trucks were all checked and it was all humanitarian aid, all of it.
Of course, it is not like the NYT would ever omit anything from its reporting.
The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a long statement in Moscow saying in essence that it had authorized the crossing because it was fed up with stalling by the government in Kiev. Russian news agencies quoted a spokesman for Putin as saying that he “had been informed” of the convoy’s movements.
“All the excuses to delay the delivery of aid to people in the area of a humanitarian catastrophe are exhausted,” the ministry said. “The Russian side has made a decision to act. Our column with humanitarian cargo starts moving toward Luhansk.”
Russia’s movement of its own artillery units into Ukraine represents a significant escalation of Kremlin involvement in the fighting there.
You know what?
You reporter flaks want to get a war going so badly, why don't YOU and YOUR FAMILIES ENLIST?
Since mid-August NATO has received multiple reports of the direct involvement of Russian forces, “including Russian airborne, air defense, and special operations forces in eastern Ukraine,” said Oana Lungescu, a spokeswoman for NATO.
“Russian artillery support — both cross-border and from within Ukraine — is being employed against the Ukrainian armed forces,” she added.
What about all the hardware the EU, NATO, and US are sending in, as well as the military presence in the region?
Hello?
NATO has previously reported transfers of large quantities of advanced weapons, including tanks, armored personnel carriers, and artillery from Russia to separatist groups in Ukraine. Russia has also built up its ground and air forces near Ukraine.
In addition to describing the entry of the Russian truck convoy as a “direct invasion,” Valentyn Nalyvaichenko, the head of Ukraine’s Security Service, asserted that the vehicles were driven by Russian military personnel.
Nalyvaichenko said it was the first incursion ever carried out “under the cover of the Red Cross.”
Yeah, Israel never lets them in when even that bad man with the little mustache did.
The arrival of Russian trucks, which Ukrainian officials partly inspected Thursday on the Russian side of the border and found to contain buckwheat, rice, sugar, and water, appeared to be a Russian effort to stall an accelerating offensive by Ukrainian forces against beleaguered pro-Russian rebels.
Yeah, that mass slaughter by US-supported Ukraine forces not commented upon, no outrage, no nothing!
I, myself, am sick of the one-sided slop. Sorry.
The trucks are traveling toward Luhansk, a besieged rebel-held city that has come under heavy pressure in recent days from Ukrainian forces. The city’s fall would deliver a humiliating blow to Putin, who has faced mounting calls from hard-line nationalists in Russia to intervene decisively to stave off defeat for the Russian-speaking and often ethnically Russian rebels.
Except he's won on the world stage. The sanctions will screw Europe way more, and Russia has not committed any aggression despite the howling from my buried-in-the-50s war pre$$ here.
The Kremlin has repeatedly denied supporting rebels, despite a steady flow of arms and fighters into eastern Ukraine from Russia, but has tied itself to their fate by whipping up a nationalist fervor with vows by Putin to protect Russians beyond Russia’s borders.
No wonder the JYT is failing so bad.
Spreading the large, white aid trucks through Luhansk could effectively impose a cease-fire, essentially daring the Ukrainians to fire at vehicles that have been sent to provide desperately needed humanitarian assistance.
As if the HUMANITARIAN AID that is FOOD and WATER is a PROVOCATION!
What HORRIBLE, HORRIBLE "journali$m."
Any respite in Ukraine’s military offensive could allow rebels still fighting for control of Luhansk to dig in further, and indefinitely postpone any attempt to oust them.
After all the "we're winning" pre$$ why haven't they taken it all yet?
From the start, Ukraine has viewed Russia’s aid convoy, which left Moscow on Tuesday last week, with deep suspicion, fearing the vehicles could be carrying arms or be a ruse by Moscow to support the pro-Russian separatists.
They got to LOOK through the TRUCKS and there was NOTHING BUT AID in them! God damn it!
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Look, down on the ground:
"Bodies of victims of flight over Ukraine back in Malaysia" Associated Press August 23, 2014
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Carried by soldiers and draped in the national flag, coffins carrying Malaysian victims of Flight MH17 returned home Friday to a country still searching for those onboard another doomed jet and a government battling the political fallout of both tragedies.
The bodies and ashes of 20 victims from the Malaysia Airlines jet that was shot down over eastern Ukraine in July were given full honors and a day of national mourning was declared, the first for civilians in the country’s five-decade history.
Many people in offices observed a minute’s silence as the hearses were driven from Kuala Lumpur International Airport to private funerals. Some public trains in the capital stopped operating.
All 298 people onboard died when the jet was shot down over an area of Ukraine controlled by pro-Russia separatists on a flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur. The victims included 43 Malaysians and 195 Dutch nationals. An international investigation is ongoing.
The return of the bodies also represented a triumph for Prime Minister Najib Razak, whose shaky popularity ratings were hit by his handling of the unsolved disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 in March.
That's kind of a weird thing to say, isn't it?
How can any of this be considered a triumph?
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Sometimes I think the Globe is reading me.
Regarding the Malaysian crashes, why have the propaganda pre$$ and western governments shut up after getting the black boxes?
What I see here are three possible theories:
1) The official story is true, it was Ukraine rebels that shot MH-17 out of the sky.
That scenario is instantly dismissed.
2) The limited hangout version is that Kiev took it down in a false flag attack, and some evidence gathered by Russia seems to indicate that.
It may very well be possible, and is certainly more likely than the official version.
3) The conspiracy theorists position ties it into the disappearance of 370, and the debris field anomalies would seem to support such a thing. Decayed bodies arranged strangely and all, possible planting of parts.
I'm stuck between two and three right now, and the fact that the incident allowed Ukraine to press forward so they could secure the site stinks to high heaven. It is possible that 370 was accidentally shot down in war games as has been proposed (and pretty much ignored) as the wild goose chase search was directed elsewhere. Apparently Malaysia is really reluctant to go along with all the propaganda, too. That's a signal of a cover-up, when a government is grumbling.
