Appeal to the Nations of Europe from Novorossiya
Narrator’s voice [translation from Russian]
Transcript of Video
Under Ukraine’s flag, Ukrainian soldiers are killing their compatriots. It is impossible to believe that, but this is true.
Our deaths have become an everyday occurrence on the news about our cities and villages in south eastern Ukraine.
Ordinary people live in their houses, go along their regular routes to work, stores, hospitals and playgrounds. Artillery shells fall onto them, tearing them to pieces – women, children and old people.
That is what is left of them after shelling and bombing…[pics of killed civilians]
It is surprising that this info can only be found on the Internet. It is hard to believe, but this info does not make it to the news releases of Europe’s state-monitored TV channels…
Europeans! Germans! Italians! French! Look at what is being done to the people of Luhansk and Donetsk by the Ukrainian Army and its soldiers! We can forgive you for keeping silent – if you don’t know about it. But if you do, I want to ask you: WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH YOU?! Could it be that the bombs that kill our children and old people fail to reach your hearts?
Just a year ago, I was traveling in Europe, visiting Vienna, Venice and Paris. I watched a TV music festival in which singers from Kiev, Kharkov, Luhansk and Donetsk took part. Today, their relatives are dying in their homes, on the streets of their cities and on the playgrounds. The singers are in no mood of singing anymore – the USA and EU have organized a different festival for them – a bloody one, to the music of GRADs and SU-25s.
Do you know why? Just because residents of south-eastern Ukraine asked [the government] to allow them to have a federate state system, akin to one that is in Germany or Canada, so much loved by Ukrainians; to have their children taught in Russian, their mother tongue.
Europeans! Just imagine if the federative state system becomes forbidden in Germany. Imagine if the French are not allowed to speak French, or Italians are prohibited from studying the history of Ancient Rome. And those who refuse to follow these laws will be shot, burned alive, shelled…
Just take a look at how thugs and soldiers are doing it under the auspices of the Ukrainian flag.
Things just escalated notably – (Via Bloomberg):
Reuters reports,
Ukrainian artillery destroyed a “significant” part of a Russian armoured column that crossed into Ukraine during the night, President Petro Poroshenko told British Prime Minister David Cameron on Friday, according to the presidential website.
Separately, a Ukrainian military spokesman said Ukrainian forces had tracked the Russian armoured column as soon as it crossed onto Ukrainian soil.”Appropriate actions were undertaken and a part of it no longer exists,” military spokesman Andriy Lysenko told journalists.
We await Putin’s response…
EU & US Stocks and bond yields (and Ruble) are tumbling, gold rising.
Of course we noted this last night…
While the white trucks came to a halt well short of Ukraine’s border, a different Russian convoy did cross into Ukrainian territory late on Thursday evening.
The Guardian saw a column of 23 armoured personnel carriers, supported by fuel trucks and other logistics vehicles with official Russian military plates, travelling towards the border near the Russian town of Donetsk.
After pausing by the side of the road until nightfall, the convoy crossed into Ukrainian territory, using a rough dirt track and clearly crossing through a gap in a barbed wire fence that demarcates the border. Armed men were visible in the gloom by the border fence as the column moved into Ukraine.
Kiev has lost control of its side of the border in this area.
The trucks are unlikely to represent a full-scale official Russian invasion, and it was unclear how far they planned to travel inside Ukrainian territory and how long they would stay. But it was incontrovertible evidence of what Ukraine has long claimed – that Russian troops are active inside its borders.
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The armoured column seen by the Guardian appeared to be further evidence of Russia’s incursions, which the Kremlin has repeatedly denied.
But do now…
A reminder of the comparative anxiety in bonds and stocks…
From Reuters:
The result…
The Ruble snapped lower but is recovering..
But stocks knew better?
Chart: bloomberg
by Tyler Durden, ZeroHedge
While today’s trading session was marked by news which at first blush correlated with what may be the 2014 equivalent of the Archduke Ferdinand shooting, in retrospect the newsflow made painfully little sense. Let’s recap:
This is where the breakdown of logic occurs, because for Russia to make such a formal statement it clearly implies that Russia believes there is no evidence of destruction of a Russian convoy in Ukraine territory, something which obviously would exist if indeed as Ukraine’s president had claimed, the “majority of the machines had been eliminated.”
If true, it also implies that either Ukraine had fabricated the entire story, and certainly the part about the destruction of the convoy and by extension that Russians had ever entered into East Ukraine. Furthermore, that would also suggest that the reports of the British reporters were also a fabrication.
Unless, of course, there is evidence, in which case the credibility of the both the Guardian and Telegraph reporters can be preserved, Ukraine can not be accused of fabricating a story to suit what some may say its own warmongering ambitions, and the onus is on Russia to explain why it lied about there being no invasion.
More to the point, the onus is on Ukraine to present some evidence, in fact any evidence, of a destroyed Russian military convoy instead of merely building upon a story conceived by the two UK media outlets, because if Ukraine indeed has no evidence, then its story falls apart and what’s worse, the credibility and reputation of its government, of NATO and certainly of the UK press would be in tatters.
So what other possibility is there? Well, one that is all too unpalatable for Ukraine, namely that in its excitement to blow something up, it may have well destroyed some of its own military vehicles. A possible lead to such a turn of events comes from this Interfax report citing the leadership of the breakaway Donetsk People’s Republic.
The leadership of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic has dismissed the Ukrainian government’s statement on destroying a convoy of what appeared to be Russian armored vehicles in eastern Ukraine.
“We haven’t received any armored vehicles from Russia. No Russian units, including Russian armored vehicles, have crossed the border. Hence, no Russian armored vehicles could have been destroyed,” DPR First Deputy Prime Minister Andrei Purgin told Interfax on Friday evening.
Purgin claimed that, on the contrary, the militias destroyed about 100 Ukrainian armored vehicles.
“A lot of Ukrainian armored vehicles were destroyed today, 7 at one place, 12 at another. And the same all over the DPR territory. A total of about 100 of them,” Purgin said.
The implication is clear: while 100 or so Ukraine armored vehicles may or may not have been destroyed, one wonders if indeed the Ukraine army was responsible in “aiding” the separatists with what would appear to be a friendly-fire incident?
But perhaps the most damning evidence comes from none other than the White House itself, which according to CNN just admitted that while it accuses Moscow of “incursions” it can’t confirm the convoy was destroyed by Kiev.
Perhaps for the simplest reason that there is no evidence to help with the confirmation process?
Which is rather unpleasant, because as explained above, without confirmation of a destroyed convoy, the whole story falls apart as merely yet another unprecedented warmongering fabrication, one involving not only the Kiev regime, but NATO and the UK press as well!
What is worse, is that if indeed the specter arises that Ukraine is lying about an event that nearly gave the market a heart attack on the belief that a new international war involving Russia may be about to break out, was Ukraine also lying about flight MH-17. And else may the Kiev regime been lying about?