Posted on 11/30/2004 1:45:26 AM PST by AdmSmith
The Russian daily Kommersant published a report on Nov. 29 stating that up to 800 Russian special forces, or spetsnaz, began arriving in Kyiv early on the morning of Nov. 23 and changed into Ukrainian uniforms at a Ukrainian military base just outside the capital.
The report says that at 1:32 a.m. on Nov. 23 a Russian Antonov An-26 (serial number RA-26410) arrived at a Ukrainian military base near Irpen, located 10 km from the city center. The base is adjacent to a compound operated by the BARS government security agency, which has as many as 3,000 service personnel protecting the Presidential Administration in central Kyiv.
According to the Kommersant report, at 3:17 a.m. on Nov. 23, a second plane arrived, a Ukrainian-registered heavy lift Ilyushin Il-76. The occupants of both the Antonov and the Ilyushin boarded buses waiting on the tarmac and were transported to the base at Irpen. Kommersant also reported that up to 800 such spetsnaz forces of the Vityaz regiment have arrived in Ukraine from Russia on Russian military transport aircraft, many also having landed at Kyiv's Boryspil International Airport from Nov. 24-26.
The location of the troops is currently unknown.
The deputy head of the Boryspil Airport security service, Lt. Colonel Lyashenko, refused to give clearance for the first of the planes to arrive from Russia on Nov. 23 and immediately tendered his resignation. The press service of the airport security service would not give the reasons for Lyashenko's resignation, but did confirm that Lyashenko had resigned his post.
The staff at another regional airport nearby also refused to give landing permission to further planes arriving on Nov. 24, but they were overruled and the planes landed, said an anonymous source within the State Security Service (SBU) on Nov. 25.
The source stated that each plane, after landing, was then loaded with sensitive documents from the Presidential Administration, the SBU and other departments before taking off again, bound for Moscow.
Officials at Boryspil airport and with the Interior Ministry have so far declined to comment on the matter. Russian Ambassador to Ukraine, Viktor Chernomyrdin, on Nov. 26 called the reports of Russian forces in Ukraine as "completely absurd and an open provocation.
So can someone enlighten me?What are these "sensitive" documents and what's the deal with the Ruskies changing into Ukraine uninforms?
And one of the guys resigned after refusing permission to land the Russian planes.
The power of the KGB lives on.
Did you see my #15? Like I said in that post, Putin is trying to rebuild the Soviet Union, he was up to his scrawny little neck in this. Scary stuff...Bush may have seen Putin's soul, but I am not sure if he has one myself...
Exactly.
Putin blames corruption, breakup of Soviet Union (for massacre)
Red star rising: Putin revives Soviet symbol
Putin revives Soviet national anthem
Thanks. Reagan's "trust but verify" should definitely
be in play when dealing with Pootie-Poot alright!
Thanks.
Thanks for the article/link.
The Ukraine shuts off the supply of FOOD and starves them into war.
Pootie-Poot is BAD news.
Wow, a lot of information there! Didn't he even have the 'state' take over the media months ago? Wonder why he continues to support Bush?
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