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.
The rats took the documents when they left.
Funny that they can just change uniforms. Kinda makes a lie of the colapse of the Russian Empire.
This would be a good sign, no?
On the other hand, the hundreds of Russian spetsnaz dressed in Ukraine uniform, would be a bad sign, no?
In a way, Osama did us a favor, as did the Japanese at Pearl Harbor. He reawakened us to the dangers of tyranny that are always with us.
The leftists have a point when they say that "values" were the key to their recent election losses here in the States. Even though the War on Terror and related military, war and security issues scored higher in the exit polls, still the greatest danger to the leftists is the reawakening of understanding that freedom is founded on, and totally dependent on, individual responsibility and morality, which must derive from faith in a higher moral order.
As noted in another post, Right and wrong: Joseph Farah on what ails America, what needs to be done, a few minutes ago, a moral order based on the Golden Rule is essential to liberty. The subversion of all the institutions of society, whether it be to some variant of Marxism or Socialism, or to Radical Islam, so that they turn from supporting that essential moral order, to instead destroying it, is the way to tyranny, and the death of freedom.
In so many places at once, it seems that freedom hangs precariously in the balance.
Were times always this tense, or is it that I am just beginning to notice?
I wish the Ukrainians well.
I also might be tempted to quip that Colonel Lyashenko sure had a pair hanging, but that's probably not true any longer!
--Boot Hill
Hopefully this means the Russians are going to abandon their stooges, grab the evidence and get out of Dodge.
I also read Spetznaz were in a country of Western Ukraine--Ivano-Frankovsk. Of course, it is hard to know what is rumor and what is true.
Correct previous post to read "county" of Western Ukrain, not country.
This just shows how stupid Putin's KGB methods are.
The next move will be to shut down their gas and freeze them into submission.
... and make FBS detonate a few bombs and blame the opposition.
FBS => FSB
There is no such thing as "county" of Western Ukrain".
First thought was look at all the documents they are taking back to Russia.
Second is the fact that the Russians flew in 800 troops and had them change into Ukrainian uniforms.
It isn't nice to have to deal with Russia
Obligatory spetsnaz pong
Yep. You know we S'naz are everywhere! LOL.
one more ping... (o:
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