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Satellite Images Reveal Massing Of 15,000 Ukraine Troops, Hundreds Of Tanks Around Slavyansk
Zero Hedge ^ | April 26, 2014

Posted on 04/26/2014 6:00:34 PM PDT by Fennie

Russian RIA Novosti reports that it has received satellite photos, "which clearly show the accumulation of a large number of Ukrainian military equipment and weapons on the border with the Russian Federation and in the vicinity of Slavyansk." RIA cites a source in the Russian Defense Ministry, who commented that the pictures show a military formation designed "to wipe out the city and all its inhabitants from the face of the earth."

According to source, the group has more than 15,000 troops from the Ukraine army and national guard, about 160 tanks, 230 infantry fighting vehicles and APCs, and as much as 150 mortars, howitzers and multiple launch rocket systems ("Grad" and "Smerch").

The source concludes that "This concentration of troops in one area is not compatible with the potential of self-defense forces, armed with only a small number of pistols and submachine guns."

(Excerpt) Read more at zerohedge.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: military; obama; russia; ukraine; wot

1 posted on 04/26/2014 6:00:34 PM PDT by Fennie
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To: Fennie

Yet for some strange reason the Ukraine didn’t do it for the last 20 years when it had all the chances to do so it needed.

Russia, for heaven’s sake, put a f’n cork in it!


3 posted on 04/26/2014 6:07:32 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Immigration Reform is job NONE. It isn't even the leading issue with Hipanics. Enforce our laws.)
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To: vladimir998

Oh and secret documents also show that Ukraininan leaders met with space aliens and Moscow is now under Direct threat!


4 posted on 04/26/2014 6:08:38 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Immigration Reform is job NONE. It isn't even the leading issue with Hipanics. Enforce our laws.)
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To: vladimir998
...pictures show a military formation designed “to wipe out the city and all its inhabitants from the face of the earth.

Translation...stand by for an invasion by hundreds of tanks,none of which have identifying markings,manned by "Ukrainian patriots",to crush the European aggressors.

5 posted on 04/26/2014 6:21:46 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Stalin Blamed The Kulaks,Obama Blames The Tea Party)
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To: Fennie

FLEXIBILITY


6 posted on 04/26/2014 6:22:44 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Stalin Blamed The Kulaks,Obama Blames The Tea Party)
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To: Fennie

How can we stop this Ukrainian superpower from threatening poor, defenseless Russia?


7 posted on 04/26/2014 6:26:42 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: Fennie
"a source in the Russian Defense Ministry, who commented that the pictures show a military formation designed "to wipe out the city and all its inhabitants from the face of the earth."

LOL, this is comedy gold!

8 posted on 04/26/2014 6:29:15 PM PDT by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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To: Fennie

Precusor to an invasion.


9 posted on 04/26/2014 6:47:15 PM PDT by BushCountry (If you're wondering, "I got my screenname before GW was elected the first time.")
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To: Fennie

10 posted on 04/26/2014 6:53:33 PM PDT by sefarkas (Why vote Democrat Lite?)
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

Communist propaganda has always been so.

Yet billions, even here, will lap it up like honey.

Our entire education system is fine tuned to condition our young to believe it with a religious fervor.


11 posted on 04/26/2014 7:02:11 PM PDT by SargeK
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To: Fennie

So what’s Putin going to do?


12 posted on 04/26/2014 7:21:52 PM PDT by familyop
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To: Fennie

PRETEXT....PRETEXT....PRETEXT


13 posted on 04/26/2014 7:24:56 PM PDT by House Atreides
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To: Fennie

It would be a good thing if true, however this is just more Russian propaganda / justification for seizing the entire Ukraine.


14 posted on 04/26/2014 7:44:48 PM PDT by JimSEA
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To: Fennie

The Ukranians are preparing to invade and occupy Russia. Blitzkrieg, shock and awe, etc etc.


15 posted on 04/26/2014 8:19:46 PM PDT by Redcitizen (When a zombie apocalypse starts, Chuck Norris doesn't try to survive. The zombies do.)
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To: JimSEA

I don’t think Russia has any desire to seize and occupy the entirety of Ukraine, but only the eastern part. The west of Ukraine is more naturally aligned with Poland and would be a hostile captive, so it would be better left alone. On the other hand, the eastern part of Ukraine leans toward Russia, would easily assimilate, and would provide the non-hostile land bridge to Crimea and the Black Sea that Russia so desperately needs. I expect an east-west division of Ukraine will occur, and that it will provide Kiev with more stability than the present demographic time bomb. The only reason for Russia to invade the whole of Ukraine would be to prevent Kiev from joining NATO.


16 posted on 04/26/2014 9:49:44 PM PDT by Always A Marine
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All the Russian chessmaster options have expired. They lost their stooge puppet. The suvbersives are isolated and can either surrender and vote or not vote.

Elections will soon elect a pro West President and E Ukrainians polls show they want one Ukraine.

The Russians have failed.
Their only option is invasion. The incompetent Russians should just STHU or do it.

The old Soviet style propaganda is getting tiresome.


17 posted on 05/15/2014 6:38:55 AM PDT by rbmillerjr (Russians to the Left of me, Useful Idiots to the Right...)
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