No Russians among Slavyansk self-defense forces – NYT reporters

Russia Today ^ | 05-06-2014

[PaulCruz2016]

Self-defense forces in the anti-Kiev stronghold of Slavyansk are Ukrainians, not Russians, who distrust the new regime and the Western powers that support it, New York Times reporters have discovered. The forces also said they are not being paid to fight.

Two New York Times reporters have spent a week in the city of Slavyansk in eastern Ukraine, talking to members of the self-defense forces. The journalists visited self-defense checkpoints and observed the forces as they battled Ukrainian troops amid a military assault on the city on Friday.

The resistance fighters of the 12th Company, part of the People’s Self-Defense of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic, deny claims made by Kiev and its Western sponsors that Russia or private tycoons are paying them to fight.

“This is not a job,” one of the activists, Dmitry told the NYT reporters. “It is a service.”

Armed with dated weapons, the self-defense activists said they would have bought new weapons if they had financial support. The NYT journalists reported seeing weapons from the 1980s and 1990s in checkpoints and warehouses.

[ncalburt]

Any reslly shocked the left wing NY Slimes loves a KGB thug named Putin and lie for him!
Do you recall Rush’s comments about Gorba-gasims by the media.
Don’t forget that our professional left wing WH spokesman worked in Russia and his wife Comrade Claire Shipman was previously married to a NY Slimes reporter who was a huge fan of the evil Empire !

Comrade Claire kept the posters from her good times behind the Iron Curtain where the peasants knew there place !

[Hawthorn]

>> Who knew Paul Cruz was in favor of Peddling KGB propaganda from a Russian Propaganda tv network <<

Hmm! Maybe his IP address would show that he’s posting from somewhere in Russia?

[lodi90]

These guys are the dead enders for the meat grinders. Dupes like millions before them. The first team of Team KGB is long gone. Their job was to seize strategic objectives and create chaos. Mission “accomplished”. They aren’t needed anymore for a job that any villager with an AK can do.

What I find interesting is Strelok appears to be MIA. Pencil necked Hero of the Donetsk Republic Girkin took a selfie on the day the anti terror operation kicked off and hasn’t been seen since. He’s probably in Donetsk or Moscow leaving these dim bulbs to their fate.