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Posted on 05/14/2014 7:26:42 AM PDT by Laissez-faire capitalist
Footage has emerged of a white Mil Mi-24 helicopter allegedly being used in Ukraine's antiterror operation against pro-Russian separatists near the Donetsk Oblast city of Kramatorsk.
Three further combat Mi-24 helicopters and one transport Mi-8 helicopter bearing the UN logo were spotted in the region by the Russian news outlet Life News.
The UN has distanced itself from the footage below [video at URL], stating that, as Ukraine is a contributor to the organisation's forces, it must remove any UN insignia when the materials are returned.
A spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban-Ki Moon said that any use of peacekeeping equipment, bearing the name of the UN, for non-peacekeeping purposes would contravene UN rules.
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(Excerpt) Read more at ibtimes.co.uk ...
Video at link.
What a freakin mess.
Obama sure knows how to pick ‘em.
I’m starting to wonder if these folks are smart enough to have their own country.
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The same could be said for the US at this point.
Ah......you hit the nail on the head.
As a side note, for some reason I can’t see exhaust coolers and IR-jammers on these aircraft. As a former-Soviet military they should have non-monkey model versions. How would they dare to fly it knowing that rebels has manpads?
Except we’re smart enough to wait for an election rather than overturn the government illegally.
What exactly is a Nazi “anti terrorist operation” suppposed to be???
The Ukraine “military” is such a patchwork of junk from US, UN, and Russia that they probably have a helicopter marked “LAPD”
“.......overturn the government illegally”
Which is exactly what we should be doing.
What are the odds that well see equipment with the name “Soros” on the side? /s.
Question: Maybe we’ll see “NGO,” etc on the sides of some equipment?
And that is what should happen: legal elections (although, unfortunately, it doesn’t always happen in other countries).
EuroMaidan did not handle things well.
And while Yanukovich was hardly a leader that exhibited tender mercies in even the slightest extent, and was a leader that could easily be called a “Mubarak” type person, the WH said that it would not recognize the ouster of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt because they said it was a coup.
But what did Obama do when Yanukovich was ran out of town?
Right after he was run out, in February, the new leaders said that they were going to have a quick election: May 25th.
Why didn’t they just wait until then back in February?
Which even Ukrainian territory anymore. Could be declared a foreign invasion force.
I cant watch the video at the moment, but might be worth taking it with a grain of salt. The Russian media also had photographs of American looking mercenaries, but it was actually just an AP photo.of cops in New Orleans. The Russkies even erased the Wendy’s sign from the original photo.
Actually they were more or less holding things together till a half dozen outside manipulators started stirring things up.
Taking a modern country and turning it into Afghanistan.
Check this article out.
That they should put some fresh paint on helicopters ? They sure should do that.
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