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Ukraine Crisis: UN-Marked Combat Helicopters Used in Government Offensive Against Separatists
International Business Times ^ | 5/14/2014 | Jack Moore

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 ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: antirino; bankimoon; donetsk; dontell; kiev; kramatorsk; lavror; lavrov; norinosatfr; obama; putin; putinsbuttboys; randsconcerntrolls; rinofreefreerepublic; russia; scandals; separatists; surrendermonkeys; ukraine; un; unitednations; zotsallfolks
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist; Admin Moderator

I will place this in the “frontpage” section, as did Tailgunner Joe with his “Cruz to visit Ukraine” article.

I imagine that if his can put his article there, then this article belongs there (and can go there too), and that you won’t have a problem with it.

Thanks!


21 posted on 05/14/2014 8:11:10 AM PDT by Laissez-faire capitalist
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

Helicopter May Land Ukraine's Military in Hot Water With U.N.

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By Alexander Smith

The United Nations expressed concern Wednesday over footage purporting to show Ukrainian troops using a helicopter painted with the organization's colors and insignia.

Russian news website Life News reported that three U.N.-painted Mil Mi-24 combat helicopters and one Mi-8 transport helicopter had been spotted assisting government troops in eastern Ukraine. The footage could not be independently verified by NBC News.

LIfe News is officially independent but reportedly has ties to Russian security services. It posted a video of one of the Mil Mi-24 helicopters and the raw footage was posted to YouTube by the Russian state-run broadcaster Russia Today.


22 posted on 05/14/2014 8:11:35 AM PDT by McGruff (#BringBackOurJobs)
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To: Grzegorz 246

Ban-Ki Moon: “You idiots... Next time put some fresh paint on the helicopters and paint over the words “UN.” LOL.


23 posted on 05/14/2014 8:12:49 AM PDT by Laissez-faire capitalist
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

And remember the Obama-NewYorkTimes eating crow over those pics of Russian soldiers supposedly being in Ukraine?

Remember the retraction piece issued by the O-NYT?


24 posted on 05/14/2014 8:15:13 AM PDT by Laissez-faire capitalist
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist
Or else I will call in the homo, LOL !


25 posted on 05/14/2014 8:15:24 AM PDT by Grzegorz 246
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To: Grzegorz 246
When the UN indicates they are separating themselves form this, and calling it out, I still wonder: should we trust the UN, or Ban Ki-Moon, when they act like “we had no idea” or something to that effect?
26 posted on 05/14/2014 8:22:09 AM PDT by Laissez-faire capitalist
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

Does the puppet regime in Kiev have any comment or would asking them about it offend western liberal sensibilities?


27 posted on 05/14/2014 8:30:22 AM PDT by mac_truck ( Aide toi et dieu t aidera)
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist
UN Secretary-General Ban-Ki Moon

Acts more like a Secretary-Private, but what do I know...


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28 posted on 05/14/2014 8:30:24 AM PDT by DoughtyOne
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

Europe created this mess with the Ukraine and they are determined to keep pushing Russia until they start another World War.


29 posted on 05/14/2014 8:33:37 AM PDT by Iron Munro (Malaysia Flight MH370 Black Box signals reported in Bermuda Triangle)
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist; cripplecreek; Mariner; wetphoenix; Sacajaweau; McGruff; mac_truck; ...
NBC News is now reporting on this. Going mainstream...

They have an on-line news piece about this: 40 minutes ago.

Go to Google News. Use the keywords “UN helicopters Ukraine”

Click on the “sort by date/relevance” option and choose “sort by date” if you have to, to find it. It's there.

30 posted on 05/14/2014 8:36:36 AM PDT by Laissez-faire capitalist
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist
Here's one of the three helicopters used by Kiev Army .....it's been said the UN symbols were put on these helicopters....this one was filmed on a citizens farm, you can see the roof top of one of the animal buildings/shed..family saw Kiev Gov. army members in and around it. There is a video of the family members standing behind buildings watching this landing...and the movememts of the troops.


31 posted on 05/14/2014 8:45:57 AM PDT by caww
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To: Mariner
Well they sure are getting plenty of us help to run their country....and who they're sending there leaves a whole lot to be desired....

I'll post on another thread photos of Obama’s new boy just three months on the job after leaving his position as Times editor in chief.... speaking to “Future Leaders of Ukraine’....also at the college and to the media staff in Ukraine.

What the US is doing with the people there is sinful IMO...they are more of Obama’s inexperienced people with a history of elitism and corruption...don't know what they are doing and have no experience so it's no wonder things are as they are....but they have lots of experience ripping people off..which I'll show later in this mans history.

32 posted on 05/14/2014 8:52:27 AM PDT by caww
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

the mask is slipping -

the UN Agenda21 NWO crew = “UN, EU & NATO” -

encroaching on previous Russian countries on Russia’s borders - with intent to impose the EU - and the NWO - New World Order’ on them. The Agenda 21 cabal is intent on ruling the world - and has it’s hooks into our country - even our small towns, already - under other, innocuous sounding names. Living under Agenda 21 would be the worst conditions in the history of civilization. Wake up, Sheeple. Do your research - stop just swallowing, second hand, whatever the media puts out - after being handed it by the WH)

The Russian people who live there do not WANT to be part of the crumbling/corrupt EU - They’ve asked Putin for help.

This has been in the works for some years. And guess who the principle instigator is?

http://russialist.org/ria-novosti-secret-cable-reveals-russia-warned-us-in-2008-meddling-in-ukraine-could-split-country/#.U3LpdsSaUZY.twitter

There’s also this

http://en.ria.ru/world/20140512/189764704/Scottish-Officials-Condemn-Wests-Support-for-Neo-Nazis-in.html


33 posted on 05/14/2014 8:53:12 AM PDT by maine-iac7 (Christian is as Christian does - by their fruits)
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To: maine-iac7
Van Rompuy: If The Public Doesn't Want EU Expansion, 'We Do It Anyway'

Well gee, who wouldn't want that kind of leadership.
34 posted on 05/14/2014 9:03:16 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin.)
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To: Sacajaweau; All
Except we’re smart enough to wait for an election rather than overturn the government illegally.

Did you forget the 'sarq"?

Think on this scenario: We take back the Senate and increase in the congress come Nov election.

Now, 'The Won" and his minions have two years of impotence, Constitutionally, for pushing forth it's agenda of destroying this country and ruling forever.

What to do?

Socialists/Marxists/Narcissists don't care about no stinking laws. All it takes is a nice little wag-the-dog incident - declare Martial Law - and the Congress and everyone else is persona-non-Grata for 6 months. They rule like the dictators they feel they have the right to be. After 6 months of take over, there's no one left strong enough to fight back - they continue to rule. (DO you REALLY think they'll let a little thing like a change of leadership stop them?)

King forever.

35 posted on 05/14/2014 9:03:46 AM PDT by maine-iac7 (Christian is as Christian does - by their fruits)
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To: Iron Munro

.....(”Europe created this mess with the Ukraine and they are determined to keep pushing Russia until they start another World War”).....

Well actually it looks morelike the US wants a war to further ‘seperate Russia from Europe’. They can’t afford to see the relationship Putin was building with Europe continuing with the debt we carry. Nor could Obama continue to watch Putin knock him off his self made pedastal as a world leader, which he did when he handled the Syria.

If Putin really wanted Ukraine he would have gone in there by now....especially knowing the Kiev military capability was all but nothing. He could have taken it any time, even before the protests.

Yes, the EU/US overreached by going into Ukraine with Maidan Protest and installing their puppet gov.....but going after Ukraine..and Georgia too has been the Eu/Nato/US push for the past 5 yrs. This just didn’t suddenly happen because of Maidan Protest.....it was planned and orchestrated 5 yrs out...and the USA is the primary mover in this now via undergirding the Kiev Gov. who cannot move without the US dictating how and when.

Kiev is forced to use mercenaries and the bad guys hired out because it’s army and police are not willing to shoot their own people.....and they have steadily had to increase their usage as things got worse.


36 posted on 05/14/2014 9:10:39 AM PDT by caww
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To: cripplecreek; All

WHOA!

Thank you for that link.

This is what I have been saying for weeks on end - and been ridiculed for it.

Agenda 21 - do YouTube search on it - anyone’s whose head has been stuck up dark places for the last few years - and LEARN.

And AGENDA 21 - think it won’t touch YOU? It’s running rampant across this country - under innocent sounding names, like “Sustainable Communities” and all the EPA takeover ‘regulations” - and just what do you think the accelerated push by the BLM, confiscating more lands throughout the western states now - is about?

It’s in OUR back yard too -

Papa Bush explains the AGENDA - under the UN - and now O’bummer’s regime is on Agenda 21 steroids

If you can listen to this and not feel the hackles on your neck rise - check your pulse. You’re either with them or dead.

When JFK learned of this ‘agenda’, he vowed to stop them. He made a speech so vowing - It got him killed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdUsJHeVXiE


37 posted on 05/14/2014 9:31:40 AM PDT by maine-iac7 (Christian is as Christian does - by their fruits)
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To: McGruff

UN’s response to this is basically..”You can’t do that”...end of story.


38 posted on 05/14/2014 9:37:54 AM PDT by caww
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To: caww; All
Whole ball of Wax - great summation.

Nice to know some FR’s are informed - not just knee-jerking the mantra “Putin = KGB = thug = wants to rule world+ .

http://russialist.org/ria-novosti-secret-cable-reveals-russia-warned-us-in-2008-meddling-in-ukraine-could-split-country/#.U3LpdsSaUZY.twitter

39 posted on 05/14/2014 9:38:12 AM PDT by maine-iac7 (Christian is as Christian does - by their fruits)
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

All you Putinists are cultists on this matter. The NYT blog only questioned the photo with the bearded man, and it wasnt doctored. They said it was too blurry. The rest had no such issues.


40 posted on 05/14/2014 9:40:48 AM PDT by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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