Posted on 05/31/2014 8:10:46 AM PDT by tcrlaf
World champion in kick-boxing Nikolay Leonov was among supporters of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic who died in the fight for the Donetsk airport on 26 May, co-chairman of the People's Front of Donbass Vladimir Rogov told RIA Novosti.
Leonov's body was identified on Friday and taken to his native city of Dnepropetrovsk.
Nikolay Leonov, aged 31, won the World Cup in full contact karate in Odessa in 2005. In 2007 he became the IAKSA and WTKA world champion in kick-boxing in Marina di Carrara, Italy. He achieved the norm of world-class athlete and worked as a training manager. Leonov was also a member of the Cossack community and a Bible reader in church, he composed music in the Orthodox rap style.
All in all, over 50 protesters were killed at the Donetsk airport on 26 May, among them 33 Russians whose bodies have already been sent home. About 15 bodies still remain at the airport because snipers do not allow to collect them.
“If you are seriously positing that the Russians are the good guys here “
Uh... NO.
Feel free to check my posting history, I have never said that. I have tried to analyze and understand what is ACTUALLY happening, using info from both sides, but the EuroMaidan spammers REALLY don’t like that.
“Glad your are such a Putinista”
Yes, noting a person known worldwide was killed in the fighting is “putinista Propaganda!”. You really do need a new schtick.
Their side would call him a freedom fighter. Kind of like those colonist who fought the British.
War--the way it is really fought and not some idealized version.
I have yet to see you post anything that shows the Russian tactics or that reflects badly on the Russians. Please direct me to those posts. I will publicly apologize if you can do so.
Yeah, I’m taking a pass too. The bell ringing at the beginning of the first link was pretty cool, but the rest is trash.
“Well, civilized people would call it a War Crime...”
It’s not a war crime if the rebels were doing what rebels typically do, and flaunting the protocols of the Geneva convention. Unlawful combatants are free to be executed on the spot, regardless of the normal rules of war.
LOL! Thanks. I needed a good laugh to start my day. Back from a week of vacation and I see nothing different about your posts.
Looks like he chose poorly.
People’s Republic my ass.
Lt. Col. Joseph Whitaker, the Seventh Army’s Assistant Inspector General, was subsequently ordered to investigate after witnesses came forward testifying about the killings. He issued a report on 8 June 1945, called the “Investigation of Alleged Mistreatment of German Guards at Dachau” and also known as “the I.G. Report”. In 1991, an archived copy was found in the National Archives in Washington, D.C. and was made public.
Whitaker reported that close to the back entrance to the camp Lt. William P. Walsh, commander of Company “I”, 157th Infantry, shot four German soldiers in a box car who had surrendered to him. Pvt. Albert C. Pruitt then climbed into the box car and performed a coup de grâce on the wounded men.
After he had entered the camp Walsh, along with Lt. Jack Bushyhead, the executive officer of Company “I” organized the segregation of POWs into those who were members of the Wehrmacht and those who were in the SS. The SS were marched into a separate enclosure and were shot by members of “I” Company with several different types of weapons.
The investigation resulted in the U.S. Military considering courts-martial against those involved, including the Battalion commander Lt. Col. Felix Sparks, while Col. Howard Buechner was cited in the report for dereliction of duty for not giving the wounded SS men in the coal yard medical aid. However, General George S. Patton, the recently appointed military governor of Bavaria, chose to dismiss the charges. Therefore, the witnesses to the killings were never cross-examined in court.[
Woah, woah, woah. What? Are you seriously suggesting this guy was some sort of wimp because he died from a bullet/explosion, like any other human being on Earth would?
Are you also suggesting that anyone who dies in war isn't a tough guy? Because that sure sounds like what you're saying here, despite any spinster replies you may post after the fact.
I'm sure he could have kicked your butt.......
If you are paying attention, the Rebels, though under disparate commands, and not doing any kind of real coordination, are holding against a much larger and better equipped Ukrainian Army.
WHY??
What we have seen is sporadic, uncoordinated attacks by an unmotivated, unsupported Army, that has to be bolstered by National Guard or Right Sector, acting almost like classic NKVD troops.
Desertions are high, and they have surrendered a significant quantity of men and equipment, some in defections. The Maidan Troll Brigade has called any article noting inconvenient truths like this “Putinista Propaganda!!!!!”
The only instance of any scale where they seem to have gotten the better of the rebels was at Donetsk Airport, and it is important to note that they couldn’t sustain it. They are still in control of the airport, but it seems they can’t do much beyond that, and were rejected from the city.
And then, there are the Right Sector militia’s.
Again I’ll note:
If the coup hadn’t happened, a Ukrainian Flag would still be flying over Crimea, and the Southeast wouldn’t be in Revolt. The election, that had already been called early, would still have happened. Cause and effect.
Instead, one group of Oligarchs has just been replaced by another.
Very true. It’s not a War crime when “they” do it.
The 90’s called and they want their “flame war” back! :O
Libya- Both sides are bad, Obama sides with the worst side.
Egypt- Both sides are bad, Obama sides with the worst side.
Syria- Both sides are bad, Obama sides with the worst side.
Ukraine- Both sides are bad, Obama sides with the worst side.
You can always count on Obama to show you who is the least loathsome....they are the ones he is against. In Ukraine that is the separatists in the east...
“You can always count on Obama to show you who is the least loathsome....they are the ones he is against.”
And that is such a HUGE part of what is happening right now in Ukraine.
Yep, war crimes only apply to those who have agreed to “gentlemanly” rules of war. Rebels don’t normally go in for all that.
I see.
What crashed there?
Ditto. When you fight with the bull, you get the horns.
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