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Posted on 03/03/2014 3:48:54 PM PST by kronos77
In one photograph captioned 'sweetest guys' a woman stands alongside a soldier armed with a gun In another a mother smiles intently for the camera with her two children while posing next to an armed guard The pictures have appeared on the photo sharing network Instagram Ukraine has put its military on high alert and appealed for international help By TARA BRADY PUBLISHED: 03:26 GMT, 3 March 2014 | UPDATED: 17:15 GMT, 3 March 2014 439 shares 191View comments People in Crimea have been captured taking selfies with Russian masked gunmen as Ukraine is on the brink of war. In one photograph captioned 'sweetest guys' a woman stands alongside a soldier armed with a gun. In another a mother smiles intently for the camera with her two children while posing next to an armed guard. The pictures have appeared on the photograph sharing network Instagram.
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Quite an invasion. Not a single shot fired, as far as we know. Russian troops back in Crimea, where they were from 1783-1991.
Amazing that after all these years, the Russian army still uses that ghastly mustard color in their uniforms.
Some places in Russia must have some really nasty looking vegetation.
I don’t know what exactly it is, but I would like one of those guns with the scope.
Looking at some of the ladies, I’m surprised Bill Clinton hasn’t appointed himself USA negotiator in chief....
What are they trying to prove with the stupid masks?
Internet!
Gotta LUV it!
Journalists can be such cornballs.
They are special forces. Best not to be recognizable.
NAZI GERMAN SOLDIERS CELEBRATE WITH CIVILIANS FOLLOWING ANNEXATION OF THE SUDETENLAND, IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA.
CIVILIANS CELEBRATE WITH NAZI GERMAN SOLDIERS IN THE ANSCHLUSS
The first one looks to be an SVD, the rest look like AK74s.
“What are they trying to prove with the stupid masks?”
It gets cold in Russia?
As far as most Russian speaking people in Crimea are concerned these soldiers are doing axactly what Putin says - i.e. protecting them. Now for his actually intentions who knows - one would tend to think hhe likes having his sphere of influence to be maintained over the whole of the Ukraine and maybe even further.
Mel
BTW some of those ladies are hotski!
Exactly. Those aren’t “masks”, they’re balaclavas. I have several myself. I considered them essential, when working (and playing) outdoors in cold northern Canadian winters. If the Russian soldiers were wearing them for concealment — then, judging from the photos, a lot of them didn’t get the memo.
BTW, balaclavas are named after Balaclava, a town in Crimea.
Looks to be a Dragunov SVDS. Sniper rifle for paratroops. 7.62X54R.
That is the pic with 3 soldiers and one civilian. Soldier on far R. A nasty weapon...
If they were here....they would be ID’d
Most German soldiers weren’t members of the Nazi party. Why aren’t Soviet soldiers called communist soldiers?
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