Can't argue with that....it's anybody and everybody's fault ...other than Obama's....!
Posted on 07/03/2015 10:41:24 AM PDT by elhombrelibre
The Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) has prepared a dossier laying out evidence for what it calls "Russian aggression against Ukraine."
The report alleges there are some 9,000 Russian troops deployed in Ukraine, forming 15 battalion tactical groups. The force includes about 200 tanks, more than 500 armored fighting vehicles, and some 150 artillery systems, according to the dossier.
The SBU also identifies by name five Russian generals who it says are playing leading roles in commanding and coordinating the military forces of the separatists in eastern Ukraine.
Speaking to Bloomberg, New York University professor and specialist in Russian security services Mark Galeotti said that by "embedding their senior officers," the Russians are solidifying control over the separatist portions of Ukraine.
"Somewhere in Moscow they have made the decision this will be a long-term frozen conflict," Galeotti told Bloomberg.
RFE/RL takes a closer look at the six officers who have been implicated:
Major General Oleg Tsekov
Tsekov graduated from a military institute in Chelyabinsk in 1988. He then served in various parts of the Soviet Union and Mongolia.
He graduated from the Academy of the General Staff in 2011. The same year, he was appointed commander of the 200th motorized special-forces brigade of the Northern Fleet. In September 2014, the volunteer information service InformNapalm published evidence that the unit had been mobilized from Murmansk Oblast to Rostov Oblast, together with evidence that service personnel from the 200th had been identified in Ukraine.
Tsekov was promoted to major general (equivalent of a U.S. two-star general) on February 21, 2015.
The latest SBU dossier charges that Tsekov commands the so-called 2nd brigade of the separatist forces near Donetsk.
Major General Valery Solodchuk
Born in Astrakhan, Solodchuk graduated from the paratroops institute in Ryazan in 1992. In 2012, he was named commander of the 7th guards air-assault division based in Novorossiisk. A media reference in 2014 identified Solodchuk as deputy commander of the 5th Army in the Far East.
Digital-forensic investigators have drawn attention to a soldier of the 7th guards air-assault division named Stanislav Ramensky. He posted on social media several photographs that seem to have been taken in Crimea in March 2014, when Russia annexed the peninsula from Ukraine. He also published a photograph of the medal and certificate he was given on April 14, 2014, "for the return of Crimea," which was signed by Solodchuk.
In an interview with Rossiiskaya Gazeta in March, Solodchuk was asked if the 7th guards air-assault division is a designated rapid-reaction unit within the Russian military. He answered that there are no such units and that the entire military is in a state of constant combat readiness. Asked if that meant that his unit is prepared to be ordered into battle at any moment, Solodchuk answered, "Exactly."
The SBU dossier charges that Solodchuk is the commander of so-called 1st Army Corps of Novorossia in the Donetsk area.
Major General Sergei Kuzovlev
Sergei Kuzovlev was born in 1967 and graduated from the paratroops institute in Ryazan in 1990. He also studied at the Academy of the General Staff. He was promoted to major general in February 2014. Since 2014, he has been chief of staff of the 58th Army based in Vladikavkaz.
In January, the Ukrainian SBU released an audio recording that it alleged showed Kuzovlev organizing the military forces of the self-proclaimed "Luhansk People's Republic" in eastern Ukraine. The SBU says Kuzovlev goes by the pseudonyms "Tambov" and "Ignatov."
Major General Aleksei Zavizion
Aleskei Zavizion was born in Narva, Estonia, in 1965 and graduated from a military institute in Chelyabinsk in 1986. He served in the Far East, in Chechnya, and as commander of Russian forces in Tajikistan.
In 2009, he began studies at the Academy of the General Staff.
In March, Ukraine's SBU claimed Zavizion, using the nom de guerre Alagir, directed the shelling of Kramatorsk and Mariupol. Referring to Zavizion, SBU official Markiian Lubkivskyi wrote on Facebook that "a citizen of the Russian Federation...with the call sign Alagir is currently in Donetsk within the rotational assignment of running the Operational Headquarters since January 2015, coordinating military operations with the participation of representatives of illegal armed formations."
"Alagir is the person in charge of the deployment of artillery, mobile rocket systems, and heavy equipment," Lubkivskyi continued. "Major bloody attacks on Ukrainian cities, particularly on Kramatorsk and Mariupol, were carried out under his direct command and coordination."
Lubkivskyi also wrote that Zavizion was scheduled to be replaced by Russian Major General Andrei Gurulyov.
Major General Roman Shadrin
Roman Shadrin was born in Rostov Oblast in 1967 and graduated from a military institute in Kazan. He served in the Soviet contingent in East Germany after graduating in 1988. In 1995, he was awarded the Hero of Russia medal for his service during the first war in Chechnya. After service in Armenia and the North Caucasus, Shadrin was named deputy commander of Interior Ministry troops in the Urals region. In 2008, he served during the conflict with Georgia in the breakaway Georgian region of South Ossetia, after which he was promoted to major general.
In September 2013, he was elected to the Yekaterinburg City Duma from the ruling United Russia Party.
The SBU dossier says Shadrin is the so-called minister of state security for the self-proclaimed "Luhansk Peoples Republic" (LNR) in eastern Ukraine. According to a media report on July 3, Shadrin denies the allegation, saying he has only traveled to Ukraine's Donbas region "with a humanitarian mission."
The Yekaterinburg-based Novy Den news agency reported the same day that Shadrin has "repeatedly traveled to eastern Ukraine with humanitarian missions." It also noted that Shadrin resigned as chairman of the city legislature's security committee in January and quoted an unidentified source in the Yekaterinburg Duma as saying Shadrin "holds one of the top positions in the security service of the LNR."
The same source said it is not known when Shadrin will return to his duties in Yekaterinburg, but there have been no efforts to strip him
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‘Radio Free Europe’ is run and paid for by our Government......so of course they’re going to carry Obama’s agenda for Ukraine and Russia.
The entire Kiev regime is run and paid for by the US government.
Any time a nation decides to go one direction or the other, there will always be some people who say it’s leaders are bought and paid for by entities from the direction they decided to go.
The Ukraine chose to go West. Despite being invaded and having thousands of foreign troops on their soil, they have stuck with the decision to go West.
Has Europe or the U. S. swooped in to save them? No. There may have been some advisers, perhaps some arming too. I don’t know that for sure. What I do know is that the Ukraine is paying a price for what it has chosen to do.
And it is also clear that some folks in the West are convinced the Ukraine should be taken over by Russia for it’s actions.
I don’t buy into that and it seriously causes me to question the folks who do see it that way.
So Radio Free Europe announces the names of the Russian generals who are in the Ukrain, and that is seen as merely the actions of an Obama run entity? Seriously?
That’s just daffy.
With Western friends like this, the West needs no enemies.
That’s why you approve of Russian Generals named in the article being in Ukraine? Of course, Obama is helping Ukraine by....what? Nothing. So Obama and Putin are pretty much on the same side.
And you’re a fawning, boot-licker when it comes to Putin, with or without pay.
Lol...are you posting from your “lair” in Virgina today?
The entire Kiev regime is run and paid for by the US government.
Hell, the lame stream media is run by the Obama regime and the Socialist Rats.
Radio Free Obama is just one he can use taxpayer money to fund instead of relying on the alphabet media for free airtime.
All of this is about the Obama-Rat war on the opposition, regardless of whom the opposition is.
Are you posting from your shrine to Putin today, moron.
Can't argue with that....it's anybody and everybody's fault ...other than Obama's....!
Putinism and Obamamism are two sides of the same coin. Less freedom and more anti-Americanism; they’re not mutually exclusive. They’re working in tandem for statism and autocracy.
Who is the loon, someone on Putin’s payroll?
We’ve been over all the beginnings of how and why Ukraine opted to go West so I see no point rehashing that....they were long ago targeted by the EU to enlarge their influence... yet with this knowing full well Putins red line was drawn at Ukraine and why years before...it’s not like the EU/US/NATO didn’t know what they were getting into. They pushed the envelope and here we are.
Russia has no intentions of taking over Ukraine....if that were so they would have not stopped, they certainly had opportunity to push further.
As far as I can understand Ukraine will not be part of the EU, though the West will have “Influence” (control) of Ukraine, but not without “understandings” with Putin’s Russia....and that is what’s playing out behind the scene’s.
Yes, Russia or more accurately Putin has gotten what he wanted.
And while I still see folks bitter about the Ukraine’s decision, I see a complete lack of bitterness over Putin’s act of war invasion.
If the West were as evil as some folks seem to think, they would have reacted to protect the Ukraine homeland. So who have the cooler heads been here?
Here's another video that might be of interest.
I don’t think Putin nor Nato wants to see war....and I don’t think either was,or is now, willing to take things that far. ..over Ukraine. Rather as said, they will strike deals which will satisfy both Ukraine, Russia and the US involvements.... But it’s always been that way for Ukraine, one conflict after another.
I also think there’s many reasons why the West didn’t do more to protect Ukraine....Europe wasn’t exactly ready to move on Russia and Obama never goes it alone. Took some strong arming to even get sanctions etc. already discussed.
There will however be a time when Russia makes another move which will indeed involve NATO and other forces to stop them... .....and it won’t be over Ukraine.
Nato doesn’t want war so much as they want to perpetrate the threat of war...to better enforce and economic, and military dependency on their newest members and their wannabe cousins.
This arrangement works quite well for the political elites in many of these so-called new democracies, who line their pockets with dollars and euros as they sell their nation’s sovereignty and cultural values to the highest bidder.
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