The ceasefire with Ukraine appears to have been broken, as reports from various underground news sources suggests that heavy fighting between Russia and Ukraine has resumed.
Amid a total Western media blackout, eyewitnesses and independent journalists have updated social media networks with photo’s, video’s and accounts of fighting that is taking place.
Reports suggest that 50,000 Russian military personnel have entered Ukraine with heavy armour and tanks, with reports of rockets, mortars, and heavy artillery fire at the borders.
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Shtfplan.com reports:
Ukrainian activists on August 14-15 published photos of the Russian amour on their Facebook page. Military authorities in Ukraine believe the number of Russian troops within and close to its borders has risen to more than 50,000, raising fears of a substantial escalation in the conflict raging in Ukraine’s eastern regions.
Sources on twitter are confirming that Russian T90-A tanks are beginning to move into the Ukraine and heading for the city of Donetsk to reinforce rebel held (pro-Russian) positions.
Current intelligence suggests that once Russian military hardware reaches Donetsk, a battle for the strategic port city of Mariupol Ukraine will commence. Mariupol, steel-making city of 500,000 is the biggest, urban center in the conflict zone still controlled by Kiev.
Fighting and a major war resumption in Ukraine is underway, as noted by Mish Shedlock:
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Intense shelling from multiple positions started in #Donetsk
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South of #Donetsk very heavy combat, I see lots of explosions there, very scary
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Intense shelling started also in #Starohnativka.
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#Mariupol can hear heavy shelling from the east.
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Intensity of Ukrainian shellings on #Putilovka and #Spartak is increasing!
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Ukrainian shellings on #Sahanka and #Oktyabr (with MRLS Grad)! East of #Mariupol
No Confirmation
I can find no confirmation anywhere else. I called my friend Jacob Dreizin (a reader who speaks Russian and can read Ukrainian) and asked what he knew about a major escalation and received this reply:
“Not yet, but likely soon. It’s simply too hot for a major advance now. Temperatures are in the 90s (32+ Celsius). We will not see a major advance until temperature breaks to the mid-70s (24 or below Celsius). That may happen sometime this week“.
Dreizin did say the shelling has been the most intense since March, before the Minsk accord.
With a population of nearly one million people, the contested city of Donetsk is at the center of the dispute. Videos below show that the city is now under heavy artillery attack:
Last year the United States targeted Russian President Vladimir Putin’s personal assets, along with the assets of scores of other Russian officials and businessmen. At that time we warned that Putin would not take such a move lying down and surrender to the will of the West.
As the President of Russia, what do you do when those same sanctions now target your personal wealth and business interests? Do you sit idly by while $40 billion dollars are confiscated from your personal accounts? What course of action do you take next?
That is exactly the position that Vladimir Putin is now in, and according to the following report, National Security Adviser Susan Rice makes it clear that the United States is seriously considering this as an option.
The strategy may have worked out great when the United States seized the assets of deposed leaders in Egypt and Libya. It’s an entirely different matter when you target the President of a nuclear armed nation and one who has had no qualms about going head-to-head with the United States, not just in rhetoric but with his actions both economically and militarily.
It’s been suggested that Vladimir Putin may have prepared a multi-pronged strategy that may include an attack on U.S. financial markets as part of a broader war strategy, the timing of which would be almost impeccable given that a variety of analysts and insiders have warned that the Fall of 2015 may see an increase in the acceleration and intensity of economic crisis.
Why blame domestic fiscal policy or central bank machinations when Russia would be an ideal scapegoat for a U.S. stock market crash and subsequent economic collapse.
Details remain sketchy, but if Russia has in fact put boots on the ground in Ukraine then we could well be seeing the opening salvos of World War III in real-time.
Sean Adl-Tabatabai
Obviously, all this info comes from Ukrainian government sources. Their truthfulness of course are unquestionable….
Obviously, all this info comes from Ukrainian government sources. Their truthfulness of course are unquestionable….
What this, about the 27th time Russia is supposed to have invaded? 50,000 troops and we get a picture of 2 tanks and half a dozen soldiers lounging about as ‘proof’ Grow up. IF Russia ever invades they would be in Kiev in 3-5 days. The Russians don’t pussy about.
What this, about the 27th time Russia is supposed to have invaded? 50,000 troops and we get a picture of 2 tanks and half a dozen soldiers lounging about as ‘proof’ Grow up. IF Russia ever invades they would be in Kiev in 3-5 days. The Russians don’t pussy about.
Good things the Russians use four door sedans, they shouldn’t be too hard to stop… Too bad that picture is a fake, not a real invasion…
Good things the Russians use four door sedans, they shouldn’t be too hard to stop… Too bad that picture is a fake, not a real invasion…
We’re all getting a bit fed up with Russia invading Ukraine. This has been the third time in the last year at least. Somene really should have a talk with them about it. Who is responsible for this article? Time they were told this shit does not wash.
We’re all getting a bit fed up with Russia invading Ukraine. This has been the third time in the last year at least. Somene really should have a talk with them about it. Who is responsible for this article? Time they were told this shit does not wash.
Too bad all the mumbo-jumbo in this article is one and only one, to make people think that Putin has stolen $40 B. God knows I oppose Putin for a lot of things, worst, now for his indecisiveness and other things, but certainly $40 shit ain’t one of them. Try 40 million, you’ll have a far better chance to suck it to suckers. But the way, VT has been outed by most of its own writers. I don’t ask how, confirmed it 100% true. The big shit and his sidekick masquerading as born again 12er Shi’a to scam Iran so anxious for “expert” that any 2 dime con artist can have a ball with them. Even without having to rub any balls there.
WAR purse battle of the bankers