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More Sanctions On Russia After Ukrainian Forces Defeated
Six days ago the Ukrainian troops fighting local federalists in the south-east were hit hard by an artillery barrage and had major losses. This map shows their locations of the four nominal brigades on the right bottom in a narrow south-eastern strip along the Russian border. The plan for these troops was obviously to cut off the federalists from the Russian border and to surround them. But that risky plan on a thin logistic string worked against them. Repeated artillery attacks and disorganization have left them incapable of further advances.
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The Ukrainian troops have now themselves been surrounded and are cut off from their resupplies. Their attempts to break out of the encirclement failed and they can now either flee to Russia or surrender to the federalists:
Earlier on Wednesday the press service of the DPR told ITAR-TASS that its militiamen had divided the Ukrainian military units into “several sectors” in the areas of the Amvrosievka, Izvarino and Saur-Mohila localities near the Russian border.
The Ukrainian military units attempted to form a convoy and head for the port city of Mariupol, but failed as the DPR fighters encircled them.
In recent days the Ukrainian armed forces had suffered serious losses, and support to their rear services had been axed, the press service said adding that the army units were trying to retreat covering their rear.
The Ukrainian troops seem to be desperate with little left to better their situation.
It is this desperate military situation of the Ukrainian coup-government troops, I believe, that let Obama put new sanctions on Russian companies. The European Union did not follow up with sanctions of its own and the damage to the Russian economy will thereby be very limited. It was a stupid and self defeating step for Obama to take. What U.S. companies, including the oil majors, will now still be welcome in the rather large Russian market?
The military situation as well as the propaganda tide has turned against the U.S. supported coup government in Kiev. Now even the BBC admits that many coup supporters and the "National Guard" forces are Nazis including foreign ones.
at ColonelCassad’s site (best info on Ukraine’s civil war) links below explains that Khordvarsky is on Ahkmetov’s payroll & they were conspiring with the Kiev junta to surrender Donestk (which is why it was not bombed unliked Lugansk) so Khordovasky eliminated new militias that were potentially ‘uncontrollable’ by betraying them–that
was one of the reasons why Strelkov had to leave Slavansk to goto Donestk, which caused Khordvasky & Ahkmetov to flee Donestsk
How Strelkov lead Donestk & Lugansk to crushing victory over the Kiev junta forces trying to encircle them
http://cassad-eng.livejournal.com/2014/07/17/
http://cassad-eng.livejournal.com/16909.html
-also links there for more battle info
excerpt:
“The suppressed conspiracy in Donetsk http://cassad-eng.livejournal.com/16909.html and the installation of a more comprehensive control over the political processes in the DPR by Moscow provided more coherent situation management and made the plans of surrendering Donetsk and the backstage political conspiracy with the Ukrainian oligarchs unrealistic.
The rough military defeat of the junta on the LPR territory and the growing combat capabilities of the LPR and the DPR militia effectively question the very possibility of the military destruction of the people’s republics.
A significant quantity of vehicles and the constantly growing number of militia fighters gradually transfer the question from the plane of the survival of the republics towards the question of whether they will remain within the borders of the former Donetsk and Luhansk regions after their victory.
The jumpy announcement of the Poroshenko representative Mr. Chaliy that if the situation won’t be solved through talks, then it will spill beyond the borders of the LPR and the DPR is quite symptomatic.
This is not a concrete offer yet, but already a thinly veiled apprehension that after the probable rout of the junta military in Donbass the DPR and the LPR militia won’t stop and will advance toward Dnieper.
The hasty reinforcement of checkpoints in Kharkov, Dnepropetrovsk, and Zaporozhye regions, the retreat of mechanized convoys through Krasnoarmeysk towards Dnepropetrovsk and from Metallist to the North of the LPR reflect the growing apprehension in the military circles. The smell of a really big defeat is in the air.
Meanwhile, the main speaker of the “party of war”, Mr. Strelkov openly says http://politikus.ru/events/24538-strelkov-osvobozhdenie-kieva-ot-okkupirovavshey-ego-bandy-pedofilov-sektantov-i-prochey-mrazi-yavlyaetsya-odnoy-iz-glavnyh-celey-nashego-pohoda.html (in Russian) that his goal is to reach Kiev and to liberate it from the fascists.
Considering that this is the main military figure in the DPR speaking, whom all local armed forces report to, this is effectively a political announcement, which means that even
after
losing Donbass the junta won’t be at rest, because the forces led by Strelkov and his field commanders won’t stop on the border and will advance toward Kharkov, Zaporozhye, and Dnepropetrovsk.
In this view, the retreat of Strelkov from Slavyansk not only brought trouble to the Russian defeatists, which were preparing the surrender of Donetsk to the junta, and Mr. Akmetov, whose plans of preserving his influence in Donbass went up in smoke, but also posed a difficult strategic problem before the junta –
what to do with this war, in which the military victory appears quite dubious at this point. The powerless murders of civilian population and adventurous offenses that lead to cauldrons are clearly not the way in which this problem will be solved.
The matter of fact is that the “party of war”, which is publicly represented by people like Strelkov, Mozgovoi, Bolotov, and Bezler (and not publicly – by the military circles in Moscow) in its idea of routing the junta in Donbass and advancing to Kiev, meets those groups which support the idea of Novorossia and invest money into Tsaryov and Co.
That is, a certain military and political alliance is forming, where the Tsaryov’s group is starting to play a real political role, and the military led by Strelkov lays the groundwork for the return to the idea of “large Novorossia” not out of 2, but out of 7-8 regions.
This became possible after a retreat from Slavyansk, which broke the game for the junta and the Russian defeatists, which among everything else led to certain changes in the Russian policy in Donbass –
the direct control through the line of state security and the large-scale appearance of tanks, SPHs, SAMs, artillery, MLRSs, and other weapons with the militia says that the political decision was made and that the line pursued by Moscow between April 24 and July 5 was abandoned.
The support became more substantive, which immediately showed in the internal structure of the DPR and in the combat readiness of the militia fighters.
In this view, the situation around the DPR is starting to change. The failure of the “defeatist party” with the surrender of Donetsk (currently effectively all involved are removed from any meaningful political levers int he DPR – Lukyanchenko, Khodakovsky, Pozhidayev – there is also currently unconfirmed information about the possible resignation of Mr. Pushilin) didn’t lead to their extinction.
Only their line of conduct changed.”
Posted by: www.MythFighter.com | Jul 17 2014 14:11 utc | 5
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