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Ilmeisesti Ukrainalaisen sotilastukikohdan miehistö + komentaja on päättänyt marssia venäläisten valtaamaan lentotukikohtaan aseettomina! Näkyivät kantavan molempia sekä Ukrainan että Neuvostoliiton lippuja. Tilannetta voi seurata toistaiseksi livenä: http://www.atr.ua/pages/live.aspx
Edit. Olikin kuvien perusteella yksikön, eikä NL:n lippu. Punainen väri ja suttuinen kuva hämäsi.
Kriisi ehkä vaimenee, mutta Harkovassa ja itä-Ukrainassa ei ole vielä viimeistä haukkua haukuttu. Jonkinlaista jakolinjaa Donetskin tienoille on muodostumassa.
Kriisi ehkä vaimenee, mutta Harkovassa ja itä-Ukrainassa ei ole vielä viimeistä haukkua haukuttu. Jonkinlaista jakolinjaa Donetskin tienoille on muodostumassa.
Varmaan joitain yksittäisiä yhteydenottoja vielä tulee, ja ainahan on mukana mahdollisuus hallitsemattomaan eskalaatioon "vahingossa"...
Kuitenkaan en usko, että mitään suurempia ennalta suunniteltuja operaatioita nähdään enää minkään toimijan taholta...
Debkaan ei luottaminen.
http://yle.fi/uutiset/venajan_jouko...auksia_belbekin_tukikohdassa_krimilla/7118624Belbekin ilmavoimien tukikohtaa hallussaan pitävät venäläisjoukot ovat ampuneet varoituslaukauksia. Noin 300 tukikohdan ukrainalaissotilasta marssi lentokentän kiitotielle ja vaati tukikohtaa takaisin itselleen. Ukrainalaissotilailla ei ollut aseita.
Kymmenkunta vartiossa ollutta venäläissotilasta esti ukrainalaisten etenemisen. Venäläiset ampuivat muutamia kertoja ilmaan, ja uhkasivat ampua ukrainalaissotilaita, mikäli he etenisivät.
Paikalla olevat toimittajat kertovat Twitterissä, että noin 10 ukrainalaissotilaan olisi kuitenkin annettu jäädä asemiinsa. Ukrainalaisupseeri neuvottelee venäläisten kanssa.
– Ukrainalaiseversti neuvottelee yhä, Venäjän tarkka-ampujat ja singot on yhä suunnattu kohti sotilaskolonnaa, tweettaa Belbekissä oleva Time-lehden toimittaja Simon Shuster.
Belbekin ilmavoimien tukikohta sijaitsee lähellä Sevastopolia.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/03/europes-gas-supply-ukraine-crisis-russsia-pipelinesast December, Ukraine's now-deposed, pro-Moscow president Viktor Yanukovych abandoned a trade deal with the European Union in favour of closer ties with Russia. One of the sweeteners in the $20bn support package that helped persuade him was a steep discount – around 30% – on the price that Russia's gas giant, Gazprom, was then charging Ukraine for the natural gas on which it relies. This weekend, as relations between the two countries descended to an alarming new low, Moscow warned that the cut-price deal was unlikely to last much longer.
Gazprom, which controls nearly one-fifth of the world's gas reserves and supplies more than half of the gas Ukraine uses each year, insisted the threatened price rise merely reflected cash-strapped Ukraine's inability to meet its contractual obligations. The state-owned company said that Kiev owes it $1.55bn for gas supplied in 2013 and so far in 2014, and shows little evidence of paying up. But this is not the first time Russia has used gas exports to put pressure on its neighbour – and "gas wars" between the two countries tend to be felt far beyond their borders. Russia, after all, still supplies around 30% of Europe's gas.
In late 2005, Gazprom said it planned to hike the price it charged Ukraine for natural gas from $50 per 1,000 cubic metres, to $230. The company, so important to Russia that it used to be a ministry and was once headed by the former president (and current prime minister) Dmitry Medvedev, said it simply wanted a fair market price; the move had nothing to do with Ukraine's increasingly strong ties with the European Union and Nato. Kiev, unsurprisingly, said it would not pay, and on 1 January 2006 – the two countries having spectacularly failed to reach an agreement – Gazprom turned off the taps.
The impact was immediate – and not just in Ukraine. The country is crossed by a network of Soviet-era pipelines that carry Russian natural gas to many European Union member states and beyond; more than a quarter of the EU's total gas needs were met by Russian gas, and some 80% of it came via Ukrainian pipelines. Austria, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy and Poland soon reported gas pressure in their own pipelines was down by as much as 30%.
While it was eventually resolved through a complex deal that saw Ukraine buying gas from Russia (at full price) and Turkmenistan (at cut price) via a Swiss-registered Gazprom subsidiary, the dispute gave the EU a fit of the jitters: a compelling demonstration, Brussels said, of the dangers of becoming overdependent on one source of supply. But three years later, the same row erupted again: Gazprom demanded a price hike to $400-plus from $250, Kiev flatly refused, and on New Year's day 2009, Gazprom began pumping only enough gas to meet the needs of its customers beyond Ukraine.
Again, the consequences were marked. Inevitably, Russia accused Ukraine of siphoning off supplies meant for European customers to meet its own needs, and cut supplies completely. As sub-zero temperatures gripped the continent, several countries – particularly in south-eastern Europe, almost completely dependent on supplies from Ukraine – simply ran out of gas. Some closed schools and public buildings; Bulgaria shut down production in its main industrial plants; Slovakia declared a state of emergency. North-western Europe, which had built up stores of gas since 2006, was less affected – but wholesale gas prices soared, a shock that was declared "utterly unacceptable" by Brussels.
So last weekend's news that Gazprom intends to start charging Ukraine around $400 per 1,000 cubic metres for its gas, as opposed to the $270-odd it has been paying since Yanukovych spurned Brussels for Moscow – sparking the demonstrations that led to his downfall – might seem alarming.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/03/ukraine-crisis-us-europe-putin-crimeaA rift appeared to be opening up on Monday night between the US and Europe on how to punish Vladimir Putin for his occupation of Ukraine's Crimea peninsula, with European capitals resisting Washington's push towards tough sanctions.
http://investmentwatchblog.com/russ...-that-is-very-bad-news-for-the-united-states/So much for "isolating" Russia. The Chinese government is publicly siding with Russia on the crisis in Ukraine, and that is very bad news for the United States. Not only does it mean that the U.S. is essentially powerless to do anything about the situation in Ukraine, it also means that Russia and China are starting to understand how much economic leverage that they really have. Yes, the Obama administration can threaten to slap "sanctions" on Russia or threaten to kick Russia "out of the G8", but those actions would not actually hurt too much. On the other hand, Russia and China hold approximately 25 percent of all foreign-owned U.S. debt, and if they started massively dumping U.S. debt it could rapidly create a nightmare scenario. In addition, it is important to remember that Russia is the largest exporterof natural gas and the second largest exporter of oil in the world. And China now imports more oil than anyone else on the planet does, including the United States.
http://investmentwatchblog.com/obam...lution-in-ukraine-is-backfiring-dramatically/When the Obama administration was plotting to overthrow the democratically-elected government of Ukraine, what in the world did they expect to happen in the aftermath? Did they just expect Russia to roll over and play dead as the U.S. and the EU installed a rabidly anti-Russian government in Kiev? Over the past few years, the U.S. government has chosen to foment violent political revolutions all over the globe. We have seen violent revolutions overthrow governments all across the Middle East and Africa, but when the U.S. government decided to do the same thing in Ukraine they went way too far. When you mess with Ukraine, and when you mess with Crimea in particular, you are crossing a huge red line as far as the Russians are concerned. By crossing that red line, the Obama administration has ensured that the relationship between the United States and Russia will never be friendly again.
http://rt.com/news/crimea-arms-explosives-ukraine-614/The self-defense forces guarding the borders of the Ukrainian autonomous republic of Crimea have prevented a large amount of firearms and explosives from being smuggled into the republic by Kiev radicals.
The Cossacks and Berkut troops at the road checkpoint in the Crimean peninsula have confiscated explosives equivalent to 400 kilograms of TNT as well as grenades, rifles and guns, Russia-1 TV channel reports.
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Ilmeisesti Ukrainalaisen sotilastukikohdan miehistö + komentaja on päättänyt marssia venäläisten valtaamaan lentotukikohtaan aseettomina! Näkyivät kantavan molempia sekä Ukrainan että Neuvostoliiton lippuja. Tilannetta voi seurata toistaiseksi livenä: http://www.atr.ua/pages/live.aspx
Edit. Olikin kuvien perusteella yksikön, eikä NL:n lippu. Punainen väri ja suttuinen kuva hämäsi.
Nyt alkaa olla ihan oikeatakin sotilaallista voimaa alueella, kreikankielisen uutisen mukaan lentotukialus USS George H. W. Bush (CVN 77) saattoaluksineen on Piraeuksessa, Kreikassa...
http://www.tanea.gr/news/greece/art...y-to-uss-george-h-w-bush/#externaldisquss_div