- New footage claims to show inside of Russia's massive deployment on border
- Ukraine estimates there are now a staggering 85,000 Russian troops in the area
- There have been mounting tensions in the country's eastern Donbass region
- Andrii Taran, Ukraine's defence minister, issued a statement earlier today
- US is to dispatch two warships to sail through the Bosphorus on April 14 and 15
- Washington continuing to fly reconnaissance planes to monitor Russian activity
- But it comes as Russia claims to have intercepted an American RC-135 spy plane
Putin's threat to the West has been laid bare in new footage showing a build-up of troops and military convoys on Ukraine's border as Kiev warns it could be provoked by Russian 'aggression'.
The clip, with the caption 'ready for conflict', appeared to show Vladimir Putin's armoured vehicles ploughing through the mud to manoeuvre into position.
The latest images to leak of the vast military build-up are evidently shot by Russian troops involved in the controversial deployment which has sparked deep worry in the West.
Some show a train convoy of military vehicles moving through Baltaysk in Russia's Rostov region within striking distance of the international border.
Others are said to be in Rostov-on-Don and Voronezh regions - all areas where a massing of Russian military might including tanks and missiles such as the notorious BUK has been seen in recent days.
Ukraine estimates there are now a staggering 85,000 Russian troops between six and 25 miles from its frontier and in Crimea.
It comes after Ukraine warned that it could be provoked by Russian 'aggression' in light of Putin's colossal build-up of military hardware.
Andrii Taran, Ukraine's defence minister, issued a statement on Saturday amid mounting tensions in the country's eastern Donbass region.
He said Russian accusations about the rights of Russian-speakers being violated could be the reason for the resumption of armed aggression against Ukraine.
'At the same time, it should be noted that the intensification of the armed aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine is possible only if an appropriate political decision is made at the highest level in the Kremlin,' he said.
2 comments:
Scott: If I'm off base here or got this wrong, please don't post this. I didn't even read the whole article but enough that I thought I had the flavor that seemed very misleading. Thanks!
Whwoooo, lets hold on there a minute. This author's point seems completely backward...wither that or I don't remember what I think I remembered.
There was no Ukraine conflict until the US and Turkey stepped up their theft of Syrian oil to the tune of about 100 billion. This effort seriously increased with the new US administration. Russia and Syria then used missiles to destroy the processing plants, in Syria, and transportation hub. This was Syria's property and the revenue was not showing up on our books. So, whose bank accounts were seeing this revenue?
The next week saw massive trainloads of armor being moved from NATO bases to Ukraine territory, US boat and air lifts, more train loads of equip, the UK Ambassador asserting Russia had to return Crimea (which voted to return to Russia) and the President of Ukraine secretly sign orders to begin offensive operations against the 3 break away Providences. That's when Russia started taking serious counter measures and they've let it be know If Ukraine or NATO starts something its going much bigger very fast.
Maybe I missed something huge here but this article seems totally revisionist history.
You're probably right about that...at the end of the day, if we have war it won't matter what or who started it - what matters now is how close to war we are - and there are an array of different views out there - I tend to agree with what you are saying
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