Russian paramilitary leaders in eastern Ukraine caught on tape communicating with Moscow
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The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has intercepted phone conversations between separatist insurgents in eastern Ukraine and coordinators of the separatist movement, who are based in Russia.
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A recording proving that Russia is backing separatists in eastern Ukraine has surfaced online. The SBU (Security Service of Ukraine) taped the operatives, whose code names are "Nose," "Adler," "Shooter" and "Agath," discussing strategy, weapon stockpiles, and requests for reinforcements.
The SBU has identified the number calling the separatists in Ukraine as having a Russian +7 area code. The person with the Russian number asks Shooter to contact him. Later in the conversation, Shooter reports “fighting off the first (Ukrainian) attack” and shooting “some significant (highly-ranked Ukrainian) people."
Below is a video of the recording, which was posted by EuroMaidan PR's YouTube account, with English subtitles:
The coordinator in Russia, named Alexander, asks Shooter to go on air and speak with Russian television channel "Life News." Alexander tells Shooter not to identify himself and suggests taking his “assistant with a Ukrainian accent." He asks Shooter to demand federalization, gubernatorial elections no earlier than the May 25 Ukrainian elections, and to emphasize the demand that the Verkhovna Rada should not be allowed to accept external financial support without the support from 2/3 of oblasts.
A man named Konstantin Valerievich later calls Shooter from the same Russian number. He asks: “Have you reported to Aksenov?” Shooter responds "no," and Konstantin Valerievich requests that he report to Aksenov.
The conversation was in reference to an ambush the Russians organized against a Ukrainian force led by the SBU's anti-terrorism unit on the outskirts of Slovyansk on April 13. SBU Captain Hennadiy Bilichenko was killed in the firefight and nine others were seriously injured, said Interior Minister Arsen Avakov. In the same conversation, the Russian operatives in Slovyansk asked for anti-tank weapons. The other caller responded that he will send a platoon from Luhansk who have combat experience with the anti-armor weapons.
Shooter asks Konstantin Valerievich to identify who exactly was injured by their separatist group earlier.
“I can only provide official information: it was the chief of Ukraine’s Anti-terrorism Center."
Avakov said, he [the chief] was injured. So you assaulted the right target,” Konstantin Valerievich responds.[DOUBLEPOST=1397584592][/DOUBLEPOST]
ITAR-TASS: World - Fighter jet shot down near Ukraine’s city of Kramatorsk, witnesses say
Fighter jet shot down near Ukraine’s city of Kramatorsk, witnesses say
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April 15, 18:54 UTC+4
As follows from what the people say four fighter planes, presumably Sukhoi-27 were hovering over Kramatorsk
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KIEV, April 15. /ITAR-TASS/. Shots are being fired at the airdrome near the city of Kramatorsk, Donetsk Oblast, and one fighter plane has been shot down, witnesses report from the scene.
As follows from what the people say four fighter planes, presumably Sukhoi-27 were hovering over Kramatorsk. At a certain point they opened fire at the local airdrome. Who commanded the planes and who downed the fighter remains unclear. Witnesses claim there have been casualties at the airdrome. An ambulance is on the way to the scene.
Earlier, a Ukrainian daily reported with reference to witnesses that shots and explosions were heard at the military airdrome near the city of Kramatorsk.
According to the website of the daily Novosti Kramatorska, a military aircraft circled over the airdrome for a while.
“Witnesses say it was a MiG-25 or Sukhoi-27 plane. It was flying at a very low altitude,” the paper said.
Earlier, the Ukrainian Defense Ministry declared the beginning of a
special operation in the city against the supporters of the country’s federalization.[DOUBLEPOST=1397584642][/DOUBLEPOST]
Russian forces spotted on ground in eastern Ukraine: Bloomberg - MarketWatch
Russian forces spotted on ground in eastern Ukraine: Bloomberg
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LONDON (MarketWatch) -- Russia's 45th Airborne Regiment has been spotted on the ground in the eastern Ukrainian cities of Slavyansk and Kramatorsk, Ukraine's First Deputy Prime Minister Vitali Yarema said on Channel 5 on Tuesday,
according to an unconfirmed report from Bloomberg . The move comes as Ukraine earlier on Tuesday launched a military operation to regain control of cities in the country's east, where the majority of sites commandeered by pro-Russian forces are located. Russia's state-run RIA Novosti news service reported that four militants were killed and two wounded when Ukrainian forces stormed an airport in Kramatorsk, according to Bloomberg. Earlier on Tuesday, Russia repeated that any action against pro-Moscow separatists
could push Ukraine closer to a civil war . European stock markets
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took a dive in afternoon trading on the rising tension on the continent's eastern borders.
will get that reality check sooner than later
@ The fear mongering in this thread.
