Situationen i Ukraina just nu, del 3

He claimed that a counterattack by Ukrainian artillery had led to significant casualties among advanced militant units and larger Russian-backed forces which had been concentrated in the vicinity for a major offensive designed to cut Ukrainian troops offer from a possible retreat.

No, it is not too late as long as an independent Ukraine continues to stand, willing to fight for its existence. Putin’s vulnerability is that he cannot tolerate substantial battlefield losses. His propaganda describes the Ukrainian conflict as a civil war fought by Ukrainians against Ukrainians. Of course, Putin’s media says, Russia is helping the “good side,” but there is no need for young Russian conscripts to die. Putin has gone to great lengths to cover up some two thousand or more casualties among Russian service men, but the loss of sons (in a country of one child families) cannot go unnoticed by their mothers, who form committees of mothers of soldiers, which Putin cannot brand as foreign agents.

Men varför kan inte den ukrainska regimen bara låta Donbass vara? Varför vill de förvägra Novorossiya dess existens? En del av svaret finner man i att de intressen som nu kontrollerar Ukraina vill skapa ett krig mot Ryssland, de vill genom att mörda civila tvinga Ryssland att komma till undsättning för att då direkt kunna peka ut Ryssland som den aggressiva onda parten som lägger sig i andra länders angelägenheter, än mer än vad de redan gör i nuläget.

Ukraina har sedan Maidankuppen i princip blivit en amerikansk koloni och en spelplats för den globala finansoligarkin, något invånarna i Donbass med rätta inte vill vara en del av. De vill kunna styra över sitt eget öde, tala sitt egna språk, utöva sin egna religion och leva efter sin egna kultur. Kort sagt: de vill ha frihet. Ska denna förvägras dem? Ska ännu ett område inkorporeras i det globala finanssystemet och sättas i skuld och bojor av kosmopolitiska bankirer?

Ukraine Shells Donetsk. At least 12 civilians were killed when Ukrainian forces shelled Donetsk Friday from the neutral area of Opytnoye. “Opytnoye is a neutral zone [north of the Donetsk airport], Ukrainian military forces go there, open fire at the city and after that move back to their positions,” the Defense Agency of the Donetsk People’s Republic said.