Ukrainian forces shell Russian town, killing one and wounding serveral.
Someone in the Ukrainian army must really want a much bigger war for his country, either that or he is an extremely careless gunner. Ukrainian shells have landed in a Russian town near the Ukrainian border. There has been property damage and at least one fatality. The Russian Federation has given notice it will respond:
1 killed, 2 injured: Russia vows response to Ukraine shelling Russian city
An artillery shell from Ukraine has hit a private house in the Rostov region of Russia, killing a citizen and leaving two more injured. The Russian Foreign Ministry promises heavy consequences. Reportedly up to six mortar shells exploded on Sunday in the small Russian town of Donetsk, which has the same name as the Ukrainian city and is situated right on the Ukrainian border.
Ukraine’s charge d'affaires in Russia has been summoned to the Foreign Ministry where he was handed a note of protest in the strongest terms. The Russian Foreign Ministry has called the shelling “an obviously aggressive act” on Ukraine’s part and warned it could have “irreversible consequences” with Kiev holding full responsibility for the provocation.
Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin promised a “rigorous and concrete answer” to the shelling of Russian territory that resulted in the senseless loss of life. “We’re currently evaluating the situation, and the facts we’ve learnt risk a dangerous escalation of the tensions on the [Russian-Ukrainian] border, which puts our citizens in high danger,” Karasin told RIA news agency, stressing that harsh reaction would follow only after detailed analysis of the situation.
The National Security Council of Ukraine has already declared that Kiev’s troops involved in the operation in the east of the country have nothing to do with the shelling incident. “Ukrainian troops are definitely not shelling the territory of the Russian Federation. We did not shoot,” said Andrey Lysenko, official representative of the information center of the NSCU. The leaders of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) denied allegations of staging a provocation against Russian citizens. “We’re accustomed to being blamed for all Ukrainian shellings,” DPR’s vice-PM Andrey Purgin told Russian ‘Moscow speaks’ radio station.
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read more, and see videos of the damage, at: http://rt.com/news/172404-russian-donetsk-shelled-victims/
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It's eye-opening.
The border post was under heavy shelling. During this time a large column of tanks, APCs, etc., entered from the Russian side. (As the rebels in Luhansk announced a few hours later, "reinforcements have arrived"--and they listed the number of tanks, APCs, self-propelled artillery, # of trucks of reinforcements.)
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This is follow-up from the same kind of story yesterday that didn't make the Western media. The Russians said that a group of Ukrainian soldiers entered Russia, set up artillery, and shelled the Ukrainian border patrol at the same time that the border patrol was being attacked by insurgents. Oddly, they said this with a straight face, bringing home how thoroughly Lavrov was trained in agitprop. During this time more armaments from the Russian side entered Ukraine.
In real time, the border guards reported that they were being attacked from both sides by insurgents. UNN is good about that. Timestamping, updating, and giving interim reports. "Attack has started." "Attack continues." "Attack still continues." "Attack is over." Russia waits for hours to try to work out their story.
It would help if the good guys didn't lay mine fields near checkpoints and place IEDs in roads. Then again, many of them were fighters in Chechnya and have a visceral hatred of Ukrainians. Ukrainian forces were on Russia's side early on. And while they've been bought off by Moscow, they still have it in for the Ukrainians (although the Chechen insurgency still continues--with hundreds of Chechnya separatist "terrorists" and "criminals" killed by Moscow just this year ... What's good for lesser folk is bad for the overlords).
Insurgent munitions only kill Ukrainians and they have perfect aim--they never kill civilians and evaporate should they intersect with the Russian border. Even the insurgents' farts are sweet. It makes it easy--the insurgents can shell and overshoot a border post, knowing that if they don't kill Ukrainians they score PR points by shelling Russia, with Russia immediately laying the blame at the feet of the Ukrainian "forces."
That's RT: Just the news that fits is printed.
In English, war is hell. The Russians, obsessed with refighting German fascism to make the world safe for Stalinism and Orthodoxy, have misconstrued that to be "war is helle" ("helle" is German for "bright, clear, clever"
. They used to have good linguists. Competent translators, when politics allowed. Very atheoretical, mind you, and they still are (since Chomsky's theories were "bourgeois" and engaging in them could get you exiled to the Baltics--they still haven't caught up, focusing on "fatherlandish linguistics" instead of that nasty decadent Western stuff).
