2014 Ukrainian Maidan Revolt: News, Views, Photos & Videos

I think the General was afraid he was going to get lynched. Look at the crowed dragging him off. If it weren't for the cameras he would probably have gotten strung up.

Jeff Head said:

The aircraft that buzzed the US AEGIS destroyer in the Black Sea was an SU-24.

It's a dangerous attack aircraft, and though I am sure the US saw it coming and queried it as they say...to allow it to approach like that, in these conditions, on a low level attack run was very dangerous.

I wonder if they painted it and locked on...at some point, as it came in, I hope they did.

Very dangerous game. One SU-24 loaded up with ASMs, if unchallenged, could heavily damage or sink a destroyer.

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Mmmmm...now we're getting the old Cold War-ish feeling again...

I have been in hospital for a few days, for the first time in more than seventy years, and listened to an actualities program I seldom hear and, to my amazement, they said that they had just learned that there were other sides to the Ukrainian developments than the one they had been reporting for months. Just following this thread could teach them a lot.
Getting home I heard my favorite radio station a report that the action by the Kiev regime against the "terrorists" in Slavyansk was a total failure. Two tanks and four APC's had been surrendered by their crews and were seen by the Dutch correspondent entering the town flying Russian flags and driven by their original crews. He concluded that few of the Ukrainian military wanted to fight for the Kiev regime.

Btw I have never yet heard an estimate of the support among the Ukrainian population for that regime. Are the number so low that they can't be published in the West?

Live updates of the Ukraine crisis as it happens:

Ukraine: Pro-Russian supporters cheer on troops flying Russian flags

So the question now becomes: Should the “new” Ukrainian government respond with force and risk creating the bloody pretext for a Russian invasion? Or would the most prudent course be to do nothing and watch helplessly as entire regions of the east slip out of control?

delft said:

I have been in hospital for a few days, for the first time in more than seventy years

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Hope it was nothing too serious and that your recovery will be swift!

Miragedriver said:

Ukraine: Pro-Russian supporters cheer on troops flying Russian flags

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It's still early yet, but if confirmed, this would shatter the narrative that the eastern protests were organized by Russia.

I missed 'my favourite newspaper wrote an article' but in the first post I swa 'my favourite radio station' so it seems like you're in pretty good health at least

solarz said:

It's still early yet, but if confirmed, this would shatter the narrative that the eastern protests were organized by Russia.

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The operation is not going too well for Ukraine.



Apparently the 6 APCs send into Kramatorsk was either captured by the pro-Russian activists/militia or the Ukrainian troops defected again.