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

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Russian navy sailors clean their ship moored in the bay of the Crimean city of Sevastopol on March 24, 2014. Russian troops seized today control of a new Ukrainian military base in Crimea in the eastern Crimean town of Feodosia, helping ensure its total military control of the peninsula.


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Russian navy sailors stand on the deck of their ship moored in the bay of the Crimean city of Sevastopol on March 24, 2014. Russian troops seized today control of a new Ukrainian military base in Crimea in the eastern Crimean town of Feodosia, helping ensure its total military control of the peninsula.


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Russian military ships, including former the Ukrainian corvette Khmelnitsky (3rd R), which was seized by pro-Russian forces last week, are moored in the bay of the Crimean city of Sevastopol on March 24, 2014. Russian troops seized today control of a new Ukrainian military base in Crimea in the eastern Crimean town of Feodosia, helping ensure its total military control of the peninsula.


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Russian sailors are seen on their ship at the Crimean port of Sevastopol, March 24, 2014. Ukraine announced the evacuation of its troops and their families from Crimea on Monday, effectively acknowledging defeat in the face of Russian forces, who stormed one of the last remaining Ukrainian bases on the peninsula.


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Russian military ships, including former the Ukrainian corvette Khmelnitsky (2nd R), which was seized by pro-Russian forces last week, are moored in the bay of the Crimean city of Sevastopol on March 24, 2014. Russian troops seized today control of a new Ukrainian military base in Crimea in the eastern Crimean town of Feodosia, helping ensure its total military control of the peninsula.


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Guys have you read it yet?
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What do think?
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I can't read the whole post, it requires "log in".:( Can you post the whole article?

With that said, I'm not surprise US satellites picked up the Russian movements like several months ago, the thing is they weren't sure whether it's an exercise or a military build up. I guess the Russians learned a lot about communications and troop movements from their 2008 Georgia conflict. I read somewhere it says that communication during the early South Osetia operations were so bad or non-available that Russian officers had to use their own cell phones to maintain contact.
 
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I noticed the 3 red stars on the barrel of that turret. I wondered what did it score or hit?
 
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Russian navy sailors stand on the deck of their ship moored in the bay of the Crimean city of Sevastopol on March 24, 2014. Russian troops seized today control of a new Ukrainian military base in Crimea in the eastern Crimean town of Feodosia, helping ensure its total military control of the peninsula.
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I don't know how effective these guns are but they look really ugly. What is the big black pipe for?
 
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Notorious Ukrainian nationalist militant Muzychko 'shot dead'
Notorious Ukrainian right-wing militant leader Aleksandr Muzychko, also known as Sashko Bilyi, has reportedly been shot dead in western Ukraine, where he coordinated actions of local groups belonging to the nationalist Right Sector movement.

Muzychko was killed in Rovno, western Ukraine, according to reports in the Ukrainian mass media.
A Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada MP, Aleksandr Doniy, was among the first to write about Muzychko’s death.

“His car was cut off by two other cars. He was dragged out and placed in one of those cars. Then he was thrown on the ground with his hands cuffed behind his back and [he received] two shots in his heart,” Doniy wrote on Facebook.

Some suggest the shooting followed a fight in a nearby cafe.

Muzychko himself earlier said he believed he could be killed. In a video address recently posted on YouTube he said that the leadership of “the Prosecutor General's office and the Interior Ministry of Ukraine made a decision to either eliminate me or to capture me and hand me over to Russia, to then blame it all on the Russian intelligence.”
he man was known for his radicalism, attacks on local officials during the coup in Kiev, and refusing to give up arms after the new authorities were imposed.

Russia’s Investigative Committee initiated a criminal case against Aleksandr Muzychko in early March. The Ukrainian was accused of torturing and murdering at least 20 captured Russian soldiers as he fought alongside Chechen militants.

Under the name Sashko Bilyi, he took an active part in the First Chechen War in 1994-1995, when he headed a group of Ukrainian nationalists fighting against Russian troops.

Aleksandr Muzychko came under the spotlight of the Russian authorities after a series of scandals in Ukraine, when the radical nationalist leader went on with the rampage against regional authorities, lashing out at a local prosecutor and threatening local authorities with an AK-47.
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He was killed probably by current goverment in Kiev - I made bold what he sad.
I guess the guy with pony tail who attacked head of Kiev TV Station for broadcasting Putin speech will be next.
 
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As the nation is so is the Army, Sampan The Russian In the interview I transcript Claimed a 90% defection rate. Even if his numbers are bull. One has to believe that there were defections. The Government of Ukraine Just went through a massive political shift. Russian TV and Radio who supply the majority broadcasts into the Region has been blasting Propaganda Claiming the return of the Ultra nationalist and Neo Nazi's and who knows what else. A good chunk of those soldiers had to have been locals with blood ties to Russia or those who came from family of Eastern and Southern Ukraine with deep Ties to Russia.
As well as Troops who Just did not want to be there as they are conscripts or they came from Kiev and are worried about there homes.
They are suddenly under house arrest.
They are watching a "Referendum" who's results favor the Russians that means the people were against them.
The 30,000 troops is getting whittled and whittled and whittled down until what you have left is not a Army but a few Loyal units. Who are isolated over run and not in any real position to stand. Thee navy is blockaded in it's harbor. Sampan they had no options here fight and die and start the real was as not only are they surrounded but the Russians have divisions parked on the Boarders waiting for the green light to charge. The Ukrainian who remained loyal forces chose the lesser of two evils and protested and evacuated with the aim of regrouping in Ukraine Proper.
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Ok you can say that the circumstances of the Crimea were very special, but in many ways you are; I think, arriving at my point but from the other direction. The difference between "They did not fight because they do not like the new regime" and "they did not fight because they were only waiting for the appropriate time to defect" is not that different and unlikely to give much comfort to Kiev. Remember Kiev issued the order only a couple of days ago not to give up without a fight, that order has been ignored.

The key though is whether the same pattern would repeat itself in other regions, should they ever be contested. I believe that the Ukraine military is unlikely to offer even token resistance here either. We will however need to wait and see.

Nobody can pretend that the Ukraine military has covered itself in glory in this matter and no future reader will mistake Crimea 2014 for the Alamo!

It would be interesting to see just how much equipment the Ukraine has lost to Russia over the last couple of days. I think it is clear that a Ukrainian Navy no longer exists in any meaningful form. I also wonder how many Aircraft, Tanks, APC's Guns etc have also been abandoned to the "enemy"?
 
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According to this article, there is a 2/3 defection rate for the Ukrainian military in the Crimea. That is an astounding number, even if it's not as high as the 90% Russia claims (or is claimed to claim).
 
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What the heck is the "Right Sector" movement and how much influence do they currently have in Ukraine?
 
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