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Just watched this through and it seems fine for posting
Also from the Saker, this is a 50 minute documentary about the fighting at the Airport between the 16th - 18th Jan and is has English subtitles.
Plenty of combat footage from the final capture of the airport.
Nothing seriously graphic, some language but much of it beeped out.

Yes I saw this. Lots of grenades thrown down holes. Surprisingly the scale of fighting is very small scale with small squad action and support of 1 tank!! But the militia sure have lots of grenades and their machinegunner got shot while firing at Kiev. A bit comical.

SampanViking said:

Just watched this through and it seems fine for posting
Also from the Saker, this is a 50 minute documentary about the fighting at the Airport between the 16th - 18th Jan and is has English subtitles.
Plenty of combat footage from the final capture of the airport.
Nothing seriously graphic, some language but much of it beeped out.

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Equation said:

That's nothing new. The US rewards many of it's allies with it's own military service medals since WWII.

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First, Yes the US provides support to the Kiev Junta but Ukraine and US are not treaty allies. Second, from the interview at 1:00, The medal is for an injury incurred from an operaion at Debaltseve, not a US or NATO operation. Third, unless sanctioned by a civilian authority, is the "US Army" allowed to play politics by officially taking sides on a active conflict without defense treaty ?

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First, Yes the US provides support to the Kiev Junta but Ukraine and US are not treaty allies. Second, from the interview at 1:00, The medal is for an injury incurred from an operaion at Debaltseve, not a US or NATO operation. Third, unless sanctioned by a civilian authority, is the "US Army" allowed to play politics by officially taking sides on a active conflict without defense treaty ?

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you posed some very good questions there actually. anyone bored enough with their lives to actually do some research on this?

it is quite peculiar that at this point ukrainian media is mostly fixated on mariupol but are saying very little about debaltseve, where a real crisis is unfolding. my theory is that kiev is losing control of its armed forces to oligarchs, each of whom are funding his own private army. and to them mariupol is worth more than debaltseve.

Pretty bold statement from Novorussia but I'm not buying that.


Full-scale attack, report from Novorossiya
on: January 25, 2015
We are attacking nearly all the front. We are going at Avdeevka, Mariupol, Debaltsevo, Mariinka. Armoured Forces of Ukraine are withdrawing troops from Dzerzhinsk. Krymskoe, Popasnaya and Troitskoe is being attacked. The trap is being made.
Massive shelling of positions of UAF is realized at all positions of the front, despite Stanitsa (mortars are working there).
The militia in Gorlovka is cleaning up the village Shuma. Krasniy Parnizan and Verhnetroitskoe have been won and are being clean up now.
Battles in Avdeevka are going on.


The village Peski is ours. Armoured Forces of Ukraine are trying to counterattack, with no success.
In regard to the preliminary information, our fighters took 37th checkpoint! 28th checkpoint being stormed and the village Orehovo also.
Bahmutovskiy front stops its existing and it is turning to Lisichanskiy! UAF are running in panic from Yasinovataya. Where they stay, they will be in traps.

Looks like a cauldron is forming.

State of Emergency in Donbass as announced by Kiev.



Does it have something to do with this article that claimed that the Kiev frontline had collapsed?

Well the big headline of the BBC yesterday was this


Quote[Speaking after an emergency meeting of Ukraine's security council, Mr Poroshenko said that a peace deal signed in September in Minsk was the only solution to the conflict.]

Considering his earlier bullishness, not a very confident statement regarding the readiness of the Pro Kiev forces.

The biggest trouble I see is that if the High Command keep shouting "Russian Wolf" every time something goes South, the rank and file will believe you. When the rank and file are 20 year old kids with only a few weeks basic training, its bad enough knowing that there a are bunch of grizzled miners and steel workers with prior military experience on the other side; let alone the prospect of Russian (Elite) Regulars behind them.

This form of propaganda is not great when only your troops believe it.

SampanViking said:

This form of propaganda is not great when only your troops believe it.

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And this kind of videos which I'm sure those Ukrainian youngsters watch doesn't make them eager to "kick some Russian asses" out of their country? What do you think?

WARNING: graphic content here (so much that I'm pretty astonished that's still on Youtube)