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Old 02-04-2015, 02:59 AM
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I don't really feel sorry for him, but it's just weird. However I don't feel like he betrayed our nation like I do with the Daesh soldiers.
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Old 02-04-2015, 08:30 AM
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A mob with right sector flags picketing a state superior court in Kiev chanting "Банду геть!" or "Down with the gang!" (Same chant was used during protests against previous presidents on Maidan):



OSCE reports that Luhansk was bombed with cluster munitions again.

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Upon their arrival at 10:40hrs on 28 January the SMM observed that a large residential area in the Artemivskyi district of Luhansk city, 6.6km south-west of the SMM’s location, a rectangular area measuring approximately 1.5km by 1.3km, had been impacted by rockets. The centre of the affected area around Izvestkova Street (7.5km south-west of Luhansk city centre) was most impacted.

The SMM observed the affected area along Izvestkovaya Street, Korolenko Street, Dekabristiv Street, as well as at Michurina Street and Sumska Street - a residential area consisting of small, detached houses. The SMM spoke to the owners of the properties and other local residents who said that they had been shelled twice on 27 January, first at about 18:10hrs and at about 22:45hrs.

The SMM saw considerable damage caused by the impacts of rocket shelling, such as broken windows, fences, gates and walls. The SMM assessed that some of the damage to the buildings, e.g. a series of parallel rows of strike marks on a gate and wall, were consistent with damage typically caused by shrapnel elements from cluster munition. According to the SMM’s assessment, a hole in a roof of a house was caused by the impact of what appears to be a bomblet, with small calibre.

The SMM discovered parts of rockets, including engines, fins and cargo compartments, in the front and backyards of several houses; the cargo compartment in particular is typical of a rocket carrying cluster munitions. Some parts sighted by the SMM at the impact site (1.5 cm white metal fragments, 6 by 3 cm black metal fragments of bomblets cases) are typical for cluster munition. The SMM identified them as parts consistent with 9M55K model “Smerch” rockets (calibre 300mm). The SMM observed a crater (diameter approximately 4m, depth approximately 3m) at the backyard of the house located at Dekabristiv Street 106 which had been caused by the explosion of a “Smerch” rocket, according to the SMM’s assessment.
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TL;DR: Crimea residents were polled by a Canadian agency and an overwhelming amount (93% with a 3.5% margin of error) support the decision to join Russia a year after it happened despite sanctions, transport blockade, financial issues, Western banks stopping servicing Crimea, corporations like Apple stopping all sales, and the like. For reference, the turnout of the 2014 referendum was 83% with 96% voting "yes".



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There is a project called "Free Crimea", which task is to protect and free Crimea from the oppression of the evil Russia. Berta Communications and Canada Fund for Local Initiatives have recently commissioned GFK Ukraine to do some research on how people of Crimea treat the "annexation". They have polled citizens of all major cities and of all age categories.

The results they got have shown that 82% of Crimean population fully support joining the RF, 11% are in favour while 4% are against it. Out of those who are against it, 55% said that it is because they think the transition was not done legally and has to be re-made according to law. The research also polled people about their main concerns and the probabilty of war between RF and UA in their opinion as well as a list of news media they use and their opinion on said media outlets.

Presentation of the results:

People behind the "Free Crimea" project presenting the results of this research for 70 minutes and discussing how to save the people of Crimea that apparently don't want to be saved.



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Anti-mobilization protests in Kramatorsk and Henichesk:





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Rebels evacuating citizens from Uglegorsk. Civilians claim they were shot at by the UA army. Reporters under fire (1:08, holy tits):

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Interesting stuff, thanks for posting this.
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Interesting stuff, thanks for posting this.
Yeah, anytime man.

On a sidenote: A patriarch of the Ukrainian church, Filaret went to Washington for weapons and to honor the previously signed treaties. He even gave McCain a medal.



It would be mostly irrelevant if not for one interesting detail: He was excommunicated from the Orthodox Church in 1997 on the accusations of blackmailing, perjury, defamation and creating a schism religion. He created his own religion that nobody recognizes and made himself the head of it when his leadership said he is not worthy to lead people as a figure of faith.



TL;DR: Basically we have a heretic that claims he preaches peace but goes to the other side of the planet to demand weapons to kill ethnic Russians in Ukraine with that he calls terrorists because the Russian church kicked him out 20 years ago.
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DPR keeps returning "Cyborgs" captured in the Donetsk Airport to their parents. The only condition is for them to personally come pick them up, travel through the city and witness first hand what their children did. Or, if you are more inclined to believe UA side, to witness how terrorists bombed themselves:



First prisoner exchange this year. From what can be seen in the video there is a stark difference between how prisoners were treated, DPR sends clean and healed up UA soldiers while UA sends tortured and malnourished DPR rebels. One of the rebels claims he was stabbed with a knife while being "questioned", showing stitched scars. Another one claims some did not survive interrogation:



Volodimir Ruban, a head of Ukrainian "Humanitarian aid and prisoner exchange effort in the ATO", on his about a shameful state of prisoners they traded with DPR.

"We do not value people's lives, we will lose this war"

The comment section is filled with "patriots" calling him a Putin's agent and a traitor.
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Thanks for the video.

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