Russia opens fire on Ukraine again as the West stands by
Source: Washington Post
IN THE six months after a cease-fire in eastern Ukraine was supposed to have taken effect this year, Russian-backed forces kept up a low-level barrage of sniping and shelling along the front lines, killing dozens of Ukrainian soldiers while avoiding censure from the Western governments that brokered the deal. Then, on Sept. 1, the guns fell silent — just as Russian forces began streaming into Syria. For two months, the cease-fire held and international monitors reported progress in implementing agreements on the withdrawal from the front lines of heavy weapons.
Now the Russian guns are firing again. In the past week there have been dozens of incidents daily in which the supposedly withdrawn weapons, including heavy mortars and Grad rockets, have been fired at Ukrainian positions. Nine Ukrainian soldiers have been reported killed. Having proved in September that he could switch off the shooting in Ukraine when it suited him, Russian President Vladimir Putin has now, at a minimum, allowed it to resume. It’s a development that Western governments contemplating an alliance with the Russian ruler in the Middle East cannot afford to ignore.
Why would Russia have broken the calm in Donetsk and Luhansk provinces, where it controls a force of some 40,000 fighters armed with advanced tanks, artillery and electronic warfare systems? Some Ukrainian officials speculate that Mr. Putin might be seeking to disrupt free-trade and visa-liberalization agreements between Ukraine and the European Union, which are due to take effect shortly. Others believe the military pressure is meant to induce Ukraine, Germany and France to capitulate to Moscow’s demands in ongoing negotiations over a political settlement in the region.
Read more: https://www.reddit.com/r/worldpolitics/comments/3tlxkg/russia_opens_fire_on_ukraine_again_as_the_west/
There are only two differences between ISIS and “LDNR.” The first one is ideology: ISIS is based on radical Islam, “LDNR” – on the no less radical ideas of the “Russian world.” The second difference is in recognition: the West recognizes ISIS as terrorists, but in no hurry to give the same status to “LDNR.”
Grieving for the dead and with sincere condolences to France, we really hope that in this dark time the leaders of European states will find the strength and courage to take a different look at the events in Ukraine and realize that the terrorism may wear different masks, but it’s blood-thirsty core remains unchanged.
ISIS controls some territories and is using the undercover support from certain governments. The “Luhansk and Donetsk People’s Republics” (“LNR and “DNR”), as projects of the Russian Federation, also control certain territories and can’t exist without the support of Moscow.
ISIS wages war without recognizing the [international] rules of leading a war or moral values of the civilized world, denying the value of human life as such. “LNR” and “DNR” wage war according to the same principles.
ISIS deploys “little green men” (so called “volunteers”) from several countries. Similar “little green men” with Russian passports had stolen Crimea from Ukraine and unleashed the bloodshed in Donbas.
Terrorists from ISIS are trying to intimidate the civilized world by carrying out bloody terrorist acts on other territories, “DNR” and “LNR” from the very beginning of their existence are doing the same in other regions of Ukraine, attempting to intimidate Ukrainians.
http://euromaidanpress.com/2015/11/14/there-are-only-two-differences-between-isis-and-the-peoples-republics-in-donbas/
= new reply since forum marked as read
