Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/13/2014 21:39 -0400
Just a few weeks ago, someone (allegedly Russia) leaked a recorded phone conversation of Victoria Nuland commenting “fuck the EU” and how she (the US) wanted the political stage set in Ukraine. A lot has happened since then but as multiple pro-Russian sources have now ‘confirmed’, the new puppetmaster appears to be in town (or was). As Interfax reported, citing sources inside the Ukrainian parliament, none other that CIA Director John Brennan landed in Ukraine on Saturday under an assumed name and held a “series of secret meetings” with the country’s “power bloc” Interfax reported.
As Interfax reports, citing sources…
Brennan landed in Ukraine on Saturday under an assumed name and held a “series of secret meetings” with the country’s “power bloc” Interfax reported, citing an unidentified official in the Ukrainian parliament.
And Voice Of Russia added…
The person who said this to Interfax in a phone talk added that John Brennan came to Ukraine not under his real name.
According to some yet unconfirmed information, the decision to suppress protesters in Slavyansk, a city in Ukraine’s east, with force was advised to Ukraine’s authorities by Brennan.
Which The Moscow Times sums up with a rather ominous conclusion…
Ukrainian parliament Communist Party deputy Vladimir Golub told RIA Novosti that lawmakers were talking about the visit openly and opined that the Ukrainian Security Service had become a unit of the CIA.
Commenting on the report, deputy chairman for the State Duma’s Defense Committee Frants Klintsevich said that he would view such a visit as a challenge to Russia.
Which leaves us wondering just how long until Brennan’s conversations are leaked to YouTube?
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April 14, 2014 7:56 am
East Ukraine Braces For Military Operation As Ultimatum Passes: Full Ukraine Event Recap
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/14/2014 07:43 -0400
As was expected, so called Russian separatists completely ignored Ukraine’s 0600 GMT ultimatum to hand over their weapons and give up, which means Ukraine now is in the clear, according to its leaders, to engage in the previously warned military “anti-terrorist” operation. As a result, as Reuters updates, “towns in eastern Ukraine on Monday braced for military action. As the 9 a.m. (07.00 a.m. BST) deadline issued by authorities in Kiev expired, a Reuters reporter in the flashpoint city of Slaviansk, where armed men had seized two government buildings, said there was no outward sign the rebels were complying with the ultimatum.” Subsequent reports indicated that since the deadline passed, at least 4 people have been killed however since virtually no “factual” propaganda news out of Ukraine is to be believed, we would heavily discount this update.
More from Reuters:
In Slaviansk as of 9 a.m. local time on Monday, a Russian flag still flew over police headquarters, one of two buildings taken over by the separatists, while masked men continued to man barricades of sandbags in front of it.
Even as the deadline passed, a truck appeared bringing more tyres to heap on top of the barricades to reinforce them.
There was tension in the air as people tried to go about their normal business, though school and colleges have been closed and parents advised to keep their children indoors.
Alexei Myzenko, a 38-year-old bank teller, was at work as usual, but he said he and his wife had told their son, who is at university in the eastern town of Kharkiv, not to attend lectures on Monday.
“We didn’t want anything to happen to him,” said Myzenko. “Of course, some people are afraid. But they are still lining up to get their pensions,” he said.
Myzenko said his wife, who is a teacher, had been called by the town administration to tell her that school was cancelled until further notice.
Presenting “military forward guidance”
Iryna Zemlyanskaya, 62, who works as a pharmacist, said: “I am going to work. They’ve promised to use force so many times and have not done a single thing. No-one’s even afraid anymore.”
Below is the complete recap of overnight events courtesy of RanSquawk:
•Interim President Turchinov had set a deadline of 0600 GMT for the rebels to lay down their arms or face full anti-terrorist operations, however this deadline was not met. Since then 4 people have been killed in the clashes in Slovyansk.
•Ukraine President Turchinov says Kiev leadership ‘not against’ referendum being held in Eastern Ukraine at the same time as Presidential election.
•At least 100 Pro-Russian separatists attack police headquarters in east Ukraine city of Horlivka.
•Following the news of increasing tensions coming from Ukraine, Germany has halted arms export licenses to Russia, according to Ministry.
•EU is looking at stage 3 sanctions for Russia which could include economic and financial measures, according to Irish Deputy Premier Gilmore.
•Polish Foreign Minister says the situation in Ukraine could be used as pretext for armed Russian intervention.
•UK Foreign Secretary Hague says there can be no doubt that events in Eastern Ukraine have been instigated by Russia, that Russian denials of involvement do not have a shred of creditability and that further sanctions have to be the response to Russia’s behaviour in East Ukraine.
•Donetsk’s branch of the Party of Regions will have an urgent convention in Donetsk on April 16.
•Former Prime Minister and Batkivshchyna party leader Yulia Tymoshenko called Ukrainians for general mobilization. She also backed the government’s decision to use military force against separatists in the east.
•Pro-Russian rioters have stormed the police station in the city of Horlivka, a city of 290,000 people in Donetsk oblast. Before seizing the building, protesters threw rocks at windows and set small fires on the ground floor, which police officers promptly extinguished. Police initially lobbed stun grenades to repel the attacking protesters.
Should Ukraine once again escalate and launch the trumpeted military operation, watch for a prompt and significant Russian response.
Hollow man
April 14, 2014 8:15 am
We will send troops there and Nevada but not the border with Mexico to stop the drugs from coming over. Perfect miss direction by bought off goverment full of communist and self serving crooks.
Econman
April 14, 2014 10:52 am
As James Howard Kunstler said, these idiots are meddling in Ukraine while Americans cities fall apart & unemployment & inflation continues to skyrocket.
These assholes don’t care about Americans. They are direct threats to the USA.
They cannot be voted out, only a Revolution will get rid of these cockroaches.
AWD
April 14, 2014 3:07 pm
How is this not an act of war? WTF is this idiot doing in Kiev beside fomenting a world war?
White House Admits CIA Director Brennan Was “Secretly” In Kiev
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/14/2014 – 14:46
Late last night we asked if, as the Russian media had reported and only the Russian media, CIA director John Brennan had secretly visited Kiev over the weekend: “Brennan landed in Ukraine on Saturday under an assumed name and held a “series of secret meetings” with the country’s “power bloc” Interfax reported, citing an unidentified official in the Ukrainian parliament. The person who said this to Interfax in a phone talk added that John Brennan came to Ukraine not under his real name. According to some yet unconfirmed information, the decision to suppress protesters in Slavyansk, a city in Ukraine’s east, with force was advised to Ukraine’s authorities by Brennan.” One can further admit the meeting was “secret” – if only in intent – not only because of Brennan’s assumed fake name (why the secrecy? but because until Russian Interfax- of all places – had reported about what is certainly a key meeting in a nation in which disinformation and counterpropganda is rife – Brennan’s meeting was completely unmentioned by the US press. Until today, when moments ago White House speaker Jay Carner confirmed that indeed the CIA director was in Kiev last weekend.
taxSlave
April 14, 2014 7:03 pm
I am so saddened by the actions, overt and covert, of the us government.
They are not “we the people”, they are not representing my interests.
I am their enemy.
I am an unwilling taxSlave.
Did CIA Director Brennan Visit Kiev Recently?
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/13/2014 21:39 -0400
Just a few weeks ago, someone (allegedly Russia) leaked a recorded phone conversation of Victoria Nuland commenting “fuck the EU” and how she (the US) wanted the political stage set in Ukraine. A lot has happened since then but as multiple pro-Russian sources have now ‘confirmed’, the new puppetmaster appears to be in town (or was). As Interfax reported, citing sources inside the Ukrainian parliament, none other that CIA Director John Brennan landed in Ukraine on Saturday under an assumed name and held a “series of secret meetings” with the country’s “power bloc” Interfax reported.
As Interfax reports, citing sources…
Brennan landed in Ukraine on Saturday under an assumed name and held a “series of secret meetings” with the country’s “power bloc” Interfax reported, citing an unidentified official in the Ukrainian parliament.
And Voice Of Russia added…
The person who said this to Interfax in a phone talk added that John Brennan came to Ukraine not under his real name.
According to some yet unconfirmed information, the decision to suppress protesters in Slavyansk, a city in Ukraine’s east, with force was advised to Ukraine’s authorities by Brennan.
Which The Moscow Times sums up with a rather ominous conclusion…
Ukrainian parliament Communist Party deputy Vladimir Golub told RIA Novosti that lawmakers were talking about the visit openly and opined that the Ukrainian Security Service had become a unit of the CIA.
Commenting on the report, deputy chairman for the State Duma’s Defense Committee Frants Klintsevich said that he would view such a visit as a challenge to Russia.
Which leaves us wondering just how long until Brennan’s conversations are leaked to YouTube?
East Ukraine Braces For Military Operation As Ultimatum Passes: Full Ukraine Event Recap
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/14/2014 07:43 -0400
As was expected, so called Russian separatists completely ignored Ukraine’s 0600 GMT ultimatum to hand over their weapons and give up, which means Ukraine now is in the clear, according to its leaders, to engage in the previously warned military “anti-terrorist” operation. As a result, as Reuters updates, “towns in eastern Ukraine on Monday braced for military action. As the 9 a.m. (07.00 a.m. BST) deadline issued by authorities in Kiev expired, a Reuters reporter in the flashpoint city of Slaviansk, where armed men had seized two government buildings, said there was no outward sign the rebels were complying with the ultimatum.” Subsequent reports indicated that since the deadline passed, at least 4 people have been killed however since virtually no “factual” propaganda news out of Ukraine is to be believed, we would heavily discount this update.
More from Reuters:
In Slaviansk as of 9 a.m. local time on Monday, a Russian flag still flew over police headquarters, one of two buildings taken over by the separatists, while masked men continued to man barricades of sandbags in front of it.
Even as the deadline passed, a truck appeared bringing more tyres to heap on top of the barricades to reinforce them.
There was tension in the air as people tried to go about their normal business, though school and colleges have been closed and parents advised to keep their children indoors.
Alexei Myzenko, a 38-year-old bank teller, was at work as usual, but he said he and his wife had told their son, who is at university in the eastern town of Kharkiv, not to attend lectures on Monday.
“We didn’t want anything to happen to him,” said Myzenko. “Of course, some people are afraid. But they are still lining up to get their pensions,” he said.
Myzenko said his wife, who is a teacher, had been called by the town administration to tell her that school was cancelled until further notice.
Presenting “military forward guidance”
Iryna Zemlyanskaya, 62, who works as a pharmacist, said: “I am going to work. They’ve promised to use force so many times and have not done a single thing. No-one’s even afraid anymore.”
Below is the complete recap of overnight events courtesy of RanSquawk:
•Interim President Turchinov had set a deadline of 0600 GMT for the rebels to lay down their arms or face full anti-terrorist operations, however this deadline was not met. Since then 4 people have been killed in the clashes in Slovyansk.
•Ukraine President Turchinov says Kiev leadership ‘not against’ referendum being held in Eastern Ukraine at the same time as Presidential election.
•At least 100 Pro-Russian separatists attack police headquarters in east Ukraine city of Horlivka.
•Following the news of increasing tensions coming from Ukraine, Germany has halted arms export licenses to Russia, according to Ministry.
•EU is looking at stage 3 sanctions for Russia which could include economic and financial measures, according to Irish Deputy Premier Gilmore.
•Polish Foreign Minister says the situation in Ukraine could be used as pretext for armed Russian intervention.
•UK Foreign Secretary Hague says there can be no doubt that events in Eastern Ukraine have been instigated by Russia, that Russian denials of involvement do not have a shred of creditability and that further sanctions have to be the response to Russia’s behaviour in East Ukraine.
•Donetsk’s branch of the Party of Regions will have an urgent convention in Donetsk on April 16.
•Former Prime Minister and Batkivshchyna party leader Yulia Tymoshenko called Ukrainians for general mobilization. She also backed the government’s decision to use military force against separatists in the east.
•Pro-Russian rioters have stormed the police station in the city of Horlivka, a city of 290,000 people in Donetsk oblast. Before seizing the building, protesters threw rocks at windows and set small fires on the ground floor, which police officers promptly extinguished. Police initially lobbed stun grenades to repel the attacking protesters.
Should Ukraine once again escalate and launch the trumpeted military operation, watch for a prompt and significant Russian response.
We will send troops there and Nevada but not the border with Mexico to stop the drugs from coming over. Perfect miss direction by bought off goverment full of communist and self serving crooks.
As James Howard Kunstler said, these idiots are meddling in Ukraine while Americans cities fall apart & unemployment & inflation continues to skyrocket.
These assholes don’t care about Americans. They are direct threats to the USA.
They cannot be voted out, only a Revolution will get rid of these cockroaches.
How is this not an act of war? WTF is this idiot doing in Kiev beside fomenting a world war?
White House Admits CIA Director Brennan Was “Secretly” In Kiev
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/14/2014 – 14:46
Late last night we asked if, as the Russian media had reported and only the Russian media, CIA director John Brennan had secretly visited Kiev over the weekend: “Brennan landed in Ukraine on Saturday under an assumed name and held a “series of secret meetings” with the country’s “power bloc” Interfax reported, citing an unidentified official in the Ukrainian parliament. The person who said this to Interfax in a phone talk added that John Brennan came to Ukraine not under his real name. According to some yet unconfirmed information, the decision to suppress protesters in Slavyansk, a city in Ukraine’s east, with force was advised to Ukraine’s authorities by Brennan.” One can further admit the meeting was “secret” – if only in intent – not only because of Brennan’s assumed fake name (why the secrecy? but because until Russian Interfax- of all places – had reported about what is certainly a key meeting in a nation in which disinformation and counterpropganda is rife – Brennan’s meeting was completely unmentioned by the US press. Until today, when moments ago White House speaker Jay Carner confirmed that indeed the CIA director was in Kiev last weekend.
I am so saddened by the actions, overt and covert, of the us government.
They are not “we the people”, they are not representing my interests.
I am their enemy.
I am an unwilling taxSlave.
AWD – you are on a roll today. Bravo! Really1