In what provides Russia an ‘opportunity’ to pull the trigger on overt intervention in eastern Ukraine (assuming it’s actually desiring to do so), rebel leaders in the breakaway Donetsk region on Monday urged Moscow’s urgent military help amid worsening shelling from Ukrainian national forces, and as fighting escalates along the line of contact.
This as Interfax in a breaking report cites Russian defense officials who say five “saboteurs” were killed by border guards as they attempted to enter Russia’s territory. Though details are as yet unconfirmed at this early point, Russia’s military says Ukrainian army vehicles attempted to breach sovereign Russian territory. Ukraine is disputing the entire narrative, however, calling it fake news and that its forces are not in the Rostov area.
RUSSIA SAYS KILLED FIVE PEOPLE WHO TRIED TO VIOLATE BORDER: IFX
And Bloomberg details of the breaking report:
Russian forces killed five “saboteurs” and destroyed 2 armored personnel carriers of the Ukrainian forces who tried to violate Russian border, Russian army’s Southern Military District says, according to Interfax report
The Russian MoD statement said the alleged “attack occurred in the Mityakinskaya area at 6 am this morning. Infantry fighting vehicles were destroyed by anti-tank missiles.”
The separatists are now formally asking Moscow for military and financial assistance against the “Ukrainian attacks”; however, Ukraine’s army is currently denying that it’s conducting offensive operations in the Donbas, according to RT and regional correspondents.
Further the Kremlin is citing what it says is a major escalation, after reports that a Ukrainian shell hit and destroyed a Russian border checkpoint in the Rostov region. The Russian side now says Ukrainian munitions are landing on its sovereign soil, which some say could be used as a casus belli if Putin so chooses.
According to Russian state sources, Donbas officials and separatist commanders are intensifying their plea for Russian help, which if initiated could crucially in turn trigger heightened NATO intervention in the conflict:
Speaking to the Solovyov Live YouTube channel on Monday, Eduard Basurin, the spokesman for the Donetsk People’s Militia said that Moscow should provide moral support “first of all,” but that “I would not refuse any – military assistance is also needed, in different forms.”
The official also claimed that there is a war taking place in Donbass, adding, “the situation isn’t just difficult, it is genuinely critical.”
Both breakaway republics began evacuating citizens to Russian territory, announced on Feb.18, citing fears of reprisal attacks by Ukrainian forces, with at this point a believed tens of thousands of civilians having been transferred, mostly via large passenger buses.
One Russian media report cites that about “61,000 residents of the LPR and DPR have crossed the border into Russia as part of evacuation amid escalation in eastern Ukraine.”
If true this would suggest a major logistical operation still in progress amid the rapidly deteriorating security situation in the war-torn Donbas, and still with unprecedented numbers of Russian troops mustered near the border in Russia’s southern regions.
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Soooo does this mean that the russians shouldn’t be protecting their border from the lying US administration??? Hardly seems reasonable
150,000 Ukrainian troops on the border of the breakaway provinces and 160,000 Russian troops on the Ukrainian border. What could go wrong?
What could go wrong, Ukies don’t order enough US-made equipment on credit to churn their countryside with innocent blood.
Even worse, adherence to 2016 Minsk agreements and actual stakeholders behaving well neighborly screws up US midterm puppet show (s)elections requiring MSM orchestrated food and gas shortages, BLM/Free Shit Army riots, school shooting FFs, CDC/DoD scariant releases, and Dominion count fixing risk.
I.e. don’t give peace a chance 🙁
And after 25 years of bankster mega-profits for catastrophic MIC failure, ZATO asks the world to pull their other finger saying, “Breathe deep and trust us again, peasants.”
Damascus as the new normal.
That is now an Urgent listen to.
Putin is tonight addressing the nation on the history of Ukraine and will TONIGHT give his decision on recognising the break-away Eastern Ukraine (aka the Donbass).
Also, Ukraine is now talking about leaving the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and develping nuclear weapons. The Kremlin has stated that this is a real possiblibilty, and would likely mean war with Russia:
https://www.rt.com/russia/550138-ukraine-nuclear-weapons-capability/
Why would Russia report anything knowing how such info would probably be twisted against them?
Who knows what is true anymore?
“¿Quid est veritas?”