Engineering Evil

– The city, which has a separate administrative status from the rest of Crimea 10:37 07/03/2014 MOSCOW, March 7 (RIA Novosti) – Ukraine’s Crimean city of Sevastopol has voted to become part of Russia, mirroring an earlier vote by the… Read More ›

Russian soldiers training in Canada given 24 hours to leave country ( 9 Soldiers but Symbolic )

By Ralph Turchiano on March 6, 2014 • ( 4 )

Andrea Janus, CTVNews.ca Updated Thursday, March 6, 2014 10:34PM EST Nine Russian soldiers who were participating in military exercises in Canada have been expelled from the country, as Ottawa continues to denounce Russia’s military intervention in Crimea, CTV News has… Read More ›

Russia Starts Massive Air Defense Drills Amid Crimea Standoff

– “It is for the first time that all air defense units from the district, including coastal defenses of the Northern Fleet, have gathered in one place,” S-300 © RIA Novosti. Valery Melnikov 20:39 06/03/2014 MOSCOW, March 6 (RIA Novosti)… Read More ›

Wall Street Hedging on War in Ukraine; Buying More Insurance

By Lawrence Delevingne Wall Street is concerned enough about war breaking out in Ukraine that investment firms have sharply increased the insurance they buy to protect their assets in the region. Last month, the percentage of hedge funds that purchased… Read More ›

3 South Ukrainian Cities Want to Join Crimea – Lawmaker

– Mykolaiv, Kherson and Odessa Tensions in Ukraine’s Crimea (Archive) © RIA Novosti. Taras Litvinenko 02:47 04/03/2014 SIMFEROPOL, March 4 (RIA Novosti) – A senior Crimean lawmaker said on Monday that representatives of three southern Ukrainian administrative capitals expressed willingness… Read More ›

Crimea Council Resolves Region To Become Part Of Russia

(13:42, Thursday, March 6, 2014) Ukrainian News Agency The Supreme Council of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea at the closed meeting on Thursday has resolved the region to enter Russia as a constituent territory of the Russian Federation, reads the… Read More ›

French debut warship built for Russia

Published: Thursday, March 6, 2014, 12:01 a.m. France says it has no plans to scrap the defense deal. It needs the jobs. The Vladivostock, designed to strengthen Russia’s ability to deploy troops, tanks and helicopter gunships, leaves Saint Nazaire harbor… Read More ›

Does the West need a war against Russia? Pravda

EEV: It appears they made this move, because they perceive the Western Powers as weak. They are already projecting additional scenarios for a possible violent escalation. – The U.S. Sixth Fleet headquartered in Naples may enter the Black Sea, but… Read More ›

EU matches Putin’s €11 billion financial offer to Ukraine

Published 05 March 2014 Commission President José Manuel Barroso announced today (5 March) a financial package for Ukraine of approximately €11 billion, matching Russian President Vladimir Putin’s previous offer, which led to Kyiv not signing the Association Agreement with the… Read More ›

Russians sink a boat off Ukraine coast – their own

– the act was intended to prevent Ukrainian navy ships from leaving a nearby base and going to sea. By Sergei L. Loiko 6:56 PM PST, March 5, 2014 YEVPATORIA, Ukraine — An anti-submarine boat may have been the first… Read More ›

U.S. intelligence under fire over Ukraine

EEV: From an intelligence analyst standpoint this was lunacy, and unbelievably stupid. 1. You fund a rebellion without anticipating various out comes or geopolitical destabilization 2. You use a bulk of intelligence assets fixated on domestic surveillance instead of potential… Read More ›

Russia says Ukraine “hallucinating” in warning of nuclear risks

By Fredrik Dahl VIENNA Wed Mar 5, 2014 1:16pm EST VIENNA (Reuters) – Russia accused Ukraine of “hallucinating” on Wednesday after Kiev warned a U.N. atomic agency meeting of risks to the safety of its nuclear power plants in… Read More ›

Ukraine crisis: bugged call reveals conspiracy theory about Kiev snipers

Estonian foreign minister Urmas Paet tells EU’s Cathy Ashton about claim that provocateurs were behind Maidan killings

UN envoy in Crimea detained by gunmen: Ukraine ministry

UN envoy Robert Serry was detained by unidentified gunmen in Simferopol, the capital of Ukraine’s autonomous Crimea region, a spokesman for Ukraine’s foreign ministry told AFP Wednesday. Serry had been sent to the Black Sea peninsula — which has come… Read More ›

Ukrainian frigate Hetman Sahaidachny carries NATO’s intelligence equipment — source

March 05, 18:45 SEVASTOPOL The source added that one of US Naval Forces destroyers planned to enter the Black Sea later this week ITAR-TASS/Alexei Pavlishak SEVASTOPOL, March 05. /ITAR-TASS/. The Ukrainian Navy’s frigate The Hetman Sahaidachny has entered the port of… Read More ›

Ukraine says communications hit, MPs phones blocked

By Pavel Polityuk and Jim Finkle KIEV/BOSTON Tue Mar 4, 2014 5:39pm GMT KIEV/BOSTON (Reuters) – Ukraine’s telecommunications system has come under attack, with equipment installed in Russian-controlled Crimea used to interfere with the mobile phones of members of… Read More ›

Russian warships cross Bosphorus: report

By Ralph Turchiano on March 4, 2014 • ( 1 )

REUTERS Ukraine Navy’s flagship, the Hetman Sahaidachny frigate, sets sail in the Bosphorus on its way to Black Sea in Istanbul. REUTERS/Murad Sezer Istanbul – Two Russian warships crossed Turkey’s Bosphorus Strait early Tuesday headed towards the Black Sea,… Read More ›

Kiev agitators ‘trained in Poland’ claims Putin

04.03.2014 16:09 President Putin claimed on Tuesday that “well prepared” and organized protesters in Kiev who brought down the Yanukovych regime were “trained in Poland and Lithuania”. In his first in-depth comments since the Russian parliament gave the green light… Read More ›

Russian army holds exercises on Polish and Lithuanian borders ( First reported 3.03.2014 )

First reported 3.03.2014 – Polish General Marek Dukaczewski said to TVN24 in an interview that the military exercises in the Kaliningrad region violated the international norms – The general called on NATO to react urgently to the situation near the… Read More ›

EU to help Ukraine pay Russian gas bill

EEV: ? 04 Mar 2014 Brussels (AFP) The European Union will help Ukraine pay the $2.0 billion it owes to Russian gas giant Gazprom, a top official said Tuesday, as part of an aid package reportedly worth more than one… Read More ›

Secret documents accidentally shown to photographers that revealed Britain would not support military action against Russia ‘do NOT reflect Government’s final decision’ says Hague

After the blunder, No10 considers sanctions: Cameron orders ‘broad spectrum’ of possible actions against Russia to be drawn up Cameron’s adviser Hugh Powell left file on display to photographers Document revealed Britain will not impose sanctions against Russia Will not… Read More ›

Russia tells US to settle down, may abandon Dollar

Tuesday, 04 March 2014 Russia could reduce to zero its economic dependency on the United States if Washington agreed sanctions against Moscow over Ukraine, a Kremlin aide said on Tuesday, warning that the American financial system faced a “crash” if… Read More ›

‘We control everything’: Crimea breaks ties with Ukraine

By Ralph Turchiano on March 4, 2014 • ( 1 )

– He had this message for Canada and other Western nations: “You are welcome to come to Crimea. Come here and relax.” Colonel Yuri Mamchur, commander of the Ukrainian garrison at the Belbek air base, leads his men to the… Read More ›

Poland’s fear of ‘the Russian Bear’

By Ralph Turchiano on March 4, 2014 • ( 1 )

– Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk warned that the world “stands on the brink of a conflict” that would affect states everywhere. The consequences could be dire, and a matter of survival for his country Poland, which borders Russia and… Read More ›

Turkey Scrambles Fighter Jets Over Russian Plane

Possible new front opens in Ukraine-Russia standoff, which has escalated with Russian missile tests and shots fired in air. – Eight F-16 fighter jets were scrambled in the event By Ari Yashar First Publish: 3/5/2014, 1:13 AM F-16 fighter jet… Read More ›

45 Ukrainian MIG-29s as well as 800 Airforce personel switch sides to fight for Russia

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Billionaire Kolomoisky takes over in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, blasting Putin and Yanukovych

– Kolomoisky referred to Russian President Vladimir Putin as “a small-sized schizophreniac” who “went insane” and whose attempts to “revive the Russian Empire to the 1913 borders can bring world to disaster.” March 3, 2014, 9:36 p.m. Ukraine — by … Read More ›

4 Reasons Putin Is Already Losing in Ukraine

EEV: Time magazine has never been wrong before, or has it? As Russia’s Ukraine power play reaches boiling point in Crimea, there are clear signs a Russian invasion may be a disaster for its architect, President Vladimir Putin By Simon… Read More ›

Britain opposes curb on Russian trade over Ukraine crisis – BBC says

Source: Reuters – Mon, 3 Mar 2014 09:50 PM Author: Reuters By Kylie MacLellan LONDON, March 3 (Reuters) – Britain opposes trade sanctions on Russia and does not want to shut London’s financial capital to Russians in response to the… Read More ›

Russia: Yanukovich asked Putin to use force to save Ukraine

EEV: This now sets the next step for a mainland incursion. Source: Reuters – Mon, 3 Mar 2014 11:32 PM Author: Reuters By Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS, March 3 (Reuters) – Ukraine’s ousted leader Viktor Yanukovich has sent a letter to Russian… Read More ›

Participants in a pro-Russia rally have seized the building of the regional state administration in Donetsk

(14:04, Monday, March 3, 2014). EEV Excerpt: “Taruta, whose fortune is estimated at $730 million, was said by his close circle to realize that he has agreed to a “suicide mission” by agreeing to govern Donetsk, Ukraine’s most populous oblast with… Read More ›

Perhaps they should have held on to them: Hundreds of rusting tanks abandoned in secret Ukrainian depot unveiled as Russia’s armoured vehicles line its streets

There are more than 400 abandoned tanks at the plant in a secret, heavily guarded depot in the town of Kharkiv The depot is in the Slobozhanshchyna region of eastern Ukraine – just 20 miles from the border with Russia… Read More ›

Russia’s Foreign Ministry: Threats of US Secretary of State against Russia unacceptable

March 03, 18:45 MOSCOW “If Ukraine is only a territory of geopolitical games for certain Western politicians, this is the brotherly country for us,” the ministry said ITAR-TASS/Boris Kavashkin MOSCOW, March 03. /ITAR-TASS/. Moscow considers US Secretary of State John… Read More ›

USAID got Maidan coup up and running – media

3 March 2014, 11:29 EEV: Needs to be validated, separating propaganda (i.e. Voice of Russia) from fact requires time. George Soros has a long history of interfering in national politics (i.e. Balkan Conflict ), Open Society in the Ukraine, U.S. Presidency… Read More ›

China gives Russia it approval on the Ukranian incursion

China FM clarifies stance on Ukraine situation(Xinhua) 19:47, March 03, 2014 BEIJING, March 3 — China’s stance on the current situation in Ukraine is objective, just, fair and peaceful, Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang said on Monday. “China upholds its… Read More ›

Pro Russia troops take over ferry terminal in Crimea

EEV: The Russian Tank Columns now have clear access to fortify Crimea. This move signals the clear intention to escalate the occupation. It is now probable Russian Troop Columns in the Zaporozhye region will connect unopposed. #1″Russia puts forces in Ukraine In the Zaporozhye region… Read More ›

Joint statement on Ukraine from the the leaders of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States and the President of the European Council and President of the European Commission

EEV: This looks more like a form letter, than a truly diplomatic response. Historically this may go down as one of the most shockingly tepid responses to military aggression in history. See below a joint statement from the leaders of Canada,… Read More ›

Ukraine may lose the Luhansk Region. Luhansk will fight for the Russians