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Title: Pro-Russian Forces About To Take Donetsk Airport As Ukraine Peace Talks Called Off
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ibtimes.com
URL Source: http://www.ibtimes.com/pro-russian- ... ine-peace-talks-called-1782026
Published: Jan 13, 2015
Author: Christopher Harress
Post Date: 2015-01-13 16:34:55 by Pericles
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Pro-Russian Forces About To Take Donetsk Airport As Ukraine Peace Talks Called Off By Christopher Harress@Charressc.harress@ibtimes.com on January 13 2015 11:23 AM The air traffic control tower at Donetsk Airport has been destroyed by pro-Russian forces surging from two sides against a depleted Ukrainian military. Separatist forces had offered a 5 p.m., local time, deadline (10 a.m. EST) for the government's soldiers to vacate the airport, but Ukrainian artillery reinforcements have slowed the attack, according to the Ukrainian Independent Information Agency. ...snip... According to Liga, a Ukrainian news website, separatist forces were within 400 meters when the control tower fell. However, it’s yet to be seen whether additional artillery support will be enough to keep the airport from falling into pro-Russian hands -- a development that would give an important tactical advantage to the separatist forces battling the Ukrainian government's troops. “If we do not leave, the terrorists [pro-Russian separatists] will simply destroy us," a soldier told Liga. "The shelling is sweeping through the terminal. But we’re not going anywhere.” The destruction of the tower, which had been a symbol of Ukrainian resistance at the airport, was confirmed to Hromadske.TV by a Ukrainian commander of the Right Sector volunteer corps. The Ukrainian Independent Information Agency said that fighting had raged for three days before the tower fell.
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#1. To: All (#0)
Right Sector is mostly made up of Galicians or from western regions of Ukraine and are neo-Nazis (parents or grandparents were probably SS collaborators, etc).
I've heard pro Russians say that before. I think it is just a smear. I could be wrong. Maybe you can document it if you get the time.
I am posting what will be accepted as a neutral source: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/03/27/who-killed-one-of-the-most- notorious-right-sector-leaders-in-ukraine.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-hughes/the-neo-nazi-question- in_b_4938747.html For starters, Andriy Parubiy, the new secretary of Ukraine's security council, was a co-founder of the Neo-Nazi Social-National Party of Ukraine (SNPU), otherwise known as Svoboda. And his deputy, Dmytro Yarosh, is the leader of a party called the Right Sector which, according to historian Timothy Stanley, "flies the old flag of the Ukrainian Nazi collaborators at its rallies." The Svoboda party has tapped into Nazi symbolism including the "wolf's angel" rune, which resembles a swastika and was worn by members of the Waffen-SS, a panzer division that was declared a criminal organization at Nuremberg. A report from Tel-Aviv University describes the Svoboda party as "an extremist, right-wing, nationalist organization which emphasizes its identification with the ideology of German National Socialism." According to this BBC news clip two Svoboda parliamentarians in recent weeks posed for photos while "brandishing well-known far right numerology," including the numbers 88 -- the eighth letter of the alphabet -- signifying "HH," as in "Heil Hitler." This all makes Hillary Clinton's recent comments comparing Putin to Hitler appear patently absurd, as Stanley adeptly points out: "After all, in the eyes of many ethnic Russians, it is the Ukrainian nationalists -- not Putin -- who are the Nazis." Last week Per Anders Rudling from Lund University in Sweden, an expert on Ukrainian extremists, told Britain's Channel 4 News: "A neo-fascist party like Svoboda getting the deputy prime minister position is news in its own right." Well, except in the U.S. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SBo0akeDMY Neo-Nazi threat in new Ukraine: BBC http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/ukraine/11025137/Ukraine- crisis-the-neo-Nazi-brigade-fighting-pro-Russian-separatists.html Ukraine crisis: the neo-Nazi brigade fighting pro-Russian separatists Kiev throws paramilitaries – some openly neo-Nazi - into the front of the battle with rebels The Azov men use the neo-Nazi Wolfsangel (Wolf’s Hook) symbol on their banner and members of the battalion are openly white supremacists, or anti- Semites. “Personally, I’m a Nazi,” said “Phantom”, a 23-year-old former lawyer at the ceremony wearing camouflage and holding a Kalashnikov. And the Google has more.
They really are Nazi-lovers. Give speeches about how Hitler was just misunderstood, like the whole ethnic cleansing bit, celebrate their WW II heroes who were the vicious 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the S.S. (First Galician). We had extensive threads at LP about these neo-Nazi chuckleheads. They are not harmless.
It just isn't the same without Marguerite. She gave these threads a certain zing.
The destruction of the tower, which had been a symbol of Ukrainian resistance at the airport, was confirmed to Hromadske.TV by a Ukrainian commander of the Right Sector volunteer corps.
#2. To: Pericles (#1)
ight Sector is mostly made up of Galicians or from western regions of Ukraine and are neo-Nazis
#3. To: A K A Stone, TooConservative (#2)
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I think it is just a smear. I could be wrong. Maybe you can document it if you get the time.
The Azov battalion uses the neo-Nazi Wolfsangel (Wolf''s Hook) symbol on its banner (Tom Parfitt)
#4. To: A K A Stone (#2)
I think it is just a smear. I could be wrong. Maybe you can document it if you get the time.
#5. To: Pericles (#0)
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