We need to tell the truth about what Russia is doing in Ukraine - Wesley Clark: "...Russia has been developing a new form of warfare – inserting special forces, provoking, and slowly, deliberately escalating the conflict... Information, training, military advice and hardware provided now will likely save thousands of lives and billions of dollars in the future. This is the time to speak the truth about Russian aggression and to act resolutely in aiding Ukraine to halt it."

We need to tell the truth about what Russia is doing in Ukraine

Nato must face up to the realities of Putin’s war of aggression in eastern Europe – and take material steps to support Ukraine





Toy soliders pro-Russian Ukranian separatists
Moscovite Timur Zamilov works on a toy solidier collection featuring pro-Russian separatists. ‘Nato must act decisively to strengthen members that feel threatened by Putin’s actions.’ Photograph: Sergei Karpukhin/Reuters
As the Ukraine crisis has intensified over the past six months, Russia has been developing a new form of warfare – inserting special forces, provoking, and slowly, deliberately escalating the conflict. Russian actions flout international law and the agreements that have assured stability in the post-cold war world. But warnings and sanctions have thus far failed. The Nato summit in Wales this week offers the best, and perhaps last, opportunity to halt aggression in Europe without major commitments of Nato forces. But to do so requires a deeper understanding of the situation and much more resolute allied action.
First, Vladimir Putin’s actions against Ukraine haven’t been “provoked”. They are part of a long-term plan to recreate a greater Russia by regaining control of Ukraine and other states in the “near abroad”. Russia is not going to admit that it has invaded because to do so might invite a stronger Nato response. But until Nato governments unambiguously label Russian actions “aggression” and “invasion”, they will have difficulty mustering support for the stronger actions that needs to be taken.
Putin is not likely to be dissuaded by stronger sanctions; while they may disrupt some elements of the Russian economy, and he would of course prefer not to face them, he also uses sanctions himself to strengthen his leverage over those sectors most engaged with the west, and to gain sympathy from his own “electorate”.
Nato must act decisively to strengthen member states that feel threatened by Putin’s actions. Its forces should be permanently stationed in the Baltics, Poland and eastern Balkans. Its rapid reaction forces should be bolstered. Additionally, more demanding military exercises should be held. Nato’s nuclear deterrent must be re-emphasised. Long overdue modernisation should be undertaken. All this requires greater resources, including budget and manpower.
But these are the relatively easy steps. Even if undertaken – and they will take months and years to be implemented – they are unlikely to halt the growing threat, nor will they prevent the demoralisation of our friends in eastern Europe. As we like to say in America, “this is not their first rodeo”. They understand that aggressors are strengthened by their successes. And they know that today Ukraine is fighting on Nato’s periphery for the very same values of freedom, self-government and democracy that Nato espouses. They are asking themselves how courageous Nato will be, confronting a renewed Russian threat, if Nato nations today fear to provide information, military advice and assistance to an independent European state of 45 million fighting a defensive battle merely to regain control its own territory. And, yes, it is open warfare in eastern Ukraine now.
The success of this Nato summit will be measured not simply by its declarations of intent to strengthen alliance members in eastern Europe but, perhaps more importantly, by its willingness to provide Ukraine with the diplomatic, economic and, most immediately, military assistance necessary.
True, there is no “military” solution to Ukraine. The only solution is diplomatic: Putin must be persuaded to cease and desist. But, as we are learning, that persuasion requires not only diplomacy and sanctions, but also assisting Ukraine in creating the military means to defeat Russia’s new war strategy.
Information, training, military advice and hardware provided now will likely save thousands of lives and billions of dollars in the future. This is the time to speak the truth about Russian aggression and to act resolutely in aiding Ukraine to halt it.

We need to tell the truth about what Russia is doing in Ukraine - The Guardian

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Russia’s President, Vladimir Putin, called for immediate talks on the “statehood” of south-east Ukraine on Sunday, using the  inflammatory term just hours after the European Union threatened deeper sanctions unless the Kremlin stopped providing troops and assistance to separatists.

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Ukraine crisis: US senators urge arms 'to fight Russia'
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Leading American senators have called for the US to send weapons to help Ukraine fight what they say is "a Russian invasion". Robert Menendez, head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said Russia's President Vladimir Putin must face a cost for ...

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Lavrov says talks should focus on a truce and Ukraine forces must retreat from positions where they can harm civilians
Russia's foreign
minister, Sergei Lavrov, has said the negotiations taking place in Minsk to resolve the crisis in eastern Ukraine should seek an immediate
ceasefire.
Lavrov added that Ukrainian forces must pull back from positions from which they can hit civilian targets.
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Yesterday’s liveblog can be found here. An archive of our liveblogs can be found here. For an overview and analysis of this developing story see our latest podcast.
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Kazakhs Worried After Putin Questions History of Country's Independence 

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Russian foreign minister calls for immediate ceasefire in Ukraine
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Two Ukrainian seamen are missing after a pro-Russian attack on a patrol boat in the Sea of Azov yesterday as the situation in the region continues to escalate.

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Diplomatic row between Moscow and Kiev escalates as leaders due to meet in Belarus, with Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko condemning Russia's "direct and open aggression"








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Updated Daily.
This week’s issue:
- Anti-War Protesters Arrested for Candlelight Vigil in Moscow
Lone Anti-War Pickets in Moscow, Yekaterinburg
Last Week’s Issue:
-Kremlin advisor Sergei Glazyev speaks in Yalta, surrounded by separatists and European far right;advocates for “Novorossiya” to join Customs Union.
-There was an anti-war rally in St. Petersburg.
-Lev Shlosberg, Pskov deputy who investigated Pskov paratroopers’ deaths, assaulted, hospitalized; he links his attack to his investigation, and Acting Governor Turchak condemns attack.
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-Journalists investigated how Russian POWs ended up in Ukraine.
-Soldiers’ Mothers of St. Petersburg declared “foreign agents” after probe of soldiers’ death.
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Human Rights Council members probe disturbing reports of wounded soldiers brought to St. Petersburg.

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 Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) has announced the capture of 9 Russian POWs whose interrogations they have posted online. They may have been mistreated and their confessions are coerced.

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 Relatives of the POWs held in Ukraine gather in Kostroma to demand answers, and further details of their capture emerge; thewife of a Russian officer MIA pleads for information about his whereabouts.

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 rocker Andrei Makarevich, the front man for Mashina Vremeniappeals to Putin to put a stop to the state TV vilification against him for his criticism of the war in Ukraine.

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 civil rights attorney Genri Reznik pickets NTV for a program denouncing anti-war critics.

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 blogger Oleg Kashin asks the Russian Defense Ministry hard questions about news of Russian soldiers fighting and dying in Ukraine; the editors of Vedomosti also recall Soviet history and cover-ups of wars and demand that the government tell the truth about Russian soldiers sent to Ukraine.

-Russian
 journalists have been tracking down news of mysterious deaths of Russian paratroopers abroad — and finding many obstacles to getting at the
truth as they are attacked by thugs.
-Juliya
 Navalny, wife of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, is summoned to give testimony in a contrived “art theft” case but refuses citing Russian constitutional protection against self-incrimination.

-As
 pictures of the painted star of the Stalin-era building in Moscow in Ukraine’s colors go vial, a campaign begins to call a dare-devil nicknamed “Mustang Wanted” a “Nazi” and “fascist.” The real story is complicated, but Mustang has sparked controversy again by donating his fee from LifeNews to the Donbass Battalion.

-Leonid
 Martynyuk, opposition author and video producer, was sentenced to 10 days of jail in an incident believed to have been fabricated for retaliation of his expose of the corrupt Sochi Olympics and the cover-up of the downing of MH17.
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Kiev accuses Russia of ‘direct aggression’

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President promises shake-up of Ukraine’s military leadership amid signs that the army has lost ground to Russian-backed separatist forces



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ДНР: Группа украинских военных покинула аэропорт Донецка под белым флагом
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Ополченцы Донецкой народной республики сообщили, что часть украинских военных подняли белый флаг и покинули аэропорт Донецка. «Да, некоторыми подразделениями было принято решение сдаться. Их пока немного, по предварительной информации, около двух неполных ...
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