The latest move by the Crimean puppet government provides for forced purchase of virtually any property in Crimea, which appears to presage a new land grab that will almost certainly concentrate on choice property owned by Ukrainians and Crimean Tatars.

 

Fr. Velychkovskyy understood prison life since he was kept incarcerated for a decade by the NKVD during Soviet times

Securing the large cities is a far more difficult task. The Ukrainian forces will have much less to rely on in terms of sympathetic infrastructure. The police, for example, are locally recruited, and more pro-Russian.” 

 

The USA has clearly wanted political regime change all along, not just a favorable economic deal with Ukraine. The so-called ‘Orange Revolution’ initiated a decade ago had succeeded only in part in breaking the Ukraine from the Russian economic and political orbit. The Ukrainian crisis of 2013 offered a new opportunity to complete the unfinished political task of the Orange Revolution. But the Europeans, mired in their own economic problems, were not interested in taking the lead.

 

For Ukraine to recover Crimea, Russia’s military capabilities would have to be “approximately what they were at the end of the 1980s” in the Soviet Union. “In other words,” Ukraine would need “a castastrophe” in all of Russia to achieve its ends. “In the foreseeable future,” that is something out of “science fiction.”

 

Ukrainian authorities say plane may have been carrying around 20 people but there was no immediate word on casualties.

 

For several weeks now, Moscow has been actively instigating, arming and supporting an increasingly bloody separatist upheaval in Eastern Ukraine.

"We practically don’t work with them any more, the Russians. It’s very sad but because of the politics it is simply not possible," 

"The current situation in Ukraine has been terrible for our business."

Unless Ukraine’s friends and supporters in the West ramp up their support, both military and political, Ukraine may within a matter of days – or perhaps even hours - be fighting alone against the Russian army - and traitorous Ukrainian separatists.

 

If you care about Ukraine, we cannot overemphasize the importance of reading the following article in its entirety. It is without any doubt today’s MUST READ.

                             

Moreover, after you have read the article, think about some important facts. Where are all these people who were the top leaders in the corrupt administration of Viktor Yanukovych? The answer is very simple, i.e. most of them are sheltering in Russia, in effect under the protection of the Russian administration headed by Vladimir Putin. Will Russia disgorge these criminals for trial? The answer is probably negative, which means in effect that the Russian government is the protector and facilitator of one of the most corrupt regimes ever. More on this in the days ahead.

 

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