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Governo da Ucrânia faz ultimato para a rendição dos separatistas pró-russos
RITA SIZA 27/05/2014 - 19:20

Presidente recém-eleito promete acabar com a insurreição "em poucos dias". Moscovo apela ao diálogo pacífico com os representantes das regiões.

A operação do Exército da Ucrânia que recuperou o controlo do aeroporto internacional da cidade de Donetsk, dominando a insurreição separatista que ocupava o local desde a véspera, já está a ser lida como o “ponto de viragem” no conflito que opõe os militantes pró-russos do leste do país ao Governo de Kiev.

Ultrapassada – com sucesso – a crucial fase eleitoral, o Governo de Kiev não perdeu tempo para assumir uma posição de força com os rebeldes separatistas. A campanha militar “anti-terrorismo” foi intensificada por ordem do Presidente recém-eleito, Petro Poroshenko, assim que as forças pró-russas decretaram a lei marcial e se posicionaram no aeroporto Sergei Prokofiev: desta vez, o Exército avançou com aviões de combate, helicópteros, paraquedistas e mísseis contra os combatentes rebeldes, que rapidamente se viram subjugados e vencidos.

O regime declarou vitória no seu “assalto ao aeroporto” ao fim da manhã, depois de uma noite de tiroteios que terá feito mais de 50 mortos no lado dos rebeldes. “O aeroporto está totalmente sob o nosso controlo. O adversário sofreu duras perdas e nós não temos nenhuma vítima”, informou o ministro interino do Interior, Arsen Avakov. Um dos líderes do movimento separatista, Alexander Borodai, apontou para “mais de 50 vítimas” nas suas fileiras; o autarca de Donetsk, Oleksandr Lukianchenko, citado pela Reuters, confirmou 48 mortes, incluindo de civis – nenhuma destas informações pode ser verificada por observadores independentes.

Mas as movimentações em Donetsk não se ficaram pelo aeroporto. A troca de tiros continuou pela cidade, onde, mais uma vez, desapareceu uma equipa de quatro observadores da Organização para a Segurança e Cooperação na Europa. O tom dramático dos relatos da região sugeria um estado de desespero do lado dos rebeldes, que não conseguiam suster o avanço das tropas e já estariam a executar desertores. Um dos habitantes da cidade, que se identificou à Reuters apenas como Gleb, descrevia o caos em Donetsk: “Os separatistas lançaram a confusão na cidade, esperando com certeza que Putin viesse em seu auxílio. Mas dá ideia que estão entregues a si mesmos”.

O Governo ucraniano “emitiu um ultimato de rendição ou morte às forças de auto-defesa da cidade de Donetsk”, escreveu a agência de notícias russa RIA Novosti, depois do porta-voz do Exército de Kiev, Vladislav Seleznev, ter dito em conferência de imprensa que “a operação anti-terrorista vai prosseguir até ao seu fim lógico”. Na capital, o vice primeiro-ministro, Vitali Iarema, garantia que a campanha só acabaria quando “o último terrorista fosse expulso da Ucrânia”. Poroshenko estimou que o objectivo seria alcançado “em poucos dias”.

Resta saber como é que a Rússia vai responder à ofensiva de Kiev sobre os separatistas. Depois de manifestar disponibilidade para o diálogo com o Presidente eleito, o Kremlin reagiu com firmeza à intensificação da operação militar no Leste da Ucrânia, aconselhando Poroshenko a refrear os ímpetos e a aceitar os termos do acordo de cessar-fogo negociado em Abril em Genebra – um compromisso que nenhuma das partes em confronto alguma vez respeitou.

Ao telefone com o primeiro-ministro italiano, Matteo Renzi, Vladimir Putin “vincou a necessidade de [Poroshenko] acabar imediatamente com a operação punitiva no Sudeste do país e estabelecer um diálogo pacífico com os representantes das regiões”, informou o Kremlin. Só que desta vez, Moscovo não movimentou tropas para pressionar as autoridades em Kiev – apesar da retórica, Putin reconhecerá a alteração (drástica?) das circunstâncias no terreno. A votação de domingo expôs o seu “bluff” diplomático e político: nem o Governo e o parlamento de Kiev estão sob o domínio de fascistas (os partidos de extrema-direita, Svoboda e Pravy Sektor, foram esmagados nas urnas), nem o país está à beira da desagregação por motivos étnicos ou linguísticos, como argumentava.

Como assinalava o editor de internacional da revista The Economist, Edward Lucas, numa entrevista à Radio Free Europe, “as coisas não correram exactamente como Putin queria [na Ucrânia]. E esta não é a primeira vez que ele se engana”, notou, lembrando que a aposta russa em Ianukovich conduziu à revolta da praça Maidan, que Putin subestimou. “Mas ele continuará a manobrar para transformar a Ucrânia num semi-Estado falhado”, disse. É possível que Putin seja obrigado a uma “retirada táctica” por estes dias, mas isso não o impedirá de jogar os trunfos de que ainda dispõe, nomeadamente a “cartada do gás”, que Lucas pensa será a sua maneira de “provocar o caos”.

“Ainda não chegámos ao fim do jogo”, concordou o analista político russo, Fiodor Lukianov, ao jornal The Washington Post. “A visão de Putin é de uma crise de longo prazo na Ucrânia”, considerou. Para Grigori Golosov, professor de Ciência Política na Universidade Europeia de São Petersburgo, a estratégia de Putin está relacionada com o seu “interesse em impedir, por qualquer meio, de qualquer maneira, que a Ucrânia venha a aderir à União Europeia ou à Nato”.

http://www.publico.pt/mundo/noticia/governo-da-ucrania-faz-ultimato-para-a-rendicao-dos-separatistas-prorussos-1637702?page=2#follow

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Weapons, Prostitutes and Drugs –These are Things Petro Poroshenko is Associated With

Gregory KOLYADA | 24.05.2014 | 00:00

No matter how few people may take part in the Ukraine’s presidential election on Sunday, the outcome is known in advance – Petro Poroshenko, the US favorite rote son, will be declared the winner of the race. The result will further split the country. Many regions refuse to recognize as President this chocolate king who is notorious for pocketing government money. Poroshenko has no chance to stop the bloody conflict even scrupulously carrying out all the orders given by Joe Biden, Victoria Nuland and Geoffrey Pyatt. Besides, the mission of putting an end to bloodshed has never been set by his US bosses…

Billionaire Poroshenko started his business by laundering the money of Soviet times’ administrators. He has never been an entrepreneur to start a business of his own. The story is invented. He made a head start thanks to the criminal connections of his father sentenced for large-scale theft in 1986. Having served the sentence, Poroshenko Sr. launched his own business making his son involved in the activities. The business was dirty, it all started with plundering state property by armed gangs. The Poroshenko family had plans to expand the activities beyond Ukraine. Tatyana Mikoyan, a well-known Kiev-based lawyer, remembers what the family did in Transnistria, «It was horrible back in the 1990s: illegal arms, prostitutes, drugs – all bringing profits to father and son». Poroshenko Sr. was awarded for his merits – in 2009 he received the Hero of Ukraine decoration bought for him by his son who paid to then President Yushenko, the Godfather to Petro Poroshenko’s children. The would-be President-elect is well known for misappropriating budget funds. He has the reputation of someone who knows how to make money out of thin air. Many times he has been accused of being involved in large scale corruption schemes, open lobbying, embezzlement of budget allocations, tax evasion, illegal operations to acquire shares and physically threatening political opponents and competitors. Certainly he is not just another swindler but a tycoon, an owner of huge and diversified business empire.

Forbes lists Petro Poroshenko as the 130th richest Jew in the world with 1, 6 billion dollars. The would-be President of Ukraine Poroshenko was born Waltzman. Poroshenko is his mother’s name, she was also a Jew. In the past Poroshenko was a sponsor of Our Ukraine and Victor Yushchenko. His business empire also includes the 5th TV channel known for vehement anti-Russian propaganda. Until recently his Roshen confectionary manufacturing group had earned hundreds of millions in US dollars making business in Russia. As of 2012, Roshen accounted for 3, 2% of Russian market (the 6th largest producer). He always used the money earned for anti-Russian projects.

The presidential hopeful and tomorrow’s President-elect makes the return of Crimea to Ukraine and defending the country from «outside intervention» his foreign policy priorities. It’s hard to find anything stated in concrete terms in his program. There is nothing definite there. Instead it is full of empty calls for making a «free European state», «revive military might» etc. Many find his speeches repugnant, especially when Poroshenko starts telling stories about «patriotism», «national unity» and «protection of human rights».

Petro Poroshenko is a political chameleon. This tycoon was very cynical as he went into politics. He did it for personal enrichment. He is full of ambitions and outright lust for power but lacks a professional team to work effectively or impress public. He is rather led by greed than ideas.

Now Poroshenko exercises control over local authorities in the Vinnytsia, Volyn, Chernovitsy and Zaporozhye regions dreaming of spreading his power to the whole Ukraine. His propensity to get involved in monkey business can hardly be restrained. Poroshenko is one of the most odious figures in Ukrainian politics and heads the list of the country’s corrupted persons. Having suffered so many failures, he is going to become the country’s next President with Washington’s blessing.

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What Are Polish Death Squads Fighting For in Ukraine?

Nikolai MALISHEVSKI | 28.05.2014 | 00:00

On May 11 a plane arrived at Kiev's airport in strict secrecy; it was met by the airport's military personnel rather than the civilian staff. NATO military uniforms, 500 packages of amphetamines, and containers marked as poisonous substances were unloaded from the plane. By order of the Kiev directorate of the SBU, the fighters, the cargo and the containers of poison were not inspected and left the airport in cars with tinted windows. The cargo was accompanied by CIA agent Richard Michael. Aboard the plane were also fighters from the Right Sector and the Polish private military company ASBS (Analizy Systemowe Bartlomiej Sienkiewicz) Othago, created several years ago by Poland's current Minister of the Interior, B. Sienkiewicz.

According to available data (5), this Polish PMC lost 6 men during a punitive operation in Eastern Ukraine (the remaining casualties among foreign mercenaries working for the junta came from the American PMC Academi and its subsidiary PMC Greystone Limited, which lost 50 and 14 fighters, respectively, as well as the CIA and the FBI, with 25 casualties, 13 of whom were killed).

The Poles have been participating actively in the formation of death squads in Ukraine since September 2013, when Foreign Minister R. Sikorski invited 86 members of the Right Sector to train at the police training center in Legionowo, 23 km from Warsaw. The fighters, who came on the pretext of a university exchange program, were mostly men of around 40; they received a month-long training course in organizing mass protests, erecting barricades, seizing government buildings, street fighting tactics, shooting techniques, including from sniper rifles, etc. The Polish weekly Nie published a photo from Legionowo showing Ukrainian fascists dressed in Nazi uniforms alongside their Polish instructors in civilian clothing.

While the Polish special services were training the future participants of punitive operations, the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs made this official statement (02-02-2014): «We support the hard line taken by the Right Sector... The radical actions of the Right Sector and other militant groups of demonstrators and the use of force by protestors are justified... The Right Sector has taken full responsibility for all the acts of violence during the recent protests. This is an honest position, and we respect it. The politicians have failed at their peacekeeping function. This means that the only acceptable option is the radical actions of the Right Sector. There is no other alternative».

At the same time, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk cautioned President Yanukovich against «disproportionate use of force» against the Maidan. Today Donald Tusk, whose grandfather, Josef Tusk, served in Hitler's Wehrmacht, demands that the Kiev junta deal with the «eastern rebels» harshly, «as with terrorists».

In mid-May Tusk demanded that Hungarian Prime Minister Orban, who considers fascist Ukraine a «challenge to the European Union» refrain from making such statements so as not to divert attention from the fight against the main adversary - Russia. But several weeks earlier (04-24-2014), the Polish prime minister stated that Europe must prepare for the disintegration of Ukraine.

«The problem is that Warsaw's eastern policy is to a great degree directed by Polish intelligence, which collaborates closely with American and British intelligence agencies», asserts Leszek Sykulski, head of the Czestochowa Institute of Geopolitics. In early April, CIA director John Brennan visited Kiev. The very next day after his visit, the head of the Kiev regime, Turchynov, announced the beginning of «large-scale antiterrorist operations in connection with events in the Southeast». Not only American, but Polish mercenaries showed up for this operation.

After the head of the CIA, on April 21-22 U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden visited Kiev. Speaking in the Verkhovna Rada, Biden stated that Washington supports the Ukrainian government in the face of «humiliating threats», obviously with Russia in mind. The answer to the question of what the United States needs in eastern Ukraine is simple: The cities which the junta is desperately trying to subjugate are located in the Dniepr-Donets Basin, which has enormous deposits of shale gas. Royal Dutch Shell has already staked a claim on these tracts. «I would say that the economic interest in this case is what’s driving the coup regime in Kiev to launch military actions against its own citizens, because they stand to make a profit from these contracts signed by the previous government», asserts American foreign affairs expert Nebojsa Malic.

Robert Hunter Biden, the son of the U.S. vice president, who has become a frequent visitor to Kiev, was recently appointed to the Board of Directors of the largest private gas producer in Ukraine, Burisma Holdings, which is registered in Cyprus and holds licenses for developing the gas fields of the Dniepr-Donetsk Basin. In April, Devon Archer, a family friend of the U.S. Secretary of State who was the college roommate of Kerry's stepson and a senior advisor during John Kerry's 2004 presidential election campaign, also received a post in the company.

U.S. top officials and their close relatives have a great personal interest in all the countries invaded by American occupation forces, starting back in the days of the wars against Yugoslavia and Iraq. For example Kerry's predecessor as Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright, has business in «independent Kosovo», and Biden's predecessor as vice president, Richard Cheney, and his family, as well as yet another U.S. secretary of state, Condoleeza Rice, latched onto Iraq's energy resources through Halliburton and Chevron. The same kinds of interests are appearing in those who serve the interests of Americans in Eastern Europe, as well. For example, Ukraine's ex-Minister of Ecology Mykola Zlochevsky and former president of Poland Aleksander Kwasniewski are on the Board of Directors of Burisma Holdings.

One of the potential shale gas fields for which development rights were given to Burisma Holdings is the Yuzivska shale field. Besides Slavyansk and part of neighboring Kramatorsk, with a population of 160,000 people, the tract given to Shell includes the cities of Krasny Luch and Svyatogorsk in the Donetsk region, as well as Balakeya and Izyum in the neighboring Kharkov region. And the shale gas extraction contract is written such that the Ukrainian government is obligated to forcibly take property away from its lawful owners if Shell states that it plans to drill on those lands. The vicinity of Slavyansk has been selected as the location for the drilling of the first gas wells...



The place where the Ukrainian army is concentrated, supported by the Right Sector, the private punitive battalions of fascist oligarch Igor Kolomoisky and mercenaries from American and Polish PMCs, points directly to one of the main reasons for the punitive operation: that the Kiev regime is serving the business interests of the commanding elite of the U.S. and Poland. It is around Slavyansk and Kramatorsk that the most violent clashes between the punitive forces and the people of the Donets Basin have taken place, while Izyum is the main base for Ukrainian forces participating in the punitive operation.

The following speak of what methods are being used in the punitive operation:

-the attackers' losses, which include attack and transport helicopters, armored vehicles, 122-mm howitzers, and «Grad» rocket launcher systems, a salvo from which is capable of destroying all life in an area of 14.5 hectares,

-bombardment of cities from mortars, as a result of which more civilians are killed than self-defense fighters,

-sniper activities, killing even children,

-the use of helicopters with UN symbols on them for air attacks on Kramatorsk. These helicopters were piloted by Polish mercenaries, as even their Ukrainian colleagues refused to violate international norms of using military equipment bearing United Nations symbols.

All of this can be considered an answer to the question of just what kind of cargo is being hurriedly transported to Ukraine by Polish mercenaries under the supervision of U.S. intelligence, and why the Pole Kwasniewski is on the board of directors of a company for whose activities the way is now being cleared by armed groups of Ukrainian fascists (the «national guard») and American and Polish mercenaries, killing militants and civilians. It seems that the Kiev junta and its Western masters are prepared to resort to any provocations, up to and including using chemical warfare agents on the local population, as happened recently in Syria, and earlier in Iraq, where it was the Poles who specialized in such matters.

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http://www.forte.jor.br/2014/05/27/ofensiva-militar-do-governo-mata-mais-de-50-rebeldes-na-ucrania/

Mais de 50 rebeldes pró-Rússia foram mortos em uma ofensiva sem precedentes de forças do governo ucraniano que entrou no segundo dia nesta terça-feira, após o recém-eleito presidente da Ucrânia, Petro Poroshenko, ter prometido esmagar a revolta no leste de uma vez por todas. Jornalistas da Reuters contaram 20 corpos em roupas de combate em uma sala do necrotério de Donetsk. Em alguns dos corpos faltavam membros, sinal de que o governo havia utilizado forte poder de fogo contra os rebeldes pela primeira vez.

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Putin está preocupado com a segurança dos pró-russos, mas aparentam estar os pró-Ucrânianos mais sujeitos a ser atacados que os pró-russos.

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http://turkishnavy.net/2014/05/28/foreign-warship-on-bosphorus-part-9/

Today the French frigate F-711 FS Surcouf made a northbound passage through Turkish Straits. She is along A-579 FS Dupuy de Lôme the second French warship in the Black Sea.
She can stay in the Black Sea till 18 June 2014.

Lá vai outra... :twisted:



Entretanto na Ucrânia  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/ukraine/10862222/14-Ukrainian-troops-killed-after-rebels-shoot-down-helicopter.html

 

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Chechenos chegam à Ucrânia para lutar pela Rússia.

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O site rt.com também noticia a rendição de 80 soldados ucranianos

80 Ukrainian soldiers surrender to self-defense forces in Lugansk

http://rt.com/news/162136-ukrainian-soldiers-surrender-lugansk/

Agora mais nenhuma agência confirma para já esta notícia.

Parece que mais de 30 dos separatistas mortos na segunda-feira eram nacionais russos, a juntar a estes chechenos vemos a magnitude da interferência estrangeira (russa) no leste ucrâniano.

Seria também interessante perceber se há intervenção de forças ocidentais pelo lado de Kiev.

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Pierre Omid­yar

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https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/06KI ... #efmAZUAZ-

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wor ... president/

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http://www.haaretz.com/news/world/.premium-1.595913

Fearing Kiev's jets, Ukraine's rebels hold their ground
'In Kiev they say that this is the army of our people, so why are they coming here to shoot at the people?' A report from the rebel-held streets of the Donetsk People's Republic.

By Anshel Pfeffer    | May 28, 2014 | 10:12 PM

DONETSK - A city of a million inhabitants in eastern Ukraine which less than two years ago hosted the Euro 2012 Soccer semi-final was paralyzed Wednesday while pro-Russian separatists in the city prepared to fight for the city and around it large forces of the Ukrainian Army were deployed for what could be a bloody battle.

Since Monday morning, when the Ukrainian Air Force bombed separatists who had taken control of Donetsk Airport, killing around fifty of them, every appearance of an aircraft over the city sends people scurrying. Early Tuesday Ukrainian Mig-29 fighters passed low over the city-center, near the SBU (Ukrainian security service) headquarters currently in the hands of the separatists. Volleys were fired from the roof, but no apparent damage was caused to the jets.

At the entrance to Shorsa Street, leading to the headquarters, local supporters were erecting a concrete barrier in fear that a ground operation will be the next stage.

People and furniture were being evacuated from an adjacent building serving the local fire department. "This is the only route to attack this place, the other routes go through residential buildings and a hospital" explained one of the armed separatists guarding the barrier.

At the northern exit from the city, on Kievskaya Prospekt leading to the airport, where Ukrainian paratroopers are now positioned, a series of barriers has been erected from tires, blocks of concretes and abandoned vehicles, including the Russian military truck that was bombed by Ukrainian helicopters on Monday while carrying fighters from the Vostok Battalion, which includes Russian "volunteers" supporting the separatists. The volunteers include veterans of the war in Chechnya.

At the barriers closer to the residential areas stand locals, some in their fifties and sixties, carrying old shotguns and antiquated hunting rifles. "This was my grandfather's rifle and if it was good enough for him, then I can use it against the fascists' helicopters," said Mikhail, who wouldn't give his surname.

Many families could be seen leaving the area or taking shelter in underground cellars. There were no soldiers Tuesday from the Ukrainian Army within the city, and though the local police continued to drive around the city, they weren't taking sides or interfering with the separatists.

Even after Sunday's presidential elections, which were won by Petro Poroshenko, there is a great deal of anger in Donetsk toward the Kiev government. "We didn't mind that they got rid of [former President Viktor] Yanukovych, he was the head of a corrupt group" said Vladimiri Artumin, a local accountant. "But in his place came other corrupt groups and that's the people who run Kiev. In their media they call the people here terrorists- but these are good people protecting us and our families."

Sergei Kirilinko, one of the residents helping to build up the barriers said that "in Kiev they say that this is the army of our people, so why are they coming here to shoot at the people?" But others see the city's new rulers in a different light. "There's a terrible fear now in the streets, Acts of violence and looting by the gunmen that no one is stopping," says a local businessman who asked not to be identified. "It's primarily the fault of the Kiev government that neglected this region for so long and now the local people are paying the price."

The streets are ruled by the men of the Vostok Battalion who drive around heavily armed, and with a distinctive black armband. On Tuesday on the main Shevchenko Avenue, just by the local administration building, they captured, tied and put a man in a car trunk.

The man who seems to be in charge of them is Alexander Borodai, a Russian politician and ultra-nationalist who last week was appointed - in an unclear process - the first prime minister of the Donetsk People's Republic. On Tuesday, Borodai arrived, accompanied by a small convoy of Vostok Battalion gunmen filled SUVs, to brief the international press in Donetsk. He presented himself as a "conflict management expert" who had been asked to come to Donetsk to help the city's population. He claimed to be in control of "the different guerilla groups" operating in the region and denied claims that they included also criminals. Regarding reports that Chechnyan and Ossetian "volunteers" were also operating in Donetsk, he said that "there are no foreign fighters here. Only Russian men who have come to defend Russian people on Russian soil."

Despite reports that Borodai is connected to the Russian government, the Kremlin officially denies all connection with what is going on in Donetsk.

On Tuesday, a team of four observers of the Organization for Cooperation and Security in Europe (OSCE) disappeared in Donetsk. Borodai said his men were searching for them and raised the possibility that "someone kidnapped them as a provocation." The Donetsk People's Republic, he said, was prepared to negotiate with Kiev- but first all the Ukrainian Army forces have to retreat from the region.

"We lost men, but we still have enough men and weapons to fight if the army comes," he said. When asked whether Donetsk could become a second Grozny, the capital of Chechnya which was destroyed during the war between Russians and Chechens, Borodai answered that he could not rule that out but that it would be the fault of the Ukrainian Army.

As of Wednesday night, the Ukrainians did not seem to be building on the momentum achieved on Monday morning with the attack on the separatists at the airport. For over two days there hasn't been a significant attack but at different locations in south-east Ukraine, large armored forces of the Ukrainian Army have been preparing for what security sources are calling "a flushing-out of the nests of terror in Donetsk."

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http://orientalreview.org/2014/05/29/wh ... astermind/

http://www.voltairenet.org/article183373.html

Ukraine: Poland trained putchists two months in advance
by Thierry Meyssan

19 April 2014

Lies have shorter and shorter legs. Two months after the change of regime in Kiev, the Polish press has disclosed the role of Donald Tusk’s government in preparing the coup. The new revelations belie Western discourse and demonstrate that the current interim government of Oleksandr Tourtchynov was imposed by NATO in violation of international law.



    This article is based on information obtained by the Polish opposition. I erroneously cited as my source the satirical weekly Nie, which published a pastiche mixing truths and non-truths. The data it provides needs to be verified.
    In any case, the matter concerning the training of Pravy Sector members has in the meantime been brought before the Attorney General of Poland.
    Thierry Meyssan, April 22, 2014.

The Polish left-wing weekly Nie (No) published a startling witness account of the training given to the most violent of the EuroMaidan [1] activists.

According to this source, in September 2013, Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski invited 86 members of the Right Sector (Sector Pravy), allegedly in the context of a university exchange program. In reality, the guests were not students, and many were over 40. Contrary to their official schedule, they did not go to the Warsaw University of Technology, but headed instead for the police training center in Legionowo, an hour’s drive from the capital. There, they received four weeks of intensive training in crowd management, person recognition, combat tactics, command skills, behavior in crisis situations, protection against gases used by police, erecting barricades, and especially shooting, including the handling of sniper rifles.

Such training took place in September 2013, while the Maidan Square protests were allegedly triggered by a decree suspending preparations for the signing of the Ukraine-European Union Association Agreement, which was issued by Prime Minister Mykola Azarov on November 21, i.e. two months later.

The Polish weekly refers to photographs attesting to the training, which show the Ukrainians in Nazi uniforms alongside their Polish instructors in civilian clothing.

These revelations warrant a fresh look at the resolution adopted in early December 2013 by the Polish Parliament (Sejm), pledging its "total solidarity with Ukrainian citizens who, with strong determination, are showing the world their desire to achieve the full membership of their country in the European Union." Naturally, the MPs were not yet aware of their country’s involvement in the training of the very individuals who were planning - and ultimately achieved - a violent takeover of power.

This scandal illustrates the role assigned by NATO to Poland in Ukraine, analogous to the one entrusted to Turkey in Syria. The government of pro-European liberal Donald Tusk is fully committed to playing its role. Foreign Affairs Minister Radosław Sikorski - a journalist and former political refugee in the United Kingdom - was the mastermind behind Poland’s integration into NATO. As a member of the "Weimar Triangle", he was one of three EU representatives who brokered the 21 February 2014 agreement between President Viktor Yanukovych and the three main EuroMaidan leaders [2]. Needless to say, the Ukrainian president was unaware of the Polish representative’s entanglement with the rioters. As for the Interior Minister and special services coordinator, Bartłomiej Sienkiewicz (the great grand-son of novelist Henryk Sienkiewicz, best known for Quo Vadis?), he co-founded the Office for State Protection (Urzd Ochrony Państwa), Poland’s current intelligence agency. He also co-created and served as vice-president of the Centre for Eastern Studies (Ośrodek Studiów Wschodnich), a national think-tank dealing with the situation in Eastern Europe and the Balkans, with particular emphasis on Ukraine and Turkey. It exerts a profound influence on the West’s perception of current events, through its agreements with Carnegie Foundation [3].

During Yulia Tymoshenko’s government (2007-2010), the current interim president of Ukraine, Oleksandr Tourtchynov, had served as intelligence chief and deputy prime minister. He liaised at the time with the Poles Donald Tusk (already Prime Minister), Radosław Sikorski (then Defense Minister) and Bartłomiej Sienkiewicz (director of the private intelligence firm ASBS Othago).

To overthrow the government of its neighbor state, Poland resorted to Nazi activists in the same way that Turkey uses Al-Qaeda to overthrow the Syrian government. Not only is it not surprising to see the current Polish authorities rely on the grand-children of the Nazis that the CIA tucked into the NATO Gladio network to fight against the Soviet Union, but we should also be reminded of the controversy which broke out in the 2005 Polish presidential election, when journalist and MP Jacek Kurski revealed that Józef Tusk, the grandfather of Donald Tusk, had intentionally enrolled in the Wehrmacht. After denying the facts, the Prime Minister finally admitted that his grandfather had indeed served in the Nazi army, but claimed he had been forcefully conscripted after the annexation of Danzig. A recollection that speaks volumes about how Washington selects its agents in Eastern Europe.

In summary, Poland trained a mob of thugs to overthrow the democratically-elected president of Ukraine and pretended he was subscribing to an appeasement agreement with him on 21 February 2014, while his rioters were in the process of seizing power.

Moreover, there is no doubt that the coup was sponsored by the United States, as evidenced by the telephone conversation between Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland and Ambassador Geoffrey R. Pyatt [4]. Similarly, it is clear that other NATO members, including Lithuania (in the past, Ukraine was dominated by the Polish-Lithuanian empire), and Israel in its capacity as a de facto member of its military command structure, took part in the coup [5]. This arrangement suggests that NATO now runs a new Gladio network in Eastern Europe [6]. In addition, following the coup, mercenaries working for Greystone Ltd., a subsidiary of Academi, were deployed in the country in coordination with the CIA [7].

These facts radically modify the perception that we may have had of the coup of 22 February 2014. They undermine the arguments provided supplied to the press by the U.S. Department of State (points 3 and 5 of the factsheet dated March 5) [8] and constitute an act of war under international law. Therefore, the arguments peddled by the West regarding the ensuing the events, including the accession of Crimea to the Russian Federation and the current uprisings in East and South Ukraine, are null and void.

Thierry Meyssan



[1] « Tajemnica stanu, tajemnica Majdanu », Nie, n°13-2014, 18 April 2014.

[2] “Agreement on the Settlement of Crisis in Ukraine”, Voltaire Network, 21 February 2014.

[3] “The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace”, Voltaire Network, 25 August 2004.

[4] “What about apologizing to Ukraine, Mrs. Nuland?”, Oriental Review/Voltaire Network, 7 February 2014. And “The Secret Agenda of Ashton and Nuland Revealed”, by Wayne Madsen, Strategic Culture Foundation/Voltaire Network, 12 March 2014.

[5] “Camouflaged Israeli soldiers on Maidan Square”, Voltaire Network, 3 March 2014.

[6] “The new Gladio in Ukraine”, by Manlio Dinucci, Voltaire Network, 21 March 2014.

[7] “US mercenaries deployed in Southern Ukraine”, and “CIA director in Kiev searching for missing mercenaries”, Voltaire Network, 4 March and 16 April 2014.

[8] “State Department Fact Sheet on Putin’s False Claims About Ukraine”, Voltaire Network, 5 March 2014.