Ukraine 2019

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Philip
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Watch RT's documentary on how tge UKR crisis was a conspiracy engineered by the US/EU to effect regime change using the Right Sdctor neo- Nazis as key agent provocateurs on the ground.3 EU foreign ministers worked on the ground at the height of the crisis.

After the linking of the Crimea to Russia with the Kerch road/ rail bridge, the UKR tried provocative actions at sea in the Kerch Straits
and got their backsides tanned by the Ru N which captured their patrol craft.There are going to bd fresh attempts to create trouble in yhe UKR to keep Russia engaged as it has thrown its weight behind the Venezuela govt. trying to save off regime change by the US, UK, France, Germany.and Spain.
Will May have a second Brexit referendum? No.France is in chaos over the anti - Macron Jeune Gilets ( yellow vests) protests and Merkel tasted defeat in regional elections and will not stand again as Chancellor, yet these countries have the audacity to decide and demand what the Venezuelan govt. should lbe, led by a US pimp!

The Cold War-2 is now hotting up and on the brink of real
proxy conflicts around thd globe as we saw in Syria.Civil war in Venezuela is a direct prospect as the US has not ruled out military intervention.Should that happen, watch events in the UKR where the corrupt Kiev regime is facing growing disenchatment of the populace.
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https://twitter.com/CITeam_en/status/13 ... 8265661441
Many videos appear on the internet, showing Russian trains and military convoys in Crimea and at the Ukrainian border — yes, again.

We have mapped the alleged locations, which are mostly in Crimea and Russia's Rostov and Krasnodar regions.
https://twitter.com/CITeam_en/status/13 ... 8265661441
Kremlin has been warning Ukraine against a military solution and putting the blame for the recent conflict thawing on Kyiv.
http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/65254

It is hard to believe Ukraine would seek a military solution, despite persistent rumors from separatist "republics"
Russia expecting Ukraine with support from the US raise the heat in Crimea/sebastopol -- troop movements from both sides. If Russia loses Crimea/Sebastopol, it will be a diminished landlocked country during winter months (ignoring the melting arctic ice caps).
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https://news.yahoo.com/russia-warns-u-w ... 54371.html
Reuters
Russia calls U.S. an adversary, warns its warships to avoid Crimea
Andrew Osborn and Alexander Marrow, April 13, 2021

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia on Tuesday called the United States an adversary and told U.S. warships to stay well away from Crimea "for their own good", calling their deployment in the Black Sea a provocation designed to test Russian nerves.
Moscow annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014 and two U.S. warships are due to arrive in the Black Sea this week amid an escalation in fighting in eastern Ukraine, where government forces have battled Russian-backed separatists in a conflict Kyiv says has killed 14,000 people.
"The United States is our adversary and does everything it can to undermine Russia's position on the world stage," Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov was cited as saying by Russian news agencies. "We do not see any other elements in their approach. Those are our conclusions," the agencies quoted him as saying. The comment suggests that the veneer of diplomatic niceties that the former Cold War enemies have generally sought to observe in recent decades is wearing thin.
U.S. President Joe Biden said in March that he thought his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin was a killer who would "pay a price" for alleged meddling in U.S. elections - an accusation that Moscow denies.
Ryabkov's remarks suggest Russia will in turn robustly push back against what it sees as unacceptable U.S. interference in its own backyard.
"We warn the United States that it will be better for them to stay far away from Crimea and our Black Sea coast. It will be for their own good," said Ryabkov.
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One of Putin's greatest successes,thanks to the neo-fascist cretins of the UKR,spurred on by EU and US politicos like the Bidens, who destroyed their state by attempting to crush the huge ethnic Russian population of the country resulting in a civil war,has been Russia's reacquisition of the strategic Crimean peninsula.Long been of paramount strategic importance from the days of the Ottoman empire,WW1,to date, the Crimean peninsula during Sov. era days was as key naval HQ for its Black Sea and Meditt. commands. Part of this huge infra was an UG N-sub base which some of you may have seen in an episode of Top Gear. After the CW ended,the base became a tourist attraction but was in perfect condition for reuse....which it now has! The building of Europe's longest road and rail bridges,two separate ones,in record time was another rgeat achievement of Putin,linking the Crimea to mother Russia for the first time since a Tsarist bridge was built which collapsed and was never rebuilt.In fact,Putin himself drove across the bridge on its inauguration in a heavy truck.

Apart from the fine naval facilities on the peninsula, the report posted shows that facilities at an airbase for operating TU-22M3 Backfire maritime /strat. bombers has been upgraded and the airfield at Hmeimim air base in Syria used by the Russians has also started operating TU-22M3 maritime bombers .The Ru Def. Min. has said that from the base,the TU-22s can cover any part of the Meditt. even upto Gibraltar. With the reactivation of the N-sub base in the Crimea,Russia has hugely increased its military capability and presence in the region. from where both Europe and the ME/Meditt. can be targeted in any conflict.

https://jamestown.org/program/crimeas-n ... practices/
Crimea’s Nuclear Potential: A Return to Soviet Practices
Publication: Eurasia Daily Monitor Volume: 18 Issue: 89
By: Maxim Starchak
June 4, 2021

Crimea’s infrastructure is being prepared for potentially storing Russian nuclear weapons (Source: The Times)
On April 12, amid escalating tensions along the Ukrainian border, Ukrainian Defense Minister Andriy Taran expressed concern that “Crimea’s infrastructure is being prepared for potentially storing nuclear weapons” (Radio Svoboda, April 14). Even though Taran did not supply evidence for this claim, it is plausible to assert that such nuclear potential in occupied Crimea certainly exists.

According to experts, Russia possesses up to 2,000 nuclear warheads at present (The Bulletin, March 15), some of which may already be located in Crimea. Illustratively, in late 2016, “Object-100,” an underground stationary complex for the storage and combat use of two cruise missile divisions, was restored on the peninsula (Interfax, November 18, 2016). Created in the Soviet era, it has been utilized by Utes missile systems equipped with P-35B or 3M44 Progress cruise missiles capable of carrying a 350-kiloton nuclear warhead. The combat readiness of Object-100, which can hit targets at a range of up to 300 kilometers, was confirmed during military exercises in November 2016 (RIA Novosti, November 18, 2016). Crimea is also home to at least three Bastion-P mobile coastal-defense complexes armed with the P-800 Oniks missile (range of up to 800 km). The P-800 missile is capable of carrying a ten-kiloton nuclear warhead (Lenta.ru, September 25, 2019).

During the Cold War, Soviet sea-zone naval vessels—small missile ships, guard ships and anti-submarine corvettes—could all be equipped with nuclear weapons. Taking into account the preservation of Russia’s tactical nuclear weapons (TNW) and the absence of changes in Russian policy regarding these weapons (see EDM, September 29, 2020 and January 28, 2021), the practice may well have continued.


Looking at the current Black Sea Fleet in Crimea, the 11th brigade of anti-submarine ships in Sevastopol consists of five Project 1135/6 guard ships, which are armed with the dual-capable Kalibr cruise missile system. The brigade also includes the Moskva, the lead ship of the Project 1164 Atlant class of guided missile cruisers, carrying the P-1000 Vulkan anti-submarine missile system. The Vulkan can be equipped with a 350-kiloton nuclear warhead. Moreover, the Moskva is equipped with the nuclear-capable S-300F anti-aircraft missile system (OPK, December 28, 2017; Rusonline.org, April 5, 2019; TASS, Kchf.ru, accessed June 4, 2021).

Two small Project 1239 missile ships and four Project 1241 missile boats are stationed in Sevastopol. Each of these vessels is armed with Moskit or Termit anti-ship missiles that can deliver 15-kiloton and 120-kiloton nuclear warheads, respectively. Moreover, the 68th coastal defense ship brigade in Sevastopol has two small Project 1124M anti-submarine corvettes with a 533-millimeter mine-torpedo armament, capable of carrying the RPK-6M Vodopad anti-submarine missile system or the VA-111 Shkval complex. These can be equipped with a nuclear warhead of 200 and 150 kilotons, respectively (OPK, December 28, 2017; Rusonline.org, April 5, 2019; TASS, Kchf.ru, accessed June 4, 2021).

Sevastopol is also home to the 31st Air-Defense Division with its two S-300PM detachments and four S-400 detachments. The 48N6 missile fired by both systems can theoretically carry a nuclear warhead. It is expected that the S-500 complexes, capable of launching a 77N6-N1 missile with a small nuclear warhead, will also eventually be deployed to Crimea (Avia.pro, March 18, 2021).

In March 2014, the authorities announced the imminent deployment of the Tu-22M3 Missile Carrier Regiment to the airbase in the Crimean village of Gvardeyskoe (Regnum, March 31, 2014). Reports of those plans were repeated in July 2015 (Interfax, July 22, 2015) and January 2016 (Modernarmy.ru, January 17, 2016). In March 2019, the first Tu-22M3 supersonic bomber landed in Crimea, seen as a potential sign of the looming permanent deployment of these strategic aircraft there (RIA Novosti, 2019, March 18). However, given that the airfield in Gvardeyskoe has been undergoing reconstruction since 2015 (Gvardeyskoe.ru, March 19, 2015), it is probably not yet ready to permanently accept these long-range strategic aircraft. The Tu-22M3, can carry from one to three X-22 cruise missiles or up to ten X-15 cruise missiles, both of which are nuclear capable. Tu-22M3s are also capable of using nuclear free-falling bombs. Relatedly, as part of the 37th Mixed Aviation Regiment, six Su-24M tactical bombers are located at the Gvardeyskoe airfield. These jets are capable of carrying two unguided, free-falling RN-28 nuclear bombs (Topwar.ru, June 26, 2018).

The long-term appearance of Iskander-M tactical ballistic missile systems in Crimea is possible as well (Riafan, August 15, 2020). Iskanders from various Russian regions were already present on the peninsula during the Kavkaz (Caucasus) 2016 exercise, and they regularly participate in other drills, deploying close to the Ukrainian border (Topwar.ru, December 15, 2018; Janes.com, April 8, 2021). In response to the United States’ withdrawal from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty in 2019, Russia promised to, by the end of the following year, create a ground-based version of the Kalibr cruise missile and a Zircon ground-based hypersonic missile system, which would have ranges of up to 2,600 and 2,000 kilometers, respectively (TVZvezda, February 5, 2019). In October 2020, Russian President Vladimir Putin promised, purportedly as a sign of good faith willingness to lower tensions, that Moscow would unilaterally pause any deployments of ground-based intermediate-range missiles in Europe; and he encouraged Western counterparts to follow suit (Izvestia, October 26, 2020). Yet such mobile, ground-based nuclear-tipped missiles can easily be sent to Crimea, and no one would know about it, simply because no verification mechanisms exist. For example, Moscow already plans to deploy the first Bastion-S stationary mine-based anti-ship missile systems, which can be armed with these dual-capable missiles (Interfax, July 2, 2015).

After the forcible annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula in early 2014, this region de facto became Russia’s southwesternmost territory. Given that all of the Soviet Union’s western republics hosted tactical nuclear weapons on their territory during the Cold War, Russia today likely also plans to deploy TNW to Crimea, and presumably has already done so. According to this author’s most conservative estimates, there may be up to 30 nuclear warheads deployed on the peninsula now. That said, non-strategic nuclear weapons are a gray area of European security. And in the absence of any monitoring or limitations on TNW, Russian activities in this sphere by definition destabilize the security situation in Europe and more generally.
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