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Ukraine Military Begins Slavyansk Siege, Separatists Shoot Down Helicopters, Capture Pilot

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The Ukraine situation is deteriorating into full blown hot war as what’s left of the country’s military stormed the eastern region of Slavyansk. It is being reported that multiple Ukraine helicopters have been shot down by pro-Russian separatist forces.

RT.com
A third helicopter has been shot down by self-defense forces, according to reports. Earlier, two helicopters were reportedly shot down, with one pilot dead and another one captured, RIA Novosti news agency reported.

The Slavyansk self-defense leader also said that helicopters are shooting down at the city with missiles, but that there have been no reports of damage, Interfax reported.

Slavyansk self-defense forces told RIA Novosti that the Ukrainian military has attacked several positions.

“The attack is targeting a few checkpoints at the same time. A few armored vehicles and airborne combat vehicles arrived and airborne troops descended from the helicopters and attacked the checkpoints. Some forces were dropped off around the train station, where we didn’t have anyone,” RIA Novosti quoted the press secretary of the Slavyansk self-defense units as saying.


BREAKING: 4th army helicopter shot down in #Slavyansk – reports http://t.co/aLt6eXoxnd #Ukraine

— RT (@RT_com) May 2, 2014

Good luck sorting fact from fiction in the era of Youtube documented war.

The captured pilot?

Earlier Thursday, the western installed puppet government in Kiev shocked Ukrainians by announcing a new decree for a mandatory military draft of males ages 18 to 25.

This comes after the activity earlier today in response to the International Monetary Fund’s demands attached to the pending $17 billion bailout loan shark debt slavery package.

Zero Hedge

IMF approved the $17bn tranched loan to Ukraine last night, Gazprom gets paid; Ukraine gets its cash; and the door’s wide open for the US and EU to pour more ‘controlling influence’ into the divided nation… Except there’s one thing:

  • IF UKRAINE GOVERNMENT LOSES EFFECTIVE CONTROL OVER EAST OF COUNTRY, $17 BLN IMF BAILOUT WOULD NEED TO BE REDESIGNED

Which, roughly translated, appears to mean go to war with pro-Russian forces (and thus Russia itself if Putin sees his apparent countrymen in trouble) or you don’t get your money!

Some other items of note include:

  • *IMF URGES UKRAINE TO REACH PRICE ACCORD WITH GAZPROM BY SEPT
  • *UKRAINE INFLATION MAY JUMP TO 16.2% THIS YEAR, IMF SAYS
  • *RUSSIA’S GAS PRICE INCREASE MAY WEAKEN HRYVNIA: IMF STAFF

Warfare 2.0 – Social media

The timing and authenticity of some of these cannot be confirmed, but the images are quite vivid.


PHOTO: #Ukrainian Military Arrive in #Slavyansk #Ukraine pic.twitter.com/mffvk5EsBV

— Jerry (@jerryliet) May 2, 2014


Блокпост у села Андреевка #Sloviansk #Slavyansk #Словянськ #Славянск pic.twitter.com/UkykAfWGjV

— Вячеслав Ковалёв (@atvirefi) May 2, 2014


#Slavyansk #Ukraine may be under attack, but that doesn’t mean Russia24 can’t report in style. Pop that collar! pic.twitter.com/bPmDOgCn9a

— Michael Lokesson (@MichaelLokesson) May 2, 2014


Image from #Slavyansk pic.twitter.com/pbIQ1Ic63I

— News This Second (@NewsThisSecond) May 2, 2014


Buses in #Slavyansk block this road pic.twitter.com/I1ybdYZbHg

— News This Second (@NewsThisSecond) May 2, 2014


There are reports that militants might be trying to leave #Sloviansk and not wait for the next step of the CTO pic.twitter.com/NJtcWd5qMo

— Ukraine Wall (@ukrainewall) May 2, 2014


Another surreal scene by @a_krasnoschekov: #Donbass defense heavy machinery next to a bank in #Slavyansk. #Славянск pic.twitter.com/RJCFZNTj55

— Nina Byzantina (@NinaByzantina) May 2, 2014


Следите за событиями в Славянске в онлайн-репортаже @rianru http://t.co/YQu5MN2vJb #Славянск pic.twitter.com/XPJy0neQtj

— РИА Новости (@rianru) May 2, 2014


#Slavyansk fighters, #Donetsk Republic flags. As a fellow photographer, @sashakots‘ photos are well framed. #Славянск pic.twitter.com/0CAuuuy9SU

— Nina Byzantina (@NinaByzantina) May 2, 2014


Abandoned wounded pilot, #Ukraine‘s troops, treated by #Slavyansk self-defense, then taken to hospital. @sashakots pic.twitter.com/y2MacRylCb

— Nina Byzantina (@NinaByzantina) May 2, 2014


#Sloviansk pic.twitter.com/niBCLpX4mI

— Marina Ikonnikova (@vivacityLA) May 2, 2014



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    • AgainstEVILZionist-MASTERMIND-of-IlluminatiNWO

      The RothschildIlluminati-Zionist-controlled-US/West should be condemned as WAR-CRMINALS for supporting the joint Zionist/IsraHELL-Nazi-take over of oil-gas-rich UKraine! After all, that’s their typical MO since WW2 – see the most shocking hidden history of how the Zionist Jews collaborated with the German/European Nazis, to ruthlessly mass murder ’UNDESIRABLE’ poor/traditional European Jews (for Israel) – including discovered by Jewish scholars themselves, at –

      1. http://cosmos.ucc.ie/cs1064/jabowen/IPSC/php/art.php?aid=4062, The hidden history of Zionism, Annie Zirin, International Socialist Review, issue 24, July 2002;

      2. http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/03/04/denying-nazi-zionist-collusion/, Denying Nazi-Zionist Collusion, by ALISON WEIR, Weekend Edition March 4-6, 2011;

      3. http://www.amazon.com/Zionism-Age-Dictators-Lenni-Brenner/dp/1556520778, Zionism in the Age of Dictators, Lawrence Hill & Co; Revised edition (December 1983), by Lenni Brenner;

      4. and http://www.truetorahjews.org/antisemitism, Zionism and Anti-Semitism, By True Torah Jews: against Zionism.

    • liberty

      I posted these on another article on BIN but will also copy/paste here.

      Heres some reports from folks in UKRAINE or passed onto others by folks in UKRAINE from various blogs Ive discovered.

      You will be horrified at what dear leader has now caused.

      ********************************

      Real bastards, those Ukies!!!

      The self-defence guys,who have shot down one of copters, are bewildered: another Ukie’s copter landed
      near the wounded pilot of the injured copter, the crew has taken the gun from the wounded
      man, and ..
      . flew away without him.

      Guys from Slavyansk have taken him to the hospital in the city.

      Animals!

      The picture of the pilot and his saviors (he could have died if abondoned, due to loss of blood):

      http://colonelcassad.livejournal.com/1569352.html#comments

      ********************************

      …“The Right Sector, the troops and god knows who else are trying to get to the center of the city,” he
      said. “We are going to hold back the enemy. That’s it. No fighting so far.”

      ***********************************************

      Also from Moon of Alabama comments there seem to be foreigners in the attackers
      . A Pole has been killed, locals report hearing English-speaking soldiers, unconfirmed.
      Right Sector fighters may have entered the town in civilian clothes. Igor Strelkov says Sloviansk is
      completely blockaded, from LifeNews latest.

      **********************************

      Conversations between Russian and Ukrainian ministers of defense agree that Russian envoys will travel
      to the east to try to mediate in the situation
      . The assault on Sloviansk is being directed by the minister of the interior who follows orders from
      Timoshenko.
      Minister of defense is vehemently against all this.
      Minister of interior has gone as far as making threats against minister of defense and even PM. Members
      of some units have asked to surrender.
      The presence of foreign mercenaries among the attacking forces has been repeatedly confirmed.
      More than half of the attacking troops are not military, but either police, voluntary soldiers or
      mercenaries.
      Military cadets are asking to be pulled out of these units, they don’t want to be under the command of
      extremists. Others have asked to be allowed to surrender.

      ***************************************

      PaulaSlier_RT ‏@PaulaSlier_RT 39m
      Reports suggest that more than 2000 people from #Crimea volunteered to come to #Slavyansk to fight
      against the right sector

      PaulaSlier_RT ‏@PaulaSlier_RT 41m
      reports saying self-defence of #Slavyansk plans to sue #Kiev in the Hauge Criminal Court for killing
      civilians in the city

      ****THIS…WILL HORRIFY YOU ALL FOLKS. THIS IS A GRANDFATHER!

      THIS NEEDS TO BE AIRED EVERYWHERE.PLEASE GET THIS VIDEO OUT TO AS MANY SOURCES AS YOU CAN.
      THIS IS NOT THE UKE ARMY…..but US MERCS are mixed in with this wicked lot!

      ****************************

      AS YOU CAN SEE THESE FOLKS ARE NOT EASILY INTIMIDATED BUT THOSE ANIMALS
      RAN SOMEONE OVER ….
      http://vk.com/a_maydan?z=video227235570_168386089%2Fd4fc4cffb2d8d96793

      In shades of Tianamen Square, If there’s any doubt about Svoboda & Right Sector being neo-Nazis
      running the coup-led gov in Kiev, this May 2nd video of aftermath of Kiev’s armored personnel
      carrier/light tank running over a elderly grandfather here with his flattened legs here as women cry in
      the background:

      https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=309236825895432

      The leadup video of the armored personnel carrier runnning him over & his screams can be
      watched/heard here as he is among a unarmed civilian group of women, elderly, & others trying to
      block/stop a convoy of armored personnel carriers like in Tianamen Square is here:

      https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=309231129229335&set=vb.303805939771854

      For the latest updates, goto https://www.facebook.com/TruthfromUkraine
      &
      https://www.facebook.com/UkraineCrisisAntiMaidan

      ******************************

      In some radio communications it transpires that some of these soldiers don’t know whose orders to
      follow.

      Military command on the radio from Kiev says to a soldier “look in the eyes of the people you have in
      front of you. What do you see? Tell me, soldier, tell me what you see. Should I ask you again?
      Should I answer for you? [you see] mothers, grandmothers, like yours and mine.
      I cannot offer you money. I can offer you only misery.
      But don’t obey the orders meant to start a war where your people will be killed.”

      Awesome… to hear that.

      ***BY THE WAY dont believe MSM!
      RE the MANPADS that took down the copters:
      there has been much speculation that there were looted caches in various ciities as well as when soldiers deserted they had arms.
      These were used by SELF DEFENSE FORCES ( much like the US has Militias in various States that consist of Army Vets, former police, security officers etc.)
      These SELF DEFENSE forces LIVE in these cities & are there to protect the people from the threat WITHIN and they well know how to use arms.
      They are NOT Russian Soldiers. Dont believe the MSM!

      • The Rift

        You right, but I have never seen that sham of a US government, MSM and online trolls pushing so hard for war.
        But we (europe) all know the truth about the situation, so I can tell you, those lies are only believed by the US people.

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