[Jabberwalker]

Public_Domain Public_Domain:

That game is up there with Monopoly and Scrabble in the category of games I'll never play with my grandmother ever again

It's interesting. I haven't played it in years but certain countries are key strategic locations that it is a good idea to invade and take. As I recall, the Ukraine is one of those.

[DrCaleb]

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Ukraine crisis: Russia 'withdrawing troops from border', Putin tells Merkel

Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, told German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday that he has ordered a partial withdrawal of troops from the Ukrainian border.

During a telephone call the pair agreed to cooperate on possible steps to “restore stability” in Ukraine, and also discussed the breakaway Moldovan region of Transdniestria.

“The Russian president informed the chancellor about the partial withdrawal of Russian troops he ordered from the eastern border of Ukraine,” Ms Merkel’s spokesman Steffen Seibert said in a statement.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... erkel.html

[saturn_656]

NATO reports no signs of Russian withdrawal.

Ukraine is to host military exercises with the US and other NATO countries this summer.

[Zipperfish]

saturn_656 saturn_656:

NATO reports no signs of Russian withdrawal.

Ukraine is to host military exercises with the US and other NATO countries this summer.

Maybe the time to exercise Ukraine's military was when they were invaded?

[PostFactum]

Zipperfish Zipperfish:

saturn_656 saturn_656:

NATO reports no signs of Russian withdrawal.

Ukraine is to host military exercises with the US and other NATO countries this summer.

Maybe the time to exercise Ukraine's military was when they were invaded?

No because all planet would be cleaning trousers from shit.

[Canadian_Mind]

PF, I love your broken english. It makes this place entertaining.

[DrCaleb]

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NATO says it will recommit to defending frontline states in east Europe as Russia keeps troops poised on border

NATO said it will recommit to defending frontline states in eastern Europe that have been unsettled by the seizure of Crimea as the alliance reported no signs of a Russian troop pullback from Ukraine’s borders.

Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said allied intelligence hasn’t picked up evidence of Russia scaling back its “massive military buildup” and pledged to shore up the alliance’s eastern defenses.

“We are now considering all options to enhance our collective defence, including an update and further development of our defence plans, enhanced exercises and also appropriate deployments,” Rasmussen told reporters at a meeting of North Atlantic Treaty Organization foreign ministers in Brussels today.

The immediate crisis management focused on the 40,000 Russian troops that the U.S. estimates have taken positions near the Ukrainian border, potentially poised to invade on the pretext of protecting ethnic Russian inhabitants of eastern and southern Ukraine.

Rasmussen said “unfortunately” there are no signs of a withdrawal. Yesterday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel spoke to Russian President Vladimir Putin and said that he had ordered a partial withdrawal. The Interfax news service cited Russia’s Defense Ministry as announcing that a motorized battalion was being pulled out.

http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/04/01 ... on-border/

[saturn_656]

Between 30,000 and 40,000 troops on the border and they pull out a single battalion?

Putin does have a sense of humour.

[MeganC]

saturn_656 saturn_656:

Between 30,000 and 40,000 troops on the border and they pull out a single battalion?

Putin does have a sense of humour.

Putin is just a typical guy says he'll pull out and then doesn't.

[saturn_656]

[martin14]

[Public_Domain]

Heh, apparently Kyiv is poised to ban the Communists.... Interesting...

[BRAH]

MeganC MeganC:

saturn_656 saturn_656:

Between 30,000 and 40,000 troops on the border and they pull out a single battalion?

Putin does have a sense of humour.

Putin is just a typical guy says he'll pull out and then doesn't.

He didn't pull out?

[DrCaleb]

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Ukrainian authorities arrest riot police for protester shootings

Ukrainian authorities have arrested a dozen members of the 'Berkut' police riot squad on suspicion of shooting protesters in February. At the time, snipers killed more than 100 people around Kyiv's Independence Square.

According to Ukraine's acting attorney general, the police officers detained on Thursday were members of a specialized group within Berkut, called the "Black Unit."

"The police officers of this company were trained for special operations including killing people," said Attorney General Oleh Makhnitsky, who was quoted by the Interfax news agency. "They were overseen by the presidential administration."

Among those arrested was a Berkut company commander who allegedly handed out weapons for use against anti-government demonstrators, according to the attorney general's office.

Between February 18-20, snipers fired from rooftops on people in Institutska Street in Ukraine's capital, Kyiv. More than 100 people died during the shootings, most of them protesters. Several police officers were also killed by gunfire.

Berkut was dissolved in late February by Ukraine's Interior Ministry.

http://www.dw.de/ukrainian-authorities- ... a-17539641

[PostFactum]

Russia begins to annex East, pro Russian groups got inside of government municipal buildings in Donezk and Lugansk. In Lugansk and Donezk cops try to speak with them, there are no actions, in Harkiv fight between cops and crazy pro Russians already started. Man on the microphone said that they hve to keep at least day, why day...this bithes have in mind something.