Russia declares war on Ukraine. Live updates from inside Ukraine

According to Tymchuk, all the actions taken so far were only part of a preliminary phase.

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The main and most difficult part is taking Slovyansk. Its not going to be easy.

People's opinions change as the anti-terrorist operations begin.

Mayor Shtepa:'In #Sloviansk no one wants to side w/ #Russia.' She's quite the patriot now. #Ukraine #RussianInvasion pic.twitter.com/heRodfuDq8

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The main and most difficult part is taking Slovyansk. Its not going to be easy.

EU Crimean Tatar ‏@CrimeaEU · 18s
“@AFP: Ukraine pushes tanks toward flashpoint separatist city of Slavyansk - @AFP latest u.afp.com... ”


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#SBU launches criminal inquiry against #Sloviansk mayor on separatism charges www.kyivpost.com... …

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Kiev military op in eastern Ukraine LIVE UPDATES

Tuesday, April 15

16:40 GMT:

The Ukrainian military and anti-government activists have started negotiations at the Kramatorsk airfield, which was earlier stormed and taken by armed forces, RIA Novosti reports.

Asen, how are things back in the Western part of Ukraine ? What are the people saying ?
Stay safe.

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I saw that AFP tweet before at the begining of the attack on the airfield. I dont think its recent.

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There is a massive support for the operation. Anti Russian hate filled support.

asen_y2k
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I saw that AFP tweet before at the begining of the attack on the airfield. I dont think its recent.

Sorry bout that.. We are starting to see re-tweets from media outlets just now joining in.


Here is a Spanish news report on on the city covered by RT

16:47 GMT:

RT Spanish' correspondent Francisco Guaita reports from Slavyansk:
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Kyiv officials: No casualties among Ukrainian troops in #Kramatorsk www.kyivpost.com... …

Debate over wounded in Kramatorsk:

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Alec Luhn @ASLuhn Follow Back online. Two pro-Russian protesters were wounded here at Kramatorsk airport allegedly. I saw one, a bullet graze

Dutzy
People's opinions change as the anti-terrorist operations begin.

Mayor Shtepa:'In #Sloviansk no one wants to side w/ #Russia.' She's quite the patriot now. #Ukraine #RussianInvasion pic.twitter.com/heRodfuDq8

Oh welcome to the party...and you fit the theme and format, good for you. Speaking of themes and formats, I find this interesting.



Same pamphlets handed out in Egypt were disseminated in Ukraine. Real shocker there huh?



Never leave home without it.

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EU Crimean Tatar ‏@CrimeaEU · 19m
“@nycjim: DEVELOPING: #Ukraine troops reportedly detain Russian officers in confrontation at Kramatorsk airfield. http://(link tracking not allowed)/1eJDRew ”

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Care to supply the links to where you obtained all the info you posted, pictures and all please? As well as any links discussing those fliers being used in Egypt and Ukraine.

I find it interesting that as Ukraine fights back, that post pops up...

Ukrainian Updates @Ukroblogger #Ukrainian troops on standby in #Izyum, #Kharkiv Oblast. My grandpa was born here in 1917. #Ukraine MT @mikekomar pic.twitter.com/mIXy0jE27S 9 mins ago 12 retweets |

Euromaidan PR ‏@EuromaidanPR · 1m
#Russian politician #Zhirinovsky, famous for offering vodka to his voters, called & threatened the head of #Ukraine NDSC Parubiy @Dbnmjr

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Radial pro-Russia presidential candidate beaten by crowd in Ukraine huff.to...

Unconfirmed info about Russian 45th Airborne already in Ukraine.


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Xcathdra
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Care to supply the links to where you obtained all the info you posted, pictures and all please? As well as any links discussing those fliers being used in Egypt and Ukraine.

I find it interesting that as Ukraine fights back, that post pops up...

edit on 15-4-2014 by Xcathdra because: (no reason given)

that's old stuff, already seen.

Dutzy
Unconfirmed info about Russian 45th Airborne already in Ukraine.


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Basically, he has identified the "self defense forces."

Agence France-Presse ‏@AFP · 12s
'Civil war' warning for Ukraine as troops, tanks push east u.afp.com... via @YahooNewsUK pic.twitter.com/ZBF9Uilw4P

Ukraine is on the brink of "civil war", Russia warned Tuesday, after Kiev's leaders ordered troops and tanks towards a flashpoint eastern city to push back a separatist surge supported by Moscow.

The 20 tanks and armoured personnel carriers were most forceful response yet by Kiev's Western-backed government to armed raids by pro-Kremlin militants and the occupation of state buildings in nearly 10 cities across Ukraine's rust belt.

Ukrainian forces set up a cement road barrier and begun checking traffic leading to Slavyansk, an economically depressed industrial city of 100,000 that has been under effective control of separatist gunmen since Saturday.

"They must be warned that if they do not lay down their arms, they will be destroyed," Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) General Vasyl Krutov told a group of reporters tracking the sudden tank movements.

He insisted that the militants had been reinforced by several hundred soldiers from the Russian army's Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU).

Witnesses told AFP that at least two Ukrainian military helicopters landed in the nearby town of Kramatorsk with reinforcements for the offensive.

Kiev's response to the eastern insurgency prompted Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev to warn that "Ukraine is on the brink of civil war -- it's frightening".

He urged Ukraine's "de-facto" authorities -- not recognised by Moscow -- to avert "terrible turmoil".

The rapid turn of events on the ground were preceded by a telephone conversation late Monday between Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Barack Obama on Ukraine that was described as "frank and direct".

The call, though, appeared to break no new ground.

The Kremlin chief continued to reject any links to Russian-speaking gunmen who have proclaimed the creation of their own independent republic, and who have called on Putin to send in the estimated 40,000 Russian troops now stationed along the border with Ukraine.

But the White House said Obama accused Moscow of supporting "armed pro-Russian separatists who threaten to undermine and destabilise the government of Ukraine".

The worst East-West confrontation since the Cold War was exacerbated on the weekend by a Russian warplane "buzzing" a US destroyer in the Black Sea, and a visit to Kiev by CIA chief John Brennan that was confirmed by the White House and slammed by Moscow.

European foreign ministers meanwhile held back on unleashing punishing economic sanctions against Russia in hopes that EU-US mediated talks on Thursday in Geneva between Moscow and Kiev could help de-escalate the situation.

- Southeast 'on fire' -

Kiev's untested interim leaders have struggled to meet the high-stakes challenge presented by the coordinated series of raids that began in the industrial hubs of Donetsk and Lugansk and have since spread to nearby coal mining towns and villages.

The breakaway move, backed by tough talk by Moscow, could potentially see their vast nation of 46 million break up along its historic Russian-Ukrainian cultural divide.

Moscow last month annexed the largely Russified region of Crimea after deploying military forces there and backing a hasty local referendum calling for the Black Sea peninsula to be absorbed into the Russian Federation.

But a forceful military response by Kiev could prompt a devastating counterstrike by Russian troops who are waiting to act on Putin's vow to "protect" Russian-speakers in the neighbouring state.

Ukraine's acting President Oleksandr Turchynov told an agitated session of parliament that the country was facing an eastern enemy rather than domestic discontent.

"They want to set fire not only to the Donetsk region but to the entire south and east -- from Kharkiv to the Odessa region," the acting president said.

- 'Russian colonel' in raid -

Kiev's news programmes have spent much of the past day replaying footage from an attack by militants on a police station in the town of Gorlivka in which men in gas masks pelted the building with Molotov cocktails before smashing its windows with rocks and bats.

One clip showed a green-uniformed man who identified himself as a Russian colonel telling the local police force that it now must obey his orders and must wear orange-and-black ribbons symbolising Kremlin pride.

The Kremlin set nerves in Kiev further on edge on Monday by announcing that Putin had received "a lot" of requests from eastern Ukraine "to help, to intervene in some form". Some in Kiev saw that as a new effort to create a pretext for an invasion.

euronews ‏@euronews · 5m
Ukraine troops launch mission to retake town from pro-Russian militants eurone.ws...

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Xcathdra
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Care to supply the links to where you obtained all the info you posted, pictures and all please? As well as any links discussing those fliers being used in Egypt and Ukraine.

I find it interesting that as Ukraine fights back, that post pops up...

edit on 15-4-2014 by Xcathdra because: (no reason given)

that's old stuff, already seen.

Well he introduced it and I would like to see the links to the sources discussing it.