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While it is unlikely Ukraine would move to liberate Crimea anytime soon, as Russia continues to decline it might wait until the right moment.
Well Ukraine is likely feeling much better about its position. Not only with backing and aid from the West but, with China and Belarus defying Russian and making trade and defense deals.
Feb 24 U.S. agriculture giant Cargill will invest $100 million in building a new grain terminal at Ukraine's Black Sea port of Yuzhny, Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk said on Wednesday.
The terminal, near Ukraine's biggest port city of Odessa, will have an annual loading capacity of 5 million tonnes of grain and other commodities, Andriy Pivovarsky, Ukrainian infrastructure minister, said after a signing ceremony.
Igor Ivanovich Strelkov, born Igor Vsevolodovich Girkin (Russian: И́горь Ива́нович Стрелко́в; IPA: [ˈiɡərʲ ɪˈvanəvʲɪtɕ strʲɪlˈkof], Russian: И́горь Все́володович Ги́ркин; IPA: [ˈiɡərʲ ˈfsʲɛvələdəvʲɪtɕ ˈɡʲirkʲɪn]), born on 17 December 1970,[2] is a Russian army artillery veteran[1] who played a key role in the War in Donbass as an organizer of theDonetsk People's Republic independence movement.[3][4] Girkin, a self-describedRussian nationalist and imperialist, participant of several other conflicts, was charged by Ukraine authorities with terrorism[5] and is currently sanctioned by the European Unionfor his leading role in the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine.[6] Ukrainian authorities have called him a retired colonel of the GRU(Russia's external military intelligence organisation) who participated in the 2014 Crimea crisis.[6][7][8]
According to different sources, he unreservedly demands that the "liberal clans" (liberal part of the Russian elite) be destroyed.[9][10]
He is currently being sued by the families of eighteen passengers who were killed when forces under his command allegedly shot down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17.[11]
originally posted by: tsurfer2000h
a reply to: MrSpad
Well Ukraine is likely feeling much better about its position. Not only with backing and aid from the West but, with China and Belarus defying Russian and making trade and defense deals.
Let's not forget the foreign investment Ukraine is seeing.
Feb 24 U.S. agriculture giant Cargill will invest $100 million in building a new grain terminal at Ukraine's Black Sea port of Yuzhny, Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk said on Wednesday.
The terminal, near Ukraine's biggest port city of Odessa, will have an annual loading capacity of 5 million tonnes of grain and other commodities, Andriy Pivovarsky, Ukrainian infrastructure minister, said after a signing ceremony.
www.reuters.com...
And more to come I'm sure.
I remember all the news reels quite clearly. Nobody was crossing the street because green soldiers were approaching because the green soldiers were welcome there.
originally posted by: Vector99
a reply to: MALBOSIA
I remember all the news reels quite clearly. Nobody was crossing the street because green soldiers were approaching because the green soldiers were welcome there.
They were welcome there? No. They were sent there, and no one is going to challenge a little green man with a kalashnikov.
originally posted by: Vector99
a reply to: MALBOSIA
Russia could have kept their troops in port and NOTHING would have happened to it. The annexation of Crimea was pre-planned.
They took an entire peninsula to secure a port.
originally posted by: MALBOSIA
originally posted by: Vector99
a reply to: MALBOSIA
Russia could have kept their troops in port and NOTHING would have happened to it. The annexation of Crimea was pre-planned.
They took an entire peninsula to secure a port.
The coupe in Ukraine was planned by Russia to give themselves cause to take Crimea?
“When Ukrainians kill Ukrainians, I believe it’s as close to civil war as you can get,” Sergei Lavrov told Bloomberg Television yesterday in an interview in Moscow. “In the east and south of Ukraine, there is a war, a real war, with heavy weaponry used, and if this is something that is conducive to free and fair elections, then I don’t understand something about freedom.”