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Russian army  in Ukraine

http://lostarmour.info

https://www.rusi.org/downloads/assets/201503_BP_Russian_Forces_in_Ukraine_FINAL.pdf

http://armamentresearch.com/Uploads/Research%20Report%20No.%203%20-%20Raising%20Red%20Flags.pdf

http://www.taraskuzio.net/Nation%20and%20State%20Building_files/national-history.pdf

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014%E2%80%9315_Russian_military_intervention_in_Ukraine

https://psb4ukr.org/criminal/  lost ivan



http://uacrisis.org/crimea-5/

In societies where democratic mechanisms do not work well, the difference between state and country is significant. Olena Bilozerska, one of the "Right Sector" speakers, shared the article "About Difference Between State And Country" which can be considered a textbook example. We give the full story as its subject is hard to perceive and it always causes "flaming" even in pro-Ukrainian web communities.
Once counterintelligence of one of volunteer battalions caught "senior official" of the "DPR". He was transferred to the Security Service of Ukraine, but before that he was brought for interrogation to a base of Volunteer Corps "Right Sector".
As the interrogation was conducted courteously, without violence or threats of physical violence, the detainee behaved in a self confident and impudent way - like a man convinced that he was right and those who opposed him were absolutely wrong. He said that at his post he was just helping people, and refused to give information our side was interested in.
However, after a few hours he told all that he knew. The most interesting is how and why it happened.
When the detained was once again brought out on a smoke break, the "investigator" in his presence in warm blood called motherf*** one of the highest state leaders of Ukraine.
The reaction of the "inhabitant of the New Russia" was worth seeing. His jaw "said hello" to the floor. He start blinking and almost trembled: "How?.. How is it - a motherf***? He is yours.. You're fighting for them!"
"Sure he is a motherf***," easily agreed the "investigator" and the fighters of the "Right Sector" present on the smoke break, "X is motherf***, and Y is motherf***, and Z is motherf*** too. Bitches they are, rot of the country, venal hucksters with no respect for people."
"So we speak the same language?? Why are we fighting against each other then? I went to the DPR as I didn't want these motherf***s to rule me."
"You went to the DPR because you are a traitor of your Native land, because Ukraine is an empty word for you. The authority and the country is the same thing for you. But the authorities will change in a few years, and the country will remain. And we will not let those like you and your Moscow owners to ruin it."
After that the Russian collaborator sat for a long time dejectedly, then he asked for paper and began to write everything he knew.
http://wwst.in.ua/stories/about-difference-between-state-and-country/

http://rt.com/news/259121-us-bomb-rt-kusturica/#.VVc48Ax7JJo.facebook
rt will be bommed


http://www.rferl.org/content/russia-nemtsov-murder-case-detective-removed/27018992.html

http://obozrevatel.com/politics/64807-detsentralizatsiya-v-ukraine-rajonyi-pereimenuyut-v-uezdyi-a-oblasti-v-regionyi.htm

http://www.kyivpost.com/content/kyiv-post-plus/ukrainian-prisoner-in-russian-custody-may-already-be-dead-388684.html

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/tajikistan/2015-05-11/tajikistans-russian-dream

http://globalvoicesonline.org/2015/05/08/russia-leaked-emails-reveal-what-vladimir-putin-tells-world-leaders-at-private-meals/?utm_source=Global+Voices&utm_campaign=a808e98249-Weekly_Digest_May16_2015&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_633e82444a-a808e98249-290362033

Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2013.
Russia is in a period of slow deterioration — economically and politically — with a regime that has neither a mechanism for the transfer of power nor an agenda to achieve long-term sustainable growth, a panel of Moscow watchers agreed during a forum Thursday on the country’s future.
Dmitry Oreshkin of the Mercator Analytical Group, speaking through an interpreter at the American Enterprise Institute event in Washington, D.C., said, “This is a crisis indigenous to Russia” where the regime of Vladimir Putin masks one problem, say an economic one—falling oil prices and a declining ruble—by creating a success, a political one—annexing Crimea. “The government has been very successful in diverting attention” and leaving Russian society living in a fantasy of its return as a superpower.
“Russian political institutions are still having to catch up with . . . a more sophisticated society” that emerged with the collapse of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Dmitriev of New Economic Growth. But right now, the international sanctions against Russia for its role in supporting separatists in Ukraine and the economic recession brought on by the drop in oil prices has left its economy in near-stagnation, a situation he compared with that of Argentina when it defaulted on its debt.
Natalia Zubarevich of Moscow State University said “a turn to the East [for economic development and to overcome sanctions] is impossible.” She estimated China’s investment in the Russian economy at about 3 percent and noted that the Chinese are looking for the same things as Western investors—safety and profitability.
“You have to lessen foreign tensions to attract development.” She added that Western investors are interested in Russia and could be moving their governments to reduce sanctions in the next three years.
Whether that happens is open to question and subject to moves Russia makes militarily on its borders. Sergei Guriev, an economics professor at France’s Science Po, asked, “What will be the next Crimea? I don’t know.” It could be a hybrid crisis as in the Ukraine or could involve a NATO country, he said. He added that he doesn’t expect Putin to give up control of Crimea and expects the regime to continue its involvement in the Ukraine, leading to “Minsk 3, Minsk 4, Minsk 5″ cease-fires, but fighting never quite ends.
Zubarevich added that the economic situation is causing a number of talented Russians to leave the country or to move internally to seek better opportunities for themselves and their families. She termed her 20- to 25-year-old students, “a lost generation.”
“The market assumes Russian oligarchs will be taking their money out” of the country as well, Guriev said.
Evgeny Gontmakher of the Institute of World Economy and International Relations said, “People like me don’t want to leave.” But the nation’s low investments in health care and education—3.5 percent each of Russia’s gross domestic product—will take a toll. “We spend money for the military . . . for the state and that’s not efficient.”
“Who will work at the new job places” when investment returns and the economy picks up? “Migrants,” he said in answer to his own question. “We will have a deficit of human resources.”
Alexey Malashenko of the Carnegie Centre said he expects the economic situation to “get worse before it gets better.” At this time, the regime “can manage the political sphere. It will take a lot to have the elites split” from Putin.
Although he and others didn’t expect the political opposition to make any serious gains in upcoming voting, elections are “the one day that the power has to present itself to the will of the people and it fears this.”
Almost all the panelists agreed that Putin’s approval ratings are at 84 percent among Russians, but that could change quickly if a crack appears in its hold on power as it did in Romania with Nicolae Ceausecu—assassinated in a popular revolt—and in Chile with Augusto Pinochet, who was forced from power.
Kirill Rogov of the Gaidar Institute noted Putin is steering a far different political course now than he did in 2000 when he seemed to be an economic and political moderate.
Who will succeed Putin is unknown, the panelists said. The next regime could be more authoritarian—closer to Joseph Stalin—or it could be more flexible and remain in power for two or three generations.
“We have a lot of reasons to believe Russia can be democratic,” Guriev said, citing its high rate of literacy and relative wealth, but “Russians are cynical.”


http://www.twojapogoda.pl/wiadomosci/114866,proroczy-film-wchodzi-do-kin-i-przeraza-amerykanow

http://lifeinvest.com.ua/index.php/istoriya/4750-izobretatelem-gazovykh-dushegubok-byl-ne-gitler-a-kommunisty-iz-nkvd-video

http://www.unian.info/politics/1078719-poroshenko-ukraine-undergoes-reform-to-become-true-european-state.html

Journalist and historian Serhiy Hrabovsky writes that by refusing to stand during the reading of the names of fallen ATO soldiers during a solemn commemoration at Ukraine's Verkhovna Rada (parliament), Metropolitan Onufriy, primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church--Moscow Patriarchate, has confirmed that he is serving the interests of Putin and the Russian Orthodox Church, which has never repudiated its KGB connections and its servility to Stalin's criminal regime.
http://euromaidanpress.com/2015/05/16/who-is-served-by-the-stalinist-patriarchate-in-kyiv/


http://www.kyivpost.com/opinion/op-ed/alexei-bayer-does-the-success-of-russian-propaganda-matter-388745.html

NATO ministers sing while Ukraine strife continues
"London: On Thursday, in a moment beyond satire, NATO's foreign ministers linked arms and sang 'We Are the World".
US Secretary of State John Kerry had left Turkey early and missed the post-meeting singalong of "it's true we'll make a better day, just you and me"."
"But he expects that, if Russia plays ball in eastern Ukraine, "there would be an attempt to divide the sanctions currently in place between those connected to the Crimea takeover and keep them in place, basically indefinitely, and the others … which could be scaled down."
Even if this isn't Mr Putin's plan, it appears a scenario he wouldn't be unhappy with.
Instead, he has been accused of singing from a song sheet composed by Russian president Vladimir Putin.
This week a group of Russian activists released a report compiled from notes left by murdered opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, detailing the evidence of Russian involvement in the conflict in Eastern Ukraine.
According to that document (as translated by Radio Free Europe), Moscow is supporting the separatists fighting in Eastern Ukraine with arms and troops "to create an advantageous negotiating position with Western countries". "
http://www.smh.com.au/world/nato-ministers-sing-while-ukraine-strife-continues-20150515-gh26yx.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/16/world/europe/a-diplomatic-victory-and-affirmation-for-putin.html?_r=0

http://www.unian.info/politics/1078719-poroshenko-ukraine-undergoes-reform-to-become-true-european-state.html


http://www.rferl.org/content/ukraine-russia-crimean-tatars-face-crackdown/27018414.html


I wonder how many of those "Europeans" are aware of the history of the black and orange St. George ribbon their hosts revere and sport on their uniforms.
During WW2, the exact same ribbon was used in the highest honorary medal for the take-over of Germany and the city of Berlin. Notably Stalin's profile "decorates" the medal. I wonder what type of "peace" members of that "European delegation" are interested in, and, what it is they dislike so much about European democracy.
Last week, German Chancellor Merkel went to Moscow to lay a reef at the monument for the unknown soldier. Is she aware that thousands of German soldier's bodies have been located or exhumed in Ukraine? A group of Ukrainian patriots who have recently opened The Museum of Military Archeology in Kyiv are carefully preserving them – holding out for the day Germany will repatriate their bodies.
The west is looking for a new format for its relations with Moscow. One can only hope that lessons have been learned from past mistakes. The current situation threatens a repeatedly failed approach; reminding me of the content of a formerly secret US document. The US Department of State document on psychological warfare and the Soviet Union (posted 10 February 1953 – declassified 04 August 2005) stated that despite the oppression and suppression of Ukrainians and other nations of the Soviet Union, their plight should be ignored as not to upset Moscow. Perhaps, at this point, one should take heed of Albert Einstein's wise words: one sign of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result.
http://uatoday.tv/opinion/over-a-thousand-german-bodies-in-ukraine-427443.html

http://www.unian.info/politics/1078774-poroshenko-ukraine-demands-russia-strictly-abide-by-minsk-accords.html

http://en.delfi.lt/lithuania/foreign-affairs/how-lithuania-can-irritate-russia-into-retreat.d?id=67973840

http://nashigroshi.org/2012/07/17/politsejska-derzhava-ukrajina-utrymuje-armiyu-militsiji-v-25-razy-bilshu-nizh-tse-pryjnyato-v-sviti/
State Police: Army militia Ukraine holds 2.5 times more than is usual in the world

http://wwst.in.ua/stories/kill-the-freaks-come-back-ukraine/



russia is dying:
Over the last 20 years have disappeared from the map of Russia 23,000 cities and rural towns and villages.
http://pressafoto.ru/gorod-ichez
https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ru&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fpressafoto.ru%2Fgorod-ichez&edit-text=
http://via-midgard.info/

some points from it:
Over the past 10 years the population has decreased 40% in the Far East and 60% in the Far North.
Every year Russia loses population equal to the whole area of ​​the Pskov and Karelia republic sized or large city such as Krasnodar.
Every minute in the Russian die 5 people, born only 3. The death rate exceeds the birth rate by 1.7 times, in some regions - in 2-3 times. 26 000 children every year do not live to 10 years old die every day 50 infants, 70% of them - in hospitals.
In the world ranking in terms of mortality, Russia is on the 12th place from the end of next door to Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Chad, Somalia.
In life, our country ranks 162 th in the world behind Papua New Guinea, and Honduras.
The average life expectancy of Russian men - 59 years (in the EU - 79 years in the US - 78, Canada - 81 in Japan - 82 years).
Ten years ago, in 2001, Russia took the 100th place in terms of life expectancy, already hopelessly behind the developed countries of the world, men have died in the 15-19 years earlier, women 7-12 years. Now we have sunk to the 122 place in the world to countries such as Guyana.
We are born each year about 1 million. 600 thousand. People are dying - about 2 million. 100 thousand. Nearly 60% of all deaths due to diseases of the cardiovascular system, 15% - from cancer, 4% - from diseases respiratory and digestive system.
Over the past seven years, patients with cardiovascular system has increased by half (from 2.4 to 3.7 million. People) of oncological diseases - by 17% (from 1.2 to 1.4 million. People).
In 1992, cancer was diagnosed in 882 newly thousand. People, in 2008 - already at 1.4 million. People. In 1992, circulatory diseases were detected in 1.7 million. People, in 2008 - already at 3.8 million. People.
For a simple reproduction of the population per thousand inhabitants must be born child 14.3. In Russia - 9.8 births. Azerbaijan - 29.3, in Armenia - 22.8, in Georgia - 18.7, in Kazakhstan - 23.4, in Kyrgyzstan - 30.1, in Uzbekistan - 32.8, Tajikistan - 43.7 in Turkmenistan - 34.3.
Every third baby born in Russia to patients. The incidence of neonatal five years has increased by 32 per cent. Participation of complications of pregnancy and childbirth: in 1992 such problems faced 1.3 million. Women, in 2008 - already 2.7 million.
According to the Russian clinical examination, the number of healthy children in Russia has declined to 32.2 per cent in many regions of healthy children are not above four percent.
By analyzing the results of draft boards, physicians note steady deterioration in the health of young men. Even the most minimum requirements for the health of every third recruit is recognized as unfit for military service. Most diseases of the digestive system, kidneys, cardiovascular system (31.2%), 20.7% - the effects of trauma and diseases of the musculoskeletal system, 19.3% - mental retardation, personality disorder.
The leading cause of mental retardation of children and adolescents is a deficiency of iodine. In Russia, iodine deficiency in 70 percent of the population, but the iodization of water and food in the country canceled due to high cost, although the per ton of salt required is less than 50 grams of iodine preparations.
According to "Rossiyskaya Gazeta" Head of the Main Organization and Mobilization Directorate of the General Staff of Chisinau, 220 thousand young men the last call, 15 thousand were "underweight" - dystrophic.
At 12-15 percent annually becomes more boys suffering from diseases that require sports and recreational correction. Of 10.5 thousand Muscovites, called up more than 75 percent failed to meet even the standards for school physical training. Virtually no reduced the number of children's sports clubs, health camps, providing teens spa treatment.
At $ 500 million, that Roman Abramovich, again, not counting the huge monthly payments invested in the development of the English football club, you can build a 300 thousand children's sport playgrounds in Russia (one site improvement costs about 50 thousand rubles).
Because of injury and poisoning deaths among teenagers for the last ten years it has grown six-fold in men and three times - in girls.
In 60 per cent of young children may be a problem with the offspring - the result of raising a cult beer. As proven by British scientists, natural hormones in beer - the same female hormones, only vegetable that adversely affect the ability of men to procreation.
66% of citizens of Russia can not receive adequate medical care.
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bridge over kerch work goes on
http://censor.net.ua/photo_news/336484/rossiyiskie_okkupanty_kryma_nachali_stroit_most_cherez_kerchenskiyi_proliv_foto

http://zik.ua/ua/news/2015/05/18/pushkov_vvazhaie_shcho_ukraini_nichogo_zaproponuvaty_zahodu_krim_konfrontatsii_z_rosiieyu_590509
Pushkov believes that Ukraine has nothing to offer West, except for confrontation with Russia

http://maidantranslations.com/2015/05/17/dmitry-tymchuk-regarding-the-national-cultural-autonomy-of-bessarabia-freesavchenko/

https://twitter.com/tombreadley/status/599856966467493888
Russian forces attack Stanitsa Luhanska from Russian territory last night


http://toinformistoinfluence.com/2015/05/16/kremlin-trolls-on-twitter/

http://www.ridus.ru/news/185743
"Merciless to enemies": bloggers found documents grandfather chief editor of "Echo of Moscow"

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/05/17/a-forced-marriage-exposes-putin-s-out-of-control-cronies.html?source=TDB&via=FB_Page





http://lugansk-news.com/ukraine-border-guard-patrol-attacked-by-saboteurs-who-retreat-to-russia/#.VViLSYmQ-_B.facebook
Border Guard Service of Ukraine posted a message on their website today that their border guard unit was attacked by unknown people while patrolling the area 200 meters from Russian border. After the fight armed men retreat to Russia. One border guard was wounded.

Meet 1 of 2 'rebels' fr 3rd Guards Spetsnaz Bde (‪#‎Tolyatti‬, ‪#‎Russia‬) captured in ‪#‎Shchastia‬, ‪#‎Luhansk‬ Obl, ‪#‎Ukraine‬
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhRUb6JTD50
http://censor.net.ua/photo_news/336502/plennye_rossiyiskie_voennye_kapitan_3yi_brigady_spetsnaza_erofeev_i_serjant_aleksandrov_dali_pokazaniya
http://tsn.ua/ato/v-aydari-nazvali-prizvischa-i-pokazali-foto-zahoplenih-u-polon-rosiyskih-specpriznachenciv-427738.html
https://informnapalm.org/9082-v-plen-pod-schastem-popaly-bojtsy-tolyattynskogo-spetsnaza-gru

The Holodomor Memorial Museum in Kyiv has organized an exhibition featuring archival documents on the Soviet policy of moving ethnic Russians to the Donbas to replace Ukrainian peasants who had perished during the Holodomor (famine/genocide) of 1932-33. Many historians believe current separatist attitudes in the Donbas are the direct result of these violent assimilation policies.
http://euromaidanpress.com/2015/05/17/holodomor-and-separatism-in-the-donbas/

http://maidantranslations.com/2015/05/17/dmitry-tymchuk-regarding-the-national-cultural-autonomy-of-bessarabia-freesavchenko
http://www.rferl.org/content/moldova-unification-rally-chisinau-romania/27020131.html

retreat from debaltseve
http://youtu.be/Ua-Era9fbVM

http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-05-15/washington-insiders-reap-windfall-peddling-influence-for-kremlin


http://m.censor.net.ua/video_news/336505/ya_voennoslujaschiyi_rossiyiskoyi_federatsii_dopros_plennogo_serjanta_3yi_brigady_spetsnaza_rf_aleksandrova



http://www.istpravda.com.ua/articles/4d9cf5c8a7a8a/

Ukraine: the biggest problem in Europe. Performance in London in 1939



Open Russia faces investigation by the Prosecutor General’s Office for "meeting and discussing ideas it wants to communicate to society".
"When a group of citizens gather on a bench outside a block of flats, you can’t shut them down. You can only disperse them, but that’s not going to stop them gathering on another bench."
http://www.khodorkovsky.com/open-russia-facing-investigation-by-the-prosecutor-generals-office/

http://euromaidanpress.com/2015/05/18/on-this-may-18-we-must-all-become-crimean-tatars/
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/foreigners/2014/03/vladimir_putin_s_crimean_mistake_the_russian_president_is_miscalculating.html

May is a month for commemorations. Today, May 18, is the 71st anniversary of the deportation of the entire Crimean Tatar people from the Crimea Peninsula during World War II. This mass deportation, ordered by Soviet leader Josef Stalin who claimed to be rooting out Nazi collaborators, displaced 200,000 people and cost many thousands of lives as women and children were herded in cattle cars under inhumane conditions while the men fought in the Soviet Red Army.
Crimean Tatars have commemorated this ignoble act yearly by meeting in Lenin Square in the Crimea’s capital, Simferopol, lighting candles and other rituals to remember and honor the victims who were unjustly exiled from their homeland. Last year, however, after Russia annexed Crimea, the annual commemoration was banned.
While Russia has denied a people the right to commemorate an event so significant to their history, Russia has just wrapped up the biggest commemoration in its history. Last weekend Russia marked the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II with a lavish military parade and a moving march of families remembering the victims
http://euromaidanpress.com/2015/05/18/commemoration-and-history-russias-uncomfortable-truths/

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2015/05/16/russia-isnt-too-happy-about-a-latvian-statue-that-appears-to-show-putin-being-crucified/

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/review-essay/2015-04-20/putins-hard-turn

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-05-18/putin-s-soviet-revival-misfires
[E]ven as Putin uses propaganda to raise the hopes of revanchist Russians, he's unable to deliver on his promises. So he's unable to create Soviet-style showcases meant to demonstrate the nation's power to the world...


Russkiy Mir ideologists use Soviet nostalgia and distrust of the West to attract millions of Russian speakers around the world.
https://euobserver.com/opinion/128744

http://www.thenational.ae/arts-lifestyle/television/rise-and-fall-of-dozhd-russias-only-independent-tv-channel

http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKKBN0O41F220150519
NATO talks, Russia ignores.

http://www.newsweek.com/putin-controls-all-ukraines-airwaves-phones-and-computers-332439
Russia controls Ukraine's airwaves, phone lines and computers. The Ukrainian government needs to rebuild its telecommunications network using non-Russian companies and technology.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/05/18/us-ukraine-crisis-military-klimkin-idUSKBN0O31KH20150518
Ukraine says Russia tried to kill captured Russian soldiers
"We have checked up on the information of the Ukrainian side — these boys previously have in fact served in one of the Russian military units and have military training."
A really nice government - when you are military and caught you can go to hell. Compare that with the Israeli attitude: you will never be left out on your own. Bringing you back is a sacred duty of the government.

http://www.themoscowtimes.com/opinion/article/the-us-must-keep-talking-to-russia/520915.html

http://tvzvezda.ru/news/vstrane_i_mire/content/201505182117-khc6.htm
Oekraďne wil compensatie voor de Mongoolse invasie van Batu Khan?
http://tvzvezda.ru/news/vstrane_i_mire/content/201505191622-evyr.htm
Rada toegestaan ​​de buitenlandse schuld niet te betalen

New York Times praises Ukraine's Government!
Thanks to Maidan, the people and President Poroshenko the World recognizes and respects Ukraine! If it was any other government or Leader chances are Putler would have had full control of Ukraine by now!
Slava Ukraini!
http://viche.net.ua/index.php/novini-ukrajinskoyu/golovni-podiji/745-new-york-times-pravitelstvo-ukrainy-slishkom-slabo-chto-by-postroit-silnuyu-ukrainu

http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/at-least-2112-soldiers-killed-in-russias-war-against-ukraine-388600.html

On 18 May 2015, the Crimean Tatars commemorated the 71st anniversary of their deportation by Stalin. On this tragic eve, Mustafa Dhemilev met students of the Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University and told them about the second occupation of his homeland, why today’s invaders are more dangerous than the Soviet ones, and some facts concerning the events before and after the referendum.
http://euromaidanpress.com/2015/05/19/mustafa-dzhemilev-new-crimean-regime-is-even-worse-than-soviet-one/

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2015/05/17/donetsk-ukraine-separatists-marauding-militias/27190647/

Video: As grocery prices are rising in the Russian-occupied Luhansk, its hungry residents are crossing the Siverskyi Donets river into the government-held area for their shopping. Ironically, twice as higher food prices in the 'LNR' are a better boost to patriotism, than boring messages about the need for Ukraine's integrity.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybgmnHNPN8I
'LPR' civilians: "There's nothing to eat, we're starving!"

Another form of terrible Russian aggression! "When Russia invaded Crimea, it gained access to the national telephone company's operations center on the peninsula. If the Russian government wanted to shut down Ukraine's power and telecommunications, it could do so easily. "And there's nothing that Ukraine could do to stop it," said Jeffrey Carr, CEO of the cybersecurity firm TAIA Global.
Cyber activity was used kinetically as Russia seized Crimea. Ukrainian law enforcement agencies reported Russian cyberattacks had collapsed the communication systems of almost all Ukrainian forces that could pose a danger to the invading Russian troops. Mobile telephone services were blocked, Russian naval ships jammed radio communications, Crimean government websites were knocked offline, telecommunications offices were raided and cables were cut.
“Russia has cutting-edge electronic warfare equipment and personnel trained in proper EW/SIGINT doctrine [what they called Radio-Electronic Combat] and Ukraine is playing catch-up. A generation's worth of neglect of the Ministry of Defense and the security services by Kyiv...cannot be made good in a few months,” said John Schindler, an expert on information warfare.
U.S. technology is also vulnerable: Russia claims (and the Pentagon denies) that it used its control of the cyberbattlefield to intercept a U.S. drone as it patrolled Crimean skies on March 14, 2014.
Cyberattacks have increased in frequency around the time of military action, possibly indicating that the attacks are part of the overall offensive. The number of callbacks—computer communications showing someone is hacking a computer—to Russia increased as the turmoil rose.
Russia controls the airwaves, the phone lines and the computers. The Ukrainian government needs to rebuild its telecommunications network using non-Russian companies and technology. In the short term, U.S. diplomats and military trainers in Ukraine should avoid using Ukrainian communications. The United States also needs to harden its communications to avoid incidents such as the rumored drone intercept.
In the long term, the United States must face the reality that it is engaged in a decades-long contest for the Eurasian heartland and will have to adjust its tactics accordingly. Cyberwarfare is merely the latest battlefield in which politics is pursued by other means."
http://www.newsweek.com/putin-controls-all-ukraines-airwaves-phones-and-computers-332439#.VVqL8rJ_PAc.twitter


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