U.S. releases images it says show Russia has fired artillery over border into Ukraine

[The Don]

The Obama administration on Sunday released overhead surveillance images it said were evidence that Russia has fired artillery rounds from its side of the border against Ukrainian military units.

The grainy photographs, taken between Wednesday and Saturday, are labeled as indicating fire from multiple rocket launchers inside Russia and targets they have struck inside Ukraine.

The release came as Secretary of State John F. Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov agreed in a telephone call Sunday that “despite disagreements fighting must be stopped” and talks initiated between the warring parties in Ukraine, according to a Russian government statement reported in Moscow by the Interfax news agency. The State Department said the five-minute call included discussions of both Ukraine and Gaza.

As the ground war between Russia-backed separatist forces in eastern Ukraine and government troops has escalated this past week, charges and countercharges between Russia and the West have reached fever pitch.

A Russian Defense Ministry spokesman, Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov, charged Sunday that the United States is getting most of its intelligence data on the Russian military from social media and suggested it turn to more “trustworthy” information, the ITAR-TASS news agency reported.

Konashenkov denied recent U.S. statements that Russia, after first decreasing the number of troops it has deployed along the Ukrainian border, has now increased them to at least 15,000. Regular international inspections under the international Open Skies Treaty, he said, “have not registered any violations or undeclared military activity on the part of Russia in the areas adjacent to the Ukrainian border.”

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Pretty much solid proof that these 'rebels' in Ukraine are more likely than not Russian Forces. The idea that these rebels are simply angry Ukraine citizens is laughable and now we have evidence to counter it. Of course, i'm not saying there aren't Pro-Russian Ukrainians mixed up in all of this, but i'd wager a lot of money that these rebels are composed mostly of Russian special forces.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/...mended_strip_2

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The best course of action for Russia would be to just go in and annex Russian-majority areas, and get this over with.

In any case, it's none of our business and in terms of British interests it doesn't matter whether the Ukraine stays as one, two or splits into six.

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It seems that the USA is looking for WW3. They destabilized the former gov't, and have played out many false flags.
Theres lots of money to be made in War. Just ask Haliburton.

This Ukraine deal is stupid honestly. The majority Russian speaking areas ofc will not want to be part of a country that doesn't support their views and even attempted at removing their language from official languages of the country.