Getting What They Deserve....
"[Those responsible will be] found and destroyed. ... For every life of our servicemen, the rebels will pay with tens and hundreds of their own."
"Not a single terrorist will avoid responsibility, every one will get what they deserve."
Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko (C) at the headquarters of anti-terrorist operation (ATO) near Izyum of Kharkiv area Photo: EPA
"It is not excluded that the number of victims will rise because these bloodthirsty scum despicably shot from Grad systems and there is destruction."
Zoryan Shkyryak, adviser to Ukraine Interior Minister Arseny Avakov
Nineteen Ukrainian servicemen were said to have been killed, but likelier the true figure is around 30, according to Mr. Shkyryak. The Ukrainian column was intent on securing a disputed area close to the Russian border when it was hit with grad missiles, a highly effective heavy artillery fired in volleys from truck-mounted launchers, near Zelenopillya village.
Grad rockets are standard army equipment in Russia and Ukraine
Speaking to RIA Novosti news agency, a rebel spokesman claimed the troops who died were from Ukraine's 24th mechanized brigade, based usually in the Lvov region. "The column was completely destroyed", he claimed. Photographs published on social networks reflect a field of smouldering military trucks and armoured personnel carriers. Over 90 soldiers were said to have been injured according to Ukraine authorities.
Ukraine accused Moscow of supplying armour and supplies to the rebels through the porous border over the weekend, while Moscow accused Ukraine of killing a civilian inside Russia; an incident it warned would carry "irreversible consequences" for Kyiv even as it accelerated air and artillery assaults on pro-Russian separatists over the weekend.
Russian helicopters flew a few kilometres into Ukraine on Saturday and on Sunday Russian drones entered Ukrainian airspace, according to a Ukraine military spokesman. The deadly attack of last week using the Russian-supplied truck-mounted rocket launcher destroying the encampment of Ukrainian soldiers at the border has resulted in an impetus surge in eastern Ukraine.
Government forces are encircling and blockading Donetsk as they had Slovyansk and Kramatorsk. It is only a matter of time...
A pro-Russian militant gestures as he guards a checkpoint on
the road between Lugansk and Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, on July 9, 2014. © AFP
Labels: Aggression, Conflict, Russia, Secession, Ukraine
posted by Pieface @ Monday, July 14, 2014
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