KIEV JUNTA BREACHES
CEASEFIRE AFTER
ONLY ONE HOUR OF
START:
A shaky ceasefire has come into force along the front line
in the Ukraine conflict despite breaches by Kiev Junta forces (KJF) shortly after the midnight deadline on Saturday. Novorussiya
Armed forces (NAF) have announced that they will not reply to random shootings from KJF units but only to serious
attempts to cross the demarcation line by KJF or the private nazi battalions attached to the KJF side.
The Minsk Agreement which was brokered by German Chancellor,
Angela Merkel, French President Francois Hollande and Russian President Vladimir Putin in defiance of Washington’s wish to continue
the conflict in Ukraine and increase EU sanctions against Russia, was then inevitably pushed on Kiev Junta muppet “President”
Poroshenko whose forces got their asses kicked all along the front with the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics in the latest attempt
by the Junta to suppress Eastern opposition to their illegal regime.
Porky Pie had been begging EU/NATO for weeks to send more
military equipment to the Junta but, despite bellicose rhetoric from the
Washington Neo-Cons McCain and others, nothing substantial was
delivered. Low morale and incompetence in the KJF and the Ukronazis resulted in another military disaster for the Junta, a virtual repeat of
the same thing in the fighting last summer. The announced fourth “mobilisation”
by Kiev was again a failure with over 1.2 million Ukrainians fleeing
across the border to the “enemy”, Russia, in order to avoid being conscripted.
An additional 500,000 civilian refugees from the fighting have also been accommodated
in Russia. In Bessarabia, in the extreme south west of Ukraine, an area seized by Stalin from Romania in 1945 and attached
to then Soviet Ukraine, the Kiev conscriptors were arrested by the local
administration and the conscription documents burned in public. The Junta
clowns were then sent packing back to Kiev with orders not to return.
The shakiest point in the ceasefire line is now the enclave
of Debaltsevo, northeast of Donetsk still occupied by KJF forces of about 7,000
but completely surrounded by NAF units and artillery. Near
Debaltsevo the cease-fire lasted the least. At about 2am the KJF detachments
opened artillery and mortar fire against the militia positions on the Debaltsevo
direction. The militia carried out precise counter-battery fire, the
representative of the Ministry of Defence of the DPR, Eduard Basurin, told
journalists in Donetsk. At 2am the
remains of the encircled Ukrainian military opened fire. As a result, there are
dead among civilians. The DPR detachments performed precision fire against
them, – said Eduard Basurin. The NAF have offered a peaceful withdrawal, sans equipment,
to the encircled KJF:
"We suggest that the Ukrainian soldiers in Debaltsevo stay alive. There is just one condition: that they lay down their weapons. We didn't talk about them becoming prisoners. Lay down your weapons and get out of here," said DPR commander Eduard Basurin.
Kiev Junta military spokesman, Vladislav Seleznyov, said
government troops would not leave as the town lies within territory under
Ukrainian control in accordance with the ceasefire deal reached in Minsk last
week. "There are the Minsk agreements, according to which Debaltsevo is
ours. We will not leave," he said by phone. DPR spokespeople stated that the Minsk Agreement did not include Debaltsevo. According to the Junta, it was
planned to do everything possible in order to recapture Logvinovo until
midnight and beat a corridor to the encircled Debaltsevo group, but as of 9pm
the same situation was observed where the NAF managed to hold the encirclement
ring but didn't have enough time to eliminate the group itself until February
15th. Therefore, if the cease-fire holds, then the situation is formed when a
part of the encircled Junta forces remains effectively encircled even after the
truce, because the attempts to break out of the cauldron will be decisively
stopped, according to Zakharchenko, the DPR President.
The fighting hasn't stopped there yet, but apparently after
the front units of the Junta got very close to Logvinovo and were pushed out of
there, the peak of offensive activity of the junta appeared to pass and the
question of Debaltsevo will gradually migrate into the main problem area of the
"truce". Keeping Logvinovo, Nizhnyaya Lozovaya, Kalinovka, and
Sanzharovka allowed the NAF to maintain control over the communication lines of
the Debaltsevo and Svetlodarsk group of the Junta forces. Meanwhile it is worth
noting that the KJF tried to transfer the majority of the weight of its
offensive from Logvinovo to Nizhnyaya Lozovaya. The fighting in the area of Debaltsevo by the evening of
February 14th also didn't deliver a decisive result and no change of the defence system of the Junta has been observed yet.
The fact that both sides failed to achieve their goals here
to full extent (the Junta failed to unblock the cauldron until the 15th
and the NAF failed to destroy it) in essence leads to the fact that the
military situation has added a very explosive factor of the Debaltsevo cauldron
to the diplomatic situation, which risks becoming the second
"airport", the presence of which constantly led to the escalation of
military action during the previous September 25 2014 ceasefire.
Shelling and firefights along the front line hasn't stopped
yet, but serious changes in the front line may be expected only near Debaltsevo.
On other locations the line has long since stabilised in general, however in
the area of Mariupol fighting continued today near Shirokino.
It is reasonable to assume that during the night there will
be a complete stop to firing near Debaltsevo. The published order by
Zakharchenko and the announcements from the LPR of heavy weapons being
withdrawn in a way pass the ball to the Junta offering it to state its
position, but for now, according to the reports from the front, the Junta seems
to be pulling forces towards the front rather than starting some kind of
withdrawal.
Both sides already say that provocations are being prepared
by each other and by other sides, which are interested in the immediate
escalation.
For now there has been a significant reduction of the
intensity of military action on the majority of the front locations, which
suggests that overall the orders of Zakharchenko, Plotnitsky(LPR), and Poroshenko
are fulfilled. Nevertheless, there are also incoming announcement about
firefights in the area of Peski and Logvinovo, which is to be expected, because
few hoped that everything will stop right away. But overall the observers note
that the front, which rumbled for more than a month, became unusually calm.
Overall, it appears more likely that there will be a truce than that there
wouldn't be one.
Speaking in Kiev on Saturday afternoon, Poroshenko said his government would take urgent measures if the Minsk agreement collapsed.
“If there is no peace, we may have to take the decision to impose
martial law,” he said. “In this event, martial law will be imposed not
only in the Donetsk and Lugansk (regions), but across the whole
country.”
Given the opposition to the "mobilisation" announced by Kiev, this would only alienate more of the population against the Junta's attempts to extend the conflict.
The unpalatable facts for the Junta and its Washington Masters are that the current offensive and attempts to draw Russia into direct conflict with Kiev have failed miserably at huge cost to the civilian populations of the conflict area and further economic deterioration of the bankrupt Kiev regime which survives only by heavy subsidies from Washington, IMF and Brussels.
Opposition of the public in all EU countries to Brussels’ financing of Porky Pie’s military adventures is growing in intensity especially since the Brussels dictatorship is refusing to relieve pressure on Greece, supposedly an equal member of the EU under the founding Treaties, and insisting on continuation of the failed austerity policies which have brought untold hardship and impoverishment to millions of Greek citizens.
A protest was held in the centre of Dublin yesterday against the genocidal acts of the Kiev Junta war criminals. Members of several peace groups and anti-war, anti-Nato groups joined with anti-junta Ukrainians in O'Connell Street opposite the General Post Office, site of the Proclamation of the independence of the Irish Republic in the 1916 Rebellion against British rule. Other nationalities present were Georgian and Polish residents of Dublin. A visiting group from North Korea also attended the protest.
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