December 15, a day of remembrance for journalists killed in the line of duty is observed across Russia in memory of journalists who died while simply doing their jobs.
We remember how Russian journalists were made to be targets by NATO-backed forces in Ukraine. The hunt was declared not just on Russian journalists, but Ukrainians and Italians who were writing against the NATO occupation.
A similar relentless hunt was conducted in 2011 and 2012 in Syria by the Free Syrian Army and Al-Nusra.
In October 2012 they even kidnapped a Ukrainian journalist working for Anna-News. Anhar (Anna) Kochneva who, even though she grew up in Ukraine, spoke fluent Arabic thanks to her Palestinian mother.
After spending five months in much publicized captivity, she managed to escape by simply walking out of the house she was kept in and walking several kilometers through the Syrian wilderness before meeting some good Samaritans who helped her to get to Syrian-government controlled territory.
Her “escape” was remarkable, because around the same time terrorists from the Al-Nusra Front kidnapped and executed Syrian TV anchor Mohammed al-Saeed in August 2012.
The terrorist sniper killed Maya Nasser, a 33-year-old Syrian national and an Iranian Press TV reporter on air on September 26, 2012. He was reporting on the bombings in the Syrian capital when two car bombs struck the Syrian Army’s command headquarters, setting one of the buildings on fire.
On August 10, 2012, three television journalists and their driver were abducted while covering reporting from a Damascus suburb and have not been heard from since.
Also in August, Syrian terrorists attempted to seize a state-run broadcasting radio and TV complex in Aleppo, and planted an ISIS flag on top of the building.
The attack on the Al-Ikhbaria TV station in the town of Drousha, south of Damascus, killed seven journalists and four security guards on June 27, 2012. One building in the complex was nearly demolished.
Unlike all of those Syrian and Iranian journalists who were killed or disappeared without a trace, the “kidnappers” of the Anna-News journalist Kochneva were in contact with the government of Ukraine presumably discussing a ransom that was set to $50 million dollars, but reduced to $300,000 and was never paid.
For some reasons her ordeal was widely publicized by the Western media, Russian Speakers Become Prey in Syrian Conflict
“MOSCOW — Late last month, a Ukrainian blogger and journalist, Anhar Kochneva, sat on a couch in the place where she was being held by a Syrian rebel group and, as one of her captors filmed her, confessed to working at the behest of Russian intelligence services.”
At the time, Russian emergency services official told the newspaper Izvestia about contingency plans for an evacuation that could accommodate as many as 30,000 Russian citizens — or 60,000 if it included citizens from all the former Soviet countries. Russian warships were sent as part of that plan.
A similar threat came from masked men claiming to be Ms. Kochneva’s captors, who said on Ukrainian television, “Let not a single Russian, Ukrainian or Iranian come out of Syria alive.” Syria’s opposition coalition denounced such statements to a Russian news agency on Thursday, saying they were “in conflict with the principles and goals of the Syrian revolution,” but worries here have been stoked.
Kidnappers of Ukrainian Journalist Force Her to Confess Being a Spy, video Nov 29, 2012 with the English subtitles.
On this video they show her Anna-News ID. She said that her journalistic ID was “fake,” which would imply that she didn’t work for Anna News. They also show a picture of Kocheva holding an AK, and demonstrate her passport with a Syrian Visa issued in 2011. She claimed to be in Syria on a special mission from the “Russian intelligence.”
This is an extremely important detail because the entire operation with the Anna-News journalist alleged “kidnapping by the Syrian Free Army” and then her miraculous “escape” was staged to deliver the message that Russia had “military officers on the ground in Syria.”
Remember, back in 2011 and 2012 it was all about “Assad regime” “mass murdering” Syrians who wanted “democracy”? For us the most important detail of the Kochneva’s statement is that she claimed to work as a translator for the Russian and Syrian military intelligence, that she was present at their meetings, and that she was “participating in the armed clashes with “rebels.” She didn’t mention that she was a journalist for Anna-News.
Her “statement,” made under the real or fake pressure, was taken literally by the Western media and Washington as proof that Russian military specialists were advising then Syrian government in 2011 and 2012 on how to fight with the “democratic uprising” and even participated in actual armed clashes. What makes the whole kidnapping plot not credible, in my opinion, is that even after her returned from captivity, Kochneva never rebuffed her statements.
Let’s look at this from a simple logical standpoint. Why would Russian and Syrian armed forces for strictly confidential communication between themselves use a freelance journalist from a third country, Ukraine, who worked for the news outlet of Abkhazia headquartered in Tbilisi, Georgia?
Was Kochneva a member of the Russian or Syrian military? No, she wasn’t. Was she a citizen of Russia or Syria? No, she wasn’t. Has Russia been lacking translators in the Arab language? No, Russia has excellent specialists in Middle Eastern languages, both civilians and military personnel.
Most importantly, Russia didn’t have military servicemen on the ground in Syria fighting with “rebels” in 2011 and 2012.
It was back then and it is now a sustained attempt by Western governments to tie the Russian military and its government to the death of the civilian population, which has been the result of the Western destabilization of Syria.
According to Russia Today reports, the Syrian “rebels” were in contact with the Anhar (Anna) Kochneva’a ex-husband. Kochneva in her videos’ and her former husband both blamed the Ukrainian government and President Yanukovich for doing nothing to deliver her from captivity.
In accord with the husband and Kocheva, even “rebels” were complaining that “Ukrainian authorities were doing nothing. ” Latter, after her alleged “escape,” the Ukraine Foreign ministry confirmed that she was free.
I am not exploring here an idea that it was a ploy of Kochneva, her employer Anna- News, or her former husband to extract $50 million from the government of Ukraine. It was far more sinister, because her video statement from “captivity” was a part of the fake news campaign with the simple formula stating that “like in Srebrenica, the Russian military is in Syria and helping “Assad regime” to “murder” freedom loving Syrians.”
In 2014, echoing Kocheva’s claims, Anna News published unsubstantiated reports about presence in Donbass of some mysterious private military company named “Wagner.” I have seen screenshots of one of the Anna News founders either Anatoly Nesmiyan, known as a blogger El Murid, or his wife, or Marat Musin, or their mutual friend Lev Vershinin, hiding in Spain, admitting how they made the “PMC Wagner” up using the last name of their rabbi.
It all started on August 3rd, 2012 with the resolution of the UN General Assembly’s demands All in Syria ‘Immediately and Visibly’ Commit to Ending Violence that Secretary-General Says Is Ripping Country Apart.
“It’s four-part resolution drafted by the Arab Group and sponsored by scores of other countries” demands that the first step in ending the violence must be made by the Syrian authorities, and therefore called on the Government to fulfill immediately its commitment to cease the use of heavy weapons and complete the withdrawal of Government troops; “and to immediately begin the “rapid” transition of power under the auspice of “the Office of the Joint Special Envoy of the United Nations and the League of Arab States.“
It was at this August resolution that the US South Korean Secretary-General Ban drew comparisons between the current deadly fighting in Aleppo “the epicentre of a vicious battle between the Syrian Government and those who wish to replace it” — and Srebrenica, which he said “represented one of the darkest chapters in United Nations history.”
Srebrenica, of course was the psyop organized and executed by US and NATO countries’ special forces to create a pretext for the outright war on Yugoslavia and bombing of Serbia. You can read about Srebrenica in the Saker’s Special Report: The Truth about Srebrenica 20 years later
It’s seemed very logical for the UN and “the international community” that since Al-Nusra and Free Syrian Army and other forces of democracy were murdering journalists, postal workers, government officials, and high ranking military officers, that the Syrian government had to immediately and “rapidly” to step down and to give the power over the country to Al-Nusra and Free Syrian Army.
Since they killed so many Syrians it was only logical to give them power over the entire nation. At least that’s what happened in the former Yugoslavia, and in Ukraine. But later about this.
I just want to illustrate you how the same people and organizations who were whipping up Syria into bloody hell did the same to Ukraine. The same people, the same faces, the same bloody mess. And how they try doing same job in Russia a year before the presidential elections.
In Russia, private military companies are explicitly banned by law. The Armed forces of the Russian Federating is the only military force in Russia. So, when past week there was a massive injection of information about some “Chechen” military battalions named ‘West” and ‘East” getting ready to deployment to Syria. Ramzan Kadyrov has denied this information and posted the following statement on his Instagram:
“Local media spreads messages about deployment to Syria some “soldiers of the battalions “Vostok” and “Zapad” and “Chechen special forces”. I state with authority that there are no battalions “East” and “West” in the Chechen Republic . In Chechnya, as in any other region of Russia, military units are deployed by the Russian Defense Ministry. They are serving the citizens of Russia from Chechnya and all other subjects of the Russian Federation. It is well known that the Russian troops don’t take parts in ground operations in Syria.
At the same time, the Ministry of Defense has never made any secret of the fact that Russia has an air force base and its security is provided by soldiers of the Defense Ministry with periodic rotations. Some teams arrive, others depart. If the military, stationed in Chechnya, would ever receive an order, to serve for the protection of air bases in Syria, that will make them very happy.”
We posted a video and the Saker’s analysis of this.
Why is it so important for the Western governments who are currently at war on Russia to create a fake secret Russian or Chechen battalions fighting for Assad? Because, as they threatened many times, they are trying to initiate a tribunal to accuse Russia in war crimes and genocide in Ukraine and Syria.
Another this kind of attempt was conducted on August 10th, 2016 by the British company “Sky News” when they published a video called “Revealed: Russia’s ‘Secret Syria Mercenaries‘ – Sky News”
Aug 10, 2016 – Video: Exclusive Report On Russia’s Secret Mercenaries. By John Sparks, Moscow Correspondent.
[I could only find this video being distributed by an youtube Free Syrian Army account claiming to be Syrian, but linked to a paypall account located in Germany. Could be one of those “Merkel’s children.” Also, his twitter and FB accounts are suspended, and he doesn’t use a word in Arabic. ]
After this report, RT investigated and on August 18, published their results:
Actor says he impersonated Russian mercenary in Syria for Sky News report
A Russian actor claims the recent Sky News documentary about undercover Russian mercenaries in Syria was staged. RT spoke with a man who claims that he was hired as an actor to impersonate one of the fighters of the secret private military company “Wagner” (Vagner) for the British news.
One of the key pieces of evidence provided was an interview conducted by Sky News’ Moscow correspondent, John Sparks, who spoke to two males who allegedly comprised part of a secret Russian force, called “Wagner” operating in Syria. They even named a Russian Military officer Colonel Utkin, as the alleged owner of the mighty defense company. Frankly, they could name absolutely any military officer whose image they found on the net.
The alleged existence of the private military company “Wagner” was confirmed to Sky News by someone named Pavel Felgenhauer, whom they call a “Moscow based military analyst.” That Mr. Felgenhauer had no credibility was discussed in December 2008 correspondence between then Ambassador of the US to Russia John R. Beyrle and the US Foreign Service officer and the future Ambassador to Ukraine and Russia, John Tefft, and published by WikiLeaks.
In particular, it was said that “while Felgenhauer is received at high levels in Tbilisi, he has no access to Russian military or political circles,” and that ” Felgenhauer sometimes engaged “in a style similar to yellow journalism in order to to attract attention to himself and his articles.”
The TV channel NTV and Russia 24 also conducted their own investigations. They pointed out that the medals shown in the SkyNews video didn’t look like the real medal For Distinguish in Battle. The question was also about how alleged Russian troops were wearing some sort of pinkish outfits with the St. George ribbons. These ribbons could be theoretically worn on the May 9th Victory Day, but the St. George ribbons don’t constitute a part of the Russian military uniform.
Further details were reveled in an interview with Alexander Agapov, a Moscow actor, who played a role of the “Wagner fighter” lives in Moscow. When John Sparks contacted him and offered a gig, Agapov agreed, but made his own recordings of their interactions and turned this material to the Russian media sources. Everyone was quietly waiting for SkyNews to come out with this “blockbuster revelations” to immediately publish the rebuttal.
Sky News has removed the video with an actor, but left the article on their web site.
Soon after, on November 3, 2016the British Reuters published article titled,
“Ghost soldiers: the Russians secretly dying for the Kremlin in Syria“
The article is a recycle of everything that has been already written, peppered with phrases like “Reuters was not able to identify the company or companies that hired the fighters,” or the website “Fontanka, has published what it says is the only known photo of him, a picture of a bald man in military fatigues striding near a helicopter,” and finally, “Reuters could not verify the image or the name.”
“Under Russian law, it is illegal to work as a private military contractor in another country,” which is a half-truth. The private military companies are illegal in Russia.
“However, Russian citizens have participated in wars across the former Soviet Union throughout the 25 years since it broke up in 1991.” While this could be true, it doesn’t prove that those people were employed by some private military companies.
This Reuters’ article went largely unnoticed, but it served the purpose of the general plan to drip anti-Russia propaganda on schedule.
Sure enough, a month later on December 14th all the Washington backed media outlets in Russia came out with the same announcement that Colonel Dmitry Utkin attended the Kremlin banquet and was awarded the Order of Courage for his military service. They also claimed that Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov confirmed these information.
However, all Peskov said that that the banquet was for people awarded by Hero of Russia and the Order of Courage for military service, and that there was a person named Dmitry Utkin, a retired military officer, who was invited from Novgorod region. At no point Peskov said that the liberal media claims he said.
The same exact text, word by word, was also published by the Moscow Times in English. “Russian Mercenary Leader Attends Kremlin Banquet.”
The situation gets even more interesting, since Rosbalt, one of the fake news generators, declared that “Wagner, a.k.a. the commander of the private military company Wagner Dmitry Utkin was killed in Donetsk” in January 2016. They even wrote that the death of Wagner caused huge relief and celebration among the Donetsk independence fighters. So, sometimes this virtual ‘Wagner” is a person, and sometimes, it’s a powerful military company that terrorizes Donbass and fights all the battles for the Syrians, who don’t do anything, but wait while this virtual ‘Wagner” fighting for them.
This is a brief illustration of how the Western information war against Russia is being fought: they make up characters, and those fake characters live and die, and are being resurrected at random.
UPDATED
The anti terrorist operations in Syria are being conducted by the SSO RF or the Special Operations Forces of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (SSO VS RF)
Declassified: How Special Operations Forces work in Syria
Thank you for your time
regards
Scott
Its simply stupid to not tap into PMC biz in Syria/Iraq.Its also stupid to have a small force inside Syria to let the war linger on.Its stupid to not bomb residential areas in Palmyra.Its stupid to have “humanitarian ceasefire” and its stupid to have a political solution for Syria.
They hate you anyway,nothing will change that.If they can they will stage kangaroo courts no matter what.If if you are Mother Theresa.What counts is winning.
To have a PMC Brigade/Divison in Syria would have prevented the loss of Palmyra.It would prevent that russians have to die.It would shorten the war.IS recruits tens of thousands of stupid cannonfodder.Its easy to join.The YPG does it.So wtf isnt Russia doing this ? I would say sabotage by the 5th column that hopes to get to terms with the atlanticists.
If the PNCs were allowed, every 5th columnist would get millions of dollars from Washington to own a private army just like the YPG terror army that blows up Turks in airports and streets and takes down their aircraft.
If the PMC were allowed in Russia, they would be used to put the country on fire.
As of a small force in Syria and “humanitarian ceasefire”… It’s a Russian way: slow but steady wins the race, or ride slower and arrive faster.
So, what you see as stupid, we see as wise and measured.
“They hate you anyway…”
Sad to say but it’s true. If history can teach us anything one thing is sure: only winners are writing the history. Or at least 98-99% of it. Instead of clicking web sites here and there and everywhere, people should learn to relax, think, reason and especially use logic. These things are not so complicated. There are several proxy wars, there are need for natural resources and energy, there are battle of hegemony and there is ideological warfare at the same time. In case of Russia you only have to ask yourself: why western media and politicians loved weak Russia of Yeltsin and hate much stronger and confident Putin’s Russia.
On the other hand i remember what Galtung mentioned in the eve of Iraq war: United States has just 20-25 years left being undisputed master of world. Now almost 15 years later we are really witnessing the slow but steady decline of Empire. In mid and late 2020’s things will be different be sure. Only 28% of US GDP is nowadays real economy while 72% is mostly just pure smoke and virtual economy. What’s more important: US intellectual superiority is actually in free fall.
As mentioned by Scott in previous articles, Russia needs until 2020 to get her armed forces into an unassailable position. Look back over the last 3 years, how many new and deadly weapon systems has Russia brought online. Imagine how many more weapon systems will be up and running by 2020 given the exponential rate at which Russia is currently developing and deploying new weaponry. And all the while the Empire’s economy is going down and downer while their newest weapon systems are costing more and more while delivering less and less. So what is needed is 3 more years of relative peace.
Putin is just stalemating the conflicts in Ukraine, Syria and wherever else until such time as Russia is ready. He is not fighting to win. He is fighting for time, the more negotiations the merrier. Russia has unlimited time on her hands, the Empire doesn’t.
So its 3 more years of doodling around in Syria, 3 more years of doodling around in Ukraine and 3 more years of letting Muslims doodle around in Kosovo thinking that they own the place. Yes people are dying and more people will die while Russia doodles around, but people die during war, and this sitzkrieg (sitting war) is part of the war. Blame whoever it is who started the war, not those on whom the war has been forced and who require time to get ready for the war. It was just the other day that the Soviet Union collapsed, Russia is in no way ready for war now. Just a little more time.
Be grateful that it was the Syria Arab Army (SAA) and not Russia which captured those Nato operatives in Aleppo, because now they will face Arab justice instead of just being released with a slap on the wrist by Putin. But then again, Putin might persuade Assad to preserve the peace by …
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. ”
-H. L. Mencken
I somehow love this show in madhouse when relatively highly educated fools all over our glorious western world have lost their mind. There will be lot of data for historians to study how could it be possible that people in 2010’s post modern world acted like maniacs of 16th or 17th century witch hunting atmosphere.
I would desribe it as a ‘Panick Mode’, no time for rational thinking or actions. Time is their worst enemy, and there is not much of it left.
A minor criticism about the importance of words…
I often hear or read of the crime of murder attributed to one actor or another. It’s popular to say “execution” or “killed”, but, while true, it’s misleading..
Murder is the deliberate taking of human life without the legal power to do so. Nearly every killing in Syria is murder. The “war” there is illegal, and thus every death in the zone that can be attributed to the “war” is a murder – and traceable to a particular address….and to men and women responsible for those murders.
Let’s not muddy or dilute the meaning but calling murder mere killing… After all, the entire purpose of Comrade President is to restore law, not to enable murder.
Thank you Scott.
Yes you have connected all the dots here. This has been a campaign long in planning……and reused over and over.
@Valhalla Rising – your trollish “stupid” comment – I think sums you up. Please stop this Russia “lost” Palmyra MSM tosh. Just another example of the subversive langauge used by fakes. It was a set-up; it was used to try and distract from Aleppo; it only had national defence forces and some syrian army protecting it and was outnumbered 4 to 1; who gave Daesh the intelligence to plan this?; who gave them the weapons?; and remember the US and its Allies were the one’s who allowed it to be “lost” by allowing thousands of terrorist to travel in open plains/dessert & cross through major areas they patrol – so put the blame where it should be put squarely – it will be taken back when the time is ripe…..mark my words…..
In war things move back and forth. It was a planned PR campaign to try and make out Russia was to blame and try to embarass – but it didn’t – if you bother to listen to Assad, the Russian army spokesman and Presidnet – you would know this….they understood clearly what was happening.
The future of Europe is gloom how ever not likely because current confrontation between EU/NATO and Russia. More likely scenario in longer run will be the erosion of our dominant culture of nation state. The process is now still in early stage but when there are perhaps 20-30% or more folks with totally different ideas of regime and hegemony (=different culture enclaves) we are moving to the edge of a precipice. This has mostly happened during the last 3 decades. Multiply it by three or five and you understand what i meant. And if Germans, French, Dutch, Swedes, Finns, Britons are thinking that Russians are enjoying this process they are wrong. It’s a tragedy for Russians to see Europe ruining by its own elite of Cultural Marxists, Neo Liberals and Neo Conservatives.
But, why do you talk about “The Syrian revolution”? when that is the US and West MSM rethoric.
Then, it seems as if you would be saying that the Syrian war was provoked by this Anna Kochneva´s statements of being a Russian intelligence agent….or the shenanigans of a blogger like El Murid…Seems to me oo much for two guys.
Looks the same as when you blamed first Strelkov and then Motorola for the events on Maidan and the following civil war in the Ukraine.
Both, the events of Maidan and the Syrian war were provoked by the US military and intelligence services, as was the destruction of Iraq. Making up this amazing theories only seems to be in discharge of US responsability.
Perhaps you would review the excellent documentary “Crimea, the way home” to know who, according with Russian officials, started the war in the Ukraine, who were the same people who sent the snipers to Maidan.
Viktor Yanukovych speaks about Maidan snipers and Donbas civil war2
http://www.pravdareport.com/world/ussr/ukraine/15-12-2016/136429-yanukovych_maidan-0/
Anonymous on December 17, 2016 · at 9:27 pm UTC
My investigative reports are written to illustrate how the false flag attacks and information war have been carried on on the territories of sovereign nations. My anti-heroes like Girkin, Motorola and Co., Kocheva and others are tools for the US to implement their policy of “contained chaos” or whatever they call it.
Case in point, the Russia’s Investigative Committee initiated criminal investigation against so called “heroes of Donbass.”
“you blamed first Strelkov and then Motorola for the events on Maidan and the following civil war in the Ukraine.”
I didn’t blame them. By “blaming them” I would assume that they made a mistake. They absolutely knew what they were doing. Their aim was to start a war in Ukraine between NATO and Russia and moved it to the territory of Russia. Girkin was ready to take Kremlin and to be carried inside on the hands of his militia men.
I maintain that they served as the US and NATO agent provocateurs in Ukraine in order to move the NATO troops to Ukraine and have an excuse to impose the economic and financial sanctions on Russia. I am still waiting for the Russian court process over Girkin. We all want to know who hired this armed gang.
If we don’t look at the actors servicing the US deep state’s interests in other countries, we wouldn’t be able to stop their actions. They use the same scenario. So, instead of stepping on the same rake twice, it makes sense to study them like lab rats.
I’ve always thought ANNA News was legit – JJ regularly used them for his updates, particularly on these threads.
So what are we to infer from this alleged psyops involving an ANNA News journalist?
Infiltration?
Or that it’s a non-legit source?
I don’t see much of a case here for latter – as far as I can make out, it is staunchly pro-Russian in general, and pro-Syrian intervention in particular.
Eimar,
If you want information that is correct and verified use tass.com, rt.com and sputniknews.com.
If you want reliable geopolitical and military analytic use thesaker, pravdareport.com, voltairenet.org/en, off-guardian.org, johnhelmer.net, marknesop.wordpress.com, and a few others. Ask me, if you have questions.
As a rule of thumb, don’t trust media outlets owned and run by people with connection to liberals,nationalists, fascists, Zionists, Israeli-firsters, and to anyone who expresses a burning desire to topple sovereign governments. I don’t have to explain to you that they are all actors of same theater, just playing different roles.
Run a simple background check on the owners, editors and journalists.
Use for example combination of keywords like, “name of the news source Putin Russia” and if they ever wrote anything negative about the President Putin, Russian military and Russian Orthodox church, don’t waste your time with them. I have to admit that if you don’t read Russian, it’s going to be hard to do. You are always welcome to ask me.
As of J.J. He has posted over 1000 links to anna-news in a year, using thesaker as a platform to promote anna-news. I have been very concerned. I didn’t want us to appear to be affiliated with this publication. I asked J.J., many times to stop doing this.
My simple requests were denied.
I can say that I know enough about J.J. to understand why he is so devoted to anna-news promotion.
I have done some research, and I will be posting more exciting and amazing adventures of Mr. Musin and Co.
Hi Scott.
Thanks for the response, it’s good advice I generally follow.
Yes, not speaking Russian is a disadvantage ( though working on it!)
Nevertheless, Yandex translate is pretty good and helps make sense of it all.
That said, media in general in time iof conflict/war is a minefield: trying to discern truth is a battle, not to mention through ‘the fog of language’….
I don’t check ANNA News myself: my preferred sources for Donbass are Novorussia News and NewsFront ( though the past year, they have not been anything like as informative as they were in the preceding – Minsk Agreement stifling? I could understand why.)
I am disappointed about JJ in relation to your suspicions.
Not sure I share them – because I don’t have the same information, or even if I did, may not have the same perception.
A big ‘don’t know’ from me so..:-)
Like to take the opportunity here to say thanks for the great sit-reps anyway, and really appreciate your talent for disentangling the web of deceit and confusion: analytics is an acquired skill, but it’s practically an art- form in your hands :-)
Doesn’t mean I always agree with the conclusions though :-)!
The investigation into the situation in Donbass is news to me.
Please keep us posted on it.
Again, thanks for making the Saker one if the best reasons for making sense of the global situation we are in today :-)
Eimar
You wrote: “The investigation into the situation in Donbass is news to me”
See my article published on November 29, 2016
Breaking news regarding armed conflict in Ukraine
http://thesaker.is/breaking-news-regarding-armed-conflict-in-ukraine-by-scott-humor/
On Monday November 28th, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation announced that they have initiated a criminal investigation of war crimes committed by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
RT has published a summary of the SK statement and the interviews of the attorneys and legal experts involved in this investigation.
“Professor Andrei Koshkin explained that, by analogy with the ICTY, this new tribunal might take legal actions not only against the Ukrainian officials and armed forces officers, but also against the commanders of the militia armed formation of the Donetsk republics. However, as the expert noted, this new international legal entity will focus on the crimes against the civilian population. In this case.”
Thanks Scott.
We’ll see what happens…
Sputnik is s..t (edited MOD) and works against uniting pro-Russian minded viewers.
Hi Scott,
I too, would be disappointed to find out that Anna News is not a legit resistance outfit because they did put out some convincing pro-Syrian videos.
But then again, this wouldn’t be the first instance of spying or spreading disinfo using ‘journalists’ and we know, with Mossad anything is possible.
Not doubting your sources but it would be interesting to know what lead you to this conclusion because I consider myself pretty savvy at sniffing out disinfo channels and want to know what I missed with Anna News.
Wow, your blog provide powerful vision.
Russian ambassador to Turkey shot dead by lone man, obviously security staff
What will happen now?
See: “Russian ambassador to Turkey dies after gun attack in Ankara – Foreign Ministry ”
https://www.rt.com/news/370774-russian-ambassador-shot-ankara/
“The Russian ambassador to Turkey has died after being shot by a gunman in Ankara, where he was attending a photo exhibition, the Russian Foreign Ministry has confirmed.”
Google search moments ago = no relevant hits, i.e crickets in the western media.