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(90,061 posts) Sat Aug 30, 2014, 08:07 AM Aug 2014

Russian Tanks Flatten Ukrainian Town, Ukraine Military Says [View all]

Source: Reuters

KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine's military said on Saturday its forces had pulled out of areas to the east of the border-area city of Luhansk under pressure from Russian-backed rebels and that Russian tanks had been used to "destroy virtually every house" in one small town.

"Direct military aggression against eastern Ukraine is continuing," Kiev's defense and security council said in a separate Twitter post.

A group of pro-Ukrainian fighters broke out of encirclement by Russian-backed separatists near the eastern city of Donetsk early on Saturday, Ukraine's interior minister said, but other reports suggested many were still trapped.

Fighting has intensified in areas near the small town of Ilovaysk and further south along the Sea of Azov coast where separatists are now threatening the port city of Mariupol.

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Russian Tanks Flatten Ukrainian Town, Ukraine Military Says [View all] bemildred Aug 2014 OP

Ukraine: Fighter jet shot down by missile bemildred Aug 2014 #1

EU to slap new sanctions on Russia over Ukraine bemildred Aug 2014 #2

Finnish Prime Minister: �EU leaders won't set new sanctions on Russia� bemildred Aug 2014 #3

Russia effectively at war with EU -Lithuanian president bemildred Aug 2014 #38

Sounds like Russia has its next target. OnlinePoker Aug 2014 #69

I do wonder about that davidpdx Aug 2014 #78

Brighton Beach? OnlinePoker Aug 2014 #79

Russia demands for MH17 black box data to be published bemildred Aug 2014 #4

Moscow Calls for �Humanitarian Bridge� Uniting Russia, Luhansk, Donetsk - Defense Ministry bemildred Aug 2014 #5

And there it is--conquest and annexation. geek tragedy Aug 2014 #11

Yeah, brilliant foresight and strategizing going on, that's clear for everyone to see. nt bemildred Aug 2014 #13

More of a case where less thinking produces geek tragedy Aug 2014 #17

Yes, thinking too much will definitely get you all confused. nt bemildred Aug 2014 #18

Certainly it did for those who thought geek tragedy Aug 2014 #19

Yeah, they are definitely dumb asses. nt bemildred Aug 2014 #21

Not dumb, quite the contrary. geek tragedy Aug 2014 #22

And vice versa. nt bemildred Aug 2014 #23

Certainly in the long run medievalists geek tragedy Aug 2014 #24

Putin is not gambling. bemildred Aug 2014 #26

That's certainly the medieval outcome. geek tragedy Aug 2014 #28

Russian forces rejected in Ukraine bemildred Aug 2014 #29

Multilateralism is always more clunky and hesitant geek tragedy Aug 2014 #34

All the more reason not to be pursuing a fatuous foreign policy. nt bemildred Aug 2014 #39

Fatuous is in the eye of the beholder. nt geek tragedy Aug 2014 #46

Fatuous based on its results. nt bemildred Aug 2014 #48

Sometimes there is no possibility of good results nt geek tragedy Aug 2014 #55

Right. "Who could have predicted this?" nt bemildred Aug 2014 #57

"Who could have prevented it?" geek tragedy Aug 2014 #59

Apparently not anybody in our foreign policy establishment. nt bemildred Aug 2014 #64

Very many things are beyond our control. nt geek tragedy Aug 2014 #68

Yes. Kieve orchestrated their own downfall and we ballyhoo Aug 2014 #43

Europe can't do anything OnlinePoker Aug 2014 #70

I know but I didn't what to be too negative. ballyhoo Aug 2014 #71

Russian-backed separatists aim to push west along Ukraine's coast bemildred Aug 2014 #6

I suspect linking Crimea to Odesa was an objective from the beginning n/t HereSince1628 Aug 2014 #10

This has all been obvious from the beginning. nt bemildred Aug 2014 #12

Yes, all part of "Venture Nationalism" HereSince1628 Aug 2014 #14

Dumb as a box of rocks. bemildred Aug 2014 #15

It's still another 150 miles from Mariupol to Crimea muriel_volestrangler Aug 2014 #25

I am sure they are up to it. bemildred Aug 2014 #27

I posted about this several days ago. There is no avoiding the war expanding. We are naive when it newthinking Aug 2014 #30

Number one is not on the table any more, if it ever was. bemildred Aug 2014 #31

So now the column are not Russian forces, but "russian backed" seperatists. newthinking Aug 2014 #35

Please see post #33. bemildred Aug 2014 #41

Pro-Ukraine fighters escape encirclement, others still trapped - Kiev, militia bemildred Aug 2014 #7

pictures? The last picture were of 7 pieces of equiptment, which does not equate to the claims newthinking Aug 2014 #32

It really doesn't pay to obsess about the details too much. nt bemildred Aug 2014 #33

Considering this has the capacity to break into nuclear war newthinking Aug 2014 #36

Yeah, you would think they would realize they ballyhoo Aug 2014 #45

Like these kind of pictures? EX500rider Sep 2014 #83

28 volunteer soldiers trapped in Ukrainian town by separatists escape, officials say bemildred Aug 2014 #37

Russian Diplomats in Ukraine Freed, Return Home - Moscow bemildred Aug 2014 #42

Ukrainian plane with seven on board crashes in Algeria bemildred Aug 2014 #8

. nt bemildred Aug 2014 #9

7 die as Ukraine plane crashes in Sahara: Algeria bemildred Aug 2014 #67

LET EUROPE HANDLE THIS ONE! Chasstev365 Aug 2014 #16

"The bastards!" another_liberal Aug 2014 #20

LOL. I hope Ukraine sends home some plastic-wrapped "little green men" so that TwilightGardener Aug 2014 #44

Killing more people . . . another_liberal Aug 2014 #73

Unfortunately rolling over & letting Russia conquer eastern Ukraine... EX500rider Sep 2014 #84

Poroshenko hopes for success at gas talks between Ukraine, Russia, EU bemildred Aug 2014 #40

Gorbachev on Kiev�s military op: 'It must be stopped immediately' reorg Aug 2014 #47

Thanks, I've been trying to find what he said. nt bemildred Aug 2014 #49

'Kiev, rise up!' Protesters demand ouster of Ukrainian president, defense minister reorg Aug 2014 #50

I wondered when this would happen. Who will the West pick as ballyhoo Aug 2014 #56

another "insider" perhaps? reorg Aug 2014 #58

My call also. Maybe a ballyhoo Aug 2014 #61

Victoria Nuland said she is not interested cosmicone Aug 2014 #60

If this keeps going and ends up the ballyhoo Aug 2014 #63

Yeah ... from a Proper noun cosmicone Aug 2014 #65

Very good, cosmicone. I just incorporated that. New ballyhoo Aug 2014 #66

I could have sworn the current president won an election, and thus was picked by Ukrainians... EX500rider Sep 2014 #85

Hilarious! Another Baghdad Bob, in reverse. 7962 Aug 2014 #72

Ukraine: Poroshenko claims foreign troops put peace at risk bemildred Aug 2014 #51

So position the troops defensively ;call a truce and at least pause to see what happens newthinking Aug 2014 #74

Lawmaker probing Russian soldier deaths in Ukraine attacked: party bemildred Aug 2014 #52

Perhaps this brings a sigh of relief reorg Aug 2014 #53

If this is true is it not also another indication of how seriously "regime change" has threatened newthinking Aug 2014 #75

if it were true reorg Aug 2014 #77

does word 'flexible' translate properly into Russian language? quadrature Aug 2014 #54

Ukraine is yelling, "The inevitable is happening!" cosmicone Aug 2014 #62

+1 newthinking Aug 2014 #76

Thanx to Bemil and Geek for an amazing analysis elias49 Aug 2014 #80

We do get a bit obsessive about things here sometimes. bemildred Aug 2014 #81

But... but... the Russian troops probably crossed the border accidentally. Nye Bevan Aug 2014 #82

what happened to all the people? heres the map, a fairly lg. town surrounded by miles of grain field Sunlei Sep 2014 #86