Yuri Gorodnenko: "Founding of Galician "Independence" can be called into question"

Translated by Ollie Richardson for Fort Russ

12th June, 2016

Svpressa

1918. Western Ukrainian land is proclaimed a separate Republic - the West Ukrainian People's Republic. A few days later the Galicians sign an agreement with the Ukrainian People's Republic on unification. Despite the Declaration, the actual merger never happens. The Galician government retains autonomy and, before its elimination, leads an independent foreign policy without agreeing it with Ukrainian People's Republic.

1941. The Great Patriotic war starts. Galician nationalists led by Stepan Bandera were on the side of Hitler. The "Act of the proclamation of the Ukrainian State" declared in Lviv records the restoration of a separate state on the territory of the Western Ukrainian regions. This document was supported by the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church and the policies of the WUPR.

1991. The crisis affected the entire Soviet Union. Instead of looking for an exit from the political and economic difficulties of the Central and Eastern regions' citizens of the USSR, three regional councils (Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ternopil) are engaged in separatism. The "Galician Assembly" is created, with the aim of uniting Galicia, splitting Ukraine.

Thus, it is Western Ukraine at the time of the creation of the Ukrainian state that laid the foundations of separatism.

2004. The Galicians were in the vanguard of the "Orange Maidan". Refusing to recognize the Ukrainian laws and the government, the Galician region withdrew from the legal field of Ukraine. And when the "orange " politicians" began to plunder and destroy the country, the Galicians didn't even make a sound.

2013. A number of regions of Western Ukraine rise the European flag over local councils, and announce their withdrawal from the jurisdiction of Kiev. Today, those who, thanks to the Galicians, came to power, are destroying the Ukrainian nation and the country. But no protests from the Galicians can be heard.

As you can see, Galicia is a region that not only destabilized the country, but is a center of separatism.

It is obvious that the time has come to give them with this opportunity.

Moreover, the presence of Galician oblasts within Ukraine are based on historical precedent. And it was created as a result of the legal chaos that accompanied the collapse of the Soviet Union.

From February 1991, on the territory of three Galician oblasts (Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ternopil), operated the so-called "Galician Assembly" — a coordinating body of the region. They (i.e., the combined Assembly of the three regional councils) passed a joint resolution "on the unity of Ukrainian lands". It actually disavowed the Declaration of the People's Assembly of Western Ukraine "On entering Western Ukraine into the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic", adopted in Lviv on October 27th, 1939. The basis for the reunification of Ukrainian lands into a single state was adopted on 21st January 1919 by the Ukrainian People's Republic (the head —Symon Petliura) and West Ukrainian People's Republic "Reunion Act". It was just about the "reunification" and not the "stay" of Galicia in Ukraine.

When, in March 1991, the "Galician Assembly" (during the Soviet referendum on preserving the Soviet Union) organized a separate bill for independence from the Union, it emphasized their legal secession from the USSR.

The "Galician Assembly" continued to be active and make new decisions after the Verkhovna Rada adopted the Ukrainian SSR "Act of independence of Ukraine" in August 1991. Thus, the formation of the Ukrainian state occurred in the conditions of the reunification of Galicia on the basis of the "Reunion Act" of 1919, not the solutions of 1939.

Despite the conditions of global turmoil, nobody paid attention to one nuance — the "Act" was cancelled by the WUPR government in December 1919. That is, the inclusion of Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ternopil regions occurred on the basis of a document that is a legally invalid.

Interesting fact: Leonid Kuchma wanted to curry favor with the West and Galicia, which established the date of the signing of the "Reunion Act" as a state holiday in 1999. Thus, making the situation even more absurd.

As a result, the law of the relationship of the location of Galicia in Ukraine can be called into question.

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Ukrainian Defense Ministry Hides Information on Losses in the "ATO" Zone

Translated by Ollie Richardson for Fort Russ

12th June, 2016

News-front

The Ukrainian Ministry of Defence has denied the information that Ukrainian soldiers were killed in the area of Avdeevka. The department wrote this on Facebook.

“Information on casualties that night - losses in the ranks of the APU is not true!”, the report said.

The Defense Ministry reported that according to the information checked by staff, last night (June 11th) took place without any APU losses, that is, none of the Ukrainian military died.

However, the Donetsk People's Republic, think otherwise, and claim that as a result of an unsuccessful attempt to storm the positions of the DPR, 9 Ukrainian punishers were killed.

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Ukrainian Radicals Defile Russian Embassy in Kharkov on Russia Day

Translated by Ollie Richardson for Fort Russ

12th June, 2016

News-front

Ukrainian radicals on Russia Day brought a coffin to the building of the Consulate General of Russia in Kharkov, reports the Sunday edition of the local newspaper Depo.

According to the representative of "Right Sector" Yuri Likhota, the Ukrainians of Kharkiv congratulated Russians on Russia Day.

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(VIDEO) Texas visits DPR "Legion" reserve force

June 12, 2016 - 
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Checkmate: Russian hypersonic weapons rule out US-NATO naval assault

June 12, 2016 - 

Valentin Vasilescu, Katehon - 

The US rules the globe, having a navy three times stronger than that of Russia. Moreover, the Pentagon has created a strategic command to deploy large units of land forces, consisting of hundreds of cargo ships of large capacity. All of these vessels are organized in very strong expeditionary naval groups and around aircraft carriers, amphibious landing ships, and naval convoys of troops and military equipment.

With troops deployed in Europe and Asia, with the armies of allied states, the US can trigger an invasion of Russia. Therefore Russia's new military doctrine establishes that the biggest risk to Russia's security groups is the American expeditionary naval groups, which can transport invasion troops to the Russian border.

Several types of anti-ballistic shield protect US naval expeditionary groups and zones of landing for troops from transport ships. The first is the naval system AEGIS armed with SM-3 block 1b mounted on US destroyers and cruisers AEGIS, plus anti-ballistic shields in Poland and one in Romania. The second is the mobile THAAD system of the US land forces, defending landing zones. Add to this the mobile long-range missile anti-aircraft batteries like Patriot with anti-ballistic capabilities against missiles that are in their final stage of the path, under an altitude of 35,000 m.

The premise from which Russian experts started building hypersonic vehicles was that American antiballistic missiles cannot intercept any projectile flying in the mesosphere (at altitudes of 35.000- 80.000 m), and that Russia, unlike the US, owns a number of very powerful rocket engines. For example, the Pentagon and NASA cannot send satellites into orbit if Russia does not deliver the RD-180 rocket engines. Russia is on the verge of creating, starting in 2018, the surest antidote to this vulnerability by means of a hypersonic battle. Aerial vehicles are classified according to the airspeed as follows: subsonic (below the speed of 1,220 km/h, - Mach 1) supersonic (speeds between Mach 1 and Mach 5 - up to 6000 km/h), and hypersonic (with speeds between Mach 5 and Mach 10 – up to 12,000 km/h).

Russian hypersonic weapons

The main Russian hypersonic weapon are derived from space glider Yu-71 (Project 4202), which flew during tests at a speed of 6000-11200 km/h over a distance of 5,500 km at a cruising altitude below 80,000 m, receiving repeated pulses from a rocket engine to climb, execute maneuvers and cornering trajectory. It is estimated that the glider is armed with warheads that are spatially independent, with autonomous guidance systems similar to the air-ground missiles Kh-29 L/T and T Kh-25 (which provides a probable deviation of 2-6 m). Although it may take nuclear warheads, the space glider will be armed with conventional warheads and will be powered by a rocket launched normally from nuclear-powered Russian submarines.

Another variant of the hypersonic weapon derived from the Yu-71 would be those launched from the Russian military transport aircraft Il-76MD-90A (II-476). Since 50% of the missile’s fuel is spent solely on take off and rising though the layers of extremely dense atmosphere of up to 10,000 m, mass launcher and glider space represents 50% of the rocket carrier used to launch from nuclear-powered submarines.

The second type of weapon different from hypersonic spatial glider is the Zirkon 3M22 missile, which is launched from maritime patrol aircraft. Zirkon has a speed of Mach 6.2 (6500 km/h) at a cruising altitude of 30,000 m and a kinetic energy at impact with the target 50 times higher than existing air-ship and ship-to ship missiles.

Hypersonic concept for a war

The new Russian military doctrine states that an attack on the American invasion fleet is to be executed in three waves, three alignments, thus preventing American expeditionary naval groups from positioning themselves near the Russian coast of the Baltic Sea. The first wave of hypersonic weapons, consisting of space gliders arranged on Russian nuclear-powered submarines under immersion in the middle of the Atlantic, starts fighting US naval expeditionary groups as they start crossing the Atlantic to Europe. The American naval groups need 7-8 days to cross the Atlantic; the plane Il-76MD-90A has a maximum flight distance of 6300 km and can be powered in the air, reaching the middle of the Atlantic Ocean in a few hours.

If the first wave does not destroy the targets, the second wave of hypersonic weapons will be launched on the US naval groups when they are located 1,000 km from the eastern shore of the Atlantic Ocean. The attack will be launched from the Russian submarines in the Barents Sea or Plesesk base of strategic missiles, located near the Arctic Circle and the White Sea.

The third wave of hypersonic attack will be executed by missiles 3M22 Zirkon launched on American naval groups when they would be in the Skagerrak strait (crossing the North Sea to the Baltic Sea), on the assumption that NATO is attacking Russia through the Baltics. If the American expeditionary naval group head to the Black Sea, it will be hit by the third wave of hypersonic weapons in the Bosporus and Dardanelles straits.

Thus, Poland, the Baltic States, and Romania – all NATO countries that use highly aggressive language and actions against Russia - should think better before triggering a military incident with Russia, since these countries rely only on military aid over the Atlantic Ocean, which might never come.

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Russia Day, June 12th: From Collapse to Rebirth

June 12, 2016 - 

Alexander Chausov, PolitRussia - 

Translated by J. Arnoldski 

Russia Day is perhaps one of the most contradictory and ambiguous dates in our country. If, for example, National Unity Day has a positive, albeit distant point, then June 12th is not so clear. The declaration of Russia’s independence was perceived by the majority of citizens of the then Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic not only as a tragedy, but also as an act of betrayal as a result of which 25 million people were suddenly deprived of their Homeland. And now, Russians are still the largest divided people in history. 

In the new Russia that celebrated “independence,” chaos and degradation, and the literal extinction of the population reigned. The question became all the more urgent: from what has our country become independent? From honor, conscience, and common sense? It is clear that the post-Soviet authorities had to celebrate a certain milestone, change of times, or date of great transition. So the Day of Russia’s Independence became a holiday from the “top-down.” It remained such to this or that extent for subsequent years.

In 2002, the first important change took place. Independence Day was renamed Russia Day. This “independence” had become far too suspicious for the people. For a long time already, there had been no meaning to this June 12th, a day made into a date supposed to be celebrated as a holiday by everybody. It would seem that the title is clear: Russia Day is a day on which one needs to be “especially proud of their country.” But for a long time, starting with the ’90’s up to the middle of the first decade of the 2000’s, there were no causes for such pride. If something appeared in the media, then it was instantly trampled and soiled by the Westernizers. Only recently have they stopped, finally and irrevocably, to be “teachers of the people” and “the nation’s conscience.”

What is Russia Day? In theory, it should be a Rubicon date, not one of the dismantlement and collapse of the country, but of its rebirth “in strength and glory” - the day when all of us can clearly articulate that we are proud of our country, and especially why we are proud. Fortunately, in recent years there have been more causes for pride. “Yuri, we’ve corrected it.” 

This doesn’t mean that Russia Day has become a general holiday for everyone. The memory of the shame of the 1990’s is still fresh. But in recent years, we can see that there is a different semantic content. And most importantly, it is coming from the people, and now “top-down” from our state officialdom.

The fully charged meaning of Russia Day will only reveal itself in the future, which turns it into a “date for the future.” But this entirely depends on us, the citizens of Russia. The more real reasons for pride there are, the more achievements and breakthroughs there will be, and the more festive and celebrated will be the date of June 12th. 

Proposals have been voiced that Russia Day should be change to a different date, one not associated with the painful memories of June 12th. But such a move will be perceived as done by those who want Russians to repent for their past, as a concession. In regards to May 9th, our liberal public also says that it is not a holiday, but a day of mourning for four years of bloody war and millions of deaths. But we aren’t even thinking about changing Victory Day to another date. Don’t Russians already know that this was a bloody war with millions of death? We more than understand this. That war affected almost ever family, and the millions-strong Immortal Regiment is proof of this. But on May 9th, the war ended, so we celebrate triumph and remember the blood, pain, and broken families.

The same should be considered in regards to Russia Day. As Independence Day, it heralded an era of collapse and destruction which lasted 10 long and terrible years with millions dead from famine, banditry, and hopelessness. This is also a memory which should never be abandoned, whose mistakes should never be repeated, whose memory should prevent any forces from allowing another collapse of the country. This is a very important memory.

But Russia Day, in addition to this bitter meaning, should be imbued with another meaning - with the idea of rebirth with all of Russia’s former greatness. And this is happening before our very eyes. 

By way of its symbolism, Russia Day can become quite a Christian one just as how the Cross of Christ, the shameful instrument of the most shameful form of execution in the Roman Empire, became a symbol of Honor and Resurrection. So can Russia Day, out of shame and defeat, become a day of pride and victory in the most paradoxical, unimaginable and wonderful way. 

But, after all, in Russia, astonishment is a kind of routine.  Our ancestors performed miracles in 1941-1945 and earlier, throughout the entire history of our country. 

We are their descendants. Our genetics are predisposed to making “ordinary miracles” when life itself demands such. 

This is why there is the opinion that such a miracle is gradually, year by year, happening now and will finally happen with Russia Day. This day will no longer be a reminder of the “shameful cross,” but a symbol of striving for Life and Eternity for our entire Homeland.

Such an understanding of the holiday has only just begun to find meaningful contours, and their appearance in the future depends on us alone - on the quiet, modest heroism of each of us. Every day, and not only on June 12th. 

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Kasyanov Recites US Policy for Russia (VIDEO)

Translated by Inessa Sinchougova for Fort Russ

12th June, 2016

Mihail Kasyanov tows the official US policy line, in his quest to win the next election.

Kasyanov is known in Russia as "Misha 2%" due to corruption scandals during his work at the Ministry of Finance in the 1990s. Legend has it he would always ask for 2% of whatever venture he was asked to push-through. 

His party, PARNAS, is backed by the US state department and ironically focuses on "exposing" the corruption of the Putin government.

Should Kasyanov come to power, he reiterates that he will;

1) Return Crimea;

2) Leave the people of Donbass to their fate at the hands of the Ukrainian army;

3) Bend over in doggy-style position

Mr Kasyanov is a regular on CNN as the face of "Russian opposition" rubbishing the government at hand, while living large on US taxpayer dollar in Europe.

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