Radicals Are Preparing a New Khatyn on May 2nd in Odessa on Kulikovo Field

Translated by Ollie Richardson for Fort Russ

15th April, 2016

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This was stated by Ukrainian nationalists who rioted on the 72nd anniversary of the city's liberation from the Nazis, which resulted the death of the Chairman of Council of veterans in the Odessa hospital.

As became known by the website "Ukraine.Ru", Vasily Pavlovich Preobrajensky – the retired Colonel and Chairman of the Council of veterans of the Suvorovsky district of the city - died in Odessa. He had witnessed clashes during the demonstrations on 10th April, the Day of liberation of Odessa from the Nazis, who organised the Ukrainian nationalists in the walk of fame and Kulikovo field.

First Secretary of the regional party organization "Union of Left Forces" Maurice Ibrahim said that the Preobrajensky was not beaten like other participants of meeting:

"he was simply very nervous from the lawlessness he saw and died of a stroke..."

Released recently from Odessa prison after she spent about two years in jail, activist from Kulikovo field Yana Ayzikovich-Popesku told the publication "Ukraina.Ru":

"This is the second case that I know of. My friend - the musician Sergey Gutyrya from the group "Province" - died shortly after the events of May 2nd – his heart gave out..."

As "Ukraine.Ru" already reported, near Odessa House of Trade Unions on Kulikovo field, and on the walk of fame, where there is the monument to the Unknown sailor and the Eternal flame, the radicals attacked the activists and beat the protesters. Activist of Kulikova field, A.Petrov, informed "Ukraine.Ru" that the veteran was beaten by radicals near the monument for the Unknown sailor. Nationalists attacked men, women were beaten and sprayed in the face with unknown gas canisters.

Anatoli Petrov said:

"The extremists threatened mass executions and slaughter. The group of Kulikovo walking from the lane of Glory to Kulikovo field, were met by aggressive, very excited, well-built gunmen in balaclavas. They clearly desired blood, which clearly they didn't drink enough of after 2nd May 2014... The extremists prevented the laying of flowers on 2nd May at a temporary memorial. And flowers that people succeeded to bring to the memorial were ruthlessly destroyed".

Usually, representatives of law enforcement bodies do not touch radicals, but this time the scenario changed. On Kulikovo field, between activists of nationalist organizations and law enforcement, a scuffle broke out when police tried to detain one of the Odessa "pravy sector".

These radicals from all over Ukraine announced that they will gather in Odessa on May 2nd. They intend to disrupt the activities planned by Odessa in memory of those killed in the Odessa Khatyn massacre two years ago. This was publicly declared in the square at the Odessa House of Trade Unions:

"May 2nd is our day of victory! And here we'll stand! And they – they are the victims of Kremlin propaganda. We'll come here on May 2nd... And a lot of us will come, our brothers will come here from all regions of Ukraine," said one of the rebel leaders.  

Galina, an "antimaidan" activist on Kulikovo field, confirmed to the website "Ukraine.Ru" the information that there is a danger of repetition May 2nd in Odessa:

"Anyway, as you can see, that's what these Nazis intend to do", she regretted.

According to her, everything also depends on the political conditions:

"Last year the Governor was Igor Palitsia – an ambiguous man, but as it turned out, quite sane. And now Huber – this Georgian. It is possible that in the fight against Poroshenko these riots will only be useful for him".

She reported that the activists on Kulikovo field, which also includes the mothers of the dead, are now working on organizing a memorial rally. The mood of the residents of Odessa-antimaidan is strong. They consult with the city authorities, including the police:

"The details are still unknown but they definitely said that the rally will take place in any case. The more people that will come, the safer it will be on Kulikovo. Last year, for example, 50,000 people came. It was all very well organized: there were frames with metal detectors, there was a lot of police, there were even snipers on the roof of the House of Trade Unions, although it was probably overkill... Most importantly –  Nazi's were not allowed on the field. But it was even better for them, because ours would have been torn to pieces".

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Mariupol May 9th 2014, the Whole Truth! The Crimes of the Terrorists of Euromaidan

Translated by Ollie Richardson for Fort Russ

15th April, 2016

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Illegal terrorist groups formed from volunteers of euromaidan militants invaded the city of Mariupol to coerce residents who disagree with the coup d'etat in Kiev, using firearms and heavy equipment. These illegal terrorist euromaidan gangs killed police officers in Mariupol, who did not want to violate the law of Ukraine, in particular the article of the criminal code of Ukraine №109 - coup d'etat.

And here is the traitor in the ranks of the current cops who supports Azov:

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State Department: Pro-Government Ukrainian Armed Forces Involved in Kidnappings

Translated by Ollie Richardson for Fort Russ

15th April, 2016

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The US State Department acknowledged on Wednesday that the Armed Forces supporting the government of Ukraine could be implicated in kidnappings in the country in 2015.

"The media and local human rights organizations have noted cases where pro-government and volunteer armed groups, on territory controlled by the government (Ukraine), have abducted citizens", stated the report of the American Foreign Ministry on the situation of human rights in the world in 2015.

As an example, "on June 17th, authorities arrested the commander and seven members of the "Tornado" battalion  on charges of kidnapping and illegal detention, violence, and torture of local citizens in government-controlled parts of Luhansk region". As emphasized, "the investigation into the case continues at the end of the year".

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Reforge the Trident into an Eagle: Ukrainians Massively Flee to Russia

Translated by Ollie Richardson for Fort Russ

15th April, 2016

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The statement from representatives of the International Sociological Association (ISA) may cause a serious blow to Kiev's propaganda. Yesterday, in its special report, the independent experts found that every fifth resident of Ukraine is seriously thinking about emigrating to Russia, and every third person intends to acquire a package of documents guaranteeing them a residence permit and the right to work in Russia.

Moreover, one third of graduates of Ukrainian schools intend to continue their education, not in local universities, and not even in the Sorbonne or Oxford, but, for example, at MGIMO, MIPT, St. Petersburg State University, and Novosibirsk State University. According to some reports, Ukraine's security services have been instructed to monitor this trend and create a so called "lists of potential traitors". A correspondent of the Federal news agency has looked into the situation.

Young resident from the Sumy region Zenon Vysotsky (name withheld) now cannot claim the school gold medal due to him according to the estimates, but also a "decent" school-leaving certificate. And all because of his essay on Ukrainian literature on the seemingly banal theme of "Who he want to become", he made from the point of view of Ukrainian patriots, three errors. He wrote literally the following: "In the cult Soviet film "the Adjutant of His Excellency", the White Guard was represented exclusively by intelligent, respectable people for whom the words "honor" and "conscience" are indisputable truth. I want to become a Russian officer."

The fact is that, given the injection of nationalist hysteria in Ukraine, words and phrases like "Soviet", "The White Guard", and especially "a Russian officer" is actually equated to discrediting the government. In the letter from the local patriots to the leadership of the school to Zenon, it is declared that the young man "will have to face up to his errors". How this will be done — it is easy to guess. The teenager confirmed that he will take the first opportunity to "leave for Russia to  be able to live a full life."

A full life, without fear of being branded with the nickname "separatist", which has already become a household word, is by dreamt Tatiana Petrovna in Kharkov, who is a historian by profession. In her time she had the imprudence to name Stepan Bandera and Yevhen Konovalets "Hitler's henchmen" - eventually she lost her position at the Institute's Department. "I will find a job in Russia, to live with this (in Ukraine) is becoming increasingly difficult," she said in a private conversation with the correspondent of the Federal news agency. "First I will complete the necessary documents for a residence permit, then I will think about a Russian passport. There is a corny phrase: "swords into plowshares". In this context I can say: "Reforge the Trident into an eagle."

Cases like Zenon and Tatiana's in Ukraine are becoming more frequent. "We can only capture a sharp increase in the number of Ukrainian citizens, who either want to move permanently to Russia or become temporary residents," said activist Kjartan Selnes in comments to Riafan on European human rights. "Today this process can be called mass. At the moment, the laws of the Russian Federation provide for the facilitated naturalization procedure for immigrants displaced by internal tensions in Ukraine. The Ukrainians have the chance for a quiet life in the Russian Federation, starting as a future applicant and ending with a pension. The only question is, what status they will retain in the homeland."

But the status for those people is not defined in Ukraine. The local leaders of radical movements initiated consideration on the legislative level for the criminal prosecution of "persons who are not Ukrainian patriots". What exactly is meant by this wording, clearly it is unable to be explained by anybody. In fairness, it should be noted that the Security Service of Ukraine have not heard about the "list of traitors". However, such a list has long been created by so-called nationalist "intelligence" beyond the control of the government in Kiev.

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Donbass crisis caused by US-controlled Kiev

Sputnik Germany, April 15, 2016

Translated from German by Tom Winter

The humanitarian catastrophe in the Donbass is the work of the US-controlled Ukrainian authorities and radical national groupings, according to a declaration of the human rights division at the Russian Foreign Ministry, in response to the last annual Human Rights report of the US State Department.**

"What most arouses astonishment is the assertion about thousands of civilian casualties in the Donbass being ascribed to the fault of Russia. It is abundantly clear that the humanitarian and human rights catastrophe in Ukraine is the work of the US-controlled Ukrainian authorities and radical national groups in the aftermath of the unconstitutional coup in Kiev.## And all this happened, as a consequence of never actually influencing Ukrainian authorities to deal with the extensive crimes and violations of human rights in Ukraine, and to bring to account the real culprits in such serious crimes, as the torching of the Union Hall in Odessa" it says in the statement.

In the report on the worldwide human rights situation for 2015 published last Wednesday by the US State Department, [see footnote below] it is stated that Russia has been further supporting the Donbass people's militias, and it is in this context, that reports from international observers and activists "of thousands of deaths and injuries among civilians" are cited.

In April 2014 the authorities of Ukraine started military operations against the self-declared republics of Lugansk and Donetsk, which had proclaimed their independence after the nationalist revolution February 2014 in Ukraine. Several Western and Ukrainian politicians accuse Moscow of interference in the internal affairs of Ukraine.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov meanwhile prompted Kiev to listen to the legitimate popular demands of the inhabitants of the east of the country instead of "shoving all the fault on Russia's shoes."

Lavrov strongly countered attempts by the US and some European countries to blame Russia for what is happening in eastern Ukraine.
As Moscow stated several times, Russia is not involved in the events in the southeast of Ukraine, it does not provide military equipment or ammunition to the people's militias; it is not a party to the inner Ukrainian conflict, but has an interest that Ukraine emerge from its political and economic crisis.
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**Country reports, human rights practices for 2015: Ukraine. 
Here is the relevant portion:
"The most significant human rights developments in the country during the year were: First, separatists, supported by Russian military and civil officials, continued to control parts of Donetsk and Luhansk regions by force of arms, as self-proclaimed “people’s republics.” The United Nations reported that, as of November 15, more than 9,000 persons had died and approximately 18,000 had been wounded as a result of Russian aggression in these regions, including civilians, members of the Ukrainian armed forces, and Russian-backed separatists, since fighting began in 2014." 

Your translator does not know if the "as a result of Russian aggression" was in the UN report, or if it is a US State Department lagniappe. I suspect the latter.

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To read of a French diplomat saying much the same, click.

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The US wants to turn Skopje into the Balkan Kiev

April 15, 2016 -

Andrew Korybko, Katehon -

The Republic of Macedonia fell victim to the US’ latest regime change destabilization against it, with “opposition protesters” rioting in the capitalWednesday night and even ransacking one of the President’s offices. While Hybrid War tension has been building for some time already and was described by the author in numerous publications before, the spark that pushed them into acting was President Ivanov’s surprise declaration of amnesty for all the people under investigation as part of the “wiretapping scandal”, with the Macedonian leaderremarking that this is a necessary step in order to move the country forward and out of the political quagmire. The Color Revolution elements inside of the country exploded into fury at the announcement, enraged that their attempt to use the newly created and McCarty-esque “Special Prosecutor’s Office” as an anti-government witch hunting weapon had been dramatically foiled. 

The Enemy Within

In response to the sudden spoiling of its ‘constitutional coup’ plans, the US ordered its subordinate Soros-affiliated “NGO” networks and the “opposition” to turn up the heat against the authorities and initiate the progressive rollout of their second preplanned Hybrid War putsch, setting the Color Revolution wheels into motion in advance of what is expected to be a forthcoming Unconventional Warfare complementary campaign. An unpopular spectrum of anti-government “activists” – including ‘Liberal-Democrats’, Cultural Marxists, and Europhiles (essentially one in the same) – flooded into Skopje in a frenzied effort to turn it into the Balkan Kiev, but once more, the professionalism of the security services and the patriotism of the population played a large role in mitigating the immediate escalation of the urban hostilities and in preventing them from getting totally out of control. The threat still remains and the US’ intention to overthrow the Macedonian government is now out in the open and utterly undeniable to all objective observers at this point, but the hooligans were so far unsuccessful in their plan to exploit their series of violent provocations and create an opening to embed themselves in the middle of the city. 

Having taken a day to assess the events of 13 April, they can be seen in hindsight as an unofficial declaration of the US’ second Hybrid War aggression against Macedonia, pushed forwarded a bit from its original launch date due to President Ivanov’s surprise announcement but still close enough to the 5 June early elections to be able to destabilize them. Washington summoned the country’s internal political enemies out into the street in a treasonous act of anti-government defiance in order to intimidate the rest of the country and gin up more support for the movement among society’s most radical elements. The brief period of rioting was also meant as a signal to the Wahhabi/Irredentist Albanians that are under the US and Tirana’s influence (and for some of them, their direct employ) to prepare for launching the next stage of the Hybrid War. This could likely see them staging a Kumanovo-style attack that would in turn activate the Western mainstream media-manipulated narrative that the Macedonian Crisis is a Huntingtonian ‘Clash of Civilizations’ between Muslim Albanians and Orthodox Macedonians, which in any case would complicate the political turmoil by introducing strong shades of identity conflict.  

Nasty Neighbors

Despite being of critical importance to the stability of the entire Balkan region, the Republic of Macedonia cannot depend on its neighbors for help in overcoming the destabilization, and if anything, all of them besides Serbia have hostile intentions towards it. Before continuing, it’s necessary to expand a bit on Serbia’s projected reaction to all of this, since it’s the first country that would be most immediately affected if Macedonia is thrown into mayhem and at least one million immigrantsconsequently exploit this state of affairs in order to flood across its borders. At the same time, however, Serbia is in no practical position to constructively assist its southern neighbor, and even if it did, it’s all but assured that such moves would instantly and deliberately be misconstrued by the West and each of the two countries’ domestic “opposition” movements and transformed into an anti-government rallying cry . Faced with this reality and the much higher subjective priority that Serbia places on its own internal stability and that of Republika Srpska (which is being rattled by Sarajevo’s institutional attacks against it), Belgrade would probably limit any prospective support to Skopje to the diplomatic-informational realm. 

Greece:

To address the nastiness of the rest of Macedonia’s neighbors which believe they have a stake in the country’s destabilization and potentially even ultimate dissolution, it’s necessary to first and foremost speak about Greece, which has ratcheted up bilateral tension lately by allowing repeated NGO-organized immigrant invasion attempts of the Macedonian border. The lingering “name dispute” is what’s to blame for the Greek authorities’ eagerness to subvert their northern neighbors, believing that if the massive pressure incurred by this cresting human wave can succeed in toppling the authorities and installing Zoran Zaev’s pro-US puppet regime in its place, the new “government” might ‘compromise’ on the Republic of Macedonia’s constitutional name and thereby satisfy Athens’ longstanding will. In order to fulfill the mission that it’s been obsessed with for over two decades now, some Greek authorities are utilizing the tens of thousands of Mideast immigrants that are inside the country’s borders as “Weapons of Mass Migration” against Macedonia, anticipating that they can be employed (both figuratively and literally) as battering rams for pushing forward the US’ regime change agenda and tangentially achieving their own self-interests in the process. 

Bulgaria:

The other two neighbors that are interested in the Macedonian state’s downfall are Albania and Bulgaria, each of which have their own “Greater”/Irredentist aspirations to promote. Nearly a year ago during the last major Hybrid War disturbance in the country, the author wrote about how these two states were poised to exploit Macedonia’s misfortunes in seeking to tear it apart and geopolitically divide it between them, whether formally or via de-facto spheres of influence. The next day, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov warned his Albanian and Bulgarian counterparts against pursuing this dastardly plot, and shortly thereafter the state-to-state tension lightened to a degree and Bulgaria’s “anti-terrorist/anti-refugee” border buildup was revealed to be the naked instrument of bullying pressure that the author predicted it was in the first place. Still, despite backing down from formally trying to unbalance the state and strategically distract the Macedonian authorities, nationalist elements in Bulgaria remain dedicated to turning what they view to derogatorily be an extension of their own country into an outright protectorate or re-annexed territory, and it can’t be dismissed that similar pressures such as the ones from last year will be repeated in the current scenario. Positive media coverage of the “opposition” and any forthcoming extremist Albanian elements would also function in a ‘softer’ but similar way in helping to promote Sofia’s ultimate objectives. 

Albania:

This brings the analysis around to examining Albania’s role in all of the intrigue, which is the most negative one of them all. Amidst its current immigrant outflow and dwindling domestic conditions, the Tirana elite are eager to redirect rising animosity to their rule towards the convenient distraction of promoting “Greater Albania”. Last year the Kumanovo terrorists were reported to have come from the NATO-occupied Serbian Province of Kosovo, and this time it’s believed that any extreme political-insurgent elements within the country will have the full behind-the-scenes support of the Albanian establishment. When it comes to the potential for Wahhabi terrorists and Daesh cells to rear their heads amidst any future conflict, Tirana would probably play a backseat role to all of that by allowing its Turkish ally to take the lead in handling these sorts of terrorists operations, just as it has battletested experience in doing over the past half a decade against Syria, and likely offering up its territory for this purpose. Furthermore, the US already has a brand-new terrorist organization waiting in the wings to act, the “Albanian National Army” that just sprouted up in occupied Kosovo and conveniently, in the reported words of one of its ‘commanders’, “considers NATO to be its friend”. The Albanian-American-Turkish terrorist nexus along the non-Tirana-administered areas of the envisioned “Greater Albania” (NATO-occupied Kosovo and western Macedonia) will definitely play a determining factor in any forthcoming Hybrid War scenarios and presents the utmost greatest threat to regional stability. 

Chaos At The Gates

Targeting Multipolarity:

The Republic of Macedonia is at the literal forefront of the US’ War on Europe, as the author explained in a prior piece for Katehon pertaining to the Immigrant Crisis. It’s recommended that the reader review the aforementioned citation if they’re not yet familiar with the author’s analysis on this topic, but the general idea is that the US is employing “Weapons of Mass Migration” in order to place the EU into a permanent state of Hybrid War tension and facilitate the Color Revolution removal of leaders that have pragmatic engagement with Russia and China. On a more regional level, the US is targeting the Republic of Macedonia and Serbia because they’re the key bottleneck states in actualizing China’s Balkan Silk Road project, which if completed, would complement Russia’s currently suspended Balkan Stream gas pipeline and together create the infrastructural backbone of a multlipolar future for Europe. 

Regional Tidal Wave:

Hybrid War in and of itself is destabilizing for any country and region that suffers from its most intense manifestations, but the most direct and debilitating form of chaos that it immediately leads to is an outflow of immigrants/refugees/undercover terrorists to and from the battlespace. This takes on a particular significance in the present day given the ongoing Immigrant Crisis and Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev’s February dire warning to the world that “hundreds and thousands of extremists enter Europe under the guise of being refugees.” The Republic of Macedonia is literally on the frontlines of this crisis and has amazingly stood strong in the face of the overwhelming odds against it, but faced with the recent commencement of Hybrid War within its borders and the possibility of the Color Revolution disturbances transforming into an all-out Unconventional War, it’s uncertain at this time how effectively it’ll be able to hold out. 

Structural Vulnerabilities: 

Greece’s repeated border subversions and the culpability that some of its government authorities and hosted NGOs have in worsening the Immigrant Crisis and funneling its most destabilizing elements northward to Macedonia can expectedly be taken to mean that the security services will have their work cut out for them in juggling the nascent Color Revolution threat, snuffing out any Unconventional Warfare ones infiltrating in from Albania and/or NATO-occupied Kosovo, and securing the border from an outright immigrant invasion. Furthermore, if Bulgaria once more decides to provocatively send troops to the Macedonian border amidst a rapidly escalating climax of the situation, then it could have the effect of stretching the Macedonian authorities’ concentration much too thin and opening up strategic vulnerabilities on one of these multiple fronts that could then be instantaneously exploited by the US and its allies in accordance to their many preplanned and forecasted scenarios. The end result of a successful regime change in Macedonia would be the barbarian-like storming of the country’s territory and an uncontrollable surge of up to one million immigrants right through the heart of the Central Balkans, precisely at the moment in time when the regional states had begun to finally breathe a collective sigh of relief that the worst point of the crisis was behind them. 

Reinforcing The Front:

In dealing with this possible eventuality, it’s necessary that the Macedonian authorities receive some sort of multilateral physical support from the same stakeholders that most immediately have something to lose if the government falls and becomes a doormat for the US’ “Weapons of Mass Migration” to invade Europe. Right now, as the author previously analyzed in an article for The Saker, the status quo equilibrium and the de-facto closure of the “Balkan Corridor” is presently maintained by joint the Austrian-Hungarian leadership that brought all of the Balkan states together and got them to overlook their bickering in favor of pursuing a collective and coordinated solution to the problem that plagues them all. The most effective way to proactively counter the chances that the incipient Hybrid War in Macedonia will demolish the border ‘floodgates’ and inundate Europe with an uncontrollable flow of “Weapons of Mass Migration” is for this temporary Central European-led security structure to take on a heightened role (by official Macedonian invitation, of course) in patrolling the Greek border and thus giving the authorities more flexibility in responding to the US’ other provocations. 

Concluding Thoughts

Macedonia convincingly appears to be on the brink of a large destabilization, a second Hybrid War that’s directly targeting its government but is also indirectly aimed at destroying the prospects that Russia and China have for progressively liberating Europe from unipolarity. Washington has thrown down the gauntlet, as expected, in using its proxies to send a strong message to Skopje that its democratic security methods in foiling the “Special Prosecutor Office’s” ‘constitutional coup’ plot and in protecting Europe from the uncontrollable ravages of the Immigrant Crisis will be met with the harshest asymmetrical response possible. 

The growing threat that a full-scale Hybrid War will break out in the Republic of Macedonia is very high, and the Moscow-based Katehon think tank wisely suggeststhat harsh anti-riot measures be immediately implemented in order to contain the Color Revolution threat. If the authorities can get a handle on dealing with this latest destabilization before it gets out of control, then they’ll be in a better position for responding to any predicted “Greater Albania” and/or Daesh terrorist attacks that might break out before the 5 June early elections. If these two pressing internal threats can be effectively neutralized, then Macedonia won’t be as vulnerable to the direct subversion that its Albanian, Bulgarian, and Greek neighbors are plotting against it with American and Turkish ‘Lead From Behind’ assistance.  

If worst comes to worst, then Macedonia could greatly benefit from multilateral assistance in reinforcing its border with Greece so that its security services could more easily react to internal provocations as they arise, which would thus enable the government to put down any destabilizing domestic disturbances while relying on its international partners and equal strategic stakeholders in protecting the southern border from a “Weapons of Mass Migration” invasion into all of them. The less than two-month period before the election will be absolutely critical for the stability of the Balkans and the rest of Europe, but if history is any indication, then just as they did last year around this time, the Macedonian people will legendarily succeed in knocking out the Hybrid War threat that the US is once more siccing on them and ultimately landing Uncle Sam another embarrassing black eye. 






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