Russia is Preparing to Employ Chemical Weapons in the Occupied Territory of Donbas

12/29/18
Russian special services are counting on significant number of victims among civilian population. This was reported during the briefing by a representative of the Defense Intelligence of Ukraine. According to Vadym Skibitskyi, military intelligence of Ukraine observes a number of intelligence indications that are clearly referred at preparation of sabotage-and-terrorist act with employment of chemically hazardous and poisonous substances that further will be covered by the Russian propagandists as an employment of “chemical weapons” against the inhabitants of the occupied Donbas by the Ukrainian troops. The Defense Intelligence of Ukraine established that a group of the Russian specialists in the field of chemical warfare and poisonous substances arrived in the occupied territory of Donbas in the middle of December.

The adversary increased readiness of the Russian occupation troops up to a level to operate amidst chemical contamination. The newest individual protective means for personnel of the 1st and 2nd Army Corps of the Russian occupation troops were delivered from the Russian Federation in order to test it in combat conditions. With the aim of creation of favorable public opinion, Moscow has been conducting more than a month a large-scale information campaign on accusing Ukraine of hidden preparation for such actions. The Defense Intelligence of Ukraine states that Russia conducted information operation in a similar fashion on the eve of simulation of chemical attack in Syria on November 24, 2018, in the area of Aleppo town in order to justify further conducting of airstrikes on Syrian opposition forces.

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Westphalian said:

On the contrary, Russian media expects, and has done for a while, that Ukraine is planning a chemical weapons provocation to be blamed on the separatists / Russia. It's a reprise of the tactics employed in Syria by the British.

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Rogue Valley said:

Your posts/links are no more valid than what I posted. Just demonstrating that Kremlin propaganda can easily be flipped and utilized by the side it is demonizing.

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Westphalian said:

Yes - and vice versa.

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Westphalian said:

Yes - and vice versa.

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Chagos said:

So you admit to having posted nothing more than a load of bumpf.

No need to respond, we all know by now that you'll never admit to anything.

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Rogue Valley said:

I doubt he saw that trap. He's not the brightest crayon in the box.

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Rogue Valley said:

I doubt he saw that trap. He's not the brightest crayon in the box.

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Russia continues to build up and prepare its military forces for possible offensive operations against Ukraine from the Crimean Peninsula and the east. ISW has been warning that Russia could conduct such operations at short notice since December 11, 2018. It remains impossible to assess whether Russian President Vladimir Putin has decided to launch an offensive or will do so, or whether the visible military preparations are intended to pressure Ukraine and its partners without escalating to additional open conflict. The data suggests that Putin is preparing to attack, although alternative interpretations are possible. One can make reasoned arguments about why it would be unwise for him to attack now (or, indeed, at all). The West should nevertheless focus first on the data itself and the risks that flow from it, rather than on reasoning about Putin’s intentions.

-19 DEC: Russia is moving military convoys north on the Simferopol-Armyansk highway toward the border between Kherson Oblast’ in Ukraine and Crimea.

-20 DEC: Russia is increasing its information campaign to frame Ukraine as the military aggressor should Putin decide to invade.

-22 DEC: Russia shifted ‘more than a dozen Su-27 and Su-30 fighter jets’ to Belbek Airbase near Sevastopol.

These data points are consistent with preparations for an attack from the northern Crimean Peninsula toward the Dnepr River near the city of Kherson. Such an attack could be intended to seize the canal supplying fresh water to Crimea, which Ukraine has blocked since the 2014 Russian invasion. Putin would likely unjustifiably claim the right to invade to stop a humanitarian crisis resulting from the blockage of the canal. Such a claim has no legal validity since Crimea remains legally part of Ukraine over which Russia has no rights, and thus the status of the canal is, in law, an entirely internal Ukrainian matter. Accepting Putin’s justification would ipso facto accept the legality of the Russian annexation of Crimea.

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Westphalian said:

If you took a step back from your arrogant self congratulation you'd see that it was you who admitted that your post link had no more validity than the alleged nonsense links that I post.

Typically we see you and Chagos gleefully throwing stones from inside your own greenhouse whilst the glass above you cracks and starts to fall.

The truth is that you don't know anything about the provenance of chemical weapon attacks in Syria beyond the manipulated garbage fed to you from western media who operate on the IS side of the civil war and are fed by sources in western governments.

You simultaneously dismiss out of hand any Russian media except that from pro western fringe groups.

You are therefore the ideal 'gullible subject'. Arrogant and bright enough to sound reasonably coherent, but closed to arguments not suiting your narrative, and totally brainwashed into beung utterly self convinced.

This thread you started was a nonsense.

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Chagos said:

With the baiter having fallen to bait, irony is clearly not a concept that you could identify.

You might want to take a holiday on coming April 1st., lest a hernia comes your way.:lol:

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Westphalian said:

You might want to get your own greenhouse instead of hiding in RV's shattered ruin.

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Rogue Valley said:

Like a crap-magnet, you stepped in it with both feet.

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Westphalian said:

No time for your childish games RV ..... grow up :roll:

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