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Satellite Images Show Russians Shelling Ukraine

U.S. officials today made public satellite imagery which they say proves that Russian forces have been shelling eastern Ukraine in a campaign to assist rebel groups fighting Ukraine’s government. The U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence, which released the civilian-taken satellite images Sunday, said they show visual evidence that Russia has been firing shells across the border at Ukrainian military forces. Officials also said the images show that Russia-backed separatists have used heavy artillery, provided by Russia, in attacks on Ukrainian forces from inside Ukraine. One image dated July 25/26 shows what DNI claims is “ground scarring” on the Russian side of the border from artillery aimed at Ukrainian military units in Ukraine, as well as the resultant ground craters on the Ukrainian side of the border:

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  1. Barely credible by Arker · · Score: 0, Troll

    And frankly does not matter even if it were true.

    If Chinese backed neo-nazis took over Mexico city and threw the country into a civil war, I wouldnt be surprised if we gave the loyalists a little discrete help here and there as well.

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  2. Re:Great... by superwiz · · Score: 0, Troll

    It's not like there is a shortage of places to drill for shale oil. Russia is definitely, without a doubt or a question, the villain here. Russia is not a state sponsor of terrorism. Russia today is a terrorist state.

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  3. Re:Great... by Runaway1956 · · Score: -1, Troll

    I'll match American propaganda with some Russian propaganda. Please, actually READ IT? Huh? Willya please?

    http://21stcenturywire.com/201...

    I can't say WHO shot that airliner out of the sky, because there is no CONCLUSIVE evidence yet. But, there's a helluva lot of circumstantial evidence that points at Kiev.

    Do you have any idea why Kiev had fighter jets shadowing that airliner? Neither do I, but that's a question that needs to be answered. And, why did Kiev order the airliner to alter it's filed flight plan, flying a couple hundred miles north of the normal flight path?

    There are a lot of questions that need to be answered, and I'm pretty sure that some of those answers will be "Well, we've invested so much money into the Ukraine, we can't abandon the plan!"

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  4. Not so bad by manu0601 · · Score: 0, Troll

    At least Russia shoots on military units, while on the other side, the army of Ukraine has been shelling cities full of civilians. And I cannot wait to learn who really shot down MH 17.

  5. IMPOSSIBLE by Stoutlimb · · Score: 0, Troll

    The SU-25 jets, loaded with missiles, can only reach about half the altitude that flight 17 was flying at. Because russia lies, it falls apart at even the slightest investigation and fact checking. By spreading Russian lies, you're either a useful idiot, or a paid provocateur.

  6. Its the banks stupid. by hackus · · Score: -1, Troll

    First of all, someone doesn't like what is going on in the Far East.

    They don't like the Oil pipelines selling oil not in dollars.

    They don't like the elected leaders so they over throw them, and the whole thing is so corrupt, they don't even try and hide the fact anymore and use communications wide out in the open for people to record and play back of their corruption.

    I am suppose to believe, that a country which beat Napoleon, Hitler and has state of the art military gear easily matching anything the United States or the West has, can't figure out what a passenger airliner looks like and decides to blow it up for some sort of secret gain?

    Of course, while all of this is going on it is I am sure JUST A COINCIDENCE, that the make and model of the airliner shot down is the exact same kind of air plane, from the same place one of the same make and model, freakin same country of origin and even the SAME FREAKING AIRPORT, matches the one that disappeared a few months ago "somewhere over the pacific".

    In case you people haven't figured this out yet, this is about the dollar. As in, since 2007 the corruption is so EPIC in our banking industry, they are robbing anything that is not nailed down to cover the loses of this looting since, well, nobody was prosecuted.

    So, the same crooks keep robbing the financial system, over and over and over and over. As a result the debts get bigger and bigger and bigger.

    They basically need to loot Iran, and Syria since they already looted Iraq and want that gas and oil next to Russia.

    Even Biden's kid was installed to insure the Oil stays in the family so to speak. Yeah, I can just see how happy a Ukraine citizen is going to be when it is so obvious our government is looting their country for Oil and Gas, going so far as to put kids of our crony government/Federal Reserve reps in charge to insure the looting goes according to plan.

    All of it is funded by the Federal Reserve and its crony Wall Street puppet banks.

    You know, Russia isn't a goat herding outback country like Iran. You fuck with these people and you are going to wake up with a few cities missing.

    Russia will not bend its knee to Napolean, Hitler and especially not a bunch of fucking banker wank jobs from New York.

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  7. This is patently false. by boorack · · Score: -1, Troll

    Russians published their satellite data and detailed radar records. Data clearly implicates Ukraine army. Interviews with locals who seen this incident seem to confirm russian version. Yet western media managed to black it out completely. Russians asked US and Ukraine to publish their data. US is hiding its satellite data and istead published some joke screenshots. Ukraine government went even further: their security services confiscated data from air traffic control (there was also some BBS news on this topic, yet I didn't bookmark link for it).

    It's all about BRICS and petrodollar. US thinks Putin has to be removed at all costs in order to keep petrodollar ponzi scheme working. This is pretty good summary of this whole Ukraine debacle.