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64 Ukrainians from Crimea are incarcerated in Russia prisons for protesting the illegal occupation.

Their story is told in the documentary film "The Ships of the Kremlin".
 
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Opens in theaters March 2nd, 2018
 
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1 March 2018. Ukraine and Russia swap prisoners at border crossing in Kharkiv region. Kyiv got back 2 border guards captured in autumn; Moscow got its two FSB officers captured last summer.
 
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4 March 2018. A Russian Wagner kontractniki (contract soldier) is captured in eastern Ukraine by the UA 57th Brigade.

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Photographed near Novorosiysk, Krasnodar Krai, Russia. White painted trucks on railroad flatbed cars with UN markings. If you look closelly, you can see the black license plate of the Russian military. Fake "peacekeepers" on their way to eastern Ukraine.
 
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International Women's Day rally in Kyiv. The posters read “Revolution is a woman”, “Enough covering inequality with traditions",
and “Women always have a choice: feminism or masochism”

In 2016, due to massive corruption in the ranks, the Ukrainian government began replacing all of the National Police officers with new recruits. The new police recruits were trained by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and the California Highway Patrol. The police forces in cities were switched out over a period of many months from western Ukraine to eastern Ukraine. Japan donated all new police cars. 25% of the new National Police officers are female. There is also a police unit that focuses exclusively on cyber crime. Last year at this time - International Women's Day 2017 - some of the new National Police female officers visited the United States. In the video below, they recount their 2017 US experience for International Woman's Day 2018 (with English translations).

[video=youtube;JiL1PNSyhDo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?JiL1PNSyhDo[/video]
 
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20y.o. Vladyslav Kozchenko killed in enemy shelling in Avdiyivka on March 6. Born in Poltava, Ukraine on April 10, 1997.
Served as a sniper in 95th Separate Air Assault Brigade.
 
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Picture shot with a phone camera from inside a van in occupied eastern Ukraine (December, 2017). The semitrailer truck ahead with the red cross and number 200 is a (Груз 200/Gruz 200/Cargo 200) Russian truck that exclusively travels between occupied eastern Ukraine and Russia. It's cargo is the bodies of Russians (soldiers/mercenaries) KIA in eastern Ukraine. Cargo 200 is the Russian military designation for such a vehicle. Rumor has it that each Kremlin supplied coffin contains 200 ounces of zinc. A Ukrainian government van painted with red crosses and (Груз 200/Gruz 200/Cargo 200) placards on its windows does the same with Ukrainian military KIA. The Ukrainian bodies/remains are collected by a volunteer group called the Black Tulips. It is very dangerous work due to mines, un-exploded ordnance etc. Since 2014, an estimated 10,000+ have been killed in the war in eastern Ukraine.


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Above is a test solar farm located in the Chernobyl, Ukraine restricted zone. The restricted zone is approximately the size of Luxembourg. The electrical transmission infrastructure is already in place from when the destroyed Chernobyl nuclear plant was active. Tests have proven that everything works as intended and it has been proposed to convert the entire Chernobyl restricted zone to tracts of solar-panel farms. Since the rows of solar panels cannot be anchored to posts in the ground (that would stir up too much contaminated dust), they are affixed to concrete railroad ties that simply lay on the ground. The weight is such that nothing moves. Bids for tracts of solar-panel land will be announced during 2018. Investors are impressed with this proposal to generate power from the sun in the contaminated restricted zone that would otherwise remain abandoned/useless for hundreds of years.
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Who gets to shovel the snow off ?
 
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Sgt. Yuri Luhovskyi, born 1994 in Chervonohrad, was killed overnight on March 9 near Vodyane, Mariupol sector
 
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Denotes the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Ukraine since the Russian invasions of Crimea (gray area / bottom) and eastern Ukraine (gray areas to the east / far right).

The total is ~1.5 million. The image above shows approximately how many IDPs in each oblast (region) of Ukraine.
 
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As of December 2017, there were 2,038 children in Ukraine whose parents were killed in Russia's war eastern Ukraine. The 'View of the Future for 2018' calendar is featuring 12 of them.
 
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As of December 2017, there were 2,038 children in Ukraine whose parents were killed in Russia's war eastern Ukraine. The 'View of the Future for 2018' calendar is featuring 12 of them.
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These pictures look older.:neutral:
 
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Almost makes you wonder whether fighting a war to maintain borders imposed by Kruzchev is worth the cost in human lives that it entails (not to mention the risk to global stability in general). Why not allow the provinces that wish to leave Ukraine to do so and then call it quits?
 
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Viktor Ageyev, a Russian detained near Luhansk in June 2017, sits with his mother Svetlana Ageyeva on 22 January 2018 in a courtroom in Starobilsk which is about 100 miles north of occupied Luhansk.
Ageyev was captured in the ATO theater (occupied eastern Ukraine) in Russian military uniform. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison for terrorism and carrying a weapon in a war zone. Ageyev admitted
to the court that he is a Russian serviceman who joined the LPR forces in March 2017, and served as a machine gunner. Russia has denied his military status. Ukraine considers all Russian military POWs be to terrorists.
He will eventually be exchanged for a Ukrainian POW.


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Another 50 soldiers from the 3rd Canadian Division and their equipment arrived in Ukraine last night. There are now ~250 Canadian soldiers training and mentoring the Ukrainian military.
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TheMan, it's you, init?
 
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Above is a test solar farm located in the Chernobyl, Ukraine restricted zone. The restricted zone is approximately the size of Luxembourg. The electrical transmission infrastructure is already in place from when the destroyed Chernobyl nuclear plant was active. Tests have proven that everything works as intended and it has been proposed to convert the entire Chernobyl restricted zone to tracts of solar-panel farms. Since the rows of solar panels cannot be anchored to posts in the ground (that would stir up too much contaminated dust), they are affixed to concrete railroad ties that simply lay on the ground. The weight is such that nothing moves. Bids for tracts of solar-panel land will be announced during 2018. Investors are impressed with this proposal to generate power from the sun in the contaminated restricted zone that would otherwise remain abandoned/useless for hundreds of years.
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Since the area is already contaminated, why not build a big nuclear complex with remote control/monitoring?? It's not like it's gonna get worse... :mrgreen:
 
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The subtle Russian invasion of Crimea (GRU agents) began in mid-February 2017, well before president Viktor Yanukovych fled Ukraine for Russia on February 22/23. Violent operations by Moscow's 5th column in Crimea began around February 26. By February 28, armed GRU soldiers (Spetznaz) seized the international airport at Sevastopol and Russian Black Sea Fleet ships bottled up Ukrainian Coast Guard ships in Balaklava Harbor. By March 2 armed and masked Russian Marines from the Black Sea Fleet surrounded all Ukrainian military bases on the Crimean peninsula. By March 6 Russian Spetznaz soldiers had taken over the Crimean parliament building and replaced PMs with pro-Russia Crimean's. On March 16, Crimean's voted on annexation by Russia while the land was occupied by a Russian military force. Both choices on the referendum resulted in the same outcome (annexation) albeit by different means. March 27, 100 nations in the the UN General Assembly passed a UN Resolution (68/262) declaring the Russian referendum in Crimea illegal, and urges all nations worldwide to not recognize the results nor recognize Russia's illegal annexation of Crimea.
 
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Exactly four years ago today, Moscow held its illegal referendum in occupied Crimea.
 
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Top: Comparison of the tracked vehicles of three NATO nations (France/Germany/Britain). Bottom: Russian invasion forces in eastern Ukraine regions of Donetsk (1st Army Group) and Luhansk (2nd Army Group).

Note: There are also Russian private military contractors (PMCs - kontracniki/contract personnel) such as Wagner Group in eastern Ukraine.
 
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Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Lt. Gen Serhiy Nayev has been appointed to the newly created post of Ukraine's Commander of the Joint Forces.

By law, the designation Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO = war in eastern Ukraine) has been changed to the Joint Forces Operation (JFO).
 
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The next time some yahoo says NATO is 'encircling' the Russian Federation, show them this image.
 
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