Russia Announces War Games After Accusing Ukraine Of Terrorist Plot

[Purveyor]

Source: Reuters

MOSCOW: Vladimir Putin summoned his security council and the Russian Navy announced war games in the Black Sea, a day after the Russian president accused Ukraine of trying to provoke a conflict over Crimea, which Moscow seized and annexed in 2014.

The belligerent posture heightened worries in Ukraine that Russia may plan to ramp up fighting in a war between Kiev and pro-Russian eastern separatists that had been de-escalated by a shaky peace process.

Using some of his most aggressive rhetoric against Kiev since the height of the war two years ago, Putin has pledged to take counter-measures against Ukraine, which he accused of sending saboteurs into Crimea to carry out terrorist acts.

Ukraine has called the accusations false and says they look like a pretext for Russia to escalate hostilities. Such an escalation could be used by Putin to demand better terms in the Ukraine peace process, or to inflame nationalist passions at home ahead of Russian parliamentary elections next month.

Read more: http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/world/russia-announces-war-game/3035012.html

[sakabatou]

1. That's rich.

[geek tragedy]

2. seems like 1939 all over again nt

[MelSC]

3. Is Russia making anyone else uncomfortable?

Or is it just me?

[Purveyor]

4. Not I, in fact Russia is having a calming effect on our incursions into more attacks on muslim/arab

nations.

Long over due that there arrived on the scene a 'check' to our 'unbalances'...

[MelSC]

6. That doesn't even make sense

Russia is aiding Assad, while we are with the rebels. You think Russia is stabilizing Syria?

[Purveyor]

8. Just who are these supposed "rebels" anyway and just how stabilizing

are they?

We facilitated this mess in Syria by trying to collapse the Assad gov't just as we did in Libya, Egypt and of course Iraq.

How is that working out for ya?

[rafeh1]

5. If comrade putin

If comrade putin is able to extract turkey away from nato then the black sea will become russian lake and ukraines goose is cooked.

Our neocons made big mistake in turkey coup. handing turkey over to russians due to neocon coup which failed

[MelSC]

7. We had no involvement with the coup

Are you kidding me right now??

[MelSC]

10. Get that Extreme Left wing Fringe crazy shit off of here

Fucking nuts.