Senior security official: Anti-terror operation suspended as Russian troops amass on border (LIVE UP

[Adrahil]

Source: Kyiv Post

Editor's Note: On April 22, interim President Oleksandr Turchynov announced that Ukraine would restart its anti-terror operation to quell Russian-backed separatist movements in Donetsk Oblast. The operation had been put on hold after quadrilateral talks between the U.S., EU, Russia, and Ukraine in Geneva led to an agreement whereby separatists in eastern Ukraine were requested vacate public spaces and buildings, and surrender their arms. The insurgents refused to comply with the stipulations of the Geneva Statement, and, over Easter weekend, seized several more buildings in Donetsk Oblast.

On the morning of April 24, Ukrainian troops repelled a separatist attack on a military base in the city of Artemivsk, Donetsk Oblast. Ukrainian forces also retook the city council building in the city of Mariupol, Donetsk Oblast, which had been controlled by insurgents since April 13.

On April 23, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in an interview with Russia Today that Russia will be forced to protect ethnic Russians in Ukraine if they are attacked directly.

The Kyiv Post will be live blogging the anti-terrorist operation as it continues in eastern Ukraine.





Read more: http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/5-dead-one-wounded-as-anti-terror-operation-continues-in-sloviansk-live-updates-344902.html

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More info there about Russians beginning "exercises" on the boarder, and Ukraine suspending operations for the moment.

Looks like things might be able to get far more serious.

[TwilightGardener]

1. Pooty-Poot to Ukraine: If you don't resist, we'll sneak in more special forces

and provocateurs to take over and you'll lose. If you do resist, we'll say our interests are being attacked, so we'll openly invade and you'll lose. Basically, you lose.

[awoke_in_2003]

2. Sounds about right...

darling Putin is a thug.

[ballyhoo]

4. Yep. Checkmate.

[Adrahil]

5. Absolutely correct. NT

[Adrahil]

6. Pretty familiar too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_occupation_of_Czechoslovakia

[jakeXT]

3. We were just following orders....

Shoigu said that 11,000 Ukrainian soldiers, 160 tanks, 230 armored carriers and at least 150 artillery pieces are involved in the operation against anti-Kiev activists.

http://rt.com/news/154588-russia-drill-ukraine-operation/