Tag: Spetsnaz

Ukraine Live Day 459: Three Ukrainian Soldiers And One Civilian Killed Over Last 24 Hours

May 22, 2015

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Ukraine Live Day 458: One Ukrainian Soldier Killed, Eight Wounded Over Last 24 Hours

May 21, 2015

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Ukraine Live Day 456: Ukraine To Allow OSCE And ICRC Access To Captured Russian Soldiers

May 19, 2015

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Ukraine Live Day 400: Governor Claims Russian Forces Attacked Air Defence Unit Far From Front Line

March 24, 2015

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Ukraine Live Day 289: Blast In Odessa

December 3, 2014

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Ukraine Liveblog Day 239: Violent Protests Outside Rada

October 14, 2014

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Ukraine Liveblog Day 191: Fighting In Ilovaisk, Amvrosievka and Novoazovsk

August 27, 2014

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The Vanguard of Russia’s New Foreign Policy

August 14, 2014

When Tsar Nicholas II abdicated his throne in 1917, he addressed neither the Russian people nor the Provisional Government, but rather the Chief of Staff of the Russian Army. This was because the Russian army was the last remaining arbiter of stability in the country which, as historian Richard Pipes noted, “…in Nicholas’s eyes the […]

Putin’s Tactics in Ukraine Now Recall Stalin’s Actions There

May 12, 2014

Staunton, May 11 – “The criminal actions of Putin’s spetsnaz forces in Ukraine” are modelled on the actions of Stalin’s special force in Ukraine during World War II,” says Gennady Poberezhny in a review of a 2012 Russian study of “Stalin’s Commandos” and their operations against Ukrainian partisan forces. Yesterday, Andrey Illarionov posted a review […]

Ukraine Liveblog Day 56: Will Kiev Lose Control of the East?

April 14, 2014

Once again the interim government in Kiev has promised to counterattack pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine. Once again Kiev has blamed Russia for the separatism and violence. But with evidence growing that Russia is directly manipulating this conflict, possibly as preface to full-scale invasion, there are signs that Kiev may not be capable of restoring […]