{"id":101512,"date":"2014-07-27T18:49:43","date_gmt":"2014-07-27T18:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=101512"},"modified":"2014-07-30T07:36:30","modified_gmt":"2014-07-30T07:36:30","slug":"u-s-releases-images-it-says-show-russia-has-fired-artillery-over-border-into-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=101512","title":{"rendered":"U.S. releases images it says show Russia has fired artillery over border into Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Introduction — July 27, 2014<\/h1>\n
\"Colin<\/a>

Colin Powell holds up a vial allegedly containing Iraqi anthrax at the UN General Assembly. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

Haven’t we been here before?<\/h5>\n
You might think so with Iraq. Remember? When Colin Powell stood before the United Nations just over a decade ago with what he claimed was a vial of anthrax produced in Iraq’s mobile chemical weapons facilities<\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/h5>\n
As it turned out once the invasion was underway none were ever found, but that didn’t stop the U.S. trying a similar trick last year. Then U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry claimed that Syria was behind a chemical weapons attack<\/span><\/a><\/span> on Syrian civilians.<\/h5>\n
As it turned those accusations turned out to be based on fabricated evidence<\/span><\/a><\/span> too. However, that hasn’t Washington from trying the same trick once more time only this time it could turn out differently.<\/h5>\n
Moves are underway to upgrade Ukraine’s ties with NATO, giving it the status “of ally outside NATO<\/span><\/a><\/span>“. If that were endorsed it would allow NATO forces to deploy in Ukraine.<\/h5>\n
It would also make the report below, although still unconfirmed and open to question, amount to an act of war. Making NATO legally obliged to intervene in the conflict in Ukraine.<\/h5>\n
\"The<\/a>

The U.S. has released image of what it says are of Russian artillary firing into eastern Ukraine. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

U.S. releases images it says show Russia has fired artillery over border into Ukraine<\/h2>\n

Karen De Young — Washington Post July 27, 2014<\/h3>\n

The Obama administration on Sunday released overhead surveillance images it said were evidence that Russia has fired artillery rounds from its side of the border<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span> against Ukrainian military units.<\/span><\/p>\n

The grainy photographs, taken between Wednesday and Saturday, are labeled as indicating fire from multiple rocket launchers inside Russia and targets they have struck inside Ukraine.<\/span><\/p>\n

The release came as Secretary of State John F. Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov agreed in a telephone call Sunday that \u201cdespite disagreements fighting must be stopped\u201d and talks initiated between the warring parties in Ukraine, according to a Russian government statement reported in Moscow by the Interfax news agency. The State Department said the five-minute call included discussions of both Ukraine and Gaza.<\/span><\/p>\n

As the ground war between Russia-backed separatist forces in eastern Ukraine and government troops has escalated this past week, charges and countercharges between Russia and the West have reached fever pitch.<\/span><\/p>\n

A Russian Defense Ministry spokesman, Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov, charged Sunday that the United States is getting most of its intelligence data on the Russian military from social media and suggested it turn to more \u201ctrustworthy\u201d information, the ITAR-TASS news agency reported.<\/span><\/p>\n

Konashenkov denied recent U.S. statements that Russia, after first decreasing the number of troops it has deployed along the Ukrainian border, has now increased them to at least 15,000. Regular international inspections under the international Open Skies Treaty, he said, \u201chave not registered any violations or undeclared military activity on the part of Russia in the areas adjacent to the Ukrainian border.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Under the treaty, member governments regularly conduct overflights, after providing advance notice, of neighboring countries. Although such flights were common in the early days of the Ukrainian conflict, it is unclear whether any have been conducted recently. The U.S. photographs, disseminated by the State Department as \u201cevidence of Russia firing into Ukraine,\u201d were declassified by the U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence and presumably taken by U.S. surveillance assets flying overhead.<\/span><\/p>\n

Konashenkov said that similar inspections of \u201cUkrainian armed forces\u2019 active combat actions in the areas adjacent to the Russian border\u201d would \u201cregister high concentration of Ukrainian troops, armaments and military equipment that regularly shell Russian settlements and have already killed and injured our citizens there.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The Pentagon and State Department first accused Russian artillery of firing directly into Ukraine on Thursday. The charges were repeated Friday, although no evidence was offered.<\/span><\/p>\n

The high-altitude images released Sunday \u201cprovide evidence that Russian forces have fired across the border at Ukrainian military forces, and that Russia-backed separatists have used heavy artillery, provided by Russia, in attacks on Ukrainian forces from inside Ukraine,\u201d according to labels on the pictures by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.<\/span><\/p>\n

The most recent photograph, taken Saturday, shows what is described as \u201cblast marks\u201d from rocket launcher fire on the Russian side of the border, and \u201cimpact craters\u201d inside Ukraine.<\/span><\/p>\n

A photograph labeled as taken Wednesday shows a row of vehicles described as \u201cself-propelled artillery only found in Russian military units, on the Russian side of the border, oriented in the direction of a Ukrainian military unit within Ukraine.\u201d On the other side of the border, \u201cthe pattern of crater impacts near the Ukrainian military unit indicates strikes from artillery fired from self-propelled or towed artillery, vice multiple rocket launchers,\u201d it said.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Obama administration has said that direct Russian participation in Ukraine, along with its failure to use its influence on the separatists to allow international inspectors to reach the site of the July 17 Malaysian airliner crash<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span> inside separatist territory, should lead to increased sanctions against Russia.<\/span><\/p>\n

In a statement following President Obama\u2019s call to Netherlands Prime Minister Mark Rutte on Thursday, the White House said the two \u201cagreed that Russia must not be permitted to destabilize the situation in Ukraine without incurring costs and that, accordingly, the international community will need to enact additional sanctions.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The administration has said it is considering its own additional measures against Russia, while European officials are scheduled to meet this week in Brussels to discuss activating new sanctions against key Russian economic sectors.<\/span><\/p>\n

Deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes said Sunday that the United States and Europe are likely to develop stronger sanctions this week against Russia.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe still think that the best thing the United States can do is send a message to Russia through very strong sanctions coordinated with the Europeans, and I\u2019d expect in the coming days you will see the Europeans move out on stronger sanctions,\u201d Rhodes said on CNN\u2019s \u201cState of the Union.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Rhodes also said European leaders were open to sanctions against Russia\u2019s energy, arms and financial sectors during talks with Obama in the past week.<\/span><\/p>\n

Josh Hicks contributed to this report.<\/span><\/p>\n

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