Ukraine: "We Target Civilians." Separatists: "Their Targeting Maps Prove It."
Eric Zuesse. 1 Feb. 2015
Unofficially, the Ukrainian Government acknowledges that its war against its Donbass region is an ethnic-cleansing operation.
Unofficially, the Ukrainian Government acknowledges that its war against its Donbass region is an ethnic-cleansing operation.
The pro-regime Ukrainian TV station Hromandske TV — which is funded by the U.S. Government, the Dutch Government, and George Soros (via his International Renaissance Foundation or ‘Fund')
— has reported that the Ukrainian Government is specifically targeting
civilians to die in the Donbass region in the former Ukraine’s
southeast. It’s being done in order “to clean the cities.”
This is open acknowledgement that the operation, which the U.S. is financing (and Ukraine is bankrupt so it can never reimburse its donors), is actually an ethnic-cleansing campaign.
Previously, on Hromadske TV, a proponent of doing just that (ethnic cleansing) was interviewed. He said:
"If we take, for example, just the Donetsk oblast, there
are approximately 4 million inhabitants, at least 1.5 million of which
are superfluous. … Donbass must be exploited as a resource, which it
is. … The most important thing that must be done — no matter how cruel
it may sound — is that there is a certain category of people that must
be exterminated.”
Here is how it’s done:
[9 September 2014, from Slavyangrad,
pro-separatists’ clips are shown, taken from pro-Ukrainian-Government
telecasts] Video of Commander of the Ukrainian Government’s volunteer
battalion ’Shaktarsk,’ Ruslan Onishchenko: “Our mission, being employees
of the Ministry of the Interior, is to clean the cities, after the army
has ‘worked’ this territory with aircraft, artillery and heavy military
equipment. This is a normal tactical approach to warfare.”
Retired Col. General Vladimir Ruban, interviewed on
the pro-Ukrainian-Government Hromadske TV, then says: “I want to offer
the Ukrainian artillerists medals, to those who shell the city
[Donetsk], the houses and the civilian population, … for they
[artillerists] have deserved it [medals], both because of the accuracy
and inaccuracy. … It’s one thing if attack groups or any mobile mortar
troops drive through the city and shoot, … but if the artillery units
fired from the airport [i.e., from the distance], then no one can claim
that the separatists shoot themselves [i.e., that the people who are
being killed in the city are victims of separatist troops mistakenly
hitting passers-by when aiming at Government troops. He is saying that
artillerists will clearly get the blame, whereas street-fighters can
always blame the ‘terrorists.’]. … The shelling there is done as
intimidation, … not just object destruction, but intimidation [to get
the population to flee to nearby Russia]. The civilian population is
intimidated by a chaotic bombardment of different objects. There are
many shells that plug directly into the streets or vegetable gardens
[and so make the very ground on which these people live terrifying to
them]. INTERVIEWER: This refers to those that didn’t explode? ANSWER:
Yes, … there are many of those, … shells that fail to detonate. But
Gorlowka has been fortunate to have not yet been totally eradicated from
the face of the earth, along with the civilian population. INTERVIEWER:
You mean that the city is bombarded violently? ANSWER: Gorlowka was
shelled by our troops, [even] as I went there for the prisoner exchange.
Although it was known that I was there, they [our troops] kept up the
bombardment of Gorlowka.
General Ruban might not have known it at the time of his interview, but on February 1st, Life News in Russia bannered “Militia DNR: Ukrainian Army Uses US Missiles,” and
reported that in Gorlovka were found "shells that do not belong to
Ukrainian artillery, and even more so do not use Soviet or post-Soviet
military equipment. According to their hypothesis, the weapons are from
NATO. Deputy brigade commander Army DNR [Donetsk People’s Republic]
callsign ‘Biker' showed shells and said that … this is a special
projectile 155 caliber self-propelled artillery of the M109 A1 American
production, which is used by NATO countries.” Furthermore, "The presence
of foreigners in their army and radio intercepts confirms
our intelligence when we hear in interceptions, phrases in English and
Polish.” Germany’s Bild, and Britain’s Mail, are also
among the international news organizations that have previously reported
on American mercenaries, including the former notorious Blackwater
organization, ‘advising’ the Ukrainian army in this war. The finding of
U.S. military provisions on the battlefields in Donbass is,
furthermore, routine; but U.S. soldiers, like Russian ones, are probably
not fighting there. Ukraine is only a proxy war between the two major
nuclear powers, not yet a direct war between them.
Within just the past few days, further video evidence was uploaded which indicates that the targeting of civilians is a central purpose of the U.S.-funded Ukrainian war campaign:
[29 January 2015] The journalists of Ren TV [a
major Russian network, privately owned by Russian aristocrats] today
received the first documentary evidence that residential areas of Donbass [the rebelling region of the former Ukraine; the farthest-east part of Ukraine, shown here in the darkest purple] are
being targeted. Although Kiev may claim that ‘stray shells’ hit a
hospital or a kindergarten, we have found on the front line that is
being left behind by departing Ukrainian soldiers, artillery maps, where
the targets were restaurants, cafeterias and shops. Here is an
exclusive report by our correspondent Valentin Trushin from the former
UAF’s [Ukrainian Armed Forces} trenches:
This is a field near the village of Ozeryanovka,
from which recently was a Ukrainian battery firing at Gorlovka: … [The
rebel soldier says that many of these abandoned tanks and other weapons
are undamaged, and ‘They will say tomorrow that Russia supplied them to
us, but it’s actually their equipment that will be repaired if necessary
but will be used at war against them.’ Views of Government-destroyed
Gorlovka are shown.] … In the [rebel-]destroyed dugouts were found …
notebooks of cannon commanders, maps. The documents show that shelling
of the city [by the Government] was not random, but deliberate.The
coordinates of the targets are shown. For examples, one is a restaurant,
another a cafeteria or a market where no militiamen were stationed. …
Here are their target-maps, … irrefutable evidence of war crimes.
Little over a month ago, a rebel commander explained why the Ukrainian armed forces are losing:
[13 Dec. 2014, from Cassad TV in Crimea, run by a man whom the U.S. aristocracy describe as being a far-right Marxist]
“How the Elite UA [Ukrainian Army] Troops Were Defeated by the Militia. Interview with Commander Kedr”
(head of the anti-Ukrainian-Government Semyonovka battalion in the
outskirts of Slovyansk): How did you manage to defeat them? ANSWER: The
most surprising thing is that they were eliminated by the [rebel]
militias, who haven’t graduated from any military academies. Many of
them haven’t even served in the army before. The majority of them had
only for the very first time recently taken weapons in their hands [they
hadn’t previously owned or used even a gun]. I think that victory …
[resulted from] … the high motivation of our troops, and it was
guaranteed by the high morale, the example that was being given by the
commanders who were taking part in the fight themselves. It provided
such a result. Good trophies [weapons] were captured then, … [and it
even] happened before the Ilovaisk cauldron [when the enemy was
encircled], and at a time when the situation was very difficult for the
militias themselves, … [so] there was only one injured soldier from our
side in that battle, but from the enemy’s side were killed 15-12 men,
practically all of them [that were fighting]. … Six [of them] were taken
captive. [The battlefield is shown with enemy corpses]. … Our unit
arrived to collect the corpses of two of their shot-down pilots. But the
enemy managed to save one of their pilots. I repeat: Our troops weren’t
professional military but people like miners and trolley-bus drivers.
[3:17] I’d say to Ukrainian mothers that our soldiers have nowhere to
retreat from their own land, while the enemy have a chance to turn
around and go home.
[4:14: video is shown of the enemy’s combat ration.] It’s an American combat ration.
The actual reason why this southeast-Ukrainian ethnic-cleansing campaign is necessary for Obama, who installed the current regime in Ukraine,
is that, if it is not done, and, if the people who lived and voted in
the Donbass region (Ukraine’s far-east) were still to remain there and
allowed to vote there as being citizens of Ukraine, then they would vote at least 90% against the regime’s candidates, and for moderates, because, even before the regime had started to exterminate these people, they had voted 90% for Viktor Yanukovych in the last democratic Ukraine-wide Presidential election (which was back in 2010),
and he was the very same man whom Obama overthrew. Now, after this
extermination-campaign, the vote there against the Obama stooges would
be virtually 100% — not just 90%.
In other words: Obama needs to get rid of those people.
They can die, or else they can flee to Russia, but Obama needs them
gone from Ukraine.
As regards why Obama had wanted their land to begin
with, it was because unless the gas and other assets in the ground there
can be privatized or sold off by the Ukrainian Government to pay its
debts, the Ukrainian Government will go bankrupt and become an enormous
drag on everyone who had previously lent to it, including the U.S., IMF,
EU, World Bank, and others (ironically including even Russia).
Now that the situation is becoming increasingly clear
that this land will not be able to be controlled by the Ukrainian
Government, Obama’s best bet (in terms of his objectives) is to allow
the war simply to end with Ukraine’s defeat, so that no more good money
will go to Ukraine after the previous bad money is thus lost, but just
cut the losses and bring this truncated and rabidly anti-Russian western
half of Ukraine into NATO for the goal that is, apparently, Obama’s top
foreign-policy objective: surrounding Russia with U.S. nuclear missiles
and with regimes that hate Russia, in order to get Russia’s
capitulation to America’s aristocracy.
Vladimir Putin wants Donbass to instead remain a part of Ukraine,
as a counter-weight there against the rabidly anti-Russian voters in
Ukraine’s western region, so as to produce yet another Yanukovych-like
leadership in Ukraine and thus reduce the likelihood of a global nuclear
war (which would be Russia’s only alternative if Obama were to succeed
in his surround-Russia-with-missiles plan).
After all: John Fitzgerald Kennedy didn’t like it when
the Soviet Union in 1962 tried to place nuclear missiles in just one
location near the U.S.: Cuba. For Putin, Ukraine is like a nuclear Cuba
was to America, but more like around ten nuclear Cubas, in Russia’s
case. For Ukraine to join NATO would, perhaps, alone be sufficient
threat to Russia so as to produce an immediate Russian nuclear attack
against the U.S. and other NATO nations (a pre-emptive Russian attack,
against us). The insane ones there would be the U.S. and any nation that
supports it — the nations that then are clearly aiming to ‘conquer’
Russia. The U.S., under Kennedy, refused to stand for it in reverse; and
Russia, under Putin or any other leader, shouldn’t stand for it,
either. NATO needs to end, immediately. It had started as an
anti-communist club, and was then valid; but what it was and is after
the end of the Soviet Union, is the greatest threat to the entire world.
It is now nothing but an anti-Russian club: not just insane, but also
evil.
The only beneficiaries of today’s NATO are the West’s arms-merchants and other military suppliers. For everybody else, it’s catastrophe waiting to happen.
So: that’s the reason why the United States has been
supporting (and, until now, even demanding) an ethnic-cleansing campaign
in the former Ukraine. It’s part of the evil and supremely dangerous
insanity that is NATO.
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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of They’re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010, and of CHRIST’S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity.
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