The Battle for Novorussiya

[Lauren Johnson]

From Vladimir Suchan on FB:

As it turned out, the trip of Poroshenko "I am Bandera" to Paris to march in solidarity with haters and mockers of religions ("I am perverse Charlie"), where he was able to receive new personal instructions from his masters, also coincided with his order to resume the war against Donbass in full blast. In other words, the war is now fully raging along the whole front from Mariupol in the south to Lugansk in the north.

EDIT: There needs to be a lot more confirmation on this.

Grahame Phillips said there was major fighting at Donetsk airport (again? still?) with in the last couple of hours.

Every time the airport is liberated, the next day or so comes another update. And then there was the day when replacements were allowed in with removal of some casualties. Weird. There even was a video of Motorola greeting the other commander. Suspicion? They are trying to prove they are not worthy of accepting desertions.

The word today was that the final soldiers would be allowed to leave the airport, otherwise they would be killed. I don't get it.

Another Minsk Accord meeting is set for 1/16. The last one ended with no progress.

There does not seem to be any Russian press coverage about the conflict. The Kremlin certainly is not pushing the war. The last official Russian position was that the Donbass region is a part of Ukraine. On the other hand, the Saker continues to say that Russia cannot and will not allow Novorussiya to be over run.

My own guess is that if Russia could find a way to give the appearance of a peace accord, they would take it. Since US/NATO is running the show, it's their call. I think war is in the works short of Putin accepting a humiliating defeat.