Stunning Strelkov News Conference

[Lauren Johnson]

Very sobering.

[video=youtube_share;0oRcrAasjGY]http://youtu.be/0oRcrAasjGY[/video]

[Paul Rigby]

This introspection appears to be catching:

Why Kiev won't end the war in the Donbass - a Ukrainian nationalist's view

http://rusdozor.ru/2014/09/11/pochemu-ki...-donbasse/

Reprint from Facebook-page Victor Zubritsky

My opinion about the war. Unfortunately, the war is over.

On the one hand Poroshenko promised to bring Ukraine closer to the world. And in the current situation of the economy and the collapse of the government, law enforcement - Ukraine desperately needs more than ever in the world. But ...

1 "political" problem

Today available in very handy tool explaining problems in the country. Mass theft from the budget, the restoration of all the previous "schemes", a higher level of corruption and just plain robbery under the "noise" of the war - as necessary to explain something. And despite the fact that the budget ATO successfully "sawed" and the army keeps on donations and the help of the Ukrainians - the best explanation ready. All my fault, Putin, Russia, aggression, invasion, etc. This is a very convenient tool for explanation. Give now by war - how to explain the failure of the economy, the destruction of the budget, total corruption and chaos? In any way. War - very convenient. Conveniently only power.

2 The problem of territorial battalions

Imagine that more would be no war. Imagine. Territorial battalions still a little "ponakaplivayutsya" and get stronger at the boundaries of the Donets Basin, and then they will withdraw. Immediately there a lot of questions that simply destroy power. Today there are in the formation of ATO, in preparation for A & P, only questions piling up in some media, but in Youtube. But finally utter the words "World-home", the power will fail. Why? So:

- How can we explain that a huge number of casualties, destruction, pain, suffering and hatred were only in order to establish the first requirement so-called LC and DNR about autonomy? For that fought, died and killed?

- "The World" will eventually calculate the actual number of victims, and it will be huge, it will require huge funds for the payment of compensation, as it promised when "led the fight", no funds in the budget, as long as all the "disappeared without a trace."

- Participants ATO was also promised financing and different benefits. It's one thing to write off the war are on the war and quite another to respond to armed men near the Office of the President.

- Why are armed? Because for example, "Prikarpatya" none of the territorial volunteer battalions voluntarily disarm. They have a lot of "personal" weapon, produced in warehouses, in the battle, and just purchased on the "black market." Power plan to "buy out" of the weapon successfully fail. Weapon - a symbol and a piece of power, and no one so just do not give up.

- The very situation of economic crisis and the total collapse of the economy, the fall of all things, an increase in unemployment will force returned units and people who have taken the war to ask questions and demand real solutions. Job? Business? Rate? Loans? Social benefits? Salary? Pension? Housing? No decisions will not be able to carry out, for "all or stolen in the process."

- People who have returned to the ATO will be a keen sense of justice. They have been in prison, the death of comrades injured, and it's all on a background of a lack of funding, crazy criminal military control, which caused a huge number of victims. They are angry at the government, deputies, generals. Any misstep power, the new "Mercedes", amid lack of medicines disabled veterans will, to put it mildly, a protest.

- The main objective of ATO for the government - to destroy radicals Maidana again able to "change" the power and stop the looting of the budget and the country - failed, radicals, despite the large number of "sinks" and boilers, survived and even more angry.

3 Now consider the continuation of the ATU. This solves all of these issues, returning tide of patriotism and unity of the nation to the outside aggressor and explain all the issues and problems of the item "1".

4 Sooner or later it all ends, and no war can not go on forever. Army still return to Kiev anyway ... For this small charter planes are ready to duty crews. As they say, for about $ 13 billion derived abroad, so that all will be well ... they

5 A can somehow get lucky and get better all by itself?

Besides all this there is also a desire, goals and challenges to the second side of the conflict .. .

http://112.ua/mnenie/mnenie-vse-GOV orit...13578.html

[Lauren Johnson]

Address by Igor Ivanovich Strelkov, September 11, 2014

Translated from Russian by Gleb Bazov (Subheadings by the Translator)


It has been a month since the moment when I had to resign from my position as the Donestk People's Republic ("DPR") Minister of Defence and the Commander-in-Chief of the Militia. I will not say that this decision was easy for me. Nor were the circumstances, in which it was made, simple. The city of Donetsk and the entire grouping of the DPR armed forces were in an operational encirclement, with great difficulty repulsing the unending attacks of the punitive forces that were coming from all directions.

Only a few in the leadership of the Republic knew that within the next few days significant changes would occur and that the enemy would be deal a decisive defeat. I was one of those few, but I could not even hint to my subordinates that soon we will be on the offensive and start to retake the positions occupied by the enemy. Even more difficult it was to realize that the liberation of the abandoned towns and settlements of the Donbass region (abandoned also pursuant to orders made personally by me) would have to be led by someone other than me. Morally, it was hard to abandon my comrades, leave them, so to speak, in the "early hours before the dawn," when the death of our common cause seemed to many to be inevitable.

I will not focus on the circumstances that forced me to resign. I will only say that the decision made by me then has justified itself and allowed on the eve of the offensive to unite the leadership of the armed forces of the DPR in the hands of one and to avoid many of the conflicts, which, akin to leprosy, were eating away at the Republic, and also to ensure a reliable supply of everything necessary to our units and detachments.

[B]On the Precipice of Victory and on the Verge of Defeat[/B]

Over the past several weeks the situation at the front in Novorossiya had cardinally changed. In most areas, the punitive forces had been repulsed, suffered enormous losses and gone on the defensive. The prerequisites for the complete liberation of Donbass from the punitive armies and the units of the Kiev authorities had formed. Snarling, the enemy started to back away to the west under the blows of the DPR army, and panic had seized its forces and its leadership.

But what happened next? Right before our eyes intervened the forces that once almost destroyed the Russian Spring and thereafter never ceased their attempts to eliminate the People's Liberation Movement of the Russian people of Novorossiya. There is no such villainy, which is beyond these forces that have repeatedly manifested themselves in the modern history of our Fatherland in the most sinister of forms. It was these forces, directed from abroad that played a decisive role in the destruction of the USSR in 1991, and thereafter throughout the 90s openly abused the peoples of Russia, organizing an orgy of looting of the enormous Soviet economic and cultural heritage. They staged monstrous in their consequences liberal experiments on the remnants of our Motherland, not caring in the slightest about the consequences for the country, which they referred to (and to this day continue to mock) with contemptuous epithets of "this".

[B]Russia Rising from her Knees[/B]

This bacchanalia of collapse was accompanied by bloody wars that they provoked, by a savage orgy of rampant crime, by immorality, by propaganda of the most vile of vices that can be imagined, by the destruction of economic independence and national sovereignty. Even after failing in the attempts to deal a final blow to Russia in the early 2000s, these forces did not go away and secretly continued their destructive work, in the hopes that their hour will come again and that, in time, they will complete what they had started.

However, when on the horizon broke the dawn of the Russian Spring, and as soon as out country started not in words, but in reality to rise from its knees, attempting to rethink the results of Gorbachev's capitulation and to regain the rights and the territories that belonged to it from ancient times, to achieve real independence, the Fifth Column immediately mobilized all the forces available to it. The return of Crimea to Russia not only caused it shock, and the uprising in Novorossiya true panic, but also forced it to manifest once again its true face.

The web of numerous agents that for many years successfully masqueraded in the sheep's clothing of "patriots" and "statists" and under this guise infiltrated the highest echelons of power and even the entourage of the President of Russia was raised on alert and thrown into battle. Acting in reality against the interests of the country and its people, these traitors nevertheless continue brazenly to assert that they are the Presidents "friends" and to portray their frankly subversive activities and sabotage as the only true measures to strengthen Russian sovereignty. From where, you might ask, do they draw such arrogance and confidence in their own invulnerability? The explanation is extremely simple: all that is valued by the representatives of the Fifth Column (in other words, money and other material resources, as well as families and offspring) has long ago been exported abroad and its preservation depends entirely on the mercy of their foreign owners.

[B]The Militia as the Guarantor of Novorossiya's Freedom[/B]

Over the five months of the struggle, the Russian people of Novorossiya themselves felt the full measure of the impact of the "fruits" of this type of subversive activities. At the time when Russian military aid was vital to the virtually unarmed militiamen, and when this assistance could almost without bloodshed lead to the liberation of all the Russian-speaking regions, the agents of influence in unison howled about the impossibility and the impermissibility of direct military aid to the rebellion. While the punitive forces were burning people alive in Odessa, bombarding Slavyansk with heavy artillery and urgently forming a combat-capable army, their accomplices that penetrated the foreign policy leadership of Russia not only sabotaged any and all military and political assistance to the Militia, but also, in complete understanding with Poroshenko, Turchinov, Akhmetov, Taruta, and other representatives of the Ukrainian oligarchy, worked to split the ranks of the Militia's leadership, preventing the creation of a unified command, and through joint efforts attempted to lure the President of Russia into the traps laid by them.

The persistence and selflessness of the Militiamen did not allow the punitive forces to quell the uprising before the real help from Russian finally reached its addressee. The Militia commenced its offensive. However, here also the traitors manifested themselves in full measure. To the punitive army that was on the precipice of total defeat they immediately extended a "helping hand" by arranging a ceasefire and attempting in the course of the negotiations to surrender literally all the gains made by the those who rose up, placing them at the mercy of the Kiev Junta. It is simply impossible to come up with more disgraceful covenants that those currently being discussed in Minsk.

And in the meantime, Kiev is hastily replenishing, rearming and training its army, preparing to continue the genocide of the Russian people of Novorossiya. As a result, we now have absolutely the same situation as in the beginning of our movement, except that we find ourselves in more difficult starting positions. Whereas in April-May Kiev had neither a combat-capable army, nor the support of the population, now the punitive forces have been mobilized and armed to the teeth, and the population of Ukraine, subjected to massive influence of propaganda that extensively uses techniques of Neuro-Linguistic Programming, has to a large degree been zombified and brainwashed and can no longer distinguish truth from falsehood.

[B]Choose Shame over War, and War Will Follow[/B]

During these same months, several rounds of sanctions have been imposed against Russia, and the half-forgotten claims regarding Abkhazia and South Ossetia have already begun to sound from the mouth of senior military officials and diplomats of the Western countries; unconcealed threats are also heard from Islamist militants controlled by the United States. They are preparing to fight Russia for a long time and in earnest. The West and the Fifth Column make virtually no secret of their plans to overthrow President Putin and subsequently completely to dismantle Russia, and their agents of influence use all means at their disposal to convince the leadership of the country that reconciliation is not only possible, but also singularly necessary. The fact that nothing but Russia's complete capitulation will appease its enemies is being carefully concealed from the public and, possibly, even from the President.

As a result, all the exceptionally favorable conditions that were available to the Russian in the spring remained unrealized, and, on the contrary, we now face a continuously increasing military threat. The responsibility of the Fifth Column for this result is undeniable.

Why is it that our liberals have acted out so implacably and perhaps even suicidally against the President and his political course? What is it that made so bold that they openly challenge him and his policies? In my opinion, two main factors are present here, and the first of them is that for the Fifth Column there is also no other path but mutiny (still concealed, but only for now). The "Revolution from Above" that was begun by Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin leaves them no chance of political survival, while their foreign owners are not permitting them simply to leave the country for their "earned with back-breaking labour" overseas possession.

The second factor is even more obvious: having a strong presence in the leadership and considerable financial resources, the traitors in earnest expect to seize the power for themselves and with relish to start a new stage of plundering the remnants of the once great country and the "utilization" of the peoples that inhabit it. But to realize on their plans they need to implement many more preliminary measures. In the first place to deprive President Putin of that incredibly broad popular support, which he deservedly received as a result of foreign and domestic actions in the recent years. And what can be more advantageous in the regard, than the betrayal of the Russian people of Novorossiya, followed by the laying of all responsibility therefor on the President himself? After all, the representatives of the Fifth Column themselves, like hyenas, hide in his shadow, avoiding any and all publicity.

The path that has already been set out by the enemies is crystal clear to us. The maximum prolongation of the war, accompanied by as much loss of life and hardships for the Russian population on both sides of the border as possible that is their task. Giving the Militia not even a chance to win, thereby creating on the borders of Russia an ever more bleeding "ulcer", into which Russia will pour, drop by drop, its resources, and where, as a result of the "one step forward, two steps back" policies, no decisive success will ever be achieved. At the same time, the Russian Federation would continue to be saddled with an ever-greater burden in the form of at first hundreds of thousands, and then millions of refugees, while the Western sanctions gradually would undermine the financial and economic health of the country, all the more so because the homegrown oligarchs will try to shift costs of the sanctions onto the general population.

The traitors hope eventually to bring the situation to the conclusion of the most shameful and humiliating peace treaty, accompanied by the betrayal of the Russian population of Ukraine, in order to cause an additional wave of indignation in Russia itself. And then in full compliance with the political technologies already perfected in the early 20[SUP]th[/SUP] century to bring about a Moscow Maidan, where the right and the left, patriots and liberals will units in supposedly justified indignation. The approbated scenario of the 1905 and the 1917 that follows the scheme of "shameful defeat economic crisis discrediting of the authorities popular uprisings palace coup" is once again in action.

[B]In This Struggle There Can Be No Compromises[/B]

In this regard, the defence of Novorossiya and the support of its population are important for the preservation of Russia itself and the disruption of the Fifth Column's plans. If we are able to secure a victory there we will preserve Russia. If we lose we will accordingly lose the remnants of our Fatherland. In this struggle there can be no compromises, and he who tries to convince otherwise is, consciously or not, grist to the mill of the enemy. It is all or nothing either Russia will restore its real sovereignty in full measure or it will be destroyed by the coalition of external and internal oligarchic clans.

Having assessed my own place in the fight against the plans of the subversive forces, I would like to say that I have made my choice. The main front of the struggle for Russia is currently here. I hope that it is in Russia that I can do the most good. At the same time, I will emphasize, once again, that those who hoped or still hope to use me or my name for destructive purposes will be sorely disappointed. However critical I may have been with respect to the internal policies of the President, in the circumstances of a war being waged against us, I consider it vital unquestionably to speak out in support of him, as the only legitimate Commander-in-Chief, and the principal guarantor of the freedom and independence of our country. In my opinion, to really protect Novorossiya that is being subjected to Nazi genocide we must expose and remove from power those of Novorossiya's "well-wishers" that have brought us to the brink of military defeat.

And to those who diligently have started to sculpt in the mass media the image of "colonel Strelkov the leader of the popular protest", I declare that they have no chance of bribing me with false praises and promises. The essence of an officer's duty is to serve his country and his people. It is the height of dishonor for me to exchange the often thankless, but faithful service for false glory and popularity in favor of the enemies of the Fatherland. Let them understand, once and for all, that in Russia there are still people (and I am just one among many) who place their Duty and integrity above their own benefit and vanity. And, as the events in Novorossiya have demonstrated, there are still a great many of people like that! And we will not allow for Russia to be ripped asunder and ruined again and again in the manner in which the Russian Empire was destroyed in 1917, and USSR in 1991.