Ukraine accuses Russia of cynicism over convoy; death toll rises sharply

[another_liberal]

Source: Al Jazeera Anerica

The Ukrainian government on Wednesday denounced Russia's dispatch of a humanitarian aid convoy toward the two countries’ border as an act of unbounded cynicism serving pro-Russian separatists. Separately, the United Nations said the death toll in fighting there has doubled in the last two weeks to over 2,000. Kiev said the trucks would not be allowed into Ukraine.

"First they send tanks, Grad missiles and bandits who fire on Ukrainians, and then they send water and salt," Prime Minister Arseny Yatsenyuk said at a government meeting. The comments reflected suspicions in Kiev and Western capitals that passage of the convoy onto Ukrainian soil could turn into a covert military action to help pro-Russian separatists now losing ground to government forces.

The convoy of 280 heavy trucks rumbled out of Moscow region on Tuesday and traveled some 300 miles to the southwestern Russian town of Voronezh. There it stopped at an air base behind high fences, according to a Reuters reporter at the scene. Several people who entered the air base and spoke to Reuters on condition of anonymity said dozens of trucks were still parked at the base. It was not clear whether the Voronezh convoy was the only one traveling toward Ukraine.

"The journey isn't short of course," said one truck driver interviewed on Russian Rossiya-24 television. "How can I put it? It's pretty difficult. But how could we not help our Slavic brothers? We are all for it." There was no discussion on Russian television of any military intervention, and Moscow has insisted throughout that it has enlisted Ukrainian cooperation for the operation.

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Read more: http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/8/13/ukraine-accuses-russiaofcynicismoverconvoydeathtollrisessharply.html

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Could Kiev be trying to finish its "anti-terrorism operation" and defeat the separatist movement in Donetsk and Lugansk before relief can arrive, breathing new life into the embattled rebels? One can only hope that at least aid from some source does reach those innocent noncombatants who so desperately need it. If Iraqis on a mountain in Kurdistan deserve our help, surely people in the heart of a major European city do as well?

[Comrade Grumpy]

1. Funny how, as fighting intensifies, Western media attention diminishes.

Except for worrying about all those Russian trucks.

[another_liberal]

2. Ethnic Russians suffering hunger and thirst without hope of escape are not important . . .

Hungry and thirsty religious minorities who live on Muslim-controlled territory holding lots of oil, now those are the sort of people this country can really get behind helping!

[KoKo]

3. Thanks for Giving "Alternative View." We need to look further than USA MSM for our news.

[another_liberal]

4. You are welcome, KoKo . . .

I can't stand to watch or listen to very much of the Western media regarding Ukraine. It is far too biased, Russophobic, and predictable. I still have a sense of fairness which is capable of being offended.

I don't really know what the main stream is even saying about the relief convoy, though from what some actual liberals are posting here, I can imagine the depths from which they must operating. They no doubt have decreed Russian trucks crossing the sacrosanct and inviolable Ukrainian border would be the worst thing since Pearl Harbor, at least.

[joshcryer]

5. I wonder why the convoy suddenly disappeared.

Perhaps because it was merely a propaganda tool?

[dipsydoodle]

7. Disappeared ?

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Ukraine crisis: 'Shelling hits' rebel-held Donetsk.

Heavy shelling has been heard in the rebel-held Ukrainian city of Donetsk as a Russian convoy approaches the Ukrainian border.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-28788945



Russian aid convoy near Ukraine's border.

KAMENSK-SHAKHTINSKY, Russia (AP) — A large Russian aid convoy headed toward Ukraine Thursday, taking a road leading directly toward a border crossing controlled by pro-Russian rebels in the Luhansk region.

Ukraine's government threatened to block the convoy if the cargo could not be inspected, and Kiev announced it was organizing its own shipment of humanitarian aid.

The Russian convoy of more than 200 vehicles had been parked at a military depot in the southern Russian city of Voronezh since late Tuesday amid disagreement over how and where the aid could be delivered to Ukraine, where government troops are battling pro-Russia separatists.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-2724591/Russian-aid-convoy-near-Ukraines-border.html#ixzz3AMq2n4Tc
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[another_liberal]

8. Here is a little more on the subject . . .

Does anyone else feel like they are standing on slippery ground, at the edge of a very high cliff?


http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/8/14/donetsk-under-fireasukrainedeathtolldoubles.html

[ballyhoo]

6. Things about to get nasty. For those of you who don't know Putin, he will

take only so much baloney and then he changes into a different personality. I've read about it for years. Ukraine won't know what hit it.