Gaza Massacre Exposes Western Hypocrisy on Russia’s ‘Annexation’ of Crimea

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Finian CUNNINGHAM

May 18, 2018

This week, Russian President Vladimir Putin unveiled a new 19-kilometer bridge linking the Crimean Peninsula with mainland southern Russia. Thousands of kilometers away, in occupied Palestine, a massacre was being carried out by Israeli soldiers with full support of the United States as it opened a new embassy.

The two events are not as disparate as one might think at first glance. They both involve “annexation” – one fictitious, the other very real. But Western hypocrisy inverts the reality.

While US dignitaries were opening the new American embassy in Jerusalem amid pomp and ceremony, some 60 unarmed Palestinian protesters were shot dead in cold blood by Israeli snipers. Among the dead were eight children. Thousands of others were maimed by live fire. The bloodshed could increase in coming days.

The relocation of the American embassy from Tel Aviv to the Israeli-occupied city of Jerusalem, ordered by President Trump, has been rebuked by the majority of nations. The American move pre-empts any negotiated peace settlement which was supposed to bequeath East Jerusalem as the capital of a future Palestinian state.

Trump’s decision to relocate the American embassy effectively endorses Israeli claims to the whole of Jerusalem as the “undivided capital of the Jewish state”. Israel has occupied all of Jerusalem in contravention of international law since the 1967 Six Day War.

In other words, Washington has shifted from tacit acceptance to an openly complicit policy in Israeli annexation of Palestinian territory, an annexation which has been going on for seven decades since the inception of the Israeli state in 1948. The now de facto American approval of the annexation of all Jerusalem marked by the opening of the US embassy is the culmination of 70 years of Israeli expansion and occupation.

Meanwhile, Putin’s unveiling this week of the bridge linking southern Russian mainland to the Crimea Peninsula is a timely reminder of the brazen hypocrisy of American and European states.

Since Crimea voted in a referendum in March 2014 to rejoin its historic homeland of Russia, Washington and its allies have continually complained about Moscow’s alleged “annexation” of the Black Sea peninsula.

Never mind that the Crimean people were prompted to hold their accession referendum following a bloody coup in Ukraine against an elected government by CIA-backed Neo-Nazis in February 2014. The people of Crimea voted in a peacefully constituted referendum to secede from Ukraine to join Russia, which it was historically a part of until 1954 when the Soviet Union arbitrarily assigned Crimea to the jurisdiction of the Soviet Republic of Ukraine.

For the past four years, Western governments, their corporate news media and think-tanks, as well as the US-led NATO military alliance, have mounted an intense anti-Russian campaign of economic sanctions, denigration and offensive posturing all on the back of dubious claims that Russia “annexed” Crimea.

Relations between the US and the European Union towards Russia have descended into the freezer of a new and potentially catastrophic Cold War, supposedly motivated by the principle that Moscow had violated international law and changed borders by force. Russia’s alleged “annexation” of Crimea is cited as a sign of Moscow threatening Europe with expansionist aggression. Putin has been vilified as a “new Hitler” or “new Stalin” depending on your historical illiteracy.

This Western distortion about the events that occurred in Ukraine during 2014, and subsequently, can be easily disputed with hard facts as a blatant falsification to conceal what was actually illegal interference by Washington and its European allies in the sovereign affairs of the Ukraine. In short, Western interference was about regime change; with the objective of destabilizing Moscow and projecting NATO force on Russia’s borders.

That is one way of challenging the Western narrative about Ukraine and Crimea. Through weighing up factual events, such as the CIA-backed false-flag sniper shootings of dozens of protesters in Kiev in February 2014. Or the ongoing Western-backed military offensive by Kiev’s Neo-Nazi forces against the breakaway republics of Donbas in Eastern Ukraine.

Another way is to ascertain the integrity of supposed Western legal principle about the general practice of annexation of territory.

From listening to the incessant public consternation expressed by Western governments and media about Russia’s alleged annexation of Crimea, one might think that the putative expropriation of territory is a most grievous violation of international law. Oh how chivalrous, one might think, are Washington and the Europeans in their defense of territorial sovereignty, judging by their seeming righteous repudiation of “annexation”.

However, this week’s grotesque opening of the US embassy in Jerusalem accompanied by the massacre of protesting unarmed Palestinians shows that Western professed concerns about “annexation” are nothing but a diabolical sham. In seven decades of expanding illegal occupation of Palestinian territory by the Israelis, Washington and the Europeans have enacted no opposition.

But when it comes to Crimea, even though their case is not valid, the Western powers never stop hand-wringing about Russia’s “annexation” as if it was the biggest crime in modern history.

Worse than hypocrisy, the US and European Union have been silently complicit in allowing Israel to continue annexing more and more Palestinian territory despite the stark violation of international law. Periodic massacres and whole populations held under brutal military siege in the Gaza Strip and West Bank have never registered any effective opposition from Western powers.

This week, Washington has gone one step further to, in effect, exult in the Israeli annexation of Palestinian territory in the most provocative way by opening its embassy in occupied Jerusalem. Then on top of that violation of international law, we have the obscenity of the Trump White House defending the massacre of unarmed civilians as “an act of self-defense” by the illegally occupying and US-armed Israeli military. A White House license to kill.

The pathetic, muted response from the European Union and the United Nations towards this state terrorism and criminality exposes their cowardly complicity.

US ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley has for months been hysterically accusing Russia of violations in Ukraine and Syria. Yet, on the mass murder of Palestinians this week, Haley was silent. Her only remarks were to congratulate Israel over the new US embassy in occupied Jerusalem.

So, the next time we hear Washington and its European allies pontificate to Russia about “annexation”, the only fitting response should be one of contempt for their vile hypocrisy towards Palestinian rights and the ongoing genocide of its people under Western-backed occupation.

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The Netherlands: A Leading Distributor And Producer of Child Pornography

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Sanne Bosma
Wed, 24 Jan 2018

  

Dutch newspaper articles promoting pedophilia in the 80s

Twenty years ago, unspeakable crimes committed against children became public knowledge when the Dutroux pedophile networks in Belgium came to light. Soon thereafter, the authorities – through careful perception management and historical revisionism – sent it back into the darkness. Dutroux and his ex-wife Michelle Martin (a teacher) abducted several young girls and delivered them to an international ring that tortures, rapes and murders children. Martin, who drove the van, filmed her husband raping girls, and left two girls to starve to death while her husband was incarcerated, was released from prison in 2012, despite angry public protests.

But when the news about the Dutch Zandvoort pedophile rings broke two years later in 1998, the Dutch people did not take to the streets to voice their outrage the way Belgians had done during their ‘White March’ which nearly brought about a revolution. In an earlier article we wondered why this horrendous case did not shock Dutch society to its core.

The newspaper NRC wrote the following in 1998 about the ‘Zandvoort File’:

The Dutch language has a new word: baby porn. The ‘Zandvoort porn affair’ brought to light a trade network of child sexual abuse so vast and so violent that it also shook very experienced experts to their core.

[…]

It means The Netherlands has a serious problem when such indescribable practices can take place here. In light of the strong reactions from abroad one mainly recognizes this outside The Netherlands. With the Dutroux case as a reference point, The Netherlands is once again – and this time it is justified – depicted as having a serious vice problem. With the Zandvoort case there is now proof that The Netherlands is indeed an important child porn producing and distributing country, an allegation American and German authorities have asserted repeatedly since the eighties and the authorities over here have always denied.

Note that the journalist calls these rings a ‘trade network‘.

The NRC continues:

“The case took off when the Belgian working group, a pressure group against child porn obtained disks and paperwork [including bank account details] from members of the network. The head of Morkhoven, the former private detective Marcel Vervloesem, said early this morning that “tremendous developments” occurred last night. He said he had the names of hundreds of purchasers of child porn from The Netherlands and other countries, found on the disks and in the paperwork. He says he will hand them over to the Dutch police.”

So he did, and for his trouble the authorities threw him in jail for a couple of years, which should give us pause. One year later in 1999 the NRC published an article, which denied the existence of networks by claiming that a lone wolf had been responsible for the horrors in Zandvoort (remember Dutroux, he was not a lone wolf either, but part of a network).

But why did the paper write in 1998 “this time it is justified” and then subsequently deny it? Was this another stab in the back of child abuse experts (including the local police and prosecution) by media moguls and their powerful friends? In 1987, experts and local police found that a few dozen children had been sexually abused in the small village of Oude Pekela in the Groningen province and that the abuse may have been part of a pedophile ring. Yet at the time the media tried desperately to make the affair appear as nothing more than the fantasy of hysterical villagers.

As a result of this media propaganda campaign a GP who was convinced that children had been abused committed suicide a few years later and a child psychiatrist and Member of Parliament who investigated the case was hounded by the press and died from a heart attack shortly after. No-one was ever accused or brought to trial. In 1995, the newspaper Trouw published an article in which a professor of child psychiatry of the Leuven University came out in support of the village by stating that the browbeaten villagers and the experts had told the truth. NRC still denies that fact to this day.

Another child abuse scandal – The Bolderkar affair (1988) – may have been fabricated in order to deflect attention from widespread pedophilia in high places. In this case an ill-equipped psychologist of a medical daycare center who used puppets to establish sexual abuse claimed that some of the children who attended the center had been abused. Fourteen of them were removed from their homes and their fathers were arrested. Three men admitted to the ‘sexual abuse’, but retracted their statements, claiming their confessions had been forced from them by way of harsh police interrogation methods. Another father was acquitted.

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Defense attorney Bart Swier from Amsterdam, the man who loves to represent pedophiles

In their 2011 article the NRC had the temerity to allege that the Bolderkar and Oude Pekela affairs had led to a “more critical attitude towards abuse accusations”, but that they didn’t lead to “a turning point in thinking about pedophilia”.

In 2010, news about another Dutch-based international child porn network broke. At least 83 children had been sexually abused in a daycare center in Amsterdam by a worker whose international network had produced at least 220,000 pictures and videos according to the daily AD .

As in so many other cases, authorities took control of the case and ensured that this international pedophile ring would be swept under the rug pretty efficiently. They also changed the language used to refer to such cases from ‘pedophile case’ to ‘vice case’ and encouraged the media to focus on a few ‘lone wolves’.

When a principal of a school in Amsterdam was caught with child porn in his possession, defense attorney Bart Swier attended a meeting that was organized for worried parents to tell them that there was no indication that pupils were harmed. Never mind that the principal had edited child porn by sticking the faces of boys of his school on the images. He also kept quiet about the faceless victims who were harmed during these child pornography productions. In addition, he later blamed the police for exposing the actions of his client.

Earlier this year we saw the Dutch prosecution and courts play a role in aiding and abetting crimes against children by acquitting a teacher who abused a 13 year old girl. It seems that if it had been left to the Dutch government, a ban on child pornography would never have been implemented:

“That carelessness came to light in a painful manner in 1984 when Secretary Korthals Altes had ‘forgotten’ to include a ban on the distribution and public display of child pornography in the law. That ban was only implemented at the very last moment. Trade in child pornography was in fact unrestricted until the mid eighties, as an unintended consequence of the liberalization of adult pornography in earlier decades”.

Knowing now that The Netherlands is a leading country in the production and distribution of child pornography, it’s unlikely this state of affairs was ‘unintended’.

With this level of deliberate obfuscation of the reality of high level and widespread pedophilia, it’s no surprise that the majority of the Dutch population is meek when it comes to taking a stand against the abuse of children. Manipulated and worked on from the very beginning by massive amounts of pro-pedophile propaganda meant to support the child pornography ‘trade’ and the psychopaths at the top, more billboards will probably have to fall from the skies on the heads of those who do not wish to face the horrendous reality that there are many pedophiles ‘at the top’ in Western societies.

‘Crimea has always been Russia’: Award winning filmmaker Kusturica says during Peninsula visit

Source: ‘Crimea has always been Russia’: Award winning filmmaker Kusturica says during Peninsula visit — RT News

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24 Jul, 2017

Emir Kusturica © Samantha Zucchi / Global Look Press

Crimea’s reunification with Russia is an “organic” process, Serbian movie director, Emir Kusturica, told journalists in Yalta, saying, that those living on the Peninsula do not need approval from abroad to build their lives as part of Russia.

“There are forces in the world that divide but on the other side there are [forces that] unite,” the award winning film director and musician, said before staging a concert with his group, The No Smoking Orchestra.

“When Crimea became part of Russia, I thought it had always been Russia…There was no war here, there was a referendum where people said: ‘We want to live with Russia.’ It is an organic process,” Kusturica said.

He noted that people on the peninsula are part of the country and that they basically did what they “should have done” when voting “YES” during the referendum in March of 2014.

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The Serb pointed out that Crimean lifestyle and culture serves as “proof that you are Russia.”

Locals in Crimea should now focus on building their lives as part of the country without waiting for international recognition of Crimea’s ascension, he advised.

“You must do what you are doing, [building] a huge airport, good motorways, infrastructure, and Crimea will be beautiful… and your life will be in your hands. It doesn’t matter what they think [in the West],” he said.

Crimea became part of the Russian Empire back in the 18th century but was reassigned to the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1954 by the Soviet Union’s ruling presidium.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Crimea became an autonomous region in Ukraine. Following the 2014 coup in Kiev, Crimeans voted overwhelmingly in a referendum to rejoin Russia. Their decision has not been recognized by Western powers.

In April, president Vladimir Putin’s spokesperson said Moscow won’t “trade” Crimea for lifting sanctions imposed by the West on Moscow over the reunification.

“The very idea of conducting a second referendum in Crimea contradicts the fundamental principles of today’s Russian policy,” Dmitry Peskov, said.

In February last year, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov noted that even if Moscow agrees to hold another referendum, its results would be also challenged by the west under a new pretext in order to maintain tense relations with Russia. 

Catastrophic Population Loss! Ukrainians stampede into Poland as EU visa-free begins

Let’s hear it from someone who knows what is going on. Lada is from that region. We must feel sorry for the average Ukrainian who cannot get out. On the other hand, the Ukrainian Nazis have a chance to demonstrate that they can actually govern for the benefit of all. They’ll fail mainly because their philosophy of hatred and separation of the races is a flawed and primitive philosophy with no future. There are no races ye eejits; it’s all in your heads.

Source: Catastrophic Population Loss! Ukrainians stampede into Poland as EU visa-free begins | Futurist Trendcast

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Posted by Lada Ray

June 13, 2017

As I explained since 2014, after the Kiev junta and ukro-nazis came to power, what little talent, brains and active population was still left in Ukraine, has been leaving. Millions moved to Russia. Anywhere between 6 and 8 million either work and live in Russia or have received Russian citizenship between 1991 and 2017. At least 1.5-2 million became refugees in Russia after Poroshenko junta came to power. Up to 3-4 million also left to the EU and US. This process greatly intensified after 2014 Kiev Maidan.

Poroshenko made a dog and pony show of the simple 90 day visa free tourist travel, allowed by the EU as of June 2017, portraying it as his huge victory and great achievement of Maidan. He and his cronies tout visa-free with the EU as a demonstration that “Ukraine is rejoining Europe, and finally severing all ties with Russia.” “We are finally getting away from the unwashed Russia and rejoining the civilized Europe,” proclaimed the drunk Poroshenko from the podium in Kiev, where thousands of students and state workers were herded, dressed in same T-shirts with EU flag and waiving mini-EU flags they were handed out.

It has been noted by all Ukrainian analysts, even those who were initially pro-Maidan, that the vast majority of Ukrainians cannot afford to travel as tourists to the EU on their measly salaries. The only real value of the EU visa-free travel is to pretend you are a tourist, but use your 90 days to latch on to a job so you could remain permanently.

As you see on the video, the crowd is crossing to Poland on foot – to save money. They probably have low-paying jobs, such as agriculture, taking care of the elderly and working as janitors, awaiting for them on the other side. Polish slave drivers and low-paying-jobs brokers are eager to get their hands on this new wave of slave labor for the EU.

Some, who have better prospects, better education or who are younger and bolder, may leave by train or bus to Central and Western Europe. Therefore, the remainder of the most able-bodied, active, highest chi and best skilled population is leaving Ukraine at even a faster rate than ever before.

Since 1992, when Ukraine first acquired independence after the collapse of the USSR, without a major war, it lost a huge chunk of the population. The census of 1993 registered the population of Ukraine as 54 million. As you’ll see below, the new data suggests the population of Ukraine now shrunk by more than half!

Due to the catastrophic loss of the population the new census has been a taboo. In today’s fascist Ukraine it is literally forbidden to research and voice out the truth about the population loss. The official numbers are grossly overstated and bluntly falsified.

Recently, the last remaining in Ukraine decent economists, such as Natalia Vitrenko, leader of the outlawed and prosecuted Progressive Socialist Party (+ a few others), have calculated the true state of events. They based their data on the consumption of bread – an important staple in both Russia and Ukraine, as well as nearby Moldova.

Bread, note Vitrenko and others, is so inexpensive and such a big staple, that when people cannot afford anything else, they’ll still buy bread. Other data, such as alcohol, meat, or fruit consumption is unreliable as people can use their gardens, illegal alcohol, etc., when they become poorer. But very few will bake their own bread as it requires a large usage of natural gas and electricity — both very expensive and in short supply in today’s Ukraine. Therefore, people would still buy bread in stores due to its relative cheapness and good quality.

Since Russian bread consumption per capita is known and it stands around 42 kilos per capita per year, based on that it is easy to calculate how much bread would be consumed in the very similar Ukrainian culture. In fact, notes Vitrenko, Russian bread consumption per capita should be lower than Ukrainian, as Russians make 3-4 times more money per capita and can afford a large variety of foods; additionally, Russians have been living a much more satisfied and healthy lifestyles than Ukrainians, which also lowers bread consumption.

Yet, the official data puts bread consumption in Ukraine at 24 kilos per capita per year. This is based on the falsified official population count of 42 million. The official Kiev explains that by saying that Ukrainians buy less and bake more. However, as I pointed out above, it is impossible for the majority as the gas and electricity are unaffordably expensive.

And then the question is: if Ukrainians eat a lot less bread, a lot less meat and fruit, drink a lot less alcohol per capita compared to 2013 — then what do they eat?

Instead of the falsified official Ukrainian data of 24 kilos per capita, Vitrenko and other economists used Russian bread consumption base number of 42 kilos per capita per year to set the record straight.

**I should mention that Kiev still counts the population of Crimea and LDPR as their own. In other words, they bomb Donbass and threaten to invade Crimea / sabotage its economy, yet they count them as parts of Ukraine. Crimean population is 2.3 million and LDPR’s is about 3.6 million. Altogether — minus 5.9 million.

Having subtracted Crimea and LDPR populations, and based on the bread consumption per capita, Vitrenko and others have arrived at 25-26 million people remaining in Ukraine. This is down from 54 million in 1993 — without WWIII! This is the loss of over 1/2 of the entire population!

Incidentally, please recall that I have been predicting this catastrophic outcome since 2014!

Poroshenko and his cronies must be totally dumb, you may say.  Instead of making life in Ukraine better for ordinary people so they would want to remain and build a life for themselves in their own country, they open the floodgates, basically telling people to run to the EU.

Poroshenko is not exactly dumb. He is smart enough to hang on to power all this time, manipulating his Western sponsors and various ukro-nazi forces. And he is smart enough to multiply his fortune more than 7-fold since 2014, while his country is dying.

In fact, Poroshenko is two things in one wrapper:

1. Oligarch who is sucking the last remaining juices from Ukraine using his position as president. Bezviz (visa-free to the EU) is one of Poroshenko’s populist moves to get elected for the next term, despite his catastrophically low approval rating. Premature elections may be scheduled in Ukraine as early as October 2017, well ahead of normal schedule. Poroshenko knows he can only continue robbing his country blind, getting fat of the people’s tragedy of he remains in power.

Recall what I said EARTH SHIFT REPORT 3 OLIGARCH WARS – ever since Kiev Maidan, all Ukraine oligarchs lost money and some are near, or in, bankruptcy. All, except Poroshenko.

2. US Deep State and globalist cabal agent, who does what he is told to do. He takes orders directly from the US – OK, maybe also a few from Germany/EU. If you think something has changed since Trump was elected — think again.

If you think I am just saying that – you know I never do that. My intel tells me that there are between 800 and 900 US advisers working in Kiev and whispering stuff into Poroshenko’s ear, including CIA, military, economic, political and more.

According to my local Kiev intel, there also are — very sadly — Bulgarian advisers. This seems to be a newer addition, just showing how sold out the Bulgarian government really is. My conclusion is that Bulgarian advisers are sent to Kiev by their US bosses for the same reason Ukraine had to be subverted: to deepen and enlarge the rift between Russia and those countries that are closest to her culturally. In the past 3 years there have been ongoing protests and discontent in Bulgaria about NATO bases and US presence, while Russian business and tourism left. There has been an aspiration in Bulgaria to get back closer to Russia. The population of Bulgaria is being gradually remolded to forget its history, roots and Slavic cultural affinities — in order to reorient it slowly but surely towards the West.

The same process is happening in the Balkans small countries, such as Montenegro and FYRO Macedonia. The goal in all cases is to push out any naturally occurring cultural closeness to Russia and Russian influence, replacing it with everything Western.

Ukraine is the biggest victim of the yang aggressive West. We discuss how the yang West operates, what Russia the Great Balancer is trying to do and what is The Great Earth Shift in my new EARTH SHIFT WEBINAR INVERTED COLLAPSE.

But not all is sad and depressing. We have a huge and bold breakthrough in Moldova, which is turning back to its roots, although the struggle will continue for some time. The new president of Moldova Igor Dodon has made a big splash by explaining during St. Petersburg Economic Forum how the West tried to subvert and enslave his country. More on that soon – stay tuned!

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‘Kremlin Special Agent’ Reveals Unknown Pages of the Crimean Spring

This one is not difficult to understand. Anyone supporting the US or Ukraine on this pathetic propaganda nonsense is a big fat moron fascist, period.

Source: ‘Kremlin Special Agent’ Reveals Unknown Pages of the Crimean Spring

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 18.03.2017

March 18 marks the third anniversary of Crimea’s reunification with Russia following the referendum held two days earlier. Crimean native Armen Martoyan, who actively participated in the events of 2014, told Sputnik how he was blocking the airport, where the Ukrainian special forces had gone and how the Crimeans met Poroshenko.

On March 18, 2014, the Russian Federation and the Republic of Crimea signed an agreement on the accession of the Republic of Crimea to the Russian Federation.

The document, which was signed in the Kremlin, “is based on the free and voluntary expression of will by the peoples of Crimea at a nationwide referendum, held in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol on March 16, 2014, during which the people of Crimea made the decision to reunite with Russia,”‘ reads the statement on the official website of the Russian President.

© Sputnik/ Mihail Mokrushin

Crimean residents at the railway station in Simferopol marking a holiday as clocks are moved to Moscow time

Preparations for the referendum started at the end of February after the waning of the Ukrainian revolt, known as Euromaidan. The peaceful voting on the peninsular was secured by the Russian military, nicknamed the “Polite People” for their professional behavior. And the developments preceding and following the referendum earned the name the “Crimean Spring.”

Sputnik sat down to talk with Crimean resident Armen Martoyan, who took part in the events of 2014 under the call sign “Samvel” and whom the Ukrainian journalists had labelled the “Special Agent of the Kremlin.”

© Sputnik/ Max Vetrov

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He told Sputnik how he was blocking the airport, where the Ukrainian special forces had gone, how the Crimeans met Poroshenko and how he slapped the Ukrainian “radical” deputy Oleh Lyashko in the face.

Martoyan said that he is sure that if not for Russia, there would have been a different scenario for the Crimeans: instead of the victorious Crimean Spring the republic would have got bogged down in a “Crimean war.”

Simferopol Airport

Armen was one of the first to enlist into the movement on the defense of the peninsula back in February 2014. His first job was to block the airport in the city of Simferopol, where, according to intercepted data, a unit of the Ukrainian special forces and the radicals from the Ukrainian Right Sector nationalist party were due to arrive.

© Sputnik/ Sergey Malgavko

Extras on the set of Alexei Pimanov’s film “Crimea” at the train station in Simferopol

The Ukrainian servicemen were supposed to quell the “rebelling” Crimean politicians.

“We had to block the airport’s runway at any cost, with any means at hand – barrels, pallets, tires, to prevent any Ukrainian military jet from landing in Crimea. And they were flying in,” he told Sputnik.

He further recalled that he gathered around 140 people who arrived at the airport just with shields and spade handles. Just a few hunters had guns.

His group arrived at the airfield to take part in the operation which was coordinated by Mikhail Sheremet, a commander of the Crimean Self Defense Forces and which, without the support of the “Polite People” could have ended in bloodshed.

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Unidentified armed men patrol outside of Simferopol airport, on February 28, 2014

“At a certain moment we heard the rumble of military trucks. When they arrived, heavily armed men without insignia started disembarking. We understood that they were the Russian special forces and started to applaud. Some were even crying with joy,” the serviceman recalls.

After the full takeover of the airport under the control of the group, he was ordered to take over the traffic controller’s room and further control all the arrivals and departures.

Meeting Poroshenko and Slapping Lyashko

All regular flights from Kiev were canceled during the Crimean Spring. Only charter flights were let in.

“I saw a very small dot on the traffic controller’s monitor – a charter aircraft entered Crimean airspace. It was Poroshenko on board. I was ordered to let it land,” he told Sputnik,

However Poroshenko didn’t stay there long as he was forced to flee from Crimeans who bombarded him with eggs, he added.

Another brief guest on Crimean soil was Oleh Lyashko, the leader of the Ukrainian Radical Party.

© AP Photo/ Vadim Ghirda

Members of the Crimean self defense forces check passengers at the main railway station in Simferopol, Ukraine, Friday, March 14, 2014

“After his landing, I came up to him and asked him to remain calm, wait in the VIP-hall until he is provided with a car to the city. However he answered with propagandistic speeches and threats. I lost patience and slapped him in the face. He fell on the sofa. When he came to his senses, he asked in Russian when could he leave back to Kiev,” Martoyan said.

© Sputnik/ Sergey Malgavko

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He further said that he is proud to be connected to the events of the Crimean Spring, that he did not shrink back from the decisive moment when the future of millions of people were at stake.

“My grandfather fought in Crimea during the Second World War, in the 89th Infantry Rifle Division, Tamanskaya Division. He was wounded twice during a battle in the city of Kerch (east of Crimea). I know that I had not let him down. He would have been very pleased with his grandson who refused to let neo-fascists to set foot on Crimean soil,” he told Sputnik.

He further revealed that one Ukrainian oligarch offered 200,000 euro reward for his head. However he believes that his devotion to Crimea and the Crimean people is priceless.

If he had a chance to return to the past, he would not think twice and would do exactly the same, he finally concluded.

US urges Russia to end ‘occupation’ of Crimea

Dumbass Americans, what part of 96.8% of Crimeans  wanted to rejoin Russia don’t you understand? This is what democracy looks like ye bloody imperialists.

“Crimea declared independence from Ukraine on March 17, 2014 and formally applied to become part of Russia following a referendum, in which 96.8 percent of participants voted in favor of the move.”

Source: PressTV-US urges Russia to end ‘occupation’ of Crimea

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 Mar 17, 2017

US State Department acting spokesman Mark Toner answers reporters’ questions on March 7, 2017. (AFP photo)

The United States has once again condemned Russia’s reunification with Crimea in 2014, vowing to maintain related sanctions until Moscow returns the strategic Black Sea peninsula to Ukraine.

US State Department spokesperson Mark Toner urged  Russia on Thursday to immediately end its “occupation” of Crimea and accused Moscow of committing human rights violations there.

“The United States again condemns the Russian occupation of Crimea and calls for its immediate end. Our Crimea-related sanctions will remain in place until Russia returns control of the peninsula to Ukraine,” Toner said in an official statement.

“We call on Russia to cease its attempts to suppress freedom of expression, peaceful assembly, association and religion,” he added.

Crimea declared independence from Ukraine on March 17, 2014 and formally applied to become part of Russia following a referendum, in which 96.8 percent of participants voted in favor of the move.

“The United States does not recognize Russia’s ‘referendum’ of March 16, 2014, nor its attempted annexation of Crimea and continued violation of international law,” said Toner.

Senior members of US President Donald Trump’s cabinet, including US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley, have publicly denounced Russian “occupation of the peninsula.”

Trump, who has called for better relations between the Kremlin and the White House, said prior to his election victory that “The people of Crimea, from what I’ve heard, would rather be with Russia than where they were.”

A woman holding a portrait of Russian President Vladimir Putin takes part in a rally marking the third anniversary of Crimea voting to leave Ukraine and rejoin Russia in central Simferopol on March 16, 2017. (AFP photo)

After Crimea rejoined Russia, an armed conflict broke out in eastern Ukraine when Kiev launched military operations to quell similar pro-Russia sentiments there. Kiev accuses Moscow of involvement in the conflict, a charge Russia has denied.

The US and its Western allies have imposed several rounds of sanctions against Russia over its reunification with Crimea and the Ukrainian crisis, which has killed about 10,000 people since it began in 2014.

On Thursday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov dismissed the possibility that Crimea could be returned to Ukraine under some sort of deal with the United States.

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