THE NEED FOR EQUIPMENT & VOLUNTEERS TO DEFEND THE SOUTH
“First and foremost, we need active help in the form of armored vehicles,
long-range AA elements, and artillery. This is so because the greater part of
the enemy artillery force conducts attacks from positions that we are unable to
reach.
This will turn into a
humanitarian catastrophe not just at the scale of a city, but on the regional,
possibly the world scale. I say this because there are over six (6) million
inhabitants [in the region] that will become the targets of this very dumb,
very unprofessional, very careless military machine. While guerillas (and we
are, in fact, guerillas), i.e. militia, are able to defend cities, are able to
repel infantry and even tank attacks by the enemy, we are, unfortunately,
incapable of defending the region from airstrikes and artillery shelling.
Unfortunately, without
peacekeeping forces (and I obviously mean Russian peacekeepers, as no other
peacekeeping force would be accepted by us here, nor considered a “peacekeeping
force”), the region will descend into bloody chaos, lawlessness. Everything
that was built over decades would be lost, destroyed. Igor Strelkov, Commander of East-south rebellion.
SHADOW COMMANDER OF THE EAST
UKRAINE INSURGENCY SPEAKS
Not much is known about Igor Strelkov, the man AP dubbed "the face of the insurgency in eastern Ukraine" [ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/29/igor-strelkov-ukraine_n_5235368.html ] , and the fact that he keeps an ultra low profile certainly doesn't help his public image, if certainly boosting his shadowy, mystical status. However, yesterday in the aftermath of the swearing in of Ukraine's new president Poroshenko, Strelkov gave an extensive interview in which he laid out not only the "separatists" take on recent events in Ukraine but how they view the armed resistance strategically, and what, if any, the endgame is.
In any event, the following interview will certainly not be available on any western media outlets so for those who believe in hearing both sides of the story to development an informed opinion, read on.
A: I believe that what he meant is that the Ukrainian army will steamroll over the entire Donbass region, will eliminate all those who rose up against the illegitimate Kiev government, all those who rebelled against the discrimination directed against the Russian people, and that, in this manner, he would bring the war to an end. I think this is what he had in mind. An oligarch who sponsored the so-called “Maidan,” who made the most warlike claims and adopted extreme positions while still a Presidential candidate, Poroshenko is a puppet controlled directly by the United States of America, this oligarch cannot change who he is in one day or one night. Of course, what he means is that he plans to “impose order” with an iron fist, the fist of his punitive forces. Put it bluntly, we saw how they “impose order” from the example of what happened in Krasniy Liman. That is why we will, of course, resist to the last man. We will resist successfully, I am emphasizing this again. The real problem is not that we will be unable to defend ourselves or to withstand attacks by the Ukrainian forces, the problem is that if this war continues indefinitely, the region will fall to a humanitarian catastrophe. As a result Russia will become the recipient of millions of disenfranchised, impoverished and angry refugees. Everything that was built, created over decades, if not centuries, will be destroyed.
We continue to prevail over them again and again, on all fronts. Nowhere have they been able to achieve a victory of any real significance. They were able to overwhelm our garrison of one hundred in Krasniy Liman by throwing a force of three thousand (3,000) and coming against them from all sides. Even so … And where they have to square off against a more-or-less trained, numerous, at least somehow provisioned force, they always, regularly suffer defeat. They cannot advance even a step. Their tactic consists of filling the landscape with troops, tanks, APCs, and artillery, and defending themselves, in hopes that, without numerical and equipment parity, we would be unable to push them from their positions. In effect, their positions at Mount Karachun are an example of this approach. We are unable to kick them out of Karachun first and foremost because their force is at least three times the size of my garrison [in Slavyansk].
We are blessed with excellent morale and fighting spirit, our fighters are highly motivated,.
With respect to international law and norms, they never cared for them on bit. For example, here they use cluster bombs and similar [illegal] weapons. They shell cities. They will continue in this manner with ever-increasing [brutality]. They have no other tactic. They are unable to take up their weapons and go on attack, go storm our positions face-to-face with us, despite their profound numerical advantage in troops. As soon as their infantry faces direct combat, it retreats. They retreat even if supported by tanks. They abandon their tanks and retreat. They understand that their infantry is not combat-worthy. Their only option is to shell us from afar, again and again and again, and hope to inflict the greatest possible destruction.
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