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"We're disappointed with the Ukrainian government," Lyagin told DW. "We're disappointed with them because they represent the international community. But they're just cavemen. Their place is in the rubbish bin, not in politics. So, believe me, we're not interested in the reaction of the international community."
"Kyiv has to come to terms with the idea that Donbass is not part of Ukraine," said Lyagin. "Whether they will recognize the result of our vote or not is Kyiv's problem."
Two of the main rebel groups receiving weapons from the United States to fight both the regime and jihadist groups in Syria have surrendered to al-Qaeda.Why did we get involved in the middle of Syria's civil war, again?
The US and its allies were relying on Harakat Hazm and the Syrian Revolutionary Front to become part of a ground force that would attack the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil).
For the last six months the Hazm movement, and the SRF through them, had been receiving heavy weapons from the US-led coalition, including GRAD rockets and TOW anti-tank missiles.
But on Saturday night Harakat Hazm surrendered military bases and weapons supplies to Jabhat al-Nusra, when the al-Qaeda affiliate in Syria stormed villages they controlled in northern Idlib province.
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The development came a day after Jabhat al-Nusra dealt a final blow to the SRF, storming and capturing Deir Sinbal, home town of the group's leader Jamal Marouf.
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"As a movement, the SRF is effectively finished," said Aymen al-Tammimi, a Syria analyst. "Nusra has driven them out of their strongholds of Idlib and Hama."
The collapse of the SRF and attacks on Harakat Hazm have dramatically weakened the presence of moderate rebel fighting groups in Syria, which, after almost four years of conflict is increasingly becoming a battle ground between the Syrian regime and jihadist organisations.
For the United States, the weapons they supplied falling into the hands of al-Qaeda is a realisation of a nightmare.
Foreign observers monitoring elections in Ukraine's self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic mark a high voter turnout at polling stations which opened at 8 am, Moscow time.One example of the interest showed in the elections is a group of about 20 people that arrived at the Luhansk's polling station half-an-hour before it opened.
"We have just visited a polling station that was filled to capacity. My first impression is that people show huge interest in the elections," Manuel Ochsenreiter from Germany told TASS.
SYRIA: The Other Reports {Attention! Shocking footage!}
With her courage and diligence the young Russian reporter Anastasia Popova has shown another Syria, as NATO propaganda did not show it to us. She became an important corrective for those who want to come to the facts about this undeclared war.
What is happening in Syria? Whence came the chaos into this beautiful and peaceful country? Syrians who are sentenced for war? These questions are answered by the filmmakers of "Syrian Diary"
- reporter Anastasiya Popova
- cameraman Michael Witkin
- director Evgeny Lebedev
source of the original video.
This documentary also has been translated into German language.
Dear GATA:* * *
I have to ask you something, as you may be among the few people I can trust. (At least I think you are people and not an Internet-derived scam.)
Am I imagining everything that's happening or have I just been brainwashed into believing it? Are the things that people like Andrew Maguire, Eric Sprott, and Egon von Greyerz say really true and factual or just hearsay and nonsense?
I can't believe my eyes -- and no regulators or others in authority are doing anything about it. Is this all a dream? Thousands of futures contracts dumped in the middle of the night to smash gold down?
Are you real? Is the stuff GATA has dug up and archived real?
I'm so mad I could strangle somebody. Please tell me this is all a joke and to walk away. This is almost worse than Nazi Germany.
-- D.C.
Comment: Russia has every right to veto the draft based on the Minsk accords themselves, which proclaim among others: And this is what "elections under the gun" look like in East Ukraine: