Kermit Heartsong - Ukraine - ZBIG's Grand Chess Board & How The West Was Checkmated

With Crimea now firmly in the Russian camp, the Novorossiyans in defiance of the illegally-installed oligarch and neo-Nazi controlled regime, and Kiev threatening to silence the “terrorists,” war would not be far off.

In early April 2014, a “full-scale anti-terrorist operation” by Ukraine’s coup-installed, acting president, Oleksander Turchinov, was launched against every man, woman, and child in the Donbas region.

Interestingly, the newly designated “terrorists” of the Eastern Ukraine would not elicit the same sympathy as had the Maidan protesters, despite the fact that they would be on the receiving end of civil war and bombarded by armaments ranging from white phosphorous to cluster bombs to ballistic missiles.

It is important also to note, given Secretary Kerry’s earlier quote regarding one country violating the sovereignty of another country, that Ukraine’s civil war began immediately after the departure of CIA chief John Brennan (who traveled to Ukraine under a false name). The trip was later verified by former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych who stated that the CIA Director had ordered the “crackdown” on pro-Russian activists (Durden 2014):

Part of the responsibility for dragging the country into domestic war lays on the US, which brutally interfere[d] in the situation and to point out what to do, Yanukovich said. The ousted president declared that CIA chief John Brennan visited Ukraine and it was after the meeting that the coup-imposed authorities in Kiev ordered a military operation in the country’s east. (Durden 2014)

While initially denying the report regarding CIA Director Brennan’s visit to the Ukraine, White House Spokesman Jay Carney later confirmed that Brennan had indeed visited Kiev (RT 2014).

The irony, of course, is that during Yanukovych’s term in office, never had war been waged against civilians. The newly installed coup-government, enthusiastically backed by the US, however, was about to do just that: execute a war against its own people.

By early April, not long after the departure of CIA Director Brennan, acting, coup-installed, Ukrainian President Turchinov mobilized the Ukrainian army to launch a “full-scale anti-terrorist operation” against the Novorossiyans. Turchinov gave the Novorossiyans (his own countrymen and women) an ultimatum: if they did not leave the occupied buildings and give up their weapons, a war would be launched against them.

On Wednesday, April 16, three Novorossiyan “separatists” were killed by the Ukrainian National Guard in the Black Sea port city of Mariupol (Reynolds 2014).

The following day, April 17, in an attempt to head off further escalation, the EU, Russia, Ukraine, and the US came to terms in the 2014 Geneva Agreement, the text of which stated:

•All sides must refrain from any violence, intimidation or provocative actions. The participants strongly condemned and rejected all expressions of extremism, racism, and religious intolerance, including anti-Semitism.

•All illegal armed groups must be disarmed; all illegally seized buildings must be returned to legitimate owners; all illegally occupied streets, squares and other public places in Ukrainian cities and towns must be vacated.

•Amnesty will be granted to protestors and to those who have left buildings and other public places and surrendered weapons, with the exception of those found guilty of capital crimes.

However, immediately after the Geneva Agreement had been signed, the coup-installed acting foreign minister, Andrey Deshchytsa, stated that the agreement would not affect the anti-terrorist operation in Eastern Ukraine as, “the troops in the east of the country are carrying out a special operation and can remain where they are.” The statement would be in direct contrast to an earlier statement issued by Deshchytsa, during the meeting held in Geneva, which stated that:

All sides have pledged to refrain from any form of violence, intimidation or provocative actions. The participants of the meeting strongly condemned and rejected all forms of extremism, racism and religious intolerance, including manifestations of anti-Semitism. (RT 2014)

US Secretary of State John Kerry also weighed in on the Geneva agreement stating:

All of this, we are convinced, represents a good day’s work, but on the other hand, this day’s work has produced principles, and it has produced commitments and it has produced words on paper. And we are the first to understand and agree that words on paper will only mean what the actions taken as a result of those words produce. (RT 2014)

Secretary Kerry’s rambling statement would turn out to be prophetic with regard to “words on paper” and the required action to end the violence. But no such action would be forthcoming on the part of Ukraine’s coup-installed, Western-enabled government.

On Saturday, April 19, 2014, a raid by the neo-Nazi Right Sektor paramilitary unit killed six people in Ukraine’s Donetsk region, in the city of Slavyansk. Not long thereafter the Geneva Agreement would be in shreds (Chossudovsky 2014).

The following week ( April 21–25), acting coup-installed Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk ordered a full military offensive against the Novorossiyan protestors.

By April 26, satellite images from the Russian Defense Ministry showed 15,000 Ukrainian troops and National Guards, approximately 160 tanks, 230 Armored Personnel Carriers (APCs) and 150 mortars, howitzers and multiple launch rocket systems (Grads and Smerch) being amassed for war.

On May 2, Kiev’s coup-installed government pressed the military into battle as they began shelling the town of Slavyansk. Over the course of the next ten days Donetsk Oblast would also be under siege, while unarmed Ukrainian civilians in Mariupol would be gunned down on the orders of the Yatsenyuk regime (Chossudovsky 2014).

May 12, a day after the eastern cities of Donetsk and Lugansk held successful referendums on their independence from Kiev, the newly formed army of the Donetsk People’s Republic provided the Ukrainian army with its own ultimatum, which gave the Ukrainian army 48 hours to leave the Donbas region. The Ukrainian army, however, pressed on (Lendman 2014).

On May 17, the next phase of the war began as indiscriminate attacks and civilian casualties escalated across the Donbas.

After the election of Ukrainian President Poroshenko on May 25, 2014, and despite his campaign promises to scale back the violence and sue for peace, he escalated the war.

The civil war now raged, pressed by the Ukrainian forces in Slavyansk, Andreevka, and across the Donetsk region. The Ukrainian army’s modus operandi consisted of shelling civilian homes, hospitals, daycare centers, schools, nursing homes and industrial centers with rockets, heavy artillery, various illegal armaments (white phosphorous, cluster bombs), and even ballistic missiles. Kiev’s military jets and attack helicopters also took to the operation and indiscriminately strafed and fired missiles into civilian areas. Civilian casualties quickly began to mount across the Donbas and a mass exodus to Russia began.

June, July. For the next two months the regime in Kiev would wage full-scale war against the entire population of Eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk and Lugansk regions and would commit numerous war crimes and crimes against humanity, killing upwards of several thousand civilians. Some of the crimes committed during Kiev’s military operation against Eastern Ukraine were documented in a white paper subsequently listed on the website Voltaire (Messayan 2014) which, detailed the following, to name just a few: