| Sharu said: http://www.globalresearch.ca/ukrainian-government-no-russian-troops-are-fighting-against-us-sanctions-against-russia-based-on-falshoods/5428523 The Chief of Staff of Ukraine’s Armed Forces, General Viktor Muzhenko, is saying, in that news-report, which is dated on Thursday January 29th, that the only Russian citizens who are fighting in the contested region, are residents in that region, or of Ukraine, and also some Russian citizens (and this does not deny that perhaps some of other countries’ citizens are fighting there, inasmuch as American mercenaries have already been noted to have been participating on the Ukrainian Government’s side), who “are members of illegal armed groups,” meaning fighters who are not paid by any government, but instead are just “individual citizens” (as opposed to foreign-government-paid ones). General Muzhenko also says, emphatically, that the “Ukrainian army is not fighting with the regular units of the Russian army.” |
Someone from his deputies has restated this already afair. Muzhenko was probably explained by now that his quote on the matter is not very well in line wih the the position of official authority :D They are permanently in the under the carpet struggle with the local "feudal", the Dnepropetrovsk governor and "fundraiser" of the neo-Nazi battalions that serve him as a personal army, so this "testimony" might be one of the blasts of the infowar between them.
On another note. Came across this today -- 93% of Crimenians support joining with Russia -- a survey made by GfK Ukraine, so I presume any bias excluded? Remembering how Kaz along with some other guys has been trying to call it a phoney referendum based on seeming discrepancy in numbers with the survery made by IRI a few years before (yeah, that's totally unbiased research, chaired by John McCain for those who's unaware). I countered mainly with excactly same numbers showed by survey made by CU-Boulder and subsequent referendum in similar situation in Transdnestria, so statistically both cases are beliveable. And here we go, a yet another survey.
I know, nobody cares, but when there'll be another chance to say: "I told you so, suckers" ;) But surely, the focus group was forced to lie under the barrel of the gun.
