4TH UPDATE...RUSSIA PLANS JOINT MILITARY DRILLS WITH NORTH KOREA AND CUBA!!!
http://www.koreatimesus.com/russia-plans-joint-military-drills-with-n-korea-and-cuba/
http://www.trunews.com/russia-plans-joint-military-drills-n-korea/
http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2015/02/02/2015020200796.html
Russia plans to commence joint military drills with the likes of North Korea and Cuba according to Russian armed forces Chief of Staff Valery Gerasimov.
The statement was made public during a meeting on Saturday that featured leaders of all of Russia’s armed forces groups.
“We are planning an expansion of the communication lines of our military central command,” Gerasimov stated. “We are entering preliminary negotiations with the armed forces of Brazil, Vietnam, Cuba and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. We are going to conduct a series of joint naval and air force exercises, as well as joint drills of our ground troops and air assault troops.”
According to the former U.S. ambassador to the Ukraine Steven Pifer, Russia is developing these potential military partnerships as a response to its current international isolation.
North Korea’s involvement may be a tactical response to the repeated denial of its requests regarding the discontinuation of joint U.S. and South Korean military drills off the peninsula’s coast.
As for Russia, the country’s president stated last week that he planned to expand arms trade to Asia, Africa and Latin America according to Newsweek.
3RD UDPATE...
FORMER U.S. PENTAGON OFFICIAL HAS ADMITTED THAT U.S. AND NATO TRAINING OF UKRAINIAN TROOPS IS CURRENTLY UNDERWAY IN UKRAINE.
ALSO, OBAMA AND MERKEL DISCUSS ARMING UKRAINE.
THE WORLD WAR CONTINUES ON ITS PATH...
US Training for Ukrainian Military Underway
(updated 03:59 03.02.2015)
WASHINGTON, February 3 (Sputnik) — US training for the Ukrainian military is underway and being directed from NATO and the US Embassy in Kiev, former top US Pentagon official Jan Lodal said at an Atlantic Council conference.
“There is quite a bit of American effort underway, some of it from NATO and some of it from the embassy in Ukraine,” Lodal said Monday of US military training being given to Ukrainian officers. For US specialists to provide the additional training being considered, Lodal commented, “Americans would have to be in Ukraine to do this additional training.”
Obama & Merkel to Discuss Arming Ukraine in Washington Next Week
(updated 23:43 02.02.2015)
WASHINGTON, February 2nd (Sputnik) — After heavy losses suffered by the Ukrainian army at the hands of anti-Kiev rebels in the country's east, the Obama administration considers supplying government forces with sophisticated armament, hoping to change momentum in the bloody civil war.
A White House administration official, speaking on condition of anonymity to the New York Times, has indicated that President Obama may be willing to approve the shipment of lethal aid to the Ukrainian government. Caches of weapons would include anti-armor missiles, artillery radars, armored vehicles and other sophisticated military hardware.
A White House administration official, speaking on condition of anonymity to the New York Times, has indicated that President Obama may be willing to approve the shipment of lethal aid to the Ukrainian government. Caches of weapons would include anti-armor missiles, artillery radars, armored vehicles and other sophisticated military hardware.
Ukraine "Truce"? Tanks Are Rolling In Poland As NATO Plans Permanent Eastern European Bases
US 173RD AIRBORNE DIVISION ON THEIR WAY TO UKRAINE. REMEMBER LAST SATURDAY I POSTED A NEWS STORY ABOUT A UKRAINIAN JOURNALIST ASKING A UKRAINIAN SOLDIER A QUESTION AND GETTING A RESPONSE IN ENGLISH.
I TITLED THAT POSTING, "NATO TROOPS IN UKRAINE."
WELL, IT LOOKS LIKE THE WAR IS EXPANDING!
Italian Newspaper: 173rd Airborne Brigade Heading to Ukraine to Train Forces
Saturday, 31 Jan 2015 12:32 PM
American soldiers from the 173rd Airborne Brigade at Camp Ederle in Vicenza, Italy, are expected to be leaving the base once again soon to head to Ukraine to help train soldiers for their fight against Russia, an Italian newspaper reports.
The operation will be part of a project outlined by Lt. Gen. Gen. Ben Hodges, the head of U.S. Army Europe, earlier this month, reports the newspaper, Il Giornale, will involve the same division that traveled to Ukraine last September for another NATO exercise, Rapid Trident, according to a translation of the Italian newspaper report.
The operation will be part of a project outlined by Lt. Gen. Gen. Ben Hodges, the head of U.S. Army Europe, earlier this month, reports the newspaper, Il Giornale, will involve the same division that traveled to Ukraine last September for another NATO exercise, Rapid Trident, according to a translation of the Italian newspaper report.
The same newspaper earlier this week suggesting that American soldiers may already be on the ground in Ukraine and helping the government of Kiev.
In a post that covers a purported Jan. 24 attack on the Black Sea port city of Mariupol by troops from the People's Republic of Donetsk, a Ukrainian reporter questions a soldier wearing a Ukrainian uniform, and claimed he used perfect English when he told the reporter to leave him alone.
Meanwhile Hodges, making his first visit to Kiev earlier this month, said the number of troops that will head to the Yavoriv Training area, located about 40 miles from the Polish border, has not yet been determined, reports Defense News.
The mission is part of a State Department plan to "assist Ukraine in strengthening its law enforcement capabilities, conduct internal defense, and maintain rule of law" Pentagon spokeswoman Lt. Col. Vanessa Hillman said.
During his visit, Hodges met with Ukrainian Armed Forces Lt. Gen. Anatoliy Pushnyakov and acting commander of the National Guard Lt. Gen. Oleksandr Kryvyenko, and said he was "impressed by the readiness of both military and civil leadership to change and reform."
The Ukrainian government requested the training to help reform their police forces and establish a newly formed National Guard.
According to Defense News, the initiative funding is coming from the Global Security Contingency Fund, and was requested by the Obama administration for this fiscal year to help and train allied forces.
Already, the United States has $19 million earmarked to help Ukraine set up its National Guard.
Derek Chollet, who left his post as assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs on Jan. 17, told Defense News that he does not expect the training mission "will require significant U.S. presence."
The mission is being planned among fears from Eastern European countries that Russia will step up its aggression in Ukraine. The fighting has continued in Donetsk, Ukraine, between government forces and separatist rebels, and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko this month claimed Russia sent 9,000 troops into his country to back up the rebels.
Chollet told Defense Times that the incursions are refocusing American attention onto the region.
In addition to training forces, Washington this month delivered a prototype of an armored Kozak vehicle for the Ukrainian border guard, according to a U.S. Embassy report.
The vehicle, which costs about $189,000, has an armored hull that protects it against mines and bombs, and is just one piece of equipment sent by the United States, said the embassy, which noted "the United States has delivered dozens of armored pickup trucks and vans to the Ukrainian Border Guard Service. The Kozak is larger and offers a higher level of protection."
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