Ukraine: Phone calls prove rebels attacked city, killed 30
Source: AP-Excite
By YURAS KARMANAU
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine's president said Sunday that intercepted radio and telephone conversations prove that Russia-backed separatists were responsible for firing the rockets that pounded the southeastern city of Mariupol and killed at least 30 people.
The attack on Mariupol, a strategically situated port city that had been relatively quiet for months, alarmed the West and looked likely further to aggravate relations with Russia.
Putting the blame squarely on Moscow, President Barack Obama said the U.S. would work with its European partners to "ratchet up the pressure on Russia."
European Union foreign affairs chief Federica Mogherini later announced that EU foreign ministers would hold an "extraordinary" meeting in Brussels on Thursday to discuss Ukraine.
FULL story at link.
A man walks by a burned car and a piece of exploded Grad missile, outside an apartment building in Vostochniy district of Mariupol, Eastern Ukraine, Sunday, Jan. 25, 2015. Indiscriminate rocket fire slammed into a market, schools, homes and shops Saturday in Ukraine's southeastern city of Mariupol, killing at least 30 people, authorities said. The Ukrainian president called the blitz a terrorist attack and NATO and the U.S. demanded that Russia stop supporting the rebels. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
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After all, the Ukrainians are always thoroughly reliable when reporting on the civil war in their country's east:
Ukraine's Defense Minister Valery Geletei. (RIA Novosti)
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Valery Geletey, who has served as the country’s Defense Minister since July 3, 2014, filed a resignation report back on Friday. He has recently faced harsh criticism over Kiev’s anti-terrorist operation failures in south-east Ukraine, particularly in Donetsk and Lugansk regions.
Earlier in August, hundreds of protesters in Kiev, many of whom were mothers and wives of the soldiers involved in the fighting in Donetsk and Lugansk, demanded Geletey’s resignation.
As a Defense Minister he has also been part of several scandals. Geletey threatened to file a law suit against Yulia Timoshenko, who accused him in selling weapons to militants in Donetsk and Lugansk.
In September, he also accused Russia of using tactical nuclear weapons against Kiev army fighters.
http://rt.com/news/195348-ukraine-defense-minister-resigns/
Nazi fascist zombie cookie eating baby killers
very scary
my post said nothing about Putin, yet some are so obsessed by him that they must mention his name on every possible occasion.
And useful idiots on DU and elsewhere on the left have been cheering the destruction since day one all because the Kremlin is sheltering the golden boy 
