About 400 elite commandos of a notorious US private security firm, Academi, are involved in a punitive operation mounted by Ukraine’s new government against federalization supporters in eastern Ukraine, the German Bild am Sonntag newspaper reported on Sunday.
According to the newspaper, Academi mercenaries participate in attacks against federalization supporters near Slavyansk. So far, it’s unclear who hired them.
In April 29, Germany’s Federal Intelligence Service (BND) informed the Angela Merkel government about Academi commandos’ involvement in Kiev’s military operations in eastern Ukraine.
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Academi, former Blackwater (renamed in 2009), gained notoriety for killings of civilians in Iraq, arms smuggling and other crimes, TASS reports.
Ukraine recruiting foreigners to restore order may be attempt to suppress civil protest - Moscow
Media reports claiming that the Ukrainian leadership wants to recruit personnel from private foreign military companies "in order to maintain law and order" may suggest that the Kiev regime wants to suppress civil protest and discontent, the Russian Foreign Ministry said.
"Anyway, one can state that in the absence of support from the Ukrainian population, the Maidan government has only one option if it wants to remain in power - to mobilize any support possible from foreign sponsors, including foreign mercenaries," the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a commentary.
"Among the candidates for the role of gendarme is the company Greystone Limited, registered in Barbados, which is integrated with the Academi corporation," it said.
"It is an analogue, or, probably, an affiliate body of the Blackwater private army, whose soldiers have been accused of committing rigorous and regular human rights abuses in troubled regions," the ministry said.
"It looks as though this practice, if it really is implemented, goes against the Ukrainian laws that ban foreign citizens from working with private security companies," it said.
"Such initiatives demonstrate that those who have conquered their place in power in Kiev cannot guarantee minimal order or even their own security," the Foreign Ministry said.
"The question arises, what the price of this plan is and where the money will come from. To what extent will the burden of spending on highly-paid foreign specialists be shifted to ordinary Ukrainians who, in connection with the painful tax increase, including taxes on gas as the precondition for securing loans from the International Monetary Fund, will have to tighten their belts even stronger?" it said.
Ukrainian leadership to hire US mercenaries to suppress eastern regions - source
Private military company will be in charge of suppressing protest movements in Eastern Ukraine, said a source in the country's Security Service. According to him, the name of the company is Greystone Limited.
According to a source cited by ITAR-TASS, Ukrainian authorities believe that the Security Service is not able to suppress the protest mood and neutralize the leaders and activists of the pro-Russian movement in the eastern regions. In particular, the source said, the acting president Alexander Turchinov shares this opinion. "Therefore it was decided to attract foreign mercenaries, who will serve as political police and state security protection, " said the representative of the Security Service.
He informed that the initiative to attract mercenaries belongs to oligarchs Igor Kolomoisky and Sergei Taruta, appointed governors of Dnepropetrovsk and Donetsk regions.
Not so long ago, during a meeting with Turchinov, a plan to stop the protest movements in the eastern regions was discussed. Kolomoysky noted: "why reinvent the wheel if there are real people who understand how and how much to pay," said the source.
According to publicly available information Greystone Limited is a structural part of Blackwater, that was later renamed into Academi. According to military experts, the company is associated with the CIA and the US Defense Department. Its employees participated in the war in Afghanistan after the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime in 2003, the company has appeared in Iraq and became involved in training the new Iraqi armed forces and police, as well as support of the occupation forces.
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What it shows is that Kiev Junta is so unpopular the people does not want them, and even the police and army is against the junta... it is a junta 100% imposed by USA and NATO. They failed from day one. USA and NATO stand as naked aggressors. EU better come to their sense and start supporting the people in Ukraine... not the junta.
ReplyDeleteThis is NULAND DEMOCRACY RULE propped up by NAZIs and Greystone killers. It was sold to the world as a popular uprising for democracy !!!! The Ukraine people are not buying it. The people of the world did not buy it.
ReplyDelete@Bente. They are buying it in Nigeria. Sad our dear country is about to become the next paki or yugoslavia
ReplyDeleteUkraine goes to the next level. US not happy with just the western part, all Ukraine needs to be dominated politically, exploited economically, and used as a military battering ram (or quagmire) against Russia (depending on what Russia does in response). This has been war gamed out for decades. The "crazies" who wrote the PNAC documents are still in the game.
ReplyDeleteReal problem is this: AMERICA is ADDICTED TO OIL (G.Bush.JR). Now they steal the oil from all over the planet except IRAN and RUSSIA.They try to enter in SYRIA to invade IRAN but RUSSIA oppose them.The hunger for cheap oil is so big that Americans must invade RUSSIA.A global war started from Washington is inevitable.Because Russians are not lazy cunts like Arabs.They will defend every square inch of their country with their life.Unfortunately CIA wants a war otherwise the war will be inside US borders.Americans are used to high standard of living and they never give up.But as we speak ZIONIST US EMPIRE is falling.Its inevitable!
ReplyDeleteYou still get a few idiots in the West, dwindling in numbers thankfully, who are still vainly trying to blame Russia. I see the Daily Mail is filled with CIA crap. One commentator was inundated by pro-Russian readers. The British are waking up.
ReplyDeleteAmericans help the Nazis to kill civilians in the East of Ukraine, and the power to impose the fascist regime. Russians furious, they will connect with the Arabs China, Iran and India will provide them with modern weapons and will destroy America from the face of the earth...
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