tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8086033.post110179051508811467..comments2023-11-05T13:07:03.784+02:00Comments on foreign notes: More on spetsnazScott W. Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04047386631227542689noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8086033.post-1102596145766660342004-12-09T14:42:00.000+02:002004-12-09T14:42:00.000+02:00Alas, the paper making this claim belongs to Boris...Alas, the paper making this claim belongs to Boris Berezovsky, who would gleefully write about Putin eating babies. You may as well go to the Donbass Daily Miner for a balanced view of Yushchenko.<br /><br />On the Russian troops, we had - in addition to Yulka's article in the Pakistan Times, where she baldly stated that there were Russian troops here - this, from Rybachuk:<br /><br />http://www.podrobnosti.ua/power/2004/11/26/161535.html<br /><br />Then, this, from Delovaya Stolitsa (supporting Yushchenko):<br /><br />http://www.dsnews.com.ua/index.php?action=article&r_id=17&article_id=17795<br /><br />Hmmm...those numbers, the location and the scenario all look rather similar, don't they?<br /><br />Now, if it turns out that someone can prove that Russian spetnaz were here, I'll be among the first to condemn that action (of bringing the troops in, not of proving that they were here!) Similarly, I would expect to see potential members of the next Cabinet of Ministers strongly censured for voicing hysterical and DANGEROUS rumours, if it turns out to have been untrue and merely a act of political expediency.<br /><br />You wrote: "But understanding what the consequences of this involvement of Russian troops might be, it would be much better to protest and let the Russians prove that it hasn't happened, than to sit around until the proof becomes incontrovertible. This would help maintain the sovereignty of a nation. Waiting might be too late."<br /><br />How would you propose that Russia prove that troops were NOT here? Send a list of every Russian serviceman and his exact whereabouts on the days in question?<br /><br />And what if, in an atmosphere on a knife's edge and made worse by allegations of Russian armed intervention, some Ukrainian patriot had taken into his hands to "deal" with a Russian or two? Who would be responsible?<br /><br />By the way, an AN-26 can carry up to 40 troops. An IL-76 -- 125-140 (the latter number for paratroops.) That leaves a rather large number to get to 800. Why is there no concrete data on the other alleged flights?<br /><br />The Boryspil story is also suspect, especially when one considers the original story, that 1000 (!) troops arrived on TWO planes. Find me an aircraft that can carry 500 troopers (even unarmed) and I'll take the story as read.<br /><br />How is it that - with troops moving all over the shop, as well as tanks - that nobody thought to take a picture of them?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com