Special edition for Paphitis .............
You are now looking at the same information the Russians would have been following very closely leading up to their special military operation in Ukraine. I asked a couple of question which no one has replied to but, the answers to them are:
Although it had been planned and building up prior to the start date from Mid/Late 2021 ......
The civil conflict was escalated by the US backed, Ultra-Nationalist Regime in Kyiv, and was manifest to observers on the 15th/16th Feb 2022, when shelling almost stopped for 48hrs as Kyiv regrouped, and then rapidly escalated by orders of magnitude from the 17th Feb until the OSCE stopped monitoring on the 24th Feb, when the Russians responded to Kyiv’s aggression. Most of the shells/missiles/rockets as a result of the escalation, fell to the South/East of the Minsk LoC.
That Russia took this decision probably prevented the genocide of tens of thousands of the Russian speaking Ukrainian minority in Donbas. In the preceding eight years 14,000 people died in the civil conflict ...... but the US et al didn’t notice, they just kept sending the Kyiv Regime more weapons for their genocidal war!
The following extracts from the OSCE reports over that period show that statement to be factually correct. The OSCE only collect facts. The following is taken from the report for each 24hr dated period ........ from the 10th Feb to the 24th Feb 2022. You can access all the full reports and computer generated maps from here:
[url]https://www.osce.org/ukraine-smm/reports/?filters=+im_taxonomy_vid_22:(1136)+ds_date:([2022-02-10T00:00:00Z%20TO%202022-02-25T00:00:00Z])&solrsort=score%20asc&rows=10[/url]
I will start from the moment the ‘
normal’ TIT-for-TAT artillery exchange pattern changed.
OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) Daily Report 35/2022 issued on 15 February 2022
A. In Donetsk region, the Mission recorded 17 ceasefire violations, including 1 explosion.
B. In Luhansk region, the SMM recorded 157 ceasefire violations, including 40 explosions
According to the map on page 2, explosions generally distributed to the South of the Line of Contact between A and B.
OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) Daily Report 36/2022 issued on 16 February 2022
A. In Donetsk region, the SMM recorded 24 ceasefire violations, including 5 explosions.
B. In Luhansk region, the Mission recorded 129 ceasefire violations, including 71 explosions.
According to the map on page 2, explosions generally distributed evenly each side of the Line of Contact between A and B.
OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) Daily Report 37/2022 issued on 17 February 2022
A. In Donetsk region, the SMM recorded 189 ceasefire violations, including 128 explosions.
B. In Luhansk region, the Mission recorded 402 ceasefire violations, including 188 explosions.
According to the map on page 2, explosions distributed in the main on and to the south side of the Line of Contact between A and B.
OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) Daily Report 38/2022 issued on 18 February 2022
A. In Donetsk region, the SMM recorded 222 ceasefire violations, including 135 explosions
B. In Luhansk region, the Mission recorded 648 ceasefire violations, including 519 explosions.
According to the map on page 2, explosions are mainly South of the Line of Contact and a few ON the Line of Contact between A and B
OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) Daily Report 39/2022 issued on 19 February 2022
A. In Donetsk region, the SMM recorded 591 ceasefire violations, including 553 explosions.
B. In Luhansk region, the Mission recorded 975 ceasefire violations, including 860 explosions.
According to the map on page 2, explosions are mainly South of the Line of Contact and a few ON the Line of Contact between A and B.
OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) Daily Report 40/2022 issued on 20 February 2022 (Note this report covers a 48hr period.)
A. In Donetsk region, between the evenings of 18 and 20 February, the SMM recorded 2,158 ceasefire violations, including 1,100 explosions.
B. In Luhansk region, between the evenings of 18 and 20 February, the Mission recorded 1,073 ceasefire violations, including 926 explosions.
According to the map on page 2, explosions are 90%+ South of the Line of Contact, deeper into Resistance held territory and further South of the Line of Contact between A and B than previously.
OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) Daily Report 41/2022 issued on 22 February 2022
A. In Donetsk region, the SMM recorded 703 ceasefire violations, including 332 explosions.
B. In Luhansk region, the Mission recorded 1,224 ceasefire violations, including 1,149 explosions.
According to the map on page 2, explosions are 95%+ South of the Line of Contact and deeper into Resistance held territory and further South of the Line of Contact between A and B than previously.
So the claim that this was a ”.....
completely unprovoked and illegal attack on a peaceful Sovereign State and without any justification” as pronounced by the Western Alliance of US/UK/NATO etc was very far from the true picture of the event. Nobody told you the full story!
Russias actions were also
NOT illegal! (
Same justification as NATO used for the Serbia attacks but legal. Kosovo was recognised only after the US/UK intervention.) Within the period from 17th to the 23rd Feb, Luhansk and Donetsk declared UDI’s because they were being attacked by their government ....... the Russian Duma recognised both as independent states ...... a responsibility to protect was established between both States and the Russian Federation ..... a request for protection under the R2P was made ....... and at 05:00 hrs on the 24th Feb the Russian Federation responded to Kyiv’s aggression and implemented their Special Military Operation.
Russia was not the aggressor ..... the US backed Regime in Kyiv was. That is a whole different ball game to the one the Western Alliance of deceivers would have you believe. 
