From a journalist working deep inside American Media - and who for that reason would prefer to remain anonymous: Maybe time for an Eliot Higgins-style agglomeration of the video evidence? With the videos circulating widely of the American/Canadian accented get outta my face guy wearing an Azov battalion uniform and another guy caught on video in Azov uniform this weekend speaking with a cockney British or Scandinavian accent, time to strike while the irons hot. In semi chronological order: Heres the footage from early March in Donetsk that had the UK Daily Mail asking whether American Blackwater type mercs had been deployed on behalf of Kiev: dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2576490/Are-Blackwater-active-Ukraine-Videos-spark-talk-U-S-mercenary-outfit-deployed-Donetsk.html zerohedge/news/2014-05-11/400-blackwater-mercs-deployed-ukraine-against-separatists-german-press-reports Germanys Der Spiegel and Bild am Sonntag (check German spelling) later reported that 400 US private military contractors had been deployed to Ukraines southeast Heres the infamous video of the Im an American citizen guy getting beaten by militia reportedly filmed in Kharkov back in April with a description: https://youtube/watch?v=R23NEPvGgw8 Heres a Ukrainian National Guardsman politely speaking fluent Italian to a group of Italian journalists in late April/early May. Kiev Twitter trolls claimed this was merely a Ukrainian migrant who returned from Italy to do his duty for the homeland. You decide. Polish mercs or advisers purportedly killed in shootdown of IL-76 near Donetsk airport in June already referenced by RI in October, along with formation of Polish-Lithuanian-Ukrainian joint brigade. Shootdown of IL-76 was accompanied by a lot of enraged tweets in NATO circles, one wonders if they knew Polish advisers were on board and were killed when the plane was destroyed with all hands: russia-insider/en/politics_ukraine/2014/11/07/01-04-44pm/polish_mercenaries_and_arms_flood_ukraine_media_looks_other bbc/news/world-europe-28951324 Note that Poland has denied having any troops fighting alongside Kiev forces and has insisted it would punish any Poles fighting as mercenaries for Kiev as this contradicts Polish law banning mercs without government authorization. BBC admitting September 1, 2014 that Poles are fighting in volunteer capacity, while also reporting on foreign volunteers for Kievs battalions and DNR Vostok Brigade: https://youtube/watch?v=7VXyzA7xL1k 15:55-16:54 video allegedly uploaded by DNR a week ago after capture of Donetsk Airport Polish flag captured by DNR forces at Donetsk International Airport ruins with solidarity with Ukraine written in black marker on the front. Latest evidence bringing story up to date from this weekend in Mariupol: Native English speakers or English speaking Scandinavian non-Slavic mercs caught on tape: https://twitter/Sevodnay/status/559055357558149120 liveleak/view?i=3bf_1422135521
Posted on: Sun, 25 Jan 2015 06:52:23 +0000