{"id":75338,"date":"2014-06-07T18:07:35","date_gmt":"2014-06-07T18:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2014\/06\/07\/le-guardian-progresse-ses-lecteurs-lencouragent\/"},"modified":"2014-06-07T18:07:35","modified_gmt":"2014-06-07T18:07:35","slug":"le-guardian-progresse-ses-lecteurs-lencouragent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2014\/06\/07\/le-guardian-progresse-ses-lecteurs-lencouragent\/","title":{"rendered":"Le Guardian<\/em> progresse, ses lecteurs l’encouragent"},"content":{"rendered":"

Le Guardian<\/em> progresse, ses lecteurs l’encouragent<\/h4>\n

Un long article de Alec Luhn, \u00e0 Donetsk, fait une analyse de l’activit\u00e9 du bataillon Vostok<\/em>, qui semble \u00eatre la premi\u00e8re unit\u00e9 tr\u00e8s efficace, tr\u00e8s structur\u00e9e, op\u00e9rationnellement engag\u00e9e dans les rangs des f\u00e9d\u00e9ralistes anti-Kiev. L’int\u00e9r\u00eat de l’article, qui apporte de nombreuses pr\u00e9cisions tant sur les mouvements op\u00e9rationnels du bataillon que sur son armement, l’identit\u00e9 et l’origine de nombre de ses membres, voire des hypoth\u00e8ses sur ses sources de financement (qui pourraient \u00eatre aussi bien des oligarques russes que des oligarques ukrainiens), c’est qu’il donne une image extr\u00eamement contrast\u00e9e, et absolument pas conforme \u00e0 la narrative<\/em> du bloc BAO sur l’occupation de l’Ukraine orientale par l’arm\u00e9e russe. Il y a des Russes dans cette unit\u00e9, mais en petit nombre par rapport aux Ukrainiens, et l’on voit bien qu’il s’agit d’initiatives individuelles ou de groupes de v\u00e9t\u00e9rans sans implication officielle russe. Une intervention d’un universitaire de New York, le professeur Mark Galeotti, indique que les Russes devraient suivre prudemment l’\u00e9volution du bataillon Vostok<\/em>, pour \u00e9ventuellement voir s’ils peuvent s’engager un peu plus par l’interm\u00e9diaire d’une structure solide, ce qui implique \u00e9videmment qu’ils ne sont gu\u00e8re engag\u00e9s et ne contr\u00f4lent nullement une situation marqu\u00e9e surtout par le d\u00e9sordre. (\u00abMoscow needs an instrument, Galeotti said. \u00ab\u00a0But also insofar that they’re going to try to assert their authority through the Donetsk People’s Republic hierarchy, they need to make sure those guys have credible force at their disposable, not just a collection of thugs.<\/em>\u00bb)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00abAs the possibility recedes of a Crimean scenario Russian troops intervening in eastern Ukraine the pro-Moscow Vostok Battalion has emerged as the leading force in the fight against Kiev’s attempts to retake control of the east. Along with the Army of the Southeast in Luhansk and a militia in Slavyansk led by Russian citizen and alleged intelligence agent Igor Girkin, better known by his nom de guerre Strelkov, it is Vostok that will define the course of the mostly low-level war with Kiev forces.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbThe militia has about 500 men, according to its leader, Alexander Khodakovsky, who was regional head of the elite Alfa special forces unit under former president Viktor Yanukovych, and handfuls of new recruits have been joining each day. Since it was formed in April, some analysts have worried that Vostok is an incipient private army directed by or at least linked to Russian intelligence. But locals welcomed the fighters with cheers when they fired into the air at an anti-Kiev rally during the recent presidential election.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbKhodakovsky and his commanders are vague about their goals, saying their immediate task is to drive pro-Kiev forces from their region. But they are vehemently opposed to the new pro-western government brought to power following the Euromaidan protests in Kiev this winter during which Khodakovsky and his special forces unit participated in violent clashes with the demonstrators…<\/em> […]<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbThe Vostok Battalion does include Russian fighters, and the bodies of 31 members were sent back to Russia last week after a battle at Donetsk airport. But more than a dozen interviews over several visits by the Guardian suggested Vostok is largely comprised of Ukrainian volunteers with nicknames like Forest Lord, Psycho, Wild Man and Beaver. Although its sources of funding and weapons are not entirely clear, it does not seem to enjoy large-scale Russian military support, with kit that ranges from sophisticated surface-to-air missiles to battered hunting rifles.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbOn a recent afternoon, members of the battalion’s mechanical section were welding an anti-aircraft gun to the back of a lorry to create a vehicle straight out of Mad Max. If we had Russian military hardware, you would see it, said Mamai, a garrulous Vostok member from Russia’s republic of North Ossetia. Vostok commanders said they had taken their weapons mostly from captured Ukrainian military facilities.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbSome members of the battalion look like professional soldiers, but Mamai said he doesn’t receive money to fight. Another Russian member named Varan (Monitor Lizard) said he received $100 (\u00a370) a week for living expenses but maintained that the men were volunteers, not mercenaries on Moscow’s payroll. Yet Russian authorities have at least tacitly encouraged volunteers to go to Ukraine. Varan said a military enlistment office tipped him off about a group of fighters forming in Rostov-on-Don who then walked through a border crossing as civilians, receiving arms in Donetsk.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tLa conclusion qu’on peut tirer de cet article, quand l’on conna\u00eet le reste de la situation ukrainienne et les $5 milliards d’aide donn\u00e9s par les USA \u00e0 diff\u00e9rents centres d’agitation ukrainiens depuis les ann\u00e9es 1990, c’est que l’engagement essentiellement anglo-saxon (USA et UK) du bloc BAO est si largement sup\u00e9rieur \u00e0 celui de la Russie qu’il ne peut lui \u00eatre compar\u00e9 en aucune fa\u00e7on, et d’une nature compl\u00e8tement diff\u00e9rente avec la p\u00e9n\u00e9tration de la plupart des organes de s\u00e9curit\u00e9 ukrainiens. L’article est ainsi salu\u00e9 par plusieurs commentaires de lecteurs du Guardian<\/em>, qui semblent \u00eatre largement oppos\u00e9s au c\u00f4t\u00e9 Kiev-BAO.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t… Le lecteur Grimpeur<\/em> \u00e9crit ainsi : \u00abWhat is encouraging is that this article by Alec Luhn is one of the few even-handed’ and relatively impartial analyses that I have seen in the Guardian, which has generally acted as a propaganda arm for the USA State Department. I have criticised the Guardian in the past for their abandonment of impartial investigative journalism so credit where it is due. Congratulations Mr Luhn for a fine article!<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\tMis en ligne le 7 juin 2014 \u00e0 18H07<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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