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Revolution in Syria in 2011 and the Ukrainian revolution in 2014\u00a0targeted Putin’s puppets – Assad and Yanukovich. The Syrians and the Ukrainians struggled to take their\u00a0places among the civilized people of this world. One nation\u00a0– within the\u00a0countries of the Arab and Muslim civilization\u00a0and the other one – in the family of European nations from which it was\u00a0taken away by force for many years.\u00a0But Moscow did not want to reckon with the right of the Syrian and Ukrainian people for self-determination. The dwarfs, nostalgic for the fallen\u00a0empires, tried hard to keep Syria and Ukraine under their\u00a0control at all costs. Secret and unprecedented in its perfidy and baseness war was unleashed –\u00a0first, against the Syrian and later against the Ukrainian people.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

All the methods and techniques of covert warfare were first tested in Syria.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Since the beginning of the revolution Putin’s regime started to provide assistance to Assad’s regime right up to intervention into\u00a0the internal affairs of Syria. The Russians\u00a0began sending Assad not only weapons and ammunition, but also soldiers and mercenaries.<\/p>\n

The Russian officers were in all staffs\u00a0of the Syrian army, and they\u00a0actually led the fighting. Syrians faced with unprecedented dirty war methods and techniques based on the violation of the international norms and rules of war, as well as violations of the rules of war in Islam. Led by the Russians, Assad’s troops, habiha formation and mercenaries used civilians as a human shield.<\/p>\n

\"85%<\/a><\/p>\n

Strongpoints were established in schools, mosques, densely populated areas and crowded places. Residential areas of cities\u00a0were purposefully subjected to massive shelling and bombing. This is most clearly demonstrated\u00a0in the cities of Homs, Deraa in southern Syria, Damascus suburbs, especially in Huta. Then the SCUD ballistic missile strikes\u00a0joined the bombing and shelling. Each missile carried about a ton of explosives.\u00a0Lacking effective guidance systems missiles mainly targeted\u00a0large settlements. The barbaric nature of the bombing and shelling\u00a0was\u00a0confirmed by international organizations<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Putin\"<\/a>Simultaneously,\u00a0Assad’s propaganda accused exclusively the rebels in the shelling of civilians. Now recall the actions of the Russian troops and mercenaries in Ukraine, how the Russian media report about them. A huge number of the Russian propagandists has arrived to Syria to conduct the information war\u00a0since 2011. There they practiced<\/a> their techniques of lies and disinformation used later against Ukraine.<\/p>\n

The rebels were incriminated in all Assad’s crimes. Damascus with its suburbs experienced once a set of terrorist attacks. Car bombs exploded in crowded places, killing dozens of people. The Russian and pro-Assad media blamed rebels. But it soon became clear that they were conducted by the intelligence services of Assad. Some attacks were reported on TV before they actually took place. In other case the journalists appeared at the attack scene just a few minutes after the strike. Just like it is happening in the Ukrainian territory now.<\/p>\n

Although officially the Russian army in Syria began to be used only now, in real life it\u00a0had been there since 2011. The bombings of Syria were also carried out by\u00a0the Russian pilots in the airplanes of the Syrian Air Force. The current overt intervention, in my opinion, is\u00a0dictated by the following\u00a0reasons:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Putin desperately needs a small victorious war to swap rankings after the fiasco in Ukraine.<\/li>\n
  2. Do not let to\u00a0overthrow the agonizing regime of Assad.<\/li>\n
  3. Trigger a new wave of refugees from Syria and send them to the EU. For this purpose, the Kremlin began to expel Syrian refugees already living in Russia.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    All the techniques and methods of so-called hidden, hybrid war had been tested\u00a0in Syria and then applied against Ukraine. It is possible that the current overt\u00a0intervention into the Syrian conflict is just a rehearsal for a full-scale war with Ukraine. And we need to be ready for this.<\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    Original article<\/a> by Sergei Repin, translated by Oleksandr Klymenko<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Revolution in Syria in 2011 and the Ukrainian revolution in 2014\u00a0targeted Putin’s puppets – Assad and Yanukovich….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5865,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,528,531],"tags":[357,513],"class_list":["post-5864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mainnews","category-news","category-syria","tag-russian-aggression","tag-syria"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nSyria and Ukraine. 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The Syrians and the Ukrainians struggled to take their\u00a0places among the civilized people of this world. One nation\u00a0- within the\u00a0countries of the Arab and Muslim civilization\u00a0and the other one - in the family of European nations from which it was\u00a0taken away by force for many years.\u00a0But Moscow did not want to reckon with the right of the Syrian and Ukrainian people for self-determination. The dwarfs, nostalgic for the fallen\u00a0empires, tried hard to keep Syria and Ukraine under their\u00a0control at all costs. Secret and unprecedented in its perfidy and baseness war was unleashed -\u00a0first, against the Syrian and later against the Ukrainian people.<\/strong><\/em>\r\n\r\n<strong>All the methods and techniques of covert warfare were first tested in Syria.<\/strong>\r\n\r\nSince the beginning of the revolution Putin's regime started to provide assistance to Assad's regime right up to intervention into\u00a0the internal affairs of Syria. The Russians\u00a0began sending Assad not only weapons and ammunition, but also soldiers and mercenaries.\r\n\r\nThe Russian officers were in all staffs\u00a0of the Syrian army, and they\u00a0actually led the fighting. Syrians faced with unprecedented dirty war methods and techniques based on the violation of the international norms and rules of war, as well as violations of the rules of war in Islam. Led by the Russians, Assad's troops, habiha formation and mercenaries used civilians as a human shield.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/111.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-14045 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/111.jpg\" alt=\"85% of Russian air strikes targeted where #ISIL isn't even present; #Russia is fighting Assad's civil war - not ISIL \" width=\"338\" height=\"195\" \/><\/a>\r\n\r\nStrongpoints were established in schools, mosques, densely populated areas and crowded places. Residential areas of cities\u00a0were purposefully subjected to massive shelling and bombing. This is most clearly demonstrated\u00a0in the cities of Homs, Deraa in southern Syria, Damascus suburbs, especially in Huta. Then the SCUD ballistic missile strikes\u00a0joined the bombing and shelling. Each missile carried about a ton of explosives.\u00a0Lacking effective guidance systems missiles mainly targeted\u00a0large settlements. The barbaric nature of the bombing and shelling\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/syriahroe?ref=ts&fref=ts\">was\u00a0confirmed by international organizations<\/a>.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Putin.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft wp-image-14093\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Putin.jpg\" alt=\"Putin\" width=\"338\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a>Simultaneously,\u00a0Assad's propaganda accused exclusively the rebels in the shelling of civilians. Now recall the actions of the Russian troops and mercenaries in Ukraine, how the Russian media report about them. A huge number of the Russian propagandists has arrived to Syria to conduct the information war\u00a0since 2011.<a href=\"http:\/\/ord-ua.com\/2014\/10\/22\/rossijskie-propagandistyi-v-sirii-i-v-ukraine\/?page=4\"> There they practiced<\/a> their techniques of lies and disinformation used later against Ukraine.\r\n\r\nThe rebels were incriminated in all Assad's crimes. Damascus with its suburbs experienced once a set of terrorist attacks. Car bombs exploded in crowded places, killing dozens of people. The Russian and pro-Assad media blamed rebels. But it soon became clear that they were conducted by the intelligence services of Assad. Some attacks were reported on TV before they actually took place. In other case the journalists appeared at the attack scene just a few minutes after the strike. Just like it is happening in the Ukrainian territory now.\r\n\r\nAlthough officially the Russian army in Syria began to be used only now, in real life it\u00a0had been there since 2011. The bombings of Syria were also carried out by\u00a0the Russian pilots in the airplanes of the Syrian Air Force. The current overt intervention, in my opinion, is\u00a0dictated by the following\u00a0reasons:\r\n<ol>\r\n\t<li>Putin desperately needs a small victorious war to swap rankings after the fiasco in Ukraine.<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Do not let to\u00a0overthrow the agonizing regime of Assad.<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Trigger a new wave of refugees from Syria and send them to the EU. For this purpose, the Kremlin began to expel Syrian refugees already living in Russia.<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\nAll the techniques and methods of so-called hidden, hybrid war had been tested\u00a0in Syria and then applied against Ukraine. It is possible that the current overt\u00a0intervention into the Syrian conflict is just a rehearsal for a full-scale war with Ukraine. 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