Showing posts with label Strelkov. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Strelkov. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 20, 2014


An Unauthenticated Document Planning the Retreat of Russian Special Forces from East Ukraine


 

By Paul Gregory (Hoover Institution and University of Houston)

We have reason to believe that the self-appointed leaders of the self-proclaimed Peoples Republic of Donetsk (PRD) understood quite well the message of the May 11 referendum. Less than 12 hours after the polls closed, the PRD military commander, Colonel Strelkov alias Strelok (real name Girkin), purportedly issued alarmed instructions to a restive, unsupportive east Ukraine, beset by lawlessness and chaos, from which the Russian “volunteers” might have to flee.