Here’s the Ukraine situation, as reported by someone who is actually there.From Mike Mish Shedlock, davidstockmanscontracorner.com, “The Ukranian Mess Metastasizes–Now US Covertly Shipping Weapons Through UAE”:
Free Speech Vanishes – Total Media Thought Control
I have a couple emails from Ukraine to share, one from two days ago, one from yesterday. Both are from “Ellen” who lives in Kiev (name changed).
Two Days Ago From Ellen
As you know, the Debaltsevo pocket situation is resolved. It’s not as bad as it could have been in terms of casualties. However, this was a crashing defeat of Poroshenko’s generals.
I don’t know how many more losses our society can take, but people are very angry. Currency keep plunging every day. Today it takes 30 hryvnias to buy one US dollar. It seems we have default without official announcement of it.
There is a new problem: total media thought control. In Ukraine we used to have free speech, but not any longer. War propaganda is everywhere and if someone doubts official policy, the journalist will be cast out or put in prison.
It is worse now than under Yanukovych. There is an atmosphere of fear everywhere. Today, a new law was passed, and now the president can switch off any TV news channel, any paper.
Total mobilization is underway. Anyone who refuses to join the army will go to jail.
Putin opened the border for Ukrainians who don’t want to join the army. Millions of men from Ukraine went to Russia. Not many want to go to war. One defeat after another discourages people.
Many think Debaltsevo was breaking point. Some say separatists will take new areas with less resistance from Ukrainian army. Hard to say. Many think Mariupol, a city of 400,000 people is next. If separatists storm Mariupol it will be a bloody mess world haven’t seen for long time.
Ellen
UAE Sells Arms to Ukraine, Currency Plunges More
Yesterday From Ellen ….
News today is Ukraine will buy arms from UAE, perhaps arms that Americans previously sold to UAE. Poroshenko signed the contract, but we do not know what exactly Ukraine is buying.
It seems pretty much like Ukraine is in default. Today $1 is worth 36 hryvnias on the black market. A Week ago it was 20 hryvnas. No one knows where the bottom is. People buy anything just to get rid of hryvnias.
The only thing missing from a default is the announcement. I guess Poroshenko waits for bail out money from IMF and America. No one is in a hurry to bail us out because they know the money will be stolen by our corrupt officials.
We never seen prices rise so fast. Poroshenko came to power with 1 dollar around 9-10 hryvnias and now it’s 36. Meanwhile his chocolate factory profit has gone up 8 times. His friends are also doing very well. People in Ukraine are very angry. Maybe this anger will be out on the streets soon.
Best regards
Ellen
To continue reading: Emails From Kiev
This story seems somewhat different than the officially approved MSM one we’re getting here in the US. It must be Putin propaganda, especially the parts about widespread unwillingness to fight and the collapsing Ukrainian economy and currency. We get plenty of articles about the supposedly collapsing Russian economy, not so many about Ukraine’s. Who you going to believe, the MSM or someone who’s actually there and seeing things with her own eyes? The MSM, of course.
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