Kiev’s Poroshenko vows revenge for missile attack and his warplanes are bombing in the east

Grad Missile Launch Vehicle

Ukraine’s Kiev government has sent warplanes to fight in the east:

July 12, 2014

KYIV —Ukrainian war planes bombarded separatists along a broad front on Saturday, inflicting huge losses, Kyiv said, after President Petro Poroshenko indicated that “scores and hundreds” would be made to pay for a deadly missile attack on Ukrainian forces.

In exchanges marking a sharp escalation in the three-month conflict, jets struck at the “epicenter” of the battle against the rebels close to the border with Russia, a military spokesman said.

The planes targeted positions from where separatists using high-powered Grad missiles bombarded an army motorized brigade on Friday, killing 23 servicemen.

Warplanes also struck at targets near Donetsk, the East’s main town where rebels have dug in, destroying a powerful fighter base near Dzerzhinsk, Andriy Lysenko, a spokesman for the “anti-terrorist operation” said.

“According to preliminary assessment, Ukrainian pilots … killed about 500 (rebel) fighters and damaged two armored transporters,” Lysenko told journalists.

In an earlier air attack on a base near Perevalsk, north of Donetsk, two tanks, 10 armored vehicles and “about 500” rebel fighters were destroyed, he said.

Rebel representatives, quoted by Russian news agencies, denied they had suffered big losses and said the Ukrainians were using outdated intelligence about where separatist forces were deployed. …

New sense of urgency

The increasing violence will bring a new sense of urgency to diplomatic attempts to end the worst crisis between Russia and the West since the Cold War.

After a pro-Western revolt in Kyiv ousted a Moscow-backed president in February, Russia annexed Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula and pro-Russian separatists seized strategic buildings in towns in the Russian-speaking east, setting up “people’s republics” and declaring they wanted to join Russia.

More than 200 Ukrainian servicemen have been killed since then, and hundreds of civilians and rebels have also died.

The United States and the European Union have brought in limited sanctions against Russian businesses amid Ukrainian allegations that Moscow has fanned the conflict and turned a blind eye to military equipment and Russian fighters crossing the border.

On Saturday, the EU targeted 11 Ukrainian separatist leaders with travel bans and asset freezes, avoiding fresh sanctions on Russian business to avoid antagonising its main energy supplier.

The rebels’ missile strike on Friday at a motorized brigade was against a part of a contingent of troops sent to the area specifically to try to block military equipment and guns being brought in from Russia to help the rebels.

“The situation on the border is very difficult because there is a strip of border there which has been turned into the epicenter of confrontation,” Lysenko said.

“This is because this is a part of the border through which the Russian terrorists are trying to bring in military equipment and arms.

“Ukrainian forces are there to cover that part. If the Ukrainian unit pulls out of there then columns of military equipment will start to flow on to Ukrainian territory again,” he said.

Rebel fighters said Ukrainian fighter planes had also carried out air strikes on Saturday in the eastern town of Horlivka. “There were a series of powerful explosions. Details are being clarified,” a separatist representative, Konstantin Knyrik, was quoted as saying by Russia’s interfax news agency. http://www.voanews.com/content/ukrainian-fighter-jets-pound-rebels-after-deadly-missile-attack/1956190.html

Ukraine is in a difficult spot. As I have said before, war remains in its future.

The European Union wants to grow and expand, the USA wants it to, and Russia in not pleased. Both the EU and Russia want Ukraine.

Many of those in east Ukraine do not trust the Kiev government, many speak Russian, and many wish to be independent of Ukraine. While a sizable portion of east Ukraine has wished to remain part of Ukraine, if Kiev causes enough damage in its retaliatory/revenge attacks, this could turn more in the east against Ukraine.

Not all in Ukraine want to be part of the European Union. Some (mainly in the east) prefer to be in Russia’s upcoming Eurasian Union. The European Union has demonstrated a history and willingness to enlarge. The USA keeps encouraging all of this, but this will not end well for the USA (cf. Daniel 11:39; Isaiah 10:5-11).

Russia is upset by the developments in Ukraine and is attempting to plan its next move. It may be trying to have the diplomatic cover to invade again, but seems to be concerned about how it will be dealt with by Europe if it does so. Yet it may invade anyway.

War is in the future for Ukraine, Russia, and the European Union (and is also for the USA and its Anglo-Saxon allies).

Jesus told of a time of wars and rumors of wars:

7 But when you hear of wars and rumors of wars, do not be troubled; for such things must happen, but the end is not yet. 8 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be earthquakes in various places, and there will be famines and troubles. These are the beginnings of sorrows. (Mark 13:7-8)

The conflicts in Ukraine, Gaza/Israel, and Iraq, amongst others, seem to qualify as wars and rumors of wars, as there is active fighting in all three of them now. But wars and rumors of wars, as we now see, is not the end. They are part of the ‘beginning of sorrows,’ which will lead to the Great Tribulation, the Day of the Lord, and the return of Jesus Christ, which will be the end of faulty human rule under the sway of Satan the devil (cf. Revelation 20:1-4).

While there will be interludes of peace, even more war will come to the Ukrainian region until Jesus returns and the Kingdom of God is established.

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