Here is a screen-print of a google-chrome auto-translation of\u00a0that statement<\/span><\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n http:\/\/lifenews.ru\/news\/149116<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n The Chief of Staff of Ukraine\u2019s Armed Forces, General Viktor Muzhenko, is saying, in that news-report, which is dated on Thursday January 29th, that the only Russian citizens who are fighting in the contested region, are residents in that region, or of Ukraine, and also some Russian citizens (and this does not deny that perhaps some of other countries\u2019 citizens are fighting there, inasmuch as American mercenaries have already been noted to have been participating on the Ukrainian Government\u2019s side<\/span><\/a>), who \u201care members of illegal armed groups,\u201d meaning fighters who are not paid by any government, but instead are just \u201cindividual citizens\u201d (as opposed to foreign-government-paid ones). General Muzhenko also says, emphatically, that the \u201cUkrainian army is not fighting with the regular units of the Russian army.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n In other words: He is explicitly and clearly denying the very basis for the EU\u2019s sanctions against Russia, and for the U.S.\u2019s sanctions against Russia: all of the sanctions against Russia are based on the falsehood that Ukraine is fighting against \u201cthe regular units of the Russian army\u201d \u2013 i.e., against the Russian-Government-controlled-and-trained fighting forces.<\/span><\/p>\n Also on January 29th was headlined in print (but this is translated here, so it won\u2019t google) \u201cIn Kiev recognized that war is not with the Russian army\u201d<\/a> and a more extensive quotation was given of Muzhenko\u2019s statement. It amounts to the same thing.<\/p>\n The allegation to the effect that Ukraine is instead fighting against \u201cregular units of the Russian army\u201d is the allegation that Vladimir Putin\u2019s Russia has invaded Ukraine, and it is the entire basis for the economic sanctions that are in force against Russia.<\/span><\/p>\n Those sanctions should therefore be immediately removed, with apology, and with compensation being paid to all individuals who have been suffering them; and it is therefore incumbent upon the Russian Government to pursue, through all legally available channels, restitution, plus damages, against the perpetrators of that dangerous fraud \u2013 and the news reports have already made clear precisely whom those persons are, who have asserted, as public officials, what can only be considered to be major libel.<\/span><\/p>\n Otherwise, Ukraine\u2019s top general should be fired, for asserting what he has just asserted.<\/span><\/p>\n If what General Muzhenko says is true, then he is a hero for having risked his entire career by having gone public with this courageous statement. And, if what he says is false, then he has no place heading Ukraine\u2019s military.<\/span><\/p>\n \u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013<\/span><\/p>\n Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of They\u2019re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010<\/i><\/span><\/a>,<\/i> and of \u00a0<\/i>CHRIST\u2019S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity<\/i><\/span><\/a>.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Eric Zuesse Ukraine\u2019s top general is contradicting allegations by the Obama Administration and by his\u00a0own Ukrainian Government, by saying that no\u00a0Russian troops are fighting against the Ukrainian Government\u2019s\u00a0forces in the formerly Ukrainian, but now separatist, area, where\u00a0the Ukrainian civil war is being waged. Here is a screen-print of a google-chrome auto-translation of\u00a0that statement: http:\/\/lifenews.ru\/news\/149116 The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1254,"featured_media":143210,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[461,1622],"tags":[115,30,32,96,535,59,526,524,523,49,76,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-143207","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-editorials","8":"category-featured","9":"tag-barack-obama","10":"tag-big-brother","11":"tag-cia","12":"tag-cover-up","13":"tag-global-news","14":"tag-military","15":"tag-propaganda","16":"tag-russia","17":"tag-ukraine","18":"tag-usa-news","19":"tag-warfare","20":"tag-white-house"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1254"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Screen](\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Screen-Shot-2015-03-13-at-7.10.09-PM.png\")
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