The Russian ‘aid’ convoy continues to wend its way closer and closer to the East Ukraine border. As NYTimes reports, moving at a steady 50 miles per hour, more than 200 commercial trucks and some army trucks with white tarpaulins set out before daybreak from a military base in the city of Voronezh, where the convoy had halted for more than a day after protests from Kiev. It is now around 30 miles east of Ukraine, stopped in Kamensk-Shakhtinsky. Here is the a full look at the convoy, its contents, and the helicopters and tanks surrounding it…
The start…
Just got to Voronezh: looks like convoy or part of it still at base here- trucks are white line in the pic http://ift.tt/1kDVftf
— Courtney Weaver (@courtneymoscow) August 13, 2014
Those white dots are about 100 convoy trucks in front of us. We seem to be stopping in Kamensk-Shakhtinsky http://ift.tt/1owR0AO
— Courtney Weaver (@courtneymoscow) August 14, 2014
340km from Rostov. Just passed 2 dozen trucks parked on side of road. Another 2 dozen behind us http://ift.tt/1kDVfth
— Courtney Weaver (@courtneymoscow) August 14, 2014
The convoy is close to the Ukraine border:
Inside the convoy:
Spent a couple of hours with the Russian convoy which has stopped, possibly for some time. Field camp being set up http://ift.tt/1sGgBsO
— Shaun Walker (@shaunwalker7) August 14, 2014
Most of the trucks seem to be green Rus military trucks w/ either white paint job or white tarps over them http://ift.tt/1nSrShX
— Courtney Weaver (@courtneymoscow) August 14, 2014
Another truck we had them open had boxes of sleeping bags. Seemed happy to let us see whatever http://ift.tt/1sG0AmA
— Courtney Weaver (@courtneymoscow) August 14, 2014
Tan men told us we could open any truck we liked. This one had bags full of grechka (buckwheat) http://ift.tt/1sG0CLg
— Courtney Weaver (@courtneymoscow) August 14, 2014
And these are carefully following:
Two helicopters accompanying the convoy, flying extremely low. Now sat in the fields alongside http://ift.tt/1kDVfto
— Shaun Walker (@shaunwalker7) August 14, 2014
So two of these babies just pulled up behind the convoy line http://ift.tt/VmkhRY
— Courtney Weaver (@courtneymoscow) August 14, 2014
These look more like repainted army trucks (for troop transport?) have ridden inside a green one of these http://ift.tt/1owQYJ8
— Andrew Roth (@ARothNYT) August 14, 2014
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— galandecZP (@galandecZP) August 14, 2014
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Putin told reporters, “all this is going on in complete coordination with and under the aegis of the Red Cross.”
via Zero Hedge http://ift.tt/1sYZAZm Tyler Durden