SOTT Exclusive: Russia invades Ukraine again! Russia sends in NINTH humanitarian convoy - EU responds by imposing sanctions on people of E. Ukraine

© Valery Matyzyn/TASS

For the ninth time, Russia is sending in another humanitarian aid convoy to E. Ukraine. As reported by TASS:

Russia's Ministry of Emergency Situations has formed up in the Rostov region a convoy of trucks loaded with humanitarian aid for Ukraine's Donbass, the ministry's representative Oleg Voronov told TASS on Saturday.

"The convoy is ready to go. It unites over 100 trucks, which will deliver to Donbass over 1,200 tonnes of humanitarian aid," he said.

Food products and construction materials make most of the cargo, he added.

The ministry formed the cargo according to requests from authorities of Donetsk and Luhansk.

The media could see the cargo in the trucks on Saturday. Reporters were free to pick a truck to see it carries only the declared cargo.

Russia has been consistently sending aid and not only to Ukraine, but to Palestine as well. All Poroshenko can say is "Donbass children can sit in cellars." Ugh, what a repulsive creature.

Meanwhile the EU publishes new sanctions lists including Donetsk and Luhansk representatives:

The European Union published in its Official Journal a new sanctions list, which includes 13 representatives of the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics (DPR and LPR) and five east Ukrainian parties, which participated in the local elections on November 2.

The list features head of the Lugansk Central Elections Commission Sergei Kozyakov, DPR's first deputy speaker of the parliament Alexander Kofman, DPR's First Deputy Prime Minister Ravil Khalikov, LPR's Fist Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Dmitry Semenov, LPR's Defence Minister Oleg Bugrov, LPR's Minister of Education Igor Kostenok, member of DPR's National Council Evgeny Orlov, Deputy head of LPR's National Council Oleg Akimov, LPR's Healthcare Minsiter Larisa Airapetyan, DPR's member of the parliament and a member of the Berkut (Ukraine's riot police) veterans' union Yuri Sivokonenko.

Besides, the EU banned financial relations with DPR's and LPR's five parties and public organisations for having nominated their candidates for the elections on November 2, which the EU considers illegal.

From Saturday, the published sanctions come into force.

Wait, aren't the sanctions also considered illegal? They certainly are a provocation for war. There is absolutely no good to come out of the EU's policies.

What a stark contrast between 'bad ole Russia' and the 'benevolent, democracy-seeking' EU. A people express their democratic will, and right, to determine their own fate, as a result of a situation they had no involvement in bringing about (the US-EU Kiev coup), and this is how 'high and mighty' Europe rewards them - by punishing their 'transgressions'.

William Barbe

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