By Sarah Sicard
Steven Seagal (left) (click here) has praised President Putin's policies
Early reports (click here) from the Russian invasion of Ukraine suggested that President Vladimir Putin’s military had deployed, of all people, actor Steven Seagal alongside its troops. And while the outlandish information released at the time turned out to be false, a Russian outlet did publish a video Tuesday that showed the former action star standing among the wreckage of eastern Ukraine’s Olenivka prison, where a recent attack left dozens of Ukrainian POWs dead.
Russia and Ukraine are each casting blame for the prison’s destruction, meanwhile, with Moscow alleging that Ukrainian forces used U.S.-made ordnance—a High Mobility Artillery Rocket System, or HIMARS—to bring the building down, according to the Washington Post....
Early reports (click here) from the Russian invasion of Ukraine suggested that President Vladimir Putin’s military had deployed, of all people, actor Steven Seagal alongside its troops. And while the outlandish information released at the time turned out to be false, a Russian outlet did publish a video Tuesday that showed the former action star standing among the wreckage of eastern Ukraine’s Olenivka prison, where a recent attack left dozens of Ukrainian POWs dead.
Russia and Ukraine are each casting blame for the prison’s destruction, meanwhile, with Moscow alleging that Ukrainian forces used U.S.-made ordnance—a High Mobility Artillery Rocket System, or HIMARS—to bring the building down, according to the Washington Post....
He really needs sanctions leveled against him. He isn't an American anymore. The place he had pictures taken was stated as a prison of Ukrainian soldiers (click here).
It is absolutely astounding to realize an esteemed actor would side with the genocide against Ukraine.
March 24, 2014
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Steven Seagal has expressed his support (click here) for Russian President Vladimir Putin over his actions in Crimea.
The action movie star called Putin "one of the great living world leaders" in a lengthy interview with Russia's state-run newspaper Rossiskaya Gazeta from the set of a film he is shooting in Romania.
In comments first noted by The Moscow Times, the country's leading English-language newspaper, Seagal said Putin's "desire to protect the Russian-speaking people of Crimea, his assets, and the Russian Black Sea military base in Sevastopol … is very reasonable."
The 61-year-old actor and well-known Republican also criticized U.S. policy on Ukraine as "idiotic" and said the media's coverage of the crisis favored President Obama's agenda.
Seagal added in the interview that he "would like to consider [Putin] as a brother."...
The truth be known the only reason Russia was able to remove Crimea from Ukraine is because there was no national military of Ukraine at that time. Yanukovych substituted oligarch militias to act against the people while disarming the Ukraine national military. When the Maiden occurred the national military had uniforms, but, no guns at all. So, the entire mess with Crimea was due to Putin's populous hero, Steven Seagal.
By Howard Altman, Tyler Rogoway
As images of large explosions in Russian-occupied Crimea (click here) flashed across social media, the Russian Ministry of Defense on Tuesday claimed they were the result of "several aviation munitions destroyed" at the Russian Navy's Saki Air Base near the village of Novofedorivka.
The incident occured about 3:20 p.m. local time, according to an official Ministry of Defense (MOD) statement.
"As a result of the explosion, no one was injured. Aviation equipment at the airfield was not damaged," according to the MOD's statement. "Measures are being taken to extinguish the fire and find out the causes of the explosion. According to a report from the site, there was no fire impact on the bunded ammunition storage area at the airfield"
