via zik.com
July 15, 34 tanks, 34 self-propelled artillery guns and 2 armored personnel carriers moved from Luhansk to Donetsk. Their crews do not hide they are Russians, LB.ua reports, citing an eyewitness report.I have no idea as to whether these are Russians or rebels.
“I saw two columns of armor passing through my native Perevalsk. The asphalt road was destroyed. They all refuel at petrol stations, saying they are Russians.
The armor with no identification marks penetrated Ukraine through the fields,” the eyewitness says.
Ukraine government believes Russia has started to escalate the war, sending more and more weapons through the border.
According to presidential administration deputy head Valery Chaly, the conflict looks more and more as a Russian invasion of Ukraine.
What I do wonder about is if we're seeing the first truly hybrid war.
We're seeing rebels that can match a modern army on the battlefield, the inclusion of civilian fighters on both sides, a population caught in the middle and advanced weaponry used by all (note the Iraqi Army battle against ISIS also meets the definition of hybrid war too).
The only thing that might be missing is religious radicalism and a horde of refugees flooding into neighboring countries.
I'm more convinced than ever.
The Israeli-Hamas fight is small potatoes. The fight that will change the world as we know it is happening in Europe and no one is paying attention.
Sidenote- The definition of hybrid warfare (as I use it) via Wikipedia.
United States Marine Corps Lt. Col. Bill Nemeth’s defined hybrid warfare as “the contemporary form of guerrilla warfare” that “employs both modern technology and modern mobilization methods.”[4]
Nathan Freier of the Center for Strategic and International Studies was one of key people that originally defined hybrid warfare involving four threats: (1) traditional; (2) irregular; (3) catastrophic terrorism; and (4) disruptive, which exploit technology to counteract military superiority.[4]
