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President Vladimir Putin said today that Kiev’s shutting off supplies of gas to the Donbas, on top of the food shortages, “bears the hallmark of genocide,” according to Sputnik.

“It has become known to us that Kiev suspended gas supplies, referring to alleged damage to gas pipelines. At the same time, Gazprom is fulfilling the contract signed back in 2009 and an addendum to it made in October last year. In full compliance with this contract, it supplies gas to Ukraine under advance payments made for the volumes, which Ukraine needs…. Gazprom is not breaching any provisions.”

He added:

“As for the damage to the gas pipeline, I don’t know for certain, but I know that these regions are home to about 4.5 million people. Just imagine that these people may be left without gas supply during the winter period. As if the hunger was not enough — the OSCE has already stated that the region is experiencing a humanitarian catastrophe — they had their gas supplies cut off. What would you call it? I would say this bears the hallmark of genocide.”

President Vladimir Putin said today that Kiev’s shutting off supplies of gas to the Donbas, on top of the food shortages, “bears the hallmark of genocide,” according to Sputnik.

“It has become known to us that Kiev suspended gas supplies, referring to alleged damage to gas pipelines. At the same time, Gazprom is fulfilling the contract signed back in 2009 and an addendum to it made in October last year. In full compliance with this contract, it supplies gas to Ukraine under advance payments made for the volumes, which Ukraine needs…. Gazprom is not breaching any provisions.”

He added:

“As for the damage to the gas pipeline, I don’t know for certain, but I know that these regions are home to about 4.5 million people. Just imagine that these people may be left without gas supply during the winter period. As if the hunger was not enough — the OSCE has already stated that the region is experiencing a humanitarian catastrophe — they had their gas supplies cut off. What would you call it? I would say this bears the hallmark of genocide.”

Andriy Parubiy, now first deputy speaker of the Supreme Rada as a leading member of the National Front political party of Victoria Nuland’s handpicked PM Arseni “Yats” Yatsenyuk, told Voice of America yesterday that he would be meeting in Washington, D.C. with Nuland, herself—Dick Cheney’s former advisor who now serves as Obama’s Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs. He will also meet with Sen. John McCain and Rep. John Boehner, and representatives of the Pentagon.

Parubiy, a key figure in Ukraine’s fascist Banderite movement, was Commandant of the Maidan for the coup a year ago, and subsequently organized the National Guard for the civil war in eastern Ukraine.

LaRouche: Fire Nazi-Lover Nuland or Face World War

Top on his agenda: lining up military aid from the Obama administration for the Ukrainian military. “The position of the United States will be decisive. After the United States, I’m confident many leaders of the European countries, [and] Canada, will support this initiative and will more actively assist Ukraine,” Parubiy told the Ukrainian service of Voice of America, Ukrinform reported.

A conference on “Ukraine-U.S. Collaboration” held the same day by the U.S. government-funded National Democratic Institute (NDI) and the Brookings Institution, made clear that Nuland’s war party in Washington orchestrated this Nazi’s visit, in an attempt to steamroll opposition from saner forces, such as the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who have no interest in this project to draw the U.S. into a war with Russia. US Agency for International Development Deputy Assistant Administrator for Europe and Eurasia, Jonathan Katz, joined the campaign, as a speaker.

Parubiy’s lobbying began with a brief address to that conference, pushing his sell-us-weapons agenda. NDI Regional Director for Eurasia Laura Jewett, welcoming the “impressive delegation” of Ukrainian parliamentarians and Ukrainian specialists, said it was “fitting” that the first speaker was Parubiy. Parubiy swaggered that Ukraine, provided the right lethal and non-lethal weapons, could defeat Vladimir Putin and “the Russian occupiers.” Jewett enthusiastically thanked him, stating that he had done “an excellent job” in setting the agenda for the conference’s discussion.

Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Steven Pifer moderated the later panel discussion on defense issues. Pifer is a vociferous advocate of the U.S. arming of Ukraine, churning out articles one after the other promoting that policy, after co-authoring the February Atlantic Council report, “Preserving Ukraine’s Independence; Resisting Russian Aggression: What the United States and NATO Must Do.”

Pifer and another speaker on the defense panel typified the lunacy of these Nazi-sponsors. Ukrainian diplomat Vasyl Filipchuk, who worked on EU Integration in 2012-2013, insisted that if “Iranian-style” sanctions were thrown against Russia, especially hitting banking while keeping the oil price low at the same time, Russia would be in full-scale collapse by next September, and Ukraine won’t have to worry about Putin. He also stated proudly that he considers Nazi SS collaborator Stepan Bandera a “national hero.”

For his part, Pifer, when asked from the floor what he would say to those that warn that Russia’s economic collapse might not only be dangerous, but would bring an even-more nationalist leader into the Kremlin, assured the audience that he agreed such events could be dangerous, but Vladimir Putin will back down before allowing that to happen. The West just has to “change Putin’s calculus” by imposing greater sanctions and arming Ukraine.

Andriy Parubiy, now first deputy speaker of the Supreme Rada as a leading member of the National Front political party of Victoria Nuland’s handpicked PM Arseni “Yats” Yatsenyuk, told Voice of America yesterday that he would be meeting in Washington, D.C. with Nuland, herself—Dick Cheney’s former advisor who now serves as Obama’s Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs. He will also meet with Sen. John McCain and Rep. John Boehner, and representatives of the Pentagon.

Parubiy, a key figure in Ukraine’s fascist Banderite movement, was Commandant of the Maidan for the coup a year ago, and subsequently organized the National Guard for the civil war in eastern Ukraine.

LaRouche: Fire Nazi-Lover Nuland or Face World War

Top on his agenda: lining up military aid from the Obama administration for the Ukrainian military. “The position of the United States will be decisive. After the United States, I’m confident many leaders of the European countries, [and] Canada, will support this initiative and will more actively assist Ukraine,” Parubiy told the Ukrainian service of Voice of America, Ukrinform reported.

A conference on “Ukraine-U.S. Collaboration” held the same day by the U.S. government-funded National Democratic Institute (NDI) and the Brookings Institution, made clear that Nuland’s war party in Washington orchestrated this Nazi’s visit, in an attempt to steamroll opposition from saner forces, such as the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who have no interest in this project to draw the U.S. into a war with Russia. US Agency for International Development Deputy Assistant Administrator for Europe and Eurasia, Jonathan Katz, joined the campaign, as a speaker.

Parubiy’s lobbying began with a brief address to that conference, pushing his sell-us-weapons agenda. NDI Regional Director for Eurasia Laura Jewett, welcoming the “impressive delegation” of Ukrainian parliamentarians and Ukrainian specialists, said it was “fitting” that the first speaker was Parubiy. Parubiy swaggered that Ukraine, provided the right lethal and non-lethal weapons, could defeat Vladimir Putin and “the Russian occupiers.” Jewett enthusiastically thanked him, stating that he had done “an excellent job” in setting the agenda for the conference’s discussion.

Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Steven Pifer moderated the later panel discussion on defense issues. Pifer is a vociferous advocate of the U.S. arming of Ukraine, churning out articles one after the other promoting that policy, after co-authoring the February Atlantic Council report, “Preserving Ukraine’s Independence; Resisting Russian Aggression: What the United States and NATO Must Do.”

Pifer and another speaker on the defense panel typified the lunacy of these Nazi-sponsors. Ukrainian diplomat Vasyl Filipchuk, who worked on EU Integration in 2012-2013, insisted that if “Iranian-style” sanctions were thrown against Russia, especially hitting banking while keeping the oil price low at the same time, Russia would be in full-scale collapse by next September, and Ukraine won’t have to worry about Putin. He also stated proudly that he considers Nazi SS collaborator Stepan Bandera a “national hero.”

For his part, Pifer, when asked from the floor what he would say to those that warn that Russia’s economic collapse might not only be dangerous, but would bring an even-more nationalist leader into the Kremlin, assured the audience that he agreed such events could be dangerous, but Vladimir Putin will back down before allowing that to happen. The West just has to “change Putin’s calculus” by imposing greater sanctions and arming Ukraine.