Short news items

• Poroshenko claims that a Novorussian artillery spotter was arrested in Mariupol and that soon he will give evidence to the world.  Why such a spotter would be needed for fixed targets in unclear.
• In the meantime, Russia TV said that the initial information about a single strike was wrong, there were three strikes, one at 0900, then one at 1300 and the last one around 1330.
• FortRuss has published a translation of an interesting article describing what a Russian military attack on the Ukrainian forces would look like.  I am not so sure that Russia would go to the bother of using such advanced technologies against the Ukrainian military, but she could.
• For the latest map (high res and in English) of combat operations as of yesterday, see here.

Maximal alert for Muslims in France and for Novorussians

By this morning there have been already over 50 attacks against Muslims in France.

The next number of Charlie Hebdo will feature a frontpage caricature of the Prophet Mohammed.  This issue will be printed at 3 million copies in 16 languages ( as opposed to 60'000 only in French).

Numerous Russian and Novorussian sources are now reporting large tank movements towards key Novorussian cities.  There has also been massive shelling by Ukrainian artillery of Novorussian cities.

Poroshenko will sign tomorrow a 4th mobilization which this time will include women.

George Soros is visiting the Ukraine.

Connect the dots yourself.

The Saker