Published on: Sunday, December 13, 2020
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At the crash site of MH17.
KESSELSCHLACHT is German for “pocket warfare”, whereby a rapidly advancing armed force into enemy territory would be carried by its forward momentum, as it were, so deeply into the latter’s terrain that they could be cut off, and trapped in what may be called a “cauldron”. Over time, the trapped soldiers would be “cooked” in the cauldron. In early July, 2014, that was what happened to the Ukrainian Armed forces that had penetrated deeply into the separatist militia held territory close to the Ukrainian-Russian border in the Donbass. This was what Sam Bullard believes had set the scene for the downing of MH17 on the 17th July, 2014.