Wednesday, April 1, 2015
7:58 AM PDT
SBU detains 3
Communists who admitted they were involved in carrying out 10 terrorist acts in
Odesa
(Zik) --- “SBU has liquidated a gang of
Communist terrorist in Odesa. The 3 of them admitted they participated in 10
terrorist acts in Odesa,” SBU spokeswoman Olena Hitlyanska said Apr. 1 in Kiev . SBU operatives
found timers and clock mechanisms in the suspects’ apartments similar to those
used in previous explosions in Odesa.
They also found
chemicals, cell phones’ parts and weapons.
The detained
Communists admitted their complicity in 10 terrorist acts in Odesa, the
official said.
Wednesday, April 1, 2015
7:49 AM PDT
Reformed SBU is to be
tailored on OUN-UPA secret service – Nalyvajchenko
(Zik) --- SBU’s chief Valentyn
Nalyvajchenko says his service is to be tailored on West
Ukraine ’s nationalists’ secret service. “There is no need to
reinvent the wheel,” he said, speaking to The Den Apr. 1.
“The reformed SBU
must be based on the traditions and approaches of OUN-UPA security service
which operated in 1930-1950s. That service acted against the aggressor
[Communist Russia], had a strong patriotic dimension, effective
counterintelligence and unprecedented support of the local population,”
Nalyvajchenko said.
“I studied well the
traditions and tactics of the leaders of the OUN-UPA secret service when I was
in opposition,” V. Nalyvajchenko said.
Wednesday, April 1, 2015
7:26 AM PDT
President instructs
to resume ATR channel broadcasting
"I have
instructed the Information Policy Ministry to create all necessary conditions
for broadcasting of ATR TV channel in Ukraine ," he wrote.
According to
Poroshenko, "the shutdown of the Crimean Tatar TV channel won't stop the
aspiration of the Crimean Tatar People for freedom and truth."
As reported, the
Crimean Tatar ATR TV channel was shut down on April 1 because it did not get a
license from the Russian telecommunications regulator to continue broadcasting
on the annexed peninsula.
Wednesday, April 1, 2015
7:11 AM PDT
Communists acted as
sidekicks for Kremlin – Nalyvajchenko
(Zik) --- The head of the Secret Service,
Valentyn Nalyvajchenko, says the Communists acted as sidekicks for Putin in
Crimea and Donbas and their subversive activities are continuing in Odesa and
Kharkiv, the chief spy told The Day Apr. 1.
“When the Russians
openly invaded Ukraine , the
Communists acted as collabourators and policemen helping the Kremlin in Crimea
and Donbas ,” he said.
The Communists
blocked the struggle against the separatism in parliament and prosecution in
2008-2009, causing the misfortunes we are having now, he said.
The Communists have
not stopped their subversive activities. Their groups are not only in Donbas but in Odesa and Kharkiv. They carry on under the
cover of so-called anti-maidans and pro-Russian rallies, Nalyvajchenko said.
SBU will continue
mop-up operations all over Ukraine
to expose Communist-backed terrorists, he added.
Wednesday, April 1, 2015
7:01 AM PDT
Yatseniuk starts
visit to Germany
The head of the
Ukrainian government has said this to German journalists, starting his visit to
Berlin .
In particular,
according to Yatseniuk, the parties will discuss signing of the documents for
the implementation of the German government "program worth EUR 500 million
for the economic stabilization of Ukraine ." "We expect that
German business will be invited to participate in this program, as out of the
sum of EUR 500 million, EUR 200 million will be allocated for the state budget,
while EUR 300 million, for infrastructure and economic projects," the
government portal quotes Yatseniuk.
In addition,
Yatseniuk informed that at the meeting with Angela Merkel and German
businessmen he would raise the issue of attracting investors from the EU and
the U.S.
to jointly upgrade and use the Ukrainian gas transportation system.
Wednesday, April 1, 2015
6:50 AM PDT
Odesa Police
reportedly detain seven alleged terrorists involved in majority of notorious
downtown blasts - media
As a correspondent
of Ukrinform in Odesa reports several online news agencies such as dumskaya.net
have reported about a successful operation carried out by SBU.
Seven suspects have
been unemployed, most of them are of middle age were part of a terrorist group
including a woman who allegedly delivered and placed a bag with an explosive
device at the entrance to the volunteers office located in Krasnov street on
December 10.
However, chief of
press relations department at Odesa regional SBU and Odesa authorities could
not confirm the fact of terrorists' group detention. "We do not have this
information," said spokeswoman for Odesa regional SBU office Anna
Shevchuk.
Wednesday, April 1, 2015
6:40 AM PDT
Militants fire on Shyrokyne,
Pionerske with 120mm mortars - Tymchuk
Head of the
Information Resistance group Dmytro Tymchuk wrote this on his Facebook page on
Wednesday.
"In coastal
areas the militants fired 120-mm mortars at a fortified position of the
Ukrainian armed forces near the village
of Pionerske village of Shyrokyne
Wednesday, April 1, 2015
5:47 AM PDT
All terrorist attacks
in Ukraine coordinated by Russian special forces – Nalyvaichenko
(Interfax) --- Russian special forces
and their representatives have set up headquarters in Luhansk and Donetsk and are coordinating the preparation and execution
of terrorist attacks in Ukraine ,
in territory controlled by the Ukrainian government and not controlled by it,
Chief of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) Valentyn Nalyvaichenko has said.
"All terrorist
attacks that take place in Ukrainian territory (controlled and not controlled
by us) are prepared and executed under the supervision of Russian special
forces. Currently, the most dangerous terrorist groups are operating in Luhansk
and Donetsk
regions. They are receiving money and weapons from Russia . They are the ones to carry
out the attacks in the south and east of the country by using modern mines… and
other explosives," Nalyvaichenko said in an interview with "Den"
(Day) newspaper, posted on Wednesday.
According to him,
the SBU has been and will be apprehending members of these terrorist groups.
"For example,
a Ukrainian citizen, who was sent from Luhansk to Kiev
by officers of Russia 's
Main Intelligence Department to execute an attack, is currently on trial. Our
investigators lead the case and demand she be sentenced to life," he said.
Nalyvaichenko said that Russian special forces are holding
training exercise for members of the so-called Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics (DPR
and LPR). According to him, they have also set up camps in Donetsk and Luhansk.
"Russian
special forces also facilitate the provision of communications to terrorists,
and deliver munitions and Russian armour to them," said.
According to
Nalyvaichenko, all these facts are being recorded "for a criminal case
against the LPR and DPR terrorist organizations."
"It's
necessary for the global community and The
Hague tribunal, and to bring every [person] involved
with the terrorist organizations to justice when these territories are
liberated," he added.
Nalyvaichenko also
commented on the statement made by leader of the Communist Party of Ukraine
Petro Symonenko, who announced plans to hold a rally in Kiev on May 1 with the participation of his
Russian colleagues.
"Let him
gather his crowd. But those involved in terrorist and separatists activities
will be detained at once… Those, who facilitated the aggression in the east of
our country, will be prosecuted as Kremlin collabourators and as those who
committed crimes against humanity," Nalyvaichenko said.
Wednesday, April 1, 2015
4:42 AM PDT
World Bank Says Russia
(RFE/RL) --- The World Bank predicts Russia 's economy will shrink more than
previously forecast in the next two years as the effects of low oil prices and
Western sanctions over Moscow 's interference in Ukraine
take hold.
In a report
released on April 1, the World Bank predicted that Russia 's gross domestic product
(GDP) would decline by 3.8 percent in 2015 rather than the 2.9 percent forecast
in January.
It predicted GDP
would continue to decline next year, but only by about 0.3 percent. In January,
it had forecast GDP growth of 0.1 percent in 2016.
The report said
that "the oil price slump and stricter sanctions came late in 2014, so
that their impact only began to affect the economy in the final quarter of
2014."
It added that
"the effects are likely to be more profound this year and in 2016."
The World Bank
forecast inflation in Russia
at about 10 percent and capital flight amounting to some $80 billion.
It said capital
flight came to $151 billion in 2014.
Wednesday, April 1, 2015
4:13 AM PDT
Militants attacked
Shyrokyne, Chermalyk and Pionerske villages near Mariupol. Three National Guard
soldiers injured - Mariupol Defense HQ
(Censor.NET) --- Ukrainian soldiers kept
holding their positions along the demarcation line yesterday offering
resistance to chaotic armed provocations of the enemy.
The enemy committed
seven assaults on the ATO forces positions in the city vicinity yesterday,
Censor.NET reports citing the statement of the Mariupol Defense HQ press
service.
Five attacks from
small arms, mortars and tanks were recorded in the village of Shyrokyne
9.45 a.m.- 10.15
a.m. Shyrokyne attacked from small arms
10.35 a.m. - 11.05
a.m. Shyrokyne attacked from mortar
2.23 p.m.- 3.43
p.m. Shyrokyne attacked from mortar
3.10 p.m.- 3.15
p.m. mortar shelling of positions near Pionerske
3.47 p.m.- 7.20
p.m. Shyrokyne attacked from mortar
16.15 p.m.- 16.20
p.m. Shyrokyne attacked from tank
18.38 p.m.- 18.54
p.m. Chermalyk attacked from small arms
Three National
Guard servicemen were injured as a result of the attacks.
The
Russian-terrorist forces conducted one attack from small arms on the Ukrainian
troops' positions in the village
of Shyrokyne
The flights of
hostile drones were not recorded yesterday.
The ATO forces
remain on the same positions. The situation is constantly monitored and is
under the full control of the Ukrainian military. There is currently no threat
to Mariupol.
Wednesday, April 1, 2015
3:57 AM PDT
'Just Give Us Our
Freedom,' Says Wife Of Exiled Crimean Tatar Leader
BAKHCHISARAI, Ukraine (RFE/RL)
--- Mustafa Dzhemilev, the long-time leader of the Crimean Tatars has been
banned from the peninsula since Russia
annexed the Ukrainian region in March 2014. But his wife, Safinar Dzhemileva,
remains in Crimea , living in a large house in
Bakhchisarai, the traditional capital of the Crimean Tatar nation.
She welcomed
RFE/RL's Mumin Shakirov into her home, pointing out stacks of documents in her
husband's study and one of the couple's prized possessions -- a radio presented
to her exiled husband by fellow Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov.
RFE/RL:
What are the prospects for you being able to see your husband again here in
Bakhchisarai?
Safinar
Dzhemileva: It completely depends on [Russian President Vladimir]
Putin. [When my husband was barred from Crimea ]
they didn't even give him any document at all. There was no court involvement,
no investigation. They simply did not let him in. Guys with guns, wearing
masks. You couldn't even see their faces.
RFE/RL:
Your husband is now a deputy in the Ukrainian parliament, the Verkhovna Rada,
in Kiev
Dzhemileva:
There are several people there [i.e. lawmakers representing Crimea
in the Ukrainian parliament]. He travels around the whole world. He pushed
through a law saying that we are a native people of Crimea and that without the
permission, the agreement, of the native peoples of Crimea ,
no one has the right to take power or consider this land as theirs. Crimean
Tatars know that any annexation, any seizure of foreign territory, is an act of
war. It is what we see in Donbas and what happened here when they annexed Crimea . We thought that they were going to deport us or
murder us, but they chose a different tactic. They are creating conditions here
that are so bad that people would run away on their own to save their children.
But only a very small percentage of Crimean Tatars have left Crimea
for the mainland. Here, most of us are sitting and waiting.
RFE/RL:
What are relations between Crimean Tatars and the de facto authorities in
Crimea like now, one year after Russia
Dzhemileva: They
are listening in on us. And they are following us. If three people talk
somewhere, the FSB [Russia 's
Federal Security Service] immediately knows everything. They have activated
their informers who were stashed all over Crimea .
And there are a lot of them.
RFE/RL: Informers?
From within the Crimean Tatar community?
Dzhemileva:
They have activated people who during the Ukraine period got caught doing
something [illegal]. And these people are very helpful [for them]. They are on
the hook and now they can be used for various purposes in order to divide our
people and create the impression that some part [of the Crimean Tatar
community] supports the Russian authorities.
RFE/RL:
For nearly two decades, you have been the head of a nongovernmental organization
called the League of Crimean Tatar Women. You have refused to register your
organization with the Russian authorities. Is it still operating?
Dzhemileva:
Our organization's work was based on its connections with public organizations
in Ukraine , Turkey ....
We worked with the Red Crescent; we worked with diasporas in Romania and Bulgaria . We worked with [the
American international development agency] USAID. All of Crimea
then was getting foreign aid. Now, everything is cut off. If it's impossible to
come and go from Crimea how can we work? Now I
come to work and we just keep having the same conversation: When will they
leave?
RFE/RL: Are
you following the situation in Russia
Dzhemileva: We
are following it very closely. We are watching the ruble, the dollar, the price
of oil. All this tells us that Russia
has enough problems of its own. Crimea is a
burden for them. We wish the Russian people prosperity, economic development,
happiness, and that they wouldn't be jealous of other countries, wouldn't want
to grab the territory of others. We want them to prosper and live. We love
them. But we love them there -- at home, in Russia . Not in Crimea .
RFE/RL: And,
finally, what do Crimean Tatars need most now in order to exist under the
current circumstances?
Dzhemileva: We
don't need anything. We are ready to live on bread and water, without
electricity or gas. We are ready to sit here with nothing at all. Just give us
our freedom.
Wednesday, April 1, 2015
3:26 AM PDT
No one killed
yesterday. Four servicemen injured - ATO speaker
(Censor.NET) --- Four Ukrainian
servicemen were injured in the ATO area March 31.
This was announced
by Colonel Andrii Lysenko, the representative of the Anti-terrorist operation
headquarters, at the traditional daily briefing, Censor.NET reports citing Liga.
"Over the past day, no Ukrainian soldiers were killed, four were wounded," Lysenko said.
"Over the past day, no Ukrainian soldiers were killed, four were wounded," Lysenko said.
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