Wednesday, April 8, 2015
8:31 AM PDT
ATO headquarters
confirm invasion of Russian tanks column
Spokesman for the
anti-terrorist operation in eastern Ukraine Andriy Lysenko said this at a
briefing in Kiev on Wednesday, an Ukrinform correspondent reported.
"Movement of
the column of enemy's military equipment, which included 10 tanks, is observed
en route from border crossing point "Izvaryne" to Luhansk," he
said.
According to
Lysenko, military equipment, personnel, wagons with ammunition and fuel tanks
keep coming to militants-controlled city of Debaltseve .
Wednesday, April 8, 2015
8:01 AM PDT
There are claims to
Symonenko. Communist party involvement in the terrorist attacks in Ukraine is
currently established - Lubkivskyi
(Censor.NET) --- SBU records all the
facts of the Communist Party of Ukraine members’ involvement in commission of
terrorist attacks in Ukraine .
Meanwhile, the
agency promises to bring the investigation to the end. Adviser to the SBU
Chairman Markiian Lubkivskyi announced today at a briefing Censor.NET informs
citing Interfax-Ukraine.
"We have claims to Symonenko (Communist
Party leader Petro Symonenko - Ed.). Moreover, we are currently establishing
the involvement of the Communist Party and its leaders to the commission of all
those terrorist acts, backed by the Communists, particularly in Odesa and other
cities. We are documenting it all, so it is not the status (of Symonenko as a
witness - Ed.) that is important. What matter is that the Communists continue
to commit crimes against their own people and we will bring this case to the end.
This is a moral position of the SBU Chairman Valentyn Nalyvaichenko,"
Lubkivskyi said.
Wednesday, April 8, 2015
7:08 AM PDT
Militants export
equipment from two Ukraine's plants to Russia
Spokesman for the
anti-terrorist operation in eastern Ukraine Andriy Lysenko said this at a
briefing in Kiev
on Wednesday, an Ukrinform correspondent reported.
"According to
our information, the militants continue to dismantle and export equipment from
the enterprises in the occupied territories to the Russian Federation . In particular,
we are talking about Lutugino Research and Production Roll Company and Zuyev
Energy-Mechanical Plant (ZEMZ), which is located near the town of Khartsyzk and
provided employment to thousands of professionals," Lysenko said.
Wednesday, April 8, 2015
6:42 AM PDT
Two Soldiers, One
Rebel Reported Killed In East Ukraine
(RFE/RL) --- Two Ukrainian soldiers and
a pro-Russian separatist have been reported killed in the country's east.
Army spokesman Andriy Lysenko said on April 8 that two
soldiers had been killed and four wounded in the past day.
The rebels said one
of their fighters was killed and three were injured.
Both sides accused
each other of violating a cease-fire agreed in Minsk in February in an effort to end a
conflict that has killed more than 6,000 people since April 2014.
Lysenko said
separatists fired mortars and tank rounds at Ukrainian positions on more than
10 separate occasions near the government-held port city of Mariupol
and the rebel-controlled provincial capital of Donetsk .
The separatists
accused the Ukraine Army of 45 attacks on their positions, including in the
town of Spartak and Donetsk .
Wednesday, April 8, 2015
6:16 AM PDT
Russian citizen,
detained by SBU in regard to organizing an explosion in Kharkiv, may have been
involved in torture of Ukrainian soldiers
(Censor.NET) --- Organizer of the stele
bombing in Kharkiv with a call-sign Tereza may have been involved in torture of
Ukrainian servicemen.
This was stated at
a briefing of adviser to the head of the SBU Markyian Lubkivskyi, Censor.NET
reports citing Channel 112 Ukraine.
"Call-sign
Tereza is an employee of the so-called "ministry of state security of the
so-called "DPR." She personally conducted interrogations of
prisoners, soldiers of the Ukrainian armed forces. In addition, she was a
coordinator of the security services criminal activities, supervised activities
in the territory of the Sumy
region, provided explosives and weapons to terrorists and saboteurs. The
immediate supervisor of Tereza was one of the leaders of the so-called
"DPR" "ministry of state security" Valeiriy Kamynin, [call-sign]
Doc," Lubkivskyi said.
Wednesday, April 8, 2015
5:52 AM PDT
(RFE/RL) --- Ukraine 's new symbol of victory
over Nazi Germany in World War II.
First Lady Maryna
Poroshenko attended a "Remembrance Poppy" ceremony on April 7 as part
of events marking the 70th anniversary of the Nazi surrender in May 1945.
"The time has
come when we have to look for the ideas that unite our country and
nation," she said, according to a statement on the presidential
website.
Russian celebrations of the World War II victory as the product of unity among Soviet republics are ringing wrong to many inUkraine because of Moscow 's annexation of Crimea
and its support for separatists fighting Ukrainian government forces in a
conflict that has killed more than 6,000 people.
Russian celebrations of the World War II victory as the product of unity among Soviet republics are ringing wrong to many in
The head of the
Ukrainian Institute of National Memory, Volodymyr Vyatrovych, said that
Soviet-era commemorations of the Allied victory had turned the "dreadful
tragedy" of World War II into a celebration of the "triumph of
communist ideas" and created a "cult of war."
"Last year, we
saw that the myth about the Patriotic War, the Soviet War, had become not only
an instrument of propaganda but also an instrument of war against Ukraine ,"
he said, according to the website.
Wednesday, April 8, 2015
5:44 AM PDT
BBC journalists
exposed Russian lies about 10-year-old girl killed in Donetsk
BBC journalists made Russian propagandists acknowledge
that there was no 10-year-old girl killed in Petrovsky district of Donetsk in
early April.
(Censor.NET) --- This is reported by
Censor.NET citing mw.ua.
BBC reporter
conducted an investigation which showed that local residents only heard of the
accident on TV, and there was no shelling in the Petrovsky district of Donetsk
that day. "We only heard about it on TV. If there had been something, we
would have known," several residents of the district said.
Besides, the reporters visited theDonetsk morgue, but its
director Mykola Kalashnykov also said there had been no dead girl recently.
As a result, Russian media representative confessed that "there was no girl," and the media spread the lies because "they were forced to."
Before the "killed girl" Russian propaganda reported of a "crucified boy" in Sloviansk central square, "tortures of his mother," and a single female "witness" to this, who still claimed that many people had been forced to come and see. Subsequently,Russia 's
Pervy TV Channel reported that this could have been the woman's "sick
fantasies."
Besides, the reporters visited the
As a result, Russian media representative confessed that "there was no girl," and the media spread the lies because "they were forced to."
Before the "killed girl" Russian propaganda reported of a "crucified boy" in Sloviansk central square, "tortures of his mother," and a single female "witness" to this, who still claimed that many people had been forced to come and see. Subsequently,
Wednesday, April 8, 2015
5:01 AM PDT
Russian Paper Removes
Article About Soldier Wounded In Ukraine
Tank crewman Dorzhi
Batonmukuyev's accounts of fighting in eastern Ukraine
have added to what Kiev
and NATO say are incontrovertible evidence of direct Russian military support
for the rebels in a conflict with government forces that has killed more than
6,000 people since April 2014.
The chief editor of
Novaya Buryatia (New Buryatia), Timur Dugarzhapov, told RFE/RL on April 7 that
staffers in recent days cut an article about Batonmukuyev out of the
newspaper's entire April 3 print run by hand and deleted it from the website.
Dugarzhapov said
the paper had not been ordered by the authorities to remove the article, but
decided to do so after "too many hateful comments appeared in the
Internet."
Moscow-based
independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta published an interview last month in which
Batonmukuyev, who suffered severe burns and remains hospitalized, described in
detail how
Wednesday, April 8, 2015
4:16 AM PDT
Ukraine to sign
military and technical cooperation agreement with NATO - Yatseniuk
(Interfax) --- Ukrainian Prime Minister
Arseniy Yatseniuk has said that the Ukrainian government will sign an agreement
on military and technical cooperation with NATO, and the Armed Forces of
Ukraine will seek to meet NATO standards.
"The
government is signing an agreement on cooperation in the field of support with
NATO. It is an agreement on support between the Ukrainian Cabinet and NATO,
which envisages the implementation of four trust projects with NATO, including
military and technical cooperation, communications, new communications and
information technologies," Yatseniuk said at a government meeting on
Wednesday.
He said that Ukraine needed
to rebuild its armed forces using the example of the strongest armies and
associations which are fighting for global peace, and which adhere to NATO
standards.
"We are moving
in this direction," Yatseniuk added.
Wednesday, April 8, 2015
3:30 AM PDT
Terrorists opened
machine gun fire at OSCE SMM patrol near Shyrokyne
(Censor.NET) --- "DPR"
terrorists opned fire at OSCE Special Monitoring Mission patrol at an
improvised “DPR” roadblock north of Shyrokyne.
This is stated by
the press service of the OSCE SMM, Censor.NET reports.
"On April 7,
while traveling east on road E58 toward a "Donetsk
People's Republic" ("DPR") checkpoint in Shyrokyne (20 km east
of Mariupol, 99 km south of Donetsk ),
the SMM was halted by an improvised "DPR" roadblock, located on the
northern edge of Shyrokyne ("DPR"-controlled). As the SMM approached
the checkpoint on foot, a patrol member immediately encountered warning shots
of heavy machine gun fire to his right, and semi-automatic rifle fire to his
left.
"The SMM
proceeded to make contact with a "DPR" member, emerging from a nearby
trench, to negotiate passage through the roadblock. After some discussion, and a
search of SMM vehicles by "DPR" members, the SMM patrol was allowed
to proceed. Prior to departing the scene, the SMM saw two cars enter Shyrokyne
at high speed and four cars depart at high speed. The cars, with
"DPR" members on board, had no number plates. "DPR" members
at the scene told the SMM that Ukrainian Armed Forces personnel had been
targeting the stretch of the E58 highway directly east of Shyrokyne in the past
two weeks. As the SMM left the scene, it travelled east on E58, where it observed
the wreckage of several vehicles which had been recently destroyed by machine
gun and anti-tank missile fire. The SMM continued travelling east towards
Novoazovsk on E58, at the border between Ukraine
and the Russian Federation ,"
the report says.
Wednesday, April 8, 2015
3:01 AM PDT
Border guards
prevented a breakthrough of terrorist subversive group in Luhansk region
(Censor.NET) --- Ukrainian border guards
once again exposed a sabotage and reconnaissance group of terrorists who tried
to cross the demarcation line in the Luhansk region yesterday.
It is reported by
Censor.NET citing the State Border Service.
According to the
report, border guards spotted 10 armed militants at midnight who were covertly
moving along the railroad tracks near Komyshne fron the direction of
Khriashchivka.
"To avoid the
breakthrough of the subversive group a covert border guard unit opened fire on
the militants. The fire from small arms and grenade launchers forced the
Russian mercenaries to retreat. As a result of the armed conflict there were no
casualties among the border guards," the statement reads.
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