Friday, April 17, 2015
7:47 AM PDT
Soldiers at the 29th
checkpoint say Russian terrorists are preparing to attack.
(Censor.NET) --- The terrorists shell
the 29th checkpoint near the Bakhmutka road in the Luhansk region every night.
As reported by
Censor.NET, the terrorists use small arms and large-caliber arsenal, including
120-mm mortars and a tank. Ukrainian soldiers, who have withdrawn the heavy
equipment under the Minsk
agreements, only fire back with small arms and an old infantry combat vehicle.
Nevertheless, they haven't given up a centimeter of the Ukrainian land.
According to the TSN story, Ukrainian intelligence confirms that the terrorists are preparing an attack. A convoy of tanks has arrived in Kirovsk, the nearest city.
According to the TSN story, Ukrainian intelligence confirms that the terrorists are preparing an attack. A convoy of tanks has arrived in Kirovsk, the nearest city.
Friday, April 17, 2015
7:47 AM PDT
Documents of Russian
tankman from
(Censor.NET) --- Russian Federation
citizen R. D. Gadzhiev, who came to Donbas in December 2014 as a tank driver of
a separate tank battalion, was arrested by the Security Service of Ukraine at
the beginning of the year.
Censor.NET reports
obtaining scan copies of the rebel's passport and several pages of his
notebook.
According to the documents, Ruslan Dzhupalavich Gadzhiev was born in 1973 invillage of Levokumskoe
His notebook listed not only his wife's number, but also contacts of saunas and call-girls.
According to the documents, Ruslan Dzhupalavich Gadzhiev was born in 1973 in
His notebook listed not only his wife's number, but also contacts of saunas and call-girls.
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As reported,
Gadzhiev himself said that at the end of December 2014 he was allegedly
arrested on suspicion of car theft and, being at risk of criminal proceeding
against him was sent to the territory
of Ukraine
Friday, April 17, 2015
7:41 AM PDT
Ukrainian military
ready to ensure Shyrokyne demilitarization
(Interfax) --- Ukraine is ready to ensure the demilitarization
of Shyrokyne, Donetsk
region, on the condition of full observance of ceasefire for the duration of a
set period of time, the press center for the Ukrainian military operation
reported on Friday.
The source said
representatives of Ukraine
in the Joint Center
"Issues
relating to the demilitarization of the territory of the said populated area
and the deployment in it of a permanent observation point staffed by
representatives of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation ,
and the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) were also addressed," the
press center said in a report.
During the
trilateral meeting, Alexander Hug, deputy head of the OSCE SMM, was given the
main provisions of the proposals made by the Ukrainian part of the JCCC
concerning the demilitarization of Shyrokyne.
"The meeting
participants pointed out Ukraine 's
readiness to ensure the demilitarization of the appropriate area on condition
of full ceasefire in the course of a specific period of time. Among other
things, this will help deploy a permanent observation point," the press
center said.
The source also
said the meeting had addressed the proposals made by the Ukrainian part of the
JCCC on the installation in this populated area of web cameras, which would
enable the OSCE SMM to monitor ceasefire observance more effectively.
Friday, April 17, 2015
7:18 AM PDT
(Interfax) --- Ukraine will definitely join the
European Union but its membership in NATO remains in question in the case of
the alliance's ineffective response to contemporary challenges, Ukrainian
Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin said.
"I think that
throughout the long period of its existence NATO has been focused on Article 5,
i.e. mutual defense commitments, hard security. And we are saying that we are
fighting a hybrid war. I am not 100% sure that NATO is fully prepared to fight
similar or future hybrid wars and that NATO currently has a structure optimal
for dealing with such [challenges] […] No doubt, NATO has been adapting. So, I
am always frank about our critical need for participation in structures and
guarantees. Yet we will have to seek other options if the alliance fails to
provide guarantees for Ukraine ,"
he said in an interview with the online publication Evropeiska Pravda published
on Friday.
He gave an
affirmative answer to the question whether Ukraine would become an EU member.
Speaking of
alternative ways to provide Ukraine 's
security, Klimkin said, "These ways of the provision of security can
create much bigger challenges to our partners than those they are currently
anticipating from Ukraine 's
possible NATO membership."
Klimkin dwelled on
problems existing within the North Atlantic
alliance and said that the alliance was lacking consensus on many aspects of
its development. "NATO is an organization with a rather complicated
structure, incorporating, for instance, Canada
and Turkey .
So, a lot will depend on the development of NATO in the near future," he
said.
Friday, April 17, 2015
5:58 AM PDT
Militants fire
‘withdrawn weapons’ seven times at Ukrainian army
(UNIAN) --- Russian-backed militants in
the Donbas attacked Ukrainian army positions seven times using
weapons that were supposed to have been withdrawn from the front line
under the Minsk peace agreements, National Security and Defense Council
spokesman Andriy Lysenko said at a briefing in Kiev on Friday, according to an
UNIAN correspondent.
"Over the last
day, the situation in the area of the Anti-Terrorist Operation was tense, but
under control. The militants fired on our positions several times using
weapons that were supposed to have been withdrawn from the front line
under the Minsk
peace agreements," Lysenko said.
"In
particular, the militants fired 120mm mortars five times and 122mm artillery
twice," Lysenko said.
"Our military
comply with the Minsk
agreements and fires in response only in the case of a real threat to the lives
of our soldiers," he said.
"The hottest
spots were the villages of Shyrokyne and Talakivka near Mariupol. Near Donetsk , it was the Donetsk
airport area and the suburbs of the town of Horlivka . In the area of Luhansk, the
militants fired on our positions near the town of Popasna and the Bakhmutka highway,"
Lysenko added.
Friday, April 17, 2015
5:04 AM PDT
Lysenko: One
Ukrainian soldier wounded in Donbas conflict
zone in last day
(UNIAN) --- No Ukrainian soldiers were
killed but one was injured in the Donbas conflict zone over the last 24 hours,
National Security and Defense Council spokesman Andriy Lysenko said at a
briefing in Kiev
on Friday, according to an UNIAN correspondent.
"Over the last
day, we haven’t lost any Ukrainian soldiers, but one was injured as a result of
military clashes near the village of Pisky of Donetsk
region," Lysenko said.
Under agreements
reached in Minsk on February 12, a ceasefire was
supposed to come into effect in eastern Ukraine on February 15. However,
the ceasefire was broken within an hour, and militants launched an attack on
the government-held town of Debaltseve in Donetsk region, which
they captured on February 18.
As UNIAN reported
earlier, on February 12, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, Russian President
Vladimir Putin, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President François
Hollande held talks in Minsk to resolve the
conflict in the Donbas .
Since then, the
militants have continued to attack the positions of the Ukrainian armed forces
throughout the territory of the Donbas, Ukraine ’s military says.
Friday, April 17, 2015
1:48 AM PDT
US military
instructors come to Lviv – Ambassador Pyatt
(Zik) --- Writing in Twitter Apr. 17,
the US
Ambassador in Kiev Geoffrey Pyatt says a group of 173rd Brigade paratroopers
has come to Lviv to train Ukrainian servicemen.
The training is to
be done at the Yavoriv base near Lviv. 290 US paratroopers will instruct three
300-groups of Ukrainian servicemen during 8-week long session.
Servicemen from the
Azov regiment and Kulchytsky, Yaguar and Omega battalions and units from Kiev , Kharkiv,
Zaporizhya, Odesa and Ivano-Frankivsk will take part in the training, LB.UA
reports.
Thursday, April 16, 2015
11:18 AM PDT
Turchynov inspects
defensive fortifications in Donbas
(Zik) --- The secretary of the National
Defense and Security Council Olexandr Turchynov has inspected today the
defensive fortification in Donbas ,
Interfax-Ukrayina reports Apr. 16.
The Russian troops
and their Donbas allies may resume aggressive
actions any time. Given this, the work on the fortifications must be stepped up
and continued round-the-clock, he said.
Turchynov also
visited the Mariupol area near Shyrokine, the site of most intense shelling by
the enemy of Ukraine
army positions.
The first and
second lines of defense fortifications are to be ready by late May.
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