Friday, May 1, 2015 7:54
AM PDT
Kremlin denies Putin
consented to peacekeepers in Donbas
(UNIAN) --- The Kremlin has denied
claims by officials in Kiev that Russian
President Vladimir Putin had agreed to a peacekeeping force being deployed in
the east of Ukraine ,
saying the Russian leader had only agreed to the idea in principle.
Spokesman for the
Russian president Dmitry Peskov said that Russia
considered incorrect the assertion from Kiev
that Russian President Vladimir Putin had agreed to the participation of
peacekeepers in resolving the situation in the Donbas .
According to
Peskov, Moscow does not disagree with the idea
of bringing peacekeepers into
the east of Ukraine , but
this needs "agreement in Kiev and the Donbas ," the BBC’s Russian Service reported.
"The fact of
the matter is that the Russian side has not challenged the idea of peacekeepers. But this cannot
be the decision of the Russian side or any other side guaranteeing the Minsk
Agreement. That’s because this has first of all to be an agreement between the
parties to the conflict," Peskov said.
As UNIAN reported
earlier, citing the press service of the Ukrainian President, yesterday during
a telephone conversation in the "Normandy
format" between Petro Poroshenko, Francois Hollande and Angela Merkel,
Russian President Vladimir Putin was reported to have agreed to possibility of
a deployment of peacekeepers in the Donbas .
Friday, May 1, 2015
6:16 AM PDT
Two Ukrainian
soldiers and two wounded over past 24 hours - NSDC
(Censor.NET) --- Two Ukrainian soldiers
were killed and two were wounded during the anti-terrorist operation (ATO) on
April 30.
This was stated at
a briefing of the ATO speaker Andrii Lysenko, Censor.NET reports citing
Ukrainian News.
According to him,
the terrorists continued shelling the positions of the ATO forces.
Over the day
recorded six enemy drone flight were recorded.
On April 29 one
soldier was killed and four wounded in the course of the ATO.
Friday, May 1, 2015 3:40
AM PDT
Terrorists used
mortars and artillery to attack Ukrainian troops near Pisky and Avdiivka - ATO
press center
(Censor.NET) --- From 6 p.m. until midnight
of April 30, Russian-terrorist forces violated the cease-fire 21 times.
This is reported by
Censor.NET citing the press center of the ATO.
According to the
HQ, the criminals opened fire on the positions of Ukrainian troops using 120 mm
mortars and 122 mm artillery, which is a flagrant violation of the Minsk agreements.
"In the Donetsk region our
positions near Avdiivka were shelled by 122 mm artillery. In the same area the
enemy used 120 mm mortars, heavy machine guns and small arms. In addition, the
criminals fired at a stronghold of the ATO forces near Pisky five times using
120 mm and 82 mm mortars, automatic grenade launchers, sniper and small arms.
Our positions near Vodiane and Novhorodske were also shelled by mortars,"
the report says.
The headquarters
also noted that in the Luhansk region the gangs used heavy machine guns and
automatic grenade launchers against strongholds near Shchastia and Syze.
"During this
period, Ukrainian units recorded two enemy drone flights in the Donetsk and Luhansk
region," the press-center of the ATO concluded.
Friday, May 1, 2015 3:28
AM PDT
Communist rally ends
in Kiev
(Interfax) --- A rally of the Communist
Party of Ukraine has come to an end on the premises of the Great Patriotic
War Museum
in Kiev .
People are leaving
the museum territory, an Interfax-Ukraine correspondent reported.
All is quiet, but
the police are staying in the museum for now.
Communist Party
leader Petro Symonenko addressed the rally, and a resolution was adopted, calling
for early parliament elections and the end to the war in Donbas .
The young persons
who tried to reach the communist rally site but were stopped by the police have
also left the museum.
About 50 persons
carrying the national flag went down Lavrska
Street towards the Arsenalna metro station. They
were accompanied by the police.
Friday, May 1, 2015 3:17
AM PDT
Ukrainian army
positions attacked 21 times on Thursday evening – ATO press center
(Interfax) --- Militants in Donbas committed 21 violations of the ceasefire regime,
among them by use of artillery guns, in the period from 18.00 through midnight
on Thursday, the anti-terrorist operation (ATO) press service reported.
"Twenty-one
violations of the cease regime were committed in the period from 18.00 through
midnight. Ukrainian army positions were put under fire of 120mm mortars and
122mm artillery pieces, which was a flagrant violation of the Minsk agreements," the press center
wrote on Facebook on Friday morning.
Militants fired
122mm artillery rounds at army positions near Avdiyivka in Donetsk region. They also used 120mm mortars,
large-caliber machineguns and small arms, the press center said.
Besides, militants
conducted five attacks on an army roadblock near Pisky by use of 120mm and 82mm
mortars, automatic grenade launchers, sniper rifles and small arms. Mortars
shelled positions near the towns of Vodyane and Novhorodske, it noted.
They fired
large-caliber machineguns and automatic grenade launchers at army strongholds
near the town of Schastia and the village of Syze
"Ukrainian
units stationed in Donetsk
and Luhansk regions saw two hostile drones fly by in the reporting
period," the press center added.
Friday, May 1, 2015 2:38
AM PDT
Police detain 15 young
people near communist rally site in Kiev
(Interfax) --- The police have detained
15 young persons wearing masks who tried to provoke participants in the
communist rally near the Great Patriotic War
Museum in Kiev , the city police department told Interfax.-Ukraine
The department said
the detainees were taken to a police station, which would look into
circumstances of the incident. The police had to detain the young persons in
order to prevent escalation of tensions, provocations and confrontation, the
department underlined.
Friday, May 1, 2015 2:37
AM PDT
War to end when
Ukraine regains Donbas, Crimea - Poroshenko
(Interfax) --- The war will be over for Ukraine only when it regains Donbas and Crimea , Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said.
"The war will
be over when Ukraine regains
Donbas and Crimea . How long will it take? As
long as necessary," the president told the STB channel on Thursday
evening.
Thursday, Apr. 30 2015, 14:54 PDT
NATO's top commander:
Russian forces seeking to "reset and reposition"
(UNIAN) --- U.S. Air Force General
Philip Breedlove, the NATO supreme allied commander, says Russian forces have
been seeking to "reset and reposition", despite the Donbas
ceasefire agreed in February.
"Many of their
actions are consistent with preparations for another offensive," Breedlove
told the U.S. Congress on Thursday, Reuters reported.
Breedlove
acknowledged he could not predict Moscow 's
next move but characterized its ongoing actions as "preparing, training
and equipping to have the capacity to again take an offensive."
"In the past
they have not wasted their effort," he told the Senate Armed Services
Committee.
Breedlove said Russia was
seeking to tighten its grip over separatist fighters, bolstering its command
and control "because there was disunity in some of the earlier
attacks."
"We do see a
very distinct Russian set of command and control in the eastern part of Ukraine ,"
he said.
"Command-and-control,
air defense, support to artillery, all of these things increased ... making a
more coherent, organized force out of the separatists."
The United States says Russia
now has its largest force on the border with Ukraine since October and has
deployed additional air defense systems, the biggest number since August.
General Breedlove
earlier claimed that the West must wage an information war with Russia in order
to counter its "false stories" in social networks.
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