Wednesday, May 13, 2015
9:00 AM PDT
Attacks on Horlivka
increased by 30%, the direction becomes hot - Joint Center for cease-fire
control
(Censor.NET) --- The Ukrainian observers
of the Joint Center
Head of the
Ukrainian side of the Joint
Center
He noted that the
armistice was disrupted from 120-mm mortars and 152-mm artillery, which is a
flagrant violation of the Minsk
agreements. According to his estimates, the number of attacks has increased by
30%, their intensity has risen as well. "We do not see any trend toward
reduction of cease-fire violations," Taran said. According to him, the
situation was especially tense near Horlivka city, which has actually become
another hot spot.
The intense
militants' shelling of the Armed Forces of Ukraine positions from heavy
artillery was recorded in the village
of Dzerzhynske Donetsk airport, the
villages of Stanytsia Luhanska, Shchastia, Luhanske, Marinka, Shyrokyne and
others. The Joint
Center
Wednesday, May 13, 2015
7:06 AM PDT
Russian-backed
militants launch new attacks along Donbas
front line
(Ukraine
More militant
provocations on the front line in East Ukraine .
Ten Ukrainian
troops have been wounded over the past 24 hours, according to Army spokesman
Andriy Lysenko. He said on Wednesday that Russian-backed insurgents used heavy
weapons and tanks along the demarcation line.
Attacks were
recorded in areas including Skyrokyne, a village by the Azov
Sea between Mariupol and the Russian
border and in several settlements west of Donetsk .
Andriy Lysenko,
Ukrainian army spokesman: "The
increased number of armed provocations in previously quiet areas leaves no
doubt that the enemy is attempting to violate the ceasefire and blame the
Ukrainian side for that."
Ukrainian
intelligence suggests Russian-backed militants have amassed a force of 700
militant Russian tanks and 43,000 soldiers, news agency TSN reported Tuesday.
Reports suggest militants have restocked their weapon and ammunition supplies
in order to improve their skills for the active phase of hostilities.
Meanwhile, an
explosion near Odessa
damaged railway tracks late on Tuesday, just before a train was to pass that
section of the line. No injuries were reported. It was the latest in a number
of explosions in cities including Odessa , Kiev and Kharkiv in recent
months, most of which have targeted pro-Ukrainian volunteer organizations'
offices and groups.
Wednesday, May 13, 2015
7:01 AM PDT
Merkel promises full
support for Ukraine
She said this
before the meeting with President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko in Berlin , an Ukrinform
correspondent reported.
"Ukraine
receives support from us on its path to peace. Germant will continue providing
this support," Merkel assured.
The Chancellor
called the German-Ukrainian relations as "excellent". She recalled
that Germany provided the
assistance to Ukraine
in its economic reforms and humanitarian aspects.
Wednesday, May 13, 2015
6:46 AM PDT
OSCE: Neither Ukraine
(UNIAN) --- Neither Ukraine nor Russian-backed
militants have withdrawn all of their heavy weapons out of range of the front
line, OSCE Deputy Chief Monitor Alexander Hug said on Wednesday.
"We are
monitoring the withdrawal of heavy weapons by both sides. And when we come back
to the places where the withdrawn weapons should be stored, we often observe
that not all the equipment is there," he said.
"We are not
allowed access to these places, or we ascertain that new weapons are stored in
these places," Hug said.
"Neither the
Ukrainian government nor the illegal armed groups have completed the withdrawal
of heavy weapons, as should have been done in accordance with the Minsk agreements,"
he said.
Wednesday, May 13, 2015
5:52 AM PDT
Turkish PM: Russia 's annexation of Crimea
not acceptable
(UNIAN) --- Prime Minister of Turkey
Ahmet Davutoglu has said Russia ’s
illegal annexation of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea is unacceptable, and Ukraine
needs more support in ensuring its security.
According to an
UNIAN correspondent, the prime minister said this at the opening the meeting of
NATO Foreign Ministers held in Antalya ,
Turkey
"The crisis in
Ukraine has demonstrated how
fragile the security situation and stability in Europe
is. Ukraine
should be supported so that it can better ensure the safety of its
citizens," Davutoglu said.
He said that was is equally important not to
forget about the Crimean people.
"The illegal
annexation of the Crime
Wednesday, May 13, 2015
5:35 AM PDT
Russia deploys new
fighters and bombers to Crimea
(Zik) --- Russia
has deployed 5 of its newest fighters and bombers to Crimea .
40 more are to be moved soon, TCH reports May 13.
The newest jets
include SU-34 fighter-bombers and SU-27P fighters.
Wednesday, May 13, 2015
5:00 AM PDT
10 Ukrainian soldiers
wounded, no death losses over the past 24 hours - ATO speaker
(Censor.NET) --- Over the past day 10
Ukrainian soldiers were wounded in the course of the anti-terrorist operation.
This was stated at
a traditional daily briefing of the Presidential Administration ATO speaker
Colonel Andrii Lysenko, Censor.NET reports.
"Over the past
day, there were no deaths among Ukrainian servicemen, 10 soldiers were wounded
as a result of fighting," he said.
According to him,
most of them were wounded in a mortar attack of Luhanske village near
Svitlodarsk.
Tuesday, May 12, 2015 23:19
PDT
(Zik) --- The stand-off in Donbas cannot be resolved now by diplomats, former expert
of the Russian Institute of Strategic Research and president of the center for
political research of Northern and Eastern Europe Aleksandr Sitin said May 13,
speaking on Radio Svoboda.
So far, the West
does not seem to realize this, he said.
“That is why the
West will do all to implement the scenarios of political settling of the
conflict, with talks in the Normandy
format and visits by Kerry going on,” the Russian expert said.
All Putin’s
flirtations with the West about his alleged desire to resolve the conflict are
aimed at demoralizing the Ukrainian resistance, he believes.
“Most probably,
this is all political shenanigans. I am sure that the Russian policy is and
will be aggressive not only with regard to Ukraine but to all post-Soviet
space,” Sitin said.
The expert is
skeptical that Russia would
start an open war against Ukraine .
The on-going hybrid war will continue, with Russia
using Donbas separatists and unidentified
mercenaries.
Tuesday, May 12, 2015 22:59
PDT
Putin planned to
create Novorossiya – from Donbas to TransNistria
(Zik) --- A member of the opposition in Russia and lawmaker Lev Shlosberg says after the
annexation of Crimea Putin set to create Novorossiya engulfing Donbas, Southern Ukraine and TransNistria, Apostrof reports May
13.
“Putin’s appetite
whetted after the grab of Crimea, so his next plan was to grab the part of
southern Ukraine
stretching to the TransNistria enclave, the more so that TransNistria is
another millstone around his neck,” the lawmaker says.
However, Putin did
not expect such strong resistance from Ukrainians.
“He believes Ukraine would surrender Donbas as easily as it
did Crimea . It was his political and military
miscalculation,” Shlosberg says.
Tuesday, May 12, 2015 20:22
PDT
Fresh Blast Hits Ukraine 's Government-Held Odessa
The Ukrainian
Interior Ministry said on May 13 that the blast, which occurred around
midnight, left a meter-deep crater under the tracks.
Officials say train
transport was resumed by morning rush hour.
An investigation
has been launched into what authorities described as an act of
"sabotage."
On May 12, also in Odessa , local law
enforcement officials said they had found and defused an explosive device
planted very near a natural-gas pipeline leading to a machine-building factory.
A city of 1 million
people, Odessa lies less than 450 kilometers
from Kiev and hundreds of kilometers from the
battle lines between central government forces and pro-Russian fighters who declared
"people's republics" in eastern Ukraine .
But it was the
scene a year ago of one of the deadliest civilian incidents since conflict
erupted in eastern Ukraine ,
with more than 30 pro-Russians found dead after a fire swept through a trade
union building where they reportedly sought refuge from a hostile crowd.
Last month, the
Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) announced that it had detained more than 40
suspected members of a terrorist group in Odessa
who allegedly were planning a series of attacks in the city during celebrations
marking the Orthodox Easter on April 12.
Also in April, the
SBU detained three people suspected of involvement in a series of bombings in Odessa , some of them targeting organizations with ties to
soldiers fighting against Russian-backed rebels in eastern Ukraine , where more than 6,100
people have been killed since April 2014.
There have been a
number of explosions in recent months in Odessa
and the eastern city of Kharkiv , Ukraine 's
second-largest city.
In February, a
policeman, an activist, and a teenager were killed in Kharkiv when an explosion
ripped through a march marking the first anniversary of the Maidan
antigovernment protests in Kiev
that ousted pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych in 2014.
Officials have
blamed the blasts on Russia
and pro-Moscow rebels who hold parts of the eastern provinces of Donetsk and Luhansk.
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