Tuesday, May 26, 2015 8:53 AM PDT
Putin burns Russian
dead to hide aggression in Ukraine
(Stars and Stripes) --- Russia is so desperate to hide its military
involvement in Ukraine that
it has brought in mobile crematoriums to destroy the bodies of its war dead,
say U.S.
lawmakers who traveled to the war-torn country this spring.
The U.S. and NATO have long maintained that
thousands of Russian troops are fighting alongside separatists inside eastern Ukraine , and
that the Russian government is obscuring not only the presence but also the
deaths of its soldiers there. In March, NATO Deputy Secretary General Alexander
Vershbow told a conference, "Russian leaders are less and less able to
conceal the fact that Russian soldiers are fighting -- and dying -- in large
numbers in eastern Ukraine ."
Hence the extreme
measures to get rid of the evidence. "The Russians are trying to hide
their casualties by taking mobile crematoriums with them," House Armed
Services Committee Chairman Mac Thornberry, R-Texas, told me. "They are
trying to hide not only from the world but from the Russian people their
involvement."
Thornberry said he
had seen evidence of the crematoriums from both U.S. and Ukrainian sources. He said
he could not disclose details of classified information, but insisted that he
believed the reports. "What we have heard from the Ukrainians, they are
largely supported by U.S.
intelligence and others," he said.
Tuesday, May 26, 2015 8:06 AM PDT
Shelling takes place
several times a day.
(Censor.NET) --- “Tanks come out for
direct fire and militants are trying to get closer,” - Ukrainian paratroopers
repel attacks near Avdiivka.
The paratroopers of the 95th airmobile
brigade repel attacks of the militants in the direction of Avdiivka. Several
times a day Ukrainian fighters are subjected to heavy shelling and frequently
repulse attacks of the terrorist infantry and sabotage groups.
Censor.NET reports
that militants actively use heavy artillery and tanks. Armoured vehicles of the
terrorists come within one-two kilometers of the paratroopers.
Tuesday, May 26, 2015 7:27 AM PDT
Ukrainian drones
monitor enemy’s preparations.
(Censor.NET) ---
Hundreds of tanks and armoured vehicles, anti-aircraft rocket launchers and
howitzers spotted - volunteer Yurii Kasianov.
Ukrainian soldiers employ UAVs to monitor the movement of
Russian military equipment and redeployment of illegal armed groups in the Donbas .
This was stated by
well-known volunteer Yurii Kasianov on his Facebook page, Censor.NET reports.
"Right now our
unmanned scouts are watching the preparations of Russian militarists and their
accomplices in the Donbas . Hundreds of tanks
and armoured vehicles, anti-aircraft missile launchers, towed and
self-propelled howitzers; fortifications, headquarters, warehouses with
ammunition and fuel were spotted. Where the OSCE can't get to, our intelligent
birds will..." the volunteer wrote.
Tuesday, May 26, 2015 7:09 AM PDT
Spokesman of the
Presidential Administration of Ukraine on the Anti-Terrorist Operation Colonel
Andriy Lysenko said this at a briefing in Kiev
on Tuesday, an Ukrinform correspondent reported.
"The decision
on the construction of fortifications was taken in order to prevent the
militants from returning to the territory of the Russian Federation . And they will
not be able to leave," Lysenko said, commenting on the appropriate actions
on the Russian border.
"This
[building of fortifications] is meant to signal clearly to those mercenaries
who are now in Donbas that if they are already
there, they won't be able to leave, at least alive."
As reported
earlier, Russian newspaper Rossiyskaya Gazeta, quoting the regional border
department of the Federal Security Service (FSB) of the Russian Federation , reported that Russian border
guards have dug 100 kilometers of ditches and built a 40 km fence along Russia 's border with Donbas .
Tuesday, May 26, 2015 6:59 AM PDT
Terrorists refused
access for OSCE mission, which arrived to assess possibility of holding local
elections in Donbas – Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry
(Censor.NET) --- Terrorists haven’t let
OSCE observers, who were going to assess possibilities of organizing the
elections, into the occupied territory of the Donbas .
Ministry of Foreign
Affairs of Ukraine
Ambassador at Large Dmytro Kuleba announced, Censor.NET informs citing
Interfax-Ukraine.
"The OSCE
Human Rights Assessment Mission has not been granted access to certain areas of
the Donetsk and Luhansk regions," Kuleba
said at a briefing in Kiev
on Tuesday.
He said that the
mission was visiting Ukraine
from May 17 to May 22 at the invitation of the Ukrainian side and its purpose
was to assess the security situation for holding local elections.
Tuesday, May 26, 2015 6:47 AM PDT
Russian Embassy when
the consul will visit detained Russian commandos ‘in the nearest future’
(Censor.NET) --- Russian consul is
planning to visit detained Russian GRU servicemen Alexander Aleksandrov and
Yevgeniy Yerofeyev "in the nearest future".
This was stated by
the Russian Embassy in Kiev ,
Censor.NET reports citing Interfax-Ukraine.
"The consul
will visit the detainees in the near future," the embassy said.
On May 16, GRU
servicemen Aleksandrov and Yerofeyev were detained by Ukrainian soldiers near
Shchastia. On May 20 they were notified of suspicion of involvement in
terrorist activities as part of the "LPR".
On May 22 Shevchenkivskyi
District Court of Kiev arrested Sergeant Alexander Aleksandrov and Captain
Yevgeniy Yerofeyev for two months.
In a conversation
with the OSCE SMM observers the Russian commandos admitted that they had
previously went on missions to Eastern Ukraine under the instructions of the
military leadership of the Russian
Federation .
Earlier, Russian
Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said that they expected the release
of the detained Russian citizens in Ukraine , noting that Yerofeyev and Aleksandrov
were "former" Russian military. Putin's spokesman Peskov also
demanded the release of the Russian soldiers.
Tuesday, May 26, 2015 6:14 AM PDT
Mercenaries continue
using forbidden weapons
(UTR.TV) --- One serviceman killed and
12 wounded over the last 24 hours.
Ukrainian army suffered most losses in the suburbs of
Pervomaysk. This was informed by the Presidential administration spokesman for
ATO issues Andriy Lysenko. According to him, the only point of collision
remains to be the village
of Shyrokine Donetsk
direction, ATO forces are attacked in the area of the airport and in western
suburbs of Horlivka. Meanwhile, the front line remains stable, any enemy’s
attempts to advance failed, as Lysenko said. On Luhansk direction, active
fights were going on in the area of Schastia and on Eastern and Northern
suburbs of the occupied Pervomaysk. Mercenaries again attacked ATO forces
positions near Avdiivka and caused a fire in coke chemical plant.
Tuesday, May 26, 2015 3:27 AM PDT
One Ukrainian soldier
killed, twelve wounded in conflict zone in last day
(UNIAN) --- One Ukrainian soldier was
killed and another twelve 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 Monday, according to an UNIAN correspondent.
"Over the last
day, we have lost one Ukrainian soldier, and another twelve were injured as a
result of military clashes. The worst casualties were suffered in the suburbs
of the town of Pervomaisk ,"
Lysenko said.
As UNIAN reported
earlier, on May 24, one Ukrainian soldier was killed and another five injured
in the Donbas conflict zone.
Monday, May 25, 2015 20:46
PDT
Six Killed In Eastern Ukraine Fighting
(RFE/RL) --- Officials say four
pro-Russian rebels, a Ukrainian soldier, and one civilian were killed in
clashes that broke out over the past 24 hours in violation of a February truce
deal.
The civilian died
during an artillery fire attack on the Avdiivka coke and chemical plant,
located near of the rebels' de facto capital Donetsk .
Ukrainian military
spokesman Andriy Lysenko told reporters that a resulting fire at the plant caused
a small ammonia leak. He did not provide further details.
Lysenko said 12
Ukrainian soldiers were also wounded in clashes across the war zone.
The pro-Kiev
governor of the separatist province
of Luhansk
Rebel authorities
said four of their fighters were killed and another three injured in the past
day.
Fighting was
particularly heavy in Shyrokyne, near the strategic port city of Mariupol , military
officials from both sides said.
Monday, May 25, 2015 10:44
AM PDT
Russian/rebel troops
continue firing on Ukraine
army positions in Donbas
(Zik) --- Starting from 6 a.m. May 25,
the enemy shelled Ukraine
army positions near Mariupol in Shyrokine using mortars and small arms, the
army spokesman says.
Near Donetsk , the enemy used
grenade throwers, large-caliber machine-guns and small arms to fire on Opytne,
Pisky and Butovka mine several times during the day.
In the Luhansk
area, the rebels and their Russian patrons used small arms, mortars and
grenade-throwers against Ukraine
army positions near Krymske and Zolote-4.
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