Thursday, April 23, 2015 8:22 AM PDT
BBC team comes under
fire in Shyrokyne
(Ukraine village
of Shyrokyne
During the attacks,
the BBC team witnessed the use of heavy weapons, which should have been withdrawn
from the contact line under the provisions of Minsk peace agreement.
Ukrainian military
positions were shelled so many times, that is was difficult to calculate the
amount of shells fired, a BBC correspondent said.
The militants were
firing for an hour before Ukraine 's
military returned fire.
According to one
BBC correspondent, shelling started as soon as the OSCE monitoring team has
left the place.
Ukrainian soldiers
showed reporters a shell that had hit a house, but did not explode. The size of
the shell showed that it was fired from a weapon prohibited under the Minsk ceasefire accord.
Leaders of the
so-called Donetsk People's Republic and Luhansk People's Republic, for
their part, accused the Ukrainian side of shelling.
Since the truce was
signed back in February, there have been nearly daily breaches by
Russian-backed militants. Ukrainian forces say they have to return the fire.
Thursday, April 23, 2015 8:13 AM PDT
Russian journalist
caused fire in Khakasia to make background for video
(Ukraine
According to the
local news agency Khakasia, Akinchenko set the fire in order in order to film
it for the evening news.
Local residents
complained to police about the incident. A resident said the journalist threw
down a cigarette butt near the village
of Kolodezniy
The journalist was
reporting on Vladimir Putin's arrival in Khakasia on April 22. Thousands of
houses in the region have been destroyed. Some 34 people died, and more than
1,000 people have received injuries.
Akinchenko admitted
to starting the fire. He said he did it, ‘to make a background for the video.'
Russian State
Television Channel 1, also known as Perviy Kanal, has accused Akinchenko of
negligence.
Perviy Kanal is
notorious for airing fake reports. The channel's fake report about a boy
crucified in east Ukraine
aired during the summer of 2014 took first place in Ukraine Today's rating of
fake Russian news reports last year.
Thursday, April 23, 2015 7:54 AM PDT
Miners make
Demchyshyn to urgently return to Ukraine
Spokesperson for
the Ministry Hanna Dudka has said this to an Ukrinform correspondent.
"I was
informed that Volodymyr Demchyshyn indeed returns from the United States
earlier than it was planned. Tomorrow he will be in Kiev ," she said.
The information has
also been confirmed on Twitter by head of the European Integration department
of the Ministry Mykhailo Bno-Ayriyan.
"The minister
has decided to interrupt his working visit to the United States due to strikes of
miners. Today, he departs to Kiev ,"
he posted.
He added that many
important and useful meetings would be canceled.
As a reminder, the
strikes of miners have continued in Kiev .
Miners demand the resignation of Demchyshyn.
Thursday, April 23, 2015
7:25 AM PDT
Poroshenko says he
will hold referendum on NATO membership
(UNIAN) --- Ukrainian President Petro
Poroshenko announced during his visit to France
his plans to call for a nation-wide referendum on the “fundamental” issue of Ukraine ’s
potential NATO membership.
However, no
specific date for such a vote was mentioned, Ukraine Today reports.
Meanwhile, public
opinion in Ukraine has
shifted towards supporting Ukraine ’s
bid to join the alliance in the wake of Russia ’s
aggressive moves, which started a year ago with the annexation of Crimea and
later Russia ’s support for
militants in eastern Ukraine .
Still, the United States and the EU doubt that Ukraine will
become a NATO member state in the short term.
Thursday, April 23, 2015
6:54 AM PDT
Russian Foreign
Ministry suspects Ukraine
(Censor.NET) --- Russian Foreign
Ministry Information and Press Department released its comment on the
statements of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Secretary
Oleksandr Turchynov about the alleged creation of a nuclear bomb in Ukraine.
Censor.NET reports
citing the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation official
website.
"Our attention
was attracted by a recent statement of the NSDC Secretary Oleksandr Turchynov
that the Ukrainian government is allegedly preparing to implement some
classified military-technical nuclear programs aimed at creation of a so-called
"dirty bomb" or nuclear weapons. As a rule, such plans are declared
by various terrorist groups," the statement reads.
In this case, the
Information and Press Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry stressed,
creation of such devices would make Ukraine a rogue state and put the
question of taking measures under Chapter VII of the UN Charter.
Oleksandr Turchynov
called the statements of the Russian Foreign Ministry a morbid imagination of
Russian officials.
"Ukraine will
defend its territorial integrity strictly observing all its international
obligations," he said.
"And as for
the authors of such statements, who talk nonsense in their fright distorting
and falsifying position stated by us, I advise them to take sedatives and
abstain from alcohol," the NSDC secretary said.
Thursday, April 23, 2015
4:53 AM PDT
Seven Ukrainian
soldiers wounded in Donbas conflict zone in
last day
(UNIAN) --- No Ukrainian soldiers were
killed, but seven were injured in the Donbas
conflict zone over the last 24 hours, the head of the press center of the ATO
headquarters, Colonel Oleksandr Motuzianyk told an UNIAN correspondent on
Thursday.
"Over the last day, we haven’t lost any Ukrainian soldiers,
but seven were injured as a result of military clashes," Motuzianyk said.
As reported earlier, since April 20 no Ukrainian soldiers
have been killed in the Donbas conflict zone.
On April 19, no Ukrainian soldiers were killed, but four
were wounded in the Donbas conflict zone.
Wednesday, April 22, 2015
23:17 PDT
Demilitarization of
Shyrokyne does not mean Ukrainian army will leave the village - Turchynov
(Censor.NET) --- Demilitarization of
Shyrokyne village near Mariupol, the Donetsk
region, does not mean that the Ukrainian troops will retreat from the village.
As reported by
Censor.NET, this was announced by the NSDC Secretary Oleksandr Turchynov in an
interview to Channel 5.
"When we speak of demilitarization, it does not mean that we need to retreat from a village, let's say, of Shyrokyne. We mean that we need to create a permanent OSCE monitoring mission point in Shyrokyne. As of now, they work as follows: they travel around the territory from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. As soon as they leave at 5 p.m., the Russian terrorist groups start shelling," Turchynov said.
"When we speak of demilitarization, it does not mean that we need to retreat from a village, let's say, of Shyrokyne. We mean that we need to create a permanent OSCE monitoring mission point in Shyrokyne. As of now, they work as follows: they travel around the territory from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. As soon as they leave at 5 p.m., the Russian terrorist groups start shelling," Turchynov said.
He added that under
the Minsk agreements, Shyrokyne is under total
control of Ukraine .
"If a permanent OSCE station is created there, with OSCE observers, the city will be controlled by the Ukrainian police, ... including the part where terrorists deploy," the NSDC secretary noted.
Turchynov believes that "only under these circumstances can we say that our military units will retreat for a kilometer in order to demilitarize the area and to stop chances for provocations by the Russian terrorist groups."
"If a permanent OSCE station is created there, with OSCE observers, the city will be controlled by the Ukrainian police, ... including the part where terrorists deploy," the NSDC secretary noted.
Turchynov believes that "only under these circumstances can we say that our military units will retreat for a kilometer in order to demilitarize the area and to stop chances for provocations by the Russian terrorist groups."
Wednesday, April 22, 2015
18:51 PDT
ROSTOV-ON-DON, Russia (RFE/RL) --- A historian from Crimea,
Oleksiy Chyrniy, has been sentenced to seven years in jail in Russia on terrorism charges.
Chyrniy, who made a deal with investigators, pleaded guilty.
Chyrniy, along with Ukrainian filmmaker Oleh Sentsov and
activists Oleksandr Kolchenko and Hennadiy Afanasyev, was arrested in Crimea in
May 2014, weeks after Russia
annexed the peninsula from Ukraine
via a controversial referendum.
Afanasyev, who also pleaded guilty and made a deal with
investigators, was sentenced to seven years in jail in December.
Sentsov and Kolchenko are currently in a Moscow pretrial detention center awaiting
trial. They deny any wrongdoing.
If found guilty, they may face up to 20 years in jail.
Wednesday, April 22, 2015
10:32 AM PDT
Apr. 22, Donbas separatists violated ceasefire 32 times
(Zik) --- As of midnight on Apr. 22
through 18.00 Donbas separatists have violated the ceasefire 32 times, Ukraine
army spokesman says. In the Donetsk oblast, the
enemy used 120-mm mortars and 122-mm artillery guns which should have been
pulled away from the touchline according to the Minsk agreements. In Shyrokine, near
Mariupol, the enemy opened fire on Ukraine army positions using a
120-mm mortar, AA gun and automatic grenade throwers. In the Luhansk oblast,
most of the provocations happened near Shchastya. The enemy fired from mortars,
anti-tank missile complex, automatic grenade throwers and sniper rifles, the
army spokesman says.
In the Donetsk oblast, the enemy used 120-mm mortars and 122-mm
artillery guns which should have been pulled away from the touchline according
to the Minsk
agreements.
In Shyrokine, near
Mariupol, the enemy opened fire on Ukraine army positions using a
120-mm mortar, AA gun and automatic grenade throwers.
In the Luhansk
oblast, most of the provocations happened near Shchastya. The enemy fired from
mortars, anti-tank missile complex, automatic grenade throwers and sniper
rifles, the army spokesman says.
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