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Ukraine
Admits Resurgent Separatists Extend Control All The Way To Sea Of
Azov
11
September, 2014
The
Ukraine "ceasefire" may be raging, but don't tell that to
the "rebel", "separatists", "pro-Russian
terrorists" or whatever it is that the ethnic Russians in east
Ukraine are called nowadays, because a few short hours ago even Kiev
finally admitted that the insurgency, with or without Russian
backing, has finally hit the beach of the Azov Sea, which implicitly
means that the only thing that is prevent the formation of a land
connection from Russia to Crimea is the city of Mariupol, which as
Ukraine reported overnight, it is now massing heavy weapons for what
may be the most critical fight of the entire Ukraine civil war to
date.
The
Ukrainian authorities acknowledged on Thursday that pro-Russian
rebels had extended their control over territory on the eastern
border with Russia to the Sea of Azov.
The
announcement by the National Security and Defence Council follows a
lightning offensive across the southeast area launched by the
pro-Russian separatists last month.
How
this looks on a map:
So
while the Ukraine army is losing key strategic waypoints, the
parliament speaker told Fokus magazine that Ukraine needs to regroup,
strengthen army, and must open way to NATO membership, something
which as Russia has made quite clear, will truly drive the Kremlin
over the edge.
Meanwhile,
for some inexplicable reason, the myth that a "ceasefire"
continues is propagated by both Moscow and Kiev...
Ukraine’s
security service raids independent Kiev newspaper after report on SBU
chief’s family
11
September, 2014
The
Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) has raided the office of a
Kiev-based online newspaper and seized its servers, downing its
website. The tabloid’s editor-in-chief says the raid was after a
report on the SBU chief’s family in the US.
“Today
at 11am people who introduced themselves as SBU broke into the office
of Vesti [News] newspaper,”
editor-in-chief Igor Guzhva said on his Facebook page.
“Journalist
are not being let into their office. Those who were already inside at
the moment of the raid are being kept in the building and are not
allowed to use cell phones.”
On
its official Twitter account, Vesti.ua said that its staff were being
held in a “hot
corridor”
and also barricaded with chairs. Only one woman managed to escape.
“She
begged,”
the newspaper said.
According
to Guzhva, servers have been seized and the website has been put out
of action. Guzhva said IT specialists have been trying to transfer
all information to another server. However, Vesti.ua remained offline
at the time of publication.
The
SBU also has taken away all the newspaper’s documents, including
employees’ work contracts.
The
newspaper’s management said they don’t know what the reason for
the raid was, but Guzha suggested that the move could have been
linked to “two
facts.”
“First
of all, two days ago our newspaper issued a report about the head of
SBU [Valentin] Nalivaichenko’s daughter, who rents an apartment in
a prestigious neighborhood in New York. Second, this is the second
raid on our newspaper in the past six months and again – during a
presidential campaign,”
Guzhva wrote.
According
to the Vesti report suspected to be the reason for the raid,
Nalivaichenko’s daughter is registered as a resident in a
prestigious apartment building on Fifth Avenue, in New York City.
Reporters claim that the New York telephone directory lists her exact
address and phone number.
The
report says that Olga Nalivaichenko, 25, studies and works in the US,
despite claims by her father that she is in Ukraine.
The
report noted that Nalivaichenko has tended to not reveal much about
his private life and that his relatives have never been seen in
public.
However,
reporters managed to find Olga Nalivaichenko’s resume on the
LinkedIn business network.
According
to the information Olga Nalivaichenko shared, she graduated from the
Kiev Institute of International Relations (KIMO) in 2010. She then
got her Master’s at George Washington University in Washington DC,
and continued her education at the Stockholm University faculty of
law in Sweden.
She
has also interned at a number of courts and law companies worldwide,
Vesti reported.
Guzhva
has accused Ukrainian law enforcement officers and “paramilitaries”
of “trying
to prevent Vesti from carrying its work and to arrange a [show of
force against] the paper for its independent stance.”
Guzhva
recalled the previous raid on Vesti in July, saying that the
investigation of that raid has been halted.
Russian
Foreign Ministry has slammed the raid, calling it “another
step by Kiev towards banning disagreeable mass media.”
The ministry also reiterated that 15 Russian TV channels have been
affected by Kiev’s media crackdown, as they are now banned in
Ukraine
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