Sunday 1 February 2015

Ukraine civil war news - 01/31/2015

Infighting in the ranks

"Yatsenyuk and Turchinov started the war!"--Poroshenko Block Deputy


1/30/2015
Translated from Russian by J.Hawk
Sworn friends from the Maidan are  getting down to brass knuckles.
Sergey Kaplin, a Poroshenko Block Rada Deputy declared on one of Ukrainian TV channels that the Donbass war was unleased by the Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk and Security and Defense Committee chief Aleksandr Turchinov. And they are blaming it on Putin because it’s “convenient for them.” This news was reported by PolitNavigator.
Let’s get to the truth. Who caused the situation in the East? When they say ‘only Putin’, that’s a very convenient answer. But it’s not so! It was caused by Yatsenyuk and the current head of SDC,” said Kaplin.
He went on to say that the war could have been ended right away, but neither Yatsenyuk nor Turchinov were interested in it.
As soon as the situation began to unfold, I was one of the first deputies to go there, I visited all the cities, and felt a real war beginning. It could have been prevented by the prime minister himself and the acting president. And these are the people who today are in charge of the “counter-terror operation,” said Kaplin.
We reported earlier the wave of rumors circulating in Ukraine that a new coup d’etat is being readied.
We also remind our readers that the Ukrainian delegate to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe Yuliya Levochkina called on Europe to restrain the Ukrainian government which is destroying the Donbass.
Translator’s Note: Poroshenko’s underling speaketh the truth, but equally conveniently ignores the role of his boss, the president, the commander-in-chief, in continuing and even escalating the carnage after the presidential election of 2014. Poroshenko has as much blood on his hands as anyone else in Ukraine. The buck, excuse me, the hryvnya, stops with him. One wonders, though, how "Yats" and Turchinov will reply to the rather transparent blame-shifting by their beloved president and comrade.


Russia was invaded by one MILLION Ukrainian men of military age, hiding from Poroshenko - official data




January 31, 2014, Varyag_2007
Translated by Kristina Rus
More than one million male citizens of Ukraine, which is currently in the process of the fourth wave of mobilization, are already on the territory of the Russian Federation, which was declared by the resolution of Verkhovnaya Rada as the "aggressor".
The relevant data was reported at a press conference in Kiev by the founder of the Ukrainian sociological company Research & Branding Group, Yevgeny Kopatko.
"According to the Federal Migration Service there are 2 million 430 thousand citizens of Ukraine now in Russia, including 1 million 172 thousand men of military age".
Translators Note:
2.5 million in addition to 2.5 million in Crimea, in addition to 3-4 million in Donbass ... do the math!
"If you are for Obama, go to America!"--Kramatorsk women defy Ukrainian army



1/31/2015

Translated from Russian by J.Hawk

Kramatorsk women staged a meeting at the military commissariat, categorically refusing to allow their children to fight against the militia and said that “we are nearly all Russians.”

The local military commissar Andrey Vasilenko came out to meet with the women and tried to appeal to their sense of patriotism. “While you sleep, eat, rest, these guys are defending your homes,” said Vasilenko, causing an outburst of outraged reactions.

After the tumult quieted down, Vasilenko asked “Are you for Putin? Then, please, go to Russia.”

And who are you for? Who are you for?”—he was asked in return. Why don’t you go to America if you are for Biden and Obama.”

The women of Kramatorsk reminded him how the Ukrainian army bombed the city in the summer. “There were no weapons here, until Ukrainian tanks showed up,” said one of the mothers.

The mothers also said they’d like to see the children of leaders of the country and of Kramatorsk in the first ranks of the military. They are not going to allow their own children to be taken, especially since they themselves don’t understand against who this war is, and over what.

We have brothers, sisters, nephews, nieces, grandchildren in Russia,” the women appealed to the government representative. “Nearly all of us are Russian! What do we need this war for? All of us are sitting at home, fearing for our men, and crying into the pillow,” said one of the participants.

Militia forces left Kramatorsk in July 2014. The city came under the control of the Ukrainian military after bloody battles in which many civilians suffered. The city was shelled by heavy artillery, including Grad MRLs.

DPR leader Aleksandr Zakharchenko expressed hope that Slavyansk and Kramatorsk will return to DPR through negotiations.


Ukraine envoy to UN says Russia new humanitarian convoy will be regarded as invasion
31 Janaury, 2015




UNITED NATIONS, January 30. /TASS/. Kiev will regard the dispatch of a new motor convoy loaded with humanitarian aid to Ukraine as invasion, Ukraine’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Yury Sergeyev said on Friday.

Cargoes dispatched by Russia infiltrate Ukraine "without Kiev’s permission," to speak nothing of "participation of the International Committee of the Red Cross," Sergeyev said.

"If a new convoy arrives, I think the twelfth, it will be regarded as invasion," the Ukrainian diplomat said.

Earlier in the day, the Russian Foreign Ministry announced that a next truck convoy with relief aid for Donbass residents would set off for the region on Saturday, January 31.

The convoy comprising 176 vehicles, with 157 trucks out of them, is expected to deliver nearly 1,500 tonnes of humanitarian cargoes, mainly foodstuffs (920 tonnes) along with medications and fuel and lubricants.


Russia’s Emergencies Ministry organised eleven convoys with humanitarian aid to Ukraine in co-operation with international and public organisations from August 2014 to January 15, 2015, and delivered a total of 14,800 tonnes of humanitarian cargoes to Ukraine’s Donetsk and Lugansk regions.




Ukrainian Azov Regiment Fighters Shown Posing With Portrait of Adolf Hitler
Following the 'Nazi salute video' controversy from earlier this week, the Azov Regiment is in the news again with youths purportedly belonging to the battalion posing with a portrait of Adolf Hitler


31 Janaury, 2015

MOSCOW, January 31 (Sputnik) - A group of fighters from Ukraine's infamous Azov Regiment have been shown posing with a portrait of Adolf Hitler, the Russian television channel Zvezda reports.

The group photo, published on Facebook by a user calling himself "Weiss Kampfer," (German for "White Combatant") shows a group of eleven young men standing bare-chested, and another in a t-shirt featuring the official symbol of the battalion, which incorporates runic characters used by Nazi German SS units during the Second World War. A soldier in the center of the photo holds a portrait of the late German Fuhrer.

View image on Twitter
@BBCNews @BBCWorld look what a nice bunch of people from Ukraine's battalion. Your silience is scandalous!
Facebook and Twitter users were quick to voice their hostility over the photo, one user noting sarcastically "I say, there are no fascists in Ukraine –it's all Putin propaganda." Others said that they hoped that the fighters from the Regiment would soon come to meet the DNR and LNR militia on the battlefield, alluding to the battalion's poor training.

The all-volunteer Azov regiment is widely reported to be among the most brutal of Ukraine's National Guard units. They formed as a battalion April 2014 and since then have expanded into a regiment. The fighting unit is equipped with heavy weapons, and is believed to have done much of the fighting against the separatist units in Ukraine's southeast. The regiment is known to be composed of unrepentant fascists and nationalists, listing its ideology as "social nationalist" and includes Ukrainian and foreign volunteers. The regiment uses Nazi German runic symbolism for its flag. Eastern Ukrainian and Russian commentators have accused the battalion of widespread abuse and of committing war crimes against the civilian population. 

The regiment is believed to be based in Mariupol. The group's commander, Andriy Biletskiy, was quoted by the BBC in September 2014 condemning the first cease-fire in Minsk; he commented, "if it was a tactical move there is nothing wrong with it... if it's an attempt to reach an agreement concerning Ukrainian soil with separatists then obviously it's a betrayal."

Earlier this week, members of the regiment, which has sluggishly denied its association with outright fascism and Nazism, was caught in a 'training' dance featuring Nazi salutes.




Aftermath of assault on Uglegorsk 29/01/15






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