Tuesday 5 May 2015

Ukraine news - 05/04/2015

Ukraine SITREP May 4nd, by Duff



DONBASS

Donetsk was bombed all night: DPR Army on full alert
Donetsk has undergone massive heavy artillery shelling last two nights. (3rd and 4th of May). The shells hit the houses and destroyed the school №58 in the Kiev region, which just was opened after reconstruction.
Донецк бомбили всю ночь: Армия ДНР приведена в полную готовность

In Dokuchaevsk area  Thocka-U  knocked down
According to the DPR Ministry of Defence  air defense forces of the Republic destroyed ballistic misle, most likely “point-u”   in the air on approaching Dokuchaevsk. Blast wave reached Donetsk and Gorlovka. There is no danger for the Civilians were not endangered.  ballistic misle, most likely “point-u”  destroyed in the air on approach to Dokuchaevsk. Compression detonating an explosion and the sound wave has come to Donetsk and Gorlovka. There is no danger of the population.
Над Докучаевском сбита «Точка У»

Donetsk shelled with  NATO calibres artillery

Basurin: militias found where Ukrainian army is hiding artillery
Heavy artillery for attack on Doneck, is dragged to   Avdeevka and placed  on the firing positions along the contact line 6-8 km distance from DPR units.


Moscow urges OSCE to act amid reports of Donetsk shelling

Kiev confirms Contact Group’s meeting on May 6
A meeting of the Contact Group participants with representatives of the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics is intended to be held in Minsk

Ukrainian army refusing to withdraw troops from  Shirokino
Moreover, battalion “Donbass” assigned to  Shirokino additional military units.
Earlier, leaders of Normandy format countries noted that here is some  progress in ensuring a ceasefire and the withdrawal of heavy weapons. In particular, president  Poroshenko announced a proposal for   placing  the post of the OSCE in Shirokino, which was supported by other negotiators.

Ukraine Azov Battalion Fighters Take Over OSCE Observation Point
The incident took place on May 1 four kilometers north-west from the village of Shirokino. The observation point was stationed there by OSCE members to regularly monitor the situation in the zone of the Ukrainian military conflict.

Transcarpathia is waiting for “polite Hungarians.” How will decomposition of Ukraine look like?

US Senate, NATO Dragging Washington ‘Deeper Into Ukrainian Morass’ – Media
The Minsk II agreements, designed to secure peace in war-torn Ukraine, are being “purposefully” undermined in Washington, with both parties, as well as the NATO supreme allied commander pressuring Obama “to wade ever deeper into the Ukrainian morass,” the Nation warned.

US Gives Up Russian Blockade as NATO, Russia Activate Contacts
The US has apparently decided to stop the escalation of its relations with Russia. NATO and Russia have activated a direct connection between their armed forces to jointly assess the current situation, Deutsche Wirtschafts Nachrichten reported.

POLITICAL SENSATION – FIRTASH

Judge Rebuffs U.S. in Rejecting Extradition of Ukraine Billionaire
In a defeat for the United States, an Austrian judge refused Thursday to order the extradition of Dmitri V. Firtash, a Ukrainian billionaire.
Judge Bauer said he had concluded that the American authorities had been after Mr. Firtash since at least 2006 and he noted that a finding of political motivation was sufficient to reject extradition even if a crime had occurred.

The oligarch Firtash revealed inside story of Ukrainian politics
Oligarch Dmitry Firtash trial in Vienna revealed some sensational secrets of Ukrainian politics. In an effort to avoid extradition to the US, where Firtash is charged  with racketeering and other crimes, the billionaire claims that he himself installed Poroshenko at the presidential chair, and made Klitschko a mayor of Kiev. The main motive was to prevent Washington to appoint its puppets Yatsenyuk and Tymoshenko. Vienna court listened to the arguments of the oligarch: extradition to the United States is unacceptable.

http://vz.ru/world/2015/5/1/743212.html

Ukrainian Parliament requires  Poroshenko to give an answers about  Firtash accusation
In particular, they are interested about  plot between Poroshenko, Klitschko and Firtash against Yulia Tymoshenko. Lyashko considers president’s  silence telling: “I think that Ukrainian society has a right to know about the conspiracy among the oligarchs. In civilized countries  presidents would be  impeached! “- complains Lyashko in his  Facebook status.

В Верховной Раде от Порошенко требуют дать ответ на обвинения Фирташа

INTERNATIONAL

Kiev Should Grant Autonomy to Donbass – Italian FM
Ukraine needs to grant a broad autonomy status to its eastern Donbass region and speed up pressing economic and constitutional reforms, Italian foreign minister Paolo Gentiloni said on Sunday.

Italian Official Says Anti-Russian Sanctions May Be Lifted,Ukraine Protests
Ukraine’s Embassy in Rome has sent an official request to the Italian Foreign Ministry for comment on a recent statement by an official from the Italian Ministry of Economy and Finances about Italy possibly lifting anti-Russian sanctions in the near future, Ukrainian newspaper Evropeyskaya Pravda reported, citing a diplomatic source.

‘Italy can’t afford to close doors to Russia’ – Italian Foreign Minister

Russian Foreign Ministry: Austria Interested in an Early Normalization of Relations with Russia
Austria is opposed to the long confrontation with Russia and increasing sanctions pressure.  The statement was made by the Russian Foreign Ministry, in connection with the forthcoming May 4-5 visit to Moscow by the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Austria, Sebastian Kurz.

First Polish astronaut Hermaszewski about OUN-UPA becoming Ukrainian hero’s
The first Polish cosmonaut/astronaut Miroslav Hermaszewski is shocked by recognition of OUN-UPA as “fighters for Ukraine’s independence”. During the Volyn massacre 18 members of his family were brutally killed .

– During World War II, his father Roman Hermaszewski was one of the leaders of the Polish self-defense of the village Lipniki (Kostopil county now Bereznovsky district Rivne region).

In March 1943, units of the UPA (Ukrainian Insurgent Army) and unorganized thugs from neighboring Ukrainian villages burnt the village, killing part of the Polish population. That is when was killed the family of the future astronaut, his grandfather got seven stabbing bayonet blows to the chest. In August 1943, a neighbor of the family, a Ukrainian nationalist, killed his father.

Russia Slams Polish President’s Remarks on Victory Day Parade in Moscow
Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski said on Sunday that the upcoming Victory Day parade in Moscow on May 9 is a “demonstration of force” and an example of an “unstable world.” According to him, the Red Square once again will become a “tank square.”

First deputy head of the International Committee of the lower chamber of the Russian parliament Leonid Kalashnikov said that Russian tanks had liberated Poland during World War II when commenting on Komorowski’s remarks.
If not for the tanks mentioned by the president of Poland, Poland would not exist now on the world map. I must remind you that, according to the Nazi plans, Poland was supposed to be a territory that Germany was preparing for the resettlement of the German population. Others were supposed to be expelled and destroyed. And only due to Russian tanks they [Poland] gained their freedom and sovereignty


Chinese and Russian Navies to Hold Joint Drills in Mediterranean
The Chinese Navy will hold joint exercises with Russia in the Mediterranean in May, China’s Defense Ministry said Thursday, a further indication of the closer ties between the two countries and of the navy’s increasing ambitions.

“The Chinese fleet has never made any exercises in the Mediterranean, and moreover, this is with Russia,” said Shi Yinhong, a professor of international relations at Renmin University in Beijing.

“The two countries want to show they have escalated their strategic partnership.”

Russia to expand aviation patrol mission to Gulf of Mexico
Russia plans to expand its air patrol missions of long-range aircrafts to cover the Gulf of Mexico, the country’s defense minister, Sergey Shoigu, says He added that military training will include flights along the Russian border and the Arctic Ocean.

US had crossed all conceivable lines
Shoygu at Moscow Conference on International Security 2015

США перешли все мыслимые черты – Шойгу

more translations from the conference:


Russia’s deputy PM surprised over absence of Progress failed launch versions
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said on Thursday that the absence of versions of the failed launch of the Progress M-27M cargo spacecraft is strange.

http://tass.ru/en/russia/792652

DEMOCRACY

US Prisons House More Inmates Than Stalin’s Gulags
“Mass incarceration on a scale almost unexampled in human history is a fundamental fact of our country today,” writes the New Yorker’s Adam Gopnik. “Over all, there are now more people under ‘correctional supervision’ in America – more than 6 million – than were in the Gulag Archipelago under Stalin at its height.”


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