John Dolva Posted June 22, 2014 Share Posted June 22, 2014 Sunday, June 22 03:56 GMT: Italy has asked the Ukrainian authorities to clarify the circumstances, in which Italian photographer Andy Rocchelli was killed in the east Ukrainian city of Slavyansk in May, Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs Federica Mogherini said after visiting Cesura, a publication where the deceased journalist worked. L'abbraccio di #pavia, degli amici e dei parenti per l'addio a Andy #Rocchelli http://t.co/ylP59wTEP5 pic.twitter.com/tlx0jc8er7— La Provincia Pavese (@provinciapavese) May 30, 2014 “We insist on the continuation of the investigation, which was initiated by the authorities in Kiev, about the facts of the death of Andrea Rokkelli. We deem it necessary to seek clarification on its development,” Mogherini said as she called on Ukraine to punish those responsible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Dolva Posted June 22, 2014 Share Posted June 22, 2014 MOSCOW, June 22, 10:44 /ITAR-TASS/. Humanitarian disaster in southeastern Ukraine is snowballing, Anatoly Kuznetsov, a deputy director of Russia’s Federal Migration Service said Sunday. “Southeastern Ukraine is in the grips of a humanitarian disaster and it has a tendency towards a sharp growth,” he said at a meeting of a governmental workgroup for emergency situations response. More than 18,000 Ukrainian citizens who fled the country’s southeastern Lugansk and Donetsk regions are currently staying in the regions of Russia adjoining the Ukrainian-Russia border. Another 2,000 or so people have left for other regions. “People are fleeing the war,” Kuznetsov said. “Some of them are waiting for changes and hope to return while others have decided to stay here and are first in their decision. SYDNEY, June 22, 9:22 /ITAR-TASS/. Several dozen people took part in an action of protest in downtown Sydney Sunday against the actions of Ukrainian military in the eastern regions of the country. The action was organized by descendants from Russia and Ukrainian currently residing in Australia. “People are tired of hatred,” an organizer of the action said. “We issued an appeal to the Russians and Ukrainians living in Sydney with a proposal, namely, let’s forget the things dividing us, let’s get together on a platform that unites us because of all us speak against war.” The manifestation was peaceful. The people were carrying Russian, Ukrainian and Australian flags. It ended with the participants signing two highly popular Soviet-era songs, ‘Katyusha’ and ‘May There Always Be Sunshine’. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Dolva Posted June 22, 2014 Share Posted June 22, 2014 Russia, Ukraine, EU to Analyze Partnership Agreement in July Brussels, Jun 21 (Prensa Latina) Russia, Ukraine and the European Union (EU) will analyze next month a partnership agreement to be signed by the latter two in a week. The EU and Ukraine, where in February there was a constitutional break with the arrival, by force, of an interim government led by the extreme right, will only signed the chapters of trade and finance. The negative in November 2013 of the then Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich to sign the association agreement with the EU triggered a wave of violent protests backed by the West, which resulted in the coup. At the time, Yanukovich denounced the arrangement was detrimental to the socio-economic stability of his country for proposing measures similar to those applied to EU nations in crisis, in addition to harm their business ties with Russia. According to the Canadian website Global Research (GR), the issue was discussed in September last year at a meeting in Yalta, Crimea, with former officials from the United States, European ministers, Russian advisers and Yanukovich himself. At that meeting, Moscow explained with specific data the negative aspects of the admission of Ukraine to the EU trading system, while received banal justifications by Europeans, then highlighted the Forbes magazine, quoted by GR. The European side now insists that the discussion with Russia will deal only on the conditions for implementing the agreement, with no possible modifications to the document. Sc/pgh/to Modificado el ( sábado, 21 de junio de 2014 ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Dolva Posted June 22, 2014 Share Posted June 22, 2014 Sunday, June 22 11:56 GMT: Russian President Vladimir Putin in a phone conversation with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President François Hollande noted the necessity of immediate negotiations between Kiev and representatives of protesting regions, a statement by the Kremlin website said. “V. Putin supported the decision of Ukraine’s president Petro Poroshenko to negotiate a plan on peaceful regulation [in Ukraine],” the statement said, adding that the intentions of Ukraine’s president should be supported by an immediate ceasefire. 11:47 GMT: Radicals have attacked Russia’s Sberbank office in Kiev. Masked extremists shattered windows with stones and hurled placards. They did not enter the office. Local media reports that security forces were deployed. The attack came after hundreds of masked extremists rallied outside Kiev’s Pechersk Lavra monastery, chanting Nazi slogans. 11:32 GMT: Kiev’s troops are now firing shelling mortars at the village of Ananyevka near the city of Lugansk, eastern Ukraine, the press service of the People’s Republic of Lugansk reported. No victims have been reported yet. 11:08 GMT: Due to the fact that the commander of the Ukrainian special forces didn’t try to contact the leadership of the self-defense forces, the ceasefire declared by President Poroshenko unilaterally will not be observed by the anti-government troops. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Dolva Posted June 22, 2014 Share Posted June 22, 2014 Sunday, June 22 18:22 GMT: The railroad tracks in the Donetsk Region were blown up as the freight train belonging to Russian Railways was passing by, the company said. 14 freight cars were derailed as a result of the incident, with Russian Railways employees on the train avoiding injuries. The company is currently working on specifying the details of the attack. 15:43 GMT: About 50 people picketed Russia’s general consulate in Kiev, throwing walnuts into the building, the press service of Ukraine’s Interior Ministry said, Itar-Tass reported. Local police said the protesters “did not disturb public order.” “There were about 60 people,” the press-attaché of the Russian diplomatic mission to Ukraine, Oleg Grishin, told RT. “They were peaceful at first, but now the situation is developing in not a good way: [they] are shouting anti-Russian slogans, trying to break through security and get to the consulate office, bringing tires to the scene. The situation is tense.” Grishin suggested that the attackers are the same extremists who earlier near Kiev’s Pechersk Lavra monastery and then vandalized Russia’s Sberbank office. Russia’s consulate is located close to the monastery, so Grishin said it is possible that the young men were heading for the consulate. 13:18 GMT: Extreme nationalists have clashed with police officers outside Kiev’s Pechersk Lavra monastery. A group of about 200 radicals gathered outside the monastery, from where religious activists planned a procession against Ukraine signing the EU Association Agreement and the “anti-terrorist operation” in the southeast of the country. Police blocked access to the Lavra to avoid clashes between the two groups. After that radicals have attacked Russia’s Sberbank office in Kiev. Masked extremists shattered windows with stones and hurled placards. They did not enter the office. Local media reports that security forces were deployed. 11:56 GMT: Russian President Vladimir Putin in a phone conversation with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President François Hollande noted the necessity of immediate negotiations between Kiev and representatives of protesting regions, a statement by the Kremlin website said. “V. Putin supported the decision of Ukraine’s president Petro Poroshenko to negotiate a plan on peaceful regulation [in Ukraine],” the statement said, adding that the intentions of Ukraine’s president should be supported by an immediate ceasefire. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Dolva Posted June 22, 2014 Share Posted June 22, 2014 LUGANSK, June 23, 2:32 /ITAR-TASS/. Ukraine's military on Sunday night resumed artillery bombardment of the town of Shchastye in Lugansk Region, the Novorossiya news agency reported. Russian TV shows footage exposing Ukraine’s artillery strikes in the Lugansk region "Artillery bombardment of the area of Shchastye, a satellite town of Lugansk, was started at about 22:45, local time. The bombardment involves heavy guns," the report said. According to the agency, the sounds of bombardment are heard even in the center of Lugansk. "Windows in the houses are shaking from bursts. As compared with the shelling the night before, the bombardment sounds, it seems, have approached closer to Lugansk," the agency pointed out. Earlier, an official in the press service of the proclaimed Lugansk People's Republic (LPR) reported that, despite the ceasefire declared by President Pyotr Poroshenko, the troops of Ukraine's National Guard on Sunday fired from mortars on the Ananyevka Village, Sverdlov District. The village is located not far from the border point "Krasny Partizan", which Volunteer Corps members (VCM) brought under their control. The press service of the proclaimed republic also stated that VCM had managed to destory a column of armoured vehicles ofUkraine's security forces, including two tanks, in the area of Melovoye Township on the same day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Dolva Posted June 22, 2014 Share Posted June 22, 2014 MOSCOW, June 22 /ITAR-TASS/. Russia’s President Vladimir Putin on Sunday told the nationwide TV audiences about artillery shelling that occurred the previous night on the territory of Ukraine. “Unfortunately, the things we’re registering with the aid of specialized recorders prove that combat operations don’t stop in Ukraine and we saw a rather intense activity of Ukrainian artillery last night,” Putin said on a live program of Rossiya’24 channel. “I don’t have enough details to say who’s actually doing it - the regular army or the armed squads of the ‘Right Forces’ of some kind,” he said. “But anyway that’s happening in reality.” “It’s important to press towards a situation where all the combat actions stop,” Putin said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Dolva Posted June 22, 2014 Share Posted June 22, 2014 DONETSK (Rostov Region), June 22. /ITAR-TASS/. Ukrainian refugees have told Baisa Vak-Voya, the representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Russia, that they were forced to pack their things in haste and cross the border to Russia using byways to later arrive at the border-crossing point and formalize documents. Vak-Voya on Sunday visited a tent camp for refugees deployed in the town of Donetsk in the southern Russian Rostov Region near the border with Ukraine. “We live in the village of Vlasovka of the Lugansk Region [in eastern Ukraine]. They called us and said that combat activities may start in 20 minutes, so we need to leave quickly,” Ukrainian residents Lyudmila and Irina Dmitriyeva said. “We packed our things real fast, took children and crossed the border to Russia in an illegal place - across a river, kind of a passage leading to the Russian village of Peschanovka. After we crossed, we went to the border-crossing point to formalize documents and have now settled in the tent camp,” they said. Vak-Voya said he sees no problem with such a way of border crossing in the current circumstances. The main thing is that the refugees managed to arrive at the checkpoint, the UN representative said. A Kiev-led army operation against federalization supporters in Ukraine’s southeastern regions that involves armored vehicles, heavy artillery and attack aviation has already killed hundreds of people, including civilians, left some buildings destroyed and damaged and forced tens of thousands to cross the border from Ukraine to Russia. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Dolva Posted June 22, 2014 Share Posted June 22, 2014 MOSCOW, June 22 /ITAR-TASS/. Rossiya’24 news channel has aired the footage shot at the section of the Russian-Ukrainian border where artillery was used last night on the Ukrainian side of the frontier zone. Видео http://www.vesti.ru/ A well-informed source told Itar-Tass specialized recorders installed on the Russian territory showed that the footage had tracked down artillery shelling of a number of populated localities in the Lugansk region. The squads of the ‘national guard’ opened at 23:42 Moscow Standard Time (GMT + 4 hrs at present) in the vicinity of the border. Infrared materials were recorded at nighttime and they testified to purposeful artillery shelling of the local townships and hamlets for more than 30 minutes. The shelling was done by a battery of six D-30 guns from the positions taken by the ‘national guard’ militants on the outskirts of Chervonaya Zarya township. The D-30’s has a 122 mm caliber howitzer and fires high-explosive fragmentation shells, hitting targets at distance of up to 15 km around. Read also Moscow condemns shelling of Russian territory by Ukrainian military Defense Ministry claims Ukrainian Army did not shell checkpoint Investigative Committee starts probe of shelling of Russian territory from Ukraine Other footage also contains irrefutable evidence of artillery strikes, which the ‘national guard’ continues delivering at population centers where peaceful civilians live, the source continued. Strikes from artillery and heavy weaponry at the towns and villages in the in the south-east of Ukraine where peaceful population lives continue after President Pyotr Poroshenko’ assurances that the ‘national guard’ units had laid down arms. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Dolva Posted June 23, 2014 Share Posted June 23, 2014 Monday, June 23 01:24 GMT: Ukraine's newly elected president told German Chancellor Angela Merkel via a phone call, that his June 20 unilateral ceasefire was broken on more than 20 occasions. “The President of Ukraine informed the German Chancellor that in the last 24 hours, the ceasefire has been broken...in Lugansk and Donetsk regions more* than 20 times,” RIA Novosti quotes press release from Poroshenko's office. Poroshenko also stressed the need for Merkel's personal participation in deescalating the conflict. Merkel in return expressed her support for Poroshenko's action plan. * Interesting. The reports are generally very sketchy if one tries to get any information from the western media and since the junta have effectively scared many journalists away from the PRD and the PRL by killings, intimidation and banning as well as breaking communications of the PRD's and PRL's armies, let alone refusing to engage them in dialogue, the intent on invading their lands and destroying their freedom aspirations is all that matters to the junta and its sponsors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Dolva Posted June 23, 2014 Share Posted June 23, 2014 Rebel Leader Denounces Ethnic Cleansing in Southeastern Ukraine Kiev, Jun 22 (Prensa Latina) The Prime Minister of the self-proclaimed People's Republic of Donetsk, Alexander Borodai, said today that the Ukrainian government is causing a humanitarian catastrophe in the southeast to cause the exodus of its Russian-speaking population. Donetsk only has water supplies for a week. I think there is no need to explain what will happen to a city with one million people without water, the rebel leader said in a press conference. Repeated bombing and fire of the thousand of troops that repress the population of the region known as the Donbass left it without water supplies due to a fault in a pump station, according to reports. Fire not ceased. As a result, we are close to a humanitarian catastrophe and this situation is being caused on purpose by the Ukrainian authorities, Borodai reiterated. Meanwhile the Ukrainian President, Pioter Poroshenko, presented on Friday a peace plan for eastern Ukraine consisting of 15 points. According to the governing body, the project provides security guarantees for all parties of the negotiations, an amnesty for those who lay down their weapons and have not committed crimes qualified as serious by Kiev, and the release of hostages. Furthermore, Poroshenko intends to create a 10-kilometer corridor in the Russian-Ukranian border and thus facilitate the removal of the Russian-speaking anti-coup rebels, which he considers illegal armed groups, and their total disarmament. Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, warned against the idea that the inhabitants of the southeast who rebeled after the coup on February 22 have to leave Ukraine, and stressed that this is an attempt at ethnic cleansing. Poroshenko's plan presents the rebels an ultimatum to leave before June 27 the official buildings occupied by the self-proclaimed People's Republics of Donetsk and Lugansk. sgl/lvd/jf/jpm Modificado el ( domingo, 22 de junio de 2014 ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Dolva Posted June 23, 2014 Share Posted June 23, 2014 Monday, June 23 09:10 GMT: More than 40 children have been killed during the military campaign launched by Kiev in the Donbass Region, UNN reported, citing Tatiana Bakhteeva from Ukraine’s Party of the Regions. “More than 40 children have died from shrapnel wounds,” she said, “The innocent children are being hit by bullets aiming right in their hearts.” Situations like these are well known in the city of Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, that’s why people with children are very scared there, she added. According to the latest UN report, at least 356 people, including 257 civilians (of them 14 children), have been killed in the violence since the beginning of the “anti-terrorist” military campaign in Ukraine’s eastern regions of Lugansk and Donetsk. 08:04 GMT: Russian FM Sergey Lavrov spoke about the necessity of an immediate ceasefire in Ukraine’s southeastern regions in a phone conversation with his German counterpart, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Russia’s Foreign Ministry said. In the conversation, Lavrov said that a ceasefire was a necessary step to begin constructive dialogue between Kiev’s authorities and the representatives of protesting regions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Dolva Posted June 23, 2014 Share Posted June 23, 2014 Monday, June 23 21:37 GMT: Ukrainian army is shelling the town of Privolnoe, located in the north of Lugansk region, RIA Novosti quoted a spokesperson of self-proclaimed People’s Republic of Lugansk as saying. So far the bombing has lasted for about an hour, according to the source. There is no information on the injured yet, but there are reports of damage to buildings. 18:16 GMT: Russian President, Vladimir Putin, and his US counterpart, Barack Obama, have “discussed in detail the various aspects of the deep internal political crisis in Ukraine and prospects for resolving it,” including the implementation of a peace plan put forward by Ukraine’s new president, Petro Poroshenko. “Putin stressed the importance of the actual cessation of hostilities and start of direct negotiations between the opposing sides for the normalization of the situation in the south-eastern regions [of Ukraine,]” the Kremlin’s press-service said. The Russian president also “highlighted the importance of urgent humanitarian issues, including emergency assistance to the affected population,” the press-service added. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Dolva Posted June 23, 2014 Share Posted June 23, 2014 Donetsk self-defense forces agree to ceasefire until 0700 GMT Friday Published time: June 23, 2014 16:44Edited time: June 23, 2014 19:05 Get short URL Donbass militia take oath of allegiance to the Donetsk People's Republic (RIA Novosti / Maksim Blinov) The leader of self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic in eastern Ukraine agreed to a ceasefire in the region until 10 a.m. local time on Friday. He stressed that the self-defense force's ceasefire will come only as a reciprocal move. "The duration of the ceasefire is the same as announced previously - before 10 a.m. on June 27. During this period monitoring by Russian and OSCE representatives will be organized. We hope that during ceasefire from both sides we will be able to reach an agreement and start consultations on the process of peaceful settlement of the conflict," Aleksandr Boroday, prime minister of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic said live on Rossiya 24 TV. Trilateral meeting in Donetsk (Screenshot from video) Ukrainian, Russian and OSCE representatives gathered in Donetsk on June 23 for talks on peaceful settlement of the conflict. OSCE special envoy to Ukraine Heidi Tagliavini, Russia's ambassador to the country Mikhail Zurabov, representatives of the self-proclaimed people's republics of Donetsk and Lugansk, as well as the former president of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma met to define stages of a peace plan in the country's east. Boroday has pointed out that the Donetsk meeting on Monday was not formal talks, but rather unofficial preliminary consultations. "In the DNR government house at least some dialogue has begun from the side of Kiev, who had preferred to speak the language of heavy artillery for several months," he was cited as saying by Itar-Tass news agency. Earlier Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko laid out his plan to deescalate the conflict, announcing a unilateral ceasefire from June 20 until June 27, the day Kiev plans to sign the EU Association agreement. On Sunday he issued a warning, stating that he had an alternative “detailed plan” of regaining control over south-eastern Ukraine should his current proposal for a truce fail to bring results. Read more: Poroshenko warns of ‘detailed Plan B’ if Ukraine ceasefire fails The news on mutual ceasefire has been confirmed by former Ukrainian president Leonid Kuchma. "We agreed on bilateral ceasefire lasting until 10 a.m. on June 27," said Kuchma after taking part in talks on the conflict's settlement in Donetsk on June 23. Prime Minister of Donetsk People's Republic Aleksandr Boroday (RIA Novosti/Maksim Blinov) The DNR leader named two reasons for which the Donetsk meeting cannot be considered as formal talks. "A fully valid negotiation process is possible only after Kiev fulfils seven conditions, proposed today by the co-chairman of the National Front of Novorossiya Oleg Tsarev. These conditions are our common position," Boroday said. Among the conditions are withdrawal of Kiev forces from the territories of the self-proclaimed people's republics of Donetsk and Lugansk, compensation payments to the conflict's victims by Kiev, amnesty to militia and political prisoners, as well as agreement between the Ukrainian president and parliaments of the people's republics on a constitutional act, defining their status. The absence of official state powers and status of the Donetsk meeting participants was named as the second reason by the DNR leader, who presumably referred to Kiev's representative, ex-president Leonid Kuchma. The involvement of the latter was initiated by Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, who is said to have had a meeting with Ukrainian representatives to the talks in Kiev before they headed for Donetsk. "Leonid Kuchma's participation indicates the Ukrainian president’s close attention to this mission," said Poroshenko, according to his press service statement. Leonid Kuchma was the president of Ukraine in 1994-2005. The consequences of Kiev military forces' artillery attack on apartment buildings in Slavyansk. (RIA Novosti/Andrey Stenin) Russia's ambassador to Ukraine Mikhail Zurabov expects the talks to continue. "We expect that in the near future position of representatives of Donetsk and Lugansk will be additionally worked out, and they will announce their readiness to continue consultations in order to solve two problems: firstly, to achieve a sustainable truce and sustainable peace, non-renewal of fire, and secondly - the launch of an inclusive negotiation process," Zurabov told Rossiya 24 TV. Ahead of the Donetsk meeting, one of Ukraine's representatives, Viktor Medvedchuk, leader of "Ukrainian Choice" political organization, identified the aim of the talks as "implementation of the peace plan to resolve the situation in eastern Ukraine, end the bloodshed, preventing people's deaths, preserving the country's unity." The Russian President's press-secretary Dmitry Peskov said that Vladimir Putin welcomed the participation of Viktor Medvedchuk in the talks. "He has consistently supported the idea of Ukraine's federalization. He is respected in Kiev, and he is also familiar to the West," Peskov said. He added that "the Russian President has repeatedly stated that a solution to Ukrainian crisis can only be possible through peaceful dialogue and consideration of the interests of eastern regions of the country." Leonid Slutsky, the chairman of the Russian State Duma committee for CIS affairs, believes the meeting Monday in Donetsk may become a turning point in overcoming the Ukrainian crisis. Slutsky also said he found the team of participants “the strongest list of negotiators of all possible. Hopefully, it will become the most effective too." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Dolva Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 DONETSK, June 23 (RIA Novosti) – Independence supporters in eastern Ukraine have refused to recognize Kiev’s unilateral ceasefire, one of the leaders of the independence supporters said Monday. “The ceasefire unilaterally declared by the Ukrainian military, without any consultation with us, is not recognized by the Donetsk People’s Republic. We fought and will keep fighting,” the “people's governor” of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic Pavel Gubarev told RIA Novosti. Gubarev also mentioned he has his own stabilization plan for the country, which involves the withdrawal of Kiev’s troops and recognition of the self-proclaimed People’s Republics of Donetsk and Luhansk. On June 20, Ukraine’s recently elected president, Petro Poroshenko, ordered a unilateral ceasefire between government-backed forces and independence supporters in the east until June 27. Poroshenko also unveiled a peace plan to defuse the crisis in the country, promising amnesty for all independence defense forces not involved in grave crimes and willing to lay down their arms. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has pointed out that Poroshenko’s peace plan is inconsistent with the April 17 Geneva Accords, as it bears no mention to a nationwide dialogue, although Russia supports the effort toward a peaceful settlement. Russian President Vladimir Putin has stressed that the intentions Poroshenko voiced must be backed by a real ceasefire. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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