Printable View
In this thread I'll be posting news from Russian language media (well, in those cases when I'll have desire to translate some news into English:rolleyes:)
PS: Please, discuss Balkan wars or Holodomor, any things which are not related to Ukraine crisis in another threads. Thanks a lot!!!
Emerged details about the attempted assassination of people's governor of Lugansk republic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiTICcNl_LA
Assassination attempt of Valeriy Bolotov happened on May 13th at 11 am local time, when he was driving his car. LifeNews source in the militia of Lugansk region reported it.
According to the interlocutor, unidentified people laid an ambush near the village of Izvarino that is situated 60 km away from Lugansk.
- He was riding with two guards. One guard was behind the wheel, the other guard was sitting next to Valeriy. The bullet went tangentially bulletproof vest rescued. Gunshot wound to the shoulder, - Lugansk self-defense member said.
Representative of the self-proclaimed Lugansk Republic, Vasiliy Nikitin during a press conference in Lugansk announced assassination attempt of Valeriy Bolotov on May 13. He said that people's governor lost a lot of blood, but he was hospitalized in a timely manner and now his life is not in danger.
- Today at about 11:00 am (local time), he was wounded, he's currently in a closed private clinic. There is no access to him - Nikitin said.
He also stated that the one million dollars award was assigned for a Bolotov's head, and he blamed new Kiev authorities for what happened.
- Thus Kiev will not achieve anything, but on the contrary, it will only confirm that we're moving in the right direction. I'll not tell you about the place of assassination and other details, I can only say that it happened in territory of Lugansk region, and he was shot from an ambush.
Leader of the Donetsk People's Republic, Denis Pushilin is also sure that assassination attempt of Valeriy Bolotov was organized by representatives of the Kiev authorities.
- I think this is another provocation of the Kiev junta. They are making a last attempt to turn the situation to their side, and somewhere trying to justify themselves for their mistakes before the "Right Sector". They already broke up entire country and thrown it off into a crisis. They had to try well to do all this - the leader of DPR believes. - They did so much bad for the people, and I have no doubt that people will rise throughout Ukraine and overthrow this chaos.
Pushilin is sure that assassination attempt of Bolotov should not prevent the union of the republics.
- We have so much in common that our republics simply can not exist separately, - the leader of the Donetsk People's Republic concluded.
Talks of DPR and LPR leaders were scheduled on 13th of May, where they had to discuss a possible merger of the republics and the creation of a single state based on them.
Referendum on the state independence took place in Lugansk and Donetsk regions on May 11. The vast majority of the inhabitants of these regions voted for independence. Thus, in the Lugansk region, turnout was 75%, and 96.2% voted to secede from Ukraine. Relying on these results, Lugansk People's Republic proclaimed its independence.
As for the Donetsk region, 74.87% of local residents came to the polling stations, and 89.7% of the electorate voted for the act of state independence. According to voting results, Donetsk People's Republic proclaimed itself a sovereign state.
Source: http://lifenews.ru/news/133158
Three combat Mi-24 and one transport Mi-8 participated in fierce clashes in the village of Oktyabrskoye on the side of Ukrainian military men.
LifeNews correspondents, who were fired upon previously by the Ukrainian military men, managed to film helicopters with the UN symbols on board. Security officials used camouflaged machines in battle with the militia under Kramatorsk.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0P_sv_x4E0
According to military expert and journalist Alexander Shirokorad, the similar military equipment was involved in a peacekeeping operation in the Congo, but then helicopters had another coloring.
- These are armored assault helicopters - said the expert. - In Congo, they were used for fire support of the UN mission. Designations of blue colour are clearly visible on them. I do not know whether these helicopters were used in Africa, but it's a fact that the Ukrainian helicopters were used in Africa. UN pays well for it.
Alexander Shirokorad believes that the UN should sever all ties with the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense.
- Otherwise international scandal is going to break out. The Russian Foreign Ministry should certainly give its assessment of this fact. Ukrainian military compromise UN. The United Nations is not a peacemaker without appropriate sanctions on the deployment of troops. In fact, they are pirates - said the expert.
According militias, fight under Kramatorsk started because the military tried to deliver ammunition for "Grad" installations, which are located near the mountain Karachun.
Locals reported that there are dozens of killed militia men in the village of Oktyabrskoye, for which fierce battles were fought.
Source: http://lifenews.ru/news/133168
The scion of the U.S. Vice President Biden Hunter will serve the Burisma Holdings Limited company.
Joe Biden's son will oversee the legal unit of the company and represent its interests in international organizations, said in the official statement on the company's website.
Former Minister of Ecology of Ukraine and Verkhovna Rada deputy from the Party of Regions Nikolay Zlochevskiy is the principal owner of the Burisma. His candidature for the post of Minister was introduced by former prime minister Nikolay Azarov. April 20, 2012 Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych dismissed Zlochevskiy as Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources and appointed him to the post of deputy secretary of the National Security and Defense Council. Acting President Vladimir Turchinov, appointed by Rada dismissed him from this post in 2014.
As for Hunter Biden, he's a member of the Bar in the State of Connecticut. He received a bachelor's degree at Georgetown University and a doctorate at Yale Law School.
Besides Biden Junior is one of the founders and managing partner of U.S. investment advisory firm Rosemont Seneca Partners. He's also registered as a professor at the Diplomatic School at Georgetown University.
Burisma Holdings Limited is a private oil and gas company, operating since 2002. In 2012 the company produced about 220 million cubic meters of gas - it is more than 10% of private gas production in Ukraine.
The company owns special permits to carry out development of Tatyanovskoye gas condensate field, Aktashskoe and Priozernoye oil and gas fields, located on the Crimean peninsula. It also develops fields in Dnepropetrovsk, Donetsk and Kharkov regions.
Source: http://lifenews.ru/news/133144
About time to make a single thread. Too many empty threads.
According to the head of the commission, Gennady Moskal, the first shot in Kiev was made at the police officers.
According to the version of the Commission, representatives of public organizations, ran out of control, could shoot people. At the same time Moskal did not clarify what exactly are those organizations.
- Anyone could join the ranks of the protest movement under the guise of fighting against the government - said the head of the commission.
Earlier, he expressed surprise at the fact that ballistic and other necessary examinations haven't been conducted, as well as sniper rifles, which could appear in the February events haven't been retired.
We recall that this commission was established to investigate the illegal actions of law enforcement agencies and individual officers during the events associated with the mass actions of social and political protest that have been taking place in Ukraine since November 21, 2013.
No one still haven't taken responsibility for the deaths of protesters and law enforcement officials, which number exceeds 100 people. More than half of them were killed in the morning on February 20 at the Independence Square and Institutskaya street.
Source: http://lifenews.ru/news/133157
"Democracy" in the Ukraine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cp_pgQaxyz0
Ukrainian servicemen on the road between Kramatorsk and Slavyansk.(RIA Novosti / Maks Vetrov)
http://cdn.rt.com/files/news/26/c2/80/00/12.si.jpg
Ukrainian armed forces have opened fire on journalists from Russia’s LifeNews working near the city of Kramatorsk, eastern Ukraine, where fighting broke out between self-defense forces and Kiev’s army.
The shooting began around 1 p.m. as three members of a LifeNews crew tried to enter the village of Oktyabrskoe following the fighting. The village is located some 20 kilometers from Kramatorsk.
“We saw that machines were gone and the shooting stopped like half-an-hour ago. We tried to enter the premises of the village to find out what happened to locals, if they needed help, and if there were wounded among them,” reporter Oleg Sidyakin told RT. “But as we got closer to the outskirts of the village, we ran into an armored troop carrier with a Ukrainian flag on it and armed people in black uniforms. We were going in a car with 'TV' stickers, indicating that were are press. We stuck hands out of windows, but first there came one shot and then machine gun fire.”
Sidyakin said he did not know where the shots were aimed – in the air or above their heads – but still decided to turn away and move to a safer location, in order to avoid provoking armed people.
“I had to make such decision because I could not put in danger the lives of a driver and a cameraman,” he said.
The LifeNews reporter said that local residents were shocked, stating that some of them hid in basements. Many still cannot return home. Sidyakin said that phone communication was cut off, which “as self-defense forces told us, is a sign of an 'active phase' of the military operation” conducted by Kiev forces.
Fighting between Kiev’s army and local self-defense groups broke out in the afternoon near Oktyabrskoe.
“It was around noon. The Ukrainian army was taking ammunitions to the city of Kramatorsk,” local resident Vladimir told RT, citing his friend Aleksandr, who lives nearby. “There is the village of Oktyabrskoe, where there is a bridge [on the way]. Our self-defense blew up a vehicle with ammunition and set Kiev’s APC on fire,” he said.
According to Kiev’s Defense Ministry, a group of around 30 self-defense troops “ambushed a convoy of armored vehicles of one of the military units.”
The ministry said the self-defense group came to the scene beforehand and hid in bushes along the river.
“The first shot from a grenade launcher targeted the engine of an APC, which came up to the bridge. There was an explosion. Another APC tried to pull away the damaged machine that caught fire further away from the village. The soldiers engaged in the fight," the ministry’s statement read.
Kiev says that six of its army fighters were killed and another eight injured, with one in critical condition.
Hours after the fight, self-defense units confirmed that they “destroyed two of the enemy’s APCs.” They also reported that one of their militiamen died.
"It is true that there was an armed clash,” the Kramatorsk self-defense unit told Interfax. “The enemy retreated.”
The fight near Kramatorsk is the latest in a string of local fights as Kiev continues to conduct its “punitive operation” against anti-government activists in southeastern Ukraine, which began May 2.
Source:
http://rt.com/news/158760-ukraine-mi...n-journalists/
http://lifenews.ru/news/133164
http://en.itar-tass.com/developments...ukraine/731488
Donetsk people’s governor announced establishment of his party
This political association, according to Gubarev, would unite people who had approved themselves as “true patriots and defenders of their motherland”
http://videocdn.itar-tass.com/width/...14/1040045.jpg
DONETSK, May 13 /ITAR-TASS/. Pavel Gubarev, the people’s governor of Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region, has announced his plans to found his own party, Novorossia, with a headquarters in Donetsk, the local media reported on Tuesday.
“The new political system of the Donetsk People’s Republic should have nothing in common with Ukraine’s previous oligarchic policy,” Gubarev said. “To realize these principles, I, on my own behalf, announce the establishment of a new party, Novorossia [Novorussia is a historical term referring to territory that acceded to the Russian Empire in the 1700s and made part of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, part of the former Soviet Union, in 1922]. Its head office will be located in Donetsk.”
This political association, according to Gubarev, would unite people who had approved themselves as “true patriots and defenders of their motherland.” “A founding congress of the party will soon be held in Donetsk. We will announce our charter, ideology and development strategy at this congress,” he noted.