Crisis in Oekra�ne #96 oorlog met Novorossia

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Het meisje uit Donetsk dat huilt om haar dode moeder, komt uit Het Fort van Brest, een Russische film over de Tweede Wereldoorlog

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Op zaterdag 31 mei 2014 11:02 schreef michaelmoore het volgende:
http://www.volkskrant.nl/(...)kzij-Photoshop.dhtml

Russische propaganda: Donetsk brandt, dankzij photoshop

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MrKovalenko twitterde op vrijdag 30-05-2014 om 20:21:32 By @DmitryTymchuk: There is a fight at the Diakovo border post in #Luhansk oblast from inside #Ukraine. 80 terrorists are trying to escape? reageer retweet

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Two officers of the Border Control Agency are wounded.

Armed men in camouflaged clothing shelled a “Niva” vehicle with the officers of the Border Control Agency in Sverdlovsk, Luhansk region; two of officers are wounded.

This is reported by the MIA on the official website. Reports InfoResist referencing LB.ua.

“We have just received information that 5 armed men dressed in camouflage clothing shoot at a “Niva” with the officers of the Border Control Agency near the checkpoint Diakovo in village Astahovo, Sverdlovsk district, Luhanks region. According to our information two officers are wounded,” – says the statement.

An investigative team of Sverdlovsk town police department departed to the scene. Circumstances of the accident are being established.

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Op zaterdag 31 mei 2014 10:36 schreef UpsideDown het volgende:
Het zit ze wel erg hoog die Russische troepen langs de grens.

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Withdrawal far more significant than NATO previously estimated.

Russia is in the process of pulling back around two-thirds of the troops it had close to the border with Ukraine, NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said, a far more significant withdrawal than NATO has previously estimated.

Rasmussen also announced that ambassadors from Russia and NATO countries would meet in Brussels on Monday for the first time since March 5, soon after Moscow seized Crimea.

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Assault fear sparks Ukraine town exodus

Thousands of civilians are fleeing the eastern town of Slovyansk amid growing speculation that the Ukrainian army is preparing to launch a full-scale assault to rid the region of pro-Russian separatists.

On Friday, cars and minibuses packed with frightened residents drove out of the city. The scene has been the same over the last few days with reports suggesting a Ukrainian army build-up across the province.

“They've been going for days now. The busses are packed full of women and children and baggage," said a soldier checking passing vehicles and documents at the Ukrainian army checkpoint just outside Slovyansk on the road to Kramatorsk.

Inside Slovyansk, the streets are barricaded. Felled birch trees lie black and white across roads and heaps of tyres block sandy lanes, making navigation difficult. Some people could be seen visiting produce shops before they closed at 6pm, the curfew under martial law.

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"I would say that around ten thousand people have left already, out of a population of about 130,000. All of my friends have gone and I sent my two daughters away last week to stay with their grandmother in Kramatorsk."

The exodus from Slovyansk has gathered pace since Ukrainian president-elect Petro Poroshenko vowed to wrest the region back from the hands of pro-Russian rebels.

"They should open up a corridor and allow people to leave. How can the army shoot at a town filled with people? How can the army prepare to conduct a clearance operation if there are still people in town? And even if they were allowed to leave, where would people go? It is expensive to move a whole family," Elvira, the ticket seller, said.

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Others cannot leave so easily. "What would I do with my flat and my car?" said an ethnic Azerbaijani taxi driver living in town. “They would be looted straight away.”

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Russia accused of violating Lithuanian exclusive economic zone

Lithuania has accused Russian warships of harassing civilian vessels in Lithuanian waters in the Baltic Sea in a protest amid worries in the region about Moscow's assertiveness in Ukraine.

"The Ministry of Foreign affairs expressed concern due to recurring Russian military fleet actions in the Lithuanian exclusive economic zone, which violate the sovereign rights and freedoms of Lithuania and other countries," the ministry said after the acting head of the Russian embassy was summoned to the ministry on Friday.

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Three US congressmen object to France selling warships to Russia

US MPs has urged France to break its contract to sell two warships to Russia and instead sell or lease them to NATO.

Three congressmen led by Eliot Engel, the top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, has written to the NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen on Friday expressing concern about the construction and sale to the Russian navy of two Mistral-class helicopter carriers.

"It is critical that NATO countries no longer provide powerful weapons to enhance Russia's ability to intimidate or even invade its neighbours," the lawmakers wrote Thursday, referring to Russian President Vladimir Putin's aggression in Ukraine.

France has said it is leaving the door open to re-examining the $1.6b contract in October, when the first warship is scheduled for delivery to the Russian fleet.

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Kadyrov: No Chechen battalions in Ukraine, only 14 volunteers are in south-east

“We have not sent them over there, they have not been enrolled,” Kadyrov said. “They, I mean the former members, one or two, were there, but this does not mean we have a division there. According to our calculations, there are only 14 Chechens there.”

The republic’s head stressed the authorities did not have a right to stop a person if he volunteered to go to Ukraine’s south-east.

“If there in Donetsk there are Chechens, it does not mean there are Chechen divisions there,” he said. “The fact is there is not a single representative of the interior ministry, the interior forces or defence ministry in the territories of Donetsk or Slavyansk.

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The Rot Among the Rebels in Ukraine

DONETSK, Ukraine Slices of pineapples, batteries, flashlights, and cans of fish swam in puddles of beer on the floor, all dusted with a gooey layer of flour and cornmeal. The giant hypermarket Metro in Donetsk was flooded with looters Friday morning, grabbing whatever struck their fancy from its endless shelves.

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On the floor of the wine department, drunken Valeriy moaned that his wife expected him to pick her up from work, but he wanted to stay and live in the free-alcohol heaven; he insisted journalists not photograph his “being drunk as a pig.”

Outside the shopping center, two more drunk looters described the violent scenes of shootings earlier this week between Ukrainian National Guard forces and rebels; on Thursday the two men helped wounded local civilians to reach the hospital. The entire neighborhood was “terrorized” by stories about female snipers from the Baltic countries shooting men in the lower parts of their bodies. All that made the looting seem all right.

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The prime minister of the self-proclaimed government also admitted it was still “a pending challenge” to unite warlords, make them responsible and obey the command of the republic’s government. Battles with Ukrainian military in Luhansk, the region on the border with Russia, and Slovyansk, the epicenter of the fighting, were not the responsibility of the separatist leaders in Donetsk, he said.

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Petro Poroshenko must remake Ukraine’s politics

Many of Mr Poroshenko’s intentions are laudable. He says he will talk to separatists in the east who have not resorted to violence, though any conciliation will be a lot tougher after a bloody battle at Donetsk airport in which dozens of pro-Russian militants died (see article). A long-term advocate of integration with the EU, he sensibly vows also to mend relations with Russia, despite Vladimir Putin’s banditry in Crimea—though an influx of Chechen fighters into eastern Ukraine will complicate that process, too. Mr Poroshenko plans an early parliamentary election, another positive step, since the Rada, Ukraine’s parliament, is a sewer of oligarchs’ placemen.

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The big drawback is that Mr Poroshenko, a confectionery billionaire, is himself an oligarch, as well as being a veteran of the self-serving political struggles that have left Ukraine in this mess. He was a minister both under Mr Yanukovych and in the government that followed the Orange revolution of 2004, which collapsed amid feuds in which Mr Poroshenko played a part. The legacy of this wasted, venal decade is a deeply rotten state: crooked police, suborned courts, woeful public services and monopolised industries.

Much more than regional differences, it was this pervasive corruption that brought Ukraine to the brink of disintegration. It alienated citizens from their government, stymied entrepreneurs and allowed tycoons to establish local fiefs. And it left Ukraine vulnerable to predation by Russia, through both bribery and propaganda aimed at a disenchanted population.

To woo his compatriots, especially in the east, it is corruption, above all, that Mr Poroshenko and (after the parliamentary election) a new government must tackle. Among other reforms, that will mean liberalising the economy, cleaning up politics and wholesale sackings of police, prosecutors, tax officials and the judiciary. It will, in short, mean dismantling the system in which the likes of Mr Poroshenko have flourished.

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Ukraine’s quitting CIS will cause catastrophe

Ukraine’s quitting the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) will result in outflow of Russian investments thus causing financial and economic catastrophes for Ukraine, leader of Ukrainian Choice movement Viktor Medvedchuk said on Saturday.

“It would also mean a breach of the historic cooperative relations between Ukrainian enterprises and the FSU countries, stopping of joint business projects, termination of diplomatic and economic agreements in the framework of the CIS,” he said.

Besides, introduction of visa regimes by CIS countries will affect millions of Ukrainian labour migrants. “The Russian migration service reports that about three million Ukrainians worked in Russia in 2013. If at least half of those will have to return home, the unemployment level in the country will jump up.”

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The CIS was founded on December 8, 1991 by the Republic of Belarus, the Russian Federation, and Ukraine, when the leaders of the three countries met in the Belovezhskaya Pushcha Natural Reserve, about 50 kilometres north of Brest in Belarus and signed a Creation Agreement on dissolution of the Soviet Union and creation of CIS as a successor entity to it.

At the same time they announced that the new alliance would be open to all republics of the former Soviet Union, and to other nations sharing the same goals. The CIS charter stated that all the members were sovereign and independent nations and thereby effectively abolished the Soviet Union.

On December 21, 1991, leaders of eight additional former Soviet Republics - Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan - signed the Alma-Ata Protocol and joined the CIS, thus bringing the number of participating countries to 11. Georgia joined two years later, in December 1993. At that point, 12 former Soviet Republics (all except the Baltic States) participated in the CIS.

Lukashenko warns Poroshenko: Belarusian chief says Ukraine should stay in post-Soviet bloc

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Op zaterdag 31 mei 2014 18:00 schreef Linkse_Boomknuffelaar het volgende:

Ernst Busch - Arbeiter, Bauern

Behoorlijk actueel wederom!

Alleen door strijd kan men het fascisme en imperialisme communisme verslaan!

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Op zaterdag 31 mei 2014 18:41 schreef michaelmoore het volgende:

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klopt

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Op zaterdag 31 mei 2014 18:45 schreef Linkse_Boomknuffelaar het volgende:

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Communisme en fascisme in een zin noemen, jij bent ook lekker gehersenspoeld door de media.

Daarom haatten de nazi's de communisten ook zo en schoten ze Hannie Schaft (lid van de CPN) ook dood, omdat het hetzelfde is. Echt ook he. Ben jij ingehuurd door van Baalen of zo om hier te spammen?

Pro Russia demonstrators rally in Donetsk

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Pro Russia demonstrators rally in Donetsk

More than a thousand protesters gathered in Donetsk on Saturday and called on Russia to protect them from the Ukrainian military.

Denis Pushilin, Chairman of the Supreme Council of the Donetsk People's Republic, addressed protesters in the city's Lenin Square. He said:

"We are extremely grateful to Vladimir Vladimirovich (Russian President Vladimir Putin) for what he has done. What we don't see at first sight - but we know and understand - is that the Russian Federation is facing threats and pressure from the international community. But Russia still remains with us, and we feel their support. We very much hope that soon we will become one country."

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Op vrijdag 30 mei 2014 23:02 schreef poemojn het volgende:
Het aparte topic is op slot gegooid zie ik maar is inmiddels al wel meer bekend over die kinderen? http://en.interfax.com.ua/news/general/207350.html

Russia: Slavyansk children find shelter in Sevastopol camp

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Op zaterdag 31 mei 2014 21:17 schreef deelnemer het volgende:

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Ze zijn aangekomen (video 17uur geleden al geupload).

Russia: Slavyansk children find shelter in Sevastopol camp

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More Ukrainian separatists die at airport

Six Ukrainian rebels have been killed while trying to collect the bodies of comrades who died under Ukrainian army fire earlier this week near the Donetsk airport, Ukrainian separatist leader Denis Pushilin says.

"They died trying to take back the Ukrainian airport, and our boys were trying to get their bodies out," Pushilin told Reuters via telephone on Saturday, without giving further details of the violence. He said the six had died during the day on Friday.

Though fighting has died down for now in Donetsk, the standoff over the city airport remained unresolved on Saturday with amateur video footage showing a cargo plane taking off and releasing decoy flares as it was fired at from the ground.

Regional newsagency Interfax cited the prime minister of the self-styled Donetsk People's Republic as saying the separatists would ask the International Red Cross to remove corpses by the aiport. It was unclear how many remained.

A spokesman for the Kiev-led "Anti-terrorist operation" or ATO said earlier in the day two new attacks on the airport had been repelled by Ukrainian forces with no injuries to their side, Interfax reported. It was not clear whether the attacks were in fact attempts by separatists to clear bodies.

Funeral for Pro-Russia Donbas Fighter: Most insurgent troops are Russian nationals tied to Kremlin

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General Serhiy Kulchytsky's funeral in Lviv on May 31, 2014

Kulchytsky was one of 14 servicemen killed when separatists shot down a helicopter in eastern Ukraine on May 29.

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Ukraine introduces ban on Russian military products supplies - Russian military official

Ukraine has introduced a ban on supplies of Russian arms, military hardware and its components since March, Russia’s top military official has said.

"Russia cannot receive arms that were earlier paid for," Russian Deputy Defense Minister Yuri Borisov said on Saturday.

Such policy will affect Ukrainian enterprises. "Where will they find sales markets?" he asked, TASS reports.

Russian enterprises are successfully coping with the task although the situation causes certain difficulties. "We are to revise all positions of our cooperation. A plane cannot be sold without gear wheels," Borisov said.

At present, the amount of supplies of Russia’s military-industrial complex reaches about 50 billion roubles, he said.