http://uatoday.tv/politics/moscow-accuses-ukraine-of-shelling-russian-territory-819808.html
10:18 Dec. 6, 2016
Russia threatens the Ukrainian military officials saying they ‘will eventually answer for their crimes against Russian-speakers'
Russian investigative committee claimed on Tuesday, December 6, that it established identities of two commanders from the Ukrainian troops, allegedly responsible for shelling Russian territories along the border between the two countries in June-August of 2014.
UT cannot verify the claims and will not name the individuals, accused by the committee.
Kyiv has repeatedly denied similar allegations in the past, pointing out that it was Russia that attacked Ukrainian territories, and not vice-versa.
Moscow, though, claimed that Ukrainian artillery 'deliberately bombarded' an area within the Rostov region in the summer of 2014, when the clashes between the government forces and the Russian-backed combatants escalated into a full-blown military conflict with tanks and missile strikes.
The Russians said that the tactics of Ukrainian soldiers ‘sometimes reminded' them of ‘tactics of terrorists, that would furtively conduct subsequent strikes at crowds, like when Russian investigators arrived at the site of previous shelling and found themselves under a mortar attack'.
The committee claims that an elderly resident from the city of Donetsk in the Rostov region was wounded and later passed away after a shelling.
Russia threatens to ‘eventually punish' Ukrainian military officials, who ‘commit crimes against Russian-speaking population'.
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http://uatoday.tv/politics/russia-s...f-times-in-summer-2014-bellingcat-632943.html
Journalists confirm Kremlin used artillery to target positions of Ukrainian soldiers at the border
Russia shelled Ukraine more than 300 hundred times in the summer of 2014.
Moscow ordered its servicemen to position artillery near the Ukrainian border and launch fire at the soldiers, who guarded the line at the time.
This is according to the investigative journalist organisation
Bellingcat.
"We investigated the summer attacks in Donbas. Satellite data allowed us to conclude that Russia had used 'Grad' rocket systems to attack the Ukraine's forces hundreds of times", said Eliot Higgins, the head of Bellingcat, in an interview with German TV Channel ARD.
Higgins adds Russian artillery targeted five different areas in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions. These facts were confirmed by various video files and the comments of the witnesses who were present at the site of the attacks.
Ukraine accuses the Kremlin of direct military involvement in the conflict in Donbas. In particular, Kyiv reported the facts when
'Grad' multiple rocket launchers located in Rostov and Belgorod regions in Russia repeatedly attacked the positions of the Ukrainian servicemen.
Earlier Bellingcat claimed Moscow had sent its forces to try and take control of Mariupol and its surroundings. According to the journalists, Russian troops entered Ukraine to help the separatists also seize Novoazovsk, a town located on the Ukrainian-Russian border.
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http://uatoday.tv/politics/over-3000-ukrainian-servicemen-killed-in-donbas-war-819938.html
The number of Ukraine's Armed Forces casualties in Donbas reached over 3000
3064 Ukrainian servicemen have been killed during the conflict in Donbas, and 10753 have been wounded so far, Ukraine's Head of General Staff, General of the Army Victor Muzhenko said on Thursday, the Ukrinform agency reports.
As of late November,
2636 of them are those killed while serving the Armed Forces in Ukraine, and 2148 were killed in action.
During an interview for Ukraine's parliamentary newspaper, General Muzhenko noted that in the case of an all-out Russian invasion,
Ukraine can lose approximately up to 12 thousand people in first 10 days of the conflict.
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We are now capable of reacting minimally to any situation, but in the case of full-scale aggression, it will be necessary to recruit more servicemen. New military units will be created and troops will be deployed in potentially the most dangerous directions," he said.
Today Ukraine celebrates its Armed Forces Day.
According to the UN figures, almost 10,000 were killed in Donbas, and over 22,000 were wounded.
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http://uatoday.tv/society/ukraine-awards-its-youngest-defenders-from-russia-posthumously-820188.html
Sergii Tabala and Andrii Snitko were only 18 when they took up arms to protect the country
Families of two 18-year-old Ukrainian volunteers Sergii Tabala and Andrii Snitko, who died fighting the Russian aggression in Donbas, have been presented with the country's highest national award, Hero of Ukraine.
‘Heroic deeds of your son Andrii and grandson Sergii will forever live on in people's memory, in the military history of Ukraine. They embody the unbroken spirit of defenders of Ukrainian territory',
said Petro Poroshenko, who presented the relatives with the awards.
Both Snitko and Tabala died in 2014 in what Ukraine knows as some of the most tragic and painful battles of the conflict with Russia.
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