Civil war in Ukraine: News & discussion

[Hindustani78]

ATO NEWS: Terrorists continue attacks - Міністерство оборони України
Tuesday, January 6, DONBAS — According to the ATO press center, since 2.00 a.m. no attack has been observed.

However, before 2.00 a.m. the illegal armed formations completed 11 provocations against Ukrainian positions.

Generally, Ukrainian servicemen control the situation at the delimitation line and keep peace within the liberated territories.


ATO heroes return home - Міністерство оборони України
Tuesday, January 6, ZAPORIZHJYA — Servicemen of artillery unit returned home. They have completed the tasks assigned in the anti-terror operation region (near Donetsk airport) for two months. Their relatives, friends, volunteers and local citizens met them with bread and salt. Servicemen will have a short leave.

Odesa military doctors cured over 6,000 soldiers in ATO region - Міністерство оборони України

Tuesday, January 6, ODESA — “Since May and till the end of the past year about 80% of our personnel within four mobile medical brigades and one mobile hospital have been worked near ATO region and directly in ATO region. Our specialists cured over 6,000 soldiers. Over 1,700 soldiers hospitalized from Donetsk and Lugansk regions were cured in the Center,” Col. Volodymyr Maydanyuk, Head of Military Medical Clinical Center of the Southern Region, stated.

According to him, medical personnel carried out all the tasks required. Meanwhile, 14 military doctors were wounded in the ATO region.

This year the doctors’ efforts will be directed to qualified medical treatment and improvement of treatment and diagnostic base of the Center.

Military engineers repair special equipment - Міністерство оборони України
Tuesday, January 6, RIVNE — Engineer military unit specialists repair and recover the special military equipment. After repair and recovery works the equipment is tested and placed in storage.

During autumn — winter period engineers built two bridges over the Goryn River in Rivne Oblast and one temporary bridge over the Aydar River in Lugansk Oblast.

“We carefully maintain our special equipment in order it operates in sustainable manner,” Lt. Col. Yuriy Nechytaylo, Deputy Commander of Military Unit, remarked.

Azov positions come under fire near Hranitne| Ukrinform
KYIV, January 6 /Ukrinform/. Terrorists are shelling the positions of the Azov special purpose battalion near the village of Hranitne in Telmanove district of Donetsk region, reads a report posted on the Facebook page of the Azov battalion.

"Right now there is a shelling of Azov battalion positions near Hranitne. [Terrorists] are shelling us with a 120-millimeter mortar. Good morning to everyone!!!!" reads the statement.

Terrorists provided with convoys of ammunition through Donetsk| Ukrinform
KYIV, January 6 /Ukrinform/. Russian-terrorist troops are reinforcing their positions between the settlements of Dokuchayevsk and Olenivka near Donetsk and stocking up with ammunition and fuel.

Information Resistance group leader Dmytro Tymchuk reported this on his Facebook page.

"Between the settlements of Dokuchayevsk and Olenivka Russian-terrorist troops are equipping a fortified locality. They are equipping hidden firing positions, shelters, minefields, etc. Supply convoys regularly arrive through Donetsk (mainly with ammunition and fuel)," he said.

Tymchuk added that a new enemy formation staffed by local militants had arrived in the area of the settlement of Komsomolske. Up to 12 armored vehicles are in the formation (including three tanks).

"This group interacts with the Russian company task force operating in the area of Telmanove (which, in turn, fired at the positions of Ukrainian troops in the area of the settlements of Hranitne two days ago)," he said.

Donetsk gunmen steal 800 kilograms of explosives from factory| Ukrinform
"Members of an illegal armed group arrived at the Amvrosiyivka section of the Donetskvybukhprom enterprise and took explosives with a total weight of 800 kg from the warehouse," the report says.

Russian electronic warfare station discovered in Donbas, says Tymchuk : UNIAN news

"A Russian electronic warfare station has been discovered to be operating north of Starobesheve,” Tymchuk wrote.

“The electronic warfare station is intended to jam the [radio] operating frequencies of Ukrainian troops."

In addition, according to the Information Resistance group, Russian-backed militants are continuing to actively use drones and carry out ground reconnaissance in the area south of Donetsk and Mariupol.

National Security and Defense Council sets up seven checkpoints in Donbas : UNIAN news

NSDC spokesman Andriy Lysenko said at a briefing in Kyiv on Tuesday that the checkpoints will be manned by border guards, police and representatives of the fiscal services, and will be equipped with special devices for the identification of individuals.

The first checkpoint is on the Luhansk-Shchastia-Novoaidar route. The second is Luhansk-Stanitsa, Luhansk-Shyroky. The third - Fashchevka-Debaltseve-Artemivsk. The fourth - Goptovka-Artemivsk. The fifth – Donetsk-Kurakhovo. The sixth - Donetsk-Mariupol (through Volnovakha) and the seventh - Novoazovsk-Krasnoarmijsk-Talakovka-Mariupol.

“The routes along which the checkpoints are being set up are the safest way to cross the demarcation line, as the rest of the area is heavily mined and local people have been informed about this,” Lysenko said.

"We do not recommend bypassing the checkpoints when crossing this line," Lysenko added.

 

[nekrasa]

Another protest song about civil war, it's worth more than thousand words from ukr ATO news:

An article from The Washington Post:
Warlords and armed groups threaten Ukraine’s rebuilding - The Washington Post

And for the russians here:

V dien` Rozhdienija Khrista zhelaju vam mnogo schastja, lubvi, uspiekhov i mira.

 

[Superboy]

3 Ukrainian servicemen KIA yesterday. RIP

Lysenko: Three Ukrainian soldiers killed in Donetsk region on January 6

 

[Hindustani78]

An Ukrainian Right Sector batallion volunteer fires a machine gun on Jan. 3 from his position near the eastern Ukrainian village of Pisky, in the northeastern Donetsk region, at pro-Russian separatists near the Donetsk airport.

Ukrainian border guards detain Australian citizen in Donbas
An Australian citizen has been detained at the Heorhiyivka checkpoint in Donetsk region while crossing from the territory controlled by the militia of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), the Ukrainian State Border Guard Service said on Jan. 7.

"Information concerning this citizen came from the police. An inspection of his personal belongings yielded ten 7.62 shells, a flak jacket, two knives, a pass and an identification document of a journalist accredited in the DPR," it said.

3 Ukrainian servicemen KIA yesterday. RIP

Three Ukrainian soldiers killed in Donetsk region yesterday – ATO speaker
07.01.2015

Three Ukrainian soldiers were killed and one was wounded in eastern Ukraine over the last 24 hours, ATO Speaker Andriy Lysenko has stated.

"Over the past day we lost three Ukrainian soldiers. One was killed by a sniper near the settlement of Nikishyne, another - from a mortar attack near Donetsk airport, the third soldier - near the village of Pisky. Another serviceman was injured," he said at a briefing in Kyiv.

Militants shell Ukrainian military positions 15 times on Christmas Eve : UNIAN news
07.01.2015

Russian-backed militants in Ukraine’s Donbas intensified their shelling of Ukrainian positions on the night before Orthodox Christmas, launching 15 attacks, the press service of the Ukrainian government’s Anti-Terrorist Operation wrote on Facebook on Wednesday.
"Between 1815 and 0600 illegal armed groups fired 15 times on the positions of our military," the press center of the ATO headquarters said.
It said that at first the militants fired automatic grenade launcher at the village of Hranite, then attacked seven times with small arms, mortars and artillery fire on Piskiy from areas in Donetsk. In addition, militant mortar fire hit the villages of Taramchuk, Petrovskoe, Vodnaya, and the meteorological tower of Donetsk airport.

"In the area around Debaltseve, from 2225 to 2230 there was shelling near Chernukhin. And the bandits also fired mortars at Olkhovatka and Redkodub," the press center said.

At the same time, the ATO headquarters said that the provocations by the militants did not prevent the Ukrainian military from celebrating Christmas, noting that some Ukrainian units even attended Christmas religious services.

Ukrainian forces say they have destroyed two Russian tanks in east Ukraine - watch on - uatoday.tv
Officials say army was defending itself from provocation

Ukraine's Security Service says that the Ukrainian army has destroyed two Russian tanks near the village of Pisky in eastern Ukraine.

10 people, who were operating the tanks reportedly died whilst 12 other were injured.

Officials say the Ukrainian army is keeping to a ceasefire signed in September and was only responding to an attack which came from the tanks.

Andriy Lysenko, spokesman for Ukraine's Security and Defense Council: "Our tanks and defensive systems are constantly following the boundary lines. We don't attack".

The original ceasefire deal signed in Minsk was widely violated. Both sides attemped to renew efforts at a truce in December however fighting has continued in parts of east Ukraine.

 

[vostok]

Artillery of junta came under fire back of militia's mortars.

 

[Hindustani78]

With all respect Hindu, these news are war propaganda, and I don't know how's your business spreading this crap here.

The polish government don't care about polish people (not citizen!) there, otherwise they'd tried to help them six/seven months ago, when the war had started. So, this is only PR. They'll do nothing in this case, literally...

Pro-russian rebels sturm ukie checkpoinkt, film from summer, but published yesterday:

Polish foreign ministry to evacuate east Ukraine ethnic Poles - watch on - uatoday.tv
Jan. 7, 2015

Some 205 Poles reportedly in the Donbas

The Polish Foreign Ministry says it is in the final stages of preparations to evacuate Polish nationals from the conflict-hit regions of east Ukraine, where Ukrainian troops are fighting a Russian-backed insurgency.

According to figures from Polish Radio, some 205 Poles in Ukraine's Donbas region will arrive in Poland in the next few days.

The conflict has been raging since March last year, it has claimed more than 4,000 thousand lives and forced thousands of Ukrainians to flee their homes in the east in order to find shelter in other parts of the country.

 

[Echo_419]

Artillery of junta came under fire back of militia's mortars.

Sheer waste of human life & commrade have you joined the fighting or not,since you live in Ukraine

 

[Superboy]

Artillery of junta came under fire back of militia's mortars.

What happened? Ukrainian artillery got destroyed by terrorist mortars?

 

[vostok]

What happened? Ukrainian artillery got destroyed by terrorist mortars?

Terrorist artillery got destroyed by Novorossian mortars.

 

[nekrasa]

Polish foreign ministry to evacuate east Ukraine ethnic Poles - watch on - uatoday.tv
Jan. 7, 2015

Some 205 Poles reportedly in the Donbas

The Polish Foreign Ministry says it is in the final stages of preparations to evacuate Polish nationals from the conflict-hit regions of east Ukraine, where Ukrainian troops are fighting a Russian-backed insurgency.

According to figures from Polish Radio, some 205 Poles in Ukraine's Donbas region will arrive in Poland in the next few days.

The conflict has been raging since March last year, it has claimed more than 4,000 thousand lives and forced thousands of Ukrainians to flee their homes in the east in order to find shelter in other parts of the country.

And what about it? It's again a propaganda. In this news you've got promises, even lector used a future time ' will arrive '. These people would have been on Christmas (Polish prime minister declered it in December), but in the roman rite, not orthodox.
Even if somebody will arrive to Poland that would be some officials from Charków, Donietsk, Lugansk, Dniepropietrowsk, but certainly not the ordinary people from Donbas.
These people live there all along, and polish government... don't care about them...

Insted of reading ukr war propaganda, it's better to listen some music with a message from Cossacks:

 

[gau8av]

And what about it? It's again a propaganda. In this news you've got promises, even lector used a future time ' will arrive '. These people would have been on Christmas (Polish prime minister declered it in December), but in the roman rite, not orthodox.
Even if somebody will arrive to Poland that would be some officials from Charków, Donietsk, Lugansk, Dniepropietrowsk, but certainly not the ordinary people from Donbas.
These people live there all along, and polish government... don't care about them...

Insted of reading ukr war propaganda, it's better to listen some music with a message from Cossacks:

I don't understand why he's spreading all this pro ukie nazi crap either, maybe he works for a US sponsored ministry in Lithuania or something.

 

[nekrasa]

I don't understand why he's spreading all this pro ukie nazi crap either, maybe he works for a US sponsored ministry in Lithuania or something.

Ukr propaganda is so obvious that even in Poland on the blogs Poles are finding liars all along. For example: Few days ago would supposed to be a battle with tanks near Donetsk, here's reporting from ukr television TCH:
Видео - Российская дивизия в Донецке понесла потери - Видео ТСН онлайн, архив видео - ТСН.ua

Look at the moment 24s. to 30s, this supposed to be destroyed russian tank T-90...

Now look at the russians maneuvers 2013 and film Russian tank T-90 (1000HP) stuck in the mud:

Look at the moment from 4.58s. to 5.05s.

It is hilarious, isn't it?

Most of the news from ATO news, ustoday and so on are similar to this one above...

 

[Hindustani78]

Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) based on information received as of 18:00 (Kyiv time), 6 January 2015 | OSCE

On 5 January whilst traveling to Ulyanivs’ke BCP (65km south-east of Donetsk, “DPR”-controlled), the SMM was stopped at a checkpoint manned by five members of the Cossack battalion "Sokolinaya sotnia" (Falcon hundred), near “DPR”-controlled Novoivanevka (59km south-east of Donetsk). The “DPR” members did not let the SMM pass the checkpoint, referring to an order from their superiors.

While traveling to government-controlled Makarivka (108km west-south-west of Donetsk) the SMM saw two trucks with mounted rocket-launcher systems, likely to be “Uragan” systems, being guarded by Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers. The trucks were stationary, parked near a field. The SMM spoke with some of the soldiers, who stated that they were from the “Anti-Terrorism Operation” (“ATO”) and have pulled back as far as possible from positions held by “DPR”.

On 6 January, while in government-controlled Myrne (60km south of Donetsk) the SMM heard sounds consistent with artillery shelling, which lasted for approximately 40 minutes. The SMM assessed that the sound was consistent with an exchange of fire, concentrated in an area some 8km north of Myrne.

On 5 January at approximately 17:30 hours, an SMM UAV was engaged by what appeared to be a truck-mounted ZU-23 (23mm twin barrelled anti-aircraft gun). The incident occurred in Oktyabr village, 18km north-east of Mariupol, in “DPR”- controlled territory. UAV video analysis showed unknown persons firing at the UAV. A similar incident had occurred on 2 December in the same area (see SMM Daily Report 2 December 2014).

On 5 January in Lviv the SMM met with representatives of the Regional Department for Social Protection (RDSP) who stated that the total number of internally displaced persons (IDPs) registered in the Lviv region amounted to 9,661, out of which 6,608 were adults and 3,053 children. The number of registered IDPs from the Donetsk and Luhansk regions was 6,764, out of which 4,661 were adults and 2,103 children. The number of IDPs from Crimea who registered with the RDSP was 2,897, out of which 1,947 were adults and 950 children.

 

[vostok]

Russia’s 11th Humanitarian Convoy for Donbas Heading to Border With Ukraine

A Russian Emergencies Ministry official has said that the 11th Russian humanitarian convoy, carrying 1,400 tonnes of aid to the war-torn Donbas region, is currently heading towards the Russian state border with Ukraine.
MOSCOW, January 8 (Sputnik) —The 11th Russian humanitarian convoy carrying 1,400 tonnes of aid to the war-torn Donbas is currently heading towards the Russian state border with Ukraine, Russian Emergencies Ministry official said Thursday.

“The convoy of more than 120 trucks left the Don Rescue Center of the Russian Emergencies Ministry and is heading towards the state border,” Oleg Voronov, deputy chief of the crisis management center with the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry, said.


The regions of Donetsk and Luhansk have been suffering a severe humanitarian crisis as a result of a military operation launched by Kiev in mid-April 2014.

Since August 2014 Russia has delivered a total of 13,400 tonnes of humanitarian aid to the region. The tenth humanitarian aid convoy returned to Russia on December 22 after bringing food, medicines and building materials to Donbas.

 

[Hindustani78]

Gunmen shell Ukrainian military positions with Grad rockets overnight : UNIAN news
08.01.2015

Russian-backed militants in Ukraine’s Donbas stepped up their attacks on Ukrainian positions, using heavy weapons and rockets overnight, the press center of the government’s Anti-Terrorist Operation headquarters said on Thursday.

"Illegal armed groups continued to provoke Ukrainian servicemen, and opened fire on Ukrainian positions eight times using mainly heavy weapons - mortars and artillery, including Grad multiple rocket launchers,” a report posted by the press center on Facebook reads.

In particular, using mortars and artillery systems, militants three times opened fire at ATO forces near the village of Vodiane. Donetsk airport and a town near Pisky were also hit by mortar attacks. Ukrainian positions at the Ostraya Mogyla burial mound were fired on with small arms.

"Yesterday, at about 1900 bandit armed formations opened fire two times with Grad BM-21 multiple rocket launchers on Ukrainian positions near the settlements of Tonenke and Kamenka,” the press center wrote.

The attacks by militants in the Donbas subsided after 0235, it said.


Tymchuk: Militants fire on Ukrainian troops with rockets near Donetsk : UNIAN news
"Six firing batteries, including cannon artillery, anti-tank guns, and multiple launch rocket systems were the weapons [used by] the Russian-backed militants. From time to time, these artillery groups have been reinforced for specific tasks with mortars and multiple launch rocket system from units concentrated in the southeast of Donetsk," he said.

At the same time, the activity of at least three tactical fire militant groups has been recorded in the western and north-western regions of Donetsk that are directly adjacent to the forward positions of Ukrainian troops.

"The groups consist of armored vehicles, including tanks, anti-aircraft guns and mortars mounted on vehicles. These maneuverable groups periodically fire on positions of Ukrainian armed forces, and then change their positions," Tymchuk said.

"Units of Russian-backed insurgents are firing on Ukrainian troops with howitzers and Grad multiple launch rocket systems near the bridgehead of Debaltseve," he said.
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