Putin says 0 Russian soldiers killed in Ukraine

[Hindustani78]

Secret dead of Russia's undeclared war - Telegraph

The Kremlin’s denial that Russian soldiers are fighting in Ukraine has left families of dead servicemen searching for truth and justice. Tom Parfitt reports

Yelena Tumanova visits her son Anton’s grave in his home town of Kozmodemyansk, 400 miles east of Moscow, Russia.

Anton Tumanov gave up his life for his country - but his country won’t say where, and it won’t say how.

His mother knows. She knows that Mr Tumanov, a 20 year-old junior sergeant in the Russian army, was killed in eastern Ukraine, torn apart in a rocket attack on August 13.

Anton Tumanov, 20, far right, stands with army comrades in a photograph probably taken a day or two before he died in a missile attack in Snizhne

Anton Tumanov’s grave in his home town of Kozmodemyansk, 400 miles east of Moscow, Russia (Tom Parfitt/The Telegraph)

 

[Hindustani78]

Most Russian soldiers killed in Donbas ‘came from Moscow, Dagestan and Rostov’ : UNIAN news
06.01.2015

Most of the Russian soldiers and mercenaries killed in fighting in Ukraine last year came from the Dagestan, Pskov and Rostov regions of Russia, as well as Krasnodar, Moscow and St. Petersburg, Ukrainian news broadcaster TSN has reported.

TSN said the information came from the Open Russia movement, which has investigated the deaths in Ukraine of Russian soldiers from almost all regions of the Russian Federation.

According to Open Russia, a total of 202 Russians were killed in fighting on the territory of Ukraine in 2014 - a number significantly lower than those cited by other human rights organizations and activists.

In particular, human rights organization Cargo-200 from Ukraine to Russia, which also investigates the number of Russian soldiers killed in Ukraine, says it has recorded 4,672 Russian casualties.

Another human rights organization, Soldiers' Mothers of St. Petersburg, has said the number of Russian soldiers killed in the Donbas conflict area amounts to 500.

 

[Superboy]

@Hindustani78 , what do you make of this?

 

[Hindustani78]

BBC News - BBC finds Russians fighting in eastern Ukraine
9 January 2015 Last updated at 06:34 GMT

It is eight months since the start of the conflict in eastern Ukraine, and the fighting has claimed more than 4,000 lives.

Russia has consistently denied its forces are involved, but the BBC has spoken to Russian fighters in Ukraine who talk openly about taking on the Ukrainian army.

Tim Whewell reports.




What you say about this Holy war ?

 

[Superboy]

What you say about this Holy war ?

IMO it is legit.

 

[Hindustani78]

IMO it is legit.

Have you saw the Youtube Clip which is prepared by BBC ?

 

[Superboy]

Have you saw the Youtube Clip which is prepared by BBC ?

Not yet. Why?

 

[Hindustani78]

Not yet. Why?

See it then you will understand why i used the term Holy war.

 

[Superboy]

See it then you will understand why i used the term Holy war.

Holy or not. It's all a bunch of fanatics.

 

[Hindustani78]

http://www.ukrinform.ua/eng/news/uk...ian_troops_fighting_in_eastern_ukraine_328406

KYIV, January 22 /Ukrinform/. Permanent Representative of Ukraine to UN Yuriy Sergeyev asked the Russian delegation directly what specific Russian armed forces were doing in eastern Ukraine at the meeting of the UN Security Council on Wednesday.

He even switched his speech from English into Russian to ask the question, the Ukrinform own correspondent reports.

His question included specific military names of Russian troops and their original locations that have been operating in concrete eastern Ukrainian areas. In particular, the Ukrainian diplomat mentioned Russian troops that came from Pskov, Ulyanovsk, Maikop, Stavropol, Volgograd, Kaliningrad, Kostroma, Shylovo, Yurga, Oleyska and other cities but whose presence is hidden by the Russians.

"Overall there's more than eight thousand personnel. Are they all on vacation as we have heard explanations by the Russian side? Do their families know about it?" ambassador Sergeyev asked head of the Russian delegation.

The Ukrainian Representative said that "Russia officially denies information on dispatching its military to eastern Ukraine but their families confirm the fact."

Yuriy Sergeyev addressed the UN Security Council that illegal armed groups have recently enlarged their zone of attacks and shelling. They are supported by the Russian Federation through receiving so-called "Russian "humanitarian convoys."

Although the Russian delegation used the right to an additional speech at the meeting, it didn't answer the question posed by the Ukrainian side.

tl

 

[Hindustani78]

Kremlin sends conscripts from St. Petersburg to fight in Ukraine - read on - uatoday.tv

Moscow has sent a military unit largely made up of conscripts to fight in Ukraine, Ukrainian newspaper Novy Region reports



UNIAN: Conscripts make up 70% of the 138th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade, which was recently sent to the eastern Ukraine, who are mainly drawn from St. Petersburg, Novy Region said.

The conscripts were drafted into the unit after it suffered substantial losses in fighting in Ukraine last summer, the newspaper said. It said Ukrainian security officials have already learned about the whereabouts of the brigade and its planned route.

As was reported to the Russian news portal Grani by the press secretary of the committee "Soldiers' Mothers of St. Petersburg" Alexander Peredruk, the organization received complaints indicating that conscripts have been actually forced to sign contracts for their deployment to Ukraine.

"Parents told us that about 70-80 people were gathered in an auditorium, they were insulted and kept inside until they agreed to sign a contract," one social activist said.

According to Peredruk, in the last two months the committee received five such appeals from the parents of the conscripted soldiers. In addition, such complaints were also made in anonymous calls to the organization's hotline.

"According to the parents' statements, about 80 draftees signed contracts, but this figure is approximate and unverified" Peredruk told.

He added that all the statements that the organization has received were submitted to the military prosecutor office.

Two battalions of Russian troops crossed the border from Russia into Ukraine on Monday, the Information and Analytical Center of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine reported earlier.

 

[Hindustani78]

Stoltenberg: Russian troops in eastern Ukraine are supporting offensive operations - read on - uatoday.tv

NATO Secretary General statement on the attack on Mariupol



NATO Secretary General Stoltenberg: "Fighting in eastern Ukraine has sharply escalated, with indications of a large-scale offensive by Russian-backed separatists at multiple locations in the Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts as well as against the city of Mariupol. This is in utter disregard of the ceasefire. The shelling of residential areas in the city of Mariupol from separatist-controlled territory has cost the lives of at least 20 civilians, and injured many more.

For several months we have seen the presence of Russian forces in eastern Ukraine, as well as a substantial increase in Russian heavy equipment such as tanks, artillery and advanced air defence systems. Russian troops in eastern Ukraine are supporting these offensive operations with command and control systems, air defence systems with advanced surface-to-air missiles, unmanned aerial systems, advanced multiple rocket launcher systems, and electronic warfare systems.

I strongly urge Russia to stop its military, political and financial support for the separatists, stop destabilising Ukraine and respect its international commitments."

 

[Hindustani78]

'LNR Army' – penal battalion for Russian criminals - Міністерство оборони України
Monday, January 26. DONBAS — According to the ATO press center, on January 25, near Sanjarivka, Ukrainian servicemen take captive the tank driver, citizen of Russian Federation Mr. G. living in Krasnodar Krai (Republic of Adygea).

According to the rebel, having three previous conscriptions he was arrested by representatives of the RF Ministry of Interior in Rostov-na-Donu in flagrant delict (car theft). He was proposed to defend Russkyi Mir (Russian World) in the east of Ukraine instead of prison.

On December 22, 2014, he crossed the State Border of Ukraine and became the T-64 tank driver in so-called LNR.

According to him, on January 23-25 he took part in combat operations against the Ukrainian Armed Forces and during the assault of a Ukrainian post he was captured by the Ukrainian military.

He also noted that about 70 percents of his unit were citizens of Russia whose prison sentences would be suspended in exchange of killing the Ukrainians.

The Kremlin’s goal is obvious: to solve three problems simultaneously: clean the country from criminals, solve the problem of necessity to feed and keep condemned persons, as well as join the ranks of Donbas citizens who defend their land by killing the Ukrainian citizens and destroying the infrastructure.

 

[Hindustani78]

Ukraine has evidence of Russian military presence in Donbas| Ukrinform
KYIV, January 29 /Ukrinform/.Ukraine has documentary evidence of the participation of Russian military and citizens in the Donbas conflict.

Chief of the General Staff Viktor Muzhenko said this at a briefing on Thursday, an Ukrinform correspondent reported.

"Currently, we have documentary evidence of the Russian military participation in the conflict on the separatist's side. They are documented," he said.

Muzhenko also said that Ukraine is not engaged in combat operations against the regular Russian army.

"We have some evidence about individual members of the Russian Armed Forces and citizens of the Russian Federation being a part of the illegal armed groups in combat activities. Currently, we are not engaged in combat operations against the units of the regular Russian army."

 

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Ukrainian security detains insurgent collaborator said trained in Russia (Video) : UNIAN news

30.01.2015 | 16:21
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Ukrainian security officials in Dnipropetrovsk say they have detained an individual who allegedly collected data on movements of government troops for Russian-backed militant groups.
The detainee belongs to the Donetsk People's Republic militant organization, or DNR, Ukraine Today reports.

The collaborator, a Ukrainian citizen, admitted to have received physical and weapons training by officers of Russia’s federal security services in a special camp in Donetsk. He claimed that he regretted his actions.