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The BBC is starting to resemble nazi propaganda in World War 11 as things start to break apart. RT gives the facts.
BREAKING: Over 400 Ukrainian troops cross into Russia for refuge
BREAKING: Over 400 Ukrainian troops cross into Russia for refuge
RT,
3
August, 2014
More
than 400 Ukrainian troops have been allowed to cross into Russia on
Sunday night after they requested sanctuary, Russian border guards
reported.
According
to the Rostov Region’s border guard spokesman Vasily Malaev, a
total of 438 soldiers, including 164 Ukrainian border guards, have
been allowed into Russia.
On
Sunday, the Russian border guards reported of 12 Ukrainian soldiers
seeking refuge in Russia.
And
in late July 41 Ukrainian troops fled to Russia to escape fighting in
eastern Ukraine. They are now being prosecuted in Ukraine for
deserting in the heat of battle.
The
flow of deserters from the ranks of Ukrainian Army and National Guard
seems to be increasing amid the escalating violence in Donets and
Lugansk Regions, where Kiev is fighting against armed militias.
Several
Ukrainian units have been reported to recently to be cut off from
supply lines after attempted offensive operations, which brought them
behind the militia-controlled territories and close to the Russian
border.
El
Murid SITREP, August 1, 2014
Defeating
a Large Group of the Punitive Forces Could Start a Chain Reaction
Original:
El Murid
LiveJournal
Translated
from Russian by Gleb Bazov
Photograph:
Viktor Drachev / AFP
According
to Russia Today (Experts:
Kiev Military Operation is doomed to failure because of internal
contradictions)
“…
Kiev is unable
successfully to conduct the military operation in the east of the
country, as it is not in complete control of all the military
formations that are engaged in the so-called ATO …
…
Inside the Ukrainian
army, the principles of subordination have been breached: direct
executors are in no hurry to implement the orders of the command and
often perceive these orders as “recommdendations”. According to
the agency’s source, the military is refusing to conduct artillery
strikes of cities and “does not demonstrate sufficient activity
during sweeps and purges" …”
In
many ways, the conclusions reached in RT’s analysis are absolutely
fair. Objectively, the Ukrainian army is simply a worse clone of
Division SS “Galychyna”. Samostiyna [Note: Ukrainian for
“independent”] Ukraine is unable to create anything better.
Today,
the punitive forces suffered yet another defeat – remnants of the
25th Aeromobile Brigade, Battalion Dnepr, as well as other
rabble-like units that attached or strayed to them, were surrounded
in the Shakhters-Torez-Snezhnoye area.
The
defeat of this grouping is the outcome of the ramming offensive
tactics using mass numbers of tanks and other military hardware,
followed first by sweeps and purges with the aid of sonderkommando
and then by the establishment of checkpoints. With invariable
consistency, again and again, such tactics has led to the same
outcome – the punitive forces are drawn into a narrow corridor of
an “intestine” that is wide-open to artillery fire. Once the main
ramming force of the collected horde is exhausted, the Militia cuts
the “intestine” down the flanks and surrounds and eliminates that
Nazis gathered in the cauldron.
It
appeared, at first, that the goal of the current offensive in this
area may have been achieved – the punitive forces were able even,
for a short period of time, to cut off the last remaining road
connecting DPR with LPR and Russia. With our own eyes we saw how the
Nazis immediately began to exterminate civilians, murdering them in
buses and cars travelling to the east.
However,
the colossal military hardware losses, which are practically
inevitable with such a catastrophically unprepared offensive
operation, predictably led to the same outcome. It is likely that it
will take several days to finish off the remnants of the Ukrainian
forces that ended up being enricled; however, overall, everything is
pointing to Kiev’s latest gamble ending in failure.
It
should be mentioned that the situation for the Junta is becoming not
only difficult, but threatening. Two waves of mobilization enabled
the army to conscript up to seventy thousand men of military
personnel. However, because these men and equipment were entered into
battle in a very chaotic manner, without proper teamwork training,
with extremely low quality of combat training, and with equipment in
an appalling state of disrepair, as a result, the Junta just splashed
gasoline on damp wood. The offensive burst into flames and just as
quickly died down. The wood remains damp, and gasoline has run out.
There
is a stalemate – instead of building an army and preparing it for a
decisive strike, Kiev is continuously forced to throw its newly
created units at the front, plugging up holes and wasting time in
senseless offensive operations. This process cannot be stopped –
the Militia will seize the initiative and crush the remnants of the
armies of Kiev. By throwing increasing number of ever-more inferior
troops into the fire, Kiev only prolongs the agony, as it no longer
has the ability to conduct a decisive offensive.
The
Militia is faced with a similar predicament – it cannot fully
control such a large territory and is force to organize a focal
defence, divert its forces to control roads and constantly to
maneuver with extremely low reserves to repel attacks from various
directions. This critical situation continues. It can no longer be
said that the Ukrainian punitive forces possess an overwhelming
superiority – according to Strelkov, the punitive forces mix up
their battle formations in completely unimaginable ways, resulting in
the loss of control and the complete absence of coordination.
However, it cannot be said the Militia has been able to force the
situation in its favour.
It
appears that a defeat of a large grouping of the punitive forces
could give birth to a chain reaction – the Militia would free up
its troops and begin successively, increasing its efforts, to finish
off the semi-defeated hordes of the enemy. It is still to early to
claim a decisive advantage, but the preconditions for this are
gradually forming
And
now for the sad part. On August 1, the Militia and the Ukrainian army
exchanged their dead and prisoners near Shakhtersk. A preliminary
examination has revealed that four of the dead were finished off in a
barbaric fashion – with a knife. The fifth was strangled. The
exchange of prisoners was even more terrifying – two live
militiamen were returned to the Militia with the heaviest of
injuries, broken bones, and beaten to a pulp lungs and viscera. The
medics have already pronounced that there is nothing they can do –
people were practically beaten to death.
The
Commande-in-Chief gave an order – [officers] of the punitive 25th
Brigade are not to be taken prisoner – and took the responsibility
himself. Commanders conducting exchange negotiations with the Nazis
were instructed immediately to report this to the commander of the
25th Brigade. In my opinion, this decision is absolutely justified.
Crimes of this nature should receive an adequate response.
Latest
from the Southern Cauldron - The Inevitable Finale
The
Militia: Ukrainian Equipment and Light Arms Must be Left Intact and
Surrendered, Safe Passage Only Through Russia
Original:
Colonel
Cassad LiveJournal
Translated
from Russian by Gleb Bazov
Photograph:
The Inevitable End for Any Fascist
v
According
to the Ukrainian Minister of Defence, Valeriy Geletei, as
quoted by Obozrevatel.com:
Ukraine
lost seven military transport aircraft in repeated attempts to
deliver cargo with food and ammunition to the soldiers of the 72nd
Mechanized and the 79th Aeromobile Brigades.
This
was announced by the Ukrainian Minister of Defence, Valeriy Geletei,
during a live broadcast of the “Shuster Live” talk show.
Geletei
stated: “The situation on the border with Russia is very difficult.
We lost seven aircraft while delivering cargo to our forces on the
border.” According to him, the provisioning of Ukrainian fighters
with food and weaponry has been severely compromised because “the
terrorists have everything that the Russian army has in its arsenal.”
Amusingly,
Geletei’s numbers exceed the information provided by militiamen,
who claim that to have downed a total of four transport aircraft.
And
now for the latest news from the Southern Cauldron from a person who
attended the surrender negotiations.
The
situation is such that the encircled group of Junta forces is now
sitting in the area of Krasnopartisansk, having rolled away from the
border.
Their
food rations ran out this morning, and they have a minimal amount of
drinking water left. There is ammunition only for light arms, and
even this will last for another couple of days of fighting at most.
At
the meeting, the Junta representative set out conditions requiring
that they be permitted to destroy all the military hardware
(altogether approximately seventy units; there is no fuel for 90% of
the surviving vehicles, and there is virtually no ammunition) and
granted safe passage to Ukraine after surrendering all the light arms
and the remaining ammunition.
Quite
reasonably, the Militia representatives responded that the military
hardware must be left intact, that all the light arms must be
surrendered and that the passage should lie through the territory of
the Russian Federation, with the soldiers being given the opportunity
voluntarily to decide whether they desire to continue participating
in what is happening or to remain in Russia.
In
the event of a refusal, the positions of the surrounded troops will
continue to be leveled using MLRS and cannon artillery, especially
since they have long been investigated and there has been no problem
in covering them with artillery for over a week. According to the
estimates of our source, the approximate term for the approximate
deadline for the termination of the Southern Cauldron saga is 2-3
days (this is an optimistic prognosis; a realist one suggests 4-5
days), simply due to the running out of the remaining ammunition and
the issues with drinking water.
There
have been no battles as such, the Militia simply continues to
blockade the encircled forces without entering into close combat,
preferring instead simply to shell the surrounded troops with cannon
and rocket artillery.
In
view of the large losses of the enemy’s military transport
aviation, the delivery of supplies has been practically reduced to
zero, and the aircraft that manage to break through the Militia’s
air defences are forced to drop their cargo from a significant
height, as a result of which part of such cargo falls on the
territory controlled by the Milita. However, even if 100% of the
cargo were reaching the Southern Cauldron, it still would not have
been enough.
The
Militia should, of course, speed up the process, as the freed-up
forces and the potential trophies will enable it to stabilize the
front and to commence preparations for a counteroffensive.
Just
the baseless hypothesis of an uninformed amateur, nothing more
First,
a disclaimer: I am not a pilot nor an air traffic controller, and I
never served with air defense units. I did spend some time with
an airforce, but my role was one of electronic intercept analysis.
So what follows are just the musings of an uninformed amateur.
Caveat emptor.
What
I will try to do here is present a possible scenario which takes into
account the basic facts established so far. Here goes:
The
plan was for the Ukies to shoot down the MH17 using a totally
inappropriate aircraft: the Su-25, which is a "tree hugging"
close air support aircraft. Why? After all, the Ukies do
have some Mig-29s and even some Su-27, but these are much fewer in
number and much easier to track. A few of them have been seen
in the skies over Novorussia, but only rarely. In contrast, the
Su-25 has been a ever-present presence in the skies ever since the
conflict began. Some say that the Su-25 cannot fly over
7'000m. That is not true. The problem is that it's
cockpit is not pressurized, but the airframe itself has powerful
engines which can bring the aircraft well over 10'000m. All the
pilot would need is some good warm clothing and an oxygen mask.
No, the big drawback of sending the Su-25 so high is that it's
engines are not designed to be used at that altitude and that it will
not be able to fly fast enough to catch-up with a cruising Boeing.
But what if the Su-25 carried a missile?
Turns
out that the Su-25 can carry the R-60 air-to-air missile which can
fly at over 3'000km per hour and thus easily catch up with a cruising
airliner. So the Su-25+R-60 combination has a flight envelope
which is sufficient to attack a Boeing.
There
is something else that the Su-25 lacks to function has an
interceptor: a radar. Well, this is not quite true, the Su-25
has a radar, but it is designed for navigation, not air-to-air
combat. However, the R-60 missile does not need a radar, it has
its own infrared homing warhead. So if the pilot of the Su-25 can
point his aircraft in the general direction of a heat emitting
target, and if that target is not too fast or too far away, the R-60
will be able to lock on to it and close in. The R-60 is a
pretty small missile with a short range, under 8'000m, but it so
happens that that Russian radar operators reported the Su-25 at about
3-5'000m from MH17.
Still,
it is not easy to visually acquire the correct aircraft from the
cockpit of a Su-25, then get within the correct range and then fire.
There are clouds, sunlight, other aircraft. And the Su-25 has
no air-to-air radar with a search and track mode. So what could
the Ukies have done? Provided another radar?
In
comes the 3 BukM1 transporter erector launcher and radar (TELAR) and
the at least one early warning (long range) radar which all had just
been moved in the day before MH17 was shot down, and then immediately
withdrawn. The radars of each Buk TELAR and the long
range early warning radar whose signal have been detected by the
Russians could have easily guided the Su-25 to its target, either by
a encrypted datalink or even by radio commands.
Combining
all of the above, here is my totally primitive and possibly
completely mistaken hypothesis:
The
Ukies guided the Su-25 to MH17 by using the Buk radar capabilities.
As soon as he was in reach, the SU-25 fire a R-60 missile which hit
one of the two engines. At this point, the MH17 sharply turned
to one side and lost altitude (the hit engine would lose power and
its drag would sharply pull the Boeing to one side). The Su-25
then easily closed in and opened fire with his cannon, which has a
range of 4'000m, shredding the cockpit and cabin with 30mm rounds.
Had the pilot of the Su-25 failed to catch with MH17 or if the R-60
missile had failed, the Buks on the ground were ready to shoot, but
they probably did not have to. Once MH17 was clearly destroyed,
the pilot of the Su-25 could have easily landed anywhere in the
Ukraine without drawing any attention.
This
was a good plan, but it failed to take into account the sharp turn
made by MH17 which instead of continuing on its path towards Russia
turned around and fell into a contested by Resistance-controlled
field.
One
more thing: if my hypothesis is correct and the first impact on MH17
was from a rather small R-60 missile (3kg warhead) into an engine,
the flight deck did probably not suffer an immediate and catastrophic
depressurization. If so, the pilots would have had the time to
report an explosion. This is why the recordings of the Kiev ATC
were seized by the SBU and why the result of the analysis of the
flight recorders takes so much time: the Empire needs to wipe away
the recording of the pilots' last words. Conversely, if
MH17 had been destroyed by a BukM1 missile (70kg warhead) the
depressurization would have been immediate and catastrophic.
The problem with wiping the flight recorders is that if the pilots
had the time to send a mayday then it would have been recorded not
only by the USA and Russia, but by at least two more West European
countries. Even if the latter would comply with the US orders,
the Americans are probably terrified that the Russians have the
recordings of the MH17's mayday and they are probably trying to
negotiate a deal with Russia. If not, they need to carefully
prepare the public opinion by, for example, organizing careful leaks
through the Dutch and Malaysian press to say that nothing was
recorded in order to denounce any recording presented by Russia as a
"fake". All of this is, again, pure
speculation
on my part.
Ok,
now please feel free to tear this hypothesis into shreds. These
are just the musings of an amateur and most definitely not an expert
opinion. I submit it only as a basis for discussion.
Kind
regards,
The
Saker
In Sunday's interview, Rasmussen stated that NATO has “a lot of information that indicate the separatists, supported by the Russians, are guilty [of MH17 tragedy]”, calling it a “war crime” the perpetrators of which “must be brought to justice as soon as possible.”
Meanwhile the mouthpiece of the Kiev regime, the BBC is, like WW2 German propaganda, predicting victory for the fascist forces
OSCE
monitors and journos come under shelling from Ukraine at Russian
border
The
Russian border checkpoint at the Gukovo crossing was shelled from the
Ukrainian side twice on Sunday. OSCE observers and journalists were
working at the checkpoint when it was attacked.
RT,
3
August, 2014
The
first shell exploded at Gukovo at around 1:55pm Moscow time (09:55
GMT), Russian border guard spokesman Vasily Malaev told ITAR-TASS.
“During
this time, there were not only customs officers and border guards,
bur also representatives of the OSCE (Organization for Security and
Co-operation in Europe) mission present at the crossing,” Malaev
stressed, adding that no one was hurt as a result of the incident.
Gukovo
was hit by a mortar shell, which left a “the crater with the
diameter of 40cm and depth of 20cm,” said local customs spokesman
Rayan Farukshin.
This
spot is most likely “sighted” by those, who are executing fire,
as Russian border guards went under gun fire there on Friday as they
tried to document the damage done by an earlier shelling, he
stressed.
The
OSCE has confirmed that Gukovo checkpoint in Russia’s southern
Rostov Region was shelled on Saturday.
“It's
true,” Shiv Sharma, OSCE spokesman, told Itar-Tass news agency.
“Our staff heard the sound of artillery fire or something like
that. The incident didn’t interrupt the work of our
representatives, who remain at the crossing.”
OSCE
Permanent Council decided to send a monitoring mission to the
Russian-Ukrainian border on July 24.
In
accordance with the mandate, civilian observers are placed at Gukovo
and Donetsk crossings during the next three months.
Gukovo
checkpoint was shelled again later on Sunday, with the second
incident occurring several hours later.
“At
Around 5:30pm Moscow time [13:30 GMT], another projectile exploded at
the crossing,” Malaev said. “As a result, the border guard HQ was
damaged. The nature of the damage will be established later.”
OSCE
observers at the Russian Gukovo checkpoint. (Still from Zvezda
channel footage.)OSCE observers at the Russian Gukovo checkpoint.
(Still from Zvezda channel footage.)
Journalists
from Russia’s Zvezda channel, who were at the crossing during the
second incident, said that it was “very scary.”
“At
first, explosions were heard in the distance,” Vasily Kuchushev
said on Zvezda. “But then we heard a huge blast and saw a flash in
the sky, with debris flying in all directions.”
Russian
border checkpoints in the Rostov Region were repeatedly shelled from
the Ukrainian side during summer.
In
mid-July, explosive shells were also fired at the Russian town of
Donetsk – a namesake of the militia-held city of Donetsk in
Ukraine. Back then, two shells hit residential areas, killing one
person.
The
Rostov Region is the main hub for Ukrainian refugees, who are fleeing
for Russia in order to escape the bloody conflict in the country.
The
government’s crackdown on the south-east started in mid-April,
after people in the Donetsk and Lugansk Regions refused to recognize
the coup-imposed authorities in Kiev and demanded federalization.
The
Ukrainian military and National Guard resorted to airstrikes and
shelling in their struggle against the self-defense forces in Donetsk
and Lugansk.
Some
1,129 people have been killed and nearly 3,500 wounded in eastern
Ukrainian violence, the UN announced in late July.
NATO
exerting pressure, not interested in MH17 investigation – Russia’s
mission
RT,
4
August, 2014
Without
waiting for MH17 crash investigators’ conclusions, NATO chief is
eager to blame anti-Kiev forces, thus “exerting pressure” on the
international team while providing no evidence to back the claims,
Russia’s mission to NATO said.
The
Russian mission to NATO has said that the bloc's Secretary General,
Anders Fogh Rasmussen“decided not
to wait until the end of #MH17 investigation” to
blame the anti-Kiev forces for shooting down the plane, referring to
Rasmussen's comments in Sunday's interview with the French Midi
Libre.
The
mission also wondered why “NATO is not interested in
impartial MH17 investigation?” adding
that“if the Alliance had evidence – why did it keep
silent?”
In Sunday's interview, Rasmussen stated that NATO has “a lot of information that indicate the separatists, supported by the Russians, are guilty [of MH17 tragedy]”, calling it a “war crime” the perpetrators of which “must be brought to justice as soon as possible.”
Although
he admitted the necessity of a “full independent international
inquiry to establish the facts,”Rasmussen
did not seem to be willing to wait for the conclusions of the
international investigation team working in Eastern Ukraine at the
crash site.
NATO's
chief did not provide the French media with any evidence, and when
RIA Novosti reached out for the comment, NATO replied that they “do
not comment on the course of the investigation.” In
fact, NATO told RIA earlier that the organization is not
participating in the international investigation effort, indicating
that secret “evidence” may
never be shared even with the investigators.
The
Russian Ministry of Defense on the contrary held a substantial press
conference several days after the crash, presenting some of the data
of recorded by radars and satellites, and urging all parties rightly
committed to a thorough investigation to do the same. Kiev at the
same time seized all the records from its air-control tower, and has
still not released them, two weeks after the tragedy.
During
the course of the interview, Rasmussen repeatedly accused anti-Kiev
forces of not allowing the international investigation's team to
approach the crash site, calling it a “problem
and a challenge.”
“Why
do separatists not provide access to the crash site? There is
something to hide,” he
said, repeating that remark again when asked for any proof to back
his claims.
However,
the international team of over 100 Australian and Dutch experts,
accompanied by OSCE monitors, were working at the crash site for a
third consecutive day on Sunday. The OSCE highlightedearlier
that the convoy “comprised
25 vehicles, including a bus and two mobile ambulances” went“smoothly
and was well organized.”
The
ceasefire around the disaster area, promised by Ukraine’s President
Petro Poroshenko, has repeatedly been broken over the last two weeks,
with Kiev forces shelling the areas immediately adjacent to the crash
site. Meanwhile, Kiev official’s aspiration to “cleanse
of the militias and take control of this territory,” Russia's
UN envoy Vitaly Churkin says,
could indicate that it is Kiev who wants to destroy implicating
evidence.
Instead
of spreading unsubstantiated accusations and insinuations, the
concerned parties should better share the objective observation data
of the disaster area with the international organizations, the
Russian diplomat added.
Besides
social media reports and "common
sense",
the only “proof” so
far – produced by Kiev to back claims it didn’t deploy
anti-aircraft batteries around the MH17 crash site – are the
satellite images, which carry altered time-stamps and are from days
after the MH17 tragedy, the Russian Defense Ministry has revealed.
The images were apparently taken by a US
spy satellite,
which the Pentagon hesitates to release in its own name, the ministry
added, since Ukraine has no such technical capabilities.
The
ministry also criticized images published by Kiev to back its
allegations that Russia smuggled heavy weapons over the border. The
images lack proper time stamps and coordinates, while Kiev didn’t
bother to explain why it believes that whatever vehicles are shown in
them are Russian. And at least one picture released by the SBU in
that set was an absolutely irrelevant old photo showing Ukraine’s
own missile launcher changing position three months prior to the MH17
incident.
‘Defense
plans to battle Russian aggression’
In
the meantime, Rasmussen said that the alliance will soon come up with
defense plans to confront“Russia's
aggression” against
Ukraine.
“Russia's
aggression was a warning and created a new security situation in
Europe,” he
told the French publication. “We
will strengthen military exercises and prepare new defense plans.”
NATO's
chief also called on member countries to increase their military
budget to match the perceived threat from Moscow.
“I
will encourage NATO countries to increase their defense investments.
Over the past five years, Russia has increased its spending on
defense by 50 percent, and NATO countries have reduced theirs by an
average of 20 percent,” he
added. “We must reverse
the trend.”
In
the meantime this week the European Union “quietly” agreed
to lift restrictions supplying
Kiev with
military technology and equipment, while the Obama administration
officially informed Congress on Friday of its plans to train and
equip the Ukrainian National Guard.
Black
boxes: ‘Nothing out of the ordinary so far’
Preliminary
examination of flight MH17’s cockpit voice recorder (CVR)
revealed “nothing out
of the ordinary,” a
source close to the international investigation told the New Sunday
Times.
The
data refers to the UK Air Accidents Investigation Branch downloaded
communications between the Malaysia Airlines’ pilot and an
unspecified person with an air traffic controller (ATC), the
publication reports.
“So
far, from what the team has heard, there was nothing unusual. The
last voice heard was not the pilot’s. No, there was no indication
that the pilots saw or sensed anything off,” the
source said.
MH17
disaster:Federal
Air Transport Agency's questions to Ukraine
Asked
about the Ukrainian government's Monday statement that
the airliner was brought down by “a
massive explosive decompression,” the
source said such conclusions, so far have been “unconfirmed.”
The
Dutch Safety Board (DSB), which is heading the investigation into the
crash, was puzzled by statements coming from Kiev. According to DSB
spokeswoman Sara Vernooij, the “premature” release of details of
MH17 black boxes is “not
in the best interest of the investigation.”
The
publication points out it remains unclear if the team had secured the
recordings from the Ukrainian air traffic controllers to match the
conversations between the ATC staff and the MH17 flight crew.
The
plane’s two black boxes were given to Malaysian authorities last
week and then sent to the UK for comprehensive an analysis.
Ukraine
crisis: Army
'heading for victory' - defence
minister
Ukraine's
defence minister has said his forces are gaining ground significantly
against rebels in the country's east.
BBC,
3
August, 2014
Valeriy
Heletey told the BBC there would be victory "very soon".
He
blamed the rebels for the difficulties faced by international experts
in getting access to the MH17 crash site.
His
remarks came as civilians in the east prepare for a siege as
government forces close in on the rebel-held cities of Donetsk and
Luhansk.
Residents
are stockpiling food and supplies and are sleeping in basements, with
reports suggesting Luhansk is virtually surrounded and without power.
At
least nine civilians were reported killed in Donetsk and Luhansk on
Saturday.
The
region has been unstable since April, when rebels in the east
declared independence from Kiev. More than 1,500 people are believed
to have been killed since fighting began.
The
downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 in July has heightened
tensions and failed to stem the fighting.
Russia,
which annexed Ukraine's Crimea region in March, has been accused of
arming the rebels and has been targeted by US and EU sanctions.
Russia denies the accusations.
'Russia
is retaliating'
Col-Gen
Heletey said he understood that it would not be easy to capture the
cities of Donetsk and Luhansk, especially as Russia was "doing
everything it can to provoke us".
But
he said his forces were winning.
"The
separatists' territory is now two-and-a-half times smaller than it
was four weeks ago," he said.
"More
than 65 towns and villages have been liberated by Ukrainian forces in
the Donetsk and Luhansk region. Our forces are in an offensive phase,
but I want the world to know, that Russia is retaliatin
The
defence minister said he was 100% sure of victory and that Ukraine
had no choice but to carry on fighting.
"Ukraine
is like a burning house. The Ukrainian army is going inside the
burning house, to put the fire out," he said.
"If
we don't put it out, it will be in Kiev, in Kharkiv, everywhere. We
are asking every Ukrainian: take a bucket of water and help us to put
the fire out."
Col-Gen
Heletey said that there would be no fighting on the MH17 crash site,
currently controlled by the rebels, until all the evidence and
remains had been collected.
"In
practical terms, we are not far away from the crash site, but we have
backed off from the area... so the international mission can be
carried out properly," he said.
In
the midst of the fighting, Dutch and Australian police are combing
through the wreckage at the MH17 site for as many as 80 bodies
thought to remain there.
Inspectors
were forced to abandon their work on Saturday as shelling continued
nearby.
The
US has accused the pro-Russian rebels in the area of shooting down
the airliner with a Russian-made surface-to-air missile, though
Russia says Ukrainian government forces are responsible
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