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Providing
humanitarian aid to a population that is under attack is “ is
a highly unusual move” according to the
Washington Post
"Washington Post calls Russia's sending humanitarian aid to people in need and under bombardment "highly an unusual move." I knew that Western media belong to a special class of "highly unusual humanitarians" who kept supporting US "humanitarian aid" in the form of "humanitarian wars" so that aiding al Qaeda in Syria was also for them "humanitarian.""
Russia acknowledges
sending aid to eastern
Ukraine; separatist leader
visits Moscow
11
June, 2014
MOSCOW
— Russia’s top diplomat on Wednesday acknowledged for the first
time an official relationship with pro-Russian separatists in eastern
Ukraine, the same day that one of their top leaders made a surprise
appearance in Moscow to whip up support for his cause.
Russian
Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that after Ukrainian leaders
declined Moscow’s request in late May to allow Russian humanitarian
aid into eastern Ukraine, Russia started to send it in anyway — via
the pro-Russian separatist forces who earlier this month punched
gaping holes into the border between eastern Ukraine and Russia.
“We
are trying to provide humanitarian aid to those who have not left the
conflict zone yet,” Lavrov told Lamberto Zannier, the secretary
general of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe,
at a meeting in Moscow. “We applied to the Ukrainian authorities
with a request in late May for permission to deliver such aid. We
were refused with an official note, so we are providing aid with the
support of self-defense forces, who are worried about their fathers,
mothers, wives and children.”
Lavrov
did not give details, and a spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign
Ministry declined to comment. Russia’s Emergency Situations
Ministry, the agency that typically coordinates humanitarian aid,
said it was not involved in any efforts to help residents of eastern
Ukraine. The Russian Foreign Ministry said May 30 that eastern
Ukrainians had requested “humanitarian aid, primarily medicine.”
Sending
official humanitarian aid to eastern Ukraine against the wishes of
the Kiev government is a highly unusual move, particularly
after Russian President Vladimir Putin pledged this week to reinforce
the increasingly porous border between the two countries.
Russian
citizens have poured into eastern Ukraine in recent weeks to join the
fight against the government in Kiev, though most of them have
insisted that they are volunteers and are not working on behalf of
the Kremlin. The Ukrainian government has also said that it has
seized convoys of weaponry crossing the border from Russia, and
separatists recently overran a border control center in Luhansk,
Ukraine’s easternmost region.
In
a sign of how open the border remains, a top separatist leader in
Donetsk appeared in Moscow on Wednesday, a day after Ukraine’s
prosecutor general issued a warrant for his arrest on terrorism
charges.
Denis
Pushilin met with Russian nationalist leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky at
his office and attended a pro-separatist rally in Moscow intended as
a fundraiser. He told reporters that he was prepared to negotiate
with Ukraine’s new president, Petro Poroshenko, but only if Russia
mediates. And he said he would not be satisfied with an outcome that
reunites eastern Ukraine with the rest of the nation, the news agency
Interfax reported.
Humanitarian
corridor for Slavyansk residents not opened - Donetsk administration
11
June, 2014
A
humanitarian corridor for Slavyansk residents, as promised by
Ukraine's President Petr Poroshenko has failed to appear, according
to the Donetsk People's Republic administration. "A humanitarian
corridor in Slavyansk to enable civilians to leave the city has still
not been opened. Moreover, military action is ongoing in the city,"
Denis Pushilin, head of the Supreme Council of the Donetsk People's
Republic, told Interfax.
The
press service for the Donetsk People's Republic, for its part,
assumed that "Ukrainian army generals do not report to Petr
Poroshenko".
Ukraine's
southeast does not trust Poroshenko's humanitarian corridor promise
Leaders
of the Donetsk People's Republic doubt that the order given by
Ukrainian President Petr Poroshenko to open humanitarian corridors
will be fulfilled. "The promise to open humanitarian corridors
was given a long time ago but regretfully these are just words. We
have heard about that decision but we doubt its implementation,"
Donetsk People's Republic Vice-Premier Andrei Purgyn said.
Southeast
self-defense will reciprocate if Kiev ends military operation -
Lavrov
Combat
operations continue in Slavyansk, and there was gunfire again last
night, he said.
"We
still have to transport the wounded along guerrilla trails. People
leave the city with great difficulty, they are simply not allowed to
go," Purgyn said.
The
leaders of the Lugansk People's Republic have expressed their
mistrust toward Ukrainian President Petr Poroshenko's pledge to set
up "humanitarian corridors" for refugees in the country's
southeastern regions.
"The
leadership of the republic has received no requests concerning the
creation of such a corridor. No negotiations have been held with us
with regard to this matter," Lugansk People's Republic spokesman
Vladimyr Inogorodskikh told Interfax on Tuesday.
Donetsk
People's Republic ready for talks with Ukraine with Russia's
mediation
"At
the moment, people are able to leave the territory of the Lugansk
People's Republic unhindered if they want to. That is why it is not
clear what corridor they are talking about," he said.
"I
would like to repeat once again that any negotiations with the Kiev
government will begin only after all troops are withdrawn from the
territory of our republic," Inogorodskikh said.
Poroshenko
orders to open corridor for civilians to leave combat zone in
southeastern Ukraine
Ukrainian
President Petr Poroshenko has ordered the opening of a humanitarian
corridor for civilians wishing to leave southeastern regions where an
army operation is underway, the presidential press service reports.
The
issue was discussed at a meeting of Poroshenko and heads of the
Ukrainian Security Service, the Interior Ministry, the Defense
Ministry and the State Emergency Service.
"Seeking
to prevent new casualties in the antiterrorism operation zone, the
Ukrainian president has ordered chiefs of law enforcement authorities
to create due conditions for civilians wishing to leave [the area],"
the presidential press service said.
Poroshenko
ordered the government to arrange transportation of civilians from
the operation zone, to give them medical assistance and to deploy a
network of mobile posts, which would supply civilians with drinking
water, food and drugs.
Local
authorities assisted by local self-government bodies and the
government are compelled to accommodate people arriving from the
operation zone, Interfax reports.
Ukraine
to shut down border with Russia, considers using land mines
Ukraine
intents to close off its border with Russia in the east, advisor to
Ukraine's minister of the interior Anton Gerashenko said. Earlier the
Ukrainian government decided to partially close off the border in the
eastern part of the country where the fighting between Ukrainian
military and local militia continues unabated. At the moment a total
of eight border entry points were shut down.
Ukrainian
authorities claim that armed militants enter Ukraine via the Russian
border, though Russian officials did not confirm this statement.
"While
we should consider other options, the border needs to be shut down
immediately. The necessary measures and methods are being evaluated
now," Gerashenko said.
When
asked whether the Ukrainian authorities intend to use land mines, he
said that it's risky as "minelaying on Ukrainian territory
endangers the lives of Ukrainian citizens and livestock." He
also added that while the national security is paramount, the pros
and cons of this particular option need to be considered carefully.
"There
are many other options other than using land mines, but they require
both time and money, and we don’t have much of either,"
Gerashenko said.
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there
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Union will be more successful than the American model of the new
world, stated the general director of the International Information
Agency Rossiya Segodnya Dmitry Kiselyov, while speaking on Wednesday
at the fifth session of the Russian-Armenian Parliamentary Club in
Yerevan.
The
future of the South Stream gas pipeline depends not on Serbia but on
agreements between Russia and the European Union, Serbian Prime
Minister Aleksandar Vucic said at a joint news conference with German
Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin on Wednesday, June 11.
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The Lugansk People’s Republic (LPR) has addressed Russia and another 14 states asking to recognize its independence. The address has been published by the LPR’s republic on Wednesday.
Minister
of Economic Development Alexei Ulyukayev said that the gas pipeline
to China should be built within six years
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