Confirmed:
Ukrainian air force fired over 150 missiles at Lugansk, bombed admin
HQ
RT,
3
June, 2014
The
Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) also
confirmed on Tuesday that the deadly explosion at the city’s
administrative building was indeed an airstrike. Kiev has so far
denied the responsibility for the incident, saying its forces “do
not target” civilian areas.
The
OSCE Ukrainian mission’s daily report stated that “on
June 2, around 15:00 local time missiles hit the building of the
regional government administration. According to the observers’
data, the strike was carried out with non-guided missiles launched
from an aircraft.”
According
to an earlier statement by the Ukrainian Defense Ministry, the
intense bombing in Lugansk area was meant to “support
the Ukrainian Border Guards,” which
the local militia have been trying to take under control.
“All
in all, for fulfilling the combat support of the Ukrainian border
guards the army aviators fired more than 150 missiles, carried out
three jet sorties and five helicopter sorties,” the
statement says.
The
air support was backed by fighter jets launching decoy flares to
prevent the attacking aircraft from being targeted from the ground.
According
to the ministry, two self-defense checkpoints were destroyed in the
attack.
Not all the Monday fighting was on the outskirts
of Lugansk, apparently, as one Ukrainian missile hit the occupied
Lugansk administration building, killing at
least eight civilians inside and nearby.
Some Kiev politicians have
laid the blame on the self-defense forces for the “blast,” which
has undoubtedly been confirmed as an airstrike by the accounts of
witnesses and the CCTV footage from the scene.
Devastation:
Ukraine army shells hit another hospital
The village of Krasny Liman near Slavyansk in the Donetsk region was heavily shelled by the Ukrainian army during Kiev’s military operation Tuesday. Residents were killed and injured as shells hit a hospital, school and train station, locals told RT.
RT,
3
June, 2014
There
are reports of killed and injured. Local resident Roman told RT on
the phone that a mortar shell hit in the center of Krasny Liman and a
passerby was killed. A mortar shell also landed near the train
station, he said, adding that a train driver was killed, while some
of his colleagues were injured.
The
local hospital was also heavily shelled, with patients and personnel
still inside the building. Local resident Irina told RT on the phone
of unconfirmed reports that a surgeon was killed. Irina and Roman
said that a local school was also shelled, but there is no official
confirmation so far.
There
are no official figures of the killed and injured so far.
A
video of the damaged hospital was posted on YouTube.
The
army has been detaining people, local resident Irina, who was fleeing
to Kharkov, told RT on the phone.
Residents
told RT that the Ukrainian National Guard is raiding apartments in
Krasny Liman looking for self-defense forces. The village is located
about 20 kilometers north of Slavyansk and has a population of about
23,000 people.
Witnesses told RIA Novosti that the Ukrainian army scattered leaflets over the city from a helicopter, calling on the self-defense forces to surrender.
“All who lay down their arms and surrender voluntarily are guaranteed life and fair justice," the leaflet reportedly read, adding that that those who don’t would be killed.
The Ukrainian army is carrying out a military operation in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions, which proclaimed themselves independent from Kiev following referendums in May.
‘Longest fight in the history of the ongoing standoff in eastern Ukraine’
On Tuesday, the National Guard launched a massive artillery attack on Slavyansk, a city with a population of over 110,000 people, and its suburbs at 6 am local time.
The fighting, which has been ongoing all day is “the longest fight that has happened during the entire standoff in Ukraine,” said the press secretary of the People’s Mayor of Slavyansk, Stella Khorosheva, Itar-Tass reported.
She added that there are no official figures on the killed and injured, as their number is “constantly increasing.”
Ukrainian Air Force fighter jets fired missiles at the villages of Semenovka and Cherevkovka near the city on Tuesday, the People’s Mayor of Slavyansk, Vyacheslav Ponomarev, told Itar-Tass.
At least five missile strikes were carried out on Semenovka, the news agency reported, citing self-defense forces.
The Ukrainian troops brought to Slavyansk up to 100 units of military equipment, including tanks, self-propelled artillery and Tulpan mortars, self-propelled Gvozdika howitzers and Grad multiple launch rocket systems, Khorosheva said earlier Tuesday.
The civilian population in Slavyansk is hiding from the constant shelling in basements.
The fighting, which has been ongoing all day is “the longest fight that has happened during the entire standoff in Ukraine,” said the press secretary of the People’s Mayor of Slavyansk, Stella Khorosheva, Itar-Tass reported.
She added that there are no official figures on the killed and injured, as their number is “constantly increasing.”
Ukrainian Air Force fighter jets fired missiles at the villages of Semenovka and Cherevkovka near the city on Tuesday, the People’s Mayor of Slavyansk, Vyacheslav Ponomarev, told Itar-Tass.
At least five missile strikes were carried out on Semenovka, the news agency reported, citing self-defense forces.
The Ukrainian troops brought to Slavyansk up to 100 units of military equipment, including tanks, self-propelled artillery and Tulpan mortars, self-propelled Gvozdika howitzers and Grad multiple launch rocket systems, Khorosheva said earlier Tuesday.
The civilian population in Slavyansk is hiding from the constant shelling in basements.
Witnesses
told RIA Novosti that the Ukrainian army scattered leaflets over the
city from a helicopter, calling on the self-defense forces to
surrender.
“All
who lay down their arms and surrender voluntarily are guaranteed life
and fair justice," the
leaflet reportedly read, adding that that those who don’t would be
killed.
The
Ukrainian army is carrying out a military operation in the Donetsk
and Lugansk regions, which proclaimed themselves independent from
Kiev following referendums in May.
‘Longest
fight in the history of the ongoing standoff in eastern Ukraine’
On
Tuesday, the National Guard launched a massive artillery attack on
Slavyansk, a city with a population of over 110,000 people, and its
suburbs at 6 am local time.
The fighting, which has been
ongoing all day is “the
longest fight that has happened during the entire standoff in
Ukraine,” said
the press secretary of the People’s Mayor of Slavyansk, Stella
Khorosheva, Itar-Tass reported.
She added that there are
no official figures on the killed and injured, as their number is
“constantly
increasing.”
Ukrainian
Air Force fighter jets fired missiles at the villages of Semenovka
and Cherevkovka near the city on Tuesday, the People’s Mayor of
Slavyansk, Vyacheslav Ponomarev, told Itar-Tass.
At least
five missile strikes were carried out on Semenovka, the news agency
reported, citing self-defense forces.
The Ukrainian troops
brought to Slavyansk up to 100 units of military equipment, including
tanks, self-propelled artillery and Tulpan mortars, self-propelled
Gvozdika howitzers and Grad multiple launch rocket systems,
Khorosheva said earlier Tuesday.
The civilian population
in Slavyansk is hiding from the constant shelling in basements.
Over
300 self-defense fighters have been killed over the course of Kiev’s
military operation in eastern Ukraine, said the Ukrainian army’s
head of the operational group reporting on the military crackdown,
Vladimir Seleznev, earlier Tuesday.
On
Monday, the Ukrainian Air Force showered the outskirts of the eastern
city of Lugansk with dozens of missiles. Kiev said Tuesday
that its helicopters and jets “fired
more than 150 missiles” on
Lugansk and its suburbs.
A Ukrainian missile also hit the
administration building in the very heart of the city, as confirmed
by the OSCE, killing at least eight civilians
inside and near the building.
Kiev’s
punitive operation of the eastern regions of Donetsk and Lugansk has
been ongoing since April.
The military crackdown was launched
following a mass uprising against the coup-appointed government, as
the regions demanded broader independence from Kiev.
After
the presidential elections on May 25, the new president-elect,
chocolate billionaire Petro Poroshenko, announced that the military
operation would continue, demanding: “It must be more effective,
and military units must be better equipped."
A total
of 181 people have been killed,
including 59 of the ruling regime’s troops, and 293 have been
injured, said the country’s Prosecutor General, Oleg Makhnitsky,
during a press conference Tuesday. He added that over 220 people have
been abducted, including 12 foreign citizens, since the anti-Kiev
uprising started in the Lugansk and Donetsk regions.
June
3rd combat SITREP update by "Juan"
Anti-government fighters fire at Ukrainian border guards defending the
Federal Border Headquarters in Lugansk, eastern Ukraine, on June 2, 2014
(AFP Photo / Sergey Gapon)
- No sleep from 05:00 02.06. Please excuse spelling mistakes.
- During a protest near Lviv in west Ukraine by women demanding the return of their conscripted sons and husbands the women were beaten by Tyagnibok's Svoboda Party operatives. Two women are in hospital.
- Artillery fire commenced against the town of Severodonetsk 04:20 local time.
- Slavyansk and Kramatorsk heavy fighting resumed dawn today. 3 enemy BTR's destroyed before dawn 03 June 2014 Kramatorsk area. Casualties unknown.
- Lugansk fighting and artillery bombardments started dawn in outskirts. One flats building hit by artillery and on fire. Casualties unknown.
- 27 children including some milk babies were successfully evacuated from Kromatorsk after dark 01 June. Destination unknown.
- Intense fighting around Kramotorsk Aerodrome from dawn today. The distinctive sound of a German MG3 was clearly heard. This weapon is known to be in Nats armories in small numbers and some rechambered for Russian 7.62 x 54 round from NATO 7.62 x 51 round. High cyclic rate of fire.
- Ukraine Army is blocking all traffic in and out of Donetsk City and Slavyansk. No medical supplies are allowed in to either area. The prohibition of evacuating children from both cities is still in effect by Junta. Sick and severely wounded evacuation is prohibited.
- Reports of very heavy fighting suburbs of Slavyansk 08:10 local time. Reports of tank cannon fire in the area of fighting are unconfirmed. Tank cannon have a distinctive sound different from artillery of the same caliber.
- 09:29 local time column of tanks and BTR's have fought their way in to Slavyansk with right sector infantry. Very intense fighting extant in actual city.
Kevin Hester This is so heartbreaking, " milk babies"........ I watched children become traumatised by war in Mozambique and the occupied 6 counties of Ireland and it damages them forever, not mentioning the trauma the parents are going through.A curse on you NATO for being a part of this crime. The Saker refers to the German MG3 ! " The distinctive sound of a German MG3 was clearly heard. This weapon is known to be in Nats armories in small numbers and some rechambered for Russian 7.62 x 54 round from NATO 7.62 x 51 round. High cyclic rate of fire.
ReplyDeleteHere is some photographic evidence of NATO issue weapons
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