Infighting
in the ranks
"Yatsenyuk
and Turchinov started the war!"--Poroshenko Block Deputy
1/30/2015
Translated
from Russian by J.Hawk
Sworn
friends from the Maidan are getting down to brass
knuckles.
Sergey
Kaplin, a Poroshenko Block Rada Deputy declared on one of Ukrainian
TV channels that the Donbass war was unleased by the Prime Minister
Arseniy Yatsenyuk and Security and Defense Committee chief
Aleksandr Turchinov. And they are blaming it on Putin because it’s
“convenient for them.” This news was reported by
PolitNavigator.
“Let’s
get to the truth. Who caused the situation in the East? When they
say ‘only Putin’, that’s a very convenient answer. But it’s
not so! It was caused by Yatsenyuk and the current head of SDC,”
said Kaplin.
He
went on to say that the war could have been ended right away, but
neither Yatsenyuk nor Turchinov were interested in it.
“As
soon as the situation began to unfold, I was one of the first
deputies to go there, I visited all the cities, and felt a real war
beginning. It could have been prevented by the prime minister
himself and the acting president. And these are the people who
today are in charge of the “counter-terror operation,” said
Kaplin.
We
reported earlier the wave of rumors circulating in Ukraine that a
new coup d’etat is being readied.
We
also remind our readers that the Ukrainian delegate to the
Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe Yuliya Levochkina
called on Europe to restrain the Ukrainian government which is
destroying the Donbass.
Translator’s
Note: Poroshenko’s underling speaketh the truth,
but equally conveniently ignores the role of his boss, the
president, the commander-in-chief, in continuing and even
escalating the carnage after the presidential election of 2014.
Poroshenko has as much blood on his hands as anyone else in
Ukraine. The buck, excuse me, the hryvnya, stops with him. One
wonders, though, how "Yats" and Turchinov will reply to
the rather transparent blame-shifting by their beloved president
and comrade.
January
31, 2014, Varyag_2007
Translated
by Kristina Rus
More
than one million male citizens of Ukraine, which is currently in
the process of the fourth wave of mobilization, are already on the
territory of the Russian Federation, which was declared by the
resolution of Verkhovnaya Rada as the "aggressor".
The
relevant data was reported at a press conference in Kiev by the
founder of the Ukrainian sociological company Research &
Branding Group, Yevgeny Kopatko.
"According
to the Federal Migration Service there are 2 million 430 thousand
citizens of Ukraine now in Russia, including 1 million 172 thousand
men of military age".
Translators
Note:
2.5
million in addition to 2.5 million in Crimea, in addition to 3-4
million in Donbass ... do the math!
"If
you are for Obama, go to America!"--Kramatorsk women defy
Ukrainian army
1/31/2015
Translated
from Russian by J.Hawk
Kramatorsk
women staged a meeting at the military commissariat, categorically
refusing to allow their children to fight against the militia and
said that “we are nearly all Russians.”
The
local military commissar Andrey Vasilenko came out to meet with the
women and tried to appeal to their sense of patriotism. “While you
sleep, eat, rest,
these guys are defending your homes,” said Vasilenko, causing an
outburst of outraged reactions.
After
the tumult quieted down, Vasilenko asked “Are you for Putin? Then,
please, go to Russia.”
“And
who are you for? Who are you for?”—he was asked in return. Why
don’t you go to America if you are for Biden and Obama.”
The
women of Kramatorsk reminded him how the Ukrainian army bombed the
city in the summer. “There were no weapons here, until Ukrainian
tanks showed up,” said one of the mothers.
The
mothers also said they’d like to see the children of leaders of the
country and of Kramatorsk in the first ranks of the military. They
are not going to allow their own children to be taken, especially
since they themselves don’t understand against who this war is, and
over what.
“We
have brothers, sisters, nephews, nieces, grandchildren in Russia,”
the women appealed to the government representative. “Nearly all of
us are Russian! What do we need this war for? All of us are sitting
at home, fearing for our men, and crying into the pillow,” said one
of the participants.
Militia
forces left Kramatorsk in July 2014. The city came under the control
of the Ukrainian military after bloody battles in which many
civilians suffered. The city was shelled by heavy artillery,
including Grad MRLs.
DPR
leader Aleksandr Zakharchenko expressed hope that Slavyansk and
Kramatorsk will return to DPR through negotiations.
Ukraine
envoy to UN says Russia new humanitarian convoy will be regarded as
invasion
TASS,
31
Janaury, 2015
UNITED
NATIONS, January 30. /TASS/. Kiev will regard the dispatch of a new
motor convoy loaded with humanitarian aid to Ukraine as invasion,
Ukraine’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Yury
Sergeyev said on Friday.
Cargoes
dispatched by Russia infiltrate Ukraine "without Kiev’s
permission," to speak nothing of "participation of the
International Committee of the Red Cross," Sergeyev said.
"If
a new convoy arrives, I think the twelfth, it will be regarded as
invasion," the Ukrainian diplomat said.
Earlier
in the day, the Russian Foreign Ministry announced that a next truck
convoy with relief aid for Donbass residents would set off for the
region on Saturday, January 31.
The
convoy comprising 176 vehicles, with 157 trucks out of them, is
expected to deliver nearly 1,500 tonnes of humanitarian cargoes,
mainly foodstuffs (920 tonnes) along with medications and fuel and
lubricants.
Russia’s
Emergencies Ministry organised eleven convoys with humanitarian aid
to Ukraine in co-operation with international and public
organisations from August 2014 to January 15, 2015, and delivered a
total of 14,800 tonnes of humanitarian cargoes to Ukraine’s Donetsk
and Lugansk regions.
Ukrainian
Azov Regiment Fighters Shown Posing With Portrait of Adolf Hitler
Following
the 'Nazi salute video' controversy from earlier this week, the Azov
Regiment is in the news again with youths purportedly belonging to
the battalion posing with a portrait of Adolf Hitler
31
Janaury, 2015
MOSCOW,
January 31 (Sputnik) - A group of fighters from Ukraine's infamous
Azov Regiment have been shown posing with a portrait of Adolf Hitler,
the Russian television channel Zvezda reports.
The
group photo, published on Facebook by a user calling himself "Weiss
Kampfer," (German for "White Combatant") shows a group
of eleven young men standing bare-chested, and another in a t-shirt
featuring the official symbol of the battalion, which incorporates
runic characters used by Nazi German SS units during the Second World
War. A soldier in the center of the photo holds a portrait of the
late German Fuhrer.
Facebook
and Twitter users were quick to voice their hostility over the photo,
one user noting sarcastically "I say, there are no fascists in
Ukraine –it's all Putin propaganda." Others said that they
hoped that the fighters from the Regiment would soon come to meet the
DNR and LNR militia on the battlefield, alluding to the battalion's
poor training.
The
all-volunteer Azov regiment is widely reported to be among the most
brutal of Ukraine's National Guard units. They formed as a battalion
April 2014 and since then have expanded into a regiment. The fighting
unit is equipped with heavy weapons, and is believed to have done
much of the fighting against the separatist units in Ukraine's
southeast. The regiment is known to be composed of unrepentant
fascists and nationalists, listing its ideology as "social
nationalist" and includes Ukrainian and foreign volunteers. The
regiment uses Nazi German runic symbolism for its flag. Eastern
Ukrainian and Russian commentators have accused the battalion of
widespread abuse and of committing war crimes against the civilian
population.
The regiment is believed to be based in Mariupol. The group's commander, Andriy Biletskiy, was quoted by the BBC in September 2014 condemning the first cease-fire in Minsk; he commented, "if it was a tactical move there is nothing wrong with it... if it's an attempt to reach an agreement concerning Ukrainian soil with separatists then obviously it's a betrayal."
The regiment is believed to be based in Mariupol. The group's commander, Andriy Biletskiy, was quoted by the BBC in September 2014 condemning the first cease-fire in Minsk; he commented, "if it was a tactical move there is nothing wrong with it... if it's an attempt to reach an agreement concerning Ukrainian soil with separatists then obviously it's a betrayal."
Earlier
this week, members of the regiment, which has sluggishly denied its
association with outright fascism and Nazism, was caught in a
'training' dance featuring Nazi salutes.
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