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army opened fire on refugees in the green corridor
Security
officials had violated an agreement with the militia to evacuate villagсrs Chernukhin
Украинская армия открыла огонь по беженцам в зеленом коридоре
6
January, 2015
Via
electronic translation
Armed
Forces of Ukraine, on
the eve of departing from the position in the village
Chernukhin covering
the civilians. And then opened fire on the refugees. LifeNews
met a convoy of buses at a checkpoint near the town of Zorins with
hundreds of terrified people fleeing the semi-destroyed village.
They bombed everything including = a kindergarten near the house ... There are many dead, lying on
the pavement unburied, - the refugees said. According to
men, Ukrainian security forces shelled the village with mortar from cars, and dug in the area of the sump rail cars.
The
first bus for evacuation entered Chernukhin at nine o'clock in the
morning along the green corridor that held the militia. Prior to
this, the Ukrainian army tryed to hold the village for over a week and to not let anyone out using people asf a human shield.
-
There's a lot of friends left, but we were taken out on a "Ural" by the militia. Bette to get out of there as soon as possible, and whoever can get out does, - says a young resident Chernukhina. - Many
have died. My father died ...
-It was frightening there to say the least! - women crying. - We left everythingt - the living and the dead, and come - we have no home, nothing, any more.
Many
of the refugees are in a state of shock after two week living in the
cellars under fire. The men are crying too. Ukrainian law enforcers are simply called
simply nazis, they curse the Ukrainian politicians.
Seven
buses managed to get hundreds of refugees out, but at 12 pm echoes of the first shelling were heard from the
village Chernukhin . The Ukrainian
army violated the agreement and opened fire on refugees.
-
I went through Leninskaya. But already there
is no corridor .But there is no corrodor any more... I flipped over when I fell, something hi tmy leg, I didn't feel any pain , - says the pensioner.
The Ukrainian army fired from mortars. In the meantime, several plainclothes
Ukrainian soldiers took advantage of the panic and boarded the bus of refugees. The militias them quickly sorted them out: some had fake
passports, but all - had bruises on their shoulder
from the rifle butt typical for soldiers. The deserters were taken to Headquarters.
Militia
told LifeNews, that Ukrainian soldiers cannot leave because they fear
being shot. Commander of the Ukrainian army do not stand on ceremony with oursiders or with their own .After half an hour artillery began shelling the
neighboring green corridor near the village Fashchevka. A large part of the people did not manage to get to the militia checkpoints.
Kiev
continues shelling near Debaltsevo despite declared ceasefire — DPR
defense ministry
The
shelling is not aimed at civilians currently being evacuated from the
city
TASS,
6
January, 2015
MOSCOW,
February 6. /TASS/. Kiev’s military have not stopped shelling
Debaltsevo, where a ceasefire had been announced and evacuation of
civilians is underway, spokesman for the self-proclaimed Donetsk
People’s Republic’s defense ministry Eduard Basurin said on
Friday.
"Now,
people are getting on the buses. The buses will depart at 15:00 local
time. The Ukrainian side still continues firing, though not at the
people - those are provocations," the Donetsk news agency
reports him as saying.
On
Thursday, he said the Ukrainian military authorities agreed with the
DPR and confirmed ceasefire starting 09:00 a.m. on Friday. He said
beginning 11:00 a.m. local time, civilians will be taken from
Debaltsevo to Gorlovka or Artemovsk along a humanitarian corridor.
Order from Kiev: "break
Donetsk at any cost"
January
27, 2015
February
6, 2015
Translated
from Russian by Tom Winter
The
massive heavy artillery shelling on Donetsk has resumed. In several
districts of the city natural gas lines and electric substations are
now out of service. Dozens more homes are without power and heat.
Dokuchaevsk and Gorlovka are under intense fire. Many wounded, mostly
peaceful citizens. At the Donetsk Peoples Republic (DNR) they have no
doubt that Kiev is intent on aggravating the situation to the limit,
and on striking the most vulnerable.
Explosions
are constantly heard, with fresh craters from the incoming shells.
Close by, the roof of a house that people were still living in. The
outskirts of the town are being systematically destroyed by artillery
fire. There are dead and injured: the wounded are constantly being
brought into hospitals, most with shrapnel wounds.
“Incoming.
Unmistakeably from the Ukrainian side. Yesterday the rockets were
flying in from the area between Yasnovatya and Makeevka. You could
see the projectiles flying in. Multiple rocket launchers definitely,
all with exhaust trails, all plain to see.” —Vladimir Alekseev.
The
Ukrainian firing zone is constantly increasing. Reports of new
bombardment come in every hour.
A
woman in the street: “Right next to our house it came. Right next
to our house. Roof, Bam! The trolleys have stopped running; we go by
foot now. No public transit.”
“Isn’t
walking more dangerous?”
“And
where can you get to? All the same, we are still alive.”
Even
as the infrastructure is being destroyed, repair crews are already at
work, fixing gas and electric lines. “We live here. We keep the
city working,” says Alexander Kigol, repairman from the city
gasworks.
“In
spite of the continuing attacks?”
“Yes!”
replies Mr. Kigol.
Many
have gotten used to the mortal danger. After a strike on a
residential building on Ochakovski Street, the residents return to
their ruined apartment. The roof is gone. Life here without repair
will be impossible. The woman from the ruined apartment says “My
neighbor says two shells just came in on the other side.”
The
people run in short dashes from home to the store. Since a shell may
come in at any minute, it is safer to run alongside a wall. This is
Gorlovka, and this is what it’s like to live here.
Throughout
Gorlovka the Ukrainian forces have attacked with heavy weapons,
destroying homes and ruining the streets. At the crossroads, a crater
from a “Hurricane” rocket system [see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BM-27_Uragan — Tr.] The hole is as
deep as a man’s height. Useless for 500 meters. The people are
afraid of new bombardments, and hide themselves in basements.
The
Donetsk Prime Minister Alexander Zakharchenko has arrived in the
city, which lies entirely within the destructive zone of Ukrainian
artillery. But at least now it is easier to get to it from Donetsk.
Since the DNR got the town of Krasniy Partisan, the short road has
become clear.
“We’re
running short on medicine; it’s hard to keep the hospitals
supplied. You have to understand, there are still peaceful citizens
here, and pills for internal and cardiac problems are needed, in
addition to those medicines that are used to treat the wounded,”
said the Prime Minister.
“The
DNR militia is counter-attacking trying to drive the Ukrainian forces
far enough away, out of range, so that the people can be safe. We
have something to fight for.”
“The
Donetsk Republic’s army is being restocked with captured trophies.
They hit a BMP-2, and are using it for parts; they got a T-64 tank at
the airport, damaged, but they’ve repaired it. It will soon be at
the front, but now it’s just in the Donetsk tank brigade. Ukrainian
forces stormed the Donetsk position there, but were repulsed, and
took casualties. The combat continues at the front, as forces
controlled by Kiev are attempting to strengthen the economic blockade
of the region.”
“The
economic blockade is in effect along the whole border, and is
contrary to every stipulation of the Minsk accords. Functional
checkpoints? No. The transport of any food supply? Stopped. Passenger
traffic? No.” explains the Vice premier Denis Pushilin.
No
let-up in the intensity of Ukrainian artillery fire on neighborhoods,
ever striking deeper, even into the rear of the Donetsk Republic,
including industrial zones. January 26, they got the mines, the mines
at Skochinski, Abakumov, Trudovski. And at the Zasyadki mine, they
got the power station, trapping about 600 miners underground.
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