Ukraine

Rogue Valley · Sep 28, 2015

Supporters of Ukrainine launch protests in New York on Sept. 27, a day before Russian President Vladimir
Putin will speak before the United Nations General Assembly's 70th session on Sept. 28

Protests start ahead of Putin's UN speech on Sept. 28

Stand up to Putin at the UN! #PutinKills #RestrainTheVeto #FreeSavchenko twitter storm

Savchenko’s lawyer: West’s public opinion must be focused on struggle to free Nadiya

Ukrainian military POW Lieutenant Nadiya Savchenko -- kidnapped and on trial in Russia

Putin: All countries should respect Ukraine’s sovereignty

In invading Crimea and Ukraine, Putin violated numerous documents the USSR/Russian Federation had signed...

UN Charter
Declaration No. 142-Н of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union
The Alma-Ata Protocol
Belavezha Accords
Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet "About the transfer of the Crimean Oblast". 9 March 1954
Helsinki Accords
The Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances

Donbass polls: Impact on Ukraine’s conflict

Violation of yet another document -- Minsk II Accords -- signed by Russian on 12 February 2015

Russian protesters decry war in Ukraine, several detained

Russian ceasefire violations yesterday...

Mariinka (4 UA soldiers WIA)
Svetlodarsk reservoir
Lozovoe (small arms and grenade launchers)
Mayorska (small arms attacks)
Novotroickoe (grenade launchers)

Rogue Valley · Sep 29, 2015

Putin protests precede Russian president's speech in New York

Ukrainians and Russians in New York City protest Russian President Vladimir Putin's arrival in New York
for a Sept. 28 speech at the United Nations

Barack Obama attacks Russia involvement in Ukraine at UN

"We cannot stand by when the sovereignty and territorial integrity of a nation is flagrantly violated. If that happens without consequence in Ukraine, it could happen to any nation gathered here today. That's the basis of the sanctions that the United States and our partners impose on Russia … Not because we want to isolate Russia - we don't".

Putin's UN Speech Fails to Surprise

Putin offered no ideas for resolving Syria or IS problems or for that matter Ukraine. He only rehashed strident anti-US anti-Western themes.

Ukraine's Poroshenko: War in East Costs Kiev $5 Million a Day

Blogosphere ridicules Russian diplomats for walking out when Ukrainian President spoke

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko speaking at the UN General Assembly, 27 September, 2015

Russia May Declare A Full-Scale War, Fears Ukraine

Russia Stole Ukraine's Old Navy: Now Ukraine Needs a New One

Russia’s 6th Tank Brigade: The Dead, the Captured, and the Destroyed Tanks (Pt. 1)

Russia’s 6th Tank Brigade: The Dead, the Captured, and the Destroyed Tanks (Pt. 2)

Why are the Kremlin’s Proxies in Donbas provoking a Humanitarian Catastrophe?

Marine Corps could expand training mission in Ukraine

Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine

On 26 September the SMM observed at least 36 tanks (type unknown) at the training area in “LPR”-controlled Kruhlyk (31km south-west of Luhansk). A day earlier the SMM spotted at the same training area one heavy multiple launch thermobaric rocket system (TOS-1 Buratino, 220mm).

The TOS-1 'Buratino,' or 'Heavy Flamethrower System,' is a feared weapon -- a 220 mm multiple-launch rocket system (MLRS) which fires thermobaric rockets. These rockets are
designed to literally light the air on fire, generating intense heat and flame but also burning all of the oxygen out of an area. This makes them extremely effective against buildings,
bunkers and fortifications, and lightly-armored vehicles since it can easily kill people inside enclosed spaces.

No Buratinos have ever been exported to Ukraine. So how will Russia explain that a TOS-1 Buratino was just spotted by the OSCE on a training ground in Lugansk province?

Russian Minsk II ceasefire violations yesterday...

Mariinka
Novotroitskoye
Zaitsev
Holmivsky

Ukrainian UN delegation with a flag flown by soldiers killed at the battle of Illovaisk

Rogue Valley · Sep 30, 2015

Journalists must take pics of a video-feed with their cell phone -- journalists are barred from attending
the Russian trial of Lt. Savchenko

Russia's "show trial" of Ukrainian POW Lieutenant Nadiya Savchenko continued yesterday...

'Rebels sold me to Russia', says Ukrainian poilot Nadia Savchenko in first testimony

Ukrainian pilot: 'I was kidnapped by separatists and taken to Russia'

Savchenko says that Russia security officers took her across Ukrainian border in 2014

The Russian court denied a defense request for polygraph tests. A defense request to use a projector to show maps of the area has been denied. Lt. Savchenko is testifying in Russian which is not her native tongue. The Russian deceased journalists received their mortal wounds at noon ... however the defense has presented a video published by Open Russia which shows Lt Savchenko already captured and blindfolded by rebels at Metalist, Luhansk province, Ukraine. The video capture time is 10:30 am. Lt. Savchenko was then taken to the city of Luhansk and interrogated (available on video). Lt. Savchenko testified that she was transferred to Russia a week after her capture in Ukraine. "People, led by the 'Defence Minister of the LNR,' handed me over to people in masks, speaking with Russian accents (i.e. native Russian-language speakers).

[video=youtube;4Zlvj5pLCBQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?4Zlvj5pLCBQ[/video]

Rogue Valley · Sep 30, 2015

POW Lt. Savchenko testifies from the prisoners cage in Russia yesterday

Ukraine leader mocks Russia's call for anti-terrorism coalition

"Over the last few days we have heard conciliatory statements form the Russian side," he told the 193-nation assembly. "Cool story, but really hard to believe. How can you urge an antiterrorist coalition if you inspire terrorism right in front of your door?"

Putin’s New York fraud

Why Putin Wants the West to Forget Ukraine

Syrian Gambits Will Not Erase Putin’s Ukraine Problem

UN human rights envoy: Rebels' move to block aid in eastern Ukraine is 'great mistake'

Putin’s new world order

Putin's full UN speech -- H.E. Mr. Vladimir V. Putin (English / pdf format)

His speech parallels exactly Russian non linear warfare ... read and fully understand just what he is saying.

Russia has ignored two serious OSCE calls to remove their so called "peacekeeping troops" from Transnistria ... just sayin'.

Since Putin's UN speech is now over with, violence in eastern Ukraine increases. Russian ceasefire violations yesterday...

1 UA soldier and 2 civilians WIA

Avdiivka
Opytne
Krasnohorivka
Lozovoe
Mayorska
Zaitsevo
Staromykhaylivka

G1 -- The aggressive and untrustworthy Russian Bear drinking alone

Rogue Valley · Oct 1, 2015

Russian Myths About Crimea

[video=youtube;R5aDgRb2jzQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?R5aDgRb2jzQ[/video]

Popov demolishes last KrymNash myth — that Crimean Anschluss hasn’t cost Russia anything

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Moscovy in the Time of Troubles by S.V. Ivanov

Blockade whips up food prices on peninsula

Thursday 01 October, 2015

One week into the economic blockade of Crimea food prices has gone up 1.5 times, journalist Oleh Leusenko writes in his blog Oct. 1. The activists at the road blocks on the 3 roads leading from mainland Ukraine to Crimea are guarded by 300 police and border troops, Kherson oblast governor says. The activists have stopped 429 trucks with food going to Crimea. For greater safety of the activists, the road blocks were moved 10 km inside the Ukrainian territory, the governor says.The activists, many of them Crimean Tatars, live in tents and are fed using field kitchens.

Empty trucks can go freely into and out of Ukraine, same as the cars and persons crossing the border on foot. Reports from Crimea indicate that Ukrainian food, plentiful a week ago, is beginning to disappear from the shops.

Trucks lined up at the closed Kalanchak crossing

Natan · Oct 1, 2015

"Blockade whips up food prices on peninsula"

Your link doesn't work. Anyway, I did some googling, it appears the source for this news is either "Oleg Leusenko" or "Oleh Leusenko", a blogger and self described "journalist". He seems just a tad biased. Do you have a more reliable source?

Rogue Valley · Oct 1, 2015

Moscow now emphasizing subversion over direct aggression in Ukraine, Kyiv analyst says

Weapons, ammunition, and explosives seized from the members of the arrested terrorist and spy group
operating in Kharkiv, which was recruited and controlled by Russian military intelligence

Recalling Ukraine, Latvian Leader Warns on Putin

Amid Ukraine War, Russians Don't Want Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics To Become Part Of Russia, Poll Finds

Of course not. The illegally annexed Crimea is already sucking up more rubles than any other Russian region except the North Caucuses.

The US is providing Ukraine with a radar system that could 'help tip the balance' of the country's conflict

Q-36 mobile radar system

Ukraine, rebels agree full small weapons withdrawal

Trust but verify. Eastern Ukraine is currently a "frozen conflict" ... neither at total peace nor at total kinetic war. The Russians have "escalation dominance" and will use this to increase tensions when it suits the Kremlin ... such as diverting Kyiv's attention from enacting reforms on the home front. Such a policy also leads to what is known as "Ukraine fatigue" which weakens Western support. Will the Russians as required by Minsk II withdraw their troops, hand over control of the border, and allow free internationally monitored elections in Donbass ... all required by the end of 2015? No. Absolutely not.

Russian Minsk II ceasefire violations yesterday...

Maryinka
Pisky
Optyne
Avdiivka
Butovka mine
Spartak
Butovka
Krasnohorivka
Zaitsevo
Kurakhove
Luhanske
Novotroiskoe

Fallenangel · Oct 1, 2015

Simpleχity;1065091687 said:

Seriously... after all those daily spam-fests, that's what you eventually got to.
You can't be serious .... LOL. Did you read too many articles on EuromaidanPR today or something?!?

BTW. This one fits better imo.

Fallen.

Natan · Oct 1, 2015

Fallenangel said:
You can't be serious .... LOL. Did you read too many articles on EuromaidanPR today or something?!?

Good one. This "Oleg Leusenko" post was also from EuroMaidan whatever.

Rogue Valley · Oct 3, 2015

Ukrainian POW Lieutenant Nadiya Savchenko -- held captive in Russia

A New Kremlin Show Trial

Savchenko calls for Russia to be stripped of veto powers at UN

House passes resolution calling for release of Nadiya Savchenko

Peskov says Putin states Savchenko's fate can be discussed only after trial

Of course. The kangaroo "show trial" is choreographed and must continue until the fat lady sings.

Ukrainian student recounts horrifying story of torture in Russian captivity

Screenshot from the video ‘Ukrainian prisoner’ shows Yuriy Yatsenko after his release from imprisonment in Russia

Putin will never leave Ukraine in peace

Devastation in the occupied areas of Donbas - the product of Putin's military aggression into peaceful Ukraine

Amid Ukraine War, Russians Don't Want Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics To Become Part Of Russia, Poll Finds

When you come back from the front…

Deadly Russian rocket system spotted in Ukraine for first time

Actually no. This thermobaric weapon system was spotted in Ukraine in 2014 and played a large role in the Battle of Donetsk Airport.

August 2014: three Russian TOC-1 Buratino MLRS thermobaric weapons id'd in #Russia-occupied #Ukraine

Russia and Ukraine: 9 Ways Neighbors Went From Friends to Enemies

Halfway There on National Unity in Ukraine

Ukraine crisis: Discontent in Separatist ranks as pro-Russian rebels feel betrayed by new political masters

European Leaders Take Up Ukraine Issues as Russia Hits Syria

Ever notice how attacks in eastern Ukraine shrink whenever Putin meets with international leaders?

Russian Minsk II ceasefire violations yesterday (ignored by MSM)...

Starohnativka (shelling)
Mariinka (shelling)

Top -- Russian soldiers arming a warplane in Syria
Bottom -- Russian "truck drivers" of "humanitarian convoys" in Ukraine
Similarity as noted by the Russian blogger Andrei Malgin

ChezC3 · Oct 3, 2015

Sott Exclusive: Full unedited text of Vladimir Putin's interview with Charlie Rose: What CBS left out -- Puppet Masters -- Sott.net

CBS's selective "editing" is a disgrace.

I admit I was a better student of Stoli than of the Russian Language but watching the interview in its entirety I knew there was more to what Putin spoke than what was translated.

You're a propagandist for villains. You should be ashamed.

Rogue Valley · Oct 3, 2015

Putin's toll in Ukraine thus far...

8,000+ confirmed dead
17,811 injured
1.5 million war refugees
1,915 soldiers KIA
875 civilians confirmed missing (perhaps thousands)
271 soldiers missing
76 soldiers held prisoner
Hundreds of unidentified dead
Thousands of orphans
Over a dozen Crimeans/Ukrainians held in Russian prisons
298 foreign civilians murdered (MH17)
Billions in compensatory/infrastructure damages

Rogue Valley · Oct 5, 2015

Putin’s “peacemaking” in Ukraine is continuation of his war by other means, Portnikov suggests

Russia will put a damper on direct military activity in eastern Ukraine as it wages kinetic warfare in Syria. One of Putin's goals here is to convince the West to begin removing sanctions which have badly hurt the Russian economy. The Kremlin however will continue to destabilize Ukraine utilizing asymmetric tactics such as terrorist bombings etc.

‘Criminal Sabotage’ to the Information War in Donbas

Putin sees intervention in Syria as a way out of his current isolation

Fallenangel · Oct 5, 2015

Wait, why you've stopped posting cute doggies and girls!?! That's not right.

Let me help ya with that. LOL

Fallen.

Rogue Valley · Oct 6, 2015

Ukrainian POW Nadiya Savchenko and her lawyer Ilya Novikov today at the "show trial" in Donetsk, Russia

Russian Armed Aggression Against Ukraine

Odesa 2 May Suspect: We were financed by Moscow

Captured Donetsk insurgent said that he got weapon in Russia at military base near Rostov

BBC Correspondent incites Telegraph readers to break the law over Crimea

Activists block a road near the border crossing point of Chaplynka linking mainland Ukraine to Crimea

Ukraine insists Russia must cede border by end of year

[video=youtube;PtDtVrJ6CqQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?PtDtVrJ6CqQ[/video]

Rogue Valley · Oct 7, 2015

Psychologist Lt. Valery Yazlovytska counsels Ukrainian soldiers in Kharkiv

The unofficial word is that Moscow is in secret negotiations with Kyiv to settle the disposition of Ukrainian POW Lieutenant Nadiya Savchenko, currently on trial in Donetsk, Russia. The Russian Federation's international reputation has suffered tremendously due to its persecution of Lt. Savchenko. Moscow first floated the proposal that MP/Lt. Savchenko be allowed to serve her prison term (Moscow has ordered that she be found guilty) in Ukraine. The proposal now is for an exchange ... MP/Lt. Savchenko for two Russian military intelligence soldiers captured in Ukraine. This exchange would reportedly occur on 31 December 2015. Nadiya has been in Russian captivity since July of 2014.

Shackled for the courtroom -- Rostov, Russia

The US State Department has renewed the official US position on Russia's illegal annexation and occupation of Crimea.

"Russia has a choice to make - it can live by Helsinki values, or it can live outside them, and that's going to put us in conflict. Crimea sanctions will stay on as long as Crimea is occupied."

Pro-Russia rebels in Ukraine postpone disputed elections

Any rebel held elections are illegal under Ukrainian law and the Minsk II Accord.

Ukraine crisis a key issue in Canada's election

Here’s why Putin wants to topple Ukraine’s government, not to engineer a ‘frozen conflict’

The rebels are hiding (camouflage) 10-15 tanks in the wooded areas of Shchastya, Stanytsia Luhanska, Vesela Hora, Slovianoserbsk, and Zholobok. Rebel arguments with authorities over missing salary (back pay) payments are increasing. 1 UA soldier WIA yesterday. Russian Minsk II ceasefire violations...

Krasnohorivka
Mariinka
Tryokhizbenka

A canine training center for the Ukrainian military has been established at Mezhyhirya, the opulent residence of former president Viktor Yanukovych

Rogue Valley · Oct 8, 2015

Crimean blockade getting Moscow’s attention

Dear Crimea | Summarizing the two-week-long civil blockade: a view from the peninsula

Food prices in Russia-occupied Crimea are rising as a result of the food blockade from Ukraine organized by Crimean Tatars

Savchenko Trial turns into Insultingly Absurd Pantomime

The closed trail of POW Lt. Savchenko in Russia

Rebels are still holding 150 prisoners with over a third being pro-Ukrainian civilians

The documentary "Maidan", depicting the events of Ukraine’s Euromaidan revolution, has won the grand prize at the Nuremberg International Human Rights Festival. Film director Sergei Loznitsa was born in Belarus and raised in Ukraine. Since 2001 he lives and works in Germany and has won numerous cinematic awards.

[video=youtube;cUGjNfdB2b0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?cUGjNfdB2b0[/video]

Russian 'Volunteers' From Ukraine Conflict Could Join Syrian Army: Report

Putin's military thugs will invade anywhere on Kremlin orders.

Putin rehashes Ukraine rhetoric on Syria, but Nazi comparisons fail to convince

Terrorist bombing of a draft board office in Odessa and an explosive set off on railway tracks in Kharkiv oblast. It seems Russia has delivered a 9K52 Luna-M SR-Ballistic Missile system (FROG-7) to the DNR. These missiles are unguided and nuclear capable. Russian Minsk II ceasefire violations yesterday...

Troitske - 4 UA soldiers WIA
Pisky

Patroling the border near Kharkiv. 62 Ukrainian Border Guards have been killed by Putin since summer of 2014

Rogue Valley · Oct 9, 2015

The Trial of a Ukrainian Pilot in Russia

Yesterday, POW Lt. Nadiya Savchenko place an embroidered bag over her head in the Russian courtroom. The bag had been supplied by her sister Vera. She did so to protest the testimony of one of Russia's witnesses in her case. According to Savchenko, so-called witness Alexey Pochechuyev, an FSB officer, was directly involved in her abduction from the militant-occupied east Ukraine's Donbass last summer. She was transported with the bag put over her head, so Savchenko decided to remind him of that fact.

"Do you recognize me like that? Can you see me?" she asked.

1,500 Ukrainian war refugees are returning to Ukraine from Russia every day

MH17 – The Open Source Evidence

Exploring Russia’s 53rd Brigade’s MH17 Convoy with StoryMap

Open source investigative website bellingcat has tracked a Russian convoy that brought a BUK missile system into Ukraine and then withdrew it back into Russia. This is the BUK missile system that shot down Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine killing all 298 people aboard. This BUK convoy began and ended at Russia's 53rd Brigade headquarters in Kursk, Russia.

Putin in Ukraine: Sucked Into a Black Hole He Cannot Escape

U.K. Defense Secretary announces more support for Ukraine

Defeating Ukraine's endemic corruption

Cosmetic fight

In my humble judgement, Poroshenko and Yatsenyuk are too tied to the old power structure and are failing to rid Ukraine of corruption and transform the oligarch kleptocracy.

Glass dome of the neoclassical Verkhovna Rada (Parliament) building in Kyiv

The New Cold War Is Now Being Waged on Three Fronts: Ukraine, Europe and Syria

'Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom' Comes to Netflix

The documentary film's director Evgeny Afineevsky ...

“The movie I made was only one chapter of Ukraine’s history. The story is still unfolding. But it should be a reminder to all governments, even the current one in Kiev, that this is what happens when you ignore your people.”

Rogue Valley · Oct 10, 2015

Russian Prosecution Witnesses Identified Savchenko Sight Unseen

In court, POW Lt. Savchenko is incarcerated in a steel and plexi-glass cage. Due to the glare off the plexi-glass, prosecution witnesses could not determine how many fingers Lt. Savchenko was holding up. Yet they positively identified her.

ABCNews - Official: Moscow Could Hand Over Imprisoned Ukrainian

A guilty verdict in this kangaroo court "show trial" is guaranteed. Moscow is here setting the table for a post-verdict exchange. Sometimes Russia forgets to even pretend that they have a functioning legal system.

Russian occupation can’t risk banning Crimean Tatar Mejlis

The Russian occupation authorities are increasingly repressing the Crimean Tatars, but they cannot take the risk of banning the Crimean Tatar Mejlis because that would constitute “recognition by the Russian side of the most complete failure of their effort to ‘recruit’ the Crimean Tatars” to their side, according to Sergey Krymov.

Putin Crimean poster defaced to resemble Heinrich Himmler

Have We Forgotten the Invasion of Ukraine and the Occupation of Crimea?

Putin tries to change the subject

Pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine postpone disputed elections

A Donbass resident...

“Everyone knew that even the “elections” scheduled for October 18 would be totally fictitious, that there would be no one to vote for. It was perfectly clear that all the candidates were already in place; the slogans and posters were always touting one particular person in one particular city. No other information was available… anywhere. But now, how are they are going to explain that even these candidates are worthless and they will have to remove everyone from the billboards. I honestly can’t see how Pushilin or Zakharchenko will explain this to the people.” said one man.

Putin's bloody buffet

Ukrainians are still alone in their heroic fight for freedom

Yesterday in Kominternove near Mariupol - rebels kidnapped 1 civilian.

Nurse Svitlana Tsykylok of Mariupol marries Yevhen Salenko who was badly wounded in Shyrokyne

Rogue Valley · Oct 11, 2015

Russia to turn to court if Ukraine fails to pay debt in December

The above is asinine. Moscow owes Kyiv billions foe the theft of Crimea, offshore gas deposits, and infrastructure damages in eastern Ukraine.

The SBU reports that there are between 6,000 to 9,000 Russian military personnel currently present in eastern Ukraine.

As many as 153 Ukrainians are being held in captivity in the self-proclaimed DNR/LNR "republics".

Pro-Russia provocateurs and Kremlin GRU agents are agitating to foster a "Peoples Republic of Bessarabia"in Odessa.

OSCE says their UAVs are still under heavy video & data jamming over “DPR” controlled areas east and north-east of Mariupol.

The destroyer USS Porter (DDG-78) of the US 6th fleet has docked in Odessa.

Russian Minsk II ceasefire violations yesterday...

1 UA soldier WIA

Butovka mine (80-mm mortars/AGL/small arms fire)
Alchevsk
Stakhanov
Berdyanskoye

Rebels illegally hiding tanks from OSCE UAVs

Fallenangel · Oct 11, 2015

Simpleχity;1065125203 said:
Rebels illegally hiding tanks from OSCE UAVs

Even after all this time you still keep mindlessly spreading the dumbest fakes .... /facepalm

3.10.15 These tanks have been withdrawn from the contact line and stored in those sheds, OSCE is present on the spot.
Hell, even Ukrainian media reported about that.

Fallen.

Rogue Valley · Oct 12, 2015

Fallenangel said:
Even after all this time you still keep mindlessly spreading the dumbest fakes .... /facepalm

Cherry picking.

True to form ... you always manage to highlight the 2% of bad information culled from the web.

Also true to form however, you never address the other 98% of bulk information that represents the true overall situation.

Rogue Valley · Oct 12, 2015

Geoffrey R. Pyatt -- US Ambassador to Ukraine

Geoffrey R. Pyatt: Failure to fight corruption threatens everything that government is doing

Viktor Shokin -- Prosecutor General of Ukraine

Sobolev's case for firing Shokin steadily gains momentum

Firstly ... Shokin has to go. This protégé of Poroshenko has failed to prosecute any high-profile financial crimes, any high-profile murders, nor any corrupt state officials and oligarchs. He has not prosecuted - not even in absentia - any in the Yanukovych government gang nor any responsible for the Euromaidan murders. Shokin has opposed judiciary reforms and lustration. In short, Shokin is the poster boy of official corruption in Ukraine. A racketeer with a title and office.

Fallenangel · Oct 12, 2015

Simpleχity;1065128158 said:
Cherry picking.

True to form ... you always manage to highlight the 2% of bad information culled from the web.

Also true to form however, you never address the other 98% of bulk information that represents the true overall situation.

You are well aware of the fact that this is far from the first time that I caught you posting such crap... and what other 98%?!?, you mean those opinion articles from Kiev-post or EuromaidanPR, etc ...?!?

Dude, you've been simply spamming these threads you've made with numerous bs articles every day hoping that eventually out of all the crap you throw on the wall something might eventually stick.
You've never cared about how true the information you've posted is or whether it actually has any connection to reality...frankly, I doubt you even read 'em at all.

Fallen.

Rogue Valley · Oct 13, 2015

Crimean Tatar activists say they will use civil pressure in Kyiv to drum up political support for an official energy embargo of Crimea. Crimea is part of Ukraine and its infrastructure needs (energy, water, etc) are all supplied from the Ukraine mainland.

All trucks are blocked from entering Crimea

Dutch Safety Board set to say MH17 downed by Russian-made missile, but not point finger

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The Dutch Safety Board, issuing long-awaited findings on Tuesday of its investigation into the crash of a Malaysian passenger plane over eastern Ukraine, is expected to say it was downed by a Russian-made Buk missile but not say who was responsible for firing it. MH17 was shot down over territory held by pro-Russia rebels in eastern Ukraine on July 17, 2014, killing all 298 people aboard, most of them Dutch citizens.

It is widely expected that the investigation will say the plane was brought down by a Russian-made Buk missile, although under rules governing international flight crash investigations, the board does not have the authority to apportion blame.

An international criminal investigation led by Dutch chief investigator Fred Westerbeke is nearing completion. Westerbeke says the purpose of the investigation is to bring those responsible to justice. A court venue must be decided. In July, Russia vetoed a UN resolution proposed by five nations to establish a UN criminal tribunal to prosecute those responsible for shooting down the MH17 passenger airliner killing all 298 aboard.

Russia officials coordinated group which planned to blow up Kyiv recruitment office blast – SBU

Poroshenko: don't trust Putin and 'prepare for worst'

Amen to that.

Ukraine at ‘final stage of saying goodbye to Soviet past,’ Kyiv expert says

Russian Minsk II ceasefire violations yesterday...

Shyrokyne (small arms attack)
Novotroitskoye (small arms attack)

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