Dmitry Tymchuk’s Military Blog: Summary – July 11, 2014

March 9 – Key challenges holding back the resolution of Ukrainian-Russian crisis is that Europeans do not believe in a military threat and think that diplomatic leverage over Putin is possible, – said the President of the European Council Donald Tusk: "Putin would like to control all of Ukraine, but the EU doesn't understand it. Enough with illusions, the EU is not ready for tougher sanctions.

March 9 – The militants are renewing combat effectiveness of their units, trying to learn more about combat environment and the location of Ukrainian units; they are also accumulating weapons, ammunition and military equipment along the boundary line, – informed NSDC spokesman Andriy Lysenko.

March 9 – Ukraine has withdrawn its heavy weapons [from the contact line] over four stages but hasn't completed the withdrawal t line, – informed NSDC spokesman Andriy Lysenko: "Ukrainian side has implemented the withdrawal of heavy weapons over four stages – monitored by the OSCE, in the presence of Ukrainian and foreign media. We expect that the enemy will take the same steps, but we have not yet received any confirmation to that effect".

March 9 – Version about "Chechen trace" in the murder of Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov is propaganda fiction, – said Chechen opposition leader Akhmed Zakayev.

March 9 – The situation in the ATO area remains tense – from 5 am to 7 pm the militants fired at the ATO positions 16 times, – informs ATO press centre.

March 9 – Next week, President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko will visit Germany, where he will meet with the President and Chancellor of Germany. Poroshenko has noted that "negotiations in "Normandy four" format over the phone have also been planned".

March 9 – The negotiations on the release of Nadiya Savchenko, who is illegally detained in Russia, are continuing "at the highest possible level", – said her lawyer Mark Feigin: "I've already started this process. This is a legitimate procedure, but it foresees a secret protocol, thus I will refrain from comments, it's confidential", – said the lawyer.

March 9 – The actions of the Luhansk resident who brought the Ukrainian soldiers on the blockpost a jar of honey with an explosive was coordinated by workers of HRU HSH of the Armed Forces of RF with the nicknames "Oleksiy" and "Dmytrovych" who also provided him with arms and explosives- Security Service of Ukraine.

March 9 – Russian President Volodymyr Putin awarded the Order of Recognition to the head of Chechniya Ramzan Kadyrova. This was done after the fact that 4 "Kadyrovcy" were "designated" as the killers of Boris Nemcov.

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January 24 – Representative of Ukraine to the EU, Ambassador Kostiantyn Yelisieiev has stated that there is a need for an emergency meeting of the European Council and Foreign Affairs Committee of the European Parliament. "In connection with today's attack on Mariupol by the militants and as part of démarche addressed to High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini, the Representative of Ukraine to the EU Kostiantyn Yelisieiev has urged the EU to provide a resolute assessment of further deterioration of the situation in eastern Ukraine, amid an actual refusal of the militants to adhere to Minsk Agreements". Ukrainian Foreign Ministry has also issued a statement saying that such an attack on Mariupol along with attacks in Volnovakha and Donetsk provide the evidence needed to recognize so-called People's Republics of Donetsk and Luhansk as terrorist organizations.

January 24 – ATO forces have killed 265 militants in the last 24 hours, – stated the Minister of Defence of Ukraine Stepan Poltorak during a meeting of the operations center under the chairmanship of Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk regarding the situation in Mariupol. Disabled also were 14 tanks, 43 armored combat vehicles, 14 MLRS "Grad" and "Uragan", 28 self-propelled guns, 19 vehicles of the enemy.

January 24 – Terrorists of the "People's Republic of Donetsk" have attacked densely populated areas of the city of Mariupol. The time of the attack they selected was also to ensure a large number of victims among city residents. Three MLRS "Grad" released full service rounds aiming at the city – overall 120 rounds. 27 were killed and approximately 100 injured.

January 24 – 800 to 1000 local pro-Russian collaborators and Russian mercenaries are trying to aggravate the situation in Mariupol. They want to break into the city.

January 24 – True Putin's "peace plan" was finally published. In his "peace letter" to the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, Vladimir Putin has offered to move away from the boundary line in the conflict zone, which was previously agreed upon in the unpublished annex to Minsk Memorandum, and legitimize the "actual" boundary line in favor of Russia and its collaborators from so called People's Republics of Donetsk and Luhansk.

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