Dmitry Tymchuk’s Military Blog: Summary – July 17, 2014

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18/07/2014

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Dmitry Tymchuk’s Military Blog: Summary – July 17, 2014

Here’s the Summary for July 17, 2014 (for previous summary, please see Summary for July 16).

The bad news:

1. Today, Rashists [a neologism for Russian fascists, in this case referring to pro-Russian terrorists] downed an airliner of Malaysia Airlines over Donetsk Oblast [region]. Nearly 300 foreign nationals, including children, were killed.

Immediately, the fool Girkin-Strelkov started running around, leaping for joy and gleefully proclaiming, “Hey, we shot down a plane!” The Russian media joined him in that. The time and place of the tragedy entirely coincide [with Girkin’s statement].

Once they realized that instead of taking down a Ukrainian aircraft, [they] downed a Malaysian [plane], the morons from the “DNR” [Donetsk People’s Republic] and their intellectual equals from Moscow did an immediate 180, yelling that it wasn’t them, and trying to point fingers at the ATO forces (without stopping to think–what do the ATO forces need air defense systems for, when the insurgents have no air force?). Right now, the dumb lying bastards are busy trying to cover up the tracks of their monstrous crime.

…I recall that just this morning, Moscow threatened to give a ‘response’ to the Western sanctions against it. These threats appear in a completely new light when you realize that the plane was shot down only a few hours after they had been made…

2. Something I have been saying since this Monday [July 14], was confirmed by the Ukrainian security forces today: Russia is conducting a covert military invasion of Ukraine. Russian servicemen are operating in Donbas. This is not “assistance for insurgents,” this is a full-blown, while still covert, Russian-Ukrainian war.

The RNBO [National Security and Defense Council] also confirmed that our Sukhoi Su-25 fighter jet had been shot down yesterday by a Russian plane. This is another fact of Russia’s war against us.

Putin will stop at nothing in his efforts to crush Ukraine. I don’t know when this creature will have finally had enough of Ukrainian blood. But he is forgetting that those who start fires often end up burning in them. And Putin will not become an exception to this rule.

3. We keep losing our boys. The security officials confirmed the reports about the found bodies of two pilots from the downed AN-26 plane.

Every day, [Ukrainian] Armed forces suffer losses on the “frontlines.” We are losing brave border guards, who now resort to guerrilla warfare to reclaim and keep control over the state border, while the borderlands are packed with mercenaries and Russian aggressors. The National Guard servicemen and volunteers keep dying as well.

In this war, there are no charges with bayonets. Our guys, who are shedding their blood for a unified and independent Ukraine, hardly ever get to see the faces of their enemies. This is a covert war. But it doesn’t make it any easier for our hearts, bleeding for each and every one of our dead heroes…

Dmitry Tymchuk, Coordinator, Information Resistance
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March 10: Pro-Russian collaborators have managed to create 3 “powerful tactical groups.

Le 10 mars – "Lors des dernières 24 heures, neuf soldats ont été blessés dans la zone de l'opération antiterroriste, aucune perte." – le porte-parole de l'ATO, Andriy Lyssenko.

Le 10 mars – Pendant la "trêve", les forces militaires russes et les collaborateurs pro-russes ont réussi à créer des "groupes tactiques de choc" dans les régions suivantes:

le Nord – en direction de Donetsk,

la zone côtière – en direction de Marioupol,

Louhansk – en direction du nord de la région.

En fait, ils ont réussi à créer une armée à partir de groupes criminels disparates.

Le 10 mars – Les analystes américains du Bureau Strafor estiment que la Russie peut continuer à soutenir les terroristes du Donbass et occuper toute la rive gauche de l'Ukraine.

Le 10 mars – "Le Tribunal international de La Haye pourrait etudier "la question de la Crimée", alors que toutes les différences entre la Russie et l'UE devraient être traitées en vertu du droit international." – déclaration du ministre des Affaires étrangères d'Espagne, Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo lors d'une conférence de presse après sa rencontre avec le ministre des Affaires étrangères de la Federation de Russie, Sergueï Lavrov.

Le 10 mars – "Les militants terroristes continuent à détruire systématiquement le Donbass. Près du village d'Orikhove (district de Popasna, région de Louhansk), des inconnus ont fait sauter un pont de chemin de fer." – le porte-parole de l'ATO, Andriy Lyssenko.

Le 10 mars – Le ministre des Affaires étrangères d'Ukraine, Pavlo Klimkin a déclaré que les militants terroristes ne permettent pas à l'OSCE de surveiller le processus du retrait de leurs armes lourdes.

Le 10 mars – Le dollar est tombé à 21,7 hryvnias ukrainiennes.

Le 10 mars – Lors d'une conversation téléphonique avec le président français, François Hollande, le président de l'Ukraine, Petro Porochenko a déclaré qu'il n'y avait aucun progrès en ce qui concerne les négociations sur la libération de tous les otages, y compris Nadia Savtchenko.

P.S.: Faîtes circuler cet appel, SVP!

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March 18: Approximately 6000 pro-Russian are located in the area of Horlivka- Yenakiieve-Debaltseve

March 18 – Ukraine collected materials to submit a second statement to the Internartional Criminal Court in Gaaza on the statements of Russian President Volodymyr Putin and the Minister of Defense Shoyha regarding Crimea.

This was stated by the Minister of Justice Petro Petrenko at a briefing on Wednesday informed Interfax-Ukraine.

"Also an expert opinion was carried out regarding the statementd of citizen Putin and citizen Shoyha in the film which was shown in Russia on the annexation of Crimea; these materials have been gathered and are submitted to the General Prosecutor and they will coordinate it with the international prosecutors of the given court," he stated.

Petrenko clarified that the court being referred to is the International Criminal Court in Gaaza.

March 17 – 3 Ukrainian military were killed in the ATO area in the last 24 hours, informed NSDC spokesman Andriy Lysenko. Russian style ceasefire is killing Ukrainian military.

March 17 – Russia is relocating strategic distant bombers Tu-22M3 to Crimea and tactical missile systems "Iskander" to Kaliningrad region – these activities are disguised as training. The EU and NATO have turned a blind eye, of course. Not to mention a permanently "blind" OSCE mission.

March 17 – Approximately 6000 pro-Russian militants who have at powerful and long-range weapons at their disposal are located in the area of Horlivka- Yenakiieve-Debaltseve. Meanwhile Ukraine is withdrawing its heavy weapons from this area.

March 17 – A list of villages/cities subject to law on special local government status in Donbas has been published on the website of Ukrainian Parliament (these are territories, which have been occupied by the Russians and separatists).

March 17 – Russian invaders have again moved further into parts of Luhansk oblast, controlled by Ukraine in Stanytsya Luhanska, informed the Head of Luhansk Regional State Administration Hennadiy Moskal.

March 17 – Europe does not have a clear strong direction regarding the threat from the side of Russia, which has to be answered with force. This was stated by Poland's ex-president, Lech Walensa in an interview for TVN24. "If Russia will risk to attack Poland and other countries, then it will collapse. I see that which will happen with Russia. Of course, a million, 10 million people will die, and it would be better if that did not happen," Walensa stared in creating the scenario of a possible future war. Walensa believes that "Russia is some 30-50 years behind both in the awareness as well as in the structure of organizing a state, and therefore they are utilizing methods that have long ago been laid to rest in the past." "Putin began a war with the whole developed world. He broke pacts, agreements, guarantees. The world cannot just simply leave it as is. If something similiar happens, the only thing left is force. How can one play here, how can one win, when he is boxing, and we are playing chess," he stated. Valensa believes that the Polish people "are in safety", belonging to the structures of NATO and EU, and not having in their country a substantial number of Russian minority, which, for example, the Baltic countries have.

And if Putin attacks Lithuania or Denmark – because he may consider it neccessary to study "the corridor to Kaliningrad or to the Atlantic Ocean" – then what next?

March 16 – "Since the ceasefire came into effect, the separatists have breached the truce at least 1,100 times. Therefore, I can say that the ceasefire is broken," Poroshenko told the Bild at the start of a two-day visit to Berlin where he would meet German chancellor Angela Merkel. He also called for more sanctions on Russia in order to put more pressure on Russia over the war in eastern Ukraine.

March 16 – Germany's goal remains to restore the Crimean Peninsula to Ukraine, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on March 16, a year after Crimea's annexation by Russian forces.

March 16 – Russia is not ready to restructure Ukraine's debt and expects Ukraine to repay the money it owes in December – Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov

March 16 – German Chancellor Angela Merkel said the European Union would consider imposing further sanctions on Russia at a summit this week if there's a major violation of the cease-fire in eastern Ukraine.

March 16 – Russian-led insurgents in Donbas threaten with new attacks, Russia continues sending weapons – military spokesman Lysenko.

March 16 – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko expects that the European Union will announce that a visa-free regime will be granted to Ukraine at the Eastern Partnership summit in Riga on May 21-22.

March 16 – Volodymyr Putin gave the order to bring the Northern Fleet, separate units of the Western Military District and the Air Attack paratroops in their full combat readiness due to a sudden inspection. This was stated by the RF Minister of Defense, Serhiy Shoyha, in the National Center of the Management of Depense, informed Interfax. To the sudden inspection of combat readiness of the Northern Fleet, units of ZVO and PDV there were ncluded 38,000 soldiers, 3,360 units of armed equipment, 41 ships, 15 underground submarines, 110 planes and helicopters, clarified Shoyha. The inspection began at 8 AM in the morning according to Moscow time.

Oh God, how this Putin with his child's play of solldiers has milked the whole world! However, it is a pity, that these games of his are accomppanied by thousands of deaths. And there is no end in sight for this madness...

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