Dmitry Tymchuk: Updates from the “ceasefire zone,” 9/20

20/09/2014

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Dmitry Tymchuk: Updates from the “ceasefire zone,” 9/20

Operational data from Information Resistance:

In the conflict zone in the Donbas Russian-terrorist forces continue to conduct active offensive operations and shelling on the positions of Ukrainian troops. The most difficult situation is in the area of Donetsk, Debaltseve, Mariupol.

The enemy does not stop trying to seize the airport in Donetsk, it is under continued attacks and attempts to storm it. Russian troops are pulling tube artillery [mortars] andMLRS

to the airport.

The rotation of troops has been observed in the area of the Spartak Airport, while in theSpartak Sports Center there is active equipment going into hidden positions, an expected arrival of new units, including units of the Russian army.

Near Donetsk, 2 batteries of the Russian 240-mm mortar 2S4 Tyulpan, or “Tulip” have been recorded being moved.

By Panteleymonivka

(Donetsk region), a maneuverable armored group of Russian troops has been transferred.

Russian-terrorist troops are being trained to centralized counter-battery battle against the artillery units of Ukrainian troops. Russian experts have arrived to organize this type of action.

In the DNR [Donetsk People's Republic] the decision to mine “dangerous” sites (in terms of a possible Ukrainian offensive) was accepted. At the moment, they have created a centralized reserve of mines transported from Russia for various purposes, including to conduct sabotage and guerrilla warfare.

Active shelling on the positions of Ukrainian troops in the area of Mariupol and also civilian targets have been observed. There is an accumulation of Russian-terrorist forces in the coastal sector. Russian troops are massively disguised amongst the “militia.” NearNovoazovsk a “training center” has been created for the training of local “militant” groups which operate in conjunction with the Russian army units.

Source: Dmitry Tymchuk FB ,Head of the Center for Military and Political Research, Coordinator of the Information Resistance group

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February 17: Pro-Russian separatists have seized parts of Debaltseve from government troops

February 17 – Cabinet of Ministers states about the destruction of 20% of the economic potential of Ukraine as a result of the conflict in Donbas. Relevant data are presented in the report on the losses and damage suffered by Ukraine from Russian aggression, named as "The Black Book of Kremlin." On the whole, the war, carried out by Putin against Ukraine, has by today destroyed almost 20% of our current economic potential, including the approximate revenue and money flow. In particular, the budget did not receive close to 23 milliard UAH due to the occupation of Donbas and Crimea. The fighters destroyed 1.4 thousand of objects of railroad infra-structure and 1.5 thousand kilometers of automobile roads. There have been more than 9,000 living quarters destroyed. The overall amount of destruction amounts to 1 milliard UAH. According to previous calculations, Ukraine, due to the Russian aggression will not annually receive close to 3% GDP from agricultural entities.

February 17 – Canada is imposing sanctions against top Russian oil firm NK Rosneft OAO and the head of conglomerate Rostec, among others, in response to the actions of Russian-backed militants in Ukraine

February 17 – The United Nations Security Council called on all parties in eastern Ukraine to stop fighting and implement a European-brokered peace deal as an almost three-day-old ceasefire rapidly began to unravel.

February 17 – In a phone call with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has demanded a "tough reaction" from the West against Russia over the broken ceasefire. The truce began at midnight on Feb. 15.

February 17 – Kyiv has confirmed that pro-Russian separatists have seized parts of Debaltseve from government troops, and said fighting was continuing in the eastern Ukrainian town despite a cease-fire deal agreed last week in Minsk. Russian President Vladimir Putin said pro-Moscow rebels should allow Ukranian government forces safe passage out of the encircled eastern town of Debaltseve but Kyiv should not prevent its troops from giving up their weapons.

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January 18 – 4 Ukrainian military were killed and 32 wounded by the Russian terrorists in the ATO are in the last 24 hours, -informed NSDC spokesman Andriy Lysenko.

January 18 – 138 ceasefire violations were recorded in the ATO area in the last 24 hours according to a report by OSCE observer mission.

January 18 – Ukrainians have held mass peace rallies "Je suis Volnovakha" in cities of Ukraine and abroad. The rally is similar to recent rally agains terrorism held in Paris.

January 18 – Terrorists have shelled the city of Vuhlehirsk, which is under protection of Ukrainian army. Terrorists have used "Grad" multiple rocket launcher and fired from Yenakieve direction. Two children, brothers aged 7 and 16 were killed by a direct hit in their family home. A girl aged 8, their sister, was also injured and is being treated at the hospital, – informed the Head of Oblast Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Vyacheslav Abroskin.

January 18 – Militants have decided to carry out forced mobilization of the "office workers", – informed NSDC spokesman Andriy Lysenko – "The leaders of the armed group "People's Republic of Donetsk" have decided to forcibly enlist employees of businesses that operate in the temporarily occupied territories and choose not to fund terrorists, in the ranks of illegal armed groups".

January 18 – Terrorists continue to shell residential buildings in Donetsk oblast, there are victims among civilians, including children, – informed the Head of Oblast Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Vyacheslav Abroskin.

January 18 – On Sunday in Kyiv a Peace March commemorating the memory of the casualties of the bus which was struck by the shots of separatists near Volnovakha. The march began at the Taras Sevchenko monument and continued to Independence Square where at 3:00 PM a memorial service was prayed. Some 10,000 people participated in the Commemorative March.

President Petro Poroshenko who took part in the Peace March in Kyiv, expressed his certainty that Ukraine will regain complete control of Donbas: "We will not give up even an inch of Ukrainian land. We will return Donbas, we will regenerate Ukrainianism in Donbas, we will demonstrate that one of the extremely important elements of our victory is our unity with you," said Poroshenko, in his remarks on the Maidan after the funeral prayers for those who perished near Volnovakha.

January 18 – The idea espoused by Russia about ceasing the transit of gas through Ukraine and crossing over to a "Turkey route" by 2020 is a fantasy and it is not meant to be realized – Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Ukraine to the Turkish Republic, Serhiy Korsunskyj.

The Russian proposal involves the following. The underground part of the pipe from the compression point of Russkaya station will be redirected instead of to the Bulgarian harbor Burgas, to the European part of Turkey to the west of Stambul. Of 63 million cubic meters of the stated capacity of the pipe, approximately 14 million are directed towards the inner consumption of Turkey. The rest, almost 50 million, are delivered to the Turkish-Greek border and reach EU.

"Gasprom plans to build the "Turkish Stream" in circumstances when in Europe very soon there will enter into usage three new terminals which receive a diluted gas of the general strength up to 10 million cubic meters. Besides this, Turkey and Azerbaidjan have already begun the construction of the gas route TANAP, in which 10 million cubic meters will reach Germany and then Italy through the gas route TAP," notes the Ambassador. He also reminds all that on the basis of the continuous decrease of the level of consumption of natural gas in Europe (in 2011: by 10%; in 2012: by 2%; in 2013: by 1.4%), it is expected that on the European market the excess of the flowing gas will appear on the European market.

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