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Ukraine crisis. News in brief. Saturday 23 July. [Ukrainian sources]  Empty Ukraine crisis. News in brief. Saturday 23 July. [Ukrainian sources]

Sat Jul 23, 2016 3:53 am
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News -
54 attacks by the Russian forces yesterday.
For the record, sadly one more soldier killed on Thursday, 2 wounded.
Figure for yesterday given as 6 wounded.

Weather -
Cloudy, but a touch warmer this morning. 22 at 10 am.
Went for a walk in the park. Pleasant. Partly sunny. 24C.


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Ukraine crisis. News in brief. Saturday 23 July. [Ukrainian sources]  Empty ATO: militants fire at Avdeevka and Pisky with 122-mm artillery

Sat Jul 23, 2016 3:57 am
ATO: militants fire at Avdeevka and Pisky with 122-mm artillery
http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2016/07/23/7115682/
Saturday, July 23, 2016, 7:30

Over the past day in the area of ​​anti-terrorist operation Russian occupation forces opened fire 54 times on positions forces ATO, including 24 times in Donetsk, Mariupol and 26 to 4 in Lugansk areas.
The press center ATO headquarters.
In Donetsk direction of the banned Minsk II 122-mm artillery shells occupation forces fired 34 points for supporting the Armed Forces in Avdeevka and 28 - Pisky.
In addition, defenders Avdeevki to beat the enemy with 120 and 82-mm mortars, grenades of different systems, heavy machine guns and small arms. Also, 120 and 82-mm mortars and infantry fighting vehicles used in the enemy village Lugansk, mortars caliber 82 mm - the Trinity, grenade launchers - in Novgorod, Pisky, Butivka mine.., and heavy machine guns and small arms - the Zaitsev.
Do not stop military provocations and to Mariupol direction. Positions forces ATO in Shyrokynomu Starohnativtsi and fired from 120mm mortars. Mortars of caliber 82 mm grenade launchers and applied at the opponent Krasnogorivka, Talakivky and water, and at Marinka and Shyrokynoho - active enemy snipers.
In Luhansk occupants were mortar fire on the Old Aidar and Novoaleksandrovka fired grenade launchers and heavy machine guns.
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Ukraine crisis. News in brief. Saturday 23 July. [Ukrainian sources]  Empty Gerashchenko called Savchenko "Putin's Trojan horse"

Sat Jul 23, 2016 4:06 am
Gerashchenko called Savchenko "Putin's Trojan horse"
http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2016/07/23/7115679/
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MP from the "People's Front" Gerashchenko, Anton Savchenko Nadezhda criticized for saying that Ukraine "should apologize for Donbass".
He wrote in facebook.
"You Nadia, can and should ask for forgiveness from Givi of Motorola or other Russians who come to our land to kill and rape; we will not apologize to the invaders and terrorists !" - Wrote Gerashchenko.
"Why did no one paid attention, that no one tribunal over Sentsov or KOLCHENKO not conducted live broadcast? And at the same time, what with all the trials Nadia Savchenko Russian judge allowed to conduct live broadcasts of all television stations that wanted it? Now it seems of course - the consciousness of Ukrainian Putin dropped a "Trojan horse" - said Gerashchenko.


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My opinion -
Savchenko has turned out to be a disaster.
She calls for negotiations with the puppet dictators in Donbass, and for Ukraine to apologize for the war.
She is still popular, but that popularity is waning rapidly.
Tymoshenko will be glad. Savchenko is theoretically a Batkivshina deputy, and is trying now to push herself to be the next president.
But many now wonder - precisely "who is she?" And ask many other questions...
observation -
She's on tv most nights... pushing her popularity?
I know she wants the deaths to be reduced, but... the whole world is trying to work with Ukraine for this.
You can't just go against everything you have stood for, and turn round and have a cup of vodka with Zakharchenko the drunk electrician.
(Savchenko, like the DNR boss, is known for her liking of serious alcohol. )
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Ukraine crisis. News in brief. Saturday 23 July. [Ukrainian sources]  Empty Boryspil Council decided not to let the [Russian church] procession in the city

Sat Jul 23, 2016 4:14 am
18:36
Boryspil Council decided not to let the [Russian church] procession in the city
Friday, July 22, 2016, 18:36

Boryspil City Council at a special session on Friday banned the procession through the UOC MP Boryspil.
[MP = Moscow Patriach]
It is stated on page executive committee on Facebook.
Also this decision MPs ordered city police officers to ensure public order and safety of residents.
The report states that in the meeting attended by both supporters and opponents in order to march went through the city, including - clergy UOC (MP) and ATO members, volunteers and the community.
"The meeting was not a simple and emotional," - said in a statement.
As you know, earlier management of Ukraine stated that the participants are religious procession provocateurs acting in the interests of Russia.

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Ukraine crisis. News in brief. Saturday 23 July. [Ukrainian sources]  Empty Kyiv, Odesa, Dnipro become finalists of Eurovision 2017 host city contest

Sat Jul 23, 2016 4:19 am
Kyiv, Odesa, Dnipro become finalists of Eurovision 2017 host city contest
http://www.unian.info/society/1433048-kyiv-odesa-dnipro-become-finalists-of-eurovision-2017-host-city-contest.html
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Kiev held it a few years' ago.
Odesa - there will be trouble there - from Putin - for sure.
Lviv would have been the best choice. The most beautiful city by far - architecturally, and the least trouble there.
But - it's not on the list. !!
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Ukraine crisis. News in brief. Saturday 23 July. [Ukrainian sources]  Empty Chief prosecutor Lutsenko claims gang behind killing of journalist Sheremet [engl]

Sat Jul 23, 2016 4:23 am
Chief prosecutor Lutsenko claims gang behind killing of journalist Sheremet
http://www.unian.info/society/1432873-chief-prosecutor-lutsenko-claims-gang-behind-killing-of-journalist-sheremet.html
"We are analyzing all the video materials, including the footage you've seen on the Internet. Let me reiterate: the only thing I can say is that the killer was not alone. This was a group, and we can see some of its members on the video," he said at a press conference in Uzhgorod on Friday. Read also CCTV footage shows female suspect planting explosives under Sheremet’s car (video) "What I can say: we know the car, we see several people, who were planting the explosive. Soon, thanks to FBI assistance, we will have the information about the type of the explosive used, which will help investigators track the assassins," he said, adding he could not give any more details....
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Ukraine crisis. News in brief. Saturday 23 July. [Ukrainian sources]  Empty Increased Ukrainian Army losses in Donbas caused by drones used by enemy, former Ukrainian Defense Minister Marchuk says

Sat Jul 23, 2016 4:27 am
Increased Ukrainian Army losses in Donbas caused by drones used by enemy, former Ukrainian Defense Minister Marchuk says
http://en.censor.net.ua/news/398671/increased_ukrainian_army_losses_in_donbas_caused_by_drones_used_by_enemy_former_ukrainian_defense_minister
...."They have already started using long-range drones which adjust even artillery strikes. By the way, this is one of the reasons why our losses have increased. The artillery strikes became not so massive, but very short, very fast and extremely accurate," he said.....
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Ukraine crisis. News in brief. Saturday 23 July. [Ukrainian sources]  Empty Six military wounded during yesterday's attacks

Sat Jul 23, 2016 6:24 am
Six military wounded during yesterday's attacks
http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2016/07/23/7115701/
Saturday, July 23, 2016, 12:49

During the last day of Ukrainian military nobody killed there, 6 injured.
This was announced at a press briefing on Saturday, a spokesman for the presidential administration on ATO Andrei Lysenko.
He said that all the injured suffered during enemy attacks.
Of these, two in Novooleksandrivtsi, one in Avdiyivka, one near the mine and two in Butovka Mar'yintsi.
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Ukraine crisis. News in brief. Saturday 23 July. [Ukrainian sources]  Empty Three robbers beat man in Kyiv and robbed him of $110,000. [engl]

Sat Jul 23, 2016 6:28 am
Three robbers beat man in Kyiv and robbed him of $110,000.
http://en.censor.net.ua/photo_news/398719/three_robbers_beat_man_in_kyiv_and_robbed_him_of_110000_photos
The incident happened in the morning when the victim arrived at the work in his car. When he got out of the car, three unknown persons knocked him to the ground. Then they started beating and kicking him. Attackers have sprayed gas into the man's face, took a bag with money and fled.
As the victim reported, he was collecting money for several years and was going to exchange them for the hryvnia to buy an apartment. ...

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Somebody, somewhere, had inside info on this one.
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Ukraine crisis. News in brief. Saturday 23 July. [Ukrainian sources]  Empty Savchenko Calls For Reconciliation With Separatists, Sparks Outcry [Engl]

Sat Jul 23, 2016 7:00 am
Savchenko Calls For Reconciliation With Separatists, Sparks Outcry

Savchenko, who was elected to parliament while in prison, said in an interview broadcast July 21 on Ukraine’s Channel Five that Ukrainians must “ask for forgiveness.” Otherwise, she said, the violence that has gripped the country’s Donbas region since April 2014 would continue.

Her comments infuriated nationalist lawmakers and others, including Anton Herashchenko who also serves as an aide to the Interior Ministry.

“You, Nadia, are able to ask for forgiveness of...Russians who came to our lands to kill and rape, but we will never ask forgiveness of the occupiers and terrorists,” he wrote on his Facebook page. “We will, through clenched teeth, hold on and achieve the emancipation of our lands by any means!”

http://www.rferl.org/content/savchenko-/27874139.html
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In English - basically what I posted above.
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Ukraine crisis. News in brief. Saturday 23 July. [Ukrainian sources]  Empty Thousands Stand In Line To Mourn Slain Journalist Pavel Sheremet In Kyiv

Sat Jul 23, 2016 7:10 am
Thousands Stand In Line To Mourn Slain Journalist Pavel Sheremet In Kyiv
http://www.rferl.org/content/ukraine-sheremet-memorial-car-bomb/27873620.html
....Surveillance footage showing what media reports said was the placement of a bomb under the car the night before the blast was posted on the Internet, but there was no word on suspects or a specific motive. Colleagues believe Sheremet was targeted for his work as a journalist.....
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Ukraine crisis. News in brief. Saturday 23 July. [Ukrainian sources]  Empty Warning: This Is Not Cheese. In Russia, Watch What You Eat

Sat Jul 23, 2016 7:16 am
Warning: This Is Not Cheese. In Russia, Watch What You Eat
https://themoscowtimes.com/articles/warning-this-is-not-cheese-in-russia-watch-what-you-eat-54689
....Watchdogs say dairy producers routinely added starch, chalk and soap to their milk. One-fifth of caviar brands contained bacteria linked to E. coli. Bread bakers were discovered to use “fifth-grade” wheat, the sort usually intended for cattle. More than half the sliced salmon on shop shelves has been judged unsafe.
And those are only the most recent revelations.
Quality control in Russia’s food sector appears to have broken down. Products are plentiful. But behind the glossy labels, their true contents are a lottery.
How did things get so bad?....

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Quite a long article. Recommended.
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Ukraine crisis. News in brief. Saturday 23 July. [Ukrainian sources]  Empty The killer was a woman: published video person planting explosives under Sheremet's car

Sat Jul 23, 2016 7:42 am
The killer was a woman: published video person planting explosives under Sheremet's car
http://obozrevatel.com/crime/70936-ubijstvo-pavel-sheremet-video-zakladka-vzryivchatka-vzriv-killer-zhenshina.htm



Several videos stuck together here. You can often identify a person by the way they walk...
There should be some good info here for the police investigators.
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Ukraine crisis. News in brief. Saturday 23 July. [Ukrainian sources]  Empty RE: The killer was a woman: published video person planting explosives under Sheremet's car (Above)

Sat Jul 23, 2016 8:39 am
I wonder who was the person taking the video. Were they involved and wanted to have them busted for it?

Yes! The way the one on the right should be identified, by the way he walked.

Seeming the US FBI's involved, they have technology to hone in on the identity of either one or both of them. Also! They'll investigate on what woman might've had it out for Sheremet, unless this was a Putin planned assassination.
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Ukraine crisis. News in brief. Saturday 23 July. [Ukrainian sources]  Empty Ilya Ponomaryov: Moscow church procession hatched by FSB

Sat Jul 23, 2016 9:24 am
Ilya Ponomaryov: Moscow church procession hatched by FSB

Ilya Ponomaryov, ex-deputy of Russia’s Duma and the only lawmaker who voted against Russia’s grab of Crimea, confirms the information by Ukraine’s SBU that Moscow’s special service FSB is behind the religious procession marching on Kyiv, Glavkom reports July 23.

 “All the leaders of the Russian Orthodox Church have shoulder straps. That is why the procession is FSB doing,” Ponomaryov said.

The procession is organized by the pro-Moscow Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate). It started on July 9 from Pochayiv, Ternopil, and on July 3 from Donetsk oblast. The procession is expected to come to Kyiv on July 27 for religious festivities.

Boryspil city council banned the procession to go via the city on its way to Kyiv, same as the authorities of Zhytomyr.

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Ukraine crisis. News in brief. Saturday 23 July. [Ukrainian sources]  Empty Video Of Babi Yar, Ukraine - Jewish Holocaust Massacre

Sat Jul 23, 2016 11:48 am


Survivor

One of the most often-cited parts of Anatoly Kuznetsov's documentary novel Babi Yar is the testimony of Dina Pronicheva, an actress of the Kiev Puppet Theatre, and a survivor. She was one of those ordered to march to the ravine, to be forced to undress and then be shot. Jumping before being shot and falling on other bodies, she played dead in a pile of corpses. She held perfectly still while the Nazis continued to shoot the wounded or gasping victims. Although the SS had covered the mass grave with earth, she eventually managed to climb through the soil and escape. Since it was dark, she had to avoid the torches of the Nazis finishing off the remaining victims still alive, wounded and gasping in the grave. She was one of the very few survivors of the massacre and later related her horrifying story to Kuznetsov. At least 29 survivors are known.

In 2006, Yad Vashem and other Jewish organisations started a project to identify and name the Babi Yar victims, but so far only 10% have been identified. Yad Vashem has recorded the names of around 3,000 Jews killed at Babi Yar, as well as those of some 7,000 Jews from Kiev who were killed during the Holocaust.

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Ukraine crisis. News in brief. Saturday 23 July. [Ukrainian sources]  Empty The Daily Vertical: By Brian Whitmore (VIDEO report) Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don't

Sat Jul 23, 2016 4:28 pm
The Daily Vertical: Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don't



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Ukraine crisis. News in brief. Saturday 23 July. [Ukrainian sources]  Empty Reuters: Texan gets 10 years in U.S. prison for Russian tech export scheme

Sat Jul 23, 2016 7:30 pm
Reuters: Texan gets 10 years in U.S. prison for Russian tech export scheme

The former owner of a Houston company was sentenced on Thursday, July 21, to 10 years in prison after admitting that he operated as an unauthorized agent of the Russian government who exported sensitive microelectronics for its military's use, according to Reuters.

Alexander Fishenko, who pleaded guilty in September to engaging in a scheme that resulted in over $30 million in technology sales, largely to Russian military entities, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Sterling Johnson in Brooklyn, Reuters wrote.

The sentence, which included an order that Fishenko, 50, forfeit over $500,000, was confirmed by the U.S. Justice Department. A lawyer for Fishenko did not immediately respond to a request for comment, Reuters said.

Fishenko, who founded Arc Electronics Inc in 1998, was among 11 people charged in 2012 in connection with what authorities said was an elaborate procurement network intended to evade federal export controls.

Five defendants including Fishenko pleaded guilty, while three former Arc Electronics employees including Fishenko's alleged right-hand man, Alexander Posobilov, were convicted at trial in October.

Prosecutors said Fishenko, a dual U.S.-Russian citizen, led a conspiracy to supply cutting-edge microelectronics that are frequently used in military systems to, among others, the Russian military via intermediary Russian companies.

Prosecutors said Fishenko and Posobilov hired and trained a cadre of Russian-speaking sales people to lie to vendors about why Arc was seeking these technologies and to falsify export records.

Seven of Arc's top 10 clients were specially authorized by the Russian Ministry of Defense to procure parts for its military, prosecutors said, and the company functioned as the U.S.-based arm for one Moscow-based client, Apex System LLC. Those who received Arc's products included a technical research unit for the Russian FSB internal security agency and Russian entities that built air and missile defense systems and that produced electronic warfare systems, prosecutors said....................

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Ukraine crisis. News in brief. Saturday 23 July. [Ukrainian sources]  Empty Savchenko said when it will be possible to hold elections in Donbas

Sat Jul 23, 2016 11:31 pm
Savchenko said when it will be possible to hold elections in Donbas

MP Hope Savchenko believes that to resolve the conflict in Donbas necessary political and economic means. Thus Ukraine should help the international community.

She said in an interview with DW .

"For me, victory, victory for Ukraine - is when will Russia Ukraine abroad. When she goes from Donbass when she returns Crimea, it will win. (...) This should occur. Political and economic means, to us it should help make the world community ", - said Savchenko questions as possible to resolve the conflict in Donbas.

After that, she said, will have to enter a police mission to stabilize the region.

"Because there are so many illegal weapons are too many criminals who waged war too violent methods and who should sit - as with, and on the other side. I must admit it. There are ordinary people who have been deceived, so we need to start working information policy to Ukrainian Ukrainian started to go to start to talk, "- said the deputy.

"And only then, after half a year of stabilization, you can hold elections," - she said.

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Ukraine crisis. News in brief. Saturday 23 July. [Ukrainian sources]  Empty Ukrainian goalkeeper denied Moscow club and went to Norway

Sat Jul 23, 2016 11:41 pm
Ukrainian goalkeeper denied Moscow club and went to Norway

Pogorily denied "Spartacus" and Moscow "Dynamo"

Ukrainian goalkeeper Norwegian Bode-Hlimt Sergey Pogorily could move to Dynamo Moscow or Spartak.

But both rejected proposals goalkeeper.

This publication conveys information Bodonu.no.

He is expected to debut for new club as early as next Sunday, reports Tribuna.com.

Pogorily should replace Iceland goalkeeper Hannes Halderssona that could leave the team.

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Ukraine crisis. News in brief. Saturday 23 July. [Ukrainian sources]  Empty SBU detained repented gunman, I urge militants to surrender their weapons. Glory to Ukraine!

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SBU detained repented gunman, I urge militants to surrender their weapons. Glory to Ukraine!

In Toretsku SBU detained four militants

Security Service of Ukraine detained in the Donetsk region Toretsku four militants of a so-called illegal armed groups "FSC."

Law enforcement officers found that militants from May to August 2014 as a part of its teruhrupovannya provided with arms control point regime to illegally set checkpoints. In particular, they patrolled the road near the mine "Matrona of Moscow" and the bridge over the river in the village of Crooked Butt Scherbynivka the Donetsk region. Then, not wanting to give their lives for "the idea of the young republic," the militants left the location of the terrorists.
Security Service together with the police detained fo

Opened criminal proceedings under Part. 2, Art. 260 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.

Continued operational-investigative actions.

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