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UKRAINE - Ukraine crisis. News in brief. Sunday 18 June. [Ukrainian sources] Empty Ukraine crisis. News in brief. Sunday 18 June. [Ukrainian sources]

Sun Jun 18, 2017 11:48 am
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In Odesa, the night exploded Defense building. Canadian intelligence services expect to hacker attacks on parliamentary elections.  Russia is willing to be together with Europe, it is necessary that our partners get rid of phobias of the past, - Putin.  In the footsteps of Stalin in the West talked about the plan for Putin to Ukraine.  Media reported the Russian mafia involvement in the development of chemical weapons in Syria.  "DNR" and "FSC" pending mass arrests, Russia accused of negligence Zakharchenko .  The Russians hate the Ukraine over Europe and the US.  
Russian sentenced to 5 years’ imprisonment for defending Ukraine

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UKRAINE - Ukraine crisis. News in brief. Sunday 18 June. [Ukrainian sources] Empty 50.5% of the population at home talking in Ukrainian, 24% - in Russian - poll

Sun Jun 18, 2017 12:04 pm
50.5% of the population at home talking in Ukrainian, 24% - in Russian - poll

50.5% of Ukraine's population uses the Ukrainian language as the main language of everyday communication.

According to Tsenzor.NET , according to the results of sociological research, conducted by leading sociological centers of the country (KIIS, "rating", Socis, Razumkov Center). Poll results are given in his article for the "ZN" MP Igor Hryniv and Polish politician Miroslav Cech.

Respondents were asked to answer, they communicate at home in what language.

According to the survey, most Ukrainians who speak mainly on the Ukrainian language, living in the West (97.2%) and south-west (91.6%) of the country.

At the same time Russian as the main language of everyday communication language is used 24% of respondents. The same number of respondents (24%) responded that they speak both Ukrainian and Russian.

The poll was conducted in March. It was attended by 14 000 respondents, 500 in each region, and in Kiev, Kharkov and Odessa regions - by 1000.

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UKRAINE - Ukraine crisis. News in brief. Sunday 18 June. [Ukrainian sources] Empty Canadian intelligence services expect to hacker attacks on parliamentary elections

Sun Jun 18, 2017 12:07 pm
Canadian intelligence services expect to hacker attacks on parliamentary elections

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During the parliamentary elections in Canada, various groups of hackers will try to influence the will of the process.

According to Tsenzor.NET referring to "Ukrinform" , stated in the Communications Security Center report (Canadian secret service, responsible for electronic intelligence).

"The next federal election will be held in Canada in 2019. Without taking into account unpredictable events, we believe that large groups." Hacktivists "will almost certainly be applied kibersredstva to influence the democratic process", - analysts say.

The authors suggest that hackers will examine previous operations and apply more advanced and successful techniques. "Although most of these activities are low complexity, we expect that the impact of some of the operations are well planned and targeted to more than one aspect of the democratic process", - the document says.

Read on "Tsenzor.NET": Russian hackers can turn off the electricity in the United States with the help of the software used against Ukraine - experts

At the same time, experts added: "We estimate that the threat to the democratic process in the Canadian local and provincial elections are likely to remain at the current low level. "

Recall that in early January, the US Office of National Intelligence Director unveiled unclassified part of the report on cyber attacks by Russian hackers during the US presidential election. The document says that the campaign to help the Republican Donald Trump to win the US presidential election ordered the Russian President Vladimir Putin. US intelligence believes that "with high probability" Putin "ordered the hacker attacks with the aim to influence the election."

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UKRAINE - Ukraine crisis. News in brief. Sunday 18 June. [Ukrainian sources] Empty Russia is willing to be together with Europe, it is necessary that our partners get rid of phobias of the past, - Putin

Sun Jun 18, 2017 12:09 pm
Russia is willing to be together with Europe, it is necessary that our partners get rid of phobias of the past, - Putin

Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Russia is willing to be together with Europe, as once wanted dead ex-Chancellor Helmut Kohl.

Reported Tsenzor.NET citing Gazeta.ru, .

Also read: The alienation between Europe and Russia is growing - Steinmeier

According to Putin, Kohl said that "if we want to preserve their civilization in this turbulent and rapidly changing world with growing centers of power ... then, of course, Europe and Russia must be be together".

". I totally agree with him You know our position, it is that we are ready for this, you need to be ready to our partners, so they got rid of phobias of the past" - said the Russian leader.

Earlier, Putin told about the influence of Kohl on his political views.

Former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, died the morning of June 16 at his home in Ludwigshafen, Germany. He was 87 years old. He was called the "father of German reunification", because the historical merit of Kohl's is considered the reunion of West and East Germany.

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UKRAINE - Ukraine crisis. News in brief. Sunday 18 June. [Ukrainian sources] Empty 66.4% of Ukrainians were in favor of joining the EU, 55.9% - for membership in NATO - poll

Sun Jun 18, 2017 12:31 pm
66.4% of Ukrainians were in favor of joining the EU, 55.9% - for membership in NATO - poll

66.4% of Ukrainians support the country's accession to the EU, 33.6% do not.
According to Tsenzor.NET , according to the results of sociological research, conducted by leading sociological centers of the country (KIIS, "rating", Socis, Razumkov Center). Poll results are given in his article for the "ZN" MP Igor Hryniv and Polish politician Miroslav Cech.

To join NATO today would vote 55.9% of Ukrainian citizens, against the expressed to 44.1%.

"Adherents of membership in the European Union more than in all regions, with the exception of the Kharkov and Odessa regions and the Donbass. It should also be noted that, except for the Donets Basin and the Odessa region, the number of NATO supporters does not fall below a third of the residents, which gives a solid foundation to work with other citizens "- the authors note.

The poll was conducted in March. It was attended by 14 000 respondents, 500 in each region, and in Kiev, Kharkov and Odessa regions - by 1000. (Tables ZN.UA site)

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UKRAINE - Ukraine crisis. News in brief. Sunday 18 June. [Ukrainian sources] Empty In the footsteps of Stalin in the West talked about the plan for Putin to Ukraine

Sun Jun 18, 2017 12:32 pm
In the footsteps of Stalin in the West talked about the plan for Putin to Ukraine

Russian President Vladimir Putin intends to return to the dominance of Russian politics in Ukraine by winning the election Ukrainian populists.

This opinion was expressed by former Prime Minister of Lithuania Andrius Kubilius, reports "Today" .

"Russia expects growth of discontent citizens of Ukraine economic situation in a country that this dissatisfaction resulted in the election ballot for some populists" - added the politician.

According to him, a similar tactic used by Soviet leader Joseph Stalin in post-war Europe, where the background of the economic devastation began to gain popularity the local communist party.

"Why then was the Marshall Plan? Because Marshall saw that Stalin is a clear goal and the opportunity to expand their political dominance in Western Europe economies after World War II was crushed," - said Kubilius.

According to him, in such conditions. if the West does not want to lose Ukraine, but can not promise it for various reasons, membership in the European Union is one way out - to initiate a new Marshall Plan for our country.

Recall, according to Russian political scientist Lilia Shevtsova , Ukraine has become a personal problem of Russian President Vladimir Putin, as well as a systemic problem for Russia.

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UKRAINE - Ukraine crisis. News in brief. Sunday 18 June. [Ukrainian sources] Empty Media reported the Russian mafia involvement in the development of chemical weapons in Syria

Sun Jun 18, 2017 12:46 pm
Media reported the Russian mafia involvement in the development of chemical weapons in Syria

Company Quartell Trading Ltd, probably linked to the Russian mafia, funded the development of sarin, nerve and mustard gas in the Syrian Research Center.

It is reported by CNN.

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According to financial documents investment group moved at least 900 thousand dollars of Balec Trading Ventures, which funded the development of chemical weapons in Syria. Both companies registered in the Virgin Islands.

This transfer of money took place in 2007. According to official figures, the money was transferred for the purchase of furniture. It is also noted that the company Quartell Trading Ltd has ties to the Russian government.

As reported by "Apostrophe" Russia has changed its military leadership group in Syria, headed by a senior Russian military, who participated in the occupation of Crimea.

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UKRAINE - Ukraine crisis. News in brief. Sunday 18 June. [Ukrainian sources] Empty In Odesa, the night exploded Defense building: the photo

Sun Jun 18, 2017 12:52 pm
In Odesa, the night exploded Defense building: photo

In Odesa, June 18 there was an explosion in one of the buildings of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine.

It is reported by the local edition pushkinska.net.

The incident occurred near 2:00 6 th station of Big Fountain. The explosion occurred on the territory of building a big fire.

Flames engulfed an area of ​​about 500 square meters. m. According to preliminary data, the cause of the fire was the explosion of a gas cylinder in the house, which was held in Fontanskaya road reconstruction 14. According to witnesses, the fire started in the building before the explosion.

It is noted that this building is the balance of the Defense Ministry of Ukraine.

As reported by "Apostrophe", published on the Internet a video of the first five years of experimental explosion in the subway Dnieper , whose duration was 7 seconds.

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UKRAINE - Ukraine crisis. News in brief. Sunday 18 June. [Ukrainian sources] Empty The Russians hate Ukrainians over Europe and the US

Sun Jun 18, 2017 1:27 pm
The Russians hate Ukrainians over Europe and the US

With the arrival of Trump Russians are better treated in the US and Europe. In Ukraine, the attitude has changed.

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The negative attitude of the United States, the European Union and Ukraine have over 50% of people in Russia , according to the survey, "Levada Center".

According to the survey, bad attitude to Ukraine 56% of citizens, well - 33%.

The European Union is poorly put 53% of Russians, well - 35% in the US - 51% bad, 37% - good.

Bad attitude to Belarus 13% of Russian citizens, well - 79%, China is bad - 13%, good - 76%, Turkey bad - 34%, good - 47%.

The survey was conducted March 31 - April 3, 2017 among 1,600 people in 137 settlements of Russia. Declared statistical pohybka- no more than 3.4%.

Recall that according to a survey Levada Center ", in August 2016 a negative attitude towards the US, European Union and Ukraine experienced about 60% of Russian citizens. According to the survey," very bad "and" mostly bad "in Ukraine were 58% citizens of the Russian Federation. The European Union is poorly treated 61% of Russians to the US - 66%.

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UKRAINE - Ukraine crisis. News in brief. Sunday 18 June. [Ukrainian sources] Empty A man walked by with a $50,00 sack of cannabis Boryspil

Sun Jun 18, 2017 1:53 pm
A man walked by with a $50,000 sack of cannabis Boryspil

Cost of seized drugs is 50 thousand. USD.

Employees of combating drug crime police Kyiv region found in the bag 31-year resident of the city. Boryspil 45 packaged plastic bags of 350 grams of particularly dangerous drugs "cannabis" in a dry powdered form. Suspect detained on the territory of recreation in the city. Boryspil. This informs the police Kyiv region, according to " head office ".

Currently directed removed for examination. Establish channels for drugs and its further purpose.

Opened criminal proceedings under Part 1 of Article 309 (illegal manufacture, production, acquisition, storage, transportation or sending of narcotics, psychotropic substances or their analogues not for selling purposes) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.

Pre-trial investigation is continuing.

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UKRAINE - Ukraine crisis. News in brief. Sunday 18 June. [Ukrainian sources] Empty "DNR" and "LNR" pending mass arrests, Russia accused Zakharchenko of negligence

Sun Jun 18, 2017 1:59 pm
"DNR" and "LNR" pending mass arrests, Russia accused Zakharchenko of negligence

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Management of suspected "power", "DNR" and "LNR" of misuse of allocated funds Kremlin, said the Intelligence Ministry of Defense and the leader of the militants, "DNR" Alexander Zakharchenko accused of neglect to perform so-called duty.

Leader fighters "DNR" Alexander Zakharchenko Russian leadership was accused of neglect to perform so-called duty, which led to large-scale theft of funds received from the Russian Federation, informs Intelligence Ministry of Defense of Ukraine on Facebook.

"The management of Russia suspects the governments of the so-called" DNR / LNR "misuse of assistance provided," - said in a statement.

According to intelligence, June 14, 2017 in Donetsk Russian "kontrolyuvalnymy persons" were heard "the head of DNR" Alexander Zakharchenko, who is accused of neglect of duty, which led to large-scale theft of funds received from the Russian Federation.

"It is expected resignation followed the arrest of a number of officials in the" government of the NPT. "For the inevitability of punishment of those involved in the theft of Russian assistance to all so-called civil servants and public sector employees" NPT / LNR "banned travel to Ukraine and visit the" gray area " which is adjacent to the boundary, "- noted in the Department of Defense intelligence.

With Russia was aimed at Donbass  66 "humanitarian convoys" . Russia began sending "humkonvoyi" in the occupied Ukrainian territory in summer 2014. Official Kyiv has repeatedly stated that the Russian "humanitarian convoy" came to the Ukraine with infringement procedures because it is not tested or Ukrainian border guards and customs officials or representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross.

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UKRAINE - Ukraine crisis. News in brief. Sunday 18 June. [Ukrainian sources] Empty Russian sentenced to 5 years’ imprisonment for defending Ukraine

Sun Jun 18, 2017 4:15 pm
Russian sentenced to 5 years’ imprisonment for defending Ukraine

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Russia’s Investigative Committee and courts have developed their own, specific, definition of mercenary, and it is only very loosely connected with money. Artem Shirobokov is the first Russian to have been convicted of ‘taking part in an armed conflict as a mercenary’ and sentenced to five years’ imprisonment. There is nothing to suggest that he was paid for his actions, unlike many other Russians who are known to have received remuneration, yet there is one crucial difference: Shirobokov was defending Ukraine, not fighting on the side of the Kremlin-backed militants in Donbas.

The court in the Russian city of Samara tried and, on June 7, 2017, sentenced Shirobokov in his absence. Once the ruling comes into force (and the young Russian is not in a position to appeal against it), Shirobokov will face arrest if he enters Russia.

The regional FSB reported that a judicial precedent had been created “of the sentencing in absentia of a Russian citizen taking part in the armed conflict as a mercenary on Ukrainian territory”.

There is nothing to suggest that the prosecution tried to prove that Shirobokov had acted as a mercenary, and everything about the young man’s background points to the opposite being the case. After learning of the criminal proceedings, Shirobokov said that Russia was yet again demonstrating its hypocrisy since those Russians who fight on the side of the so-called ‘Donetsk people’s republic’ [DPR] aren’t put on trial under this article of the criminal code. The same hypocrisy is seen, he says, in the way Russia treats separatism within its own borders, as opposed to in Ukraine.

Shirobokov first arrived in Ukraine in February 2014 and took part in Euromaidan. He was involved in the far-right organization ‘Patriot of Ukraine’ whose leader Andriy Biletsky was one of the first to form a volunteer battalion in response to the Russian-led conflict in Donbas. Shirobokov says that they suggested he join the battalion and that he agreed. He was with Azov for two years, and says he took part in all its undertakings, and was involved in battles at Mariupol, Ilovaisk and others. He now works as a designer in the Azov Civic Corps.

Back in March this year, when asked by a journalist why he had come, he answered: “I’m a Russian nationalist. I feel an inner solidarity with the Ukrainian people, and I considered, and still consider Yanukovych to have been a criminal protégé of [Russian President Vladimir] Putin. I spoke out against Putin back in Russia, but unfortunately there are no ways of protesting against the regime. Everything is nipped in the bud, any opposition. I decided to come to Ukraine, to support it against Yanukovych and I stayed after that.”

During that interview, Shirobokov described his difficulties trying to get Ukrainian citizenship and said that he feared that the Ukrainian authorities could hand him over to Russia. Thankfully, he now has a residence permit, but speaking with the BBC Russian Service after the ‘sentence’ was announced, he noted bitterly that the promises made by Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko to initiate procedure whereby volunteers from Russia could get Ukrainian citizenship have not been kept.

Russia has claimed, falsely, that the young man was a member of ‘Right Sector’, an organization which Moscow has demonized since Euromaidan and which has the advantage in this case of being banned in Russia.

In fact, though, Russia could not try the young man for his ideological views or voluntary participation, since Moscow’s refrain for the past three years has been that the Russian military and mercenaries are not involved, only ‘volunteers’, heeding “a call of the heart”, as Putin worded it.

The investigators claimed that Shirobokov had received payment. It is possible that all reports then jump to shocking assertion in order to deflect attention from the lack of any evidence. The court ruling alleges that he and other Azov members had deliberately shot at DPR supporters and carried out targeted shooting.

Why, Shirobokov rightly asks, was the sentence not much harsher if there were such war crimes?

He denies the claims Russia is making that he is some kind of far-right extremist, and says that this is also manipulation. He took part in various opposition protests in Russia, but was not part of any organization. He asserts that anybody who disagrees with the regime gets labelled a far-right fascist or Nazi.

This may not fully explain why he ended up in Patriot of Ukraine, and then Azov, whose leaders, at least, are known for their far-right views. He stresses, however, that “nationalism is not equivalent to fascism”.

Shirobokov is the first Russian to be convicted, but the Investigative Committee has already initiated at least one other criminal investigation, also in connection with somebody fighting on Ukraine’s side.

It has ignored compelling evidence of war crimes committed by former Russian military intelligence officer Igor Girkin; neo-Nazi sadists Alexei Milchakov and Yan Petrovsky and many others. A St Petersburg lawyer even publicly demanded a criminal investigation into likely war crimes committed by Girkin following one of the latter's many very open interviews. The demand was ignored, and in the case of Milchakov and Petrovsky, both have taken part in training camps for fighters in Donbas, linked with an organization almost certainly receiving Kremlin funding. Milchakov has also spoken openly about the money he and his comrades receive for their killing services in Donbas.

Ukraine had also hoped to one day see Russian warlord Arseny Pavlov, known as ‘Motorola’, answer before a court for war crimes. Although there is considerably more evidence both of such crimes, and of his mercenary activities, Russia has treated him like a war hero since he was killed by a bomb in October 2016.

In December 2016, Dmitry Utkin, otherwise known as ’Wagner’, whose highly trained Russian fighters are known to have been involved in Russia’s invasion of Crimea, in the conflict in Donbas and in Syria, was one of Putin’s guests at a Kremlin reception to mark ’Heroes of the Fatherland Day’​

There is also plenty of evidence, including testimony from soldiers or their families, that Russian soldiers are paid extra to fight in Donbas (See: Russian Soldiers Sent to Ukraine Tracked by Hypermarkets and Unmarked Graves). Soldiers have ended up in prison for refusing to go to Ukraine....

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UKRAINE - Ukraine crisis. News in brief. Sunday 18 June. [Ukrainian sources] Empty In Lviv, Ukraine an SUV drove into the crowd, one person killed

Sun Jun 18, 2017 6:02 pm
In Lviv, Ukraine an SUV drove into the crowd, one person killed

In the center of the city on the square near the Cathedral Church of St. Andrew car Land Cruiser into the crowd entered perekynulosya mankind and to the side.

According to the Public in the press service of the Patrol Police, at this time the church service was over and people came out.

According to preliminary data, the driver of the car went out of service in the church, got behind the wheel and lost control.



As a result of collision, one woman was killed, another is in the hospital. Currently ongoing investigations, and to ascertain the reasons for hitting the police car appraised.

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UKRAINE - Ukraine crisis. News in brief. Sunday 18 June. [Ukrainian sources] Empty From Lviv to Berlin from now on you can fly for 600 UAH = $23

Sun Jun 18, 2017 7:10 pm
From Lviv to Berlin from now on you can fly for 600 UAH = $23

On Sunday, June 18, the "Lviv" them from the International Airport, started to fly to Berlin direct flight via Wizz Air airline.

It is reported by the press service of the Lviv regional state administration.

Ticket price starts from 579 UAH. Flights will be operated twice a week - on Wednesdays and Sundays.

From Lviv to Berlin aircraft will depart at 14:20 on Wednesdays and at 16:00 on Sundays. From Berlin to the city - at 12:15 on Wednesdays and at 13:50 on Sundays.

The first flight from the city in Berlin benefited 173, which is 90% of the maximum load of the airplane.

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