Ukraine crisis. News in Brief. Saturday 05 September [Ukrainian sources]

SATURDAY

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News -
Putin has stepped up the attacks again, using tanks yesterday.
19 attacks. It was as low as 5. Clearly Putin - and the Russian generals in charge - can control the level of war on a daily basis.
Update - 0 soldiers killed, but 2 wounded.

Purgin out, Pushilin in -
See various articles below. Looks like the Kremlin is strengthening its hold in Donetsk.
Also reports of Russian paratroopers taking control of key points in the city.

Weather -
Cooler. And forecast is for cooler still.
High forecast of 24 today. But only 18 by early next week. Maybe a chance of rain this evening and tomorrow.

Footie -
Some good games today.
Ukraine play Belarus. England play. Spain v Slovakia.

Smoke -
The air is much much better this morning.
I will go out for a long walk - it looks good. Normal.
Seems like many fires have been extinguished.
Update - after walk it seems air is much much better. But still a touch of pollution.

Schuster -
Lots of big names last night on his show. I did not watch it. Just saw for 1 minute.
Saw Liashko, Tiagnibok, Lutsenko, Samopomich leader at the Rada, and others.
War time. They don't need this. Constant bickering on tv. But it is money for Schuster, that is for sure. Big money.
You don't get this in-fighting in Russia. Especially during a time of war against Ukraine.

9:15
http://www.5.ua/ato-na-shodi/Sytuatsiia-v-zoni-ATO-boiovyky-aktyvizuvaly-obstrily-ukrainskykh-pozytsii--92309.html
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Similar report.

9:15
http://expres.ua/news/2015/09/05/150421-zaharchenko-raptovo-zagovoryv-vyklyuchno-politychne-vyrishennya-viyny-donbasi
The leader of the terrorists "DNR" Alexander Zakharchenko said that the alternative to a political solution of the conflict - there is not.
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After ten thousand deaths, and countless lives destroyed?

12:55
http://www.ostro.org/donetsk/proisshestviya/news/480130/

12:51
http://www.unn.com.ua/uk/news/1498062-za-minulu-dobu-v-zoni-ato-bulo-poraneno-dvokh-ukrayinskikh-viyskovikh-ap
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0 dead. 2 injured, explosion.
Recall the last day, September 4, 19 times militants violated the truce. Of these, 18 cases of enemy weapons is recorded near Donetsk.

13:10
http://ru.slovoidilo.ua/2015/09/05/novost/politika/lucenko-mertvyj-zakon-ob-osobom-statuse-donbassa-cena-sankcij-protiv-rf
[the controversial law regarding changes to the constitution. ]

http://delo.ua/ukraine/prevyshenija-koncentracii-vrednyh-veschestv-v-vozduhe-v-kieve-net-303247/
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But you can still feel a little something there, especially when coming out of a building.
But much much better now. Rain would really help.

http://www.voanews.com/content/exclusive-poroshenko-wants-russia-stripped-of-un-veto-power/2948981.html
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An interview with commentary

http://www.gazeta.ru/politics/2015/09/04_a_7740413.shtml
Events September 4 DNR more like extremely topical thriller. Detention parliament speaker DNR Andrei Purgini and his companions in the morning all the media described the phrase "constitutional coup." In the republics of similar words is like a powerful smoke screen for serious intra conflicts. "Times" to understand, who and what is behind the attack on one of the main ideologists of the Donetsk Republic and "New Russia"....
We have a disaster in the economy, the country is at war, and they decided to express no confidence in deputies and People's Council to redraw ", - says Alexander.
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Mega long article. Remember, this is from a Russian paper.
But seems there are moves afoot to remove people who are opposed to Minsk, and the Donbass returning to Ukrainian control.
Strange. But has to be Putin's doing. He controls all the main bandits - and those who don't do what he says are removed one way, or another...
See also below -

http://euromaidanpress.com/2015/09/05/making-sense-of-the-dnr-coup/
In the evening of Friday, September 4, news came out from occupied Donetsk which ultimately boiled down to a shift of power in the Moscow proxie authorities, with Denis Pushilin replacing Andrey Purgin as speaker of “DNR’s” “parliament”.
This is probably the first time many outside observers found out “DNR” even has a parliament or that Andrei Purgin or Denis Pushilin exist. We’ve decided to help you understand what the turmoil in Donetsk means...
Pushilin..... represents the “rebels” in [the] Minsk peace talks and is considered by many pro-Russian observers to be Kremlin’s lapdog intent to sell Donbas back to Ukraine.
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A good article, a good read. Quite long. Recommended, with a biscuit and a cup of tea.

http://www.sputniknews.com/europe/20150904/1026611520.html
[Note - this is a Russian government source]
MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Denis Pushilin was elected on Friday interim speaker of the parliament (People's Council) of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) in eastern Ukraine, a source told RIA Novosti.

https://inmoscowsshadows.wordpress.com/2015/09/04/purging-purgin-pushing-pushilin-full-version/

....Maybe. Meanwhile there is all kinds of excitement in the area. There were suggestions that Russian paratroopers were seizing key locations in Donetsk (which is possible, but given the interpenetration these days of Russian and militia units, as well as the use of Russian kit by the latter, hard to confirm). Indeed, according to some reports, Purgin and his wife are under arrest....

I just love this sentence
The politics of the DNR (and LNR, for that matter) have all the well-mannered and collegial constitutionality of a Brazilian prison riot
and later
Overall, though, I suspect we are seeing another step towards the “Transniestrianisation” of the Donbas
i.e. - Russia taking full control in the Donbass.

Intercepting targets at sea, saving injured divers and extinguishing fires onboard ships – just three drills practiced this week during multinational naval exercises near Ukraine's port city of Odesa. The operation is called 'Sea Breeze 2015'. Around 1,500 military personnel from Ukraine, Bulgaria, Germany, Moldova and the UK among others are participating. The main objective – to strengthen cooperation among Ukraine, NATO member states in the Black Sea – in a region on edge following the invasion of eastern Ukraine by Russian forces. This week's drills involve some 18 warships and 14 planes and helicopters – most importantly, the guided-missile destroyer USS Donald Cook.

Oleksiy Neizhpapa, Ukrainian Navy Deputy Commander: "Today we witnessed the fleet search groups training to detain offenders. The drills were carried out on the US missile destroyer Donald Cook. They practiced rescue operation on the missile destroyer and on our ship, equipped according to NATO standards."................

To read further go to this link: uatoday.tv

Terrorist leader Arseniy Pavlov ("Motorola") hastily left Donetsk, accompanied by his men and new women. This source said.

Part of terrorists led by the "Motorola" hurriedly left Donetsk, fear sweeps after the change of leadership of the self-proclaimed "Donetsk People's Republic," reports "Dialogue".

"Motorola" and close associates left the city in two jeeps, packed with things.

In addition, the leader of the militants took with him a new passion, and his wife and daughter he left in the occupied Donetsk.

Earlier, Andrei and Alexei Alexandrov Purgin were detained at the checkpoint "Uspenka", which is controlled by the DNI. According to preliminary information, the appropriate order gave Denis Pushilin. Later Purgin Alexandrov and with the support of "deputies" were able to leave the checkpoint.

glavcom.ua In Russian

In Donetsk, about 100 people gathered for a rally in support of one of the leaders of the "DNR" Andrew Purgina, which was removed from the September 4 "position", "the speaker of the" parliament DNR ", and was replaced by Denis Pushilin.

According to "News of Donbass", the protesters blocked the road on the street. Artem, demanding an explanation for what Andrew Purgina removed.

Employees of the so-called Ministry of State Security "DNI" videofiksatsiyu were present at the meeting of people. Then they detained several people and unblocked traffic on the roadway. Other participants of the meeting went to the Library. Krupskaya.

glavcom.ua In Russian

In Lutsk died after performing one of the band members' Pikkardijska third "Ivan Wax.

This happened at a concert to mark the opening after the reconstruction of the stadium "Avangard".

Percussionist Wax after the show went to the dressing room, where he fell ill.

Medical "emergency", which immediately came on a call, the actor could not be saved.

According to the organizing committee of the concert Catherine Dulapchy, the preliminary cause of death - detached thrombus.

glavcom.ua In Russian

The first secretary of the Crimean republican committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Oleg Solomakhin addressed the main separatist Crimea, the Kremlin-appointed so-called "chapter" of the Crimea Sergey Aksenov with a request to restore the relief of Stalin in the building of the railway station of Simferopol. An open letter posted on the website of the Communist Party.

The Communists were reminded that the bas-relief of Stalin's "disappeared" from the wall in the building of the railway station during the reign of the "liberal leader Khrushchev," they think, "it's time to restore historical justice" and return the bas-relief of Joseph Stalin.



"Restoration of the bas-relief of Joseph Stalin will be another important event in celebration of the 70th anniversary of the great victory of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War and the clear evidence of the strengthening ties between generations" - believe the Communists Crimea.

glavcom.ua In Russian

The presence of his battalion from any political party - a road to nowhere.

So says the head of the Donetsk regional military and civil administration Paul Zhebrivskyi transmits "112 Ukraine".

"We need to do depoliticization of the APU and the National Guard under. It can not be in the APU political and party divisions. The person who is in the sun, should lay down the party ticket, forget about their party preferences and remember them only during the voting. To say that from any political party may be a battalion - a road to nowhere, a way to clarify relations and the opening of a second front in the Ukraine. I went into the army - forget about political preferences, "- he said.
Read:

"DNI" ended yesterday at the "wool" hysteria on the Internet

Zhebrivskyi also noted that the battalions of "OUN" and "Right Sector" should join the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

obozrevatel.com In Russian

The aggression against Ukraine will be the hottest topic for discussion at the UN assembly, and if Putin goes to New York he will have no chances to counter Ukraine's conclusive evidence about the war in Crimea and Donbas, analyst Pavlo Nuss writes for Obozrevztel Sept. 5.
"In my opinion, Putin will unlikely show up in New York since his visit will be another diplomatic and geopolitical pratfall for him. The Ukrainian delegation will provide the iron-cast evidence of the Russian army involvement in Donbas.

The information that an attempt on Putin's life during the visit to America has been disseminated by the FSB secret service to provide an excuse to cancel his visit, "the expert says.

"If however, Putin goes to the assembly it indicates that he has accepted the capitulation and will admit it loud and clear that Russia will pay billions of dollars in damages to Ukraine," the expert says.

zik.ua