Ukraine crisis. News in brief. Sunday 20 September. [Ukrainian sources]

SUNDAY

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News -
Putin's war. Some points of conflict, but report does not say how many times the Russians attacked yesterday.
Update at 13.00. No dead and no injured Ukrainian soldiers yesterday. Slava Ukraini.

Schuster - tv journalist very much a Tymoshenko butt-kisser - trying to make the news.
He's very rich, and against Poroshenko. Having trouble getting his tv "show" on air. Hot air.
Pravi Sector and Svoboda likely to go to election together, and also to merge.

Weather -
Still pleasantly warm today in most areas. Mid to upper 20s with some sunshine.
Tomorrow forecast to be much cooler for 2 or 3 days.

http://www.unn.com.ua/uk/news/1502666-teroristi-vedut-provokativniy-vogon-z-velikokalibernikh-kulemetiv-shtab-ato
KYIV. 20 September. UNN. Last night in the area ATO failed completely calm. If midnight and 20 hours along the line of demarcation remained silent, the night fighters continued sporadic shelling positions of Ukrainian military. This UNN reports referring to the press center ATO.
"On the part of the village Petrovskoye, near Mariupol, at 20.10 criminals fired from small arms on Ukrainian strongholds in Bogdanovka. And at 21.50, in our divisions south of Avdeevki militants struck with grenades, anti-aircraft installations and small arms" - said in a statement.
In addition, the Artemivsk direction at half past 12 at night, in the territory temporarily controlled by the Ukrainian authorities, mercenaries opened fire with heavy machine guns provoke our men failed to answer.
"Today, 20 September, from midnight to 6 am and violations of the regime of silence was not" - said in a statement.
[Full statement; doesn't say exactly how many attacks.]

8:22
http://www.facenews.ua/news/2015/291564/

8:19
http://expres.ua/news/2015/09/20/152446-pravyy-sektor-svoboda-vzyalysya-dorozhnyu-kartu-obyednannya
The leader of the party "Right Sector" Dmitry Yarosh and leader of the "Svoboda" Oleg Tyagnibok met today and discussed the "road map" to bring political forces [together]. This Yarosh wrote on his page on Facebook, sends Espreso.TV. "Just met with the leader of " Svoboda "Oleg Tyagnibok.

http://www.bbc.com/ukrainian/society/2015/09/150920_crimea_blockade_she
Several hundred activists Chongar in Kherson blocked the road leading to the annexed Crimea to trucks, Ukraine correspondent of the BBC.
Activists say they do not allow trucks, driven products and goods to the peninsula.
On the track allows cars to pass also passenger transport.
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Good.
Frankly need these people on the frontline also, to stop the military contraband trade.
SBU and other military, border guards, making millions.

12:35
http://ua.112.ua/ato/za-dobu-v-zoni-ato-nemaie-ni-zahyblykh-ni-poranenykh-ukrainskykh-viiskovykh-ap-259522.html
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Slava Ukraini.

12:24
http://www.segodnya.ua/regions/donetsk/transportnyy-ad-na-donbasse-pod-palyashchim-solncem-lyudi-stoyat-v-ogromnoy-ocheredi-na-avtobusy-651096.html
Because of the fighting and the irregular movement of passenger transport Donbas residents are forced to stand for hours in queues at bus stops. Thus, on the internet appeared photos of Artemovsk, where visible a long queue awaiting a bus. According to preliminary information, people are going to Maiyorsk.



The joys of Putin's Donbass. Can you hear them shouting out "Rassseeya, Rassseeya... ".. Not any more.

12:48
http://hvylya.net/news/digest/zaharchenko-i-plotnitskiy-sobirayutsya-pokinut-donbass.html
Leaders of the so-called Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republic, Alexander Zakharchenko  and Igor Plotnitsky going today, 20 September, to visit South Ossetia to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the self-proclaimed "republic".
It is reported by Tass.
In addition, the celebrations will arrive in Tskhinvali and Abkhazia, the head of the Russian officials, including the head of North Ossetia Tamerlan Aguzarov and Minister for the North Caucasus Lev Kuznetsov.
According to the Ghana Janowska, press secretary of the president of South Ossetia, this is their first official visit to the self-proclaimed "republic" in Tskhinvali.
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Hopefully they will stay there, and not come back. Better for all the people in Donbass - except for Putin's occupying forces.

19.09.2015
Transcript of Ambasador Yakovenko's interview for Rossiya TV, 17 September 2015
It is difficult to overestimate the significance of Jeremy Corbyn being elected by an overwhelming, mostly young people the new leader of the Labour party and, thus, leader of the official parliamentary opposition. This is nothing short of a radical breakthrough in British politics of the last 30 years, which have never stepped beyond the so-called Thatcherist neo-liberal consensus of the establishment.
http://rusemb.org.uk/article/428
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Clearly the Russians, like Seumas Milne, approve whole-heartedly of J Corbyn.
From that one can deduce that he is very bad news for Ukraine, and freedom in Eastern Europe, and the Baltics.

http://www.rbc.ua/rus/news/fsb-rf-utverzhdayut-zaderzhali-ukrainskogo-1442754024.html
The Federal Security Service (FSB) of Russia claim that the Ukrainian border guard detained. The incident allegedly occurred in the Kursk region, Tass reports.
The incident occurred in the area of ​​Glushkovsky Kursk region (on the border of Sumy region of Ukraine) near the village Volfino September 19 at about 20:00.
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Likely a completely open border there.
Kursk - city where the Grad missile launchers came from, including the one that shot down MH17.

The International Anti-Corruption Conference, which will bring together about 200 experts from around the world, will take place in Kyiv on November 16.

Ukrainian First Deputy Justice Minister Nataliya Sevostianova said this during a briefing at Ukrinform.

"On November 16 of this year, we plan to hold a very big event - the International Anti-Corruption Conference, which will bring together about 200 experts on the fight against corruption and its prevention in different countries of the world - Asia, Europe, America," she said.

ukrinform.ua

http://www.themoscowtimes.com/business/article/russia-for-first-time-acknowledges-low-oil-prices-may-hit-output/531667.html
Russia's oil production may drop if crude falls below $40 a barrel, Deputy Energy Minister Alexei Teksler said on Friday, the first time Russia, one of the world's biggest producers, has acknowledged low prices could hit output.
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Don't think they can afford to cut oil production. Putin needs every dollar he can get for his wars around the world.

This is stated in a statement the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, circulated yesterday, 18 September.

Ministry of Foreign Affairs recalled that on September 17 the OSCE Permanent Council approved the decision to extend the mandate of the OSCE Observer Mission on two border crossings on the Russian side of the Ukrainian-Russian state border until 31 January 2016.

“According to the Minsk protocol of September 5, 2014, all of its signatories, including the Russian Federation, have committed to provide continuous monitoring of the Ukrainian-Russian state border and its verification by the OSCE, together with the creation of a security zone in the border regions of Ukraine and Russia”- referred to in a statement of the Foreign Ministry.

Foreign Ministry deplores Russia’s unwillingness to extend the mandate of the OSCE Mission on two border crossings on the Russian side of the Ukrainian-Russian border at other border points in areas adjacent to the Donetsk and Luhansk regions.

“This position of the Russian side can not be regarded otherwise than conducting coherent policies to further hide from the international community the obvious evidence of the direct involvement of Russia into the conflict in Donbas, including through the supply of heavy weapons, military equipment, regular troops and mercenaries” – said the Foreign Ministry.

Ministry of Foreign Affairs stressed that the consent of the Russian side to expand the mandate of the Mission at other checkpoints along the Russian-Ukrainian border in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions have demonstrated a real willingness of the Russian Federation to implement in full its obligations under the Minsk agreements.

hst-ukraine.com

Leaders of the "Freedom" and "Right Sector" to discuss the union.

It was on his page on Facebook wrote political analyst Serhiy Taran.

"But sociology and up to the last elections show that their total and maximum electoral niche - it is only 5-7%.

A qualitatively different perspective of the two parties, in his opinion, is opened in case of a public alliance with the parties of the "Fatherland."

"Then the SS Liberty, and will work on the right wing radical, and Fatherland with its social-populist rhetoric - on the left. Protest base grows at times! All cements their common goal - the total destabilization and early parliamentary, and if you're lucky, and the early presidential elections (Tymoshenko's another chance may not be), "- said the analyst.

According to Taran, the recent speech Tymoshenko to protect the "Freedom" - evidence that such union already exists.

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