Ukraine crisis. News in Brief. Sunday 08 November [Ukrainian sources]

SUNDAY

Please scroll down to view news items added during the course of the day

News -
Reports of more provocations from the Russian terrorists yesterday.
As far as I can see, no total given at the briefing regarding the number of attacks. Adding up, I think about 17 or more attacks by Putin yesterday.
Update - no dead or injured as a result of Putin's terrorists yesterday.

Weather -
Still cool. 3C this morning in the Kiev area. But should warm up later in the day.
Next week to be a little warmer; nearer 10. But wet.

Observation -
I watched a good programme on 1+1 yesterday. About the elections in Dneprpetrovsk, and how those loyal to Yanukovich and Akhmetov are returning to power there.
Presumably all part of Putin's political plan to take control of Ukraine again. After watching this program one wonders what Maidan was all about.

10:10
http://24tv.ua/skandal_na_tb_1__1_poyasniv_chomu_znyav_z_efiru_vechirniy_kvartal_n628619
====
Supposedly a "technical" problem.
I mentioned that I saw a good documentary on 1+1 about corruption in Dneprpetrovsk yesterday evening, lots of dead people on the election registers, Yanukovich clones taking control there. Friends of Akhmetov. Dodgy businesses, and control of the same. I think I saw this when Vecherni Qvartal should have been on. This is an excellent comedy programme. But I was just scrolling through the channels. Found it by chance.

http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2015/11/8/7087930/
Headquarters: Militants lead to escalation of the conflict, fired peaceful settlements
Sunday, November 8, 2015, 10:11
In the evening, Nov. 7 in the zone of ATO terrorists continued escalation of the conflict, leading to fire and firing power ATO peace settlements.
According to the press center of the ATO, in Artemovsk direction with automatic and anti-tank grenade launchers, heavy machine guns and sniper rifles militants fired four times Zaitsev.
"In Donetsk - with grenade launchers, heavy machine guns and small arms five times fired Opitnoe three times fired on Krasnohorivtsi, twice Avdiyivka, as well as Pisky and Novgorod. In Mariupol direction mercenaries were aimed fire from grenade launchers, machine guns and small arms in Granitnoe "- said the headquarters.
"Proponents of the" Russian world "continue to bombard peaceful villages. Around 21 pm they fired 82 mm mortars Novoselivka second" - spokesman Leonid Matyukhin ATO.
=====
No total on the number of attacks. 4z 5o 3k 2a p n g = 17 attacks?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3309104/Investigators-say-99-9-certain-Russian-plane-brought-bomb-confirmed-noise-heard-black-box-explosion.html
'We are 90 per cent sure it was a bomb.'
Asked to explain the missing 10 per cent he added: 'I can't discuss this now.
====
Not sure where the 99.9% comes from...
But looks more and more like Putin wanted to cover this up. And the Egyptians also, for obvious reasons.

16:12
http://delo.ua/ukraine/ministry-inostrannyh-del-normandskoj-chetverki-mogut-esche-raz-vs-306841/

16:11
http://vesti-ukr.com/politika/122700-grojsman-otverg-vozmozhnost-dosrochnyh-parlamentskih-vyborov
November 8 | 16:10
Early elections to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine may aggravate and destabilize the situation in the country, said the parliament speaker Volodymyr Groisman.
"I think that the issue of early elections to the Verkhovna Rada is not on the agenda. Early elections may be another step towards the exacerbation of destabilizing the situation in the country", - quotes Groisman "Interfax-Ukraine".
He noted that "the process of interaction in the Parliament is quite complex," while expressing the view that "in the framework of the coalition have reserves to build a high-quality work."
"I think we all now have the opportunity to offer the public a clear action plan for the next year and to take responsibility within the existing coalition and the current Verkhovna Rada", - said Groisman.
===
Basically, I think he is right. Elections now will only destabilize Ukraine. Too many populist politicians - Liashko, Tymoshenko.
No concern for Ukraine longterm. Only short-term thinking. Money. For themselves. Power, control.

ato map



from link at above posting

http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2015/11/8/7087954/
Decentralization reforms - the key to the success of Ukraine and constitutional changes necessary to process became irreversible.
This Nov. 8 said Speaker Volodymyr Groisman during a meeting with representatives of executive authorities and local self Zhytomyr region, the press service of BP.
====
300 votes... it will be interesting.
Liashko is playing for the radical vote now. So he will oppose. There is a significant chance that he is working for Putin now in what he does.
Many of his party have links to the old Party of Regions, I have discovered.
And Tymoshenko - if Putin promises to make her President, she will do whatever it takes.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/08/us-mideast-crisis-syria-russia-idUSKCN0SX0H820151108
Small numbers of serving or former Russian soldiers have been geolocated in Syria, including locations near Hama, Aleppo and Homs, Russian bloggers said on Sunday, suggesting that the Kremlin's operation stretches well beyond its air campaign....
U.S. security officials and independent experts told Reuters last week that Moscow had increased its forces in Syria to 4,000 personnel, from an estimated 2,000, and a U.S. defense official said that multiple rocket-launcher crews and long-range artillery batteries were deployed outside four bases the Russians were using.
=====
Will Putin go for a mega war now in Syria? After the bomb on the Russian tourist plane I'm not sure that such a move will be wildly popular in the Putin's Russian imperia.

https://www.charter97.org/ru/news/2015/11/8/177472/
16:31
It must be remembered that Helen Lucash played the role of the main "devil's advocate" conglomerate Yanukovych and is irrefutable proof of the involvement of the whole group of her former associates in the theft of public funds in a large scale, corruption, political persecution of opponents of the regime, in the shooting of protesters in Revolution Benefits .
===
Suggests Lukash should be given protection as she may be targeted by Yanukovich/ Putin mafia who may want to silence her as she knows too much.

The politicians’s lawyers have termed the arrest a kidnapping and stated that they had minimal information regarding how it came about.

The sister of a recently arrested Ukrainian Jewish politician threatened to set herself on fire during a confrontation with consular officials at the Ukrainian embassy in Tel Aviv on Wednesday, during which she demanded information regarding her sibling’s condition.

Hennadiy Korban, who served under Jewish oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky as deputy governor of the Dnepropetrovsk region until earlier this year and currently heads the new Ukrainian Association of Patriots political party (UKROP), was detained during a massive raid by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU).

The raid also targeted the Kolomoisky-linked Fund for the Defense of the Country and the office of Kolomoisky confidant and legislator Boris Filatov.

Korban’s lawyers have termed the arrest a kidnapping and stated that they had minimal information regarding how it came about.

According to The Kyiv Post, Korban, who is also a member of the board of trustees of the Dnepropetrovsk Jewish community, stands accused of several politically motivated kidnappings during his time in the Dnepropetrovsk regional administration, as well as of embezzling millions of hryvnia from the Fund for the Defense of the Country.

Korban’s sister Victoria arrived at the embassy on Wednesday, demanding information on his location and the conditions of his incarceration.

“I explained that my brother was kidnapped there because nobody knows what is with him – we are fearful for his health,” she told The Jerusalem Post.

“They didn’t want to deal with me,” she recalled, adding that she threw herself to the floor in the building’s entrance, after which Ukrainian officials here called the police.

After the police arrived, she was allowed in and told that she could write a letter to senior Ukrainian officials that would be passed on by the embassy. However, when the consul did not show up, she said that her husband would bring gasoline and that she would self-immolate right then and there.

“It’s like the gestapo that we see on television,” she said, comparing the security services involved in her brother’s arrest to bandits.

“Everybody is silent – how can this be in the year 2015 that everybody is silent,” she asked, weeping.

In a separate interview with Forbes Ukraine, she stated that government agents overturned her mother’s bed during a search of their house over the weekend and “ransacked all [of her] medications.”

Korban said that she planned on holding a protest outside of the embassy on Friday morning.

The Ukrainian embassy did not respond to a request for comment.

Jewish sources in Ukraine told the Post that there is likely no link between Korban’s Jewish identity and his arrest.

“I think his conviction is pure criminal, but in this unstable situation we should be very careful that the law enforcement would not be used as a tool against political enemies,” Eduard Dolinsky of the Ukrainian Jewish Committee said earlier this week.

jpost.com

Advisor to the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, people's deputy of Parliament Anton Gerashchenko, commenting on the information about the investigation of the collapse of the A321 in Egypt, compared the Russian President Vladimir Putin and the former leader of Libya Muammar Gaddafi. About this he wrote in his facebook.

"Putin adviser frantically thought and thought until now, as we now explain to the Russian people that the Russian tourists have been victims of terrorist retaliation for the bombing Putin in Syria and Iraq.

Besides, what if after the first terrorist attack on a Russian passenger plane flying in the direction of the Arab scary followed by a second, third, fourth? That question took and takes all this week Putin. He understands that all his bravado about fraternal assistance Bashar Assad and demonstration of the imaginary force of Russian arms and high technology in a moment multiplied by zero asymmetric terrorist strikes in the sky over the Sinai, "- wrote Gerashchenko.

"Following the Sinai strategies say that Putin was confident ahead of their own people torn Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi," - said Gerashchenko, noting that "the conscience of the latter was only one blow up a US plane in the sky over Scotland in the late eighties."

Gerashchenko noted that Russia will soon switch back to Ukraine.

glavcom.ua In Russian

Russia topped the list of major threats to the national security of the United Kingdom, writes The Times. As the newspaper notes, it said in a report to be published on November 23.

Among the threats, according to the document also indicates the mass influx of migrants, terrorism and radicalization of Islamist groups such as the "Islamic state." The list also included the potential threat of the spread of the Ebola virus.

The publication notes that this list is updated every five years.

glavcom.ua In Russian

Law enforcers have detained a resident of Donetsk Artemovsk, who last year was wanted for participation in the activities of illegal armed groups.

This was at the briefing said the speaker of the Administration of the President of Ukraine on the ATO, Colonel Alexander Motuzyanik.

"It was found that the 40-year-old gunman was personally involved in the seizure of the building of the Slavic City Council, as well as recruiting new militants in Artemovsk," - said Motuznyak

After the liberation of Slavyansk offender he fled to Russia, and later attempted to settle in Kiev, but was detained by a task force of law enforcement of Donetsk, who came to the capital specially for him.

glavcom.ua In Russian

In Russia, in Moscow on the Arbat opened a cafe called Crazy Toile, where visitors bring dishes of Russian and European cuisine in a mini toilet bowls, tubs and urinals.

This writes the Komsomolskaya Pravda.

"Around pictures depicting various cartoon stool, chairs and toilets instead of chocolate ice cream twisted in such a - well, you know," - says the material.

The publication notes that almost all the tables in the restaurant occupied.

It is worth noting that the owner of an unusual institution is the former mayor of Arkhangelsk Alexander Donskoy.





glavcom.ua In Russian

"Today, starting at 5:50, they fired on our positions with grenade launchers, heavy machine guns and small arms. The fire was in Novgorod, Trinity, sand and Mallorcan. Twice Mallorcan and Zaitsev terrorists opened fire from 82 mm mortars, which, according to the Minsk agreements should be withdrawn, "- said in a statement.

Thus, just a day the militants opened fire in the direction of the Ukrainian military 15 times.

Moreover, at 13:00 a group of militants in an amount of about 20 people tried to storm the position of the Ukrainian Army in the Mallorcan.

"When the invaders approached to 150-100 meters without stopping the fire in the direction of our military, it was decided to open fire on the defeat of small arms. At the same time the beginning of the offensive militant groups, another group of mercenaries began shelling the positions of other Ukrainian military" - added to the staff.

Having repulsed the militants lay down and tried to get out of combat. At 14:40 they tried to circumvent the position of APU, but came under fire, suffered losses and re-lay. At 15:50 the terrorists opened fire from mortars and under cover of the fire, taking the dead and wounded, gone.

"Even in this situation, while continuing to strictly observe the Minsk agreement, our military fired only from small arms" - summed up in the headquarters of the ATO.

As previously reported, "The Observer", near the checkpoint in the Mallorcan took a skirmish, but people continued to queue up on the pass.



obozrevatel.com In Russian

On Sunday evening, November 8, in the occupied part of the Donetsk region in the zone of the antiterrorist operation again violated ceasefire.

That heard explosions and shooting in Donetsk region informs users of social networks.

So, it is noted that approximately at 20:40 was produced by a massive mortar attack on the village of Oktyabrsky. In the village Spartak started shooting battle tanks shelled the airport. In the area of ​​the village Lozovsky (between Sands and Staromykhailivka) - shooting battle with mortars.





In addition, local residents point out that heard both outgoing and incoming from "their own." In particular, residents of Donetsk think that the city has a so-called artillery Donetsk People's Republic. On it, among others, the journalist writes Alex Matsuka.





The fight is in the vicinity of the airport in Donetsk, Spartak near settlements and development. There's a week violated the truce. Militants are trying to clear the breakaway republic Ukrainian army from their positions.

obozrevatel.com In Russian

Former Deputy Chief of First Chief Directorate and Chief of illegal intelligence (Control "C") PSU Major-General Yuri Drozdov in his book "Notes of illegal intelligence chief," said the plane was blown up in Egypt on the orders of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

This was reported on syur.info.

Drozdov just talks about the creation of the documentary evidence of KGB overseas extremist, neo-fascist, Islamist and other terrorist organizations to carry out criminal activities in favor of the USSR "false flag". Drozdov thought global international espionage and terrorism in the name of communist ideals of the Communist Party and state interests of the USSR "need a job."

According to media reports, at this point, already on the day of the disaster in the Sinai Peninsula of the US-French airliner A-321 with Russian tourists on Saturday, October 31, 2015 while returning from the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh on the Red Sea, it could be argued, that the most likely customer terrorist attack was Vladimir Putin. Because that's what he (not personally gray security officer, and "collective Putin" - Putin's regime) is the main beneficiary, the beneficiary of the death of 224 passengers and crew members in Egypt.

"The explosion of the airplane A-321 with Russian tourists on the Egyptian Sinai, probably, was the economic sabotage and the punitive operation that Putin's special services conducted under the" false flag "(alleged Islamic militants) to get back to Egypt for the purchase of the French" Mistral "does not get it Putin and forcing the Russian middle class go to rest in Russia annexed the Crimea ", - said the scout.

As reported by the "Observer", an Egyptian cell "Islamic state" took responsibility for the collapse of the Russian aircraft in the afternoon on October 31. Later, the terrorists wrote on Twitter that a disaster is involved related to LIH "Vilayat Sinai."

Note that as the main version of the collapse of the UK and US intelligence, Egyptian officials called Bringing a bomb on board the A321.

This britansike media called probable organizer of the explosion on board the Russian aircraft A321, head of the terrorist group "Vilayat Sinai," Abu Osama al-Masri.

In Egypt, the Russian aircraft dropped: all the details, constant updating.

obozrevatel.com In Russian

The governor of the Odessa region Mikheil Saakashvili commented laid before the party leader "Ill" Gennady Korban snapshot of how he spends his time under house arrest. "Officially, this man is in custody. Many in Ukraine would probably prefer the terms of this "arrest" their present freedom. A clear demonstration of impotence law enforcement and that the oligarchy is that mocks the state and its citizens ", - Saakashvili wrote on his page on Facebook.

   Good evening. My little silent pause connected with will be able to sleep. In the near future I bu ...
   By Posted Gennady Korban on 7 leaf fall 2015 p.

In this regard, he recalled the urgent need to reform the prosecutor's office and public attention to this issue. "We need rapid and fundamental changes. So far, there is a danger that most prosecutors will remain in place as a result of the competition, so it is very important that civil society organizations and the whole society, including at the last stage of competitive selection to the old "experienced personnel" did not pass the conditions of house arrest "- Saakashvili said. "Against the background of what is now, and Lucas at large, if we do not intervene, instead of the prosecutor's office, we have will have a Wildlife Photography which soon spread pictures detention, and then be let go, and predators like walking and will walk to freedom" - he added.

glavcom.ua In Russian