Ukraine crisis. News in brief. Tuesday 21 June. [Ukrainian sources]

TUESDAY

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News:
41 attacks by Russian proxies on Ukraine. An increase on yesterday's figure.
Update at 1230. Sadly 2 Ukrainian soldiers killed yesterday. 5 injured.
Another German politician - Vice Chancellor Gabriel - going to visit Putin to improve business. Scumball. $$$

Weather:
Hot again. 22 at 0900. High today maybe of 33. And humid. Chance of a thunderstorm in the evening.

Footie:
Wales! Wales! Sweet are thy hills and thy vales!
Great win for Wales last night. 3-0 against Russia.
That means
1. Wales and England qualify for the last 16, and
2. Russia go home. Will Putin send the team to Siberia for extra training for 20 years? Who knows.

Enemy fire 41 times; at Avdiyivka DRG (group) attacked
http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2016/06/21/7112396/
Tuesday, June 21, 2016, 7:38

On the afternoon of the last day illegal armed groups continued to fire, including from Minsk II banned weapons 41 times fire at positions Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The press-center ATO headquarters.
Thus, in the Donetsk area recorded 21 incidents of firing. For strongholds of forces ATO near Avdeevka, Novosilky Nevel and other enemy except small arms, led fire from mortars caliber 120mm, and mine Putilov and near Verhnotoretska 82-mm mortars.
With large-caliber machine guns, grenade launchers of various enemy fortifications Armed Forces fired near Zaitsev and Mayorska.
In addition, it is reported that at about 19.00 Avdeevki sabotage and reconnaissance of the enemy group of up to 8 people with Yasinovataya direction under the cover of fire 82 mm mortars, attempted to approach the reference point the Armed Forces. Opening fire fighters to defeat Ukrainian saboteurs forced to withdraw.
In Mariupol direction the enemy 18 times fired position forces ATU near Marinka, granite, and Taramchuka Hnutovoho with heavy machine guns and grenade launchers, and nearby Krasnogorivka of anti-aircraft installations and mortars caliber 82 and 120 mm. By fortifications near Shyrokynoho Russian occupants fired from small arms weapons infantry fighting vehicles, 82 and 120 mm mortars.
In Luhansk near Chastye enemy snipers were active.

3:00
Continued sanctions against Russia in June, inevitable - Juncker
http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2016/06/21/7112390/
...The head of the European Commission assured that in June sanctions against Russia will continue.
The opinion of Jean-Claude Juncker expressed in an interview with European TV channel "Euronews", Interfax-Ukraine.
"Minsk agreement must fulfill. The more will be performed Minsk II, the less penalties. It is now clear that in June we will continue sanctions. But over the next six months we will have to see if sufficient progress in the implementation of the Minsk agreements in order to remove part of the sanctions, "- he said...

Stoltenberg Moscow violated the agreement "NRC"
http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2016/06/21/7112395/
Tuesday, June 21, 2016, 7:09

Moscow is not in compliance "of the NATO-Russia" but the alliance is not looking for a confrontation with her.
This was stated by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, said DW.com.
"Everything that we do in the East, is a response to the behavior of Russia. In this there can be no doubt. No one talked about a military presence in the eastern part of the alliance, before Russia illegally annexed the Crimea and by military forces destabilized the situation in Ukraine ", - said Stoltenberg in an interview with the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung.
The head of the alliance said that the "Founding Act, NATO and Russia" implies respect for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of all states, and Russia showed disrespect to the territorial integrity of Georgia and Ukraine, and, in addition, has recently significantly strengthened its military presence....

RT Is Caught Trying To Edit Out Footage Of Incendiary Cluster Bombs On Russian Jet
http://www.interpretermag.com/russia-update-june-20-2016/#14270
Russia's state-owned RT news channel has been caught out in an act of self-censorship as they attempted to hide footage in one of their news reports that clearly shows cluster bombs loaded onto Russian Air Force jets in Syria.
Over the weekend several observers noticed that an RT video from the Hmeemeem airbase in Latakia, Syria, showed cluster bombs loaded onto Sukhoi Su-34 bombers before takeoff.....
The text around the side of the bomb canisters clearly indicates that they are RBK-500 ZAB 2.5SM dispensers - which carry incendiary submunitions.
The Russian Ministry of Defense routinely denies using such weapons...
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Scroll down a little on the page for this story.
I posted the vid yesterday in the News in Brief thread.
Not a bad write-up.

Darth Putin ‏@DarthPutinKGB  11 ч.11 часов назад
The Russian coach wonders if i will spare him.

Darth Putin ‏@DarthPutinKGB  1 ч.1 час назад
We lost 3-0 to a place smaller than the Donbass that has no oil.

Darth Putin ‏@DarthPutinKGB  11 ч.11 часов назад
Had enough of this. The annexation off "Wales" starts tomorrow.

Darth Putin ‏@DarthPutinKGB  14 ч.14 часов назад
"Wales" isn't really a country.

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Context - The Russian football team lost 3-0 to Wales last night, and exited Euro 2016. It's the long flight to Yakutia for them.
[N.B. Football is called "football" or futebol throughout the world EXCEPT in the USA where for unknown reasons they use a corruption of "Association Football"- i.e. "soccer". In "American football" the ball is almost exclusively carried or passed in the hand. Good game, but nothing much to do with the foot.]

I like this also
James Vaughan
‏@EquusontheBuses
Wales need to be careful not to win by too much here. Putin's generally not very nice to small countries that make him look silly.

OSCE recorded Russian state-of-the-art jammer near Donetsk
http://en.censor.net.ua/news/394147/osce_recorded_russian_stateoftheart_jammer_near_donetsk
...According to the OSCE, the detected equipment was the Russian state-of-the-art R-330Zh "Zhytel" jamming station carrying out automated detection, direction finding, and locating emmittors....

Memorandum with IMF agreed upon, - Finance Minister Danyliuk
http://en.censor.net.ua/news/394186/memorandum_with_imf_agreed_upon_finance_minister_danyliuk
...Miklos estimated that the tranche would be possibly delivered in parts, the first one of $1 billion in July. The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine has not yet considered all the bills required by IMF, although the government hoped it would happen by late May.
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So -
What further bills do the IMF require, I wonder?

Gabriel reist zu Putin / Gabriel travels to meet Putin
http://www.rp-online.de/politik/ausland/sigmar-gabriel-reist-zu-wladimir-putin-streit-um-russland-politik-aid-1.6063246
Exklusiv | Berlin. Vizekanzler Sigmar Gabriel will Anfang kommender Woche den russischen Präsidenten besuchen – zum zweiten Mal binnen eines Jahres. Union und SPD streiten über den Umgang mit Russland. ..
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German Vice-Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel to visit Putin early next week - 2nd meeting in a year.

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Lucian Kim ‏@Lucian_Kim 2 ч.2 часа назад
Scoop: Sigmar Gabriel, German vice chancellor and SPD chief, to visit Putin next week to discuss business as usual.

Russian Real Incomes Drop by 11.5 Percent in May
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/business/article/russian-real-incomes-drop-by-115-percent-in-may/573084.html
Russians saw their real incomes fall by 11.5 percent in May compared to the previous month, the Rosstat state statistics service reported Monday.
In annual terms, real incomes fell by 5.7 percent in May, Rosstat said. Real wages shrank by 1 percent year-on-year in May....
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That will make Putin even more popular. 90% rating, maybe?!
He will reach 100% popularity when the Russian population are all eating grass.
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In order to keep the sheep under control -

Russian Lawmakers Propose Harsher Punishment for Extremism
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/russian-lawmakers-propose-harsher-punishment-for-extremism/573059.html

One presumes "extremism" will include anybody who even thinks about being critical of Supreme Leader Putin. The road to North Korea...

12:37
In Crimea, showed how hated Putin (24 channel)
http://24tv.ua/u_krimu_pokazali_yak_nenavidyat_putina_n697960



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Poster defaced in Simferopol.

Already thousands of outraged citizens of Odessa came to protest against the city authorities (photo)
http://usionline.com/2016/06/21/uzhe-tysyachi-vozmushhennyh-odessitov-vyshli-na-protest-protiv-gorodskoj-vlasti-foto/
Protesters want to attract the attention of the whole Ukraine and Kiev authorities to the problems that have arisen in the city due to Gennady Truhanov....



Large poster reads - "Odessa against Truhanov".

Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland travels to Kyiv, Ukraine and then to Moscow, Russia to discuss the situation in eastern Ukraine and implementation of the Minsk agreements.

Censor.NET reports citing the U.S. Department of State.

The statement reads: "On June 21, Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland travels to Kyiv, Ukraine, to meet with senior Ukrainian government officials to discuss bilateral and regional issues, including reform priorities and Minsk implementation.

"She then travels to Moscow, Russia to meet with senior Russian government officials to discuss the situation in eastern Ukraine and next steps to implement the Minsk agreements in support of the Normandy countries and the Trilateral Contact Group."

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