Ukraine crisis. News in brief. Friday 08 July. [Ukrainian sources]

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News:
Putin fires 56 times at Ukrainian people yesterday.
Sadly reading of 2 soldiers dead, and 6 wounded.

Weather:
Pleasant. 20C at 1300. May go back to 30 in a few days' time - but I hope not.

ATO: Militants continue to fire using banned weapons
http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2016/07/8/7114089/
Friday, July 8, 2016, 7:38
Overnight gunmen opened fire 56 times on positions forces ATO, including agreed with Minsk banned weapons.
The press center ATO Staff reports page on Facebook.
In Donetsk area recorded 30 cases of firing by the terrorists. For strongholds of the Armed Forces at Avdeevki they used 122 mm artillery. Also, in the area Avdeevki Zaitsev, Luhansk and Novoselivka Second militants fired mortar shells of caliber 120 mm.
In Mariupol direction 25 times militants opened fire on Ukrainian reference points. In particular, Talakivkoyu - 120 and 82 mm mortars....

2 soldiers killed and 6 wounded in the ATO zone yesterday - Staff
http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2016/07/8/7114130/
Friday, July 8, 2016, 12:54

One day in the area of ​​anti-terrorist operation killed two and injured six soldiers.
This at a traditional briefing on Friday, spokesman of the Presidential Administration on ATO Andrei Lysenko.
"For the past day because of fighting two Ukrainian soldiers were killed and six injured," - said the colonel.
He said a village in the Luhansk region on Lopaskyne minibus hit a mine, thus killing two soldiers.
"Luhansk - 2 wounded Zaitsev - 1 wounded Avdiyivka - two wounded and position near the mine" Butovka "- 1 wounded. All this - as a result of mortar attacks," - said Lysenko.
In just the past day militants carried out 56 attacks, 17 of them - with heavy weapons.

Due to blocked rostrum, Rada session closed
http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2016/07/8/7114106/
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Not sure who is doing the blocking, but looks 99% like Tymoshenko in the photo. In white. The angel of death.
Friday - who wants to work on a Friday? Long weekend for the deputies.

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Yes, I was right. Tymoshenko blocking work in the Rada
Parubii adjourned session as Batkivshchyna blocks presidium
http://en.censor.net.ua/news/396588/parubii_adjourned_session_as_batkivshchyna_blocks_presidium

"Walking around Kyiv": Klimkin shows Kerry Andriivskyi Uzviz. PHOTOS
http://en.censor.net.ua/photo_news/396554/walking_around_kyiv_klimkin_shows_kerry_andriivskyi_uzviz_photos
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Nice walk if you're going downhill. I wonder if he visited Dom Bulgakov? I think no.13.

NATO's increased military presence in eastern countries caused solely by Russia's actions in Ukraine – Stoltenberg
http://www.unian.info/world/1407511-natos-increased-military-presence-in-eastern-countries-caused-solely-by-russias-actions-in-ukraine-stoltenberg.html
...."We have seen a more assertive Russia. We have seen a Russia which has been willing to use military force against sovereign nations in Europe. With aggressive actions against Ukraine, the illegal annexation of Crimea. And that's the reason, the main reason, why we are now increasing our military presence in the eastern part of the Alliance," he said.

Russia offers Ukraine cheaper gas, putting forward unacceptable conditions – Ukraine MP
http://www.unian.info/economics/1407356-russia-offers-ukraine-cheaper-gas-putting-forward-unacceptable-conditions-ukraine-mp.html
....But we have to pay $800 million for gas that we have allegedly consumed in the occupied territories of Ukraine, and provide an advance payment of $3 billion," Denysenko said during a political TV show....
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Joke. I can't even believe they are discussing this.

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