Ukraine crisis. News in brief. Sunday 2 April. [Ukrainian sources]

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Trump ''not stopping me from beating up on Russia,'' - US ambassador to UN Haley.  Recent protests in Moscow published a video harsh detention.  Riot police massively apprehends rally participants in Moscow.  Russia Accuses NATO Of 'Slander' As U.S. Denounces 'Russian Aggression'.  US acknowledged the death of 229 civilians through the coalition airstrikes.  In the UK, increasing the threat of terrorist attacks - have strengthened the protection of nuclear power plants and airports.  In London, 14 people were detained during a march against terrorism. Russia wants to weaken the position of Poland as an "advocate of Ukraine in the EU".

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Anti-Ukrainian march in Poland in Lutsk bombardment, blockade roads pseudo Polish hromadoyu- all implications of hybrid methods of warfare from.

It informs Tsenzor.NET , this Deputy Minister of temporarily occupied territories George Tuka wrote on his page on Facebook .

"Ukraine - Poland: what next? All that we are now seeing (anti-Ukrainian march in Poland, firing in Lutsk, block roads pseudo Polish community) - all implications of hybrid methods of warfare from.

Increased confrontation ultra -radykalnyh marginalized on both sides of the border quite fit into Russia's desire to weaken Poland's position as "advocate of Ukraine in the EU." It would seem, that can be shared between the marginalized who stubbornly despise each other? Sharing is - a source of funding and the ultimate goal of actively sti. How to resist this abomination? " - he writes.

"From my point of view, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Education, Ministry of Culture, various NGOs Ukrainian-Polish friendship should organize a series of joint with the Poles measures to demonstrate firmness friendly relations.

Politicians should make a joint declaration on the inviolability of good neighborly relations and rejection of society marginalized on both sides. Passive official and public position can lead to extremely negative consequences. I think appropriate introduction of criminal responsibility to those corrupt boobies, which is used as a "stand under banners" - summed up Deputy Minister of temporarily occupied territories.

It was reported that night on March 29 unknown fired facilities Consulate General of Poland in Lutsk. Consul of Poland in Lutsk , Krzysztof Savitsky said that the attack on the premises of the consulate was a terrorist act, and at the scene found a metal projectile fragments from the grenade launcher. Ukraine Foreign Minister Klimkin said: "This despicable provocation. We do everything that those responsible are punished." And the head of Ukrainian National Memory Institute Vyatrovych said that provocations against the Polish-Ukrainian relations to a new, more dangerous level. Poroshenko strongly condemned the shelling of the Consulate General of Poland in Lutsk.

Poland's Foreign Ministry summoned the Ambassador of Ukraine fraction after firing Consulate General in Lutsk. Also intends to send Ukrainian foreign ministry note of protest.

The SBU said that the Consulate General of Poland in Lutsk fired from a grenade launcher. Among the considered versions of the incident investigation and indicated the attack.

ua.censor.net.ua, Original in Ukrainian / на українській мові

The head of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) Vasyl Hrytsak announced that the main version of the assassination of SBU Colonel Oleksandr Kharaberiush in Mariupol (the Donetsk region) is a terrorist attack related to the professional activities of the deceased.



Censor.NET reports citing Interfax-Ukraine.

"The main version being worked out by the Security Service of Ukraine, is a terrorist attack, and it is connected with his professional activities. We clearly understand that they came for him He was the best counterintelligence agent in Ukraine," Hrytsak said after the farewell ceremony to Kharaberiush, who died in a car explosion.

"It is a matter of honor to find those who did it. We will do our best," the head of the SBU added.

After the farewell ceremony, Hrytsak handed the Order For Courage to the father of the deceased.

On March 31, a Toyota Land Cruiser SUV exploded in Mariupol market area, killing its driver, Ukraine's Security Service Colonel Oleksandr Kharaberiush. He died of extensive blood loss in the ambulance.

Kharaberiush was the deputy chief of the Donetsk SBU counter-intelligence unit.

Head of the Main Directorate of the National Police in the Donetsk region Viacheslav Abroskin said that one of the versions of the explosion is a terrorist attack organized by a 'DPR' raiding unit.

ua.censor.net.ua, Original in Ukrainian / на українській мові

U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said Saturday that President Donald Trump has not stopped her from "beating up on Russia."

Censor.NET reports citing The Hill.

"The president has not once called me and said, 'Don't beat up on Russia,' has not once called me told me what to say," Haley said in an interview on ABC.

On Saturday, Trump called on NBC News to "stop with the Fake Trump/Russia story" and focus more on his unproven claims that former President Barack Obama spied on him.

"It is the same Fake News Media that said there is 'no path to victory for Trump' that is now pushing the phony Russia story. A total scam!" Trump tweeted.

Haley has often taken an adversarial approach to Russia in her post at the U.N., particularly over the country's 2014 annexation of Crimea and renewed fighting in Ukraine.

In early February, Haley condemned Russia's geopolitical maneuvers in Eastern Ukraine, asserting that Moscow's behavior "demands clear and strong condemnation."

ua.censor.net.ua, Original in Ukrainian / на українській мові

Mass apprehensions began at the Mayakovskaya metro station in the capital of Russia.
Censor.NET reports citing Novaya Gazeta.

It is reported that about 100-150 participants of the anti-corruption rally are moving along Tverskaya Street. Two paddy wagons and riot policemen are following the crowd.

Riot police snatches people from the crowd and takes them to the paddy wagons literally one after another. 40 people have been apprehended by now.

Three paddy wagons with the detainees left. One more wagon remains on the spot.




Earlier, riot police cordoned protesters off to dislodge them from Tverskaya Street.

Russian blogger Ilya Varlamov reported about a teenager apprehended by the riot police at Manezhnaya Square. "They searched the apprehended schoolboy and found an algebra textbook, the Constitution and a bundle of money (most likely toy ones)," he wrote in Twitter.



On March 26, an unsanctioned anti-corruption rally took place in Moscow. The police report that up to 8,000 people took part in the event. Its organizer, opposition politician Aleksei Navalny, was detained at the beginning of the rally.

The protests are said to have been triggered by Alexei Navalny's recent report exposing posh property of Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.

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Russia has accused the United States and its allies of "slander" as the U.S. top diplomat and Pentagon chief denounced Russia’s actions in Ukraine and elsewhere.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson told his counterparts at NATO on March 31 that the United States was committed to Ukraine's territorial integrity and that U.S. sanctions against Russia will remain in place "until Moscow reverses the actions that triggered our sanctions."

Western nations imposed the sanctions for Russia's illegal 2014 annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea region and for its support for separatist fighters in eastern Ukraine.

"We do not and will not accept Russian efforts to change the borders of the territory of Ukraine," said Tillerson.

The secretary of state added that Washington "will continue to hold Russia accountable to its Minsk commitments," referring to the Minsk process to resolve the Ukraine crisis.

Tillerson was attending his first meeting of NATO foreign ministers amid worries about U.S. President Donald Trump's stated desire for closer relations with Moscow.

He told Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin, who was also at the meeting, that American and NATO support for Ukraine remained "steadfast" after "Russia's aggression against Ukraine."

Russia responded by accusing NATO of spreading "the myth of a 'Russian threat'" and "the slander of 'Russian aggression'" as a way to unify its members.

"The U.S. and its allies are obsessed with building up their military presence on our borders, justifying it with the need to 'restrain Russia'," the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

Also on March 31, U.S. Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis told reporters in London that "Russian's violations of international law are now a matter of record -- from what happened with Crimea to other aspects of their behavior in mucking around inside other peoples' elections.”

Mattis was likely referring to Russia’s alleged meddling during the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

The U.S. secretary of defense also expressed concern over Russia's activities in Afghanistan and its interaction with the Taliban militant group.

"We have seen Russian activity vis-a-vis the Taliban," Mattis said. "I am not willing to say at this point if that is manifested into weapons and that sort of thing, but, certainly, what they are up to there in light of their other activities gives us concern."

The comments came after U.S. General Curtis Scaparrotti, NATO's supreme allied commander in Europe, told a U.S. Senate committee on March 23 that he had seen evidence of increasing Russian efforts to influence the Taliban "and perhaps even to supply" the militant group.

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In the center of Moscow, a new wave of arrests of participants of protest action which was not coordinated with the authorities.




The video shows that police detained a young man with the flag of the state and put him in the car.

It was reported that police installed metal fences on Manezhnaya Square near the Historical Museum and the Alexander Garden. In the center of Moscow OMON fighters recovered and military Roshvardiyi.

Previously, April 2 in Moscow began unauthorized protests. Representatives of the Russian opposition said they were not involved in the organization of the event.

As reported by "Apostrophe", formerly known Russian poet Andrei Orlov (Orlusha) published an April Fool's poem, which describes the current political and social situation in Russia.

apostrophe.ua , Original in Ukrainian / на українській мові

As a result of coalition airstrikes led by the US in 2014 in Iraq and Syria killed 229 civilians

This is stated in a statement the coalition headquarters, reports CNN .

It also reported that there is an ongoing investigation by coalition airstrikes Mosul in mid-March and it may be that there are also killed civilians. According to the Iraqi top official in Mosul were found 112 bodies.

In addition, currently estimated another 43 reports of deaths among the civilian population - 23 in Iraq and 20 in Syria. Thus, according to officials, 17 of these reports are not credible.

"We apologize for the unintentional death of civilians as a result of coalition efforts to defeat the" ID "in Iraq and Syria and express our deepest condolences to the families and others affected by these air strikes," - said in a statement the coalition headquarters.

The report also said that in August 2014 to the end of February 2017 coalition airstrikes caused 18,600.

Previously, the heavy losses among civilians said Iraqi officials.

espreso.tv , Original in Ukrainian / на українській мові