Ukraine crisis. News in brief. Wednesday 14 June. [Ukrainian sources]

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Journalists know the date of the meeting Poroshenko Trump: Economist explained the effect of the sanctions of the West against Russia.  Netherlands completed the ratification of the Association Agreement with the EU, Ukraine. We discussed Ukraine: US Attorney General revealed details of the meeting with the Russian ambassador.  There was a video with a great response about Putin meeting with gay in the shower. Russians promised the traitor pilot of the Ukraine Air Force $ 30 thousand. For plane hijacking.

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Online video was loud words Russian President Vladimir Putin's campaign in showers gay.

The corresponding video published Russian promoter of the "Komsomolskaya Pravda" Dmitry Smirnov.

"Я бы с ним в душ не пошел. Зачем провоцировать человека?": Путин ответил Стоуну на вопрос о гее на подводной лодке pic.twitter.com/1wB5pmesbz

— Дмитрий Смирнов (@dimsmirnov175) June 14, 2017

"Well, I'd rather not go into the shower with him. Why should it provoke? But you know that I am the master of judo," - said the Russian president to the question of how he would have behaved in the shower with a gay submarine.

Note earlier users of social networks have reacted violently to the statement of Vladimir Putin's meeting with gay in the shower .

In addition, former Deputy Prime Minister of Russia, Alfred Koch pointed out the strangeness of Russian President in response to a question about how he would have behaved in the shower with a gay submarine.

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US Attorney General Jeff Sessions said that the meeting with the Russian ambassador in Washington Sergei Kislyak during the election campaign in 2016 discussed Russian aggression against Ukraine .

He said this during a hearing in the Committee on Intelligence of the US Senate.

When asked Senator McCain whether discussing the issue Sessions with yogurt Crimea annexation and invasion of Russia in Ukraine, the prosecutor gave an affirmative answer. He noted that well remembers the meeting and said that the day before met with the Ambassador of Ukraine.

"I heard of it concerns the actions of Russia and raised this issue with Mr. Kislyak," - said Sessions.

According to him, the Russian ambassador tried to convince him of the correctness of action.

Earlier Sessions reported that during the conversation with yogurt problem of terrorism "sudden topic Ukraine."

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The current anti-Russian sanctions are not able to force Russia to go for de-occupation of Crimea or Donbass soon, but the effect of their actions affect Russia in the long run.

In an interview with "apostrophe" said Russian economist and former executive secretary of the Coordinating Council opposition Dmitry Nekrasov.

"Of course, Russia will always be ready to go to any concessions for the lifting of sanctions. Sanctions And obviously approaching the moment when these concessions it go. Just this moment is very far away in time," - said the expert.

According to Nekrasov, the current sanctions could cause a critical impact on the economy of 15-20 years.

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President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko will meet with US President Donald Trump next week.

This was stated by several diplomatic sources, said "true European".

It is noted that the arrangement of the meeting are achieved. This presidential administration soon officially announce this visit.

"This is a full state visit Poroshenko in Washington, which will include all meetings with key officials, including President Trump" - said one of the interlocutors.

Another said that "the visit will take place in June, in the near future."

According to the report, another official said that the meeting of presidents Poroshenko and Trump is scheduled for next week.

It should be noted that the expected announcement of the visit was reported as editor of "Voice of America" ​​Myroslava Gongadze.

In turn, the chief editor of "Gordon" Olesya Batsman said that Poroshenko and Trump will meet on 20 June.

"Well, that specifics! Poroshenko President and President of Trump meet in Washington on June 20; Rev. 11:00 pf America. That Putin at the summit in Germany Trump will speak already charged," - she wrote on his page on Facebook.

Currently Bankova not yet released information visit Poroshenko in Washington. We can assume that such caution is the fact that previously the president of Ukraine anonsuvalasya meeting with Donald Trump, but it was postponed.

Thus, the visit to Washington in June will mean that Trump will meet with Poroshenko quickly than with Putin. The first meeting of the presidents of the US and Russia to be held in early July at the G20 summit in Germany.

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In the Netherlands published a law on the ratification of the Association Agreement between Ukraine and the European Union, which was signed on June 1 King Willem-Alexander and 13 June, he was signed by the Ministry of Justice of the country.

This is stated in the official report of the Dutch government, UNIAN.

The law, which approves the Association Agreement between the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community and its Member States, of the one part, and Ukraine, on the other hand, shall take effect the day after publication in the government publications, ie 15 June.

The law was passed in the Senate July 8, 2015, but April 6, 2016 in the Netherlands held a consultative referendum on the agreement.

"Against" voted 61% of voters, "for" - more than 38%. The turnout was 32.28%.

Then 15 December 2016 at the EU summit EU leaders agreed to the proposals of the Prime Minister of the Netherlands Mark Rutte aimed at unblocking the ratification of the Association Agreement between Ukraine and the EU. Suggestions Netherlands were decorated in an annex to the Agreement.

"The document contains no guarantee of collective security and will not lead to any military cooperation. It also prevents Ukrainian operate in the EU. Ukraine will not receive any extra funds based on this Association Agreement. Finally, Ukraine must do everything possible to fight corruption ", - said the head of government of the Netherlands.

May 30, 2017 the Netherlands had approved a bill on the entry into force of the Act of July 8, 2015 on the approval of the Association Agreement EU-Ukraine .

At the same time, Ukraine lags behind in the implementation of the Agreement on association with the EU by 104 points. Now she implements Ukraine in its legislation, only 26 of the planned 130 acts of EU law.

June 12 the head of the EU Delegation to Ukraine Hugues Mingarelli said that the Association Agreement with the European Union finally come into force on 1 September.

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Khmelnytsky City Court convicted the deputy squadron commander of the military unit p / V-2806 with the rank of Major General Armed Forces of Ukraine Yuri Kireyev treason and sentenced 12 years in prison

This verdict issued June 6 panel of judges chaired by Judge Oleg Antoniuk, reports the Independent Public Portal .

The soldier during the 2014 Russian special services regularly reported on combat missions in the area ATO. Specifically, 1 and 3 August Kireyev informed in advance of the representatives of the flight from the airfield Mirgorod Poltava region reconnaissance aircraft Su-24MR for special military reconnaissance flights in the area of ​​ATO. After the flight, Major zavershschennya SMS-message reported "curator" of the aggressor country.

September 8 Kireev again told Russians on the implementation of this special day reconnaissance spy plane Su-24MR from the airfield Starokonstantinov Khmelnitsky region along the state border of Ukraine and the Republic of Belarus and the Russian Federation to the airport Mirgoroda.

The same day, the deputy commander of the squadron, flying over Shostka Sumy region, refused to comply navigator of the crew on the implementation of the right turn and guidance reconnaissance aircraft Su-24MR on course towards Swan Sumy region and sent a plane to the state border of Ukraine and Russia. Approaching the state border, recognizing the lack of any ability to independently get to airports in Russia and make a successful landing, Kireyev is not flew specified plane through the line of the state border of Ukraine and brought it to the intended line of flight Shostka-Swan and completed flight.

Separately, intelligence found that Kireev in June 2014 after his brother clergyman, who came to him with Khabarovsk Krai Russia nahlahodyv contact and agreed to cooperate with the special services of the Russian Federation, including CPD and got them to do the task acquisition Armed Forces of Ukraine military aircraft, which fly across the state border of Ukraine in Russia. For this traitor Major-Russian special services promised to the rank of colonel, an apartment, 30 thousand. Dollars and hold a woman for the job.

In the summer of 2014 asked the command to allow him to visit Russia. However, it refused, he sent his wife to Russia. It immediately met with representatives of special services of Russia.

In addition, in spring 2014, Kireev among soldiers spread its openly pro-Russian positions and anti-Ukrainian statements, namely the approval of actions of the Russian Federation on the annexation of Crimea, the negative reviews on holding ATO and denial of the rights of Ukraine's defense against external aggression by Russia and poor performance objectives reconnaissance flights (actually sabotage) in the area of ​​ATO and towards Crimea.

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The US Senate on June 14 supported the bill that would expand existing sanctions against Russia and complicate the procedure of removal of restrictions.

The adopted document enshrines in law the sanctions that were imposed on Russia previous US President Barack Obama. It allows Congress to block any attempt of the current president Donald Trump remove or loosen current restrictions. Republican Senator Lindsey Graham has expressed confidence that even if Trump does not sign the bill, Congress will gain enough votes to overcome a presidential veto.

The adopted document also contains amendments to the "Act on support for the sovereignty, integrity, democracy and economic stability in Ukraine." The wording of the President "may impose sanctions on Russia changed the phrase" must pay ", setting 30 days after the adoption of the amendments.

New restrictions will affect "corrupt Russian officials who seek to escape from sanctions" and those responsible for serious human rights violations supplying weapons Assad regime engaged in deliberate cyber attacks on the Russian government orders associated with the corrupt privatization of state assets and does business with Russia intelligence and defense industry. "

The proposed sanctions will affect mining, metallurgy, marine and rail transport. List of companies still unknown, it will be the American Ministry of Finance.

Sanctions affect investment in Russia's export oil - and gas pipelines. When they can get investors who invest in the sector over a million dollars (more than five million in 12 months).

The document also proposed to consider the effect of introducing a complete ban on investments in Russian Eurobonds and federal loan bonds.

Ministry of Finance, the State Department and the Director of National Intelligence within 180 days after the adoption of the amendments will be required to provide a report on senior politicians and oligarchs close to the regime of. Before them the task to analyze the relationship of these persons with Putin, describe and analyze evidence of corruption revenues, financial condition and investment.

It is also proposed to explore the key Russian companies with state participation and the effect of sanctions against them.

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Today US President Donald Trump to clearly understand their dependence on the Kremlin.

This was an article on the website "Gordon" wrote US-Russian historian, journalist and co-author of acclaimed book "Blowing Up Russia" Yuri Felshtynskyy.

According to him, the situation was such that if the Kremlin wished to remove Trump from office it can do it in one day.

"Trump is well aware. To remove Trump of the presidency, all Putin has to do is release one-tenth of the information that is available to the Kremlin meetings and talks with Russian officials Flynn, Kushner, Sessions, Donald Trump Jr. and Trump himself, "- he said.

Felshtynskyy said that if Putin will try to slightly adjust the materials, Trump could lose positions twice as fast and within 12 hours.

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Michael Flynn, former national security advisor for the president of the USA Donald Trump, has received $530,000 from Russia via Turkish businessman Ekim Alptekin as a middleman. Yuri Felshtinsky, a Russian-American historian, author of "Blowing up Russia" and "The Corporation: Russia and KGB in the Age of President Putin" wrote about this in an exclusive material GORDON. Не claims that Trump’s ex-advisor was on the payroll of the president of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin.

The famous "Lock-Her-Up" General may go to jail for treason. Let me tell you why: in 2015-2016 he has received approximately $600,000 in Russian money. Let me tell you how: a major portion of it came from the Russian bank Sviaz-bank when in December of 2007 Sviaz-bank issued a $150 million loan to the Turkish businessman Ekim Alptekin and his Dutch and Russian partners. This loan was never paid back, and in 2016, a minor portion of it, around $530,000, was paid by Alptekin to Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn. It never had anything to do with Turkey or lobbying Turkish interests. This was just the cover. It had everything to do with Russia and Putin.

Ekim Alptekin worked with Flynn until November 16, 2016. Photo: Kamil Ekim Alptekin / Facebook



That is exactly why Flynn has registered himself as a lobbyist for Turkey only in March 2017 after massive payments to him became known to US law enforcement agencies and information about payments was leaked to the media. On March 7, 2017, Flynn filed with National Security Division under the Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA) statement disclosing that his company – Flynn Intel Group Inc. – was paid $ 530,000 in September-November 2016 for the work on behalf of a small Dutch company Inovo BV, owned by a Turkish businessman Ekim Alptekin (who also owned other companies including Inovo Turkije). BV – in Dutch means “Besloten Vennootschap” – a private company. Flynn’s contract with Inovo BV was signed on August 9, 2016, according to one source, or on September 2016, according to the other.

The total amount was $600,000 for the three months of work. The last transfer of $145,000 was received by Flynn on November 14, 2016, when Trump was already elected as the President. Flynn’s “work” for Alptekin was now finished and he filed a termination report for the contract with Inovo BV indicating November 16, 2016, as a day of contract termination. The next day, November 17, 2016, he was named the National Security Advisor for the President-elect of the United States of America.

However, the paperwork on contract termination was submitted to the Senate only the next day after Justice Department had started showing signs of interest in Flynn’s interactions with Inovo BV. In addition, that paperwork showed that there was only $5,000 received by Flynn Intel Group Inc. for its services. That was a blunt lie. On March 10, 2017, The New York Times wrote: “that presumably indicates that he did not define most of the services he would provide Mr. Alptekin as lobbying under the law“. Well, $5,000 was earned for a lobbying work for Turkey. And the rest, $525,000, for something other than that? What could it be?

“I disagree with the filing”, – said Alptekin on the telephone from Istanbul in reply to the reporter's question about Flynn’s registered as foreign agent working for Turkey. – "It would be different if I was working for the government of Turkey, but I am not taking directions from anyone in the [Turkish] government". Indeed, Alptekin does not work for Turkish government and never did. His small Dutch company Inovo BV only showed losses in its financial reports, and was unable to pay $530,000 to Flynn unless it had previously received this money from elsewhere.

It all started in April 2014 when Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn, the head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, lost his job after less than two years in office. He somehow survived for the next year. In October 2014 he started his own consulting firm. ”The business was opaque, making little public, not even an address. When a reporter went looking for it last fall, he tracked it down to an Alexandria, Va., office building operating out of the nondescript headquarters of another firm, called the White Canvas Group. In the interview in October, Mr. Flynn offered only a vague description of the firm. He said he had clients in Japan and the Middle East and that he worked on cyber training, aviation operations and energy business,” – as The New York Times described Flynn’s business.

Then, a new employer came to help: the State of Russia. Since August 2015, Lt. Gen. Flynn started earning a salary of $11,250 per month. But his employer had to be creative.

For example, in August 2015, the $11,250 was received from a Russian charter cargo airline Volga-Dnepr Airlines. It continued in September 2015 with the payment of $11,250 from Kaspersky Government Security Solutions Inc., a U.S. subsidiary of Kaspersky Lab, a Russian-based cybersecurity firm. Well, you may ask any Russian, and he/she will tell you that Kaspersky's firm is affiliated with the FSB of Russia. But Flynn is not a Russian. He is а US General. He probably did not know. The same pattern continued with the monthly payments of $11,250 for October 2015, November 2015, December 2015 (for a total of $33,750 for three months). Nominally Flynn received this money for traveling to Moscow for a few days in December 2015. It was a fee for an interview for Russian propaganda TV channel ‘Russia Today’ (RT). During his stay in Moscow he took part in a celebration of RT’s 10th anniversary. At the ceremony he was seated at the same table with Vladimir Putin, what was widely covered by media worldwide...................

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U.S. President Donald Trump’s personal attorney Michael Cohen received a check for $350,000 in 1999 for one of the leaders of the Izmaylovskaya Organized Crime Group. It was reported in an exclusive material for "GORDON" by Yuri Felshtinsky, a Russian American historian and the author of the book “Blowing up Russia: Terror from Within”. Based on more than a hundred archival records of American courts, which are open to the public in the US, the expert maintains that the Russian hockey player Vladimir Malakhov was used in the scheme, and the whole story was revealed accidentally because of a check, which became the subject of litigation. All the supporting documents are available in the editorial office.

Michael D. Cohen, President Donald Trump’s personal attorney, has been working for The Trump Organization since 2007 and is a member of the Trump World Tower Condominium Board and the Trump Park Avenue Condominium Board. He was involved in the recent attempt to implement the so-called peaceful Russian-Ukrainian plan developed by Felix Sater and Andrey Artemenko, which received extensive coverage in the world press. He has also been a confidant of the Russian organized criminality since at least 1999 and has been laundering money for Russian citizens having or suspected to have connections with the Russian mafia.

It follows from court materials of 2006-2011, which are kept in the U.S. court archives.

In particular, on 19 January, 1999 Michael Cohen received a check for $350,000 from the Russian hockey player Vladimir Malakhov, now living in Miami, who in 1999-2000 played for different clubs in Canada, New Jersey, and New York.



This check was deposited by Cohen to one of his attorney accounts, but, incidentally, it became the focus of litigation in 2006.

On 2 May, 2007, following a phone conversation, Michael Cohen received a letter from Marc D. Wolfe on this matter:

"The purpose of this letter is to summarize and confirm our conversation of this date, as well as the information that you have provided us over the past week regarding the above matter.

As you know, we are in possession of a check in the amount of $350,000 written to a “Michael Cohen” at the address of “Michael Cohen, Esq,. 500 West 56th Street, New York, N.Y. 10019”. You have reviewed a copy of the back and front of this check, as well as the first page of the Complaint (including case style), which we provided.

After such review, you have indicated that you did occupy this office as of the date of this check (1/19/99), and were the only Michael Cohen there at that time. Otherwise, you are completely unfamiliar with any aspect of this incident, including the identity of any of the parties to this lawsuit. You state that you never had any involvement in this transaction whatsoever. You also state that the endorsement on the back of the check is not your signature.

You also indicate that you are unfamiliar with the account numbers listed on the check, but have asked your accountant to ascertain whether you were affiliated with any of the accounts. Should this investigation reveal that you were affiliated one or more of these accounts, we would appreciate knowing whether this check was deposited into said account, and the ultimate disposition of the funds".

In other words, Cohen mentioned in the phone conversation with Attorney Wolfe that he doesn’t know anything about the check, that the endorsement on the back of the check is not his signature, and that he was unfamiliar with the number of the account to which the check was deposited. In a nutshell, Cohen claimed to not have received $350,000.......................

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A former Soviet intelligence officer and now an American financial analyst Yuri Shvets told "Gordon" that in spite of the official biography, the Russian president has never worked in intelligence office because of "below average abilities", about what nicknames Putin had in the KGB and what two papers signed by US President would be enough to derail the economy of Russia.

A native of Ukraine, a former officer of the First Chief Directorate of the KGB, a graduate of the Andropov Institute of KGB, and now the American financial analyst Yuri Shvets in the 1980s, at the height of the "cold war" was a scout in the United States. Was working as an undercover reporter in Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS) to collect and analyze information about possible sudden nuclear attack on the Soviet Union by America.

In 1990, Shvets retired from service and three years later he emigrated to the United States, where published a book, "The Washington residency: My Life As A KGB spy in America." The last 18 years, the former spy works as a head of US firm on gathering information and assessing the commercial risks of the companies planning to conduct multi-million dollar business on the territory of the former Soviet Union and around the world, including Latin America, Africa and Asia.

Yuri Shvets – one of the key witnesses at the ongoing London public hearing into the murder of former FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko. It was Shvets who helped Litvinenko to collect and analyze the file on Viktor Ivanov – ally of Vladimir Putin, Director of Federal Drug Control Service of Russia. The dossier was compiled with information on connections of Putin and Ivanov with Tambov organized crime group that in the 1990s was engaged in drug trafficking and money laundering of one of the largest Colombian drug cartels. According to the materials of the British investigation, exactly Shvets and Litvinenko crumbed the deal of one of Europe's leading corporations with Russia, from which Ivanov allegedly planned to personally get a huge "cut".

In addition, Yuri Shvets as an expert was involved in the immigration case of former Ukrainian Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko, and in 2002-2005 transcribed and analyzed "Melnichenko tape" – records of wiretaps of former Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma in the investigation into the murder of journalist Georgy Gongadze. Shvets published the transcript on the Ukrainian Internet resources under the pseudonym Petr Liutyy.

In an exclusive interview with "GORDON" Yuri Shvets said that a year ago, before the active hostilities in the Donbass, he was trying to help "eliminate armed separatists" and what the Ukrainian leadership responded him; explained why he considers Putin a man with the abilities of "below average" and "What two pieces of paper would be enough to sign" for US President Barack Obama to make Russia's economy collapse.

– Is it true that you studied with Vladimir Putin in the Andropov Institute of the KGB?

– This information appeared in May 2001 on the site of Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service, the article stated that I am a traitor because I broadcast exposing things about the KGB, as indicated in brackets: "In the early '80s Yuri Shvets was a groupmate of Vladimir Putin in the academy of the KGB. "

– Why did the Russian special services needed to expose you in 2001?

– I have no idea. I had nothing to do with the post-Soviet Russia, I have never been a citizen of the Russian Federation, I even did not have a Russian passport. In 1993, I went to the US, and three years later published a book of memoirs, "The Washington residency: My Life As A KGB Spy in America." Hardly memoirs appeared in Russia began howling, saying that Shvets has issued all the KGB secrets. What secrets where they talking about if the Soviet Union had collapsed a long time ago, the KGB at that time did not exist, and the chairman of the KGB, Vladimir Kryuchkov had already served in prison for an attempted coup in August 1991.

– Maybe the howl went up because you know too much about the past of Putin as an intelligence officer?

– Putin has never worked in intelligence.

– But the Russian president's official biography states that he served as a counter-intelligence officer in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg), and then - in the German Democratic Republic (GDR).

– After graduating from the Andropov Institute Putin was sent to the territorial authorities - the KGB in Leningrad and Leningrad region. This is extremely important for the understanding of "Who is mister Putin?" and what is happening with Russia.........................

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