Ukraine crisis. News in Brief. Thursday, 02 July [Ukrainian sources]

THURSDAY

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News -
I've read of shelling by the Russian forces at Marinka and Pisky.
And 54 attacks - shells and the like - during the past 24 hours.
Clearly Putin wants the war, the deaths, to go on and on.
Scumball "journalist" for Russiaprofile and The Guardian, Shaun Walker, is in Lviv, looking for his "fascists".
Always a good story to light up the eyes of his hero, Shameus Milne, Stalin apologist.
Greece. What a mess. I read one interview in which somebody blamed Germany for the problem.
"They should have known we couldn't repay this money". Amazing attitude.
It is always somebody else's fault. You borrow money, and ... oh - let's have a vote on if we give it back or not!
Scumballs. Is the Greek PM working for Putin now in trying to destabilize Europe? Could be.

ATO Update - from mid day briefing - 0 deaths 4 injured

Weather -
Pleasant. 14 at 0600. High of 25 predicted. But next week looking very toasty. Maybe in the 30s (90s F) Still no rain.

8:05
"Russians" are ready to break through minefields north of Mariupol (Kriminal.TV)
http://kriminal.tv/news/russkie-gotovjatsja-prorivat-minnie-polja-severnee-mariupolja.html

8:00
The pain and ruin: how to live the most shelled the village of Donetsk (Segodnya.ua)
http://www.segodnya.ua/regions/donetsk/bol-i-razruha-kak-zhivet-samyy-obstrelivaemyy-poselok-donecka-628205.html
Жизнь на поселке шахты "Октябрьский рудник", что неподалеку от донецкого аэропорта
October Mine, not far from Donetsk airport. Russian tv says they are Ukrainian shells, but "everybody" knows they are not. ]

7:58
Press center ATO - the terrorists [Russians] 10 times bombarded positions of Ukrainian troops from the beginning of today [July 02] (Gordonua.com)
http://gordonua.com/news/war/Press-centr-ATO-Boeviki-10-raz-obstrelyali-pozicii-ukrainskih-voysk-s-nachala-sutok-87673.html
Over the past day the militants [Russians] fired 54 times Ukrainian troops, including the banned weapons. Today, July 2, Ukrainian positions have been fired 10 times, the press center of the anti-terrorist operation (ATO) to Facebook.

8:05
In Kiev will be a museum of Soviet occupation (Commander)
http://kievnews.glavcom.ua/news/38064.html
[About time. I know there was one in Riga, the capital of Latvia, over ten years' ago.
I am sure that Prague has one also.
They don't have a location yet. Some suggesting Expo-center. On the metro line. ]

8:21
The "DNR" government introduced a special regime and promised local elections October 18 (UNN)
http://www.unn.com.ua/uk/news/1478458-u-dnr-vveli-osobliviy-rezhim-samovryaduvannya-i-poobitsyali-mistsevi-vibori-18-zhovtnya
The leader of the group "Donetsk People's Republic" Alexander Zakharchenko introduced in the temporarily occupied territory of Donetsk region a special regime of government and said that on 18 October this year held local elections.
[A Putin - Shaun Walker "reporter' election, with a Russian soldier holding a gun to your head as you vote "freely".
The people simply want Putin's men to leave them in peace. But this proposal won't be on the ballot paper.]

[Outside] a restaurant in Odessa night bomb exploded (RBC-Ukraine)
http://www.rbc.ua/rus/news/restorane-odessy-nochyu-srabotalo-vzryvnoe-1435813414.html
"On July 2 at 02:50, it was reported that at the street Zhukovsky, 38 in the restaurant" At Angelova "explosion. Police officers found that as a result of an explosive device damaged the doors and facade of the institution. Broken glass in the windows in apartments above the restaurant in a nearby cafe, "- said in a statement.

Russia’s Gazprom gets cold shower from Ukraine’s Naftohaz [in English]
http://zik.ua/en/news/2015/07/01/russias_gazprom_gets_cold_shower_from_ukraines_naftohaz_603789
July 1, Ukraine stopped buying the Russian gas, something which came as a total surprise for the Russian company Gazprom that had blackmailed Ukraine for many years cutting gas during frosty winters, political expert Kiril Sazonov writes for Obozrevatel July 1
[short report]

Related to the above
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EU 'frustrated' as Russia gas talks break down [in English]
https://euobserver.com/energy/129414
Russia offered Ukraine a price of $247.18 per thousand cubic metres, similar to Poland’s. It also wanted freedom to change the price quarterly based on market shifts.
But Ukraine, which is closer to Russia than Poland, said it should pay less and wanted a fixed winter price....
Russia also says Ukraine should pay for gas it doesn’t need on a “take-or-pay” clause in a 2009 contract.

[2009 contract - I presume this is Tymoshenko. She was expecting Putin to make her President of Ukraine, and signed an agreement for Russian gas at 400 / th c m. And did other stupid things, presumably for a nice payback - allegedly]

[Just checked wikipedia - Tymoshenko was PM from...  18 December 2007 – 4 March 2010 .
So she signed this agreement. At that time, due to the changes in the constitution, the PM had the power, and the President (Yushchenko) could do little. ]

Production in Key Branches of Russian Economy Falls to 6-Year Low [in English]
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/business/article/production-in-key-branches-of-russian-economy-falls-to-6-year-low/524853.html
[and Putin is more popular than ever? Shaun Walker polls me thinks. ]

And an excellent report in the Moscow Times on Russian paranoia. Why can't Shaun Walker, Moscow resident for 15 years, write something like this?
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Russian Academia Rattled as American Professor Sacked After TV Witch Hunt [in English]
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/russian-academia-rattled-as-american-professor-sacked-after-tv-witch-hunt/524854.html
The firing came on the heels of an incendiary program ... on state-run television channel Rossia, during which fervently anti-Western host Dmitry Kiselyov denounced White's work as "bringing us [Russia] harm."....
Lobachevsky State University President Yevgeny Chuprunov declined to comment in detail on White's dismissal, simply saying: "These are the times that we're living in," Kommersant reported.
[The guy had worked at the university for over 20 years! Manic paranoia in Russia now.]

13:01
Near the "demilitarized" Shyrokyno militants fired on the positions of the forces ATO with Grad and ACS (Tyzhden.ua)
http://tyzhden.ua/News/139910

13:00
War situation in the zone of action on July 2 Donbass (map) (Krыm.Realyy)
http://ru.krymr.com/media/photogallery/27106002.html

13:15
The last day in the area of ​​the ATO no deaths. There are [4] wounded (ISLAND)
http://www.ostro.org/general/society/news/474228/
"For the past day fortunately no fatalities, four soldiers were injured," - he said.
According to Lysenko, it happened near the suburb of Donetsk and Gorlovka.

17:54
"Election" "DNR" shall mean an attack by Russia on the Minsk agreement, - Poroshenko (Zik.ua)
http://zik.ua/ua/news/2015/07/02/vybory_dnr_oznachatymut_ataku_rf_na_minski_domovlenosti__poroshenko_604079
English version: zik.ua
[Good point. ]

17:57
The enemy is preparing for a tank battle near Mariupol (Svidok.ua)
http://svidok.ua/ua/news/article/16781-vorog-gotujetsja-do-tankovogo-boju-pid-mariupolem

17:59
The separatists shelled their [own] positions in Shirokino (News of Donbass)
http://novosti.dn.ua/details/253951/
[just a video; I believe I translated this correctly. Wierd! ]

18:15
The situation at the front worsened. At Mariupol opponent moved in tanks. MAP (NewsOboz)
http://newsoboz.org/proisshestviya/situatsiya-na-fronte-obostrilas-k-mariupolyu-protivnik-podtyanul-02072015181100
[includes map already posted above]

18:10
Currency borrowers blocked all the exits from the Parliament (RBC-Ukraine)
http://www.rbc.ua/rus/news/valyutnye-zaemshchiki-zablokirovali-vyhody-1435849716.html
About 300 activists are planning not to release the deputies of the parliament to pass the law on the restructuring of foreign currency loans
[I must admit, I have little sympathy with these people.
They take out a loan in a foreign currency. Their gamble.
If they had made money, they would be laughing. And they certainly wouldn't give their profits to the country -
But they lost out. And who do they blame? not themselves... of course... ]

In Odessa raging downpour of hail (UNIAN)
http://www.unian.ua/society/1096279-v-odesi-virue-zliva-z-gradom-foto-video.html#ad-image-0
[When I first saw the word "Grad" - I thought of Putin's Grad rockets. But this is a different type of hail for Ukraine! ]

18:27
Militants fired from a tank at mine "Butovka" and antitank missiles at Leninske (UNN)
http://www.unn.com.ua/uk/news/1478734-boyoviki-z-tanka-obstrilyali-shakhtu-butovka-a-z-protitankovikh-raket-leninske

July 1, Ukraine stopped buying the Russian gas, something which came as a total surprise for the Russian company Gazprom that had blackmailed Ukraine for many years cutting gas during frosty winters, political expert Kiril Sazonov writes for Obozrevatel July 1.

Ukraine’s move will not affect the transit of gas via Ukraine to Europe, Naftohaz says.

Ukraine says Russia has charged Ukraine too high a price for gas. In this confrontation with Moscow Ukraine can take a breather as its underground reservoirs are filled with enough gas.

In the past year, Ukraine was able to buy gas from Eastern European countries, radically reducing its dependence on Russia. Now Ukraine buys only a third of its gas from Russia.

zik.ua

On Thursday as a result of heavy rain flooded streets in Odessa, massively falling tree.








Read further: unian.ua

Attackers threatened with imprisonment for a term of five to ten years

The explosion in Odessa, which occurred on the night of July 2 to Zhukovsky Street, 38 in the restaurant "At Angelova", qualified as a terrorist act. This is stated in the message of the press service of the Odessa City police department.

Thus, according to the report, as of 8:00 for 30 minutes on Thursday found that the restaurant "At Angelova" worked bezobolochnoe homemade device electrically actuate.

"According to preliminary findings Bomb found that the power of the explosive device is from 450 to 600 grams of TNT," - said in a statement.





On this fact initiated criminal proceedings on the grounds of a criminal offense under Part 1. 258 (act of terrorism) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. Sanction article provides imprisonment for a term of five to ten years with confiscation of property or without it.



rbc.ua: In Russian

Today, July 2, at the joint center of control and coordination of the ceasefire during the daily briefing for the representatives of the OSCE SMM Russian side informed of the decision guidance ORDO (individual regions of Donetsk region - Ed.) To withdraw its troops from the settlement Shirokino. According to the Russian side STSKK as of 08.00 in Shirokino not a single unit ORDO. This was reported in the press service of the Defense Ministry.

"The cynicism of the situation lies in the fact that before the next negotiations in Minsk militants defiantly decided to return to Ukrainians destroyed and deserted Shirokino positioning the solution as compliance Minsk Agreement", - said the head of the Ukrainian side STSKK Major-General Andrei Taran.

The Defense Ministry also noted that today the common center of observers during daylight attacks of this settlement is not fixed. Confirmed and out militants from Shirokino, which lasted from night till morning July 2nd. Now illegal armed formations have occupied ORDO prepared positions east Shirokino: near settlements Sahanka and nameless.

The press service also said that now in Shirokino - complete silence. It is expected that in the near future CMM OSCE and Joint Center will establish in this town a permanent observation post.

glavcom.ua: In Russian

June 30 in Kiev, the management GSCHS acquainted with the new head - experienced rescuer Andrey Vatolin. His son, Andrei Vatolin also the first year serving in emergency services. Earlier - in Ukrainian, and now - in Russia in the occupied Crimea, reports TSN .

Pages Vatolina Jr. in social networks are full of posts supporting the occupation, there is a photo with the pro-Russian rallies, as well as their athletic achievements. In September 2013 he received the title of "Honored Worker of Physical Culture and Sports of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea", there is still the memory of it in the documents on the website of the Verkhovna Rada. And now - boasts sporting achievements as part of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations.

"Employee rescue squad Simferopol he is the master of sports of international class in fire-applied sports Andrew Vatolin, showed the best results in tests" Climbing stairs assault "and" Overcoming the 100-meter obstacle "- so wrote about her son the head of the Kiev rescuers at MOE Russia.

Journalists' Tizhden.ua "found interesting archives and in respect of the head of Kiev Andrew GSCHS Vatolina - during acceleration euromaidan he led troops, the protesters who poured out water cannons.

glavcom.ua: In Russian

Today, July 2, during the day about 20 militants violated the terms of the ceasefire. It is reported by the press center of the ATO on my page to Facebook.

According to him, the intensity of the shelling positions of rebels Ukrainian troops relatively diminished.

"Occupants fired at positions of the forces along the NTS boundary line sides, especially small arms and anti-missile systems. Traditionally, the militants used heavy weapons. 122 mm howitzers and 120 mm mortars gatili Human Settlements that near Mariupol ", - the report says.

Militants fired once again experienced and Sands, near Donetsk. During the day they fired from a tank of units ATO forces in the area of ​​the mine "Butovka."

"Because the enemy antitank missiles repeatedly struck by Lenin, that in the area of ​​Gorlovka. Also forces fire on positions near the ATO Gold and Trehizbenki that in Luhansk. In addition, in the Luhansk region there were several flights of unmanned aerial vehicles of the enemy ", - informs the press center.

glavcom.ua: In Russian

Most Russians, which, by their desire to go to war on the side of the militants on the Donbass, have already passed the war, without which they are unhappy. About this in an interview with "Commander in Chief," said the founder of the Moscow Helsinki Group, a Russian human rights activist Lyudmila Alexeyeva.

"You know, in our country (in Russia. - Ed.), A lot of people with military experience. We've had, and the war in Afghanistan, the war in Chechnya, Transnistria, and people fought in Africa. All these people have the military skills, not very value their lives because they failed it. They themselves think so "- she said.

According to her, for these people the war - "this is some adrenaline, it conditions the situation," in which they can be seen, "while at other times these people are unhappy."

"These people we have a lot, a huge number. I'm sure that among those who rushed to (fight on the Donbass), they are the majority, "- said Russian human rights activist.

glavcom.ua: In Russian

Within the framework of the law "On the condemnation of the Communist and National Socialist (Nazi) totalitarian regimes in Ukraine and prohibit the promotion of their symbols" in Kharkov to be renamed 163 streets.

"Today we have 163 streets clearly fall under the law", - said the deputy mayor Terekhov on Thursday at a meeting of the city commission responsible for implementing the law on de-communization.

According to him, with respect to the names of another 77 street Commission asked for clarification.

In addition, according to the preliminary inventory under the Act also falls 41 building (houses, office buildings) with Soviet symbols, which should be removed, 5 and 6 plaques monuments. According to Terekhova, it should be renamed most parts of Kharkiv and several subway stations, in particular, "Metrostroiteley them. Vashchenko "and" Name Maselskogo. "

However, as noted Terekhov, labor groups are asked to keep the name of Kharkiv last station. "On this issue, we need clarification. The fact that Alexander Maselsky was the first secretary of the District Party Committee Valkovsky. But if such people we will take decisions, we Kharkov not understand "- he said.

In addition, Terekhov instructed the chief architect Sergei Kharkov Chechelnitsky review at town-planning council clearance under construction metro station "Victory", to eliminate the use of elements and symbols that are prohibited by the law on de-communization. Deputy mayor promised that the name change will take into account the views of Kharkiv.

"All the proposals we will make to public hearings, and Kharkiv will be able to discuss this or that name, a monument and so on. Depending on the reaction of people we will recommend one or another decision. The main thing is that the whole community of the city as possible included in the discussion process. The more we talk, the more likely that in the end we will make the most informed decision ", - said Terekhov.

glavcom.ua: In Russian

They should start by calling the city's name Kharkov by Kharkiv.

Ukrainian state enterprise "Artemsol" since the beginning of 2015 to keep the amount of salt production at the level of the same period of 2014 - 900 ths. Tons, reports "UNIAN" .

In the reporting period "Artemsol" increased the volume of exports to the EU of salt three times, exports to Poland increased by 85% in Serbia - 22% in the Baltic countries - 17%.

"In addition, we realized contracts for the supply of salt for industrial processing to large chemical plants in Hungary. It is possible to increase the export of salt production in the country by 29 times compared to last year. Negotiations are underway for the supply of another 120 thousand. Tons of mineral salt for consumers Hungary ", - the company said.

In the near future, "Artemsol" intends to increase the supply of products in Bulgaria, Slovenia, Montenegro, Czech Republic, Slovakia.

glavcom.ua: In Russian

This was one of Putin's main goals, to destroy Ukraine economically. This isn't the only industry that has reported an increase in production. So this is a sign that one of his main goals has failed.

The US is also assisting in attracting new business to Ukraine. They know what Putin's goals are and want to also help defeat him in this economic sector.

The longer this war with Ukraine continues, the more he's going to have to dish out, let alone he was getting a lot of his military equipment produced in Ukraine. That won't help him in the longrun either.

I can continue in how many ways he's failing, which we all know but I don't want to bore you, as many of us already know how he's hurting himself and his country.