Ukraine News. Monday 15 October. [Ukrainian sources]

MONDAY HEADLINES:
"Probably so," - Trump suggested that Putin is involved in murders and poisonings.  The Kremlin spoke of the timid accusations made by Trump to Putin.  With Putin I showed rigidity. And Ukraine handed off offensive weapons, anti-tank systems, - Trump.  Trump boasted Putin's problems in Ukraine.  Russia and China intervened in the US elections, but the PRC is a more serious problem, - Trump.  Putin may start a new invasion of Ukraine through the autocephaly of the UOC.  The Russian Army is trying to arrest provocations on the military exercises of the Netherlands and Great Britain in the Arctic.  Occupants in the Crimea drag children to Putin's army.  "White" hackers on October 14 broke nearly 150 Russian sites and congratulated on the Day of Defender of Ukraine.  The employee of Amnesty International Kozlovsky was kidnapped and tortured in Russia.

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US President Donald Trump assumes that Russian leader Vladimir Putin may be involved in murders.

According to Censor.NET, referring to Gordon , he said this in an interview with the CBS News channel.

When asked whether Tramp agrees with Putin's "involvement in murders and poisoning", the American president replied: "Probably yes. Probably."

Trump said that such events took place "in other countries".

Also read: Great Britain has initiated the introduction of the "Newbie" to the Convention on the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons - OPCW

Recall that the former Colonel of the GRU stockpiles, Sergey Skryppan, a UK resident convicted in 2006 of espionage in favor of British intelligence services, on March 5, 2018, was injured as a result of poisoning with an unknown substance at the Salisbury shopping mall.

The British government has come to the conclusion that the responsibility for poisoning in Salisbury, the former employee of the GRU, Sergei Skripal and his daughter, most likely, lies in Russia. She also said that the victims were poisoned by the nerve-paralytic substance "Novachok", which was developed in the Russian Federation.

On September 5, the British Prosecutor's Office named the names of two Russians suspected of attempting an assassination attempt on Sergei and Julia Fiddlers in Salisbury: Oleksandr Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov . British Prime Minister Teresa May announced: "Suspects are the officers of the GRU General Staff of the Russian Federation."

On September 26th, the third part of the Bellingcat and The Insider investigation reveals that the real name of Ruslan Boshirov, who is accused of poisoning violinists, is Anatoly Chepiga. On October 9, the investigators published a biography of Alexander Mishkin, the second accused in the poisoning of the Fiddlers, who was hiding under the name of "Alexander Petrov".

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Russian Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov said he does not consider the words of US President Donald Trump in an interview with CBS as a possible assumption of President Vladimir Putin's involvement in murders and poisonings.

He told journalists about this, reports Interfax .

"You know, I would not appreciate that Trump allowed the opportunity, and so on, as we read in a multitude of mass media." Here, of course, it is necessary to flexibly consider linguistic features, another answer, it's clear that it could not be, "said Peskov

The spokeswoman for Putin believes that "no direct accusations have been made by the US president."

"And any supported by at least some arguments and, moreover, evidence of accusations can not exist in relation to the president of Russia. Therefore, we do that before," said Peskov.

Recall, according to US President Donald Trump, Russian President Vladimir Putin "probably" may be involved in murders and poisonings.

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US President Donald Trump has assured that he is rigorous during his contacts with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

As Censor.NET informs with reference to Interfax-Ukraine, he said this in an interview, shown on Monday by the TV channel CN-BBC.

"I think that I personally toughened with him. I had a bilateral meeting with him, it was a tough and very good meeting," said the president of the United States.

In addition, Trump said he is much more active in helping Ukraine strengthen its armed forces than its predecessor, Barack Obama.

"It was I who handed Ukraine offensive weapons, anti-tank systems, and Obama did not do this, you know that he sent them blankets and pillows, and he dropped the part of Ukraine that (passed - Ed.) To Russia," the president said. USA.

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US President Donald Trump boasted that helping Ukraine is better than Barack Obama.

He stated this in an interview with the CBS channel.

"I am the one who gave Ukraine offensive weapons and anti-tank systems, Obama did not do that, do you know that he sent? He sent the pillows and blankets," Trump stated, responding to the statement that he never allowed himself a sharp expression on Address by Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The American president believes that Obama was "giving away a part of Ukraine", which is currently under Russian control.

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US President Donald Trump said Russia and China were really trying to influence the US elections in 2016, but it is the Chinese intervention that worries him most.
According to Tsensor.NET , referring to Interfax-Ukraine, he said this in an interview with the TV channel CBS.

"Yes, they (the Russian government - Ed.) Intervened. But I think that China did it too, and other countries too," said Trump

"And I think China is a more serious problem," added the president of the United States.

Read on "Censor.NET": I showed rigidity with Putin. And Ukraine handed off offensive weapons, anti-tank systems, - Trump.

Speaking about the investigation by the Special Prosecutor Robert Müeller, whose purpose - to find out if there was a conspiracy between the trilogue of Trump and the Russian Federation, the US president said he was not going to close it. However, at the same time, he did not give promise to journalists that he would never do it.

"I will not promise anything, but I will tell you that I'm not going to do this (to close the investigation." - Ed.) I think this is a very unfair investigation, because there was no conspiracy, "Trump said.

Recall that the US Department of Justice reported that 12 Russian intelligence officers were charged with breaking the computer networks of US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's Democratic Party in 2016 and the US Democratic Party.

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The decision of the Holy Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople to grant autocephaly to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church may be the reason for a new invasion of the Russian Federation into Ukraine.

According to the editorial of the Financial Times, Cenzor.NET reports with reference to UNIAN.

The publication reminds that after three days of the work of the Holy Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the spiritual Orthodox leader, Patriarch Bartholomew, made a historic decision: he promised to grant the autocephaly to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC).

In response, the ROC said it could break the relationship with Constantinople, which is potentially fraught with a split that can be compared in scale to the events of 1054, when the same happened between the Orthodox and Catholic churches.

As stressed in the article, this split between Ukraine and Russia has not only religious but also geopolitical character. He nullifies attempts by Moscow to keep Kiev in its political orbit and rebuild its influence on the post-Soviet space. He also strikes at the concept of the "Russian Peace," which, according to Vladimir Putin's plan, should include allegedly fraternal peoples of Ukraine and Belarus, partly linked to Orthodoxy.

Although the Moscow Patriarchate received the right to ordain the patriarch of Kiev back in 1686, the newspaper recalls that in the 1990s, after the collapse of the USSR, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Kyiv Patriarchate broke off from Moscow. And after 2014, when the Russian Orthodox Church refused to condemn the bloodshed in the east of Ukraine, the fractured UOC lobes markedly replenished.

Now, if in November Bartholomew is expected to give the UOC autocephaly, it will give a new impetus to supporters of Ukrainian independence. It may also increase the chances of re-election of President Petro Poroshenko, who actively supported the religious freedom of Kyiv.

At the same time, the Russian president is struck hard. Putin chose himself as an assistant to the Russian Orthodox Church in an attempt to restore Russia's status as a great power. With the rise of nationalistic and populist movements in Europe, he used the church to create an image of Russia as a bulwark of traditional values. And the loss of the Ukrainian patriarchy reduces Russia's weight in the Orthodox world and gives it less pretensions to claim the title of Third Rome. She also clearly demonstrates what his attempts to kill the wedge between Russians and Ukrainians could lead to.

From the Financial Times point of view, the danger of the moment is growing, as well as the fact that it all happens against the backdrop of the fall of Putin's rating due to the unpopular pension reform. In Kiev and in the West, fears that the Kremlin can use military force to protect the churches that remain loyal to the Moscow Patriarchate and to prevent their transition to the jurisdiction of the Patriarchate of Kiev. Potentially, such actions can threaten the new bloodshed.

Putin's popularity has sharply increased after the annexation of the Crimea, the newspaper recalls, and the weakness of the Russian economy can push the Kremlin strategists to similar maneuvers.

Recall that on April 19, the Verkhovna Rada supported the appeal of President Poroshenko to the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew to grant the Ukrainian Orthodox Church an autocephaly.

On April 22, Poroshenko said that the Ecumenical Patriarchate began to consider the request of Ukraine.

In July, the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew confirmed his intention to donate autocephaly to the Ukrainian church.

On September 7, it became known that the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew appointed exarchs to provide autocephaly to the Ukrainian Church.

On October 9, the meeting of the Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate began in Istanbul.

On October 11, the Synod of the Patriarchate of Constantinople decided to recognize the canonicity of the UOC-KP and the UAOC.

The anathema imposed by the Russian Orthodox Church on the head of the UOC-KP Filaret was also removed.

The decision of the Synod in Ukraine began the process of creating an autocephalous church.

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Russian fighters and ships are trying to provoke provocations in the military exercises of the Netherlands and the United Kingdom in the Arctic Circle.

According to Censor.NET, referring to the "New Time", the head of the military command of the Marine Corps Corps of the Netherlands General Jeff McMutri, said The Telegraph.

"What we see is a growing interest from Russian navies to our exercises," he said.

According to him, when British and Dutch soldiers trained in anti-missile defense in the Arctic, an increased number of Russian ships was noted in the region.

"They obviously want their presence to be visible, and we also see how Russian fighters are approaching our warships," McMutri said.

As previously reported, in 2019, Britain plans to place in Norway 800 troops for deterring Russia in the Arctic.

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Students occupied by Russia took an oath of the Cossacks and a detachment of friends of the FSB.

This is reported by the press service of the Crimean Human Rights Group in Facebook.

On the territory of Crimea recorded another military crime - propaganda to call the army-invader. So, on Saturday, October 13, schoolchildren took the oath of the military patriotic club "Young friend of the border guard". Club members were children from Kerch, Shcholkino and Leninsky district. And on Sunday, October 14, in the Kerch, the cadets of the Cossack military-patriotic club "Griffin" took place.

In addition, on October 19, in Simferopol, on the "Cossack Glory Alley" in the school-gymnasium № 10, a monument to the Cossacks who fought against Ukraine in the Donbass and Crimea will be opened.

"Similar actions of the Russian authorities and paramilitary groups in the Crimea help the children develop a war of war and tolerance to violence. Involving Ukrainian children of Crimea in the paramilitary and power structures of the occupied state leads to an aggressive attitude towards the states and peoples who do not support the ideas of the Russian world "Moreover, children are only" Russian "identities imposed on them, ties to their country of birth and citizenship - Ukraine, are broken. Using such measures, the Russian authorities carry out a lack of justice. IE residents Crimean war propaganda, preparing them for military service of, which is a gross violation of international humanitarian law "- said in a statement.





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The Ukrainian Cyber ​​Alliance (UCA) cybercrime community broke up almost 150 Russian sites on the occasion of the Day of the Defender of Ukraine, placing greetings on them for Ukrainian soldiers.

According to Censor.NET, this is reported on the UCA Facebook page.

"According to the tradition, we convey our congratulations on the broken Russian sites. On this server, they are hundreds and one and a half, and we have already broken it on May 9. Full list here", - reads the message.

So the hackers congratulated those who "defend our land with arms in hand, all who are approaching our future victory over the Kremlin occupation regime".

"We will always remember how the war began, who started it and why. Crimea, Donetsk and Luhansk regions have always been Ukrainian, and we are confident that part of Ukraine occupied by Russia will be released and there will again be raised our flag," says the message posted on broken sites.



Ukrainian Cyber ​​Alliance - a community of Ukrainian cyber-activists from different cities and corners of the world. The Alliance was set up in 2016, its goal is to resist Russian aggression in Ukraine.

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Observer Amnesty International Oleg Kozlovsky, head of the capital of Ingushetia Magas for monitoring protest rallies, was abducted, beaten and disciplined by the unknown, who were called security officers of the Russian Federation.

According to Censor.NET, this is reported on the website of Amnesty International.

According to the organization, Kozlovsky arrived in Magas on October 5 to monitor peaceful protests that began after the signing of the agreement between the leaders of Ingushetia and Chechnya on the definition of the administrative border between the two regions on September 26.

In the evening of October 6, unknown, who was called the representative of the organizers of the protest, lured Kozlovsky to his car under the pretext of organizing a meeting with the protesters. Instead, they were taken outside the city where they were stripped, began to beat and threatened to shoot. Execution lasted two hours.

"They put a gun on my head and said they were going to kill me." Men called the local center for combating extremism, they demanded me the names of my contacts in Ingushetia and threatened to kill my wife and children if I reported what had happened"- said Kozlovsky.

"This violent incident is shocking and anxious, but the authorities must understand that we will not be able to intimidate people who are hiding behind masks. We have filed a statement on the crime with the Russian authorities," said Amnesty International Director for Eastern Europe and Central Asia Marie Strasers.

According to her, the human rights activist was kidnapped in front of the hotel's staff and in the field of view of the surveillance cameras in the city, which, due to protests, was simply overcrowded by the police.

"Those responsible for this cowardly attack must be immediately found and brought to justice," added Strasers.

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