Ukraine News. Tuesday 30 October. [Ukrainian sources]

TUESDAY HEADLINES:
Putin is waiting for big problems because of the call of the Crimeans to the Russian Army.  The Ukrainian admiral warned of the threat of a new conflict with Russia at sea.  Top border guard says Russia paves way for economic blockade of Ukraine's ports.  Accident with Russia's Admiral Kuznetsov aircraft carrier: casualties reported as floating dock sinks during vessel's repair.  Poroshenko and Putin will come to Paris to celebrate the completion of the First World War.  Russia creates the preconditions for the economic blockade of Ukrainian ports.  UN SC to discuss Ukraine at today's open session.  All Russian nuclear submarines are visible in the Pentagon with an accuracy of one meter, and in case of a major war they will be instantly destroyed.  Trump intends to waive the right to US citizenship by birth.  In the occupied Donbas, pro-Ukrainian sentiment among the local population is growing. Kyrill called the Russian Orthodox Church an "island of freedom", which "ordered" to destroy.

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The Crimean Prosecutor's Office transmitted to the International Criminal Court all materials confirming Russia's violation of the norms of international law in the peninsula regarding the Russian army's recruitment. After the events in the Crimea and in the Donbas, the position of Russia is not so much to judge in The Hague.

Legal experts told about this "Apostrophe".

Annually, on the eve of the spring and autumn campaigns, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry protests against recruits for temporary service in Crimea, circulating angered statements. But the occupying power of the peninsula silently does its job, reporting on the more generous harvests of recruits.

To break the vicious circle promise in the Crimean prosecutor's office. It was reported that they had transferred to the International Criminal Court all material confirming the violation by Russia of the norms of international law on the peninsula regarding the recruitment of the Russian army. Following the study of Ukrainian evidence in The Hague, the issue of opening proceedings according to war crimes will be resolved. But what happens next, if they decide in the Hague that they need to open the case?

After the events in Crimea and on the Donbas, it became clear to the whole world how the Kremlin is in a hurry to fulfill its international obligations. According to experts, the position of Russia is not so much for the court in The Hague.

"The opening of an official investigation will mean that the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court will be able to move on to the personality, who will be able to make allegations against suspected perpetrators of crimes and to request arrest warrants," said Vitaliy Nabuhotny, a lawyer at the Regional Center for Human Rights "Apostrophe". - If there is an arrest warrant, it means that the suspect will not be able to be in the territory of the member states of the Rome Statute, and now they are 123, because these states will be obliged to transfer this person into the hands of justice. ting of the international criminal court and law - secondary."

However, the study of evidence, the opening of criminal proceedings, the issuance of warrants for arrest - an extremely complex and lengthy legal process. Is there a chance at all about what will happen?

"During the war in the former Yugoslavia, too, there was a lot of skepticism that no war criminals would be punished. No one thought that, for example, Radovan Karadzic would appear before a court, but nevertheless, even the higher leadership was involved in the answer", - Maxim Tymochko, lawyer of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group, said "Apostrophe".

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Russia is already carrying out aggressive actions on the sea against ships that are moving into Ukrainian ports, and further escalation of the situation is also possible.

This was stated during the talk show "Freedom of Speech" on the ICTV channel by the commander of the Ukrainian Navy, Admiral Igor Voronchenko.

According to him, Russian security forces conduct a survey on ships under Ukrainian flags and under flags of other states that are moving to the Black Sea ports. The commander of the ships has the right not to give clear answers about the nature of the cargo and where they are sent, but most of the captains provide such information.

"I believe that further escalation can be carried out in the Black Sea", - summed up Voronchenko.

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Ukraine's State Border Guard Service Chief, Petro Tsyhykal says Russia creates preconditions for economic blockade of the country's sea and river ports.

As reported by Censor.NET citing Ukrinform, the military official said Tuesday at a round table meeting on improving safety at sea and the development of the Sea Guard of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine.

"The issues of strengthening maritime border security have become relevant as never before. In addition to conventional threats faced by any state with regard to ensuring maritime border security, violations of international maritime law continue to occur in the exclusive (maritime) economic zone and the annexed territorial sea," Tsyhykal said.

He emphasized that Russia's groundlessly intensifying naval and law enforcement activities at sea lines of communication creates preconditions for economic blockade of the sea and river ports of Ukraine.

"Only joint actions are the key to a strong and united Europe, in which Ukraine remains a reliable outpost on its eastern borders," Tsyhykal said.

The meeting was attended by representatives of foreign law enforcement agencies in charge of maritime security as well as the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (FRONTEX), the EU Border Assistance Mission to Moldova and Ukraine (EUBAM). It was held with the support from the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine.

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One of the world's largest floating docks, the PD-50, and the only one used to repair Russia's ill-fated aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov, has sunk during the repairs to the vessel early on Tuesday.

As reported by Censor.NET citing UNIAN, the accident happened at the 82nd repair shipyard in the village of Roslyakovo in Russia's Murmansk Oblast in the early hours of Oct. 30, according to the local publication SeverPost.

Two tower cranes fell, and one of them hit the aircraft carrier's deck. SeverPost informed about three injured persons. According to early reports, shipyard workers may have fallen into the water. There might be lethal cases, the publication wrote.

About 70 people have reportedly been evacuated from the shipyard's territory. A rescue operation is underway with the military and the local emergency service involved. There have been no official reports on the accident yet. Murmansk Town Hall has declined to comment.

In 2016, the Admiral Kuznetsov, being labeled one of the worst aircraft carriers in the world, passed through the English Channel belching black smoke on its way to the Mediterranean.

On Dec. 5, 2016, it was reported that a Su-33 had crashed into the Mediterranean Sea after it had failed to land on the carrier for a second time due to an arrestor cable problem. Later, in November and December 2017, the carrier lost one Su-33 and one MiG-29KR, when both Russian jets reportedly fell into the sea. Problems with arresting gear were cited as the cause.

In 2009, the aircraft carrier lost a sailor when a fire broke out due to a short circuit.

The Defense Ministry of Russia and the United Shipbuilding Corporation of Russia signed a contract to repair that country's only aircraft carrier, the Admiral Kuznetsov.

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President Petro Poroshenko plans to visit Paris on November 11 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War

It is reported by Interfax with reference to the Secretary of State at the Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs of France, Jean-Baptiste Lemun.

"On November 11, President Poroshenko will be in Paris in response to the invitation of his French counterpart to take part in the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War," he said at a briefing.

The same day Vladimir Putin plans to fly to Paris

His helper does not specify details yet, noting that they "still need to be discussed." Putin can take part in solemn events in the Champs Elysees and at a working breakfast organized by the President of France, Emmanuel Macron.

Earlier it was reported that Moscow admits Putin's meeting with Trump on November 11 in Paris.

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The UN Security Council will hold an open session on the situation in Ukraine's occupied territories on Tuesday, Oct. 30.

"On Tuesday, Oct. 30, the UN Security Council will hold an open session to discuss the situation in the occupied territories of Ukraine," Ukraine's Permanent Representative to the United Nations Oleh Nikolayenko wrote on social media, Censor.NET reports citing Interfax-Ukraine.

He said that the session is scheduled to start at 3 p.m. local time (9 p.m. Kyiv time).

As reported, Ukraine has been calling to bring a UN peacekeeping mission in Donbas to prevent a humanitarian disaster there and protect civilians. This was in particular mentioned by Iryna Heraschenko, the Ukrainian president's commissioner for a peaceful resolution of the situation in Donetsk and Luhansk regions, in her address during the open debates at the UN Security Council on Oct. 25.

She said that Ukraine also calls for the UN General Assembly to pass a resolution about the violation of human rights in the occupied Crimea and on the militarization of Crimea and the Sea of Azov.

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In the Russian Ministry of Defense there is another scandal: it turned out that the secrecy of nuclear submarines, to ensure that for all years of the Soviet Union, and then Russia, were spent billions of budget funds, there is only in the heads of admirals.
According to Censor.NET, a potential strategic adversary in the person of the United States does not even burden itself with the search for Russian submarines: in some unfathomable way, they are visible to him, and so, the Russian edition of the "Military Industrial Courier" writes.

The fact that the secret routes of strategic n nuclear submarines, for the United States are not at all secret, revealed during recent exercises in the Barents Sea. In essence, this means that, in the event of a global conflict, the entire naval part of the Russian "nuclear triad" can be eliminated by point missile strikes almost immediately: the APC does not even have time to move into a military position.

- Submarine officers from the North Sea have planted the flight trajectory of the American reconnaissance cruiser "Orion" on the map of the location of our AFC during the exercises, - writes journalist of the military-industrial complex Maxim Klimov. - And all ten points of rotation of his route were precisely on the location of our submarines. That is, he did not even search for them, but always went to a specific point. "Orion" came out without any felts precisely on our APC, dropped the buoy and went to the next.

At the same time, the newspaper states, purely voluntaristic redistribution of financing of the Russian Navy in favor of the submarine fleet holds on hungry rations both surface shipbuilding and maritime aviation. For example, the capabilities of the Il-38 anti-submarine aircraft, developed in 1961, designed to find underwater American airborne acaricides, are close to zero when it comes to modern low-noise objects - in particular, the Seawolf atomic submarines. In this case, even the recent modernization of search technology (the old system "Leninets" was replaced by "Novel", however, still done according to the principles of 70 years of the twentieth century) did not save the situation - the US strategic missile carriers Russians still do not see.

How does the United States manage to accomplish this task - Russian troops do not yet understand. Obviously, it is about some kind of satellite technology that allows Americans to track Russian AFCs even at a great depth. However, the fact remains that they are all visible in the Pentagon to within a meter and, in the event of the outbreak of a major war, they will be instantly destroyed without having been able to release nuclear missiles.

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US President Donald Trump has said he will sign an executive order to abolish US citizenship on the fact of being born in the United States. This right guarantees the adoption in 1868 of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution.

As informs Censor.NET with reference to the TV channel " Rain", he said in an interview with Axios on HBO.

"We are the only country where a person can come, give birth to a child - and the child becomes a citizen of the United States and for 85 years gets the right to all social benefits," the president noted. In his opinion, this is "ridiculous".

Lawrence Trump explained to him that the abolition of this right did not require Congress's approval, rather executive order. According to him, the idea continues to be worked out in the administration.

Axios learned about the plans of Trump administration several weeks ago from sources, one of which is close to the White House legal service. According to the publication, if Trump will issue such an order, he will be immediately challenged in the courts. James Ho, a judge of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal, appointed by Trump, has already stated that such a decision would violate the Constitution.

During the election campaign and after taking office, Trump stated that it was necessary to limit the flow of migrants to the United States. According to him, it is necessary for the citizens of the country to get more jobs and salaries, as well as to bring into the country potentially less dangerous people.

Read also: In Russia, they decided to facilitate the granting of citizenship to so-called "compatriots" from Ukraine, Moldova and the Baltic States

The Fourteenth Amendment to the US Constitution was adopted after the Civil War to provide exempted slaves with equal rights to citizenship.

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In the temporarily occupied territories of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, pro-Ukrainian sentiment among the local population is increasing, which significantly affects the morale and psychological state of the personnel of the Russian-occupying forces.

As informs Censor.NET with reference to the press service of the Ministry of Defense, the GUR reported.

Thus, according to the Ukrainian intelligence, the unwillingness to take part in hostilities is increasing among the troops of the advanced units of units and units 1 (Donetsk) and 2 (Lugansk), the AR of the RF Armed Forces.

"Only in the last two weeks, from the position of one of the advanced divisions, 1 AK deserted nine servicemen, the rest plan to be transferred to the rear units or altogether dismissed from the service," - said in a statement.

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Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill explains the actions of Constantinople in Ukraine with the global order to destroy the "island of freedom", which is the Russian Orthodox Church.

As informs Censor.NET with reference to Interfax-Ukraine, the patriarch reported on Tuesday at a meeting with participants of the festival "Faith and Word" in Moscow.

"The rates are very high, and orders for the destruction of the unity of our Church are an order that has a global dimension. It's not just a struggle for jurisdiction, it's a struggle for the destruction of the only powerful orthodox power in the world. "When we say 150 million, this is really so." - he said.

"Undoubtedly, someone had to strike on this island of freedom. Why do I call Orthodoxy an island of freedom? Because we are free from global deception and the dominance of strangers over us," added the head of the Russian Orthodox Church.

He also said that he was refused in Moscow to go to a meeting with the Patriarch of Constantinople exactly at his Istanbul residence, which Bartholomew insisted on, because they believed that it would be humiliating for the head of the Russian Orthodox Church. According to Cyril, at the meeting in Istanbul on August 31, the position of Patriarch Bartholomew in relation to Ukraine was expressed "quite sharply and radically".

Recall that on October 11, according to the results of the Synod meeting, a decision was made that it was said that the Ecumenical Patriarchate continues the procedure of granting autocephaly to the Church of Ukraine. In addition, the Synod's letter of 1686 was canceled, after which the Kyiv Metropolitanate fell under the jurisdiction of Moscow, the canonical status of the head of the UOC of Kyiv Patriarchate Filaret and the head of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church Macarius was restored.''

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