Ukraine News. Monday 5 November. [Ukrainian sources]

MONDAY HEADLINES:
The occupants began to demand spare parts for military equipment repair in the auto companies of Donbas. "There are chances at the stop of the North Stream-2, and Ukraine continues to fight,". Moscow must admit that the Ukrainian people have the right to autocephaly - the Ecumenical Patriarch of the ROC.  Kolomoisky uses foreign media to discredit Poroshenko before the election, - Washington Times.  The United States has provided Ukraine with assistance in raising the level of cyber security in the Armed Forces of Ukraine.  The Verkhovna Rada Committee will review Ukraine's compliance with international obligations to investigate the Gongadze case.  American scientists have developed an effective program to combat cyber sharks.  Russia did not ask you to give birth: Putin's official spokesman for a network scandal.

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For the repair of the defective military equipment of the terrorists, the Russian occupation administrations were sent to the local transport organizations "artillery" with the requirement to provide the necessary spare parts.

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

"The command of the Russian occupation forces intensified the restoration of damaged and defective military equipment of units and units 1 (Donetsk), 2 (Lugansk) of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation due to the supply of repair kits and equipment from the territory of Russia. At the same time, the volume of received spare parts and materials for repairing the automobile Transport constitutes less than 50% of the declared necessity.

In this regard, the Russian occupation administrations sent heads of local transport organizations special "caterpillars" for the supply of units of the Russian occupation forces of automobile spare parts and units, including by disassembling up to 25% of trucks, "the report said.

According to the intelligence, the said actions of the invaders caused indignation among the workers of automobile enterprises in the occupied territories, who are forced to bring the working machinery to a faulty state that is in danger of prolonged downtime, non-payment of wages and dismissal of drivers.

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The chances of stopping the construction of the North Stream 2 pipeline still remain, despite the actual support of the project by the German government.

According to Censor.NET, this is stated in a press release from the press service of "Naftogaz" on Twitter.

This opinion was expressed on the Facebook page by Yuriy Vitrenko, Chief Executive Officer of NJSC Naftogaz of Ukraine. According to him, despite the actual support of the North Stream-2, the German government has a chance to stop it.

He noted that "plan B" in this case lies in the courts against Gazprom, in which Ukraine will seek compensation for the lack of transit. In particular, Naftogaz will use the provisions of the current transit contract, which will give it the right to reconsider the tariff, and will include accelerated depreciation or economic depreciation of the Ukrainian GTS as a consequence of the lack of transit after 2020.

Vitrenko stressed that Gazprom has the opportunity to avoid the need to compensate for these costs, but for this he should abandon the "North Stream-2".

"At the end, I will comment on the statements of those who say about the need to reconcile with the North Stream-2 and instead of fighting to develop their own production. I do not see the logic in such statements: own extraction must be developed in any case, it does not depend on the struggle against "North Stream 2." At its level, we increased gas production to record levels over the past 23 years - through the use of new technologies, and not at the expense of new licenses, "he added.

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Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew commented on the rupture of the Russian Orthodox Church in relations with Constantinople through the preparation of the autocephaly of the Ukrainian Church.

As informs Censor.NET with reference to the "New time", this is written by the Greek edition of Orthodoxia.info.

The position of the Russian Orthodox Church on the autocephaly of the Ukrainian Church, Bartholomew, commented during the liturgy at the Cathedral of St. George in Istanbul.

"When our northern brethren speak of a split, we are talking about love... The Church-Mother, with this love, is now trying to solve the church problem of Ukraine... Moscow must admit that the Ukrainian people who were unfairly under their jurisdiction for some time or, more precisely, under their administration, has the right to church independence, autocephaly from the Mother Church, "said Bartholomew.

As it was reported, on Saturday, November 3, President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew signed an agreement on cooperation and cooperation between Ukraine and the Patriarchate of Constantinople in Istanbul.

As the Poroshenko meeting said, the agreement creates conditions for the "process of giving Tomos (on autocephaly - Ed.) To be carried out absolutely in strict conformity with the canons of the Orthodox Church." The head of state called this day, November 3, historic.

Recall that on October 11, according to the results of the meeting of the Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, a decision has been made, which states that Constantinople continues the procedure of granting autocephaly to the Ukrainian Church.

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 presiding UOC of the Kyiv Patriarchate Filaret and the head of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church Macarius were restored.

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"Ukrainian oligarchs are able to create stories, falsify documents and even conduct criminal investigations."

This is written by a special correspondent The Washington Times, an expert from the CIS countries L Todd Wood in the article "Ukrainian media wars: oligarchs are struggling for the audience before the elections in Ukraine."

The author notes that in the United States in recent years, the media have become the battlefield for power. "However, Ukraine, with its unbridled corruption, turned out to be zero for this modern, non-lethal war, since the oligarchs who own the media are trying to shape the reality on the ground in Kyiv," he writes.

As an example, the author cites the film "The oligarchs", prepared by the Al Jazeera Investigation Department earlier this year. The films described attempts by Viktor Yanukovych's environment to return part of the funds frozen by the authorities after he left the country in 2014. The journalists explain that businessman Sergiy Kurchenko (the same "Dragon Yanukovych") resold these assets to a deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, Oleksander Onyshchenko, and a Russian entrepreneur with established criminal ties with Paul Fuks (he is Fuchs). Both of them, in turn, tried to "freeze" the assets, using their likely influence on President Poroshenko.

The author claims that the oligarch, who escaped from Ukraine, Igor Kolomoisky, became the customer of the film about corruption. In support of the thesis that Igor Kolomoisky is behind al-Jazeera investigations, the journalist points out that a few months before the premiere of the "Al Jazeera" movie on the website of the Ukrainian journalist Oleksander Dubinsky, the leading TV channel "1+1", which belongs to Kolomoisky, published an article in which the main theses of the film" Oligarchs "are presented.

"This is an example of how oligarchic media can try to influence local opinion," the journalist said.

The journalist notes that the investment company ICU, with Valeriy Gontarev as the former head, also became the object of black PR and investigations of Al-Jazeera, and notes that these attacks are also likely to be worthy of Igor Kolomoisky, who is trying to return $5 billion, not mentioned in the movie "Al Jazeera".

"NBU, headed by Valery Gontarevo, nationalized the largest commercial bank of the country" PrivatBank. "By the time of the nationalization of the" hole "in the finances of the bank, fully controlled by the oligarch Igor Kolomoisky, amounted to more than $5 billion. And the London Supreme Court froze more than $2.5 billion belonging Mr. Kolomoisky in connection with the "PrivatBank" case. It seems that there is a lot of material for the new documentary film, because it is a story that has not yet received much publicity, "the author remarks.

According to the ICU managing partner Konstantin Stetsenko, the political struggle in the election year is the main cause of the various attacks faced by the ICU in Ukraine and in the international press. Although some of the former ICU staff were key figures of recent Ukrainian reforms, he notes that the company is not affiliated with them or with politics.

"One thing is certain: Ukraine seems to continue to provide a wealth of materials for those who want to make a good documentary film. With the impending presidential election in March 2019, the information war will only intensify in Ukraine and the United States," the author concludes.

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Within the framework of the USAI ITI agreement, Ukraine has received assistance in raising the level of cyber security.

This was stated by Chief of Army Signal Corps, Chief of Communication and Information Systems General Staff of Ukraine Vladimir Rapko in an interview with Defense "Telecom. Military Communications" (October 2018), reports Cenzor.NET referring to Ukrinform

"Now we have already received assistance to improve the cybersecurity of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from the US government under the USAI ITI agreement. Currently, equipment and software installation work is being implemented at the Center for Rapid Response to Cybercrime," Rapko said.

He also said that, together with his Estonian counterparts, a project to create a cyber laboratory based on one of the military units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was developed. "This project has been approved by the majority of NATO countries, and we are currently negotiating the financing of this project," the head of the communications forces said.

In general, according to information, Ukraine actively cooperates with international partners in the field of development of information security and cyber security systems in information and telecommunication systems of the Ministry of Defense and the Armed Forces of Ukraine. NATO Headquarters presents five projects for the development of cyber security of the Armed Forces of Ukraine for their implementation within the framework of the Ukraine-NATO Trust Fund on Cyber security, the main administrator of which is the SBU. While these projects are under consideration.

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On Monday, November 5, the Committee of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on Foreign Affairs holds a round table entitled "Ukraine's International Commitments: The Status of Ukraine's Compliance with Investigation and Justice in Gongadze, Podolsky and Yelyashkevich".

According to Censor.NET, this was stated on Facebook by the People's Deputy Hannah Hopko.

She also noted that the event will be held at the following address: street. Sadova, 3a, room 833.

According to the announcement on the website of the parliament, the event starts at 15:00. The round table will be held with the participation of the leadership of the Council of Europe Office, the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine, the General Prosecutor's Office of Ukraine, the National Police of Ukraine and the ambassadors of the EU member states.

Recall that the murder of journalist Gongadze was committed in the fall of 2000. On March 15, 2008, the Kyiv Court of Appeal found guilty of killing three former employees of the Department of External Monitoring of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine - Valery Kostenko, Mykola Protasov and Oleksandr Popovych. They were sentenced to imprisonment for a term of 12 to 13 years. Another accused - Pukach - was wanted since 2005. On July 21, 2009, he was arrested in the village of Molochki in the Chudnovsky district of Zhytomyr region. On July 24, 2009, the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine charged Pukach with the charge of murdering Gongadze and a number of other crimes such as the abduction of Podolsky and the destruction of documents.

On January 29, 2012 Pechersk District Court of Kiev sentenced Pukach to life imprisonment. Myroslava Gongadze's lawyer, Valentina Telichenko, as well as the injured journalist Alexei Podolsky, appealed to the verdict. They seek the establishment of customers murder and abduction.

The Kyiv Court of Appeal decided to consider closed-file complaints, but later Interior Minister Arsen Avakov and the head of the SBU, Valentin Nalyvaychenko, expressed conviction that the consideration of a Pukach punishment should take place in an open-ended manner. On March 12, 2015, the commission of the Ministry of Internal Affairs withdrew the secrecy tag of 80 media in the Pukach case.

Alexander Yelyashkevych acts as a representative of Podolsky in court. On him in February 2000, unknown people attacked the hotel "Moscow". Then he blamed the assault of then-President Leonid Kuchma.

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With the help of a new program researchers help law enforcement agencies fight scammers who steal electronic mailbox data.

As Eurek Alert writes , a new tool for visual analytics significantly accelerates pre-trial investigations and highlights critical references.

Law enforcement agencies often lack resources to identify cyber criminals who continue to actively engage in e-mail.

To address the issue, a research group from New York University together with Agari has developed the Beagle program - a visual analytical interface that can handle a multitude of emails, summarize data from them, and highlight common features.

Scientists emphasized that the program well organizes data that law enforcement often does not notice - the time of sending a letter, the location of victims, keywords and patterns of fraudsters.

"Business e-mail throughout history has been linked to various forms of fraud on a small and more global scale," the researchers said. Beagle has expanded our ability to monitor and track these criminal organizations, reflecting a more complete picture of the people involved and their relationships with each other."

The program was tested on a real case where it was necessary to find a network of scammers and victims, relying only on a dozen compromised emails. Beagle was able to visualize this, and then transfer the data with the displayed links to the law enforcement agencies.

"We were surprised to find that the program really could gather evidence that could be used for the criminal process," the scientists said, adding that the tool can strengthen the analytical process by identifying links that lead to an increase in the database of investigators.

Earlier, the director of the Federal Intelligence Service of Switzerland, Jean-Philippe Goden, said that the spying activity of Russian agents has steadily increased in Switzerland . In Switzerland, caught by Russian hackers who planned to attack WADA.
In the Czech Republic detained Russians suspected of cyberattack at the Foreign Ministry

The Foreign Ministry of Ukraine stated that since the beginning of the war, Russian hackers attacked Ukraine more than 6 thousand times.

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In Russia (in the Urals), an official noted a scandalous statement about Russian children and their parents.

The corresponding video was published by a journalist from the Kremlin pool Dmitry Smirnov on his Twitter page.

"There is an understanding among young people that the state needs everything. No, you should not have anything in principle in your country, your parents should be born because they gave birth to you, the state did not ask you to give birth to them," said Olga Glatsky, director of the local oblast youth policy department (on video).

The network immediately began to comment on the self-assured statement of the official.

Director of the Department of Youth Policy of the Sverdlovsk Region Glazki: In the youth, there is an understanding that the state must do everything for us. No, you should not be in principle a state. You must have your parents because they gave you birth. The state did not ask you to give birth to.

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