Protests in Ukraine escalate

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Euromaidan PR ‏@EuromaidanPR 7h7 hours ago Combined Rus-militant troops made a total of 58 attacks over last day,32 in Mariupol sector.

Mariupol sector: hottest spot is nr Pavlopil, Rus-backed militants fire 122mm self-prop art syst, conduct assault actions

2h2 hours ago
2 Ukr servicemen KIA repelling attack nr Pavlopil, 7 were WIA over the last day - ATO spox Col.Lysenko

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NATO demands Russia withdraw from Ukraine

Brussels (AFP) - NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg on Wednesday demanded that Russia withdraw its forces and military hardware from Ukraine, and halt its support for pro-Moscow separatists battling Kiev.
"Russia needs to stop supporting the militants and withdraw its forces and military equipment from Ukrainian territory," Stoltenberg said after a meeting of NATO defence ministers with their Ukrainian counterpart in Brussels.


He said the US-led alliance would continue to stand by the government in Kiev and would never recognise Russia's "illegal and illegitimate annexation of Crimea" two years ago.
"In response to Russia's actions, NATO has stepped up its support for Ukraine. Our level of political and practical engagement since 2014 is unprecedented," he said.

He also called on Moscow to respect and help implement the Minsk ceasefire accords it signed up to between the rebels and Kiev but which were being violated "over and over again."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/nato-dema...-sh&soc_trk=fb

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A surprise visit to 79th Airborne base in Mykolaiv by @poroshenko

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Euromaidan PR ‏@EuromaidanPR 13h13 hours ago Ukraine Night heavy fighting reported #Dokuchaevsk north of #Mariupol

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Combined Rus-militant forces fired 41 times upon Ukr troops over the last day, 25 of the attacks were in Mariupol sector - ATO press center


Russia-backed militants fired w a tank upon residential areas of Krasnohorivka (Mariupol sector)

7m7 minutes ago No KIA, but 2 WIA among UA servicemen in the #warzone in southeast #Ukraine over the last 24h - official

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Combat medic, 26-y/o Katherine Noskova, mother & wife. RIP

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Euromaidan PR ‏@EuromaidanPR 6h6 hours ago Combined Rus-militant forces fired 46 times over the last day. Made over 10 attacks nr Maryinka - ATO press center


Maryinka checkpoint across the contact line came under militant fire, 2 civilians injured - ATO press center

1h1 hour ago 1 Ukrainian serviceman KIA by #Russian forces and 5 WIA in the #warzone in southeast #Ukraine over the last 24h

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22h22 hours ago Ukr forces at #Vodyane (Mariupol) are still under heavy fire. RU forces use 120-mm mortars, 122-mm and 152-mm artillery. One Ukr soldier KIA


10h10 hours ago Combined Rus-militant forces fired 44 times upon Ukr troops over last day,most attacks in Donetsk & Mariupol sectors

Advisor to Interior Minist Shkiryak reports heavy fighting nr Vodyane, Mariupol area. Rus troops fire art, 1 Ukr KIA

9h9 hours ago Rus-militant troops mortared Novozvanivka, Troyitske. 1 Ukr serviceman was KIA, 2 WIA - Luhansk regional admin

8h8 hours ago Three Ukr servicemen were killed in action over the last day, one was WIA - ATO spox

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Euromaidan PR ‏@EuromaidanPR Jun 20 One Ukr serviceman was killed in action (near Novozvanivka) over the last day, 2 were WIA - ATO spox Col. Lysenko

6h6 hours ago
Combined Rus-militant forces fired 41 times upon Ukr troops over last day. Attacks intensified in the 2nd half of the day- ATO press center

Subversive group of 8 tried to get close to Ukr positions near Avdiivka, was repelled

2h2 hours ago 2 KIA and 5 WIA amon Ukrainian servicemen in the #warzone in southeast #Ukraine over the last 24 h - official

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On Tuesday Petro Poroshenko came to France to talk to Francois Hollande (Euro2016 then football happened, lol!)

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June 18 was an ordinary Saturday in Kyiv. However, from the afternoon onwards you would quite often meet people in traditional vyshyvanka dress and girls wearing flower wreaths in their hair. Closer to the evening people with Ukrainian flags started to appear. This was neither a celebration nor a football match. Okean Elzy, the most popular Ukrainian music band, is able to fill the entire Olympic Stadium in Kyiv.

The secret of this rock band’s popularity is that their music is clear to everybody. Okean Elzy were with the people during the Orange Revolution, they brought together 200,000 people at the Euromaidan in December 2013

At the June 18 concert, Okean Elzy broke the record of highest attendance at the Olympic Stadium, with more than 85,000

(band frontman Sviatoslav ) Vakarchuk also devotes the group’s songs to those who fight for Ukraine in Donbas. At the end of the concert, he said that “during these two years we [Ukrainians] have become stronger.”

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(so sickening....)

38 tonnes of Ukrainian strawberries were destroyed in Russia

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Jun 22 No KIA and No WIA among Ukrainian servicemen in the southeast #Ukraine over the last 24h - official

It was a first such day starting from the May 12

Euromaidan PR ‏@EuromaidanPR 4h4 hours ago half of the attacks made in Donetsk sector by combined Rus-militant troops over last day are 22 - ATO press center

1h1 hour ago 1 UA serviceman KIA and 11 WIA by #Russian forces in the southeast #Ukraine over the last 24h

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June 23, we honour victims executed in the prisons of Western Ukraine in 1941.

When Germany broke the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact and entered into war with the USSR on June 22, 1941, Ukrainian prisons were full of political prisoners, posing a big problem for the Soviet government, and especially in the front-line zone. The Soviet government decided to resolve the problem in a characteristic way.

More than 20,000 people were killed 75 years ago in prisons scattered throughout the occupied territories in Ukraine.

The victims of this horrendous crime are honoured by individual communities, villages and towns on June 23.

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Euromaidan PR ‏@EuromaidanPR 6h6 hours ago Combined Rus-militant forces fired 50 times upon Ukr troops over last day. Highest number of attacks 33 in Mariupol sector -ATO press center


2h2 hours ago No KIA, but 5 WIA among UA servicemen in the southeast #Ukraine over the last 24h

#Donetsk #Kirovskyi, #Biryuzova hits:







The first two photos are apartments, the third is a child health centre.

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Euromaidan PR ‏@EuromaidanPR 7h7 hours ago Ukraine #Pisky. @poroshenko visits frontline troops near #Donetsk & signs demobilization of 5th wave