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Jason Kenney,
Member of Parliament for Calgary Southeast, Minister of Employment and Social Development and Minister for Multiculturalism
Proud to stand with Prime Minister Stephen Harper and our Conservative caucus. #UnitedforUkraine
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04/01/14
WINNIPEG, MB – Dr. Lloyd Axworthy is honoured to be an official delegate with the respected Washington-based National Democratic Institute (NDI) which is fielding a pre-election assessment mission for the May 25 presidential election in Ukraine. The mission will be in Ukraine from Monday, April 7 to Friday, April 11, 2014, to demonstrate the interest of the international community in the development of the country’s democratic political process and offer an impartial assessment of the political environment.
Members of the delegation are Dr. Lloyd Axworthy, president and vice-chancellor of The University of Winnipeg and former Canadian minister of foreign affairs; Edward “Ted” Kaufman, former U.S. senator from Delaware; Tom Andrews, former U.S. representative from Maine and president and CEO of United to End Genocide; Matyas Eorsi, former member of parliament from Hungary and former member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe; Nadia Diuk, vice president of programs for Europe, Eurasia, Africa, and Latin America and the Caribbean for the National Endowment for Democracy; Andrew Bruce, executive director of Electoral Reform International Services; Laura Jewett, NDI regional director for Eurasia; and Catherine Cecil, resident director for NDI in Ukraine.
The delegation will assess the state of preparations for the elections, including the legal and political environment, through a series of meetings with election officials, presidential candidates, political party leaders, and representatives of civil society, the media, the international community and government.
UWinnipeg’s vice-president (finance & administration) Bill Balan is also joining the delegation as an advisor.
http://news-centre.uwinnipeg.ca/all-...on-to-ukraine/
Ernst & Young employees in the Kyiv office had a cute pro-Ukrainian flashmob April 4
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April 4 - Patriotic students of the Khmelnytskyi National University make outline map of Ukraine
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An art installation dedicated to Maidan, somewhere in Kyiv
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April 5, Odessa - A pro-Ukrainian rally at the local mall Athena
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Ukrainian soldiers in Odesa welcome soldiers from Crimea who refused to take Russian citizenshin and arrived to Odesa.
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Ukraine's military trains and gets ready
On April 4th, Ukrainian soldiers began to prepare launching stations and initiate missile attack trainings. During the trainings, the staff of the missile units received and loaded missiles, and prepared them for launch.
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Ministry of Defense photos
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Friday, April 4. UKRAINE – The joint drills aimed at operational coordination of Special Forces and Border Troops were held.The real imitation of the Ukrainian border with checkpoints and block posts, emplacements, shootings, etc. contribute much to training of future border troops.“During these drills we play the role of frontier crossers for border troops and, meanwhile, accomplish our tasks and enhance our skills,” Olexander, representative of special forces, said. “It might seem that our actions are chaotic but everything was thoroughly thought over.”Totally, about 500 servicemen and about 30 vehicles were involved in the drills.Rector of the National Academy of State Border Service Lt. Gen. Valeriy Rayko stressed such joint drills were organized for the first time.“Modern combat operations and armed conflicts require from us the high level of training to fight armed raiding groups trying to cross the state border. The servicemen of MoD special forces have such skills and they teach our cadets here,” he remarked.Aviation training
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Drone aircrafts of the Air Forces of Ukraine are ready to perform tasks
Separate regiment remote-controlled aircraft of the Air Force of Ukraine in the planning mode carries out performance of routine maintenance on drone aircrafts and conducts refueling UAVs special fluids.
The deployment information center was organized, working on the reception of television signals scouting and training parachute systems. During the deployment in the determined region Ukrainian soldiers have improved their tactical skills. In field conditions studies on the development of positional, working elements Azimuth plane flight, exercise and start working on the evacuation of drone aircrafts from the landing site.
Separately tested the transfer of data from photographic reconnaissance aircraft in the center of information and leaving the starting position after start-up.
Source - http://www.mil.gov.ua/
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Friday, April 4. LVIV OBLAST – During field drills at the International Peacekeeping and Security Center the engineer faculty cadets of the Land Forces Academy worked out in practice different engineer tasks on land and under water.The cadets practiced shooting, driving; worked out a range of tasks with involvement of heavy vehicles: earth digging machine, ditching machine, track-layer, etc. They learned to lay bridge crossings. The unique diving equipment was used for cadets training because they accomplished different practical engineer exercises under water.A great attention was paid to mining and EOD operations. The cadets checked their theoretical knowledge and operated engineer equipment for search and EOD of different mines and IEDs.Generally, during these drills the cadets work out different actions to be realized during modern armed conflicts and threats to national borders.
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Saturday, April 5.
DENMARK – Under the Joint Danish-Ukrainian Northern Falcon 2014 operation, the Ukrainian Il-76MD transport aircraft have carried fuel from the US Air Base Thule to the Danish Polar Station Nord. The pilots have already accomplished 16 missions and airlifted 191 tons of cargo and 285,000 litres of fuel. Currently, the total flight time of crew exceeds 70 hours.The Ukrainian pilots complete tasks in adverse weather conditions (air temperature below 50 degrees and wind speed up to 15-20 meters per second), as well as without ground radio technical navigational means and reserve airfields.
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Euromaidan volunteers and Afghan veterans have initiated the placement of a memorial sign to Euromaidan's medics in from of the 17th hospital. The insciption says "To the angels in white robes from our saved souls". During the violent clashes more than 500 protesters received treatment in the 17th hospital, of which 200 were hospitalised. Currently 100 Euromaidan patients are still undergoing treatment in this hospital.
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Base of a former Lenin monument in Poltava has been transformed into a monument for the Heavenly Hundred.
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Prague half-marathon Sportisimo participants wore yellow and blue colors to support Ukraine and protest against Russian occupation of Crimea! About 300 yellow and blue ribbons were handed out to the participants willing to join the initiative. Sport event took place in the Czech capital on Saturday.
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6 April 2014
Pro-Russian protesters have stormed government buildings in three eastern Ukrainian cities.
In Donetsk, Luhansk and Kharkiv they clashed with police, hung Russian s from the buildings and called for a referendum on independence.
Ukraine's acting president called an emergency security meeting in response.
In Donetsk, in what was reportedly the day's most violent protest, a large group of activists broke away from a crowd rallying in the main city square to attack and occupy the regional government seat.
After clashing with riot police and breaking through their lines to enter the building, they raised the Russian and hung a banner from the building. Protesters outside cheered and chanted: "Russia, Russia."
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The protesters in Donetsk engaged in a stand-off with riot police
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A breakaway group broke into the regional administration building and hung a banner
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In Luhansk, similar scenes saw pro-Russian demonstrators remove the sign from the front of the Ukrainian state security agency
In Luhansk, police fired tear gas at dozens of protesters who broke into the local security service building in an attempt to force the release of 15 pro-Russian activists who were arrested earlier in the week and accused of plotting violent unrest.
And in Kharkiv, several dozen people also entered the regional government building after breaking through police lines.
They waved Russian s out of windows as a crowd outside cheered and chanted. Police officers reportedly refused to use force against the crowd and moved away from the government building after the pro-Russian supporters broke in.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26910210
More on the demonstrations - pics, information - how everything was well-planned in advance and organized
http://euromaidanpr.com/2014/04/06/t...-april-6-2014/
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Who thought Crimea was really the end of things?
This is all very troubling...