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From the Facebook page of Canadian Minister Ed Fast, currently in Kyiv:
"Today, on behalf of all Canadians, I placed flowers and a candle in Independence Square in central Kyiv to honour the men and women killed and wounded during the EuroMaidan protests against the corrupt government of former president Viktor Yanukovych."
Fighting breaks out near Donetsk Airport, Train Station
Clashes between Ukrainian government troops and pro-Russia separatists intensified in Donetsk on Thursday, with battles breaking out near the city’s train station and airport.
French freelance photographer Antoine E.R. Delaunay posted a photo to Twitter showing heavy smoke between the train station and airport in Donetsk, a city of 900,000 in eastern Ukraine where rebels have regrouped after government troops took the upper hand after three months of fighting with the separatists.
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Terrorists think blowing up a bridge will stop an army. Think again.
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Ukraine Forces Take Another Rebel-Held Town
Kiev Government Says It Is Repairing Damaged Infrastructure in Recaptured Territory
Ukrainian forces regained control of another rebel-held town in the east on Thursday and moved to consolidate their position by funneling aid into recaptured areas and repairing damaged infrastructure there. Leaders of the pro-Russian separatists said they had decided to surrender the town of Siversk to avoid being surrounded, amid reports of clashes around the region.
ans stuck in the conflict zones have had to cope with increasing disruptions to basic services as the fighting damaged infrastructure and cut off government services.
The national government in Kiev said it was moving to restore heavily damaged water and electricity supplies to Slovyansk, which had a population of more than 100,000. It also said it was sending nearly 25 tons of humanitarian aid and resuming pension payments for residents immediately.
Local officials said they were moving to restore train service between Slovyansk and the nearest major government-held city, Kharkiv. Demolition experts were clearing roads around the town and had neutralized a ton of explosives, including a dozen improvised explosive devices and 20 antitank and anti-personnel mines, the defense ministry said.
http://online.wsj.com/articles/ukrai...598928726.html
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Grad rocket
Ukraine conflict: Many soldiers dead in 'rocket strike'
A rocket strike in the east Ukrainian region of Luhansk has killed at least 19 soldiers, Ukrainian officials say, blaming it on separatist rebels.
They said rebels had fired a barrage of Grad rockets at troops in Zelenopillya, a village near the Russian border.
The ministry spokesman, Volodymyr Seleznyov, also said 93 troops had been wounded. Earlier media reports about the rocket strike, which spoke of up to 30 killed, were inaccurate, he said.
Russian-made Grad rockets are heavy artillery weapons fired in batches from trucks. Both the Russian and Ukrainian armed forces use them.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-28261737
President Poroshenko had an urgent meeting with the security service forces after the Ukrainian military servicemen were shot at by the pro-Russian terrorists with the rocket launchers today.
President said that all gunmen responsible for killing Ukrainian soldiers will be found just like the the terrorist group led by their leader "Groza" responsible for shooting down Ukrainian jet was detained.
"Terrorists will pay for every fallen soldier by hundreds of their gunmen",- the President said. Poroshenko said that every single Ukrainian military defending their country is a Hero of Ukraine.
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Russia closes 3 major border crossings with Ukraine due to clashes
Russian news agencies on Friday quoted Vasily Malayev, spokesman for the Federal Security Service in the Rostov region, as saying that three crossings east of Donetsk were temporarily closed late Thursday night because of fighting on the other side.
Ukraine says it regained control of one crossing which had been controlled by rebels.
Pro-Russian insurgents in eastern Ukraine have declared independence and have been fighting Ukrainian government troops for more than three months. Government forces have been advancing in the recent days, pushing the insurgents closer to the Russian border.
Malayev told RIA Novosti on Friday customs staffers had been evacuated from the border crossing while border guards remained at their positions.
http://globalnews.ca/news/1445103/ru...ue-to-clashes/
Canada to send CF-18s to Lithuania as part of NATO policing mission
OTTAWA – The Harper government has announced a strategic military shift in its ongoing response to the Ukraine crisis.
Six CF-18 fighter jets which had been based in Romania on a training mission since May will be moved to Russia’s doorstep in Lithuania in September.
The jets were sent to Europe as part of NATO measure to thwart what Prime Minister Stephen Harper has called Russia’s “persistent military aggression” in Ukraine.
A statement from National Defence says the CF-18s will be deployed in Lithuania until December as part of a NATO Baltic Air Policing program.
While participating in the program, National Defence says the CF-18s will work with NATO allies and respond to “any violations of Baltic air space.”
http://globalnews.ca/news/1445159/ca...icing-mission/
Spotted today on the main square of newly-liberated Kramatorsk - "Kramatorsk is Ukraine"
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Ukrainian priest held by terrorists in Donetsk
UGCC (Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church) priest Tykhon Kulbyaka disappeared on July 3. He is secretary of the Interfaith Council of Churches and Religious Organizations, Donetsk region, a philanthropist and one of the organizers of the marathon prayer for peace and unity in Ukraine, which is daily taking place on the main street of the city. The priest, in addition, suffers from diabetes and needs daily medication. Before the kidnapping he had been threatened repeatedly.
Tykhon Kulbaka, who was kidnapped by Donetsk terrorists has been found in the dungeons of the Russian Orthodox Army.
Mufti Saeed Ismahilov said that today the delegation, which included a Roman Catholic priest, a Protestant minister and pastor of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, met with the mayor of Donetsk Alexander Lukyanchenko. Religious leaders asked the mayor to help them free Father Tykhon.
“Going to the meeting, we already knew that he (Father Kulbaka) is in the dungeons of the Russian Orthodox Army. The mayor promised that during his meeting with Boroday he would assist with the freeing of Father Tykhon, ” said Ismahilov.
http://euromaidanpress.com/2014/07/1...ts-in-donetsk/
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Ukraine's justice minister says Kyiv will appeal to the Council of Europe to help secure the release of a Ukrainian military officer held in Russia.
Pavlo Petrenko said on July 10 that Nadiya Savchenko, a senior lieutenant in the Ukrainian Air Force, was being held "hostage" in Russia.
Savchenko, 31, has been indicted in Russia for her alleged complicity in the killing of two Russian journalists last month near Luhansk. The journalists were covering Ukraine's military offensive against pro-Russian separatists.
A court in the Russian city of Voronezh, where she is being held, has ordered her held in pretrial detention until August 30.
Kyiv says Savchenko was captured by pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine and "illegally transferred" to Russia.
Russia's Investigative Committee insists Savchenko was detained within Russia.
http://www.rferl.org/content/ukraine.../25452934.html
Nadiya Savchenko has a history of fighting for what she wants.
The 33-year-old Kyiv native fought to become one of Ukraine's first women to train as an air-force pilot. And as a member of the volunteer Aidar Battalion in eastern Ukraine, she fought to defend her country -- even remaining defiant after being abducted by pro-Russian separatists.
Little is known about Savchenko's current state. Abducted on June 18 outside the Luhansk suburb of Shchastya, she was last seen in a video, released on June 19, in which she appears healthy and unfazed, despite being in the custody of pro-Moscow separatists and handcuffed to a metal pipe.
- partial text in English of her interrogation
http://maidantranslations.com/2014/0...hind-me-video/
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At 16, Vira Savchenko says, her older sister was already determined to become a pilot. She joined the Ukrainian Army, working as a radio operator with the country's railway forces before training as a paratrooper.
Nadiya Savchenko went on to serve as the only female soldier among Ukraine's peacekeeping troops in Iraq. Upon returning, she successfully petitioned the Defense Ministry for the right to attend the prestigious Air Force University in Kharkiv, which until then had been open only to men.
As a senior lieutenant, Savchenko has served in the airborne forces and as a gunner and navigator on Mi-24 helicopter gunships.
http://www.rferl.org/content/savchen.../25452738.html
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Lviv mourns the servicemen killed in the East
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Heroes don't die, Eternal Memory.
Vladislav Seleznev, ATO press officer:
"According to established data, militants suffered heavy losses today. Military aircraft destroyed two mortar batteries, two tanks, three APCs and a considerable number of automotive equipment and ammunition. Militants base camp was destroyed near the village Holmovskiy in Perevalsk district. It was a stronghold with two tanks, 10 armoured vehicles and fifteen units of automotive equipment. 500 militants was killed at this base.
Another powerful base of militants was destroyed near town Dzerjinsk. According to preliminary information up to 500 militants were killed there as well. Two armoured people carries were damaged.
A stronghold of militants near town Izvarino was located and destroyed. Thanks to such actions the ATO Forces strengthened their border positions near the crossing point Izvarino, which helps to establish full control over the state border of Ukraine.
Due to operational and coordinated work of aerial reconnaissance, intelligence groups and collaboration of the local population, which actively help to locate mass aggregations of terrorists the ATO Forces are promptly informed about militants location and bases.
Thus having received confirmed information during the day the aviation of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, during the antiterrorist operation on the territory of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, carried out 5 air strikes on strongholds of illegal armed formations, mortar firing positions, bases and camps of militants.
Thanks to accurate and reliable intelligence the Ukrainian Forced managed to destroy a number of positions of militants without endangering the local population.
There were 16 sorties in total during the last 24 hours. Among them: 2 by a bomber, 8 by assault aircraft, 1 by a fighter aircraft, 3 by transport aircraft, and 2 by an aircraft-repeater. Thanks to confident actions and skill of the aircrew there are prerequisites for the complete defeat of the illegal armed formations on the territory of Ukraine"
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Militants seized Donetsk Christian University
On July 9 armed men with a sign featuring ‘Donetsk People Republic’ entered the Donetsk Christian University. It is likely that the university infrastructure is necessary for militants to quarter their armed forces and ammunition, said Religion in Ukraine website referring to Invictory.
Donetsk Christian University (DCU) is one of the largest and renowned Christian higher education etsablishments. The University is a founding member of the Euro-Asian Accreditation Association.
The DCU structure includes a children’s education center, ‘Gloria’ general education school, seminars and university programs (in theology, missiology, psychology, English philology, journalism).
The total area of Donetsk Christian University is 8.5 hectares. The DCU resources include gym, playground, cafe, dining room, modern campus for learning and living, computer laboratory.
Still there is no information about hostages and victims.
http://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news...candals/57012/
Fierce battle began near Donetsk
- Media - reported by Liga.net
According to locals, explosions have been heard in Maryinka, electricity is cut off and a local feed mill is on fire.
Shots are fired near the mine in Skochinskogo.
Based on eye-witness accounts, a fierce battle is underway in the town of Maryinka near Donetsk.
“There were several signal flares. Powerful explosions have occurred for over half hour now!”, - reports “Segodnya” citing local sources.
Explosions have been heard at intervals of 3 to 5 minutes in many parts of Donetsk. There have been no eyewitness reports about shots or armed clashes in the city itself.
As reported by users of social networks, in [the town of] Maryinka electricity has been cut off and a local feed mill is on fire.
According to locals, explosions have been heard and shots are being fired near the Skochinskogo mine on Biruzova street.
As a reminder one person was injured after an explosion at the Central Store in Donetsk yesterday.
The night before, ATO aviation and artillery forces started pinpoint strikes on terrorist positions in the Donbas.
The press service of the " Donbas" battalion informs:
On the 11th of July, the "Donbas" battalion engaged in a fight with the terrorists, in the vicinity of Artemivsk town located in Donetsk Oblast.
A reconnaissance group of the "Donbas" battalion came face to face with the enemy, while carrying out a combat mission as part of their training for the operation. The terrorists surrounded the check-point from which the servicemen were leaving and unwound an AGS-17 automatic grenade launcher, with the aim of liquidating the check-point.
Right away the group has taken a decision to engage in the battle.
One unit of passenger vehicles was destroyed by the servicemen. Moreover, losses in manpower were born by the terrorists - 7 were killed and a few were wounded.
The position of the terrorists was annihilated and they were forced to retreat.
When the fight has ended, the "Donbas" servicemen have taken to clear out the territory. They uncovered a terrorists base from which a substantial amount of weaponry was confiscated: AGS, RPK, AK. There are no losses on the side of the battalion.
"Two servicemen who were moderately wounded, were already given the necessary medical aid and will soon join the ranks of the battalion," states the commander of the "Donbas" battalion, Semyon Semenchenko.