Protests in Ukraine escalate

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Ivan Vorobei was killed on 9 November while performing a mission in the war zone, aged only 19.

He was born and raised in the village of Dihtiarivka in the northern Chernihiv Oblast where he enlisted for contract service six months ago.

He was shot by a Russian-separatist sniper while he was trying to save his battle buddy who was also hit by a sniper. The funeral took place in his native village on 12 November.
Eternal memory! Heroes never die!

[Natalka]

Past 24 hours in the war zone

Russian mercenaries launch 16 attacks against Ukrainian positions in Luhansk, Donetsk and Mariupol sectors, 8 using heavy weapons proscribed by the Minsk accords.

2 Ukrainian soldiers wounded.3 enemy insurgents killed, 5 wounded.

In the night of 15 November, two homes ruined as residential households of #Pivdenne, Donetsk Oblast came under intense fire of 82mm and 120mm mortar, the attack was conducted from the residential neighborhoods of the occupied city of Horlivka, the Ukrainian side of the Joint Control for Control and Cooperation (JCCC) reports.

Photos

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?sto...64683177357638

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UN General Assembly's Third Committee approved a draft resolution "Situation of Human Rights in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the City of Sevastopol, Ukraine," yesterday, November 15.

The draft resolution condemns the politically motivated persecutions of Ukranian citizens and calls on Russia to free all those who are illegally detained in occupied Crimea and Russia. Imprisoned Ukrainian film director Oleh Sentsov, Crimean activist Volodymyr Balukh and Crimean Tatar and human rights activist Emir-Useyn Kuku are designated as political prisoners.

The document affirms that “the seizure of #Crimea by force is illegal and a violation of international law” and that these “territories must be returned.”


The following countries voted against the draft resolution: Armenia, Belarus, Bolivia, Burundi, Cambodia, China, Cuba, North Korea, Eritrea, India, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Myanmar, Nicaragua, the Russian Federation, Serbia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Tajikistan, Uganda, Uzbekistan, Venezuela and Zimbabwe.


https://eng.uatv.ua/updated-draft-resolution-crimea-adopted-united-nations/

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@rock lobster

Russians continue to have it in for Jehovah's Witnesses


https://www.unian.info/politics/1033...ournalist.html

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Past 24 hours in the war zone

Russian mercenaries launch 10 attacks against Ukrainian positions in Luhansk, Donetsk and Mariupol sectors, 6 using mortars proscribed by the Minsk accords.

On 16 November Ukrainian forces incurred no casualties.2 enemy insurgents wounded.
The JFO Staff reports that a Ukrainian soldier was killed in an enemy shelling today on 17 November.

[rock lobster]

So it begins.


A Chinese city has ordered members of a Muslim minority group to turn themselves in to authorities if they observe practices such as abstention from alcohol.
Hami city government in the far-western Xinjiang region said people “poisoned by extremism, terrorism and separatism” would be treated leniently if they surrendered within the next 30 days.
The move comes as Beijing faces increasing international scrutiny over its treatment of the Uighur Muslim minority and other ethnic groups living in Xinjiang.

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  China forcing ethnic Uighurs to serve as intelligence assets
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  China urged to close mass detention camps for Uighur Muslims
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  China claims Uighur Muslims grateful to be held in internment camps
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  Inside China’s ‘re-education centres’ for Uighur Muslims
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  China's Uighur minority shackled by technology as thousands detained

As many as a million Uighurs are thought to have been rounded up and placed in “re-education” centres, in what China claims is a clampdown on religious extremism.
The government message to Muslimsin Xinjiang warned actions from contact with overseas terror groups to conservative Islamic behaviour would require individuals to turn themselves in.
Those who reject government-provided housing, alcohol or cigarettes on the basis they are “haram”, or forbidden by Islam, were ordered to notify authorities.

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Past 24 hours in the war zone in Donbas, as of 18:00, 19 November, as per the Joint Forces Operation HQ:
- Russian-separatist forces violated the ceasefire regime 10 times, 5 times - using weapons banned by the Minsk agreements;- Regions of Zholobok and Chermalyk shelled with 82 and 120 mm mortars;

- 2 Ukrainian servicemen WIA, 0 KIA.

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Vitaliy Onufreychuk, born 1981, died on 17 November during a night shelling of Russian-separatist forces on Ukrainian positions in Donbas, near Zholobok village, from a mine explosion.


Vitaliy served in the 10th Mountain Assault Brigade, was born in Chernivtsi.Eternal Memory! Heroes do not die!

[Anna Michele]

So it begins.


A Chinese city has ordered members of a Muslim minority group to turn themselves in to authorities if they observe practices such as abstention from alcohol.
Hami city government in the far-western Xinjiang region said people “poisoned by extremism, terrorism and separatism” would be treated leniently if they surrendered within the next 30 days.
The move comes as Beijing faces increasing international scrutiny over its treatment of the Uighur Muslim minority and other ethnic groups living in Xinjiang.

Read more

• 
  China forcing ethnic Uighurs to serve as intelligence assets
• 
  China urged to close mass detention camps for Uighur Muslims
• 
  China claims Uighur Muslims grateful to be held in internment camps
• 
  Inside China’s ‘re-education centres’ for Uighur Muslims
• 
  China's Uighur minority shackled by technology as thousands detained

As many as a million Uighurs are thought to have been rounded up and placed in “re-education” centres, in what China claims is a clampdown on religious extremism.
The government message to Muslimsin Xinjiang warned actions from contact with overseas terror groups to conservative Islamic behaviour would require individuals to turn themselves in.
Those who reject government-provided housing, alcohol or cigarettes on the basis they are “haram”, or forbidden by Islam, were ordered to notify authorities.

Wtf

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Ukraine Salutes Slain Euromaidan Activists On Fifth Anniversary Of Uprising


KYIV -- President Petro Poroshenko has headed a delegation of top Ukrainian officials marking the fifth anniversary of the start of the Euromaidan protests that began a series of events that tilted Ukraine's geopolitical orientation toward the West.


Poroshenko took part in a ceremony on Independence Square (Maidan Nezalezhnosti) on November 21 to commemorate activists killed during three months of peaceful protests in 2013-14 that prompted Moscow-friendly President Viktor Yanukovych to flee to Russia.


Poroshenko was joined by Prime Minister Volodymyr Hroysman and parliament speaker Andriy Parubiy at the Heroes Of The Heavenly Hundred memorial on the square where many of the some 100 activists were killed, most by security forces.


In the weeks following Yanukovych's ouster, Russia seized Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula and supported separatist forces who took control of parts of Ukraine's Donetsk and Luhansk regions, setting off a war that has killed more than 10,300 people.


November 21 is officially known as Prosperity and Freedom Day in Ukraine to mark the start of the 2004 Orange Revolution and the 2013-14 Euromaidan uprising.

https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-salu.../29612874.html

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Past 24 hours in the war zone in Donbas, 20 November, as per the Joint Forces Operation HQ:
- Russian-separatist forces violated the ceasefire regime 6 times, involving weapons proscribed by the Minsk agreements in two of the attacks;

- The fire attacks involving grenade launchers, machine guns and small arms were conducted on the areas of Krymske (Luhansk sector), Pisky, Verknyotoretske (Donetsk sector), Vodyane, Lebedynske (Mariupol sector).

- 120mm mortars were applied in two attacks against Ukrainian forces in the area of Vodyane (Mariupol sector).

- Ukrainian army sustained no casualties.

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On 16 November in the village of Loknia, Sumy Oblast, 26-year-old Volodymyr Buzovskyi (call-sign Buzok - 'Lilac') was laid to rest, a contract soldier of the 72nd Separate Mechanized Brigade, who had worked as a physical education teacher at a local school before his military service.

Volodymyr was killed on 23 September near Luhanske, Donetsk Oblast as an enemy shell hit the Ukrainian blindage.

Вічна Пам’ять! Eternal Memory!

Герої не вмирають! Heroes Never Die!

[Natalka]

NOW this has gotten more widespread attention in the world.


A Russian coast guard vessel rammed a Ukrainian navy tugboat near Crimea, damaging the ship's engines and hull, the Ukrainian navy said Sunday.
The incident took place Sunday as two Ukrainian navy artillery boats and a tugboat were transiting from Odessa on the Black Sea to Mariupol in the Sea of Azov, via the Kerch Strait, a narrow passage between Crimea and the Russian mainland.


Russia fired on two Ukrainian naval ships and rammed a third vessel in the Black Sea Sunday, accusing the Ukrainians of illegally entering what it claims as its territorial waters.


Ukrainian officials say at least six sailors were wounded and denies doing anything wrong - accusing Russia of engaging in military aggression.

"Such actions pose a threat to the security of all states in the Black Sea region and therefore require a clear response from the international community," Ukraine's Foreign Ministry said.



The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) accuses Ukraine of staging a deliberate provocation.

"Weapons were used with the aim of forcibly stopping the Ukrainian warships. As a result, all three Ukrainian naval vessels were seized in the Russian Federation's territorial waters in the Black Sea," an FSB statement said.

Sunday's incident began when a Ukrainian tugboat set out to escort two navy ships from Odessa, on the Black Sea, through the Kerch Strait to the Ukrainian port of Mariupol, in the Sea of Azov.

The Kerch Strait is the only passage between the two seas.

A 2003 treaty designates the Sea of Azov and the pathway into it - the Kerch Straight - as shared territorial waters.

Ukraine says a Russian Coast Guard ship rammed and damaged the tugboat and fired at the two other ships. Russian Coast Guardsmen boarded all three vessels and took them over.

Ukraine says Russia used a tanker to block access to the Kerch Strait.


Both NATO and the European Union issued statements late Sunday urging both sides to act with the "utmost restraint" while NATO calls on Russia to "ensure unhindered access to Ukrainian ports in the Azov Sea in accordance with international law."

The Trump administration has warned Russia against trying to strangle the Ukrainian economy by harassing international shipping through the Kerch Strait.



https://www.voanews.com/a/ukrainian-...p/4672938.html

[Natalka]

As of 22.20 Kyiv time

The artillery boat Berdyansk and the tugboat Yany Kapu are seized and towed. The artillery boat Nikopol is blocked and followed by the occupants, the vessel is not damaged. Six Ukrainian servicemen were injured.Press Center of theNavy of the Armed Forces of Ukraine


(My Ukrainian is not good enough to follow the directions Navy updates, and direct translations are often gibberish. I count on Euromaiden Press to post a readable translation, they are trusted.)

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An hour ago


Ukraine is now holding NSDC meeting on possible introduction of martial law over Russia's assault and seizure of three Ukrainian naval vessels in #Azov Sea.




The emergency meeting of the NSDC regarding the Russian attack on Ukrainian Navy vessels in the Azov Sea has finished. Main takeaways:



- Poroshenko supports motion of NSDC to introduce martial law for 60 days. Motion will be proposed to be voted in on emergency Rada session today. Poroshenko calls upon MPs to convene to this session. Consultations with NATO and foreign partners will follow.



- Martial law will not infringe upon civil liberties, will not be used for offensive operations, will not envision full mobilization.



- Chief of Information Ministry Yuriy Stets says limitations on freedom of speech will not be imposed, but calls to be aware that enemy will attempt to sow panic and disinform through social media;



- Chief of staff Viktor Muzhenko reports fate of UA sailors unknown, info contradictory, 23 sailors taken captive, 6 WIA, 2 of them are in heavy condition.