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National Security and Defense Council:Militants fire at residential blocks of Ukrainian towns
Kyiv, August 3, 2015. A large number of incidents were registered in the ATO zone, including militant attacks on the positions of Ukrainian troops with the use of heavy weapons. Seven incidents were registered in the Donetsk and Mariupol sectors when militants shelled residential blocks of Ukrainian towns and villages with artillery and mortars....
National Security and Defense Council:Militants have violated the ceasefire 100 times over the past day
Kyiv, July 31, 2015. A record number of attacks by militants has been reached over the last 24 hours. Yesterday, an unprecedented number of ceasefire violations by militants were recorded, exceeding 100 attacks. Such number of armed provocations by the enemy has not been recorded for more than a month. View map in full size In the Luhansk sector,...
Dmitry Tymchuk: Military update 7.30
Ukrainian soldier and sniper keeps watch through his scope at a checkpoint as full moon rises. Photo: Mykola Voronin Operational data from Information Resistance: Russian-terrorist troops in Donbas once again carry out the majority of shelling on ATO positions and civilian objects during the evening and nighttime (including with 120 mm mortars,...
Plane debris identified as Boeing 777
Malaysian authorities confirmed that plane wreckage washed up on an Indian Ocean island was from a Boeing 777. ||| Kuala Lumpur – Malaysian authorities confirmed on Friday that plane wreckage washed up on an Indian Ocean island was from a Boeing 777, meaning the part is almost certainly from missing flight MH370.The debris, part of a plane...
Euromaidan’s Shockwaves: An Exile in Ukraine Recalls Fleeing his Native Kyrgyzstan
On a recent warm summer night, Ilya Lukash sat in a bar near Kyiv’s trendy Kontraktova Square, drinking a beer and chatting with his friends in Ukrainian, Russian, and English. In a red T-shirt emblazoned with patriotic Ukrainian slogans, he could easily have been any one of the countless young, educated, pro-democracy Ukrainians who in...
Russia vetoes MH17 tribunal at UN
Russia vetoed a UN resolution that sought to set up a special tribunal to try those responsible for shooting down flight MH17. ||| New York – Russia vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution on Wednesday that sought to set up a special tribunal to try those responsible for shooting down flight MH17 over Ukraine.Eleven of the 15...
Putin says opposes MH17 tribunal
President Vladimir Putin said he opposed the creation of an international tribunal to prosecute those who shot down flight MH17. ||| Moscow – Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday he opposed the creation of an international tribunal to prosecute those who shot down a Malaysian airliner over eastern Ukraine, hours before a UN...
Russia Threatens Ukrainian Pilot Nadiya Savchenko with 25-Year Jail Term
Nadiya Savchenko, Ukraine’s most famous female military officer, has languished in a Moscow prison for more than a year since Moscow-backed separatists captured her in eastern Ukraine last June and smuggled across the border to Russia shackled, her head covered by a sack. Now her captors have moved her again—and again under the cover of...
Russian terrorists shelled at Ukrainian troops’ positions more than 80 times – ATO press center
PHOTO: A rescue worker tries to locate the body of a woman trapped under the rubble of her house in the village of Golmovsky near Gorlivka in the Donetsk region after shelling between Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian separatists on July 28, 2015. Source On July 29 2015 the ATO Press Center informs that over the past day, July 28, 2015, Russian...
National Security and Defense Council: For the first time in five weeks, militants fire upon Ukrainian troops using Grad missile sysyems
Kyiv, July 28, 2015. For the first time in the past five weeks, ATO forces recorded the use of MRLS Grad launchers by militants. Pro-Russian militants fired upon ATO troops’ positions and residential houses using Grad launchers near the Donetsk bypass. The shots came directly from Donetsk. The militants also use tanks and artillery regularly....