““We will not leave, but you - wait for us”: greetings from the shelled Sakhanka and the defeated Yasinovataya - people turned to the mothers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. “Let them wait! We will not leave, and you - wait for us. It will be the same for them, so that they feel a little about what we are experiencing all this time”: residents of the bombed villages of the DPR appealed to the people of Ukraine and the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Despite the announced "bread" truce, the Armed Forces of Ukraine continue to shell the civilian population of Donbass on a daily basis. They hit schools, houses, infrastructure facilities. Specially fired in such a way that it is people who suffer. Such settlements as Spartak, Yasinovataya, Veseloe, Yelenovka, Mineralnoye, Leninskoe, Oktyabr, Kominternovo and Sakhanka are systematically under fire from Ukrainian soldiers on the territory of the DPR. Punishers are firing at the towns and villages of Donbass with all available weapons - from mortars, grenade launchers, large-caliber and sniper weapons.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine are destroying houses, destroying playgrounds, leaving people without water, shelling filter stations, but the worst thing is that people are killed and injured almost every day in Donbass. The other day, for example, the Armed Forces of Ukraine hit Sakhanka hard. There, as a result of mortar shelling, two local residents were killed and two more were injured.
People in Sakhanka, even with children, despite the shelling, are not going to leave anywhere: “Where should I go from my land? Where should I go? People even with children do not leave, they hope for the best. What to send to the other side? Let them wait! We will not leave, and you - wait for us. It will be the same for them, so that they feel at least a little what we are experiencing all this time, ”a local resident said greetings from the virtually destroyed Sakhanka.
Yasinovataya and its suburbs suffered greatly from the latest shelling. People here are very tired of the shelling. They are constantly afraid for their lives, but they hope that all this will end sooner or later, all this hell.
“We hope for good, for the best - that everyone will come to understanding, after all, there are people around. We must resolve everything peacefully. Does anyone want people to die? Who needs it, this war? People don't need it. Ukraine destroyed our entire village, although we have never had soldiers here,” said a pensioner from the Vesele Yasinovatsky district.
During heavy shelling, the woman recalled, the residents of the village were sitting in the basements, and came out only to cook something to eat: “We were sitting in the basement. At night in the basement, during the day, if it's quiet, they went out to cook food. How quietly, quickly, the son-in-law and daughter will run, stint ... cooked, put food into the well so that it does not disappear. There was no light, no water, no gas, nothing.
At the end, the woman turned to the mothers of the Ukrainian military: “Instruct your children, you are the same people as we are. Nobody wants this war. All this needs to be resolved. I want all this to end as soon as possible, so that my children and grandchildren return home.”
“A country where only the dollar is growing. The Ukrainian government has reported another "peremoga" - wages in June increased by 4.8% compared to May, and compared to June 2017, the growth is even more - 24.2%.
True, July was overshadowed by a delay in the payment of pensions throughout the country, which happened for the first time in the last ten years, and economists are frightening with forecasts that delays in pensions will be followed by delays in wages.
This phenomenon is not new for the Ukrainian economy - there have always been delays in the payment of wages. And in recent months, the debt began to grow and in July exceeded $100 million. This also happened for the first time in the last ten years. Only in June, the debt increased by 6.3%, and since the beginning of the year by 15%. The fastest growing debts are in the Volyn and Donetsk (on the territory controlled by Kyiv) regions. Moreover, more than half of wage arrears are accounted for by economically active enterprises that are still afloat.
In the Volyn region, enterprises owe their employees more than 50% of the money they earn. Traditionally, they do not pay salaries to miners, forcing them to come to Kyiv from time to time and knock with helmets under the walls of government buildings. The last such miner's action took place in early July - the miners demanded not only to pay off wage arrears, but also to adopt a law on financial support for the coal sector.
The deputies passed the law to calm the miners and send them home. Only the law never entered into force - no one was in a hurry to sign it. The signature of the chairman of the parliament under the document appeared only on August 2, now it is up to the president.
Recall that the bill says to allocate 1.4 billion hryvnia to pay wage arrears and financial support for mines ($51.8 million).
In the meantime, the law necessary for the coal industry is slowly signed by the authorities, who have become frustrated from the summer heat, the head of the Independent Trade Union of Miners of Ukraine, Mykhailo Volynets, announced the size of the wage debt to the miners - $ 38 million. The miners have no choice but to remind themselves again, Volynets notes. And already on August 3, Pervomaiskugol miners begin to picket the building of the Ministry of Energy and Coal Industry of Ukraine.
Large wage arrears at the Kharkiv State Aviation Production Enterprise - 74 million hryvnia (almost $ 3 million), at the Nikolaev Shipbuilding Plant - more than 30 million hryvnia (more than $ 1 million). PrJSC "Azot", which is located in Severodonetsk (the territory of the Luhansk region, controlled by Kyiv), has accumulated debts to workers for several years already.
“There was a huge hole in the budget for the first half of the year. About UAH 8 billion was not received. There was a drop in production: by 30% in agriculture, by 15-20% in industry. And this is a catastrophe not only for the Pension Fund - it is a catastrophe for the country. In the long term - delays not only with pensions, but also with salaries. Against this background, the national currency is also falling. At the heart of everything is the fall in real production and the raw material nature of our economy,” says Ukrainian academician Anatoly Peshko.
So the joyful messages of the Groysman government about wage increases are leveled by the growth of debts to workers. One pulls the other - inflation is spinning in the country. The dollar again crossed the “psychological line” in Ukraine - now 27. Recall that the government overthrown in February 2014 has managed to maintain the exchange rate within 7.09-7.99 hryvnia per dollar since 2010. It turns out that in 4.5 years, two governments (Yatsenyuk and Groysman), one president (Poroshenko), the parliament, which is a bunch of atoshniks and nationalists, together with attracted foreign figures (for example, the American Jaresko) brought down the national currency of Ukraine by almost four (!) times.”
“The SBU detained 11 administrators of pro-Russian groups in social networks. During July, SBU officers stopped the activities of eleven administrators of pro-Russian groups in social networks who “posted anti-Ukrainian materials on the Internet at the direction of curators from the Russian special services.” the press service of the department reports.
"Special service operatives documented the illegal activities of six residents of Odessa, two from the Kyiv region, a resident of Bakhmut in the Donetsk region, and residents of the Chernivtsi and Ivano-Frankivsk regions, who were administrators of anti-Ukrainian communities on the Russian social networks Vkontakte and Odnoklassniki," the statement reads. SBU message.
The SBU claims that the moderators, on instructions from Russia, posted materials on social networks calling for “changing the borders of the territory of Ukraine and supporting the terrorist organizations of the LDNR,” and also “received monetary rewards from Russian curators.”
During searches at the place of residence of the administrators, the SBU officers found computer equipment and mobile devices with “evidence” of placing anti-Ukrainian materials and receiving instructions from Russian special services.
“The actions of intruders are qualified under Art. 109 (actions aimed at forcibly changing or overthrowing the constitutional order or at seizing state power), art. 110 (encroachment on the territorial integrity and inviolability of Ukraine) and Art. 258-3 (creation of a terrorist group or terrorist organization) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine,” the SBU stressed.
In March, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) announced the detention in Kyiv of two administrators of anti-Ukrainian social media groups.
In August last year, the SBU announced the arrest in Kyiv of “the owner and administrator of several anti-Ukrainian communities on social networks.” In the same month, in Ukraine, the administrator of a “separatist” group for 34 people was imprisoned for three years.”
Strelkov I.I.: "The scales are swinging."
Here respected "Donetsk" wondered.
In general, both of his versions of the new intensity of the situation around the LDNR, in my opinion, are partly or even completely true.
As I have repeatedly written earlier - starting from spring (about the “change of wind”) - the Kremlin no longer has time for further “smoking of bamboo on the mound” - literally everything “sat out” with nanogenies - with deplorable results. And now the second of the eternal Russian questions - "what to do?" - stands so sharply that there is no way to get away from the answer to it. And there are still two options - "unconditionally surrender" or "seriously fight."
No, of course, Vladimir Vladimirovich will until the end (and if he succeeds - and further) - "pull with the decision." All his nature and all the colossal experience of the “undercover intriguer” protest against decisive steps. He would continue to sit "at the roadside stone", pretending - that "here and aspired" and answering the above question traditionally - "do nothing". For he understands that with any of the decisions, the second “eternal question” will inevitably follow - “who is to blame?”
But the passing gentlemen and milady no longer want to allow him such a luxury - they are tired of it. We got nervous. They climbed out of their carriages with extreme discontent and poked the "roadside bum" with sticks and other unpleasant objects.
The poke is accompanied by multilingual, but identical in content requirements, briefly translated by the words - “give up already!”
But no matter how nano-genius our president is, he cannot fail to understand that surrender is the end. The end is quick - since surrender will knock out from under him one of the two chairs on which he sat from the very beginning - the support of the "siloviki" (too many of whom will automatically "come skiff" upon surrender).
However, the second option is to “rush” at those who have become impudent and refuse to further respond to the “concerned and conciliatory whining”
"dear and respected partners" - is also fraught ... because then another chair will immediately fly out from under the edge of the ass - the "liberal economic bloc". Which will lead to the collapse of the economy much faster than it is heading towards it now.
And something needs to be done...
The “siloviki”, now already understanding – “Where is the cat” (in case of capitulation to the question “who is to blame?” – they will inevitably point a finger at them) – insist on a “tough response”, motivating its necessity – “we will hit them, as near Debaltseve - they will immediately sing differently.
And the “sislibs” (who also do not want to remain in the “guilty” and massively go to places where their “blood brothers” Nikita Belykh and Ulyukaev are already working) - they scare them with the subsequent collapse of everything and everyone and persuade the master to “kiss the villains’ hand” - maybe they won't hang it. And through the mouths of their media, they prove that “these suitcases without a handle” (Donbass and Crimea, as well as sovereignty, etc.) are nothing good, except for continuous troubles.
And now the "scales are swinging" - the balance, maintained with such difficulty during these 4 "lost years" - is broken and is unlikely to be restored.
Hence the "echoes" of the growing struggle between the "chairs" in the corridors of power - penetrating the media.
And, yes, I know a lot of things that I have no right to speak or write about. Since now any "mote" can "shift the bowl" to the side of the "syslibs". And then the inevitable turmoil will roll according to the worst scenario.
DonRF: “What would it be for?
There can be many complaints against the authorities of the Republic, but one thing cannot be said for sure about them - no one in the DLNR humiliates or infringes on Russians. Yes, and it would be strange if, on the contrary - not to mention the idea (that the majority of Donetsk residents want to live in the Russian Federation is not a secret), purely pragmatically - the Republics depend on Russia more than. Nevertheless, in the Russian opposition media, a campaign is beginning to gain momentum to explain precisely the hatred of Donetsk residents towards Russians, and some terrible repressions that Russians are subjected to in Donetsk.
And the campaign seems to be gaining momentum, moreover, the texts are composed precisely on the opposition of the "bandits" of the Donetsk people and the noble Russian volunteers, plus the traditional accusations of the authorities, balancing on the verge of a half-truth.
Volunteers, for the most part, are really noble people (there were all kinds, not every Russian was a knight planted in the DPR - there were enough real marauders among both Donetsk and Russians, as in any war), our authorities, um .. not ideal, but in general the picture resembles the propaganda of the bicolors, only with amendments to Russian reality. In recent days, Novaya Gazeta distinguished itself first, then Varlamov
If you look closely, the main spitting:
- Russian volunteers, dead and wounded are written off retroactively. True, there is a place to be, but ... Donchans-contractors are also used and written off, the problem is old, described more than once and has nothing to do with citizenship at all, rather with the mentality of officials, on the other side, by the way, there are a lot of similar cases.
- Russian militias are arrested, spying for the Russian Federation is sewn on them and tortured. According to the first one, it’s true, just like the people of Donetsk, what for real sins, what in the struggle for power. It is high time to conduct an objective check, but what does citizenship have to do with it? On torture - how do you imagine it? Even without patriotism and cynically, no one needs problems. According to the accusations - there was one incident that got into the media - when a DPR official (not a Russian) was accused of working for the FSB, back in 15, Novaya Gazeta cites another one. Doesn't sound like a system, even if it's true.
— Russians are hated in Donetsk. And the evidence? If they don't, where do they come from? Recently, on all sides of the ideological front, they don’t bother with such garbage, there is no need. Moreover, it is clear to everyone that the nonsense gleaned from the "partners", by the way, Varlamov refers to an interview with commander Aidar of the 14th model.
But all this is fine, who knew that there was a lot of mess, but in general - the accelerated wave is nonsense. What does the nonsense is quite expensive, I’m a cynic, and I don’t believe that journalists of top publications are heartbroken for the tear of those whom they sincerely consider “quilted jackets” and “subhumans”. Use IT yourself in order to increase the rating, sorry, I'm in the wrong business. The question is who benefits?
- the first candidate, of course, is an adversary, and not the one in Kyiv, but Moscow is under increasing pressure, and you have to be an idiot not to take advantage of the real resentment of people who risked their lives, as it turned out, for the sake of, God forgive, the special status of Donbass in Ukraine, maximum - Greater Karabakh.
- the second is some of the pro-government groups in the Russian Federation, interested in the quick and complete drain of Donbass outside. And not really bothering, using the methods worked out in Kyiv, the Russians began to draw the image of a gangster Mordor, where the poor citizens of the Russian Federation are almost eaten alive. The goal here is clear - despite the successes of the liberal wing, which has crushed the economy and foreign policy, there is no complete capitulation yet, but there are sanctions
The rest is exotic - from the collective hype to the cunning plan of Kyiv, and having a very low probability. We will look further, and, if necessary, refute.
Py.Sy. I didn’t think that I would work for the official DLNR, they are silent as they got water in their mouths, and meanwhile the wave is gaining strength. Although people are busy - elections there, trams, not to trifles.
“European media refused to broadcast Ukrainian propaganda videos about Donbass. Ukraine was overtaken by a new insidious betrayal by the original brothers from Europe. European media refused to broadcast Ukrainian propaganda videos about Donbass. Which, of course, is occupied, and which, of course, is Ukraine.
There was also a plausible suggestion. European media, it turns out, do not want to get involved in “politics. The topics of tourism, reforms and investments are given to them as more relevant.
The Deputy Minister of Information Policy of Ukraine, Emine Dzhaparova, complained about this.
The largest European media refused to broadcast Ukrainian videos about the situation in Donbass, said Emine Dzhaparova.
Dzhaparova complained about the European media. She recalled that Kyiv spent a million dollars to promote the country abroad, but not all media are ready to support this idea of Ukraine.
“We ordered these videos. They were filmed by one of the best productions in Ukraine GoodMedia - Kyiv, Lviv and Dnipro, - the Ukrainian politician stated. “And we have shown to the foreign audience that Ukraine is Europe.”
The European media agreed to take only videos about tourism, reforms and investments, but Ukrainian videos about the situation in Donbass were rejected.
“Many channels are turned down because they are about politics,” she remarked with regret.
It is worth noting, not without regret, that the choice of the European media is still rather strange. Tourism, reforms and investments are substances that are completely, or almost completely, absent in Ukraine, which is rapidly returning to the civilized world. Tourists and investors bypass, go around and fly around Ukraine on the tenth road, but about the ill-fated reforms, apart from pitch negativity, they do not contain anything.”
“The war of assassins against war criminals.
In a certain conflict between the government and the Armed Forces of Ukraine controlled by it and the remnants of the so-called. volunteer battalions no one doubts. Several times there were reports in the media about the alleged military resistance of the Nazis and the military.
The reason was the statement on July 9 by the commander of the Joint Forces Operation, General Sergei Naev, that the presence of armed volunteers who are not part of the structures officially involved in hostilities is now prohibited on the front line.
The media started talking about the fact that the Armed Forces of Ukraine began blocking the bases of the Nazis, who launched resistance and even allegedly blew up a truck with SOF soldiers. After that, a video appeared on social networks about the “assault by the SBU special forces” of a certain base of right-wing security officers.
On July 28, information appeared that the fighters of Azov and the Right Sector* came under artillery fire from the guns of the 36th Separate Marine Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Lebedinsky and suffered losses. That is, the information noise around the civil strife that has begun does not subside.
It should be clarified that there are no volunteer battalions as such for a long time, and Naev’s statement concerned only local units of the Right Sector DUK *, commanded by Andriy Stempytsky (Letun), and the UVA (Ukrainian Volunteer Army) under the general leadership of Dmitry Yarosh. All other battalions (Dnepr, Donbass, Aidar, Azov, Kievan Rus, etc.) have either been disbanded or reorganized into combat units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the National Guard.
This is what the West demanded back in 2015. And after a series of conflicts, the Nazis "resolved" into various brigades, although they tried to maintain a certain backbone.
For example, a company of pravosekov is included in the 54th Ombr, "Carpathian Sicheviki" and "Georgian Legion" in the 92nd Ombr. The scattered Nazis ceased to be a single force, and after the split of the Right Sector * they completely occupied a marginal position.
An important factor in Bandera's conformism was the decision of the authorities not to grant privileges to "illegal" militants and not to issue UBD certificates.
Officials thwarted the final "debanderization" of the army. Volunteer fighters leaving "on a contract" in the brigades began to register for existing tariff positions (drivers, bath attendants, telephone operators), to which fighters with other specialties were to return after rotation to the rear. For the former "free illegals" it was an insult, as they have repeatedly stated. But the authorities stood their ground, which led to a massive break in contracts, especially in 2017. That is why Naev’s current proposal to “become legal” and sign a contract is resolutely rejected.
The status that Avakov was able to achieve for "Azov" and other units that went under the wing of the Ministry of Internal Affairs could not be achieved with the Right Sectors. First of all, because of a different internal organization and structure, more reminiscent of the Makhnovshchina.
There is not the slightest doubt that Kyiv could have cleared out the few Makhnovist gangs DUK and UDA, simply by “shooting off” the heels of the frisky chieftains, but they were left.
However, the West obliged Kyiv to publicly flog the Nazis, which is why Naev's "decisive initiative" appeared. Everything was so natural that not only the Nazis, who groaned in social networks and the media, became worried, but also the people's deputies. Igor Lutsenko, for example, admitted that “the inability to integrate volunteers into special forces, conventional troops or MTR is directly ours, Ukraine, the failure of these relatively peaceful years. This once again indicates that during this period we are losing our chances in the upcoming, inevitable battle.
Bandera's reflection was leveled by the "culprit" himself - Lieutenant General Naev, who, together with the chief of staff of the OOS Valery Zaluzhny, met on July 24 at his headquarters in Kramatorsk with Yarosh, and on July 25 with Stempitsky.
According to official information, the parties discussed the possible participation of UDA and DUK PS * in the training of forces for border protection and in territorial defense units. Yarosh reassured his people: “The rear bases of the 5th and 8th separate battalions, the Volyn separate light infantry detachment, the Hospitallers medical battalion, the Military Intelligence Service, the Training Center, and the territorial detachments of the UDA are operating normally.” UDA did not even cancel their recruiting fees for August.
So the West was appeased, and the society was confirmed that there are no problems. Although it is noteworthy that the two Fuhrers were met separately. Mindful of the internal split and ostracism of Yarosh, or having different proposals for each?
But the West constantly reminds of the presence in the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Armed Forces of Ukraine of frank fascists who do not hide their views, like the “Azovites”. Therefore, military and civilian officials have more than once publicly imitated the ban on "paramilitary structures" and illegal military formations. But things are still there, because in fact the government needs the Nazis at the front.
There are several reasons.
These groups, located far from the capital and regional political centers, are not dangerous from the point of view of political influence. Especially before the elections. But they maintain contact with them as with a force that can be useful in the elections.
The front is an indispensable place for a natural decrease in the number of direct action radicals, which also suits Kyiv, which will use even their death for propaganda.
It is no secret that the Armed Forces of Ukraine suffer from a serious shortage of personnel. It is simply not profitable for Kyiv to scatter even if overly autonomous Nazis, especially since this is an extra hundred fighters with serious combat experience. In the Armed Forces of Ukraine, consisting of 70% of unmotivated migrant workers, mortars from the DUK from Pesok and a company of "hospitallers" of the UDA are considered authoritative. Nazi Burlakova notes: “Army volunteers are needed at least due to the banal lack of people, a very significant shortage in the army.”
And the people’s deputy Lutsenko points out: “Offering volunteers to join the current, the further, the less motivated and extremely poorly controlled army, where the vices of the Soviet and Ukrainian (up to 14 years old) army again flourished, we are unlikely to make the army stronger. But we will definitely make the volunteers weaker.”
For Naev, it is no secret that the DUK and UDA operate in cooperation with brigade commanders. Moreover, they often do “dirty work” (undisguised shelling of civilians), which is provided by “legal” ones for bonuses. These are the “incomprehensible tasks” that the general spoke about, but he also needs these tasks.
The General Staff understands that in reality UDA and DUK PS * are small social groups accustomed to the field life of the war, which are fed by the war and volunteers. For the hopeless despondency of the rear Ukraine - this is a way of life. Even for women.
In fact, the Pravoseks created financed military settlements (the 5th battalion of the UDA is stationed in the village of Velikomikhailovka, Pokrovsky district of the Dnipropetrovsk region, and the 8th battalion "Aratta" in the village of Yuryevka near Mariupol), where they live their specific, by no means combative life - they breed pigs, hold competitions, improve life.
You can easily verify this by looking at the FB pages of the battalions. Here the Nazis of the 5th battalion of the UDA built themselves a chic fireplace and pave the water tower. And judging by the photo of the Aratta battalion, where the escaped actor Pashinin serves as a jester, they are constantly unloading humanitarian food and holding outings.
That is, the Nazis found a niche in which, like a Gorky snake, they are warm and damp, but sometimes they maintain their image of formidable and invincible through formidable statements or military provocations.
You don't have to look far for an example. On July 28, the head of the recruiting center of the Azov regiment, Svyatoslav Palamar, said that the peacekeeping mission in the Donbass was useless and it was necessary to start a cleansing operation. “If we talk about the Azov unit, we are ready to go on the offensive. There is nothing like that, we declare it, and we can do it.”
He shook the air, as happens after overeating peas. It must be understood that this is not said by Biletsky himself, who will not take a step without Avakov’s order, but by a kind of balabol agitating to join his structure. Yes, and "Azov", as a deployed unit, did not take part in the battles after the flight from Ilovaisk, and only groups are sent on rotation. So Palamar will go for recycling only where he is sent, but he is not forbidden to talk. But the steam is released. And the proud descendants of Bandera continue to hang out on the hooks of Poroshenko, Avakov and Groysman. However, as it has always been in the history of Bandera and Ukrainians.”
"Love for Hope.
The investigation into the case of an attempted coup, in which Vladimir Ruban and Nadezhda Savchenko are suspected, has been completed. Now the defendants and the defense must familiarize themselves with the materials of the case, after which it will be submitted to the court. In this regard, I am not only very interested, but rather curious whether Liya Akhedzhakova and other defenders of the former prisoner of Russian dungeons know that their ward has intermittently already 4 month holds a hunger strike in protest against judicial arbitrariness. The Russian liberal community, which showed unprecedented concern for “our Nadia”, consigned to cold oblivion the figure of the Ukrainian Joan of Arc, as soon as she ceased to be a symbol of the uncompromising struggle against the “bloody Kremlin regime.” My dears, this is somehow not quite human . Suppose that the political system of Russia is really not good, and, as they say, any bast is in line with it, but “your Hope” has not changed one iota, having ended up on the “native side” after the exchange. She is still the same steadfast and uncompromising, she still denounces the unrighteous authorities and is ready to fight for the people's happiness by any means, including not quite conventional ones. The fact that you were ready to write off any sins to her when she mercilessly castigated Putin's satraps is now blamed on her with a grimace of disgust.
The gunner, by default, responsible for the deaths, well, even if not journalists, but just civilians (we all know that over 10 thousand people died in the Donbass) - this is normal, this is even the duty of the defender of Ukraine. And the intention to overthrow the regime that has driven millions of people into poverty, which is plundering the country and has been waging war in the Donbass for more than 4 years, is a crime.
Note at the same time that "your Nadia" really participated in the hostilities and was captured during one of the battles. That is, she definitely did certain actions. In Ukraine, it was no longer “your Nadya” who simply carried on seditious conversations, discussing options for removing from power those who, in her opinion, were not worthy of this power. It is simply about words that have not had time to become deeds. Still guilty?
The Russian liberal cluster, in its rare ability to forget about its own heroes if they go beyond a certain behavioral model and start using tyranny skills in the territory of the European future, is the twin brother of the Ukrainian patriotic community.
How much sincerity, sympathy, pride, pain, admiration, love sounded in these countless responses, wishes to hold on, be courageous, keep the original purity in the heart, and the high seal of truth on the forehead. Tens of thousands of Ukrainian citizens could not cope with the sadness that overwhelmed their hearts, they daily inquired about the state of the starving woman, expressed words of support, shared their rage and delight, anger and reverence.
Over Ukraine, covering half the sky, a star rose, the light of which warmed hearts, gave hope for the future, made everyone involved in the great act of courage and heroism of a simple Ukrainian woman in a terrible Russian prison.
With her inspiring power, Nadia was equal to the Maidan, she was an example of the inflexibility of the national spirit, its irresistible love of freedom.
How can one not recall the lines dedicated to her by the author of a mega-popular poetic work about “we will never be brothers” Anastasia Dmitruk. Her poems dedicated to Savchenko are no less beautiful:
“She flew, she was caught.
Scarlet sails were torn.
Rope tied her wings,
covered their eyes with a black handkerchief.
Rotten speeches, foreign faces
and unhealthy fuss -
devils stole a bird from the sky,
and the sky knows no more sleep.
Break, strangle raw cells -
somewhere on the runway...
There the wind howls, breaks branches,
there the sky is looking for her eyes.
But the heart knows she will return
with the rays of the sun when it's spring.
Wings will still touch the sky,
she'll be back, she's alive."
Dmitruk was right - the bird returned to make its last desperate flight.
Having carefully examined the Ukrainian realities, the Hero of Ukraine decided that the squalor revealed to her was offensive and should be eradicated. I think that the majority of citizens of Ukraine are sure of the same, who, according to opinion polls, not only do not support the Ukrainian government, but openly hate it. And from this point of view, Nadia remained a very popular character, associated with the elements of precisely the people's life. But for some reason, in this capacity, she no longer suited those who, just yesterday, were ready for long hours to peer at their beloved face in the portrait and wipe involuntary tears.
Dear Leah Mezhidovna, and all the millions of yesterday's passionate admirers of Nadia in Russia, Ukraine and abroad, be human, return your love to the subject of your recent passion, open your hearts to this strong and saving feeling. After all, she is still the same “your Nadia” - impudent, rude, stubborn, starving, ready to go ahead. After all, “devils from the sky” again “stole a bird”! It's just as terrible as the first time. So what if she is not against Putin now? After all, where she notices a disorder in the universe, from that very place she rushes into battle. And the fact that Petro Poroshenko is not the ideal of a politician and leader, and Ukraine can hardly be recognized as a model of successful development, I think you will not deny.
That's fine, that's the deal."
"Donetsk. Noisy side of Alexandrovka! Be careful! Trudovsky under fire from mortars and grenade launchers. Gorlovka. Noisy Svetlodar direction.
Overview of current and combat information from the military correspondent "John Hughes": "Donbass today: the Armed Forces of Ukraine" advanced "near Donetsk, Kyiv ignores the OSCE, the brigade commander of the marines" was blown away. Greed sent the commander of the Marine Corps Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to a hospital bed. The Ukrainian army is destroying itself from within. OSCE Kyiv is not a decree and a fake victory of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Donetsk. The latest news from Novorossiya is in the review of the Federal News Agency.
The brigade commander of the Ukrainian marines mowed down greed
Intelligence of the Donetsk People's Republic became aware of the grave state of health of the commander of the 36th Marine Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Andriy Gnatov. It is reported that the brigade commander fell ill "suddenly" after an inspection in the brigade and the discovery by the commission of the higher headquarters of large-scale theft of material resources and a shortage of ammunition.
Another reason for such a sudden illness is the information prepared by UN representatives, which states that it was Gnatov who gave orders to open fire on peaceful settlements of the republic. These data are planned to be announced publicly at the forthcoming fall of the General Assembly of the United Nations.
Well, the very goal of the “serious illness” of the Ukrainian commander is simple - to resign for health reasons in order to avoid trials and prosecution as an acting brigade commander. It is also reported that the 36th Marine Brigade itself, left without a commander, began to show high rates of disciplinary violations, and is again leading in alcoholism and drug addiction in the south of Donetsk region. The elite of the Armed Forces of Ukraine continues to decompose from within.
The "strongest" army of the continent is rapidly "deflated"
Some Ukrainian units and formations of troops are currently undergoing unscheduled inspections of the provision of food and fuel, as well as the storage of rocket and artillery weapons in warehouses. Among those being checked are the 93rd and 72nd mechanized, 128th mountain assault and 56th motorized infantry brigades.
The last one was a spectacular one. During the work of the commission, the servicemen of the unit tried to sell a four-ton tank of diesel fuel “to the left”. During the deal, the “defenders” were detained by the Security Service of Ukraine. In the 128th mountain assault, during a visit to the brigade by the commander of the operational-tactical group of troops, two "liberators" were captured while trying to sell a machine gun.
These incidents testify, in addition to theft and decay in the Ukrainian army, also about the loss of respect of soldiers for higher officers, which inevitably affects the performance of combat missions. With such dynamics, the ongoing trench warfare in the Donbass runs the risk of ending rather quickly without blitzkriegs from either side - after all, the "strongest army on the continent" is destroying itself from the inside. And this is also recognized by Ukrainian volunteers, social activists and some officials.
Kyiv ignores the OSCE and builds up a strike force in the Donbass
Despite the continuous reflection in the reports of the mission of international observers of the presence of prohibited weapons of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in unauthorized places, the latter ignore these public remarks and, moreover, continue to pull deadly weapons to the front line.
A division of multiple launch rocket systems "Hurricane" was delivered to the area of the village of Svatovo in the Luhansk region, the operational command of the Luhansk People's Republic transfers. Earlier, the arrival of 12 units of Ukrainian "Hurricanes" was also recorded in the area of the railway station Kremennaya, as the OSCE reported on July 9. But Kyiv doesn't seem to care about foreigners.
In addition, over the past week, international observers have recorded the absence of more than 100 units of prohibited weapons of the Ukrainian army in storage places - artillery systems, tanks, MLRS and many other items - which DPR and LPR intelligence detects closer to the line of contact between troops.
Ukrainian media suck victories out of their fingers
Ukrainian publications reported about another victory over the "Russian occupiers" and the advance of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Donetsk from the western direction closer to the capital of the DPR in the "gray zone". As proof of this thesis, the journalists allegedly cited an analysis of another statement by the speaker of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, who in a regular combat report said: “OS units continue to strengthen their combat positions and improve the system of engineering barriers, including support lanes.”
The Kyiv media were hooked on the phrase "security zone", seeing in them the occupation of the security zone (i.e. moving forward) with the further equipment of new military installations. It seemed to civilian journalists that since this phrase had already been heard from the lips of the commander of the JFO Sergey Naev in the context of a long-standing statement about the alleged advance of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Bakhmutka (LPR. - Note FAN), then this time it means about the same, which means - "a matter of principle" to please your audience with a "win".
Neither the very headquarters of the Kyiv Joint Forces Operation, nor even the operational command of the Donetsk People's Republic, knows about the advance of the Ukrainian army in the Maryinka region (to the west of Donetsk. - Note FAN). That is, in an ordinary report from the fronts of Donbass, the Ukrainian side only announced the conduct of ordinary events by the personnel of advanced units, and Ukrainian journalists inflated an entire victory. But, given the state of the army, described above, the “victories” of the Ukrainian audience, apparently, are needed more than ever.”
“Future fascists are brought up in Ukraine – Alexander Kostenko. In one of the suburbs of Kyiv, with the support of the Azov punitive regiment, a neo-Nazi military camp for children aged 6 years and older has been operating for several years. The creation of a similar "institution" for teenagers was recently announced by the ex-leader of the "Right Sector" Dmitry Yarosh. Oleksandr Kostenko, head of the Donetsk Republic parliamentary faction, told a correspondent of the official website of the DPR about what this threatens the Republic and what kind of participation the pupils of such camps can take in the conflict in the Donbass.
“They are educating future fascists. But while the child's psyche is not yet formed, there is a chance to explain where the truth and lies are. Moreover, there is the Internet, where everyone can demonstrate their own opinion. We also need to prepare for sabotage. There have already been precedents - in Yasinovataya, when children used key fobs to remotely control explosive devices. The enemy uses various tricks, including anti-human ones. It is a pity for the children who will become the future of the country and will build it. Or destroy it,” the deputy noted.
According to the parliamentarian, the involvement of children in the war may be due to the banal lack of people willing to fight in the Donbass. In addition, the pupils of neo-Nazi children's camps can later be used against dissidents within Ukraine itself or for organizing raider seizures.”
“General of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Naev threatened with prison the teachers of the occupied Donbass for the truth about the war.
The commander of the so-called "Joint Forces Operation" (JFO) in the zone of armed conflict in the Donbass, General Naev, during a meeting with the heads of cities and districts of the part of Donbass occupied by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, complained about some school directors and teachers for providing children with alternative information on about the war in Donbass, Moskovsky Komsomolets reports.
According to General Naev, teachers give schoolchildren in educational institutions false information about the shelling of cities and regions.
The commander of the "OOS" ordered to popularly explain to teachers that "all shelling is carried out only by the enemy (armies of the LPR and DPR - ed.)".
At the closed part of the meeting, Naev ordered the heads of administrations "not to stand on ceremony with those who deviate from the official version."
From now on, in the schools of the occupied part of Donbass, teachers and leaders are required to give only official information from the “OOS” headquarters.
Any alternative opinions will be suppressed both by dismissal and, possibly, with the help of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.
On July 31, the command of the so-called "Operation of the Joint Forces" announced the implementation of preventive measures "to counter terrorist and sabotage threats" in Lisichansk. Residents of the city were urged not to leave their homes for at least two days.
Ukrainian military expert Zhdanov said that the cleansing of Lisichansk as part of the anti-terrorist operation of the OOS forces is nothing more than an operation of the Ukrainian law on the reintegration of Donbass. According to him, “anti-terrorist” measures are carried out on the basis of operational data, and residents who live in the area where the “JFO” is being held need to get used to such events, since the Ukrainian occupiers are preparing to clean up all the cities of Donbass in the same way.
On July 14, General Naev announced the beginning of a gradual ideological “de-occupation” of Donbass. According to him, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have equipment at their disposal that can jam television from the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics. He added that he allegedly communicates with the leaders of local media, including those located in the territories of the DPR and LPR.
Earlier, Naev promised to take revenge on Putin for the war in Donbass.
On July 9, it became known that the commander of the Ukrainian troops in the Donbass forbade volunteers and volunteers to appear on the front lines.
09/25/2018 | Reports of the militia, photos and videos of eyewitnesses. Chronicle of the events of the day in one informational tape. Updated as information becomes available around the clock.
A message from the military correspondents and an overview of the current and combat situation from the military correspondent "John Hughes".
Message from military officers: “Trudovskie - noisy! Be careful! Shelling was recorded from the side of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the direction: n.p. Avdiivka - n.p. Yasinovataya: 1 LNG grenade fired, small arms were used.”
Review:“Donbass today: Tension at the front is increasing, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are actively using mortars along the entire line of contact. Ukrainian commanders trade maps of minefields. FAN correspondent figured out the issue of "self-shelling Gorlovka." The latest news from Novorossiya is in the review of the Federal News Agency.
Operational situation
Over the past 24 hours, 31 cases of ceasefire violations by Ukrainian troops were recorded. The settlements of the Gorlovka, Mariupol and Donetsk directions in the Donetsk People's Republic and the western settlements of the Lugansk People's Republic were subjected to shelling.
Over the past few days, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have been using 120-mm mortars in all directions of the front. On Sunday, two residential buildings were damaged by shelling in the DPR, two civilians were wounded, and there were no damage or casualties in the LPR.
In total, over the past day, Ukrainian security forces fired more than 300 mines and various types of grenades across the territory of the Donbass republics. Regular weapons of infantry fighting vehicles and armored personnel carriers, as well as heavy machine guns, were also used everywhere.
Business of Ukrainian commanders
In recent months, in the conflict zone in Ukraine, the number of explosions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in their own minefields has been growing. In the operational command of the DPR, this is associated with the chaotic arrangement of minefields, and most importantly, with the lack of maps of minefields, especially from the time of 2014-2015.
Existing maps of minefields, according to Donetsk intelligence, are becoming subjects of bargaining between the commanders of Ukrainian units replacing each other in the zone of the Joint Forces Operation. In addition, due to the frequent lack of maps, the most enterprising commanders simply draw them themselves and sell them to replacements, regardless of the possible losses of colleagues from other units.
The indifference of the commanders to the fate of their subordinates is fully demonstrated by the incident that occurred on the night of September 20 in the area of deployment of the 14th mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (western borders of the LPR. - Approx. FAN). Three servicemen of the brigade were blown up by their minefields and were taken to a hospital in Severodonetsk with numerous severe injuries.
Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine will check the elite of the army
In connection with the increasing cases of non-combat losses and losses under unclear circumstances, Chief of the Ukrainian General Staff Viktor Muzhenko and Commander ground forces Sergei Popko. One of the stated goals of the unscheduled inspection is to investigate the facts of concealment by the command of units and formations of mass losses of military personnel.
Ukrainian representative office of the JCCC: "DPR shelled Horlivka"
The Ukrainian side at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire stated that the shelling, after which 12 residential buildings were destroyed in Gorlovka on Saturday, was carried out not from the territory controlled by Ukraine, but from the territory of the Horlivka concrete plant, which is controlled by “DPR militants”.
A FAN correspondent working in Donbass conducted his own investigation. The video presented and published by the press service of the People’s Militia Department of the DPR, which depicts the consequences of the shelling of Gorlovka, clearly shows that one of the mines hit the wall of a multi-storey building on Nansen Street, 13.
Tellingly, the projectile hit the northwestern wall of the house, which faces the positions of the Ukrainian security forces in the village of Yuzhnoye, which is part of Dzerzhinsk, controlled by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. It was from this direction, according to representatives of the republic in the JCCC, that the shelling was carried out. From the damaged house to the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, no more than 4.5 kilometers.
According to the Ukrainian version, the shelling was carried out by the DPR Armed Forces from positions near the concrete plant using 120-mm mortars. The aforementioned concrete plant is located on the outskirts of Gorlovka near the villages of Golmovsky, not far from the UAF-controlled Gladosovo and Travnevoe. Moreover, the plant is located to the northeast of the damaged facilities. But the most important thing is at a distance of more than 12 kilometers from Nansen Street.
The performance characteristics of the 120-mm mortar, from which, according to the Ukrainian JCCC, self-attacking was carried out, allow firing at a maximum of 9,000 meters, with an aiming range of no more than 7 kilometers. And this is provided that the tool is new. With the help of elementary mathematical calculations, we come to the conclusion that the DPR army simply would not have reached the area of damaged objects.
This incident and an absurd attempt to “blow off” their security forces clearly demonstrated not only the true “enemy” of the Ukrainian army and the inability to command the Armed Forces of Ukraine, but also the absolute lack of professionalism of the officers of the Ukrainian side in the JCCC. Although it is clear that no one from the Ukrainian audience will be puzzled by finding directions on maps, because the Ukrainian army, as you know, “does not hit residential areas and fights exclusively with the Russian army in the Donbass.”
Message from the militia.
"The shelling is going on along the entire front line in the suburbs of Donetsk. Be careful and careful! Trudovskiye - noisy! Be careful! Abakumova, Staromikhaylovka - noisy! For example: Shirokino settlement - Sakhanka settlement: 7 mines from 120 mm were fired mortar."
Reports from the militia of New Russia 07/05/2015 (updated)
07/05/2015, Message from the Operational Cooperation Center:
23:05. Donetsk. Kuibyshevsky district, 1-2 Sites: under fire from Nazi heavy cannon artillery, for example, north-west.
22:40. Donetsk. Spartak village: under fire from heavy cannon artillery, shooting battle. Metro, airport (new terminal): shooting battle. Increased UAV activity.
22:20. Donetsk. Sands: shooting battle. One enemy battery behind Opytny was destroyed.
22:00. Donetsk. Four firing positions of the Nazis are active in the western, north-western direction from Donetsk.
21:55. Lugansk. Stanytsia Luhanska: dense intense battle with the use of all types of small arms and artillery of different calibers.
07/05/15. Message from the head of the regional administration Ivan Prikhodko.
"The Armed Forces of Ukraine are conducting a massive shelling of the Kievsky district of Donetsk. Putilovskaya Roshcha turned out to be under fire. The shelling began at about 21:00 and is still going on. There is no information about the victims and destruction yet."
07/05/15. Message from the Gorlovka militia.
"Very strong echoes of artillery are heard in Gorlovka. From the South-West, very far away, but heard clearly. Something heavy. This is Donetsk, I'm even afraid to imagine what's going on there... It's been clarified, the Yasinovataya area is under heavy shelling. Svetlodarsk is active, Verkhnetoretskoye is active."
Message from the military correspondents: "Donetsk They are bombing hard, something heavy. They are hitting Putilovka with heavy ones, the battle in Pisky-airport. It rumbles very loudly. rifle and artillery of various calibers."
07/05/15. Operational summary.
19:50. The artillery positions of the Ukronazis are active in the settlement of Zarya, they are shelling the settlement of Chermalyk.
21:10. Donetsk.
From the direction of Experienced, the Ukronazis are shelling the area of Putilovka and (possibly) Yasinovataya from heavy cannon artillery.
21:17. Donetsk.
From positions in Avdiivka, the Ukronazis are shelling the village of Spartak.
21:20 to 21:30 Return fire.
21:40 Return fire
"The artillery positions of the Ukronazis are active in the settlement of Zarya, they are shelling the settlement of Chermalyk. Mariupol also hears a roar now. Horlivka. A Ukronazi tank has worked out from the settlement of Shumy. The shooting in the area of mine 6/7 is still sluggish."
A message from DPR Minister of Defense V. Kononov: "Ukrainian security forces have not withdrawn their units from Shirokino according to the demilitarization plan. A demilitarization agreement was signed in Shirokino. We withdrew our units. leave when they should."
07/05/15. A message from C.O. John Trust.
“Questions from the residents of Novorossia to the Deputy Head of the OSCE Mission Alexander Gugu. Probably everyone noticed that there are calls for the OSCE in many reports from the shelling sites and most often come down to the question “Where is the OSCE looking?”. Tonight, an hour and a half ago, I was during an exclusive A quick interview with the Deputy OSCE Special Monitoring Mission Alexander Hug addressed this question to him.Here is the exact transcript of my question and his answer (translation from English is mine, the video of the full interview with subtitles will be on Monday on Channel 17):
John Trust: "When I visit various places after (and sometimes during) the shelling - people very often ask: "Where is the OSCE mission? Why are they not here and come?" There are many similar questions from residents of Donetsk, Gorlovka and other cities: "Why does the OSCE mission ignore such cases? And why are they so afraid to witness [the shelling], [to find out] who started it, how it happened... Such cases are indeed sometimes ignored and [because] residents ask me for it - and now I'm relaying it to you"
Alexander Hug: “Yes, I know. It is clear that the citizens in these hot spots are very desperate after being shelled for weeks and months... For fifteen months now, these people have been suffering from shelling from both the DPR and the Ukrainian side. We are the only ones who, apart from journalists, visit these places, but we cannot be everywhere at the same time all the time. The OSCE Special Monitoring Mission does not ignore such incidents. If we can't be there, it's only for good reasons: it's either too risky, or it happens where it shouldn't happen. We have four hundred and eighty-nine observers in Ukraine, which is certainly a large number - but this is not enough to cover all the places of hostilities that [suddenly] appear near the contact line."
07/05/15. Message from correspondents of the "Save Donbass" Foundation.
"Simple joys and sorrows of Donbass in wartime.
Summer is in full swing, children are swimming in the pond.
Volunteers of the foundation deliver humanitarian aid to the elderly.
Repairing the fund truck...
Life goes on."
07/05/15. "Military report from the Deputy Commander of the Corps of the Ministry of Defense of the DPR Eduard Basurin.
“The intensity of shelling by the Ukrainian side over the past day amounted to 32 violations of the ceasefire. 120 mines of caliber 82 and 120 mm were fired across the territory of the republic. “The enemy also used anti-tank weapons, anti-aircraft guns, grenade launchers and small arms. According to the available data, the territory of the Donetsk air terminal, the Gagarin mine in Gorlovka, Dokuchaevsk, the settlements of Oktyabr, Lozovoe, Spartak, Zhobunky, Nikolaevka and Styla came under fire."
Briefing Alexander Zakharchenko. Head of the Donetsk People's Republic. 07/05/2015
"Deputy chief of staff of the 1st MRB of the DPR Ministry of Defense "Voevoda" that the world is in for a big war. The states want to crush Russia, but they won't. The states and the EU will collapse, but Russia will stand."
"Deputy Chief of Staff of the 1st MRB of the DPR Ministry of Defense "Voevoda" on how the war began, on the defense of Donbass and the succession of its defenders. Interviewed by Alexander "Gusar."
July 5, 2015 Fighter "Dava", international brigade Pyatnashka, about the military situation in the Maryinka area
Volunteer David, call sign "Dava", international brigade Pyatnashka on the air of the program "Actually"
07/05/15. Message from the militia.
"Ukrainian invaders are burning the grain crop in the DPR. The Armed Forces of Ukraine opened fire on the Telmanovsky district. As a result of shelling, 100 hectares of wheat are burning in the area of the village of Tavrichesky. Massive shelling by the Armed Forces of Ukraine led to a large-scale fire - 100 hectares of wheat are burning. The shelling continues for more than 40 minutes. The village of Tavricheskoye itself was under fire from the punishers. There is no information about the victims and injured yet, but it is known that there is destruction in the village. Several attempts were made to burn the fields in the DPR, this case was the most successful of all the attempts made by the punishers to leave Novorossia without bread.
"Interview with a Cossack of the 1st Regiment of the Cossack National Guard of the Great Don Army named after Platov (Now the regiment has been transformed into the 6th separate Cossack regiment. Platov. LPR).
“It is about 3 km to the neo-Nazi trenches. It is not clear who is standing there, every creature in pairs, they carry out rotations, - a Cossack told our military commander. - Shooting every night. No mode of silence is observed. They are shelling mostly civilians. They want to turn him against us. They beat from tanks, artillery. The tank comes out and shoots and leaves. It is difficult to get into them, they hide in greenery.
I would have caught a Muscovite and hung it on a tree for intimate places. He turned off the water: people in the village live without water.
Residents of the Nazi-occupied territory in Lisichansk and other settlements, let them come to us and see how we live here. And then they are told on TV there that we live here, as if under the Gestapo. Our people want to work, they receive pensions. The children will go to school in the fall."
07/05/15. message from a local.
"Today at 17:20 a powerful blow was dealt in Donetsk and heavy smoke was observed."
Message from Eduard Basurin: "Spartak was subjected to the most massive shelling over the past day from the position of the 11th motorized infantry battalion. In total, one militia was wounded as a result of the shelling. There were no losses among the civilian population over the past day."
07/05/15. Message from the LNR militia.
"The Armed Forces of Ukraine have recently violated the ceasefire many times. From the direction of the village of Krymskoye, Novoaydarsky district, the Kyiv security forces fired at the village of Zhelobok from an infantry fighting vehicle. and a mortar of 120 mm caliber (5 min.) The Kyiv security forces repeatedly shelled the area of Slavyanoserbsk from the side of height 175.9 from a mortar of caliber 82 mm (5 min.) The area of Slavyanoserbsk again came under fire from the side of height 175.9 from an anti-aircraft gun. Luhansk, the area around the monument to Prince Igor was shelled with an SPG (mounted anti-tank grenade launcher), an anti-aircraft gun and small arms.
07/05/15. Analytical note from the military observer Boris Rozhin ("colonelcassad").
“Today is the anniversary of the retreat from the Slavic-Kramatorsk agglomeration. I have published a lot of materials on this topic, so this is thesis.
1. The immediate military reason for the abandonment of Slavyansk, the operational encirclement in which the Slavic group found itself after the breakthrough of the junta near Nikolaevka.
Her fate in the case of sitting in Slavyansk would be unenviable, after the capture of Nikolaevka, the enemy would strengthen the barriers in the area of \u200b\u200bthe road to Kramatorsk and in conditions of a lack of supply, he would simply begin to ruin the city with artillery, while not having a significant number of equipment, the garrison of Slavyansk would not could show offensive activity, in conditions of multiple superiority of the enemy in forces. The reasons for the fall of Nikolaevka are quite trivial, given the superiority of the enemy forces (in technology dozens of times), the militias could not cover a wide front and build an echeloned defense. As a result of the attack, Nikolaevka was cut off, the Motorola group was actually surrounded, on the eve of the attack, the Miner deserted from the front, simultaneously removing mines from the tank-dangerous direction. Most of the anti-tank weapons on hand from the militias did not work. On the fact of the latter, I had a chance to talk with people who directly transported arms shipments to Slavyansk. Of course, there weren’t any 12,000 machine guns (there simply weren’t so many people - about 2,500 people retreated to Donetsk), but there were interesting moments on anti-tank weapons - some of the ATGMs were inoperative, plus what worked was often used incorrectly - there were no trained operators. Actually, when the junta shows on its videos a few trophies that it managed to capture in Slavyansk, among them you can notice the very batch of defective ATGMs (about which disputes are still raging on the topic of whether this is negligence or deliberate sabotage).
As a result, in open areas, enemy tanks, with massive artillery support, quite easily broke through the defense of the militias, cutting off the last road to Slavyansk along which supplies were going. Actually, already in June it became clear that the main problem was not even in small arms, of which there were already a lot, but in the lack of anti-tank weapons, artillery and tanks. Therefore, until the end of August, enemy tank groups in both the DPR and the LPR easily broke through the front and went for a walk along our rear to a great depth, which later played a cruel joke on the enemy when these breakthroughs turned into boilers.
2. It was necessary to leave not only Slavyansk, but also Kramatorsk, Druzhkovka and Konstantinovka both for military reasons (the enemy is just as easy, taking advantage of the lack of anti-tank weapons and equipment, to cover the positions of the militias and go to communications), and due to the fact that in the rear the junta garrisons continued to remain in Artemovsk (the tank base was never captured and the more or less valuable junta was subsequently taken out of there - the operation to capture the base failed) and in Soledar (where the warehouses of small arms were located), which were guarded by special forces (plans to seize the warehouses were also were, but they were not sold - some of the weapons from these warehouses were bought by militias and right-wingers). Accordingly, with further intensification of operations, the enemy could operate in the operational rear of the Kramatorsk group, relying on these garrisons.
From a military point of view, the situation for Slavyansk has been deteriorating since June - Krasny Liman fell, the militias suffered a painful defeat near Yampol. With difficulty, positions were held in Semenovka and on the outskirts of Slavyansk. The offensive, which the junta launched on July 1, was stopped only at the end of August. The video below clearly shows how critical the situation on the fronts was when everything was hanging in the balance.
Then, after all, there was a serious opinion that the militias would be squeezed and the war would not last long (few foresaw what happened next).
3. The exit from the operational encirclement itself was relatively successful in terms of losses, but not without losses - due to the commander’s mistake, an armored group died and the enemy was able to cover the tail of one of the emerging columns with artillery. From the point of view of the personnel, it was possible to withdraw almost everyone, although some left the encirclement after several days of wandering around the rear of the enemy, including with battles.
Naturally, there was no "free corridor", the enemy expected that Strelkov would passively sit in Slavyansk while he was surrounded by a double ring of encirclement and treated with artillery. In addition to a general assessment of the forces of the militia, in addition to a general assessment of the forces of the militias, the secret SBU certificate (the document was supposed to remain secret until 2019) dated July 3 http://colonelcassad.livejournal.com/2085308.html, captured near Debaltseve, contained statements that Strelkov would continue to defend Slavyansk in the coming days . At the same time, the certificate states that the leadership of the DPR is preparing for an "evacuation" from Donetsk. In this regard, enemy reconnaissance missed the preparatory measures associated with the withdrawal from Slavyansk, so Strelkov achieved tactical surprise.
4. Strelkov's arrival in Donetsk mixed up all the cards for the "peacekeepers" who were preparing to surrender the city. Somewhat earlier, back in June, they easily surrendered Mariupol (probably for the same reasons that they did not take it in September - most likely already in June there was an agreement with Akhmetov that Mariupol would be ceded to him in order to preserve his empire - according to one of the active participants of the Mariupol resistance, who took part in the seizure of equipment of the Ukrainian military and the events of May 9, for the effective development of the uprising in Mariupol, then a couple of cars with machine guns were required, which never arrived there), where, just like in Donetsk, the Ukrainian authorities and the Ukrainian police remained . After the arrival of Strelkov, officials and security forces subordinate to the junta rapidly disappear from Donetsk, and as the former mayor of Donetsk Lukyanchenko later admitted, if Strelkov had not returned to Donetsk, "the conflict would have been settled", which actually confirmed the existence of a conspiracy to surrender Donetsk to the junta / Akhmetov in early July 2014 (on which back in June consultations were held with Akhmetov and Kolomoisky). In addition to Lukyanchenko and Pozhidaev, Pushilin and Khodakovsky lost their posts. Actually, the hysterical persecution of Strelkov, which began just then, is the result of frustrated plans that Strelkov broke. And judging by the fact that the persecution does not stop (although now it is rather an attempt to appoint a switchman, since there are a lot of questions about what happened in the Donbass in 2014), Actually, even if he is never allowed to return to the DPR, he completed his main task, thus securing a place in history.
5. In fact, Strelkov solved the main problem. After the refusal to send troops to Ukraine, which occurred at the end of April 2014, and the loss of its military significance in Slavyansk in the rear of the group of Ukrainian troops covering the border with the Russian Federation, the Strelkov group solved the problem of covering the creation of the Donetsk People's Republic, holding down the main enemy forces near Slavyansk. This task was successfully solved, 3 months were won, during which, despite the sabotage in Donetsk, the peaceful protests of March-April 2014 grew into an armed militia, which in July-August was able to give a worthy rebuff (with the help of the "Northern Wind" of course) the regular Ukrainian army (which, despite a number of operational successes, suffered a number of severe defeats). This militia itself has now been transformed into an army, which ensures the defense capability of the republic.
In addition to gaining time, Strelkov led out of the encirclement the most fired and experienced armed core of the uprising, which played a crucial role in the battles of the summer of 2014.
The rescued troops took part in the first encirclement of this war, when the Southern Cauldron was formed, to the creation of which Strelkov had a hand in it.
Some of those who came out then with Strelkov and still hold the most important positions in the leadership of the republic (for example, "Cap" was recently the acting Minister of Defense) or are well-deserved heroes, like Motorola. Strelkov saved them, too, for future victories, while it was expected that all these people would die in Slavyansk surrounded and nothing would prevent the junta from occupying Donetsk. Moreover, some even demanded that they die there in the style of Poroshenko, who demanded to keep the already surrounded Debaltseve at any cost. What comes out of this, we saw in the winter, looking at the terrible shots from the cauldron and the roads of retreat.
Therefore, a year after leaving Slavyansk, it is quite obvious that this was the right step, which, coupled with the previous months of pinning down the enemy near Slavyansk, allowed the DPR to survive at the most difficult moment of its formation, therefore Strelkov is certainly one of the actual founding fathers of the DPR, simply in fact their affairs. As a recent poll showed, in Russia Strelkov is generally treated positively, precisely as a military man. On the "Russian Spring" (the most widely read site on the war in Novorossia, in 2014, Strelkov became the person of the year - along with Mozgov, Bednov, Tsarev and an unknown militiaman). So in general, the difficult decision made by Strelkov was accepted by society (although it is obvious that no one is enthusiastic about the surrendered cities), despite the attempts of Strelkov's opponents to hang all the dogs on him.
As Churchill said about Operation Dynamo, "Wars are not won by evacuations." And leaving Slavyansk, of course, is not a victorious operation - it was a forced decision in the critical military-political situation that developed in early July around Slavyansk and Donetsk. Time has only confirmed the correctness of this decision, because despite last year's disbelief, the DPR exists and will continue to exist, thanks to Strelkov as well."
07/05/15. Reporting from Denis Grigoryuk.
"Slavyansk. A holiday in Ukraine. All patriots are celebrating a holiday cobbled together by the Kyiv authorities called "Liberation of Ukrainian Slavyansk." This action is accompanied by yellow-blakyt symbols. The whole city is stuffed with Ukrainian flags and emblems. the uprising is crushed and they need to submit to the new regime.
While the new Ukrainian government is arranging dances on the bones, in Donetsk, ordinary residents of the Donetsk People's Republic came out to a rally-requiem for the dead civilians of Slavyansk and to honor the memory of the fallen militia in the battles for the freedom of Donbass. While in the "Ukrainian" Slavyansk fake "locals" come out in support of Ukraine, in the capital of the DPR people with sorrow and genuine emotions came to the Eternal Flame to lay flowers in honor of the innocently murdered ordinary residents of Slavyansk, who did not agree with the illegal coup d'état in February 2014 and exercised the right to self-determination. But it was taken from them. They took away exactly the same as freedom of speech. Petro Poroshenko assures that now Ukraine is free like never before. But this is a lie. Freedom is to die for. Rivers of blood have to be shed for one's own rights. For the right to live freely, one has to die.
Exactly a year ago, the troops of the Donetsk People's Republic left Slavyansk. It was decided to withdraw the troops in order to save the lives of the fighters. It was no longer possible to defend the city. The Ukrainian military pulled all the heavy equipment to the small but proud and freedom-loving city of Slavyansk. The city was wiped off the face of the earth. They tried to clean him up for the selfish purposes of the Kyiv authorities.
Many militias died in the battles for Slavyansk. The freedom fighters were destroyed by the Ukrainian army. This is the way Poroshenko and company fight dissent. All dissenters will be killed. Killed but not forgotten.
Have you ever seen men cry? Today I saw them. Real tough men mourned their comrades-in-arms who gave their lives covering the retreat of the DPR troops. A group of a few volunteers stayed behind to cover their brothers in arms so they could get out of the city.
It was there at the rally that I realized what real male friendship means. Even more than friendship. This is a real male brotherhood. Brothers in blood do not always feel each other as brothers in spirit. Spiritual connection is something bigger and stronger than physical relationship. It is because of the spiritual connection that the soldiers cannot hold back their tears. The tears of the military are comparable, perhaps, only with the tears of a mother who has lost a child. Those who have never experienced such a kinship will never understand how a person who has lost his brother in arms feels at such moments. These emotions are felt even at a distance. The warriors of Donbass stood and clenched their fists from anger, from sorrow, from injustice. They are ready to tear to pieces those who killed their brothers.
I am sure that the hour will come when every killed civilian and soldier of the Donetsk People's Republic will be avenged. Not long left to feast the new Kyiv authorities. Slavyansk and other cities of the Donetsk People's Republic will be free again."
07/05/15. Video from military correspondents News Front.
"New anti-tank hedgehogs have entered service with the Bryanka USSR unit. "They have been living with us for 2 weeks already. They have eaten their muzzles on our soldiers' grubs," the fighters joke.
07/05/15. Message from Eduard Basurin.
"The intensity of shelling by the Ukrainian side over the past day amounted to 32 violations of the ceasefire. The enemy also used anti-tank weapons, anti-aircraft guns, grenade launchers and small arms. According to available data, the territory of the Donetsk air terminal, the Gagarin mine in Gorlovka, Dokuchaevsk, and the settlements of Oktyabr , Lozovoe, Spartak, Zhobunky, Nikolayevka and Styla."
A message from military correspondents: "At the moment, explosions of 82 mm are heard in Gorlovka in the Glubokaya district. Representatives of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission recorded 152 explosions in the area of the Donetsk airport. At 9:40 in the settlement of Shirokino, explosions were heard. From From 06:05 to 07:00 in the area of the village of Starognatovka there was a shooting battle with the use of mortars.
07/05/15. Video from military correspondents News Front.
"Researcher of KubSU, Ph.D. in Biology Nikita Volchenko, on the air of the program" Actually ". The host of the program is Sergey Veselovsky.
Nikita Volchenko: The reserve of volunteers in Ukraine is coming to an end. In the initial stages of the Ukrainian crisis, the percentage of residents who were ready to participate in the so-called peacekeeping operations was noticeable. The resource of volunteer formations has clearly already been exhausted, since they began to restrict the departure of military age outside the country. Ukraine clearly limits its territory and slows down the movement of people. In general, this does not look like democracy, European values and rules, which are postulated by the current leadership of the country."
07/05/15. Message from journalists.
"There are no fighters of the DPR Militia left in Shirokino, - OSCE
There are no DPR militia forces left in Shirokino. Alexander Hug, Deputy Head of the OSCE Mission to Ukraine, told journalists today.
“We did not notice any signs of the presence of DPR forces. Fortifications, checkpoints, private houses that were previously occupied by the DPR forces are now abandoned,” he said.
Recall that earlier, on July 1, Denis Pushilin, the official representative of the DPR at the talks of the Contact Group on a peaceful settlement, said that the People's Republic had unilaterally declared Shirokino a demilitarized zone.
Alexander Hug testified that today the situation in Shirokino has returned to normal, the hostilities have ceased. At the same time, about 80% of residential buildings in the village were destroyed.
“A special monitoring mission today recorded severe damage, especially in the southern part of the village. According to our estimates, 80% of houses are destroyed and cannot be restored. The entire area is littered with unexploded ordnance. You can see them everywhere,” said Hug.
The village of Shirokino, located between occupied Mariupol and Novoazovsk controlled by the DPR authorities, has until recently been one of the most tense areas near the line of contact."
"Kyiv television crews were amazed at the ability of the Russian general to answer their question in Ukrainian. Correspondents of the Ukrainian TV channel INTER praised Lieutenant General Alexander Romanchuk, commander of the 29th Combined Arms Army of Russia, who arrived with a check in the village of Shirokino as part of a joint center for control and coordination (JCCC ) ceasefire regime in Donbass, for excellent knowledge of their language.
During the press approach, the correspondent in Ukrainian asked the Russian military to introduce himself and was very surprised when he answered him in the same language: “Romanchuk Oleksandr Voloddymyrovich, an official at the Suspension Center for Control and Coordination.”
What kind of Ukrainian guard you have, - the correspondent of the TV channel was surprised.
- You have tezh, - Lieutenant General Romanchuk answered him.
As a LifeNews correspondent reports from the scene, during a visit to the village of Shirokino, representatives of the joint center for monitoring and coordinating the ceasefire in Donbass, which includes representatives of Russia, Ukraine and the OSCE, checked the conditions for observing the ceasefire.
07/05/15. Video from military correspondents News Front.
"A fighter with the call sign "Khan" talks about his path of becoming from a simple civilian to the defender of Novorossia, and also expresses his wishes to Poroshenko and the junta. "Khan": At the end of April, when checkpoints were organized, I acted as one of the organizers. We we collected tires, everyone did everything he could. People brought sticks, we stood with batons, made spikes from improvised means, equipped a checkpoint. Then, at the SBU, I moved to the Shield organization, where I met the leader Yaroslav. to the front. I was at Mospino, Gorbachevo-Mikhailovka, where we built fortified areas, pillboxes, dug trenches, etc. I never served in the army, I learned everything during the fighting. Most of all I remember how a shell from a howitzer flew right into the dugout where we sat. I looked at the stove and saw how it cracked.
News Front: What would you wish Poroshenko and the entire junta.
"Khan": I wish Poroshenko ended up in a tank with those young guys he sent to war. Let him feel it on his own skin. And let the junta be in dugouts and look at the cracked ceilings, shell explosions and experience all the pain."
07/05/15 Message from journalists of the Federal News Agency.
"Sniper girl from Serbia: Everyone who is against Russia is my enemy. The correspondent met in the DPR a militia fighter who came to Donbass from distant Serbia to protect her Russian brothers. The sniper girl with the call sign Bagira does not hide her face - she is in her native Serbia outlawed for fighting in the militia of the DPR.There is no turning back for her.
Give your life for Russia
Bagheera, tell me what brought you to this war.
In Serbia, when I watched the news and saw the suffering of our Russian people in the Donbass, it was very difficult for me. I had a feeling that I needed to give up everything, give my life to Russia, to preserve the Russian people in the Donbass.
Many condemn me for this, they say that you should not risk your life here. We came here without a plan “b”, we came here to stand to the end, out of gratitude, first of all, to your Tsar Nicholas I, who was the first to send his soldiers to help Serbia, and who preserved our Serbian Orthodox Church.
St. John of Shanghai and the Russian monks who came to Serbia preserved the faith and the Church, and for this, too, many thanks to our Russian brothers. And if there were no Russia now, then there would be no Serbia.
I know that there is such a policy in Serbia now – we are preparing to join the EU, but the people are not asked what they want, what we want, and what we need. I know that in Serbia I am now a terrorist, and it is very difficult for my parents, but what to do, just ... just need ... just need a very big gratitude ...
brother help brother
How many Serbs share your opinion that the Russian people and the Serbian people are brothers?
Of course. There is an old Serbian proverb: "If it is good for the elder Russian brother, then it will be good for the younger Serbian brother." When your President Vladimir Putin arrived in Serbia, banners immediately appeared: “Putin, please save Serbia.” We have a very strong spiritual connection with the Russian people. There are simply no words to describe how strong this bond is.
Tell me, Bagheera, when the whole Maidan story began, which later turned into a civil war in Ukraine, how did the Serbs react to this situation?
I can’t say anything for fellow citizens, I can express my feelings and opinion. Firstly, as an Orthodox girl, it is very difficult for me to condemn both Ukraine and ordinary people who sin. The world knows that this is a fratricidal war, where brother kills brother.
Of course, everything comes from Kyiv, this is real fascism, and of course America is involved in this. Serbia can now mobilize two million Serbs who can come to Donbass. I have information that as soon as Serbia enters NATO, Serbian troops will come out on the side of Ukraine. Of course it's all about America. Well, if that happens, I'll be the first to unfurl the Serbian flag and let my compatriots shoot at me.
I would give my life for peace here, they just don't want it. NATO, which is now together with Poland and Germany and with everyone who is now in Ukraine, they are heating up the situation. Serbia is now for Russia, for the Russian people, and support comes from all Serbs.
There is no way back
Tell me, how many of your brothers, our brothers, came to Donbass to fight?
Of course, a lot of people came, and they came from the Serbian Information Security Agency, which sends information, including about me. Well, what to do, it's impossible for me to go back now.
You said that it is impossible to return, and what threatens the Serbian volunteers in general? Do I understand correctly that you were declared mercenaries in Serbia?
And were any sanctions taken against Serbian volunteers who went to Donbass and returned? Did the Serbian government put them in prisons, arrested them?
Yes, right at the airport. They were immediately arrested at the airport. But those who wanted to get to the Donbass had to act smarter. By bus Belgrade - Budapest, from Budapest to Uzhgorod, Uzhgorod - Chop, Chop - Kyiv, Kyiv - St. Petersburg, then to Rostov-on-Don.
Of course, there were problems immediately at the Ukrainian border, where I was interrogated for three hours: “Why are you going to Kyiv, why did you come, why that, why this.”
I have a European passport, I say: "I need a visa to Ukraine." But as soon as they find out that I am from Serbia, they immediately label me a terrorist. The first time I came just as a civilian, and like all Serbs, I knew very well that Ukrainians do not like Serbia. This is a pity, because 80 years ago the Transcarpathian region was under the jurisdiction of the Serbian Orthodox Church, and our Patriarch Pavel presented this region to the Moscow Patriarchate. Of course, first the church was divided, then the people, and then problems began here in the Donbass.
We are from Donbass
But Donbass is not a foreign land for you either.
Of course, the Donbass is my land, now if they ask me “where are you from?”, I will answer: “From the Donbass, of course.”
Tell me, Bagheera, did you take part in big operations, for Ilovaisk and so on?
Of course, from Kirovsk we went to Krugloye, cleared Krugloye, then went to Redkodub, it was very scary there.
We were not far from there.
Yes, yes, it was very scary, a lot of our people died, and then we went to Debaltseve. The Imperial Legion died there, there were a lot of losses. We found American military rations there, we found a lot of American.
So, of course America is not here. As usual, America sent instructors to the Ukrainian side, and they arranged a fun life for themselves. I have a photograph where two dill infantry fighting vehicles simply turned over, broke down, American instructors, of course, taught how to drive a car, but the boys had no experience.
Are you planning to stay in Donbass?
Of course.
An old enmity
There are various rumors, including quite verified ones, that volunteers from those states that were involved in the war in the Balkans, in particular the Croats, are fighting on the other side ...
Yes, yes, it's true. And it's very... I'm speechless. I have no words, because once we captured one Croat, he told us... I have no words, so much hatred, he said that he had come here not to save Ukraine, but because there were Serbs. “I came for the Serbs, you can kill them here,” he said.
I do not understand this. And I don't want to understand it. Why such hatred. Of course, the Lord will count sufferings, and will count here. How the Lord gave strength to Emperor Constantine and Empress Helen when they were godless and had very few soldiers. And they drew a cross on every shield, and therefore they defeated many enemies. There were very few of us in Redkodub, if the enemies hear this, let them know, there were 40 of us Serbs, and there were eight thousand of them ...
What do you think is in store for Serbia? And how will relations between Serbia and Russia develop further, taking into account the fact that Serbia is now aiming for the EU, or rather, they are trying to drag it there in every possible way?
Everyone who opposes Russia is my enemy. Serbs love Russia. Serbs are always for Russia. And of course there are many enemies on our land - this is our Ministry of Defense, everything ... everything ... the president, the prime minister ...
Not for money
Answered the questions of the FAN correspondent and another Serbian volunteer with the call sign Jaeger.
Jaeger, I understand that you were brought to the war for the same reasons that brought Bagheera. How do you generally see the future of Donbass? What will happen to the Donetsk and Luhansk republics, as you see them? As part of Russia or as independent states?
Of course, they should be with Russia. I came here not for the sake of the self-proclaimed states and Donbass, but for the sake of Russia, this is our duty to her. Many people think that the salary here is very high, in Serbia they say that we get “2-3 thousand dollars”. So, I was given a salary for 3-4 months, and it was 15 thousand rubles. More precisely, almost five months. We didn't come here for the money. We came here to save the land, first of all for the sake of Orthodoxy, it is like a duty to Russia, and gratitude, of course.
The situation in Serbia is very bad right now, I have a spiritual mentor there, Father Ilya from Optina Hermitage and Mother Marina. They say: "Serbia will quickly become a Catholic country and quickly join NATO." Every country wants something from Serbia, but we think Russia will always be there for us. Real Serbs will never turn their backs on Russia.
What do you think about the current situation in Kosovo?
I can't say anything about Kosovo. It hurts a lot, I can't talk about Kosovo.
Do you think you'll ever get it back?
With Russia, yes.
Jaeger, tell me, what did you do before the war?
Everything that was needed. Sports, construction.
And how old are you?
You, judging by the fact that you are filming without a balaclava, your way back is also cut off?
The first day I arrived, I took a photo and posted it on Facebook. And although I was wearing a balaclava in the photo, two or three days later I was on the Peacemaker website - they wrote - "Ivan Ivanovich came to fight for the DPR."
They want to show how beautiful Serbs are,” Bagheera said with a laugh.
07/05/15. A message from the military.
“Over the past day, the invaders detained 12 trucks on their way to the DPR and LPR, which carried more than 500 tons of goods for civilians of the republics. Even vital goods for the civilian population are considered contraband for the junta. "Zaitsevo" employees of the State Border Service confiscated passes from two citizens.
Message from Boris Rozhin: "Regarding Shirokino, our infantry is not in the village now. The junta is also in no hurry to completely occupy the village, since it is not only almost completely destroyed, it is also mined. The OSCE today invited the DPR and the junta to jointly clear the village of mines , but it is unlikely to come to this, the junta even refused to jointly patrol the ruins of the village with representatives of the DPR. In general, the new defensive line of the NAF passes near Sakhanka, the junta still sits on the heights west of Shirokino, intelligence sometimes roams around the village. that only in the LPR today there were about fifty wounded. Well, in general, you can imagine the intensity of what is happening. Almost every day, 10-15 were killed on both sides and several dozen wounded. "
07/05/15. Writer, journalist, head of the Union of Writers of the LPR Gleb Bobrov on the air of the program "Actually".
"Gleb Bobrov: News of Ukraine is news of a madhouse. Today in Ukraine there is some kind of collective madness, I have spoken about this many times. People live in a state of cognitive dissonance. Reality itself, but what is happening in the minds of some Ukrainians - in itself. State schizophrenia blows people away and leads to some paradoxes."
07/05/15. Comment from I.I. Strelkov:
“For general information, I can say: it is necessary to hold on. Many people turn to me with the question whether it is worth going as volunteers and whether it is worth defending “separate regions”. And I answer: you are not defending the “lords”, but Russia. You are gaining time.
In 1611, King Sigismund laid siege to Smolensk, which at that time was subordinate to Tsar Vasily Shuisky. The siege continued for a year. During this time, Shuisky was overthrown and the "Seven Boyars" swore allegiance to the son of Sigismund - Prince Vladislav, the Polish garrison entered the Kremlin. But the Smolensk garrison continued to fight for several more months in an absolutely, it would seem, senseless situation. And then, after the fall of the city, released by the king, wandered to Russia. And finally, he made his way to Nizhny Novgorod, where he became the basis of the 2nd Militia of Prince Pozharsky. But this is not even the point, but the fact that after a year-long siege, the weary army of King Sigismund refused to go further to Moscow - to "plant" Vladislav as king, and for the most part went home.
Yes, while the situation is deteriorating, but it was deteriorating in the period described - just as continuously. And in 1941 it was much worse in September and October than in July and August. And in 1942, the situation in the early autumn was worse than in the autumn of 1941. So what? Numerous encircled people should have "bayonets to the ground"? As long as there are people who are ready to really fight for the Donbass, it is not so easy to surrender it. But if there are no such people or there are very few, he will be handed over as an "extra" pawn in a game of "giveaway."
07/05/15. Message from Russian Spring.
"Ukrainian military and Aidar militants were blown up by their own mines: five dead.
in the Lugansk region. in the area of the 29th checkpoint today, on July 4, a group of Ukrainian servicemen was blown up by a mine, killing five people - two militants of the Aidar battalion and three servicemen from the 24th brigade. A militant of Aidar, named Efremov, wrote about this on his Facebook page.
According to him, three soldiers were injured.
“Sad news from the 29th checkpoint. Today a group of fighters was blown up by a mine. Two people from the 24th mechanized brigade and one "Aidar" were killed. Another person from our battalion is in an extremely serious condition, our second 300th will live for sure. In addition, two of the 24 were wounded. The data on the wounded/dead may still change,” the Aidar militant wrote.
Later, he said that a wounded Aidar militant died in the hospital, and another soldier of the 24th brigade also died.
07/05/15. Video from a volunteer with the call sign "Moskva".
“In the summer, everyone went to their dachas and on vacation, as a result of which the activity of users on the Internet dropped sharply. Is it worth filming something today and using important topics one after another, if there are few views, which means that you conveyed some important information to a small number of people, and maybe it’s worth waiting until the fall, stopping for a while the “Moscow Speaks” column?So I’ll shoot videos on all topics over the summer, and in the fall there will be nothing to say, but it’s important for me that as many Ukrainians as possible hear me. Because of this, for the first time I am conducting a test for seasonal activity and I will shoot the next video only after 100 reposts of this video.Maybe by the evening there will be a hundred of them, or maybe by the beginning of autumn."
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Reports from the fronts
The editors of the "People's Journalist"
The so-called "truce" in Donbass continues. Information is coming from the front about the shelling of settlements in the DPR and LPR. During the day, Ukrainian militants once violated the so-called. "silence mode" in the zone of responsibility of the LPR. The area of the settlement was subjected to shelling. Logvinovo. In the Donetsk direction, Ukrainian militants violated the "ceasefire regime" 12 times. Under the fire of Ukrainian militants were: the villages of Dolomitnoye, Golmovsky (Gorlovka direction); Volvo Center area, settlements…
12.12.2019 18:22 15
Reports from the fronts
The editors of the "People's Journalist"
Photo from here The so-called "truce" in Donbass continues. In the Donetsk direction, under fire from Ukrainian militants were: the villages of Vesele, Krutaya Balka, the village of the Trudovskaya mine, the area of the Volvo Center, the capital's airport (Donetsk direction); the village of the mine named after Gagarin (Gorlovka direction); the villages of Belaya Kamenka, Kominternovo (Mariupol direction). The shelling continued throughout the day. From 13:45 to 13:50 shelling was recorded from the Ukrainian…
10.12.2019 16:01 23
Reports from the fronts
The editors of the "People's Journalist"
The situation on the line of contact has escalated. Donetsk People's Republic From December 07 to 08, Ukrainian militants fired at the settlements of the DPR from mortars, infantry fighting vehicles, various types of grenade launchers and small arms in the Gorlovsky, Donetsk and Mariupol directions. The total number of ammunition used by the enemy is 213 units. For two days, Ukrainian punishers violated the so-called “cessation regime” 22 times…
9.12.2019 14:51 20
Reports from the fronts
The editors of the "People's Journalist"
Over the past knocks, Ukrainian militants once violated the so-called. "silence mode" in the LPR. The area of the settlement was subjected to shelling. Red Lyman. In the Donetsk direction, Ukrainian militants violated the “ceasefire regime” nine times, firing over 30 ammunition across the territory of the DPR. Under the fire of Ukrainian militants were: the villages of Dolomitnoye, Zaytsevo, the mines named after Gagarin (Gorlovka direction); the village of Spartak (Donetsk direction); the village of Sakhanka (Mariupol ...
7.12.2019 13:47 23
Reports from the fronts
The editors of the "People's Journalist"
The so-called "truce" in Donbass continues. Information is coming from the front about the shelling of settlements in the DPR and LPR. Over the past 24 hours, Ukrainian militants violated the tk.n. 7 times. “silence mode” on the line of contact with the DPR. Under enemy fire were: the village of Dolomitnoe (Gorlovka direction); Yasinovataya, the villages of Vasilievka and Spartak, the settlements of the mine "Trudovskaya" and Aleksandrovka, (Donetsk direction); the village of Sakhanka (Mariupol ...
6.12.2019 17:27 14
Reports from the fronts
The editors of the "People's Journalist"
The so-called "truce" in Donbass continues. From the front, information is received daily about the shelling of settlements in the DPR and LPR. Over the past day, Ukrainian militants shelled the territory of the DPR six times. The area of the Volvo Center and the Donetsk airport terminal in the north of the capital (Donetsk direction), as well as the village of Novolaspa in the south of the DPR (Mariupol direction) were shelled by the enemy. Official reports from the NM DNR and…
4.12.2019 14:34 26
Reports from the fronts
The editors of the "People's Journalist"
The situation on the front line in Donbass remains tense, fighting continues in the Donetsk and Gorlovka directions of the front. The day before, two snipers from an elite unit of the Special Operations Center of the SBU were killed in Donbass. SUMMARY OF NM DPR: Over the past day, Ukrainian militants opened fire EIGHT times on areas of settlements of the Republic. In the Gorlovsky direction, the punishers of the 59th brigade of SHAPOVALOV from mortars with a caliber of 120 mm, manual ...
3.12.2019 15:12 22
Reports from the fronts
The editors of the "People's Journalist"
Donetsk People's Republic For two days, Ukrainian militants violated the so-called TC 14 times. “ceasefire regime”, firing 70 units of various ammunition on the front-line territories of the DPR. Settlements in the Donetsk, Gorlovka, and Mariupol directions were subjected to shelling. The enemy used infantry fighting vehicles, armored personnel carriers, RPGs, LPG, large-caliber small arms. Lugansk People's Republic From November 30 to December 01, Ukrainian punishers 1 time…
2.12.2019 14:49 19
Reports from the fronts
The editors of the "People's Journalist"
Despite the so-called “truce”, information continues to come from the front about the shelling of settlements in the DPR and LPR. Over the past day, Ukrainian militants violated the TC.N. 12 times. "truce" in the DPR. The following were subjected to shelling by the enemy: the villages of mine 6/7, named after Gagarin and Dolomitnoye (Gorlovka direction); the village of Lozovoye, the villages of the Trudovskaya mine, Staromikhaylovka and Aleksandrovka (Donetsk direction); Sakhanka village...
29.11.2019 15:48 33
Reports from the fronts
The editors of the "People's Journalist"
Despite the so-called "truce", more and more information comes from the front about the shelling of settlements in the DPR and LPR. Over the past day, Ukrainian militants violated the tk.n. nine times. "ceasefire regime" in the DPR. The villages of the mine named after Gagarin and Bayrak (Gorlovka direction) were subjected to shelling; the village of Staromikhaylovka (Donetsk direction); Sakhanka village (Mariupol direction). In the Luhansk direction, Ukrainian punitive…
05/05/2018 | Militia reports, photos and videoseyewitnesses. Chronicleone day eventsinformation tape. Updated as neededreceipt of information around the clock.
Overview of current and combat information from the military correspondent "John Hughes".
"Donbass today: Azov fighters rob civilians, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are fleeing from the front line, Artillery and tanks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are hitting Gorlovka. The National Guardsmen and Azov fighters are robbing civilians at checkpoints. Ukrainian media reported a "mass flight" of citizens from the LPR. Recent news of Novorossiya - in the review of the Federal News Agency.
Operational situation
In the Gorlovka direction, Ukrainian troops attacked the settlements of the Donetsk People's Republic with 122-mm artillery and tanks. In addition, 120-mm and 82-mm mortars, infantry fighting vehicles (IFVs) and armored personnel carriers (APCs), grenade launchers and small arms were used.
In the Mariupol direction, the Kyiv security forces fired at the positions of the armed forces of the DPR from anti-tank grenade launchers, infantry fighting vehicles and armored personnel carriers. Settlements in the Donetsk direction were fired from 82-mm mortars, machine guns and military vehicles.
The total number of ammunition fired in 12 cities and towns of the republic amounted to 590 units. The ceasefire regime was violated by the soldiers of Kyiv 27 times.
The Lugansk People's Republic was shelled harder than usual. Eight attacks were recorded using mortars of various calibers, infantry fighting vehicles and armored personnel carriers, as well as various types of grenade launchers in almost all directions. As a result of the act of aggression of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, one serviceman of the Armed Forces of the LPR was killed.
APU fleeing from the front line
Intelligence from Lugansk reported about the next adventures of Ukrainian paratroopers from the 80th Airborne Assault Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. As early as April 29, several servicemen, who had pretty much “taken on their chests”, went AWOL and left their positions.
On the way, the soldiers met a civilian from the city of Shchastya and took away the car, threatening them with weapons. To this day, the paratroopers have not been found. At the same time, the command of the brigade hides this fact from the higher leadership.
Residents of Avdiivka complained to the DPR military
The Joint Forces Operation (JFO) brought new problems to the residents of the areas of Donbass controlled by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. So, the residents of Avdiivka, who witnessed the crime of paratroopers from the 25th separate brigade, informed the military of the republic about the lawlessness of the fighters of the Ukrainian army.
In one of the empty houses of the city on Nekrasov Street, three fighters of the brigade conducted an unauthorized search. Upon the return of the owners home, they were charged with collaborating with the "separatists", after which the people were taken to an unknown destination.
It is noteworthy that the fighters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine presented certificates signed personally by the commander of the JFO Sergey Naev. The fate of the people is unknown, but six soldiers of the 25th brigade now live in their house.
The National Guard robs civilians
Also, after the JFO regime came into effect on May 1 in Volnovakha, at one of the checkpoints of the National Guard, the Ukrainian military, under the pretext of “necessity of service,” took away a car from a civilian from the city of Kurakhovo, Ivanov Vitaliy Sergeevich, to catch a saboteur. The victim's arguments about the inadmissibility of such actions were ignored.
Mitsubishi Galant, stolen in an unknown direction, was never found. The man no longer hopes to return the car. Moreover, a similar incident happened to his friend earlier. The UAZ car selected by the National Guardsmen was found only after a long time. It was listed as trophy equipment in the staff of the Azov nationalists, who "obtained it during the fighting."
Ukrainian media: “People are fleeing from ORDLO”
On Friday, an interesting article appeared in the feeds of information publications controlled by Kyiv, which said that people were fleeing en masse from the republics of Donbass. According to the media, the citizens of the DPR sell housing for a pittance with all their property and run "wherever their eyes look"
The arguments of the media are interesting: as evidence, an advertisement for the sale of real estate was cited in one of the Yenakievo communities on a social network. For 5 thousand US dollars, it is offered to buy a house with all the furniture and appliances in one of the adjacent villages. Photos of the house and the state of household utensils are not given. By the way, for the suburb of Yenakiyevo, this is a very considerable price for housing.
But for the Ukrainian media, the above “evidence” is more than enough - the “mass exodus” of the inhabitants of the republics has been “proven.”
Urgent message from NM LNR.
"In the Novoaydarsky district, between the settlements of Smolyaninovo and Muratovo, there are two Tochka-U missile systems. The distance from the settlement of Muratovo to the line of contact is 30 kilometers, while the maximum firing range of this missile system is 120 kilometers."
Message from the militia. "From 05:30, the Airport-Spartak-YaBP area was under mortar fire of 82 and 120 mm. Also armored vehicles, small arms and short-range machine guns. All morning you can hear bakhi in the direction of the Plots - in the west of Donetsk."
Message from NM LNR.
"Ukrainian security forces on Saturday morning began shelling a village located in the north of the LPR. From the village of Novotoshkovskoye, they are purposefully shelling the settlement of Donetsky. The enemy is hiding behind civilians as a human shield: 120-mm mortars are installed right on the streets of the residential sector."
Message from the militia: "Since the start of the Easter truce, the Ukrainian security forces have violated the ceasefire 826 times, five civilians were killed, 25 were injured."
Message from the militia.
"After 03:00, shelling from the side of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was recorded in the following directions: 10:05-10:30 - settlement Shirokino - settlement Kominternovo; 10:00-10:30 - settlement Vodyane - settlement Leninskoye settlement; 08:00-08.30 - Novotroitskoye settlement - Dokuchaevsk settlement; 06:35-07:35 - Zhovanka settlement - Zaitsevo settlement; 06:30-07:00 - settlement Bogdanovka - settlement Petrovsko".
Official reports from the Ministry of Defense of the DPR (E, Basurin) and NM LPR (A. Marochko).
From the Ministry of Defense of the DPR:"The situation on the line of contact continues to be tense. Over the past 24 hours, in the Donetsk direction, the Ukrainian occupying forces shelled the areas of FOUR settlements, on which the enemy fired TWENTY mines of 120 and 82 mm caliber, and also used infantry fighting vehicles, grenade launchers and small arms.
In the Mariupol direction, the areas of THREE settlements were subjected to shelling, on which the terrorists fired NINETEEN mines, of which TEN were of 120 mm caliber. In addition, anti-tank guided missiles, grenade launchers and small arms were used.
In the Gorlovka direction, the enemy fired at the areas of FOUR settlements from artillery installations and mortars, firing THIRTEEN shells of 122 mm caliber and NINETY-THREE mines. He also used infantry fighting vehicles, automatic grenade launchers and small arms.
In just a day, Ukrainian gangs violated the ceasefire TWENTY-FIVE times.
As a result of shelling by the invaders, TWO servicemen of our Armed Forces were injured.
Yesterday, our defenders of the Donetsk airport recorded the preparation and conduct of another provocation aimed at falsely accusing the Armed Forces of the Republic of using weapons prohibited by the Minsk agreements, as well as shelling civilians.
So, at about 3 p.m., a group of people arrived in two civilian cars in the area of the airport, on the territory temporarily controlled by Ukraine. After carrying out some reconnaissance activities, one of the cars was left in the middle of the field. Then, the arrived militants fired a shot at the car from a hand-held anti-tank grenade launcher.
Among the militants there were people with cameras who filmed the process of shelling on video.
According to our intelligence, representatives of the Ukrainian TV channel ICTV and Radio Liberty have been working in the area for two days.
We do not rule out that in the near future, professional reports of journalists who allegedly “accidentally” found themselves in this area will be added to the videos of a burning car that are actively distributed on the Internet, filmed on mobile phones.
As we can see, the provocation, so carefully planned by representatives of the 74th IPSO Center (information and psychological operations), failed.
It is very sad that the religious organization "Christian Salvation Service" took part in this provocation, the purpose of which should be to restore peace in the Donbass. But in fact, these volunteers, not only lie, but also “add fuel to the fire” of this war.
As you understand, our servicemen did not open fire, but only watched this theatrical performance through optical instruments. In support of this, such a miraculous absence of casualties among the passengers of the car, despite the supposedly sudden fire, can serve.
Can anyone really believe that if an anti-tank missile unexpectedly hits a passenger car, someone may remain alive there.
In a word - base fake!"
From NM LPR:"Over the past day, the Kyiv security forces have fired more than 40 ammunition across the territory of the Republic. This was announced today at a briefing by the official representative of the People's Militia of the LPR, Lieutenant Colonel Andrey Marochko.
He noted that the situation in the area of responsibility of the defense department of the Republic remains tense, over the past day, the Ukrainian security forces violated the ceasefire four times.
“The positions of our units in the areas of the settlements of Zhelobok, Veselogorovka, Frunze and Kalinovo were subjected to shelling. During shelling, the Armed Forces of Ukraine used 120-mm and 82-mm mortars, infantry fighting vehicles, grenade launchers and small arms,” Marochko said.
“In total, over 40 shells, mines and grenades were fired across the territory of the Republic,” the lieutenant colonel specified.
The Kyiv security forces, in violation of the Minsk agreements, are reconnaissance of the positions of the People's Militia of the LPR using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in the area of Trekhizbenka and Svetlodarsk.
“We have already stated that the Ukrainian security forces are introducing the practice of using UAVs to attack the positions of the People’s Militia of the LPR and sabotage,” he said.
“At the moment, the armed forces of Ukraine are using Leleka-100 and Phantom-type drones to conduct aerial reconnaissance of positions in the areas of Trekhizbenka and Svetlodarsk,” the lieutenant colonel said.
"I would like to remind you that in the memorandum aimed at the implementation of the Peace Plan dated September 19, 2014, a ban was imposed on the flights of military aircraft and unmanned aerial vehicles along the entire line of contact," Marochko added.
Message from the militia.
"Fishes were fired from the side of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the following directions: the settlement of Shirokino - the settlement of Sakhanka; the settlement of Avdeevka - the settlement of Yasinovataya; the settlement of Talakovka - the settlement of Kominternovo; Avdeevka - settlement Mineralnoe; settlement Vodyanoe - settlement Dzerzhinskoye; settlement Novotroitskoye - settlement Dokuchaevsk; settlement Shirokino - settlement Sakhanka".
