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    The Situation in the Ukraine. #17

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    Post  auslander Wed Jul 15, 2015 8:45 pm

    Khepesh wrote:Gorlovka tonight as bad as January. Picture paints a thousand words....
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    I know. UAF will do anything to provoke our boys to attack. Our boys will not attack until ordered to do so. It is only going to get worse over the next days. The orcs are desperate.
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    Post  JohninMK Wed Jul 15, 2015 9:22 pm

    auslander wrote:
    Khepesh wrote:Gorlovka tonight as bad as January. Picture paints a thousand words....

    I know. UAF will do anything to provoke our boys to attack. Our boys will not attack until ordered to do so. It is only going to get worse over the next days. The orcs are desperate.
    Correct, they have to get RS back to war and the population's mind onto a greater enemy.

    They don't have long.
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    Post  JohninMK Wed Jul 15, 2015 10:17 pm

    I wonder what the Russians actually know. Mmmmm 'non Russian' missile.

    The Russian Investigative Committee has data suggesting that the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was most likely brought down by an air-to-air missile produced outside of Russia, committee spokesman Vladimir Markin said Wednesday. “Regarding the priority version, we have data, including the one based on the results of examinations, [that suggests that] the plane was shot down by an air-to-air missile… Moreover, experts believe that they have established the type of missile and this is not a Russian-made missile,” Markin said. The data that the Russian Investigative Committee possesses, confirms the testimony of Evgeniy Agapov, a witness from Ukraine who served as a mechanic in the First Squadron Brigade of Tactical Aviation of the Ukrainian Air Force, he added.

    In December, a former Ukrainian airbase employee, whose name at the time was not disclosed, said he saw a Ukrainian Air Force Su-25 combat jet carrying air-to-air missiles taking off, on the day of the tragedy, from an airbase in eastern Dnipropetrovsk, and later seeing the same plane return without any missiles.

    Kiev blamed the independence supporters in eastern Ukraine for shooting down the plane. However, local militia insisted that they did not possess weapons capable of bringing down an aircraft flying at 32,000 feet. Russia has repeatedly stressed the importance of a transparent international investigation into the tragedy.

    The Dutch Safety Board is due to release a final report on the tragedy in October 2015.


    Read more: http://sputniknews.com/world/20150715/1024676143.html#ixzz3fzPYcOkS

    This is TASS version


    MOSCOW, July 15 /TASS/. The Russian Investigation Committee is inclined to believe that an air-to air missile, which was not made in Russia, shot down a Malaysian Boeing (MH17 flight) over Ukraine a year ago.

    "As for the priority version, we have information, which among other things is based on expertise, that the plane was hit by an air-to-air missile. Moreover, the experts assume that the type of missile has been established. The missile is not Russian-made," Vladimir Markin, the Russian Investigation Committee spokesman, told TASS on Wednesday.

    Markin said the Investigation Committee’s priority version confirmed the testimony of mechanic Yegeny Agapov, who served in the first squad of the Ukraine Air Force tactical aviation brigade.

    "It is vitally important for us to carefully study all the versions. This is how the Investigation Committee investigates criminal cases," Markin concluded.


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    Post  franco Wed Jul 15, 2015 10:17 pm

    The changes in the Military structure of the NAF explained;
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    Post  whir Wed Jul 15, 2015 10:24 pm

    Sputnik wrote:Poroshenko to Be ‘Executed in Dark Basement’ After Coup – Right Sector
    EUROPE 21:43 15.07.2015(updated 21:58 15.07.2015)

    Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko should be worried, as things are getting hot on the streets of Kiev amid the standoff between the Ukrainian government and the Neo-Nazi radical group Right Sector.

    The extremist group said Poroshenko won't be able to flee from the country in the event of a coup, as did his predecessor Viktor Yanukovych in February of 2014, the Voice of America (VOA) reported, citing Artem Skoropadsky, the press secretary of the Right Sector.

    "If there's a new revolution, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and his supporters won't be able to escape from the country, as did the previous president. They can't expect anything, but an execution in some dark basement carried out by a group of young Ukrainian soldiers or members of the National Guard," Skoropadsky warned the current president, as quoted by VOA. Continue reading.

    RT wrote:US officials say Ukraine rebels behind MH17 downing, Dutch team cannot confirm
    Published time: July 15, 2015 19:05
    Edited time: July 15, 2015 19:49


    US officials reportedly familiar with the Dutch report on the MH17 crash in Ukraine that took place a year ago blamed the rebels for shooting down the plane, according to US media. The Dutch investigators told RT they “cannot confirm” this.

    Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17, heading from Amsterdam to Kuala-Lumpur, crashed in eastern Ukraine on July 17, 2014, killing all 298 people on board. The Dutch Safety Board has been heading an international investigation into the cause of the crash since a large number of passengers on the flight were from Holland while the plane itself flew out of Amsterdam.

    According to CNN, who cited two anonymous US officials, the plane was downed by the eastern Ukrainian militia.

    “Dutch accident investigators say that evidence points to pro-Russian rebels as being responsible for shooting down MH-17, according to a source who has seen the report,” CNN reported Wednesday. DSB is due to release their report in October, so what the channel’s sources may have seen is a draft.

    One of the sources also alleged the draft identified the “exact type of missile used to bring down MH17 and the trajectory of the missile.”

    Both the sources claimed the Dutch investigators partly put the blame for the crash on Malaysia Airlines, which did not divert the plane from the conflict zone.

    “The Malaysia Airlines was not reading other countries' notice to airmen or NOTAMs and it continued to fly over the zone,” says CNN. NOTAM stands for Notice to Airmen, which is filed with an aviation authority to alert pilots of potential hazards along their route.

    The Dutch Safety Board spokesperson told RT the investigators “cannot confirm” this information.

    "I cannot confirm anything. It's a confidential draft report, which has been sent to the International Investigation Team and I cannot provide any details about it as long as it is a draft report - so we only give comments when the final report is issued,” Sara Vernooij said over the phone.

    There are two parallel investigations into the disaster, both headed by the Dutch, with the first carried by the DBS looking into the cause of the crash. The second investigation carried out by the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) is a criminal inquiry. Continue reading.

    TASS wrote:Investigators: MH17 shot down over Ukraine by air-to-air missile not made in Russia
    World July 15, 21:41 UTC+3

    Russian Investigation Committee’s spokesman says priority version confirmed the testimony of mechanic Yegeny Agapov, who served in the first squad of the Ukraine Air Force tactical aviation brigade

    MOSCOW, July 15 /TASS/. The Russian Investigation Committee is inclined to believe that an air-to air missile, which was not made in Russia, shot down a Malaysian Boeing (MH17 flight) over Ukraine a year ago.

    "As for the priority version, we have information, which among other things is based on expertise, that the plane was hit by an air-to-air missile. Moreover, the experts assume that the type of missile has been established. The missile is not Russian-made," Vladimir Markin, the Russian Investigation Committee spokesman, told TASS on Wednesday.

    Markin said the Investigation Committee’s priority version confirmed the testimony of mechanic Yegeny Agapov, who served in the first squad of the Ukraine Air Force tactical aviation brigade.

    "It is vitally important for us to carefully study all the versions. This is how the Investigation Committee investigates criminal cases," Markin concluded.

    The Malaysian Boeing MH17 crashed over Ukraine’s Donetsk region on July 17, 2014. The plane was on its way from Amsterdam, the Netherlands, to Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia. Fifteen crewmen and 283 passengers, most of whom were Dutch, died. According to the main version, the plane was shot down by a surface-to-air or an air-to-air missile. The Ukrainian government and the militias of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) accused each other of what happened.

    The Dutch Security Council took the incident’s investigation under its control. Continue reading.


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    Post  JohninMK Wed Jul 15, 2015 10:27 pm

    Crocodile tears perhaps?

    WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — The violence in the western Ukrainian town of Mukachevo where Saturday’s shootout between police officers, employees at a local business and Right Sector militants left 3 people dead and 13 injured is absolutely intolerable, US State Department spokesperson John Kirby told journalists on Wednesday.

    “The violence you are referring to is totally unacceptable, totally unacceptable. And we expect all — no matter their affiliation — Ukrainians or organization, to respect law and order,” Kirby said. John Kirby also told journalists that the Ukrainian government was responsible for determining the role of the country’s far-right Right Sector group within Kiev’s security forces.

    “In terms of the Right Sector and where they are in terms of Ukraine’s security apparatus is up to the government of Ukraine to decide how this integration is going to be implemented,” Kirby said. “We continue to urge the Ukrainian government as we have to complete this transition as soon as possible precisely because of concerns such as that gun battle reported over the weekend.”


    Read more: http://sputniknews.com/europe/20150715/1024677858.html#ixzz3fzgBr9q1
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    Post  whir Wed Jul 15, 2015 10:36 pm

    KP via Google Translate wrote:Малайзийский «Боинг» под Донецком погубил израильский «Питон»
    Malaysian "Boeing" of Donetsk killed an Israeli "Python"
    Politics|Crash Malaysian "Boeing" Dmitry Steshin(21:29)

    The findings confirm the version of "Komsomolskaya Pravda", which is based on the testimony of "secret witness" , who came to our editorial office in December 2014. This was the Ukrainian Aircraft Eugene Agapov , who served at the airfield near Dnepropetrovsk. On the day of the death of "Boeing" on 17 July 2014, Evgeniy Agapov personally saw how Ukrainian Su-25 piloted by Captain Voloshin, flew from the airport with rockets "air-to-air" and landed without them.

    The experts' report on dozens of pages of analysis of the damage of the aircraft, the nature of holes, simulated on a model rocket blasting zone. It calculates the weight of its warhead - from 10 to 40 kilograms. It sets the shape and weight of submunitions:

    "Average weight of about 3 g with an estimated shape of a parallelepiped with sides 8h8h6 mm (with a tolerance of ± 0,5 mm) in an amount of 2000 - 4000 units. At the same time there was an explosion of the warhead at a distance of 0.8 - 1.6 m from the vents crew commander. "
    Further experts immersed in a comparative analysis of the performance characteristics of Russian air defense systems and installed:
    Firstly, the amazing elements of domestic missiles "Air-air" - rods.

    Second, the "analysis of the characteristics of domestic anti-aircraft weapons showed that among them is enough complexes, missile which can hit aerial target at an altitude of 10 km. However, they all have a lot of high-explosive fragmentation warhead significantly greater than 40 kg.

    Thus, the complex set of characteristics do not match any one guided weapons air targets domestic development and production of class "air - air" and "ground - air" that can hit aircraft at an altitude of about 10 km. " Continue reading.
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    Post  JohninMK Wed Jul 15, 2015 10:47 pm

    whir wrote:
    KP via Google Translate wrote:Малайзийский «Боинг» под Донецком погубил израильский «Питон»
    Malaysian "Boeing" of Donetsk killed an Israeli "Python"
    Politics|Crash Malaysian "Boeing" Dmitry Steshin(21:29)

    The findings confirm the version of "Komsomolskaya Pravda", which is based on the testimony of "secret witness" , who came to our editorial office in December 2014. This was the Ukrainian Aircraft Eugene Agapov , who served at the airfield near Dnepropetrovsk. On the day of the death of "Boeing" on 17 July 2014, Evgeniy Agapov personally saw how Ukrainian Su-25 piloted by Captain Voloshin, flew from the airport with rockets "air-to-air" and landed without them.

    The experts' report on dozens of pages of analysis of the damage of the aircraft, the nature of holes, simulated on a model rocket blasting zone. It calculates the weight of its warhead - from 10 to 40 kilograms. It sets the shape and weight of submunitions:

    "Average weight of about 3 g with an estimated shape of a parallelepiped with sides 8h8h6 mm (with a tolerance of ± 0,5 mm) in an amount of 2000 - 4000 units. At the same time there was an explosion of the warhead at a distance of 0.8 - 1.6 m from the vents crew commander. "
    Further experts immersed in a comparative analysis of the performance characteristics of Russian air defense systems and installed:
    Firstly, the amazing elements of domestic missiles "Air-air" - rods.

    Second, the "analysis of the characteristics of domestic anti-aircraft weapons showed that among them is enough complexes, missile which can hit aerial target at an altitude of 10 km. However, they all have a lot of high-explosive fragmentation warhead significantly greater than 40 kg.

    Thus, the complex set of characteristics do not match any one guided weapons air targets domestic development and production of class "air - air" and "ground - air" that can hit aircraft at an altitude of about 10 km. " Continue reading.

    Its at times like this I wish I could read Russian. This, the original source for the above? looks fascinating

    http://albert-lex.livejournal.com/68374.html
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    Post  JohninMK Wed Jul 15, 2015 11:20 pm

    Kiev will never be the same again. The chickens are coming home to roost. As ye sow, so shall ye reap.

    Kiev: Emptiness, Fear, and Hatred

    By Artyom Skorobogatov

    Translated from Russian by J.Hawk

    Kiev is engulfed by hatred and paralyzed with fear. Both the Kiev romantics who in a parental fashion fed the Maidanites borshch and dumplings during the state coup, as well as those who kept a safe distance from the Kreshchatik, are living in fear.

    The city is flooded with weapons, criminals, murderers, and sociopaths of all stripes who returned from the so-called "anti-terror operation" and who hate anyone who can still afford a cup of coffee in a restaurant.


    Much more at http://fortruss.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/kiev-emptiness-fear-and-hatred.html
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    Post  whir Wed Jul 15, 2015 11:35 pm

    New video from security camera of last year's Mariupol shooting.

    Александр Гунько wrote:Mariupol! Fight with PRIZRAKAMI.Drugoy view
    In the role of ghost-unarmed residents of Mariupol !!!
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    Post  PapaDragon Wed Jul 15, 2015 11:36 pm

    auslander wrote:............

    I know. UAF will do anything to provoke our boys to attack. Our boys will not attack until ordered to do so. It is only going to get worse over the next days. The orcs are desperate.

    Exactly, even we on this forum assessed as much.

    I imagine GRU and other big boys have much, much, much better data and assessments... and most importantly-plans. Twisted Evil russia
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    Post  Cowboy's daughter Wed Jul 15, 2015 11:56 pm

    In Mukachevo 14th July 2015 Ukraine Army Hunting Fascists & Driving Through New Ukraine Army Blockpost in Transcarpithia

    http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e14_1436886349
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    Post  Cowboy's daughter Wed Jul 15, 2015 11:58 pm

    The music is awful, ugh.

    Azov Battalion Recieves U.S. Aid ISIS Style Vechiles and P.R. Makeover in Mariupol


    http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=784_1436919656
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    Post  Cowboy's daughter Thu Jul 16, 2015 12:00 am

    not exactly fighting for food, but I am surprised that Chernihiv needs food assistance as it's Kiev government controlled.

    Ukrainians began to fight on streets for food


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    Post  Guest Thu Jul 16, 2015 12:53 am

    Cowboy's daughter wrote:The music is awful, ugh.

    Azov Battalion Recieves U.S. Aid ISIS Style Vechiles and P.R. Makeover in Mariupol


    http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=784_1436919656
    Haha the similarities are too close!

    Music is still a nice touch in my opinion.

    Cowboy's daughter wrote:not exactly fighting for food, but I am surprised that Chernihiv needs food assistance as it's Kiev government controlled.

    Ukrainians began to fight on streets for food


    Revolution of Dignity for y'all. Although, the region of Chernihiv and surrounding areas including parts of Belarus and parts of Russia have been in a steady decline since the collapse. The Euromaidan seems to have only dug them deeper into the hole. In Russia, last I heard they are starting to make progress with revitalization of these regions. Really a shame that your neighbors are blessed with better luck in the long term due to a non existent border that was drawn through there almost a hundred years ago.


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    Post  Flagship Victory Thu Jul 16, 2015 2:50 am

    NAF training



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    Post  Neutrality Thu Jul 16, 2015 3:06 am

    Another very shocking video that Anatoly Shariy released:




    "Ukrop" party bribing pensioners in exchange for food. Very depressing video. Some "volunteer" comes up to the camera guy and starts harassing him, accusing him of "provocation" and what not, then apologizes and moves on. This video has everything. Brainwashed "browncoats" who are harassing people like the camera guy in public and the terrible state of the Ukrainian society. The people who are lined up, while it's raining, are even disgusted with themselves because they find it despicable and disrespectful when people with power manipulate the most unprotected citizens (pensioners) like that. There's also a guy who seems to be in his 50ies saying "look what became of us, look what these bastards did to us". 

    I just hope that this is a sign of things to come, not because I want Poroshenko and his team to burn (and I do). But for the good of those who didn't want any part in this muppet show.
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    Post  higurashihougi Thu Jul 16, 2015 7:11 am

    Ukie media happened to say something about the "russian propaganda" and the Graham Phillips's "network operation".

    https://scontent-hkg3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xap1/v/t1.0-9/11055365_881452698586786_1152712406893032181_n.jpg?oh=0a71885e95c93e644e435ded732c3700&oe=5650A381

    Well, about Graham, we all know what he has commented about Kyiv media...

    https://scontent-hkg3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/11227940_881453635253359_1140056995653931164_n.jpg?oh=30473b54c9ee4cfb1e40af32a8c40317&oe=5653B9B7
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    Post  whir Thu Jul 16, 2015 9:10 am

    News-Front wrote:Combat training Cossack tankers Paul Dremova
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    Post  Vann7 Thu Jul 16, 2015 11:23 am



    You see that video of hundreds if not thousands on the streets desperate for food...
    and it was just one city.. ukraine have a hundred or more cities.. If Russia invades..
    and some people in this forums wants.. not only they will need to bring tanks..
    but convoys of thousands of trucks too with food.. every week too feed 40 millions
    Ukrainians for life... No thanks..

    Thats what Poroshenko and the Americans will have loved to see.. Russia invading
    and later force Russia maintain millions of grandmas pensions and food supply to them..
    Liberating Kiev of that burden.. and americans and Rusophobic allies sending more and more
    of volunteer mercenaries from all US and Europeans jails.. Grinding Russia into a 10-15 years
    long urban mercenary war.
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    Post  JohninMK Thu Jul 16, 2015 11:50 am

    Clearly the US has said something about the new Constitution re DNR/LPR which Kiev wants to ignore, like the rest of Minsk 2. So, on the one hand we have Poro saying this

    KIEV (Sputnik) – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has submitted a proposal on constitutional amendments on the special status of the country’s southeastern regions (Donbass) to Ukraine’s parliament (Verkhovna Rada). According to the Rada website, the draft proposals aim to revise Ukraine’s constitution to include a section on the special status of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions. Poroshenko first submitted a draft law to the Rada with proposed constitutional changes on decentralization on July 1. However, the bill, approved by Ukraine's constitutional commission in late June, did not envision a special status for Donbass.

    Ukrainska (Ukrayinska) Pravda reported early on Thursday that Poroshenko made the decision to submit new proposals on constitutional amendments following US Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland’s Wednesday arrival to Ukraine. Constitutional amendments providing more autonomy to the Donetsk and Lugansk regions were stipulated by the February Minsk agreements signed by Kiev and Donbass representatives, along with a ceasefire deal.

    On Monday, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement that the original proposals on amendments to the Ukrainian constitution fail to comply with the Minsk agreements as the draft was put together without consultations with Donbass representatives.

    Kiev launched a military operation in Donbass in April 2014. Local residents were against the new coup-installed government and have been asking for more autonomy.


    Read more: http://sputniknews.com/europe/20150716/1024686096.html#ixzz3g2uPFfbg

    Then on the other hand LPR says "What??"

    MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Proposals made to Ukraine’s Constitution by President Petro Poroshenko have nothing in common with the Minsk agreements and do not remove misunderstanding between Kiev and the eastern Ukrainian republics regarding the constitutional reform, the negotiator for the self-proclaimed Lugansk People’s Republic said Thursday. “Actually, we have yet another stage of imitating Ukraine’s fulfillment of package measures. This is seen by the fact that the project that was introduced on the 1st [of July] and the edited edition from the 15th [of July] was not discussed with representatives from Donetsk and Luпansk,” Vladislav Deinego told RIA Novosti.

    Earlier on Thursday, Poroshenko introduced edited amendments to the parliament on the decentralization of power, which supposedly give Lugansk and Donetsk a special status that is to be fixed in a separate law. The first amendments package had no mention of the two eastern republics’ special status and raised criticism from both republics.

    Deinego said that the Minsk reconciliation package clearly states that changes need to be agreed with the Donetsk and Lugansk republics, “but it is not happening.” “Projects aren’t discussed and not agreed, and these project changes have no relation to the Minsk process whatsoever. Everything is being done by Ukraine independently at its own risk,” Deinego added.


    Read more: http://sputniknews.com/europe/20150716/1024694246.html#ixzz3g2upur00

    Followed by the Rada just shoving it somewhere down the administrative to-do list achieving the Poro objective of telling the US "we are doing something as instructed" but actually doing nothing.

    KIEV, July 16. /TASS/. Ukraine’s parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, is not set to vote for the constitutional amendments submitted by President Petro Poroshenko and this draft will be sent to the Constitutional Court, an MP from the Poroshenko Bloc faction said on Thursday. "Today the Rada will not vote for the Constitution. The Rada will vote for a procedural decision on sending the draft to the Constitutional Court for a conclusion to be made," Sergey Leschenko wrote on his Facebook page. "Today the parliament will perform the function of a postman - it will put the draft amendments into an envelope, put a stamp and send it to the Constitutional Court," he added.
    Poroshenko to attend parliament session

    Petro Poroshenko is due to take part in Thursday’s session of the country’s parliament, his press service said. "On Thursday, July 16, President Petro Poroshenko will participate in the plenary session of the Verkhovna Rada," the statement reads.

    Earlier, Poroshenko revised and submitted to the parliament the constitutional amendments on July 15 to confirm in its main text the special status of the Donbas areas in Ukraine’s southeast not under Kiev’s control. The updated draft was published on the Ukrainian parliament’s website. In the draft amendments introduced on July 1, the provision that the status of certain areas in Donbas is defined by a special law was included in the transitional articles of the bill on amendments. The updated version puts this provision in the transitional articles of the Constitution itself.


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    Post  Rodinazombie Thu Jul 16, 2015 12:28 pm

    Has anyone seen about strelkov being sued by the families of people who died on mh17 for 900 million?

    So none of the investigations have been finished yet and they already know who to sue? And what about the ukrainian government/the airline for allowing flights over an area where planes were shot down on a daily basis at this time?

    I dont blame the families, they just want justice, my problem is with the people who have guided them and the system which has allowed this.
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    Post  Cowboy's daughter Thu Jul 16, 2015 12:34 pm

    Neutrality wrote:Another very shocking video that Anatoly Shariy released:




    "Ukrop" party bribing pensioners in exchange for food. Very depressing video. Some "volunteer" comes up to the camera guy and starts harassing him, accusing him of "provocation" and what not, then apologizes and moves on. This video has everything. Brainwashed "browncoats" who are harassing people like the camera guy in public and the terrible state of the Ukrainian society. The people who are lined up, while it's raining, are even disgusted with themselves because they find it despicable and disrespectful when people with power manipulate the most unprotected citizens (pensioners) like that. There's also a guy who seems to be in his 50ies saying "look what became of us, look what these bastards did to us". 

    I just hope that this is a sign of things to come, not because I want Poroshenko and his team to burn (and I do). But for the good of those who didn't want any part in this muppet show.

    Does it say what city?

    Thinking about this, this morning. Wondering West versus East Ukraine, East is more rural? & more persons have gardens?
    West-city? versus East-more rural? Although there are cities in the East...
    Thinking of all the cellars and houses Ukrainian / Kiev armed forces, looted.
    ...My Mom who lived through the Great Depression, always said, "If you have a cow, chickens, and pigs, (& a garden), you can survive.", but she didn't live through war where she lived.
    To me, it's really scary to be dependent on Government like this, because who controls food, controls you.
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    Post  Walther von Oldenburg Thu Jul 16, 2015 12:53 pm

    Out of 10 largest cities in Ukraine 6 are in the east.
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    Post  Cowboy's daughter Thu Jul 16, 2015 12:59 pm

    Walther von Oldenburg wrote:Out of 10 largest cities in Ukraine 6 are in the east.

    Thank you. I didn't realize.

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