The Situation in the Ukraine. #23

Eighteen people die of flu in Ukrainian capital, says epidemiological service World January 26, 3:01 UTC+3
Some 40,000 Kiev residents got infected with flu and respiratory viruses KIEV, January 25. /TASS/.

Eighteen people have already died of complications after flu since an epidemic began in the capital of Ukraine, Kiev, the press service of the city’s sanitary and epidemiological service reported on Monday. It said 11 people died of confirmed flu over the recent week. Other cases have not yet been confirmed by lab tests, the report said. The service also said that 65 people having flu have been examined as of yet, and the so-called swine flu, caused by the H1N1 virus, has been confirmed in 37 cases.

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Earlier on Monday, Oleg Ruban, the chief of the Kiev Regional Sanitary Epidemiological Service, said some 40,000 Kiev residents got infected with flu and respiratory viruses. Educational establishments of the capital remain under quarantine restrictions until Wednesday, January 27.

According to earlier circulated official data of the Healthcare Ministry, a flu epidemic killed 72 people in Ukraine between the end of autumn and January 22.

Twenty-two people died of pneumonia with suspected viral etiology in the troubled eastern Donetsk region, and 26 deaths from diseases secondary to influenza were confirmed in the Odessa region.

Swine flu has been raging in Ukraine since December, after hitting the country in the winter season of 2009-2010. A total of 6.355 million people were infected with flu or acute respiratory diseases in the country, and 1,127 people died then.

More:
http://tass.ru/en/world/852093

I wonder what 'favors' ole' Joe Biden agreed to, to get his son prepositioned in the right place in Ukraine's troubled hydrocarbon sector:

JohninMK wrote:Optimism is clearly not dead in Kiev.

Forgive my rudeness but I prefer to describe it as "masturbation".

JohninMK wrote:Brilliant, Hollywood series preparing the US for the partition of Ukraine. Detail at

http://fortruss.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/us-russia-are-preparing-public-opinion.html

I got first rushes...

https://pbs.twimg.com/tweet_video/CZfsJbZVAAEYUW-.mp4

JohninMK wrote:Brilliant, Hollywood series preparing the US for the partition of Ukraine. Detail at

http://fortruss.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/us-russia-are-preparing-public-opinion.html

I watch Madam Secretary, and noticed what was going on in the episode about Ukraine & Russia.

The last one, or one of them, the show was pushing the TPP trades deal. ugh.

(United States) Department of Defense. Department of the Army. Office of the Chief Signal Officer. (09/18/1947 - 02/28/1964) - 1943 - This motion picture film examines the war in Russia, 1941-1943

Interesting video. I can see now why Crimea went to Russia and will never go back to Ukraine.

Also why Poroshenko and all Ultra-Nationalists, Neo-Nazis in Ukraine are delusional.

Ivan Katchanovski
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Unreported Ukrainian court decisions link the Right Sector to the Maidan massacre and an Orthodox Easter attack which led to a major escalation of the conflict in Donbas.

Several recent Kyiv court rulings suggest that the Right Sector leadership or its covert armed unit involved in the Orthodox Easter attack in Donbas are now investigated by the General Prosecutor Office of Ukraine as suspects in killings of Berkut policemen and Internal Troops servicemen on February 18-20, 2014. These decisions by the Pechersk district court judges in November and December 2015 appeared in the publicly accessible official online database of court decisions in Ukraine, but they have not been reported by the government and the media in Ukraine and in the West. http://reyestr.court.gov.ua/Review/54278484
http://reyestr.court.gov.ua/Review/54672972

Unreported Ukrainian court decisions also show that the Prosecutor General Office now investigates UNA-UNSO, one of the founding members of the Right Sector, for killings of three first protesters in the end of January 2014, including an Armenian protester and a Belarusian member of UNA-UNSO, and for murdering another protester by cutting his throat on February 18, 2014. The Winter on Fire documentary, which is nominated for Oscar, prominently features killing of Serhiy Nigoyan, this Armenian protester, and attributes his killing and killings of other protesters to the police. I’ll summarize these cases in a separate post. http://reyestr.court.gov.ua/Review/52580748
http://reyestr.court.gov.ua/Review/52580547

The Pechersk court decisions state that the investigation found that two wounded attackers of a separatist checkpoint near Sloviansk in Donbas at 2:00am on April 20, 2014 used the same weapons which were used to kill two Internal Troops soldiers and wound three policemen on Maidan on February 18, 2014.

The timing of these investigations coincided with an abrupt resignation of the Right Sector leader and a split in this far right organization. But it is not clear if this resignation and this split are connected to these investigations.

Dmytro Yarosh, the leader of the Right Sector in his interview with BBC Ukrainian a year after attack said that his first battle was during the Orthodox Easter on April 20 near Sloviansk. http://www.bbc.com/…/pol…/2015/02/150211_yarosh_interview_vs
The attack of a separatist checkpoint near Sloviansk was the only fighting on that day and in the Sloviansk area. This attack broke the Easter ceasefire between the Ukrainian government and separatists, including a Strelkov-led Russian nationalist armed unit which seized under command of Igor control over this town several days before. It also broke the Geneva accord, reached on April 17, and attempts by the OSCE to negotiate a peaceful resolution of the separatist conflict in Donbas. This attack by the Right Sector, a far right alliance of radical nationalist and neo-Nazi organizations, constituted a major escalation of the conflict in Donbas. At least two local separatists manning the checkpoint and one of the Right Sector attackers were confirmed killed. The killed attacker was later listed as a killed member of the fifth battalion of the Volunteer Ukrainian Corps of the Right Sector on a VK page of this battalion.
http://archive.is/4a5bM

A business card of Yarosh, a list with names of several other leaders of the Right Sector, and its Security Service medallion no. 20, which were seized by separatists during the fight, also indicated involvement of the Right Sector leadership or a covert armed group linked to the leadership in the attack. But the involvement of the Right Sector in the attack was immediately denied by the Right Sector, the Ukrainian government, including the Security Service of Ukraine, RNBO, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the Ukrainian media. They claimed without any proof that the attack was staged by the Russian military intelligence and that the Yarosh business card and other evidence were fabrications.

An eyewitness reported that a sniper killed one of the separatists at the checkpoint. Expanding bullets of the 7.62mm caliber, which are used by the AKM and hunting carbines based on the Kalashnikov assault rifles, were recovered after this Right Sector attack of the separatist checkpoint. http://www.reuters.com/…/us-ukraine-crisis-idUSBREA3A1B5201…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9J3bp6Ml4ag The same caliber expanding bullets were used to kill protesters and the police on the Maidan. However, the official investigations of killings of the police and the Maidan protesters are separate, in spite of various evidence, such as same type bullets and similar wounds reported by medics, suggesting that both the police and the protesters were killed by the same covert shooters from the Maidan-controlled buildings and areas. The same concerns pellets, hunting bullets and 9mm caliber bullets, which are used in Makarov handguns, from which both the police and protesters were killed.

The Western governments and the media, like in the case of the Maidan massacre, ignored or dismissed evidence of the Right Sector involvement in the Sloviansk attack and stated instead that the responsibility for the attack was unclear and referred to a possibility of a false-flag attack by the Russian Military Intelligence.
http://www.reuters.com/…/us-ukraine-crisis-idUSBREA3A1B5201…
http://www.thestar.com/…/truth_a_victim_of_deadly_ukraine_c…
http://www.theguardian.com/…/ukraine-agreement-falters-shoo…
http://www.smh.com.au/…/ukraine-crisis-business-card-proof-…
http://euromaidanpress.com/…/sloviansk-shooting-victim-id…/…

Comments on my Facebook page and in Facebook groups devoted to the study of Eastern Europe and the Ukrainian far right on April 20, 2014 suggested that the absolute majority of experts on Ukraine and the Ukrainian far right active on the social media shared similar views concerning this attack, while a few other such experts concurred at that time with my analysis of the Right Sector involvement.

The names of the suspects in the killing of the police are omitted in the publicly accessible versions of the court rulings. Therefore, it is not clear if they are the same as the two members of the neo-Nazi Viking unit of the Right Sector, who have been investigated by the General Prosecutor Office since the end of summer 2015, for killings of the police on the Maidan following a public admission by one of this neo-Nazis. Several other unreported recent court decisions refer to armed Maidan protesters, who are now suspected by the investigation in killings of the police on the Maidan.
http://reyestr.court.gov.ua/Review/52100569
http://reyestr.court.gov.ua/Review/53868110

In addition, there is also unreported investigation of involvement in the Maidan massacre of two arrested robbers of a jewelry store in Kremenchuk in May 2015. The court decisions reveal that one of these robbers, who wounded several people during this robbery attempt, had a Makarov handgun, whose number matches the number one of Makarov handguns taken during a seizure by the Maidan protesters of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) regional headquarters in Ivano-Frankivsk Region on February 18. 2014. The court decision cites the Prosecutor General Office investigation stating that this handgun used during the robbery could have been used to shoot police during the Maidan massacre on February 20, 2014.
http://reyestr.court.gov.ua/Review/53416626

The names of these protesters are not made public, but they stated during the robbery that they fought in undisclosed Ukrainian formations during the war in Donbas. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqC9SfQZQcw

Hennadii Moskal, the governor of the Transcarpathian Region, has stated that a handgun, which was confiscated from one of Right Sector activists during their recent attack on a ski resort in this Western Ukrainian region, was taken during the same seizure of the Security Service of Ukraine office in Ivano-Frankivsk on February 18, 2014. A report by the special parliamentary commission, which was headed by Moskal, concluded that it was very likely that the policemen were shot during the Maidan massacre from firearms and ammunition that were seized by protesters from the police, internal troops, and SBU offices and arsenals in Western Ukraine on February 18 and 19, 2014. These weapons included 1,008 Makarov handguns, 59 AKMS (folding 7.62 caliber Kalashnikov assault rifles), two SVD sniper rifles, and various other rifles and shotguns. Their whereabouts previously remained unknown or were not disclosed. http://www.carpathia.gov.ua/ua/publication/content/12885.htm

The new revelations from the Prosecutor General Office of Ukraine investigations corroborate findings of my American Political Science Association conference paper concerning the involvement of the Right Sector in the Maidan massacre. http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2658245
The same concerns findings of my Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies and the Canadian Association of Slavists conference papers, which concluded that the far right, specifically the Right Sector, played major roles in the Maidan massacre, the start of the civil war in Donbas, and de facto break-up of Ukraine. https://www.academia.edu/…/The_Separatist_Conflict_in_Donba…
https://www.researchgate.net/…/280114848_The_Far_Right_in_U…

I mention them because these studies were often singled out for attacks or dismissed because of their findings which went against standard narratives by the governments and the mainstream media in Ukraine and the West and prevailing views among academic researchers. A book chapter summarizing my Maidan massacre study and an advanced online version of a journal article based on my CIUS conference paper on the war in Donbas are scheduled for publication within the next few weeks. http://www.tandf.net/books/details/9781138924093

http://reyestr.court.gov.ua/Review/54278484

Farewell, Antonov.

And f*** you, Maidan.

http://www.unian.info/economics/1247099-ukraines-antonov-aviation-group-liquidated.html

Ukraine’s Antonov aviation group liquidated

The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine decided on the final liquidation of the State aircraft manufacturer Antonov in connection with the transfer of all of its enterprises to Ukroboronrpom defense concern, the press service of the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade reported.

http://sputniknews.com/military/20160127/1033813951/poroshenko-wants-his-own-missiles.html

this has to make you laugh and really wonder what goes on in this guys head. where does Poroshenko thinks he's going to get the money to do this??? Ukraine doesn't even have enough to function day to day running of the country and of course it still owe's Russia $3bn+ this idiot really does have his heads up in the clouds and up the EU's ass.

d_taddei2 wrote:http://sputniknews.com/military/20160127/1033813951/poroshenko-wants-his-own-missiles.html

this has to make you laugh and really wonder what goes on in this guys head. where does Poroshenko thinks he's going to get the money to do this??? Ukraine doesn't even have enough to function day to day running of the country and of course it still owe's Russia $3bn+ this idiot really does have his heads up in the clouds and up the EU's ass.

Ukraine have their ammunition factory in Lugansk. Ups, sorry Porky, it is in Novorussia. So, new fresh ammunition for Novorussian army and old stocks for you.

JohninMK wrote:This can't be isolated out of control, bored groups, surely?

MOSCOW, January 27. /TASS/. The Ukrainian armed forces have used the Grad multiple rocket launchers for the first time since the beginning of this year to shell the territory west of Donetsk, the Defense Ministry of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) said on Wednesday.

Commenting on this information, Defense Ministry spokesman Eduard Basurin accused Kiev of flagrant violations of the Minsk agreements. In his opinion, "it cannot be ruled out that the Ukrainian positions close to which the shells exploded could be the target of the shelling with the use of the Grad rocket launchers." "This was supposed to be a pretext for accusing the DPR armed forces of blatant violations of the agreements," Donetsk news agency quotes him as saying.

According to the defense ministry, the situation along the line of contact has escalated dramatically over the past 24 hours. The Ukrainian military shelled the DPR territory 222 times using the Grad multiple rockets launchers for the first time in 2016 whose projectiles exploded in the vicinity of the villages of Staromikhailovka and Tudovskiye.

More: http://tass.ru/en/world/852568

I read this also.

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"Faking history is a form of burning books. Where books are officially burned, people follow. It’s already happened— on 2 May 2014 in the Hall of Trade Unions in Odessa set on fire by Kiev-junta-related neo-Nazi thugs. Over one hundred people died, including women and children. This was real history and real terrorism happening. The media ignored it."

Faking History

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/01/26/faking-history/

“This is the final struggle

Let us pull together and tomorrow
The Internationale
Will be the human kind.”

— Written by Eugene Pottier in 1871, “The Internationale,” is the anthem of socialists, communists, anarchists, and social democrats. Anti-fascist Republicans sang it during the Spanish Civil War (1936-39).

Singing “The Internationale” today in Ukraine is punishable by up to ten years in prison. The Kiev Rada passed a law in December making it a crime to deny the “criminal nature” of the Soviet regime (1917-1991). From selling a Soviet-era postcard, to membership in the communist party, to singing the Soviet national anthem, the law penalizes all symbols and activities connected to the USSR.

Volodymyr Chemerys calls attention to the law’s violations of human rights in a recent article in CounterPunch:

from Alex Thorn on twitter

Eastern Ukraine / 'Azov' positions

But with Ukraine? I imagine they will screw this up.

The idea of forming all your little MIC companies into one big company makes a lot of sense if it is managed correctly and of course there are enough company components working well to carry the ones that are not working so well until they can get up to speed.

there are good times and lean times in most areas of military production... the challenge is to manage production capacity so when it is needed it is available, but that you don't create too much production capacity that will not be used and therefore all that money is wasted.

It also means management can be optimised and reduced, while the manpower that actually does the work producing hardware and software can be maximised making it more productive.

Of course I do hope they wither and die because at the end of the day they are not only competition for the EU and US military companies, but also for Russia on the international market... I doubt they could compete on an equal footing in terms of quality, but desperation, political pressure from their allies, and simply being very low cost by not actually paying their workers can get them sales.

Not really sustainable but someone will make money while the rest take IOUs.