Bloomberg: Fighting Persists in Ukrainian Hotspots as Casualties Rise
Ukraine reported fresh attacks by pro-Russian forces at the most heavily contested points in its easternmost regions, adding to casualty numbers that rose this week to the highest in more than two months.
One Ukrainian soldier was killed and two were wounded, with some of the fiercest fighting near Donetsk airport and around the coastal city of Mariupol, military spokesman Andriy Lysenko said Wednesday. The death follows the killing of six soldiers on Tuesday, interrupting weeks of relative quiet. The pro-Russian rebels accuse Ukraine of plotting an offensive.
Militants “used mortars, grenade launchers and small arms,” Lysenko said. “Yesterday, tanks fired twice at our troops at Pisky” near Donetsk airport.’’
WNU Editor: Another Ukrainian opposition politician has been murdered .... Former Ukrainian MP Assassinated in Kiev (Sputnik). I have lost count on how many political opponents to the Ukrainian government have been found dead in the past few months .... and one has to wonder if death squads are now being sanctioned by some in the Ukraine government and/or in its security forces.
Ukraine News Updates -- April 15, 2015
Ukraine crisis: 700 explosions around Donetsk airport and Shyrokyne despite truce -- IBTimes
One Ukrainian serviceman killed in past 24 hours in east: military -- Reuters
Ukraine’s army starts shelling volunteer battalions near Dzerzhinsk — DPR Defense Ministry -- ITAR-TASS
Fighting continues in east Ukraine conflict zone -- Ukraine Today
OSCE Says Cease-Fire Violations In Ukraine Increase -- Radio Free Europe
‘Why do they keep shooting?’ Violence spikes in E. Ukraine, OSCE blames Kiev forces -- RT
Ukraine: Fighting breaks out again despite ceasefire monitors -- BBC
Situation remains 'unstable' in east Ukraine -- Ukraine Today
NATO General Calls on Russia to Stop Fueling Conflict in Ukraine -- Moscow Times/Reuters
U.S. Says Putin’s Men Are Training Rebels in Ukraine -- Fiscal Times
Canada To Send 200 Trainers To Ukraine -- Defense News/AFP
Canada’s decision to send troops to Ukraine ‘deplorable,’ Russia says -- Globe and Mail
In Rebel Territory of Ukraine, Relief for Illness and Pain Is Blocked -- NYT
Ukraine Warns Creditors as Debt Restructuring Looms -- WSJ
Ukraine: Mass Corporate Debt Restructuring Looks Likely -- Value Walk
Ukraine hits 'dead end' as lasting peace deal eludes leaders -- Fred Weir, CSM
3 comments:
WNU Editor,
A couple of weeks old, but:
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The Chairman of the Ukrainian Security Service Valentin Nalivaichenko believes that the SBU should be reformed by using the security service of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists—Ukrainian Insurgent Army as an example.
“There is no need to come up with anything unnecessary—it’s important to use as foundation the traditions of and methods used by the OUN-UPA Security Service between 1930 and 1950. It operated against the aggressor under conditions of temporary territorial occupation, it had patriotic upbringing, combat counter-intelligence, and it relied on the peaceful Ukrainian population, whose unprecedented support it enjoyed,” Nalivaichenko said.
According to the SBU chairman, when reforming the agency we should reject not only “KGB designations, but also organizational structures of a security service that is alien to us.”
“For example, instead of directorates and departments, we should have districts and task forces. Task forces, unlike departments, would have broader functions, including both information war against the enemy, but also community relations,” Nalivaichenko remarked.
Nalivaichenko believes that task forces ought to operate more decisively, and “counteract any signs of separatism or aiding the aggressor in business or in any other aspect of civic life.”
http://www.unian.net/politics/1062460-reformirovat-sbu-nado-po-obraztsu-slujbyi-bezopasnosti-oun-upa-schitaet-nalivaychenko.html (in Russian)
So, yup, they went there.
Thank you for the link Jay. I did not see this until now.
WNU Editor,
Unfortunatly, other than a few websites, the MSM has been very busy scrubbing the Ukraine news of Nazi's, so of course, this speech, which should send chills down the spine of every hyphenated Ukrainian, wasn't reported in the West.
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