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Showing posts with label Donbass. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Donbass. Show all posts
Sunday, 12 June 2016
Friday, 10 June 2016
(PHOTOS + VIDEO) 50,000 rally in Donetsk against armed OSCE mission
June 10, 2016 -
Marina Russkaya, PolitNavigator -
Translated by J. Arnoldski
A mass rally of residents of the DPR was held today in Donetsk. More than 50,000 people marched in a column along the city’s central street to protest Kiev’s intention to introduce an armed OSCE mission in Donbass.
The column marched from the N.K. Krupskaya Library to the central Lenin square. The demonstrators carried banners in different languages including English, German, French, and others and appealed to the international community not to allow the deployment of an armed mission. Posters bore the inscriptions “No armed OSCE mission,” “We’ll protect ourselves,” and “Armed OSCE mission = military intervention.”
On Lenin square, the crowd was addressed by activists, political figures, and top officials of the Donetsk People’s Republic.
“We saw the shelling of Volnovakha. We saw the shelling and murder of international journalists, and we together know how Ukrainian sabotage groups, dressed up as our soldiers, have worked. Therefore, we are here to day to say ‘NO” to an armed OSCE mission. Friends, today the residents of the DPR have come out to this square to stay their position to the whole world. For two years together, we have participated in the construction of our young state, and we see how our law-enforcement agencies are guaranteeing order. They are adequately handling this. We do not need an armed OSCE mission!,” the deputy of the DPR People’s Council from the “Donetsk Republic” organization and leader of the social organization “Young Republic,” Sergey Kondrykinsky stated.
“Hear us! I recall how Taras Grigorovich Shevchenko said in Russian: ‘He who does not have love for his native country has the heart of a crippled beggar.’ [These lines] are about them. About those who are shooting at our homes, at our unarmed people. About those who are not fulfilling the Minsk Agreements, and those who want to put a fence between us and Russia,” Donetsk resident Olga Zhukova said in a speech at the rally.
The head of the People’s Council of the DPR, Denis Pushilin, summed up the DPR public’s position: “We have gathered here to say a firm ‘NO’ to an armed OSCE mission in Donbass. For us, it is absolutely clear that the deployment of an armed OSCE mission to our homes means a complete severing of the Minsk Agreements. Now Poroshenko is telling the whole world that the mandate of the OSCE mission needs to be changed - the mandate which was supported by the OSCE itself and the UN Security Council. This is unacceptable for us. But for Poroshenko this is profitable. He wants to make a third party, an armed side of the conflict, out of the OSCE. But we together understand armed observers will be easy targets for the armed forces of Ukraine and, according to tradition, they will try to blame us. An armed OSCE mission in Donbass is a complete contradiction of all hitherto reached agreements, a breakdown of all formats. This is unacceptable for us. We understand that our own law-enforcement agencies can protect our security. We don’t need anyone else. Such a mission has no place in Donbass. Dear friends, we have already handled things, and we are handling everything now. We have offered our weighty word.”
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What does Kiev have in store for Savchenko?
June 10, 2016 -
Translated by J. Arnoldski
According to the Ukrainian political analyst and economic Alexander Dudchak, Kiev wants to achieve several goals by allowing Nadezhda Savchenko to participate in negotiations in Donbass. In Dudchak’s opinion, Petro Poroshenko wants to ruffle the DPR and LPR and make the Ukrainian woman pardoned by the head of the Russian Federation into a “sacred victim.”
“They want to tickle the nerves of Donetsk and Lugansk. Savchenko is far from the best diplomat and can hardly really be the candidate for carrying out such a delicate mission. This mission should be handled by diplomats, not soldiers,” Dudchak told “PolitNavigator.”
“Savchenko herself has stated that she is ready to continue the war. I don’t think the Donetsk and Lugansk’s reactions will be positive. Provocations threatening the life of Savchenko cannot be excluded. Kiev would benefit from her being a victim, an icon. Therefore, they’re sending her to be slaughtered for the purpose of attaining a sacred victim. In recent history there are often such individuals who are not even needed by their own side. They are more effectively used when made into icons that can be printed on flags,” the Ukrainian political scientist summarizes.
Earlier, Alexander Zakharchenko stated that he was read to negotiate with Savchenko if she would obtain the appropriate authority from Kiev. In addition, during his “direct line” with the residents of the Zaporozhye region, the head of the DPR stated that Ukrainian special forces had already planned to liquidate the new deputy of the Verkhovna Rada when Savchenko visited the war zone in Donbass on the night of June 6th.
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Wednesday, 8 June 2016
Zakharchenko: "We saved Savchenko from an assassination to be blamed on us"
June 8, 2016 -
Translated by J. Arnoldski
DPR authorities informed the Ukrainian deputy Nadezhda Savchenko of the preparation of attempts at her life by Kiev’s special services.
This was stated today by the head of the republic, Alexander Zakharchenko, during a direct line with residents of Zaporozhye.
“When we learned that the special services of Ukraine were preparing an operation to liquidate Savchenko on the demarcation line in order to blame it on us, we held our own operation and brought this information to Savchenko via media,” the leader of Donbass stated.
According to Zakharchenko, the the information handed off apparently got to Savchenko before the organizers’ assassination attempt.
“In any case, I think that Savchenko - when she was in the so-called ATO zone - got no further than Izyum.”
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Tuesday, 7 June 2016
Kiev's loose cannon: Savchenko calls to drop Minsk, hold direct dialogue with DPR/LPR
June 7, 2016 -
Maksim Karpenko, PolitNavigator -
Translated by J. Arnoldski
The newfound people’s deputy and ex-Aidar fighter, Nadezhda Savchenko, has called for direct negotiations between deputies of the Verkhovna Rada and deputies from the DPR and LPR. She stated this live on “Radio Era” while in the area of the ATO as she called in and suggested three steps for “returning Donbass.”
“There are three steps. The first is extending sanctions against Russia, because Russia has not yet realized that it has to leave. The second is opting for direct communication with the DPR and LPR, as they position themselves, without the Minsk Agreements in order to gain access to a direct inner connection without third and fourth parties…Let Mr. Zakharchenko and Plotnitsky be positioned as people’s deputies of the LPR and DPR. As a deputy, I am ready to talk with them. The third step - let’s have some fun together and everything will go over. There is your third step,” Savchenko stated.
Earlier, the deputy of the Verkhovna Rada, Vadim Rabinovich, claimed that the Nadezhda Savchenko had been pardoned by Russia in the hope that she could be handed off by the Kremlin to start a coup in Ukraine. “Putin has slipped us a coup in Ukraine for the holidays….Some kind of unique woman who maintained a hunger strike for two years and did not lose weight. The level of her oratory skills is unique and I don’t understand where this could have come from,” Rabinovich.
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Monday, 6 June 2016
Savchenko Called for an End to the War in Donbass
Translated by Ollie Richardson for Fort Russ
7th June, 2016
The People's Deputy of Ukraine Nadiya Savchenko, convicted in Russia for the murder of journalists and later pardoned, arrived in Slavyansk, where she said that first Ukraine needs to stop the war, then there will be money for social needs.
"First and foremost, to stop the war. There will not be any money in Ukraine for social needs until there is no war. First we need to stop the war, and then raise the whole of Ukraine," she said on the air of Donbass public television. The video was posted on Youtube.
Local residents complained to her with their problems – they do not have enough money for food or for their apartment.
As "Delovoy Slavyansk" wrote, people addressed to her different questions in the area: targeted assistance, "children's" money, continued help for IDPs for work.
"I understand local issues, yet don't know how to solve them. But I will go to the end - if I lose, I lose," said Savchenko.
It was reported earlier that Savchenko on Monday night arrived in the area of the punitive operations of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Donbass.
As a reminder, after meeting with relatives of the victims - journalists - in Donbass, at their request the President of Russia Vladimir Putin signed a decree on May 25th on pardoning the Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko, convicted for the murder of VGTRK journalists in Donbass. Savchenko was brought to Ukraine. On the same day, after being convicted in Ukraine and pardoned by the President Petro Poroshenko, the Russians Aleksandr Yerofeyev and Evgeny Aleksandrov returned to Russia.
Many were surprised by the behavior and statements of Savchenko after her release. At the airport in Kiev, Nadezhda Savchenko got off the plane barefoot, later said that she was already ready to become the President of Ukraine, admitted that her dream is to drink vodka, "overslept" a meeting with her fans, bathed in the fountain on Maidan, and came to Parliament again barefoot.
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Pushilin: Elections are our defense against Kiev's new strategy of sabotage
June 6, 2016 -
Sergey Stepanov, PolitNavigator -
Translated by J. Arnoldski
The Ukrainian oligarchs have realized that Donbass cannot be taken by military force, so they’ve changed their strategy to sending in their agents. The Donetsk People’s Republic has decided to hold primaries in order to exclude a victory of Kiev’s henchmen in upcoming elections. This and more was discussed by the speaker of the People’s Council of the DPR, Denis Pushilin in an interview with PolitNavigator.
PolitNavigator: Alexander Zakharchenko has stated that primaries will be held in Donbass. What does this mean for the DPR?
Denis Pushilin: Preliminary voting will offer us the opportunity to identify the best and brightest candidates who will represent the republic in potential elections. They should take place insofar as the Minsk Agreements are fulfilled.
[On the other hand], we perfectly understand that in order to win on the battlefield, soldiers need to train.
PN: And who is going to be defeated?
DP: There are various threats in the political arena. The elections will be held on a majority system and candidates can be self-nominated. It is impossible to foresee everything, but we need to get ourselves in order so that representatives of the oligarchy or veiled represents of the parties on the other side of the contact line do not get in.
We know that, as is happening now, a fifth column has infiltrated us.
PN: Are representatives of the Ukrainian oligarchs trying to infiltrate the DPR?
DP: Insofar as it is becoming clear that Donetsk and Lugansk cannot be taken by force, and that all that is necessary is the fulfillment of the Minsk Agreements, the oligarchs are attempting to penetrate the existing organs of power in the republic.
This has been recorded, detected, and now the Ministry of State Security is at work.
PN: And what happens to such people?
DP: As a minimum, they are dismissed if nothing else is decided. You have to understand that they don’t have to do anything now. Perhaps this is a “long-term” game in which the priorities of the republic will be distorted and the realization of national projects will be sabotaged.
We need to fight corruption now. We have already managed to handle this to a certain extent, but it will return depending on whether the old elite will worm its way into the new government.
PN: Literally just the other day the Verkhovna Rada amended the Constitution and held a “judicial reform.” Why were voices in favor of this able to be found in the Ukrainian parliament while Poroshenko can’t even find the needed number of deputies to support the realization of the Minsk Agreements?
DP: Ukraine has not been a subject of decision-making for a long time already. We perfectly understand that if the West wanted to, then it would find levers of influence in order to make Kiev vote. If it was so demanded, then Kiev would vote for everything needed in the Verkhovna Rada, even in violation of the rules and ignoring the views and interests of the citizens of former Ukraine.
PN: Is there hope that in 2016 Ukraine will take all the necessary decisions in regards to elections in Donbass?
DP: The chances are virtually close to zero. I don’t see any intentions on the part of Kiev to reconcile positions with Donbass. In the framework of the subgroup on political issues, we are largely on the same levels of agreement as we were a year ago.
PN: So the Minsk Agreements could be extended again?
DP: This is quite likely.
PN: Have there been any changes to the positions of the Ukrainian side at the negotiations in Minsk?
DP: There have been no changes either for better or for worse. We are in a period of stagnation. The Ukrainian side has chosen a strategy of delay. And the frequent replacement of Kiev’s representatives at negotiations is connected with this.
PN: Alexander Zakharchenko is currently holding a whole series of conferences with the regions of the South-East. Does this yield positive effects?
DP: There is a huge demand for this. We see that with each new conference the number of questions increases. We are learning to model certain situations. For example, the SBU is raising noise that we are actually unknowingly helping to spread information about the upcoming “hot line.”
Dialogue is important. People are interested in what’s happening in the republics because the picture which is painted by Ukrainian media differs strongly from reality.
PN: It has already been announced that the next conference with Alexander Zakharchenko will be held with Zaporozhye. Why is this city important?
DP: All cities are important, but, in first place of course are those of Greater Novorossiya. But other regions are also important. I think that Alexander Vladimirovich Zakharchenko will hold “hot lines” with all of them.
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PR move or provocation? Savchenko visits Donbass "ATO," sits in helicopter
June 6, 2016 -
Translated by J. Arnoldski
The Verkhovna Rada PM from the “Fatherland” faction, Nadezhda Savchenko, who was sentenced in Russia for the murder of Russian journalists in Donbass and then pardoned by the Russian president, has visited the conflict zone in Donbass and sat in the cockpit of a military helicopter. This was reported by RIA Novosti with links to the press center of the military operation.
“The night visit of the Heroine of Ukraine, Nadezhda Savchenko, to the ATO took everyone by surprise. The people’s deputy of Ukraine managed to talk with many soldiers and met with her former colleagues to sit in the cockpit of a military helicopter,” the press-center reports.
Nadezhda Savchenko was sentenced to 22 years in prison in Russia for the murder of All-Russian State Television and Radio Company journalists in Donbass. She directed artillery fire towards the positions of Lugansk militiamen where the Russian journalists were located. Two of them were killed. On May 25th, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on her pardon.
Note from J. Arnoldski: Savchenko's "nighttime" visit to the "ATO" comes on the heels of her confrontation with her party's leader, Yuliya Tymoshenko, and conflicting statements on her position on the Minsk Agreements. At the same time, much talk has filled Ukrainian media of Savchenko possibly entrenching herself for a long political career, something which some analysts have suggested is precisely the disaster which Russia wanted as a result of her exchange. This visit to the ATO should be interpreted as a move by Savchenko directed at her fellow colleagues in the Verkhovna Rada whose precise political implications will become known soon enough. As for now, one can rest assured that Tymoshenko is seething, Poroshenko is snickering, while the Ukrainian "radicals" are debating how they can use this new PR hero for their own plans. Either way, Savchenko's role is still ambiguous and unclear, so this should not be interpreted as any kind of signal from the Kiev regime as to its near-term intentions in Donbass. Savchenko still has a long way to go before her symbolic role evolves into a weighty political one. She has yet to put shoes on and it has yet to be seen if and for who the boot will fit...
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