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RNBO: News & Analysis Center July 11 Update

Andriy Lysenko, spokesperson for the National Security Council’s News & Analysis Center, reported at the Center’s noon briefing, July 11, 2014, that the international community is supportive of Ukraine’s actions to restore peace in the Donbas. President Petro Poroshenko had a three-way telephone conversation with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President François Hollande. His collocutors admitted that there has been no progress on the Russian side in terms of carrying out the previously agreed steps to deescalate the situation in Eastern Ukraine.

The Ukrainian President specifically noted that Nadia Savchenko, a pilot with Ukraine’s Armed Forces, had been abducted by militants in Luhansk Oblast and now was revealed to be in a Russian prison in Voronezh. President Poroshenko issued an instruction to the Foreign and Justice Ministries to use every means they could to gain the Ukrainian pilot’s release. The Prosecutor General’s Office and the Security Bureau of Ukraine (SBU) are currently investigating the circumstances of Savchenko’s removal to Russia to determine further responses. According to official State Border Service data, Nadia Savchenko never crossed the Ukrainian border into Russia.

Open provocations at the border from the Russian Federation side continue. Around the village of Ilyenkove, border officers reported that six Russian helicopters had penetrated 4 kilometers into Ukrainian airspace and then quickly turned back. After a careful review of the county, the border patrol discovered mortar positions that had been set up and military issue ammunition.

Population centers in the conflict zone

In those territories freed of the terrorists, efforts to restore normal life continue. In Sloviansk, the central water supply system will be turned on again in the next few days. On July 10, pension payments will begin to be paid to people who get their benefits through the post office. Those pensioners in Sloviansk and Kramatorsk who get their monthly pensions through banks began receiving their benefits on their debit cards on July 7.

At the moment, prioritized social infrastructure is being restored in Sloviansk, starting with kindergartens, schools and hospitals. City residents now have access to medications, with priority being given to vital medicine such as insulin. Based on President Poroshenko’s negotiations for financial assistance, Germany will be providing €2.5 million to restore the infrastructure of Sloviansk and Kramatorsk.

In all the settlements in Eastern Ukraine that have been freed from the terrorists, work is going on to defuse mines, restore infrastructure, and deliver humanitarian aid to the local population. Local government agencies and utility companies have also begun to reopen their offices. In Donetsk Oblast, nearly 25 tonnes of humanitarian aid have been distributed in the last 24 hours.

Military sappers have finished checking out the territories between Izium and Sloviansk for any hidden mines. In the last 3 days alone, army engineers have uncovered and removed 2,000 explosives in Sloviansk.

Renewed suburban train service between Kharkiv and Sloviansk

Power has been restored in Kramatorsk and the water supply system and parts of the gas line are currently under repair.

In Shakhtarsk County, a high-tension power line and substation have resumed work after being damaged by explosives. Power has been renewed in Stepanivka, Latyshev, Tarany, Saurivka, and partly in Dmytrivka. The gas line between Dmytrivka and Dibrovka is being repaired.

Power is running again to the Sloviansk reservoir of potable water, including the first and second rises of the Donetsk water line, filtering stations #1 and #2. Once all the repair work is completed, it will be possible to provided full-capacity water supplies to Sloviansk, Kramatorsk, Druzhkivka and Kostiantynivka.

In Volnovakha and Krasnoarmiysk in Donetsk Oblast and Svatove in Luhansk Oblast, three transit centers for individuals who want shelter from the terrorists have been opened in the stadiums of public schools, in line with a Cabinet resolution and instructions from the President. A 24/7 hot line at 101 is now working. An interagency coordination unit for social services to citizens of Ukraine who are currently displaced from the areas where the Anti-Terrorist Operation is going on, is currently working. All the details are provided on the State Emergencies Service site.

Military action in the conflict zone

During the previous 24 hours, illegally armed groups opened gunfire 10 times on Ukrainian Armed Forces checkpoints and positions near Luhansk, Dovzhansk, Pryvolye, Siversk, Rozsypne, Marianivka, Shyshkove, Rubizhne, and Muratove. An APC-80 blew up on a landmine planted by the terrorists on the outskirts of the village of Chervona Zorya. One soldier was taken prisoner during these battles.

During the night of July 9-10, a special operation in the neighborhood of Siversk by Ukrainian military destroyed two mortar groups and a fortification built by the militants.

All during July 9, bands of terrorists continued to fire actively at the positions of Ukraine’s Armed Forces at Luhansk Airport using GRAD BM-21 rocket launchers and tanks. ATO forces rebuffed the enemy effectively. Ukraine’s Air Force took to the air and opened fire, costing the terrorists on GRAD BM-21 system with its crew and fighting unit.

Information has been coming in that the terrorists are taking over school buildings, kindergartens, educational institutions and other social infrastructure and arming them as firing positions.

Battles in the last 24 hours have resulted in 3 casualties among Ukrainian servicemen and 27 injuries.

The border area

Ukraine’s forces are maintaining control over the border area. In response to Presidential orders to counter terrorism and to stop the financing of arms trade, the State Border Service of Ukraine, together with the Security Bureau and the Customs Service, ran a special operation to prevent the transferring of large sums of currency across the border into Russia. As a result, at around 19:00 on July 9, at the Hoptivk
a border crossing into Russia, a thorough search of a Mitsubishi Pajero that was leaving Ukraine revealed US $2.8mn in the reserve tank.


In Krasnoarmiysk, the city council met in session to invite the Commander of the Third National Guard Battalion, Donbas, to coordinate efforts directed at maintaining peace, security and defending law and order. The town also started a list of local residents who want to join the ranks of the Donbas Battalion.

Source: mediarnbo.org

Translated by Lidia Wolanskyj

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Taras Kuzio: far more Europeans join separatists in Donbas than Isis in Syria:

Taras Kuzio: far more Europeans join separatists in Donbas than Isis in Syria

This week, St Petersburg hosted a bizarre gathering organized by the Rodina (Motherland) party of 150 European fascist and nationalist-populist political parties united in their opposition to the EU and US and in support of Russia's annexation of Crimea and invasion of eastern Ukraine. Rodina is the loyal nationalist ally of President Vladimir Putin's United Russia party and consequently plays a similar role to the Radical Party's alliance with the Serbian Socialist party.

Russia's alignment with European fascist and nationalist-populist parties would seem to contradict official rhetoric that has incessantly attacked the Ukrainian Euromaidan leaders as a fascist junta brought to power by western intelligence agencies. It also, as Timothy Snyder of Yale University has pointed, out recalls uncanny memories of the 1939-1941 Soviet-Nazi Pact that also had the goal of dividing European powers.

One sinister outgrowth of Russia's cultivation of extreme right and extreme left parties and movements in Europe is the large mobilisation of people travelling to the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine to fight for pro-Russian separatists.

There has been understandable outcry over the three young British girls who travelled to Istanbul on February 17 on their way to join Isis, the brutal terrorist organization based in Syria and Iraq. But what has gone unnoticed is the hundreds – far more Europeans than have travelled to join Isis – who have joined Russian-backed terrorists fighting Ukraine's legitimately elected leaders. The BBC reported that the influx of foreign fighters into eastern Ukraine "mirrors that of young Muslims from Britain and other parts of Europe travelling to the Middle East to fight in its wars".

Russian-backed separatists have attracted an eclectic mix of extreme left and extreme right followers, nostalgic in the former case for the USSR and the Spanish civil war and in the latter drawn by a common anti-EU and anti-US platform with Putin and the Donbas separatists. Greeks, traditionally the most pro-Russian nationals in the EU, the Hungarian Legion of St Isztvan, Serbs, French, Germans, Spaniards and volunteers from former Soviet republics such as Kyrgyzstan are fighting alongside separatists widely condemned by the UN and international human rights groups for crimes against humanity.

The eclectic group has included 20 Frenchmen from the fascist organisation Continental Unity formed in support of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Serbian war crimes suspect Vojislav Seselj. France's far right National Front party has strongly supported Russia's annexation of the Crimea and invasion of Eastern Ukraine and has received a $10 million loan from Russia.

Not surprisingly, there are reportedly over 100 extreme right Serbs fighting for what they see as a common Orthodox religious faith and historic ally. Russian nationalist Igor Girkin "Strelkov" ("Shooter") who commanded Russian special forces in western Donbas until summer of 2014 had fought for the Bosnian Serbs in the 1990s.

One hundred extreme right Germans are fighting alongside the terrorists according to Die Welt. Stephan Mayer, a member of the ruling Christian Democrats, told Die Welt that Germans who participate in civil wars should be taken to court, although presently the German criminal code only punishes those who fight alongside Isis.

The Spanish Republican Guard detained a group of extreme left-wing Spaniards on their return from eastern Ukraine. Angel Davilla-Rivas, one of the Spaniards, has two big tattoos of Soviet leaders Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin and explained his decision to go to Eastern Ukraine as "gratitude" for Stalin's support for the Spanish Republicans in the 1930s.

British volunteers have not reportedly gone to fight for the Donbas separatists, although the National Front (NF) and UKIP have given their support to Putin, and the NF attended this weeks St Petersburg conference. The Conservative Friends of Russia, renamed the Westminster Russia Forum after a critical in-depthinvestigation by The Guardian, has been functioning as a pro-Kremlin lobby group with extensive support from Sergey Nalobin at the Russian Embassy in London.

British journalist Graham Phillips, who moved from the Conservatives to UKIP, has sent numerous pro-separatist reports for Russian media outlets and was detained on March 4 at Heathrow and questioned for four hours by Border Police under Schedule 7 of the 2000 Terrorism Act about his activities in the Donbas before being released without charge. The British Foreign Office is allegedly pressuring Phillips to halt his reporting from the Donbas.

Phillips does not hide his political sympathies for pro-Russian separatists and does not attempt to be impartial in a conflict zone, posting photos of him wearing lapel badges of Novorossiya (New Russia, the Tsarist term used by Putin and separatists to describe Eastern and Southern Ukraine) and cheering after separatists captured the strategic railway hub of Debaltseve.

Phillips' notoriety came into the public domain late last year when he interviewed Ukrainian prisoners and a wounded Ukrainian soldier. In the interviews, herepeatedly demands the prisoners explain why they have come to "murder civilians" and asks are they "ready to go home now and accept that it is Novorossiya here and not Ukraine". In the second interview Phillips aggressively interviews a severely burnt Ukrainian soldier prisoner.

European law enforcement have been understandably concerned at their citizens travelling to join Isis, yet they have largely ignored the many more far right and far left extremists that are fighting for pro-Russian groups in Ukraine. Recent detentions in Spain and the UK were hesitant, because law enforcement officers still lack political direction as to how to respond to Russia's support for the separatists.

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